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Newsflash: Conventional data protection has reached its limits and will be dramatically changing in the next couple of years. But all roads don't lead to the same result. Here's how to analyze which route is best for you.
Taneja Group
Published: 11 Apr 2004
For most U.S. enterprises, data protection will undergo a complete overhaul in the next 24 months. Simply put, the current data protection environment is at a breaking point and those organizations that must comply with new regulations have no choice but to revamp their backup and restore infrastructure.
Backup windows are shrinking as our Web-based economy expands and organizations do business around the clock. A major user study conducted by the Taneja Group, Hopkinton, MA, in conjunction with Storage in September 2003 showed that 67% of the respondents had a backup window of eight hours or less. (See "Plan on disk-based backup") Yet the amount of data to be backed up daily continues to mount. At the same time, businesses have adopted a zero-tolerance policy for data loss and have instituted stringent recovery time objectives.
During the past 20 years, there hasn't been much change in the way businesses perform backups and restores. But cheap disk prices, along with the commercialization of content-addressed storage (CAS)--which reduces the amount of data that needs to be protected--are fueling major changes in the way businesses protect their data.
Here's the payoff: If users choose wisely, they can improve the reliability and speed of their backups and restores by at least an order of magnitude. The Taneja Group classifies next-generation backup and restore products into the following categories (with some falling into several categories):
- Minimize disruption to the current environment
- Reduce data
- Provide continuous backup and restorability
- Eliminate tape
- Use replication technologies for backup
The most common backup and restore environment today contains a mixture of network-attached storage (NAS), storage area network (SAN) and direct-attached storage (DAS) (see " Typical backup environment"). The daily grind of incremental and full backups means that when the backup occurs, the data flows from the application servers over the LAN (or SAN) to the backup server, and then into the networked tape library.
However, once disk is introduced into the infrastructure as a backup medium, the situation changes dramatically (see "Pros and cons of new backup and restore solutions"). Vendors such as Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC), Alacritus Software, Diligent Technologies Corp., Neartek Inc., Quantum Corp. and Sepaton Inc. have developed technologies that virtualize disk arrays and emulate a tape library.
|Pros and cons of new backup and restore solutions
The ADIC, Quantum and Sepaton offerings are delivered as prepackaged appliances that include disk storage capacity. Alacritus, Diligent and Neartek, on the other hand, are software-based tape virtualization products that are capable of running on a standard server platform with a variety of disk storage on the back-end.
When virtual tape is brought into the environment, the disk system acting as a virtual tape library becomes the target device for the backup server instead of the physical tape library. Otherwise, the environment doesn't change. Once the backup completes, the application servers are free to continue regular operations. Data from the secondary disk, under the command of the regular backup application--whether it's IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), Legato's NetWorker or Veritas Software Corp.'s NetBackup--can be copied from disk to tape (cloning) or moved from disk to tape (staging) based on user-defined policies in the backup application.
Tape virtualization and emulation technologies minimize the level of disruption to existing backup procedures, policies and the underlying backup infrastructure when disk is introduced. What's more, users aren't required to purchase disk backup options from their backup application software vendor. When considering tape emulation technology, a user needs to weigh the trade-offs between more open software-based approaches and prebuilt appliance models with back-end disk capacity. Users should also confirm that the required tape library and tape formats are supported by the specific vendors.
Disk backup options
All major backup application software vendors now have disk backup options that take full advantage of the unique properties of disk as compared to tape: random access, speed and relative reliability. Instead of laying down data in tape format, the backup application takes advantage of the random access nature of disk to lay down data consecutively for more rapid restores. In addition, backup applications now support concurrent read/write operations reducing the time required for restore, staging and cloning operations.
Legato NetWorker has introduced an advanced file type device for this purpose. Products like Veritas NetBackup 5.0 enable users to create a synthetic full backup from a full backup and a series of incrementals, dramatically reducing the need to perform a full backup on a regular basis.
To take advantage of the random access capabilities of disk, for example, backup applications multiplex streams of data from several application servers (see "Multiplexed data on tape and disk"). The data is placed on the tape in a mixed fashion, but consecutively on disk. For users who are happy with their existing backup software vendors and their future product direction, these offerings may be very appealing.
Reducing data
Data reduction is a great way to reduce secondary storage. On average, the ratio of backed up data to primary data is 10:1. What if the same amount of information that is buried in 10TB can be squeezed into 1.2TB of secondary disk? This is now possible with CAS technology, which is sometimes called object-based storage. Although CAS technology was first commercialized by EMC Corp. with its Centera and targeted at the archival market; other vendors, notably Avamar Technologies, have applied CAS to create an innovative backup and restore solution that is focused on reducing backed up data stored on secondary media. Data Domain, Permabit Inc. and a number of other newcomers have also entered this market.
Here's how Avamar, for example, cuts down the amount of stored data. The first time the product is used, each file is broken into variable sized chunks of data (not to be confused with blocks). Each chunk is usually stored only once--or a few times, depending upon one's requirements for additional protection--and a file is re-created on the fly from chunks, independent of their location. The agents on the application servers (clients to the backup application) determine if a chunk already exists on the secondary storage. If it does, it isn't transmitted across the network.
Given the high level of duplication in full backups and even incrementals (when a single bit is changed many products transmit the entire file over again), the reduction of data is massive. Avamar claims a 99% reduction in network traffic when compared to traditional backup methods. This powerful data reduction capability makes possible a variety of new data protection schemes, including the cost-effective replication of data to secondary disk storage at a disaster recovery site over IP. In some enterprises, the technology has the potential to eliminate tape completely as a backup medium.
Although CAS promises to drastically reduce the ratio of primary to secondary storage there are downsides. Avamar, for example, requires that users replace their existing backup application with Avamar agents, and all backed up data is stored in a format that only Avamar can decode.
Continuous backup
These data protection approaches--when used in conjunction with snapshot technologies--only provide data restorability to specific points in time. For example, if snapshots are taken hourly, an average of 30 minutes of data may be lost. Unfortunately, the only viable alternative to date had been to increase the frequency of snapshots. But now, companies such as Revivio Inc., Timespring Software Corp., Vyant (now Mendocino), XOsoft and others are delivering solutions that provide data protection at any point in time.
Revivio, for example, focuses on critical application environments that have traditionally relied on expensive array-based snapshot technologies like EMC's TimeFinder to provide point-in-time copies of application data. To minimize the risk of data loss, administrators must create multiple concurrent business continuance volumes (BCVs) on their Symmetrix arrays, which is very costly. And if the primary volume gets corrupted, the recovered volume could substantially lag behind the primary volume and data will be lost.
The Revivio solution deals with this problem by attaching its appliance to the SAN and creating a third mirror of the live volume. With this technology, Revivio claims that there's no need to create BCVs or maintain mirrors of BCVs. The result? Your storage needs just dropped dramatically. Every write to the primary storage is captured (no agents are required to be placed on application servers), time stamped and redirected to the Revivio appliance (see "A typical Revivio setup").
If the primary volume gets corrupted--say at 2:30 p.m.--the IT administrator can ask for the volume as of 2:29 p.m., and the Revivio appliance will re-create it from the combination of the third mirror and its TimeStore software by essentially deleting all writes that occurred between 2:29 and 2:30 p.m. The volume as of 2:29 p.m. is mountable directly from the appliance as soon as it is ready (a few minutes) and the application can be restarted. Now, the 2:29 p.m. volume is fed into the primary storage, and as a second step brought into complete harmony with the current state. At this time, the triple mirror and TimeStore are returned to their regular responsibility of data protection and the primary volume takes over. Other products apply variations of this theme, focusing on Exchange and SQL Server environments.
These solutions aren't for everyone. Only the most critical applications--especially those where downtime costs are astronomical--need this level of protection. Another fact worth noting is that while these applications will reinstate a volume at any point in time in the past, its consistency is only guaranteed as crash consistent. This means that the volume is presented as it was at that moment in time. Because application consistency is what one ultimately cares about, a crash-consistent image takes you a step closer, but it's not a full solution. The administrator may still need to apply logs in order to create the right total picture for a database application. The only way to get application-level consistency is to take point-in-time images. And then you are back to where you started.
Revivio only comes into play when volumes need to be recovered, and later resynchronized. The solution is used for volume--not file recovery--and is most effective for database applications. Other vendors--XOsoft, for example--are claiming application-level consistency and file-level recovery, so it's crucial to drill down and understand these critical differences.
The elimination of tape
Should you discard tape if you install a D2D solution? The answer in most cases is probably not yet, maybe never. Why? Because most organizations are so procedurally and emotionally attached to tape that it would be too drastic to eliminate it. Of course, the answer depends on what new backup solution is picked. In the case of an Avamar, for example, where data is radically reduced, you could replicate data over long distances and store huge amounts of data directly on disk. But in the case of Revivio, for instance, you probably would still want to back up from the appliance to tape, duplicate the tape and send one set offsite.
Until recently, replication technology has almost invariably been associated with business continuity and disaster recovery. Data is first protected on the local site using regular backup to tape and specific volumes that are considered critical are replicated to a remote site, using technology such as SRDF from EMC or IBM's Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC). These tools typically replicate data between arrays on a synchronous basis--the local data is not written to disk until the remote site has signaled that it has received and written the data to its disk system. In more cost-sensitive environments, users deploy host-to-host products such as Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) and NSI Software's DoubleTake. These work asynchronously and are independent of the underlying storage platform, giving users the advantage of replicating from one type of disk system to another. While the distance limitation of synchronous replication is eliminated, most asynchronous products have at least some conditions under which they deliver inconsistent data on the remote site. Overall, they still provide reasonable protection levels for many less than mission-critical applications.
Thus far, backup and replication technologies have been distinct from each other, but a new crop of products is blurring that distinction. Such products are being delivered by next generation replication-focused vendors like Kashya and Topio, or by virtualization software players such as StoreAge Networking Technologies and FalconStor Software and by virtualization appliance vendors such as Candera Inc., DataCore Software Corp. and Troika Networks. Using different methods, these products are able to significantly reduce the data that's transferred, so that consolidated remote backup becomes a feasible concept. Instead of doing a local backup--creating tapes for local and offsite storage and replicating the most important data--why not combine this functionality and just back up to a remote site, disk to disk and eliminate tapes altogether?
In particular, if a company has a large number of remote sites that have little or no IT presence, why not backup to a central site where IT personnel can apply common methods and policies across the enterprise? It's important for users to validate a vendor's ability to maintain data consistency across multiple data sources. The application of replication technology for backup consolidation purposes will create new avenues for inexpensive data protection for many businesses, particularly midsized companies.
A new era
A new era of data protection is fast approaching. As a result, most companies will revamp the way they have done backup, restore, replication and archiving within the next two years. Small storage companies that "don't know what can't be done" are creating the foundation for these innovative ways to protect data.


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SEOUL—When Catherine Germier-Hamel arrived in Seoul eight years ago with her husband, a French diplomat, the 45-year-old Parisian and French-bread lover was delighted to find outlets of a store called Paris Baguette on many street corners.
But then Ms. Germier-Hamel bit into her first baguette. The bread was rubbery, she recalls, and "awful."

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In less than a month, Eddie Saman lost everything he owned from his Staten Island home — twice.
The 57-year-old self-employed salesman had been living without heat or electricity in his gutted New Dorp Beach bungalow since Hurricane Sandy hit.
And on Sunday — just hours after a volunteer EMT brought him blankets and clothes — his only source of heat, a wood-burning oven, sparked a fire that sent those meager donations up in flames.
"Maybe God doesn't want me to be here," Saman told The Post. "It's very overwhelming.
"The flood came and I lost both the motorcycle and my car. I don't have any transportation except my bicycle," he said.
He lived in the home, which is fully paid off, for 15 years until Sandy brought in eight feet of water, destroying his furniture and forcing him to rip out his walls to prevent mold.
He was just about to go to bed Sunday night — he's been sleeping on a pile of wood — when he saw a spark.
"I had just taken off everything and was just in my underwear, and then I see light from the side of the wall," he said. "I ran outside with bare feet to get the fire extinguisher from the shed, but by the time I came back the fire was inside already. I couldn't control it, so I called 911."
Though Saman has homeowner's insurance, he said he was denied flood insurance many times because of the age of his house and its proximity to water.
The fire insurance will likely only cover the items given to him by volunteer EMT Salvatore Barcia, who recently held a donation drive for him on Facebook, Saman said.
The Red Cross will put him up in a hotel for two nights, but after that, "what will happen, I have no idea," he said. "I have nowhere to go."


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China's new airliner seems increasingly unlikely to create a big impact abroad
Chances are rising that the Comac C919 will be largely limited to the Chinese market, as the manufacturer works toward local airworthiness certification while seeing no sure path to the desired FAA endorsement of the type.
The Chinese market is big, so sales of perhaps 1,000 units remain plausible, in the opinion of program officials. But the 158-seat narrowbody's prospects for making much of an impact on the wider market, perhaps never large, are diminishing.
The problem emerged in 2011 and is still unresolved. Delays in Comac's earlier program, the ARJ21 regional jet, are holding up FAA recognition of the certification competence of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) (AW&ST Sept. 12, 2011, p. 24). That casts doubt on the FAA's eventual acceptance of the CAAC's current work on C919 and therefore the Chinese type certificate. Without Western airworthiness endorsement, the C919 cannot be sold in main commercial aircraft markets outside of China.
"As we see it, this is a highly complex situation," says an executive closely involved in the C919 certification effort. "Because the FAA's position is affected by the ARJ21, we currently have no way of resolving this problem." For the moment, the C919 program can only work on obtaining CAAC certification and hope the Chinese authority and the FAA can come to a helpful agreement. Comac has not given up, the executive adds: FAA endorsement is still a C919 objective.
Under a Bilateral Air Safety Agreement, the FAA is coaching and supervising the CAAC in dealing with the ARJ21 certification application. If and when the process is correctly completed, with the issue or refusal of a type certificate, the FAA will recognize the CAAC as a certifying authority. The FAA is similarly helping the Japanese Civil Aviation Bureau, with the Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ regional jet as the test case. The FAA and European Aviation Safety Authority support authorities of other countries in this way because Americans and Europeans also fly on the foreign aircraft.
The ARJ is not now expected to be certified until the end of 2014, by which time the CAAC will have accumulated at least three years of C919 work with little or no FAA involvement. The issue is whether the FAA will recognize the validity of that work retrospectively once the CAAC proves itself with the ARJ21. The FAA would have to accept that its Chinese counterpart had followed the same procedures with the C919 as it used for the ARJ21. Last year, an official familiar with the FAA's options suggested that it could do so. Comac officials have no assurance that it will, however. And the FAA's confidence can only decline as the volume of unrecognized work rises.
Customers of the C919 have expressed a desire for FAA endorsement of the certification, even though they are all Chinese and therefore do not need it. There is no suggestion the CAAC would be soft on Comac; on the contrary, it is repeatedly reported that the Chinese authority is tougher than the FAA.
The C919's competitiveness in non-Chinese markets has long been questioned, especially since 2010-11, when Airbus and Boeing launched new versions of the A320 and 737 with engines the same as or similar to the CFM Leap 1 on Comac's aircraft. This year's schedule slippages and rejection of a composite material for the center wing box have further diminished the C919's market clout (AW&ST Aug. 19, p. 39).
But even if the aircraft proved to be seriously outmatched, production subsidies could conceivably allow Comac, itself a state agency, to sell it—providing the C919 had the certification that made it eligible for the market.
Subsidies are likely anyway. The announced C919 development budget is 58 billion yuan ($9.5 billion) but the real figure is probably 50% higher, says an industry executive whose company, not a competitor to Comac, has studied the issue. Adding interest, a production run of 1,000 C919s would demand recovery of well over $20 million in development costs per aircraft, a figure the market is not likely to bear.
Comac's Chinese engineers are probably earning about half as much as their counterparts at Boeing or Airbus, but the C919 program is also employing many very costly expatriate foreign engineers. Most important, inexperienced managers cannot be expected to know the most efficient ways of developing an airliner, so program costs should be unusually high, says the executive.
Two years ago Comac had to ask for top-up development funding from the government, which agreed to an unknown amount. The money seems to be budgeted but not assured, however, because Comac has to secure its funds every year from the government, industry officials say.
Since the top-up was approved, Comac has added about a year to the development schedule, implying another year of salaries. It has a three-month buffer in its current schedule, which includes a first flight late in 2015.
Production costs of the C919 will have to be higher than those of the A320 and 737 at first, since Airbus and Boeing have very well-honed manufacturing processes. But studies by the same outside company suggest that when the C919 production line is mature, Comac should be able build more, cheaply, thanks largely to lower wages.
Comac has forecast production of 2,200 C919s and an eventual steady rate of 150 a year. Executives who have studied the program say the actual total will probably be about half of the forecast. They do not see reason to be more pessimistic, because Chinese demand can probably soak up 1,000 C919s, providing the aircraft performs reasonably well. The key performance target is an operating cost 10% below those of current-production 737s and A320s.
The Chinese manufacturer is investing in advanced automatic fabrication equipment, which should cut costs if kept running at an optimum level, as well as guarantee precision. Its new plant outside Shanghai is mostly a final assembly line, however. Major airframe modules will come from Avic, whose efficiency and investment will therefore heavily influence costs.
The quality of Avic's production may be an issue. Comac has been dissatisfied with ARJ21 assemblies from Avic, even though that separate state group is quite capable of excellent work. For example, it produces A320 outer wings, to Airbus's great satisfaction.
Comac is leaning toward aluminum-lithium for the skin of the C919 fuselage, but only in the cylindrical sections, since it does not want Avic to try making the difficult double curvatures of the nose and tail with an unfamiliar material. Comac is somewhat obliged to use the Alcoa metal, because it no longer has a composite center wing box but still needs to meet a government requirement for 30% advanced materials in the airframe. The tail and movable surfaces will be of carbon-fiber composite.
The design is currently overweight, says an executive familiar with development, but the problem is not considered serious. The cause is mainly in the weight of equipment, not the structure.
Assembly of the first prototype should be underway by the end of 2014, assuming no further delays. A delay announced in August was the program's second; the first was not revealed officially but was reported by Aviation Week (AW&ST June 17, p. 96).
The C919's iron bird, a structure on the ground on which systems are tested, was due to be operational around the end of 2013 with mechanical and hydraulic systems. By mid 2014 it should be working with all systems.
The ARJ21, meanwhile, should now be in the last of 12 years of development. The first two production aircraft are due to be completed this month. Judging from recent progress in assembly at Comac's old Shanghai factory, at least one of them will be.
ARJ21 production is said to be supported by a government order for 50 aircraft as official transports. Comac is also selling 30 of the type to itself; Chengdu Airlines, owned by the manufacturer, will be the first operator. Contracts with other airlines probably had little binding effect when signed and, following the enormous development delays, even less now. Shortly after program launch, the ARJ21 was originally due to go into service in 2007.


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text: Sherman Hart put UMass Boston track and field on the map. No coach in the school's history has made as much of an impact or done it as quickly as he did. In just his second season as the women's track and field mentor, the Beacons placed 52nd at the 1984 NCAA outdoor championships. Little did the collegiate track scene know, UMass Boston track and field was ready to take over. The following year, Hart's athletes captured the first of three straight women's NCAA indoor championships and in 1985-86 his women's team became the first to ever win both the indoor and outdoor titles in the same academic season. Hart led the Beacons to a total of four national crowns and three runner-up finishes, including two at the outdoor competition. For his efforts, he was named NCAA Division III Coach of the Year in 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1988, while capturing seven ECAC championships between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Under his guidance, 37 NCAA individual or relay championships were won by UMass Boston runners and his athletes gained All-American status 48 times. Hart saw his UMB women's indoor and outdoor teams finish second in the NCAA championships in 1988 and went on to coach at Northeastern University where he didn't miss a beat, leading the Huskies' women to 20 America East titles and the men to seven. He also guided the women to six New England crowns and the men to a New England championship as well, while being named Conference Coach of the Year 13 times between the women's indoor and outdoor seasons and five times on the men's side. Hart has been honored as the District I Division I Coach of the Year four times and has seen Northeastern athletes named All-American nine times, All-East over 50 times as well as coaching them to countless America East and New England titles. Besides his impressive accomplishments on the collegiate level, Hart founded the Boston International Track Club while he was a Northeastern student in 1974 and has been the director ever since.


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Premieres Thursday, April 7 at 10/10:30pm ET on HISTORY
New York, March 7, 2011 - The roots of taxidermy date back to ancient times, and can even be traced through such famous taxidermists as Charles Darwin, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.
Now, the exciting, entertaining and often surprising world of taxidermy is revealed in a new half-hour personality-driven series, MOUNTED IN ALASKA, premiering on Thursday, April 7 with back-to-back episodes at 10/10:30pm ET on HISTORY.
Enter the unusual workplace of Russell Knight, the owner of Knight's Taxidermy; an Alaska based family-run shop with a worldwide reputation for doing some of the finest work in the business. Assisting Russell is an expert team of colorful craftsmen and outdoorsmen with a passion for preserving the wildlife and natural history that hunters and fishermen - from local Alaskans to African hunters - bring into the shop.
With over 30 years of experience under his belt, Russell does more than just some of the best work in the industry. There's no job too challenging for him to tackle. From mounting a charging warthog so that it's busting through a wall in one client's home to creating the world's first camel form to the complete restoration of an historic 50-year-old polar bear that's an Alaskan landmark - Russell is constantly put to the test with difficult and sometimes strange requests for mounts from his customers that come from all over the world.
In upcoming episodes of MOUNTED IN ALASKA, viewers will see Russell work with Theodore Roosevelt�s personal taxidermy kit, which Roosevelt took with him into the field on his epic hunting expeditions. And, they will even watch Russell employ the historical taxidermy technique of hand wrapping, which was the method used by early taxidermists to simulate the body and bone structure of an animal before the advent of modern foam and chemicals.
From concept to completion, viewers will see the true, pressure-packed process of what it takes to preserve natural history - all on a deadline - and always for a demanding client.
MOUNTED IN ALASKA is produced for HISTORY by Thinkfactory Media. Executive Producers for HISTORY are David McKillop and Charles Nordlander. Executive Producers for Thinkfactory Media are Adam Reed, Adam Freeman, Joanne Rubino and Leslie Greif.
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As of today we here at FAOL have a new Admin. Many of you know her as she has been a Host for us and has tied in many swaps. She is way more knowledgable about computers than I. ( always figured nothing from nothing is nothing). So hopefully you all will give her your support as you have given me these past several years. Charlaine
moved out here to Washington state back last October, after graduating from Beauty School. She lives here on Liz & my property. She is in the process of starting her own business. She has her own place but is close to where I live. (here on the Conranch property)
We are working on a few Bamboo Rods together. Are also looking foreword to the soon to begin 2014 trout fishin.
I will help her as long as she needs help with the Admin duties.
After selling all my birds and being a bit long of tooth, I have been wanting to fully retire. Have spoken to the Owners at length about getting another Admin for the site. Today Deanna phoned Char, and the results are that we now have a new Admin.
I'd like to thank all of you for your support these past several years. My phone is always on my hip so I can be contacted.
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1. K Su, I Berenguer, I J Wassell, X Wang, "Efficient Maximum-Likelihood Decoding of Spherical Lattice Codes," IEEE Trans. Commun., vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 2290-2300, IEEE, Aug 2009
2. Karen Su, Inaki Berenguer, Ian J. Wassell, Xiaodong Wang, "Efficient maximum-likelihood decoding of spherical lattice space-time codes," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2006, Istanbul, Turkey, Jun 2006
3. Karen Su, "Detection and Decoding of Signals Transmitted Over Linear MIMO Channels," PhD thesis, Nov 2005
4. Karen Su, Ian J. Wassell, "Efficient MIMO detection by successive projection," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, IEEE, Sep 2005
5. Karen Su, Ian J. Wassell, "A New Ordering for Efficient Sphere Decoding," International Conference on Communications, May 2005
6. Karen Su, Ian J. Wassell, "Ordered Sphere Decoding," PREP 2005, pp. 194-195, Mar 2005
7. Karen Su, "Efficient Maximum Likelihood Detection for Communication over MIMO Channels," Technical Report, Hamilton Prize Essay 2004, University of Cambridge, Feb 2005
8. Karen Su, "MIMO Communication Systems: Advances in Efficient Signal Detection," Presentation, Jan 2005
9. Karen Su, "Space-time Coding: From Fundamentals to the Future," Technical Report, Sep 2003


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How to Report Animal Cruelty
PAWS helps Washington State residents identify and report animal cruelty, abuse and neglect. We do not have an investigation unit, nor do we have legal authority to intervene on behalf of abused and neglected animals, but we can provide resources and support.
If you witness or suspect animal cruelty, abuse or neglect, you should contact animal control immediately. Call 911 if you are witnessing cruelty at the moment. See a list of animal control phone numbers for Western Washington.
Remember that people also can abuse wild animals. If you are witnessing cruelty to wildlife, call 911 or the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
What to look for
- Does the animal have regular access to food, water and shelter?
- Is her area clear of feces, broken glass or other objects that may do harm or cause illness?
- Does the animal have open wounds or other injuries that have not been treated?
- Does the animal have signs of an illness that has not been treated? (Examples include heavy discharge from eyes or nose, rash or bumpy skin, and missing hair.)
- Have you witnessed someone kicking, beating or otherwise harming the animal?
- Is the animal's coat extremely matted or his nails severely overgrown?
- Does the animal appear overly aggressive or timid?
Documenting the incident with photographs or videotape can help in prosecuting the abuser. Your report should be as detailed as possible. You should note dates, times and circumstances. Report them, along with the physical evidence. If you have not directly witnessed cruelty but suspect it, you still should notify animal control.
Reporting cruelty
- Even if you are not sure that you are observing animal cruelty or neglect, please report it anyway. An animal control officer will make that determination. If no prosecution occurs, at least the officer can educate the person who is caring for the animal in humane treatment.
- When making your report, ask for the name of the animal control officer and what action is planned. Follow up, and report any change observed in the animal's treatment.
- Be aware that an investigating officer is not likely to identify the source of the complaint; however should the cruelty suspect be prosecuted, you may be called as a witness. Your concern for the animal should outweigh your concern about having to testify.
Click on one of the below links for more information on the topic:


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Lake Springfield's Spaulding Dam boat launch will be closed this weekend as crews clean the docks and lake where a truck went into the water Thursday night.
Containment and absorbent booms were put in the water Thursday night to contain any possible residue from the vehicle.
The truck became submerged after the driver backed the vehicle too far into the lake while attempting to put a boat in the water, said Amber Sabin, a City Water, Light and Power spokeswoman. The driver was able to escape the truck by climbing out of a window.
The lake drops off to about 19 feet deep where the truck was submerged. Divers were called in to hook cables to the vehicle, and a tow truck pulled the vehicle of the water, she said.
Sabin said the accident has no effect on the safety of the city's drinking water supply, which comes from the lake and is treated at CWLP's Water Purification Plant, which is located near the boat launch along East Lake Shore Drive, just east of Interstate 55.
"Our Lake Security staff had this area contained in less than an hour, and our cleanup contractor was on site for their work shortly thereafter," Sabin said in an email.
The boat launch is expected to reopen by Monday evening, the utility said.
Other public boat launches available on Friday include the Center Park launches, Lake Springfield Marina and Marine Point.
Due to triathlons taking place this weekend, the Lindsay Boat Launch is closed Friday and until 5:30 p.m. Saturday, and the Center Park Sailboat launch is closed until 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
For more information on public boat launches, visit CWLP's website.


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The nine year old who waits behind, so eager to tell you he ran a mile 'marathon' in record time. The ninety year old who looks at those she loves without the energy to engage or respond and closes her eyes in exhaustion. The range and states of human consciousness are as vast as that of cultures and customs around the world. One day we are hungry for experience and achievement. The next we've lost it.
Fasting is for when the bridegroom is absent not when he is present, Jesus tells us in today's gospel. But once again, opposites converge.
We want everything but equally we want to lose everything, to be unencumbered and free. This contradiction causes much grief and confusion until one day the penny drops. They are one and the same desire – or a need deeper than anything as obvious as a desire. Seeing this fulfils it and takes us beyond the orbit of desire and disappointment. Selfishness, cold detachment? Not so, because its test of authenticity is a love beyond the boundaries of attachment.
Learning to meditate begins with learning how to meditate. It is extraordinarily simple and the learning curve is coming to terms with this simplicity. It is more than about self-improvement or self- understanding. Simplicity projects us beyond these limited forms of knowledge and illuminates life as a pilgrimage. The journey is not self-analysis but self-transcendence but as John Main said it takes nerve to take the attention off yourself and to let go of what we think we have achieved.
Lent, meditation develops that nerve, like beginning with a one-mile marathon.
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In May 2014, BLM Director Neil Kornze, signed the BLM's National Strategy and Implementation Plan to Support and Enhance Partnerships, 2014-2018. Developed in cooperation with BLM partner organizations and stakeholders -- who contributed ideas and suggestions -- this first-ever strategy and plan creates a national framework for improved coordination and support of partnerships across the BLM.
On January 16, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell presented prestigious Secretarial "Partners in Conservation" Awards to three outstanding BLM-coordinated partnerships in recognition of their collaborative achievements in the field of conservation. The winners include:
To read the Department of the Interior press release, click here. To see photos of the event, click here. To view profiles of all the BLM nominated partnerships, click here.
To view profiles of all the BLM nominated partnerships, click here.
To download a copy of the new BLM Partnership Strategy, click on the image above or select this link.
The BLM has long depended on working with others, through partnerships, to enhance public lands and to carry out its multiple-use mission. Meaningful engagement with diverse partners helps ensure that management decisions and efforts reflect the interests of affected communities while accomplishing shared or complimentary goals. Working with partners also helps improve rangeland health, guard fragile biological and cultural resources, support a wide range of recreational, educational, and interpretive activities, and tackle other stewardship goals.
The BLM's partnerships program seeks to advance, strengthen, and support the use of partnerships nationally to improve the management, stewardship, and public enjoyment of the nation's public lands.


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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court looked into the question of who counts as a "supervisor" for the purpose of employment law. If you're not an employment-law watcher, it sounds like the legal equivalent of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. But the answer is going to have real-life consequences for hundreds of thousands of people. Let me illustrate.
Imagine this: You're a teenage girl working at a pizza place. You're often scheduled to work with John, a leering guy in his twenties who has the same title that you do. But because John's been working there six months longer, and is ten years older than you are, the assistant manager often leaves him in charge of the shift. John can't officially fire you—only the assistant manager can do that—but he gets to tell you what to do on a given day.
Here's the horrifying part: John gropes you grossly whenever he's alone with you on the floor, in ways too explicit to be listed here. When you're standing at the cash register, if you're not vigilant, out of nowhere he'll rub up behind you so closely you can feel his "stuff" poking you, as you later tell the lawyers. He tries to pin you alone in the freezer. He propositions you constantly, whispering things about your body that you've never even thought about before. One morning, he wrestles you to the floor when you two are there alone—but fortunately the assistant manager walks in and tells you two to stop horsing around, letting you escape. You've tried telling the assistant manager, to the best of your ability, that you don't want to be scheduled alone with John; you're a teenage girl, humiliated by this invasive attention, so you're not very articulate about why he makes you so uncomfortable. She tells you to stop being so sensitive, and cuts down your hours. One day John puts a knife to your throat, telling you that you know you want it, and go ahead, now say no. You quit. After a few months, unable to sleep for the nightmares, a friend insists that you go talk to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. You end up in a lawsuit.
If John was officially your supervisor, according to current employment case law that's grown out of the 1964 Civil Rights Act's Title VII, the restaurant would automatically be liable for what could be defined as sexual harassment, if indeed you can prove all that happened in a court of law. A long line of employment case law says that a supervisor is the employer's representative: If he or she is wielding the employer's authority, that employer is liable for his or her decisions and behavior toward you, as Lyle Denniston explains very nicely at SCOTUSblog.
But if John was just a colleague, you'll also have to prove that you made your case to everyone up the chain of command—to the assistant manager, and if she didn't respond, then to the hotline or whatever other easily available complaint mechanism the restaurant was required to offer in case something like this happened. (If they didn't have an effective complaint mechanism, they're liable, but that's another set of cases, now called Farragher/Ellerth. By the way, if you want a quick history of employment law, sexual harassment law in particular, I wrote and posted one with my former employer, the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, here.)
Okay, second example: Imagine you're running a small office, and you travel often for the business. Not everyone gets along, of course, but you expect them to work it out like adults. But one day you come back from a few weeks away to discover that the new accountant and the office manager have been going at each other using incredibly offensive rhetoric. Each tells a different story of who started it, which makes you wonder how you could have hired children who talk about "who started it." But before you can de-escalate the situation, one quits and files a complaint with the EEOC, alleging that her "supervisor" harassed her based on sex. The evidence that the other one was a supervisor: She had the keys to the office, and no one else did.
The first story—a real case, by the way, that the teen girl won—is the scenario envisioned by plaintiff-side employment lawyers. Employees can face some truly egregious harassment that really does breach the "compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." If you can't go to work for fear of being raped by the guy your employer put in charge for the day, surely that's a violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That side is hoping that the Supreme Court will offer a broad definition of "supervisor." And some of the appeals courts have indeed interpreted the term "supervisor" to include someone like John.
But the case that the Court heard this week happened in the Seventh Circuit, which has ruled that to be classified as a "supervisor," an employee must have the power to hire, fire, demote, promote, transfer, or discipline the other. Under that definition, John wouldn't count.
The second story is the nightmare of employers everywhere: You unwittingly hire a couple of petulant troublemakers who perpetually blame others for their own misery. One of them uses expletives and insults against a protected class. Next thing you know, you're dragged into an endless and expensive federal lawsuit. Surely the federal court system isn't there to work out such minor squabbles. And so the defendant-side employment bar is hoping for a ruling that defines a supervisor as someone who has much more than just "day-to-day oversight," as one of the circuits has put it.
So where will the Supreme Court draw the line? Who is a supervisor? The federal courts, I've been told by employment lawyers on both sides, "hate" employment cases. They don't want to be the employment office of last resort, sorting out petty quarrels. SCOTUS's goal has long been to come up with rules that will ensure the federal courts only have to deal with cases in the first category, where the allegations are about serious and life-changing harassment that only an appallingly negligent employer would have let continue. In the case the Court heard this week, Vance v. Ball State University, the facts sound pretty awful—but they are much closer to the second story. As the LA Times reported,
The justices heard the case of Maetta Vance, a black food-service worker at Ball State University in Indiana who claimed that Saundra Davis, a white woman who served as a catering specialist, had slapped her and referred to her as "Sambo" and "Buckwheat."
Yes, that's pretty nasty, and if it's all true, the other woman should have lost her job. But is it liably nasty? Was it so bad that Vance didn't have a fair shot at earning a living? And was Davis her colleague or her supervisor? Here are some excerpts from Adam Liptak's report on the oral arguments at The New York Times:
Justice Elena Kagan, perhaps reflecting on her experiences as dean of Harvard Law School, [said]:
"Professors don't have the ability to fire secretaries, but professors do have the ability to make secretarial lives living hells," she said, suggesting that the Seventh Circuit's approach was too limited.
According to several reports, Scalia seemed to be arguing for the Seventh Circuit's definition, and was frustrated that the Ball State University advocate wouldn't agree with him:
"And you don't even defend that," he said. "So there is nobody here defending the Seventh Circuit."
…Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. tried to test the limits of the more flexible approach, asking if a senior employee allowed to pick the music in a workplace was a supervisor.
"If you don't date me," he imagined such an employee saying to another, "it's going to be country music all day long."
Daniel R. Ortiz, a lawyer for Ms. Vance, said such conduct would not be severe enough to qualify.
Justice Scalia said "hard rock" might present a more difficult question. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. asked about Wagner's operas.
Chief Justice Roberts said having to listen to music, all day long, that the listener found unpleasant could be more severe than being instructed that "you're going to be cutting the celery rather than, you know, baking the bread."
Justice Alito asked whether "chopping onions all day would be enough" to be considered severe, and Mr. Ortiz responded yes.
"How about chopping other things, just chopping?" Justice Alito continued. "You are the sous chef. You are going to be chopping all day every day. Would that be enough?"
It depends, Mr. Ortiz responded.
It depends—that's the Supreme Court's idea of hell, really, in employment cases. The Court wants a bright line, as the lawyers like to put it, to make it clear which cases get into court and which can be easily thrown out on summary judgment, before discovery, depositions, or juries get involved. So which line will it be: Day-to-day oversight, or power to hire, fire, and discipline?
In fact, several of the reporters suggest that the Court might have decided this particular case was too close to my second example to even bother using to decide this urgent and complex issue. From the LA Times:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Vance appeared to have a weak case, even if the catering specialist were deemed to be her supervisor. The Obama administration also stopped short of saying Vance should win her case.
By the end of oral arguments, the justices sounded unsure whether they should use Vance's case to make a major ruling on workplace harassment laws.
The thing is, both sides' concerns are genuinely important. It's a serious problem if, when you go to work, someone can turn your daily life into hell, making it impossible for you to make a living without misery. And it's a serious problem if sullen or hypersensitive employees look around for a Title VII violation every time their performance reviews don't go brilliantly. But Professor Theresa Beiner's work on summary judgment suggests that the federal courts are too quick to throw out potential cases, making it too hard for potential plaintiffs to get a hearing from a jury of their peers. The person who can make your job utterly miserable isn't only the person who can hire, fire, promote, or demote you. It's anyone who has been put in charge of your work. Employers do have a responsibility to ensure that the person cracking the whip isn't misusing that authority. If the Court does rule on Vance, let's hope they keep that definition broad.


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Study Programmes (Headstart 16-18) Retail at Nova Training - Bilston
Course description
Headstart programmes are generally made up from three core elements that include;
- Vocational skills and qualifications
- Work Experience Placements
- Functional Skills (Maths, English and ICT
Headstart is a great free training programme to help you get the right skills, qualifications and experience to get you where you want to be.
As part of the course you will learn the key elements of Retail that include a full introduction to the Retail sector and preparation for further learning and training in this 'in demand' vocational area.
Course content
In addition to the above Nova's Headstart programme can also help you with the following;
- Training to prepare you for college or to get an apprenticeship or a job
- Help with employability skills such as, CV writing and interview skills
- Confidence building and team work skills
- Work experience placements
Headstart is for anyone who has left school and is aged 16-18 or those aged 19-24 who have learning difficulties and/or disabilities. The programme is predominantly at level 1 but can include level 2 skills and qualifications.
Future opportunities
Nova offers a full range of progression routes for the above and in most circumstances are able to offer Level 2 & 3 Apprenticeships.
How to apply
If you want to apply for this course, you will need to contact Nova Training - Bilston directly.


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Sure, props for your Xbox LIVE avatar are gimmicky and they can be quite absurd, but we still love 'em. We also love our Surface, so when the two collide, we can't help but get a little gitty.
If you head over to the Xbox site and follow this link, you'll be able to add the "Windows 8 Tablet Avatar Prop" to your collection. Yes, that's right.
So what does your avatar do with the Surface? Why he plays with the tiles, throws on some tunes, dances a little, snaps on the keyboard cover (while dangling the computer) and overall shows off our latest and favorite tech gadget. But why are you still reading this? Head over to Xbox.com now and get your free Surface Avatar Prop right now (and yes, it will display on your Windows Phone).
Speaking of, some of us are still rocking our free Windows Phone prop from mid 2011. Microsoft should totally bring that back, amirte?
Oh and we're not a 100% certain but we suspect this is a US only offer. Don't shoot the messenger.
Source: Xbox; Thanks, ninjaap, for the tip!
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Season review: Belgium
Tuesday 22 May 2012
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"Now it's time to party," said Ariël Jacobs after RSC Anderlecht claimed their 31st Belgian title, in a season when KSC Lokeren OV captured their first major silverware.
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Denied by KRC Genk in the play-offs last term, RSC Anderlecht reclaimed the Belgian title – their 31st – with room to spare. Yet it was as much a season for the less fancied names, as third-tier K. Rupel Boom FC grabbed the headlines, KSC Lokeren OV captured their first major title and RAEC Mons' Jérémy Perbet proved unstoppable.
Champions: RSC Anderlecht
Having lost Romelu Lukaku to Chelsea FC, Anderlecht brought in former R. Standard de Liège team-mates Dieudonné Mbokani and Milan Jovanović as replacements. Ariël Jacobs's side surprisingly lost their opening league game 2-1 at OH Leuven, but were soon on the victory trail and finished six points clear at the top at the end of the regular season. They clinched the title with two play-off games remaining when Guillaume Gillet's late penalty secured a 1-1 draw at Club Brugge KV. "This is the result of what we started working on in July," said Jacobs. "Now it's time to party."
Cup final: KV Kortrijk 0-1 KSC Lokeren OV
Lokeren claimed their first Belgian Cup, having lost to Standard in their only previous final in 1981, despite having Benjamin De Ceulaer sent off midway through the first half in Brussels. Yet they hung on against maiden finalists Kortrijk and Hamdi Harbaoui struck 13 minutes from time to secure their first major trophy. "We've proved before that we can play with good organisation despite going a man down," said coach Peter Maes. "It was no different today."
European places*
RSC Anderlecht – UEFA Champions League, third qualifying round
Club Brugge KV – UEFA Champions League, third qualifying round
KSC Lokeren OV – UEFA Europa League, play-offs
KRC Genk – UEFA Europa League, third qualifying round
KAA Gent – UEFA Europa League, second qualifying round
*Subject to final confirmation from UEFA
Player of the Year: Matías Suárez (RSC Anderlecht)
Suárez, 24, was elected 2011 player of the year by a collection of journalists and dignitaries, and was later named as player of the season by a his top-flight peers. His 12 league goals helped the Brussels outfit take the title, and his seven in six UEFA Europa League games helped Anderlecht cruise through the group stage with a perfect record. "I am very satisfied," said the Argentinian. "It was a good season, with the championship for Anderlecht and this important trophy for me."
One to watch: Kevin De Bruyne (KRC Genk)
Only 20, the playmaker has been causing a stir at Genk for two seasons, launching attacks and producing the odd stunning strike himself. Capped twice, he secured a mid-season move to Chelsea, remaining at Genk on loan for the remainder of the campaign. "To come to a team like Chelsea is a dream come true," said De Bruyne. "But now it's a reality and I have to work hard to achieve the level that's necessary."
Surprise package: KV Kortrijk
A sixth-place finish and a first Belgian Cup final appearance represented enormous success for Kortrijk, who eight years ago were playing in the third division. Playing a fresh, attack-minded game, De Kerels won the respect of their peers, with boss Hein Vanhaezebrouck was named Belgian coach of the season.
Leading scorer: Jérémy Perbet, RAEC Mons (25)
Relegated: K. Sint-Truidense VV, KVC Westerlo
Promoted: R. Charleroi SC, KVRS Waasland - SK Beveren
Number: 57
On 26 October, K. Rupel Boom FC became the first third division side in 57 years to eliminate Anderlecht from the Belgian Cup, beating the Brussels outfit 2-1 at the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium in the round of 16.
"I never ran so fast in my life. I did not even have time to explain to the coach what was wrong. Luckily I just made it in time."
Mushaga Bakenga had a dream debut for Club Brugge, scoring in a 5-1 win against K. Beerschot AC on 5 February 2012, but the 19-year-old was forced to make a dash for the toilets during the game due to severe stomach cramps.


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Jill Biden
The National Cable and Telecommunications Association's Annual Convention
June 17, 2011, Chicago, IL
U.S. Secretary of Education Highlights Academic Success as a National Security Issue
On March 23, as part of a two-day trip to California, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan visited Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. He joined U.S. Department of Defense Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley, U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) and U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.), as well as San Diego Unified School District Superintendent William Kowba and several military leaders, to showcase education as a national security issue. Mr. Kowba spoke about the importance of improving student performance in the classroom. Maj. Gen. James W. Comstock, U.S. Army (Ret.), Mission: Readiness and former reserve component advisor, U.S. Central Command; and Maj. Gen. Paul D. Monroe, U.S. Army (Ret.), former adjutant general of California, together with Amy Dawson Taggart, national director of Mission: Readiness, focused on the need for a greater investment in high-quality early learning opportunities. The officials toured a school age facility at Miramar and then held a press conference that focused on data showing that an estimated 75 percent of young adults do not qualify for military service and that poor school performance is one of the leading reasons why many young adults cannot enlist. Mission: Readiness is a nonprofit organization composed of more than 200 retired generals and admirals who support bipartisan efforts to modify the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and to enact new federal legislation that enables more children to succeed academically. As a testimony to the military's interest, others present were Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Anthony L. Jackson, Commanding General of Marine Corps Installations West; Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Melvin G. Spiese, deputy commanding general of Ist Marine Expeditionary Force; Maj. Gen. James W. Comstock, U.S. Army (Ret.), Mission: Readiness and former reserve component advisor, U.S. Central Command; and Maj. Gen. Paul D. Monroe, U.S. Army (Ret.), former adjutant general of California.
Michelle Obama Speaks at High School Graduation
First lady Michelle Obama told the graduating class of Virginia's Quantico Middle/High School that they should treasure the resilience they have developed as military kids. "You all have the maturity to understand that your parents are part of something far bigger than themselves, or you, or your family. You understand that their service keeps every single American safe," she told the graduates.
Michelle Obama spoke June 3, at Quantico Marine Corps Base, to the high school's 27 graduating seniors as well as nine seniors who were displaced by the Japanese earthquake and tsunami of earlier this year. The first lady, who received a standing ovation, said the stress, upheaval and diversity of military life has made those families stronger and the graduates better prepared for their future. "Unlike some of your civilian peers, I don't think any of you are going to panic about having to do your own laundry or cook your own meals when it's time to leave home," she said. ... "So I have to tell you, I am in awe of you."
Each of the 36 graduates received their diplomas from Michelle Obama personally, along with a hug and a photograph. "It's just hard to describe how much it means to military families to have graduates recognized by the commander-in-chief's wife," said the school's valedictorian, Brannon Niblock, who will enroll in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in the fall. Quantico is the last of three commencement addresses this year from the first lady. Along with childhood obesity, support for military families has been one of her top issues as first lady.
Joining Forces Initiative Launched
For the first time in this country, the needs of military children in schools are being highlighted from the very top. President Barack Obama's recently released directive "Strengthening Our Military Families" (http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2011/0111_initiative) includes detailed plans for focusing on and improving educational outcomes for military students. On April 21, the U.S. Department of Education joined agencies across the government in participating in first lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden's Joining Forces initiative, which seeks to mobilize all sectors of society to better support service members and their families. The week of June 3, President Obama, the first lady, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden launched the Joining Forces Initiative to mobilize all sectors of societyfrom citizens to businesses to communitiesto give service members and their families the opportunities, resources and support they have earned to make the deployment of their loved ones a little easier. Michelle Obama stated, "This campaign is about all of us, all of us joining together, as Americans, to give back to the extraordinary military families who serve and sacrifice so much, every day, so that we can live in freedom and security." President Obama said, "Our nation endures because these men and women are willing to defend it, with their very lives. And as a nation, it is our solemn duty and our moral obligation to serve these patriots as well as they serve us." Joining Forces is partnering with top corporations and nonprofit groups to bolster health care, as well as employment and educational opportunities. To learn more go to jobs.aol.com/militaryfamilies.
The Department has taken steps to better meet these needs by providing important guidance to states and districts and by working to better direct the flow of federal resources. Some of the steps taken include: Departmental support of military families is a priority and is supplemented by making discretionary grant programs that support the military a priority; continuation of the Specialized Training of Military Parents (STOMP) project, dedicated to serving military parents of children with special needs; and a Dear Colleague Letter from the secretary to all district superintendents and all chief state school officers indicating support for the work of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which addresses some of the common education barriers for military students who are transferring between school systems. In only four years, 39 states have adopted the compact, and we are hopeful the remaining states will do so by the end of 2012. Among other provisions, the compact addresses the timely transfer of student records, increases the probability students will receive credit for courses taken in other states, and enhances eligibility for sports and other extracurricular programs. To learn more about the U.S. Department of Education's commitments and initiatives to support military families, please visit http://www.ed.gov/veterans-and-military-families.
Jill Biden Holds Military Summit
The Department of Education's fourth and final regional community college summit was held at San Diego City College, on April 15. The summit came on the heels of the Michelle Obama's and Jill Biden's Joining Forces kickoff tour (See story on Joining Forces Page 2). Joining Forces is an initiative intended to, among other things, raise public awareness about military families and veterans who live in communities throughout the country, and encourage all Americans to do their part to show their appreciation and support. Community colleges are uniquely suited to meet the Joining Forces challenge, and they set an example for all sectors of society to use their strengths and expertise to expand opportunities for our veterans, as community colleges have always been attuned to the needs of their communities. The San Diego summit focused on the ways community colleges are supporting and educating veterans and members of the military and their families. Summit participants heard from several veterans about how their military service prepared them for college, and about some of the challenges they encountered transitioning from the military into the classroom. Many community college leaders and students discussed how veterans have become leaders on their campuses, strengthening classroom discussions and advocating for other students and veterans. In San Diego as elsewhere in the nation, we have a special obligation to make sure our veterans and military families can move into promising careers and thrive after their years of service and sacrifice to our country. These summits were held across the country to follow up on the first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges hosted by President Obama and Jill Biden at the White House last October. As Biden commented then, the White House Summit was only the beginning of our national outreach and other efforts to demonstrate how community colleges are critical to educating the best, most competitive workforce in the world.
Department Representative Moderates Panel on Military Children
On April 28, the Department of Education moderated a panel at the NASA Pre-Launch Education SummitSupporting Military Families, in Orlando Fla. The panel discussed the challenges regarding a military child's education and the role the federal government has in finding solutions. The panel consisted of moderator, John Manahan, special assistant to the deputy secretary and a member of the performance management team in the Office of the Deputy Secretary; David Splitek, Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) board member since 2000 and chair of the MCEC Technology Initiatives; Maj. Eric Flake, chief, Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss.; Sierra Flake, grade 6 military child; and Tre Fields grade 12 military youth. The key questions addressed were: What are the major educational issues facing military families? How has or can the communities around military facilities respond to these educational challenges? What is the Federal role in responding to these challenges? Some key outcomes determined: Migrating military children are either very behind or very ahead depending on the state they are coming from and the state they are going to; States that are part of the Interstate Compact (IC; see Joining Forces Initiative Launched, page 2) typically are easier for military families to work with, however, the difference in standards and inconsistent implementation of the IC still make it difficult; and there was broad agreement that having military children as a group from which reports should be made is important.
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) Commissioner Participates in Career Summit
RSA Commissioner Lynnae Ruttledge participated in the Health Care: Career Trends, Best Practices and Call-to-Action Summit on May 17 in Chicago, Ill. The summit was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor and Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago. Participants discussed increasing employment opportunities, breaking down employment barriers in clinical and nonclinical settings, building strategic alliances, exchanging information, and improving access to health-care careers for qualified people with disabilities, veterans and minorities. Approximately 100-200 business leaders, human resource managers, government representatives and health-care professional attended.
Department Exhibits at Joint Services Open House
The Department exhibited at the Joint Services Open House (JSOS) May 20-23, Suitland, Md. Staff provided available information to all the visitors and answered questions concerning grants, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the website for veterans and military families, http://www.ed.gov/veterans-and-military-families. JSOS, held at Andrews Air Force Base, featured the Thunderbirds, the Golden Knights, and other exciting aerial and ground attractions.
Department Representative Hosts Panel to Discuss Charter Schools on Military Installations
On June 20-23, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools held its 2011 National Charter Schools Conference in Atlanta, Ga. The Department of Education presented a panel moderated by John Bray of the National Charter School Resource Center, which is operated for the Department by American Institutes for Research. The session provided information about charter schools on military bases. Included were such topics as starting the schools, allocating spaces, facilities, transportation, security issues and federal support available for charter schools serving military families. The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is a nonprofit organization committed to advancing the charter school movement. Their mission is to lead public education to unprecedented levels of academic achievement for all students by fostering a strong charter sector. The alliance provides assistance to state charter school associations and resource centers, and develops and advocates for improved public policies. The panelists were Jean Silvernail, director, Military Child Education Division for U.S. Pacific Command; Jane Dye,principal of Belle Chasse Academy, a K-8 charter school located on Naval Air Station/Joint Reserve Base New Orleans; Michael Toriello, deputy base civil engineer at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz.; and Lloyd Matthews, senior program manager/analyst for charter schools, Impact Aid Program, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Deputy Secretary Speaks at Military Child Education Coalition Conference
The Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) held its 2011 annual conference in Nashville, Tenn., June 21-23, featuring a panel discussion that included some of the highest ranking generals and admirals of the U.S. and British militaries and the U.S. Department of Education's Deputy Secretary Tony Miller. The Military Child Education Coalition's vision is to serve as a model of positive leadership and advocacy for ensuring inclusive, quality educational opportunities for all military children. The coalition's mission is to ensure inclusive, quality educational experiences for all military children affected by mobility, family separation, and transition. Other panel members were Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, 37th chief of staff United States Army; Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force; Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, vice chief of United States Naval Operations; Gen.Craig R. McKinley, chief, National Guard Bureau; Gen. Sir Richard Shirreff, deputy supreme allied commander Europe, knight commander, commander of the Order of the British Empire; Vice Adm. Sally Brice-O'Hara, vice commandant of the United States Coast Guard; and Maj. Gen. Darrell L. Moore, director, USMC Reserve Affairs. ED's Deputy Chief of Staff Eric Waldo was a distinguished lecturer speaking on the subject of the Secretary of Education's support for military-connected children.
Regional News
On April 13, Region X staff (Seattle) attended the Military Kids and Family Partnership group meeting in Tacoma, Wash. The group meets monthly to discuss ways in which their agencies can provide outreach to military families and resources. They are presently planning a summit which will focus on the needs of military families. Participants will include counselors, teachers, administrators, and parents.
The Department exhibited at the Veterans Expo, held in Atlanta on April 27. The Regional Office of Veterans Administration in Atlanta working through the Region IV Interagency Forum on Faith-based and Neighborhood Initiatives organized and hosted the event. U. S. Representative Hank Johnson spoke. Other distinguished guests included Chief Executive Officer Burrell Ellis of DeKalb County Government, and Major General Maria L. Britt, commanding general of the Georgia Army National Guard.
Data on Progress of Military Children Could Lead to More Targeted Services
An increased federal focus on military children may lead to more detailed tracking of how military children fare academically in schools located off base. As part of a joint tour promoting military families, first lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, a community college instructor and the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, are calling for more targeted support services for military students and better access to rigorous curricula. The Department of Defense tracks the achievement of students in its 194 schools around the world, but the majority of children of service members and civilian Defense Department employees attend public schools. Yet a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests it may be hard to identify and serve highly mobile military students. In the study of 118 of the 154 Impact Aid schools with high concentrations of military students, GAO researchers led by George A. Scott, the director of education, workforce, and income security issues for the office, found that fewer than 20 percent of the districts surveyed separately tracked their spending to support military students. None tracked how military students as a group fared at their schools. "The department shares the concern ... that some military children may struggle academically as a result of varied academic standards from state to state and a lack of connection to the school community resulting from their mobility," wrote James H. Shelton III, the U.S. Department of Education's assistant deputy secretary for innovation and improvement, in responding to the GAO report. "In the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Education Department has proposed to require schools, districts, and states to report the achievement of military students," Mr. Shelton said. (Read the the GAO report.)
Substance Abuse and Mental Disorders information Now Available for Military Families: Access to Care for Active Duty, National Guard, Reserve, Veterans, Their Families, and Those Close to Them
Information on the nature and scope of substance use and mental disorders among military service members is being offered to military families as a free audio CD or downloadable digital version. It also examines the strength of the system to address these problems and efforts underway to improve the ability to support military service members and their families. The information examines the serious issue of need for active duty, national guard, reserve, veterans, their families, and those close to them by exploring the nature and scope of substance use and mental disorders, the strengths and weakness of the system to address these problems, and the efforts underway to improve our nation's ability to meet its health-care obligations to service members and their families. Specific improvement strategies are highlighted including collaboration and coordination that increases access to care; community-based solutions that foster access to evidence-based prevention, treatment and recovery support services, as well as development of the behavioral health workforce to better serve the military and their families. For more information go to http://store.samhsa.gov/product/Military-Families-Access-to-Care-for-Active-Duty-National-Guard-Reserve-Veterans-Their-Families-and-Those-Close-to-Them-Audio-CD-/SMA11-4621CD and http://www.recoverymonth.gov/Resources-Catalog/2011/Webcast/05-Military-Families.aspx
Children of Military Service Members Resource Guide Now Available Online
In order to assist families and health-care providers address the mental and emotional health needs of military children, the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE), whose mission is to identify and promote effective instructional material for wounded warriors, families, and health-care providers, has released the Children of Military Service members Resource Guide. Deployment not only affects our military service members individually, but also has a significant effect on their families, especially the children. From toddlers to teenagers, children may face difficult separations, experience intensified emotions, and note parental changes once the deployed family member returns. DCoE is part of the Military Health System, which provides a "continuum of care"from initial accession to deployment to discharge. DCoE works across the entire continuum of care to promote resilience, rehabilitation and reintegration for warriors, families and veterans with psychological health concerns and traumatic brain injuries. The guide is available at:
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Find out the eco and ethical practices each one of these eight logos represents -- and how all of them help us make more conscientious choices.
Administered by the American Humane Association, this label ensures that the producers allowed farm animals to freely engage in normal behaviors (for instance, wing stretching in the case of laying hens) and employed only trained handlers to tend to them. It also indicates that these animals weren't raised in cages.
How it's monitored: Independent auditors conduct inspections before issuing a certificate, good for one year. After that, the farm must undergo annual audits to prove its continuous adherence to the American Humane standards.
The nonprofit Food Alliance (FA) certifies food producers, including growers and handlers, for a variety of sustainable practices, including safe and fair working conditions, reduced pesticide use, water and energy conservation, and wildlife-habitat protection. It also rejects the use of hormones and antibiotics.
How it's monitored: Certified members are required to set improvement goals and show yearly progress. In addition, farmers cannot grow genetically modified (GM) crops. FA employs a third-party inspection agency to regularly audit its participating members.
The Marine Stewardship Council's (MSC) label represents a fishery's commitment to sustainable practices, such as protecting biodiversity and ecological development.
How it's monitored: MSC relies on third-party certifiers to uphold its environmental standards (which adhere to the basic guidelines set by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization) to assess the fisheries and every company in the product's supply chain.
As with organic farming, Demeter Biodynamic-certified producers eschew the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. Biodynamic farming also supports plant biodiversity, the efficient use of water, and takes the cycles of the moon into account. It aims to revitalize the soil with homeopathic preparations that include herbs. Demeter's certification standards have been around since 1928.
How it's monitored: Demeter evaluates farms for two to three years before it considers them eligible for certification. Once Demeter accredits the farms, they must submit to an annual inspection.
The label of this nonprofit champions sustainable agriculture and guarantees socially and environmentally responsible management policies. More than 31,000 farms in 22 countries, including rainforest areas, comply. The Rainforest Alliance (RA) holds its members accountable for decent wages, soil and water conservation, and the use of pesticides only as a last resort.
How it's monitored: RA relies on the Sustainable Agriculture Network, a collection of conservation groups, as well as an independent certifying agency to evaluate and award certification to farmers.
Commonly associated with coffee, tea, and cocoa, this label guarantees that the growers received a fair, above-market price. Fair Trade standards also push for sustainable farming and forbid child labor and the use of harmful pesticides.
How it's monitored: TransFair USA, a member of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International, certifies and audits all Fair Trade Certified companies in the United States and their suppliers.
Backed by the nonprofit Vegan Action, this label (which you can find on clothing and cosmetic packaging, as well) asserts that the product neither contains nor uses any animal ingredients or byproducts in its manufacture -- and contains no ingredients that have been tested on animals.
How it's monitored: Vegan Action relies on written statements from companies. In some cases, it will also require laboratory tests and contact suppliers and manufacturers to investigate questionable ingredients or processes. The logo is good for one year.
As regulated by the National Marine Fisheries Service under the Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act, manufacturers cannot label tuna "dolphin safe" if fishermen deliberately or accidentally encircle (or kill) dolphins with nets.
How it's monitored: The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission performs onboard inspections of fishing practices within the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, the primary region where dolphins and tuna swim together. In 2000, the U.S. government designed its own dolphin-safe logo and encourages, but does not require, companies to adopt it.


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European Court Of Human Rights: No, Copyright Does Not Automatically Trump Freedom Of Expression
from the well,-that's-a-relief dept
As many know, copyright had its origins in censorship and control. But over the last few hundred years, that fact has been obscured by the rise of the powerful publishing industry and the great works it has helped bring to the public. More recently, though, laws and treaties like SOPA and ACTA have represented a return to the roots of copyright, posing very real threats to what can be said online. That's not because their intent was necessarily to crimp freedom of expression, but as a knock-on effect of turning risk-averse ISPs into the copyright industry's private police force.
And so there's a growing tension between copyright law that seeks to limit unauthorized use of works on the one hand, and freedom of expression that aims to allow the maximum scope for creativity on the other. The question then becomes: which should have precedence when they clash? The European Court of Human Rights was asked just this question, and came up with the following important ruling:
For the first time in a judgment on the merits, the European Court of Human Rights has clarified that a conviction based on copyright law for illegally reproducing or publicly communicating copyright protected material can be regarded as an interference with the right of freedom of expression and information under Article 10 of the European Convention [on Human Rights]. Such interference must be in accordance with the three conditions enshrined in the second paragraph of Article 10 of the Convention. This means that a conviction or any other judicial decision based on copyright law, restricting a person's or an organisation's freedom of expression, must be pertinently motivated as being necessary in a democratic society, apart from being prescribed by law and pursuing a legitimate aim.
However, it's worth noting that the same blog post points out:
Due to the important wide margin of appreciation available to the national authorities in this particular case, the impact of Article 10 however is very modest and minimal.
That's because there are many other factors that will need to be taken in to account for particular cases, as the rest of the blog post goes on to explore at some length. For example, one issue is whether the copyright infringement in question was for commercial or non-commercial purposes: the latter would be likely to benefit from the current ruling, while the former probably would not. Nonetheless, an important principle has been enunciated by a senior European court -- one that both reflects the evolving views on this subject, and that is also likely to help shape future decisions in this contested area.
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Completed in 1952, the David and Gladys Wright House is one of three spiral designs realized by Frank Lloyd Wright and is considered to be a precursor to the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The concrete block home sits on ~5.9 acres in the Arcadia neighborhood of Phx and enjoys sweeping views of Camelback Mountain. The ~2200 SF 3 bdrm main house has been partially updated, but requires additional rehabilitations, including necessary structural and electrical repairs. The offer includes reproductions of the signature ''March Balloons'' carpet designed by Wright for the living room and a dining table and chairs. The ~360 SF 1 bd guest house has been recently restored. An application for Historic Preservation-Landmark status is pending with the City of Phoenix.Offered in AS-Is condition
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Gordon Ramsay Says He's Closing Kitchen Nightmares for Good
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You can 86 Kitchen Nightmares. Celebrity chef and reality star Gordon Ramsay announced Monday that he's closing up the restaurant renovation program that helped build his empire. Ramsay revealed his plan on his website&n… Read more