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Michael Jackson Unreleased Songs + Catalog Penetrated by Hackers
The Michael Jackson vault has been hacked! The Sony Music archive of Jackson material, including an unreleased collab with will.i.am as well as a recording featuring the late Freddie Mercury of Queen, was compromised by wily computer nerds (or geniuses, depending on your perspective) who illegally downloaded 50,000 digital music files.
Execs at the label forked over a cool $250 million to the Jackson estate back in 2010 in order to gain access to the vaults, which included previously unheard material from studio sessions for albums like 'Thriller' and 'Bad.' To say that it is a treasure trove would be like saying that Jackson was just a pop singer!
There is a lot of valuable intellectual material in the archive and the powers-that-be really wanted to get their hands on it. Can't say we blame 'em, since Jackson was one of the most beloved pop artists of the modern era. Given the circumstances of his tragic death in 2009, any unheard material increased exponentially in value.
The Sunday Times (courtesy of WENN) reports that everything the label purchased from the late King of Pop's estate was infiltrated. The source revealed, "It caused them to check their systems and they found the breach. There was a degree of sophistication. Sony identified the weakness and plugged the gap."
Whether or not the hackers were caught and how they will be prosecuted remains TBD. But at least the hole in the dam has been plugged, even if temporarily.
The poor King of Pop can barely rest in peace. Between the drama surrounding the trial of his doctor Conrad Murray and now this, Jackson remains embroiled in controversy. Can't a beloved pop star be left alone while in the afterlife?


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An ad on Craigslist is all about the wording. Say something boring and it'll be lost in the mire.
But say something outrageous and you may be on your way to viral fame.
This ad, which we saw on Reddit, definitely falls into the latter category. It may just be the single greatest car ad ever on the site. The owner boasts that "every previous owner has had a beard" and the Grand Am even has features like "doors" and "seats."
Those are definitely bragging points in our book.
Check out the ad out below and click to make it larger (Reddit via Hooniverse):

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Jill's Asian Chicken Salad
Sliced cucumber
Inspired by Mommy, I'm Hungry
Mmmmm! This sounds delicious! I'm having a ladies lunch this week, I think it's going on the menu!
The salad looks great, btw check out my blog, you have a surprise :)
This salad looks wonderful! And your daughter and granddaughter are so sweet.
You know the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Your duaghter's are great cooks, just like their mama.
Looks delicious! So light for this time of year.
Looks delicious! I will make this soon...have all the ingredients on hand most of the time! Wonderful photo of the two girls...just lovely.
Sounds delicious. I love lots of crunchy stuff in my salads. :)
This looks delicious! I love to have new salad recipes for this time of year. Thanks so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday :)
First, I love that photo of your daughter and granddaughter!!! And this salad sounds wonderful...perfect for dinner on a warm night :)


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F-35 bay environment raises questions about thermal, acoustic limits of available weapons
Developers of the multinational F-35 are finally embarking on a multi-year campaign to demonstrate the single-engine stealthy fighter's ability to dispatch weapons. But uncertainties loom about the impact of internal-carriage requirements on those weapons' effectiveness.
The Lockheed Martin F-35, and the F-22 before it, have introduced a new level of complexity into the air-launched-weapons world by demanding that munitions long anchored on external wing and belly pylons of legacy fighters be carried in small, stealthy internal bays. The Air Force decided decades ago to forgo large payloads—epitomized by the F-15 Strike Eagle—in pursuit of a significantly reduced radar cross section, allowing for fighters to evade air defenses and penetrate into enemy air space.
While the F-22 was a step in this direction, the F-35 is expected to carry far more weapon types in its bay, which has a challenging thermal and acoustic environment. Although the bay has not presented developers with conditions beyond the specifications of weapons slated for use in the F-35, engineers acknowledge there is little margin. "We are within about 10-12 degrees in most cases. But it is close" to the design specifications of some weapons, says Charlie Wagner, weapons integrated project team lead for the F-35 Joint Program Office. "It is not that simple, though. Maybe I can get [a weapon] that hot. But can I get it hot for an hour? Or can it be that hot for two days?"
Wagner says experts in the military are studying the potential prolonged and cumulative effects of operating so close to margin for weapons such as the 1,000-lb. GBU-32 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) and GBU-31 2,000-lb. version. Both ground-attack weapons are slated for early use on the aircraft. A thornier issue, perhaps, will be the environmental impact of the bay on weapons employing more sophisticated electronics, sensors and motors, such as the Raytheon AIM-120C7/D Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Amraam) or British AIM-132 Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Asraam). "I don't know if the weapons people know that for sure," says Wagner. "We are pushing what they designed to. . . . If I'm going to the extreme of what they tested [a weapon] to, they may not have a real good understanding of how that is going to affect the weapon over the next 20 years."
Operating near or at the margins is not new for the F-35 program, which has suffered problems keeping the F-35B to the required weight. Though the weight issues have been resolved—with roughly 300 lb. of margin now on the aircraft, according to Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos—developers are loath to run into similar problems with the operating margins of weapons in the F-35 bay. This is especially true as the Pentagon faces major funding cuts in the coming years; shortcomings in programs could make them vulnerable for reductions or terminations by Congress.
As scientists and engineers continue to study these issues, the flight-testing program is moving forward. The first jettison test took place Aug. 8, when a GBU-32 was dropped from BF-03, a short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing F-35B at NAS Patuxent River, Md. The trial was designed only to ensure safe separation, and the weapon was inert. This is the first in a short series of such jettison tests. At least two are slated for next month, including the first drop of a GBU-31 from a conventional-takeoff-and-landing F-35A.
The F-35 maintained a speed of roughly Mach 0.65 at level flight for the first drop; higher speeds are slated for future demonstrations. However, Wagner notes that it is not urgent to test high bank angles for JDAM drops because, in the field, the F-35 will likely be employed primarily in level flying conditions to maintain the lowest radar cross section possible for ground-attack missions.
Varied angle-of-attack maneuvers will come into play when engineers begin testing the use of Amraam on the F-35. As pilots will want to "fire and forget" their air-attack weapons, they will need to employ them in a much larger flight envelope than the ground-attack munitions.
Unlike the JDAM series, Amraam is powered by a solid-rocket-fuel motor and is dispatched from its position on the door of the F-35 weapon bay. JDAMs are carried on a bomb rack mounted inside the belly.
Initially, developers plan only to demonstrate safe separation of the Amraam, using test bodies lacking a rocket motor. They hope to actually fire an Amraam from the F-35 by the end of January, Wagner says.
Although the three F-35 types share some elements, each weapon model must be tested separately on each fighter version. Those trials will be conducted in parallel, he says. The program prioritizes tests of internal-carriage weapons, as those are required for the Block II and Block III F-35 releases; Block IIB software is what the U.S. Marine Corps will use for declaring initial operational capability (IOC) with its F-35Bs.
The first external weapons will be used in Block III, which is the software version required for IOC for Air Force and Navy models; Block III will be released no earlier than 2017. Introduction of the Boeing GBU-39 Small-Diameter Bomb, a 250-lb. glide weapon, is slated for the Block IV software release at the end of the decade. This weapon was developed by the Air Force specifically to maximize the number of ground targets that the F-35, with its limited internal-bay space, can attack on a single mission; four SDBs can be mounted in place of each JDAM position, allowing for the F-35 and F-22 to each carry eight of the weapons internally. The SDB II, a version incorporating a tri-mode seeker for all-weather, day/night engagements, is now being developed by Raytheon. The first units will be delivered for operational use in 2016 (see p. 61).
The F-35 also is being developed to carry nuclear weapons. Testing of nuclear munitions on the fighter is not slated to begin until after the aircraft development phase is complete.
In the meantime, F-35 developers are sharing the thermal and acoustic data being collected from the bay with the weapon manufacturers. While the bay environment is close to the design specifications of weapons already in the arsenal, the developers hope that sharing this information will help engineers crafting next-generation munitions to design them with those environmental factors in mind, Wagner says.
The Aug. 8 weapon separation test was a major milestone for the Pentagon-led F-35 program. To view a video of it, check out the digital edition of AW&ST on leading tablets and smartphones, or visit AviationWeek.com/jdamdrop
Integrating a number of diverse weapons onto the F-35 will be critical to the stealthy fighter's utility for its global customers. To view an interactive chart of weapons slated for use on the F-35, check out the digital edition of AW&ST on leading tablets and smartphones, or visit AviationWeek.com/jsfweapons


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I have 2 baby oscars and 2 baby bgk fish in my tank. No worries they are in a big enough tank where they'll be happy as adults with lots of hiding places and get along fine.
I feed them bloodworms twice a day and just break off a piece and defrost it. There is always some leftover on the bottom that is gone by the next time I feed them. I heard that overfeeding is worse than underfeeding so I just want to make sure i'm not doing that. Also, should I be feeding my oscars something else as well?
I had taken in an oscar from a petsmart that had and survived a fin disease so they couldn't sell him, he was about 9 inches and 5 years old when I got him and lived for 5 more years, and I only fed him the hikari pellets, but i'm not using those this time because they make the water so dirty so quickly and that's bad for the bgk.


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|Location: Bolton
|Salary: Market related
|Sector: Retail & Sales
|Type: Permanent
|Contact: Tom Back
Furniture Sales Consultant
OTE: £38,000 - £42,000+ (Uncapped Commission)
Priority Recruitment are currently recruiting for a Sales Consultant for a leading luxury furniture retailer for their store in Bolton, Middlebrook. The retailer has stores in key locations across the whole of the UK and plans to double in size over the next 5-7 years; and with the track record of internal progression the opportunities will be there for the right candidates to forge a long term career in a stable and secure environment.
First year OTE £38,000 - £42,000 (uncapped and based on average consultants earnings in this store in 2017 plus guaranteed commission for the first 13 weeks, top 10% of Sales Consultants across the business earned in excess of £50,000 in 2017). The average brand new starter into my clients business earned an average of £30,000 in 2017.
The ideal Sales Consultant:
- Must have experience in working towards targets in a commission/target based role
- Be extremely personable and able to develop immediate customer rapport
- Be confident and highly motivated
- Be someone who is a high achiever with a proven track record of consistent sales performance.
The successful Sales Consultant can look forward to being part of an on-going growth plan within an award winning company that truly Rewards, Recognises & Invests in your career development, both financially and progressively.
Basic Salary: £15,000 - £18,300 (Including Guaranteed Earnings)


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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2012, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
The Utah Utes really wanted to believe they were trending in the right direction, positioning themselves for a strong finish this season.
And then they hit the road and ran into the Washington Huskies.
Utah's 34-15 loss Saturday night at CenturyLink Field made those two recent victories seem deceiving, as the Utes reverted to their previous form away from home in a disappointing performance that left their offense, defense and special teams all deserving blame.
They still have a chance to change this assessment by beating Arizona, but right now they're nothing more than a bottom-tier Pac-12 team. Utah is relegated to trying to salvage the season by extending its streak of bowl appearances.
The thing is, this trip to Washington represented the Utes' opportunity to do something noteworthy in their second Pac-12 season. That box remains unchecked for these two years of membership.
The Utes are an undistinguished 6-10 in conference play in 2011 and '12. Their wins last season came against Oregon State, Arizona, UCLA and Washington State. OSU won only two league games, and the other three schools fired their coaches.
This year, Utah has beaten only California and Washington State, programs experiencing definite downturns.
So the Utes (4-6) find themselves needing victories over Arizona and Colorado in their remaining two games just to become bowl-eligible.
Winning in Seattle would have given the Utes a lot of credibility. They actually were favored by the oddsmakers, who apparently ignored how the Huskies knocked off Stanford and Oregon State in this venue and were impressed by Utah's 49-point outbursts against Cal and WSU.
Nothing like that production was forthcoming Saturday, that's for sure.
Utah's No. 106-ranked offense produced two touchdowns twice as many as it delivered in Pac-12 losses at Arizona State, UCLA and Oregon State this season but posted only 188 total yards.
Not even John White's 142-yard rushing night was sufficient for the Utes, marking the first time in his 12 career games of 100-plus yards that his team lost. Freshman quarterback Travis Wilson regressed, completing only 8 of 23 passes for 55 yards against a tough defense that sacked him four times.
Utah's defense did not distinguish itself, either. The Utes allowed 437 total yards to the 106th-ranked Washington offense and could not force the Huskies to settle for field-goal attempts, giving up five touchdowns.
In the opening half, the Ute offense produced only 119 yards and 46 of those came on White's touchdown run in the first quarter. Wilson completed 6 of 13 passes for just 32 yards, with one interception and things got worse in the second half.
The Utes converted only 1 of 13 third-down plays in the game, and a fourth-down failure also was costly. On their opening series of the third quarter, White was stuffed on fourth-and-inches at the Ute 43. The Huskies turned that favorable field position into a quick touchdown, making it 21-8.
Utah responded with a drive topped by White's 20-yard touchdown run, but the momentum was lost immediately when Charles Henderson fumbled a punt at the Ute 46. The Huskies' recovery led to another touchdown and a 27-15 advantage.
The Utes simply were not capable of coming back. The defeat leaves them winless on the road this season, with losses to Utah State and four Pac-12 opponents. They have one last chance for success away from home, and it's a very good one at Colorado, Nov. 23.
But unless they can regroup once again and beat Arizona next Saturday, that regular-season finale in Boulder won't mean much at all.
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Orange cheese-tart
I didn't plan to make this cake at all, what I did plan was apple tart with apricot jelly... Well, sometimes I just change my mind, especially while experimenting in the kitchen :-) The result is interesting, refreshing and citrusy! :-) If you don't like the strong orange aroma, you can replace them with any soft and sweet fruit: peaches, pears, and apricots should do fine!
Plain muffins
Nothing says "hello autumn" like a batch of fresh muffins or cupcakes! :-) With this simple recipe, you gonna whip them up in no time, and they will be a perfect base for more fancy muffins with fruit (I love muffins with dried plum bits), chocolate chip muffins, caramel-stuffed ones or double-or-triple-chocolate ;-) Or savory ones: paprika, tomato, herbs, sunflower seeds, etc. It all starts with this recipe.


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This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report.
Few ships are more dependent on proper software development than the thinly crewed DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers, which rely on computer networks to run more automated systems for their operation.
Thus far, Raytheon Integrated Systems, one of the Zumwalt's prime contractors developing a major portion of that software, has been able to meet program deadlines and milestones for those systems.
One of the keys for that success, says Bill Marcley, Raytheon DDG-1000 program manager and vice president of Total Ship Mission Systems, has been a "new agile software development approach" for software development and production.
"The commercial world is largely shifting away from a software development approach that has you develop all of your requirements and then go into a design-code-test phase and get all of that done and then you go into software integration testing," he says.
"Instead, you develop smaller amounts of the requirements," he says. "You do your coding and you integrate it all in smaller stories incrementally instead of people wringing out all of the requirements and people doing integration separately. You do it as a team."
He says the small-unit development and integration are called "scrums," an allusion to the rugby term for the organized, hard-hitting rumble for the ball between the two teams.
"We basically grab functionally and break it down into story points," he says. "The benefit is there is less thrown over the wall. There is more face-to-face interaction and quicker turnaround on problem solutions and development."
Also, he says, the approach combines the talents of the various software development teams earlier and more fully. "The folks who are helping develop and the people doing the requirements development and integration are testing it," he says.
Marcley adds, "All support is linked together across the team, so there is much tighter interaction. There is lots of face-to-face work. We actually changed our facilities -- instead of software writers and requirements people sitting in separate cubes, we got rid of all that and now they're in collaborative work environments. They sit and face each other around conference tables specifically designed to facilitate software testing."
The process makes for more cohesive software development, he says. "You eliminate gaps between teams. You identify problems way earlier in the software development cycle. We're seeing benefits of that."
Raytheon is now working on some of the most vital defensive software systems for the ship. "We're going to write so many stories on so much software relative to air missile defense or sonar processing," he says.
The next major milestone is in December, he notes, when Raytheon has a major software review with Navy participation.
"The Navy sits in on our weekly software status reviews," he says. "We have monthly combat systems reviews. The Navy gets a tremendous amount of visibility into what we're doing."
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RICHMOND, Va. -- Families of 17 sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole have new hope for being compensated for their pain and suffering after a federal appeals court reinstated their $282 million lawsuit against Sudan on Thursday.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously rejected a lower court's ruling that the families could not seek damage for emotional distress because they had already won an earlier judgment for compensatory damages. U.S. District Judge Robert Doumar had said the plaintiffs could not sue twice for the same terrorist attack.
But the appeals court ruled that a law passed by Congress in 2008 while the first lawsuit was still on appeal specifically allowed the families to file the second complaint.
"It's been a 12-year fight, so this is a major step forward for us. Just tremendous," said Andrew Hall, attorney for the families.
The case will now go back to Doumar for trial. Sudan has not participated in the cases since it initially unsuccessfully challenged the district court's jurisdiction.
"They're more than welcome to enter because I have a lot of questions I'd like to ask," Hall said.
The first lawsuit was filed under the 1920 Death on the High Seas Act, which allows only compensatory damages to spouses and children of victims. The families won a judgment of $8 million. Interest has increased the amount to more than $14 million.
In 2008, Congress passed the Justice for Victims of State Sponsored Terorism Act. That law allows for retroactive punitive-damages awards against nations that sponsor terrorism. It also expands the pool of potential plaintiffs to include the victims' parents and siblings. The families filed another lawsuit under that law.
Without being asked by Sudan, Doumar declared that a legal doctrine barring repetitive litigation barred the second lawsuit. The appeals court said Doumar had authority to consider the issue on his own, but that he reached the wrong conclusion.
Judge Allyson Duncan wrote that allowing a defense that effectively shields state sponsors of terrorism would undermine the congressional purpose for enacting the 2008 law.
The families of the 17 sailors who were killed claim that Sudan provided support to the al-Qaida terrorists who steered an explosives-laden boat into the USS Cole, a guided-missile destroyer, on Oct. 12, 2000, while it was stopped to refuel in a port in Yemen. The attack also injured 42 other sailors and tore a massive hole into the side of the ship. The Norfolk-based ship was recommissioned in 2002.


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I had such a down day yesterday. One of those days when you think, "Surely, I've gotten it wrong. I thought things were great, but I missed it; I was wrong…because they suck. And I think I'll just sit here and lie in a hole kind of day." But then I dragged myself up and went to Ash Wednesday services, because there was really nothing else I wanted to do. And my daughter drew these pictures.
And I said to myself, "Self, sometimes really important things happen in the face of discouragement. Don't be distracted."
Lord, thank you for lifting my eyes to the work You are doing. Amen.


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SiriusXM 1st Wave is dedicated to classic 80's alternative music. When tuning into to channel 33, you will hear music from artists like The Smiths, The Pretenders, The Cure, The Clash and all of your other favorites from the era. Fans of Sirius XMU's "Old School" show should definitely check out 1st Wave, if you haven't already! Besides the regular playlists that are chock full o' classic alternative, you can also catch "This Is The Day", a show that highlights 1st Wave artists' birthdays, major moments in alt music history that occurred on that day, and tons of other date-related content! Catch "This Is The Day" hosted by Richard Blade every weekday at 3pm.
1st Wave is also a great choice for weekend listening! Friday nights at 9pmEST you can tune in for 360 minutes of classic alternative party tunes with former MTV "120 Minutes" host Dave Kendall…and that's just getting your weekend started! Saturday nights are a must-listen as well with the "Saturday Night Safety Dance"! The S.N.S.D. is a whopping 8 HOURS of continuous dance mixes from artists like Depeche Mode, New Order, Pet Shop Boys and more. 1st Wave is the perfect party soundtrack every Saturday night! Tune into the "Saturday Night Safety Dance" each Saturday at 8pmEST.
If that weren't enough, Sunday nights on 1st Wave really brings it home. Check out "Dark Wave" each Sunday night at 10pm to catch music from artists like Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Love & Rockets and more! You definitely won't find shows like this on FM.
1st Wave Product Suggestion:
XM XpressRCi with PowerConnect Car Kit
If you are a fan of Sirius XM's 1st Wave, you are clearly a music lover and there's no better choice for a music lover than the XM XpressRCi. The XpressRCi allows you to save and store up to 10 songs on your radio for later listening! It also features the Replay function that lets you pause and rewind up to 60 minutes of live radio, so if you wanna hear a song again – the XpressRCi has got you covered! The XpressRCi includes a PowerConnect car kit for easy installation in your vehicle and can be used at home or on the go with the optional XM home kit or SiriusXM boombox.


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- FeatureSnapshot: Do you outsource your backups?
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Rethinking data protection strategies
Thirty-one percent of organizations say they'll experience significant revenue loss or another adverse business impact within one hour or less of application downtime--it's no wonder organizations are "rethinking" their data protection strategies.
Time to change your thinking about data protection
If you're adding disk to your backup mix, try this step-by-step approach for faster backups and recoveries.
For years, IT administrators approached data protection the same way: They backed up data to tape, crossed their fingers that the backup process worked and was complete (that everything that needed to be backed up was actually backed up), and then prayed they'd never be asked to do a restore.
It wasn't pretty, but it was all administrators had available to them at the time, so it became the accepted practice. Everyone knew about the potential problems of backing up to tape, but no one said much about it. Backup had become "IT's dirty little secret." And, more importantly, no one did anything differently.
Today, we're more aware of the need to find and recover data quickly. The reason for our heightened awareness may be due to growing governmental and corporate scrutiny; the maturing of disk-based backup; the availability of higher density, lower cost disk drives in storage systems; the increasing availability of recovery-focused products; or the ongoing drain of rising data volumes. The reason doesn't matter; what's important is that a decisive shift has occurred and the industry no longer thinks about data protection in pure backup terms.
After all, what good is backing up data if you can't restore it when you need to? It's a question whose answer goes without saying, but given the history of the data protection market, it's one the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) believes organizations should continually ask themselves, especially as their business objectives change.
The bottom line is that it's no longer a question of if data can be restored, but how quickly it can be recovered and how much data loss an organization can tolerate. It's about making sure that recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives (RTOs/RPOs) match the value of data at any given point in the data lifecycle. It's also about being "recovery minded."
Disk-based data protection environment
ESG sees being recovery minded as a four-step process:
- Think in terms of "3DR," the ESG framework that defines three levels of data protection.
- Build a data protection ecosystem, or continuum, within the 3DR construct.
- Grow that ecosystem over time.
- Drive additional value by layering in technologies such as continuous data protection (CDP), data de-duplication and snapshots over time when it's clear they'll add value to your environment.
|Tape's vanishing act
Tape replacement is happening now...
18% of organizations have already permanently replaced tape with disk (and that number is rising quickly) 58% would consider permanently replacing tape with disk
Of the 58% who would consider replacing tape libraries, 80% believe they'll do so within 24 months
... and in a big way
50TB to 99TB is the mean capacity migrated to disk by early disk-based backup adopters
26% of disk-based backup adopters have migrated more than 100TB
The majority of users say that 40% of their current tape-based capacity will be migrated to disk three years from now
Source: ESG Research, March 2005
Think 3DR
ESG's 3DR concept describes three levels of data protection. 1DR is "data recovery," 2DR is "disaster recovery" and 3DR is "doomsday recovery" (see "Storage Bin: Introducing 3DR," Storage, June 2006)
The 3DR model is built on two basic premises: All recoveries should be from disk, and tape should be reserved for long-term and offsite archival. Let's take a closer look at each of the three DR levels.
1DR: This is the primary data protection tier. In an ideal world, this tier is 100% disk based, although it's likely to be a blend of both disk and tape. Over time, we expect (and advise) organizations to create an all-disk-based 1DR tier and to repurpose existing tape resources for long-term or offsite archival purposes (see "Tape's vanishing act," this page).
The 1DR tier is all about recovery. It's about making sure that the data protection environment meets defined RPOs and RTOs for data over its changing lifecycle. It's also about improving backup performance and reducing management issues. Typical disk targets for this tier include virtual tape libraries (VTLs), "dumb" disk, NAS, content-addressed storage, midrange arrays and possibly even high-end disk systems.
2DR: This disaster recovery tier is also disk based. Its objective is to make a replica of 1DR data and keep it offsite for disaster recovery purposes. This replica of the data could be created using expensive and complex storage system-based, remote-mirroring solutions; less-expensive, host-based replication solutions; or even some type of disk-to-disk-to-disk scenario in which data is backed up to disk (an array, NAS device or VTL) and then moved offsite over the WAN to another disk system.
3DR: While 1DR and 2DR are the disk-based tiers in this scheme, 3DR is tape based. This is the end of the line, so to speak. The idea is to keep a finite amount of tape copies for the worst-case scenario--when your 1DR and 2DR copies are destroyed or otherwise made unavailable.
Build a data protection ecosystem
The next step is to build a data protection ecosystem, or continuum, that spans the 3DR framework. This is achieved by creating classes of data based on the value of the data to the organization at any given point in time and then creating policies for these data types based on the age of the data (or its "currency"), its frequency of access and so forth. Once you've done that, you can match tools (hardware and software) and services accordingly.
Classifying data is a difficult, but necessary, task. It's one that will become increasingly important over time as data volumes increase, corporate governance and regulatory compliance guidelines become stricter, and organizations look to differentiate themselves from their competitors by fully leveraging the data they generate.
Over the past year or so, a new category of management tools has emerged which, among other things, can help companies categorize their data (usually at creation) into information groups to which policies and rules can then be applied. ESG refers to this category as "intelligent information management." The key point is to make sure the right data protection tools are applied to the right data at the right time.
This type of data categorization or classification can have several important benefits, and can help organizations achieve the following:
- Better meet service-level agreements by making sure RPO and RTO objectives are not only aligned with the criticality (or value) of the data at hand, but are also achievable.
- Keep data protection costs down by ensuring that critical and non-mission-critical data isn't treated equally.
- Avoid or minimize potentially stiff regulatory penalties if data isn't recoverable when it needs to be.
- In general, provide insight into data repositories, which could lead to new business strategies, etc., that go beyond data protection.
Build as you grow
In an ideal world, organizations would implement all three of these disaster recovery levels from the get-go, but that's generally not practical from an end-user standpoint. There are many considerations, including budgeting and investment protection of existing tape-based infrastructures.
The good thing is that because 3DR is an adaptive and flexible framework, organizations don't have to rip out existing tape-based infrastructures to realize immediate benefits. In fact, many 1DR technologies, such as VTLs, complement tape-based infrastructures nicely. They leverage existing backup and recovery applications and, in many cases, backup processes. Of course, this assumes the organization has categorized its data into data classes or information groups as described earlier. VTLs and other disk-based backup technologies are great backup targets for many, but not all, and they're becoming more affordable options thanks to data deduplication, which can reduce the backup capacity footprint (and disk requirements) significantly.
As an example of this build-as-you-grow strategy, we've seen organizations insert 1DR technologies like VTLs into their existing backup environments and then change their backup policies so they're backing up daily to disk and monthly to tape, rather than daily to tape. The change is nondisruptive and has immediate benefits, including better backup performance, which means fewer backup window-induced headaches and faster, more granular recoveries (i.e., improved RTO and RPO).
A good next step would be to add a 2DR component--that is, some type of remote replication capability for disaster recovery purposes.
Drive additional value
Once you've introduced some type of 1DR component and, possibly, a 2DR component, the next step is to drive additional value from your data protection environment by layering in technologies such as CDP, data deduplication, snapshot, compression, etc. The idea is to leverage these technologies to achieve specific recovery, capacity or security objectives. For example, if your objective is to improve RTO and RPO, you could introduce some type of CDP or snapshot capability. If you want to reduce capacity requirements, you could try data deduplication (you should also consider data deduplication during the evaluation process of 1DR technologies), compression and so forth. If your objective is to add a disaster recovery component, you should consider remote mirroring or replication.
Data deduplication, with its ability to reduce the backup capacity footprint by up to 25 times or more, can have a significant impact on both 1DR and 2DR processes. These include:
- Lower backup-related costs. Simply put, more organizations are likely to implement disk-based products if they're more affordable. In fact, ESG's research shows that the cost of a disk-based solution is the No. 1 reason organizations don't implement these types of products. In the case of 1DR, data deduplication can lower total disk costs significantly; in some cases, to less than that of a similarly sized tape library.
- Longer retention periods. Organizations can keep data on 1DR technologies longer. Data deduplication frees up lots of disk space, which can be used to protect other data types that are still backed up to tape or to enable longer retention periods for 1DR data.
- Reduced WAN traffic. Less data to back up means less data to be moved over the WAN during the 2DR process. For some organizations, data deduplication may be the difference between replicating (or not replicating) data for disaster recovery purposes. For those firms already replicating data, it means a significant reduction in WAN traffic and WAN-related costs.
Thirty-one percent of organizations say they'll experience significant revenue loss or another adverse business impact within one hour or less of application downtime. When you factor in traditional tape-based backup and recovery processes with RPOs averaging 12 hours or longer, and RTOs ranging from four to 24 hours, it's no wonder organizations are rethinking their data protection strategies.
If you've permanently replaced your tape-based infrastructures with some type of 1DR technology, kudos. If you haven't, now is the time. Start big or start small, it doesn't matter. Just do something. Thinking in terms of 3DR will help you get your feet wet.
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Nutmegger Workshop sees making signs as an art form/
When I'm sifting through reader submissions, I never know what I'll find. From a fresh-faced illustrator hoping to get their first published piece or a seasoned creative who has turned a new leaf and is looking to share their new direction... surprise and delight are the hallmarks of a good submission.
The work of Peter Vogel of Nutmegger Workshop in Portland, Oregon prompted an immediate response from me—I began to follow him on Twitter, sent out a tweet, emailed a thank you and planned this blog post.
Peter introduced himself as a "30-year graphic designer/design director/creative director now making vintage sign art." His talent for lettering and his love of old signage is combined into his business of making vintage-looking signs. His signs are not meant as functional signage—they don't fabricate signs and to site installations—rather the signs are art meant to be hung interior settings, somewhat like charming set decoration or as interior design features.
"Generations ago, sign writers were a busy, sought-after bunch, but the heyday of their hand-lettered art was no match for the rising tide of digital sign-making technology. Nutmegger Workshop was created to celebrate the alluring charm of this long-forgotten art form. It is our mission to offer the finest period reproductions and original designs — handcrafted works of typographic art that add unique personality to any well-designed space."


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16GB USB flash drive / transparency rose gold
Empty Memory is a collection of unique USB memory sticks. Each design contains a physical emptiness in its sculptural form, evoking the metaphor of a blank space which can be filled with your own memory.
The collection are casted in high-quality 316 stainless steel, hand-polished and finished with various colours. The collection comes with two different designs - Structure and Transparency, which are the results of two different approaches regarding the same concept. The storage spec is USB 3.0 with 16GB.


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bludlow necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for a series of cartoon illustrations for our website. The winning artist will go on to produce the full series.
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We wouldlike a fun, simple cartoon illustration for our website. Prize: $150. (we will proceed and pay total of $750 for the additional cartoons --exact number to be agreed) We offer online training inpsychology for executive & life coaches.
Eventuallywe will need 5 simple cartoons of a creature—but we can't decide which would bebetter: 1) a 'naked mole rat' or, 2) a zebra
We willportray these animals (either the mole rat or zebra) in 5 situations
1. 'naked mole rat' skipping / exercising
2. 'nakedmole rat' taking an online course in front of a computer
3. 'nakedmole rat' writing a book
4. 'nakedmole rat' presenting in front of room to other naked mole rats
5. 'nakedmole rat' networking / mingling with other naked mole rats
1. Zebra skipping / exercising
2. Zebrataking an online course in front of a computer
3. Zebrawriting a book
4. Zebrapresenting in front of room to other naked mole rats
5.Zebra networking / mingling with othernaked mole rats
So… for this contest, weare asking you to draw one naked molerat and one zebra—you can select any one of the situationsdescribed above for your entry.
Thewinning entry will depict these creatures as a cute animals with personality(eyeglasses maybe?). The illustration will not be too detailed as thecartoon will be shown as 2"x2" in its final format. Once thewinning entry is picked, we will proceed and pay for the additional 4 cartoons(and we will decide which to go with… the rat or zebra).
Color? Well the zebra will clearly be black andwhite… but the background could be any color that complements green (the maincolor of our website). The Mole Rat isbasically brown— but maybe not… again, it and the background need to mesh withgreen.
Linksbelow: screen shot of our home page(where illustrations will appear) and photo of a mole rat.
- One illustration of a naked mole rat in any one of the 5 situations described
- One illustration of a zebra in any one of the 5 situations described
- Our site is fairly monochromatic (lots of green, then black and silver). We are hoping that these illustrations add some color and interest to our site
- We are going with these cartoons because we couldn't find images that conveyed the right message
- Creatures should be cute and endearing
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ROCHESTER — Katie L. Douglas and Joshua L. Moore were married on July 7 at St. Mary Church by Father Daniel Sinibaldi.
Katie is the daughter of Kurt and Cheryl Douglas of Rochester and is a graduate of St. Anselm College in Manchester. She is currently employed as a business analyst for Liberty Mutual in Boston, Mass.
Katie's Maid of Honor was her sister, Shannon Douglas of Rochester. Her bridesmaids were Devin Reed (Newburyport, Mass.), Alana McNeil (Lawrence, Mass.), Rachel Jenkins (Rochester) and Tammy Fowler (Rochester).
Joshua is the son of James and Deirdre Moore of Worcester, Mass., and is a graduate of Assumption College in Worcester. Joshua is currently employed as the assistant general manager of the Malkin Athletic Center at Harvard University. Josh's Best Man was his brother Troy Moore of Worcester. His groomsmen were Bryan Douglas (Rochester), James Moore (Worcester), Jeff Moore (Worcester) and Matt Siegel (Cambridge, Mass.).
A reception for friends and family of the bride and groom was held at the Portsmouth Harbor Events Center in downtown Portsmouth.
After honeymooning in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico, the couple are residing in Boxford, Mass.


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Seattle Seahawks
Seahawks have picked up where they left off
For the Seattle Seahawks, the first two games of the exhibition season were much the same as the team's second half of 2012 — when Pete Carroll's boys won seven of their last eight regular-season games to advance to the NFC playoffs for the second time in three years.
The Seahawks have the NFL's top scoring offense, averaging 35.5 points through two exhibition games. And Seattle ranks No. 2 in scoring defense, allowing just 10 points a contest.
While Seattle's starters have played a little more than two quarters in two games — with many front-line players such as Marshawn Lynch, Sidney Rice, Chris Clemons and Zach Miller playing sparingly, if at all — what has been more impressive is the backups subbing in and playing at a high level.
Dating to 2011, the Seahawks have won seven consecutive exhibition games by an average of 20.9 points.
However, pump the brakes on planning a ticker-tape parade route through downtown Seattle for a Super Bowl celebration in February.
In 2009, the Seahawks finished 4-0 in exhibition play but stumbled through a 5-11 regular season, leading to Jim Mora's firing after one season as their head coach.
Therefore, encouraging exhibition wins don't necessarily translate to postseason success in January and February.
That said, the following is a closer look at how the Seahawks made quick work of San Diego and Denver this exhibition season.
The Seahawks have an impressive plus-6 turnover differential through the first two games — second in the NFL to NFC West rival Arizona (plus-7).
The Seahawks have picked off three passes and recovered three forced fumbles. Those six turnovers directly led to 23 points.
Also, Seattle has not turned the ball over during exhibition play.
"The most important factor that's happening right now is that we're not giving the football up," Carroll said. "And there's nothing more important than that."
One of Carroll's points of emphasis remains taking care of the football on offense, and creating turnovers on defense as momentum-changing plays.
Last season, the Seahawks were No. 6 in the NFL in sudden change situations — think points off turnovers in basketball. Seattle scored 103 points off 31 turnovers forced, and only gave up 50 points off 18 turnovers lost in 2012.
During exhibition play, cornerback Brandon Browner has been particularly effective getting the ball from opponents, with a forced fumble and a fumble recovery returned for a 106-yard touchdown through two games.
Some of Seattle's young defensive players have made an impact through two games.
Undrafted rookie free-agent defensive end Benson Mayowa is tied for fifth in the league with 2.5 sacks. Linebacker Ty Powell is third on the team in tackles with eight, behind safety Kam Chancellor (14) and middle linebacker Allen Bradford (11).
Undrafted rookie free-agent linebacker John Lotulelei is tied for fourth on the team in tackles with seven. He seems to deliver a bone-jarring hit every time he approaches the line of scrimmage.
Third-round selection Jordan Hill appears to be on his way to sewing up the starting defensive tackle position next to Brandon Mebane with his consistent play.
Running back is perhaps Seattle's most talented position from top to bottom on the depth chart.
Second-round selection Christine Michael was impressive in his pro exhibition debut, finishing with 89 yards on 16 carries.
But with Michael sitting out against Denver because of back spasms, sixth-round selection Spencer Ware stepped in and filled the void, finishing with 54 yards on nine carries. The Seahawks like Ware's ability to play fullback and tailback.
Second-year pro Derrick Coleman also has played well on special teams.
No. 2 running back Robert Turbin finished with 35 yards on nine carries in his first game back after nursing a foot injury through the first two weeks of camp.
Lynch has just 1 yard on two carries, but Carroll says expect to see plenty of Seattle's No. 1 back against Green Bay this week.
The Seahawks' run-based attack is averaging 129 yards through two games — good for No. 8 in the NFL.
While the Seahawks have made big plays, penalties have been an issue.
The Seahawks finished with 12 penalties for 107 yards against Denver. In the opener against San Diego, Seattle totaled eight penalties for 65 yards.
Through two exhibition games, the Seahawks are second in the NFL with 20 penalties for 172 yards.
"There's just stuff we've got to see where they all are," Carroll said. "They're scattered; we didn't have error repeaters tonight. We had a bunch of guys who contributed. We just have to get better there. It's lousy to play football like that. I don't like it at all."
Quarterback Russell Wilson said on offense the Seahawks need to understand how penalties set the team back.
"The biggest thing I try to tell the offense is, 'Hey, let's stay on schedule,' " Wilson said. "If we can stay on schedule, we'll be in great situations. We'll be in third and shorts, which obviously we can handle with the running game and also the throwing game. And if we can do that, we'll be in the red zone more. We'll make some plays, the defense will get us the ball every once in a while, and we'll have short fields.
"So we've got to take advantage of those opportunities. And when you do that, it makes it tough on the other team. It makes it tough on the other team to capitalize against us."thenewstribune.com


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WASHINGTON – A collision involving a tractor-trailer and two vehicles sent a car and its driver over the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and down 40 feet into the water on Friday night, but the driver was able to climb to safety.
Anne Arundel County Fire Battalion Chief Steve Thompson said the driver, a 22- year-old woman, was rescued and flown to Maryland Shock Trauma in Baltimore. She was in critical condition late Friday with non-life-threatening injuries.
Thompson said the collision occurred at about 8:25 p.m. Friday in the eastbound lanes of the bridge, which connects Maryland's Eastern Shore with the rest of the state, including Annapolis.
The accident occurred about a quarter-mile onto the span. The vehicle went into water that was about 8 feet deep. She managed to get herself onto a piling of stones around the bridge support. A boater saw the incident and stayed with the victim until emergency responders arrived and transported her by boat and helicopter. She was conscious, alert and asking questions, Thompson said.
There were no other injuries. The Bay Bridge was shut down eastbound, toward the beaches, as the accident was investigated.
The collision was reported at 8:24 p.m. Friday night near exit 32 eastbound, at the Sandy Point overpass resulting in all eastbound lanes of the Bay Bridge to close due to the accident and traffic has been severely slowed in both directions. Crews continue to investigate the incident.
Drivers with additional information are asked to call 410-222-8647.
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Every closed immersion is a finite morphism. Can you give an example of quasi-projective varieties $X\subset Y$ such that inclusion $X\hookrightarrow Y$ is not finite? Same with Y projective?
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His inner circle called him The Doctor, because of his Ph.D in mathematics. Some of his operatives called him Our Big Brother. The Central Intelligence Agency called him by a code name — which intelligence sources reveal as Pulsar One. Whatever you call him, Ahmad Abdul Hadi Chalabi, a shrewd Iraqi Arab from a family of Shiite bankers, literally changed the world. The United States, which he referred to so respectfully as a "strategic ally," had sponsored him, flown him and his people to Iraq, even toppled Saddam Hussein for him, as he would boast. The Iraq War has many critics and some fierce defenders, but many insiders on both sides of the debate agree on this: without Chalabi there would have been no war.
He is a man of large appetites, with a flair for theatrics, and a brilliant and untiring mind. He had a single-minded hatred of the sadistic Saddam Hussein, a loyalty to his own Shiite heritage, and an inexplicable certitude in his own entitlement. Chalabi's medium is people, and as an Iraqi exile his grazing area was America; his genius was his ability to make loyal friends among adventurous spirits. He epitomized "charismatic leadership." Over dinners, lunches, and coffee, he spoke in grand and colorful language about the human right to freedom, about the delightful world to come in the Middle East, about the great things that could be done. As he talked, Chalabi was physically transformed. What strangers saw as a smug smirk curled on his fleshy lips disappeared, and was replaced by a wise yet merry smile. Whereas once he had a stiff back and clumsy walk, now he appeared to have a regal and noble bearing. Some of his closest advisers were Democrats. Some were liberals. Some were pro-Israel; others were anti-Zionists. It didn't really matter once they met him. But in the end it was notoriously the recruitment of the American neoconservatives and the hawkish wing of the Republican Party that got him what he needed. They satisfied his needs, and he theirs.
He touched America in three ways. His first success could be called ideological: he was able to affirm for a generation of thinkers the urgent need to overthrow Saddam. Toppling Saddam, and ending his aggression and his feared weapons of mass destruction, became the keystone of transforming the Middle East. Chalabi was not the sole source of this vision, but he was the chief intellectual facilitator for a now well-known cadre of hard-liners whose influence was extraordinary in the early part of the new millennium. They included Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, John Hannah, Michael Ledeen and Danielle Pletka. They dined with him and met him and conversed, and through well-placed op-eds and clever talking points and sound bites, their ideas bled into the mainstream.
Second, Chalabi fed intelligence and sources to journalists and the U.S. intelligence services. This was, for him, the easiest task. Much of the world already believed Saddam had WMDs. And Saddam was indeed a sadistic tyrant. Chalabi's contribution was to give the allegations flesh and muscle and specificity. The tidbits he provided were often quickly discredited by intelligence officers, but they had tremendous impact on public opinion. His use of the press helped prepare the political battleground for war. The New York Times, CBS News' "60 Minutes," PBS' "Frontline" and Vanity Fairbecame his chosen outlets. The splash from his stories was immense. Saddam, the intelligence services knew, had no ties to the attacks of 9/11, but as Chalabi's friend Fouad Ajami wrote once to explain the war, "These distinctions did not matter; the connection had been made in American opinion."
As a younger man, Chalabi had presided over the wholesale collapse of his family's business empire, a worldwide venture riddled with fraud insider dealing and disastrous investments. But he was able to bounce back after locating a rich vein of financing from the U.S. government. American taxpayers generously funded him and his Iraqi National Congress during his fifteen-year campaign against Saddam. Although he was not an American, and in fact distrusted the United States, he moved from one federal agency to another with the easy grace of a hummingbird drifting from flower to flower. First he was funded by the Central Intelligence Agency, then by the State Department, and finally by the Defense Department. When he called the United States a "strategic ally," maybe it was a taunt as much as it was reality.
Aram Roston is an investigative producer at the award-winning NBC News investigative unit. He has also worked as a correspondent for CNN and a New York City police reporter. His work has been published in Maclean's, The Nation, the London Observer, GQ Magazine, Mother Jones Magazine and The Washington Monthly.


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Aircraft, spacecraft, rockets
Sealing technology used in the aerospace sector has to make its mark with small dimensions, stable, lightweight structures, highest precision and low surface friction.
Depending on where they are used, the seals can find themselves exposed to high frequency vibrations, extreme differences in temperature, high pressure levels and aggressive media. Besides its special range of static and dynamic seals, EagleBurgmann also develops special high-precision seals and precision components for engines and other special spheres of application with demanding performance requirements. Examples in this context are the high-precision, ground-to-size elastomer piston rings for drive assemblies' oxygen and fuel turbines or the metal bellows seals MFL S1 as already successfully used in Ariane 4 rockets.


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Unemployment back to Inauguration Day level
Unemployment fell to 7.8 percent in September as the economy added 114,000 jobs, handing President Barack Obama some positive economic news as he looks to regain momentum following a lackluster debate performance this week.
Republicans have bashed Obama over persistent unemployment throughout the campaign, repeatedly reminding voters that it has hung above 8 percent for almost all of his presidency. But Friday's figure puts unemployment back down to Inauguration Day levels.
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( Also on POLITICO: Romney: Not like a real recovery)
Using history as a guide, however, the high unemployment levels still pose a problem for the president.
No president has been reelected with unemployment above 7.2 percent since World War II — the rate when Ronald Reagan won a second term in 1984.
Obama embraced Friday's jobs news at a speech in Virginia at George Mason University and chided Republicans for looking for a negative angle on the report.
"More Americans entered the workforce, more people are getting jobs," he said. "Today's news is certainly not an excuse to try to talk down the economy to score a few political points."
The dip in unemployment, however, did nothing to stem Mitt Romney's criticism of the president's handling of the economy.
At a speech in Abingdon, Va., Romney argued while the rate went down, "there were fewer new jobs created this month than last month."
"I'll tell you this — when I'm president of the United States … that unemployment rate is going to come down not because people are giving up and getting out of the work force but because there are more jobs," he said. "I will create jobs and get America working."
While people leaving the workforce has contributed to the rate moving lower in other months, the latest jobs report showed the amount of people participating in the labor force increased in September.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's Christmas jobs bonus)
House Republicans, including Majority Leader Eric Cantor, joined the attack.
"While today's unemployment report offered some encouraging news, it simply isn't good enough," Cantor said in a statement. "Millions have given up looking for a job, and left the workforce. America needs a new direction."
The next jobs report will come out Nov. 2, four days before voters head to the polls.
The Friday figure met most mainstream forecasts for September jobs growth, with most analysts' predictions hovering around 115,000, but few foresaw the drop in unemployment.


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Stella McCartney has made herself a big name in fashion, but when she first interacted with the industry, she felt turned off by it.
Fashion blogger Garance Doré at Pardon My French sat down with McCartney to talk about all sorts of things and the designer opened up about the elitism of luxury fashion.
"I aspired to this kind of glamorous world. You know, the moments I had contact with it, it didn't feel like it welcomed me," said McCartney.
Here's what she had to say:
"I don't know if it was just me or if maybe it was the case or has been the case in luxury, luxury fashion where there is this sense that, you know, you're not good enough to really be part of this brand. Or maybe you're not thin enough, or maybe you're not cool enough.
And I picked up on that. Maybe it's because I'm a woman too and you know I was a customer. I felt that a lot growing up in the Nineties and it really stuck with me anyway. And I just have never believed in that elitism. You know, it's just… it's always felt wrong to me."
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Canoga Perkins Introduces Cloudbuster™, the World's First 100 Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Deviceread more
Welcome To Canoga Perkins
Canoga Perkins is a privately held, U.S. based business that has been in the industry for over three decades. We have over 1,000,000 products installed in networks around the world.
Our company delivered the world's first commercially available single mode LAN extension system in 1986, and we have remained a pioneer in fiber optic and WDM technologies since then.
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Located off Hwy 101 just minutes from Palo Alto, our hotel Holiday Inn Express® Redwood City-Central provides convenient lodging for business and leisure travelers. Guests are one mile from downtown Redwood City and just minutes from Palo Alto shopping, dining, entertainment, and business destinations.
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[Funeral Program for Carrie Jane Sutton Brooks, January 17, 1964]
Description: Funeral program for Dr. Carrie Jane Sutton Brooks, died January 12, 1964. The funeral was held Friday, January 17, 1964 at Second Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. S. H. James, Minister. Funeral arrangements were made through Alamo Funeral Directors and she was buried in Eastview Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.
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Alum Creek Dam is part of the flood control plan for the Ohio River Basin. The lake was authorized by Congress in the Flood Control Act of 1962. Construction began in August of 1970 and was completed in 1974.During the Alum Creek Dam project, several cemeteries were relocated. One of them, Africa Cemetery, is where you will find the grave of Samuel Patterson (b. 1803, d. 1884), an Ohio farmer whose home was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
April 4, 1803,
April 17, 1884.
His Wife
Dec. 2, 1804,
Aug. 16, 1888.
The monument to Mr. and Mrs. Patterson is substantial, but unassuming. In fact, although I have visited Africa Cemetery many times, I had not photographed this monument until today—when I stopped in just to find this stone.
After leaving the cemetery, I drove to the park at the base the Alum Creek Dam to check out the related historic marker.
Samuel Patterson arrived in East Orange in 1824 and, within a few years, began to hide runaway slaves in his home. He also invited anti-slavery speakers to the pulpit of the East Orange Methodist Church, which brought Patterson an his neighbors into conflict with the bishop. Following their consciences, they became Wesleyan Methodists and built a new church. A pro-slavery neighbor mocked them by calling their community Africa, and so East Orange was renamed. The village has disappeared, but several homes owned by Patterson and his neighbors still stand in this vicinity.
The reverse side of the marker continues the story:
In 1859 slaves from a North Carolina plantation owned by the Alston family were sent north. The plantation's mistress had disapproved of slavery and made arrangement for the slaves to travel to Ohio and freedom. These slaves moved to the community of Africa, lived in log homes, were employed by the anti-slavery farmers, and joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church. After the Civil War the freed slaves left Africa and settled in the communities of Delaware and Westerville, and Van Wert and Paulding Counties.
Coming soon. I hope to share more about the Alston freed slaves, because a number of them may be buried in nearby Oak Grove Cemetery. Can I find their graves?
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Washington and Tehran were upbeat after Iran agreed to hold fresh nuclear talks with world powers next month and made a "breakthrough" proposal to allow spot checks on its nuclear sites.
After two days of talks in Geneva, Switzerland, Iran on Wednesday said it was hopeful for a "new phase in our relations" with the international community, while the White House said Iran had shown a greater level of "seriousness and substance" than ever before.
Germany was also positive, saying the latest talks had boosted hopes for a diplomatic solution, but a wary Russia warned there was "no reason to break into applause."
Iran's archrival Israel — the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear power — insisted Tehran should be judged by its actions. EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Catherine Ashton told reporters the next meeting would convene in the Swiss city on Nov. 7 and Nov. 8.
She read from what she underlined was an unprecedented joint statement agreed with Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif and herself as chair of the international negotiating team.
The EU is at the helm of the so-called P5+1 group — comprised of Britain, China, France, Russia and the US, plus Germany — which has spent years trying to reach a deal with Iran amid fears that it is developing nuclear weapons.
The Islamic republic vehemently denies that and insists its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.
The statement said the Geneva talks were "substantive and forward-looking," calling Iran's plan a "proposed basis for negotiation."
The talks were the first between all parties' nuclear negotiators since Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, seen as a relative moderate, succeeded conservative former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in August.
They ended a six-month freeze over Iran's refusal to curb uranium enrichment in exchange for easing the international sanctions battering its economy.
Amid signs of a thaw with the international community, Rouhani has pledged transparency on the nuclear program and engagement with major powers to try to remove the sanctions.
"We hope that this a beginning of a new phase in our relations," Zarif told reporters.
While the details remain under wraps, lead Iranian nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi said its proposal involved "proportionate and reciprocal steps by both sides."
After Iran's team gave an hour-long presentation on Tuesday in English — a first in the nuclear talks — Araqchi said the proposal had the "capacity to make a breakthrough."
Iran's plan contains three steps that could settle the nuclear dispute "within a year," Araqchi has said, the first of which is achievable "within a month or two, or even less."
He said that snap inspections of Iran's atomic facilities were part of the last step.
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Iran's presentation at the talks was "useful," showing a "level of seriousness and substance that we have not seen before."
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Russian negotiator Sergei Ryabkov was less than upbeat, saying the sides lacked mutual trust.
Iran has already drawn red lines, saying it will not accept demands to suspend uranium enrichment or ship purified material abroad.
Israeli Minister of International Relations Yuval Steinitz on Wednesday said Jerusalem was watching the talks "with hope and with concern."


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I have been doing some tree diagrams and I have come across this: Výsledky obrázk
Why is the word 'chef' marked as noun and not a noun phrase? In Student's Introduction to English Grammar you may find this: So we prefer to say that a noun phrase (henceforth NP) normally consists of a noun with or without various dependents. (In other words, the head is accompanied by ZERO OR MORE dependents.)
Thank you
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Thank you
What if there's a zero article before a plural noun, for example:
Oranges grow on trees.
Would the word oranges be marked as an NP or just N?
It would be marked as an NP consisting of a single N only in that method of sentence analysis.


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