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Top new features of backup apps
We look at some of the key backup technology advancements and describe how four leading backup vendors--CommVault, EMC, IBM and Symantec--have implemented these technologies.
- W. Curtis Preston, Druva
New backup technologies are ready for mass adoption, and they're not just for early adopters. Early adopters helped give these technologies a jumpstart because they were comfortable purchasing products from startups and didn't think twice about being the first company on the block to try something new. But pioneers are typically a small contingent with many more potential users choosing a "wait and see" approach. So, even as some of these newer products achieve technological acclaim, they may barely make a dent in the overall backup market.
But recent events have accelerated the adoption -- and perceived maturity -- of some backup technologies. Smaller vendors have been acquired by their bigger brethren, and enabling technologies have emerged that ease the implementation of these products.
We'll look at five key backup technology advancements:
- Data deduplication
- Data protection management
- Continuous data protection
- Synthetic backups
- Virtual server backup
We'll explain how these technologies have changed backup, and describe how four of the leading backup software vendors -- CommVault Systems Inc., EMC Corp., IBM Corp. and Symantec Corp. -- have implemented these new backup technologies. That's not to suggest that other backup vendors don't also offer these features, but these four are among the acknowledged backup software market leaders with the products readers ask about most often.
Data deduplication: Disk backup game changer
It's hard to overemphasize the importance of data deduplication in today's backup systems. It's perhaps the biggest game changer since the introduction of network backup systems 15 years ago, and its popularity can be traced to a number of factors. First, data deduplication enables users to increase disk utilization in their backup system. Tape had always been significantly cheaper than disk as a target for backups, and while the cost of disk has decreased significantly in the last several years, so has the cost of tape. So disk was typically used just as a staging mechanism for tape, rather than for long-term backup or archive storage.
Deduplication changed that forever. The random-access capabilities of disk allow data deduplication systems to remove redundant segments of data and replace them with pointers without significantly affecting restore performance. (While there's some performance degradation, restores are still much faster than when using tape.)
Despite dedupe's indisputable benefits, a lot of users waited to see if the techniques employed in target dedupe devices would eventually make their way into backup software, making such special-purpose appliances unnecessary. While most experts don't believe that target deduplication appliances are no longer necessary, data deduplication has, indeed, made its way into mainstream backup software products.
EMC and Symantec were the first major backup software companies to integrate deduplication into their product lines, and both did it through acquisition. EMC acquired Avamar Technologies, and Symantec's PureDisk product line resulted from its acquisition of Datacenter Technologies. CommVault and IBM chose to "roll their own" deduplication products.
EMC and Symantec both offer source deduplication products. That is, you can install the Avamar or PureDisk agent on a computer and the client will communicate with the backup server to identify and eliminate redundant data before it's transferred across the network. Only new bytes are sent with each backup, which makes source deduplication perfect for smaller remote offices and mobile data.
Both vendors offer their source deduplication products as standalone products, which means you don't have to purchase Symantec's NetBackup or EMC's NetWorker. So even if you weren't using Symantec or EMC backup apps, you could take advantage of their deduplication technology. But if you wanted the functionality of both the backup app and dedupe, you had to purchase and manage two products (i.e., NetBackup and PureDisk, or NetWorker and Avamar). Symantec is the first to change this with NetBackup 7, which has built-in source dedupe that doesn't require a separate PureDisk installation. While you can manage Avamar via NetWorker, and a single install of their client software supports both NetWorker and Avamar backups, Avamar still requires a separate server to back up to.
Target deduplication is also available from backup software vendors. Symantec was the first to do this by allowing NetBackup customers to send standard NetBackup backups to a media server where they would be deduplicated by PureDisk. (With NetBackup 7, this functionality is available without requiring a separate PureDisk installation.)
IBM entered the data deduplication space with the introduction of its post-process target deduplication feature in Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.1. TSM can natively deduplicate its backups stored on disk after they have completed. IBM's target deduplication offering is unique in that it's included in the base product; however, the deduplication ratios it achieves may be relatively modest compared to those of other products' options that you have to pay for.
CommVault's Simpana deduplication facility is difficult to categorize as target or source dedupe. Deduplication in backup software requires multiple steps: (1) slicing files to be backed up into segments or "chunks"; (2) creating a "hash" value (typically using SHA-1); (3) doing a hash table lookup to see if the value is unique; and (4) deciding whether or not to send the chunk to storage. Source deduplication products perform all four steps on the client; target deduplication appliances do all four at the target or backup server. With CommVault's approach, however, steps one and two are done at the client while steps three and four are done at the backup server (media agent in CommVault lingo). This is why it's difficult to classify the dedupe as source or target.
But if the real distinction between the two categories is whether or not the original, native data ever leaves the client, then CommVault Simpana is best placed in the target deduplication category. Still, Simpana's unique practice of doing the first two steps on the client allows it to do something other target products can't do: client-side compression. Most target dedupe systems won't deduplicate your data well if you compress it at the client before sending it to the target because compression inhibits the deduplication system's ability to correctly chunk and fingerprint the data to identify duplicates. But because Simpana chunks and fingerprints the data at the client, it can compress it before sending it across the network with no negative effects. The compression doesn't save as much bandwidth as source deduplication, but it can be advantageous in some environments.
Data protection management: Beyond simple backup stats
Data protection management (DPM) was introduced several years ago by Bocada Inc., the first company to attempt to produce standardized reports on multiple backup products. A number of other startup firms soon entered the fray, including Aptare Inc., Tek-Tools Software Inc. (recently acquired by SolarWinds, Inc.), TSMworks Inc., Servergraph (now part of Rocket Software Inc.) and WysDM Software (now part of EMC). The big backup software vendors saw the potential of the DPM market: Symantec picked up a product called Advanced Reporter, which became Veritas Backup Reporter and then later Symantec's OpsCenter Analytics line; and EMC turned the WysDM product into its Data Protection Advisor.
All of these products offer far more than simply telling you which backups worked and which didn't, functionality that many believe should be included in any decent backup software. However, when it comes to things like trending, capacity planning, cross-product reporting and issues that go beyond traditional backups, standalone DPM products have carved out a unique niche.
Backup apps have begun to incorporate some of these capabilities. CommVault, in particular, has been vocal about how these reporting tools should be included in the base backup product. While it could be argued that the reporting included in Simpana is better in some areas than the reporting in other companies' base products, that's not to say Simpana users couldn't benefit from a DPM product. For TSM customers, IBM's response has typically been that everything you need to know is in the TSM database so you just have to run a query. While that's true, it might be beyond the capability of many users. So while a few of the big backup vendors have incorporated some DPM features, users who need full data protection management functionality will likely turn to a third-party product.
Continuous data protection: Still kicking
Only a few years ago there were a number of companies with continuous data protection (CDP) applications, but many of them are no longer around. Some simply went out of business, while others were acquired in fire-sale deals. Did CDP simply not work? Was it a bad idea? Or was it the Star Trek of backup products (a great idea before its time)?
CDP's rise and fall was probably a combination of all of the above. When CDP works as advertised, it's easily the best way to protect your most critical applications: zero downtime for backups, and recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) of zero. What's not to like? Unfortunately, storage managers tend to be most risk averse when it comes to their mission-critical applications, so few users opted to back up those mission-critical applications using a completely different method from a vendor that they'd never heard of before.
But attitudes toward CDP changed when major companies got into the game. Symantec bought Revivio and eventually released NetBackup RealTime. IBM came out with Tivoli Continuous Data Protection for Files and bought FilesX, which became TSM FastBack. EMC purchased Kashya and delivered RecoverPoint. CommVault built its own CDP functionality around its core Common Technology Engine. With these key players in the CDP game, users can now try it in their own environments without the fear that their CDP vendor may go out of business tomorrow.
Synthetic backups: No more fulls
A long time ago, TSM developers asked a simple question: Why are we backing up data that hasn't changed? This became one of the core elements of TSM design and what TSM would eventually refer to as "progressive incremental" and others would call "incrementals forever." Once a given version of a file has been backed up, it's never backed up again.
Other backup products have chosen to use the traditional full/incremental approach to backups, also referred to as the grandfather-father-son method. But the question persisted: Why are we backing up data that hasn't changed? Eventually, CommVault, EMC and Symantec all came to the same conclusion: instead of transferring data that's already been backed up across the network, just transfer it from one tape to another within the backup server. Because 90% of any given full backup is already on tape or disk somewhere, a "synthetic full" can be created by copying the data that's needed from the latest full to a new full backup. This provides the benefit of a full backup (fast restores via collocation of the necessary data) without the downside of a full backup (unnecessary transfer of the data across the network).
All three products have implemented the concept of the synthetic full in a slightly different way (CommVault and Symantec call synthetic fulls "synthetic backups," while EMC uses the term "saveset consolidation"). However, all of them share one critical concept. Once a synthetic full is created, it's essentially just like any other full: it will be used for restores and later incremental backups will be based on that full. The previous full is only necessary if you're keeping it for longer retention.
TSM users may feel that TSM's concept of a backup set is very similar to a synthetic full, but it's actually quite different. Unlike synthetic backups, the contents of a TSM backup set aren't tracked in the backup database. In fact, one of the main purposes of a TSM backup set is to create an "instant archive" of backups that you wish to keep for a longer period of time than your TSM database has room for (see "Can backups be turned into archives?" below). Another purpose for the TSM backup set is to create a backup that can be used outside of TSM; a TSM backup set can be read without the aid of the TSM catalog. If TSM backup sets were kept in the TSM database and usable for standard restores, then they would be the same as a synthetic full.
|Can backups be turned into archives?
IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) has a backup feature where backups are copied to what is officially called a "backup set." IBM occasionally also calls a backup set an "instant archive." This seems to go against the usual mantra that backups aren't archives, and simply holding onto backups longer doesn't magically turn them into archives. So are TSM backup sets truly archives?
To answer this question, let's take a look at a new feature in Symantec Corp.'s Backup Exec 2010. Backup Exec incorporates Symantec's market-leading Enterprise Vault engine, so users can create archives of their backups by copying them into this engine. But Backup Exec does more than just copy the data from one tape format to another; it actually creates an index of the content of the archived files or applications. This means that you can perform Google-like searches against these archives by searching for phrases that might appear in files or Exchange emails, and Backup Exec will extract that data for you.
CommVault Systems Inc.'s Simpana also has the ability to perform content searches against its backups. You can search for files or emails based on a particular word or phrase. Like Symantec, they have a more full-featured archive product as well, but you can perform archive-like searches against their backups.
Let's contrast this to what TSM is doing. A TSM backup set actually has fewer database entries than a regular TSM backup; its purpose is to "archive" older files that you no longer have room for in the TSM database. So instead of having more context than regular backups, a TSM "instant archive" actually has less. While it's now possible with some products to "turn a backup into an archive," calling a TSM backup set an "instant archive" does a disservice to the word archive.
But that's not to suggest that TSM backup sets have no value. They do allow for longer retention than what's possible in the TSM database, and they also allow for restores without having to install TSM.
Virtual server backup: Getting easier
Server virtualization has been a boon for many data centers. Far too many applications required a "dedicated server," when all they truly needed was to think they had a dedicated server. Their CPU and I/O requirements were easily met by sharing resources with the aid of a server virtualization product. But then there was backup to consider.
While most applications could be easily virtualized, backup would "not go gentle into that good night." It wanted – needed -- the full resources of both a beefy CPU and beefy storage capable of heavy throughput. It's been said that backups are a great way to test your storage and network systems because they have to move everything from point A to point B every night. Despite potential I/O issues, most users back up their virtual machines (VMs) by simply pretending they aren't virtual. They load the backup client into the virtual machine and back it up just like a standalone server. VMware Inc. introduced VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) to help ease the pain of VM backup and to remove the I/O issues from the ESX server, but it also increased the complexity of VM backups. It required two-step backups and two-step restores for image backups, as well as the use of a separate disk-staging area. Not surprisingly, few users implemented VCB. Users of other virtual server apps, like Microsoft Corp.'s Hyper-V, also tended to back up their VMs by pretending they were physical servers.
The backup outlook is a lot brighter for both products: VMware introduced vSphere and Microsoft rolled out Hyper-V's backup architecture (which doesn't have an "official" brand name). VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) replaced VCB, offering everything that VCB promised and introducing the concept of block-level incremental backups. Now users can perform an image backup without having to copy the data to a staging disk first, and they can perform an incremental backup by simply having the backup application ask the vStorage APIs what blocks have changed since the last backup. The APIs promise to make things much better for those attempting to back up VMware virtual servers. The first major backup product to fully support vStorage APIs was EMC's Avamar, followed shortly by Symantec's NetBackup. As of this writing, CommVault, EMC NetWorker and IBM TSM are all working on their integration with vStorage APIs.
Microsoft Hyper-V users simply need to make sure that their backup product knows that it's talking to a Hyper-V server. Although not quite as advanced in some ways as vStorage APIs, it does a very similar job, allowing you to back up Hyper-V virtual machines without performing guest-level backup inside the virtual machine.
Hyper-V does have one advantage over VMware because it offers full Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support and VMware doesn't. Hyper-V uses VSS to quiesce its applications and notify them that the backup was successful. This allows Hyper-V users to get an application-consistent backup of any application inside a Windows VM without having to load an agent on that virtual machine. In addition, the application will know that it has been backed up and can clear its transaction logs.
VMware can quiesce applications in Windows 2003, but the actual operation it performs (VSS_COPY) doesn't notify the application that it has been backed up; therefore, you must manage the transaction logs yourself. In addition, it currently has no application support for Windows 2008. As of this writing, VMware is working on this limitation, but the company offered no comment on the timing of the roadmap. This limitation has created an opportunity for backup products to differentiate themselves and, so far, FalconStor Software, NetApp, PHD Virtual Technologies (esXpress), Symantec (BackupExec) and Veeam Software all offer workarounds to address this limitation of VMware.
BIO: W. Curtis Preston is the executive editor for SearchStorage.com and an independent backup expert.


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Pat Buchanan: Anti-Gay Putin Bravely "Trying To Re-establish" Russia's "Moral Compass"
August 13, 2013 9:46 am ET by Luke Brinker
Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan added his voice to the chorus of right-wing defenders of Russia's crackdown on gays and their supporters, writing that international criticism of Russia shows people can no longer distinguish between "good and evil."
In his August 13 syndicated column, Buchanan took America's "moral and cultural elites" to task for their opposition to Russian laws banning the positive depiction of homosexuality and the adoption of Russian children by any foreign couples from countries with marriage equality. Buchanan pined for the days when society ostracized gays, while lauding Russian President Vladimir Putin for seeking to restore a "moral compass" to Russia by implementing its anti-gay policies:
Our moral and cultural elites have put Putin on notice: Get in step with us on homosexual rights -- or we may just boycott your Sochi games.
What this reveals is the distance America has traveled, morally and culturally, in a few short years, and our amnesia about who we Americans once were, and what it is we once believed.
Putin is trying to re-establish the Orthodox Church as the moral compass of the nation it had been for 1,000 years before Russia fell captive to the atheistic and pagan ideology of Marxism.
"The adoption of Christianity," declared Putin, "became a turning point in the fate of our fatherland, made it an inseparable part of the Christian civilization and helped turn it into one of the largest world powers."
Anyone ever heard anything like that from the Post, the Times or Barack Hussein Obama?
Buchanan is fond of mourning "who we Americans once were." He's made a career of predicting the imminent collapse of American civilization as a result of Latino immigration, cozied up to white supremacists, and traced the decline of a once-great America to the historical moment when Americans started to affirm "[t]hat women and men are equal ... and that all races, religions, and ethnic groups are equal." It's no surprise, then, that he finds a kindred spirit in the retrograde Putin.
Right-Wing Media Act As Russia's PR Agents In Anti-Gay Crackdown
Pat Buchanan: Acceptance Of Gays Shows We're A "Mentally And Morally Sick Society"

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The Filibuster
How has your relationship with Nyjer Morgan suffered after his attack on Albert's manhood?
Martin, MI
Well it's about time! Seriously, I was wondering when someone was going to call me out on the conflicting interests of my Nyjer Morgan man-crush. As if publicly rooting for a Brewer wasn't enough, I had to go and pick the looniest one of the lot, the one who called my team's future Hall of Fame first baseman "Alberta" Pujols.
Oi vey.
My initial reaction to Nyjer jawing at Chris Carpenter in the game that led to the maniacal tweet in question was: Okay, that's enough, Nyjer. Yapping at your opponent is one thing — one thing Nyjer does quite well and usually within the boundaries of what is considered acceptable in baseball — but he was strutting and yelling "F*** you, p****!" to Carp, a man who could crush Nyjer with his stare if he wanted to. Watching that strange exchange was akin to the feeling one gets when his dog starts sniffing the butts of other dogs at the park: somewhat embarrassing, but also totally natural.
Nyjer is crazy. And that's why I like him.
He's… different. He's a showman. A wild gunslinger. A loose cannon.
He's also quite talented and completely entrenched in winning. The man wants to win (are you getting this, K-Rod???). Nyjer has more energy in his pinky finger than most Major League squads put together. But along with that fiery and insatiable appetite for winning comes a handful of bad decisions. We saw it last year as he beat his chest while being physically removed from Sun Life Stadium. We saw it when he slammed his mitt into the ground after missing a ball over his head, a ball that stayed in play and rolled around while he pouted. And we saw it on September 7th when he almost got his @$$ handed to him by an angry Cardinals mob.
Do I like that he does that sort of thing? No. But that's who he is, and let's be honest, he makes the game interesting. He makes it spark. He is the Dennis Rodman of Major League Baseball; and as long as his numbers back up his jawing, as long as he puts winning above all else, I think he makes baseball better and immensely more entertaining.
Calling Albert names? Our rivals have been calling Albert names for over ten years now. So what?
Words, words, words.
When Nyjer takes a swing at him, that's when I will have had enough. But not even Nyjer is stupid enough to do that. Albert would DESTROY him like he's been destroying Brewer pitching (.329 lifetime against the Crew).
Don't hate me. 'Cuz I'm right. And you know it.
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Oklahoma State Art Print - Watercolor Oklahoma Print
Oklahoma State Art Print - Watercolor Oklahoma Print
Hang this watercolor art print of the state of Oklahoma proudly on your walls or give it as a gift for your favorite Okie on their birthday or any other special occasion.
Choose from 6 colors:
- Burgundy
- Forest Green
- Teal
- Dusty Blue
- Taupe
- Grey
You will be able to choose the watercolor shade of your preference and the orientation for printing of your preference when checking out.
Each product will be printed to order on 120# luxe textured card stock. Print will ship within 3 to 4 Business days of your order being placed. Print will ship ground shipping, no signature required. Tracking will be provided. Frame not included. All sales final, returns or exchanges not accepted. Please make sure you enter the correct shipping address when checking out, incorrect or incomplete shipping address could cause significant delays in delivery.
Printing Orientation Recommendations
If you are unsure the best orientation for your state print, below would be my best recommendations. Although I truly believe each state can look great in either orientation, below would be what I believe to be the best fit.
Vertical/Portrait Best Fit
- Alabama
- California
- Delaware
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- Rhode Island
- Utah
- Vermont
Horizontal/Landscape Best Fit
- Alaska
- Hawaii
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Montana
- Nebraska
- North Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- Washington
- Wyoming
Best Fit Either Way
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Michigan
- Missouri
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oregon
- South Carolina
- Texas
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin


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Muscle Soothing Bath Salts
1 cup kosher or sea salt
1 cup baking soda
1 cup Epsom salt
a couple of drops of essential oils for scent.
Mix together all ingredients & pour into a clean, dry container.
Pour 1 cup of the mixture into a warm tub slowly, allowing the salts to dissolve completely. Soak for at least 20 minutes.
Raw Sugar Body Scrub
1 cup raw cane or Demerara sugar
1/2 cup light oil, such as almond or sunflower
1/2 tsp vitamin E oil.
Mix together all ingredients & pour into a clean container. Massage a tablespoon or two at a time all over the body to gently exfoliate and moisturize the skin.
Body Butter
1/4 cup grated cocoa butter
1 tbsp. coconut oil
2 tbsp. light sesame oil
1 tbsp. almond oil
1 tbsp. grated beeswax
Combine all ingredients in a heat resistant container. In a double boiler, gently heat until the mixture just begins to melt.
Remove from heat and stir well to melt and mix together. Pour into a clean container & allow to cool completely.
Spread a small amount of the body butter on the skin to condition skin.
Basic Shampoo
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup mild natural liquid soap ( such as dr. Bronners castile soap)
1/2 tsp light vegetable oil(optional)
Gently stir all the ingredients together, being careful not to beat the mixture or it will create foam.
Pour the shampoo into a clean plastic container. Shampoo as normal, rinse well. Makes 8 ounces
Turmeric TeaThis is an Ayurvedic turmeric tea recipe that is believed to aid in joint pain relief. It is thought
to lubricate the joints & is recommended for arthritis, bursitis & tendonitis sufferers.
1/4 cup spring or distilled water
1/8 tsp termeric powder
3 cardamom pods
1 cup whole organic milk
2 tbsp cold-pressed almond oil
honey or maple syrup to taste
Bring water to boil. Add turmeric & cardamom. Reduce het & simmer 5-10 min.
Add milk & almond oil. Heat just to boiling, but do not allow to come to a full boil.
Remove from heat & strain into a coffee mug. Add honey or maple syrup to sweeten if desired.
Strawberry Hemp Smoothalicious
1 cup ice cold vanilla hemp milk
1 cup chilled sliced ripe strawberries
1-2 tsp fruit juice to taste.
Blend until smooth
Basic Energy First Recipe2 tbsp natural whey or soy protein - chocolate or vanilla
1 1/2 cups skim milk
1 cup fresh/frozen unsweetened fruit
1 tbsp greens+add ice for extra thickness
Tropical DreamAdd 1/2 - 1 cup of frozen pineapple to basic energy first recipe.
The LeanergizerAdd 1/2 - 1 chopped green apple, 1/4 cup raw almonds to basic energy first recipe
Almond Peach DelightAdd 1/2 - 1 cup frozen peaches, 1/2 tsp almond extract, 1/2 tsp cinnamon to basic energy first recipe
Blueberry Vanilla PearAdd 1/4 - 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, 1/4 - 1/2 cup chopped pear to basic energy first recipe.
Blue Mango Heaven
Add 1/4 - 1/2 cup frozen mango, 1/3 - 1/2 cup blueberries to basic energy first recipe.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Hard Body?
I make a very firm doll. Yes it's true. A doll that gives some resistance when hugged has a strong presence. It has substance. I believe that squishy bodies are wonderful in stuffed animals and pillow style dolls but a human formed, dressable doll that takes on the role of companion and confidant to a child needs to "feel human" to that child. A firm doll will hold it's shape even with loads of hugs and rough and tumble play.
It has taken me years to be able to stuff a body firmly and smoothly. It is very difficult to make the proper lines on the head when it is made as firmly as I make it. My hands really pay the price. It is well worth it though. Knowing that the doll can withstand a lifetime of adventures is one of the most rewarding aspects of doll making.
I love what I do.
Posted by Barrie Hamby at 6:02 PM
5 comments:
- endless13 said...
And so do I! :) Keep up the great and beautiful work that you do. The dolls you create are truly wonderful! We love our Moonbaby so very much :)
- April 20, 2011 at 6:33 PM
- Aimee B said...
A soft bodied doll is like a limp handshake!Moonchild Dolls "give as good as they get" and look great doing it! They are truly "present"! You do fabulous work!
- April 20, 2011 at 8:37 PM
- Mary Jane's Tearoom said...
Your work is beautiful Berrie!
Best wishes for a lovely Easter,
Susan x
- April 21, 2011 at 1:59 AM
- Debra said...
I love what you do too :)
- April 21, 2011 at 7:14 AM
- leaslooks said...
I love what you do, too! I also think your dolls are very childlike and their bodies are perfect.
- April 21, 2011 at 4:13 PM
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Building the Stacking Pirogue
Hi all,
This is a retrospective Blog about the making of my wooden Pirogue (pee-row) which I built around this time last year in 2006. It was by trawling the net for helpfull hints for this project that I came across the SOTP forum, so its about time I gave some back. Pirogues originate from French Louisianna and were made from a few planks nailed together and one laid across the gunwales to make a seat. They were used like pointy punts as personal transport through the swamps, propelled by pole or paddle.
This pirogue was designed by myself to meet my needs - using CAD software and paper models. It is much deeper than a propper pirogue and desiged around getting the best out of 2 sheets of 6mm birch plywood.
I live In quite a small house and dont have a garage or similarly large space to build or store a boat under shelter. This is why all my boats are built in two halves that either bolt together or fold on a hinge. Unlike most stories, this one starts in the Middle:
The centre Bulkhead was built first. Please excuse the poor looking joinery- I dont have any shots of the finished article but you get the idea. The timbers were glued and screwed to the ply before being clamped together and 8mm holes drilled for the bolts.
With the two bulkheads bolted together the bottom and sides were planed so that they were flush and true. This is important as it is these timbers that prevent the diamond shape that occurs in some halved boats. With the two bulkheads fitting together perfectly I knew that I could built the halves separately and they would meet up in the middle.
Fitting the sides:
Instead of buying 2 big sheets of plywood, I bought 4 607x2440 sheets, mainly because this is the same width as the length between my armpit and my fingers (I carried the sheets home in two journeys from my local DIY store) and because I could saw 2 sheets down the middle to make the 4 side panels.
Tip: two ladders laying side by side on the floor with a gap inbetween works well when cutting a long straight line with a jigsaw.
Because I had cut the panels acuratly I felt no need to sand or plane the edges. With the cut edge down any lumps or dips would be filled with the resin, and probably make the join stronger anyway. The panels were
screwed to the bulkhead and are shown here temporaily stitched at the bow to give an idea of the shape and size. Oh fk this things going to be massive!
Can anyone spot the big mistake in the process so far? (other than the bit where I started cutting on the wrong side of the line - top right of the bulkhead - resin fills all!)
Sorry, I dont have any photos of marking out or cutting the bottom panels. I think this was done during the heavy snow and I had to work in 30 min bursts before my feet got too cold.
I lofted some dimensions from my drawing and used the pin and batten technique to mark the curves. Some pirogue builders simply lay the plywood on the bottom and draw round the sides with a pencil - but Im sure I would have ended up with a twisted hull that way, given my workbench was a plastic garden table!
Hey now that looks like a boat!
I temporarily bolted the two halves together and stood there staring at it for 10mins. Somehow I didn't imagine it was going to be this big! ( where the hl am I going to put it?) I used parcel tape to hold the bottoms on in the right place while I stitched everything together with cable ties. The bottoms are what give the boat its shape at this stage as they push the sides out a little, which then rise because of the angled join at the ends - in turn pulling up the bottoms to give a good amount of rocker.
I decided I wanted the sides to come out a little more at the top, making the curves a lot smoother. To do this I took some measure ments and did some maths and made some little angled knees which when stiched
tightly down into the chines, persuaded the sides to bow outwards.
Notice the little lumps where the stitches are. These are small lengths of pencil, that are put in the corners where the cables ties are to aply equal pressure and hold the panels in the correct position - without them the panels would overlap rather than meet.
These photos (above) also show one of the bow/stern bulkheads one of which will form the floation locker, the other will become a transom stern, I know... I didnt want one but it was necessary for the stacking ok.
Knees ribs and fancy bits:
I decided to ditch the little knees and go for full width... ribs? I drilled lots of holes in them to act as tie down points and drainage in the corners. This photo shows the Stern Half before the pointy bit was cut off. The curved corner peices added strength and would have big holes for ropes etc. These holes somehow worked out to be the same size as pint glass holders - funny that
Its worth noting how few stitches I actually needed - I like to think this is because it was well designed and the peices naturally fitted together rather than being forced - but I think its just the simple naturally rigid shape. There was no need for thawts and the boat was really
rigid, even before fibreglass. I kept the boat upstairs and carried it down everyday to work on it, so it got knocked about allot and dropped more than once.
Tack Welding:
I wanted to remove the stitches so I had to 'Tack Weld' the bits together. With Epoxy you would mix up a filler and run fillets between the stapes. I didnt think Polyester resin on its own would be up to this, so I used 4'' long peices of Fibreglass tape.
I should have used some resin/woodflower mix to put a fillet in the chines before apllying the tape, but the tape seemed to go into the corners happily without any bubbles - looking back Im amazed this worked but it was strong enough to carry the thing upstairs and back down again the next day without the cable ties.
If your wondering what all those little dark marks are, they are the result of taking a stanley knife to the ares where the tape was to be applied and cross hatching it to help the resin get a grip. I thought this was a good idea after reading horror stories of Polyester sticth and tape boats falling apart due to delamination. Took ages, made it look tatty and I doubt it did any good, anyways - live and learn.
Theres a gap in the photo record here. The fibreglassing went quite smoothly. Took me a while to get used to the cloth tape as I had only ever used matting before.
Here is the process:
Mix up some filler - mix in the catalyst first and then add woodflour/sawdust (i used plain flour from tesco) untill its like peanut butter
Put a fillet of filler round all the joints using the back of a spoon to get a smooth radius. Also get a generous bead of filler into the gap between the bottom and side panels on the outside.
TIP: put masking tape either side of the joint you are filling - I didn't and had to spend time scraping off the envitable drips and messy bits.
Mix up some resin, paint some on the joint, lay on the tape and push it down with the brush - you want it wet enough for the tape to go clear but only use just enough resin, too much can cause delamination.
I let then let the resin cure untill it was hard enough to sand off any lumpy bits by hand - wiped it over with acetone and then put on an extra layer of cloth for durability and rigidity.
[there is plenty of information avaliable about the stitch and tape bit so I havent gone into too much detail]
Because I was building the boat in two halves, the stern half was always ahead of the bow (how often can you say that!) What I mean is that while I was waiting for the resin the cure on the stern I was making parts and stitching the bow half. The following photos show the nearly complete stern being tested with the yet to be glassed bow:
Yup still looks liek a boat to me
And it fits inside too! The bottom rests on the ribs of the other half (which were curved in the middle to clear the keel strip.
Now we see why I had to have a traom stern. I wanted a locker to keep my sandwiches and camera in, and also a bit of flotation. So had to cut off one of the pointy ends so that it would still fit inside the bow half. I did the cut after all the fiberglassing had cured - I made sure I didnt glass the bit I was going to cut off - used these bits to
make some rudimentary paddles.
When Fiberglassing the bow I mixed up some thick filler and appllied it to the stem. I then waited untill it started to gel (thicken but not set ) placed cloth tape over it and moulded it by hand into a radius then gave it a coat of plain resin. The result was an imensly strong polyester stem that could have 1/4'' chunks taken out of it before water would compromise the wood.
Heres what everything looked like after being glassed in place:
I gave all the wood a coat of resin to seal it then gave it a final sand over. The outside was finished in Green Dulux Weather Sheild paint - your meant to paint you front door with it but I figured that expensive paints get scratched too, so as long as I dab a bit on occasionally and keep it out of the rain it would do the job. The inside is just bog standard exterior paint - cactus green
Notice the well above the bow locker, the idea was to stop splashes and drips from wet ropes from entering the boat and instead running out of holes drilled in the sides. With the top of the locker being lowered I could also fit a good sturdy dowel as a carry handle.
With the paint fully dried - well nearly I loaded the two halves onto a folding sackbarrow, and tied it on good and
tight. I had fun doing manouvers round the garden. Because the wheels were at one end it was a bit heavy, but
managable and under control.
I then set off down the road towards the river - I got a few funny looks but the boat got a fair few aswell and we soon arrived at the river bank. The two halves bolted together around a set of foam rubber washers that made the seal. This was made easier by sliding the bow half into the water first so that it was at the same angle as the bank and could be lined up with the stern.
I had never been in a canoe type boat before so didnt really know what to expect in terms of handeling. It was very manouverable due to the decent ammount of rocker despite the shallow keel I had added. Stability was excellent and It was quite fast through the water. The tracking improved greatly with two people onboard so we headed up
the river. We grounded at one point very solidly and away from the bank, after shifting some weight and lots of scratching sounds we were off again.
I only managed a few short trips out in this boat before starting another project. But in that time I paddled up onto banks, scraped over shallows and dragged it in and out of the canal. The paint held up surprisingly well with only 2 or 3 scratches through to the resin, some whitish scuffs and a chunk out of the keel due to an encounter with a motorbike engine.
Now then did you spot the big mistake early on in the build?
I simply screwed the sides onto the bulkheads, dry, no glue, no resin. On the 3rd outing I noticed a small pool of water comming from the joint - it wasnt a problem and stoped after 10min (probably as the wood swelled)
Thiswas an easy thing to fix. After finishing my day on the water I sanded back down to the wood and left it in the sun to dry. I then made a small tool that was kind of like a tiny hooked knife and proceeded to carve a deep V shaped channel around the joint between the plywood and the bulkhead. Some waterproof putty, resin and a couple of coats of paint she was back on the water.
Really enjoyed building the boat and would reccomend it to anyone. I sold it to a very friendly couple. They already
had a sevlar inflatable but had inherited some dogs and didn't want it to burst. They arrived in a little car and it
was obvious why they had chosen the stacking boat. It fitted perfectly on their roofrack and they have written to
me since thanking me for building them their boat. Hopefully they have looked after it and its still bobbing up and
down the canal.
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Three neon bars, a cascade of fast-moving dots, and a bumptious pop soundtrack, piped through an undersized speaker or a pair of headphones. That's the spare formula behind Tap Tap Revenge, a video game for the iPhone and iPod touch, which has become in recent months one of the most popular applications ever distributed through Apple's online iTunes store.
According to figures provided to the Monitor by Tapulous, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based creator of Tap Tap Revenge, the game has been downloaded by more than 6 million unique users. (Approximately 100,000 "paid" versions of "Tap Tap Revenge" have been sold, the company says.) It's a stunning number for a relatively simple rhythm game – the gameplay is similar to that of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises – and bodes well for the burgeoning mobile game market.
But more important, say many analysts, music games such as Tap Tap Revenge are a bow-tied, brightly colored gift to the ailing record industry, which has struggled in recent years to adapt to the realities of the digital landscape. Even as CD sales slump – the 2008 holiday season was the worst in recent memory – users have flocked to cheap or free downloadable mobile content.
For the savvy label executives, it's a no-brainer: the relatively low cost of licensing music for a mobile platform is offset by the promise of tremendous media exposure. Tapulous, for instance, runs a weekly showcase, where gamers can download tracks free of charge from a new or established artist. If they like the material, they can click a link and buy the song from iTunes.
Tim O'Brien, head of business development at Tapulous pointed to a recent track by Katy Perry, the chart-topping American pop singer. More than 250,000 users loaded "Hot N Cold," Mr. O'Brien says, and of that number, 56,000 ended up purchasing the song from iTunes.
Even if gamers don't make a purchase, the reasoning goes, some modicum of brand recognition has already been achieved. Thus far, dozens of marquee acts have signed up, from the Kaiser Chiefs to geek-rock gods Weezer.
"There's a big revenue stream here, certainly," says Windsor Holden, the principal analyst at Juniper Research, a telecommunications firm that specializes in mobile technology. "Initially, labels were very, very wary of entering this space. There were issues of [digital rights management], and even then, the labels wanted such a cut of the revenue, that the [mobile] operators weren't interested. Eventually, they came to realize that the mobile is a very attractive platform for their music."
Last year, Juniper published a much-hyped report that estimated mobile content could drive revenue up to $47.5 billion by 2010. Dr. Holden now says the state of the global economy has tempered his original forecast, and that the mobile market might still be hit by a drop in discretionary spending. Still, he says, as the industry "moves away from simple ring tones, and towards applications, there's an opportunity for some quite sophisticated mobile music games."
One of the biggest catalysts here is Apple's policy on external content for its iPod line and the iPhone. Whereas in the past phone companies and providers made it prohibitively expensive for companies to develop mobile content, Apple has opened its doors wide. Bart Decrem, the CEO of Tapulous, says that the cost of developing and distributing content for the Apple platforms is relatively low, and the potential payoff huge. "The friction is removed from the system," Mr. Decrem says. "We can develop very sophisticated [applications] at a fraction of the cost it would take before."
Kasson Crooker, a project leader at the Cambridge, Mass.-based video-game company Harmonix, says that there's a "huge opening right now for developers. Bands and musicians have a whole new way of marketing their music, and fans enjoy music a lot more when they can interact with it. It's a different level of appreciation."
Harmonix, the creator of the original Guitar Hero and the Rock Band franchise, has also marketed a mobile music game called Phase, which is available for Apple's Nano, Classic, and fifth generation iPods. (It cannot be downloaded to the iPod touch or iPhone.) Phase arrives with a suite of songs – including "Pop Music Is Not a Crime" by Freezepop – and allows users to add material from their own libraries.
One of the biggest acts to benefit from the surge in mobile music gaming is Anberlin, a popular alternative rock band from Winter Haven, Fla. In 2008, Tapulous made Anberlin anthem "The Feel Good Drag" available for Tap Tap Revenge. Thousands of fans eventually downloaded the track, and more than a few took to their blogs or YouTube to chronicle their achievements.
"It's not just watching a video on TV, or hearing a tune on the radio," says Nate Young, the drummer for Anberlin. "Fans become a part of the music by playing it. They get a more intense feeling for the song."


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Efforts to address violence against women must be multi-faceted and must not only provide appropriate services and response to women experiencing violence, but must also prevent violence from happening in the first place. This type of prevention effort is known as primary prevention and requires innovative efforts to address the root causes of violence against women, such as gender inequality, adverse childhood experiences, as well as factors that foster abuse or tolerance of abuse, such as alcohol use and societal violence.
WHO with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has developed guidance on primary prevention of intimate partner and sexual violence against women. Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women: taking action and generating evidence provides an overview of effective, promising and theoretically feasible prevention strategies. It is built around a life-course perspective that recognizes how infant and early childhood experiences influence the likelihood of later becoming a perpetrator or victim of intimate partner and sexual violence.
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If you homeschooled your child through the primary grades, you may find that you initially experienced moments of self-doubt, but you managed through the first year (or two or three) and gained confidence to educate your child at home until now!
It is not uncommon for parents to suddenly begin to second-guess themselves all over again as their children approach the early teen years and the parents feel inadequate to prepare their children for high school. And if you are just beginning to homeschool at the middle-school level (usually grades 6–8*), you may be jumping in already at the second-guessing stage.
Take heart—you can do this!
The subject matter will be more complicated as he enters junior high school, but remember that it is not your job to teach your child everything there is to learn; it is your job to:
Know Your Strengths and Limitations
Evaluate your own skills and knowledge, and be willing to utilize other resources as needed to meet your student's higher academic needs. Some options include:
Strengthen the Basics
I call these the 4 Rs: Reading, (w)Riting, 'Rithmetic, and Responsibility!
Let Him Explore His Passions
One benefit of homeschooling is the flexibility to incorporate opportunities for your child to pursue his passions, interests, and talents. Many students dabble in entrepreneurship and develop talents or hobbies that could blossom into future ventures.
Look Ahead to High School
While some students use these years to solidify earlier concepts, others are ready to move into some high-school-level work during junior high years. Many families will begin high school studies in the eighth grade, giving the student an extra year for in-depth studies. Wherever he falls on the timeline, you'll want to check out HSLDA's Homeschooling thru High School webpages, bookmarking your favorite pages from our high school consultants!
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This may be a time of great transition for your young person—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It can be a challenging age, but she needs your affection, communication, and understanding even more than ever. It is not uncommon for students in this developmental stage to have spiritual questions; don't take them personally but do take them seriously. What a wonderful opportunity to mentor and disciple your child!
Rachel Bentley Ramey, in See, I Told Me So? (edited by Tammy Cardwell), encourages parents of middle schoolers:
"[Before homeschooling,] my family did not have my heart; my friends did. Though I had a better-than-average relationship with my parents, I had been in government school for six years, spending more time with my friends than my family. I had become peer-dependent Homeschooling—and all the family time that came with it—allowed my mom to change that . [My parents] persevered. Mom could have put me back in school, deciding it was much too wearying to fight with me everyday. She could have given in to the friends and family who insisted that she was too hard on us, that we weren't going to be 'socialized' enough, and that one needs a teaching degree in order to teach effectively . If she had given up, she would never have drawn my heart back . Don't give up. Do not 'grow weary while doing good, for in due season [you] shall reap if [you] do not lose heart.' (Galatians 6:9 NKJV)"
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Missing Ancestors or the Ancestor Paradox
However, in these ancient times, it is supposed that there were far fewer people than at the present time. (By the way, if you ever want to see every type of way-out theories from UFOs to asteroid impact, try looking up ancient population figures). So how do the calculated figures of my ancestry correspond to the supposition that there were fewer people living in the past? See Wikipedia. Where are all these missing ancestors?
The easy answer is to acknowledge that some of your ancestors married relatives. Would the impact of intermarriage reduce the actual number of ancestors enough to explain the missing grandparents? It would if everyone married their brother or sister, then there would be no increase in the number of ancestors. But, I have yet to meet anyone who can document an ancestral line of only marriages between brothers and sisters. Another alternative would be to marry only first cousins, then the numbers would increase only by two in each generation instead of doubling. Following this line of reasoning soon gets you to another paradox called Zeno's paradox. I'll let you look that one up.
The seemingly simple concept of the doubling of ancestors in each generation quickly becomes a morass of math and supposition. There are three very citing articles on the subject by Brian Pears beginning in 1985 in the Northumberland & Durham Family History Society Journal. The three articles are: Our Ancestors, Conceptions, Misconceptions and a Paradox, The Ancestor Paradox Revisited and the Ancestor Paradox Yet Again. Let's just say that I don't find all of the logic in Pears' articles convincing. Before you get going on this question, you can begin by noting the fact that the Ancestor Paradox is not a Heap Paradox question. Neither is it a Bald Man Paradox because those paradoxes rely on the problem of fuzzy sets. (You can look those up also).
In some ways the problem is related to the ancient Theseus's ship paradox. (I know, you can look it up). The real question is whether or not the Ancestor Paradox is a problem in logic or math or is really a issue that can be solved. As was stated by Giangiacomo Gerla in his treatise called Why I have an extra-terrestrial ancestor, "The paradox lies in the possibility of confuting a theory on factual reality by a purely logical argumentation.
From a genealogist's point of view, every ancestor of a given person can be identified, just as we accept the proposition that every living human being had a mother and a father. However, we also jointly assume the opposite of this fact to be true, that it is practically impossible to identify every ancestor of any given person. So it may be logical from examining the simple mathematical progression, to assume that the number of ancestors increases in every generation, when in fact that progression may not be true. The number of ancestors would only increase if each ancestor is considered to be unique. So the problem is not so much one of a paradox but a fallacy. Although I said I did not agree entirely with Pears, I do agree that the flaw in the exposition of the Ancestor Paradox lies in a fallacious assumption, that is, the uniqueness of our ancestral lines.
Any thoughts on this subject? Comments would be appreciated.
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The first fallacy is quite simple - by the time you have gone back 20 generations you will discover that not all 1,04,576 ancestors were simultaneously alive. This could only be the case if each new generation was born precisely after the same number of years as all of its predecessors. Hence to talk of there being 'too many' ancestors after a certain number of generations is simply incorrect.ReplyDelete
Secondly, allowing for all cousin relationships to be recorded (imagine how difficult that would be to accurately ascertain!) would still leave us with 1,048,576 spaces in our tree but many individuals would appear multiple times, and not always at the same 'level' due to the factor alluded to above.
Combining these two effects will significantly reduce the number of discrete individuals from whom one is descended AND who were alive at any given point in time and so the ancestor paradox simply disappears...
PS - I am writing this in 'real time' so it's quite probably wrong!
- LemoneggMarch 26, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Anyone who has done French Canadian genealogy understands what is happening. There are fewers than two thousand couples, who sired 7 million French Canadians.ReplyDelete
My wife's mother's ancestors are a case in point. I have traced her grandparents completely through the fourth great grandparents. I have traced about half the lines some generations further, and have traced 50 lines back to the first immigrant. (This is not bragging. The quality of information in French parish registers is incredible, and they're almost all on Ancestry.)
Of the first immigrants, only one came in the 18th century (and he was banished from France.) All the rest arrived in the 17th Century. 7 million French Canadians descend from 3500 original immigrants.
What happens is that all the lines start to share ancestors. It's not a question of cousins. The first overlapping line is at the third great grand parents. Most of the immigrants were ten to twelve generations removed from my mother in law. There are 2048 ninth great grandparents. The probability is that some ancestors will repeat.
And they're all some kind of cousin to Celine Dion. My wife is connected to the Guyon/Dion on both her mother's and father's side.
I find the Ancestor Paradox interesting & have heard about it before. I do not have to go too far back in my tree to find that it is true. My 4th great grandparents, Jeremiah Smith (1773 - 1843) & Joanna Dillon (1778 - 1821) are on my tree twice. They are my double 4th great grandparents. Two of their children married into the family branches. Therefore the number of my ancestors is not as high as it should be from that generation and going back from them.ReplyDelete
I'm sure if we could trace back dozens of generations it would be more & more commonplace. People did not move locations. They paired up with people who were close at hand.
I enjoyed your post. Colleen
- MichaelMarch 29, 2011 at 7:45 AM
This is a great post and great comments.ReplyDelete
Lemonegg, I am a Dion and have found the French Canadian research to be some of the most challenging and thrilling of all my lines. My grandfather's family were Dion/Guyon and, you are correct, we are all related to Celine Dion. i have always told people she is a cousin since all French Canadians came from such a limited set of original ancestors.


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Marilyn Monroe stars as the fun-loving, hip-grinding, rich-husband-seeking bombshell, Lorelei who boards a ship bound for Paris and finds herself entangled in a series of screwball mishaps with lecherous men.
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