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Yup, it's that time of the year again and this time there's even a
Grand Prize for you to win : Arjuna has graciously offered an
autographed boxed copy of Battles from the Bulge (when done) to one
lucky participant. No need to tell you this is a unique item, and to
make it absolutely clear : voting for Conquest of the Aegean will *not*
increase your chances of winning it (*).
The Rules :
1) 1 (wo)man, 1 post - all votes in the open, no emails.
2) The game must have been published in 2006
3) Post your 1st, 2nd and 3rd place choices - 1st place gets 5 points,
2nd gets 3 points, 3rd gets 1 point.
4) Votes must be in before January 15th, 2006
5) In case of a tie, the award is shared.
6) Developers are strongly encouraged to vote as well - there's no
shame in believing your baby is the best looking.
This is what's at stake for the developers - created by Daniel :
To refresh your memory on what games got published this year :
Birth of America
Panzer Campaigns 15 - Stalingrad 1942
Defend the Alamo 2 / The Alamo!
Cry Havoc : Test of Faith
Hearts of Iron 2 : Doomsday
Strategic Command 2
Take Command : 2nd Manassas
Battle of the Atlantic
WinSPWW2 Enhanced
Conquest of the Aegean
Harpoon 3 - Advanced Naval Warfare
Panzer Command : Operation Winter Storm
For Liberty! (formerly : For Independence)
Distant Guns : The Russo-Japanese War at Sea
Victoria - Revolutions
Blitzkrieg : War in Europe 1939-1945 (Pocket PC and Palm)
Air Campaigns of WWII - Defending the Reich
Napoleonic Wars Online
Down in Flames - Eastern Front
Civil War Battles - Campaign Vicksburg
Panzer Campaigns - Minsk '44
Napoleonic Battles - Jena-Auerstaedt
World at War : A World Divided
Air Assault Task Force
Forge of Freedom : The American Civil War 1861-1865
Future Force Company Commander (F2C2)
If you think I missed one (or several) feel free to add them - this is
not a list of nominees.
Eddy Sterckx
(*) This is how the winner of the autographed boxed copy of Panther
Games' Battles from the Bulge will be decided :
1) Every entry/voter is given a random number by me
2) When the election is over I zip this list, password protect it and
send it to Mr. Beretta and everyone else asking for it - without the
3) I'll ask Mr. Giftzwerg to pick and post a number between 1 and ...
4) I release the password so Mr. Beretta and everyone else can check
who won the game.


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Brian Davis is a nice guy—almost annoyingly so. Most people are happy enough to talk about themselves, but Davis consistently highlights his team's efforts in providing value and service at Scottrade's institutional arm. "Value and cost [are] ingrained in our culture," he tells Editor-in-Chief John Sullivan for Investment Advisor magazine's July issue.
In the second installment of our Pursuing Practice Excellence survey, we look at industry leaders and their views on practice management and what it means to advisors. While all the data is still coming in (look for the final chapter in the August issue of Investment Advisor), it seems clear that most advisor partner firms recognize practice management is becoming a critical part of their value proposition and are dropping big bucks to support that.
Plus, AdvisorOne partnered with fi360 for the 2012 Article Competition. In the July issue of Investment Advisor, the winner, Gregory Kasten, presents fiduciary best practices for actuarial implementation that can consistently improve 401(k) participant outcomes.
If you haven't heard of Scottrade Advisor Services, you're forgiven. Started in 2005, the institutional side of the better-known retail counterpart is coming on strong, finding a niche among Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Pershing and smaller clearing and custody firms, not to mention the entire independent broker-dealer industry. Editor-in-Chief John Sullivan sits down with Brian Davis, division head and all-around nice guy, to talk about his team and how they've done so much, so fast.
Pursuing Practice Excellence: The Industry Perspective
In the second installment of our inaugural AdvisorOne/ActiFi Pursuing Practice Excellence practice management study, we take an objective, comprehensive look at what advisors' partner firms are offering advisors in the practice management arena.
For this portion of the survey, we conducted comprehensive telephone interviews with 52 industry leaders from five different categories of firms to identify the gaps between what advisors say they need and what their partners are providing. Group-Editor-in-Chief James J. Green and ActiFi CEO and founder Spenser Segal break down to survey results.
Create Tangible Value in Your Fiduciary Practice
AdvisorOne partnered with fi360 for the 2012 Article Competition. Here, the winner, Gregory Kasten, presents fiduciary best practices for actuarial implementation that can consistently improve 401(k) participant outcomes.
Think Brazil, think soccer, then think the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Could the stars possibly be more perfectly aligned?
For a nation whose lifeblood is soccer, that was nascido para jogar (born to play) and is one of the fastest growing economies today, probably not. Add to that the 2016 Olympic Games, to which Brazil is playing host and which will, like the World Cup, greatly increase Brazil's standing in the international community, and there's little doubt that Brazil is on course to a far sweeter spot than the one it's in now. Savita Iyer-Ahrestani explains how pulling off both events with aplomb will lock in the country's many fans, international investors included, for the long haul.
The July 1 compliance date for the Department of Labor's final 408(b)(2) fee disclosure rule has finally arrived, and even though the final rule was a long time coming, covered service providers have been ramping up their compliance efforts for months.
The final rule on 401(k) fee disclosures requires service providers to furnish information that will enable pension plan fiduciaries to determine both the reasonableness of compensation paid to service providers and any conflicts of interest that may affect a service provider's performance under a service contract or arrangement.
Washington Bureau Chief Melanie Waddell dissects the rule's requirements and how they will affect plan sponsors and their fiduciaries.
Perhaps the single most important issue on the minds of retirees today is how to maximize income during their golden years. However, in this period of financial repression, this task seems as difficult as convincing the pirate Jack Sparrow to quit drinking. With interest rates at historic lows, yields are compressed, leaving many struggling. Even so, there are a few hidden treasures out there if you have the right map. In this article, we will look at creating the structure for an income stream, owning rental property, secrets of the Social Security system, reverse mortgages, qualified retirement plans and annuities. Mike Patton navigates these rough waters.

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Yuanyuan Zheng
Guangdong, China
Class Year:
Prior Education:
LL.B and LL.M, Sun Yat-sen university, Guangzhou, P.R.China
What I Did Before Law School:
I was in a PhD program in law of the University of Hong Kong and serving as a research assistant at Asian Institute of International Financial Law.
Why I Chose Penn Law:
Ivy League school, world class and distinguished professors, diversified student bodies, friendly staff, convenient location.What I can say is that I would never regret that I chose Penn Law.
My Best Experience at Penn Law:
The whole year was amazing. I was able to access the worldwide well-known professors, had the opportunities to discuss legal issues with exceptional young lawyers from more than 35 countries. I learned a lot from this year's experience.
Professor Who Influenced Me Most:
Professor William Tyson. One of the most difficult tasks in this world is to explain very complicated things in an extremely simple but clear way. Professor Tyson is an expert in doing that. In addition, he is the most humorous professor I have ever met.
My Favorite Course:
Corporations. It is the most challenging course I took in Penn Law. I learned not only the legal material, but also how to survive and succeed in the Law School: never giving up; seeking help from the professor and your peer fellows; being strategic; and working hard.
My Favorite Philadelphia Moment:
Touring the old section of town, enjoying delicious food and gorgeous arts.
What I'm Most Proud Of:
I am so proud of being a member of Penn Law.
My Extracurricular Activities at Penn Law:
Translator-in-chief, China Law and Policy Review
Associate Editor, Journal of International Law and Policy
LLM advisor, Journal of International Law Information Officer of the class committee
TA for Securities Regulation Course of 2007 Wharton-Securities Association of China Executive Program
My Favorite Place or Activity on the University Campus:
Locust Walk is always a great place to be around and meet people from different schools. Penn Law's courtyard is always filled with joyful students and it's an amazing place to sit around and talk to your colleagues about anything.


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Wal-Mart Warns Suppliers On Stricter Measures
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is alerting its global suppliers that it will immediately drop them if they subcontract their work to factories that haven't been authorized by the discounter.
In a letter sent Tuesday to suppliers of its Wal-Mart stores as well as Sam's Clubs in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, the company says it will adopt a "zero tolerance" policy on subcontracting without the company's knowledge, effective March. 1.
Previously, suppliers had three chances to rectify their mistakes.
Wal-Mart's stricter measure, along with other changes to its policy, comes amid increasing calls for better safety oversight after a deadly fire at a Bangladesh factory that supplied its clothes. Wal-Mart has said that the factory should not have been making its clothes.


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Astronauts experiment on skin care
Astronauts have a lot of specific needs during a space mission: they need special food that does not only provide the maximum nutritional value but also does not 'go off' in the harsh space conditions, they need particular sleeping bags as bed-substitutes and distinctive shampoo that works without water. They also need skin-care products because the harsh space environment dries the skin out.
Skin-care is so important to the well-being of an astronaut that an experiment on the ISS is now investigating the effects of microgravity on human skin.
Skin deterioration is one of the major detrimental effects experienced by astronauts in space. The skin being the largest organ of the human body and serving as its protective shield is highly susceptible to harmful environmental influences, such as all of us have painfully experienced with sunburn. Space itself is a tough environment for humans to survive in, and living in space for a long period of time puts lots of strains on the human body - including the skin.
Three German companies have now teamed up to get to the bottom of this problem by conducting the 'SkinCare' experiment on the International Space Station (ISS), namely 'DermaTronnier', the institute for experimental dermatology at the University of Witten/Herdecke, the medical equipment company 'Courage + Khazaka' and the manufacturer of skin protection and skin care products 'Degussa'.
Astronauts and cosmonauts living on the International Space Station are constantly exposed to conditions that stress their skin: for instance, the constant draft from the station's ventilation system takes its toll on the skin by drying it out and making it more susceptible to scratches and irritation. Furthermore, it was observed that the skin becomes thinner in microgravity conditions. On Earth we experience a phenomenon that shows similar effects on human skin: ageing. These observations lead to the hypothesis that skin in space could be a suitable model for skin ageing on earth.
Implemented by ESA's Commercial Agent for Biotechnology, Health, Food and Nutrition - ISS Lab Ruhr GmbH - in cooperation with ESA, the 'SkinCare' experiment is planned to be uploaded to the International Space Station during the Astrolab Mission, the first ESA long duration mission carried out by German ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter. For the first time, the effects of space conditions on human skin will be systematically examined with non-invasive high tech equipment. One goal will be to gather valid scientific data on how skin changes in weightless space conditions.
Different physiological parameters of the skin will be examined before, during and after the mission. For this, a skin protection product for occupationally stressed skin will be applied on the same spot of one of an astronaut's forearms daily, while the other forearm will remain untreated. Every two weeks during the mission, several high-tech devices will be used to measure any physiological change in both the treated and untreated forearms. It is also planned to monitor the regeneration of the skin on Earth.
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Project Management is the planning and management of a range of tasks, particularly where there are complexities either within the tasks or within the teams working on the project, in order to achieve a deliverable at the end of the project.
A deliverable can be many things; it may be a physical thing such as a new product, it may be an intangible thing such as a new process within an organisation or it may be a new software system.


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By Bob Jones, Bonnie Jones & Lyn Kost
http://amzn.to/1f686AL [Kindle only, this year]
Published October 2013
The term "Shepherd's Rod" comes from Ezekiel 20:37 stating, "and I shall make you pass under the rod, and I shall bring you into the bond of the covenant." This Scripture symbolically portrays a shepherd extending his rod as the sheep pass under his staff for evaluation. In this same way we, as the Lord's sheep, pass under His staff during this season as further described in Jeremiah 33:13 and Leviticus 27:32.
The purpose of this booklet is to simply outline the revelations that were received on that date in order to Biblically convey the revelation to the believer. It is not the intent of this outline to completely cover all the truth associated with these revelations. It would take a large book to adequately elaborate on and communicate all of the Biblical truth realized through these revelations.
It is our prayer that the believer will study these revelations during the course of this year to extract all the understanding the Spirit of Truth will reveal. Much of the truth given in the Shepherd's Rod is like seed that, once planted, requires time to develop and mature. These revelations apply to the year that it is given and the years to follow as each revelation provides greater clarity and focus for the Lord's heart for this generation. The Shepherd's Rod 2014 prophetically outlines what God is about to do beginning in 2014.
The Shepherd's Rod 2014 included some material on what to be doing presently that will help me now as well as prepare me for the future. I was particularly blessed by the section on the blessings of Ruth. I've read previous Shepherd's Rods put out by Bob Jones. This one probably impacted me more than any of the others.


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Gas Mileage 22 mpg City/27 mpg Hwy
Engine Gas I4, 2.0L
EPA Class 2WD Special Purpose Vehicle
Style Name 4dr Wgn XLT
Drivetrain Front Wheel Drive
Passenger Capacity 5
Passenger Doors 4
Body Style Mini-van, Passenger
Transmission 4-speed automatic transmission w/OD
EPA Classification 2WD Special Purpose Vehicle
Weight Information
Base Curb Weight (lbs) 3503
Interior Dimensions
Passenger Capacity 5
Front Hip Room (in) 50.8
Front Leg Room (in) 40.5
Second Shoulder Room (in) 59.6
Passenger Volume (ft³) 132.1
Second Head Room (in) 50.5
Front Shoulder Room (in) 54.4
Second Hip Room (in) 59.8
Front Head Room (in) 51.1
Second Leg Room (in) 36.2
Exterior Dimensions
Wheelbase (in) 114.6
Track Width, Rear (in) 61.1
Height, Overall (in) 79.3
Rear Door Opening Width (in) 50.2
Length, Overall (in) 180.6
Min Ground Clearance (in) 7.2
Track Width, Front (in) 59.3
Liftover Height (in) 23.1
Width, Max w/o mirrors (in) 70.7
Rear Door Opening Height (in) 52.1
Cargo Area Dimensions
Cargo Area Length @ Floor to Seat 1 (in) 72.6
Cargo Box (Area) Height (in) 53.7
Cargo Area Width @ Beltline (in) 59.8
Cargo Volume to Seat 3 (ft³) NA
Cargo Area Length @ Floor to Seat 2 (in) 49.6
Cargo Volume to Seat 1 (ft³) 118.7
Cargo Box Width @ Wheelhousings (in) 48.1
Cargo Area Length @ Floor to Seat 3 (in) NA
Cargo Volume to Seat 2 (ft³) 78.4
Fuel Economy
Fuel Tank
Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx (gal) 15.4
Fuel Economy Est-Combined (MPG) 24
EPA Fuel Economy Est - City (MPG) 22
EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy (MPG) 27
Performance Specs
Engine Order Code 99N
SAE Net Torque @ RPM 128 @ 4750
Fuel System Electronic Fuel Injection
Engine Type Gas I4
SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM 136 @ 6300
Displacement 2.0L/121
Clutch Size (in) NA
Drivetrain Front Wheel Drive
First Gear Ratio (:1) 2.82
Sixth Gear Ratio (:1) NA
Trans Description Cont. Automatic w/OD
Fourth Gear Ratio (:1) 0.73
Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1) 3.96
Trans Order Code 442
Second Gear Ratio (:1) 1.50
Reverse Ratio (:1) 2.65
Trans Description Cont. Again NA
Fifth Gear Ratio (:1) NA
Trans Type 4
Third Gear Ratio (:1) 1.00
Brake Type Pwr
Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) NA
Disc - Rear (Yes or ) NA
Brake ABS System 4-wheel
Drum - Rear (Yes or ) Yes
Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness (in) - TBD -
Disc - Front (Yes or ) Yes
Rear Drum Diam x Width (in) - TBD -
Steering Type Pwr Rack & Pinion
Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb (ft) 39.0
Steering Ratio (:1), Overall - TBD -
Turning Diameter - Wall to Wall (ft) - TBD -
Lock to Lock Turns (Steering) - TBD -
Front Tire Order Code NA
Spare Tire Size Full-Size
Front Tire Size P205/65R15
Rear Tire Order Code NA
Rear Tire Size P205/65R15
Spare Tire Order Code NA
Front Wheel Size (in) 15 x - TBD -
Spare Wheel Material Steel
Front Wheel Material Steel
Rear Wheel Size (in) 15 x - TBD -
Rear Wheel Material Steel
Spare Wheel Size (in) Full-Size
Suspension Type - Front MacPherson Strut
Shock Absorber Diameter - Rear (mm) - TBD -
Suspension Type - Rear (Cont.) NA
Suspension Type - Rear Multi-Leaf Spring
Stabilizer Bar Diameter - Front (in) - TBD -
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Suspension Type - Front (Cont.) NA
Stabilizer Bar Diameter - Rear (in) - TBD -
Safety Features
Air Bag-Frontal-Driver Yes
Air Bag-Frontal-Passenger Yes
Air Bag-Passenger Switch (On/Off) No
Air Bag-Side Body-Front Yes
Air Bag-Side Body-Rear No
Air Bag-Side Head-Front No
Air Bag-Side Head-Rear No
Brakes-ABS Yes
Child Safety Rear Door Locks Yes
Daytime Running Lights No
Traction Control Yes
Night Vision No
Rollover Protection Bars No
Fog Lamps Yes
Parking Aid No
Tire Pressure Monitor Yes
Back-Up Camera No
Stability Control Yes
Other Features 4-wheel anti-lock (ABS) brakes
AdvanceTrac w/Roll Stability Control (RSC)
Driver/front passenger airbags w/passenger sensor
Driver/front passenger side airbags
Child safety rear door locks
Tire pressure monitoring system
Collapsible steering column
AdvanceTrac w/Roll Stability Control (RSC)
Driver/front passenger airbags w/passenger sensor
Driver/front passenger side airbags
Child safety rear door locks
Tire pressure monitoring system
Collapsible steering column
Basic Miles/km 36,000
Basic Years 3
Corrosion Miles/km Unlimited
Corrosion Years 5
Drivetrain Miles/km 60,000
Drivetrain Years 5
Roadside Assistance Miles/km 60,000
Roadside Assistance Years 5
Other Specs
Cooling System
Total Cooling System Capacity (qts) - TBD -
Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary) 500
Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps) 150
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) NA
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) NA
Dead Weight Hitch - Max Tongue Wt. (lbs) NA
Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Trailer Wt. (lbs) NA
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It's so much easier than starting from scratch. That's because the relationship is already there. Of course the foundation of any great relationship is good communications. And to maintain a great working relationship even when you're not working together.
I have been very lucky in my business. Almost every single client I ever had (I've been in business for 16 years) I'm still in touch with. When they go on to new opportunities I'm usually the first person they contact to see if we can work together. When I started a new company a few years back, I reached out to some of them to be on my Advisory Board. The nice thing about these relationships is that I'm always thinking about my clients and how I can help them and likewise they are looking out for me. This is actually true with colleagues and business associates in my network as well.
Heather Townsend put out a post listing 17 ways to get more referrals from existing clients. It's useful. Here's an 18th – stay in touch with my clients over the years even when your not working with them. I take some clients to lunch when they're in town, and find ways to help them. Even if we don't work together for long periods of time, I stay in touch. So when they do have a referral, I'm top of mind.
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Count Arizona's Sean Miller as one who embraces it.
Arizona moved up to No. 1 in The Associated Press' college basketball poll for the first time since 2003 on Monday, an honor Miller views as not only recognition for what the Wildcats have done this season, but validation for the direction the program has taken in his five years in the desert.
"There's tremendous satisfaction, no question," Miller said. "Embracing the fact that we're No. 1 is something I'm doing, our staff is doing and really our team is doing. It's an honor a lot of teams would love to have. It's something where no matter what happens the rest of the season, at some point we were ranked No. 1 in the country."
Coming off a hard-fought home win over UNLV, Arizona (9-0) received 63 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel to earn the No. 1 spot in a season for the sixth time. The Wildcats are the Pac-12's first No. 1 team since UCLA in January 2006.
Syracuse, which received the other first-place votes, and Ohio State moved up two places to second and third, while Wisconsin jumped four spots to fourth. Michigan State, which had been No. 1 for three weeks, dropped to fifth after losing 79-65 at home to North Carolina.
Louisville was No. 6, followed by Oklahoma State, Duke, Connecticut and Villanova.
UConn continued its climb. Ranked 19th in the first poll of the season, the Huskies rose three sports this week to enter the top 10.
North Carolina moved back into the poll at No. 18 after a one-week absence. Colorado and Missouri are in the Top 25 for the first time this season. UCLA, Michigan and Dayton fell out of the rankings.
Arizona was sixth in the preseason Top 25 after Miller added another stellar recruiting class to a team that reached the Sweet 16 of last year's NCAA Tournament.
Long, athletic and versatile, the Wildcats already have an impressive list of victories, including Texas Tech, San Diego State on the road and Duke in the championship game of the NIT Season Tip-off at Madison Square Garden.
"It's no secret that this year our goal is to be playing in Dallas (at the Final Four). This just starts it off," Arizona junior guard Nick Johnson said. "We've done some good things to start our season and we just need to keep it going."
Arizona's rise to No. 1 is a culmination of what Miller has done to return a storied program back to glory.
When Miller became the head coach in 2009, he took over a program that was in disarray after the retirement of coach Lute Olson two years earlier.
A master recruiter when he was the head coach at Xavier, Miller set the foundation for the Wildcats' turnaround by landing a string of top-notch classes to restock the program.
Arizona took a small step in his first season, winning 16 games, and hit the accelerator in 2010-11, winning 30 games while reaching the NCAA Tournament regional final.
The Wildcats couldn't follow up the success the next season, playing in the NIT after losing forward Derrick Williams to the NBA draft, but bounced back with last year's deep run and 27-win season.
Expectations this season were nearly through the McKale Center roof with the additions of point guard T.J. McConnell and stellar freshmen Aaron Gordon and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson to a strong core of returning players.
The Wildcats have lived up to the hype so far, earning a spot atop the poll.
"I know it doesn't win anything, no one has to remind our team or myself of that early in the season, in December, but I do think it's quite an honor to be No. 1," said Miller, coach of a No. 1 team for the first time. "It says a lot about the respect this year's team has earned and I think it's a great compliment to our program."


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Nexsan launches unified storage architecture with flash cache
Nexsan releases the NST unified storage architecture supporting iSCSI and NAS, and using flash cache for a performance boost.
Nexsan Corp. today introduced its first multiprotocol storage platform, the Nexsan NST Series Unified Storage System, which contains a flash cache using single-level cell (SLC) solid-state drives (SSDs) and DRAM to accelerate performance.
The NST Series Unified Storage System platform is designed to move network-attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI traffic through a single controller. The unified storage architecture is an extension of the Nexsan E5000 NAS system launched in August 2011.
The NST's three models -- the 5100, 5300 and 5500 -- can run iSCSI and NAS together, or either of the protocols alone. A customer can start out with iSCSI or NAS and upgrade to unified storage. The systems don't support Fibre Channel (FC) networking.
Nexsan executives maintain that the system is truly multiprotocol because it supports block and file storage through one controller instead of through separate controllers.
"Lots of people use the term 'unified,'" said Mark Peters, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) in Milford, Mass. "But behind the scenes, they're not. They've taken two existing systems and written software that stitches the two systems together. Nexsan is doing a genuine unified system."
Don Chouinard, Nexsan's director of product marketing, said that of the NST's main competitors -- the Dell Compellent zNAS and Dell EqualLogic FS7500 NAS, EMC VNX5500 and NetApp FAS3200 -- only NetApp is a true unified system. Both of Dell's systems require separate physical devices for NAS and storage-area network (SAN), and the VNX uses an X-blade in its chassis for file access. However, all of them let customers manage block and file storage through one interface.
The NST devices use Nexsan's SSD FASTier cache introduced with the E5000 NAS array in August. FASTier holds DRAM, as well as 100 GB or 200 GB of SSD to accelerate performance for applications with random I/O. A 16-bay SAS bus interface sits in front of the NST's dual, active-active controllers. One bay is reserved to contain DRAM, while the rest of the bays contain the SSDs.
Chouinard said the write journal is mirrored to the DRAM, so a redundant controller can access the write journal from the DRAM if the other controller dies.
"It's another level of data protection and it's particularly important for random I/O applications," said Christine Taylor, an analyst at Taneja Group in Hopkinton, Mass. "It holds a record of the write journal in the controller and DRAM, and it's enormously fast."
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The NST platform supports between four to 24 Xeon CPU cores; 12 GB to 192 GB of DDR3 DRAM; up to 12 dedicated RAID engines; and up to 360 15,000 rpm SAS, 7,200 rpm SATA or SSD drives. The FASTier Cache can hold up to 16 SSDs, or up to 3 TB (with expansion shelves) that's accessible by both controllers. The systems' front end has up to 12 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports or up to four 10 GbE ports, while the back end can hold up to 12 8 Gbps Fibre Channel ports.
The entry-level NST5100 has a single four-core Intel Xeon processor with 12 GB of memory per controller and a maximum of 93 TB of capacity. The NST5300 is available with one or two four-core Xeon processors, 24 GB or 48 GB of memory per controller, and up to 720 TB of storage. The NST5500 includes two six-core Xeon processors, 48 GB or 96 GB of memory per controller, and up to 1 PB of storage. The FASTier Cache for all models includes 8 GB of RAM. The 5100 has 100 GB of SSD, the 5300 has 200 GB of SSD and the 5500 has 400 GB of SSD built in. FASTier Cache Expansion shelves are available for the two higher models.
"We can give you high performance with the SATA and FASTier, or we can offer screaming performance with SAS and FASTier," Nexsan's Chouinard said.
All three models offer up to 64 TB logical unit numbers (LUNs) on the iSCSI SAN for thin provisioning. The systems also have asynchronous and synchronous replication, application-consistent snapshots via the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) infrastructure, or manual snapshots for Linux and Unix servers.
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Actress Sandra Bullock made a graduating class' commencement ceremony extra special on Monday after making a surprise appearance at the New Orleans, Louisiana celebration.
The Gravity star was a special guest as she joined around 200 students from Warren Easton Charter High School to mark their educational achievement at the Lakefront Arena at the University of New Orleans, and she delighted attendees as she took the stage to share a few words of wisdom with the Class of 2014.
Addressing the crowd at the school she 'adopted' after Hurricane Katrina, she encouraged the students to take in the moment, saying, "You know at Warren Easton, you are loved and appreciated and supported for what you have to offer.
"I was trying to remember my graduation and, oddly, I couldn't remember anything. I remembered how good I looked and then I went back and looked at pictures and I really didn't look so good. I didn't remember anything, because I was so worried about the future.
"Stop worrying so much. I don't remember any of the moments in my life where I worried. Raise the bar higher. Nothing is a failure it's just not supposed to work out."
Adding a few more pieces of advice, she continued, "Eat something green every day. Do not pick your nose in public. How about we just go get a tissue? When someone who cares about you hugs you, hug them back. If someone doesn't want to play with you, it's okay. Not everybody is going to love us.
"And last but not least, go find your joy. It's what you're going to remember in the end. It's not the worry, it's not the what-ifs. It's the joy that stays with you. And I want to thank you for the joy that Warren Easton brings me every day."
Bullock, who owns a home in the city, helped to rebuild the school after it was seriously damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Rehabbing Burnett still targets Opening Day roster spot
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Angels reliever Sean Burnett is still in the early stages of his throwing program as he works his way back from August surgery on his left forearm. The 31-year-old lefty, limited to 13 appearances in his first season with the Angels a year ago, is only playing light catch at this point, but he hopes to start long-tossing "in the next few weeks" and is still targeting a return by Opening Day.
"That's my goal," Burnett said prior to the Angels' first workout on Friday morning. "It's been my goal since we started [the rehab process]. As long as I feel healthy and stuff like that, and the ball is coming out and I'm building arm strength, the mound shouldn't be much of a problem. I'm sure it'll be an easy transition."
Burnett can be a major asset to the Angels' bullpen if he recovers, joining right-handed setup man Joe Smith as a bridge to closer Ernesto Frieri.
From 2009-12, Burnett posted a 2.85 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP in 283 appearances for the Pirates and Nationals. In his career, left-handed batters -- like new American League West members Prince Fielder and Robinson Cano -- have posted only a .629 OPS.
"There's better days than others," Burnett said of his rehab, "but that's all part of the process of coming back. Right now I haven't even stressed it enough to even know of anything about it. I'm just playing catch and stuff like that. So that's going well. Exercises and stuff like that are going well. It seems like we're on the right path."


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SIGGRAPH ASIA 2008—SINGAPORE—DECEMBER 9 2008—NVIDIA Corporation today announced its full support for the newly released OpenCL™ 1.0 specification from the Khronos Group. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a new compute API that allows developers to harness the massive parallel computing power of the GPU. The addition of OpenCL is another major milestone in the GPU revolution that gives NVIDIA developers another powerful programming option.
NVIDIA kicked off the GPU computing revolution with the introduction of NVIDIA® CUDA™, its massively parallel computing ISA and hardware architecture. CUDA was designed to natively support all parallel computing interfaces and will seamlessly run OpenCL. Enabled on over 100 million NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA has unleashed unprecedented performance boosts across a wide range of applications and provides a huge installed base for the deployment of compute applications using OpenCL. With support for other industry standard languages such as C, Java, Fortran and Python, only the CUDA architecture provides developers with a choice of programming environments to aid the rapid development of compute applications on the GPU.
First introduced with the NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 GPU and standard across all NVIDIA's modern GPUs, CUDA is the foundation of NVIDIA's parallel computing strategy. CUDA has had a tremendous reception from the world's research community with scientists seeing up to a 20-200x speed-up in their applications with CUDA over a CPU. The CUDA architecture is being built into a wide range of computing systems from supercomputers and workstations to consumer PCs, enabling more than 25,000 developers to actively develop on CUDA today.
"The arrival of OpenCL is fabulous news for the computing industry and NVIDIA is delighted to be playing a highly active role in the establishment of a new standard that promotes computing on the GPU," said Manju Hegde, general manager of CUDA at NVIDIA. "We are delighted that Apple has helped spearhead OpenCL. Their recognition that the GPU will now play an essential role in consumer applications is a significant milestone in the history of computing."
Vice president of embedded content at NVIDIA, Neil Trevett also holds the position of chair of the OpenCL working group at Khronos.
"The OpenCL specification is a result of a clearly recognized opportunity from leaders like NVIDIA to grow the total market for heterogeneous parallel computing through an open, cross-platform standard," said Trevett. "NVIDIA will continue to be very active in the OpenCL working group to drive the evolution of the specification and will support OpenCL on all its platforms, providing developers an additional way to tap into the awesome computational power of our GPUs."
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NVIDIA is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce® graphics products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro® graphics products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ computing solutions products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information, visit www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: NVIDIA's support of OpenCL; the GPU computing revolution and the effect of CUDA architecture and Open CL on the GPU computing revolution; the benefits, features, impact, and capabilities of OpenCL, CUDA architecture and NVIDIA GeForce GPUs; are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: development of more efficient or faster technology; adoption of the CPU for parallel processing; design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact of technological development and competition; changes in consumer preferences and demands; customer adoption of different standards or our competitor's products; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when integrated into systems as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ended October 26, 2008. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on our website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
Copyright © 2008 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, GeForce, Quadro, Tesla, CUDA are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. OpenCL is trademark of Apple Inc. used under license to the Khronos Group Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
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Damn OX...I just found about the Kimsoon connection.Whoa dude,I was wondering why all the fuss.I just read the thread about supernatural healing...that was wild.I didn't know things were like that before I arrived...suicide,supernatural hlg,death,euthanasia;Harry potter.I don't think the religious fanatics are your biggest fans huh?I think we should be good boys from now on...yes,NO? I'm tRYing To.
Have you seen the documentary "The God Who Wasn't There?" Todd (LeType) sent it to me and it's a great 1 hour documentary. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFsmmMTMCHU
Total Atheist myself, btw. The Antichrist thing was just a joke. Later 0x.
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We Try Every Kind of Pepperidge Farm Cookie
We're pretty sure that everyone ate Pepperidge Farm cookies growing up. If you didn't routinely eat Chessmen or Genevas, your parents at least bought you Milanos. Moms who wouldn't dream of glancing at Chips Ahoy in the grocery store were always happy to bring home Milanos. Perhaps it's the small package that belies the many layers of cookies stored inside, or the demure bag that doesn't try to trap you with elves or sprinkles or exclamation points or any such garish device. Either way, we were always happy to find these elegant sandwich cookies nestled in our lunch boxes and bags.
It's the 75th anniversary of Pepperidge Farm, and since we've already tried every kind of Oreo, it didn't take much to get us to embark on the task of trying every single cookie they make.
And how many cookies they make! Maybe you've never really tried to archive the various sweet discs that come in those folded-top paper bags but they really have quite the collection. There are the Distinctive Cookies, which you probably just thought of as "the Places": Geneva, Brussels, Tahiti. ("Distinctive Cookies" is written very faintly at the botton of the package, because Distinction doesn't abrasively announce itself, of course.) In other words, the classics.
Then there's the Milano family. The popularity of the Milano has led it into many different incarnations à la Oreo. While you probably already have fond feelings for the Mint or the Double, you might not know about the Raspberry, the Melts, or the Milano Cake.
The Homestyle cookies resemble kinds you might make at home for a holiday or a special occasion: Gingerman, Shortbread, and Sugar, to name a few. We loved some of these and didn't care for others.
And finally, the Big Cookies. They fall under the categories of Soft Baked, Chunk, and Soft Baked Chunk. These didn't invoke the same fondness or attachment as the Distinctives. They also get pretty complicated (have you ever tried to think about the difference between a Soft Baked Chunk Nantucket Dark Chocolate and a Chunk Double Chocolate Nantucket Dark Chocolate? I have, and I wouldn't recommend it). Our excitement over the smaller packages quickly fell when we dove into these guys. The soft ones have a strange taste and texture that were a bust among all our taste buds. The crunchy (Chunk) ones are too crunchy in the same way that the soft ones are too soft: neither kind seems like they were created through any normal baking method. The crunchy, ostensibly baked longer than the soft, bear no oven marks to show for it, but they do have a better, buttery taste.
We're sure you've been eating Pepperidge Farm as long as we have, but click on the links below or flip through the slideshow to experience our taste test of every single one. And hit us with your own rants and raves over these classics and not-so-classics in the comments below!
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- Chunk: Montauk Milk Chocolate
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- Chunk: Sausalito Milk Chocolate Macadamia
- Chunk: Tahoe White Chocolate Macadamia
- Chunk: Nantucket Dark Chocolate
- Chunk: Maui Milk Chocolate Coconut Almond
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BioMed Central (BMC) is a UK-based for-profit scientific publisher specializing in open access publication. BMC publishes over 180 scientific journals, and describes itself as the first and largest open access science publisher. BMC sister companies publish the Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central journals. The Chairman is Vitek Tracz and the Publisher is Matt Cockerill.
Most titles are open access, including its flagship journals Journal of Biology, Molecular Cancer Malaria Journal, the innovative Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine and the BMC journal series including the leading titles BMC Biology and BMC Medicine. Others are open access for the research articles portion only, such as Genome Biology, Arthritis Research & Therapy, Breast Cancer Research, andCritical Care. Some review titles, such as Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development are entirely subscription based. Open access content is released under the Creative Commons "Attribution" license which grants permission to reuse publications and produce derivative work.
In October 2008, it was announced that BMC, Chemistry Central, and PhysMath Central, had been acquired by Springer Science+Business Media. Previously, since its creation, the company was part of Science Navigation Group, chaired by Vitek Tracz, which also owns The Scientist (a popular science magazine—the daily news section is free access; the remainder is by subscription), Faculty of 1000 (a subscription-only current awareness service highlighting recent biological research), Global DataPoint, People's Archive and, in the past, two other companies which had previously been acquired by Springer, Images.MD (a medical image database) and Current Medicine.
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By the way I learned about Abstraction, Encapsulation and Polymorphism during my college time but never able to recognize its real potential until I started doing programming and involved in bigger projects. On theory Polymorphism is a simple concept where one variable can denote multiple object but in real life it just a gem and a code written using polymorphism concept is much flexible to change and quite easy to maintain than the one which is written without polymorphism. In Java programming whole concept of interface is based on Polymorphism and its a famous design principle that to code for interface than implementation to take advantage of Polymorphism and introducing new implementation in future.
What is polymorphism in Java
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Parametric Polymorphism in JavaJava started to support parametric polymorphism with introduction of Generic in JDK1.5. Collection classes in JDK 1.5 are written using Generic Type which allows Collections to hold any type of object at run time without any change in code and this has been achieved by passing actual Type as parameter. For example see the below code of a parametric cache written using Generic which shows use of parametric polymorphism in Java. Read how to create Generic class and methods in Java for more details.
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Taking sports as an example, manifest function of sports is to keep people stay fit and healthy. It is an objective that widely and well known by everyone. In contrast, latent functions are unconscious or unintended functions that may reflect hidden purposes of an institution. For example, someone who takes part and involve in sport might intend to gain popularity. It is something that only known by the party or the person himself. Besides manifest function and latent function, sociologists define dysfunction as an element or process of a society that may actually disrupt the social system or reduce its stability. Dysfunctions of sports include the usage of the performance-enhancing drug by the athlete. It does not contribute to maintaining the society's stability in all areas of football, basketball, baseball, boxing, mma, soccer, extream sports and more.
From the view of manifest function, sports could help in maintaining people's physical well-being. Everyone knows that exercise is a good way in maintaining a person health. Practice sport on a regular basis could keep us fit, thus prevent obesity which would lead to diseases like heart attack, diabetes, and stroke. One thing for sure, we all love at least one sport.


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As many (perhaps all) of you know, Cream City Cables writer Kevin Kimmes (@kevinkimmes) is a finalist for this year's MLB Fan Cave. If chosen, he'll watch every single game of the 2013 season from Fam Cave headquarters in New York.
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Out of 52 finalists, 30 will be invited to Spring Training. To make it there, Kevin needs your vote!
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Learn how the antiques and collectibles market has evolved in the last 15 years with updated appraisals like a 1979 Kent State apology, a Patek Philippe pocket watch, and a Herter Brothers sideboard and table. Which appraisal has increased $50,000?
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I want to have passwordless ssh to persist even after after I restart or logoff and then login. Somehow I have to run ssh-agent and use command ssh-add at login. In a tutorial I read that I should add the following lines to
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German gynecologist; born at Warsaw July 16, 1848. He studied at the universities of Breslau, Würzburg, and Berlin, graduating from the last-named in 1870 (M.D.). He served through the Franco-Prussian war (1870-71) as assistant surgeon. From 1872 to 1874 he was assistant at the gynecological hospital of the University of Breslau, where he became privat-docent (1874). In 1876 he removed to Berlin, and became a member of the medical faculty of its university; in 1893 he received the title of professor; and in 1902 he was appointed assistant professor. In 1892, in conjunction with his brother Theodor, he opened a private gynecological hospital.
Landau has taken an active interest in the political affairs of the German capital. He has been alderman for a number of years, and a member of the city board of hospitals. Among Landau's works are: "Die Wanderniere der Frauen," Berlin, 1881; "Die Wanderleber und der Hängebauch der Frauen," ib. 1882; "Die Vaginale Radicaloperation: Technik und Gesch." (with Theodor Landau), ib. 1896; "Anatomische und Klinische Beiträge zur Lehre von der Myomen am Weiblichen Sexualapparat," Berlin and Vienna, 1899. His brother, Theodor Landau (b. Breslau May 22, 1861; M. D., Göttingen, 1885), is also a gynecologist, and has practised in Berlin since 1891.
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The Story Begins…
King Florestan and his Queen have invited all the fairies to be godmothers at the christening of their daughter, Princess Aurora. The festivities are interrupted by the arrival of the wicked fairy Carabosse who, in her anger at not being invited, gives Aurora a spindle, saying that she will one day prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy promises that Aurora will not die but fall into a deep sleep, from which she will be woken by a prince's kiss…
A Difficult Birth
When The Sleeping Beauty was first performed in St Petersburg in 1890 it wasn't immediately popular. Russian audiences, who were used to formulaic, uncomplicated ballet music, found Tchaikovsky's richly symphonic score impenetrable, and they thought that director Ivan Vsevolozhsky's designs were too lavish. However, these very qualities, along with the ballet's fairytale libretto, appealed to a generation of luminaries including Stravinsky, Balanchine and Pavlova, who championed the work. Beauty was the most performed ballet in the early Soviet repertory and has since been adapted by numerous choreographers, becoming a classical ballet favourite.
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When Vsevolozhsky proposed the subject of The Sleeping Beauty to Tchaikovsky, the composer was delighted. He had always loved ballet, and leapt at the chance to compose the music for another fairytale after his 1877 Swan Lake. His passionate score skillfully expresses the drama and this, along with moments such as the tender and beautiful Act III love pas de deux, make Beauty one of the greatest ballet scores of all time.
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During World War II the Royal Opera House stopped producing opera and ballet and became a dance hall (an era celebrated in the present day with the ROH's monthly tea dances). There was a possibility that it would remain so after the war, but it was eventually agreed that it should resume its former identity. Ninette de Valois' Sadler's Wells Ballet was chosen to perform at the reopening on 20 February 1946. De Valois selected The Sleeping Beauty – already a company favourite – as the work that would be performed, in a new production. The ballet, with stunning designs by Oliver Messel, dazzled audiences and restored the Royal Opera House to its former glory. It also cemented the position of Sadler's Wells Ballet (which was to become The Royal Ballet) in its new home.
The Rose Adagio
The Rose Adagio from Act I of The Sleeping Beauty is one of ballet's most famous set pieces. It occurs during Princess Aurora's 16th birthday party. After a lively, fleet allegro entrance, she is introduced to four suitors with whom she dances an adagio containing eight very exposed and challenging unsupported balances. The sequence has become one of the most loved and most parodied in all of ballet; Christopher Wheeldon included a slapstick version of the dance, the so-called Tart Adagio, in his 2011 ballet Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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The Sleeping Beauty, like many famous ballets, is a constantly evolving work. Over the years, figures from Sergei Diaghilev to Helgi Tómasson have created their own interpretations of Marius Petipa's original choreography, along with unique designs from a variety of artists. Monica Mason and Christopher Newton's 2006 The Sleeping Beauty for The Royal Ballet (the production that the Company performs today) returned to Petipa's original steps, but interpolated choreography from Frederick Ashton, Anthony Dowell and Wheeldon. The designs for the current revival incorporate fairytale sets and costumes by Peter Farmer with others that have been gradually altered to resemble Messel's vibrant originals. Each time the production is performed there is something new to admire.
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Open source hypervisors pose challenge to VMware
Every server virtualization software product competes primarily against VMware. But when it comes to proprietary management frameworks for the open source hypervisor, the two main players are Citrix Systems and Virtual Iron Software Inc.
While the Xen hypervisor remains open-source, the company that became its owner in August 2007, Citrix Systems Inc., also markets its own product based on Xen hypervisor, called Citrix XenServer. (Linux vendors such as Red Hat also offer versions of Xen).
In general, every server virtualization software product competes most against VMware. But when it comes to proprietary management frameworks for the open-source hypervisor, Citrix's biggest competitor is Virtual Iron Software Inc.
Virtual Iron has two means of connecting to storage: natively or with Linux-based logical volume management (LVM) VI licenses from Novell Inc. In either case, the virtual machine sees storage as the local C: drive; what storage it's attached to is abstracted at the hypervisor level. Connections to LUNs are set in Virtual Iron's management console. Each virtual server requires 2 CPUs, 512 MB of RAM and two disks, which can be either 10 GB or 50 GB.
According to Chris Barclay, director of product management for Virtual Iron, about half of Virtual Iron users deploy with native storage; and half use LVM. "It can be time-consuming for the virtual machine to be asking for storage each time, and many users either partner with an existing storage company or have their own volume manager already in use," he said. "Using their existing volume management, some users just create a large LUN [for virtual machines] and partition it up themselves."
Others, he said, prefer to get help from Virtual Iron for volume management, especially if they create or delete virtual machines often or if the storage and server teams don't work closely together. Even then, however, the company is careful to emphasize that this function is not part of the Hypervisor.
In either case, Virtual Iron points out that users' existing data protection and disaster recovery plans can be the same as they've always been. Virtual Iron's CEO Ed Walsh has promoted this value proposition at industry events, claiming that VMware's proprietary file system "breaks' users" existing storage management and data protection infrastructures.
Live migration of running virtual machines is a part of the hypervisor, Barclay said, but is not based on a virtual file system. (Many VMware users are still under the impression that a virtual file system is necessary for live migration . . .and until recently, it has been.) Shared storage is needed, but otherwise, the work is mostly in transferring memory changes between servers and quiescing internal applications, neither of which require a file system.
Storage intelligence being moved into server virtualization platform?
However, using VMFS is still a very popular approach. "People kind of get file systems—that's why companies also like NFS [for server virtualization]," Barclay said. But some observers fear that making virtual-machine storage file-based could move storage intelligence up into the server virtualization platform.
That might be preferable for users, Barclay acknowledges, but warns that it can be "a great thing to have one company to go to [for multiple different features], but we've been through it with Microsoft." One drawback to a less competitive market is potentially less competitive pricing. "We know that when you work with one company, you kiss that company's ring more often than you'd like."
David Roden, director of technology for law firm Goodell, DeVries, Leech, and Dann LLP, is two months into a project to roll out Virtual Iron servers on three physical hosts. So far, eight physical servers have been virtualized, with another 12 planned in the company's 6 TB environment.
Roden heard about Virtual Iron from a VAR, but also evaluated Citrix XenServer and VMware. He said his firm chose Virtual Iron on price, but he was also impressed by Virtual Iron's compatibility with storage products during evaluation testing.
"Integration with storage seemed to be the cause of most problems with server virtualization," he said. "Along with memory, storage I/O is one of the two areas that most affect virtual machine performance. We found Virtual Iron to be as close to plug-and-play as any."
The firm's decision to go with a NetApp StoreVault disk array was also based on better pricing and flexibility. "LeftHand [Networks'] product did what we needed, but it was more expensive," Roden said. "NetApp did what we needed to do as inexpensively as we could get, and also did things we knew we'd need later, like replication and snapshots."
The firm passed over XenServer when it had problems getting it to run with storage systems during testing, and also rejected VMware because its installation seemed more complex. There are a few items on its wish list when it comes to Virtual Iron, such as scheduled snapshot export within the VI management infrastructure.
"I readily admit that VMware probably does more [than Virtual Iron] and has a lot more third-party support," Roden said. "But none of it was essential, and it seemed like there were more things that we'd have to manage, like [VMware] Consolidated Backup, to support it."
Virtual Iron and Citrix: one hypervisor, two approaches to storage
Although Virtual Iron and Citrix use the same hypervisor, the similarities end there, according to Simon Crosby, CTO of virtualization management for Citrix. Citrix, he said, emphasizes channel partners and integration between XenServer and storage partners.
Another difference, according to Crosby, is that Virtual Iron's raw disk access method is block-based; XenServer can offer either 'file-backed' or 'block-backed' access. "Because we own the hypervisor, we can do much more integration and development around it—Virtual Iron is just a consumer of it," he said.
While data on virtual disks can be represented to the host in files or blocks, under the covers XenServer assigns one LUN in the storage system per virtual disk image, and uses the storage system's existing features to back up, snapshot and clone those volumes.
This is also Citrix's principal differentiation from VMware. "VMware assumes storage systems are dumb and will remain dumb providers of blocks," Crosby said. "Why should users go through VCB when they already have backup tools? Why should they go through VMWare's DR [console] when they already have DR, and it's not managed in the [server] group?"
Furthermore, according to Crosby, a clustered file system "is absolutely the wrong level of granularity and locking" for offering multiple hosts access to the same data, relying on the creation of a "big fat LUN" to accommodate the file system, and then "hiding" the virtual machine from the storage infrastructure. "Clustered file system failure semantics are also horrendous," he added.
The reliance on storage systems for such functions, however, presents obvious challenges, such as the requirement that XenServer do API integration with each of its storage partners. So far, XenServer has announced partnerships with just two storage vendors, Symantec and NetApp, and the Symantec integration has yet to hit the market (though Symantec's Veritas NetBackup 6.5 does support Citrix XenServer backup).
"We didn't include the Symantec software in Xen version 4.1 even though we said we would last year," acknowledged Crosby. However, he said delaying the integration would make the eventual offering more powerful. "Symantec is certified with just about every disk array on the planet," he said. Integration with more storage vendors, including LeftHand, Dell/EqualLogic and Reldata, have since followed, while the Symantec integration is still waiting in the wings.
The XenServer Adapter for NetApp Data OnTap, announced March 31, uses NetApp's Manage OnTap API to interface with any NetApp storage device from the XenServer management console, allowing virtual server administrators to provision storage, schedule snapshots and manage replication. The adapter supports block and file storage on NetApp devices and is also compatible with NetApp's recently announced Provisioning Manager and Protection Manager storage management automation software.
One NetApp customer working with VMware has concerns about the way XenServer integrates with storage on the back end. VMware pools virtual machine files in its virtual file system, while XenServer assigns one LUN to each virtual machine. "A lot of LUNs is a pain to manage [and] boot times are dramatically increased with a large number of LUNs," said Tom Becchetti, storage engineer for a large medical manufacturing company. Becchetti said he was also looking for server virtualization vendors to offer I/O prioritization for virtual machine files or LUNs. However, Becchetti also said he will begin testing NetApp NFS with VMware soon.
Another NetApp user, Jim Corrigan, president and CEO of ManageOperations, a remote monitoring service provider for large companies, said his company never considered VMware. "We were one of their first customers in 1998 and the experience for some of our admins was pretty negative at that time," he said. "Some of our technical guys remembered that." The last time the company used VMware was in 2000.
The company tried Red Hat's version of the Xen hypervisor but had difficulty getting it up and running even in tests. Corrigan said he appreciated that Citrix had laid the groundwork for integrating with his storage vendor so he wouldn't have to. XenServer's LiveMotion was also a plus. "We're not experts in virtual storage, and we're not command-line experts," he said. "This was a no-brainer for us."


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NHANES II data files are available for download from the website as self-extracting zipped files (.EXE) in ASCII format. To use these files you need to create a directory in which to save them, download the data files, accompanying SAS programs and documentation, and extract and create NHANES II datasets in permanent libraries.
Task 1: Create a Directory
You will create a directory to save your ASCII files, accompanying SAS programs, documentation, and SAS data files. This will help keep your ASCII files and SAS datasets organized.
- Key Concepts about Creating a Directory for NHANES II Tutorial
- How to Create a Directory for NHANES II Tutorial
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You need the data files and accompanying SAS programs to create your analytic dataset, and you need the documentation for reference as you continue your analysis.
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- How to Download NHANES II Data Files and Documentation
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After downloading the compressed ASCII data files and accompanying SAS programs, you will need to extract the ASCII files and create the SAS datasets. The ASCII files are not usable in SAS without completing this task.
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