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November 5, 2012
Q: "What was Dorothy about?"
A: "Two weeks."
– Archive of American Television interview with Bob Carroll, Jr.
In August of 1979, a situation comedy about a middle-aged woman who served as a sort of den mother for a quartet of rambunctious boarding school girls debuted on Friday night, in the 8:30PM time slot.
No, it wasn't The Facts of Life. It was Dorothy.
Although the "summer tryout" was and remains an unusual method of launching a series, the networks that year, in their boundless imagination, used it to test-launch two nearly identical shows in the same month. The Facts of Life, on NBC, became a modest but long-running hit that lasted for seven seasons and enjoyed a strong syndicated afterlife. Dorothy, on CBS, vanished into obscurity after its initial batch of four episodes were broadcast.
The Facts of Life (which actually featured seven girls at the outset, pared down to four a year later) starred Charlotte Rae as the teacher / surrogate mother figure. Dorothy was named after its star, Dorothy Loudon. Both Rae and Dorothy Loudon were Broadway veterans – they knew each other, had vied for some of the same roles – but while Rae had become familiar on television as a character comedienne, playing regular parts on Car 54, Where Are You? and Diff'rent Strokes (from which The Facts of Life was a spin-off), Loudon was a pure theatre performer. She had made a brief splash on television in the early sixties, taking Carol Burnett's comedy-and-songs slot on The Garry Moore Show, but before and after that Loudon stuck mainly to nightclubs and the stage. After fifteen years as a sort of Susan Lucci of Broadway, consistently earning the best reviews in a series of high-profile flops, Loudon had won a Tony Award in 1977 for her role as Miss Hannigan, the conniving head of the orphanage, in Annie.
Dorothy was a classic high-concept "package," a Hollywood entertainment that attemped to fuse disparate but proven elements. Often those packages are assembled by agents, trying to get jobs for several clients at once, but Dorothy was the brainchild of a Warner Bros. executive named Alan Shayne. A former casting director (for East Side/West Side and N.Y.P.D.), Shayne had seen Loudon in Annie and thought she would be a natural to headline her own series. Even though Miss Hannigan was the villain of Annie, and not at all enthusiastic about little girls, it made sense to exploit the connection to the hit show by placing Loudon in a similar setting. Separately, Shayne was also taken with Linda Manz, the teenaged actress who had played Richard Gere's sister in Days of Heaven (1978) and whose thick Brooklynese provided the film's unusual narration. Manz (below) would play the most prominent of the girls featured in Dorothy, a tough-talking tomboy very similar to Jo (Nancy McKeon), a character added to The Facts of Life in its second season.
The third element that informed the construction of Dorothy was Alice, the blue-collar Linda Lavin sitcom that was at the time Warner Bros.' most successful television property. Shayne, as the studio's executive vice president in charge of television, oversaw Alice and drafted its executive producers, former Lucy writers Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll Jr., to develop Dorothy. "They were my mainstays," Shayne said in a recent interview. "They would, in a pinch, always save any show that was in danger." The premise devised by Carroll and Davis – who shared a creator credit with Nick Arnold, a name that was not mentioned in publicity for the show and that Shayne could not recall – had Loudon playing Dorothy Banks, a former showgirl reduced to teaching music and drama at a run-down private school.
To direct, Shayne hired television's top comedy director, John Rich (The Dick Van Dyke Show; All in the Family). Though Rich was been a director on Alice, Shayne had awarded the famed pilot director a royalty for every future episode of the show in order to screen the uneven early episodes and suggest some critical changes. (Alice ran for eight seasons and Rich probably earned more from a few hours' work than some directors make in a whole career.)
With all those heavyweights involved, how did Dorothy turn into such a massive flop – grotesque and all but unwatchable even by the middling-at-best standards of lowbrow fare like Alice or The Facts of Life?
One clue may be in the chronology. Loudon committed to the Warner Bros. Television deal in 1977 or 1978, while she was still in the cast of Annie, but the show had to wait once Loudon committed to star first in Ballroom – a musical adaptation of the made-for-television movie Queen of the Stardust Ballroom – on Broadway. Only after Ballroom closed, earlier than expected, on March 24, 1979, did Loudon go to Los Angeles for Dorothy, and only then did "format and script work" commence on the series.
Loudon's limited availability boxed the entirety of conception, writing, casting, and taping into a period of just over four months. Little wonder, then, that Manz's character made no sense – she looked and spoke like a street urchin, but had a vaguely identified patron whose charity kept the school from closing, and therefore from expelling her – or that the other principal girls were barely developed beyond the teen-Charlie's Angels stereotypes of blonde (Elissa Leeds), brunette (Michele Greene), and nerd (Susan Brecht). Shayne cast another broadway star, Russell Nype (Call Me Madam), as the spineless headmaster, but Nype seemed stiff and ill at ease, while the two actors who played Dorothy's fellow teachers – Priscilla Morrill (French) and Kenneth "Kip" Gilman (biology) – were shrill and overbearing.
The process of casting Gilman was an example of the haste that went into assembling Dorothy. Davis and Carroll remembered him from Loves Me, Loves Me Not, a short-lived sitcom with Susan Dey, and hired Gilman without a formal audition. "The two of them were just the sweetest people in the world," Gilman recalled. "They basically were saying, well, you've got the role, do you want to do this? They had a piano in their office, and just out of the enthusiasm of the meeting, I sat down and started fooling around, and I think that's maybe where they got the idea that I might also be able to do some musical stuff with Dorothy. I don't think they had that in mind originally, because I was the science teacher."
To write the four episodes, Davis and Carroll assembled three pairs of comedy writers: themselves; Rick Hawkins and Liz Sage (The Carol Burnett Show); and Vic Rauseo and Linda Morris (Welcome Back, Kotter). All but Davis and Carroll were relatively new to the business, but the most of the jokes could have been pilfered from Buddy Sorrell's gag file. (Some examples: "While our students were looking at fish, Mimi and I were going to make a few waves!" "You shouldn't be intimidated by Mr. Foley just because he's headmonster … er, headmaster.")
Loudon hinted at conflicts with the writers when she did publicity for the series, telling one journalist that she'd had to show them clips of her appearances on the Tony Awards broadcasts as a guide to the kind of material she could do. According to associate director Gary Shimokawa, Loudon clashed with the writing staff – "I think she just didn't think they wrote to her, wrote enough to what she could do" – but found an ally in Rich (now earning his Alice windfall, it would seem). "I think John managed to keep her together on that, and she trusted him. He was a big personality as a director, and so I think that helped a lot," said Shimokawa.
Even Gilman (below, with Loudon), who was inclined to focus on the positive and who sidestepped most of Dorothy's behind-the-scenes conflicts, spoke out about the scripts:
Even though I was having fun with it, I [wanted] it to be a little bit more subtle and not as much on the nose. I remember saying something to John Rich, and I think Dorothy might have felt the same to some degree, that I felt that somehow we were doing like a radio show, where some of the jokes were – they had some crust on them. They were a little old. And John's response to that, as the director, he said, "Well, you've got to understand, Kip, this is television, and these [gags] are like old friends!"
Since Loudon's claim to fame was as a musical comedy star, one element that Rich had deep-sixed from Alice became central to Dorothy: an abbreviated but showy song or two in every episode. In the four produced episodes Loudon performed "There'll Be Some Changes Made," "Hard Hearted Hannah" (with Gilman), "Strike Up the Band," "Keep Your Sunny Side Up," and Gilbert and Sullivan's "I Am the Monarch of the Sea" (with the girls). The selections were probably made by Loudon, who had used some of them in her nightclub act. "Changes" was one of two songs she had performed in a 1946 audition for the talent agency MCA that had launched her professionally, and she once described singing "Hannah" "on top of a piano in a bar in Troy, New York" as the worst job of her life. Loudon also performed Dorothy's title tune, which was written by Bill Dyer and the distinguished film and television composer Billy Goldenberg (Duel; Columbo), who probably got involved because he had made his Broadway debut with the score for Ballroom.
The songs were arguably the show's main draw but they created a plausibility problem, as Alan Shayne pointed out:
When we did Alice, we did a couple [of episodes] and it was a bomb. I mean, it wasn't going at all, I thought, and one of the things John Rich said was – at that point, Linda Lavin was going to sing a number in each show – and one of the things he said was, "Let her sing on somebody else's show, but not on Alice, because she seems like a loser. If she sings great, what is she doing as a waitress?"
Well, in a similar way, with Dorothy, it was more about her being a performer, and when she did her number, you kind of thought, "Why is she in this girls' school?" But I loved her performing. I must say, I loved her when she sang.
But Shayne's hoped-for successor to Alice died on arrival. "It simply didn't work," he said recently. What no one had told Shayne was something that the company of Annie had discovered very quickly: that Loudon, in the words of the show's composer Charles Strouse, "really, genuinely, sincerely, hated children . . . . She was very ill-natured, in that respect." Loudon would shoo away not only the many little girls in the show's cast but also the dog, Sandy, whom she also despised. Doubtless she was less than thrilled that, in her bid for more widespread recognition, the baggage of Annie made youngsters an unavoidable part of the package.
While Loudon's pedophobia might have been perfect for the larger-than-life hostility of Miss Hannigan, it couldn't work for a den-mother sister to Mrs. Garrett. "Dorothy really didn't like the kids, I don't think," Shayne said. "And although she was at war with the kids, you had to feel that she also loved them. That didn't really work. Dotty was a tough lady, you know. She had a lot of hostility." Loudon's husband, a television arranger and composer named Norman Paris, had died unexpectedly just six weeks after she won the Tony for Annie, upending her personal life just as she reached her professional peak.
Kip Gilman also observed Loudon's discomfort around her young co-stars, and thought that Manz – a casting director's off-the-streets discovery whose experience up to that point had been limited to Terrence Malick's highly idiosyncratic style of moviemaking – was especially ill-at-ease with the demands of performing comedic material in front of a live audience. Gilman suggested that, as a consequence of all that, the other three episodes may have been altered to reduce the girls' roles and build up the screen time of the (still underdeveloped) faculty characters.
That was a miscalculation, since the juveniles were more appealing than any of the adults on display. The closest Dorothy came to being any good was in the premiere episode (it was the second one taped), "The Bookworm Turns." Loudon was less manic in this one than in the other three, and it ends with a sweet moment in which she consoles her gawkiest charge (the appealing Susan Brecht, above) over an unrequited crush on Gilman's character, Mr. Landis (also a totally implausible romantic interest for Loudon, who was old enough to be Gilman's mother).
When Dorothy premiered on August 8, the publicity marked it as a lame duck. Loudon hemmed and hawed over whether she really wanted to do television or move to Los Angeles, all but publicly apologized for the writing, and suggested that if the show were renewed, the school setting might be dumped, and her character could make a return to the stage. But the reviews were surprisingly kind. Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News compared the show unfavorably to Our Miss Brooks but felt that "[s]till Loudon is a welcome addition to television." Variety hedged: "Loudon was forced to work awfully hard for the laughs she got – but the point is, she got them." Jerry Krupnick of The Star-Ledger wrote that "[t]he plot is ordinary, the rest of the cast is merely competent, but Dorothy Loudon is sensational."
Only later, after the show was safely buried, did the knives come out. "Dorothy, you may recall … was a total disaster," was how Krupnick reversed himself in 1983. "It was loud, frantic, senseless, unfunny – with Dorothy reduced to a desperate series of leers and triple takes." On her website, Michele Greene (the only one of the four girls to have a durable career as an actress) calls the show "horribly idiotic." Loudon herself must have realized, from the first moment she saw herself on screen, that no one had succeeded in scaling down her broad, stagy style. In later years, she told interviewers about a mortifying premiere party that she spent sitting in a corner, drinking wine. "Thank goodness nobody saw [Dorothy]," she said in 1982. "I watched the first episode and cried all the way through."
Sources: Author's telephone interviews with Kip Gilman, Alan Shayne, and Gary Shimokawa; Archive of American Television interview with Madelyn Davis and Bob Carroll, Jr.; Charles Strouse interview, Life After Tomorrow DVD (2008); John Rich, Warm Up the Snake (University of Michigan Press, 2006); Kay Gardella, "Loudon sounds off for songs," New York Daily News; August 1, 1979; Kay Gardella, Dorothy review, New York Daily News, August 8, 1979; Jerry Krupnick, "Dorothy is dazzling in long-overdue return," Star-Ledger, August 8, 1979; Arthur Unger, "'Bound to have viewers begging for more,'" Christian Science Monitor, August 8, 1979; Stephen M. Silverman, "Dorothy has high hopes for her sitcom," New York Post, August 14, 1979; Dorothy Review, Variety, August 15, 1979; Richard Christiansen, "Singing, clowning, touring, winning: Loudon's dues are paid in full," Chicago Tribune, September 12, 1982; Jerry Krupnick, "Dorothy Loudon: Musical comedy star adds a distinctive note to 'Best of Everything,' Star-Ledger, September 18, 1983.
This piece was an outgrowth of my work on a project of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to digitize Dorothy Loudon's papers, which were donated to the Library following her death in 2003. I am also writing about Loudon for the Library's blog.
As of this writing, the episode "Lies and Whispers" is available on Youtube, along with some clips from other episodes of Dorothy. The Paley Center for Media has copies of all four episodes in its collection.


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Joshua Roman has turned some "negative space" into precedent-setting positivity as a young cello adventurer.
Joshua Roman has turned some "negative space" into precedent-setting positivity as a young cello adventurer.
Despite growing up in the relative classical-music isolation of Oklahoma City, his desire, talent and resourcefulness helped Roman play his way into the principal cellist's role with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
At age 22. No one had done that before.
"They put a lot of faith in hiring me that young," said Roman, who began playing cello as a 3-year-old. "It worked out well. Luckily, I felt very supported. They were behind from the very beginning."
Conductor Peter Jaffe and the Stockton Symphony provide his support tonight and Saturday when Roman, now 29, performs a 30-minute solo during Antonin Dvorak's Cello Concerto.
Jaffe also conducts Giuseppe Verdi's "Overture to La Forza del Destino" and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.
It's no surprise that Roman first played Dvorak's 1866 concerto when he was 12. He's performed the Czechoslovakian composer's masterwork "fairly frequently" since: "It's the epitome of cello concertos."
Roman also knows a lot about persevering in his musical quest.
He had to establish his own "bigger bars of achievement," Roman said of his early upbringing in central Oklahoma. "There was no higher bar. Part of it, honestly, was the negative space created without the surrounding support of a classical-music culture. There weren't many places to go for inspiration."
Roman's family took care of that. "Really, they were the biggest influence."
His father, David, a music professor at Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Okla., directed a Methodist church band. Roman started at 3. On a three-quarter-size cello. His three siblings played violin.
"I had a lot of fun," said Roman, who also played soccer and basketball. "I remember the day the UPS lady came" to deliver his cello. He began his career with a rendition of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
At 6, the precocious Roman "started telling people I wanted to be like Yo-Yo Ma," after seeing the cello virtuoso perform. "I've played the cello ever since. People would say, " 'Oh, isn't that cute?'
"They (his parents) were very supportive. "They looked for opportunities outside Oklahoma. They'd get us in the car and drive to competitions and summer music festivals."
He improvised on cello with his dad's worship band and played jazz bass, electric bass and rock guitar as well: "I went through my Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson phase. By (age) 10, 11 or 12, it really became a case of having to make life decisions."
Radiohead, the Beatles and Red Hot Chili Peppers also were part of a "big phase. I don't know if I grew out of that."
Even in Senatobia, Miss., where the family lived for 18 months, he kept playing. Then in the Memphis (Tenn.) Youth Orchestra. When they returned to Oklahoma City, he joined a string quartet and orchestra.
Home-schooled, Roman was accepted as a 16-year-old at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
After "not doing anything" for a year in Cleveland following graduation, he participated in the Seattle orchestra's "cattle-call" audition. It was "blind," meaning the selectors didn't know he was 22. They only heard his mature style of playing.
"There was just this huge energy," he said. "My predecessor had been there twice as long as I'd been alive. It was a shock to the system: 'Wow. A young person in the orchestra.' "
He was attracted to Seattle's indie-rock and theater "scene and arts in general," Roman said. "At your fingertips are great rock musicians and theater people." While in Seattle he was artistic director of TownMusic, which stages adventurous concerts, theater productions and other events.
"It was quite an unbelievable experience," Roman said. "A network of people with a lot of energy who make things happen. I still keep in touch with them."
In 2008, he started going solo, moving to New York - "a ridiculously great place to be for inspiration" - performing with major orchestras, writing his own music and continuing what he started in Seattle.
He's devoted to helping develop "some musical framework and possibilities" for 21st-century listening experiences, said Roman, whose wife, Mi Ryung, studied flute at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is development director for New York's Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
During the past 18 months, Roman has been crafting commissioned compositions for solo cello and for piano, clarinet, flute and cello.
It's about "hearing old music in a new fashion," he said. "And playing new music, hopefully, in a way people can be comfortable with. Historically, it's actually kind of cyclical, going back to the 19th century. You have to be a little bit more entrepreneurial.
"It has to be about current culture. Your voice. Your place in culture and how you can reach that important point where you're able to create art for other people. Not just for your own sake. Even though it feels new, it's a very logical direction for music to be going."
Contact reporter Tony Sauro at (209) 546-8267 or email@example.com.

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SET 1: Llama, Foam, Sparkle, Cavern > Reba, The Landlady, Split Open and Melt, Poor Heart > All Things Reconsidered, Bouncing Around the Room > Run Like an Antelope[1]
SET 2: Maze, Glide, The Curtain > Tweezer > Rift, Guelah Papyrus, You Enjoy Myself, Hold Your Head Up > If I Only Had a Brain > Hold Your Head Up, The Squirming Coil > Golgi Apparatus
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Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
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This past Sunday was the birthday of Marianne Moore, a poet of some great stature in American letters. She was born in 1887, and she passed in 1972. In thinking on Marianne Moore, I of course went looking for a wine connection, in order to give myself an excuse to write a post on her. Unfortunately, she has seemingly contributed little to the poetry of wine — as far as I can tell, the only arguably relevant (and this is a stretch, believe me!) work would be a poem entitled "It Makes No Difference To Balbus Whether He Drinks Water Or Wine," which actually doesn't appear to be about wine at all, and in fact, in garishly modernistic fashion, it doesn't even mention wine. It does, however, contain the following rather excellent line:
"…if you are not interested in art,
it is not necessary to say so…"
Anyhow, in continuing to think on Ms. Moore, I eventually recalled a story which occurred during her four-year tenure as editor of the very influential literary publication The Dial. While there, she was approached by the poet Hart Crane with a poem entitled "The Wine Menagerie." She famously (or perhaps infamously, depending on your feelings for Mr. Crane's poetry) accepted the poem, with the stipulation that she be able to edit it. And edit it she did! Crane in fact reportedly wept for hours when he read the nearly unrecognizable work that Moore had retitled as "Again." The poem in its original form only finally appeared in the Crane collection "White Buildings."
Anyhow, here is an excerpt from Crane's (pardon the pun!) "heady" work:
Invariably when wine redeems the sight,
Narrowing the mustard scansions of the eyes,
A leopard ranging always in the brow
Assets a vision in the slumbering gaze.
Then glozening decanters that reflect the street
Wear me in crescents on their bellies. Slow
Applause flows into liquid synosures:
—I am conscripted to the shadows' glow.
I include this excerpt (and in fact, this is probably the true rationale for my post) because of the language, and specifically, the glozening decanters. I just want everyone out there to know that in our tasting room, our decanters most definitely glozen. Just in case you were worried. We're glozening.
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Some relief has arrived breaking our heat wave, but the drought continues across our region. There were a few scattered showers across Illiana…Iroquois, Kankakee, Champaign and Vermilion counties recording some rain Sunday, but there was barely enough to wet down the dust.
Temperatures over the weekend climbed to around 105 degrees, with heat index readings of around 115. Our forecast is calling for high temperatures to remain in the upper 80's all this week. And there is no mention of additional rain through Sunday.


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'Peter Broderick's hip-hop record'. That was the pet name that a good friend of mine lovingly (and apprehensively) assigned the Efterklang collaborator's latest album after watching this teaser video. Whether releasing music as much as a website than as an album (as with his last effort for Bella Union, http://www.itstartshear.com), or crowd-sourcing material via social networking sites such as Flickr (some of the results of which have made it onto this record), Broderick's often taken to hounding the novelty in his music-making, and These Walls of Mine has always been billed as a collection of assorted 'experiments,' rather than a grand, unified artistic gesture. But while he's regularly searched for unconventional and imaginative methods of making pop music, the results have never been devoid of feeling or a humanistic edge. In fact, the majority of These Walls of Mine feels decidedly home-cooked, genuine and humane.
If These Walls of Mine is indeed a home-cooked meal, then 'I've Tried' is its soul food. Broderick builds the song over a loop of his own layered vocals (perhaps one of the record's few unifying musical elements – these tracks are fairly stylistically varied), crooning soulful melodies over cocktail lounge bass and washed synths. It's the record's most successful moment; presumably the serendipitous result that Broderick hoped his experiments might yield.
Meanwhile, 'These Walls of Mine' – the two-part interpretation of the same material that earned this record its aforementioned nickname – sees Broderick step even further out of his comfort zone. "Flowin' may be weird, but it's better than just singin' again/and even though I like to sing/I just think it's fun to try everything", comes one of the lines, and if it doesn't quite make sense in the spoken word take of 'Part I,' these lyrics begin to explain themselves during the rapped (rapped!) 'Part II'. Despite every fibre of my being imploring me otherwise, I have to tell you that it's great. Any ideas of this track being a frivolous cross-genre exercise are supplanted by Broderick's earnest attempt to untangle his thoughts and experiences on tape, and it's often this very human sincerity that leaves the listener putty in his hands. A similar thread follows on 'I Do This,' another spoken word piece in which Broderick does his best to iron out the creases of his tangled thoughts (or rather, as the sleeve notes seem to suggest, relay the advice given to him by some internet commenters). All in all, though, he's asking similar questions to those that we all ask ourselves, and it's this universality that begs a connection from the listener.
In many instances, These Walls of Mine is simply a musician following instinct and intrigue, and in that respect Broderick and Erased Tapes have always been very cards-on-the-table about this record. We can't fault the man for being a 25 year-old who's fought his way into the enviable position of having the ability, freedom and audience to put what otherwise might have been some late-night audio doodles to wax. And while musically they might be 'doodles', that doesn't mean that Broderick doesn't look upon them as an opportunity to create something worth creating, something that might endure. It's those thematic ideas of self-worth and pride that beget the sort of personal, intimate relationship that we've come to recognise in the music of many of the Erased Tapes family over the last five years, and that's something that will always be worth hearing.
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That crazy thats one of the things Im anticipating on TAR When did sandy says the qoutation...??
Jenna Morasca: Out of the train station, we were told to go to this hotel and we had to jump in the cabs and the cabs took us to a hotel. When you got there, you had to grab a key and you were either in the first group or the second group and they were like 20 minutes apart. That's when everyone got their taxi driver that you had to keep the entire leg and that's when, unfortunately, we got into the wrong cab. http://social.entertainment.msn.com/tv/blogs/reality-tv-blogpost.aspx?post=fcd4341b-da72-4f6b-963b-8eedee29ef25
I'm sad Ethan & Jenna went home, I was expecting a little more from them. imo, Romber even have better co-operation than them.
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Xi Jinping's Buns Are All the Rage
China is going wild over its president's buns.
Local media is abuzz with news about Chinese President Xi Jinping's unexpected visit on Saturday to a traditional Beijing steamed-bun shop, where he stood in line, ordered a lunch of pork buns and paid for himself.
Diners in the Qing-Feng Dumpling Shop in western Beijing snapped photos of Mr. Xi, who shocked the people in the restaurant by doing something so common, traditional and mundane. State media verified the visit by recirculating the photos on official microblog accounts.
Attempts to reach Qing-Feng for comment have been unsuccessful, as the restaurant's phone line has been busy. Local media said Mr. Xi's visit was unannounced and lacked special security measures. China Real Time is tempted to visit the outlet for an order of the "Xi Combo," which local media said included pork and onion buns, green vegetables and stewed chitterlings for 21 yuan, or roughly $3.40.
Unannounced visits to local spots, while common for U.S. politicians who stop at diners on campaign trails or treat staffers to burgers after tough times on Capitol Hill, are rare in China, where leaders rule from a distance and don't do retail politics.
Chinese citizens, who have grown up with the image of emperors surrounded by servants and concubines, are accustomed to thinking that their leaders' lifestyles are nothing like their own, full of privilege and pomp. That's why many were shocked to see former U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke carrying his own luggage and buying his own coffee when flying into Beijing.
Political commentators said that while the event appeared to be unplanned, photos released on state media suggest that the drop-by was intended to portray the leadership as being in touch with common concerns. "Of course it's more like a show, but Chinese people are still eager to see it happen in China," Fang Ledi, a political commentator, said on his blog. "The symbolic meaning of this kind of action is to show great progress in Chinese politics."
Excitement built in April when a Hong Kong newspaper reported that Mr. Xi, accompanied by a single aide, took a cab in Beijing. Many were disappointed later when state media denied the report.
Mr. Xi has aimed to differentiate himself from his often stiff-looking predecessor Hu Jintao by making himself more accessible, speaking in plainer language and talking more often with foreign businesses. During a trip to the U.S. as vice president in 2012, Mr. Xi attended a Los Angeles Lakers basketball game.
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He gave rise to the catchphrase, "Four dishes, one soup" last year as he launched an austerity campaign that banned lavish government banquets and limited bureaucratic spending, signaling an intent to tackle the corruption that angers many Chinese.
Other commentators said that Mr. Xi's actions have done little but scratch the surface. "Compared to the Mao generation, this is already progress. And I think under the situation that the system still remains unchanged," said Liu Geng, director of Haikou Economy Institute, on his blog. Mr. Liu added, "This kind of action will not last and the impact will fade."
Users of China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, a relatively vibrant forum for public opinion given widespread media censorship, reacted Sunday to Mr. Xi's lunch stop with overwhelmingly positive comments. "It's a good thing. At least he's willing to go into people's normal life," said one user.
Still, many comments on social media appeared to be filtered. Pictures that had been circulated 3,000-plus times had only received 18 to 50 comments.
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Perry Valcore and his wife Barbara Valcore, not pictured, spent Sunday in an empty lot off Lincoln selling Perry's old tools. The Ft. Collins veteran could be staring down some serious surgeries in the near future and decided to sell his stuff, donating the money to the American Legion, instead of sticking it in storage.
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Planet Rock Essential Album BETWEEN THE DEVIL & THE DEEP BLUE SEA is the Kentucky rockers' third studio album, and looks set to propel the band into rock's hierarchy. The riffs are harder, the songs are bigger and the melodies get stuck in your head for days.
This is by far the band's most complete record, clearly influenced by years on the road and sharing the stage with some of the biggest acts in rock music. It was recorded in LA with famed producer Howard Benson and, say the band, it has been inspired by their road-stories.
"When we first began writing music, we hadn't traveled very far out of our home state of Kentucky. Now, ten years later, we've traveled the world and experienced things we never imagined we would.
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As well as an appearance on the Main Stage at Download on Friday 10 June, Black Stone Cherry play a handful of their own UK shows this summer in support of the brand new album.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The price of oil rose more than 1 percent as the Energy Department reported a bigger than expected drop in supplies of crude oil and gasoline. By late morning, benchmark oil for October delivery was up $1.24, or 1.2 percent, to $106.66 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, reversing Tuesday's decline of $1.17 a barrel. The Energy Department said supplies of crude oil fell 4.4 million barrels last week, almost three times more than analysts expected. At 355.6 million barrels, the nation's supply of crude oil is 3.3 percent below year-ago levels. Gasoline supplies dropped by 1.6 million barrels. Analysts expected gasoline supplies to remain unchanged.
With the supply report out of the way, the market can return its focus to the U.S. Federal Reserve's much-anticipated decision on monetary policy. Following the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. central bank has been buying bonds and other assets to push down interest rates and make loans more available. Global stocks and commodities surged as the new money generated by the unconventional program, which is currently running at $85 billion a month, flowed through the financial system. The Fed, however, is widely expected to begin winding down the program as the U.S. economy shows signs of a sustained, albeit gradual recovery and could announce the first reduction Wednesday afternoon.
The prospect of a reduction in stimulus pushed down oil prices earlier this week. Oil fell a combined $2.79 a barrel Monday and Tuesday. But now traders are looking ahead, seemingly less fearful of the impact of "tapering," since analysts believe the Fed will keep official interest rates low to keep the U.S. economy chugging along. Analysts at Capital Economics said in a commentary that "a small reduction is probably now discounted and the Fed may choose to reiterate its conditional commitment to keep interest rates very low for a long period."
Investors will also be monitoring fresh information on U.S. stockpiles of crude and refined products. Brent crude, the benchmark for international crudes used by many U.S. refineries, was up 50 cents to $108.69 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London. In other energy futures trading in New York:
- Wholesale gasoline rose two cents to $2.69 per gallon.
- Natural gas fell three cents to $3.75 per 1,000 cubic feet.
- Heating oil was flat at $3.00 per gallon.
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Dear Becca,
Your own personal well being is of the utmost importance, it might feel as if you're hiding who you are from your family by not discussing this with your parents, but you have an awful lot to lose if you were to be disowned.
I would suggest to find a community (such as ThinkAtheist) to discuss the troubles that you have, I'm sure that many people can give you support and comfort that your parents can't give you.
Personally, if I were you I would wait till you're less dependent on your parents for financial support to come out of whatever closet you're hiding in. It's a pity that you feel that you can't be who you are around your family, whether it is true or not that you might not be able to, the feeling that you can't does seem to me to imply that you fear that your mom is basically a bigger supporter of baby Jeebus then her own baby (you)?
I wish you the best, both in family and in love. You're young, you are finding out what it means to be "Becca", you can hide who you are from your family, but I would recommend to find people to talk about your feelings so that you don't have to hide to yourself who you are. Expressing how you feel and think are vital to your development, I do hope that ThinkAtheist can help you by providing you with a sense of community.
Has she ever discovered some friend of hers was not of the right religion? If not atheist, then some different sect, maybe very different, or perhaps agnostic?
If so what was her reaction? It will be worse when it's her daughter and it's atheism, not just her friend Katie being a Mormon. If the reaction is bad, she might let the blood relationship overrule her desire to disapprove violently. But I would not bet on it. Atheism is way beyond the pale for many religious people.
Even if she did decide not to disown/shun you, then you can expect attempts to evangelize you for the rest of your life.
Lesson for life: Religion causes segregation and discrimination.
I agree with your decision not to come out until you move out. I haven't officially come out to my parents, and I'm 32. I think they know, because of the opinions I have about related topics, but I don't see any point to sitting them down and saying "I'm an atheist".
Love your family, and when they talk about their silly beliefs, laugh at them silently, but love them all the same. It's a shame you can't expect them to laugh it off if you came out, but we all put up with a lot of crap when it comes to family.
I am going to tell you what I told my younger brother when he came out to me--
Don't tell your mom until you are able to live on your own.
There is always a chance that she will be accepting and kind, but it's also possible that your life will be made a living hell for the next few years. It's a shame that you have to do things this way, and that you can't be honest about who you are right now. Luckily, you have access to supportive communities of people elsewhere. I hope this will help you get through until a time when you are able to come out to your mom, and I hope she accepts and loves you for who you are.
Best wishes.
You have an entire website full of people who see eye to eye with you. From the statement your mother made, I am going to assume that she is rather right wing and conservative. When you are 16 you are sort of dependent on your parents for support, shelter, food, etc. Sometimes a parent will abuse this and make it seem like they "own" you. I understand that this can be extremely frustrating. I have been in a similar situation, but trust me it will get better. If you cannot come out to your family, find a friend that you can trust with anything and talk to them. Having an outlet can be very relieving. I understand that you object to your families beliefs, but why? Get a notebook, or an online blog, and investigate all the beliefs and think about why you object to them. This too can be quite liberating, especially when people comment and agree with you, or give you more information. Learning, although difficult, is liberating and gratifying. Knowledge is power.
Good Luck to you!
There's no reason why you should tell anyone at all even after you move out. It's not important
I wouldnt say anything about it. At 16 you are a young adult and now you will be forming your own world view and your going to change it a million times.
Dont completely close your mind from the modern Christian message either because it really has some great instruction that fits everyone.
Take the good things and discard the nonsense because Atheists can be better Christians than Christians.
My version of that is "Dont Be an Asshole"
All the Best.
Hi Becca,
I think most kids growing up aren't "really" Christians, they just go with it as you did. At some point or another they start to think about it more deeply and stop just going with it and start exploring on their own. That's normal, and a good thing, as long as you keep exploring. Where you are now, as a young atheist, is fine. Your understanding will continue to change with time. Be open to that.
The first rule is that your parents love you, and always want the best for you. Understand that, and love them for that.
The second rule is that your parents won't always understand or accept what's best for you; like all of us, they are a product of their experiences and they want to use those experiences to steer you where they think you need to go. That can create a lot of conflict with teenagers your age and their parents, if you (and they) let it. Understand that, and be patient with it.
I think a good rule is that when we are guests under another's roof, we respect their practices. I'm a Catholic, but this past week as a guest with Jewish friends, I participated in Passover. I have Islamic friends, and am supportive of their practice during Ramadan. I have atheist friends, and when under their roof I am open to and supportive of their philosophy. That's just being a good guest. In the years ahead, you will have friends of all stripes, and be invited to weddings in churches and synagogues and courthouses and fields. You go and participate not because you believe in their church, but because they are your friends.
So sure, while you are at home, continue as a good guest, because you care about your family. Go to church and participate, just as an act of kindness.
At the same time, it's probably not a good thing to be dishonest. Don't pretend to be pious. If at some point if you feel the time is right to let family or friends know you have doubts, that's an OK thing. I don't think it's something you should throw in their face, but if there's a time when it seems right to share that's fine. Gently.
Accept the fact that parents and family will worry about you, and be annoying at times, and it may take time for them to adjust their thinking. Be patient and understanding.
Find good people to talk to. Atheists and religious, both. Build your own network of support. We all need that. Hopefully many here can help, but look especially for "live" friends for your network as well.


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A rally is being planned for January 25th in Tallahassee, Florida to support a law that Governor Rick Scott signed into law less than a year ago. The Inspirational Messages law essentially allows prayer in school. In the carefully worded final version, the law allows school districts to adopt a policy allowing for the reading of inspirational messages. To make sure that there's not undue influence by school personnel, the students are the sole determinants of the message and the messenger. However, the authors had no idea that the message would be one that Satan might approve of.
While the mention of Satan might seem like the antithesis of the original intent of the law, Overlord Lucien Graves, a spokesperson for the Satanic Temple, told a reporter for the Palm Beach Post that his group actually promotes many of the same ideas that major religions do.
Satan does ask us to do good among each other and follow our own path to happiness as long as it doesn't encroach on others.
The group's website explains its tenets, which do seem similar to many mainstream religions, with the one exception. They believe that God sent Satan as a proxy. The group is planning the rally as a way to promote themselves via the newly enacted law. Surely the authors of the bill never saw this one coming.
Even though the bill was successfully passed, many organizations urged the Governor not to sign the bill. They knew that even though the bill did not have the specific language "school prayer," it could face a costly court battle under the First Amendment's separation of church and state. They know that a case settled over 50 years ago banned this type of type of law. While several states have tested the ruling, it's been struck down every time.
Only time will tell whether this new twist on an old theme will make the Governor rethink his support of such a law. Perhaps he'll pause a bit the next time, and wonder if Satan is hiding in the next bill on religion. But maybe it's not such a bad thing. After all, they only want to promote happiness. What's wrong with that?


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This is the eeriest thing I've ever read, and I am checking it irregularily since... 2000 perhaps?
A comic where the central character, Suzie, NEVER is the real protagonist of the strip. Infact she seldomly appears.
A comic which updates three-four times per year, yet keeps living.
A comic which, each time it begins updating again, changes completely scene from the last time. Each time brand new characters and introduced, a brand new environment too, only to vanish shortly thereafter.
A comic of which the story is still wrapped in mystery.
A comic which seems (no offence meant here, I like it to be honest) drawn by a 5 years old kid.
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The state of California purchases a wide variety of goods and services ranging from pencils to temporary labor. Annual purchases total almost $10 billion. The Procurement Division (PD) is the central purchasing authority for all state departments, agencies, institutions, community colleges, technical institutes and city or local boards of education.
1. Review the "How to Do Business with the State" Brochure (English Version) (Spanish Version).
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The Procurement Division (PD) grants purchasing authority to state departments that request this authority and meet specific requirements. Departments must be granted purchasing authority in order to purchase goods and services valued over $100.
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All available Statewide Commodity Contracts, Food Contracts, Master Agreements, State Price Schedules, and Western State Contracting Alliance (WSCA) contracts are listed in this index.
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Arm cut off of Reagan statue in Poland
- Vandal cut one arm off statue of the former U.S. president and stole it
- The statue was unveiled just last year to honor Reagan and Pope John Paul II for helping topple communism
- The vandalism in the Baltic port city of Gdansk was discovered on Tuesday
WARSAW (AP) — Police were searching on Wednesday for a vandal who damaged a bronze statue of Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II in the Polish city of Gdansk by cutting off one arm of the former U.S. president and stealing it.
The statue was unveiled just last year to honor Reagan and the Polish-born pope, who were both widely credited with helping Poland topple communism 24 years ago.
The vandalism in the Baltic port city was discovered on Tuesday, setting off the search for the perpetrator, said Lucyna Rykowska, a spokeswoman for Gdansk police.
The statue was inspired by an Associated Press photograph taken by Scott Stewart during the pope's second visit to the United States in 1987, and honors Reagan's support for Poland's struggle to end decades of communism.
People interviewed by Poland's TVN24 deplored the vandalism and stressed the popularity of the statue in the park where it is located, saying visitors often leave flowers there.
The damage was initially estimated at more than 100,000 zlotys ($30,000), but the artist who made the statue said it could be repaired within weeks for far less.
On July 17, 2007, Polish President Lech Kaczynski presented his nation's highest distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, to Nancy Reagan on behalf of her late husband.
Poland also has a statute of Reagan in Warsaw, and a roundabout in the city of Wroclaw has been named after him.


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Sleep is more about resting brain than body, UW researcher says
Wisconsin researchers say losing just one hour of sleep every night may cause long-term harm.
WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott explores what some experts say is the real reason people need sleep.
The message is simple.
"Get a good night's sleep, always," said Deb Dillon of Kenosha.
It's advice Dillon, and almost everyone, has heard since childhood.
But for most people leading busy lives, the hours don't always don't always add up as they should.
"Maybe six hours, seven," Dillon said.
"Is that enough?" Wainscott asked.
"No," Dillon said.
"I definitely don't get enough sleep,' said Janee Townsend of Kenosha.
Townsend knows she's coming up short on sleep because she can feel it.
"I'm just exhausted all the time," Townsend said.
Most people think we sleep simply to feel well-rested and more alert the next day.
"You think it's more than that?' Wainscott said.
"Yeah, it's more than that," UW-Madison sleep researcher Dr. Chiara Cirelli said.
Cirelli has been called a rock star of sleep. She's one of the leading sleep researchers in the world.
WISN 12 News caught up with her on a night when she was actually serving as the subject of a sleep study. Researchers placed 250 electrodes on her head to monitor her sleep pattern.
Cirelli said she believes the answer to why we sleep has little do with resting our bodies.
"It's our brain, it seems, that really needs to go offline," Cirelli said.
She said when we're awake, we're always learning, reacting to everything in the world around us, and our brains need time to process and properly file all of that info, or it's lost.
"Do you feel as though you're paying a price for not getting enough sleep?" Wainscott asked.
"Some days, yes," Townsend said.
"What you learn can get lost and forgotten very quickly," Cirelli said. "The more you learn during the day, then the more you need to sleep."
Many people believe they get enough sleep, or like Rick Becker, of Clinton, figure they can get by just fine on a little less.
"If I get six hours I'm doing really good," Becker said.
But Cirelli said unless our brains can complete their work while we sleep, it's harder to function, to remember and even to learn new things. And it's possible the damage might be irreversible, raising another question.
"Is this speeding up the aging process, for instance," Cirelli said.
And while Cirelli's theory is highly regarded among sleep experts, it's how she came about it that turned some heads.
She studies fruit flies, saying they sleep for the same reason as people and suffer the same loss of function if their brains don't complete the sleep process.
"You realize most people would find that odd," Wainscott said
"Yes, I know. And even most sleep researchers, in the beginning, thought that this was a little bit weird," Cirelli said.
The difference with people, she said, is that much of the harm from sleep loss is self-inflicted.
"We tend to cut, maybe one or two hours every night," Cirelli said. "If you need seven hours, cutting that to six hours has long-term consequences."
She said it's possible that adults may even be paying the price for having routinely lost sleep when they were children through things like diminished ability to remember words, facts or skills.
And with people doing more, learning more and fitting more waking hours into a day, there is a critical message, she believes, many people are missing.
"We have to be extremely protective of our sleep because it's so important. It's what makes us able to learn, adapt to the environment every day," Cirelli said.
"We should not take it for granted," Wainscott said.
"Absolutely not," Cirelli said.
How much sleep is enough, varies from person to person. It's usually six to eight hours, but could range from five to 10 hours.
The key is finding the right amount of sleep that allows your brain to complete its process before rebooting for the next day.
If you get tired during the day, lose concentration or focus, even occasionally, each day, chances are you're not getting enough sleep.
Research shows people tend to underestimate the impact on them and think they're OK, but losing even one hour of sleep every night, may have a negative impact on you -- maybe for the rest of your life.


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Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I have been with my fiance since 2006. We expected to be married in 2008, but my grandmother died a month before my wedding, and then he was arrested because of charges stemming from a sexual relationship he'd had with a 17-year-old girl he had been counseling.
Since then, we have had a daughter, but through it all there has been cheating, drugs, jail, no job, and constant excuses about why our sex life no longer exists. We have also had physical altercations, which he was arrested for.
I am no longer happy with this relationship. The only reason I stay is because of our children. I'm only 33 and don't want to live my life in misery anymore, but I will sacrifice my happiness for my children.
I am confused and don't know what to do. I'm just going through the motions in life. I work full time, coach my son's soccer team and am living with MS.
He does help somewhat, but it would be better if he would get a job.
My mother watches my kids while I am working and after they get out of school. He claims because he doesn't have a driver's license he can't get a job. Really? How many people in this world don't drive and still have a job? Please give me some advice. I have reached my breaking point. -- DOING THE BEST I CAN
DEAR DOING THE BEST YOU CAN: You say you are willing to sacrifice your happiness with this loser for your children. Why? You are not married to him, and he is emotionally neglectful, physically abusive and contributes nothing financially. Admit to yourself that the "romance" has been a mistake, and as soon as it's safe, get away from him. If he ever finds a job, the state will help you collect child support, but if he doesn't, you'll have one less mouth to feed.
DEAR ABBY: My mom insists on including my ex-husband and his wife at our family gatherings. I have told her repeatedly that it makes me very uncomfortable, but she even included them in the gift exchange last Christmas. What should I do? Not go?
My sister has already laid a guilt trip on me. Must I go and have Christmas with my ex like we're one big happy family? (If we had been happy, we would not have gotten divorced.) What are your thoughts on this? -- LIVING IN DYSFUNCTION JUNCTION
DEAR LIVING: If you and your ex were married for a long time, I can see why your mother might consider him still part of the family and want to include him. However, out of consideration for your feelings, it should be on a limited basis -- not every holiday. (Could she be trying to punish you because she blames you for the divorce?)
Because it would make you uncomfortable and your mother knows it, make plans to do something you WOULD enjoy -- perhaps a trip out of town to be with friends or to a different climate. And please, don't feel guilty if you do -- regardless of what your sister says.
DEAR ABBY: What do you say to your only son who can't even call to tell you he is getting married? He posted it on Facebook, and I was notified via a text from my sister.
Our relationship isn't the issue. He just doesn't seem to be able to use his phone for TALKING. Your thoughts? -- OUTSIDE THE LOOP IN OREGON
DEAR OUTSIDE THE LOOP: Because your son seems oblivious to the fact that news of this kind should be conveyed to the immediate family personally rather than in a "bulletin," EXPLAIN to him how it made you feel to receive the news the way you did. He owes you an apology.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.


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Stress-free firmware upgrades
Firmware upgrades can be daunting, but you can take some of the fear and frustration out of the process by preparing detailed documentation of your storage environment.
You know the drill: The server team upgrades to a new operating system version and, in doing so, introduces connectivity problems into your storage environment. You discover the only way to fix the problem is to upgrade the firmware. You dig a little deeper only to realize the upgrade has dependencies that will affect your entire environment, launching you into a firmware- and driver-upgrade frenzy filled with lots of planning, lost weekends and late nights.
Many storage administrators don't manage drivers or firmware until something happens, such as an upgrade or new hardware implementation. Of course, the amount of firmware you need to manage is in direct proportion to the complexity of your environment and the systems you've implemented. Some vendors don't stipulate firmware and driver versions as long as the other systems in the environment support installed versions. Other vendors have charts, matrixes, spreadsheets and executables for every proprietary product in the environment, all of which seem to overlap and have cross dependencies, making a firmware upgrade a heavily researched and carefully planned event. Most environments seem to fall between these two extremes.
|Firmware upgrade matrix
Get it down on paper
When evaluating and possibly upgrading your environment, the first step is to document everything in the storage area network (SAN), including:
- Make and model numbers of servers and their firmware versions (motherboard, etc.)
- Operating system versions, service packs and patch levels
- Host bus adapter (HBA) firmware, drivers, failover or redundancy software
- HBA load-balancing software
- Infrastructure firmware/software versions (switches, directors, SAN extenders)
- Storage resource management (SRM) software package and current revision levels
- Disk subsystems and proprietary software
Some SRM packages and software from disk subsystem vendors can gather much of this information. For example, EMC Corp.'s Grab utility corrals all of the server, EMC software and HBA data, and EMC will convert this information into a Host Environment Analysis Tool (HEAT) report, which is a cleaned-up version of the Grab output. This report also compares the server's configuration to that of EMC's support matrix and highlights anything out of compliance. Only EMC can convert grabs to HEAT reports.
However you gather this information, make sure you create a document that's easy to access and update by anyone on your team. Some administrators try to keep all of this information in a spreadsheet, some write scripts that pull the data from their SRM tool and stick it in a flat file, while others create and store individual server configuration files tucked away in a shared folder.
If you have an accurate record of your firmware and driver revisions, you're light-years ahead of most of your peers. However, many documentation efforts start with great intentions only to be abandoned within a few months because of the effort required to maintain this information. It's a time-consuming chore, but having all of this information readily available is worth the effort.
|Get a grip on your environment
Once you have all the firmware and driver information in a format you like, it's time to determine what needs to be upgraded. Most firmware and driver requirements come from the disk subsystem vendors, rather than the operating system, server, HBA or infrastructure manufacturers. Start by understanding what your disk vendor's specification limits are and their requirements; then do the same for the rest of the environment. Make sure to include any SAN-related software packages such as HBA failover, SRM, etc. Certain software packages may require minimum firmware levels on some of your hardware. Understanding all of these requirements will help you to formulate an upgrade plan.
Consult with your team as well as vendors to determine the versions of firmware you need for your upgrade. Consider issues such as bug fixes, feature releases and compatibility concerns. Once you have an idea of what you want the environment to look like, it's time to start documenting again.
For this round of documentation, put the firmware and driver requirements in a matrix organized so that the rows and columns have the same titles. There should be an entry for everything in your environment. You may also want to include the most current firmware, driver or software versions from each of the hardware and software components in your environment. The matrix should reflect where you want your environment to be, not what it is today.
When building the matrix, many cells may be blank or require information that's not available; try to make the entries as detailed as possible, as overlooked items might introduce problems. Don't be surprised if many of your vendor's firmware requirements have related firmware or driver requirements. The more complex the environment, the more likely it is that you'll need to make revisions to your matrix.
Once you figure out and document where you need the environment to be, look for those products that have multiple firmware requirements and work with those first. Determine which version(s) of firmware satisfy all of the requirements.
For example, in our sample firmware matrix (see Firmware upgrade matrix), if we choose an HBA firmware version between 1.8 and 1.9, we satisfy the HBA requirements for every element in our environment. If we choose the most current version available, 2.1, we may introduce problems with HBA failover and our disk subsystem. If you decide to go with the latest version, your disk vendor may ask you to back rev if new problems arise. Particular attention should therefore be paid to disk vendors' requirements. Typically, a disk vendor will get the initial call for help regardless of the actual source of the problem you're experiencing. This is probably why disk vendors' requirements are the most restrictive.
Take steps to upgrade
If you haven't performed firmware and driver upgrades in some time, it may be necessary to take a phased approach to upgrading. You might have to upgrade your HBAs to a newer version to upgrade another product and, once that second product is upgraded, you may have to upgrade the HBAs again to satisfy other requirements in your environment. Whatever the case, best practice calls for upgrading only one thing at a time and then verifying that the environment is still stable.
Once you've made the necessary firmware upgrades, update the environment document with the new firmware information. You may want to retain a copy of the original to use as a historical reference in the event you need to troubleshoot or roll back firmware versions.
Make it easier next time
How can you eliminate some of this work in the future? If you answered "standardize," give yourself a pat on the back. Try not to let the purchasing agent buy whatever HBA is on sale and make sure the server team doesn't use any old firmware or driver version for that HBA. Create unambiguous standards with sufficient detail to indicate the specific firmware and drivers required for each component make and model in your system. You should supply all the firmware, drivers and software you expect everyone to use. An intranet or network share can be used to publish all software revisions and related information.
Job No. 1 for storage administrators and managers is to keep the system up and running. Ignoring firmware and driver upgrades may help you to avoid the pain associated with upgrades, but it may cause many more problems in the long run with unplanned outages, intermittent problems or unnecessarily complicated upgrades when adding new hardware. Setting up a good system will pay off now and later because just when you think you're caught up with firmware upgrades, it'll probably be time to start all over again.


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What at first seems like a wholesome bit of Americana, becomes just regular, old everything's-a-pain-in-my-ass Americana. On first blush, we've got a concessions worker at Miller Park, juggling Cracker Jacks. Who doesn't love Cracker Jacks and Baseball? It's in the song, for crissakes. That lady in yellow, that's who.
I'm reminded of Steve Harvey's "Sister Odell" talking about some Deacon, walking towards her. "Here come this sorry motherfucker over here." This is the face I imagine Sister Odell making.
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Colorado frozen berry hepatitis A count up to 25 cases, FDA now testing food plant
Latest update: Colorado now at 25 cases as of Tuesday, June 25.
Updated with state response: Colorado has 22 cases
Colorado's count of hepatitis A cases from the frozen berry mix sold at Costco has now reached at least 22 patients, according to a new CDC update. The new summary also mentions that a sister agency, the FDA, is now looking at the food manufacturer's plant for more clues of the origins of the apparently foodborne virus.
The CDC reported a total of 118 cases in 12 states; its accompanying case map, which has sometimes lagged the total count, shows Colorado with the second-highest number of cases after California. The map's total of 20 Colorado cases was counted when CDC overall was announcing only 102 cases, according to Seattle food safety attorney Bill Marler. So it's possible Colorado's total is now higher; we are checking. (Yes, it's now at 22, according to state health.)
The FDA is inspecting the production facilities of the frozen berries' origins, Townsend Farms of Fairview, Oregon. The berries were sold at Costco and Harris Teeter stores under the lable "Townsend Farms Organic Anti-Oxidant Blend," but so far the people who got sick have only reported shopping for the berries at Costco. Seventy-one percent of those ill who were interviewed said they had eaten the berry blend.
The FDA is also working out a testing protocol from samples taken of the berry blend itself. The CDC has reported that the particular strain of hepatitis A found in patient tests is most common in Middle Eastern countries, and one ingredient of the berry blend came from Turkey. But the federal agencies have not yet declared a known culprit for transmission of hepatitis A, which is a relatively common illness in some food workers and can be spread from their hands to food products.


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