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Columbia was recently hit with a lawsuit, filed by 23 students, alleging violations of Title IX, the Clery Act, and Title II, saying the university routinely mishandles sexual assault cases, perpetuating a dangerous and discriminatory environment. Now some students (or maybe just one) seem to be taking matters into their own hands by writing the names of alleged rapists on a bathroom wall and handing out fliers identifying them. The "rapist list" is dividing the campus and pushing the national conversation about sexual assault at college to address uncomfortable questions. Naming and shaming alleged rapists: Is it an act of empowerment in the face of a seemingly indifferent institution or vigilante justice setting a terrible precedent?
The "rapist list" began showing up over the past week, Columbia's preeminent student blog, Bwog, reported. Initially penned on bathroom walls and washed off like graffiti shortly thereafter, the list is now reportedly being distributed on paper fliers around campus. Some students support publicizing the names of alleged rapists; others caution against the dangers in vigilantism. And some illustrate just how far the campus conversation on rape still has to go: "Maybe, just maybe, the unprecedented shrillness over sexual assault reform comes from uberprivileged white girls who are dealing with their first minor injustice," writes one pseudonymous Bwog commenter.
The idea of sexual assault as a "minor injustice" akin to peeking at another student's exam underlies much of the frustration around on-campus sexual assault. Universities often encourage students to report sexual assaults to the school itself, and many students prefer to deal with their colleges, which are billed as safe home-away-from-home communities, than with traditional law enforcement, which can entail humiliating investigations and drawn-out trials. Colleges also don't have to use an "innocent until proven guilty" standard, because they aren't putting anyone in jail or handing out criminal convictions. Instead, many colleges use some form of a "preponderance of the evidence" standard for finding fault — that is, if the weight of the evidence points to fault, fault can be found. That can be an easier bar for sexual assault survivors to meet. But colleges have an incentive to keep rape reports on campus too: Public rape trials aren't good for recruiting. University proceedings are also routinely confidential, meaning that if an alleged rape victim gets a bad result, she can't speak out without facing potentially serious consequences, such as suspension or expulsion.
Tracey Vitchers, a communications coordinator with SAFER Campus, an organization founded by Columbia University students in 2000 and dedicated to reforming college sexual assault policies, said the name-and-shame campaigns stem from long-brewing frustrations with the inaction of Columbia's administration. The list of alleged rapists, she said, may push the university to act — but students should be careful.
"Of course there are risks associated with this," Vitchers told Cosmopolitan.com. "If the student who is printing the list is identified, they run the risk of disciplinary action being taken against them, and they run the risk of being sued by the people on the list. Those are challenges that need to be thought out and mitigated."
Without the ability to legally convict students of crimes, colleges institute their own punishments — expulsion, suspension, or loss of other privileges, such as on-campus housing. But colleges also lack the investigative tools that police forces and prosecutors hold, often reducing sexual assault and rape cases to "he said/she said" evidentiary disputes. And that means many accused sexual assailants remain on campus.
Emily May, the executive director of Hollaback, an organization that encourages users to document, map, and share incidents of street harassment — including posting pictures of their harasser — says the "rapist list" is less about allegedly bad individuals and more a response to feeling disempowered and scared.
"It comes from a state of fear and desperation," May told Cosmopolitan.com. "These people obviously feel like the university doesn't have their backs and that their concerns aren't being taken seriously."
May says the list is "a really smart tactic" to get university officials and the broader public to pay attention.
"The thing that's seductive about naming and shaming is the same thing that's really seductive about storytelling in any form," she said. "The human brain can focus in on what Bobby did and the story of Bobby, instead of this epidemic of rape which impacts 1 in 5 women on college campuses. From that perspective, [a name-and-shame list] has the ability to capture the imagination."
But there are downsides too. When you point a finger at Bobby instead of looking at on-campus assaults as a whole, May said, the conversation and debate become about Bobby's individual character — with the guy who had drinks with Bobby and thinks he's a nice guy on one side, and the guy who hates his guts on the other — rather than a question of whether he did what he's accused of doing, and what we can do to prevent assaults more generally.
Even more serious are the reputational and legal harms. Most publications, including this one, will not publish an unedited photo of the rapist list, both out of a sense of professional responsibility and because it could potentially invite a lawsuit. The men named on the list have not been convicted in a court of law. There's a danger in applauding anonymous actors — whose motivations we can guess at but can't know for sure — making serious, public criminal accusations against men who cannot confront their accusers.
And then there's the possibility that this could end up in criminal court or at least at a police station, whether an assault survivor wants it there or not.
"It wouldn't surprise me if [the list of alleged rapists] eventually did get into the hands of the NYPD," Vitcher said. "[The NYPD] has been very outspoken about the fact that colleges and universities don't involve them in these investigations."
Ultimately, May and Vitcher both said, the "rapist list" reflects an action of last resort, borne of frustration with a broken system. And the solution doesn't lie in adding more names to the handful of already there. It requires demanding real policy solutions to address the stark reality — and often faceless statistic — that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted while in college.
"[The people who wrote the list] are not a mini police force and aren't trying to be one; they're trying to cause a ruckus, which they've been successful at," May said. But while May said the list is a good first move in drawing attention to sexual assault, "the more important piece what's next; not what's the first move, but what's move number two, three and four?"
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BOSTON -- New Orioles reliever Evan Meek has been used in late-inning situations from the get-go, and manager Buck Showalter said he will continue to use the righty as an alternative to setup man Darren O'Day, depending on the matchups and each pitcher's respective workload.
"Evan gives you a different look down there that a lot of right-handers don't bring, especially down there in that bullpen," Showalter said of the non-roster invitee who won the final 'pen spot this spring. "Just glad he's healthy."
Meek and O'Day, along with lefty Zach Britton, had not allowed any earned runs entering Friday, and the 30-year-old Meek could end up being quite the under-the-radar addition for the O's. An All-Star reliever for the Pirates in 2010, Meek had a tear in his right shoulder that slowed his career as he spent all of last season in the Minors.
"I think it was a situation where they wanted to see what they had right away," Meek said of being called upon in big situations early. "What do we have, is he healthy, is he ready to go? Because back with Pittsburgh that's what I did. the late innings. I think it was a no messing around kind of situation. They were like, 'Let's see what he does now. He's 30 years old, he's not 20 years old anymore, let's see if he gets back to where he was.' And I think that worked out for everybody. I'm ready to go at any point, but it's nice to get consistent work at consistent points."
Entering Friday, Meek had thrown seven scoreless innings in six outings, allowing three hits and striking out six.
"If they are going to bite when they are a puppy, they are going to bite when they are a big dog," Showalter said of throwing Meek in the fire. "So you see what happens. Evan, one thing, he ain't scared. He ain't scared. When you go through some of the things he's gone through in his life. He's not going to go out there and be timid. Thats one of the things you like about him and all of our guys down there."
"I know Buck knows guys in the bullpen better than he does me, I know it's definitely a trust factor," Meek said of the later innings. "As long as we can keep consistent, obviously it's a long season and consistency is the biggest thing in the bullpen. You've got to know what you are going to get. And sometimes it's not going to go your way. But how do you bounce back the next day? How do you bounce back two days after?
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Being unemployed presents a variety of financial considerations, including potential taxes.
In some cases, federal tax laws could pose new costs to unemployed individuals. But in others, tax provisions could help ease, at least a bit, the financial strains of unemployment.
Pay taxes on unemployment
First, the bad news. Unemployment compensation is taxable income. A few years ago, a small amount of unemployment benefits were exempted from taxation, but that tax break has expired.
You'll get a Form 1099-G that will tell you how much unemployment you must report on that year's tax return. If you opted not to have taxes withheld from unemployment payments or didn't make estimated tax payments on the amount, you'll likely owe the Internal Revenue Service.
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[photopress:14382__chuck_l.jpg,thumb,pp_image]A gospel choir blasted critics (and to think it's usually the other way around) at a lunch held by BET here at the TV critics summer press tour in Beverly Hills to promote upcoming projects. The most intriguing is "Hip Hop vs.America," on behalf of which Chuck D ("fight the power!" the choir sang) and the Rev. Al Sharpton shared the stage.
Why is the media suddenly focusing on the dangers of hip-hop, some 20 years after the musical form became part of the mainstream pop culture? "The media have a Columbus complex," Sharpton said, "they discover something and pretend like it wasn't there before."
Chuck D said he hopes the series will identify "a lot of hidden faces" of big record companies that produce some of the worst of the genre.
And what does Chuck D think of Flavor Flav on VH1's "Flavor of Love?"
"I come from a black family, and one thing black folks know is you always got that one in your family," he said. "Like Jimmy Carter had Billy..There's always one."


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Arthur G. James was born on March 14, 1912, in Rhodesdale, a small mining town that no longer exists, in eastern Ohio's Belmont County. He was the third of eight children of Italian immigrants. His father was a coal miner who later ran a small grocery.
The family's home was rented from the mining company that employed Mr. James, and Arthur's elementary education began in a one-room mining-town school. When he was in third grade, the family moved to nearby Uniontown; the school there consisted of one room for the first three grades and a second room for the other five.
As a boy, Arthur worked in the family store, learning all phases of the business and helping to deliver groceries — first in a horse-drawn cart and later in a pickup truck.
In 1930, he graduated from St. Clairsville High School as co-valedictorian and enrolled at Ohio State, where he received a scholarship covering registration and incidental fees. In college, he worked in a cafeteria for his meals and shared an inexpensive attic room with two other students while excelling at his studies.
His scholastic average was high enough to qualify for the freshman honorary society. He completed his Arts School training in 1933 and was accepted into the College of Medicine. His medical school summers were spent caring for laboratory animals and cleaning glassware and equipment, jobs that helped pay his educational expenses. He earned his MD, along with an MMSc, in 1937.
From there he completed a medical internship at the University of Chicago and a surgical internship at Duke University in North Carolina before coming back to Ohio State for a three-year surgical residency. He served as chief resident in 1941–1942.
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In later years, Dr. James would trace his interest in cancer to his internship at the University of Chicago. Influenced by a cancer surgeon there whose work was advanced for the day and resulted in many patient recoveries, the young physician decided after completing his surgical residency to apply for a fellowship at Memorial Hospital in New York City, which at the time was one of the nation's very few cancer hospitals.
He was accepted and began his fellowship on July 1, 1942, but just six weeks later he was called into service for World War II with the 65th General Hospital, which he had joined while at Duke University. He reported for duty at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and the hospital soon became attached to the 8th Air Force stationed on the North Sea in England.
After the war, he returned to Memorial Hospital to finish his fellowship training before going back to Ohio State in 1947 as an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery. He would remain at Ohio State for the rest of his career, working his way up to full professor and chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology. He was also the first to hold the Lucius A. Wing Chair of Cancer Research and Therapy.
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Buoyed by fond memories of his fellowship experience, Dr. James began envisioning the benefits a cancer hospital could bring to Ohio and the Midwest. Over the years, various obstacles dampened but never doused his dream.
In 1954 he became medical director of the Columbus Cancer Clinic, which appointed a committee to look into establishing an inpatient cancer facility. Three years later, the clinic created a hospital fund of $100,000 from transferred memorial monies, and in 1962 it proposed creation of a cancer hospital to the Mid-Ohio Health Planning Federation. But the federation rejected the idea in favor of applying available funds toward additional hospital beds that were needed for patient care.
Over the next decade, Dr. James' prominence continued to grow through his skills as a cancer surgeon and his selection as president of Head and Neck Surgeons (1967–1968), of the Society of Surgical Oncology (1970–1971) and, ultimately, of the American Cancer Society (1972–1973).
With his dream still simmering, he resumed his efforts to bring a cancer hospital to Columbus in 1974, but once again he faced defeat as voters a year later rejected a bond issue that would have raised funds for the project.
A turning point came in 1976 when the National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated The Ohio State University as a Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) — a leader in cancer research clinically applied to patient care. Ohio State was one of fewer than 20 CCCs in the nation at that time.
Riding on the prestige this designation brought to the university, Dr. James presented his dream of a cancer hospital for Columbus to a group of influential community leaders and asked for their support. Several accompanied him on a visit to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York to see firsthand the benefits that could be derived from such facilities. Together these leaders formed the Ohio Cancer Foundation, which backed the idea of a local cancer facility.
Aware of growing local support, the Ohio Legislature in 1981 passed a $40 million appropriation for construction of a cancer hospital; Ohio State contributed another $14 million. Ground was broken in 1984. Three years later the cornerstone was set and the hospital was named for Dr. James at a formal dedication ceremony.
Midway through construction, Dr. James reflected on what was about to be. "In making early morning patient rounds," he wrote, "I usually pass a large window through which I can see the construction site. On a morning when the sun is just beginning to rise, the Institute makes a very impressive picture. It is obvious that a new day is dawning."
But fate wasn't finished. In December 1989, three weeks before the new hospital was scheduled to open, a water line on the 13th floor froze and broke. Water cascaded down through the fully furnished facility, flooding the floors and converting the building's exterior, by many personal accounts, into a giant icicle. The resulting damages, estimated at $2.4 million, delayed the hospital opening by six months, but Dr. James was characteristically unperturbed. He knew it would open eventually.
A Dream Fulfilled
On July 9, 1990, the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at last opened for business. In a modest ceremony, the first patient was wheeled into the facility from adjoining University Hospitals by a small group that included Dr. James, who cordially welcomed the patient upon his arrival in the 10th floor nursing unit. The hospital had 17 patients on its first day.
Although the aging Dr. James retired from seeing patients that same year, he had an office at the hospital and maintained an everyday presence in an emeritus role while also assisting the Development Department in fundraising efforts until 1996, when failing health prevented his return.
"I still like to get up early and go to the hospital," he told an interviewer in 1995. "I see people whom I have treated or friends who are now patients of other doctors. I enjoy touring the hospital and discussing our research programs. I try to keep updated on new ideas."
He considered the hospital to be the greatest accomplishment of his career, but he derived equal satisfaction from caring for patients, especially when they were cured and could resume productive lives.
Even in retirement, Dr. James never stopped dreaming.
"My personal goal for this hospital is that it become the number one cancer hospital in the country," he once said. "This would mean we can achieve the best results in treatment because we have the most advanced methods."
He occasionally gave voice to his most sublime dream of all: the global eradication of cancer. "All cancer will eventually be wiped out; there's no doubt about that. I don't know how long it will take...but I'm sure the day is coming."
His life expired before that day arrived, but his spirit remains among all who carry on his legacy at The James on behalf of cancer patients everywhere.


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The murder victim is Voter Turnout.
The scene was June's just completed California primary election.
And the coroner's report comes from political consultant Scott Lay, the author of the California political blog The Nooner, who wrote: "the biggest surprise in June was not on any individual race, but rather on the abysmally low turnout."
Local, state and national politics
You'd have to go back to 1956 to find a presidential primary when fewer voters participated, Lay notes, when the state had 6.4 million registered voters, compared to more than 17 million today.
So who killed the turnout?
No arrests have been made. And there's been frustratingly little investigation by good government groups and authorities, who are producing mostly happy talk about how the election represented "progress' for reforms like the redistricting commission and the new "top-two," or jungle primary system, with all candidates of all parties on the same ballot.
But there are suspects. I see three leading suspects who deserve a close look.
1. The top-two "primary" itself.
This new top-two primary system was supposed to engage voters and draw more people to the polls, particularly independents, who were left out of the previous primary system. This time, those voters had the same vote anyone wanted, and they responded to the opportunity by not showing up, in record low numbers.
I see the top-two as responsible for this, as I wrote here. But this needs more investigation. Among the questions that should be asked are whether the new system and long ballots created confusion. Or whether there was a failure simply to educate people, particularly independents, to their new power in the top-two. Unfortunately, so far, there's been mostly happy talk about progress.
2. Mitt Romney
Romney's contribution to suppressing turnout may have been the fact that he locked up the Republican presidential nomination too soon -- well before the California presidential primary. Blame President Obama too, for not drawing a strong primary challenger. Presidential primary turnouts were driven in part by competition, and there was no competition here on the presidential side.
3. California Democrats
What did they do wrong? In a bid to gain political advantage, legislative Democrats passed -- and Gov. Jerry Brown signed -- legislation to prevent ballot initiatives from appearing on primary ballots. Their goal was to force an initiative they oppose -- a "paycheck protection" measure that would effectively limit union power -- from this June's election, when Republicans were expected to vote in higher numbers, until this November, when Democratic turnout may be higher.
The fig leaf explanation for this legislation was the argument that it's better governance to put initiatives on general election ballots in November, because more people tend to vote. But the low turnout this June showed the other side of that argument: that removing ballot initiatives from an election can depress turnout.
The research is solid that interesting ballot initiatives can draw voters to the polls. But this June ballot had only two initiatives -- none of them particularly exciting -- that had qualified before the legislation forcing all initiatives to November had gone into effect. And they weren't a draw. If the legislation hadn't passed, and paycheck protection had been on the ballot, turnout likely would have been higher. (And, ironically, Gov. Brown, who foolishly backed this legislation, would have less one competitor on the ballot.
So which of these three suspects should investigators focus on? I'm not sure. It's possible that all three entities -- the reformers behind top-two, Romney, and California Democrats -- helped kill turnout.
But I assume they'll ask for separate lawyers.
Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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Iger was the editor of Wow! What a Magazine in 1936 and published the first work of Bob Kane, Dick Briefer and Will Eisner. With Eisner, he formed the S.M. Iger Studios in 1937, which eventually became known as the Eisner-Iger Shop. Under Iger's guidance, the shop produced a large amount of comic books, for which Iger often provided the scripts (using pseudonyms like Jerry Maxwell and S.M. Regi). Amongst his productions were Jumbo, Jungle, Planet and Wings for Fiction House, and series like 'Shark Brodie', 'Neon', 'Firebrand', 'Shory Shortcake', 'Strange Twins' and a reprise of 'Sheena'.
When Eisner left in 1939, the studios continued as the Iger Shop. A true comics factory, the studios worked for companies like Fox, Quality, Harvey, Holyoke, MLJ, Crown, EC and Farrell. In the mid-1940s, Iger worked for Gilberton's Classic Comics, and from 1953, he set up a comics version of Mickey Spillane's 'Mike Hammer'. Jerry Iger was one of the pioneers of comic books, but he closed his studio in 1955, and went to work as an advertising artist, teacher and editorial director at Ajax. He lived well into his eighties, and died in a New York nursing home in September 1990.


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Fri., Nov. 2, 2012
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Accompanied by astronauts and shuttle workers, Atlantis made a slow, solemn journey to retirement Friday, the last space shuttle to orbit the world and the last to leave NASA's nest.
Atlantis emerged just before dawn from the massive Vehicle Assembly Building and, riding atop a 76-wheeled platform, began the 10-mile trek to the Kennedy Space Center's main tourist stop.
About 200 workers gathered in the early morning chill to see the spaceship out in the open for the final time. They were joined by the four astronauts who closed out the shuttle program aboard Atlantis more than a year ago.
"My opinion is it looks better vertically," said Christopher Ferguson, the commander of Atlantis' final flight.
"It's a short trip. It's taking a day," he added. "It traveled a lot faster in its former life. But that's OK. … it's got a new role."
Portions of Atlantis' final launch countdown boomed over loudspeakers before the shuttle hit the road. Employees gathered in front of a long white banner that read, "We Made History," and below that the single word "Atlantis." They followed the spaceship for a block or two, then scattered as the shuttle transporter revved up to its maximum 2 mph. The convoy included a dozen trucks and vans, their lights blinking.
The fact that several hundred shuttle workers are about to lose their jobs, now that Atlantis is being turned over to the visitor complex, dampened the mood. Thousands already have been laid off.
"The untold story of the last couple years, the last missions that we flew, is the work force. I mean, the contractors knew that their numbers were going to go down … and yet they kept doing their jobs," said NASA's Angie Brewer, who was once in charge of getting Atlantis ready for flight.
Some were too upset to even show up. Friday's event marked the true end to the 30-year shuttle program.
Seeing so many members of the shuttle team "helps soften the hard edge of seeing Atlantis go off to a museum," said astronaut Rex Walheim, part of the ship's final crew.
Atlantis made its way down broad industrial avenues, most of them off-limits to the public. So the trek did not replicate the narrow, stop-and-go turns Endeavour encountered last month while navigating downtown Los Angeles.
The mastermind behind Atlantis' slow march through Kennedy was sweating bullets nonetheless.
"It's only a priceless artifact driving 9.8 miles and it weighs 164,000 pounds," said Tim Macy, director of project development and construction for Kennedy's visitor complex operator, the company Delaware North.
"Other than that, no pressure at all," Macy said, laughing. "Only the eyes of the country and the world and everybody at NASA is watching us."
The relocation of Atlantis was plotted out for months, he noted last week, and experienced shuttle workers took part.
The roundabout loop took Atlantis past Kennedy's headquarters building for a midmorning ceremony that drew several thousand past and present employees, and their guests, as well as a few dozen astronauts. A high school color guard and band led the way.
The mood was more upbeat than when the one-way road trip began four hours earlier and resembled a funeral procession. NASA officials went out of their way to emphasize the space agency's future.
"It's an incredibly historic day," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., a former skipper of Atlantis. "But I don't preside over an agency that's in the history business. … We're in the business of creating the future."
Bolden proudly cited NASA's new target destinations for astronauts — an asteroid and Mars — and he hailed the successful start to commercial supply missions to the International Space Station.
The next stop for Atlantis, meanwhile, was a still-under-design industrial park that offered a few hours of public viewing in the afternoon. Tourist tickets ran as high as $90 apiece for a chance to see the spaceship up close.
Crews removed 120 light poles, 23 traffic signals and 56 traffic signs in order for Atlantis to squeeze by. One high-voltage power line also had to come down. Staff trimmed back some scrub pines, but there was none of the widespread tree-axing that occurred in Los Angeles.
Atlantis had to traverse just one noticeable incline, a highway ramp. The rest of the course is sea-level flat.
Tourists jammed the public portion of Atlantis' route. Patricia LeBlanc, visiting from Orlando with her daughter, said she misses the shuttle launches. Thirteen-year-old Ashley Gest, waiting in line for astronaut autographs with her Ormond Beach family, was excited to see Atlantis but expressed sadness, too.
The grand entrance into Atlantis' new home, in the early evening, was expected to go just as smoothly. One complete wall of the exhibit hall was kept off, carport-style, so the shuttle could roll right in. Construction will begin on the missing wall early next week.
Once safely inside, Atlantis will be plastic-wrapped for protection until the building is completed. The grand opening is set for July 2013.
Total exhibit cost: $100 million, a price borne by Delaware North.
Discovery, the oldest and most traveled space shuttle, was the first to leave, zooming off to the Smithsonian in Virginia in April atop a modified jumbo jet. Endeavour, the baby of the fleet, headed west in September.
And now, Atlantis.
"Although it's the end of Atlantis flying in space, it's not the end. It's not the end for KSC," stressed Kennedy Space Center director Robert Cabana, a former astronaut. "And it's not the end for Atlantis because Atlantis now takes on a mission of inspiration to future generations."
NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/rss_main_right_collex_archive_1.html
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex: http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/
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MODESTO, Calif. — Though it is largely a formality, California's 6,000 almond growers and more than 100 handlers will vote soon on whether to maintain their federal marketing order.
Balloting on whether to continue the work of the Almond Board of California will be conducted from Feb. 18 through March 7, the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has announced.
Farmers who grew almonds between Aug. 1, 2012 and July 31, 2013 will receive ballots by mail. The USDA will consider terminating the marketing order if less than two-thirds of growers approve it, or if growers representing less than two-thirds of the state's volume of almonds favor it.
However, the last referendum in 2009 passed with more than 90 percent of the vote, said Maria Stobbe, a USDA marketing specialist.
"It occurs every five years because the USDA wants to know if the growers are pleased with the marketing order and if they want it to continue," Stobbe said. "We don't want to continue it unless the growers are happy with the marketing order."
Almonds were third behind milk and grapes among California's top commodities in 2012, valued at more than $4.3 billion, according to the state Department of Food and Agriculture.
A federal marketing order for almonds was established in 1950 as the Almond Control Board, dealing mainly with compliance issues. The 10-member panel changed its name to the Almond Board of California in the 1970s to reflect a greater emphasis on market development and research, the organization's website explains.
The board's five growers and five handlers are elected annually, and board-approved committees set policy in such areas as quality control and food safety, global market development and production and nutrition research.
Among the board's most recent initiatives was to promote research affirming almonds as part of a healthy diet and working with ESPN's Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic on promoting almonds as a nutritious snack.
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Ein paar Eindrücke vom Coltello in Festa 2019 in Maniago: https://www.messerforum.net/showthread.php?140091
Komplette Bilderstrecke hier: https://www.messerforum.net/_bildarc...9/index_3.html
Langer Rede kurzer Sinn: Lest den Blogeintrag von Katja Triebel auf https://katjatriebel.com/2019/05/12/petition-nein-zum-degunban/ und unterstützt die Petition.
Ja, da geht es auch um Schusswaffen.
Nein, ich halte nichts davon, wenn die "Messerleute" nicht verstehen, was die "Schützenleute" für Probleme haben, vice versa. Letztlich gehts darum, dass irgendwelche Leute Spass an Dingen haben. Was meinetwegen nicht jeder versteht. Aber man hat Spass an Sachen und tut keinem Schwein was. Und ist der Depp in einer Profilierungsmaschinereie von Politikern.
Nicht vergessen, am Sonntag 28. April 10:00 - 17:00 Uhr findet im KOM Kulturwerkstatt am Olchinger Mühlbach Hauptstr. 68 die 5. Frühjahrsausstellung des MAK statt.
Nicht vergessen, kommendes Wochenende sind die 15. OLCHINGER MESSERTAGE 2018
Samstag, 20. Oktober 2018
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Sonntag, 21. Oktober 2018
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Spydercos new Brouwer Folder is a performance-oriented everyday-carry cutting tool designed by Dutch custom knifemaker Jerry Brouwer. Its refined design reflects both his extensive real-world experience as a knife user and his uncompromising commitment to quality craftsmanship.
Brouwers lifelong passion for knives began as a child. He was a frequent visitor to his local knife shop, where he spent countless hours carefully examining the fit, finish, and function of every knife he handled. Years later, he pursued a career as a corrections officer and served as a member of an elite riot team that quelled uprisings in prisons throughout the Netherlands. He is also an accomplished practitioner of the Russian martial art of Systema and an avid outdoorsman. These experiences gave him ample opportunity to use knives in many different contexts and helped him develop a deep understanding of what works and what doesnt when it comes to knife design.
In 2008, after reading a book on knifemaking written by a fellow Dutchman, Brouwer tried his hand at making his first knife. Encouraged by the result, but anxious to improve his skills, he soon turned knifemaking into a serious hobby. Fascinated by the elegant simplicity of traditional Japanese patterns, many of Brouwers knives are expressions of kiridashi and kaiken-style blades, some with classic stingray cord-wrapped handles. He has also made many modern interpretations of the Finnish puukko and enjoys crafting both friction and frame-lock folding knives.
One of Brouwers most popular folding knife designs is his Flanker model, which he developed around 2013. Shortly after designing it, he attended a Spyderco Meet in Amsterdam with a friend of his. While chatting with Spydercos Eric Glesser, Brouwers friend asked to see the knife, which he quickly handed to Eric and encouraged him to give it a look. Eric was impressed with the refined functionality of the knife and Brouwers down-to-earth approach to knifemaking. In fact, he was impressed enough to ask Brouwer if he could borrow the knife to display it with other concept models and prototypes at trade shows. Brouwer agreed and the rest, as they say, is history. The Spyderco Brouwer was born.
According to Brouwer, he designed his namesake knife from the ground up as a serious, everyday-carry cutting tool. Specifically, he wanted it to achieve the perfect balance of a knife that is small enough to carry conveniently, yet substantial enough for challenging cutting chores.
The heart of the Brouwer Folder is its PlainEdge blade, which is crafted from CPM® S30V® particle metallurgy stainless steel and full-flat ground for superior edge geometry and low-friction cutting performance. Its drop-point profile offers outstanding utility, while the combined synergy of an index-finger


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Week 4's off-season flashback is dedicated to the Russian pairs skating team of Natalia Mishkutenok & Artur Dmitriev (referred to M&D hereafter).
M&D skated together between 1987 and 1994, and are the 1992 Olympic Champions, 1994 Olympic silver medalists, and European & World Champions.
Click here for Natalia's biography on wikipedia
Click here for Artur's biography on wikipedia
To many, M&D were known for their interesting, and sometimes avant garde programs. They were also known for a variety of intricate moves and spins, especially their pairs "Natalia's" spin, the Biellmann position death spiral, and a number of extremely flexible manuevers (on Natalia's behalf ).
Over the years, their skating evolved and matured while they trained with one of the top pairs coaches in the world, Tamara Moskvina. Tamara's vision for the team, as well as her style of coaching helped bring the team to prominence, especially in the 1991 & 1992 seasons.
It was in 1991 when M&D won their first of two World titles. At the beginning of the season, Natalia & Artur debuted their Dream of Love program, which displayed a softer, more lyrical & artistic side of the team. With their intricate choreography, innovate moves/spins, and lyrical skating qualities, they were able to skate their way to the top of the podium. As an interesting side note, Moskvina's husband did not feel that the Dream of Love program was of championship calibre, and thought it was a bad idea. Moskvina disagreed and said she knew the program would be a hit with the judges and audiences. We all know what the end result was
During the 1992 season, M&D used the same program from the 1991 season, and had much success with it again. They skated their way to another European, Olympic, and World title.
After 1992, M&D weren't seen too much on the professional scene, and were basically away from competing for most of the 1993 season. In 1993, they made a decision to attempt winning another Olympic title, and subsequently began training for the 1994 Games.
In 1991 and 1992, they showed a softer and more lyrical side of their skating with Dream of Love. In the '93-'94 season, they showed a much darker and serious side, skating to Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #2. As in previous years, Natalia & Artur displayed very intricate and innovative choreography, and the program was well-received by the judges and audience alike. They won their first event of the season, skating at Piruetten, in Hamar, Norway.
The rest of the season found M&D in 2nd place at other events, with silver medals at Nationals, Europeans, and the Olympics. They did not skate at Worlds that year.
Despite skating clean programs at the Olympics, they were still edged out by the graceful & powerful skating of Gordeeva & Grinkov (G&G). Although both teams skated very well, the results have sometimes been disputed on the basis that M&D had more difficult content in their program. However (IMO), although G&G had *slighly* less difficulty, their programs had more speed as well as excellent carriage and flow between all elements. Everything seemed so effortless in their Moonlight Sonata LP.
*I'll leave the rest of the debate up for discussion after this post*
M&D broke off their partnership sometime after the 1994 season. While Natalia wanted to turn professional, Artur expressed interest in still skating in ISU sanctioned events. Artur eventually partnered up with Oksana Kazakova, and ended up winning another Olympic title in 1998.
Natalia ended up marrying (twice), and eventually having a child in 2006. She is currently coaching skater Angela Maxwell, among others.
Here are some of M&D's programs from YouTube:
1989 Skate America LP
1990 Worlds SP
1990 Worlds LP
1990 Worlds EX
1991 Worlds LP
1991 Worlds SP
1992 Olympics SP
1992 Worlds LP *my divshare download with video page
1993 Piruetten LP *I love these costumes...actually much more than the ones they used at the Olympics. This is another of my divshare files.
1994 Euros EX
1994 Olympics SP
1994 Olympics LP
Sorry there isn't much online in terms of videos. There used to be much more on YouTube, but the vids were taken down. I'll try to upload some to my file sharing account if anyone wants some.
Enjoy this week's flashback! Lets start talking about M&D.


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Court Lifts Injunction On WiFi Devices In Patent Dispute
from the a-little-bit-of-good-news deptWe've been following the story of how CSIRO, an Australian gov't agency, has claimed a patent on WiFi for years. Last year, we were pretty surprised that a judge not only sided with CSIRO in a case against Buffalo Technology, but issued an injunction, barring the company from selling its WiFi equipment. This was despite the recent Supreme Court decision that said patent injunctions should only be issued in certain circumstances (in the past, it was quite common to issue injunctions). The case is now being reviewed, and the good news is that a court has at least temporarily lifted the injunction while the court reviews whether or not the patent is even valid. This case could have a huge impact on a series of other cases that CSIRO has filed against pretty much everyone offering WiFi equipment.
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This hard-hitting and emotional series from NBC's "Law & Order" brand chronicles the life and crimes of the Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department, the elite squad of detectives who investigate sexually based crimes.
The drama follows Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), a seasoned veteran of the unit who has seen it all, and his partner, Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), whose difficult past - a child of rape - is the reason she joined the unit.
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After waking from a coma in an abandoned hospital, police officer Rick Grimes finds the world he knew gone - ravaged by a zombie epidemic of apocalyptic proportions. Nearby, on the outskirts of Atlanta, a small encampment struggles to survive as 'the dead' stalk them at every turn. Can Rick and the others hold onto their humanity as they fight to live in this terrifying new world? And, amidst dire conditions and personal rivalries, will they ultimately survive one another?
An offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators--these are just a few of the traits exhibited by television's next great detective, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, played by Golden Globe Award winner Kyra Sedgwick in "The Closer." In her first lead role in a dramatic series, Sedgwick plays a CIA-trained detective who has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases. Brenda is tapped to lead the team because she is a world-class interrogator, and when it comes to obtaining confessions, she is a closer. But her quirky attitude and hard-nosed approach to her job sometimes rub her colleagues the wrong way, as does the fact that she is a tough-minded Southern woman in a department dominated by men.


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jdhf99 necessitava di un nuovo design di pagina web e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 73 design presentati da 13 designer.
Looking for a very minimalistic 2.0 design for a new web hosting company. Need experienced designers to guide us through the design process.
Do not have one yet
Desired Color Scheme:
Light colors preferred but open to anything that looks good.
Desired Style:
Web 2.0
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff); Any standard format that can be used to code the site.
Looking for a great web 2.0 design for a web hosting company. Design should be sharp, professional, and unique. We want a limited amount of text on the site. We prefer graphics and visually appealing objects\sections with text in them. Another hosting site that we like is site5.com. We are not 100% sure how we want it to look so we are leaving this up to you. Feel free to ask questions or give us examples to help guide you in the design process. We will answer to the best of our ability.
The contest price here must include the main design + 1 subpage. We will also need additional subpages that we will pay for after the contest is over. The designer must commit to creating the rest of the pages to finish off the site(Paid). Please let us know with your posting how much you will charge for each additional subpage after the contest is over.
Please do not include live help on the main page, we do not want to advertise this.
Services we will be offering to help with the design, they do not all have to be included on the main page:
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Tim Mak covers national security and politics for NPR.
His reporting topics include investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, as well as the potential for future interference by foreign actors; challenges to America's democratic institutions; as well as the conservative movement and Republicans in the context of the 2018 elections.
Before joining NPR, Mak worked as a senior correspondent at The Daily Beast, covering the 2016 presidential elections with an emphasis on foreign affairs. He has also worked on the Politico Defense team, the Politico breaking news desk, and at the Washington Examiner. He covered the rise of the Tea Party movement in 2009 and 2010 for FrumForum. He has reported abroad from the Horn of Africa and East Asia.
Mak graduated with a B.A. from McGill University, where he was a valedictorian. He also holds a national certification as an Emergency Medical Technician.
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UK cops set up new £30m bases to nail cybercrooks
They're proper champion e-bobbies
The UK is to establish three regional policing e-crime hubs as part of efforts to boost the capability of British police to tackle the growing problem of cybercrime.
The new hubs, in Yorkshire and the Humber, the Northwest and in East Midlands, will each get their own three-officer team. Each will work alongside the Metropolitan Police Central e-crime Unit.
The regional roll-out is part of UK government plans to spend £30m over four years to improve the country's ability to investigate and thwart cyber-crime. This is part of a much larger budget of £650m earmarked for the fight against cyber-threats more generally and protecting the UK's national infrastructure from attacks, the majority of which will go to the intelligence agencies, principally GCHQ.
Each of the three regional units will be staffed by a detective sergeant and two detective constables. A period of training means it will take at least a few weeks before these units are up and running. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and West Midlands Police (Birmingham) already had officers on staff who handled cybercrime cases and worked with private-sector forensic experts and expert witnesses, so the new hubs are more about formalising existing capabilities than adding something that previously only existed in London.
In a statement, ACPO lead on e-crime Deputy Assistant Commissioner Janet Williams said:
The government has acknowledged a need to collaborate and provide a structured response to the cyber security of the UK and these three additional policing units are going to play a critical role in our ability to combat the threat.
It is anticipated the hubs will make a significant contribution to the national harm reduction target of £504m. In the first six months of the new funding period alone we have already been able to show a reduction of £140m with our existing capability.
While a training period is required before the hubs are fully functional, they will undoubtedly provide an enhanced ability to investigate this fast growing area of crime and provide an improved internet investigation capability.
James Brokenshire, minister for crime and security, said: "Cyber crime is a threat locally and nationally, and every police force in the country has to deal with its impact on people and businesses in their area."
"As well as leading the fight in their regions, these units mark a significant step forward in developing a national response to cyber crime, which will be driven by the new National Crime Agency," he added.
The regional e-crime hubs were launched at the ACPO e-crime conference in Sheffield on Wednesday. The conference itself was famously discussed during a conference call between the FBI and UK-based cybercops that was leaked by Anonymous last week. ®
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I am a sort-of novice in win32 api pgmming. I want to automate the file-copying process
accross the novel network and to Unix using win32 api GUI programming. It involves
automating the login processes using userid and password, tree, context, server(on the
novel login panel), and copying file from a network drive to another drives.
I use Bloodshed Dev-C++.
My question is how to automate the novel login process without interaction using some saved account name password, tree, context, etc?
Is this possible? If so, then where should I look? Could you give me some useful links to simiar examples? Thank you.


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Ashley Kringen joins KFOR-TV from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where she was a one-man-band reporter.
Prior to reporting in South Dakota, Ashley worked as an Assignment Editor at FOX 5 in Las Vegas.
She received her degree in Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Las Vegas.
One of her favorite hobbies is working out Crossfit style, an intense program involving dynamic exercises with plyometric jumps, Olympic style lifting and endurance obstacles.
When not on the job, she can be found spending time outside, exploring the city, seeing movies and trying new restaurants.
Life Goal – To take life one day at a time, savor every moment and have no regrets.
Favorite TV Show – The Newsroom on HBO because I enjoy watching my field of work unfold in a drama series along with seeing how TV portrays National news I've been a part of covering in the past, such as the Gabrielle Giffords shooting and the capture of Osama bin Laden.
Favorite Car – A VW Bug convertible, which I had for my second car but had to get rid of it because it was a Lemon.
Happiest moment in my life was— Getting the job offer to start my career as a television personality in my hometown of Sioux Falls, SD.
2nd Happiest moment in my life was—Landing a Reporter job in OKC!
4 notable persons you'd invite to dinner – Oprah Winfrey, Bernard Hopkins, Marilyn Monroe and Anne Frank.
Favorite food – My mother's Filipino egg rolls with sticky rice, nothing beats mom's home cooking!
Pets– I don't have a pet, but hope to adopt a fuzzy friend this year.
Knew you wanted to be a reporter when … I watched videos back from when I was a kid, dancing, singing and always wanting to be the star of the show.
Best movie of all time – I'm the worst movie critic ever because I enjoy every movie but if I had to choose, it would be Armageddon (yes, I cry every time).
Hardest part of my job – Watching and covering tragic stories involving loss of life or extreme terror.
Favorite holiday – Thanksgiving. Another excuse to have my mom's home cooking as well as give thanks to everything I'm blessed with such as family, friends and experiences I've had in my life-time.
People are surprised when I tell them…my Nationality and that I was born in Las Vegas, grew up in South Dakota, then moved back to Las Vegas for college.
I like to listen to… country music & Journey!!
Favorite Book – The Pact, by Jodie Picoult.
I'd jump at the chance to…be the host of a traveling show, ex


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) San Francisco police say there was "no merit" to a suspicious device that led to the evacuation of Union Square.
Police spokesman Gordon Shyy earlier said the report came in around 11:50 a.m. Thursday. In addition to the evacuation, a one-block radius around Union Square was shutdown to vehicles and pedestrians and businesses were ordered to shelter in place.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the bomb squad was examining the package at 1 p.m. and cable car service was also shut down.
Police later tweeted that the streets had reopened.
Union Square is a major tourist draw. It is surrounded by high-end retail stores.


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"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer."
– Barbara Kingsolver
A blank page. A world waiting to be born.
That's what it feels like sometimes when we're beginning to write, when we're wanting to write, or paint, or compose some creative work.
The vast expanse of canvas looks like a desert we have to cross on foot or unseeded farmland that stretches beyond the horizon.
Acres of land that must be planted one seed at a time.
This is the lot of the artist. The journey of the creative soul that longs to express.
Why does it feel so hard to create? Or rather, to get started creating? Why is it so laborious to bring our dreams and ideas to life? Continue reading


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WASHINGTON � Rep.-Elect Tom Cotton will venture to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to join a freshman class of more than 75 Republicans and Democrats for orientation.
WASHINGTON � Rep.-Elect Tom Cotton will venture to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to join a freshman class of more than 75 Republicans and Democrats for orientation.
The program, which will stretch over the next three weeks, is designed to have the newly elected lawmakers ready to serve when they take office in January.
Cotton, R-Dardanelle, and the other freshmen will learn the nuts and bolts of setting up and running a congressional office.
�This is freshman orientation for new members of the House so they are prepared from day one to assume the responsibilities and challenges that come with serving,� said Steve Dutton, an interim Republican spokesman for the House Administration Committee.
Cotton said in a telephone interview that his top priority for the coming weeks is to hire a staff for his Washington and Arkansas offices so that there won�t be any gaps in services to constituents.
Rep. Mike Ross, D-Prescott, has offered his assistance so that there is a smooth transition, Cotton said.
�We want to make sure that we don�t drop any balls for our shared constituents,� Cotton said.
The orientation program will run through the week and resume for a second week after the Thanksgiving holiday. The second week will focus on the legislative process and will culminate with a lottery drawing to determine office space.
At least 40 Democrats and 35 Republicans will be in the freshman class. The number will grow when winners are determined in seven as-yet-unresolved races. Five incumbents trail narrowly in six of those races. The other has no incumbent.
The GOP freshman class also includes two Oklahomans: Rep.-Elect Markwayne Mullin of Westville and Rep.-Elect Jim Bridenstine of Tulsa.
The freshman orientation coincides with the return to session of the 112th Congress. Legislative leaders from both parties are focused on addressing the �fiscal cliff� that the Congressional Budget Office projects would throw the economy back into recession.
At issue are expiring tax cuts that were first approved under President George W. Bush and automatic across-the-board budget cuts that would begin Jan. 1.


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EMC ships primary data reduction, FAST for solid-state drives (SSDs), unified management
EMC rolls out bevy of products previewed in May, including EMC FAST upgrade, Unisiphere and block compression for primary data reduction; promises native Fibre Channel over Ethernet by end of year.
EMC Corp. today rolled out a range of enhancements to its midrange Clariion and Celerra storage array platforms to drive common management, more efficient use of solid-state drives (SSDs) and primary data reduction. These include features it previewed earlier this year such as sub-LUN-level automated data tiering, block compression, a unified management application for Clariion and Celerra, integration with VMware's vCenter and support for VMware's vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI).
EMC also rolled out two new Celerra NAS gateways, and said it would lower pricing on SSDs and offer native Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) for Clariion and Celerra. The NAS gateway, new SSD pricing and FCoE support had not been previously announced. EMC previewed the Unisphere management console, an upgrade to its Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) software with a FAST Cache option for SSDs, block compression and VAAI support at EMC World 2010 in May.
Unisphere management software for Clariion and Celerra replaces Navisphere for Clariion and Celerra Manager. Common management is the first step toward consolidating the Clariion SAN and Celerra unified storage platforms, although EMC continues to sell the storage platforms separately.
Clariion customer Joshua Lukes, a Raleigh, N.C.-based IT support manager at energy firm Itron Inc., tested Unisphere and said he was impressed by its GUI and simplicity compared to Navisphere.
"This finally brought EMC out of the '80s," Lukes said. "I've been using Navisphere since it was a Data General product, and it looks almost identical today. Unisphere is much faster and more intelligently laid out. The dashboards answer questions I typically have, and things I need to go through 20 clicks to figure out [with Navisphere] are right on the front page. It definitely speeds up provisioning of storage."
Brian Garrett, vice president, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab, was part of an ESG team that tested EMC's new unified storage capabilities, and was also impressed by the new Unisphere.
"The look and feel of Unisphere was a pleasant surprise," Garrett said. "This looks and feels like a fresh approach. It's a Version 1 GUI, but the workflow, wizards, and look and feel was a lot more mature than I expected."
Itron's Lukes said EMC still has work to do with Unisphere's monitoring, however. "There needs to be more built-in monitoring and better performance analysis," he said. "[Navisphere] Analyzer is an add-on product, and it's still back in the '80s. It gathers tons of data but it's not easy to get that data out of the system. I want to know things like if I'm exceeding the capacity of this LUN and need to add some disk and migrate data off of it."
EMC FAST and FAST Cache
EMC is finally offering sub-LUN automated tiering in the EMC FAST software it first launched last December. While it has informally referred to the upgrade as FAST 2 while previewing its capabilities over the past year, the shipping version of the product is still known as FAST.
FAST re-balances the storage pool daily to make sure hot data is moved to solid-state drives, and cold data goes to SATA or other lower cost storage. The FAST Cache option supports flash as an extension of cache, and makes sure the hottest data is stored on SSDs to improve performance.
EMC customers have been waiting for sub-LUN tiering to take full advantage of SSDs, while competitors -- mostly notably 3PAR, Compellent and IBM -- beat it to the punch with the more granular tiering capability.
Itron's Lukes said Fast Cache is the new feature he's most interested in. "We got very positive results," he said. "We had a 10-time performance increase on some of our LUNs where we can throw FAST Cache at them. We easily exhausted our regular cache in Clariion, and Fast Cache picks up the slack."
He said his RAID array without Fast Cache normally works at approximately 500 IOPS but reached 5,000 IOPS with FAST Cache, although that was with small data sets. "I suspect that improvement would erode if we threw a 20 TB database behind it where numerous LUNs are hitting that cache and filling it up, but it's still a nice improvement," he said.
As for EMC FAST, Lukes said it would be useful for some data he has. "We have meter reads that are very important for the first 35 days while we're doing monthly readings and then it gets less and less important, but we still need to keep them for regulatory reasons," he said. "FAST is useful for starting that off on flash and moving it down slowly as it ages out."
New solid-state drives
EMC is also rolling out new 100 GB and 200 GB solid-state drives for Clariion and Celerra that it claims cost up to 30% less than previous drives. Jon Siegal, EMC's director of product marketing, said he expects the new pricing and FAST capabilities to drive greater SSD adoption.
"A lot of customers wanted to take advantage of SSDs but haven't had the means," Siegal said. "We're helping to take flash to the masses in the midrange market."
Itron's Lukes said his Clariion CX4-960 has six 72 GB drives, and EMC loaned him a system with 400 GB drives for testing. He said the performance was good, but he's not sure he could afford that much flash even with the price drop. The cost of the 10 400 GB drives he tested would cost approximately $350,000, he said.
"Performance is attractive," Lukes said, "but the cost of the flash drives is the unattractive part."
Block-level compression
EMC has offered file compression on Clariion and Celerra for more than a year, but now adds block-level primary compression. EMC's compression lets customers compress or decompress LUNs with one click to reduce capacity of less-frequently accessed LUNs. EMC claims a 50% average reduction, with up to a 77% reduction on text files.
The primary data reduction market is heating up. Although NetApp has offered primary deduplication for several years, other vendors are lining up their products. Dell Inc. acquired dedupe vendor Ocarina Networks, IBM bought compression vendor Storwize last month and Hewlett-Packard Co. said it would expand its StoreOnce deduplication feature to primary storage. EMC is the backup deduplication leader with its Data Domain and Avamar products, but chose to go with compression for primary data.
Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at StorageIO Group, said EMC made a smart decision to go with compression instead of deduplication for primary data. Deduplication has a higher reduction ratio than compression, he said, but it also negatively impacts performance. He pointed out that a 100 TB backup store that gets a 2-1 compression ratio still nets a significant storage reduction.
"The real diamond in the rough of this EMC announcement is compression," Schulz said. "Everybody's talking about primary dedupe, the industry's drunk on dedupe -- for any malady, dedupe it. But data deduplication introduces latency, time delays. For primary data, it's about performance. Compression is the home run for the primary space. It's more about performance and data movement rates than reduction ratios."
ESG Labs' Garrett said the benefits of compression vs. deduplication depend on what type of data you're handling. "Databases and email are compressible because of repeatable patterns," he said. "But some data's already compressed, like video or audio files so compression doesn't help as much."
Itron's Lukes said he hadn't done much testing of the block compression because Itron uses its CX4-960 mostly as a repository for Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases and "compression doesn't fit into that scheme too well," he noted.
NAS gateway, Fibre Channel over Ethernet
EMC launched two new NAS gateways, the Celerra VG2 and VG8, which use the new 64-bit Intel Xeon 5600 processors, code-named "Westmere." The VG2 and VG8 will replace the Celerra NS-G2 and NS-G8 gateways.
EMC will also offer an add-on module providing native Fibre Channel over Ethernet support to its Clariion and Celerra arrays. NetApp is the only storage vendor with native FCoE support on its storage arrays.
Although the storage FCoE ecosystem is still being built out, Lukes said he's interested in FCoE because "the management of our Fibre network has become not very nice. We use blade servers and each blade chassis has to have two Fibre Channel switches and connect into one of four core switches, and it's just become a cascaded nasty mess. We have hundreds of zones and it's difficult to manage. If I need to make a change in one machine, it affects other machines. I need to get it to where it's like adding an IP address."


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Energy-efficient heating keeps cost-conscious homeowners cozy
(NewsUSA) - With many Americans watching their budgets, heating homes has become an unwanted, though necessary, expense.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, many American homes will experience higher heating costs this winter due to increased fuel prices. Thankfully, simple behavior changes and energy-efficient appliances can help homeowners cut their heating bills and still enjoy the same level of comfort.
"Energy-efficient heating means that you use less energy to heat the same space," said Phil Weeks, chief operating officer of Rinnai America Corporation, a company that manufactures gas heating appliances. "This saved energy translates into reduced utility costs for homeowners."
Some energy-efficient heating devices can heat a home while still conserving energy.
Another efficient heating option is to forego a traditional furnace in favor of a direct vent wall furnace. These ductless units are capable of comfortably heating whole homes or specific zones, depending on the need, and save energy by constantly adjusting heat output and blower speed to meet current demand.
Of course, homeowners can take steps to help their current heating units operate on less energy. Consider the following efforts:
* Seal and weather strip doors and windows to prevent heat from escaping the home.
* Reverse the direction of ceiling fans (so they turn clockwise) to push warm air down from the ceiling.
* Minimize the use of bathroom and kitchen hood fans as they can quickly remove heat from the air.


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Bont's Riot road shoes are heat-moldable for a custom-fit and built to withstand the rigors of everyday cycling. Stiff resin—that is easily moldable at relatively low temperatures—lets you use a conventional oven to fine-tune the snug fit. Your arches, heels, and forefeet are all supported to ensure a neutral position that protects your knees. You'll find a secure fit with the z-form Velco strap and micro-adjustable buckle. Plus, mesh panels and vents along the microfiber side panels keep you cool on the sunny days.