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CloudByte is a storage virtualization company that brings the virtualization concept down into the storage layer. The CloudByte ElastiStor Appliance (ESA), a completely self-managed storage solution, extends server virtualization to the storage component by deploying SanDisk solid state drives for primary storage or hybrid solutions.
CloudByte is a storage virtualization company that brings the virtualization concept down into the storage layer. This provides "virtual storage machines" (VSMs), which are the equivalent of virtualization on the server. The CloudByte ElastiStor Appliance (ESA), a completely self-managed storage solution, extends server virtualization to the storage component. It does this by employing SanDisk solid state drives for primary storage or hybrid solutions.
Felix Xavier is the founder, CEO, and CTO of CloudByte. Four years ago he observed the proliferation of server virtualization and expected that a similar phenomenon would occur in the storage world. Seizing this opportunity, CloudByte developed advanced technologies to address both storage virtualization and the flexible allocation of storage resources on demand, creating Virtual Storage Machines (VSMs). VSMs are like a physical storage appliance at a logical software level, which can guarantee isolation as any physical appliance can. "We have consolidated everything on a simple, single appliance. We carve virtual containers out of the appliance and provide performance guarantees for each of the applications. This complements what server virtualization does," explained Xavier.
Xavier initially started the company as a software-only solution. However, CloudByte later developed an integrated hardware appliance, which required that they conduct research on various components, such as servers and flash drives. "We found SanDisk, who provides the enterprise-grade SAS drives that…meet our price and performance point requirements," said Xavier.
The Challenge
Over the past decade, while virtualization has made rapid strides on the server side, storage technology has experienced only incremental innovations. Many storage systems are constrained by the limitations of scalability, flexibility, and cost, which are characteristic of legacy and proprietary hardware. When servers are virtualized but storage is dedicated, the end result is that only half the infrastructure stack is virtualized, resulting in poor overall resource utilization.
"More and more enterprise applications are moving into the Cloud at the service provider, with the average service provider handling thousands of enterprise applications and hundreds of database instances," Xavier explained. "A key customer pain point with CloudByte customers is when the database is not getting the necessary IOPS from the underlying storage layer."
The typical large enterprise has 900 to 1,000 applications. In a typical storage utilization structure, customers have created storage silos for each application. For example, discrete storage deployments are commonly seen for SAP, for MS-SQL, and for MySQL, Oracle, and MS Exchange within one environment. This results in a great deal of unused capacity on those deployments. By consolidating storage, customers can access unused capacity, while guaranteeing performance for each of these applications. The goal: companies need to consolidate all storage deployments on one platform, without losing the performance guaranteed for each of these applications. "A major part of our client base is large service providers—those companies trying to cater to multiple enterprise customers from the same storage platform," said Xavier. "So, the advantage with solid state storage is that it provides a lot more IOPS and performance on a single platform. Our software…provides the required performance for each one of the customers."
The key for CloudByte is having the right technology from the right partner on the hardware side. SanDisk provides the high-density drives to meet that requirement.
The Solution
Established in 2011, CloudByte has developed advanced technologies to address both storage virtualization and the flexible allocation of storage resources on demand. The company is the first provider of secure, multi-application storage for enterprise-grade clouds run by public and private service providers.
CloudByte ElastiStor Appliance (ESA), a complete self-managed storage solution, extends server virtualization to the storage component. ESA is a single, extensible storage platform that employs solid state drives (SSDs) and can be easily integrated into a storage grid, defying the limitations of geography and scalability of most storage solutions.
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CloudByte offers a hybrid solution, where flash is used to store metadata in order to alleviate timeouts due to metadata crawls. It also offers all-flash configurations, where SanDisk drives are used so multiple applications can run on the same system without competing for underlying storage resources. CloudByte allocates the required resources for these configurations.
For end customers, there are two key advantages. First, customers using an all-flash environment can combine multiple applications into a single platform. Second, for customers using hybrid storage, CloudByte manages flash usage efficiently, so all metadata is stored on flash and the remaining data is stored on hard disk drives.
SSDs offer lower latency for read and write tasks, higher drive writes per day, and greater longevity for writing to the ZFS Intent Log (ZIL). Cloudbyte ESA can also deploy SSDs for primary storage or utilize SSDs in hybrid systems where hard disk drives are still used for primary storage.
After reviewing many different storage vendors, including Seagate, HGST, and Samsung, CloudByte selected SanDisk as their SSD partner. SanDisk provides a broad portfolio of products with a breadth of capacity points, performance characteristics, and interface selections. In addition, by selecting SanDisk, CloudByte can provide enterprise-level storage at attractive pricing in only 2U of rack space. ESA leverages flash drives for high-performance needs, such as caching and the use of either flash or disk drives for data storage. Up to four expansion chasses can also contain hybrid storage.
"We are using two products from SanDisk," said Xavier. "The Optimus EcoTM is used for bulk storage of data. The Optimus ExtremeTM satisfies write-intensive workloads and cache requirements, supporting the required amount of IOPS and multi-pathing."
CloudByte customers can now run many applications within a single storage platform, regardless of their in-house storage expertise. A single console allows for storage management and scalability across data centers, by simply adding more ElastiStor appliances.
"We are pleased to be working with CloudByte to incorporate SanDisk's high performance, enterprise-class SAS SSDs into their new cloud-based storage system," said Alper Ilkbahar, Vice President of Marketing, SanDisk Enterprise Storage Solutions. "The foundation of SAS SSDs from SanDisk enables CloudByte customers to safely deliver fast storage services more efficiently, while saving energy, floor space, and—ultimately—money."
Felix Xavier,
Founder, CEO, and CTO of CloudByte
Why CloudByte Chose SanDisk
CloudByte recognized that SanDisk has a longstanding flash memory innovation history. "We didn't want to reinvent the wheel in terms of flash technology. We wanted to pick out the best-in-class SSD. When conducting our evaluations, our major requirements from a SAS-based SSD were multi-pathing capability in an enterprise grade and reliability," commented Xavier. "SanDisk was able to deliver the required performance for our appliance at the right price point. In addition, the support from SanDisk is really great, in terms of both technical and marketing support."
SanDisk continues to produce the high-speed drives and the high-capacity drives that will help CloudByte produce a high-density storage appliance. "We are consistently looking for high density," Xavier continued. "Our value proposition is that we are able to pack more applications into the high-density flash environment. We need the hardware to support the higher density, which is provided by SanDisk SSDs—512 terabytes in a 3U chassis."
Advantages of CloudByte
CloudByte's advanced technology enables end customers to out-compete their competition, due to greater flexibility and cost savings. For example, the CloudByte appliance provides high density in the storage layer to support multiple applications, which translates into a reduced data center footprint. Density is one of the critical factors in the service provider environment, where a given service provider runs hundreds or thousands of applications in the data center on the single appliance. In addition, virtualization provides higher utilization of the underlying hardware resources: virtualizing flash drives allows for packing more applications onto a smaller number of cards. Last, CloudByte customers can realize greater operating expenditure (OpEx) efficiency since fewer system administrators can manage more database instances due to the higher performance and density afforded by ElastiStor appliances.
Flash is an integral part of providing multiple levels of performance tiers. CloudByte customers can provide a wide variety of performance tiers to their end customers— ranging from 12 IOPS per terabyte to 25,000 IOPS per terabyte. In the hybrid model it provides higher performance capabilities with higher capacity.
"In summary, one of the advantages of switching over to the CloudByte VSM model is the ability to pack multiple applications onto the same storage appliance," explained Xavier. "Some applications are performance-hungry, while other applications are capacity-hungry. By combining these two we are able to effectively utilize the underlying storage platform, thereby increasing the storage virtualization by 5x. That translates into a reduced data center footprint in terms of power and space cooling."
The Result
CloudByte's ESA offering enables companies in industries such as higher education, media and entertainment, healthcare, and cloud services to more reliably, securely, and affordably manage their storage infrastructure for thousands of applications in the virtualized data center. Deploying SanDisk SSDs enables CloudByte to provide a 2U storage appliance with a density of 40 terabytes.
By deploying CloudByte's ESA, enterprises can consolidate their storage infrastructure to a single platform while continuing to run all needed enterprise applications. Like Virtual Machines (VM) in server infrastructures, Virtual Storage Machines (VMS) can now be rapidly deployed to support a Private Cloud or Enterprise Cloud infrastructure, with a defined IOPS per volume. In addition, storage utilization can be increased five-fold or greater, without compromising application performance. When needed, enterprises can scale across data centers simply by adding more ElastiStor appliances, while enjoying easy, single-console management across data centers.
Using CloudByte, the service provider can reduce, and in some cases even remove, the efforts of its pre-sales team. "No design is involved with respect to implementing CloudByte. Once the storage platform is set up, the system administrator simply needs to determine the storage to be provisioned, such as 100 IOPS and 100 terabyte capacity," said Xavier. "The underlying storage platform handles the rest. Flash really helps—either as a part of a cache, holding the metadata, or storing data in all-flash configurations."
Recently, CloudByte introduced ESA in India, where rapidly growing businesses are demanding high-performance enterprise storage at an affordable cost. The Company again chose to partner with SanDisk, deploying SanDisk Optimus EcoTM SAS SSDs to power the all-flash and hybrid storage pools. "The flash powered by SanDisk really helps us to pack as many as one hundred applications onto one chassis," explained Xavier. "It is a great cost savings in terms of data center footprint."
Three appliance models of ESA have been designed to support a specified number of applications or Virtual Machines.
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Partnership into the Future
CloudByte is optimistic about the opportunities inherent in the growing service provider market. There is growth in multiple geographical locations, including North America, India, and some parts of Japan, where large service providers and large enterprise customers are trying to set up private cloud architectures. In addition, large-scale enterprises are slowly moving towards the web-scale architecture. They want to consolidate underlying storage capabilities and share data among multiple applications.
However, companies need the right partner to produce the high-density storage to serve hundreds of applications. "SanDisk is providing a great partnership in terms of delivering high-density drives, whether two-terabyte or four-terabyte all-flash drives. They are really helping us to achieve our end goal in terms of providing highly dense storage platforms," said Xavier.
CloudByte and SanDisk are anticipating a successful partnership into the future. "I am excited to develop new products and new technologies in partnership with SanDisk," continued Xavier. "We are planning to release a couple of new appliance versions in collaboration with SanDisk in the coming years, and our customers value the SanDisk drives in our appliance because of the longstanding history of SanDisk in the flash industry. We are developing more capabilities in our product, which is going to create more happy customers."
This partnership has been strengthened due to the performance of the SanDisk drives, both vis-à-vis competitors in benchmarking studies and in live production environments. "We have had a very positive experience working with SanDisk. The team at SanDisk has delivered samples to us and worked together with us on co-marketing activities, as well as on pricing," said Matt Woithe, Vice President, Marketing at CloudByte.
About CloudByte
CloudByte is the first provider of secure, multi-application storage for enterprise applications run by both enterprises and service providers. Its patent-pending technology empowers organizations to spin out Virtual Storage Machines (VSMs) and to scale storage performance higher or lower on demand. Established in 2011 and managed by technology executives from companies such as NetApp, EMC, LSI, Cisco, Juniper, and Novell, CloudByte is headquartered in the Silicon Valley and has a development center in India. CloudByte is venture-backed by Fidelity Worldwide Investment, Nexus Venture Partners, and Kae Capital. A version of CloudByte's ElastiStor OS, that includes a free perpetual license for twenty-five terabytes of storage capacity, can be downloaded from the Community Edition page of the Company's web site.
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About to retire, Scott Brown reflects on military careerBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 10. 2014 10:09PM
MANCHESTER - Scott Brown has many memories from his 35 years in the National Guard as he prepares for his retirement ceremony at the Pentagon on Tuesday, including his experience as an embedded U.S. senator dining with soldiers in Afghanistan.
In 2011, while a Massachusetts senator, Lt. Col. Brown was deployed at his request to Afghanistan in his role as deputy counsel to the chief lawyer for the National Guard Bureau, working on problems with contractors, particularly fraud, waste and abuse.
At one point during the two-week training stint at a military base near Kandahar, Brown skipped the officers' dining area, got into the chow line and joined a group of enlisted men. "There I was in full uniform, carrying a firearm, a combat pack on my back," he recalls. "I was a senator, but I was also a soldier on duty."
Brown recalls making some small talk, then asking the soldiers if they ever have the opportunity to talk to the VIPs and politicians who visit from Washington.
"They said, 'Nah. That's just a dog and pony show. We don't really get a chance to talk to them, and if we do, we're told not to say anything bad.'?"
Brown asked what they would say if given the chance. What he heard is what you might expect: "The food is terrible. We need to get more access to our families - more time to write home, get online, have a break to get on the phone."
When Brown said he might be able to help, the soldiers replied, "No disrespect sir, but you are just a lieutenant colonel." To their disbelief, he revealed himself as a U.S. senator and had to show his ID to prove it, winning a bet that got his breakfast delivered the next day
Now a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, Brown says the kind of camaraderie he experienced on that Afghanistan visit and throughout his military career is what he will miss the most once he hangs up the uniform for good after the May 13 ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Brown, who was promoted to colonel in 2012, will be surrounded by family and friends as Gen. Frank J. Grass, chief of the National Guard Bureau and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presides over the retirement ceremony. Brown will receive the Legion of Merit medal.
In an interview at his campaign headquarters in Manchester, the 54-year-old Brown sounded like a guardsman who'd like to stay on the job he started as a 19-year-old college student, but having served 30 years as an officer and five in the enlisted ranks, he faces mandatory retirement.
"I'm very excited about it, but at the same time a little melancholy as well," he said. "I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life and have the most knowledge I've had on these issues, but it's time for a new round of hard-chargers to come in and do it."
Brown says he was drawn to National Guard duty after the Blizzard of '78, when he witnessed their efforts to save stranded motorists and restore normalcy in the days that followed the deadly storm.
"It was a Herculean effort," he said, "and I said to myself, 'Man, I want to be just like them.'?"
At a Thanksgiving football game later that year, he ran into a longtime family friend who was at the time an officer in the 101st Engineer Battalion out of Reading, Mass. "The next thing I know, I'm down at the 101st, signed, sealed, delivered and off to basic training," he said.
As a sophomore at Tufts University, he entered the military as a private first class and platoon leader. According to Brown, that was the beginning of a teamwork and leadership experience that shaped his life for the next three decades.
Over the years, he obtained his law degree, advanced through the ranks, and for the past 15 years, has served as an attorney in the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps.
Brown talks about the "special unwritten bond" among servicemen and women. Unless you've been there, it's hard to understand, he said.
"The thing that's kept me in (the National Guard) for the past 35 years has been the camaraderie and the people," he said. "They are just amazing people who are there on a volunteer basis, giving up their weekends, their summers, sometimes going away for a year or two, sometimes giving up their lives for their country. They are incredibly talented and incredibly dedicated. I'll miss that a lot."

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The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated cliniching the National League West title on Thursday with a plunge into the outfield pool at Chase Field in Phoenix -- much to the chagrin of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Dodgers were asked to remain in their clubhouse and not return to the field after the game, but the players came out against the home team's wishes. They dashed across the outfield and climbed the wall in right center to enjoy a pool party after much of the stadium had emptied.
"I could call it disrespectful and classless, but they don't have a beautiful pool at their old park and must have really wanted to see what one was like," Diamondbacks president and CEO Derrick Hall told The Arizona Republic.
Diamondbacks infielder Willie Bloomquist was angered by the Dodgers' swim.
"I think it's tired and disrespectful," Bloomquist said, according to arizonasports.com. "It's surprising because they have a lot of veteran guys on that team that I thought were classier than that.
"But there's a fine line between going overboard at someone else's place and doing that, I think. But what are we going to do about it? There's not much we can do about it now. They've clinched the division this year, but if that's how they're going to act and be classless, that's their gig, that's their clubhouse. I just think it's disrespectful and classless."
Dodgers president Stan Kasten said it was all a misunderstanding. The team misinterpreted the directive to stay off the field, thinking the Diamondbacks didn't want them out there reveling in their victory right after the game in front of the Arizona fans.
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Diamondbacks right-hander Brandon McCarthy was a little more understanding, saying he hoped it was his team enjoying a title next season.
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The wind is never a fishermen's friend, but anglers wouldn't mind if a south wind picks up over the weekend.
The wind is never a fishermen's friend, but anglers wouldn't mind if a south wind picks up over the weekend.
The north wind associated with recent cold fronts is drying out the marsh.
The persistent north wind is pushing out water leaving canals and duck ponds dry. The low water level is making it hard for anglers to find speckled trout in the marsh.
While redfish can be found anywhere in the marsh, Gary Callais of T-Pops Mart in Golden Meadow said a south wind is needed to raise water levels and for anglers to catch speckled trout.
"(The fishing) is slow with the cold and low tide. We are hoping after the front passes (on Friday), we get a south wind and it pushes the water back in the marsh. Whenever the water returns ,it will make a difference," Callais said. "Redfish are doing well, and a few people have caught some trout now that the sun is out. It is the water level that everyone is complaining about. If the south wind comes back, the weekend should be good."
Buggie Vegas, owner of Bridge Side Marina in Grand Isle, said with low water levels in the marsh, people are fishing along the side of the road heading to Grand Isle to catch redfish.
"I passed by Fourchon and the water looked pretty calm, but there is no water in the marsh," Vegas said. "They are fishing along the side of the road, and redfish are still plentiful."
Besides having water levels return, Callais said the expected warm up after the front passes will help anglers catch speckled trout.
"They say the front is coming on Friday. It doesn't look bad and the temperatures are supposed to climb back up. If it gets back into the 70s, that should help. If it is warm enough, they will be able to use some top-water baits for trout," Callais said.
Average fishing.
Callais said once the water level rises, anglers will find redfish in dead-end canals and duck ponds.
"When the water comes back, the redfish will head into the duck ponds again," Callais said.
Best spots: Sulphur mine, Grey Duck Lake and the surrounding marsh when water level rises.
Best baits: Shrimp, minnows, gold spoon and spinner baits for redfish and top-water baits for speckled trout.
GRAND ISLE/Fourchon
Poor fishing.
Vegas said there was little activity around the island, but people still came to the area to fish.
"Last weekend, we had some people come fish Palmetto Bayou, and they also caught some fish at night," Vegas said.
Best spots: Palmetto Bayou and the canals along La. 1.
Best baits: Minnows and shrimp.
Good fishing.
Melissa Fanguy of Capt. Allen's Bait and Tackle in Houma said the low water level hasn't stop anglers from finding redfish.
"Lake Boudreaux is the hot spot for redfish, redfish, redfish," Fanguy said. "There is not a lot going on with speckled trout, and from what I hear Cocodrie is dead right now."
Best spots: Lake Boudreaux and the Montegut area.
Best bait: Shrimp, white and chartreuse-colored artificial baits.
Good fishing.
Now that duck season has ended, anglers are heading out and catching sac-a-lait.
"We've had a bunch of people this week come out. They are catching sac-a-lait, but noting so far with bass," Robbie Breaux of Bob's Bayou Black Marina in Gibson said. "With the rain holding off, the weekend should be good and we have more people fishing since duck season is over."
Best spots: Lake Hackberry and 70-Mile Canal.
Best baits: Blue and white, pink and white tube jigs.


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As part of a required move from Biltmore Square Mall, The Health Adventure has announced that its final day in operation will be July 14.
ASHEVILLE - As part of a required move from Biltmore Square Mall, The Health Adventure has announced that its final day in operation will be July 14.
The Health Adventure, a children's science and health center, has served the Western North Carolina area for 45 years.
"We are grateful to have been an important part of the education system and to have served as a center of family engagement," Dr. Mark Knollman, chairman of the Board of Advisors, said Tuesday in a news release.
"The years of support of The Health Adventure from our members, guests, donors, sponsors, schools and elected officials is greatly appreciated. We are also very grateful for the tremendous support that Park Ridge Health has provided for more than two years as we worked together to educate children for a healthier Western North Carolina."
"The closure is in no way indicative of a decreased commitment to excellence," he added. "Our closure has been caused by the redevelopment of the Biltmore Square Mall and their decision to not let us continue to operate in the new outlet center model. When the news was announced in early May that tenants would be required to move, we chose to not continue with our business model of operating through selling annual memberships supported with philanthropy.
"Additionally, we recently learned that in July, we will be losing 40 percent of our funding from the state of North Carolina. The forced relocation of our facility after the tremendous investment in this new exceptional location, as well as the funding cuts, are devastating, and it is simply too much to financially bear to attempt a third move in three years."
Memberships will be honored through the closure date on July 14, and information is being sent to all current members who may wish to receive prorated reimbursements on the remaining months of their memberships should they not want to maintain their membership, which allows entrance into more than 300 other science centers in the country.
General admission fees will be in effect for non-members who wish to visit The Health Adventure until July 14.
Paige Wheeler, executive director of The Health Adventure, said "The closure will leave a significant void in our community. We can only hope that someday the right combination of partners can come together to fill this void with another interactive science and health center worthy of our community."
Added Jason Wells, vice president at Park Ridge Health, "We are so proud of The Health Adventure team and their many years of service to kids and families in our community. We are sad about the decision by leadership of the new outlet mall, but we respect their new plans. We continue to be hopeful that a partner will step up and help develop a destination for healthy learning and play so that the 45-year journey of excellence can continue."


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MADRID - World Council of Credit Unions last week made
recommendations to the Financial Action Task Force
(FATF) on how to limit regulatory burdens on credit
unions in the FATF's forthcoming guidance papers on
anti-money laundering (AML) standards. The new standards will
expand the international AML definition of politically
exposed persons (PEPs) to include domestic and international
organization PEPs, as well as update existing FATF guidance
on new payment methods (NPMs).
National anti-money laundering authorities are expected to
issue regulations to implement the new FATF PEPs and NPMs
guidance next year. At that time, credit unions will be
required to assess whether new and existing credit union
members include high-ranking national, provincial or local
politicians and civil servants, or high-ranking officials at
international organizations such as the United Nations, World
Bank and International Monetary Fund. Credit union AML
compliance procedures regarding NPMs, such as prepaid debit
cards, mobile payments and remittances will also need to
adjust to the new standards.
In February 2012, FATF issued a revised set of its
International Standards on Combating Money Laundering and the
Financing of Terrorism & Proliferation, better known
as the "40 Recommendations," which expanded the
definition of PEPs to include domestic and international
organizations. Prior to the update, the definition had only
applied to foreign PEPs, meaning high-ranking officials in
foreign governments, and credit union common bond
requirements generally limited credit unions' PEP-related
compliance burdens. Under the new standards, even
high-ranking officials in local governments, such as mayors
or members of local government councils, are likely to be
considered PEPs. The anticipated FATF guidance papers will
clarify in detail the high-level principles on PEPs and NPMs.
"Although many larger banks and credit unions currently
use expensive software and vendor lists to determine who is a
PEP, we related to FATF that many credit unions would be well
aware of the high-ranking political officials in their local
communities without needing to invest in possibly
unaffordable vendor products," said Michael Edwards,
World Council's chief counsel and vice president for
advocacy and government affairs, who represented credit
unions at the conference.
While at the conference, Edwards also shared the credit union
perspective on using new payment methods to promote financial
inclusion as part of an effective risk-based approach to AML
compliance, which focuses on payments with the highest risk
of being related to criminal activity, terrorism or nuclear
"World Council participates in forums such as these to
advocate for streamlined anti-money laundering procedures for
credit unions," said Brian Branch, World Council
president and CEO. "Our goal is to help credit unions
provide wider access to financial services and to reduce
their regulatory burden for serving the underserved."
FATF is the international standard-setting body for rules to
combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism and
nuclear proliferation. World Council contributed its remarks
during a FATF conference, Sept. 13-14, at the Banco de España in Madrid,
Spain. The event was part of FATF's private sector
outreach in preparation for issuing new guidance on PEPs and
NPMs in early 2013.
World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) is the global
trade association and development agency for credit unions.
World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit
unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to
empower people through access to high quality and affordable
financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the
global credit union system before international organizations
and works with national governments to improve legislation
and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce
new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions'
financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented more than 290
technical assistance programs in 71 countries.
Worldwide, 51,000 credit unions in 100 countries serve
196 million people. Learn more about World Council's
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For our CD/DVD transfer rate tests we used the Nero Disc Speed utility and a set of data and audio CD-R/RW/ROM media. Here we test the maximum reading speed of the Optiarc drive for each type of disc. For comparison, we have included the corresponding reading results of another 24x DVD burner, the LiteOn IT IHAS-324 (based on MediaTEK SoC).
The following CD Speed graph shows the reading performance with US-RW media.
- AudioCD
In the CD Speed Advanced DAE quality test, the drive's average speed was 28.49X with a quality score of 99.1 out of 100.
Digital Audio Extraction or DAE is important when we try to read the files stored on an audio CD and store them in our hard disk drive. The procedure is not always that simple and the fidelity of the extracted data depend on the way each drive handles these data.
The majority of the software that support this procedure, commonly known as "ripping", will just read the audio files and store them on your hard disk. However, this approach is not recommended for all drives, since it may result to read or sync errors if your drive does not support report of C2 error pointer information and also what the author of the EAC (Exact Audio Copy) software describes as "accurate stream" and " non-caching."
According to EAC, the Optiarc AD-7240S drive does not support "caching ", but it offers "Accurate stream" and reports "C2 error pointer information
Accurate stream and C2 error reporting is always welcome and contribute to reliable and fast audio extraction. Generally, if you select a drive for extraction better have a look that the drive does not cache audio data.
If you are sure about the physical condition of your audio CD and you need faster extractions, you may chose other utilities such as the CD DAE software. A typical ripping task finished at an average reading speed of 28.7X, using CD DAE:
- 90 mins Audio disc
- DVD Format
Now let's take a look at how the drive performs with DVD media. This time, a set of SL and DL DVD media was used. The drive is capable of reading at 16X maximum speed for single layer DVD ROM and at 12X for dual layer DVD ROM media.
DVD-ROM SL media -
The two layers of a PTP DVD-ROM disc are read sequentially with the drive starting reading from the inner part of the disc, which is the beginning of each layer, progressing towards its outer range.
The first layer of an OTP dual layer DVD-ROM is read exactly the same way as the first layer of the PTP disc we tested previously. The difference here is the reading strategy of the second layer of the disc. The beginning of the second layer is located in the outer part of the disc, so the drive starts reading from the outer tracks and progresses towards the inner part of the disc.
DVD-R- Average read 12.07x
DVD-RW - Average read 9.77x
DVD+R - Average read 12.06x
DVD+RW Average read 9.79x
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Ripping of a single layer DVD movie:
The reading process of almost all media was completed without read errors and at speeds that match the drive's specifications. In most cases, however, the Optiarc drive was slightly slower than it's competitor, the LiteON IHAS-324.


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Fontanini Eighteen Inch Scale Nativity Collection
Fontanini introduces a new, larger figure size! The 18" Nativity Collection fills your need for an impressive Nativity display with the same features as the smaller polymer figures. Crafted in Italy of break-resistant polymer, each hand-painted figure is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. Additional figures will be added to this collection in 2004 and in subsequent years, enabling you to build a beautiful Nativity in this captivating new size.


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Smokin' Joe Frazier
By: Linnea Crowther
6 years ago
When we think of boxing superstar Joe Frazier, a few legendary fights immediately come to mind.
There's the "Fight of the Century," Frazier's first bout with Muhammad Ali. The massively hyped fight packed Madison Square Garden and brought on riots at satellite viewing locations. Defending champion Frazier came out on top after 10 brutal rounds.
Just as exciting was Frazier's famed first fight against George Foreman. Frazier was defending his World Heavyweight Championship… but he lost to the then-undefeated Foreman.
Then, of course, there's the "Thrilla in Manila." Equally hyped, it was the final fight between Frazier and Ali – and in some ways, it was as much about politics and personality as it was about boxing prowess. This time, Ali won.
But before all those world-famous bouts, before Frazier became "Smokin' Joe" and gained world fame, Joe Frazier was an Olympian. Frazier was sent to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics as a replacement for heavyweight Buster Mathis, who had injured himself. Frazier distinguished himself quickly, knocking out his early competitors with ease.
In the semifinal against Russian Vadim Yemelyanov, Frazier broke a thumb in the second round… but he still managed to knock out his competitor. With no more medical assistance than soaking the thumb in Epsom salts, Frazier went on to win the final. The gold medal was his.


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STATEN ISLAND, NY -- Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, released the following statement today regarding the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI:
"We are, of course, all surprised today by the announcement of the Pope that he will resign at the end of the month. Popes have the authority to do this, of course, though it has rarely been exercised.
"We view the Pope's action here in a positive light, as an expression of his concern and love for the Church. He wants the Church to have a Pope who can fulfill his role with the strength and vigor that the office requires.
"My own interactions with Pope Benedict have been in the arena of his defense of human life, and we at Priests for Life thank him in particular for the ways in which he has continued to announce and implement the Church's pro-life teachings. Those who wish to send the Holy Father a message of appreciation and promise of prayers can do so on a special form we will post at www.priestsforlife.org."
To read the full text of the Pope's announcement, go to http://www.priestsforlife.org/articles/4498-pope-benedict-resignation
Fr. Frank's Column: Pope Benedict and the Cause of Life
Send Pope Benedict Your Thanks and Pray for the Election of His Successor!
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By SUE RYAN
News staff writer
December 13, 2006
Gov. Ted Kulongoski has asked President Bush for a presidential disaster declaration for Oregon counties affected by November's massive flooding.
"Given the amount of damage, we need the federal government to partner with us so our communities can begin to rebuild their homes, businesses and roads, and to help us mitigate damage from future flooding or other natural disasters," Kulongoski said.
The request went in Monday and included Hood River as well as Lincoln, Tillamook, and Clatsop counties under it.
The total amount of damage assessment for all four counties was $6 million. Hood River County had initially submitted $27 million in damages with an additional $22 million in potential losses for the agricultural industry.
Part of the reduction came from damages being excluded because they were covered by insurance, or damages that were the responsibility of another agency.
For Hood River County, the majority of damage occurred Nov. 6 and 7 when the county had record rainstorms resulting in debris flows and high water from its southern edge near Mount Hood to the Columbia River.
"We're glad to see that Hood River County was included and that will enable the public entities to get some relief for damages and mitigation efforts," said Dave Meriwether, the county's administrator.
He said that unfortunately the declaration did not include funding for private properties and businesses in Hood River County. Mt. Hood Railroad had reported damages of more than $1.2 million. Tillamook County was the only county that had a high enough damage level for the governor to also request a Physical Disaster Declaration from the Small Business Administration. That could make low interest loans available for homeowners and businesses.
"The level of damage and loss here do not rise to a level to make that an eligible declaration here. We'll continue to work with those businesses to help them find relief," Meriwether said.
Federal Public Law 93-288 requires that public entities filing applications for disaster relief must accept responsibility for 25 percent of the loss.
For Hood River County, multiple sites suffered damages. Among those are the Ice Fountain Water District, the Farmers Irrigation District, and the Middle Fork Irrigation District.
Floodwaters deposited 15 feet of debris in the Ice Fountain district. Its other damages included an exposed wall that was eroded by the Hood River and its spring's capacity being reduced.
The Farmers Irrigation District main canal inlet facility sustained heavy structural damage during the flood and its access road was washed away. Both control gates were damaged and up to 300 feet of canal was filled in with silt and rock.
The Middle Fork Irrigation District lost Penstock line (steel pipe) from Laurance Lake to the settling basin. The flood and debris torrent also took out the Eliot Branch Diversion and lost roadway to the Coe Branch diversion.
The decision on whether or not the federal government will award disaster relief should come from FEMA within the next few weeks.
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Museum Will Live on Top of Mabbs Mine Shaft
By Dennis Walikainen | Published
The irony of an old mine shaft being discovered during the construction of a new mineral museum building is not lost on Ted Bornhorst.
Bornhorst is director of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, whose new building will straddle the old shaft. With the help of the Michigan Tech Archives, the professor of economic and engineering geology at Michigan Technological University has been able to trace historical references to the shaft as far back as the 1860s, when it began its short lifespan.
Actually, there are four shafts, ranging in depth from 80 to 200 feet, near the construction site of the new building for the museum that will sit on the southern edge of the Michigan Tech campus, adjacent to the Advanced Technology Development Complex.
Construction crews from Moyle Construction made the discovery of the main shaft, and Michigan Tech facilities management personnel have capped it, using some 700 tons of concrete.
"The guys worked late, plugging the holes," said Mike Wilmers, project manager with facilities management at Tech. "We put a couple of feet of concrete on top of it and will add another four feet on top of that."
Although some thought it would be nice to save a shaft as part of the museum grounds, it just wasn't feasible, according to Wilmers.
Some previous research by Tech students over the years acknowledged the shaft's presence,
but it was not well known, according to Bornhorst.
"It was the Mabbs vein, named after brothers John and Austin, and it resided within the boundaries of the old Isle Royale Mining Company, the first near Portage Lake," Bornhorst says.
According to his sources, a vertically standing single mass of copper weighing 2,300 pounds was taken out 70 feet below what was the main "F" shaft in 1865.
"The Mabbs lode was a tabular vein, about five feet wide and cutting across the host rocks, comprising a cluster of small seams up to five inches thick, rather than a single, well-defined vein," Bornhorst says.
Large amounts of water infiltrating the mine made mining difficult, but the F shaft reached down 160 feet, with drifts driven north and south, within one year, according to Bornhorst. The F shaft soon produced nearly 24,000 pounds of copper, but still wasn't making money.
"Despite John Mabbs' objection, the company shut down the unprofitable mining operations at the Mabbs vein a year later," Bornhorst says. Although mining was resumed later by the Mabbs brothers, and they raised another one-ton slab, the shaft ended operations by the 1870s.
The Mabbs continued working with the Isle Royale Mining Company (so named because it was originally going to mine the island, not Houghton County properties).
The ironies continue.
In 1866, Austin Mabbs was among the founders of the Houghton County Historical Society and Mining Institute.
"It is indeed fitting that a vein named after the Mabbs brothers now has a mineral museum linked to it," Bornhorst adds, noting that Moyle Construction secured several small specimens of native copper from the mine to add to the museum's collections.
The Mabbs are credited with bringing various mining technologies to the Keweenaw and the world, including an early power drill, according to Bornhorst. They also attempted to bring nitroglycerin to the area, but they were threatened to be "ridden out of town on a rail," according to newspaper accounts of the day.
"After more than 125 years out of sight, the Mabbs brothers are once again, and will be for years to come, a visible part of Copper Country history," Bornhorst says. "The brothers were risk-taking entrepreneurs, innovators and preservers of history, qualities exemplified by Michigan Tech students since its founding."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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NORTH SALEM, N.Y. -- A North Salem therapist pleaded guilty on Thursday, Jan. 9 to charges of sexually abusing two of his patients, according to a statement released by Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore.
Mark Bernardini, 57, who also has an office in Bronxville, had sexual contact with a 19-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy in separate incidents that took place between May 16 and July 2 of last year.
"The courage displayed by both young victims in this case in immediately alerting their parents to what had transpired allowed police and prosecutors to quickly determine the predatory behavior of this defendant," DiFiore said in a statement. "He used his position of trust and authority to target and take advantage of his unsuspecting victims and instead of helping them with their vulnerabilities, he exploited them."
Bernardini faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in state prison and 15 years post release supervision.
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The new Canon XTi CR2 format is not "recognized" by LR. So it's not cut & dry. No new owners of the XTi can use the beta version until Adobe adds Canon's format. Interesting, Mac's Aperature has already adopted the new CR2. [a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=76964\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Well have you imported a file into Aperture from the 400D yet?The CR2 format has been around a long time. And Lightroom does support it. If you were specific about the 400D, then you are refering to new RAW, rather than a new file type.The 400D is a new camera, barely 2 weeks old and even the version of DPP that supports is not publicly available. Beta 3 is how old now? Beta will support the 400D and even the Nikon D80, before ACR 3.6 will.[{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
The changes to Camera raw are nicely summarized over at Rob Galbraith's site.http://robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page....cid=7-7898-8573The D80 and 400D will be supported in the next release (3.6) due in the fall. Depending on when the next Lightroom beta arrives it may include support for these two soon to be popular bodies.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77049\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Thanks to all who have replied. No, LR Beta 3 does not support the current 400D iteration of CR2; I've tried--no luck. Yes, Aperature does. But all indications are that Beta 4 will cover these new iterations. So new XTi owners will not be left in the cold.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77102\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


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(CBS/AP) STOCKTON, Calif. - A marriage counselor who specialized in anger management allegedly killed his ex-wife, her sister, and her aunt before turning his gun on himself inside a nursing home Monday, reports CBS Sacramento.
The killings took place at multiple locations in Stockton, Calif., including a senior assisted living center, said police.
According to CBS Sacramento, police received a call reporting a shooting at a Stockton home at 3:05 p.m. on Monday. When they arrived, they found 64-year Kathleen Arata dead from a gunshot wound. Witnesses described the suspect, Colin McGrattan, and his silver minivan, to police.
While investigating the shooting, police received a call of another shooting at an area senior assisted living center. There, they saw a van matching the suspect's vehicle parked outside, the station reports.
Inside a room at the residence, police found Chizuko Kaneishi, 88, with a gunshot wound. They also found McGrattan, 45, dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A .38 special handgun was laying nearby.
Inside the van, police found the body of McGrattan's ex-wife, Jacklyn Arata, 57, wrapped in a tarp. She had been shot.
Police say Kathleen was Jacklyn's sister and Kaneishi, who was pronounced dead at the hospital, was their aunt.
Homicide investigators are exploring a financial motive for the killings.
"As long as I've known him, he's been very kind," said McGrattan's roommate, Courtney Bradford. "He was talking to me a lot about losing his home and bankruptcy and the money, lawyer for all the divorce court stuff."
McGrattan was a marriage counselor in Stockton. His website says he specialized in anger management and family issues. He and Jacklyn Arata had two sons.
"The other night he was talking about how upset he was about them not wanting to come visit his family for Christmas," Bradford said.
Police continue to investigate what led the suspected killer to go after not only his ex-wife, but her 64 and 88-year-old relatives.
"Investigators are talking to people who knew the suspect to see what he was going through," Silva said. "Maybe he told someone else the hardships he may have been having."


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Hi guys.
I decided to post up a few video's of my pigs, well some of them, mainly mom and dad and their 3 babies. I'll get around to taking some video's of the other pigs.
There is also a video of my degu, who has since passed away, but she was so darling and tame =)
Hope you like them. And sorry for one of the video's being a bit upside down.
http://s1309.photobucket.com/albums/...ps87c759ad.mp4 Guinevere and Eros
http://s1309.photobucket.com/albums/...psdc5b914f.mp4 Pjok the degu
http://s1309.photobucket.com/albums/...ps289b066d.mp4 Guinvere and babies
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When a Passport 8500 X50 and its new SmartCord Live power adaptors arrived one day from the good folks at Beltronics, I was stoked to use it until I found out it the only app currently available for it is for the iPhone. Since I'm a Blackberry guy, I asked my buddy Brian Sherman (who has had every iteration of iPhone ever made) to test it out for me on his road trip to the Long Beach Grand Prix. He agreed and below is his report. (Garry)
My friend asked me to review an Escort Passport 8500 X50 radar detector the other day. Since I have a tendency to stretch the limits of my local traffic laws, I thought it might be a good idea. We arranged to meet so I could pick up the product and begin the experiment. (Brian)
In the box:
There are two packages with this system. One contains the Passport 8500 X50 radar detector and the the optional SmartCord Live adaptor is in the other. The latter enables you to join a community of SmartCord Live users via a special iPhone app said to provide real-time ticket protection. Both units are well presented in very nice packaging with clear, full-color instruction manuals. The 8500 X50 also comes with a very nice storage case that allows you to store your detector, mount and cable when not in use. This is a welcome feature for an avid traveller and rental car user like myself!
Downloading the app:
SmartCord Live is a unique feature that connects your radar detector to a live network of SmartCord Live users via the iPhone app. The app sends and receives radar detection data from the network of users you to alert you to the presence of traffic light cameras, speed cameras and speed traps. It then stores the info in a cloud for other users to access to send out alerts to potential trap based on your location. It's a great concept that can provide avid commuters with another tool against costly speeding tickets.
The app required to use SmartCord Live is easily found on the iTunes app store. Upon opening the app, I'm asked to enter my user name and password. There's no place in the app to register, so you'll have to go to the Escort Web site to do this as I have. On the site there's a large SmartCord activation icon on the left of the screen. Registration only takes a few minutes, but it would be much easier if one could do this from within the app. It would be disappointing to bring this on a trip not knowing it can't be used until you can get to a computer and register the unit first.
Detector installation:
The included bracket is low profile and simple to install. It features two suction mounts that hold the detector securely in place. The coolest mounting feature has to be the quick release on the radar detector. There is a large button located on top of the detector that allows it to be pulled from the mount. This is great if you're looking to stash the detector while not in use without trying to remove the suction cups from the windshield.
It should also be mentioned that Escort offers a traditional suction cup called the Super Cup. This has a single large flip-lever suction cup similar to what you might find on a portable GPS unit. Power connection is simple. There's a simple RJ11 phone-like connector for the detector. Part of the power cord is coiled and the rest is straight. Three's more than enough cable for my WRX and my Excursion.
One of the main benefits of the SmartCord design is the access to the simple controls. The end that plugs into your 12-volt outlet has a button to mute the unit and a report button used for tagging locations for upload to the SmartCord Live community.
Upon connecting power, I open the app to connect the unit to my SmartCord Live account. This is all done through a Bluetooth connection. I was very concerned about this as I use Bluetooth to stream audio to my stereo and I wouldn't want to forfeit that feature to be able to use SmartCord Live. Fortunately, the system allows connection to two separate Bluetooth devices and I'm still able to enjoy my music stream while using SmartCord Live.
Because SmartCord Live is always connected to the network, it's important to remember that it will use the data service from your cell phone provider. Although I doubt the amount of data used is significant, it will be something to be aware of and check on if you are not on an unlimited data plan. This also means the system can receive real time firmware updates. It took roughly five minutes to download and install the update for this this unit.
In Action:
After downloading the app, hooking up the detector and updating the system, I'm ready to give the unit a try. I open the app and it shows a nice map of my location. I hit the report button and it immediately marks the map. About 10 seconds later, it confirms the report has uploaded to the network. I circle the block and return to this spot to report my location. The detector alerts me as promised and the app gives me the option to turn the alert off. This is a nice feature for areas on your daily commute where the detector may false regularly.
I try the same test with the app on in the background using the SmartCord to report a location. It works equally as well. I pull back into my driveway and shut the car off. A few minutes later the app flashes a message on my screen to alert me there has been no activity so it will be shutting off to save power – an excellent feature!
Enough for the trips around the block. It's time to see what this thing can really do! On my road trip from Arizona to the Long Beach Grand Prix, I was hopeful that other SmartCord Live users would alert me to potential dangers on the 450-mile drive across I-10. Although the detector worked very well multiple times to alert me to the location of police and emergency vehicles, the SmartCord Live feature never triggered on either leg of the journey.
This will surely change as the SmartCord Live community grows and will be a very welcome addition in urban areas. In the meantime, you still have all of the advantages of a full-featured high performance radar detector. It's easy to see the benefits of this system for avid travellers. Although the SmartCord Live cable is an extra accessory with an additional cost, it could more than pay for itself if it keeps you from getting just one ticket! Or, in my case, several tickets!


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Hussam Tahsin Baik denies suing Assi El Hellani
Prominent Syrian actor Hussam Tahsin Baik denied recent circulating rumors that he filing a lawsuit against prominent Lebanese singer Assi El Hellani over the song "Natalie" that the singer recently released on a number of Arab radio stations. It was said that Tahsin filed the lawsuit due to the fact that the song "Natalie" legally belongs to him and he is the writer and composer of it.
Hussam stressed that a very strong friendship ties him to Assi and the singer had taken his permission before recording and releasing the song. Hussam denied all reports that Assi took the song without his permission and stressed that all allegations are untrue.
With regards to his satisfaction with Assi's version of the song, Hussam said that Assi gave a warm feeling to the song that made it even more special and unique.
"Natalie" is the only song Hussam ever wrote and composed and is based on actual facts from his life. "Natalie" is the name of a Russian woman Hussam had fell in love with while he was living in Russia and whom her parents had refused to allow her to come to Syria and marry Hussam. His heartache and longing for the woman he loved he wrote and composed a song dedicated especially to her.
After Hussam had released the song, Natalie disobeyed her family and came to Syria and married Hussam and the two had a daughter, who is Syrian actress Nadine Tahsin Baik.


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Van Nuys Airport (VNY) is a focal point for business and industry in the San Fernando Valley, with four major fixed-base operators and over 100 businesses located on the 730-acre property.
The latest report released by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) reaffirms that VNY continues to be a major economic engine for the San Fernando Valley and the greater Los Angeles area. The study finds that VNY contributed more than $2 billion in business activity to the L.A. county economy in fiscal year 2015, which includes 10,480 jobs, $674.6 million in labor income, $2.0 billion in business revenues, and $295.3 million in local, state and federal tax revenues.
VNY will be spending $63.9 million on Airport Capital Improvement Projects (ACIP) and non-ACIP projects through 2022 to meet future aviation needs in Southern California. The economic impacts of capital improvement projects include 670 jobs, $37.2 million in labor income, $107.5 million in business revenues, and $13 million in local, state and federal tax revenues.
Investments by airport tenants in facilities at VNY is also resulting in positive returns. The study estimates that for every $1 million spent on capital improvement projects, there will be positive economic impacts of $583,000 in labor income, a total of $1,682,300 in business revenue and a total of local state and federal taxes of $202,700.
In addition, an estimated 32,000 visitors arrived in Los Angeles County through the airport with an economic impact of $9.1 million and supported 90 jobs with a labor income of $3.7 million.
To view the 2015 Economic Impact Study for Van Nuys Airport in Adobe Acrobat PDF file, please click below:
Van Nuys Airport Economic Impact Study (Full Version) - 2015
Van Nuys Airport Economic Impact Study (Condensed Version) - 2007
Van Nuys Airport Economic Impact Study (Full Version) - 2007


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Omar Hassan Paints by Punching Away His Pain
Artsy Editorial
Using spray paint as both a material and a sculptural object, Omar Hassan creates new iterations within the ever-expanding genre of street art. Inspired by environments urban and natural, Hassan says he finds inspiration in the work of graffiti pioneers such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and in Jackson Pollock's masterful abstractions. Both his multilayered works on canvas and those cast in plaster or bronze reflect his trademark attention to materiality. His work takes various forms, from whimsical dappled splotches partially obscuring a classical oil painting to lines of wet paint that snake and drip down picture frames to a street installation of raised cubes covered in rainbow tones. All of his work reflects his desire to encapsulate the mischievous and the playful, a sentiment at the core of the now 40-year-old tradition of street art.
Italian, b. 1987, Milan, Italy, based in Milan, Italy


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When all eyes turned to Beijing during the 2008 Olympics, the headlines were just as much about the gray skies over the city as gold medals.
The smog in Beijing and other Chinese cities is a visible manifestation of a larger pollution problem, one that costs the country between 8 and 12 percent of GDP and thousands of lives each year, analysts estimate. And it's not just affecting the air -- all of China's resources are threatened by pollution, leaving the nation in a state of environmental crisis, "one the world has become aware of," Alex Wang, the director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Environmental Law Program in China, said.
The global leader in carbon emissions, China faces both the problems of an advanced, industrialized country -- like the air pollution from increased automobile use -- and those of a developing country -- like soil erosion. One of the greatest domestic environmental threats is the scarcity of clean, safe drinking water, observers said.
"While a lot of attention is paid to air pollution, really the water problem is the wall that is going to stop everything," Jennifer Turner, Director of the China Environment Forum at the Woodrow Wilson Center, said.
Chinese officials themselves estimate "that 50 percent of the water should not be drunk, and between a third and a quarter of that should not be used for anything," even industrial uses, Turner said. Still, the polluted water cointinues to be used, contaminating soil, preventing crops from growing, and poisoning the public.
The Ministry of Water Resources in China has said "700 million people drink contaminated water every day, and 100 million people drink water that's so contaminated it makes people sick," Elizabeth Economy, the Council on Foreign Relations C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies and author of "The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future," said.
Jonathan Watts, the Asia Environment correspondent for The Guardian and author of "When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save the World -- or Destroy it," said pollution has an extreme impact on health.
"The World Bank estimates that 460,000 people die prematurely every year in China" due to pollution, Watts said. "Air pollution causes respiratory disease, but the real health risk is water pollution, and what it does to the stomach."
Cancer is another concern; Watt described "cancer villages," or clusters of the disease "around big, dirty industrial plants."
China Response to Pollution Improving, But Not Enough
The health costs of pollution "are really disproportionately borne by the poor people in society," Wang said. "It's really a justice issue."
Richard Fuller, the president of the Blacksmith Institute, a not-for-profit organization that works in the world's most polluted places to help local agencies and governments stop pollution problems and clean up contaminated sites, said toxins that seep into the water supply and the air are "a public health risk of substance."
According to the Blacksmith Institute's annual report, pollution affects over 100 million peoples' lives around the world, a figure that "puts pollution in the same category of HIV, TB and malaria," Fuller said.
The Blacksmith Institute had ranked two Chinese cities among the world's top 10 polluted areas in 2007: Linfen, where unregulated industries based on local coal have produced the worst air quality in China, and Tianying, where lead processing plants contaminate the air and soil. While the Institute no longer compiles such lists, Fuller said "there is a lot of work going on internally in China" to clean up polluted areas.
"When you look at some of the stats, they're doing a pretty terrific job," Fuller said. "Air pollution has certainly improved dramatically. In the last 12 months [the focus has shifted] to the cleanup of polluted soil, which causes a lot of health problems."
For Watts, it's important to examine China's environmental problems in a geographic and historical perspective, and to consider how the nation is "trying to reinvent itself."
"China's environmental problems are far worse" than many assume," Watts said, but the country "is doing more to try and solve them than people give them credit for."
In the 11th Five-Year Plan for 2006-2011, China "for the first time set several environmental targets as the highest priority," Wang said, like reducing energy intensity by 20 percent and slashing pollution levels.
Studies released by government ministries in recent years, like the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Water Resources indicate there is a growing consciousness on the part of Chinese officials of the problem of pollution, which is "hugely important," Economy said.
On average China spends about 1.3 percent of GDP on environmental protection, she said, though scientists estimate that figure is not enough by half to keep the pollution problem from getting worse, let alone improve. Though it has grown in recent years, The Ministry of Environmental Protection still only has about 300 full time staff employees, compared with the 8 to 9 thousand employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Economy said.
Chosing Between Economy and Environment
"Structurally addressing China's environmental challenge is largely a problem of resources and governance," Economy said. "On the investment side of things, they depend a lot on localities -- the power is really decentralized."
Since the late 1970s, China has had the environmental law framework that touches on almost all aspects of environmental protection, Wang said.
"The problem with the current framework is that a lot of the laws are too vague, don't set up specific requirements, or the enforcement is not strict," he said.
The primary enforcement of environmental laws and regulations is at the local level, but leaders face pressures to increase economic growth, sometimes at the expense of environmental protection. The factories that could bring jobs and wealth to communities may be very polluting, sometimes forcing leaders to decide between bolstering the economy or protecting the environment.
"The incentive structure for local officials is still largely to grow the economy at the expense of the environment," Economy said. "Some good things are happening, but it's still overwhelmed by the imperative of economic growth."
Wang said the system can be strengthened by adding "a component of central enforcement as well as giving more authority to the citizens" and allowing them to bring lawsuits on environmental grievances.
Non-governmental Organizations, or NGOs, have emerged as more effective voices for change in recent years, analysts say. According to Economy, there "are probably more environmental NGOs than any other type," though they do face challenges from government regulations on registration, fundraising, and membership numbers.
China's first registered NGO was formed in 1994, and when the groups started, "they were very limited in what they could do," focusing primarily on education efforts, Wang said.
Recently, an "incredible diversity" of NGOs have been established in China, Wang said, "and a number have become very sophisticated in the way they advocate."
Some Chinese groups are making a difference, Turner said, like The Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, a Beijing-based organization that provides legal advocacy and aid in cases against industries that pollute, and as a consequence damage human health or livelihood.
"There is a lot more political space for NGOs" she said, "and people are protesting. The Chinese people have been told they have a right to a clean environment. It's inspiring to see the public demanding things from the government."
Thousands of protests take place each year in response to pollution and its effects on health and economic livelihood, particularly in rural areas, Economy said. Though there aren't exact statistics of how many protests actually take place, or how many people participate, she said she has noticed an encouraging trend in activism shifting to the urban centers.
"Urban protests could have a much more profound impact on the policy-making process," she said.
Though she doesn't think the phrase "going green" is imbued in the general consciousness in China yet, Economy said "it's entirely in their trajectory to develop a green consciousness." In urban areas, where environmental education begins at a very young age, there is a market for things associated with a green consciousness, like organic produce and energy-efficient appliances.
Lately, Watts, who lives in China, has also seen an optimistic sign: occasional blue skies over the city.
"Other countries have shown that you can be extraordinarily polluted during your development cycle but then you can clean up, " Watts said. "It's going to be more difficult for China to do it … but there are already some encouraging signs."
There are still some clouds, however. As some things improve, new problems arise, Watts said. Polluting industries are moving inland, away from the more environmentally-conscious, developed coastal areas.
For Wang, China's environmental problems have highlighted another issue: pollution is driven by demand outside of China, from multinational corporations and consumers in other countries, like the United States.
"We're seeing an internationalization of these issues," he said, "we all have something to do about this."
The question is, Watts said, is "what happens when you start to consume too much? That's the bigger worry. In the short-term, it's pollution."


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After several weeks of fairly constant rain, the sun arrived a few days ago and in response the trees are in leaf – a million shades of green from chartreuse to apple to emerald. I've been waking up in the middle of the night to push the comforter from the bed and today the temperature is expected to hit 80 (where are my shorts!). We are getting a taste of the summer to come.
The little Russian Mister who lives upstairs came down yesterday with a smile on his face. The kidney stone he was suffering from has either passed or is in abeyance. He patted his stomach and said, "Good, good." I congratulated him and waved as he started off on a walk around the block.
Speaking of walking, another phenomenon has recently arisen along with the clement weather and longer days. About four o'clock every afternoon a parade of dog walkers emerge from their various apartments. Armed with plastic poop bags, water bottles and sun hats these intrepid exercisers make numerous circuits around the complex while loudly chatting to each other about the other residents.
The old observation about dogs resembling their masters is mostly true, the exception being those who are the exact opposite of the owners in which case it is perhaps an anima/animus thing (no pun intended); to whit, the very large, mean-looking lady using a walker who has a small black submissive Silky Terrier. (I don't think I got all the commas and semi-colons right in that sentence).
Then there is the short, sprightly, gray haired lady who owns a small, sprightly, gray haired Airedale terrier; the large, sort of sloppy guy who wear Bermuda shorts and black nylon socks with oxfords who drives an extra large, floppy King Charles Spaniel; the skinny fluttery lady who is in charge of two excitable Chihuahuas; and the slim, Asian lady who furtively scoots up and down the sidewalk with her black and white Lhasa Apso.
Sweetie Pie enjoys viewing this daily parade from the comfort of her patio seat and I often join her to share observations. Yesterday I had to gently remonstrate when she loudly sniggered as the King Charles Spaniel sat down and yawned mid-walk and her owner wagged a chubby finger trying to overrule her intractable behavior.
Then there was the time the two Chihuahuas circled and criss-crossed so many times the fluttery lady was completely tied up with leashes. That provoked a guffaw on both our parts as we happily traded anecdotes about other tie-me-up, tie-me-down scenarios we had experienced in our younger days.
The parade also has its runway aspect which is not to be confused with any kind of air travel unless you're flying to Paris. The submissive Silky Terrier and the gray-haired Airedale Terrier are both Fashionistas, which is like being a Fascist but without wearing black shirts and tall boots although there is an obvious European connection particularly when you consider the pedigree of the dogs in question.
Both Terriers sport an array of costumes, from cute emerald green jackets with four leaf clover designs for St. Patrick's Day, to bright plaid overcoats suitable for a day at links, and not to mention the yellow slicker a la Paddington Bear for rainy afternoons.
In fact, Sweetie and I noticed, with some astonishment and raised eyebrows I might add, the rainy day the Silky Terrier rode in the big lady's walker and cast a jaundiced eye, which is similar to being supercilious but more yellow, on the slightly soaked King Charles Spaniel that was now dutifully trotting beside his owner.
Now that summer is just around the corner Sweetie Pie and I are both looking forward to long lazy afternoons spent drinking mint juleps on the patio and making snide (which is related to supercilious but sneakier) comments to each other as we watch the every changing parade pass by.