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Like most things in life, taking the time to plan ahead when building a Web service can help in the long run; understanding some of the considerations and tradeoffs behind big websites can result in smarter decisions at the creation of smaller Web sites. Below are some of the key principles that influence the design of large-scale Web systems:
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- Performance: Website performance has become an important consideration for most sites. The speed of a website affects usage and user satisfaction, as well as search engine rankings, a factor that directly correlates to revenue and retention. As a result, creating a system that is optimized for fast responses and low latency is key.
- Reliability: A system needs to be reliable, such that a request for data will consistently return the same data. In the event the data changes or is updated, then that same request should return the new data. Users need to know that if something is written to the system, or stored, it will persist and can be relied on to be in place for future retrieval.
- Scalability: When it comes to any large distributed system, size is just one aspect of scale that needs to be considered. Just as important is the effort required to increase capacity to handle greater amounts of load, commonly referred to as the scalability of the system. Scalability can refer to many different parameters of the system: how much additional traffic can it handle, how easy is it to add more storage capacity, or even how many more transactions can be processed.
- Manageability: Designing a system that is easy to operate is another important consideration. The manageability of the system equates to the scalability of operations: maintenance and updates. Things to consider for manageability are the ease of diagnosing and understanding problems when they occur, ease of making updates or modifications, and how simple the system is to operate. (I.e., does it routinely operate without failure or exceptions?)
- Cost: Cost is an important factor. This obviously can include hardware and software costs, but it is also important to consider other facets needed to deploy and maintain the system. The amount of developer time the system takes to build, the amount of operational effort required to run the system, and even the amount of training required should all be considered. Cost is the total cost of ownership.
Each of these principles provides the basis for decisions in designing a distributed Web architecture. However, they also can be at odds with one another, such that achieving one objective comes at the cost of another. A basic example: choosing to address capacity by simply adding more servers (scalability) can come at the price of manageability (you have to operate an additional server) and cost (the price of the servers).
When designing any sort of Web application it is important to consider these key principles, even if it is to acknowledge that a design may sacrifice one or more of them.
The Basics
When it comes to system architecture there are a few things to consider: what are the right pieces, how these pieces fit together, and what are the right tradeoffs. Investing in scaling before it is needed is generally not a smart business proposition; however, some forethought into the design can save substantial time and resources in the future.
This discussion is focused on some of the core factors that are central to almost all large Web applications: services, redundancy, partitions, and handling failure. Each of these factors involves choices and compromises, particularly in the context of the principles described previously. In order to explain these in detail it is best to start with an example.
Example: Image Hosting Application
At some point you have probably posted an image online. For big sites that host and deliver lots of images, there are challenges in building an architecture that is cost-effective, highly available, and has low latency (fast retrieval).
Imagine a system where users are able to upload their images to a central server, and the images can be requested via a Web link or API, just like Flickr or Picasa. For the sake of simplicity, let's assume that this application has two key parts: the ability to upload (write) an image to the server, and the ability to query for an image. While we certainly want the upload to be efficient, we care most about having very fast delivery when someone requests an image (for example, images could be requested for a Web page or other application). This is very similar functionality to what a Web server or Content Delivery Network (CDN) edge server (a server CDN uses to store content in many locations so content is geographically/physically closer to users, resulting in faster performance) might provide.
Other important aspects of the system are:
- There is no limit to the number of images that will be stored, so storage scalability, in terms of image count needs to be considered.
- There needs to be low latency for image downloads/requests.
- If a user uploads an image, the image should always be there (data reliability for images).
- The system should be easy to maintain (manageability).
- Since image hosting doesn't have high profit margins, the system needs to be cost-effective
Figure 1 is a simplified diagram of the functionality.
Figure 1: Simplified architecture diagram for image hosting application.
In this image hosting example, the system must be perceivably fast, its data stored reliably and all of these attributes highly scalable. Building a small version of this application would be trivial and easily hosted on a single server; however, that would not be interesting for this article. Let's assume that we want to build something that could grow as big as Flickr.

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On board PERICLES' ship, off Mytilene. A close
pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; PERICLES [p]within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying [p]beside the Tyrian vessel. [p][Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian] [p]vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS]
[Enter two or three Gentlemen]
[Whispers a Lord, who goes off in the barge of LYSIMACHUS]
[DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision]
[Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA]
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Mrs. Compass: "Yeah, I have an appointment there at 9:00, and I don't see your name on the directory."
Mary: "What building are you in?"
Mrs. Compass: "Medical #5."
Mary: "Okay, we're in Medical #1, on the 6th floor. If you go out to the parking lot and face east, it's the big white building."
Mrs. Compass: "Okay, I'm on my way." (click)
(3 minutes later)
Mary: "Dr. Grumpy's office. This is Mary."
Mrs. Compass: "Yeah, I can't find your building."
Mary: "Where are you now?"
Mrs. Compass: "In the parking lot, facing west."
Mary: "We're behind you. Turn around. It's the big white building."
Mrs. Compass: "Oh! I see you! On the way." (click)
(3 minutes later)
Mary: "Dr. Grumpy's office, this is Mary."
Mrs. Compass: "Um, I think I got turned around and lost in the parking lot."
Mary: (sigh) "Okay, where are you?"
Mrs. Compass: "Facing your building. It's the reddish colored one."
Mary: "No, that's not our building... Hang on..." (walks to window) "What are you wearing?"
Mrs. Compass: "A red sweater, and a black baseball cap."
Mary: "Can you wave your arms and jump up or down or something... Okay! I see you. Turn to your left. No, I mean your other left. Yes. Now do you see the big white building?"
Mrs. Compass: "Oh! It's right in front of me!"
(at this point Dr. Pissy, the rest of the staff, and I were all standing at the window, in hysterics, while Mary tried not to lose her composure)
Mary: "Great! Just walk straight toward us!"
(Lady in red sweater and baseball cap walks about 10 feet toward us, then turns around and goes back the other way)
Mary: "Stop! Turn around!"
Mrs. Compass: "I thought you said I had to go east?"
Mary: "Yes, but now you're going west."
Mrs. Compass: "Are you sure?"
Mary: "Promise. Just turn around and walk toward the white building."
A few minutes later her flight landed successfully at my office. As she was filling out the paperwork, she said "You know, I started out in this building, too, and noticed your name on the directory. But I was sure you were in building #5, so I figured it was another Dr. Grumpy, and left."


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'Sons of Anarchy' recap: Tensions, body count rise
Tig lives!
Several unfortunate people bit it during Tuesday night's episode of "Sons of Anarchy," including Otto and the dastardly Lee Toric. But not Teflon Tig Trager -- the guy who just last week appeared destined for a dirt nap.
To review: Tig was sent to the port by Jax, who was finally delivering his SAMCRO mate to August to complete the eye-for-an-eye deal made under Damon Pope's regime. And when August and a couple of his goons barged in on a startled Tig, the end appeared to be near.
But early on in Tuesday's episode, Jax is stunned to find Tig on his doorstep -- a guy he never expected to see ever again. Apparently, August had no intention of killing Tig. It was just some kind of loyalty test and Jax passed.
So "SOA" creator Kurt Sutter was only setting us up for a big tease. Again. Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised. After all, he's pulled this kind of stuff so many times that by now we should be used to it. And this one felt like a particularly cheap trick.
But let's move on to the key elements of the over-stuffed episode: The escalating tensions with the Irish and the bloody demise of Lee Toric, both of which accompanied a terrifying confrontation between SAMCRO and some Nazi scumbags. Did we mention this episode was over-stuffed?
Anyway, during a meeting with Galen, Jax reiterates his no-guns policy. The ever-smug Galen doesn't want to hear it. Things get a little testy and Jax punches Galen. Uh-oh, big mistake.
Later, Jax gets a call from Filthy Phil, who reports that the Irish have defied Jax by showing up at the warehouse with a full supply of guns to unload. This naturally ticks off Jax, who rushes out there with reinforcements.
But he's too late. Galen has fatally shot both Phil and V-Lin and had his thugs chop up their bodies. When Jax and the boys arrive, they find a gruesome scene: The jackets of Phil and V-Lin has been spread out on the ground with their severed hands atop them. Galen has split and all the guns in the warehouse are gone -- except for the KG-9s.
But the bloodbath was only getting started. Over at the prison, Toric is still incensed that Clay hasn't signed a deal to rat out SAMCRO. So he gets a bright idea: He'll take Clay to see a very messed-up Otto in the infirmary to give Clay a "glimpse of your future." Basically, it's a scared-straight tactic and it goes terribly awry.
Clay is, of course, horrified to see Otto, who looks like he's been through a human demolition derby. He goes to his old friend's side, hugs him and says "I'm sorry" before sneaking Otto the knife blade given to him by another prisoner.
Toric later hands Otto paper and pen and urges the volatile inmate to write the magical words that will take down SAMCRO. In exchange, Toric promises to make Otto's remaining time in prison "very comfortable."
Otto, of course, has no intention of ratting. Instead, he writes something really vile about Toric's dead sister. Toric attacks him and Otto slashes Toric's throat with the shiv before being gunned down by prison guards rushing to the scene.
Wow. Didn't see that one coming. The demented Toric, played with heinous gusto by Donal Logue, had become such a magnetic villain, that I thought he would surely be around a lot longer to torment Jax and the SAMCRO gang. But now he's dead and so is Otto -- unless, of course, Sutter pulls another cheap trick on us.
Other developments and observations:
-- We've grown accustomed to harrowing sights on "SOA." Still, the image of Wayne being strung up by the Aryans with a swastika carved into his chest has to rank among the worst.
-- Apparently, many fans were surprised to see Tig still alive. A survey by EW.com before the episode found that only 35 percent of those polled believed the character would survive.
-- Jax is being besieged on so many fronts, even ones he's unaware of (Tara's ongoing scheming). So it's a bad time for insurrection from within, but his relationship with Chibs is deteriorating. Tonight, Chibs scolds Jax for making big decisions without bringing them to the table and compares his leadership methods to Clay's. Can anyone sense an impending mutiny?
-- Toric was a creep, but a fascinating creep. We're going to miss him.
-- Clay to Toric: "You don't hate me because I'm bad, but because I'm familiar."
-- Nice to see Robert Patrick back on the small screen as the president of the SOA San Bernardino charter. Loved him in ABC's short-lived "Last Resort."
-- I'm curious to know what exactly was said between August and Tig during their little get-together. Does Tig realize that Jax had it out for him?
-- Poor Nero. He wants out of his brief association with SAMCRO. And who can blame him? His relationship with Jax has brought him nothing but trouble.
-- Now that Otto has died (RIP), it means no screen time for Sutter and more time for him to spew forth angry Tweets.
So what did you think of the episode and the high body count? Are you sad to see Toric go? What's the next move in the war between Jax and Galen?


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It seems strange that there are actors and actresses who are poor at their job. After all, isn't this what they do for a living?
The truth is that some people end up on the silver screen without a great deal of obvious talent. Perhaps they fill a particular role or were cast in a movie that doesn't really require the ability to play a believable character.
Yeah, we're looking at you Megan Fox.
Regardless of the reason, there are some people who butcher lines or are simply unable to convince the audience that they are anything but a typecast individual.
Sometimes people can accept this, and other times they wonder why they spent their hard-earned money on a ticket to see a lackluster performance.
With that in mind, here are a few members of the Bad Acting Hall of Fame ...
No. 5: Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Terminator turned "Governator" was an action-film fixture throughout the 1980s and 1990s before getting into politics and winning the top job in California.
In fairness to Arnold, action film fans are not exactly looking for Shakespeare when they attend the latest summer blockbuster. However, this doesn't change the fact that Schwarzenegger has been delivering forced lines throughout his acting career.
His signature "I'll be back" has become almost a joke, particularly since he seemed to deliver that line in just about all his films.
The culmination of his poor dialogue was probably his portrayal of Mr. Freeze in the disastrous "Batman & Robin." Unfortunately Schwarzenegger is going to have a hard time convincing audiences that he is a brilliant molecular biologist, as cast in that film.
When in doubt, it may be better to beat up all the characters than deliver interesting dialogue. The next actor certainly thinks so ...
No. 4: Steven Seagal
No one questions Steven Seagal's ability to beat the living daylights out of bad guys.
Many of Seagal's films have displayed great feats of martial arts prowess, but unfortunately they have not been accompanied by phenomenal acting performances.
Seagal was once quoted as saying, "I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol." Fans who have seen his films would probably say that Steven should not hold out too much hope of this happening.
Granted, Steven has probably suffered from being typecast and put into movies that have limited opportunities for theatrical development. However, even associations with highly successful franchises can't manufacture solid acting performances, even for Jedi knights ...
No. 3: Hayden Christensen
For a franchise as successful as "Star Wars," fans might have thought that quality acting would be at a premium.
Unfortunately, the casting of Hayden Christensen did not exactly enhance the cinematic experience. His performances in "The Clone Wars" and "Revenge of the Sith" were enough to earn him the 2002 and 2005 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor at the annual Golden Raspberry Awards.
Christensen has appeared in a number of different films, but it is likely that his performance as Anakin Skywalker will forever cement him as a questionable thespian, particularly in the minds of science-fiction fans.
Hayden did become popular because his affiliation with "Star Wars," but plenty of poor performers have been popular over the years. Sometimes, there are a number of people that fall into the same category, and it is hard to choose a clear winner ...
No. 2: Jessica Simpson/Britney Spears/Jennifer Lopez/Paris Hilton
When it comes to these ladies, it is hard to pick the worst big screen offender.
There sometimes seems to be a trend in entertainment where singers want to be actors and actors want to be singers. This fits Simpson, Lopez and Spears, as all are pop stars that transitioned from singing to making less-than-stellar films.
Paris Hilton is similar, but she still seems to be famous without having accomplished a great deal in the entertainment world.
As is the case with many other actors and actresses throughout entertainment history, people like these ladies draw fans to theaters because of their media presence. However, they would hardly be described as believable actresses who create wonderful films.
Still, there is one man who probably receives more criticism than anyone else when it comes to movie performances ...
No. 1: Keanu Reeves
It isn't as if Keanu is trying to be a poor actor. For whatever reason, Reeves has just come across as someone who is unable to convince the audience of his acting ability.
Keanu is selling, but no one is buying.
Perhaps it was his goofy portrayal of Ted "Theodore" Logan in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" or his forced performance as FBI agent Johnny Utah in "Point Break."
Reeves has been a part of many commercially successful films including "The Matrix" franchise, but there are enough films that make him appear to be extremely uncomfortable as an actor.
Few films illustrated this more than the Shakespearean film "Much Ado About Nothing," where he stumbles his way through the portrayal of character Don John. It probably isn't Keanu's fault, but for some reason he just doesn't come across as believable on the silver screen.


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In its surprising patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook, Yahoo is taking advantage of several factors to pin its former partner into a position of weakness.
For one, Yahoo has existed longer than Facebook, giving it more time to obtain patents covering Web technologies, even if it didn't put all those patented innovations to good use itself. Second, Yahoo's lawsuit—filed Monday—was strategically timed to occur after Facebook's filing for an initial public offering, but before the IPO actually takes place. To satisfy investors, Facebook may be forced into a costly settlement rather than risk a long, legal battle that could harm the company's perceived market valuation.
Third, Facebook appears to have a tiny patent portfolio compared to Yahoo's. Facebook's patents or lack thereof have no direct impact on the merits of Yahoo's lawsuit, but a bigger and stronger patent portfolio could allow Facebook to file a countersuit against Yahoo, putting it into a position of strength in settlement negotiations.
If the lawsuit heads to a trial, Facebook can argue that Yahoo's patents are invalid, too broad, or simply aren't infringed upon by Facebook's technology. But arguing against every claim in each Yahoo patent will be a difficult task. The ten patents combined lay claim to 285 methods and technologies, and invalidating one portion of a patent doesn't necessarily invalidate the rest.
"Separate and apart from the question of the individual strength of any of these patents, there are still ten patents and a few hundred claims here," IP attorney Patrick Patras of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in Chicago told Ars. "It would be very difficult for an accused infringer to succeed against all of that."
Is this patent really valid? It'll cost you to find out
To see a full list of the ten patents Yahoo is asserting against Facebook, consult this previous story, in which we noted Yahoo's claim that "Facebook's entire social network model is based on Yahoo!'s patented social networking technology."
Determining whether each patent will hold up in a court of law is something that can't be done simply by skimming the patent summaries and claims. Many of the technologies that may seem obvious now may not have been when Yahoo filed for the ten patents between 1997 and 2007.
"This is the issue with patent law, until we spend millions of dollars litigating these patents we really don't have a good sense of how strong they are, what they actually cover, whether they're valid or not valid," Penn Law Professor R. Polk Wagner told Ars. "Patents are merely hunting licenses and nothing more. They simply give you the ability to claim against somebody else and they're subject to attack on a number of grounds."
Yahoo's patents broadly cover privacy controls, advertising systems, customization of data streams and web pages, integration between e-mail and IM, and managing the view of a social network user's personal information.
"What the Yahoo patents appear to be doing looks pretty similar to what Facebook is doing," Wagner said. "On the other hand, patents like this that have pretty broad claims often have problems in terms of the amount of prior art that can be used against them."
Poking holes in Yahoo's patent claims
Patents can be attacked based on whether they cover innovations that were obvious at the time of filing. They can also be attacked on the question of whether the technology described is eligible for patenting at all. Patras notes that patents are more likely to hold up in court if they can meet the "machine-or-transformation test," which requires use of a specialized machine or transformation of something from one physical state to another.
Patras points out one patent in particular that Yahoo will have a hard time defending in court. This is patent #7,373,599, covering a method and system for optimizing placement of advertisements on a webpage. Importantly, the advertising placement is determined in part by user requests. Patras believes Yahoo is vulnerable on this patent because instead of merely alleging direct infringement—which can be proven even if Facebook had no knowledge of the patent—Yahoo also alleges that Facebook is "inducing infringement by its users." To be found guilty of inducing its own users to infringe a patent, Facebook would have to have knowingly violated the patent. And in order drive up the amount of damages awarded to Yahoo, Yahoo would have to prove Facebook knowingly violated the patent for years.
"One would not typically go to an indirect claim like inducement if you didn't have to," Patras said.
For the other nine patents, Yahoo alleges direct infringement, which is easier to prove. For all ten patents, Yahoo only notified Facebook of the alleged violations on Feb. 27, and filed suit two weeks later. Licensing negotiations typically take at least a few months, Patras said. The short time frame between the notification and lawsuit suggests Yahoo made little serious attempt to negotiate a license, and was simply planning to sue.
While the short notification time frame is problematic for Yahoo's inducement claim, Patras said the act of making that notification and detailing it in the lawsuit helps provide a basis for Yahoo's argument that damages should be tripled in the event that it wins the case. Yahoo claims Facebook "willfully infringed" the patents. At the very least, Yahoo can argue that Facebook knew of the patent infringement allegations before the suit was filed and did not enter into a licensing agreement.
Facebook's IPO provides incentive to settle
While Patras noted that he has no inside knowledge about the case, he said the request to triple damages seems designed to add a "shock and awe" factor to the lawsuit, and cause worry for investors looking into Facebook's upcoming IPO.
"What likely will happen in the short term is Facebook will make a decision as to whether it thinks this lawsuit is having a significant impact on its forthcoming IPO," Patras said. "If it thinks it is having a significant impact then I suspect Facebook will come to a relatively quick license agreement with Yahoo to make this issue go away. If Facebook concludes it's not having a significant impact they will fight on and get to the merits of these claims down the road."
One common tactic for companies in Facebook's position is to file a countersuit, giving itself more leverage in settlement negotiations, both Patras and Wagner said. Facebook, though, apparently owns just 21 patents, compared to 1,029 for Yahoo. Yahoo built up its patent portfolio over many years, telling employees that it was a strategy for fending off patent trolls, as former Yahoo employee Andy Baio now ruefully says.
Facebook has financial ties to Microsoft, which has a large patent portfolio, and is a member of the Open Invention Network, a Linux-themed group building a defensive patent portfolio to protect its members. But ultimately, Facebook will have to bolster its own portfolio to protect itself from more lawsuits like the one it faces now.
Facebook's future—expect a much more aggressive patent strategy
In terms of building a defensive patent portfolio, "it looks like Facebook is not there yet," Wagner said. "Given Facebook's funding and valuation I'm quite sure they are attempting to rectify that problem. My guess is they're filing enormous amounts of patents on any innovations they can come up with at this point."
Patras also expects a much more aggressive Facebook to emerge from this case. "I suspect Facebook might take a page from Google's book and get themselves some more patents by acquiring patents or acquiring companies with patents," Patras said. "Even if Facebook takes a license [from Yahoo] now to eliminate this issue, I wouldn't be surprised to see them somewhere down the road come back after Yahoo for patent infringement, whether they're patents Facebook owns now or later acquires, to try to get some of that money back."
Roundup of more patent news
It's been a busy week in the world of patent wars, even without the blockbuster Yahoo/Facebook case. Here's a look at some of the other legal developments we saw in the past few days. You can also check out last week's patent wars roundup.
- Samsung's attempt to ban Apple's iPhones and iPads in the Netherlands with standards-essential patents was rejected by a Dutch court. (The Verge)
- A patent-holding company called Cascades Computer Innovation filed an antitrust complaint against Motorola, LG, Samsung, Dell, and HTC. (ITworld)
- A trial in Oracle's patent infringement case against Google over use of Java in Android has been scheduled to begin April 16. A Google lawyer, however, is asking for a change to the trial date. (Groklaw)
- Patents formerly owned by Nortel are now controlled by a consortium including Microsoft, Apple, EMC, RIM, Ericsson, and Sony. (Network World)
- Apple has narrowed the scope of a patent infringement case against Samsung. (AppleInsider)
- In another case, Apple accused Samsung of violating a court order requiring it to produce source code. (Bloomberg)
- Tech patent trolls are targeting cash-strapped American cities over bus-tracking systems. (Ars Technica)
- Motorola Solutions asked a court to throw out infringement claims a patent licensing company made against its RFID customers. (CBS News)
- A German court delayed a lawsuit Apple filed against Samsung over slide-to-unlock technology, saying it doubts whether Apple really has intellectual property rights to the feature. (Reuters)


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Expressing holiday spirit by spending too much money can be a big problem for some, even the wealthy. So it would be wise for advisors to help their clients' rein in spending by understanding the psychology behind it.
Sure, money means excitement over the prospect of spending a bundle on a big-ticket item for a loved one or happiness when receiving a generous gift.
But money also means love, acceptance, self-esteem and an attempt to express love or buy it outright with the purchase of gifts–whether or not they're affordable, says Money Harmony psychotherapist Olivia Mellan, who also contributes regularly to Investment Advisor magazine.
"Money is a taboo subject," says Mellan in a recent phone interview with AdvisorOne about holiday spending. "When people are tired or under stress, and the holidays are definitely a time of stress, they will almost always revert to primitive survival mode, which is irrational."
"Affluenza," as Mellan (left) calls it, is an American disease of addictive overspending that takes a lot of courage to avoid. At holiday time, she says, steering clear of affluenza to embrace a healthy psyche instead might actually be more valuable than a gift. Advisors, financial writers and even the Consumer Federation of America back up Mellan's call for more mindful spending to celebrate the spirit of the season.
Planning ahead is key to a mindful December, notes Kelly L. Trageser, a NAPFA-registered certified financial planner with Sea Clear Financial Planning of Sea Girt, N.J., who includes cash flow advice and debt management among the services she offers clients.
"Although this is the season of giving, it is important to give within your means," Trageser wrote to AdvisorOne in an email. "The best chance of doing that is to review your budget and decide how much you are comfortable spending this holiday season. Then, create a list of the people that will receive a gift."
By dividing that list into thirds, shoppers can reduce expenses, according to Trageser. The first group gets a store-bought gift, the second group gets a gift card, and the third group gets a homemade gift such as a tin of cookies. "This is a great way to keep a handle on spending this holiday season and still have a great time," she says.
Numbers Tell Holiday Spending Story
Research by investor site MillionaireCorner.com shows that 6% of 1,224 people studied, who have at least $50,000 in net worth, plan to make a major purchase this holiday season. While the 6% is consistent for men and women, it varies more by age, with 14% of those 40 and younger planning a big purchase versus just 4% of those 60 and older.
Here's the breakdown of what the big-ticket spenders plan to buy:
- 47% electronics
- 30% vacation/travel
- 27% jewelry
- 26% automobile
- 1% recreational vehicle
- 16% other
Nevertheless, these more affluent consumers with assets ranging from $100,000 to $1 million or more are keeping a tighter rein on their holiday budgets overall. Fully 86% plan to spend the same or less compared with last year while just 14% say they will spend more.
To be sure, people willing to spend more in 2012 are the ones who feel they are better off financially than they were a year ago.
According to a holiday spending survey conducted via phone by the Consumer Federation of America and the Credit Union National Association, 62% of those who said their situation had improved were planning to spend more than last year while only 11% planned to spend less. But among those who said their situation had worsened, only 5% were planning to spend more while 57% planned to spend less. Overall, the survey of 660 people says more consumers plan to spend more than last year, the fourth year of gradual improvement in holiday spending plans since a sharp decline in 2008.
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These survey results trouble NBC "Today" show financial editor Jean Chatzky in her Nov. 27 "This Week in Your Wallet" column, who warns that avoiding holiday debt is more important than deals and smart shopping strategies. Her answer? Keep a budget.
"I recommend setting a budget, and trying to cap it at 1.5% of your annual take-home pay," Chatzky writes. "This is a percentage that, if charged to a card, can be easily paid off by February. If you haven't gotten a raise since last Christmas, this means your 2012 holiday budget should be the same as your 2011 holiday budget."
Mellan, who describes herself as a "recovering overspender," counsels knowing what one's personal stress patterns and circumventing them. At the end of the day, she says, when indulging on the surface by spending, people risk starving their soul.
"You could go shopping with a friend who's not an overspender and can help you not cheat," Mellan offers as an example. "You have to choose whether to treat yourself on the surface or nurture your soul–which involves creativity, charitable giving, walking in nature and spirituality."
Here are just a few of the Consumer Federation of America's tips on how to spend for the holidays without breaking the bank:
- Map it out. Avoid wasting gas on multiple trips by planning your shopping as efficiently as possible. "If you can park and walk to several shops in the same area, you'll save money and get exercise as an added benefit," the CFA says
- Take advantage of shopping by phone and online. Here, it's wise to comparison shop, and pay attention to shipping costs, which can eat into savings. Look for free shipping, and use promotional codes.
- Give gifts that save people money. "How about a gift certificate for the hairdresser or barber that the person goes to? The grocery store where the person shops? The local gas station? You can't go wrong with gifts that help defray people's everyday expenses," the CFA advises.
- Give gifts that help other people. And finally, for the person who has everything, consider giving a gift in that person's name to a worthy charity. For example, with so many people still recovering from the damages of Hurricane Sandy, a donation to the Red Cross may be appreciated just as much as a present under the tree.
Read Olivia Mellan's A House Divided: Help Client Couples Work Together from the November 2012 issue of Investment Advisor magazine at AdvisorOne.


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I arrived back in Akron, Ohio at about midnight last night. I don't have car insurance. I thought I did. When I was in California I called my insurance company and discovered that my insurance had lapsed in December. Today I'll sign up with another company. But I'll have to drive to that company because this is Akron, Ohio and you can't get anywhere on foot. I hope I don't crash.
We finished filming the Los Angeles scenes of the movie Shoplifting From American Apparel on Monday. The photo above is from the scenes we shot on Saturday on Hollywood Boulevard. The people in the picture from left to right are me, director Pirooz Kaleyah, novelist Jordan Castro who plays "the real Tao Lin" as opposed to me who is (I who am? I whom am?) playing "Brad Warner as Tao Lin," and author Noah Cicero, who I think is basically playing himself.
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Saturday and Monday were the most interesting scenes to film. They were two parts of a scene in which Tao Lin (me) does a reading at Skylight Books in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. It's one of my favorite bookstores in LA in spite of the fact that they turned my publicist down when she tried to schedule a reading for me there and I didn't see any of my books on the shelves (though I have seen them there in the past). Are you reading this, Skylight Books people?
Tao's reading is attended by Audrey (Bebe Zeva) and Jeffery (Travis McFarland). Tao is trying to get with Audrey. But Jeffery keeps hanging around and may, for all Tao knows, be Audrey's boyfriend. Tao doesn't care and keeps acting like a dick to Jeffery to try to get rid of him. Eventually this works and Tao bags Audrey. But the next morning he is cold and distant to her. It's clear the whole thing meant nothing to him and she is hurt by this.
I suppose I should have put "spoiler alert" before that explanation since it's a key scene near the end of the film. But by the time the movie comes out most of you will have forgotten this, I hope.
Anyhow, I had to play this character who goes through this stuff. The weird part for me is that I have been in situations somewhat similar to this. Every writer has, especially those of us who are single. You meet fans of your preferred gender who seem to be attracted to you. But often they're with someone else.
In my case I have all this Buddhist morality shit hanging over me. When I'm in that situation I deliberately try not to interfere with people's existing relationships. I don't think it's right to do so. And I know that my own life will also be improved if I behave in a way that is morally sound.
But I found myself having to play a character who does all the things I am often very much tempted to do but don't do. It was difficult overcoming my own inhibitions and becoming this character. It was even harder playing the scene in which I had to be cold and distant to "Audrey" the next morning. As Bebe (playing Audrey) got more and more into character I began to feel worse and worse about myself. Even though it was all completely fictional, and even though there were all kinds of people with cameras and microphones and all kinds of retakes and so forth, as I said the lines it began feeling real. I was getting cotton mouth during the shoot.
I think a good actor gets a sense of what Buddha meant when he talked about the unreality of the permanent self. In order to act out a scene as a character you have to drop your attachment to the person you think you are and, at least for the duration of the scene, become someone else.
It's funny how easy that can be once you find the ability to drop who you think you are. There seems to be a corner you can turn or a switch you can flip after which you just slide into being this other person. After a few hours of shooting I found I had to make a certain degree of effort to return to my normal self.
As Mr. Spock would say, "Fascinating."
In the past week I have received three different variations on the same question. There must be something in the air. The latest goes like this: "I guess my first questions are 'does Zen Buddhism have any crazy and hard to digest stories and ideas behind it? how much does it differ to other forms of Buddhism? And if these stories/concepts/mantras exist in the Zen world, do you take them with a pinch of salt?'."
The answer about crazy and hard to digest stories is yes and no. But mostly no. In Zen there is no importance attached to matters of belief. What you believe is largely irrelevant. Belief is just more stuff that your mind does. It might have some relevance, but only in terms of how your beliefs affect your behavior. There is no God or Buddha or anyone else who gives a shit one way or the other what you do or do not believe.
That being said, there are as many weird hard to swallow stories associated with Zen as with any other religion. The Lotus Sutra, Dogen's favorite sutra, has passages in which Buddha does all kinds of crazy miraculous things like shooting beams out of his forehead and suchlike. The koans have stories about people transforming themselves into animals or chopping off other people's fingers just to prove a point. If you took that stuff literally it would be pretty much like any other religion.
The great thing about Zen, though, is that there is never any pressure to believe any of this stuff. You can take it any way you want to. Very few Zen people take most of it literally. Gudo Nishijima used to be adamant that it was all metaphorical, especially the references to reincarnation.
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