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Dammerung | #2 Subject: What be you, eh? Posted: 07/24/2004 17:52:55 |
What school of thought is appealing to you? Personally, I'm torn between existentialism and pragmatism. Both seem like philosophies that work well in the real world.
buddaboy21 | #3 Subject: Posted: 08/06/2004 13:49:48 |
hey,I'm loosly Buddhist and big into eastern philosophy.That's what I be
Dammerung | #4 Subject: :Nod nod: Posted: 08/14/2004 17:48:39 |
Buddhist, eh? I was born Catholic, but I've strayed from my Catholic roots. So I've adopted Buddhism as well. Loosely, like you, but it appeals to me greatly. Eastern Philosophy rocks, too.
GamerWithBoo... | #5 Subject: Morning all! Posted: 08/23/2004 23:27:39 |
I was raised a Lutheran/Native American Spiritualist, and have grown into some sort of Wiccan/Hedonist/Neitzchean. I've studied so freaking many philosophies and religions and just settled into this one. Nice to meet y'all.
Dammerung | #6 Subject: Agreed Posted: 08/25/2004 18:07:29 |
Welcome and howdy. I agree with you there... I've studied so many philosophies and religions that it's hard for me to peg myself into one specific category. Nietzsche and existentialism are a big part of my life, simply because I feel people are responsible for themselves. I guess I'm something of a pragmatist to in terms of religion... dunno what exists in the way of a Higher Power in this world, so if something works for ya, go with it.
krustywazoo | #7 Subject: Hey, hey, hey! Posted: 08/26/2004 15:10:09 |
Newbie here...I'm interested in finding more information about philosophy and/or religion, but I don't really take active part or know much about either.
Dammerung | #8 Subject: Hmm... Posted: 08/26/2004 17:31:39 |
Welcome, welcome. Now that I think about it, I probably should have made the focus of the club philosophy AND religion, since they sort of go hand in hand. But I suppose it doesn't matter. The floors open to talk about....whatever.... So if anybody want to throw something out there, go with it.
Dark_Pirate | #9 Subject: Hey Posted: 08/28/2004 13:01:32 |
Came by to share my thoughts and further unite with my fellow deep thinkers. I'm not like college-educated philosophy, more like just like to question everyday sort of things-and life ethics. Stuff like the Matrix too, oh- that's good stuff.....
Dammerung | #10 Subject: Whoah Posted: 08/28/2004 20:34:00 |
Ah, the Matrix. I was so happy when that film came out. I was always one of those questioning teenagers, who wondered about how the world really existed. But my friends always looked at me weird when I'd start in with the nature of reality questions. After that movie came out (lets ignore the sequels), people actually talked with me about how the world really works. Then the other two movies came out and no one cared anymore. Bleh. But yeah, the Matrix was an interesting discussion piece. I guess it sort of touches upon dualism- whether there is only the mind, or if the body exists separately.
JackassJoe00... | #11 Subject: The Philosophy of ________(insert here) Posted: 08/30/2004 15:07:06 |
While we discuss the importance of duality in the Matrix, I was wondering has anybody thought about the philosophy of the Smurfs? Was Papa Smurf actually a Papa or only symbolically, or even more importantly what purpose does philosophy serve in a nonexsistant world... Sure this movie revolves around this idea, but have you ever really found youself questioning your own exisistance. This is purely existentualism, yet it proves one fact... I am.
Dammerung | #12 Subject: Umm... Posted: 08/30/2004 20:43:25 |
Well, philosophy and the Smurfs. Never really thought about that. Since we know little about Smurf anatomy or physiology, I think we'll have to just imagine that Papa Smurf is only "Papa" symbolically, or at least until we know more about Smurf reproduction. As for whether I think about existence... I do. There's a bit of dualism in that idea too, I think (look up Berkeley for more on that crap... I won't get into it here, because I'll get started and never shut up). I, for one, argue that there is an external world.
Dark_Pirate | #13 Subject: ~Stuff~ Posted: 08/31/2004 19:00:21 |
What's everyone's stand on the mind and body? Like, if they are one in the same. I feel that they are different, and that, though the body cannot live without the mind, the mind/soul can live without the body. I guess that goes into afterlife stuff a bit too, but- it's all good. I think that soul can body-jump. Like, once your body 'dies' your soul goes onto live again and that, even possibly right now, your soul could be hundreds of years old.
Dammerung | #14 Subject: I think... Posted: 09/01/2004 18:09:12 |
On the subject of the mind and body, I'm a believer in dualism. There are those who would argue that the only true substance is the mind, that we can't ever really know anything outside ourselves, much less our own bodies. But it seems clear to me that our minds and bodies are separate, though still connected. Our body can act freely of our mind (relexes, things like that), and our mind most definitely acts freely of our bodies. So.... yeah. I think they're both separate.
JackassJoe00... | #15 Subject: Philosophy Posted: 09/02/2004 15:21:58 |
This subject has a time and place. I wonder if over the water cooler a point of peaciful negotiations with terrorists is brought up... A time and place revolving around the idea whether or not your talking like a jackass such as myself. Papa smurf is a fictional character only brought up to show the real "purpose" of general philosophy. Socartes and other philosopers died out thousands of years ago... in it's heyday. Yet, let's assume your ideas have some impact on the world *cough* Micheal Moore. This individual fights (vainly) for what he believes in. If he is right or not is up to you. Vote if you have any beliefs and if not, stop chattering and take action.
Dammerung | #16 Subject: Modern times... Posted: 09/02/2004 21:32:21 |
I don't think ancient Greece and the like was where philosophy enjoyed it's heyday. Yes, Socrates/Plato/Aristotle were the best of their age, but philosophy enjoyed immense popularity with the intellectual crowd up until the late 1800's. This is all arguable, of course, but Hegel, Hume, Descartes, Berkelely, Kant, Nietzsche... they were all relatively modern philosophers who brought a great deal to the field.
JackassJoe00... | #17 Subject: Bringing to the table? Posted: 09/03/2004 13:33:07 |
When did another philosophy in any time show such tenacity with there beliefs than in ancient Greecen times? I wonder who would die, by their own hand mind you, only to make a point? These were the times when philosophy had it's deepest and most depermental roots. To not call it it's heyday is something akin to sacrelige.
Dammerung | #18 Subject: Rhetoric vs. The TCoPR Posted: 09/04/2004 19:42:24 |
I don't think saying ancient Greece wasn't the heyday of philosophy is sacrilege. As far as what types of views have been brought to the table, I think there are a few periods (a reliative few, mind you) in history when monumental strides have been made. I think Immanuel Kant did just as much for the field as Socrates or Aristotle did. However, I do think Ancient Greece was where philosophy had it's greatest impact. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any modern philosopers who held onto their views with such tenacity as Socrates did, or much less died for them. No one today cares much about philosophy today. It isn't something that's valued as much as say, the hardcore sciences are. So, in some degree, I agree with you.
Dark_Pirate | #19 Subject: Old Schoolin' (literally) Posted: 09/05/2004 10:28:46 |
In class we read through the Allegory of the Den. Man, stuff like that always makes me wonder if I know for real, you know? If I'm the den or the sun. Is there no way to know, do you think? Maybe it's a matter of believing where you are, and just going with tat...Anyhow, it's all fun to think about..
Dammerung | #20 Subject: It boggles the mind. Posted: 09/08/2004 17:23:27 |
I totally agree... that stuff is fun to think about. You might have to have a particular mindset to actually enjoy thinking about it, but I know I do. Personally, I don't think there's any way to really know how we exist, or whether we exist. I think our perception of reality is subjective, that there is no way for us to really know about existence without relying on some sort of subjective knowledge. Kind of like Berkeley's question as to whether or not an apple exists if we don't perceive (see, touch, taste, smell, etc.) it. I dunno... thinking about that sort of thing puts me into a sort of Zen mindset, which is fun.
krustywazoo | #21 Subject: Buddhism/Smurfs Posted: 09/13/2004 15:38:13 |
I'm very interested in the Buddhist religion. I need a text about Buddhism for an almost totally unrelated course (the Prof says the text made for the course and Buddhism are very simmilar). So, I can't wait to get my hands on it.
About the Smurfs, wha? I can see the religious/philosophical references with the Matrix, but I guess I'm not thinking enough about the Smurf issue. Maybe having only one female smurf represents the male desire for having the most attractive mate? |
Dammerung | #22 Subject: Breathe. Posted: 09/17/2004 18:45:02 |
Buddhism fascinates me too. I've tried to learn as much as I can about it. Part of me is thinking of converting. We'll see how the family back home reacts to that. As for the Smurfs- geez, there are probably tons of philosophical/religious interpretations of those little blue oddballs. Perhaps Gargamel is representive of God to the Smurfs, except he is closer in likeness to the Yahweh of the Old Testament, in that he wreaks havoc upon the Smurf population when they don't appease him. And perhaps the fact that each Smurf has a distinct name, personality, and job represents basic human nature, that is, we each have a core self. And maybe the female Smurf represents the pivotal mother figure in a homogenous male Smurf culture, something like the feamel version of Freud's Oedipus complex. Or maybe it was just a show about a bunch of little blue uber-midgets. Who knows.
krustywazoo | #23 Subject: I'm Smurfed Posted: 09/20/2004 15:29:32 |
I'm seriously considering turning to Buddhism, or at least impliment aspects of it into my life. I find it neat that you don't necessarily have to be 'Buddhist' in order to get the most of it, since it's more a philosophy than a religion.
Smurfs, on the other hand... Yep, I'm kinda leaning for the last argument, 'it was just a show about a bunch of little blue uber-midgets'. But, hey, it's pretty crazy that there could be a hundred philosophical/religious connotations about a fictional character's, uh, character. Buddhism fascinates me too. I've tried to learn as much as I can about it. Part of me is thinking of converting. We'll see how the family back home reacts to that. As for the Smurfs- geez, there are probably tons of philosophical/religious interpretations of those little blue oddballs. Perhaps Gargamel is representive of God to the Smurfs, except he is closer in likeness to the Yahweh of the Old Testament, in that he wreaks havoc upon the Smurf population when they don't appease him. And perhaps the fact that each Smurf has a distinct name, personality, and job represents basic human nature, that is, we each have a core self. And maybe the female Smurf represents the pivotal mother figure in a homogenous male Smurf culture, something like the feamel version of Freud's Oedipus complex. Or maybe it was just a show about a bunch of little blue uber-midgets. Who knows. |
Dammerung | #24 Subject: Curiosity killed the Smurf. Posted: 09/24/2004 19:34:25 |
I'm just wondering...is anyone pursuing or thinking of pursuing a career in the arts? It doesn't matter what field... English, Art, Music, etc. I'm curious because from what I've learned so far, a a degree in Philosophy (or even a minor in philosophy) is actually a very valid way to pursue a career in any of the arts. So I've been told, at least.
JackassJoe00... | #25 Subject: Where Did We Go Wrong Posted: 09/27/2004 17:21:02 |
I'm finding a very rewarding career in sanitation right now. Talking of philosophy in between trash runs and finding always that, at least in philosophy (because it's all opinion) I am right. More simply put, become a politician or other pivitiol figure--the future for philosophy purists is minimal unless you are also considering teaching a very biased course discribing it.
Dammerung | #26 Subject: You win some, you lose more. Posted: 09/28/2004 18:36:31 |
Yes, I agree. I don't think society at large involves itself much with issues like philosophy. I'd blame it on consumer culture, though that is mostly my opinion. You don't go to college to learn anymore- you go to earn money. So, if you have any interest in the subject, you either have to fraternize with people similar to you (who I imagine mostly hang around colleges), or become a teacher. Even that isn't foolproof. Woe are the intellectual minds of today...
krustywazoo | #27 Subject: Philosophy/religion and today's culture Posted: 09/29/2004 14:51:10 |
Yeah, I pretty much agree with ya, consumerism wins over philosophy/religion today. Why? Well, consumerism is somewhat to blame; yet we can almost consumerism a philosophy, in a weird way. We can believe that in order to be happy, we need to buy, steal, etc., what we want. The role of the Church, or whatever other religious organization you belong to, is starting to loose it's foothold in this society, too. I don't know of too many young people who go to church regularly, or believe in a deity, myself included. Not that I doubt something greater exists, just that I don't 100% agree with the Judeo-Christian version of God.
I dunno if it's the arts or not, but I'm getting a business degree, a BBA. I'm considering getting a minor in Philosophy, if possible. |
Dammerung | #28 Subject: Not as in clown. Posted: 09/29/2004 18:15:59 |
Friend krusty (you don't mind if I call ya krusty, do ya?), I never though about it, but you're right. In some odd way, I suppose consumerism is a philosophy in itself. It doesn't offer any interesting views on the nature of reality or the like, but consumerism does seem to offer people a path to happiness. A lot of philosophies offer a way to happiness or worth (or lack of worth... nihilism comes to mind), and consumerism is just telling us "Hey, buy this, and you're set." Of course, I don't really see the path of consumerism as leading to everLASTING happiness, but I suppose it really depends on who you are. There will always be people who measure their success and worth in life but what they have, and for them, I'm pretty sure consumerism is a philosophy on life.
JackassJoe00... | #29 Subject: My opinion (fuck not again!!!) Posted: 09/30/2004 14:51:51 |
This situation I commented on only is in the fervent belief that all you are passionate about, you should, if possible make money in. This is true when you tie me down to a particular order of philosophy, but this is primarily for the conclusion of realism. Being tied to this is like eating at thanksgiving on a diet, it's enjoyable (Philosophy) yet you wish you have more without further reprecussions (money). If you can't this doesn't mean you will not be happy. Life is full of preferences. |
Teranz Estra... | #30 Subject: Wow Posted: 10/04/2004 17:54:23 |
I'm also thinking of becoming a buddhist for a couple reasons. First of all because when i was younger my mom used her religion as an excuse to stop me from playing games like d and d. Also i've found the philisophical arguments against christianity very convincing.


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8 small McIntosh apples, stemmed, washed well, and dried
1 ˝ cups red wine
2 cups sugar
˝ cup water
6 TBSP heavy cream
8 wooden ice-pop sticks
A candy thermometer
Insert a wooden stick halfway into each apple at stem end. Line a tray with wax paper and lightly grease paper.
Boil wine in a small saucepan over medium heat until reduced to 1/2 cup, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
Bring sugar and water to a boil in a 2 1/2-to 3-quart heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring until sugar has dissolved, then wash down any sugar crystals from side of pan with a pastry brush dipped in cold water. Boil, without stirring, swirling pan occasionally so caramel colors evenly, until dark amber. Add reduced wine (mixture will bubble up and steam) and swirl pan. Add cream and simmer, stirring, until incorporated, then continue to simmer until thermometer registers 238°F. Remove from heat and cool to 200°F.
Holding apples by the sticks, dip them in caramel and swirl to coat, letting excess drip off, then hold apples up (stick end down) for about 15 seconds to allow more caramel to set on apples. Put caramel apples, stick side up, on greased wax paper and let stand until caramel firms up, about 30 minutes.
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2 ounces cranberry juice
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You will need
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• Baking pan.
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Prick the spaghetti squash all over with a skewer so it doesn't burst while baking
Place whole squash in a shallow baking pan
Bake in pre-heated 375 F oven for 1 hour
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1/4 cup fennel seed
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1/4 cup olive oil
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1. Disinfecting and Deodorizing Sponges
Soak it in water spiked with white vinegar or lemon juice, then heat it on high for 1 minute. (Use an oven mitt to remove it.) This will also disinfect any sponges you used to wipe up the juices from a raw chicken.
2. Disinfecting Plastic Cutting Boards
Wash the board well, rub it with the cut side of a lemon, then heat for 1 minute.
3. Softening Brown Sugar
Keep the sugar in its plastic packaging, add a few drops of water, and heat on medium for 10 to 20 seconds.
4. Decrystallizing Honey
Honey that has solidified can be brought back to liquid life by uncovering the jar and heating on medium power for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
5. Proofing Yeast Doughs
Yeast doughs that normally take an hour or more to rise at room temperature can be proofed in the microwave in about 15 minutes. Place the dough in a very large bowl and cover with plastic. Place an 8-ounce cup of water in the back of the microwave with the bowl of dough in the center, and set the power as low as possible (10 percent power). Heat for 3 minutes, then let the dough rest in the microwave for 3 minutes. Heat for 3 minutes longer, then let rest for 6 minutes. The dough will double in bulk.
6. Roasting Garlic
It takes 45 minutes to roast garlic in the oven but less than 8 in the microwave. Slice off the top of the head to reveal all the cloves. Place the head in a small, deep dish, season with salt and pepper, and drizzle with 2 tablespoons of good olive oil. Spoon 2 tablespoons of water into the bottom of the dish, cover it with plastic wrap, and cook at medium power for 7 to 7˝ minutes. Let stand for a few minutes before unwrapping.
7. Getting More Juice From Citrus Fruits
A lemon or lime taken straight from the refrigerator is harder to juice than one left at room temperature or warmed slightly. To get the most juice, microwave citrus fruits for 20 seconds before squeezing.
8. Toasting Nuts, Bread Crumbs, and Coconut
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Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action throughout
Length: 148 minutes
Released: July 16, 2010 Nationwide
Score: 3.0
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page
Director: Christopher Nolan
Producer: Christopher Nolan, Emma Thomas
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Genre: Action/Adventure, SciFi/Fantasy
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
LOS ANGELES — "Inception" is about dreams, and dreams within dreams. It's about plundering the subconscious for secrets and, perhaps, planting a few ideas there, as well.
But writer-director Christopher Nolan has done so much more than just recreate the sensation of what happens when we fall asleep. He's built a complete and complicated world, one that constantly shakes you up and makes you work — makes you stop every once in a while to find your bearings. In a good way.
It's the most superbly crafted mind trip, and it follows a great tradition of challenging, innovative films.
We're not talking about movies with a twist like, oh, Bruce Willis is actually dead or Edward Norton and Brad Pitt are really the same person or Jaye Davidson has a penis. That's a whole 'nother discussion for another time. No, these are films that ask you to free your mind, and the rest will follow. Hopefully.
■ "The Matrix" (1999): The first one, that is, and not the inferior, back-to-back sequels. This clearly influenced Nolan, with its depiction of an alternate reality in which characters can drop in together and interact with each other — a place where the usual rules of time and space don't apply. This futuristic action thriller was just hugely cool and, in retrospect, so influential, from the "bullet time" effect to the bold, S&M-style wardrobe aesthetic. Despite drawing from various religious and mystical sources, the Wachowski Brothers truly created their own original world here.
■ "Mulholland Dr." (2001): It could all be a dream. That's one way to interpret it. David Lynch will never tell you what his movie is about, of course, and that's what makes him — and his work — simultaneously intriguing and maddening. Disarming visuals, shocking imagery, cryptic proclamations — they're all there, and they require repeated viewing, and even then "Mulholland Dr." may not make sense. Here's what's certain: Naomi Watts gave a star-making performance in two different roles in this Hollywood mystery, and a haunting feeling will linger with you long afterward.
■ "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968): Vintage Stanley Kubrick: visually striking, mentally baffling, artistically unlike anything else. The questions it raises may never be answered, and that's part of the film's beauty. This much we know: There's a monolith, and HAL 9000 won't open the pod bay doors for Dave, but he will sing "Daisy." Still, it's duly one of the most influential sci-fi movies ever made — at once enormous and intimate, balletic and even melancholy. As a bold piece of filmmaking, it's very much of its time, yet it still grabs hold of its audience just as ferociously as ever today.
■ "Being John Malkovich" (1999): Really, you could list any movie Charlie Kaufman's written here. Many would choose the wistful "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," with its vivid, dreamlike imagery. Others love the sprawling, existential "Synecdoche, New York." But this was Kaufman's first, and it's my favorite of his. Merely the idea of entering a portal that takes you inside Malkovich's mind is inspired in itself. It's where Kaufman and director Spike Jonze go with this concept — an absurd exploration of love and identity — that makes this movie so irresistible and strangely sweet.
■ "Memento" (2000): And now we're back to Nolan again, and the movie that put him on the map. With its screenplay-in-reverse (which Nolan co-wrote with brother Jonathan), this was an early indicator of the kind of intricate, intelligent puzzle-building that would become one of Nolan's trademarks. Like "Inception," "Memento" makes you work. But watching it unfold is a thrill as Guy Pearce pieces together his past through notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's killer. You could analyze it to death to see if it holds together (it does) or you could just go with it and enjoy having him toy with you.


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I plan to buy "Grace" on JA's recommendation. He refers only to the original 1994 version. Should I spring the money for the remastered version? (The original 1994 version is cheap.) Not all remastered recordings sound better, just different. How does this one rate?
Records to Die For - Jeff Buckley
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I only have the remastered version, but, there are a couple of guys over at the Steve Hoffman forums who have both and marginally prefer the newer one.
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It has been suggested that Standard RAID levels be merged into this article. (Discuss) Proposed since January 2014. |
RAID is a data storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy and performance improvement.[1] Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways, referred to as RAID levels, depending on the specific level of redundancy and performance required.
The term "RAID" was first used by David Patterson, Garth A. Gibson, and Randy Katz at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987, standing for redundant array of inexpensive disks.[2] Industry RAID manufacturers later tended to interpret the acronym as standing for redundant array of independent disks.[3][4][5][6]
RAID is now used as an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple physical drives: RAID is an example of storage virtualization and the array can be accessed by the operating system as one single drive.[note 1] The different schemes or architectures are named by the word RAID followed by a number (e.g. RAID 0, RAID 1). Each scheme provides a different balance between the key goals: reliability and availability, performance and capacity. RAID levels greater than RAID 0 provide protection against unrecoverable (sector) read errors, as well as whole disk failure.
- 1 History
- 2 Standard levels
- 3 Nested (hybrid) RAID
- 4 RAID parity
- 5 Non-standard levels
- 6 Data backup
- 7 Implementations
- 8 Weaknesses
- 8.1 Correlated failures
- 8.2 Unrecoverable read errors during rebuild
- 8.3 Increasing rebuild time and failure probability
- 8.4 Atomicity: including parity inconsistency due to system crashes
- 8.5 RAID write hole
- 8.6 Write cache reliability
- 8.7 Drive error recovery algorithms
- 8.8 Scenarios other than disk failure
- 8.9 RAID 5 in enterprise environments
- 8.10 Software RAID issues
- 9 See also
- 10 Notes
- 11 References
- 12 External links
The term RAID was first defined by David A. Patterson, Garth A. Gibson and Randy Katz at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987. They studied the possibility of using two or more drives to appear as a single device to the host system and published a paper: "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)" in June 1988 at the SIGMOD conference.[2]
Each of the five levels of RAID named in the paper were well established in the art prior to the paper's publications, for example:
- Around 1983, DEC began shipping subsystem mirrored RA8X disk drives (now known as RAID 1) as part of its HSC50 subsystem.[7]
- Around 1988, the Thinking Machines DataVault used error correction codes (now known as RAID 2) in an array of disk drives.[8] A similar approach was used in 1970s on the IBM 3330.[9]
- In 1977, Norman Ken Ouchi at IBM filed a patent disclosing what was subsequently named RAID 4.[10]
- In 1986, Clark et al. at IBM filed a patent disclosing what was subsequently named RAID 5.[11]
Standard levels[edit]
A number of standard schemes have evolved. These are called levels. Originally, there were five RAID levels, but many variations have evolved—notably several nested levels and many non-standard levels (mostly proprietary). RAID levels and their associated data formats are standardized by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) in the Common RAID Disk Drive Format (DDF) standard:[12][13]
- RAID 0 comprises striping (but no parity or mirroring). This level provides no data redundancy nor fault tolerance, but improves performance through parallelism of read and write operations across multiple drives. RAID 0 has no error detection mechanism, so the failure of one disk causes the loss of all data on the array.[4]
- RAID 1 comprises mirroring (without parity or striping). Data are written identically to two (or more) drives, thereby producing a "mirrored set". The read request is serviced by any of the drives containing the requested data. This can improve performance if data is read from the disk with the least seek latency and rotational latency. Conversely, write performance can be degraded because all drives must be updated; thus the write performance is determined by the slowest drive. The array continues to operate as long as at least one drive is functioning.[4]
- RAID 2 comprises bit-level striping with dedicated Hamming-code parity. All disk spindle rotation is synchronized and data is striped such that each sequential bit is on a different drive. Hamming-code parity is calculated across corresponding bits and stored on at least one parity drive.[4] This level is of historical significance only. Although it was used on some early machines (e.g. the Thinking Machines CM-2),[14] it is not used by any current commercially available systems.[15]
- RAID 3 comprises byte-level striping with dedicated parity. All disk spindle rotation is synchronized and data is striped such that each sequential byte is on a different drive. Parity is calculated across corresponding bytes and stored on a dedicated parity drive.[4] Although implementations exist,[16] RAID 3 is not commonly used in practice.
- RAID 4 comprises block-level striping with dedicated parity.[citation needed]
- RAID 4 was previously used primarily by NetApp, but has now been largely replaced by an implementation of RAID 6 (RAID-DP).[17]
- RAID 5 comprises block-level striping with distributed parity. Unlike in RAID 4, parity information is distributed among the drives. It requires that all drives but one be present to operate. Upon failure of a single drive, subsequent reads can be calculated from the distributed parity such that no data is lost. RAID 5 requires at least three disks.[4]
- RAID 6 comprises block-level striping with double distributed parity. Double parity provides fault tolerance up to two failed drives. This makes larger RAID groups more practical, especially for high-availability systems, as large-capacity drives take longer to restore. As with RAID 5, a single drive failure results in reduced performance of the entire array until the failed drive has been replaced.[4]
The following table provides an overview of some considerations for standard RAID levels. In each case:
- Array space efficiency is given as an expression in terms of the number of drives, ; this expression designates a fractional value between zero and one, representing the fraction of the sum of the drives' capacities that is available for use. For example, if three drives are arranged in RAID 3, this gives an array space efficiency of thus, if each drive in this example has a capacity of 250 GB, then the array has a total capacity of 750 GB but the capacity that is usable for data storage is only 500 GB.
- Array failure rate is given as an expression in terms of the number of drives, , and the drive failure rate, (which is assumed identical and independent for each drive) and can be seen to be a Bernoulli trial.[citation needed] For example, if each of three drives has a failure rate of 5% over the next three years, and these drives are arranged in RAID 3, then this gives an array failure rate over the next three years of:
Level | Description | Minimum # of drives[limit 1] | Space efficiency | Fault tolerance | Array failure rate[limit 2] | Read performance | Write performance | Figure |
RAID 0 | Block-level striping without parity or mirroring | 2 | 1 | 0 (none) | nX | nX | ||
RAID 1 | Mirroring without parity or striping | 2 | 1/n | n−1 drives | nX[limit 3] | 1X | ||
RAID 2 | Bit-level striping with dedicated Hamming-code parity | 3 | 1 − 1/n ⋅ log2(n-1) | RAID 2 can recover from one drive failure or repair corrupt data or parity when a corrupted bit's corresponding data and parity are good. | (Varies) | (Varies) | (Varies) | |
RAID 3 | Byte-level striping with dedicated parity | 3 | 1 − 1/n | 1 drive | (n−1)X | (n−1)X[limit 4] | ||
RAID 4 | Block-level striping with dedicated parity | 3 | 1 − 1/n | 1 drive | (n−1)X | (n−1)X[limit 4] | ||
RAID 5 | Block-level striping with distributed parity | 3 | 1 − 1/n | 1 drive | (n−1)X[limit 4] | (n−1)X[limit 4] | ||
RAID 6 | Block-level striping with double distributed parity | 4 | 1 − 2/n | 2 drives | (n−2)X[limit 4] | (n−2)X[limit 4] | ||
RAID 10 | Mirroring without parity, and block-level striping | 4 | 2/n | 1 drive / span[limit 5] | nX | (n/2)X | ||
Level | Description | Minimum # of drives[limit 1] | Space efficiency | Fault tolerance | Array failure rate[limit 2] | Read performance | Write performance | Figure |
- ^ a b Assumes a non-degenerate minimum number of drives
- ^ a b Assumes independent, identical rate of failure amongst drives
- ^ Theoretical maximum, as low as 1X in practice
- ^ a b c d e f Assumes hardware is fast enough to support
- ^ Raid 10 can only lose one drive per span up to the max of 2/n drives.
Nested (hybrid) RAID[edit]
In what was originally termed hybrid RAID,[18] many storage controllers allow RAID levels to be nested. The elements of a RAID may be either individual drives or RAIDs themselves. However, if a RAID is itself an element of a larger RAID, it is unusual for its elements to be themselves RAIDs.
The final RAID is known as the top array. When the top array is a RAID 0 (such as in RAID 1+0 and RAID 5+0), most vendors omit the "+" (yielding RAID 10 and RAID 50, respectively).
- RAID 0+1: striped sets in a mirrored set (minimum four drives; even number of drives) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity.
- The key difference from RAID 1+0 is that RAID 0+1 creates a second striped set to mirror a primary striped set. The array continues to operate with one or more drives failed in the same mirror set, but if drives fail on both sides of the mirror the data on the RAID system is lost.
- RAID 1+0: (a.k.a. RAID 10) mirrored sets in a striped set (minimum four drives; even number of drives) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity.
- The key difference from RAID 0+1 is that RAID 1+0 creates a striped set from a series of mirrored drives. The array can sustain multiple drive losses so long as no mirror loses all its drives.[19]
RAID parity[edit]
Many RAID levels employ an error protection scheme called "parity", a widely used method in information technology to provide fault tolerance in a given set of data. Most use the simple XOR parity described in this section, but RAID 6 uses two separate parities based respectively on addition and multiplication in a particular Galois Field or Reed–Solomon error correction.[20]
Non-standard levels[edit]
Many configurations other than the basic numbered RAID levels are possible, and many companies, organizations, and groups have created their own non-standard configurations, in many cases designed to meet the specialized needs of a small niche group. Such configurations include the following:
- Linux MD RAID 10 provides a general RAID driver that in its "near" layout defaults to a standard RAID 1 with two drives, and a standard RAID 1+0 with four drives; though, it can include any number of drives, including odd numbers. With its "far" layout, MD RAID 10 can run both striped and mirrored, even with only two drives in
layout; this runs mirroring with striped reads, giving the read performance of RAID 0. Regular RAID 1, as provided by Linux software RAID, does not stripe reads, but can perform reads in parallel.[19][21][22] - Hadoop has a RAID system that generates a parity file by xor-ing a stripe of blocks in a single HDFS file.[23]
Data backup[edit]
A RAID system used as secondary storage is not an alternative to backing up data. In RAID levels greater than zero, a RAID protects from catastrophic data loss caused by physical damage or errors on a single drive within the array (or two drives in, say, RAID 6). However, a true backup system has other important features such as the ability to restore an earlier version of data, which is needed both to protect against software errors that write unwanted data to secondary storage, and also to recover from user error and malicious data deletion.
A RAID can be overwhelmed by catastrophic failure that exceeds its recovery capacity and, of course, the entire array is at risk of physical damage by fire, natural disaster, and human forces, while backups can be stored off site. A RAID is also vulnerable to controller failure because it is not always possible to migrate a RAID to a new, different controller without data loss.[24]
The distribution of data across multiple drives can be managed either by dedicated computer hardware or by software. A software solution may be part of the operating system, or it may be part of the firmware and drivers supplied with a hardware RAID controller.
Software-based RAID[edit]
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Software RAID implementations are now provided by many operating systems. Software RAID can be implemented as:
- A layer that abstracts multiple devices, thereby providing a single virtual device (e.g. Linux's md)
- A more generic logical volume manager (provided with most server-class operating systems, e.g. Veritas or LVM)
- A component of the file system (e.g. ZFS or Btrfs)
Volume manager support[edit]
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File-system support[edit]
Some advanced file systems are designed to organize data across multiple storage devices directly (without needing the help of a third-party logical volume manager):
- ZFS supports equivalents of RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 (RAID Z), RAID 6 (RAID Z2) and a triple-parity version RAID Z3. As it always stripes over top-level vdevs, it supports equivalents of the 1+0, 5+0, and 6+0 nested RAID levels (as well as striped triple-parity sets) but not other nested combinations. ZFS is the native file system on Solaris and also available on FreeBSD and Linux.[25]
- Btrfs supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 (RAID 5 and 6 are under development).[26][27]
Operating-system support[edit]
Many operating systems provide basic RAID functionality independently[clarification needed] of volume management:
- Apple's OS X and OS X Server support RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 1+0.[28][29]
- FreeBSD supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 3, and RAID 5, and all nestings via GEOM modules and ccd.[30][31][32]
- Linux's md supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 4, RAID 5, RAID 6, and all nestings.[33][34] Certain reshaping/resizing/expanding operations are also supported.[35]
- Microsoft's server operating systems support RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5. Some of the Microsoft desktop operating systems support RAID. For example, Windows XP Professional supports RAID level 0, in addition to spanning multiple drives, but only if using dynamic disks and volumes. Windows XP can be modified to support RAID 0, 1, and 5.[36] Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 introduces a RAID-like feature known as Storage Spaces, which also allows users to specify mirroring, parity, or no redundancy on a folder-by-folder basis.[37]
- NetBSD supports RAID 0, 1, 4, and 5 via its software implementation, named RAIDframe.[38]
Firmware/driver-based RAID[edit]
A RAID implemented at the level of an operating system is not always compatible with the system's boot process, and it is generally impractical for desktop versions of Windows (as described above). However, hardware RAID controllers are expensive and proprietary. To fill this gap, cheap "RAID controllers" were introduced that do not contain a dedicated RAID controller chip, but simply a standard drive controller chip with proprietary firmware and drivers; during early stage bootup, the RAID is implemented by the firmware, and once the operating system has been more completely loaded, then the drivers take over control. Consequently, such controllers may not work when driver support is not available for the host operating system.[39] An example is Intel Matrix RAID, implemented on many consumer-level motherboards.[40][41]
Because there is some minimal hardware support involved, this implementation approach is also called "hardware-assisted software RAID",[42][43][44] "hybrid model" RAID,[44] or even "fake RAID".[45] If RAID 5 is supported, the hardware may provide a hardware XOR accelerator. An advantage of this model over the pure software RAID is that—if using a redundancy mode—the boot drive is protected from failure (due to the firmware) during the boot process even before the operating systems drivers take over.[44]
Hardware RAID[edit]
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Data scrubbing / Patrol read[edit]
Data scrubbing involves periodic reading and checking by the RAID controller of all the blocks in a RAID, including those not otherwise accessed. This detects bad blocks before use.[46]
In some environments, documentation refers to data scrubbing as patrol read. Patrol reading checks for bad blocks on each storage device in an array, but also uses the redundancy of the array to recover bad blocks on a single drive and to reassign the recovered data to spare blocks elsewhere on the drive.[47]
RAID with solid-state drives[edit]
RAID can provide data security with solid-state drives (SSDs) without the expense of an all-SSD system. For example, a fast SSD can be mirrored with a mechanical drive. For this configuration to provide a significant speed advantage an appropriate controller is needed that uses the fast SSD for all read operations. Adaptec calls this "hybrid RAID",[48] the same term as is sometimes used for nested RAID.
In practice, the drives are often the same age (with similar wear) and subject to the same environment. Since many drive failures are due to mechanical issues (which are more likely on older drives), this violates the assumptions of independent, identical rate of failure amongst drives; failures are in fact statistically correlated.[4] In practice, the chances of a second failure before the first has been recovered (causing data loss) is not as unlikely as four random failures. In a study of about 100,000 drives, the probability of two drives in the same cluster failing within one hour was four times larger than predicted by the exponential statistical distribution—which characterizes processes in which events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate. The probability of two failures in the same 10-hour period was twice as large as predicted by an exponential distribution.[49]
Unrecoverable read errors during rebuild[edit]
Unrecoverable read errors (URE) present as sector read failures. The unrecoverable bit-error (UBE) rate is typically specified at one bit in 1015 for enterprise class drives (SCSI, FC, SAS), and one bit in 1014 for desktop class drives (IDE/ATA/PATA, SATA). Increasing drive capacities and large RAID 5 redundancy groups have led to an increasing inability to successfully rebuild a RAID group after a drive failure because an unrecoverable sector is found on the remaining drives.[4][50] Parity schemes such as RAID 5 when rebuilding are particularly prone to the effects of UREs as they affect not only the sector where they occur but also reconstructed blocks using that sector for parity computation; typically an URE during a RAID 5 rebuild leads to a complete rebuild failure.[51]
Double protection schemes such as RAID 6 are attempting to address this issue, but suffer from a very high write penalty. Schemes that duplicate (mirror) data such as RAIDs 1 and 10 have a lower risk from UREs than those using parity computation.[52] Background scrubbing can be used to detect and recover from UREs (which are latent and invisibly compensated for dynamically by the RAID controller) as a background process, by reconstruction from the redundant RAID data and then re-writing and re-mapping to a new sector; and so reduce the risk of double-failures to the RAID system.[53][54]
Increasing rebuild time and failure probability[edit]
Drive capacity has grown at a much faster rate than transfer speed, and error rates have only fallen a little in comparison. Therefore, larger capacity drives may take hours, if not days, to rebuild. The re-build time is also limited if the entire array is still in operation at reduced capacity.[55] Given a RAID with only one drive of redundancy (RAIDs 3, 4, and 5), a second failure would cause complete failure of the array. Even though individual drives' mean time between failure (MTBF) have increased over time, this increase has not kept pace with the increased storage capacity of the drives. The time to rebuild the array after a single drive failure, as well as the chance of a second failure during a rebuild, have increased over time.[56]
Some commentators have declared that RAID 6 is only a "band aid" in this respect, because it only pushes the problem a little further down the road.[56] However, according to a 2006 NetApp study of Berriman et al., the chance of failure decreases by a factor of about 3,800 (relative to RAID 5) for a proper implementation of RAID 6, even when using commodity drives.[57] Nevertheless, if the currently observed technology trends remain unchanged, in 2019 a RAID 6 array will have the same chance of failure as its RAID 5 counterpart had in 2010.[57][50]
Mirroring schemes such as RAID 10 have a bounded recovery time as they require the copy of a single failed drive, compared with parity schemes such as RAID 6, which require the copy of all blocks of the drives in an array set. Triple parity schemes, or triple mirroring, have been suggested as one approach to improve resilience to an additional drive failure during this large rebuild time.[57]
Atomicity: including parity inconsistency due to system crashes[edit]
A system crash or other interruption of a write operation can result in states where the parity is inconsistent with the data due to non-atomicity of the write process, such that the parity cannot be used for recovery in the case of a disk failure (the so-called RAID 5 write hole - see below).[4]
This is a little understood and rarely mentioned failure mode for redundant storage systems that do not utilize transactional features. Database researcher Jim Gray wrote "Update in Place is a Poison Apple" during the early days of relational database commercialization.[58]
RAID write hole[edit]
The RAID write hole is a known data corruption issue in older and low-end RAIDs, caused by interrupted destaging of writes to disk.[59]
Write cache reliability[edit]
A concern about write cache reliability exists, specifically regarding devices equipped with a write-back cache—a caching system that reports the data as written as soon as it is written to cache, as opposed to the non-volatile medium.[60]
Drive error recovery algorithms[edit]
Frequently, a RAID controller is configured to "drop" a component drive (that is, to assume a component drive has failed) if the drive has been unresponsive for eight seconds or so; this might cause the array controller to drop a good drive because that drive has not been given enough time to complete its internal error recovery procedure. Consequently, desktop drives can be risky in a RAID, and so-called "enterprise class" drives limit this error recovery time to reduce risk.[citation needed]
Western Digital's desktop drives used to have a specific fix. A utility called WDTLER.exe limited a drive's error recovery time. The utility enabled TLER (time limited error recovery), which limits the error recovery time to seven seconds. Around September 2009, Western Digital disabled this feature in their desktop drives (e.g. the Caviar Black line), making such drives unsuitable for use in a RAID.[61]
However, Western Digital enterprise class drives are shipped from the factory with TLER enabled. Similar technologies are used by Seagate, Samsung, and Hitachi. Of course, for non-RAID usage, an enterprise class drive with a short error recovery timeout that cannot be changed is therefore less suitable than a desktop drive.[61]
In late 2010, the Smartmontools program began supporting the configuration of ATA Error Recovery Control, allowing the tool to configure many desktop class hard drives for use in a RAID.[61]
Scenarios other than disk failure[edit]
While RAID may protect against physical drive failure, the data are still exposed to operator, software, hardware, and virus destruction. Many studies cite operator fault as the most common source of malfunction,[62] such as a server operator replacing the incorrect drive in a faulty RAID, and disabling the system (even temporarily) in the process.[63]
RAID 5 in enterprise environments[edit]
RAID 5 is seriously affected by the general trends regarding array rebuild time and chance of failure during rebuild.[56]
In August 2012, Dell posted an advisory against the use of RAID 5 in any configuration and of RAID 50 with "Class 2 7200 RPM drives of 1 TB and higher capacity".[64]
With a RAID 6 array, using drives from multiple sources and manufacturers, it is possible to mitigate most of the problems associated with RAID 5. The larger the drive capacities and the larger the array size, the more important it becomes to choose RAID 6 instead of RAID 5.[65] RAID 10 also minimizes these problems.[52]
Software RAID issues[edit]
If a boot drive fails, the system has to be sophisticated enough to be able to boot off the remaining drive or drives. For instance, consider a computer being booted from a RAID 1 (mirrored drives); if the first drive in the RAID 1 fails, then a first-stage boot loader might not be sophisticated enough to attempt loading the second-stage boot loader from the second drive as a fallback. The second-stage boot loader for FreeBSD is capable of loading a kernel from a RAID 1.[66]
See also[edit]
- ^ The physical drives are said to be "in a RAID", however the more common, somewhat repetitive parlance is to say that they are "in a RAID array". See RAS syndrome.
- ^ Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H.; Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. (2014), Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces [Chapter: RAID], Arpaci-Dusseau Books
- ^ a b David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson, and Randy H. Katz: A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID). University of California Berkeley. 1988.
- ^ "Originally referred to as Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, the concept of RAID was first developed in the late 1980s by Patterson, Gibson, and Katz of the University of California at Berkeley. (The RAID Advisory Board has since substituted the term Inexpensive with Independent.)" Storagecc Area Network Fundamentals; Meeta Gupta; Cisco Press; ISBN 978-1-58705-065-7; Appendix A.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Chen, Peter; Lee, Edward; Gibson, Garth; Katz, Randy; Patterson, David (1994). "RAID: High-Performance, Reliable Secondary Storage". ACM Computing Surveys 26: 145–185.
- ^ Donald, L. (2003). MCSA/MCSE 2006 JumpStart Computer and Network Basics (2nd ed.). Glasgow: SYBEX.
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- ^ "HSC50/70 Hardware Technical Manual" (PDF). DEC. July 1986. p. 29, 32. Retrieved 2014-01-03.
- ^ US patent 4899342, Norman Ken Ouchi, "Method and Apparatus for Operating Multi-Unit Array of Memories", issued 1988-02-01
- ^ "IBM 3330 data storage". IBM.com. IBM. Retrieved 2014-01-02.
- ^ US patent 4092732, Norman Ken Ouchi, "System for Recovering Data Stored in Failed Memory Unit", issued 1978-05-30
- ^ US patent 4761785, Brian E. Clark, et al., "Parity Spreading to Enhance Storage Access", issued 1988-08-02
- ^ "Common RAID Disk Drive Format (DDF) standard". SNIA.org. SNIA. Retrieved 2012-08-26.
- ^ "SNIA Dictionary". SNIA.org. SNIA. Retrieved 2010-08-24.
- ^ Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Structured Computer Organization 6th ed. p. 95.
- ^ Hennessy, John; Patterson, David (2006). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th ed. p. 362. ISBN 978-0123704900.
- ^ "FreeBSD Handbook, Chapter 20.5 GEOM: Modular Disk Transformation Framework". Retrieved 2012-12-20.
- ^ White, Jay; Lueth, Chris (May 2010). "RAID-DP:NetApp Implementation of Double Parity RAID for Data Protection. NetApp Technical Report TR-3298". Retrieved 2013-03-02.
- ^ Vijayan, S.; Selvamani, S. ; Vijayan, S (1995). "Dual-Crosshatch Disk Array: A Highly Reliable Hybrid-RAID Architecture". Proceedings of the 1995 International Conference on Parallel Processing: Volume 1. CRC Press. pp. I–146ff. ISBN 0-8493-2615-X.
- ^ a b Jeffrey B. Layton: "Intro to Nested-RAID: RAID-01 and RAID-10", Linux Magazine, January 6, 2011
- ^ Dawkins, Bill and Jones, Arnold. "Common RAID Disk Data Format Specification" [Storage Networking Industry Association] Colorado Springs, 28 July 2006. Retrieved on 22 February 2011.
- ^ "Performance, Tools & General Bone-Headed Questions". tldp.org. Retrieved 2013-12-25.
- ^ "Main Page - Linux-raid". osdl.org. 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-08-24.
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External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Redundant array of independent disks. |
- RAID on the Open Directory Project
- "Empirical Measurements of Disk Failure Rates and Error Rates", by Jim Gray and Catharine van Ingen, December 2005
- The mathematics of RAID-6, by H. Peter Anvin
- Does fake RAID offer any advantage over software RAID? – Discussion on superuser.com
- Differences between Hardware RAID, HBAs, and Software RAID – ServeTheHome.com (details more relative advantages and disadvantages)
- Anatomy of a Hardware RAID Controller – ServeTheHome.com (focused on contemporary SAS products)
- Comparing RAID Implementation Methods – Dell.com
- BAARF: Battle Against Any Raid Five (RAID 3, 4 and 5 versus RAID 10)


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The new Paul Verhoeven film, "Black Book," is set almost entirely in Holland during the later stages of the Second World War. It charts the efforts of a young Jewish woman named Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) to survive and prosper. She hides out with a farmer's family, then teams up with her own relatives and tries to flee the country on a barge. They are betrayed and slaughtered; Rachel alone escapes, and joins the Dutch Resistance. Here she is allotted the task of seducing Ludwig Müntze (Sebastian Koch), the courteous, stamp-collecting head of the local Gestapo. How, one might ask, did he rise to his present position? Did he torture his suspects with a pair of philatelist's tweezers?
From here, the film is entwined in double crosses, strokes of luck, and panicky exchanges of gunfire. Somebody within the Resistance is in league with the Germans; for more than two hours, Verhoeven keeps us on what he believes to be tenterhooks before revealing the villain. By this stage, the war is over, with Allied troops being fêted in the streets and the unfortunate Rachel accused of collaboration. Her fate should hang in the balance, but, since the opening scene of the film shows her teaching in a kibbutz in 1956, the scales are decisively tipped.
According to rumor, "Black Book" marks a purified moment in the career of Paul Verhoeven. It is the first film that he has made in his native Holland in more than twenty years; it is also said to prove that he has put away childish things—"RoboCop," "Basic Instinct," "Showgirls," and the other baubles of his Hollywood years. The first inkling that this might not be so comes with the attack on the barge. Rachel, though shot in the head, swims to safety, with the wound diminishing swiftly to a nasty graze and, one scene later, to an unblemished brow. Such is the template to which Verhoeven cleaves: no suffering is so dire that it cannot be endured and then erased, to be replaced—in Rachel's case—with an indomitable smile. After her first encounter with Müntze, on a train (he offers to carry her bags, unaware that they are stuffed with weapons), she strolls away down the platform with a puff of relief on her lips.
You could take this, I guess, as a convincing dramatization of courage. In Holland, as in other occupied countries, acts of resistance were carried out with exemplary coolness. A browse through Elsa Caspers's "To Save a Life: Memoirs of a Dutch Resistance Courier," published in 1995, confirms as much, and I suspect that Caspers was a useful source for Verhoeven and his co-screenwriter, Gerard Soeteman. "To Save a Life," however, is rooted in moral stamina and the harshness of deprivation; the winter of 1944 and the succeeding months (the time frame of "Black Book") saw the Netherlands besieged by famine, with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup. None of that desperation pinches Verhoeven's film. Resisters and collaborators alike are elegantly dressed, with plenty of flesh on the bones, and some of Rachel's escapades have the casual air of a spree.
This is not to diminish the brassy performance of Carice van Houten, whose cheeriness is tinged with a mania that recalls other Verhoeven blondes. To avoid detection, she bleaches not only her locks but her pubic hair, finely focussed groin-baring being the price of admission to the Verhoeven pantheon. The trouble with "Black Book" is that, in urging us to admire the resourcefulness of a character—a Jewish woman pretending to serve the Nazis—it hopes to cover up its own deceit. This is trash pretending to serve the cause of history: a "Dirty Dozen" knockoff with one eye on "Schindler's List." Everything about it, from the earnest strivings of the musical score to the beery gropings of the Germans, has the whiff of soap opera. At one point, the sanitization is literal: Rachel, arrested as a traitor, is stripped to the waist and drenched in human excrement. There may be grounds for showing such maltreatment, but there are none for what happens next—a shot of our heroine, scrubbed and untraumatized, leaving the scene with her rescuer, a Resistance friend, and walking out into the sunshine. Is that how Verhoeven thinks that individuals, let alone countries, emerge from humiliation? Far from turning serious, the director of "Basic Instinct" has proved that, when it comes to grappling with good and evil, his instincts aren't basic enough.
On a related subject, can you swallow a Jewish Richard Gere? The question spills naturally from Lasse Hallström's film "The Hoax," which delves with such gusto into the mechanics (not to mention the ethics) of gullibility that by the end we are forced to ask: Who can tell the guller from the gulled? Clifford Irving—a true figure, still alive today—was an author of minor repute who in 1971 conceived a scam that, in its formal beauty, would surpass anything else to which he put his name. "I'm working on the most important book of the twentieth century," he declares, bursting into the offices of McGraw-Hill, in New York, to the annoyance of his editor, Andrea Tate (Hope Davis). Irving claims that he has been asked to research and prepare—in short, to write—the autobiography of Howard Hughes, a man whose public appearances are slightly less frequent, and less reliable, than Bigfoot's.
A likely story. So likely, in fact, that Andrea and her superiors, including the president of the company (Stanley Tucci), lunge at it with their tongues hanging out. As Irving says, "I handed them three yellow letters, they gave me half a million dollars. Is that plausible?" It was he, of course, who faked those letters, which purported to come from Hughes himself and suggested Irving as the right man for the job. The whole thing is a fix, dreamed up by Irving and his best friend, Dick Suskind (Alfred Molina), and the comic glee that enlivens the first half of "The Hoax" springs from their astonished realization that they might, by a whisker, get away with it. So sure is Hallström's pacing that you barely notice the withering moral of the tale: when the money is big enough, everyone is a mug.


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Co-directors Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, who skippered the show into a safe harbor after five and a half years, wore Naval caps to the after-party held at The McKittrick Hotel on West 27th Street, where Sleep No More normally spooks.
"I think this is a story about people eventually taking responsibility for their lives," opined Rees. "Peter actually learns to become Peter Pan, and it's a sweet-and-sour decision because Peter Pan will never have a family. He'll always be looking through the window at others. To be a boy forever is what perhaps we all wish for, but maybe it might not be as sweet as that. To take responsibility for your life is a good thing."
Both pooh-poohed the problems of co-directing. "It's been great," Timbers, in fact, said. "Roger and I come from very different backgrounds, but we like the same kinds of shows and have the same tastes. That helps us. I take things away from Roger, he takes things away from me. What has come out of it is my fondest collaboration."
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There was a third wheel calling the shots as well — Steven Hoggett, who is credited with Movement and keeps the show in a constant state of that (as he did with Once and Black Watch). "Steven's a choreographer and he is also a movement-stager," Timbers said. "He gave us a masculine, aggressive movement that was exactly what we needed for this. Sequences had been there for three years, and just having his eye on it to tune it up made everything so much better. He's going to be doing the fights for Rocky [the musical], and they are so realistic and exciting and terrifying. I just can't wait to work with him again."
Although Peter and the Starcatcher calls itself "a play-with-music," the big mermaid drag number that begins the second act may just be a better, funnier, richer routine than can be found in most so-labeled musicals. Hoggett worked overtime here.
So did the motley dozen on stage. "I live in my body," flaunted the chubby Greg Hildreth about his dance routine. "There's something very special about doing a play-with-music. When those musical moments do happen, they're almost ten times more rewarding than in an actual musical. It, somehow, is able to propel the story forward and, also, treat the audience to a good time."
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Even in anything-goes, over-the-top, male-drag routines like this, Christian Borle manages to steal the scene, suggesting everything from silent-film's Ben Turpin to The Roadrunner. "Roger and Alex and Rick have given me free rein," he said, "but they've also made sure to say, 'Sometimes, it's best to leave the audience wanting a little more.' I think that's the trick with Black Stache — keep him driving it forward."
Adam Chanler-Berat is the Peter Pan of the occasion — actually, a wannabe trying to find his way into the iconic in-charge child we know and love. "When I was in the eighth grade," he recalled, "I played Hook, and Pan was played by a female [hey! It happens]. The most resonant Peter Pan that I know was 'Hook,' that movie with Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman, which I was enthralled with when I was a kid. I must have watched it 18 times."
"I have not loved being in a show this much maybe ever in my life," trilled Celia Keenan-Bolger, who just happens to be the only female in the cast of 12. "That could be part of it," she allowed, "but it has a lot to do with the people I'm doing the show with. I have such a great respect and love for these guys. They're some of the greatest people I've ever worked with.
"I just feel so grateful to get to play this role. I feel like so much of the character was there before I got there, but then what happens when you work on a show for three years is that the writer starts to write to your strengths so I'm really grateful to have Rick Elice help me bring this little girl to life.'
Her new hubby, actor John Ellison Conlee gamely played Norman Maine while the paparazzi peppered her with flashes. For the record, she wore a pleated strapless blue jade dress from BCBG Max Azria.


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Interesting. If the kids like it I'll make it again, as I am trying to increase the amount of highly colored veggies in our diet. Next time I will probably cut the amount of ginger in half.
Moroccan Carrots
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Yield: Makes 4 servings
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- 3 cups coarsely chopped carrot
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro
- 1. Cook carrot in boiling salted water to cover 5 minutes or until al dente. Drain.
- 2. Toss carrot with remaining ingredients. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Moroccan Carrots Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Side Dishes/Vegetables
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Kid-Friendly, Make-Ahead, Quick/Easy
- CUISINE: Moroccan
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Vegetables
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Gluten-Free
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