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p.1 #1
· Backup strategy ideas?
i was wondering if anyone could give me their opinion on my backup strategy I am intending to implement. At the moment, I have a very crude backup methodology, essentially my photography work as floated across multiple portable drives of vary sizes. Each of the project's production files get uploaded to my photo-shelter account as means of keeping it offsite and yet accessible by myself and my clients.
Since I work from a notebook, I have finite storage and I am planning to purchase a 3TB external drive that will allow me to place all my projects onto a single drive. Essentially have it plugged into my notebook and add new projects or edit existing projects.
My confusion with external drives has been which one do I get? I have been reading that the enclosures for WD & Seagate external desktop drives have poor ventilation and some folks ended up cooking their drives. Lacie enclosures seem good but do drives get cooked in them as well ? Next is do I get USB3 or Thunderbolt connection port? At the moment my notebook has firewire 800 and USB2 but hopefully in the near future I might move to a new iMac.
Those who work in Lightroom connected to an external drive via USB3 or Thunderbolt, is it quick to work with?
Next part of the backup puzzle, is choosing a NAS type device. I looked at Drobo, QNAP, Synology and a HP Microserver running FreeNAS. Drobo as much as it makes life easy it does have its disadvantages and the initial cost, puts me off.
QNAP and Synology look good, they do offer great 4 and 5 bay options. I may have not done enough homework here but say if there is an internal malfunction which causes the motherboard to fry but the hard drives integrity remain intact, how do I recover my data ? Can I take these drives and put them inside another QNAP or Synology device or am I doomed ? How easy is it for me to plug my external drive to either QNAP or Synology device and sync changes across as well as push new data from external to NAS with the touch of a button.
I haven't quite fully embraced the cloud storage yet because my ADSL connection is quite terrible but hopefully in the future with NBN (aussie thing) it would nice to go from NAS to Amazon cloud seamlessly.
Also is there any option from QNAP/Synology NAS devices that allows you to autonomously backup to another external drive that you can keep offsite?
One of the things I can't seem to wrap my head around is requiring more and more storage space as the years go by. At the moment I can see that 3TB is enough space to see me through Mid 2014 whilst maintaing projects since 2011. Let's say its 2015 and I need to access one of my lightroom catalogs created in 2011, how difficult will it be to access that catalog from NAS device and make the relevant changes via lightroom and not get the lag feel while working via the network. Correct me if I'm wrong but from what I remember, you can't access lightroom catalogs over shared network volumes correct? If this is correct then how do you work around this ?
The HP Microserver option with FreeNAS can give me Drobo like functionality but I feel this may require some tinkering around with bash shell commands. However, microservers are cheap. Again, if the microserver fries it's motherboard, is my data doomed ?
If anyone can offer any suggestions, I'm ready to listen.
Mar 02, 2013 at 02:49 AM
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p.1 #2
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I can't comment on the various NAS solutions (although the HP microserver is not bad) but for the most part most have graphic based configuration options. Even FreeNAS has a GUI setup.
Best to check professional sites for reviews on particular models.
I will also not that if a NAS device is hardware based (as most are) the RAID information is stored on the hard drives itself. Although the hardware controls the RAID array, if for some reason a motherboard fried, if it were replaced with the same controller, no data would be lost.
You also touched on backing up to an offsite drive. This is always a good practice in terms of disaster recovery and is very easy with tools like Dropbox or Skydrive or whatever Mac equivalent there is. They are even workable with slow DSL connections. Just know the first initial sync will take a while. Of course you can always copy locally and store a drive offsite for quicker backups.
Mar 03, 2013 at 10:36 PM
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Lots of questions in your post - some stuff which I am trying to deal with myself.
Here is what I got from my research:
NAS addresses some backup risks - but not all.
1) NAS using mirroring or RAID 5/6 addresses availability risks via redundancy of HDs.
2) It doesn't address risk of data corruption caused by Viruses or user error
3) It doesn't address risk of physical disasters
Risk 2 is addressed via multi-backups at different times but then you will need logging to keep track of when a backup was completed and investigating when the corruption occurred so you can go back to a backup before the corruption. Lots of work to implement properly and most people cannot trace back when a corruption occurred. One of the hardest risk to address.
Risk 3 can be addressed via Cloud solution / if you don't have a lot of data or using external HD or tapes and moving to offsite location if data volumes are large.
As for using NAS as your working volume not recommended if you want to use NAS as your backup media.
Working data should be copied from your backup source to your workstation, do what you need done on the data at the workstation, when work is completed, copy the data back to your NAS as a backup.
Regarding hardware failures (non-HD failures) on the NAS my understanding is that you will need to find the same manufacturer to get the RAID back up using the same HDs. The HD array is not portable across different manufacturers. NAS that have their own MB usually have an external eSATA or USB connector for external drives for one button backups.
Mar 04, 2013 at 04:49 PM
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Thunderbolt is insanely fast, basically like having an internal HD.
I use Crashplan for backup. My main Photo directory is on a G-RAID Thunderbolt drive connected to my main computer. It is shared so if I am off site, when I return to my office I can combine the Lightroom library from my remote computer right to the main Photo directory and library on the G-RAID.
Crashplan backs up my G-RAID every 3 hours to a NAS (slower one running Windows Server 2011). Also every 24 hour I back up the G-RAID to the Crashplan online backup server. So I have 2 sets of backups (one local, and one on the cloud). Cloud storage costs me about $3/month for unlimited space.
Crashplan also lets you backup to a friends computer or drive remotely. So if you have a friend close by, give them a remote drive to attach to their backup computer, you both run Crashplan, and your computer will backup to their computer.
I agree not to use your NAS as a working volume, frankly most NAS drives are too slow, and the really fast ones are more expensive than a good quality fast external drive system.
I do store movies on my NAS and play them back over my network, but other than that, the NAS is solely for Network backup.
Mar 05, 2013 at 02:55 PM
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p.1 #5
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Thanks for all the responses since I had written the original post I had time to contemplate a good solution. I agree in terms of a NAS device, its going to be slow and buy 4-5 hard drives and a NAS device is going to cost significant $$$.
Since my current image collection is hovering around 2TB, I will invest in three 3TB drives and three separate enclosures. Essentially keep one as my master and the remaining two will be backups. The remaining two drives; keep one in an off-site location and the second one stays with my master.
Buy a copy of Chronosync since I can daisy chain the three drives via FireWire, I can let Chronosync perform the synchronisation changes from the Master to the two backup drives.
Albeit this solution is a bit cumbersome it is a cheaper solution but only for a short term since my collection is under 3TB.
My other thought regarding cloud is say your NAS drive one day explodes in a million pieces of glitter and all you have is your cloud storage, downloading a 1GB catalog is going to be a pain if you need data immediately. Imagine you have 10TB of data, how long would that take to download? Then again backup is better than no backup even over a slow broadband connection to the cloud. :-)
Once again thank you for all your suggestions and input.
Mar 06, 2013 at 11:19 PM
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cloud backup is really a last defence against total loss. in my case I have a 36Mb connection so downloading 1TB would not be all that bad, maybe a day, two at the most. Most Cloud system lets you selectively backup. With Crashplan, I can actually recove any specific file i need. I have needed files while off site, and just logged in with my ipad, grabbed the files I needed and downloaded them right to my ipad.
Over all having 3 3TB drives should work well, keep one local, one off site, you should be good. good call going with firewire, will make backing soo much faster.
Mar 07, 2013 at 03:06 AM
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In addition to what has been mentioned above. You should also be backing up files to DVD 's of each individual assignment/job!
Use the best DVD media you can buy/find, something like this is great.
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GoGo wrote
In addition to what has been mentioned above. You should also be backing up files to DVD 's of each individual assignment/job!
I definitely can see the value in doing this for smaller assignments but some of my larger ones that go on for three weeks and capture inexcess of 300GB it starts becoming infeasible to burn DVDs.
Mar 07, 2013 at 10:52 PM
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p.1 #9
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sounds like you have done alot of research - my only coment would be to have your original files dupped to externals (agree, 300 GB way to much to burn to discs) off site. We keep our RAW file backups down the street at a neighbors. Years ago had a RAID set-up on custom, high end computer and the Raid card (top of line) went bad -lost both HDs.
Mar 08, 2013 at 10:06 PM
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veeral wrote
I definitely can see the value in doing this for smaller assignments but some of my larger ones that go on for three weeks and capture inexcess of 300GB it starts becoming infeasible to burn DVDs.
You should still burn a DVD of your selections, you can't have too many copies!
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Mar 09, 2013 at 06:38 PM
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p.1 #11
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I have a QNAP TS-409 Pro NAS that I've used for several years. It is now a dinosaur relative to what is available but is still functional. I only use it to backup my total photo archive as I complete each new shoot. I would also recommend an assignment/job based backup to DVDs or a complete archive backup to an external drive which should be stored offsite.
I am currently investigating cloud based storage strategies since the prices for these seem to have gotten a bit more reasonable lately.
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Mar 12, 2013 at 07:50 PM
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I have a custom built NAS which I built around an ASUS C60M1 board (with onboard dualcore x86_64 64bit CPU), 8GB of ram, 4x 1TB Western Digital Green drives in RAID 5 for data, 1x 250GB drive for OS (Arch Linux 64bit).
The reason I chose for this setup is because it allows me to backup my stuff straight from my NAS to CrashPlan PRO-E (through CeeJay.net for UK storage) as Crashplan has linux based software as well.
Works very well as you can keep track of the backup progress through an web interface for all your devices. Initial backup might take a while it's well worth it!
You get unlimited 448 bit encrypted storage and unlimited retention so if you wish you could keep
version of a file and it's not even that expensive!
Mar 12, 2013 at 10:13 PM
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I'm a crashplan fan, but the beauty of crashplan is not only the unlimited cloud storage but also the fact that the software can be used to back up to another computer/drive, which could be anywhere in the world. Being able to automate the "offsite' HDD backup is something I've not yet played with but I intend to. Triple redudancy.... mirrored RAID at home, auto nightly backup to offsite HDD (potentially another mirrored RAID NAS unit) and cloud
I stopped burning DVDs years ago... magnetic/cloud storage is so cheap and easy now that DVDs are somewhat pointless in my workflow, but obviously YMMV
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Here's a complete look at the Colts' free agent picture (via Mac's Football Blog):
Exclusive Rights Free Agents (1)
S Stevie Brown
Restricted Free Agents (2)
TE Anthony Hill
CB Jacob Lacey
Unrestricted Free Agents (19)
QB Kerry Collins (2011 contract voided five days after regular season ended)
QB Dan Orlovsky
FB Jerome Felton
WR Pierre Garcon
WR Anthony Gonzalez
WR Reggie Wayne
TE Jacob Tamme
OT Ryan Diem
OT Quinn Ojinnaka
OG Mike Pollak
OG Jamey Richard
OC Jeff Saturday
DE Jamaal Anderson
DE Tyler Brayton
DE Eric Foster
DE Robert Mathis
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by Charles Lemos, Tue Feb 23, 2010 at 05:04:36 PM EST
The White House healthcare proposals, the attempt to bridge the gap between the House and Senate versions, did not include a public option. On this omission, Ezra Klein writes in the Washington Post that this demonstrates "a complete and utter failure of White House leadership."
They need to give this effort their support, or they need to kill it by publicly stating their opposition. But they can't simply wait for someone else to make the decision for them, which has been their strategy until now.
If the White House decides that reviving the public option is a good idea, there's reason to believe the Senate would follow them on that. It would make some sense, after all: The public option is popular, its death was partly the product of industry pressure, and the sudden spate of high-profile rate increases offers a nice rhetorical pivot for anyone who wants to argue that individuals should be able to choose an insurer who's not a profit-hungry beast. Plus, Democrats need an excited base going into the 2010 election, and this may be the only way to get it.
While the death of the public option may have partly been a result of industry pressure, the onus lies squarely with the White House. After all, where does the buck stop? Who is willing or unwilling to fight the powers that be? Some fights are worth having but we have a President and a Chief of Staff who would rather cut a deal than fight the good (and hard) fight. It has been a complete and utter failure of White House leadership.
To be sure the White House has paid lip service to the idea of a public option now and again most recently earlier this week when they trotted out HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to suggest that if the Senate wanted to push for a public option via the reconciliation process then Majority Leader Harry Reid was free to do so. Such a suggestion is a passing of the buck. Corralling 51 votes on this was always going to be arduous task but nonetheless 23 Senators had stepped forward until Senator Jay Rockefeller rained on the parade.
The answer has always been Medicare for All, it is a proven single payer system that works but it's clear that the White House was opposed to this idea from the start. Earlier this month on his Journal program on PBS, Bill Moyers interviewed Dr. Margaret Flowers, a Congressional Fellow with Physicians for National Health Program.
BILL MOYERS: Last May, before the Senate hearings at Max Baucus-- Senator Max Baucus were conducted, it seemed like there might be a momentum behind this single payer Medicare for all movement. What happened?
DR. MARGARET FLOWERS: They actually did start inviting us in to have a seat at the table. Senator Kennedy's committee contacted us. And I was the first person to testify in the Health Education and Labor and Pension Committee hearing. I sat next to the CEO of Aetna, which was a very interesting experience. And then when we went over to the House and spoke to the leadership there, they said, "We want your voice to be heard here." And we testified there. And so we actually thought we were starting to get our foot in the door. And then we had some amendments that were introduced that were good amendments. They would have substituted a national single payer system for the legislation that was going through, so we were really pushing on that. And then we saw that all of that fell apart.
BILL MOYERS: And then?
DR. MARGARET FLOWERS: Well, what we learned through this process is there was a lot of control coming from the White House. And they did not- they wanted to pass something. They were putting everything off on passing something in health care reform. And they were concerned that if we let the single payer voice in, or if it was associated in any way with a legislation, that it would hurt their ability to pass that legislation. So they kind of put the kibosh on it.
BILL MOYERS: The White House.
DR. MARGARET FLOWERS: Yes, it really came down from the top. We tried to bring our viewpoint in this summer. We actually brought doctors and nurses in. That was a lot of what I was doing, to meet with staffers and meet with legislators and educate them about health policy, what makes good sense from a health standpoint, not an, you know, special interest standpoint. But when we tried to reach the White House and ask to be included there, we requested meetings with the president on numerous occasions. And they just said no.
Juxtaposed against this Obama obstructionism are the efforts and the real leadership of Senator Kristen Gillibrand who was one of the four prime movers of this most recent effort to resuscitate the public option. In fact, Senator Gillibrand hit the nail of head recently in a meeting with the Young Manhattan Democrats:
After an impassioned speech and a few questions, it was my turn to stick myself in there and see if she could speak to the issue that I cared most about: fixing our wasteful, inefficient and immoral health care system. The question I asked, though not verbatim, went something like this:
Senator Gillibrand, I'd first like to thank you the recent letter you signed and sent to Harry Reid demanding that we use reconciliation to bring back the public option and score a big victory for the American people. [Applause] As for going forward on health care reform in the near future, what are our chances that we will get the public option, the government run alternative that will provide real competition to the exploitative, wasteful, and inefficient health care corporate cartel that is gauging American workers and holding this nation back from progress? [Applause]Okay, maybe I didn't pull a Keith Olbermann and use the word "cartel," but I did say pretty much everything else. At this point, although I was very impressed with what Gillibrand had been saying prior to my question, I was expecting the same old politician/focus-group-tested-response, like:
Great Question. We are currently working very hard to bring back the public option, and we will all do our best. We need to remember that the most important thing is not the specifics, but that we have some competition, not necessarily in the form of a government plan.But she didn't say that. Not even close. What she said actually greatly exceeded my expectations, slapping a big smile on my face and unleashing a wave of applause from the crowd. She began by saying that the public option will be hard to enact through reconciliation – a parliamentary procedure that only requires fifty-one votes instead of sixty – given that reconciliation is strictly a budgetary procedure and is thus supposed to be used only for budgetary issues. Albeit "budgetary issues" is vague, the idea here is that reconciliation is supposed to be used only when the budget has changed and the Congress must adjust existing programs to fit the new budget.
With this in mind, Gillibrand sought to find a way around this, and stumbled on something that progressives have been saying all year long. Instead of enacting a brand new "public option" program, why don't we instead adjust the current public program already in existence – Medicare – to our current budget, i.e., expand Medicare for everyone? If we did this, it could be done completely through reconciliation.
This pronouncement sent me throwing victory fist pumps through the air like Ari Gold. Unbeknownst to most on the right, we already live in a country that has "socialized medicine": it's called Medicare, Medicaid, and the Veterans Administration. And unlike the health care that we all have, these programs – although they have problems in their own right – are vastly more popular, more efficient, and a lot cheaper than private insurance.
So the takeaway: Gillibrand was asked about the public option, and responded with Medicare for all.
It's time to take a stand. Medicare for all. Anything less is unacceptable from both an economic point of view or from a moral stance.
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Off-cycle losses are greater from a boiler
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Second, if a combustion heating system runs less
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Having booked short notice the day before I was a little wary on how good Theo Randal's could be, so went with managed expectations and good job I did!
The food on the whole was more hearty Italian than top end dining. For antipasti I had smoked eel salad, which was a nice meat flavour with subtle hints of smoke, very good. Then for Primi, I had slow cook Veal tagliatelle with summer truffle; the truffle a tasteless waste of time and the pasta was a little too dry and could of benefited with some sauce. Then for main I had the Monk fish and prosciutto, which was good especially the ham.
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Middleton Celebrating Sixth Decade in Local Lumber Business
What started out as a part-time book keeping position has turned into six decades of life in the lumber business for Downing native H Middleton. The owner and operator of Memphis Lumber is celebrating sixty years in the business. Memphis Lumber invites the public to stop in Friday, August 19th and congratulate H, while taking advantage of store-wide deals.
Middleton got his start with the Downing Lumber Company, when he was hired in July of 1951. H was working part-time for the United States Postal Service at the time. He filled the rest of his work day as the book keeper for the Downing lumber yard.
When owner Forrest Rowe's father passed away, Middleton was turned to, to fill a full-time position. He worked with his wife's uncle for several years, with Rowe ultimately turning to H as his successor.
Downing Lumber Company dates back to 1895, when stock was issued for public ownership of the lumber yard started by the rail road. Eventually, the Rowe family bought out the stockholders and a father-son partnership was formed.
In 1967, Middleton partnered with Rowe to purchase Worth Lumber Company in Lancaster. The business was renamed Lancaster Lumber.
"I would spend the mornings in Lancaster and the afternoons in Downing," H stated. "It worked out really well for me. I liked what I was doing, and that is 90% of making it work."
In 1977, the business expanded to Memphis, when Middleton purchased Memphis Lumber from Charlie Cummings, a salesman who had bought the store from Hillis Weiner.
The expansion ultimately led to the closing of Downing Lumber Company.
"With three lumber yards, the one in the middle drew the short straw," H explained. "We decided to close the Downing yard and move the inventory that remained up to Memphis."
Ultimately the business shrank to just one store. Middleton sold Lancaster lumber to employee Ron Oliver.
"He worked for us a couple years as a COE student," Middleton explained. "He was a good kid, and it was a good opportunity for all of us. Ronnie has done really well with the business."
While the number of locations decreased for H, his workload did not. H, who still calls Downing home, attends to a number of other callings. He serves as deacon at the First Baptist Church in Downing. Middleton also is a Schuyler County Rotary Club member, and served as the District Governor for the region for Rotary International.
One of the main reasons Middleton's HDR Corporation was able to make the transition to just one location has been the success of the Lan-Dow building line.
"I can remember making deliveries to the first building site when I was a junior in high school, back in 1963," stated H's son Donnie Middleton.
The custom pole buildings really got off the ground in 1967, when a tornado damaged much of the area around Downing.
"The insurance companies were coming to us for estimates on how much it was going to cost to replace barns and garages and out buildings," H said. "We were doing all of the work to line out all the materials it would take to build new, when a builder tossed out the idea that he would build the buildings for so much a square foot."
Thus Lan-Dow buildings was launched, with Lancaster (Lan) and Downing (Dow) Lumber companies selling the materials and the labor in a one-stop package.
In 40-plus years, the company has built an estimated 3,000 Lan-Dow buildings all across the Midwest.
"It definitely is way bigger than we ever expected," H stated. "There are only so many buildings locally that you can erect, so the demand from outside of the region has been key."
That demand allowed H to combine two of his greatest passions, the lumber business and flying.
"We were putting up a building down near Mexico, Missouri when the crew called and said they were short a few items," H stated. "So we jumped in the plane and flew down to the work site. I flew over and Peggy shoved the stuff out the door for them to pick up."
Not your standard relief effort, but the air drop worked just the same.
Air traffic never became a standard for the HDR Corporation, but transportation was one of the major changes H witnessed in his 60 years in the lumber business.
"At Downing, we bought lumber by the car load," H said. That is by the train car load. It took the full crew of men, two days to unload and transfer the merchandise, and that was utilizing two wagons and teams of horses.
"They stacked the wood so high in the train car, that Dick was a little boy, and he was the only one who could fit through the door," H said. "So he climbed in on top and started the unloading for us, until the opening was big enough for the rest of us to get in there."
Today, the lumber arrives by semi-truck, and it takes one employee just an hour or two to unload a full load thanks to the use of a forklift.
Generally it's either a son or a grandson at the wheel. As the name denotes, HDR Corp. is a family business. H and his sons Donnie and Richard (Dick) comprise the three initials of the business name. Grandsons Jason and Andy round out the crew.
"My family has grown up around the business," H said. "We've lived it and breathed it."
And H plans to keep on living and breathing it.
"That's why it is nice to have this a family affair," he said. "I've never really given much thought to retiring. I've slowed down a lot, but I still love coming to work. One of these days my time will come. They'll close the doors for a few days to get me in the ground, and then it will be back to business as usual."
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Pierce Brosnan was great at portraying James Bond in films. He's not quite as skilled at playing Bond in GoldenEye 007, though.
Throwing out empty praises isn't really in my repertoire. However, I would be absolutely lying if I didn't have anything but praises to sing for CD Projekt RED's The Witcher 3. The game, above and beyond, not only looks absolutely amazing but it has play mechanics to match it.
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Some things are more important than resolution, and a lot of things are not. In the infinite battle between clarity versus fluidity, another developer has chimed in on what the focus should be on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 games, noting that frame-rate definitely trumps resolution.
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Control spread of betting machines
8:00am Saturday 8th February 2014 in News By David Trayner
CALLS have been made for new powers to be introduced to control the spread of betting machines dubbed the "crack cocaine of gambling".
Ian Gilbert, leader of Southend Council's Labour group and Parliamentary candidate for Rochford and Southend East, has called for new powers so local authorities can limit the number of fixed odds betting terminals, which allow gamblers to bet up to £300 a minute on high streets.
There are 19 betting shops in the Rochford and Southend East area and 11 in Southend West, with an estimated 120 terminals where people can bet up to £18,000 an hour.
Mr Gilbert said: "Gambling can be a fun pastime for millions of people.
"Indeed, I gamble from time to time myself, so I am not a moral puritan on the issue.
"However, over the past few years the proliferation of betting shops, gambling adverts, personalised gambling platforms and fixed odds betting terminals has contributed to an ever-growing gambling addiction problem.
"The clustering of betting shops can cause enormous harm to our community. This is why I'm backing Labour leader Ed Miliband's plans to empower local people and local authorities to decide whether they want betting shops and fixed odds terminals on their high streets.
"The time has come to give local people and local authorities the right to decide if they want their high streets to be the place for high stakes, high speed and high cost gambling."
Matt Zarb-Cousin, of Southend, is one of the founder members of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling. He fears the opportunity to gamble so much money so quickly in high street betting shops is normalising activities usually confined to casinos and contributing to gambling addiction.
He said: "We are the only country in the world that allows stakes of up to £100 on the high street.
"They don't belong on the high street. They are casino gaming machines."
Mr Zarb-Cousin backed the call for councils to get more powers – but went further, calling on the Government to force betting shops to lower maximum stakes.
He said: "I support new powers, but I think there is no reason betting shops should have gaming machines with stakes above £2.
"If you give local authorities the power to limit them, that's great, but central Government should reduce the maximum stakes."
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8:06am Sat 8 Feb 14
DogsMessInLeigh says...
8:11am Sat 8 Feb 14
Keptquiettillnow says...
DogsMessInLeigh wrote:Very true, betting shops really are everywhere now.
They have slipped in the backdoor slowly over time like a killer disease.
9:27am Sat 8 Feb 14
scrounger says...
11:01am Sat 8 Feb 14
DogsMessInLeigh says...
scrounger wrote:But don't some of these idiots take from the non-idiots when they get desperate....and out of control gamblers can get very very desperate and cause carnage in their wake.
These machines are an idiot tax that you don't have to pay, why take them away so we have to pay the extra tax instead of the idiots? Also don't forget that empty shops don't pay rates so someone else will have to.
11:36am Sat 8 Feb 14
profondo asbo says...
2:27pm Sat 8 Feb 14
Howard Cháse says...
profondo asbo wrote:Not forgetting high street fences oops I mean pawnbrokers shops
boarded up shops and 99p stores are clearly preferable. next these people will be trying to regulate how we wipe our backsides.
5:30pm Sat 8 Feb 14
John Bull 40 says...
8:36pm Sat 8 Feb 14
ThisYear says...
profondo asbo wrote:Brother can you spare another takeaway
boarded up shops and 99p stores are clearly preferable. next these people will be trying to regulate how we wipe our backsides.
12:45pm Sun 9 Feb 14
RichasAA says...
Matt is is not a "founder member" he is a paid lobbyist for the campaign.
The Gambling Commission tell us that bookmaker numbers ave been stable over the past five years. There is no big growth in bookie numbers.
Problem gambling has been researched since before these machines began (2001). Prevalence Surveys in 1999, 2007, 2010 and now a health survey asking the same questions in 2012 measured the rate of problem gambling. The surveys used two measures to assess problem gambling rates.
In 1999 the Problem Gambling rate was 0.6% (both measures).
In 2007 the Problem Gambling rate was 0.6% (both measures).
In 2010 the Problem Gambling rate was 0.7% or 0.9%.
In 2012 the Problem Gambling rate was 0.4% or 0.5%.
It is just not true to claim that there is an "ever-growing gambling addiction problem." The evidence is that it is a terrible problem for some but not that it is growing. Addicts need help not restrictions on the rest of us.
9:24pm Mon 10 Feb 14
claresimon says...
(1) just to be clear, customers in betting shops can and do place bets of any amount they want on football or horse racing etc, so for Matt Zarb-Cousin to say that "We are the only country in the world that allows stakes of up to £100 on the high street." is just laughable and very much in keeping with his jaundiced view on betting shops.
(2) The potential to lose £18,000 per hour on machines is akin to winning the National Lottery three weeks running....in other words a complete and utter joke! The machines return on average 97% of stake on every spin, and on average we make less than a £10 an hour from each machine. Does that put the £18,000 per hour stat in perspective?
(3) The number of betting shops in the UK has hardly changed in the last five years. The sad fact is that thanks to the growth of supermarkets and industrial parks, plus the worst recession in over 80 years, the high street has lost its smaller businesses enabling a range of other retailers to be able to afford the cheaper rents to move into these more prominent positions. Most of the betting shops appearing on high streets are not new and have actually moved from less prominent side streets, basements etc. They are well designed, brightly lit and pleasant environments for customers and in no way devalue or denigrate the high streets that they have moved to.
(4) Problem gambling is a serious issue but not the worsening one that these chancers would have you believe. All the evidence available says that the number of problem gamblers has in no way increased over the last decade, indeed it would suggest that it has actually decreased. Whatever the stats, one problem gambler is one too many, and the heavily regulated betting industry is taking even more steps to exercise its responsibility to customers by introducing more harm minimisation measures and player protection polices through technological improvements to gaming machines and extensive staff training.
Take much of what you read on this issue with a pinch of salt. The betting industry is heavily regulated, takes its social responsibilities extremely seriously, provides employment to thousands of people, and delivers a professional and entertaining service to millions of people every week.
8:38pm Fri 14 Feb 14
Lingers Punter says...
Suggest you read his comments with the knowledge that Coral's FOBT profits pay his wages.
9:13am Sat 15 Feb 14
RichasAA says...
Lingers Punter wrote:I assume that 'claresimon' above Is Simon Clare. Simon is a PR for Coral. Suggest you read his comments with the knowledge that Coral's FOBT profits pay his wages.
I assume that 'claresimon' above Is Simon Clare. Simon is a PR for Coral.
Suggest you read his comments with the knowledge that Coral's FOBT profits pay his wages.
I think you are right, Matt is tweeting about this post. Trouble is that what he has said is accurate so instead of challenging that you play the man.
You should also note that prominent local councils opposing bookies on this issue also have a habit of being ones with lots of casinos in them - Newham (Aspers Stratford), Southend has 2/3 and a new one coming, the Chinatown campaign is also funny given the Empire, new Hippodrome and more.....
Please also remember that the Campaign for Fairer Gambling is funded by the inventor of casino table games who made millions from three card poker and 21+3, who is still owed millions that depend upon UK casino licences and owns a good chunk of Galaxy Gaming. If you want to play the man please remember that the anti bookie campaign has industry interests too.
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---- — Over the years, there have been numerous suggestions in reducing overcrowded conditions in jail cells. Most recommendations are centered around the revamping of criminal codes so that nonviolent offenders don't spend as much time locked up, leaving room for felons committing worse crimes. That is usually the best solution in addressing overcrowding.
One suggestion that apparently impressed the County Council is to give more space in the Madison County Government Center to the county prosecutor's office. With more space, the rationale went, criminal prosecutions could be quicker and help reduce jail overcrowding. Of course, to the rest of us, it doesn't sound as if shuttling more criminals through the system will reduce overcrowding.
In fact, as part of the deal, the Community Justice Center, 123 E. 10th St., will be expanded by 23 beds, and another building at the Juvenile Detention Center will be purchased for the women's work-release program. Despite indications that more inmates might be passing through the system, the Council OK'd the plan.
The up side of the Council's action, however, is that the space in the government center will be vacated by the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service. The agency provides important information to farmers by passing along Purdue research but also instills in youth, through the 4-H program, an appreciation for agriculture. The Extension is also strong in Madison County with the Master Gardeners program and food and health education.
It doesn't seem like such a community-minded education outreach would be housed in a downtown government center.
As part of the freeing up of office space, the Council approved spending $60,000 to renovate the former Oakwood Corner building at the Juvenile Detention Center for the Extension Service. The site is on the Bronnenberg campus at Mounds and Rangeline roads, a spot that seems more convenient to the residents served by the Extension Service.
Hoosiers will often find their county extension office near fairgrounds, as in Hamilton or Hancock counties. The location of Madison County's fairgrounds in Alexandria isn't always convenient for 4-H'ers in the south part of the county. But under this new Council plan, the Extension Office will still be centrally located with easier access.
There's no guarantee that more space for the prosecutor's office will prevent jail overcrowding.
But relocating the extension office will give the agency more space to serve the community.
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Instead, Zenyatta will fly solo and attempt to extend her perfect record to 16 straight victories in the nine-furlong race which drew five entrants and offers its customary purse of $500,000 rather than the $5 million that would have been on the table had both Rachel Alexandra and Zenyatta run.
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"I always thought Zenyatta would beat Rachel Alexandra on any surface, as long as it wasn't in a match race, where Rachel would get an easy lead," offered trainer Vladimir Cerin. "Zenyatta should have been Horse of the Year in 2009, because what she accomplished last year was enough to make her one of the all-time great race mares. Rachel Alexandra accomplished a lot, but we don't know if she's one of the all-time greats. So if you're one of the all-time greats, and the other one is or isn't, you should be Horse of the Year, no question about it.
"I'd like to see Rachel Alexandra do well and I'd love to see them compete against each other, but obviously, they're afraid of Zenyatta and they're not going to run against her."
"Rachel Alexandra is a wonderful, beautiful, lovely filly, but I think Zenyatta is far superior," said Kathy Walsh, a successful trainer for more than four decades. "But by the same token, I think Rachel Alexandra ran against a class of 3-year-olds that maybe were sub par last year, maybe not. None of them jumped up real strong after she beat them, and the older horses she beat in the Woodward seemed to go downhill afterwards.
"But Zenyatta took on the best in the world and won as she pleased. Opinions are going to be East versus West, and that's never going to change. I was in Hot Springs recently and the arguments were about which horse was best, but I'll tell you this: they were all waiting for Zenyatta to come there."
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"It seems like the extra distance could help him," Eurton said. "David Flores will ride him for the first time, and he worked him Wednesday on the grass (three furlongs in :37.60)."
The meet has been somewhat frustrating for Eurton, who had three wins from 55 starters through Wednesday, with 13 seconds and six thirds. But he knows racing can be cyclical. "It always seems like there's a meet like this," he said. "I came out of here last year with 14 wins, I went into Hollywood Park and had two, but one was disqualified, so I ended up with one win for the whole meet. Hopefully, things will pick up at Hollywood."
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