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Re: learning make Stephan Beal Wed Jul 08 11:00:05 2009
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Payal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:50:32AM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > > People use make for all sorts of tasks that have absolutely nothing to > > do with programming: updating web sites, creating documentation, > > performing backups, and a whole host of other things we probably would > > never think of. > > wow! can you cite a few more places where else it can be used? > With warm regards, > -Payal > Hi! At this site: http://wanderinghorse.net/computing/make/ i maintain an updated copy of "Managing Project with GNU Make, 3.Xth Edition". In that document you'll find some ideas. As Paul mentioned, it's used for all kinds of things. The things i use it for, not including compiling source code: - converting images using the ImageMagick family of tools. - making backups (see the above link) - generating documentation from external input (doxygen, latex, etc.) - to figure out inter-process relationships in non-computing process, e.g. when dealing with internal business processes with 100+ steps it's sometimes helpful to pack all of the steps into a makefile and let Make figure out which steps can be performed in parallel. e.g. to create a .jpg file from a .png file using the "convert" tool (part of ImageMagick), you just need a two-line makefile: %.jpg: %.png convert $^ $@ then: make my.jpg will create my.jpg from my.png (which must exist in that directory) -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES of READERS
Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland's most recent book of prose is "A Journey with Two Maps" 2011 W.W.Norton. Her most recent volume of poetry is "Domestic Violence" (2008 WW Norton). She is co-editor with Mark Strand of the "Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms". She teaches at Stanford University where she is a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program.
Anne Boyer
Anne Boyer's works include Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse (2006), Selected Dreams with a Note on Phrenology (2007), The Romance of Happy Workers (2008), Art is War (2009), The 2000s (2009), My Common Heart (2011), and A Form of Sabotage, published in translation by the Turkish collective Kült Neşriyat in 2013. Her essays and critical prose have appeared in The New Inquiry, Coldfront, and more, and are forthcoming in a collection of talks and essays from UDP. Forthcoming works also include the novel, JOAN, a work of prose, The Innocent Question, and the poetry collection, Money City Sick as Fuck. She is an Assistant Professor of the liberal arts at Kansas City Art Institute.
Anne Carson
Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. Her awards and honors include the Lannan Award, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Trust Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the MacArthur "Genius" Award.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970) is known as a poet and essayist, and as a critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry. From 1986 until 2012, DuPlessis has been engaged in a long poem project, collected in several book-length installments from Wesleyan University Press and Salt Publishing. The newest book, Surge: Drafts 96-114, was published by Salt in 2013, bringing this 26-year long poem to a temporary fold. Books belonging to this project are Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan, 2001); DRAFTS. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, Unnumbered: Précis (Salt Publishing, 2004): Torques: Drafts 58-76 (Salt Publishing, 2007) and Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (Salt Publishing, 2010). The Collage Poems of Drafts appeared early in 2011 from Salt Publishing. This work in poetry is the subject of an on-line colloquium and set of essays published in Jacket2 in December 2011 jacket2.org/feature/drafting-beyond-ending
Jorie Graham
Jorie Graham has published eight books of poems since 1980: Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts, Erosion, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness, Materialism, The Errancy, Swarm, and Never. Her selected poems, The Dream of the Unified Field, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. She has also edited Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language and The Best American Poetry 1990, contributing a much-cited introduction to that volume. A mainstay of the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop from 1983–1998, she is currently Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, succeeding Seamus Heaney, and the first woman to hold that position. One of the oldest chairs at Harvard, the professorship permits her, by contract, to tether a cow in Harvard Yard.
W. N. Herbert
W.N. Herbert was born in Dundee, Scotland and received his D.Phil. from Brasenose College, Oxford, where he published his thesis on the Scots poet, Hugh MacDiarmid. He has published seven volumes of poetry and four pamphlets and is widely anthologized. His last five collections, all with the publisher Bloodaxe, have won numerous accolades. His most recent Bloodaxe collection, Bad Shaman Blues (2006), was a PBS Recommendation, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Saltire prizes. Since 2001 he has been the lead poet for the award-winning Westpark development in Darlington, a text-led public art project. His most recent public art piece, "Pentad," is positioned outside the Robinson Library on Newcastle University campus. In recent years he has focused on literary translation, editing an anthology of translations from contemporary Bulgarian poetry called A Balkan Exchange (Arc, 2007), which included original poetry by the translators. Together with Martin Orwin, he translated the Somali poet Gaarriye for the Poetry Translation Centre, published in a pamphlet by Enitharmon in 2008. He worked with the prominent Chinese poet, Yang Lian, on Jade Ladder, a book of translations from contemporary Chinese poetry, which appeared from Bloodaxe Books in April 2012. He also wrote and presented a radio program, "Guns, Roses and Poetry" on international poetry festivals, and, with Clare Pollard, the radio play "Surface to Air." He lives in an old lighthouse in North Shields with the novelist Debbie Taylor.
Major Jackson
Major Jackson is an American poet, professor and the author of three collections of poetry: HOLDING COMPANY (W.W. Norton, 2010) and HOOPS (W.W. Norton, 2006), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry and LEAVING SATURN (University of Georgia, 2002), winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Award Circle. He is also a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress.
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Tony Lopez
Tony Lopez is an English poet with an international reputation for innovation in found text. His latest books are Only More So (University of New Orleans Press, 2011; Shearsman 2012) and a new edition of his best-known long poem False Memory (Shearsman, 2012). He was born in Stockwell in 1950 and grew up in Brixton, South London. He began work by writing fiction for newspapers and magazines, and published five crime and science fiction novels before going to university at Essex and then Cambridge. He has received awards from the Wingate Foundation, the Society of Authors, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Arts Council England. His poetry is featured in The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard University Press), Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford University Press), Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (Salt), The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street), Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (Wesleyan University Press), and Conductors of Chaos (Picador). His critical writings are collected in Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry (Salt) and The Poetry of W.S. Graham (Edinburgh University Press). He taught for many years at the University of Plymouth, where he was appointed the first Professor of Poetry (2000) and Emeritus Professor (2009). He now works by commission on text-based public art.
David Marriott
D.S. Marriott's most recent book of poetry is 'The Bloods' (Shearsman, 2011). His work has appeared in Rodney Lumsden, ed. 'Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets' (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) and will shortly appear in Jackie Kay, ed. 'Out of Bounds: British Black & Asian Poets' (forthcoming, 2012). 'In-Neuter', a new chapbook, will be out later this year from Equipage. He currently lives in San Francisco and teaches in the History of Consciousness program, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Dawn Lundy Martin
Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of DISCIPLINE (Nighboat Books 2011); Candy (Albion Books 2011); A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering (2007); and The Morning Hour(2003). She is a founding member of the Black Took Collective, a group of experimental black poets, and an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
Marianne Morris
started Bad Press in 2003, after submitting a poem containing the word 'cunt' to an editor who responded that he didn't like her 'syntax'. Her first full collection, The On All Said Things Moratorium, was published in 2013 by Enitharmon. She holds a PhD in performance writing from University College Falmouth in the UK, and is currently a student of Chinese medicine in Berkeley. Recent chapbooks include Alphabet Poems (BookThug, 2014), DSK (Tipped Press, 2013), and Commitment (Critical Documents, 2011).
Alice Notley
Alice Notley was born in 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona. She received a B.A from Barnard College, in 1967, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1969. She married the writer Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she had two sons. After Berrigan's death in 1983, she married the British poet Doug Oliver and relocated to Paris, France.Notley's writing and art responds to a broad spectrum of American culture. Her experiments with poetic forms and free verse owe as much to Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, and Ted Berrigan as they do to William Carlos Williams. Like them, she believes that she is writing primarily to express her own personal tone of voice. She feels her speech is the voice of "the new wife, and the new mother" in her own time, but her first aim is to make a poem, rather than present a platform of social reform. Among the numerous collections of verse that Notley has published are INCIDENTALS IN THE DAY WORLD (1973), WHEN I WAS ALIVE (1980), WALTZING MATILDA (1981), MARGARET AND DUSTY (1985), and HOW SPRING COMES (1981) which received a 1982 San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award. In addition to her poems, Notley wrote a short autobiography entitled TELL ME AGAIN (1982).
Yosefa Raz
Yosefa Raz lives in Oakland and sometimes in Tel Aviv. Currently a PhD student in the Jewish Studies Program, she is writing her dissertation on Hebrew prophecy and its reception in Modern Hebrew poetry. Her poetry, prose and translations have been published in ZYZZYVA, Glimmer Train, Tikkun, Lilith, Zeek and Try! Magazine. Her first book, In Exchange for a Homeland, was published by Swan Scythe Press in 2004. Her current poetry manuscript, The Red Dress Experiment, won the Eisner Prize last spring.
Keston Sutherland
Keston Sutherland teaches English literature and critical theory at the University of Sussex. He is editor of Quid and the Quid CD series and is currently editing the complete critical prose of J.H. Prynne. He has published numerous essays on poetics, politics and philosophy. Keston's poetry has been translated into French, German, English and Chinese, appearing in anthologies, journals and newspapers across the high art marginalese diaspora. He has given readings all over the world and is thus thoroughly metropolitan. He represented Great Britain in November 2005 at the French Biennale des Poetes at Val de Marne.
Catherine Walsh
Catherine Walsh was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964, has spent some time living and working abroad, and currently lives in Limerick. She co-edited two issues of "the Journal," published by hardPressed Poetry, and currently co-edits the hardPressed Poetry press with Billy Mills. Catherine has published over ten books of poetry with a variety of presses in Ireland and England and has received much acclaim for her long-form, experimental projects. Her most recent work, Astonished Birds Cara Jane, Bob and James came out through hardPressed Poetry in 2012. Her work has been included in a number of anthologies, including the Oxford Anthology of Twentieth-Century British & Irish Poetry and No Soy Tu Musa, a bilingual Spanish/English anthology of Irish women poets.
John Wilkinson
John Wilkinson is Professor of Practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago. Previously he worked for over twenty years in mental health services in England, before joining the Department of English at Notre Dame. This autumn Seagull Books publishes his new book of poetry Reckitt's Blue; other recent publications are Ode at the Gate of the Gathering (Crater Press 2011) and Down to Earth (Salt 2008). He has published a book of critical essays, The Lyric Touch (Salt 2007) and a number of subsequent papers on O'Hara, Schuyler, Guest, Oppen and Prynne among others.
C. K. Williams
C. K. Williams was born and grew up in and around Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in philosophy and English. He has published many books of poetry, including Repair, which was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, The Singing which won the National Book Award for 2003, and Flesh and Blood, the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Prize in 1987. He has also been awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the PEN Voelker Career Achievement Award in Poetry for 1998; a Guggeheim Fellowship, two NEA grants, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin, a Lila Wallace Fellowship, and prizes from PEN and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He published a memoir, Misgivings, in 2000, which was awarded the PEN Albrand Memoir Award, and translations of Sophocles' Women of Trachis, Euripides' Bacchae, and poems of Francis Ponge, among others. His book of essays, Poetry and Consciousness, appeared in 1998. His newest books include a book of poetry, Wait, published by Bloodaxe Books in the Spring of 2010, a book on Walt Whitman, On Whitman (2012), as well as Writers Writing Dying, which came out in 2012 through Farrar, Straus, Giroux. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is currently a chancellor of the American Academy of Poets.
Tyrone Williams
Tyrone Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the author of four books of poetry, c.c. (Krupskaya Books, 2002), On Spec (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008), The Hero Project of the Century (The Backwaters Press, 2009), and Howell (Atelos Press, 2011). Further information about his work is available on his website: http://home.earthlink.net/~suspend/

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I got to thinking about the players from the past who I'd love to have seen playing in their prime. This isn't a list of who I think are the all-time greatest at their positions...but these are the guys I'd want to catch if I had access to a working time machine. I'm interested to hear everyone else's selections. You can't vote for someone you actually have seen, so I suppose if you're older, your pool is a little shallower. I'll be 29 later this summer; my earliest baseball memory is of my dad pulling me out of kindergarten class one afternoon to go see a game at the 'Stick. We sat in the RF pavilion...don't remember much about the game except that someone hit a homer that landed a few rows in front of us and that the Giants lost to the Padres.CF: Willie Mays
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How did you two meet? (In Daryl's words)
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On behalf of the 362,000 members of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU), I urge you to vigorously oppose H.R. 3962, the so-called "Affordable Health Care for America Act." This nearly 2,000-page monstrosity would do nothing to address some of the most fundamental problems in health care today. Instead, it would dramatically raise taxes and expand the size and scope of a federal government that is already far too large.
People of all political persuasions can agree on one thing in this debate: America's health care system is in need of an overhaul. No other country in the world can compete with American technology and innovation in new treatments, but costs have made it difficult for many citizens to afford insurance. Our employer-based insurance system hides the market price of a given service behind a complicated web of bureaucracy and leads to numerous instances of "transitional" lack of coverage when people change or lose jobs. Furthermore, complicated regulations prevent consumers from purchasing any insurance plan they would like to choose. Perhaps most importantly, Medicare and Medicaid have accrued more than $50 trillion in unfunded burdens on future generations.
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Old and Gray.
'Tis thee and not the roses, dear that I have learned to love, though
now thine eyes are bright and clear and gentle as a dove. Yet
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The Pentax K-01 is perhaps the most daring-looking camera in the Pentax range. It's a mirrorless snapper crafted lovingly by famous designer Marc Newson, with charming retro looks and features such to rival more expensive competition from the likes of Sony, Nikon and Olympus. Read on to find out why you need the Pentax K-01 in your life.
Most cameras are hardly the most desirable-looking gadgets around – placing functionality over design. The mirrorless Pentax K-01 can go some way to changing that perception – it's gorgeous.
The body of the Pentax K-01 is crafted from aluminium and coated in a yellow exterior sure to get itself noticed. It's looks are the brainchild of London-based designer Marc Newson, who we'll say has done wonders here.
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In terms of features, we're talking a fully interchangeable lens. Like all mirrorless cameras, the Pentax K-01 promises to deliver DSLR-like quality photos in a small body, not much larger than compact cameras.
There's also a 16-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and full high definition 1080p video recording at 30 frames per second. A six frames per burst photo mode should make light work of shooting fast-moving objects. An ISO range between 100-25600 means that the Pentax K-01 will also perform well in all lighting conditions. Anti-shake technology, 3-inch (fabulous looking) LCD screen and a pop-up flash lend extra functionality and add to the retro look.
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Hello. It's been a while. I've written a new essay, called "Houseguests." It's about the time I woke up in bed with my friend's grandma. I hope you enjoy.
The first sentences to essays I've started and abandoned in the past year:
For the first time in nearly a decade I'm not participating in a fantasy baseball league.
Here's Paul Scheerbart's "The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention," a wonderful little book with a half-accurate title.
We find ourselves in some kind of office. (Note: this was the beginning of a plot summary to a porn clip.)
It was a very big house.
The closest I ever came to having an actual fistfight was during recess in the fourth grade, when Parth Thakker tried to re-play a triple word score, and I body-slammed him onto the Scrabble board.
One night at dinner, I guess when I was 10 or 11, my dad started talking about the John Coltrane song "Giant Steps."
This weekend, more than 60,000 people will begin their pilgrimage to Burning Man, the annual arts festival staged on an otherwise barren strip of land in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
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Long stripes of oily color stretched undisturbed from the street lamps and stop lights across the wet, empty streets. A few downed trees. A screen door blown clear off its hinges. But that was it. Williamsburg was fine.
I walked toward the river, and found a few dozen people milling at the piers by the new towers on North 5th and 6th. I'd been in the same spot earlier in the afternoon, when it'd been an almost festive atmosphere. People had been posing for photos, trying to time their snaps to the breaking waves (waves?!) tumbling over the East River.
In the six or seven hours since, the water had pushed a good three hundred yards past the river's banks, filling the trench of a construction site and lapping against the big windows of one building's fitness center. Now everyone was lined up at the water line, gawking at the eerie, half-lit Williamsburg Bridge and the negative space of the darkened Manhattan skyline.
It was a surreal scene for sure, but there actually wasn't much to see. The stray supernatural flash of a car's headlamps provided the only light from across the river. Mostly it felt like things had been somehow displaced: the equilibrium between light, water, and sky now oddly misaligned. We were all having the same conversation —
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The Lancaster County District Attorney said he is shocked by the sentencing of a convicted burglar on Tuesday.
Justin Jenkins, 19, received time served for 32 counts of burglary.
Craig Stedman called Jenkins a professional burglar who broke into numerous homes over three months.
He was eligible for 910 years behind bars. Instead, Jenkins served less than one.
The district attorney said he plans to file a motion for the judge to reconsider his ruling.
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Founded in 1970 as a loose assortment of Canadian anti-nuclear agitators, American expatriates, and underground journalists calling themselves the "Don't Make a Wave Committee," Greenpeace is today the most influential group of the environmental Left. Its stated mission is to "use non-violent, creative confrontation to expose global environmental problems, and force solutions for a green and peaceful future." After a schism in the late 1970s, the various organizations originally comprising Greenpeace have today united into 41 affiliates and two main branches, Greenpeace USA and the Amsterdam-based Greenpeace International.
As their maiden act in 1970, a group of Greenpeace activists sailed to Amchitka Island, a part of the Aleutian Island chain, to disrupt an underground U.S. nuclear weapons test. They claimed that the test could trigger a powerful earthquake and a subsequent tidal wave that, as Greenpeace member Bob Hunter put it, "would slam the lips of the Pacific rim like a series of karate chops" and exact irreparable harm to the local sea otter population. The test went on as scheduled and did not produce those results.
During the ensuing years, Greenpeace conducted sustained attacks on the whaling and fishing industries, whose practices it claimed were decimating populations of those creatures. In the early 1990s, the organization turned its attention to the purported threat that chlorine posed to the world's water supplies. At the time, Greenpeace asserted that it would accept nothing less than the blanket prohibition of the element. "There are no uses of chlorine which we regard as safe," declared Greenpeace activist Joe Thornton, author of Pandora's Poison.
Strongly opposed to America's March 2003 invasion of Iraq, Greenpeace has strived to obstruct the war efforts of the U.S. and its allies. In January 2003, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior attempted to blockade a British military supply port so as to "cut the military supply chain to the war in Iraq." Greenpeace staged a nearly identical action two months later, when the Rainbow Warrior led a procession of activist-laden rafts in attempting to blockade a joint U.S.-Spanish naval base in southwestern Spain and thereby prevent an American freighter from delivering supplies to coalition forces in the Gulf. Also in March 2003, Greenpeace activists tried to block off the residence of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, citing Australia's support for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein as their motivation. In the Netherlands, Greenpeace blockaded a ship transporting U.S. military equipment that the group claimed was bound for Iraq.
Greenpeace's current campaigns include the following:
Taking issue with Greenpeace's anti-biotech stance, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore left the organization and now laments that the group has become "dominated by leftwingers and extremists who disregard science in the pursuit of environmental purity."
According to a December 20, 2005 New York Times report, "the F.B.I. investigated possible financial ties between [Greenpeace] members and militant groups like the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front."
Greenpeace is a member organization of the Abolition 2000 antiwar coalition, the United For Peace and Justice antiwar coalition, and the Win Without War antiwar coalition.
An expose of Greenpeace's fundraising practices carried out in 2003 by Public Interest Watch (PIW), a nonprofit watchdog group, led to a report disclosing that Greenpeace uses its Greenpeace Fund, a tax-exempt entity debarred from engaging in political advocacy and lobbying by the IRS tax code, to illegally direct funds to Greenpeace Inc., a tax-exempt organization permitted to engage in lobbying and advocacy but not to accept tax-deductible funds. PIW calculated that in 2000, $4.25 million was provided by the Greenpeace Fund in this way.
Greenpeace is heavily funded by many foundations, among which are the Bauman Family Foundation, the Blue Moon Fund, the Columbia Foundation, the Compton Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Scherman Foundation, and Ted Turner's Turner Foundation. The organization has also drawn support from numerous celebrities, including singers Sting, Tom Jones, and Elton John, who have sponsored its "save the rainforest" campaigns.
In 2004, Greenpeace received $15,844,752 in grants, and held net assets of $1,893,548. That same year, the Greenpeace Fund received grants totaling $6,866,534 and held net assets of $7,532,018.
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As DA appears on radio talk show and criticizes ruling, judge calls in to defend himself
Posted Nov 4, 2013 11:45 AM CDT
By Martha Neil
A Louisiana district attorney had the floor on Friday as he discussed a recent high-profile defeat on a local radio station talk show.
But not for long.
As DA Leon Cannizzaro of Orleans Parish complained about a defense ruling in a police malfeasance case over alleged mistreatment of a handcuffed suspect, the judge who had acquitted the officer called in to defend himself, the Advocate reports.
Criminal District Court Judge Ben Willard also apparently tried to join the DA at the radio station, but was not allowed in.
The judge said he found the police officer not guilty because the government didn't bring the victim in to testify at trial.
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Quantum physics tells us that when we go beyond the mask of matter, the universe is revealed to be energy and information. Your body and the environment in which you live are intimately interwoven fields of energy and information. All living beings face the challenge of how to acquire energy and information from the environment and transform it into the energy and information of their bodies. Eating is the process of acquiring, and digestion is the process of using energy and information from our environment.
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Unfortunately, the common Western diet tends to provide too many calories and not enough vital nutrients. As a result, 60 percent of Americans are overweight and almost 40 percent are carrying enough excess weight to affect their health. Even our children are showing an alarming rise in the incidence of obesity.
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The human brain sends hunger signals when it becomes aware of the need for energy and information. As we eat, our taste buds send messages to the brain informing it if we have ingested foods that provide the energy and information we need. The six tastes, known in Ayurveda as sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent are the codes that inform our nervous systems of a meal's nutritional content. If we sample foods that correspond to each of these tastes throughout the day, our meals will provide a wide assortment of health-promoting nutrients. If we do not have all flavors available, the brain is not satisfied and continues to send signals to eat more. As a result, we take in too many calories but remain malnourished
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On the face of it, an artist and a theoretical physicist might seem an unlikely pairing. But Turner Prize-winning sculptor Grenville Davey and string theorist David Berman's collaboration is producing beautiful, thought-provoking work inspired by the fundamental structure of the Universe. Julia Hawkins interviewed them to find out more about how the Higgs boson and T-duality are giving rise to art.
Artificial neural networks grew out of researchers' attempts to mimick the human brain. In 1997 the Isaac Newton Institute hosted a landmark research programme in the area. Today, neural networks are able to learn how to perform complex tasks and are crucial in many areas of life, from medicine to the Xbox.
Progress in pure mathematics has its own tempo. Major questions may remain open for decades, even centuries, and once an answer has been found, it can take a collaborative effort of many mathematicians in the field to check that it is correct. The New Contexts for Stable Homotopy Theory programme, held at the Institute in 2002, is a prime example of how its research programmes can benefit researchers and its lead to landmark results.
Few things in nature are as dramatic, and potentially dangerous, as ocean waves. The impact they have on our daily lives extends from shipping to the role they play in driving the global climate. From a theoretical viewpoint water waves pose rich challenges: solutions to the equations that describe fluid motion are elusive, and whether they even exist in the most general case is one of the hardest unanswered questions in mathematics.
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The following discussions of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes to those statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q. Certain statements in this discussion and elsewhere in this report constitute forward-looking statements, within the meaning of section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.
In 2013, Milestone remains focused on advancing efforts to achieve our two primary objectives; those being:
- Optimizing our tactical approach to product sales and marketing in order to materially increase penetration of the global dental and medical markets with our proprietary, patented Computer-Controlled Local Anesthesia Delivery (C-CLAD) solution, including the STA Single Tooth Anesthesia Instrument (STA Instrument); and
- Enhancing our global reach by partnering with distribution companies in the medical sector.
STA Instrument Growth
Since its market introduction in early 2007, the STA Instrument and a prior computerized controlled local anesthesia delivery product have been used to deliver over 48 million of safe, effective and comfortable injections. The instrument has also been favorably evaluated in numerous peer-reviewed, published clinical studies and associated articles. Moreover, there appears to be a growing consensus among users that the STA Instrument is proving to be a valuable and beneficial instrument that is positively impacting the practice of dentistry worldwide.
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In November 2012, Milestone entered an exclusive distribution and marketing agreement with a well known U.S. domestic manufacturer and distribution, for the sale and distribution of the STA instruments and handpieces in United States and Canada.
The mission Milestone's Domestic Sales Director is to grow our business through marketing our STA Instrument to Dental Group Practices. Through direct marketing to the Dental Group Practices and utilizing a group of independent hygienists, the instrument and handpiece sales should increase substantially in the future. Milestone signed on its first Group Dental Practice in January 2011, Towncare Dental.
In July 2013, Milestone entered a strategic partnership with the largest provider of specialty sales and distribution solutions for healthcare. During the three year strategic partnership, the distributor will hold the exclusive rights to market, resell, label and distribute Milestone's CompuFlo injection technology for use in epidural applications for childbirth and other pain management needs in the U.S. hospital sector.
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On the global front, we also have granted exclusive marketing and distribution rights for the STA Instrument to select dental suppliers in various international regions in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe.
In April 2009, we signed an Exclusive Distribution and Marketing Agreement with China National Medicines Corporation, d/b/a Sinopharm, which is China's largest domestic manufacturer, distributor and marketer of pharmaceuticals and importer of medical devices and the country's largest domestic distributor of dental anesthetic carpules to the Chinese dental industry. Prior to the end of 2009, China National Medicines issued Milestone a blanket purchase order for 12,000 STA instruments to be delivered over 36 months, thereby marking Milestone's initial penetration into China's emerging dental market.
In early October 2012, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) of the People's Republic of China approved Milestone's Single Tooth Anesthesia System® (STA System). Unfortunately, the SFDA bifurcated approval of the STA Systems from the Wand® handpieces.
Shortly before the end of the second quarter 2009, we announced that we were refining our international marketing strategy to gain greater access to and penetration of the international dental markets for the STA Instrument, CompuDent and related disposable hand pieces. The new sales strategy provides for increasing hands-on oversight and support of our existing international distribution network, while also attracting new distributors throughout Europe, Asia and South America. To assist in this endeavor, Milestone added in the spring of 2010 an International Sales Director to focus on growth of our products outside the USA and Canada.
In July 2011, we entered into a definitive joint venture agreement with Beijing 3H (Heart-Help-Health) Scientific Technology Co., Ltd. (Beijing 3H) for the development, commercialization, manufacture and marketing of epidural and intra-articular injection medical instruments. Milestone Scientific has a 50% interest in the joint venture and shareholders of Beijing 3H and others have a 50% interest. The Beijing 3H shareholders include a large shareholder in Milestone who is also the principal of a supplier to Milestone.
Milestone contributed an exclusive worldwide royalty-free license to use its patents as they pertain to these two instruments and disposables only to the Medical Joint Venture. Beijing 3H and its shareholders contributed $1.5 million to the joint venture to enable the joint venture to design and develop two commercial instrument and related disposables using Milestone's CompuFlo® technology. Milestone will have distribution responsibility in the U.S. and Canada while Beijing 3H will distribute products exclusively in the People's Republic of China, Macao, Hong Kong and other regions of Asia. As of June 30, 2013, the Medical Joint Venture and the development project is ongoing and nearing completion of the two medical instruments.
Segmented Sales Performance The following table shows a breakdown of Milestone's product sales (net), domestically and internationally, by product category, and the percentage of product sales (net) by each product category: Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30, 2013 2012 2013 2012 DOMESTIC Instruments $ 383,546 35.5 % $ 250,698 24.0 % $ 591,685 24,9 % $ 407,380 21.3 % Handpieces 666,921 61.7 % 768,613 73.6 % 1,722,973 72,4 % 1,451,693 75.8 % Other 29,984 2.8 % 24,335 2.4 % 66,294 2,7 % 55,063 2.9 % Total Domestic $ 1,0810,451 100.0 % $ 1,043,646 100.0 % $ 2,380,952 100.0 % $ 1,914,136 100.0 % INTERNATIONAL Instruments $ 367,905 30.7 % $ 308,469 24.0 % $ 677,216 28.4 % $ 720,357 30.9 % Handpieces 808,775 67.5 % 960,689 74.9 % 1,678,386 70.3 % 1,587,589 68.0 % Other 21,104 1.8 % 14,172 1.1 % 31,224 1.3 % 26,252 1.1 % Total International $ 1,197,784 100.0 % $ 1,283,330 100.0 % $ 2,386,826 100.0 % $ 2,334,198 100.0 % DOMESTIC/INTERNATIONAL ANALYSIS Domestic $ 1,080,451 47.4 % $ 1,043,646 44.8 % $ 2,380,952 49.9 % $ 1,914,136 45.1 % International 1,197,784 52.6 % 1,283,330 55.2 % 2,386,826 50.1 % 2,334,198 54.9 % Total Product Sales $ 2,278,235 100.0 % $ 2,326,976 100.0 % $ 4,767,778 100.0 % $ 4,248,334 100.0 %
Milestone earned gross profits of 67% and 63% for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively, and 67% and 64% for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. However, the revenues and related gross profits have not been sufficient to support overhead, new product introduction and research and development expenses.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, Judgments and Estimates
Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an on-going basis, we evaluate our estimates, including those related to accounts receivable, inventories, stock-based compensation, and contingencies. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from those estimates under different assumptions or conditions.
Accounts Receivable
The realization of accounts receivable will have a significant impact on us. Consequently, Milestone estimates allowance for doubtful accounts resulting from the inability of its customers to make payments for amounts billed. The collectability of outstanding amounts is continually assessed.
Inventory costing, obsolescence and physical control are significantly important to the on-going operation of the business. Inventories principally consist of finished goods and component parts stated at the lower of cost (first-in, first-out method) or market. Inventory quantities on hand are reviewed on a quarterly basis and a provision for excess and obsolete inventory is recorded if required based on past and expected future sales.
Investment in Medical Joint Venture
We entered into a Medical Joint Venture with a third party, Beijing 3H, for the development and commercialization of two medical products. We own fifty percent of the Medical Joint Venture and have recorded our investment on the equity basis of accounting. Milestone's proportionate share of expenses incurred by the Medical Joint Venture will be charged to the Statement of Operations on a periodic basis.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
Our long lived assets consisting principally of patents and trademarks are the foundation of our business. We review long-lived assets for impairment whenever circumstances and situations change such that there is an indication that the carrying amounts may not be recoverable. The carrying value of the asset is evaluated in relation to the operating performance and future undiscounted cash flows of the underlying assets.
Revenue Recognition
Revenue from product sales is recognized net of discounts and allowances to the domestic distributors on the date of shipment for essentially all shipments, since the shipment terms are FOB warehouse. We will recognize revenue on date of arrival of the goods at the customer's location where shipments are FOB destination. Shipments to international distributors are FOB the warehouse and revenue is therefore recognized on shipment. In both cases the price to the buyer is fixed and the collectability is reasonably assured. Further, we have no obligation on these sales for any post installation, set-up or maintenance, these being the responsibility of the buyer. Customer acceptance is considered made at delivery. Milestone's
Results of Operations
The consolidated results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2013 compared to the same three and six months period in 2012 reflect our focus and development on the Wand/STA Instrument.
The following table sets forth, for the periods presented, the statement of operations data as a percentage of revenues. The trends suggested by this table may not be indicative of future operating results.
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30, 2013 2012 2013 2012 Products sales $ 2,278,235 100.0 % $ 2,326,976 100 % $ 4,767,778 100 % $ 4,248,334 100 % Cost of products sold 744,108 33 % 854,005 37 % 1,556,152 33 % 1,516,951 36 % Gross Profit 1,534,127 67 % 1,472,971 63 % 3,211,626 67 % 2,731,382 64 % Selling, general and administrative expenses 1,340,129 59 % 1,487,076 64 % 2,728,031 57 % 2,939,326 69 % Research and development 164,722 expenses 42,885 2 % 39,502 2 % 3 % 78,814 2 % Total operating expenses 1,383,014 61 % 1,526,578 66 % 2,892,753 60 % 3,018,140 71 % Income (loss) from operations 151,113 -7 % (53,607 ) -2 % 318,873 7 % (286,757 ) -7 % Other expenses - interest & expenses (30,011 ) -1 % (64,850 ) -3 % (47,026 ) -1 % (108,785 ) -3 % Loss on Earnings from Medical Joint Venture (47,093 ) -2 % (46,084 ) -2 % (47,093 ) -1 % (124,179 ) -3 % Net income (loss) $ 74,009 -3 % $ (164,541 ) -7 % $ 224,754 -5 % $ (519,722 ) -13 %
Three months ended June 30, 2013 compared to three months ended June 30, 2012
Total product sales for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 were $2,278,235 and $2,326,976, respectively. The total increase in product sales of $48,741 or 2%, in 2013 from 2012 is principally the result of decrease in handpiece revenues. Domestic STA instruments sales increased by $194,008 in 2013 from 2012. This increase is due in part to management's decision to establish an exclusive U.S. distributor of the STA instruments and handpieces in the domestic market, along with the implementation of the sales and training strategy focused on concentrated geographical sales effort and increased support for all customers. In the domestic market, total handpiece sales decreased by $101,692 or 13% in 2013 over 2012. On the international front, instruments sales increased in the second quarter of 2013 from 2012 by $59,436 or 19%. The Wand Plus Instrument is no longer being shipped to our European customers, due to a change in the regulations in 2012. Although the sales of Wand Plus Instruments to the European community will not continue, there are many Wand Plus users in Europe that continue to utilize the instrument. This trend is expected to continue in 2013.
Significant new market countries for the STA Instruments are on board but are ramping up on a slower than expected pace. Internationally, handpiece sales decreased by $151,914 or 16% due to an decrease in Wand handpieces sales of $428,566 in 2013 over 2012. STA handpiece sales increased by $276,652 or 116% for the second quarter 2013 over 2012.
Cost of products sold for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 were $744,108 and $854,005, respectively, a decrease of $109,897 or 12.9%.
For the three months ended June 30, 2013, Milestone generated a gross profit of $1,534,127 or 67%, as compared to a gross profit of $1,472,971, or 63%, for the three months ended June 30, 2012. The total increase in gross profit dollars of $61,156 is primarily due to an increase in instrument revenue sales.
Research and development expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 were $42,885 and $39,502, respectively, an increase of $3,383 or 8.6%, due to the software enhancement of the STA Instruments.
The income from operations for the three months ended June 30, 2013 was $151,113 and the loss from operations for three months ended June 30, 2012 was $53,607. The $204,720, or 382%, increase is explained above.
Interest expense of $24,220, relating to the $1.3 million line of credit which was subsequently converted into common stock in December 2009 and the $450,000 long term note payable, was charged for the three months ended June 30, 2013, as compared to $21,437 for the same period in 2012, (see Note 8 to the financials). Additionally, Milestone accrued interest expense of $5,128 and $41,239 for the overdue accounts payable on the balance to the instrument's contract manufacturer at June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
Loss on the Medical Joint Venture of $47,093 and $46,084 for the quarter ending June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively, is due to development cost on the medical devices incurred by the Medical Joint Venture during the quarter.
For the reasons explained above, net income for the six months ended June 30, 2013 was $74,009 as compared to the net loss of $164,541 for the three months ended June 30, 2012. The $238,550, or 145%, increase in net income is primarily a result of an increase in gross margin dollars of $61,156 enhanced by a decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses of $146,947, decrease in interest expense of $80,924 offset by an increase in research and development expense of $3,383.
Six months ended June 30, 2013 compared to the six months ended June 30, 2012
Total revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 were $4,767,778
and $4,248,334, respectively. Total revenues increased by $519,444, or 13%.
Domestic product revenue increased $466,817 in 2012, or 24%, the increase is due to the increase in STA Single Tooth Anesthesia System® instruments sales by $252,267. This increase is due in part to management's implementation of the sales and training strategy focused on concentrated geographical sales effort and increased support for all customers. The disposable handpiece sales increased by $271,280, or 19%. International revenue increased by $52,627. International sales of disposable handpieces increased by $90,797 or 6%.
Cost of products sold for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 were $1,556,152 and $1,516,951, respectively, an increase of $39,201, or 3%.
Gross profit for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 was $3,211,626 or 67%, and $2,731,383, or 64%, respectively. Gross profit dollars in the first six months of 2013 increased by $480,243, or 18%, due to an increase in sales volume and gross profit margin in 2013 over 2012.
Selling, general and administrative expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 were $2,728,031 and $2,939,326, respectively. The decrease of $211,295 or 7.2% is primarily attributable to a decrease in marketing expenses of $28,531; a decrease in sales expenses of $100,075, decrease in general and administrative (G&A) expenses of $116,198 and
Research and development expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012 were $164,722 and $78,814, respectively. The increase of $85,908, or 109% is primarily due to the enhancement of STA instrument.
The income from operations for the six months ended June 30, 2013 was $318,873 and the loss from operations for six months ended June 30, 2012 was $286,757, respectively. The $605,630, or 211%, increase is explained above.
Other income is $17,543 for the six months ended June 30, 2013. This represents the sale of tax credits under the New Jersey Technology Business Tax Certificate Program. This did not occur in 2012.
Interest expense of $48,639, relating to the converted $1.3 million line of credit into common stock in December 2009 and the $450,000 long term note payable, was charged for the six months ended June 30, 2013, compared to $42,277 for the same period in 2012, (see Note 8 to the financials). Additionally, Milestone accrued interest expense of $14,573 and $62,140 for the overdue accounts payable balance to the instrument manufacturer at June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively.
For the reasons explained above, net income for the six months ended June 30, 2012 and 2011 was $224,754 and $519,722, respectively. The $744,476, or 143.2%, increase in net income is primarily a result of an increase in gross margin dollars of $480,243 offset by a decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses of $211,294; an increase in research and development expense of $85,908; other income of $17,543; a decrease in interest expense by $46,205 and the reduction to non-cash Loss on the Medical Joint Venture of $77,086.
Working capital as of June 30, 2013 is a positive $233,847, as explained in the following liquidity and capital resources section.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of June 30, 2013, Milestone had cash and cash equivalents of $171,640 and a positive working capital of $233,847. Milestone had net income of $224,754 and a net loss of $519,722 for the six months ended June 30, 2013 and 2012, respectively. The working capital of $233,847 in 2013, was the positive result of the substantial reduction of accounts payable due to contract manufacturer even with the delay in obtaining regulatory approval to sell our instruments and handpieces in China. Based on the initial purchase order from our distributor in China in 2009, Milestone ramped up purchasing of parts in anticipation of significant sales in 2010 and future years. As a result of the delay in shipping, the advances on contracts have decreased, (current and long term) at June 30, 2013 as compared to December 31, 2012. Additionally, the accounts . . .


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In a recent Tax Court case a couple was denied a $25,171 charitable deduction, mostly for contributions to their church, an organization eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
In audit, the couple produced cancelled checks for all of their donations. With a very few exceptions the checks were all for amounts greater than $250. They also produced a letter of acknowledgment from the church, which was dated prior to the date the couple filed the return in question.
The IRS did not accept this letter of acknowledgment from the church because it didn't include the required statement on whether any goods or services were provided in consideration for the contributions. The couple got a second letter from the church after the initial audit that contained the missing statement, but this was also not accepted because the revised letter of acknowledgment, dated over a year after the filing of the tax return, was not "contemporaneous."
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I recently read two football stories, one from the present and one from the past, that make me wonder. Do today's college players scrimmage too much?
The present story is one about a rash of injuries to PAC 12 football players as they get ready for the upcoming season. Many teams already have between four and eight players seriously injured. For once we have not had that problem. Knock on wood.
The one from the past is about our own Head Coach Red Sanders. I found an excellent review of his coaching philosophy, on the Vanderbilt University website, where he was a tremendously successful coach before surprising his friends and colleagues to matriculate to UCLA. Of course, what he did at UCLA is also the stuff of legend.
Surprisingly to me, he is quoted as saying that he stressed the "classroom" to coach his players and advocated no more than seven hours of "scrimmaging" a week. Having never played football I have no idea if this is much less than the normal time players have to scrimmage between games, but it certainly is much less than Spring and fall camps where these injury bugs seem to thrive.
I have seen this same debate from time to time in the pro ranks with some coaches deemphasizing hard, physical practices between games. I also seem to remember a highly successful Div. II or III coach that espoused little or no contact drills between games.
Of course, Sanders was in the era when players played both ways. One year he only had 37 players on his team. Amazing. So maybe they really had to be careful back then.
I'm curious what more knowledgeable, past football players have to say on this subject.
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Farmington Hills, Mich. (September 17, 2009)---Botsford Hospital is one of only five Michigan hospitals and the only hospital in Oakland County to offer a new outpatient procedure that helps explore deep inside the lungs without performing surgery. The procedure, performed by pulmonologist, Philip Kaplan, D.O., uses state-of-the-art equipment called inReach™ by superDimension that allows lung disease to be detected earlier, sometimes before symptoms are evident.
The inReach System uses electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy to provide a minimally invasive pathway to lung lesions and lymph nodes located beyond the main bronchial tubes. The smaller diameter of the scope allows further reach into the smaller branches of the lungs allowing for earlier diagnosis of lung disease and cancer.
Traditional bronchoscopy examines the main bronchial tubes; however, the thickness of a standard bronchoscope does not allow passage to the smaller branches of the lungs where lesions often develop. As a result, invasive surgical procedures may be needed. Invasive procedures can increase the risk for complications, especially in patients who suffer from poor lung function or advanced age. For these patients, doctors may take a wait-and-see approach, which can give the disease an opportunity to progress.
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Dr. Kaplan says, "The system takes a CT scan of the patient's chest and creates a virtual three-dimensional "road map" of the lungs. It is similar to Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. The road map is then merged with real-time images of the patient's lungs during the procedure, guiding the physician to the exact location for a tissue sample."
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It's summer across the United States, and that means that hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, powerful thunderstorms, and other natural disasters can take out your company's IT systems in a flash.
As a result, you no doubt have disaster recovery plans and procedures in place for your company's IT systems and critical enterprise applications. However, those capabilities are just the start.
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Once built, those plans, from off-site data centers hosting your critical applications to data backups that are available at the flick of a switch when needed, have to be maintained, updated, and tested on a regular basis so that they absolutely, positively can be relied on in a real disaster.
For many IT organizations, that kind of testing is often nonexistent. Without scheduled reviews and testing, your disaster recovery efforts could themselves be a second disaster waiting to happen.
"I know that it's really scary for organizations to reach over and flip a switch to power down a server that's running in production, but that has to be done once in a while to check out a disaster plan," says Daniel M. Kusnetzky, principal analyst at Kusnetzky Group LLC. "The last thing that you want to have is a plan that hasn't been tested before a disaster."
A key reason for testing your procedures, Kusnetzky said, is that if they don't go as planned it's certainly better to know that when the power is on, your staff is onsite and your business isn't being threatened by a true natural disaster.
Your IT staff needs to be able to ensure that in an emergency they can get critical business applications up and running, as well as all the connected systems on which those apps rely, Kusnetzky says. "It isn't just the applications, but also the complete configuration that the application is used to running on. It all needs to be there or it will require a reconfiguration of the processes or the application itself."
The only way to know if it will all works as designed is to test it, push it, and test it some more, he says.
"Just copying the application somewhere and just turning it on won't necessarily make it available to your company's workers," Kusnetzky says.
This is an instance where virtualization could be helpful, because if the workload is running inside one or more virtual machines, then they are not reliant on hardware differences within your disaster recovery strategy, according to Kusnetzky. For those same reasons, using virtual storage could be beneficial.
At the same time, virtualization won't solve all related disaster recovery complications. "Virtualization can help, but like anything else, it's not a panacea," he says. "It's just a tool. You need to do other things as well."
Dan Olds, an analyst with Gabriel Consulting Group, says that a good way to approach disaster recovery testing inside an enterprise is to do it one system at a time to minimize the impact on your IT staff and procedures.
"It's not only testing your [disaster recovery] vendors to be sure that it can all be done in an emergency, but it's teaching your people how to do it," Olds says. "It's getting that knowledge so they're not scared to death about it if something happens. You've got to get comfortable with it and it's better to get comfortable when you have help and when it's not time- sensitive and do-or-die, like when the floodwaters are rising outside."