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Private cloud user in dialogue with Atmos, el Reg facilitating
Atmos user Michael Roney identified some difficulties he was having with an Atmos array on an EMC community website, saying he wanted to do ordinary-seeming things but couldn't. EMC has responded, saying he is trying to do things that are rarely, if ever done. Atmos is EMC's object storage system for public and private cloud …
Changing IP addresses and removing old and broken authentication sources should be able to be done by anyone.
If your setup is so geared towards them never changing, then it's your problem to handle that when the administrator wants to do that (i.e. your software has to do all the fancy juggling and searching for those hard-coded strings elsewhere). But, personally, I'd just send it back as not fit for purpose.
If we were talking about a guy wanting to shove it into some completely unsupported configuration that shouldn't be possible, or tying into systems that he doesn't understand, EMC might have a case. But they're not. They're being asked to change an IP address and remove an authentication source that NO LONGER OPERATES.
Seriously, if you're hardware/software is that brain-dead that you don't pick this information up from a central configuration repository that can be changed at will by a privileged user, I'm not sure I'd want your kit near my systems.
Re: Lee Downing
have you ever worked with an ATMOS? Have you ever set one up?
ATMOS systems come with a strict internal network that should not, or hardly change. The external network may change, but because it is relatively straightforward to change things to a wrong IP address, I can understand why EMC doesn't want anybody to just change an IP address on the system. There are upto 8 subsystems in 1 ATMOS installation, each of them having up to 4 IP addresses... Can be quite confusing if you're not really into the whole hardware aspect of an ATMOS system.
Authentication that no longer operates? Nobody said it no longer operates. The guy just wants to delete it. Fair enough. There is a risk involved in doing these operations: Deleting the wrong or the last auth source. Then what? Call EMC Support to hopefully gain access again? You might as well have called them to begin with.
I'm not saying ATMOS is the best ever Object Storage invented. It's a young product, and as such, will have to grow up in certain areas more than in others.
Still and yet, I would think that in order to cast an opinion, one would need to have worked with and understand the system that one casts an opinion about.
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Would you like me to mirror a post I've just made on another site?
I do not need to be a paying customer of EMC to hold the opinion that their system is stupid if it's that unconfigurable (and where something as simple as changing an IP address might do anything that can't be undone by changing it back, or telling other systems about the change). If their systems are really that fragile that those IP's cannot be changed at will to suit the environment they are stored in (with suitable downtime and configuration, obviously), then it makes me worry that not only are they scamming the support ("Change a value in a configuration? Gosh, you'll have to pay us for that!") but that their products are not built to be customised in any way, shape or form, and also that they are doing things that are incredibly stupid to do (e.g. hard-coding addresses prior to shipping).
In the same way that I do not need to be a paying customer of Ferrari to think that their cars are gas-guzzling, or a paying customer of OnLive to express the opinion that it was set to fail from the start. Otherwise, opinions would be few and far between and only made by people with a vested interest in that opinion not making them look stupid for buying the product/service in the first place.
This is either a support-scam to change money to change a value in a box somewhere, or a complete ineptitude of design that doesn't take account that someone with appropriate permission, somewhere, sometime in the future might want to change IP's or even authentication on their devices. It would also make me wonder what happens when technology moves on - say you're starting an IPv6 migration. Are you then forced to use the addresses programmed into the device or pay someone to add that single configuration value for you because you didn't have it to hand when you bought the product?
Whatever way you look at it, it's ridiculous. That's not to say that it's not normal in some industries (a certain database vendor comes to mind) but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous.
"When creating subtenants, there is no selection box for the Authentication Source when using remote authentication. So, the subtenants are set to an Authentication Source that is not valid."
Suggests that a non-valid Authentication Source, which cannot be deleted, is present. And I would suggest that it no longer operates as an Authentication Source if it cannot be removed (security), or if it does not function (technicality).
Support Contract Lock-in?
What are their terms of support?
I am betting its not free to raise support tickets to get help to change an IP address?
Nice little earner. And I thought the company I worked for 'nickled and dimed' everyone!
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Dear AC,
obviously you have never worked with EMC. Nor with their support, nor with their sales.
EMC products are so dear to their customers that EMC provides support with the product. During the first 3 years that support is provided as part of the baseprice of the product one bought from EMC.
EMC Support has gained most of the 10 yearly Support Organization awards between 2000 and 2010.
They are the best in the world when it comes to Customer Support. Although they have been on a somewhat downward spiral, they seem to be doing the Right Thing(TM) again lately.
As with Lee, though, one has to have worked with EMC in order to cast an opinion about EMC.
Best regards,
Re: Support Contract Lock-in?
Your right, I've never touched EMC, which is why I asked.
Thanks for the info "During the first 3 years that support is provided as part of the baseprice of the product one bought from EMC"
Which is great, a reasonable approach to support.
My cynicism is a result of working with and for people who arent so reasonable :)
Dear Chris,
"Atmos is EMC's object storage system for public and private cloud providers. It is a follow-on to the Centera content-addressed storage (CAS) product which continues in production."
Not quite. ATMOS provides a similar high-level function (store objects and get a hash for their location), but that doesn't mean it's a follow-on from Centera. ATMOS is actually quite a separate product line from Centera. The team that built Gen 1 and Gen 2 ATMOS, of which I know at least 1 in person, had nothing to do with the Centera Team. The ATMOS is not geared towards the core functionality of a Centera, namely archiving. The ATMOS is geared towards delivering BLOBs in environment where the end-user does not (need to) know where the BLOB is actually located. BLOBs may have certain parameters like store-three-times and the ATMOSphere (a number of ATMOS systems working together), will make sure that the BLOB is stored in three different arrays. One can also specify store one copy in London, one in Tokyo and one in New York. The ATMOS keeps all three copies in sync. Should the New York ATMOS have failed disks, it will ask either London or Tokyo to provide their copy instead, without the end user needing to know (so there's no referal information visible to the user).
You might wanna get some sort of confirmation of what it is that you're writing about in order to fully understand what you are writing.
I do not believe that el Reg is facilitating the communication between EMC and the customer. EMC certainly is old and wise enough to communicate with its customer themselves. El Reg is not an ombudsman or similar organization to actually try and make sure that EMC is doing the Right Thing. Neither does EMC need El Reg to understand what the Right Thing would be in this case.
EMC is clearly stating that as part of the product development, certain features were left for EMC Support to have access to. There have been discussions about these features and the Product Development Team would have said: We don't want end-users to be able to do that just yet. What is so wrong about that? We are after all dealing with data that in all likelyhood does not belong to the people operating the ATMOS systems!!! So a certain degree of care with regards to data and access to that data is actually a Good Thing(TM).
Best Regards,
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You make good points and your comment was an interesting and enjoyable read. Ombudsman we are not and wouldn't pretend to be. But we do like reporting interesting things and this surely is interesting.
Best wishes,
Affiliation with EMC
Just to make sure that everybody understands where I stand:
* I have been working for EMC in the past on three occassions: 2000 - 2001 for EMC Germany, 2006 for EMC Switzerland and in 2007 for EMC UK/Ireland.
* I have been working for EMC customers throughout those years and have gained indepth knowledge in most if not all EMC storage systems.
Currently I am working on a contract with HP UK Ltd for a client of theirs who needed some data migrations done on EMC arrays.
I am in no way currently depending on EMC to help me provide food for my family.
Best regards,
Re: Affiliation with EMC
Ah, knew there would be a disclosure here somewhere, the papering-over-the-cracks-in-sanity was just too complete to be unscripted.
Your opinion is valid. So is mine. They are opinions, that's the point. Whose holds the most weight depends on the reader.
Personally, I just wrote you off as a corporate shill before I got to the second of your posts, but you can call me stupid for that if you like.
Anyone uses EMC but doesn't have a potential financial incentive to be nice to them like to express an opinion?
Re: Affiliation with EMC
The difference here Lee, is that Guus appears to have an informed opinion, based on experience, and you appear to have an uninformed opinion, based on reading an article on the Register, and you're unwilling to hear that you may be uninformed, because you "feel" like you "must" be right.
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Chill out! Sounding pretty aggressive there I would say. =) EMC, like all vendors, have their pros and cons. That the Atmos solution is inflexible in some ways appears to be one of them, and the reg is doing a good job of letting people know.
Don't see the reason for the long elaborate corporate texts. ;)
AC And Guus Leeuw disagree. El Reg Facilitating.
"and the reg is doing a good job of letting people know."
No it's not. That's the whole point... The article has "facilitating" in its title. "Facilitating" has a meaning: actively making sure that two parties, who are in obvious disagreement, talk to eachother (without actually judging either party before, during or after those talks). I'd like to see how and what took place with that "facilitating". That's not only far more interesting then just copying two statements from two people and asking your readership for their opinion, but also better if you put "El Reg Facilitating" in the title of your article.
Have a look at "Vorsicht Kunde" from the Heise Verlag in Germany. They do facilitating stuff, and report:
1) What happened to the customer (what was bought / sold / stated in the contract)
2) Who they contacted at the vendor
3) What that (vendor) contact actually did
4) If and how the case was resolved
Much better than "Oh look here, two people have a disagreement", wouldn't you say?
Poor Industry
One of the biggest problems in the IT sector is that managers write terribly useless messages (like in the article) but they get listened to because of their employers financials and education credentials and not on the merits of their performance.
The guy is complaining that it is hard to integrate his system. His customer support is wonky. Every IT professional deals with these things every day. If integration was simple we wouldn't need a tech support line or an IT Dept or even a CIO would we. Until things improve a LOT then we'll still need developers to help us out with getting them their paychecks.
I am no EMC expert...
...But I have some experience with object storage of other vendors/sources.
As far as my (limited?) experience is concerned I met just one vendor delivering a product whose maturity doesn't involve extra gimmicks from the part of administrators or data consumers.
Guus, in the name of data governance we can invoke no matter what good motivation for making life difficult to provoke collateral damage; nevertheless I suppose that a company investing in Atmos has done a comparable effort in choosing some responsible personnel administering it.
We don't know if this guy is switching, perhaps, from a test to a production environment, I , personally, would like to be informed, before I buy, that there is an overhead in deploying the system, it adds up to my TCO.
Thumbs up for the Register to report this.
All this talk of ATMOS
and not one mention of Mr Potato Head in tacky blue armor? I am disappointed in you lot! And on a Friday, yet. Shameful.
Are we ready for the Sontaran invasion?
A better story would have been more complete
The Atmos user complains that he can't do some things that he considers to be basic without the assistance and guidance of EMC support by opening up a call. Fair enough it can be annoying to have to call support and open a call and have to go through the hassle of providing details to your question.
But, a better story would have been for him to have actually done that and then describe why and what was done and if the support requirement had any validity and what if anything could be done to make life for an Atmos user easier.
Right now the story is really little more than a whinge.
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Turtle carapaces, from species both extinct and extant; the black lines indicate bones, the gray lines are for scutes. What immediately struck me is that Chelodina oblonga appears to lack neural bones (running down the middle), however they are present, being encased by the costals. Early turtles (Proganochelys, Proterochersis, Kayentachelys, Plesiochelys) had incredibly wide vertebral scutes (also running down the middle) and apparently narrow ones evolved four separate times. And yes, the softshell (Amyda) is just a total freak.
Joyce, W. (2010) Phylogenetic Relationships of Mesozoic Turtles. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 48(1) 3–102.


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Federal government open Wednesday in DC
October 30th, 2012 | OPM | Posted by Stephen Losey
The Office of Personnel Management just announced that federal offices in the Washington area will be open Wednesday, after two days of closures due to Hurricane Sandy. However, non-emergency employees will have the option to telework, or use unscheduled leave if they need to. That means they can use leave options such as earned annual leave, compensatory time off, or leave without pay, or they can rearrange their work week under a flexible work schedule, if possible.
The federal government–relevant, after all?
October 29th, 2012 | Government reform Homeland Security | Posted by Sean Reilly
Hurricane Sandy is nowhere near done pummeling the D.C. area tonight, but FedLine can't help noticing how the storm has already showered attention on the federal government's role in anticipating and responding to disasters.
Last Friday, for example, The New York Times ran a front-page article on how delays in development of the next generation of weather satellites could jeopardize future forecasting. That risk would not have come as news to Federal Times readers, but the mainstream media had previously paid little attention to the issue.
Since then, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has had to fend off questions over whether he wants to cut funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And at least one network newscast this evening carried a feature story on the Coast Guard's rescue earlier in the day of 14 crew members from a replica of the H.M.S. Bounty that foundered off the coast of North Carolina.
This is not to say that Washington does everything well (as the Times story points out, mismanagement has been one factor in throwing the weather satellite program off track), or that it's unreasonable to ask whether some missions can be carried out differently or more efficiently. But whether you think the federal government's size is too big, too small or just right, there is no denying that we currently expect it to play a very large role in situations like this. And if it doesn't take that responsibility, it is reasonable to ask: Who will?
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Government in DC area closed again on Tuesday
October 29th, 2012 | OPM | Posted by Stephen Losey
Hurricane Sandy has claimed another workday in the Washington area. The Office of Personnel Management just announced that DC-area offices will be closed again Tuesday, Oct. 30.
The Supreme Court also rescheduled Tuesday's arguments for Thursday, Nov. 1.
UPDATE: Tuesday's closure will operate by the same rules as today: Emergency employees still must show up unless their bosses say otherwise, and employees who were already scheduled to or required to telework will still have to telework.
FEEA update: Disaster budget 'completely blown,' donations needed
October 29th, 2012 | Uncategorized | Posted by Stephen Losey
The Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund just responded to some questions I had about the state of their disaster relief finances, and the outlook is not good.
"At this point, our natural disaster budget is completely blown," said Robyn Kehoe, FEEA's director of field operations said in an e-mail. Later this week, FEEA will have $35,000 on hand to start distributing, thanks to an end-of-year donation from Blue Cross Blue Shield it expects to receive this week. But $35,000 doesn't go very far — it's only enough to pay for $500 grants for 70 feds. FEEA will need additional donations to keep distributing funds after Blue Cross' $35,000 runs out, Kehoe said.
"The $35,000 from BCBS is huge for us in making sure we can at least start handing out grants for Sandy," Kehoe said.
After Hurricane Isaac struck in August, FEEA handed out more than $80,000 in grants and no-interest loans to nearly 600 feds. That chewed through all of the disaster funds FEEA had on hand.
But FEEA's natural disaster funds haven't had any reserves to draw on since 2007′s Hurricane Gustav, Kehoe said. That year, FEEA paid out roughy $800,000 more than it took in.
FEEA will also provide no-interest loans of up to $1,000 to Hurricane Sandy victims, Kehoe said.
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FEEA: Sandy-affected feds can get up to $500 in disaster grants
October 29th, 2012 | Uncategorized | Posted by Stephen Losey
Federal and postal employees who are hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy will be able to get disaster grants of up to $500, the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund announced this morning.
FEEA said employees who need help can download a disaster relief application here, since phone lines will likely be jammed or down. Feds who have suffered the most serious damage or hardships will get priority, FEEA said.
FEEA is a nonprofit organization funded in part by Combined Federal Campaign donations. But the group said its funds have been depleted significantly since it provided more than $80,000 in grants and no-interest loans to almost 600 feds after Hurricane Issac, and it is soliciting more donations.
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I didn't really ever think of this as a post, but I casually mentioned it in yesterday's review of LRS and a few people expressed interest in knowing the methods I use to research recipes online. This may be old news to many of you, but I hope these few small tips help you find that recipe you are looking for! The main reason a guide like this is necessary, is there is a LOT of recipes out there. Millions and millions of recipes. Not only that, 90% of them are crap! Sometimes it can be overwhelming when you are looking for just the right one, especially if you are not familiar with the particular dish or cuisine.
There are 3 main tips I have for you. The first one is simple: know what you are looking for! That sounds pretty obvious doesn't it? But it isn't as obvious as it might seem. What I am talking about here is just to make sure you know everything about the dish you are looking for. Here is a story. I searched for an hour for arepa recipes thinking the whole time that Masarepa, or Harina PAN was the same thing as masa harina. After all that looking I literally typed the simple question into google "is harina PAN the same as masa harina?" and I found my answer as the first word on the first result. I was so deep in my research that I decided to cook arepas anyways and was destined for failure before I even began.
So what I am saying here is before you start researching recipes, start researching the actual dish or cuisine. Instead of searching for "Mole Recipes" or "Sri Lanka Recipes" on google, search for "Mole" or "Sri Lanka cuisene" and check out the Wikipedia page or any other informational website. Read all about it and narrow your search for later. On the Mole wiki, you can see a bunch of different varieties so you can narrow your search further. You can see that Mole Amarillo has green tomatoes and tomatillos which you happen to be in the mood for, and onion, garlic, and cilantro that you actually have at home right now!
Second tip: know how to search. After doing the above legwork, you can often just then google something as specific as "Mole Amarillo" and get some decent results. But what about something more obvious or common? Most searches will yield the same bunch of sites on the first results page of google. You know them well don't you? Allrecipes, Cooks, RecipeZarr, CDKitchen, About, Food Network, and Epicurious. Nothing against these sites, I often use the FN and Epicurious for recipes (more on these two sites in a later paragraph), but most of the time you find just that - the recipe. When someone else's words have a direct impact on the quality of your dinner, I want to see some real passion! I want to see a picture, read a paragraph and think to my self, ok this guy really knows what they are doing! I have had failures too lame and boring to even post based on things I have cooked from the above sites. As I said, there is nothing wrong with these sites for the general public, but you read the Food in my Beard and you deserve better. You clearly seek out the best, and the best you shall have!
Google has this neat little hidden tool that will only search blogs. I use it all the time in this situation. On the upper left where it says more, click the drop down and then choose blogs. Because of the massive amounts of food blogs out there, I'm positive you will get better results. The only downside to this method, is that it google organizes these results in a semi chronological order, so the best results are not necessarily first. This brings me to my third tip.
Look at AT LEAST 5 recipes! Read the little write-up preview on the google search results page and if it sounds ok, right click it and open it in a new tab. After you have AT LEAST 5 tabs open, start checking them out. You know what you are looking for. A recipe that suits YOU best. You already know a lot about the recipe from your research earlier, so you can immediately get rid of the phonies. Close out that pad thai recipe that has ketchup in it and never look back. You know you want your tamales extra spicy, or a recipe for dough with a certain type of flour. You know some moles don't have chocolate in them, but you want one that does. This is the easy part! The reason I capitalized "AT LEAST" earlier, is because I usually look at probably 15 or more when I am doing research, but I thought if I suggested more than 5, people would think it was too many right away.
Back to FN and Epicurious for a minute. They are great tools and have some great recipes, but there is a ton of stuff on the sites! Make sure to read the comments on the recipes to get a better sense of if you will like it, if there are any errors on the recipe, and how easy or hard it is. The commenters are usually very helpful with tips on these sites. If you are searching the FN site, have a certain chef in mind. For example, if your making tex-mex, look for Bobby's recipes, Italian - Giada, Southern - Paula, Dessert - Ina, Tablescape - Aunt Sandy, etc. Still take into account the fact that you need to look at multiple recipes! Use the ones you find here as a standard to check the blog recipes against.
At this point, I either find the perfect recipe that I follow exactly, or make my own based on all my searching!
Some last random tips
If you have more of an idea of the type of dish you want, just throw more words in the search. Ex. Tacos fish chipotle green onion grapes, or pickle pepperoni broccoli pizza.
Same goes for if you have a certain chef in mind. Ex. Madhur Jaffrey curry, or Jacques Pepin scallop pancakes.
Sometimes you have an idea for an original recipe but you need to finalize it. Use google for flavor combinations! I knew I wanted to make coffee pasta with cream sauce, so I searched savory applications of coffee and found what sort of other ingredients would fit in the dish by looking at unrelated recipes.
Don't be afraid to just ask google a question - is there normally fish sauce in chocolate cake? Does this food in my beard guy know what he is talking about? Chances are someone out there has asked the same question as you, and you will get your answer right away.
There are many food specific search engines out there, but I have not had any luck with any particular one.
Did you guys find this informative at all? Or yesterday's news. Does anyone else have any tips? Let me know in the comments! Now that I have told you guys about my methods for finding recipes, are you all going to abandon me start finding recipes on your own? Do you have no need for me anymore? I hope you still do...


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According to THIS Yahoo Finance story, about 100 Michaels' customers in several states have experienced theft from their debit card accounts.
Nancy at SCRAPBOOK UPDATE has written about it HERE and HERE.
HERE is a list of stores impacted by PIN pad tampering. You can check to see if your local store was affected.
HERE is what the Peas have to say.
Apparently, something was installed on the PIN pads themselves that allow your account number and PIN to be collected. This raises some interesting questions: Was it an inside job? If not, how were these machines – which sit right on the counter near the cashier – tampered with? Why were Michaels stores targeted?
I'm also wondering why, if 80 stores in 20 states have been affected, why only 100 customers have reported thefts? You would think that total would be higher. Maybe there are still unreported cases, whether the customer realizes the theft and hasn't reported it … or the customer isn't aware yet that they've been victimized.
I don't know what the timeframe is for sure because the May 12, 2011 STATEMENT from Michaels says "February 8 through May 6″ but one of the Peas reported it going back as far as December 2010.
Speaking of statements from Michaels … some customers report receiving notification of the debit card problem via e-mail while others, even those who live near the affected stores, did not get any such e-mail. I'm on the e-mail list but didn't get one … did you?
ETA 5/17/11: I found THIS in an old e-mail account I rarely check. Weird. It was sent there but not to the one where I currently get Michaels e-mails. Oh well.
If you would like more information on this issue, just Google "Michaels debit card" and tons of articles have been written about it. There was even a GMA segment on it but I can't pull it up right now because my computer is being a total bitch :P
If anyone who's reading this has been victimized, please leave a comment and tell us your story. And to all scrappers who shop at Michaels, please be careful. Maybe a personal "cash only" policy would be a good thing for the time being. And that's better anyway since it's harder for hubby to track your purchases that way HOLLAH!
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This is horrible. I've had a ssi liar experience. Debit cards were being scan at gas pump. This was 5 years ago and this employee is still serving ti me. It is identity theif. Good luck michaels, you won't get through this unscathed.Reply
It's so ridiculous the scams going on right now! My state is not involved in the "michael's deal", but we have had other issues! So sick of all the scammers :pReply
We received the e-mail, but I thought it only affected the Chicago area. Few days later I got a call from my bank's fraud unit. Someonr had got ahold of our card number and try to use it. The bank didn't allow the transaction. We had to get new cards.Reply
I received the e-mail as well but thought it applied only to Illinois stores. I checked the list yesterday and saw that my state (but not my store, thankfully) is on it. I am watching my account very carefully.Reply
I shop at the Midvale, Utah store it was hit. I didn't have any money taken but my bank sent me a new card anyways. A friend who also shops there had $500 taken from her account- thankfully banks insure this kind of thing!!Reply


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Rotten Tomatoes, the web's leading aggregator of reviews from top movie critics, today announced the recipients of its annuAl Golden Tomato Awards - honoring the best-reviewed films of 2012 according to critics.
The Golden Tomato for the best-reviewed wide release of 2012 is presented to Warner Bros. Pictures' Argo. According to the Tomatometer, which measures the percentage of positive reviews from Rotten Tomatoes critics, Argo received a 96% positive rating based on 253 reviews. Jafar Panahi's documentary This is Not a Film is presented the Golden Tomato Award for best-reviewed film in limited release. This is Not a Film received a 99% positive rating based on a total of 146 reviews.
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Early this year, Never Say Never took us backstage as teenpop heartthrob Justin Bieber worked his way to a sold-out Madison Square Garden tour finale, juxtaposing current success with clips of baby Bieber playing drums, doing cute things, and wowing crowds at Ontario open mics. Journey to Fea ... More >>
Justin Bieber and Ludacris: Congratulations. A lot of people watched your video.On August 28, MTV will throw the 2011 installment of its Video Music Awards, honoring achievements in the art form that used to make up the majority of its programming. While it's all too tempting to note the iron ... More >>
Justin Bieber: cone artist.According to Perez Hilton, "coneing" is a real thing. In fact, it's the latest YouTube craze; think of it as the new "planking." For those of you who are not with it, it's when you order an ice cream cone at a drive-thru and take it by the ice cream end. Hilarious! ... More >>
Click here for my new column, which is incredibly spicy and cutting edge as it dissects the blandness that's overtaken our culture like margarine on a ciabatta sandwich. Chow down as I brilliantly dissect the dispiriting developments in TV, music, movies, and media which have taken the oomph ... More >>
Today in your why is it taking me so freaking long to get where I want to go news: Two extremely famous world powers are in New York City today, on the very same day. This is unprecedented! They are: President Obama and Justin Bieber. Obama, of course, is in town for fundraisers in Midtown an ... More >>
At his New York City appearance today, Justin Bieber "decided to go outside of the store to acknowledge the fans that could not come inside to the event," ABC News reports, only to be attacked by "an unidentified man." Some lucky videographers (with NSFW mouths!) were taking in the scene from a high ... More >>
Last night's Billboard Music Awards handed out popularity-contest trophies to the likes of Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Katy Perry, all of whom were rewarded for the copious amounts of radio play and sales they racked up in recent months. But the evening's real winner was probably Beyoncé, who ... More >>
Don't laugh. It could happen. After all California raisin, I mean California Reagan made it to the White House once, as I recall. And Trump tied for second place in a recent Wall Street Journal poll of Republican potentials, as Ms. Palin's jaw dropped to the lower tundra. That alone is pret ... More >>
Oh dear. Here we have Justin Bieber, shot and killed in a police face-off, ending his multi-episode CSI run as Jason McCann and sending waves of fear and anger through his devoted fandom. During last night's episode, Justin's troubled character was caught setting a bomb by Detective Stokes a ... More >>
Panda Bear Listening Party for Tomboy Le Poisson Rouge Wednesday, Feb 16 Better than: Billy Ray Cyrus discovering that Hannah Montana was just a figment of his imagination. Panda Bear fans are the Justin Bieber fans of the indie universe. While "Beliebers" attended the star's movie Never ... More >>
I should start by stating by own critical bias. When last week I told my younger, Bieber-loving sister that I'd be seeing Justin Bieber's 3D movie on Friday night at Union Square, she told me straight up that if I were to write a negative review she would kick me out of the family. Still, nei ... More >>
Is anyone else getting a little embarrassed by all the mutual loving displayed by Justin Bieber and his mentor Usher, as seen on tonight's Grammy awards? We were gushily told it's a "beautiful relationship," then watched the two eye each other as Usher remembered, "I saw you in the parking lot..." ... More >>
There were so many celebs filling up the valued time between touchdowns at last night's Super Bowl that it almost made the long, laborious evening worthwhile for me. (I said almost.) Jazzing up all the high-powered commercials were starry names like Joan Rivers, Eminem, Adrien Brody, Timothy ... More >>
And I bet Jackson would have loved him right back! Bieber is on the cover of the new Vanity Fair, and though I usually enjoy making wicked fun of the kid, I'm going to sit this one out because he says some interesting things in the interview.
Come on, kids. Do it for mama, just one more time. CLICK HERE and savor the wit and wisdom of my year-end wrapup, which is as full of insight and innuendo as a gay fortune cookie, devoured on lots of Percoset. Read both pages, if you don't mind.
viaBecause it's Sunday and the miners are out and no matter what you're going to be hearing about this for the next week at least, we might as well get it out of the way: Justin Bieber hit a 12-year-old during a game of laser tag. It's less ridiculous than it sounds because it sounds totally ... More >>
As always, we appreciate you spending the week with us here at Fork in the Road. But, in case you missed it, here's what the other food blogs have been up to... Eater bemoaned the fact that Pop-Tarts World will close this fall to make room for a new public plaza. Grub Street wondered whether Steph ... More >>
The strange case of Home Shopping Network Host Claire Champlin being attacked by a watermelon reminds us that foods are not just for nourishment -- they can also serve as dangerous weapons. Recently, heartthrob Justin Bieber was hit by a water bottle as he performed onstage, which seemingly c ... More >>
Are there any big names who've never made a huge, public mess of themselves? Who've never been caught doing drugs, engaging in a DUI, philandering on a spouse, pushing a parent down the stairs, cutting a lover in the eyeball, or stealing Sephora products?
Last night, the Canadian industry savior and haircut titan Justin Bieber overcame a cold and a guest appearance from Sean Kingston to sell out Madison Square Garden. The performance was being taped for an upcoming 3D biopic, and thus Bieber brought out the big guns: Boyz II Men. (Usher, Jaden Smit ... More >>
Once upon a time, we hated high-fives with a passion. Then Foster made us start doing them regularly as a "morale-booster" around Runnin' Scared HQ, and, hey, now we even practice them on ourselves in the mirror to rev up for a morning of hardcore blogging. But this video of a dog with a fier ... More >>
His prepubescent falsetto can't last forever
Screenshot of the since deleted Tweet via GawkerThis weekend, a Detroit teen named Kevin Kristopik made the dubious decision to hack to Twitter account of Justin Bieber's best friend, Ryan Butler, thus obtaining Bieber's phone number. What Kristopik did next was not smart: he texted Bieber. ... More >>
Justin Bieber, tween pop heartbreaker extraordinaire, is writing a memoir entitled Justin Bieber: First Step 2 Forever: My Story. Whether or not the "writing" will be done by the 16-year-old Bieb himself, this represents an important new addition to a time-honored genre -- autobiographies "wr ... More >>


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Frankenmuth: Hands off 55-foot cross in our park
FRANKENMUTH, Mich. (AP) – Officials in Frankenmuth, Mich., say a 55-foot cross erected in a public park is staying put, rejecting criticism from a group that claims it's an unconstitutional endorsement of Christianity.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State had asked Frankenmuth to remove the white cross, which is in a park across the road from Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, a huge holiday store that has helped make Frankenmuth a popular tourist destination.
Attorney Richard Thompson, who is representing the city, says the cross was erected in 1976 to honor the country's 200th birthday and to celebrate Frankenmuth's history and culture. He says, "This community will fight to keep it."
Americans United said it's disappointed but not surprised and is willing to file a lawsuit if a resident steps forward to be the plaintiff.


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Psychological effects of retirement on elite athletes
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This study was designed to gain a better understanding of the way in which the quality of the sport-career termination is quantitatively affected by athletic and non-athletic factors. A further objective of this study was to contribute and broaden the knowledge base on the athletic careertermination process and endeavour to add new information to the existent body of knowledge on the career-ending process in the world of sport. This study is a sport-specific view on South African track and field and road running athletes' retrospective views on their retirement. In line with the relevant literature, the influence of athletic (voluntariness and gradualness of sport-career termination, subjective view of athletic achievements, postsport life planning, and athletic identity) and non-athletic factors (e.g., age, educational status) on different aspects of sport-career difficulties was investigated. In phase 1 of the research, 104 retired track and field athletes completed an adapted version of the Cecic-Erpic's (2000) Sports Career Termination Questionnaire II (SCTQ II). These athletes had been retired for no less than one year with an athletic career at national and international level and were asked to describe in retrospect their experiences and reactions to their athletic career termination. The SCTQII was developed to evaluate the characteristics of the sport-career termination process, the characteristics of the active sport-careertermination transition to post-sport life, and adaptation to post-sport life. In phase 2 of the study, 23 retired South African elite athletes were individually interviewed. An interview guide was developed which probed the sport career of the athletes in depth, from the initial start to the sport career to the process of disengaging from elite sport. The data from the interviews were content analysed.
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Today's post is dedicated to the quintessential Christmas treat, Christmas Pudding!
Today I am thrilled to be sharing a recipe for Christmas pudding that Maureen shared on her Christmas blog, Yuletide Seasonings.
Traditionally puddings were made on or immediately after the Sunday "next before Advent", i.e. four to five weeks before Christmas. The collect for that Sunday in the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, as it was used from the 16th century (and still is in traditional churches), reads:"Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people; that they, plenteously bringing forth the fruit of good works, may by thee be plenteously rewarded; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen"
The day became known as "Stir-up Sunday". Traditionally everyone in the household, or at least every child, gave the mixture a stir and made a wish while doing so.
If Christmas pudding isn't your thing, perhaps you might like to try a Christmas cake? I don't mean the boring old-fashioned Christmas cakes that could be used as door-stops! I mean a chocolatey and boozy Christmas cake...Nigella style!
I made this cake last year and it really is delicious! Unbelievably, I didn't take a photo but I can tell you that everyone in my family enjoyed it, even my Christmas cake connoisseur father who normally only eats my mother's fruitcake!
So, have you made a Christmas pudding or fruitcake before? Are you willing to share your recipe with your favourite bloggy friends?! If you would like to share your Christmas cake/pudding recipes with us today, please link up below. Like I have mentioned before, there is no requirement to link back to me but if you would like spread some Christmas cheer, I would be so thrilled!
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Harold Weary is not all that much different from others who decide it's time for hip replacement surgery. Except he's 103 years old.
Now, as he recovers from Monday's surgery, the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports the Mount Prospect resident isn't getting caught up in this talk from the hospital that he's the oldest person on record to undergo a total hip replacement. He's just talking about how he is looking forward to resuming his daily walks and getting back to taking trips to the local library.
Weary is about 35 years older than the typical person who undergoes hip replacement surgery. But Dr. Phillip Ludkowski says an evaluation determined he was a good candidate for the surgery and not a high-risk patient at all.
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They aren't connected, you know, except that I have three observations of an electional nature, and those are them. Or, rather, them are these.
Or somesuch.
Happy Halloween! Three tales of misery and the magi nation. Continue reading
They aren't connected, you know, except that I have three observations of an electional nature, and those are them. Or, rather, them are these.
Or somesuch.
Happy Halloween! Three tales of misery and the magi nation. Continue reading
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NOTE: there is a lot of material on Goldfarb, et al, on this blog, with all the links and references you could want. The easiest way to access the library is run a Google search, using these terms (cut and paste the text in RED): site:hisvorpal.wordpress.com "Michael Goldfarb"
(See yesterday's post,"Gee. Where's Michael Goldfarb?")
Goldfarb located on Google radar (@ 11:28 AM, 30Oct2008) …
McCain, Palin demand L.A. Times release Obama video
Los Angeles Times, CA – 18 minutes ago
Asked to comment on McCain's involvement with the Khalidi institute, campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb replied, "You all can get a response as soon as you hand over the videotape."
Gosh. Continue reading
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NOTE: there is a lot of material on Goldfarb, et al, on this blog, with all the links and references you could want. The easiest way to access the library is run a Google search, using these terms (cut and paste the text in RED): site:hisvorpal.wordpress.com "Michael Goldfarb"
Kristol: Nicht!
i. prologue, incest among the NeoCons
I've told you at length about the Rovian Campaign of McCain's deputy director of communications, Weekly Standard blog writer and editor Michael Goldfarb (on a 'leave of absence'). And I've told you about how William Kristol is so tangled up in the McCain campaign, Fox News and the selection of Sarah Palin that his (less than one year old) column in the New York Times OUGHT to have that small-type slug "Paid Political Advertisement."
Tom Phillips, Rupert Murdoch, Robert Novak @ 2006 Awards Continue reading
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The Swamp, the Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau blog, reports:
A campaign official privately tells the paper: "She's now positioning herself for her own future. Of course, this is bad for John. It looks like no one is in charge."
ABC News, among others, notes that, in an interview with CNN, one McCain adviser anonymously called Palin "a diva" who is "playing for her own future" political prospects.
""She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," the adviser told CNN. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."
Today's version of the bloviating class was talking about nothing but the "rogue" Sarah Palin. And, one week later, they seemed to eventually get to the points I made seven days ago. Continue reading
I can't possibly keep up with all the weaselly smears that the GOPpers are throwing out this week. I'm certain they run the gamut from "Obama is a Space Alien!" to "The Democrats will confiscate your children AND your money." (And its corollary: "The Liberals want to have sex with your dog!" Don't laugh, that's essentially what the former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum said a few years back.)
So, let me give you a lens through which to view the lies, remembering that a party addicted to lies AND desperate to salvage anything from an election in which their disastrous RESULTS are on trial; a party that is never wrong and always Right (in their own minds); a party that has institutionalized the politics of division and hatred … well, that's a dangerous party wounded and fighting for its life. Nothing would seem to be beyond them: no smear too sleazy, no mud too slimy, no gutter too low.
So, rather than try to anticipate the deceptions, let me tell you a story. Continue reading
Thanks to Crooks and Liars for making this a featured post.
McCain in Virginia — Getty Images
It is not, one supposes, egotistical to note that the story I told you here last Monday ("Holy You Betcha, Batman! It's the Barracuda!" 20 Oct 2008.) is now confirmed on Saturday, after having become the subject of speculation throughout the bloviating class. To wit:
Palin allies report rising campaign tension
By: Ben Smith
October 25, 2008 02:32 PM EST
Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics.
Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline. Continue reading
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There are two astonishing liars out there. One of them lasted for 24 hours. The other remains America's Sweetheart™. And one wonders: what has happened to the old concept of "truthfulness." (And of "Truth" itself among the self-proclaimed moral mavens of the bloviating class.)
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Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher (the newspaper industry's trade magazine) writes on the Huffington Post: (slightly reformatted) by moi): Continue reading
It isn't often that you see Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh flailing wildly, flecks of foam forming around their political pottymouths. But in the last 24 hours, that's exactly what I've witnessed.
The Party of Lincoln™ bears about as much resemblance TO Lincoln as a grubworm does to a supernova. It is all topsy-turvy: voter suppression, outrageous lies, character assassination, crimes against the Constitution and the vocal aiding and abetting those same crimes. Continue reading
Whoever Paul is.
It seems astonishing that, on the same day, both Alaskans in the news would use, essentially, the same rationalization. Continue reading
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There's a lot of good news. And, we shouldn't forget that voting is already underway. I've got my Oregon mail-in ballot, and will vote tonight.
What most impressed me was something I heard Cokie Roberts say on NPR yesterday: that the Obama campaign is the best-organized, most disciplined campaign she's seen in her lifetime. And, she gasped, it was from (chaotic) DEMOCRATS! Continue reading
Final pre-election update of my February 25 post, "If Candidates Were Telephones":
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Flush from the rash of complimentary — if not to say gushing — reviews of Sarah Barracuda on Saturday Night Live, Wasilla's Wonder Woman seemingly has made the decision to throw John McCain under the bus. Not that she's alone in this assessment, if true.
Looking at it from her point of view, frankly, WHY does she need McCain now? The GOP that despises him (but of whom he has, of late, tried to emulate) loves her. Joe Scarborough was literally gushing on MSNBC about how everyone he's talked to says that the camera doesn't do her justice, etc. etc.
Celebrity trumps competence (and hey! who's the political celebrity in the infamous Paris Hilton/Brittney Spears anti-Obama ad now?), and the Pat Buchanans of the bloviating class are seriously suggesting Continue reading
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At the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, beneath the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, history was being made Saturday:
John McCormick / The Swamp:
Obama draws record crowd in St. Louis — ST. LOUIS – Standing under the Gateway Arch, Sen. Barack Obama spoke this afternoon before a crowd his campaign said totaled 100,000, a new U.S. record for his presidential bid. — "All I can say is wow," Obama said as he took the stage …
But far upstream, up the Missouri to Omaha, and then West along the Platte, and away from the river towards what used to be salt marshes, a different kind of history — very much related to the history taking place in St. Louis — was being made on Friday. It took place in Lincoln, Nebraska, whose origins bear on this story as well: Continue reading
McTheuselah and Caribou Barbie have finally unveiled their latest last ditch smear tactic*: Obama is a (gasp!) SOCIALIST! Here's from Senator McCain's radio address today, after reintroducing us to the dance sensation that's sweeping the nation: "Joe the Plumber":
My opponent's answer showed that economic recovery isn't even his top priority. His goal, as Senator Obama put it, is to "spread the wealth around."
You see, he believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that help us all make more of it. Joe, in his plainspoken way, said this sounded a lot like socialism. And a lot of Americans are thinking along those same lines. In the best case, "spreading the wealth around" is a familiar idea from the American left. And that kind of class warfare sure doesn't sound like a "new kind of politics." [...]


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