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Yesterday was long, tiring, and good on many levels. The rough draft of the next "A Different View" book is completed and now being edited, reviewed, and hopefully having the guest parts written. Yesterday saw some opportunities for Mission: VALOR and myself identified, and now to seize them. If you care to help, please hit gofundme or paypal in the tip jar; and, go make a donation to Mission: VALOR right now. Some incredible opportunities, if we can travel and make the most of them.
I've written about this before, but am pretty sure that was one of the hundreds of discussions taken out by the crackers that took out the old site. So, time to do this again given a moving video going around and my sharing it on Facebook.
I tend to think of it happening to me when I was younger, but part of that I suspect comes from parts of my mind that really just don't want to deal with this. I may have indicated I was around 12 when an adult male I trusted tried to rape me, but the summer of my 12th birthday I was in Italy and having a wonderful time that opened up the world to me in ways I could never have imagined. It had to have been when I was about 15 or 16, and not earlier. I still can't bring myself to peg it down exactly.
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A group of writers (and avid readers) I belong to have been discussing some of the issues that plague modern literature, specifically modern science fiction. That said, much of what we see there applies to modern "literature" of any stripe.
To provide some food for thought this day, please go check out this excellent essay on the logic of illogic and think a bit about the points it raises.
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Over at Mission: VALOR (and on Facebook), Jenna Wilkins Perminas (the new and amazing social media manager for Mission: VALOR), hits it out of the park with a bloody marvelous post on depression, suicide, and an appeal to troops and veterans. Check it out.
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It appears that a lot of people who are into bourbon are now upset to learn that a lot of "craft" distillers don't do their own distilling. That, in point of fact, the "craft" spirit they love may come from carefully selected mixes of spirits produced and/or aged elsewhere.
An article at The Daily Beast was the cold slap of reality for them, and it has led to a lot of angst and discussions of what "is" is, or rather what is craft and what is horrible-big-batch-chain-megaconglomerate-otherbadwordthing. Artisan, craft, crafty… Well, call it what you will (and this article makes some very good points).
For me, lost in the angst and the latest "in" bourbon (or some other spirits for that matter) is process. I know that my current favorite producer of bourbon has just started to distill on premises again — which means the product I love did not start life there. Yet, I personally still consider it to be an honest product.
Why? Simple. It starts with the fact that they don't hide it. They may not advertise it, but they don't try to mislead you. Following-up on that is the fact that they are building on the recipes and traditions that began decades ago in the family and were interrupted by a rather poor business decision (IMO) and a sale. Now that the family has bought things back, they are building on the previous traditions and refining.
Think about what goes into providing the flavors in any good spirit. It starts with the mix of grains/ingredients. Some families and businesses have developed recipes over the years and stick with them for good reasons. That's where a lot of flavor comes from, and by playing with small changes in proportion you can make some rather interesting (and potentially significant) changes in flavor. Changing the type/variety of wheat/corn/rye makes a difference, which is why good distillers take care to ensure continued sourcing of preferred varieties of each.
Good stills do make a difference, pot or column, but where those stills are located does not make a significant difference. It may be next door, or it may be a few hundred miles away. On-site or next door are much easier to deal with from a logistics standpoint, but…
Next is the wood for the barrels, and if charred how charred. Again, there has been a lot of trial and error over the years and those who have been doing it a while have their preferences. New companies have a good idea (often) of what they want, but if smart they are likely going to play around with that at least a little bit.
Finally, where it is stored makes a difference. A range of temperatures and humidity do make a difference. My current favorite may not have been distilled on site, but guess where the aging warehouses are? Again, for each type of spirit there is a good bit of data on the climate needed, as the conditions of aging are important.
To me, what makes a truly great spirit are the flavors that come from the differences in the production and aging, while the spirit remains within the larger brand taste. It's why I like single-barrel single malts a lot, and accept that in many respects each bottle I buy is going to be different. Accept heck, I look forward to it. It's also why I've quietly snickered at some of the hot-brand-of-the-month bourbon and rye whisky out there (and most especially at their fanboys).
Folks, if that very expensive bottle of aged "craft" bourbon or rye comes from a company that's only been around a couple of years, the odds of it being produced and aged elsewhere is, oh, about 100 percent. They may have a true genius blending things for a great taste and consistent taste over time and from a large source of stock. They may have a wonderful product through chemistry. However, if you think it comes from people who have devoted years or decades to learning the craft and carefully producing a product from start to well-aged finish, well, I have a bridge for you.
Find what tastes good to you. Explore. Enjoy. Learn a bit about the process and what goes into making that spirit. My "everyday" bourbon and favorite "small batch" bourbon are technically both mass produced. My current favorite high-end bourbon and rye come from a place that just started distilling on-site again fairly recently (at least by bourbon standards). For me, the devil — and the pleasure — are in the details, and the details are not exact sameness bottle-to-bottle. Consistent, yes. Exactly the same and rigidly checked by chemical analysis, no.
If you have to have a spirit from master distillers/craftsmen who have studied and worked for years/decades and only do small batches that are distilled, aged, and mixed to taste on site, good for you. There are a few out there. Just be prepared to pay a truly premium price and accept scarcity of supply.
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Yes, it is true. The winner of the Mission: VALOR art contest will die three times (and enjoy it no less), and the runner-up will be maimed. Thanks to Sarah A. Hoyt, Tom Kratman, Michael Z. Williamson, Le Creuset, MilitaryLuggage.com, Battlemug.com, and Doctrine Man for the initial prizes to go to the respective estates. Oh, and not only is Nick Searcy a judge for the contest, he's now on the National Advisory Board for Mission: VALOR. Thanks also to judges John Sheppard, Greg Browning, and Erin Ingram, who stand ready to join with Nick and give the death penalty multiple times.
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text: Metropolis is a visionary work that dreams the elegiac landscape of cities like Toronto, where genteel Victorian culture leans hard against Sri Lankan ghettos; where prostitutes and cocaine dealers ply their trade next to green streets immaculate with rose gardens. In Metropolis, urban portraits of violence, grief, mourning, and joy are underscored by philosophical, historical, and theological concerns. Rishma Dunlop has a gift for looking at cities in all their contradictory beauty and reading the scars of history as the graffiti of everyday life.

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Human rights in Tunisia after elections
The prospects for human rights in Tunisia after forthcoming elections comes under the spotlight in this edition of Utalk. The question is from Hamed in London: "How far up the agenda are Human Rights issues in the candidates' manifestos for the upcoming Tunisian elections?" The response comes from Amna Guellali, Director…
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So, what's u talk all about? U talk is an interactive weekly programme where we want your questions on Europe. Europe is a fascinating melting pot and your queries can cover ANY issue on Europe – from controversies, challenges, to current affairs and how it all works… and we will pick the most thought-provoking, relevant question. We'll then get to work to find you the answer – this will come either in the form of an interview with the relevant expert or via a short report. So come on board and start sending us your questions NOW!


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Two Japanese Beauties by A. Davey on Flickr.
I have no determination.
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Casual day out up front. Ass party in the back.
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"Thousands of unsuspecting people may be buying imitation Ugg boots made from the pelts of animals skinned alive. The fur comes from Raccoon Dogs, a species related to domestic dogs, farmed in China.
A sickening video of the skins being collected has led activists to demand a ban on the trade and call for clearer labeling."
(You can find the video here, but I will warn you, this video has permanently scarred me, seriously, for life. It is extremely graphic and shows men skinning and ripping the fur off of the animals, who are alive, and then throwing their skinless bodies into a pile. Thinking about it alone makes me want to cry, especially because the animals are alive when they are without any skin and lay in this pile, still moving, until they die…)
This is one of the least graphic images I could find. This is by far one of the worst treatments of animals that could ever be.


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Various resources are dedicated to providing opportunities for members of the MICA community to engage locally, nationally, and abroad. While technically separate grants, these opportunities share similar applications and have the same deadlines. Grant qualifications, amounts, and further information can be found on each page; however, you are encouraged to contact any of the relevant offices if you have additional questions.
Preview, type, and save long questions beforehand to avoid possible technical errors. You will be able to copy and paste them on the electronic application.
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After a frustrating first two quarters, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade made an exclamation point, before heading into the halftime break. In the final moments of the second quarter, Roy Hibbert was switched to guard James, who sized up the Indiana Pacers' center, drove past him and threw down a huge dunk.
It wasn't over there. Before the buzzer sound, Wade managed to steal the ball as the Pacers were trying to cross half court and knocked down a jumper.
Watch the excellent sequence above.
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In this issue, Nas gives some insight into more than just his past. Since the release of Illmatic, which as been referred to by our own Dustin Chapman as "the bible of hip hip", a lot has gone on in the music world, and Nas has been there for all of it. Sometimes, he has been right in the center of it.
Rolling Stone delivered a fantastic piece with the legendary wordsmith. Read the whole article here, but we'll also give you a small piece.
"It gives me a reference piece to look at myself and for me to analyze my life and what I've come from; my accomplishments; my dreams," Nas tells Rolling Stone about his acclaimed debut. Today, the rapper releases Illmatic XX, featuring a remastered version of the album alongside an extra disc of rarities, demos, remixes and live performances. A tour is in the works where he'll perform the album front-to-back, and the upcoming feature-length documentary Time Is Illmatic, detailing the album's history and legacy, will open the Tribeca Film Festival. The rapper is also working on the pilot for Street Dreams, his upcoming autobiographical drama for Xbox.
Nas is also channeling this reflective period for a planned new album, which he's started recording and hopes to release by the end of the year. "I have not been inspired to record until riding this Illmatic parade," he says. "I didn't know that this would inspire me, but this time has made me reflect and made me aware of where I am today. I think I could have put together a good new album without this 20-year anniversary, but I don't think it would have nowhere near the depth that I think it's going to have now."
Here's one classic track from another one of Nas' classic albums, It Was Written:
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Bulls will decide Monday if Rip Hamilton will play vs. Pacers
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Rip Hamilton practiced with his new teammates for the third time Sunday, but whether he'll make his Bulls debut in the exhibition finale Tuesday against the Indiana Pacers is unknown.
Coach Tom Thibodeau said he'd likely make his decision Monday.
"Each day, he gets more and more comfortable," Thibodeau said. "He approaches it well. He comes in to work. He gets here early. He's studying hard. He's doing fine so far. Probably [Monday], we'll get another practice under his belt. He looked pretty comfortable today in the scrimmage. That will be the next step for him."
Hamilton said the challenge isn't just learning new terminology but also his new teammates.
"I'm learning more and more about them individually and their games," Hamilton said. "It's different when you're playing against them and you're scouting them and trying to take things away. Once they're your teammates, you have to figure out what's good for them and what's not good for them."
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Carlos Boozer heard hecklers at Conseco Fieldhouse during the first exhibition game.
"They have good fans here," Boozer said afterward. "Some are funny. Some of them are not so funny."
Derrick Rose said anyone disappointed in Boozer's performance in the preseason opener should remain patient. Boozer had seven points and six rebounds in the Bulls' 95-86 victory.
"They're reading too much into it," Rose said. "If they looked at me, I had a terrible game. You know how Chicago people are. They just expect the best out of everyone and try to push everyone, but Boozer is fine. He's in here working, rebounding, going hard. He lost a lot of weight. He's definitely making a push for it."


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No Sleep Records have released a new free sampler that features La Dispute, Into It. Over It., Aficionado, Balance & Composure, and Koji, among many of the label's other artists. Click here to download it for free!
Into It. Over It. song is hecka good and so are the others… :)


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Kejriwal, Congress heading for showdown on Lokpal bill?
Delhi's AAP government and the Congress, which props it up, Friday seemed headed for a showdown over the Jan Lokpal bill, with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal saying the central government's okay was not needed to get it passed in the Delhi assembly.
The Congress reiterated that it would not support the bill as it was "unconstitutional" while the BJP also came out against it, saying the AAP government was trying to push it "in an unconstitutional manner".
The AAP has 27 members in the 70-seat Delhi assembly besides the support of an independent and a Janata Dal-United legislator. Minus the backing of the eight Congress legislators, the anti-graft bill can't become law.
The differences between the AAP government and the Congress came out in the open after the Solicitor General reportedly told Lt Governor Najeeb Jung that the bill needed to be referred to the central government.
A fuming Kejriwal told Jung in a communication that was released to the media that there was no such constitutional requirement and that Jung must heed the constitution, not the central government.
Kejriwal wants to pass the bill at a special session of the assembly at a larger venue - which itself has become a matter of dispute between various political parties.
In his three-page letter, the AAP founder urged Jung not to bow to pressures from the central government which he said were aimed at killing what is stated to be a tough anti-corruption legislation.
He said the AAP government had been told by former Punjab and Haryana High Court chief justice Mukul Mudgal and lawyers P.V. Kapur, K.N. Bhatt and Pinaki Misra that the bill didn't need the central government's nod.
"I am aware that there is tremendous pressure on you from the Congress and the home ministry," Kejriwal said.
"They know that if the bill is passed, many of them will be jailed," he added, without naming the Congress.
"You have taken oath to be loyal to the constitution, not any party or the home ministry. Don't let the constitution die."
The chief minister described an "unconstitutional" a home ministry fiat asking the Delhi government to take permission from the central government to introduce a bill in the Delhi assembly.
"If the central government's permission is to be taken every time a bill has to be passed in the Delhi assembly, then what was the need to hold an election in Delhi?"
The Jan Lokpal bill is a pet theme of Kejriwal and the AAP, which was born following an anti-corruption campaign of social activist Anna Hazare.
The Congress Friday hit out at the AAP government, saying while it was for the bill, it would not support anything unconstitutional.
Arvinder Singh Lovely, president of the Congress in Delhi, said: "We support a strong Lokpal bill but will not support this unconstitutional bill... This government needs to work as per the constitution."
The Congress also attacked AAP after its leader Ashutosh called Jung "a Congress agent".
"By questioning those holding constitutional posts, the AAP is showing its mentality," Lovely said. "This has never happened before."
Bharatiya Janata Party state president Vijay Goel accused the AAP of "pushing Jan Lokpal in an unconstitutional manner (to create) anarchy".
He said there was already a Lokayukta in Delhi and a Lokpal bill had been passed by parliament. "There is no need for the AAP government to push for the Jan Lokpal bill."
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The lessons of CELF
Jesse Eisinger has the story of CELF, which has some interesting implications. Essentially, Goldman Sachs took a bunch of leveraged loans it had lying around on its balance sheet, and bundled them into a CLO called CELF which it sold in July 2008.
The transaction was clearly profitable for Goldman — if it wasn't, the bank wouldn't have done it. And like all CLOs, the reason was that there was insatiable investor demand for triple-A-rated securities. As a result, by bundling up a bunch of loans and tranching them so that a triple-A-rated security fell out the other side, Goldman could make money: demand for AAA debt was much greater than demand for leveraged loans, so turning the latter into the former was profitable.
Then, this year, Goldman unwound the deal. It bought back those AAA-rated loans — I'm hearing at about 96 cents on the dollar — and bought a bunch of the equity in the deal as well, enough to bring its equity stake to something over 50%. With control of the CLO, Goldman then decided to liquidate it entirely, breaking it up into its constituent parts and selling off those loans in the secondary market.
This deal, too, was profitable for Goldman — for exactly the opposite reason that the CLO was. Today, there's a lot of demand for high-yielding loans, or high-yielding anything, really. Meanwhile, there's no appetite at all for structured products carrying AAA credit ratings which no one believes. So Goldman can make money by turning out-of-favor structured product into highly-desirable loans.
Eisinger's point here is that Goldman reckons it can do this kind of thing — making money by structuring and unstructuring complex financial products — without falling foul of the Volcker Rule: at each step along the way, it can claim to be acting in its clients' best interest. He's right about that, and he's also right that if the Volcker rule can't stop this kind of activity, it's likely to prove pretty toothless.
But we can also draw another lesson from this story: that securitization is still pretty dead. So long as investors prefer plain-vanilla loans to collateralized loan obligations, the securitization market — which bankers and politicians both have said is crucial to the efficient functioning of the economy — will remain moribund. Let's hope they're wrong, and that securitization isn't all that necessary for a vibrant economy after all. Maybe it's mainly just good in terms of making money for investment banks.
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Well hey, if the financial sector is 10% of GDP or something like it, and securization can boost profits 50-100%. then yes it is a big part of the economy. Just not in the way most would think…
Interesting find, great post!
Ok missing the outrage here… So at the request of a client it bundles up some loans and sells it to some other clients who are demanding exposure to those sort of loans. The client then changes its mind and wants out. GS then buys back the exposure and sells it off later. In what way is this not client driven? Would you have been happy if GS had refused to buy back the AAA tranche? Does Mr Eisinger know of a single market making transaction where there is NO risk for the middleman?
Typically clueless piece by Jesse Eisenger.
Control of CLOs (unlike CDOs) routinely pass to equity holders after a short call period. The equity holders then have the option to redeem the CLO (at par):
Typical clause:
"Optional redemption
The issuer may redeem the notes may early at the option of the subordinated noteholders after the end of the noncall period or earlier if certain tax events have occurred. This optional redemption may occur only if the proceeds from liquidating the collateral are sufficient to redeem the rated notes at par, plus accrued interest."
This has nothing to do with alleged preferences for AAA securities or "non appetite at all for structured products carrying AAA credit ratings" it has to do with moves in credit quality of the underlying loans and simple maths regarding credit spreads.
@Danny_Black – yes, since they did the transaction this way, Felix/Jesse/NYTimes et al will be outraged that they made money by deploying their balance sheet to unwind the trade. On the flip side, had they refused to buy the AAA tranche, it would be the auction rate securities debacle all over again and we would be hearing about their lack of client commitment and client service. Darned if you of, darned if you don't in this new world of "journalism" (e.g. irresponsible pageview and click generation by yelping "GOLDMAN SACHS EVIL!" at every possible moment).
west-coasting, lack of trust does that to people…
> Today, there's a lot of demand for high-yielding loans, or high-yielding anything, really.
Incidentally, does this make other people as nervous as it makes me? I've been telling my mother-in-law that if she's as risk-averse as I think she is, a 1% return — or frankly a 0% return — really isn't so bad right now, and that the mindset that one is "entitled" (or something) to more is likely to cause pain at some point.
Agreed 100%, dWj. We're setting people up to be very badly burnt.
As best I can tell right now, the LEAST risky securities over a ten year horizon are top-quality dividend yielding stocks. This isn't to say that they are any less risky than usual, just that the normally risk-averse investments are even worse.
Disclaimer: presently allocated ~75% stocks (predominantly blue chip dividend stocks), ~15% TIPS and guaranteed-principal annuities, ~10% cash/CDs with 2 year maturity or less. Conventional bonds are very scary to me at current prices.
hsvkitty, so does lazy churnalism.
Agreed. Lazy at best (which is what I'd say for this piece by Jesse/Felix). Irresponsible and malicious at worst, which is where a lot of recent NYTimes reporting is going (if I want to read ZeroHedge's conspiracy ramblings, I can read them there or in the HuffPo, not in America's newspaper of record).
Goldman can only "claim to be acting in its clients' best interest" to people who don't know what's really going on.
Goldman Sachs had no client in the CELF trades, from start to finish, other than itself.
http://epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com/2 010/11/client-is-not-counterparty.html
So in other words, Epicurean, Goldman was making the deal in its own CELF interest? I was going to make another bad joke to match your ending, but I will keep it clean.
At the risk of losing you some sleep at night, Mr Dealmaker, I respectfully disagree.
1) Normally in underwriting the bank is taking a hopefully small risk that between closing the price and actually selling on the securities the market does not change too substantially. It does and has happened that the underwriting banks lose substantial amounts of money even in vanilla equity underwritings. I also disagree that there are terribly many reputational issues with bringing crap to the market, as long as it is crap du jour such as Internet stocks or dare I say it CDOs and CLOs.
2) With the original CLO, I suspect GS bought the loans off some clients packaged them up and sold them to other clients. Yes for a period of time those loans were warehoused but I highly doubt GS bought the loans because they thought qua loans there were a great investment they wanted to take a view on, it was just balance sheet rental for another client or clients. Classic middleman. Just like the pharmacist bought the box of Preparation H, held it for a short time till another client – you – came in and paid a slightly higher price. It was hardly a principal investment by the pharmacist.
3) I also suspect that in buying back the AAA tranche that it was not quite as arms length as you suggest. I suspect GS wanted to call, needed to buy out the AAA tranche and to make sure it seemed pucker got a third-party to run an auction which, within reason, GS would always have won. The third-party and the auction was so GS and the client could wave a piece of paper around saying look it was kosher.
The only vaguely nefarious way this can be viewed is possibly the reality was that GS in 2008 was trying to shrink its balance sheet, offered a meaty coupon to clients with the nod-nod-wink-wink we will call the notes when all this blows over. Of course the journalist in this case didn't bother chasing up the interesting bit because he is more concerned in the moral outrage that a firm isn't aiming to provide a service at a loss – something the NYT has been doing well for a while now.


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But the risk associated with moving servers further away from your end-users should not be ignored. That's because users who were local to servers become remote users, and the interim stages in a data center relocation may introduce distance between back-end servers.These physical displacements can negatively impact application performance and result in significant business interruption.
In fact, when IT organizations plan server moves, they often focus exclusively on systems issues such as the right-sizing of new servers or virtualization of storage resources. As important as those issues are, it's a big mistake to ignore the impact of adding distance across the network. If you don't adequately understand and address the issues that arise when you put more physical distance between users and servers – or between servers and servers – you can set yourself up for serious pain and potential failure.
Here are four common mistakes you should be particularly careful to avoid:
1) Confusing network latency with application latency
When you move servers further away from users, you introduce network latency. That is, the physical distance between users and servers causes a delay in the signal between the two. But adding 50 milliseconds of network delay doesn't mean that your application response times will only increase by 50 milliseconds. On the contrary, most applications require many back-and-forth interactions between user and server (often referred to as application "turns") to perform even the most basic tasks. Thus, the addition of just 50 milliseconds of network delay can cause an action that only took three seconds to complete locally a full 30 seconds to complete after a server move.
Unfortunately, this network-related latency is usually regarded as the network manager's problem, even though the application (including the number of "turns" it requires) may be the real problem. After all, the network manager can't change the speed of light, or make Tokyo closer to New York. So it doesn't make sense to lay the problem entirely on him or her. In fact, because application design issues are often responsible for poor response times after a server move, additional investments in the network will be of little use whatsoever.
2) Failing to realize how network latency impacts server
performance and scalability
Many IT organizations don't fully grasp how the addition of network latency degrades – often substantially – the scalability and performance of application servers. This often-overlooked phenomenon has an adverse impact on the entire user population – not just remote users. It is almost never caught in the QA process, and is rarely diagnosed correctly even when it causes problems in the production environment.
How does network latency affect server performance? The answer is simple. A server allocates resources to each concurrent client session. Local clients complete these sessions quickly because their application turns are subject to minimal network-related delay. Remote sessions, on the other hand, take much longer to complete because each application turn takes so much longer.
It is important to note that servers lock up resources for the duration of the process, and only free them when the process is completed. Thus, when remote users communicate with a server, they keep its resources busy for a longer period of time. This prevents the server from releasing those resources for use by other clients – severely limiting its performance and ability to scale.
Unfortunately, conventional testing and QA typically focus on back-end scalability, with little or no attention given to real-world network latencies. That is why IT organizations are so often surprised when server performance degrades after a data center move.
3) Ignoring business continuity best practices during
interim stages of server relocation
Ideally, an enterprise could pack all of its servers in one weekend, load them on moving trucks, unpack in the new location, and be up and running by Monday. The reality is quite different. Enterprise data centers can consist of dozens or hundreds of servers. It can take weeks or months and multiple relocation steps to complete a move to a new location. Thus, during interim stages, some servers will operate from their original locations while others will operate from the new location. The introduction of this physical distance between servers can seriously impact both business continuity and application performance.
Most business continuity schemes depend on a contingency site, which is provisioned with replicated enterprise data. In most cases, all the data to be replicated comes from a single location: the data center. But, during a data center move, some data sources will reside in the old data center and some will have already moved to the new location. This distribution of data sources complicates disaster recovery and introduces new vulnerabilities to the IT environment.
The physical separation of servers can also have a dramatic and unexpected impact on application performance, because computing processes are almost never designed to accommodate significant inter-server latency.
Any IT organization planning a data center move must therefore ask a variety of questions. Did I adjust my disaster recovery plan to cover interim relocation steps? What happens when servers with critical inter-dependencies are temporarily separated? Which servers must be moved with other servers? When should active directory servers be moved? Which servers will need to be replicated for the duration of the move?
4) Not dealing with users' performance expectations until after the move Sometimes, it simply doesn't make sense to set a post-relocation service level objective (SLO) that is identical to what had previously been a local response time. If it took a local user three seconds to execute a task before a server move, it is very unlikely that the task will take the same amount of time after that server is moved across the country. An SLO of seven seconds, for example, may be more reasonable.
That's why it is critical to directly address users' service level expectations up front. If you wait until after the move and tell users they just have to live with what you can deliver, you're setting yourself up for a battle. But if you can get buy-in beforehand as part of the planning process, you can avoid such hassles and ensure that no one has unrealistic expectations.
To achieve this pre-deployment acceptance, two elements are needed. First, IT must have a way of predicting what post-move performance will look like. Second, users must be given a way to experience post-move performance in advance. That is, IT must be able to simulate post-move performance. These predictive and simulation capabilities enable IT to set up "acceptance environments" where users can experience post-move performance first-hand before the move is actually executed.
Seven Steps for Project Success
To avoid making these mistakes, IT organizations must have full visibility into the subtle, complex interactions between applications, networks and infrastructure. Unfortunately, responsibility for these three areas has been split into separate operational "silos." A siloed approach, however, reduces the likelihood that IT will successfully predict and address the performance problems that can result from a data center move. It is therefore essential to take a new collaborative approach that effectively blends the expertise of the application team, systems managers and network architects. These collaboration best practices are outlined in the following seven-step plan:
- Build a virtual model of the pre- and post-relocation enterprise environment, as well as all planned transitional phases. All participants in the planning process, including business users, need concrete information about how network infrastructure will impact application performance with the new data center.
- Establish an SLO baseline by measuring application performance before the move. Users' needs and expectations don't exist in a vacuum. Pre-move transaction response times provide essential context for determining reasonable SLOs for after the move.
- Measure post-move application performance in a virtual environment. The only way to accurately predict the impact of server moves on application performance is to run those applications in a fully simulated post-move environment. This will provide the specific data on potential performance degradations essential for proper planning.
Identify applications that need special performance tuning.
Rather than wasting time, effort, and money on beefing up all elements
of your enterprise infrastructure, focus instead on specific applications
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Analyze problems and validate potential fixes for failing applications. Before investing in and deploying a solution, it's important to make sure that it actually works.
Assess dependencies between back-end servers to establish a move plan and adjust the DR scheme. This, too, should be done by simulating each planned interim stage of the move – as well as the final post-move environment.
Manage user expectations and get buy-in commitments through hands-on acceptance. Users who merely hear that a transaction response time will go from two seconds to five may object out of sheer reflex – or they may accede without realizing how long five seconds really is.
Business users should therefore be given the opportunity to directly experience post-move application performance in advance so they can offer informed consent to the relocation plan.
By following this seven-step plan, IT organizations can substantially
reduce risk, eliminate unnecessary infrastructure spending, accelerate
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The exclusion of any of these steps greatly increases the likelihood
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Amichai Lesser is the director of product marketing at Shunra Software. Lesser is responsible for product marketing, market analysis, and field marketing programs and has extensive experience in real-time engineering, performance management, and security. Lesser can be contacted at email@example.com.
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Russell Westbrook has blossomed into one of the best players in the league over the years. He's one of the most polarizing players though often making boneheaded decisions that you don't expect from a player of his caliber.
Recently and mostly this season, Westbrook has really cut down on those bad decisions. His turnovers are down and his efficiency everywhere else has been rising.
But against the Miami Heat, Westbrook reverts back to his old habits more often than versus any other opponent.
We saw it yesterday in the highly anticipated Christmas Day NBA Finals rematch that the Thunder lost 103-97. Westbrook played 43 minutes and shot 5-for-19 from the field scoring 21 points and dishing out just three assists.
It wasn't a very "point guard-like" performance from Westbrook which is what the Thunder needed considering playmaking was in high-demand for them as they reverted back to an isolation-heavy offense.
Westbrook has had some good games against the Heat over the past two years but never as a point guard or playmaker.
In the past two seasons, Westbrook and the Thunder have played the Heat eight times winning just twice. Westbrook has averaged 24.6 points and 5.5 assists per game on just 38.7 percent shooting. He has been terrible shooting from beyond the arc at just 18.2 percent while attempting 4.1 threes per game.
Under control, Westbrook has been anything but against the Heat. He's been the exact opposite of what the Heat have embodied in this matchup too led by LeBron James.
That contrast hasn't bode well for the Thunder obviously. The question still remains though: Does Westbrook need to get under control more when playing the Heat or just wait for his time when his over-aggressive play is simply too much for Miami to handle?
It's probably going to be a little of both. Westbrook can't be as out of control as he's been at times vs. a patient and sound Miami defense. But then again you don't want him to throw away the aggression that has resulted in a 43-point NBA Finals game and six offensive rebounds yesterday.
Finding that balance isn't going to be easy for Westbrook if the Thunder continue on the same path they have been on vs. Miami. The slow start reared its ugly head again yesterday as the starting five the Thunder was at a big disadvantage facing Miami's.
When the Thunder get behind, Westbrook and everyone else start pressing for OKC. The assists and execution of the offense dwindles and it becomes a mad scramble to get back into the game. This is probably because the Thunder value this game more than others. Normally, they will more calmly claw their way back into a game but against the Heat, they want it so bad they are anything but calm.
Some major changes are necessary if the Thunder want to seriously challenge the Heat in a potential NBA Finals matchup. Westbrook needs to be better first and foremost but that can be achieved by better starts, changes to the rotation and better patience all the time.
These things will come in time for the Thunder. Waiting for that is difficult but we're already seeing signs of these solutions being reached this season, just not against the Heat, yesterday, on the biggest stage the NBA has provided this season.


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Why bear gallbladders? That's the question many people asked after hearing about the arrest of Tracy Davis, the Nelson County man accused of trapping and killing bears to harvest their organs, among other charges.
They've been used in Asian medicine for 2,000 years, and now the gallbladders of black bears are becoming a hot commodity with a hefty price tag. The black market for the coveted organs has quickly grown in the Commonwealth, but the lengths to which people will go to collect the gallbladders is being called horrific and illegal.
Some 10,000 bears are being held captive in "bear farms" in several Asian countries for harvesting. The bile stored in those vital organs is used in traditional Asian medicine to treat things like heart disease, diabetes, liver problems and even hangovers.
"The way they harvest the bile is by cutting a hole in the [bear's] abdomen and drain it out," said Matthieu Schmitter, who practices Chinese medicine in Charlottesville.
Because the organs are so easy to fake many Asian doctors will pay top dollar for authentic bear gallbladders. And that has led to an increase in poaching in many places, including Virginia.
Davis was arrested in late-November after allegedly giving an undercover agent three bear gallbladders to sell on the black market.
"There is definitely an underworld - a black market - that is going on in mostly Asian counties. I would assume they are trying to export [the gallbladders] to the East," Schmitter explained.
A licensed acupuncturist at Three Qi Oriental Medicine, Schmitter says more and more patients are inquiring about the application of bear gallbladders to treat certain health issues. He says there are many alternatives to using the bile and tells his patients there are several herbal remedies that produce similar results.
Meanwhile, Davis is scheduled to make his first appearance in Nelson County Circuit Court on Wednesday. He is facing more than 50 charges related to the harvesting, animal cruelty and operating an illegal moonshine distillery.


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Lady Gaga finally got naked ... FULLY NAKED ... but it's weird. Really weird.
The video just surfaced, featuring a naked, hairless, crystal-spooning Gaga doing a meditation exercise inspired by Marina Abramovic, a famous performance artist.
The video shows Gaga doing "The Abramovic Method," which supposedly heightens physical and mental awareness.
It definitely heightened our awareness.
Marina Abramovic is actually a respected artist. The problem is that entertainers like Gaga (and Madonna before her) come to a point where they realize that their music is basically garbage. Yet they like fame and fortune and they've bought their own publicity. So they begin acting as if they were serious "artistes". Marina Abramovic should distance herself from Gaga (this is not going to raise funds for her institute) and Gaga should just accept that she is washed-up trash.
Wow, the ugly green jealousy monsters are alive and on the TMZ boards today. She looks fantastic and is doing something other than drugs & alcohol to sooth her inner soul. And there's nothing wrong with that!
I just puked a bit of my breakfast back up into my mouth. THANKS, TMZ.
Can't STAND her! I wish she's just disappear.
Attention seeking ho
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The balls in your court, Miley. Haha - you know she's going crazy trying to think of a way to top this...
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This is an interim report with suggested guidelines and background for organizing city cycling self-audits and events in support of cycling as a principle theme of World Car Free Days events in 2014.
As original organizers of the World Car Free Days movement, we are always attentive to finding ways to make real use out of these generally festive occasions. We have been working consistently on this task since the first program announcement in Toledo Spain at a major European conference in October 1994 under the title of "Thursday: A breakthrough strategy for reducing car dependence in cities".
This year we are proposing that considering cities may give some thought to the possibility of organizing a core Car Free Day event specifically to encourage cycling in cities, and in particular at the core of the CFD events and preparations to encourage cities to conduct and share a "self-audit" in order to provide background and perspective on the state of safe and abundant cycling in their city.


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1409 East 108th Street is a 18 minute walk from the Metro Blue Line (801) at the 103rd Street / Watts Towers Station stop.
This location is in the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles. Nearby parks include One Hundred Ninth Street Recreation Center, Will Rogers Memorial Park and Watts Towers State Historical Park.
Nearby schools include Verbum Dei High School, Compton Avenue Elementary School and Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary School.
The closest grocery stores are Family Mini Market, El Osito Nutritional Numero and Easy Market.
Nearby coffee shops include Watts Coffee House, Watts Coffee House and H P Ice Cream. Nearby restaurants include Manning's Hamburger Stand, Jack In the Box and Popeyes.
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