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PLYMOUTH ŌĆö NIPSCO will be installing a gas main on Pierce Street from Michigan Street to Walnut Street beginning Tuesday and continuing for approximately 10 days. During this time, traffic on Pierce Street will be restricted in the westbound lane.
BOURBON ŌĆö┬ĀToby Grose, 40, of Elkhart was traveling eastbound on U.S. 30 approaching Beech Road Saturday afternoon when his vehicle was struck by Coleen Gallinger-Miller, 33, of Bourbon, who was traveling northbound on Beech Road. Both vehicles came to rest in the median following the collision. Five people from both of the vehicles were transported to Kosciusko Community Hospital in Warsaw and treated for minor injuries. The accident is still under investigation by the Marshall County Sheriff's Department.
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With the possible exception of legendary New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, few graduates of Culver Military Academy have acheived the legendary status of Hal Holbrook. And like the late Steinbrenner, Holbrook has never hesitated to sing the praises of the school, even
describing his beloved grandfatherŌĆÖs insistence that he attend
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PLYMOUTH ŌĆö It was a day of celebration at Riverside as the school was officially named a ŌĆ£School to WatchŌĆØ in the state of Indiana.
Dignitaries including the Indiana State Superintendent of Public Education Dr. Tony Bennett were on hand at the school to celebrate the naming of Riverside as a School to Watch - an honor that has responsibilities attached to it.
A death sentence request has been filed in the case of Roy Bell, one of three area men accused in the shooting death of Wilma Upsall near Leiters Ford in November.
Fulton County Prosecutor Rick Brown filed the death penalty request in Fulton County Superior Court Wednesday.
PLYMOUTH ŌĆö The Liberty Street Depot fire has been determined arson, and there is a $5,000 reward for information leading to arrest of the suspect(s) involved in the half-million dollar loss.
The Plymouth Fire Department, Chief Investigator John Pasley, along with the combined efforts of the Plymouth Police Department and the Indiana State Fire MarshalŌĆÖs Office, is continuing a fire investigation into the cause of the fire, located at 301 S. Liberty, Plymouth, at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10.
This Thursday, March 15, Culver AcademiesŌĆÖ Eppley Auditorium will host the National PlayersŌĆÖ stage rendition of the John Steinbeck classic, ŌĆ£Of Mice and Men,ŌĆØ starting at 7:30 p.m.
ŌĆ£Now celebrating its 63rd anniversary season,ŌĆØ notes the PlayersŌĆÖ website (www.nationalplayers.org), ŌĆ£National Players has earned a distinctive place in American theatre by...(introducing) audiences to great works of dramatic literature that are rich in exciting stories and characters, and profound in language and themes.
PLYMOUTH ŌĆö┬ĀThe School of Inquiry will host a welcome ice cream social for all students who have enrolled in the school and their parents Thursday at 6:30 p.m. The ice cream social will be held in the Plymouth High School cafeteria. In addition to having ice cream and having time to meet and socialize with other students and their parents, the event will give parents an opportunity to meet the staff for next year, see a model of the future school space, and hear about how parents can partner with the school.
HAMLET ŌĆö OD-EDPAC (Oregon-Davis Educational Political Action Committee) will be holding a public information meeting at OD High School gymnasium March 20 at 6 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to explain the tax levy that was recently proposed to Starke County Commissioners.
The funding problem for OD began with the recent changes at the state level on how school funding is calculated.
Oregon-Davis School Corporation Superintendent Steven Disney explained their current financial situation to the county commissioners at their recent meeting.
PLYMOUTH ŌĆö┬ĀThere are still spots available for the St. PaddyŌĆÖs DAY Dash Saturday, a 5K race intended to raise money for Plymouth High School graduate Eric DayŌĆÖs medical expenses. Day, who will be a sophomore at Butler University this fall, recently finished undergoing treatment for a brain tumor.
Kelsey Flynn, an organizer of the event and a friend of the Day family, said that she and others were looking for a way to help the family when they thought of doing a St. PatrickŌĆÖs day race.


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Today the CDC announced its new recommendation that all Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 be routinely checked for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Why the change? About one million Americans are infected with HIV, but 25% of them have no idea that they're carrying the virus. Routine testing should help check the spread of the disease and preserve health as infections are caught earlier.
The CDC's recommendation isn't binding, but it does influence what doctors do and what health insurance covers. And the blanket recommendation might help reduce the stigma associated with HIV testing.
What do you think? Will you get screened for HIV at your next physical? Why or why not?
The US Forest Service has a neat page with up-to-date information about fall foliage hotspots and peak dates, plus information about why leaves change color in the fall. Check it out, and maybe plan an outing to take advantage of the colors before they're gone.
The "Tenth Planet" that caused Pluto to lose its planetary status has been classified and named, and to the dismay of many, it was not named Xena. The International Astronomical Union has classified it as a dwarf planet and named it Eris, after the Greek goddess of Chaos, which is appropriate for the chaos it cause in the astronomical community over what should be defined a planet and what should not.
The debate centered around the argument that if Pluto was considered a planet, then 2003 UB313, as it was known at the time, should be a planet as well as it was larger than Pluto. The debate culminated at the International Astronomical Union meeting last month where Pluto was stripped of the title "planet" and relegated to "dwarf planet" along with Eris and the former asteroid Ceres.
Eris' moon was also given a formal name: Dysnomia. In Greek mythology Dysnomia was the daughter of Eris.
A new space capsule and launch system are being developed to bring the next generation of explorers to the International Space Station, back to the moon, and later to Mars. The new Orion space capsule and Ares launch system will be the long awaited replacement for the Space Shuttle and are scheduled to begin use by 2014.
The Orion capsule borrows its design from the Apollo-era space capsules, and improves on the best features of Apollo and the Space Shuttle programs, but is significantly larger than the old Apollo spacecraft and utilizes the latest technology in computers, electronics, life support, safety, propulsion and heat protection systems.
Orion will be capable of transporting cargo and up to six crew members to and from the International Space Station. In addition, it will return humans to the moon to stay for long periods as NASA prepares for the longer journey to and an extended stay on Mars.
The new capsule and launch system will be significantly safer than the Space Shuttle because the design allows for an "escape tower" at the top of the capsule that allows for the separation of the crew capsule from the rocket below in the event of an emergency during launch. Further, there is minimal chance of debris damage as the capsule sits on top of the rocket.
To watch a video about the Orion and Ares systems, go here.
Neurologists used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to study the brain function of a woman who'd been in a coma for five months. To their surprise, when they asked her to respond to commands or imagine things, her brain "lit up" in the same way that the brains of healthy subjects did. The scientists caution that this is likely not the situation for many vegetative patients.
Anthropologists have found the partially intact, 3.3-million-year-old skeleton of a 3-year-old Australopithecus afarensis, the ape-man species represented by "Lucy." Features of the skeleton will add to the scientific debate about whether afarensis, which walked upright, also climbed like an ape.
Researchers at the University of California in partnership with Intel, have produced a computer chip that can communicate using lasers instead of wires. This chip is built with silicon and conventional manufacturing processes making it relatively cheap but 100s of times faster than current chips. Will this change how we compute?
This article, by Tyler Rushmeyer, appeared in the local news section of today's Pioneer Press:
Racket bugging residents: Night music made by katydid colony
Many White Bear Lake residents were baffled when they started hearing a new sound reverberating through their neighborhoods.
As night falls, a loud "yack, yack" sound has filled the air. "It sounds like a tropical rainforest on my block," said White Bear Lake resident Mark Nevala, one of several people to call city officials asking about the noise.
The culprit: katydids, loud insects performing mating calls by rubbing their wings together. The mating season should last into early October.
Closely related to grasshoppers and crickets, katydids are spread throughout Minnesota. The bugs residents are hearing are the northern katydid species, said Dick Oehlenschlager, assistant curator and collections manager for biology at the Science Museum of Minnesota.
"They move in colonies and shift every year, and this year their colony seems to have taken residence in the Twin Cities area," he said.
The insects--about 2 inches long and bright green, with long, coiled antennae--are near-motionless during the day and reside on the leaves of trees. But soon after dusk, they become active. They are difficult to spot, Oehlenschlager said, which is why many people are confused about where the noise is coming from.
"Even I didn't know what I was hearing the first couple times I came in contact with them," Oehlenschlager said.
Look for our new fall phenology section, featuring other seasonal behaviors of insects and birds, coming to the Mississippi River Gallery and the Buzz website after next week.
There's been a rash of cool weather sites written up in the Twin Cities newspapers and other media lately.
Here are just a few:
Skeetobiteweather is one of the most popular hurricane sites run by amateurs. Jonathon Grant, of Lakeland, Florida, runs it. He says the site gets 1.8 million page views a week, and you can plug in your zip code and get a prediction of wind forces for your block, hour-by-hour, before a hurricane hits. (Not even the National Weather Service does that.) And pretty soon, you'll be able to enter your exact address.
Mark Sudduth, of Wilmington, North Carolina, runs HurricaneTrack and HurricaneLiveNet. He deploys several battery-powered, waterproof cameras at the exact points where hurricanes are expected to hit. He also collects weather data to accompany the live, streaming video.
Jesse Bass, of Hampton Roads, Virginia, is a weather chaser who posts photos and commentary on his website, VAStormPhoto.
HurricaneCity, despite its name, is one of the more comprehensive severe weather sites. Jim Williams, of Delray Beach, Florida, focuses on the city being hit, and you can see all live, streaming radio stations or TV from the site. He also has a towercam on his roof, which captured images from Hurricane Wilma last year, and he hosts "The Hurricane Warning Show" from his living room.
Mike Watkins, of Coconut Creek, Florida, covers Atlantic hurricane action on TropicalUpdate. And if there's no news on the hurricane front, he hosts an Internet radio show where he interviews the "celebrities" of the weather world--guys like Max Mayfield, of the National Hurricane Center, or William Gray, the Colorado State University professor who's known for his hurricane season forecasts.
I was amazed today when I cracked open my new copy of Harper's Magazine. In the Harper's Index feature I discovered this chilling fact about our dwindling world tiger population. There are about as many tigers living in the wild around the world as there are living as pets in the US?! That's simply absurd. These wild animals were not meant to be domesticated and keeping them as pets won't help grow their numbers in the wild.
However, searching around on this topic did lead me to a rather interesting blog focusing on the issues of conservation, specifically through the lens of finance. They recently highlighted China's unique efforts at tiger conservation, which involve breeding tigers in China and shipping them to a fenced-in preserve in South Africa. But most interestingly this blog focusses on some real world situations that can be solved within our current economic system. According to the blog's author:
Good intentions are not enough. We need business models that are financially, institutionally and technically viable, based on evidence, and provide incentives to encourage biodiversity conservation.
I couldn't agree more, so head on over to the Conservation Finance blog and specifically their posts on wildlife conservation to learn more.


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James Franco: Shirtless on Instagram (Again)by Free Britney at . Comments
Another day, another eyebrow-raising shirtless Instagram photo of James Franco, who enjoys nothing more than publicly blasting shirtless James Franco photos.
The actor's latest effort was captioned, "SELFIEMADNESS The adderall diaries." He will soon star in a film based on Stephen Elliott's memoir by that name:
Looking like he's in prime seduce underage girls on Instagram mode, Franco is seen with pants unbuttoned and his underwear exposed in a provocative manner.
That or the 36-year-old's just trying to mimic the image posted next to his mirror, which from the looks of it is a 1975 Robert Mapplethorpe self-portrait.
Either way, it's pure vintage, borderline creepy James Franco.
Earlier this year, the topic of James Franco selfies came up after he tried to pick up a teenager using social media (he backed off when he learned her age).
He later explained his Instagram love to David Letterman:
"To me, it's just a fun thing," Franco said. "It's something I don't put a ton of thought into, but it gets a lot of attention. I have a lot of followers on Instagram.
"It's not like I'm going out there putting that on billboards."
"Ostensibly, Instagram is for my fans. But now all the bloggers are following me on there so they'll just take it and use my images for whatever they want."
"I didn't ask you to look at it! It's what the people want!"
As for the whole underage girl, thing, he admitted on Live with Kelly and Michael that it was not a hoax, and "I used bad judgment. I learned my lesson."
He also addressed it on SiriusXM's Howard Stern Show.
"Seventeen is legal in New York, but that being said, it's still pretty damn young," said Franco, who is single. "They make it out like I'm pursuing young women."
"I'm not going to high schools looking for dates. I'm leaving work and they're coming there. So, I'm seeing attractive women. Like anybody, I was trying to meet somebody."
"It's just that my dirty s--t gets put out internationally."
You do have some control over that, James, when it comes to using social networks to meet someone and what you post on there, but we do see your point.
Oh ya and, I've seen MANY selfies that I think are in need of negative attention and James Francos is not one!! I cant believe all the concern over a guy selfie!! So what.... Whether he was joking around or serious, he's hot so no matter what he posts it all good to look at😁
look around the web at some selfies, omg wow, you won't think his is anything after u see some others....
Really, ol' James Franco is gorgeous, he's a marvelous actor, and he's young and single. He didn't know the girls age as soon as he did you say yourself he backed off. So let it go. ...lots of girls look older than their true age, he stopped once he knew she was 17. Big whoop . Its news worthy only if he didnt care that she was young and continued....then he'd b a creep, BUT HE'S NOT BCS HE DIDNT PURSUE HER!!! I REALLY CANT SEE THE BIG DEAL.??
another single guy hit on a girl, discovered she was only 17, and stopped talking to her. Period! Get over it
Woah dang da "Jamesi" does it best!!!


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Serbian tennis ace Novak Djokovic has continued his domination on an unchanged top 10 in the latest world tennis rankings released by the ATP on Monday.
Two-time French Open champion Sergi Bruguera isn't convinced that Stanislas Wawrinka's Australian Open victory in January and Marin Cilic's US Open triumph in September resulted in a tectonic shift in the sport. He said today's tennis was still dominated by the 'Big 4'.
Gael Monfils of France stunned Swiss great Roger Federer 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 Friday to even up the Davis Cup final, after Stanislas Wawrinka had beaten Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to give Switzerland the lead.
Switzerland`s potential Davis Cup fairytale this weekend has become clouded by uncertainty over the fitness of Roger Federer and suggestions of strained relations between the all-time great and his team mate Stanislas Wawrinka.
Novak Djokovic said exhaustion and a loss of concentration played a part in a mid-match slump against Japan`s Kei Nishikori that nearly wrecked his hopes of a third consecutive ATP World Tour Finals title on Saturday.
Days before Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka team up for a shot at Switzerland`s first Davis Cup title, they were tearing lumps out of each other at the ATP World Tour Finals in London on Saturday.
Hidden behind the artistic beauty of Roger Federer`s tennis lurks the primal instinct of a cold-hearted killer and on Thursday Andy Murray was the unwitting victim as he was hammered 6-0 6-1 in his own backyard.
Ruthless world number one Novak Djokovic thrashed Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3 6-0 as he closed in on a stunning climax to his season at the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday.
For 15 minutes Novak Djokovic appeared to have a fight on his hands at the ATP World Tour Finals on Wednesday, then the Serb dialled up his A game and tore Stanislas Wawrinka to pieces.
Stanislas Wawrinka has no doubt fellow Swiss Roger Federer will be ready for the Davis Cup final next week even if the 33-year-old goes all the way at the ATP World Tour Finals.
Rafael Nadal's doctor says the 14-time Grand Slam winner will receive stem cell treatment on his ailing back.
The man known as "Stanimal" will be eager to prey on his rivals when he turns up as a bonafide member of the grand slam winner`s club at next week`s ATP World Tour Finals.
Rafael Nadal says he could miss the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals next month because of appendicitis.
US Open champion Marin Cilic was made to work hard before he earned a 6-3 3-6 6-3 win over 128th-ranked Russian journeyman Evgeny Donskoy to reach the quarter-finals of the Kremlin Cup on Wednesday.
World No.14 Feliciano Lopez Wednesday confirmed his participation in the 20th edition of the Aircel Chennai Open, scheduled to be played at SDAT tennis stadium from Jan 5-11, 2015.
Australian Open champion Stan Wawrinka crashed out of the Shanghai Masters with a second round loss to Gilles Simon on Wednesday, while Andy Murray advanced with an assured 7-5 6-2 win over Jerzy Janowicz.
France have a real chance of beating Switzerland in the Davis Cup final, even if Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka will stand in their way.
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This is the second in a multi-part series of posts (read first post here) looking at if large enterprise and legacy storage systems are dead, along with what todays EMC VMAX 10K updates mean.
Thus on January 14 2013 it is time for a new EMC Virtual Matrix (VMAX) model 10,000 (10K) storage system. EMC has been promoting their January 14 live virtual event for a while now. January significance is that is when (along with May or June) is when many new systems, solutions or upgrades are made on a staggered basis.
Historically speaking, January and February, along with May and June is when you have seen many of the larger announcements from EMC being made. Case in point, back in February of 2012 VFCache was released, then May (2012) in Las Vegas at EMCworld there were 42 announcements made and others later in the year.
Click here to see images of the car stuffing or click here to watch a video.
Let's not forget back in February of 2012 VFCache was released, and go back to January 2011 there was the record-setting event in New York City complete with 26 people being compressed, deduped, singled instanced, optimized, stacked and tiered into a mini cooper (Coop) automobile (read and view more here).
Now back to the VMAX 10K enhancements
As an example of a company, product family and specific storage system model, still being alive is the VMAX 10K. Although this announcement by EMC is VMAX 10K centric, there is also a new version of the Enginuity software (firmware, storage operating system, valueware) that runs across all VMAX based systems including VMAX 20K and VMAX 40K. Read here, here and here and here to learn more about VMAX and Enginuity systems in general.
Some main themes of this announcement include Tier 1 reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) storage systems functionality at tier 2 pricing for traditional, virtual and cloud data centers.
Some other themes of this announcement by EMC:
- Flexible, scalable and resilient with performance to meet dynamic needs
- Support private, public and hybrid cloud along with federated storage models
- Simplified decision-making, acquisition, installation and ongoing management
- Enable traditional, virtual and cloud workloads
- Complement its siblings VMAX 40K, 20K and SP (Service Provider) models
Note that the VMAX SP is a model configured and optimized for easy self-service and private cloud, storage as a service (SaaS), IT as a Service (ITaaS) and public cloud service providers needing multi-tenant capabilities with service catalogs and associated tools.
So what is new with the VMAX 10K?
It is twice as fast (per EMC performance results) as earlier VMAX 10K by leveraging faster 2.8GHz Intel westmere vs. earlier 2.5GHz westmere processors. In addition to faster cores, there are more, from 4 to 6 on directors, from 8 to 12 on VMAX 10K engines. The PCIe (Gen 2) IO busses remain unchanged as does the RapidIO interconnect. RapidIO used for connecting nodes and engines, while PCIe is used for adapter and device connectivity. Memory stays the same at up to 128GB of global DRAM cache, along with dual virtual matrix interfaces (how the nodes are connected). Note that there is no increase in the amount of DRAM based cache memory in this new VMAX 10K model.
This should prompt the question of for traditional cache centric or dependent for performance storage systems such as VMAX, how much are they now CPU and their associated L1 / L2 cache dependent or effective? Also how much has the Enginuity code under the covers been enhanced to leverage the multiple cores and threads thus shifting from being cache memory dependent processor hungry.
Also new with the updated VMAX 10K include:
- Support for dense 2.5 inch drives, along with mixed 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch form factor devices with a maximum of 1,560 HDDs. This means support for 2.5 inch 1TB 7,200 RPM SAS HDDs, along with fast SAS HDDs, SLC/MLC and eMLC solid state devices (SSD) also known as electronic flash devices (EFD). Note that with higher density storage configurations, good disk enclosures become more important to counter or prevent the effects of drive vibration, something that leading vendors are paying attention to and so should customers.
- EMC is also with the VMAX 10K adding support for certain 3rd party racks or cabinets to be used for mounting the product. This means being able to mount the VMAX main system and DAE components into selected cabinets or racks to meet specific customer, colo or other environment needs for increased flexibility.
- For security, VMAX 10K also supports Data at Rest Encryption or (D@RE) which is implemented within the VMAX platform. All data encrypted on every drive, every drive type (drive independent) within the VMAX platform to avoid performance impacts. AES 256 fixed block encryption with FIPS 140-2 validation (#1610) using embedded or external key management including RSA Key Manager. Note that since the storage system based encryption is done within the VMAX platform or controller, not only is the encrypt / decrypt off-loaded from servers, it also means that any device from SSD to HDD to third-party storage arrays can be encrypted. This is in contrast to drive based approaches such as self encrypting devices (SED) or other full drive encryption approaches. With embedded key management, encryption keys kept and managed within the VMAX system while external mode leverages RSA key management as part of a broader security solution approach.
- In terms of addressing ease of decision-making and acquisition, EMC has bundled core Enginuity software suite (virtual provisioning, FTS and FLM, DCP (dynamic cache partitioning), host I/O limits, Optimizer/virtual LUN and integrated RecoverPoint splitter). In addition are bundles for optimization (FAST VP, EMC Unisphere for VMAX with heat map and dashboards), availability (TimeFinder for VMAX 10K) and migration (Symmetrix migration suite, Open Replicator, Open Migrator, SRDF/DM, Federated Live Migration). Additional optional software include RecoverPoint CDP, CRR and CLR, Replication Manager, PowerPath, SRDF/S, SRDF/A and SRDF/DM, Storage Configuration Advisor, Open Replicator with Dynamic Mobility and ControlCenter/ProSphere package.
Who needs a VMAX 10K or where can it be used?
As the entry-level model of the VMAX family, certain organizations who are growing and looking for an alternative to traditional mid-range storage systems should be a primary opportunity. Assuming the VMAX 10K can sell at tier-2 prices with a focus of tier-1 reliability, feature functionality, and simplification while allowing their channel partners to make some money, then EMC can have success with this product. The challenge however will be helping their direct and channel partner sales organizations to avoid competing with their own products (e.g. high-end VNX) vs. those of others.
Consolidation of servers with virtualization, along with storage system consolidation to remove complexity in management and costs should be another opportunity with the ability to virtualize third-party storage. I would expect EMC and their channel partners to place the VMAX 10K with its storage virtualization of third-party storage as an alternative to HDS VSP (aka USP/USPV) and the HP XP P9000 (Hitachi based) products, or for block storage needs the NetApp V-Series among others. There could be some scenarios where the VMAX 10K could be positioned as an alternative to the IBM V7000 (SVC based) for virtualizing third-party storage, or for larger environments, some of the software based appliances where there is a scaling with stability (performance, availability, capacity, ease of management, feature functionality) concerns.
Another area where the VMAX 10K could see action which will fly in the face of some industry thinking is for deployment in new and growing managed service providers (MSP), public cloud, and community clouds (private consortiums) looking for an alternative to open source based, or traditional mid-range solutions. Otoh, I cant wait to hear somebody think outside of both the old and new boxes about how a VMAX 10K could be used beyond traditional applications or functionality. For example filling it up with a few SSDs, and then balance with 1TB 2.5 inch SAS HDD and 3.5 inch 3TB (or larger when available) HDDs as an active archive target leveraging the built-in data compression.
How about if EMC were to support cloud optimized HDDs such as the Seagate Constellation Cloud Storage (CS) HDDs that were announced late in 2012 as well as the newer enterprise class HDDs for opening up new markets? Also keep in mind that some of the new 2.5 inch SAS 10,000 (10K) HDDs have the same performance capabilities as traditional 3.5 inch 15,000 (15K) RPM drives in a smaller footprint to help drive and support increased density of performance and capacity with improved energy effectiveness.
How about attaching a VMAX 10K with the right type of cost-effective (aligned to a given scenario) SSD or HDDs or third-party storage to a cluster or grid of servers that are running OpenStack including Swift, CloudStack, Basho Riak CS, Celversafe, Scality, Caringo, Ceph or even EMCs own ATMOS (that supports external storage) for cloud storage or object based storage solutions? Granted that would be thinking outside of the current or new box thinking to move away from RAID based systems in favor or low-cost JBOD storage in servers, however what the heck, let's think in pragmatic ways.
Will EMC be able to open new markets and opportunities by making the VMAX and its Enginuity software platform and functionality more accessible and affordable leveraging the VMAX 10K as well as the VMAX SP? Time will tell, after all, I recall back in the mid to late 90s, and then again several times during the 2000s similar questions or conversations not to mention the demise of the large traditional storage systems.
Continue reading about what else EMC announced on January 14 2013 in addition to VMAX 10K updates here in the next post in this series. Also check out Chucks EMC blog to see what he has to say.
Ok, nuff said for now.
Disclosure: EMC is not a StorageIO client; however, they have been in the past directly and via acquisitions that they have done. I am however a customer of EMC via my Iomega IX4 NAS (I never did get the IX2 that I supposedly won at EMCworld ;) ) that I bought on Amazon.com and indirectly via VMware products that I have, oh, and they did sent me a copy of the new book Human Face of Big Data (read more here).
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Greg Schulz - Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press, 2011), The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), and Resilient Storage Networks (Elsevier, 2004)
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Turbo'd Image Sensors
At the heart of it all, the tiniest technology makes every picture possible
The Undiscovered Country
The only mainstream photographic sensors that capture color data at every pixel come from Foveon, the company behind the X3 sensors found in Sigma D-SLRs. What makes Foveon's design unique is that each photosite captures each color like photographic film. Silicon absorbs light's different wavelengths at different depths, so the light sensors are embedded one atop the next in the first 10,000th of an inch of the silicon chip. It works much like color film, with three layers of RGB sensitivity across the entire surface. The process also makes for a higher pixel count because each photosite on a Foveon sensor is effectively worth three pixels on a Bayer pattern filtered chip. Since the on-chip real estate is reduced, however, the chips can stay small, and their price per pixel can remain low.
Other technologies may one day revolutionize digital photography again, but for the foreseeable future, it appears that CMOS and CCD will remain the dominant technological forces that shape photography for the next generation. Even without a major revolution in technology, these image-capturing devices could soon be capable of producing ultra-high-ISO photographs with the noise characteristics of low-ISO settings of today. The effects of this could be astounding: flashless photographs in the dimmest of conditions, the ability to stop action in any environment and a complete revolution in how cameras record light—and how photographers use cameras. Even if ISOs don't rocket through the roof, photographers could see advancements that allow post-exposure RAW-type image editing on the pixel level of everything from focus to depth of field.
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(Reuters) - King Richard III is at the center of a new fight over the location of his final resting place, just weeks after the remains of the last English king to die in battle were found underneath a council car park.
Archaeologists announced one of the most remarkable finds in recent English history last month when they confirmed the discovery of the body of Richard, who was slain at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, during excavations in Leicester.
The discovery generated massive interest internationally as the monarch was famously cast by William Shakespeare as a deformed tyrant who murdered his two nephews, known as the princes, in the Tower of London....
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Delegate = ok so it looks like I will be a RP delegate to state TXSubmitted by Sovereign Human on Sun, 04/22/2012 - 19:16
does anyone know if there is a place that the delegates are signing up so Ron Paul knows who and how many delegates he realy has?
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WIN TX and CA and we have the oval office.
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Mark my words.
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Good chance to move into Delegate spot at State in my District.
How many days do you definitely have to be there at Tampa
as a delegate / alternate?
there is an e-mail going about that tells you where to send the information. Try Ron Delegates meetup group in Houston.
Truth before all else.....it is what will allow us to emerge with dignity and honor.
I'm a Delegate also
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And I still feel it necessary to be close-mouthed about it...
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BEIRUT - International envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday he was "frustrated and impatient" a week after a massacre in Syria of 108 people shocked the world, but Russia said his peace plan was still the best hope for Syria.Speaking after separate talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, President Vladimir Putin urged countries to continue to back Annan's peace initiative as the best way to avoid full civil war."Mr. Annan is a very experienced and respectable person and we must do everything for his mission to succeed. I think it is counterproductive to announce his mission as a failure in advance," Putin told a news conference in Paris."Sanctions don't always work. The main thing we need to do is to prevent the situation from developing under the worst scenario and not let a civil war take place."Damascus says it wants Annan's plan to succeed so the crisis can be resolved through political talks.But Syrian rebels, who agreed to Annan's April 12 truce plan, have urged him to declare the plan dead, freeing them from a commitment that both sides have repeatedly violated.The plan calls for the government to pull heavy weapons back from towns and cities, after which both sides are to end violence and begin a dialogue, but it has stalled at the first hurdle.Although refusing to declare the ceasefire a failure, Annan welcomed any further steps from the UN Security Council."If there are other options on the table, I will say 'bravo' and support them," Annan told reporters after talks in Beirut with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.'Sanctions essential'Hollande said Syrian President Bashar Assad's government had disqualified itself from ruling Syria."No solution to this crisis is possible without the departure of Bashar al-Assad," he said, standing next to Putin. "I believe that more sanctions are an essential part of a political solution."Outrage at last Friday's mass killings in Houla, documented by UN observers, prompted a host of Western countries to expel Syria's senior diplomats, and to press Russia and China to drop their vetoes and allow tougher UN Security Council action.China and Russia back Annan's plan, the only broadly accepted initiative to halt the bloodletting in Syria, and reject any intervention, UN-backed sanctions, or proposal .The 193-nation UN General Assembly is planning to meet next week to discuss the crisis in Syria and the massacre in Houla. Ban, Annan and UN human rights chief Navi Pillay are likely to address the assembly on Thursday, UN diplomats said.Annan will also speak to the 15-nation UN Security Council that day about the lack of progress implementing his peace plan.Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby urged the Council to "move quickly to end all acts of violence taking place in Syria, and to take the necessary measures to protect Syrian civilians", according to a letter leaked to media.That proposal is similar to language the Council used last year to authorise military intervention in Libya, which Russia did not veto but has criticised ever since. Russia has vowed to prevent Syria from becoming another Libya, where it says NATO airstrikes directly supported rebels and led to "regime change".Rights councilRussia, China and Cuba all voted against a resolution passed by the 47-member Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday condemning Syria for the massacre in the Houla region and calling for a UN investigation to gather evidence for possible criminal prosecution.Russia's Foreign Ministry backed the Syrian government's assertion that the massacre was the work of anti-government forces intent on undermining peace efforts.But in Paris, Putin took a different line.He appeared to accept that Syrian government forces had at least played a part in killing civilians, but said the rebels were guilty of similar acts."How many peaceful civilians were killed by the opposite side? Did you count? The count goes into the hundreds there too. Our goal is make peace between the sides of the conflict.""We are not for Assad, not for his opposition," he said. "We want to reach a situation where violence ends and a large-scale civil war is averted."US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this weekend, Donahoe said.Clinton said Washington was ready to cooperate with Moscow if it was ready to work on a political transition in Syria.Putin denied that Russia, which supplies Syria with weapons, was providing the government with the means to crush rebels, brushing off Clinton's comment that its latest shipment to Syria was "reprehensible".The Kremlin does not want to lose its firmest foothold in the Middle East - a client for billions of dollars' worth of weapons and the host of Russia's only warm-water naval port outside the former Soviet Union.Putin told reporters in Berlin that Moscow had a "good, long-standing relationship with Syria"."As for supplying weapons, Russia does not provide weapons that could be used in a civil conflict," he said.Gunfire and clashesThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitoring group, said at least 20 people had been killed in clashes in Syria on Friday. It said hundreds of thousands of civilians had attended opposition protests around the country.A day before, a dozen workers were killed near the western town of al-Qusair when gunmen loyal to Assad ordered them off a bus and shot them, activists said. Syrian media blamed "terrorists".Video released by activists showed the corpses of 12 men, two of them with the tops of their heads shot away, laid out on the ground near the town of al-Qusair, which like Houla is about 20 km from the city of Homs, a hotbed of opposition to Assad.Hamza Al-Buweida, a local opposition activist, said a survivor had told him the dead men had been returning from work at a fertiliser company in al-Buweida al-Sharqiya."They stopped, as usual, at a Syrian army checkpoint. But about 300 metres after the checkpoint a yellow car with four armed shabbiha (pro-Assad militia) stopped their car," he told Reuters over Skype."They took money off the men and then killed them one by one with gunshots to the head. More than 300 bullets were found in the bodies."It was impossible to verify Buweida's account. Syria has restricted journalists' access since the start of the uprising against Assad 15 months ago.Activists say 50 to 100 people have died each day this week, including civilians, soldiers and anti-Assad rebels.UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said those who carried out the slaughter in Houla could be prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
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Matt C, on "Conceding Defeat – The Internet is Stronger Than I Am" -
When I'm at my best, video games are not that interesting. But at my baseline, I enjoy these kind of escapes. I feel a little guilty about it–I'd like to be high energy, high engagement all the time–but I've more or less accepted that I'm 3/4 take it easy and 1/4 let's get to it. Maybe in time I'll nudge those numbers a bit more, but it ain't gonna happen all at once.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too, Matt.
Fascinating stuff. Yes, I've had a similar experience - when I'm firing all on cylinders, distraction of any sort seems rather unappealing. I like the idea of nudging the numbers slowly - I think that's generally the path to success. Cheers for the smart comment.
I'm afraid it is real, yes. It was in several newspapers (online). I first read about it in a German one: http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/testtschechien100.html
Reading that made me a disbelieving and upset, so I googled the issue and found it in several English ones as well:
....there are more links, but yeah...
it's insane indeed.
I know what you two mean. Whenever I get into reading a lot of books on philosophy (for example), novels and the like seem utterly unimportant, and I don't really want to read them. But when I'm out of that 'extended flow' novels seem so much nicer, easier, and entertaining. Those philosophy books on the other hand suddenly turn into heavy tomes full of difficult matter - making reading as undesirable as chewing dry bread.
A very good guest post by Matt Mazur - if you enjoy this (and I think you will), then you can find his blog at mattmazur.com. He currently runs two business apps: Preceden.com, a tool for making timelines, and jMockups, a high fidelity web design tool. Here's Matt -
Nine Tips for Getting Started with Life Tracking
Inspired by Sebastian's posts about the benefits of life tracking, I decided to try it for myself. After several false starts, I've now been doing it for almost two months straight and have had some great results. In this post I'll explain how my current tracking system works and I'll share some of the lessons I've learned along the way.
How it Works
Every Sunday morning I print an eight page document that I use throughout the week to track various aspects of my life. The first page is an overview, which I will fill out at the end of the week to summarize my results. The remaining seven pages are devoted to each day of the week.
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Before I got wrapped up in all that is life (dinner, feeding the dog, checking email, writing a post, etc) I was going to write about my drive home today and the thoughts that floated through my head. It was a long drive, the weather made it very difficult. I took this time to listen to some Christmas music and just relax, it was slow moving.
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