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"This was such an important win for us in terms of position in the standings," said head coach George Van Linder. "We wanted to get some points up and it gets us in a better spot for us and we feel like this could be a tipping point win in where it can take us for the rest of the season."
Northwestern State (6-9-1, 4-3-1 Southland Conference) honored eight senior players in pregame ceremonies before the match. Both the Canadian and American national anthems were played to honor the first senior class to feature Canadians.
NSU trailed Nicholls (10-4-1, 4-4-0 SLC) by one position in the league standings. NSU was sixth, and the top six squads will advance to the SLC Tournament.
"Every time you hear senior night, you get worried about the emotion and how the upper classmen will react," said Van Linder. Ashlee Savona and Danku have been gamers ever since they came to NSU, and tonight was no exception. They were fantastic."
Savona scored the first goal at the 15 minute mark on an assist from fellow classmate Alexandria Jackson. Jackson chipped in into the box from the right side to Savona who scored it.
She hit her second attempt just 18 minutes later on an unassisted score when Nicholls goalkeeper Taylor Mosley came out of the net on a free kick and deflected it to Savona.
Northwestern State led 2-0 at the half with nine shots to Nicholls six.
Brooke Eastburg scored the final goal of the match in the 51st minute one an assist from senior Taylor Mulnix.
Danku played 75 minutes of the match with three saves on 14 shots seen. Brooke Bourbonais came in and collected one save.
For the match, Nicholls outshot the Lady Demons 16-15, but had only four shots on-goal. Northwestern State finished with seven shots on-goal.
Eastburg and Savona each tied for the team-lead in shots for Northwestern State, and Spence Valespino took the match shot lead with seven on the night.
In the following Brianna Singh's goal-scoring header in overtime gave Southeastern Louisiana a 1-0 victory over the Northwestern State soccer team Sunday afternoon in Southland Conference action.
Southeastern Louisiana (12-3-1, 7-2-0 Southland Conference) and NSU held each other scoreless through regulation, but Singh was able to win the game on a golden goal from a long throw in by Katie Noonan that was tipped up by Kelsey Salcido.
"Soccer can be a cruel game at times. We had the chances to win and we felt confident about it going into the overtime," said head coach George Van Linder. "Credit Southeastern for getting the win. They had a chance and took advantage of it."
It was the fifth overtime game the Lady Demons played this conference season, and the first loss in extra minutes.
NSU goalkeeper Jessica Danku played the entire match in the goal and had 12 saves, but Singh was able to sneak it past her just inside the left post. Hope Sabadash had five saves for the Lions.
Brooke Eastburg led the Lady Demons with five shots, and one on-goal. Ashlee Savona and Cassandra Briscoe each had two shots.


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Filinvest turns over 270 San Remo Oasis units-A A +A
By Mia A. Aznar
Thursday, February 27, 2014
THOUGH they would have wanted to turn over their San Remo Oasis condominium units earlier, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake last October forced Filinvest Land Inc. to postpone their plans and have these checked for damage first.
Just a week after the quake, the OBO released the development's safety certificate, but it took awhile to make sure the units did not sustain damages before these were turned over to their buyers. FLI finally turned over 270 condominium units of their San Remo Oasis development at the South Road Properties to its owners last Saturday.
San Remo Oasis is the economic condominium cluster of FLI's Citta de Mare community at the SRP. The cluster occupies 3.4 hectares and will consist of nine five-story buildings once it is completed.
Visayas general manager Lydwena Eco told Sun.Star Cebu that these 270 units were located in Buildings 5 and 6 of the San Remo compound, with both buildings completely sold out. They also expect to fully turnover units in Buildings 4, 3 and 7 by next month.
All five buildings combined, Eco said the San Remo units have sold 95 percent of their project. They are expecting to launch Building 2 next month and complete the amenity area at around the same time.
Eco credits their attractive introductory prices and flexible payment schemes for the success of San Remo Oasis. "We are running out of inventory, but that's a good problem to have," she said.
Units range from P1.9 million to P2.5 million. They found that the easiest unit to sell is the two-bedroom.
Eco believes they have a good product, saying they have raised their price between 20 and 30 percent from its original price and yet they are still selling units.
The Citta de Mare is a 14-hectare mixed-use development. Eco said the first residents of the Citta de Mare are privileged, saying the future of Cebu City will be at the SRP. She added that the Citta de Mare is not the only good thing about living in the area, saying residents will enjoy the upcoming mall being built by SM and its other buildings being planned.
She promised a "drastic facelift" for Citta de Mare for this year, as they will also be completing their landscaping around the area. They are also in the process of completing the seaside development of the commercial area across the residential clusters.
Although they have turned over units to buyers, Eco said their showroom at the ground floor of the Grand Cenia in Archbishop Reyes Ave. is still open for those who want to see their condominium layout.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on February 28, 2014.
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Dropping birth rate seen as indicator of cultural decadence
Catholic World News - December 03, 2012
New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat argues that America's falling birth rate is not only an enormous economic problem—since a smaller number of children will bear the massive debt that the country is accumulating—but also a sign of deep cultural problems:
The retreat from child rearing is, at some level, a symptom of late-modern exhaustion — a decadence that first arose in the West but now haunts rich societies around the globe. It's a spirit that privileges the present over the future, chooses stagnation over innovation, prefers what already exists over what might be. It embraces the comforts and pleasures of modernity, while shrugging off the basic sacrifices that built our civilization in the first place.
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The UK Met Office has just released its latest 30-year climate
average. Readings show the UK's annual mean temperature calculated
over a thirty year time period has risen 0.52 degrees Celsius over
the past two decades. The data handily illustrates scientists'
explanation that long-term warming is continuing despite
temperature fluctuations over shorter timescales.
The Met Office says the biggest departure from previous years is
in the mean UK annual temperature. At 8.84 degrees Celsius, the
annual mean temperature between 1981-2010 is 0.25 degrees Celsius
higher than during the 1971-2000 period, and 0.52 degrees Celsius
warmer than it was between 1961 and 1990.
Mike Kendon of the Met Office National Climate Information
Centre says in a statement:
"At a regional level and for individual
seasons we expect variability on decadal timescales, from natural
cycles, to play a role. Nevertheless, the increases in UK annual
mean temperature are consistent with the trend in warming observed
globally over land."
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Two new research papers published today improve our
understanding of the planet's methane emissions, and might raise
worries about the role of the gas in warming the planet. The first
suggests that there may be extensive methane deposits under the
Antarctic ice sheets. Meanwhile, the second concludes that
emissions of the gas from Arctic permafrost have been
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas - accounting for around
14 per cent of the warming effect of current man made
greenhouse gas emissions. Recent research has focused on measuring
emissions from methane sources, both natural and manmade.
Antarctic methane reservoirs
Scientists have been particularly interested in methane emitted
from the Arctic. This is because the region is warming particularly
rapidly. In addition, methane released from melting
permafrost and escaping
methane hydrate deposits could exacerbate climate change.
research published today in the journal Nature suggests
for the first time that there might also be large stores of methane
at the other end of the planet, under the Antarctic ice sheet.
Plants thrived on Antarctica before the continent was covered by
ice some 35 million years ago. Lab experiments show that microbes
living beneath the ice are able to convert plant remains into
methane, and scientists calculate that half of the West Antarctic
Ice Sheet (1 million square kilometers) and a quarter of the East
Antarctic Ice Sheet (2.5 million square kilometers) could cover
carbon-rich sediments containing up to 4 billion metric tons of
methane in the form of methane hydrates. These are an ice-like
substance formed when methane and water combine.
Energy and Climate Change (ECC) Committee chair Tim Yeo has
argued that a third runway at London airport Heathrow will not lead
to extra greenhouse gas emissions due to the aviation sector's
inclusion in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) this year. Could
he be right?
Yeo was originally against the plan to increase Heathrow Airport's
capacity because he said a new runway would lead to an increase in
greenhouse gas emissions. But now, he's changed his mind.
As he wrote in a
Telegraph column this weekend, he thinks the European Union's
decision to include aircraft emissions in the overall EU emissions
cap in January means that as long as other industries continue to
cut their emissions, the UK can afford to increase its aviation
capacity. He writes:
"Even if we covered the whole of Surrey
and Berkshire in new runways it wouldn't actually lead to a single
kilogram of extra greenhouse gas emissions taking place."
Last week, a number of institutions announced that sea ice in
the Arctic had reached its lowest since satellite records began in
1979. The Danish
Meteorological Institute, the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency and the Norwegian
Arctic ROOS all announced that according to their
measurements, a record low had been reached.
These records had by and large failed to make the news until the
prominent US research group the National Snow and Ice Data Centre
reported on Monday that daily extent is now the lowest in
the satellite era. It says:
"Arctic sea ice extent fell to 4.10
million square kilometers (1.58 million square miles) on August 26,
2012. This was 70,000 square kilometers (27,000 square miles) below
the September 18, 2007 daily extent of 4.17 million square
kilometers (1.61 million square miles)."
Since it measures sea ice minimum extent over the course of the
month, NSIDC says its announcement isn't yet official. But that
didn't stop almost every major media outlet from reporting the
The media covers it
To find out what the new record low might mean for climate change,
most outlets asked scientists.
Weather in the region affects how the ice melts. Both
The Independent and
The Guardian, quoting Mark Serreze at NSIDC, report that beyond
an early storm in August, weather patterns this summer have not
been out of the ordinary, but after many years of warming "the ice
is so thin and weak now, it doesn't matter how the winds
Source: British Antarctic Survey
study published in Nature last week documents temperature
changes in the Antarctic Peninsula over the last 15,000 years - and
predicts that if recent rapid warming continues, previously stable
ice shelves could be threatened. Although the research makes no
attempt to attribute the warming effect to any one cause, it would
be hard to work that out from some of the coverage of the report
online and in the media, which has absorbed the findings into
familiar arguments about whether climate change is happening or
The ice sheet covering Antarctica is simply enormous, concealing
an entire continent and extending into the surrounding ocean as
great ice shelves. The research concentrated on documenting
temperature changes in just one part of the continent - the
Antarctic Peninsula - which has experienced
rapid warming over the last few decades.
The study's authors were, in fact, very careful to put the modern
changes observed in weather station records and satellite images
into the context of longer-term climate trends - and they report
these temperature changes without any attempt to attribute the
That hasn't stopped several outlets from imposing their own
narrative on the study. Climate skeptic IT blog
The Register claims, for example, that this latest
research proves "warming is nothing unusual", despite the paper
itself describing warming in recent decades as 'unusual'. Another
skeptic blog,
Watts Up With That, headlines its article "Antarctic peninsula
was 1.3°C warmer than today 11,000 years ago".
In contrast to the 'nothing to see here' stories, others have
inferred that the warming is human-caused.
The Australian headlines its article 'Humans partly to
blame for Antarctic ice shelf collapse: study'.
NPR, meanwhile, says 'Humans' Role In Antarctic Ice Melt Is
Unclear'. But the study doesn't discuss the causes of warming.
Photo: Dirk Ingo Franke
The Telegraph is claiming that the body that oversees
visualisations for new UK wind turbine developments has accepted
photographers are using "tricks" to make windfarms seem
smaller. We contacted the organisation, Scottish Natural Heritage
(SNH), to find out more - and it turns out that's not quite
Small, or far away?
Is that windfarm small, or is it far
away? According to the article, deciding how large something is
in comparison to the landcape is more complicated than our normal
sense of perspective might suggest.
The industry standard for wind farm visualisation involves
imposing images of the proposed wind turbines onto a panoramic
photograph taken using a 50mm lens. The Telegraph article, largely
based on the
views of Inverness-based architect Alan MacDonald, argues that
this is misleading because it makes the wind turbines appear
smaller. The article says:
"....the wider the angle and the further
away the zoom, the smaller the objects in the picture will
"In the most extreme cases a turbine can
be made to look four times smaller than the reality, according to
Mr MacDonald. Expert analysis shows that a much more accurate
picture of what people living by the wind turbine will see is using
a single frame and 75mm focal length."
The expert analysis the article refers to is MacDonald's own
assessment. His company,
Architech, creates visualisations and 3D models for planning
New research monitoring cloud cover over the world's land areas
for the last four decades agrees with previous studies indicating
that the planet's tropical climate zones are expanding, and that
consequently the atmospheric jet streams are shifting towards the
poles, altering patterns of cloud cover. But skeptic blogger
Anthony Watts claims the research provides evidence for the
unconventional suggestion that clouds are responsible for global
warming. We asked the researchers if they agree with his
paper, currently in press at the Journal of Climate, also finds
that cloud cover over land has decreased by around 0.4 per cent per
decade, due to a decline in middle and high atmosphere clouds in
the mid-latitudes - roughly between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.
The paper's authors write that their "dataset offers few
surprises": it shows similar trends to the existing record of cloud
observations that it updates. The researchers explain that the
decrease in mid-latitude cloudiness over the last four decades is
consistent with expanding tropical climate zones, adding further
weight to the evidence that the planet is warming.
But climate skeptic blogger Anthony Watts interprets the new
research differently. Watts
suggests the research bolsters a hypothesis proposed by
skeptic scientist Dr
Roy Spencerthat runs counter to mainstream scientific thinking.
claims that clouds, not greenhouse gases, are causing the
planet to warm.
We asked the paper's author Ryan Eastman,
research scientist at the University of Washington, whether he
agrees with Watts's interpretation of his research. Eastman, who
seems surprised by the attention his research has generated, says
that Watts' conclusions are "misleading".
US carbon dioxide emissions fell to a
20-year low at the beginning of 2012, partly due to lower
natural gas prices as a result of domestic production of shale gas
- a fact that hasn't
escaped the
attention of the press. But does this signify anything for the
US's ability to reduce its energy-related emissions in the future?
And what does it mean for the global picture?
The figures, which the US Energy Information Administration
released on 1st August show carbon dioxide emissions from the
US energy sector during the first quarter of 2012 (January to
March) were the lowest for that part of the year since 1992. See
the graph below:
new analysis by Clara Deser and colleagues (accepted for Nature
Climate Change), provides some fantastic visualisations of the
crucial role of natural variability in how we will experience
Essentially, Deser et al. perform 40 simulations with the same
climate model and the same radiative forcings, but only change the
initial state of the atmosphere. The only difference between the
simulations will therefore be due to chaotic and rather
unpredictable variability (the butterfly
However, the trends in the simulations over the next 50 years
can be remarkably different, with some showing little warming, and
some showing a strong warming. It must be cautioned that they only
use a single model, and other models might show different ranges of
behaviour, but there is no indication that the variability in CCSM3
- the model used - is wildly wrong.
The examples they show are for North America (Fig. 1 below) -
showing the average, warmest and coolest simulation for the U.S.
with maps of the trend in winter (DJF) temperature. The timeseries
show the maximum and minimum trends for the locations indicated,
with the histograms showing the distribution of simulated trends.
Globally, all the simulations warm by very similar amounts, but
regionally the trends are extremely diverse. Versions of the
figures for summer temperature and winter precipitation are also
shown in the paper.
Every year, sea ice in the Arctic grows and shrinks with the
seasons. But it's also affected by other things like the weather,
which play a large role in explaining changes from year to year.
This means that although Arctic sea ice is
in long-term decline, that decline isn't uniform.
In 2007, the sea ice reached a record low - and since then a lot
of attention has been paid to the summer melt season. The Arctic
gets its fair share of misleading reporting, and with such a lot of
coverage in the run up to the September sea ice minimum it can get
confusing. To address this, we'll be regularly pulling together key
points from the best coverage on Arctic summer melting.
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Will Social Security Award Me Disability if I have not been to the Doctor?
Social Security will not award disability benefits without a medical determination based upon objective medical evidence. On the other hand, Social Security does not medically deny an individual if they have not seen a doctor. Now you may be wondering, just how does Social Security go about obtaining medical evidence when an individual has not been to a doctor for their disabling impairment or impairments?
Generally, Social Security disability examiners like to base their medical determinations on medical evidence supplied by the medical treatment sources of the disabled individual.
However, if an individual has no medical evidence, or they have not been to a doctor within the last ninety days, the disability examiner is obligated to obtain current medical information prior to making their disability determination.
Toward this end, disability examiners schedule consultative examinations--physical or mental examinations performed by a physician paid by Social Security--for individuals who have not been to a doctor within the past three months (however, its not uncommon for a CE, or consultative exam, to be scheduled when the last treatment date is only 60 days out).
This may sound good to an individual who has not been able to afford medical care, however this examination is not for the purpose of medical treatment. Remember, Social Security's goal is to obtain medical information in order to ascertain if a claimant is capable of working at a level that is considered to be SGA (substantial gainful work activity).
For practical consideration, SGA is a monthly earnings limit that is increased each year by Social Security. If an individual works and earns over the set monthly amount under regular work conditions, they are considered to be working at an SGA level. If an individual is performing substantial gainful activity (SGA), their disability claim will be denied even if the individual has significant medical problems. This is because the social security administration's definition of disability rests upon the precept that a disabled individual is incapable of working and earning SGA-level wages for at least 12 months.
As you can see, medical records are a very important component of the Social Security disability process. Consultative examination doctors are hired by Social Security to perform a one-time examination that will determine an individual's eligibility for Social Security benefits. Consequently, if at all possible, individuals who are applying for Social Security should at least try to get some medical treatment (i.e. hospital visits, clinics, or doctors) prior to applying for disability.
On the face of it, it would stand to reason that you might get a more thorough examination from your doctor than a doctor hired by Social Security to perform a one-time examination. However, as a former examiner I can safely state that in most cases the results of consultative exams have little positive effect on the outcome of a case.
In other words, A) few cases are won on the basis of a report provided by a physician who has been contracted to examine or test a disability claimant and B) the best medical record documentation will be provided by a claimant's treating physician who has an established history of treatment with the claimant and is also qualified to provide a medical source statement, or RFC form (detailing the claimant's physical and/or mental limitations), on the claimant's behalf.
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Is it okay for your doctor to use Google search as part of his/her practice? Well, it has caused a furor in certain parts. There is an implied suggestion of incompetence over the process. But do you really think so? I mean if I don't know how to solve a case and try to get help, it means I am competent enough to recognize when I need help. It also shows that curing a patient is uppermost on the doctor's mind.
A recent study in Australia has actually approved of the practice in difficult cases. Using 26 difficult diagnostic cases published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors from Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital Googled three to five symptoms from each case. And guess what? There was a significant improvement in diagnosis using the search engine! Desicritics.org reports:
The controversy seems needless considering the larger trends that have been occurring in Western Medical Practice. The two trillion dollar U.S Health industry is increasingly forcing financially overburdened Americans to seek other avenues for their health procedures. The internet has opened their eyes to the possibility of affordable health care in foreign destinations, India being a particular hot spot.
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The book of Revelation contains passages of great beauty and comfort, as well as passages that strike the casual reader as bizarre, bewildering, and sometimes frightening.
How are readers today to discern God's message in this peculiar part of the Bible? Breaking the Code provides a trustworthy guide to the rich symbolism of this important biblical book.
Noted biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger presents the fruits of solid scholarship in a nonacademic style. Breaking the Code serves as a key for understanding this powerful and puzzling book from the first century of the Christian Era.
Bruce M. Metzger is George L. Collard Professor of New Testament Language and Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton Theological Seminary. He was chair of the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) translation committee and is the author of numerous books and articles.


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BMW of North America announces another limited edition M3. This summer BMW will produce 200 2013 M3 Lime Rock Park Edition Coupes, 25 cars per week for 8 weeks. The production starts in August with deliverers staring in September. Pricing will start at $70,100 plus $895 for destination and handling. The limited edition M3s are going to go fast so call your local dealership to reserve one now....
BMW Art Car Collection on Display for the London Olympicsby Tim Jones on July 06, 2012 at 10:20:22 AM
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), in partnership with BMW, the Mayor of London and the London Olympics, will take over a landmark car park in Shoreditch for two weeks only from 21 July to 4 August for a unique exhibition of the BMW Art Car Collection on show for the first time in the UK. The exhibition is part of the London 2012 Festival, a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running until 9...
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Pending items - Changed the status of remove safety copies
I have two doubts, here in my environment ALL the archived items are pending, the storage keeps growing, since the original items are not being deleted. At first the problem was (I guess) that the properties to "Remove safety copies" were at "After backup" - and I wasn't backing up anything at all
My backup solution (NetBackup) is temporarily disabled, so to test Enterprise Vault 10.0.3, I changed the status of the "Remove safety copies" to "Immediately after archive". But there was no effect, the items keep being archived in my vaults, but they are not being deleted at all.
After read this KB http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag... I noticed the following:
Important Note: When making the decision to alter the method of removing safety copies from "After backup" to "Immediately after archive" it is necessary to disable the schedule for the Task (Mailbox Archiving) or set the Task for Report Mode (Journal Archiving). This will confirm that additional items are not added to these tables. Once both of these tables are finished processing all outstanding items, it is then safe to change this functionality. If this option is changed with outstanding items in the WatchFile table, items associated with these entries will not complete the Post Process and be locked in a Pending State. This can also cause items from being able to be post processed and pending items to build up.
Ok so I have more thousands and thousand of archived items that ARE LOCKED ON PENDING STATE ? How to solve that ?
My other question is what exactly I need to backup up to archive the items correctly. I know that I need to backup up the tables, and already configured that in NetBackup, just need to run the backup. But this will solve my problem ? Backup just the SQL tables ? Or I need to backup the Vault Store Partion ?
Thanks in advance
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OK So when an item is archived it goes to two tables in the vault store database
JournalArchive and WatchFile
JournalArchive will list each item and has a column for BackupComplete and IndexCommitted
WatchFile lists the exact location of each DVS file awaiting backup
When Storage starts or comes in and out of backup mode, it lists all items in the JournalArchive table that have backup complete 0, it then links it to the watchfile table
StorageFileWatch process then goes and examines each of those items listed in the watchfile to determine whether the Archive Bit has been removed, if the archive bit no longer exists, then the item is considered backed up, the record is then deleted from WatchFile table and BackupComplete is set to 1 in the JournalArchive table.
If you are on storage such as CIFS or NetApp that do not support Archive Bits, you can use the Secured Notification file or the IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt file, that sits in the root of the Vault Store Partition, StorageFileWatch looks at the *CREATED* Date of the file, and any files older than the IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt are counted as being backed up
Also depending on how your vault store sharing is set up, you may find that a shared part of an email in another vault store partition hasn't been backed up, and that is why its saying the email hasn't been backed up.
Note that changing Immediately After Archive and After Backup are for items going forward, they do not work retroactively on items already in the watchfile table
You have two choices:
1. Set the Vault Store Partitions to use a trigger file and place in the IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt
2. Cancel Pending all the items, switch the vault store to immediately after archive, rearchive the items (This will not cause duplciates)
You can read more about the trigger file here:
Also i wrote an article about changes to backup procedures in EV8 that covers this in more depth:
Thanks for the fast reply JesusWept3
Ok I did the following:
1. Set the Vault Store partitions to use a trigger file and created the IgnoreArchiveBitTrigger.txt on each Vault Partion folder root
2. Cancel Pending all the items using the following method:
- Select Report mode and the mailbox or mailboxes against which you wish to run the PendingShortcutTimeout functionality.
3. Restarted the Storage Service.
What I need to do now ? Guess I should run some task or something like that...
Sorry i should have been clearer about that, that should have been an either/or situation, not both combined
Simply changing the backup strategy to immediately after archive, telling it to look for the trigger file, creating the file and then restarting storage should have been enough
Performing a cancel pending will reset all those items from Pending shortcuts to regular emails again, you will have to let archiving go back out and archive those items again, turning it in to a pending item, and then it will be post processed and turned in to a shortcut.
In a production environment though, you may want to consider making sure netbackup is correctly configured to remove the archive bit and not doing immediately after archive as that does introduce the possiblility of data loss.
So for instance if you have a succesful backup at 1am, and then 9am users come in, they then archive a bunch of items and your EV Storage then goes down, you can succesfully restore items from the 1am backup, but now you have shortcuts in peoples mailboxes that don't exist on the storage anymore.
You would have to pull from an exchange backup from the night before to get those items back.
And thats only if the user didn't archive something they received that morning, so if it was received at 8am and archived at the same time, then ev storage went down, you wouldn't have a record of it on EV backups, nor would you have it on exchange backups and your only hope would be that the item exists in the Exchange Transaction logs
Ok, so lets clear this and possibly mark as a solved problem.
If I run the task for Archive and Shortcut in the Exchange Server that I want, with the trigger file and all that things that we commented earlier ok, the space occupied on Exchange will fall ? My items will be archived ? Even those items that were pending will be deleted in the Exchange ? Not only the new ones ?
OK So ....
1. If you're backup strategy on the vault store is set to "Immediately After Archive" then you don't need to use the trigger file to make items to go from pending to shortcuts immediately.
2. If you did a cancel pending on all the shortcuts, they will have reverted to regular email, you just have to do a Run Now against the mailbox, archive only is fine, you don't need to shortcut processing. Once those items have been archived they will turn in to a shortcut immediately
3. If you are using the trigger file and your vault store is set to After Backup, then you would perform your archiving run, create the trigger file and then either restart storage or go in and out of backup mode
4. Your exchange databases will not automatically shrink, most space saved in Exchange will remain as white space, you will have to do maintainance, offline maintanance will reclaim the most space... that being said, Exchange will just re-use the white space that exists, so shrinking the EDB's isn't necessarily a good thing as you will save stress on your disks by not having to keep growing the EDB files
Also if you are using Exchange 2010, make sure you are on the latest service packs and hotfixes that the EV compatibility supports for your version of EV, as when Exchange 2010 first came out, there were a lot of issues around space not being freed up by exchange and there was a lot of back and forth between symc and msft about why exactly this was.
I believe those issues have all been fixed.
At the very least you should see the majority of the mailboxes reported sizes drop.
But bare in mind, the space savings you will commonly see will be from items with attachments, a simple message saying "Hello" will be a bigger shortcut than the message originally was (since a lot of EV attributes are added, you may also have a banner saying the message was archived etc)
And lastly as far as space savings go, typically the biggest folders in most peoples mailboxes are the calendars, make sure to look at the policies to see if stripping the attachments and replacing them with links will work better if you haven't looked at or considered this already
Ok, so If I check the disk properties on Exchange I won't see any difference ?
How do I know that Enterprise Vault is really working ?
Here is a printscreen of the environment, is that right ? (ps.: Most of the critical status are backups)
Could you please answer my question about NetBackup too ? That one with the printscreen
How can you tell if EV is really working?
Well you can use the Usage.asp reports to show how many items are being archived and how big the archive is, so if you see you have a 1.4GB archive but the mailbox is 200MB, then you can safely assume that EV has saved you 900MB from exchange.
But the white space and maintanance would be an issue with or without Enterprise Vault, as a deletion from the users mailbox will not immediately free up any space.
As for the screenshot, the immediately after archive is ok as long as you accept the risks associated with it, the trigger file is ok if your backup software can't remove the archive bit from the files or you are on a file system that does not support the archive bit attribute
For your NBU questions, if you haven't added the vault store partitions you will need to add them. Unless you are using the NBU EV Agent, which it doesn't seem like you are.
Thanks for the replies guys
TonySterling: How can I add de NBU EV Agent to the EV server ? I thought that the usual Agent was the right one. Besides the databases, I must backup the Vault Partitions to EV understand that I'm backing up everything or just the tables ?
JesusWept3: Sorry but I didn't understand you calculus... where I can see this report that you are saying ? You mean the Mail Archiving task report ?
I believe you would have to purchase the EV Agent and install it. You need to back up the databases, vault store partitions, and Indexes locations.
TonySterling: Got it! Thanks!
JesusWept3: Lets try an example
Here is one line of the report that you said:
Total Item / Total Size(MB)
This is total of the archive of this user right ? If I look on his mailbox, what kind of impact I must see ? I mean, not all items are archived, since the policy just stores mails with one year or older - so it is an incomplete view...
The impact is on the mailboxes, is that right ?
I re-ran all the checks and I still got this message:
It is more than 2 days since backup or replication was detected for one or more open partitions.
Open partitions with unsecured items scanned: 1
Total open partitions: 2
List of partitions:
Mail Archiving Ptn4
Items in mailboxes will remain in an archive-pending state.
What kind of impact will you see?
Depends on what kind of items they are, whether they had attachments or not, how the shortcuts are set, are you limiting it to a number of characters, are you putting in the banner? are you telling it to leave the shortcut intact etc
So in the situation you are in right now, if you have 20,000 items archived totally 2.8GB but the items remain pending, then most likely the mailbox won't be any smaller until the post processing is done and they're turned from pending items in to shortcuts.
But once that does happen, you should hopefully see a major shift.
I believe the average size of a shortcut is about 4kb in size
1. You have 20,494 Items
2. Your archive is 2,866MB (2,934,784KB) in Size
3. Average Item Size is 143.20KB (2,934,784 / 20,494)
3. Average Shortcut size is 4KB
4. Shortcuts should take up 80.05MB (81,976KB)
5. Space savings should be 2,785.94MB (2,852,808KB)
Got it! Thanks!
Any suggestions for the problem of the items still being pending ?
It is more than 2 days since backup or replication was detected for one or more open partitions.
Open partitions with unsecured items scanned: 1
Total open partitions: 2
List of partitions:
Mail Archiving Ptn4
Items in mailboxes will remain in an archive-pending state.
Perhaps I missed it, but are you setting/clearing backup mode on the stores? Are you using the powershell commands to do so? Are you perhaps setting the backupmode on the site-level? Can you try to set it on VaultStore level? Are you using the triggerfile, or is your backup software able to change the attribute?
If using triggerfile, are you writing a NEW one after backup, then clearing backup mode?
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ALBANY, Ga. -- Personal hygiene is usually something taken for granted. Brush the teeth, wash up and apply deodorant.
Perhaps thinking of what the heat wave was doing to his aroma, a burglar smashed a glass door at an Albany Dollar Store and stole deodorant and toothpaste at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday, an Albany Police Department report stated.
"An unknown black male walked in front of the business, picked up a brick and then threw it into the front glass doors," APD spokeswoman Phyllis Banks said. "He entered the store and proceeded to take toothpaste and deodorant. He placed the items inside a plastic bag and ran from the scene."
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Develop and implement a business plan that maximizes revenue sources and ensures transparent resource allocation in support of College priorities and needs.
As a "one of a kind" public Ivy, William & Mary no longer has the financial resources to maintain our current excellence, much less move in the directions charted by our strategic plan. We are doing better than the vast majority of other colleges and universities. But we are not doing well enough. This century will belong to the schools that either already have or can build sustainable financial foundations. We need to build ours.
Over the last generation, taxpayer support for William & Mary has declined from 43% of our operating budget to 13% this fiscal year. This trend is not likely to reverse, given the enormous demands on state revenue going forward.
Among all the things William & Mary must accomplish soon by far the most important is to rebuild our financial foundation, taking into account the decline in state support that has occurred over a generation and the enormous demands that are now being made on very finite state resources. While William & Mary greatly appreciates any support the state provides us, we recognize that the College must largely fund itself going forward. This we can do by combining campus productivity gains with growing philanthropic support and more earned income from students who benefit from the extraordinary education William & Mary provides (coupled with need-based aid for those students who qualify for it).
In other words, we all have to do our part – faculty and staff through productivity gains on campus, alumni and friends through philanthropy, and students and parents through tuition. No group can stand on the sidelines expecting the others to carry the ball alone. It takes us all, pulling together, to build a sustainable financial foundation for William & Mary in this century. And it is crucial that faculty and staff, alumni and friends, as well as students and their families be confident they are not pulling alone.
In short, we intend to build a financial foundation resting on the four Ps:
- Performance. Outstanding results worthy of support
- Productivity. Innovation, greater efficiency and growing streams of earned income (tuition and fees, research grants and contracts, and entrepreneurial leveraging of our strengths to generate new sources of revenue)
- Philanthropy. Greatly enhanced philanthropy (annual giving, endowment, funds for bricks and mortar); and
- Public support. Continued support of operations and capital projects by the state, with flexibility to take advantage of William & Mary's unique strengths, building on the principles of the restructuring legislation.
Last April the Board of Visitors took steps vitally needed to move forward in securing a future for the College worthy of our storied past. The steps evolved over several years through our strategic planning process. Taken together these steps will significantly expand revenues and allow us to allocate funds to the highest priorities established in our strategic plan.
The plan, known as "the William & Mary Promise" significantly raises in-state tuition phased over three years, but does so in ways that hold tuition increases for in-state students already on campus in April 2013 to the rate of inflation for the rest of their four years at William & Mary, guarantees the freshman-year tuition rate for each of the four undergraduate years for in-state students not yet enrolled, and materially increases need-based financial aid for in-state students up through the middle class, reducing the net cost for these families. For FY14, we held tuition increases for out-of-state students to 3 percent, the lowest percentage in over a decade. The overall result is a meaningful increase in earned income for the university.
Here are the basic elements of the Promise.
- Tuition for incoming in-state students will be increased in three steps beginning in FY14, but each entering class is guaranteed that students will pay the exact same tuition for four years. Those step increases have already been announced, so incoming students and their families will be able to make informed decisions.
- Tuition for in-state students enrolled in FY13 will increase at no more than the rate of inflation through FY17.
- We are significantly increasing grant aid. For incoming freshmen, the plan provides a lower "net price" for all low- and middle-income Virginia families who qualify for need-based financial aid.
- We will enroll an additional 150 in-state students phased in over a four-year period, and they, when added to the additional 150 students we began phasing in with our fall 2011 class, will result in 300 additional students from Virginia – or an 8% increase in the size of the in-state student body as compared to its size in fall 2010). Along with these additional in-state students, we will enroll 100 out-of-state students during this same 7-year period.
- Over a five-year period we will raise faculty salaries to the 60th percentile of their SCHEV peer-group, and staff salaries will be competitive.
- We will increase academic innovation by recognizing all aspects of faculty teaching, fully integrating non-tenure eligible faculty into the life of the university, and developing policies for appropriate balances between the dual responsibilities of the faculty as scholars and teachers.
- We will increase business innovation, including an external review of business operations beginning in FY14.
- We will continue to expand philanthropy efforts. FY13 was the most successful year for private giving in the university's 320-year history. We raised $104.2 million in cash, pledges and estate commitments. More than 31,000 donors contributed. Among them were 18,552 alumni, including 14,368 undergraduate alumni, or 23.9 percent of the overall undergraduate alumni body. We have a goal of 40 percent participation by 2020, which would place us fourth behind Princeton, Dartmouth and Notre Dame.
"The William & Mary Promise" embraces the reality that we are all in this together. The Promise hinges on all members of the William & Mary family doing their share – faculty and staff through productivity gains on campus, students and parents through more tuition to help pay what it costs to provide a William & Mary education, alumni, parents and friends through philanthropic support of the university, and the Commonwealth through whatever funds it can provide. No group is asked to pull the load alone. Fulfillment of the various elements of the Promise will be tracked along with other elements of this FY15-FY19 strategic plan.
Goal 1
Increase revenue and allocate resources consistent with institutional needs and priorities.
- Implement the W&M Promise as approved by the Board of Visitors in April 2013 and propose future adjustments as needed.
- Build an even stronger culture of philanthropy through investment in development and coordination across campus.
- Achieve an undergraduate alumni giving participation rate of 40 percent by 2020.
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Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of operations and identify opportunities for revenue generation or cost savings across the institution.
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When you are 80-years-old, what will matter to you the most?
by Jonathan Hilton Day 24
Life once looked to me like a straight road, a path to a predetermined end that was so simple to follow that it would be as simple as playing a board game.
Put your marker at the start, take your turns and see if you can get to the finish before anybody else. Life did not play out that way for me, does it for anybody?
I know enough to know that I do not know that I don't know anything about what life might be like in a year from now, let alone in thirty four years from now.
I can only take a blind guess at what I hope will matter to me if I am fortunate enough to join the ranks of the octogenarians.
I Will Have to Move It, Move It
I am going to be happy that I have my physical freedom. At 80 the machinery will be a bit worn out but it will all still work to propel me to whatever task I set before me.
Even though it takes a bit longer to get where I am going, I will still get there. There will be some aches and pains, even the best antique vehicle needs a bit of tender loving care, but that will not stop me.
It will matter to me that I am still an active participant in life, meeting with people and sharing stories, and still contributing to the lives of others around the world.
Being active is not the most important thing in life, but I think it is one of the things that allows me to be a participant rather than just an observer of life.
Still Writing after all These Years
Writing will still matter and still be a significant part of my life. I imagine there will be a bit more of an urgency to get all of my thoughts collected for posterity's sake, before the clock runs out. I am not sure what I will be writing about then, because really I am not
sure what I will write about today until I do it, yet it does get done. There are an infinite number of thoughts, topics and interesting tidbits that need to be explored, discussed and thought about. Do my thoughts really matter?
They do to me and that is all that really counts. By the time I am 80 there will be so many different thoughts that I have recorded that I may have forgotten all of them.
I know this will happen because it already does. Writing will definitely still be important to me.
Sit a Spell, Tell Me About It
The way that we interact with each other is going to be more important to me when I am 80 than it is today. I know it will matter to me because so many people have already made an impact on my life, some will never know the permanent marks they left on my heart, mind and soul.
Yet those marks will be there none the less and I do not think that the next thirty years are going to be filled with any less interaction, in fact I am seeking much, much more. Relationships of a personal nature are the way that we connect directly with other people and share our thoughts and accept the thoughts of others.
It may be the most important thing or just one of several, but to share what you know, think and feel with others and to be well received is a great gift. It may even fool you into thinking that you know something about life. I am sure that life will still have a twisted sense of humor when I am 80 as it did when I was 40 or 30 or 10.
The World Will Matter Then As It Does Now
Even if I make it to the ripe old age of 80, I think the thing that will matter to me most is what I can contribute to the happiness of others.
Can I help someone through a difficult moment by letting them know that no matter how dark the sky is and how the storm howls there will be an ending to the storm and the sun will come out again.
No bad time lasts forever, although that is little consolation for the people going through them. Eventually circumstances change as they must and all things even tough times come to their inevitable conclusion.
The hope that all pain and despair can have an ending eventually is a message that I not only want to share but feel compelled to print. Almost everything that I write is around this message, mostly subconsciously, but I have seen the dark, dark night and had no light to mark the dawn. It will mean the most to me to mark the dawn for all those who are looking for a sign of hope. You matter now and you will matter then. We are all connected after all and you are only as alone and isolated as you choose to be.
There is an understanding that we see in aging for many people that there is a gentle failing of the power of youth, that fades over time, and the physical promise of a young person is slowly but inevitably replaced with a spiritual understanding about life and its fragility.
When I am 80 I imagine I will understand this dance, look back and see the errors of my ways and see the foolishness involved in getting upset about it all, when all things were working as they should or could.
When you are 80-years-old, what will matter to you the most?
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Small form factor personal computers were well represented at CES 2013, so the fact that Xi3 Company has one in the pipeline isn't as hard to believe as it would otherwise have been.
The name of the IT player's system is Z3RO Pro Computer, and the reason it qualifies as a mini PC is the size of 1.875 x 4.875 x 3.625 inches. That's about the same as 47 x 124 x 92 millimeters.
Obviously, that small case, as small as a normal paperback book, won't allow for very powerful hardware.
Still, Xi3 promises that, when the Z3RO Pro Computer goes up for sale in the second quarter (April-June 2013), it will have a dual-core, 64-bit dual-core x86 central processing unit, running at 1.65 GHz and featuring 2 MB of L2 cache, plus an integrated graphics chip with 80 shaders.
The hardware that will accompany said CPU will consist of 4 GB of DDR3 random access memory (RAM) and a solid state drive of 16 GB to 1 TB.
Obviously, the storage drive will determine how much higher than $399 / 299-399 Euro the price climbs.
Other specs mentioned in the Xi3 press release include four eSATA ports, a Gigabit Ethernet connector, and two display ports: HDMI/DisplayPort v1.2 and a mini-Displayport 1.2 output.
"The Z3RO Pro Computer is the ideal size for the ultimate in small form factor x86-based general computing," said Jason A. Sullivan , founder, President and CEO.
"In this post-PC era, it's clear that there's no reason to buy a tower or mini-tower computer ever again. Not only does the Z3RO Pro Computer help round out the Xi3 product line, it also marks the end of desktop computing as we've known it."
Z3RO Pro Computer is intended for general use in homes and offices, but it can become a good home theater and digital signage solution as well.
Its total power draw is of 14 watts and the default operating system is openSUSE Linux v11.2, but. Windows (up to Windows 8) and other UNIX and Linux OS'es are supported too, though.


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