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5|25: Celebrating Five Years of Autism Science Day 1: New AAP Policy and Guidelines
In honor of the anniversary of Autism Speaks' founding on Feb 25, for the next 25 days we will be sharing stories about the many significant scientific advances that have occurred during our first five years together. Our first item, New AAP Policy and Guidelines, is from Autism Speaks' Top 10 Autism Research Events of 2007.
After years of parents urging for earlier diagnosis and better treatments, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued two new clinical reports in October 2007 that will help pediatricians recognize autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) earlier and guide families to effective interventions.
The first report provides detailed information on signs and symptoms so that pediatricians can recognize and assess ASDs in their patients. More specifically, the report introduces universal screening, which means pediatricians must now conduct formal ASD screening on all children at 18 and 24 months regardless of whether there are any concerns. The second report reviews educational strategies and associated therapies, which are the cornerstones of treatment for ASDs, and confirms that early intervention is crucial for effective treatment. The report states that a child diagnosed with autism should be actively engaged in intensive intervention at least 25 hours per week, 12 months per year, with a low student-to-teacher ratio allowing for sufficient one-on-one time. The report further states the importance for pediatricians to become knowledgeable about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies, ask families about current and past CAM use, and provide balanced treatment information.
The new guidelines will hopefully assure that at-risk children are finally appropriately referred without further delay. Both reports are part of a new AAP toolkit for pediatricians "AUTISM: Caring for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Resource Toolkit for Clinicians," which includes screening and surveillance tools, guideline summary charts, management checklists, developmental checklists, developmental growth charts, early intervention referral forms and tools, sample letters to insurance companies and family handouts.
Update since this story was first run: To respond to the AAP recommendations for evaluation by primary care providers of 18 and 24 months olds with suspected ASDs, in 2009 members of Autism Speaks' High Risk Baby Siblings Research Consortium (BSRC) published an article in Pediatrics outlining several early signs of autism that physicians and other health care providers should be aware of. The paper also identifies potential screening tools that may be used to detect early behavioral indicators. Importantly, the authors address the challenges that primary care providers face in communicating the meaning of these early signs and symptoms.


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Pharmaceutical manufacturers regard common regulatory policies as key to facilitating access to foreign markets, to patients from other regions for clinical trials, and to lower cost suppliers and operational support, observed Peter Honig, vice-president global regulatory affairs at AstraZeneca. Honig noted the importance of standards in reducing the cost and time of drug development in a February workshop organized by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation (1). In recent years, IOM has examined clinical trial operations and development of medical countermeasures, new treatments for tuberculosis, and drug-diagnostic combinations. This gathering of regulatory authorities and industry leaders from around the world sought to take a fresh look at international regulatory issues in the face of uncertainty about the future of the ICH standards-setting process, concerns about the growing cost of new drug development, and alarm over the increase in substandard medical products in all regions.
In addition to highlighting problems created by divergent clinical research and data requirements, participants emphasized the need for common technical standards to ensure drug quality, reduce redundant manufacturing plant inspections, and help regulators detect substandard products and ensure the integrity of increasingly long supply chains. Individual countries differ in how they implement ICH quality standards, adding specifications and content to the common dossier format for submitting chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) information, reported Diane Zezza, vice-president and global head for regulatory CMC at Novartis, in summarizing concerns related to manufacturing standards and processes. And postapproval changes are even more divergent in terms of data requirements and timing of filings, a situation that can inhibit continuous improvement efforts.

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News 12 at 6 o'clock / Monday, Nov. 12, 2012
EVANS, Ga. -- For Georgia high school seniors, a large part of their grade is their senior project. Many local students are using the homework as an opportunity to help the community.
One senior project is helping veterans with a charity softball game.
Senior Lee Bellmer is back at Lakeside High School after a successful day combined with homework and helping others. For Bellmer's senior project, he wanted to focus on a cause near and dear to his family.
"We kind of got on the topic of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder because that's what my grandfather suffers from from being a veteran from Vietnam," Bellmer said.
He decided the fun part of his project would be a Celebrity vs. Faculty Charity Softball Game. Proceeds are going to help veterans at the VA's Fisher House.
"We raised over $850 for the Fisher House, so I was very pleased with the turnout," Bellmer said. "I'm very honored to do it all because it's such a great cause and I'm just glad I could help out."
And Bellmer isn't the only teenager getting out of the classroom and giving back.
English teacher Michelle Collins says it's becoming the popular thing to do.
"It seems lately that more seniors are wanting to do something to help out in the community. The senior project gives them the creative outlet to be able to do some interesting volunteer work. It provides the opportunity to do something a little bit different to be creative with how they want to give back," Collins said.
Beauty pageants, blood drives and benefit concerts are all ways students are getting involved.
"It's a great learning experience, outside of the classroom," Collins said.
Soon, these seniors will be graduating, leaving a new class of students and philanthropists.
"A lot of people think the seniors want to take the easy way out, but a lot of times, their first thought is, 'What can I do as a volunteer project or to give back?'" Collins said.
"I just wanted to be able to benefit everybody I could and help out as many ways as I possibly could," Bellmer said.
The senior project is 15 hours of work and can be a variety of things, including a job shadow or event. The point is to get the students away from bookwork and into the community or involved in a career path. It's also a percentage of their grade.
By the way, the faculty beat the "celebrities" 13 to 10.


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Today and Wednesday's Sports Calendar
Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 10:18 a.m.
Donaldsonville at Vandebilt Catholic, 6 p.m.
Central Lafourche at Lutcher, 6:30 p.m.
Houma Christian at E.D. White Catholic, 7 p.m.
South Terrebonne at Terrebonne, 7 p.m.
South Terrebonne at Central Lafourche, 6 p.m.
Hahnville at Ellender, 6 p.m.
Houma Christian at E.D. White Catholic, 6 p.m.
Assumption at Thibodaux, 7 p.m.
Mt. Carmel at South Lafourche, 7 p.m.
St. James at Northshore, 7 p.m.
John Curtis at Vandebilt Catholic.
Terrebonne at New Iberia, 7 p.m.
Houma Christian at Ellender, 6 p.m.
Thibodaux at Central Lafourche, 7 p.m.
South Lafourche at H.L. Bourgeois, 7 p.m.
E.D. White Catholic at Cabrini, 4 p.m.
Terrebonne at New Iberia, 5 p.m.
South Lafourche at H.L. Bourgeois, 5 p.m.
Thibodaux at Central Lafourche, 5 p.m.
Destrehan at Vandebilt Catholic, 6 p.m.
Chattanooga at LSU, 8:30 p.m. (TV: CST)
Wizards at Hornets, 7 p.m. (Radio: 640-AM, 1490-AM; TV: FSNO)
Destrehan at Terrebonne, 6 p.m.
South Terrebonne at H.L. Bourgeois, 6 p.m.
E.D. White Catholic at Hanson Holiday Classic.
Nicholls State at New Orleans, 7 p.m.
Hornets at Thunder, 7 p.m. (Radio: 640-AM, 1490-AM; TV: FSNO)
Today. The Cajun Youth Athletic Association is currently holding registration for its upcoming Cal Ripken Baseball and Babe Ruth Baseball leagues. Registration for the Houma-based leagues ends on Dec. 31. Ages are 9 to 12 years old for the Cal Ripken League and 13 to 15 years old for the Babe Ruth League. The cost is $60 per player for the Babe Ruth League and $50 per player for the Cal Ripken League. For information, call president Roy Himel at 791-9803, secretary Tracy Bourg at 232-3329, Cal Ripken League director Shawn Chiasson at 637-4727 or Babe Ruth League director Aaron Dazee at 709-3131.
Today. The Louisiana Baseball Academy is hosting winter pitching workouts until Jan. 18. The workouts will be held at the LBA Indoor Facility, which is located at 3007 West Park Avenue in Gray. The workouts, which will help strengthen and develop skills in young pitchers, will be held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with the first sessions lasting from 5-7 p.m. and the late sessions from 7-9 p.m. The cost is $300 for the 18-day workout, which is less than $17 per two-hour session. Space is limited, and LBA is accepting on 16 players per session. For information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the website at www.lbabaseball.com.
Today. Terrebonne Parish Recreation will hold registration for its boys and girls youth basketball leagues until Dec. 21. Registration is being held for 5-6 year old boys and girls basketball leagues and 13-14 year old boys and girls basketball leagues at all gyms from Monday through Thursday. The gyms will host registration from 5-8 p.m. each day. Registration will also be held at the TPR office at 876 Verret Street in Houma from Monday through Dec. 21. There is a fee and birth certificates must be provided at registration. For information, call 873-6584.
Friday. The HTV-10 Thibodaux Lions Club River vs. Bayou All-Star Showdown is set for 7 p.m. on Friday at Nicholls State's John L. Guidry Stadium in Thibodaux. All-star senior football players from Assumption, Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes (Bayou Team) will play all-star senior football players from St. Charles, St. John and St. James parishes (River Team). The Bayou Team head coach will be Terrebonne's Gary Hill, while the River Team's head coach will be Hahnville High assistant coach John Lambert. The River Team claimed a 16-14 win over the Bayou Team in last year's showdown.
Saturday. Terrebonne High's volleyball team will host a clinic for kids ages 13-and-under on Saturday. The clinic will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Terrebonne's girls gym. The cost is $25. The clinic will focus on basic fundamentals in passing, setting, hitting and serving techinques. For information, call Terrebonne girls volleyball coach Craig Hamner at 688-5225.
Dec. 27-28. The Southland Hogs travel team will be hosting a baseball camp at the Houma Air Base youth complex on Dec. 27-28. The camp will cover training for all positions such as hitting, pitching, base running and conditioning. The registration fee is $20 for ages 6-18. Registration starts at 8 a.m. Dec. 27, and the camp will last from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Feb. 8. The annual E.D. White Catholic Cardinal alumni prayer breakfast will be held from 7 to 8 a.m. Feb. 8 at the Envie banquet room in Thibodaux. The cost is $12 per person and Nicholls State head baseball coach Seth Thibodeaux will be the guest speaker. Those interested are asked to respond with payment to the E.D. White Alumni Association at 555 Cardinal Drive, Thibodaux La,, 70301, by Feb. 1.
Jan. 5-6. The Southland Hogs travel baseball team have tryouts for its 2013 12U travel team on Jan. 5-6 at the Houma Air Base youth complex. The tryouts will be held from noon to 3 p.m. each day, and players must be age 12 on or after May 1, 2013. For information, contact Lanc Crochet at email@example.com or visit the Hogs' website at www.southlandhogsbaseball.com.
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Oh dear. After the debacle with Microsoft Poland's apparent racist photoshopping, Microsoft China went and got the company in hot water for allegedly "stealing" code. Yes you read that right: Microsoft and wholesale "theft" of code from another website. Of course it's not "theft" it's copyright infringement but tomayto/tomarto. Microsoft confessed blaming a vendor they had worked with. No surprise really but the damage to their name may have already been done. There's more to discuss here than Microsoft's already tarnished reputation though. The issue raises some important points in favour of free software and points to why more if not all code should benefit from free licencing.
Inspired web coding
Richard Stallman started the FSF and the GNU project while lamenting the culture of learning from shared code he had experienced. Unlike desktop and server software development, the web has long been a hotbed of learning by observing. Since it's earliest days, web programmers have always looked at the HTML, CSS and client-side scripts behind various websites. Mostly this will have been done for inspiration. I have little doubt that sometimes code has been wholesale lifted from other sites. Anyone who used the web in the mid to late 90s will remember the ubiquitous JavaScript rippling-water effect and when JavaScript-based hover images first appeared. Similarly the propagation of CSS probably owes as much to the accessibility of the files as it does to the structure of the language. I would imagine that many a web-developer has increased their knowledge "in the field" by simply browsing sites and viewing the source code. This is a well-known and oft-exploited side-effect of mark-up and client-side scripting languages. The source is sent in plain text and can thus be read by anybody viewing the resulting webpages.
In this instance it appears Microsoft China viewed the JavaScript source code behind the Canadian Plurk micro-blogging service. Plurk (who claim to be "Asia's leading micro blogging service") give examples of their code and the code behind Microsoft's own micro blogging service ("Juku") and by my reading it does seem that Microsoft China use code that is remarkably similar if not identical to the Plurk code. But whether Microsoft have "stolen" this code or not is not what interested me about this story -- although I will admit there was a certain delicious irony about it. I was interested in what it had to say about code licencing on the web.
Most webpages produce HTML that is covered by standard copyright. No licence is given or indicated. Thus you the user are not given any indication about how you may use the code if at all - in which case you must assume that you cannot copy it. However there's nothing to stop you looking at the code and working out how something was done and then reproducing a similar situation on your site. As said above (and partly because of the nature of HTML and mark-up coding) this situation has traditionally led to unspoken code sharing between websites. This is fine for code within the page-source itself but scripts that are referenced from the main page are slightly different and require more effort to be "inspired" by. To view them you need to examine the HTML source and grab the URI of the script. Then you can get that and examine it. As said I imagine there is many a web-developer who has built-up their skills by examining others' scripts. What usually does not happen though is somebody copying the look and feel of a site (phishers excepted) as nobody wants their site to be exactly like another one. In this case it would seem that Microsoft China left the look and feel the same and it was probably this which brought the matter to Plurk's attention.
Ambiguous licencing and authorship leads to confusion, replication and accusations of subverted code
The problem is that this culture has created a grey area where the original developer has not included any terms of use or re-use in their scripts. Often you will see just the code and that's it - not even a copyright notice. Examining such code, you have no idea whether it is original work, inspired or just plain ripped from another site. The law would say that a copyright alone (with or without a notice) will mean you can look but not touch but there's a reason why nobody has been prosecuted of "stealing" HTML code (that I am aware of). The practicalities of it are that if there is a good chance the code you are looking at is a combination of original, mash-up, inspiration and even the odd ripping then does the owner of the site have the right to restrict you from doing the same. With a mark-up language there are also fewer ways to achieve the same result so it's entirely likely that two developers can develop almost identical code independently of each other. The truth is that ambiguous licencing and authorship leads to confusion, replication and in extreme cases, accusations of subverted code.
But all of these things only matter if web-coders are precious about their code. If the Plurk code had clearly indicated it was covered by say the GPL or AGPL then anybody looking at it would have been able to re-use the code as they saw fit as long as they referenced back to Plurk. Plurk get the credit, web-coders learn their trade and the users get better sites. Please note that I am talking about client-side scripts and mark-up code here not server-based PHP scripts and the like. That said I believe that it is the service not the code that the users will value more and releasing the code under a free licence (such as the AGPL) will not change the popularity of the site based upon it.
Avoiding the mess in the first place
If code is freely accessible, people will use it. Rather than get precious about the code, web developers should free it up.
What I am trying and probably failing to say is that this debacle would have been avoided had the Plurk code been free and clearly indicated as such. If code is freely accessible, people will use it. Perhaps this is a bad analogy but I recall Nike made a brand of training shoe that you could customise by having them put whatever text you wanted on it. Somebody asked them to put "slave-trade" on and they refused. If you open things up to the people you will have a hard job controlling how they use them. In the case of a shoe you might not want to take that risk but with web-code there's less risk to you personally if somebody uses code and/or techniques on their site. It's a different matter if they copy your logo and images etc in an attempt to replicate your site (for whatever reason) but really if your service isn't up to it people will leave. Yes the marketing budget of somebody like Microsoft gives them an unfair edge but stopping them using your code won't stop them producing a competing site. When it comes to client-side web code, it will always be accessible and thus you will always have a hard job controlling how (or whether) people use it. Rather than get precious about the code, web developers should free it up.
Code cannot be stolen. It's a breach of copyright, not theft
The free software and creative commons movements have long shown that people are quite happy to attribute their sources and really the days when the source code itself (as opposed to the effort and skill of writing it) was a source of income are numbered. I can think of no other reason why a developer would be precious about their code other than they think the source code itself is of value and by allowing others to "abuse" it they are "losing out". That argument works if somebody is stealing your pencils but if you are worried about people "stealing" your code - don't leave it out in the open. Again I will state that code cannot be stolen. It's a breach of copyright, not theft. A much better solution is to leave it in the open with a note saying "If you use this, please tell others where you got it and don't stop them from sharing it either".
StatusNet show how it should work
As a direct response to the Microsoft story breaking in the news channels -- StatusNet (formerly Laconi.ca) the people behind the popular Identi.ca free software micro-blogging software and service (which I have mentioned before) posted a blog asking Microsoft to take their code. In that post StatusNet founder Evan Prodromou said:
"We wanted those developers, as well as their clients at Microsoft, to know that we're more than happy to let them copy our code. StatusNet is available for download to everyone, with all source (server and client side) available for free.
You can get your Juku service running again quickly using StatusNet. (We even have a Chinese translation!) Please feel free to contact us; we'll be happy to help you out."
I'm not defending Microsoft. There's an hypocrisy of ripping off code when you bleat on about piracy so much -- particularly in China. Even if they do choose to blame someone else, the buck must stop with them but the problem will not go away because one company -- even the biggest one -- is shamed into admitting they breached copyright. This particular problem will only go away when the shared learning and advancement on the web is continued to its natural conclusion.
Free the code and the rest will follow.
Real world parallels...
Articles such as the above, always bring to my mind one particular court case I read about and which still sticks in my craw (original story here- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10329965&pnum=1, summarisation here- http://www.artbash.co.nz/article.asp?id=1009), and although the case itself does not involve software or the like, it does involve intellectual property and the public viewing of such. Whilst most of us in the technological world are smart enough to know and realise that someone else's work is "someone else's" intellectual property, and that its creator has the enviable right to determine the ensuant use of the property once it becomes public (and this concept is after all, the basis of a Copyright Act), others deem to perceive differently. Okay, many, many people just ignore intellectual property, and plagiarise and copy to their hearts content, but to have such acts sanctioned by a dim-witted, technology-illiterate lawyer behind a bench?
Not sure I see the parallel
Hmm are you saying that the Web is not part of the "real world"? Do different laws apply here then? If so why? I dislike the term Intellectual Property because its definition is so fluid. IANAL but that strikes me as a dangerous thing.
Anyway if a sculpture is in a - outdoor - public place, does the artist or anybody else have any rights over use of photographs containing it? I would say not. No more than say the architects have over images of buildings they have designed on tourist apparel anyway.
But that aside I'm not sure I see too many parallels here. What I am talking about is studying and mimicking HTML code to see how something was done not placing a screenshot of the original site as the main content of yours. The latter would strike me as being more akin to selling t-shirts with a photo of a sculpture in a public place. If the person making the t-shirts had studied the way the sculpture was made and used that to make similar ones then there would be a greater parallel here.
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Nope sorry, the judgement was correct
A sculpture is only duplicated when you make a 3D copy. A photo is a new work of art. The fact that it documents a sculpture doesn't make it a copy of the sculpture.
This is a fairly old precedent, if I'm not mistaken. And it's a good thing too -- the clamp down on free expression that would result from not being able to photograph in public spaces because you might infringe some sculptor or architect's "copyright" would be ridiculous.
That's not what copyright is for.
There is no entitlement to claim every last penny of possible value to society from an artist's work. Copyright is an exemption, a special monopoly granted as an exception to free speech solely to allow artists to reclaim some value from their work. It must be limited both in time and scope to be at all reasonable or consistent with free society. It doesn't cover everything and it's not supposed to!
Ryan, if you believe the web to be the 'real world', that is your personal perspective, but I do not share the same view. ("IANAL but that strikes me as a dangerous thing"; do you actually use acronyms when talking face to face?).
Terry- copyright law concerning photographing in public places is more about recognising the impracticalities of governance-of-constraint, especially in unconfined spaces. Person's photographing a sculpture in a park do not "not recognise" the creator of the masterpiece or seek to diminish his/her part in its creation. Also, a two dimensional image of a three dimensional object, is still considered, in most people's minds, a copy (you ask them... I have). Besides this, that wasn't my point, nor the subject of the legal complaint, nor the argument of those many, many people that rallied beside the sculptor (consumer watchdog groups included). Our point was and still is, the total (perhaps contemptuous) disregard demonstrated by a company (and subsequently, the lawyer) toward an artist, when said company sold and collected one hundred percent of the profits from an article of clothing which received major added-value and popularity, by using an image of that sculptor's work on said article of clothing. In other words, it acted like it 'OWNED' the image. (The company subsequently admitted and apologised for it's behaviour toward the sculptor but has used the outcome of the litigation to protect its financial interests.) This aside, my comment in response to Ryan's opinion piece was regarding the exploitation of another person's work, and the fair consideration due to the original author (mentor) when a person knowingly relies on, or duplicates that work. Many coders (contributing and original) do recognise the work of others and pay tribute where necessary, but most appear not to care a damn...
...and to no-one in particular (because the author was never recognised though he/she looks like a very smart cookie), "Hey mate, that's a brilliant piece of code, really innovative. Did you write that? I know hundreds of people who couldn't understand it, let alone create it from scratch.
Ryan, if you believe the web to be the 'real world', that is your personal perspective, but I do not share the same view.
I do not believe it to be the real world, I do feel it is part of the real world. At least as much as books, music, conversation, television, art, the internal combustion engine and football are. The fact that you do not share my view is part of what makes the world real.
("IANAL but that strikes me as a dangerous thing"; do you actually use acronyms when talking face to face?).
What an odd question. Of course I do: TV, ISA, USB, PC and BBC to name but five but perhaps you weren't referring to those types. Oddly -- or not -- when I speak I often use colloquialisms, contractions and other (probably bad) habits that I do not always use when writing. I apologise if my use of an acronym changed your view of what I had written but I will probably use others in the future.
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Fourth Annual Celebrity Chef Gala Raises over $1.6 Million
The Autism Speaks to Wall Street: Fourth Annual Celebrity Chef Gala was held on Monday, October 4, 2010 and raised over $1.6 million in support of Autism Speaks. The event was held at New York's Cipriani Wall Street, in the heart of the city's Financial District and was sponsored by Susan and Steven Wise of KRG Children's Charitable Foundation, SeaMiles and Puzzlebuilder. The grand venue served as a fitting backdrop for a spectacular evening that featured over 100 chefs preparing four-course meals and dessert tableside. Over 600 guests were treated to the culinary showcases of some of the of the nation's most renowned chefs, including Top Chef's Tom Colicchio (Colicchio & Sons); Franklin Becker (Executive Chef & Event Co-chair); Terrance Brennan (Artisanal & Picholine); Wylie Dufresne (WD-50) and Masaharu Morimoto (MORIMOTO).
The evening was hosted by Charlie Trotter, Executive Chef and Owner of Charlie Trotter's, and CNBC's Donny Deutsch. Guests enjoyed the musical talents of singer-songwriter Kyle Cousins, an extraordinary young musical artist who expresses through song what life is like living with autism, along with The Great Chefs Band starring Tom Colicchio, Phil Roy, Marc Vetri and Jonathan Waxman. The event included a silent and live auction featuring one of a kind culinary and vacation packages. Guests were also able to support "Fund a Cure," a bidding event which raised funds for research dedicated to finding a link to autism through environmental factors. The event was co-chaired by Jennifer & Franklin Becker, Susan & Philip Harris, Susan & Kevin Murray, Alison & Duncan Niederauer and Suzanne & Bob Wright.
October 5, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Nice to see them raise roughly $1.6 million dollars. In reference to the blog about the media and advertising on October 1 of last week, I just wonder how well is Bob's former company doing right now considering the fact Comcast is about to takeover as the majority shareholder from General Electric, as NBC has been struggling since his departure.
I don't mean to be off-topic, considering how I constantly follow the stock market. But I'm always trying to keep up with business news on CNBC or NBR on PBS, since I'm an accountant.
In my opinion, it seems that the best forms of advertising and awareness for autism, may become very shortly via the social networking sites like Youtube, Facebook, and Twitter.
October 6, 2010 at 10:35 am
Great undertaking. I hope in our country there would be events like these to benefit our children with autism.
October 7, 2010 at 12:02 am
wow thats cool
January 15, 2011 at 9:52 am
Very brilliant raise..1.6million is not something, it's everything! Raising fund to help is what we need..it unites us people! Hurray to All of you!


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Moose, British Columbia
Photograph by Paul Colangelo
A camera trap catches two moose crossing Ealue Lake in northwestern British Columbia, Canada. National Geographic Explorer Paul Colangelo set up the camera on a land bridge between the lake and a fen, where wildlife frequently pass.
"In the three weeks that the camera was set, it captured images of about 12 moose, two wolves, and a grizzly. On the morning both of these shots were taken, I was actually canoeing back to the spot to take down the trap," he says. "While I was canoeing through the mist you see in the background, I saw the flashes pop and two moose trot away. Had I left five minutes earlier, I would have botched the two best shots!"
Colangelo's camera trap was part of the Sacred Headwaters project, a five-year effort to document a largely unknown wilderness area in northern British Columbia before gas and mining projects change the area forever. The efforts to protect the region resulted in the permanent ban of oil and gas exploration in the Sacred Headwaters.
Lion Pride, Serengeti
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic
A pride of lions rests on a kopje, or rocky outcrop, near a favorite water hole in the Serengeti. Lions use kopjes as havens and outlooks on the plains. When the rains bring green grass, wildebeests arrive in vast herds.
See more pictures from the August 2013 feature story "The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion."
Manatees, Florida
Photograph by Paul Nicklen, National Geographic
Manatees swim close to the water's surface because they are air-breathing mammals. They use their stiff facial bristles to guide food into their mouths.
See more pictures from the April 2013 feature story "When Push Comes to Shove."
Caimans at Night, Brazil
Photograph by Luciano Candisani
After the caimans emerged at dusk, the photographer was reminded of an earlier encounter. At 15 he went with his dad to look for the crocs by flashlight: "The image of their eyes glowing like stars in a dark sky is something I will never forget."
See more pictures from the July 2013 feature story "The Comeback Croc."
Lion, Serengeti
Photograph by Michael Nichols, National Geographic
In the Serengeti, life is hard for the greatest of African predators. An adult male lion like Hildur, shown here, might attain the advanced age of 12 in the wild. Adult females can live longer, even to 19.
See more pictures from the August 2013 feature story "The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion."
Caterpillar, Borneo
Photograph by Christian Ziegler, National Geographic
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Era: 20th Century
- Number of Pages: 384
- Subject: Biography
- Date Available: October 2011
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Frank G. Tinker, Jr. was the top American ace flying under contract with the Spanish Republican Air Force in the Spanish Civil War. A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Class of 1933, he went into combat with Soviet airmen during the war. Through sheer perseverance, he rose from a teenage enlisted seaman, through the U.S. Naval Academy, to the officer's wardroom—then pressed on to claim the wings of a naval aviator and to become a top-flight fighter pilot and a published author. Tinker possessed extraordinary people skills—skills that allowed him to move with relative ease among common seamen, naval officers, foreign combat pilots, left-wing literati in Madrid and Paris, and the rural folk of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, who embraced him as "one of their own." While in Spain, Tinker socialized with Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Robert Hale Merriman, the leader of the American Volunteers of the Lincoln Brigade, and Milton Wolff, Merriman's successor, who led the 15th International Brigade during the Battle of the Ebro.
This first in-depth biography of Tinker covers his experience in combat, culminating with his commanding a Soviet squadron and terminating his contract with the government of Spain. Tinker would become the top American ace during the Spanish Civil War after downing eight enemy airplanes in combat. On returning to the United States, he wrote a memoir about fighting for Republican Spain and in June 1939 died under mysterious circumstances in Little Rock, Arkansas. The authors, well-known aviation historians, also offer a rare discussion of the aerial tactics introduced in the Spanish Civil War that became standard procedures in World War II and firmly establish Tinker's aviation feats for the historical record.
Richard K. Smith served as an engineer in the U.S. Merchant Marine before completing his degrees in history at the University of Illinois and University of Chicago. He is the author of The Airships Akron & Macon: Aircraft Carriers of the U.S. Navy and the award-winning?First Across! The U.S. Navy's Transatlantic Flight of 1919.
R. Cargill Hall is Emeritus Chief Historian of the National Reconnaissance Office of the Department of Defense. Previously he served in various history positions for the Air Force History and Museums Program and as historian at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Hall is the recipient of the 2012 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics History Manuscript Award for Five Down, No Glory. He lives in Arlington, TX.
Praise for Five Down, No Glory
"…This is a good read that puts a face on aerial combat in what arguably marked the beginning of World War II."
— Air Power History
"A well-written, comprehensive biography of a major aviator in the Spanish Civil War. "
— The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord, October 2012
"…A highly illuminating account of a near-legendary Navy alumnus during a colorful period of military aviation."
— Naval Aviation News, Winter 2012
— Military Heritage, February 2012
"A splendid biography."
— Air and Space, February/March 2012
"Five Down, No Glory is an intriguing discussion of a mercenary and what brings a man to that status."
— The Midwest Book Review, November 2011
"A true soldier of fortune, Tinker lived wildly and fought hard for the Loyalist cause, and the authors rivet you to each swiftly turning page with incredible detail. The introduction by Richard Hallion and the notes alone are worth the price of this fascinating book."
—COL. WALTER J. BOYNE, USAF (RET.), National Aviation Hall of Fame member, author of Hypersonic Thunder
"This fascinating and well-paced account of Tinker's experiences in Spain outlines the evolution of military aviation on the eve of World War II, illuminates the complicated and sometimes conflicted role of American expatriate pilots like Tinker, and explores the character of a free-spirited and still somewhat enigmatic figure."
—CRAIG L. SYMONDS, author of The Battle of Midway
"Smith and Hall deliver a fascinating account of a little-known aviator who combined a deft touch in the cockpit with affable social skills that brought him into contact with some of the most influential people of his day. Written in clear prose, the authors illuminate the life and contributions of a Renaissance man and ace and show his influence on aerial tactics."
—JOHN F. WUKOVITS, author of Black Sheep: The Life of Pappy Boyington
"Frank Tinker's improbable career reads like an adventure novel about a sailor, Annapolis graduate, naval pilot, and fighter ace in Spain; he rubbed elbows with a veritable Who's Who of the 1930s. Every page of this fast-paced tale of a daredevil who lived on the edge brings fascinating revelations, ranging from trivia like Ernest Hemingway's favorite drink to deadly calculations of the best tactics to shoot down a Messerschmitt Bf 109."
—EDWARD J. DREA, author of Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945
"Frank Tinker was a complex, energetic young man who felt most at home in the cockpit of a fighter plane. Drawing upon his private diary, family records, and other primary sources, this first full account of Tinker's life reads like an adventure story. Better yet . . . it has the added advantage of being an accurate account of an air war that presaged the great aerial battles over Europe during World War II."
—CAPT. GEORGE W. CULLY, USAF (RET.), former director of the Office of History, Air University
"A 1933 Naval Academy graduate, Frank Tinker went on to become an ace for the Spanish Republic. Richard Smith and R. Cargill Hall relate Tinker's colorful—some would say bizarre—story with panache, illuminating the Spanish Civil War and war in the air during a period of portentous change. This is aviation history at its best, packed with informed technical commentary."
—John F. Guilmartin Jr., author of A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang
I highly recommend this very well written book that tells the fascinating story of a young man from Arkansas, a graduate of the Naval Academy, who fought as a mercenary pilot for the Spanish government during the tragic Spanish civil war of 1936 - 1939. The book is replete with photos of the men and their planes, charts, maps and illustrations. Frank Tinker's great ambition was to attend the Naval Academy and become a Navy officer and pilot and he accomplished both with great difficulty in the small peace-time depression-era U. S. Navy. And then, because of his love of flying, pulled some not so funny pranks in flight and on shore that gave him the option of a court martial or a resignation of his commission. He opted for the latter, took a job as a third officer on a civilian tanker ship and then learned of the Spanish Civil War and Spain's need for contract pilots. He jumped at the chance, signed a lucrative contract at the Spanish Embassy in Mexico City (the U. S. was officially neutral), received a Spanish name, cover story and passport, and reported for duty defending the war-torn Republic of Spain in January of 1937. He joined several American, Spanish, and a larger number of Soviet pilots in a unit that flew combat missions in planes built and supplied by the Soviets. He was under the command of a Soviet pilot and squad leader much of the time. He flew against planes and crews supplied by Germany and Italy who were both openly supporting Franco and his Nationalists. The authors describe in detail the air battles. Tinker became an acclaimed ace during those battles. (A half million Spaniards perished in the war. Franco's forces prevailed and he became the leader or de-facto leader of Spain until his death in 1975) Between the frequent and demanding missions, however, life was often grand for Tinker in Spain. Billeted in conscripted and staffed Spanish mansions the pilots enjoyed their off-cuty hours playing table games and listening to Verdi's Rigolleto on Frank' victrola. They enjoyed their frequent leaves in Madrid's nightclubs and hotels. Ernest Hemingway hosted and befriended Tinker and the other pilots when they were in town at his well-stocked-with-Scotch-whisky apartment in Madrid's Florida Hotel. When Madrid was under attack the basement of the nearby Prado served as a bomb shelter. Experiencing the wear and tear of many missions and several very close calls Tinker terminated his contract on good terms after severn months, eight kills and one probable, and returned to Arkansas, wrote a book, purchased and rebuilt an old plane, joined a fraternity, took a two month canoe trip down the Mississippi, made a number of public appearances and then died under suspicious circumstances in a Little Rock hotel room on June 13, 1939, at the age of 29. The author's epilogue on what happened to the pilots and the Madrid landmarks after the war completes the book. The Soviet pilots, for example, did not all fare well upon their return to Stalin's paranoia.


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Set 1 starts with the (apparently disputed) debut of the much-missed Landlady, a fine piece of composed music. A very fine (if a bit heavy-handed) Divided Sky and Foam come next, then the debut of Tube (a song I love), and while this version is a bit rushed (they hadn't worked out the pauses before each verse yet, nor the cool windup before the final verse), it's still a fine and sharp version, thanks to Page's nifty solo. The next set highlight (the goofy take on Minute by Minute doesn't count as such) is the debut of Buried Alive, and it's nice to hear that it was fully formed from the start, a bracing glimpse at the firepower the band could summon on stage. The rest of the set is fine, although it's interesting to hear a slower take on Bouncing Around the Room.
Set 2 begins with a Classic Groove, a slow and deliberate Mike's giving way to an upbeat Weekapaug (no wonder the songs were put together - it's a very yin-yang feeling when only Hydrogen separates the two). Then comes a 1-2 punch of debuts, first with the cool jazziness of Magilla, then with the beloved Stash (which sounds weird without the claps), a standard version that still shows the promise the band would fulfill in later versions. After another big-time rarity with Goin' Down Slow, the band whips out a cool OKPC > AC/DC Bag -> Buried Alive Reprise segment, with the band flipping the switch from one to the other with surprising, almost off-putting ease.
Take The "A" Train comes next (I really do miss Phish playing jazz standards), and then a surprise rendition of Sparks that neatly leads into Reba. Reba is a bit more heavy-handed than I'd like, the usual delicate touch the band brings to the jam replaced with a more rock-ish feel, but that might make it worth a listen all on its own. The rest of the show is fine - none of the Dude of Life songs really stand out, but the encore Lizards is very deftly played.
Final thoughts: I get why @leroy likes the show so much - there's much more jazz than you ever hear from the band these days, the energy is as strong as it always is with an early Phish show (with the audience, as well), and there's no shortage of coolness thanks to the debuts and rarities. My quibbles with the show (mainly the era, actually) aside - for instance, there is no setlist flow at all, as though the band threw a bunch of song titles in a hat and picked them out one at a time - there's a heck of a lot to like here if you're any sort of fan of what I now like to call the JEMP Truck sound. Give it a spin - you won't be disappointed.


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split 1
verbo (splits, splitting, split)
1Break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain: [no object]: the ice cracked and heaved and split [with object]: split and toast the muffins
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Warping, splitting along the grain, the breaking apart of joins, the flaking of paint and ground from the wooden substrate, and insect damage are all commonly encountered.
- The wooden barrel guard was split along half its length and the barrel itself was badly corroded.
- A mineral that has cleavage will break or split along planes.
break, chop, cut, hew, lop, cleave;
1.1Remove or be removed by breaking, separating, or dividing: [with object]: the point was pressed against the edge of the flint to split off flakes [no object]: an incentive for regions to split away from countries
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Meanwhile, the material management operation was split off into a separate company.
- The division was split off as a separate company in 1871.
- They have disapproved of the way the chief spokesman was appointed as well as the manner in which some constituents split away and held separate meetings.
1.2Divide or cause to divide into parts or elements: [no object]: the river had split into a number of channels [with object]: splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- It left me absolutely dumbfounded to see the 25-foot high walls, to see how towns have been split into two.
- Under the new scheme, the town centre will be split into 12 different zones which council bosses claim could be cleared in minutes.
- The cotton country on this farm is split into two separate developments of about 1250 acres each.
1.3 [with object] Divide and share (something, especially resources or responsibilities): they met up and split the booty
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- But splitting his responsibilities with another MP would at least save him the indignity of being sacked.
- Stalin urged that the invasion should be launched as early as possible so that the Germans would be forced to split their resources between the Eastern and Western fronts.
- We then split the responsibility in terms of who does what.
share (out), divide (up), apportion, allocate, allot, distribute, dole out, parcel out, measure out;
carve up, slice up
informal divvy up
1.4 [with object] Cause the fission of (an atom).
Oraciones de ejemplo
- It will be powered by a fission reactor that will split uranium atoms, releasing heat that can be converted into electricity.
- Like the atoms that must be split for a fission bomb to explode, modern-day Lahore is itself divided: between old and new, rich and poor, conservative and liberal.
- Our own Ernest Walton split the atom using something remarkably similar, but it all sounds so, well, physical, doesn't it?
1.5 [with object] Issue new shares of (stock) to existing stockholders in proportion to their current holdings.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- When the shares hit $65, its executives decide to split the company's stock.
- Companies for which high share price is driven by performance will split stocks.
- Its stock has split twice and nearly tripled in price since 2000, making it one of the few Internet companies to have prospered.
2(With reference to a group of people) divide into two or more groups: [no object]: let's split up and find the other two [with object]: once again the family was split up
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- They would split up at earliest opportunity and the rival students would be forced to split into smaller groups as they tried to find the intruders.
- They have all been split up and sent to other homes, so we have promised to keep in touch.
- The family would have been split up at a time when we most needed one another.
2.1 [no object] End a marriage or an emotional or working relationship: I split up with my boyfriend a year ago
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- It is a few days before Valentine's Day and he has recently split up with Clementine after a relationship that lasted a year.
- Readers don't need to know what bloggers had for breakfast or whether they have split up with their girlfriend or not.
- The lack of legal protection also means that many men who have split up with the mothers of their children have been frozen out of their children's upbringing, and have to go to court if they want to get access.
break up, separate, part, part company, become estranged;
divorce, get divorced
2.2 [with object] (Of an issue) cause (a group) to be divided because of opposing views: the party was deeply split over its future direction
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The European Union, in fact, is deeply split over such issues as its budget and constitution.
- The survey, conducted between mid-April and mid-June, found most ethnic groups were evenly split on the issue of national identity.
- By 1972 the Democratic Party in North Carolina was deeply split over the issue of race.
bisect, partition
literary tear asunder
3 [no object] informal (Of one's head) suffer great pain from a headache: my head is splitting (as adjective splitting) a splitting headache
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- I have to get out of here - my head is absolutely splitting.
- My head was splitting and I could barely breathe.
- Her head was splitting and the light made it feel even worse.
4 [no object] informal Leave a place, especially suddenly: "Let's split," Harvey said
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- It was a wonderful venue - pity about the DJ - but not quite up to par so we split early and headed for another club to dance what was left of the night away.
5 [no object] British informal Betray the secrets of or inform on someone: I told him I wouldn't split on him
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Hence, for instance, the new act of parliament that protects people from victimisation if they split on their bosses.
1A tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain: light squeezed through a small split in the curtain
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- A small split has appeared along the chest area as well.
- I accept the evidence of Mr. Pearson and Mr. Glendon with respect to their observations of the crack or split or fissure in the tubing.
- Make sure windscreen wipers are in good condition without any splits or tears
1.1An instance or act of splitting or being split; a division: the split between the rich and the poor
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- But as you know, there's a lot of people concerned about the split, the division between the executive and the legislative branch.
- This seems to be just another instance of the classic split between graphic design and information design.
- With only three games left before the split into three divisions every result now takes on even greater importance.
1.2A separation into parties or within a party; a schism: the accusations caused a split in the party
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Meanwhile, the splits within his party, he claims, have been devastating.
- The split within the party has led to tactical shifts in which conservatives and Democrats often team up to embarrass the ruling moderate Republicans.
- There are a lot of reasons for this failure, including the long-time split within the party between hawks and doves.
division, rift, breach, schism, rupture, partition, separation, severance, scission, breakup
1.3An ending of a marriage or an emotional or working relationship: a much-publicized split with his wife
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The radio star and DJ have blamed hectic work schedules for causing their marriage split.
- Richard Cooper, defending, told the court of the marriage split which drove Franklyn to the drugs.
- Is this evidence of one of the first Hollywood relationships with a friendly split?
breakup, split-up, separation, parting, estrangement, rift;
1.4 short for stock split.
2 (a split or the splits) (In gymnastics and dance) an act of leaping in the air or sitting down with the legs straight and at right angles to the upright body, one in front and the other behind, or one at each side: I could never do a split before
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- I may be 230 lb but I can do the splits and dance the Cajun two-step for two hours.
- Remember the days when you could effortlessly do the splits, kick like a Rockette and put your foot behind your head on a dare?
- They soar, spin, and dive to the floor, then spiral swiftly back to shoulder stands, splits and endless balances.
3A thing that is divided or split, in particular.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Nor do we have all of the split posts, as there are too many half splits with the central pith intact.
- Dots for each bar indicate taxa on one half of the split.
3.2A split osier used in basketwork.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- So you come back and you hit the stick of wood right in the middle, right through here, and it'll give you two splits.
- Seating himself on his accustomed stool, he began to weave the splits dexterously in an out.
- Then as he walked, he wove the splits into a basket to be traded at the store for whatever provisions the family needed.
3.3Each strip of steel or cane that makes up the reed in a loom.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Tweeling is produced by increasing the number of threads in each split of the reed.
- After the warp ends have been threaded individually through wire eyes on the shafts, they are sleyed collectively through each split in the reed.
3.4Half a bottle or glass of champagne or other liquor.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- We drank a split of Taittinger Brut champagne during the appetizers, and our patience was rewarded.
- You see, back then, it was cool to drink a split.
3.5A single thickness of split hide.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- His factory didn't even tan the split (another part of the leather making process); they'd sell them off to be made into gloves or whatever.
- They use only quality top-grain leather in their products and do not use leather splits or vinyls.
3.6(In bowling) a formation of standing pins after the first ball in which there is a gap between two pins or groups of pins, making a spare unlikely.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- If you look around and don't see as many strikes, and a lot of splits or spares are on the board, the lanes probably are playing a little bit tougher.
- The big-hook players leave many more difficult spares and splits than a player with a narrower angle of entry.
- Also, when you're bowling well, the miss-hits don't leave you with big splits and tough spares.
3.7North American A drawn game or series.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- Maybe they should be happy to get out of Atlanta with a split of the two games.
- English cricket chief David Morgan said the World Cup match in Zimbabwe must go ahead to avoid a split in the international game.
- Prior to the four games, coach Bishop expressed his desire to at least register a split in the two games last Saturday against the Western squad which he said is close in skill level to Waterloo.
3.8US A split-level house.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- My house is a split, so the basement is only under the main part of the house.
- The fact that your home is a split should not be a major factor here.
4The time it takes to complete a recognized part of a race, or the point in the race where such a time is measured.
Oraciones de ejemplo
- As a fierce relay anchor, Correia has the fastest 50 and 100-yard freestyle relay splits in history.
- The talk was of stroke-rates, times, splits, lactate curves, heart rate, aerobic thresholds.
- Over the last two years, Davis has kept a chart of Thorpe's record times and splits on the wall of his bedroom.
split the difference
- Take the average of two proposed amounts.Oraciones de ejemplo
- In this case, you cannot simply split the difference, by taking the mean average; you must decide which turnout model is going to be correct, the one or the other.
- If we split the difference and say that the average price of statins is $90 a month, that's $1,080 a year for drugs and $210 a year for labs.
- Well, if the House wants $550 billion in tax cuts, the Senate approved $350 billion, what, do you just split the difference and come up with $450 billion?
split hairs
- see hair.
split one's sides (also split a gut)
- informal Be convulsed with laughter: the dynamic comedy duo will have you splitting your sides with laughterMás ejemplos en oraciones
- This year they will have audiences splitting their sides with laughter with their crazy antics.
- They can bring tears or make people split their sides with laughter.
- Everyone split their sides, they were laughing so hard.
split the ticket (or one's vote)
- US Vote for candidates of more than one party.Oraciones de ejemplo
- I will probably split my vote as I did last time by voting for a candidate chosen for personal qualities but voting for a different party.
- He acknowledged that political parties did not encourage tactical voting in their campaign strategies, but sophisticated voters could split their vote.
- So I voted a few times and split my vote between them.
split the vote
- (Of a candidate or minority party) attract votes from another candidate or party with the result that both are defeated by a third.Oraciones de ejemplo
- Progressives across the country were presented with an old problem - vote for a less-than-perfect Democrat, or support a noble but doomed protest candidate and risk splitting the vote.
- The major problem the Democrats had is that no less than three Democrats ran for the office, splitting the vote and media attention between them.
- She stood as an Independent instead, splitting the vote.
Late 16th century (originally in the sense 'break up (a ship)', describing the force of a storm or rock): from Middle Dutch splitten, of unknown ultimate origin.
This was originally used in the sense 'break up (a ship)', describing the force of a storm or rock; it was borrowed from Middle Dutch splitten. The idiom split hairs dates from the late 17th century; split the difference arose in the early 18th century; split the atom is recorded from the early 20th century.
Palabras que riman con splitacquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, sprit, squit, submit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit
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It was a two-horse race, but in the end, Amelia and Western Brown came through with the most votes to win the Cincinnati Bell Wildcard Game of the Week for April 12.
Voting ended at 11:59 p.m Thursday, with the Lady Barons and Lady Broncos receiving 60 percent of the vote.
"Extra credit" votes earned by uploading school spirit photos and videos to High School Playbook's u local section did not impact the final results. Each photo uploaded was worth five extra votes for your school; each video was worth 10 votes.
As for the game, it was originally rained out. Weather impacted the makeup game as well forcing play to be suspended in the sixth inning with game tied, 2-2.
Final Results:
- 60% - Amelia vs. Western Brown (Softball)
- 39% - Harrison vs. Talawanda (Baseball)
- 1% - Badin vs. St. Xavier (Baseball)
- 0% - Lakota West vs. Mason (Boys Lacrosse)
- 0% - Lloyd vs. St. Henry (Baseball)
Total Votes: 19,276


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TRUCKEE - What began as a couple of tightly contested soccer games between historic rivals North Tahoe and Truckee on Thursday turned into easy wins for the Wolverines after the hosts exploded for big second halves.
The girls game remained knotted in a scoreless tie through one half but finished in a 4-1 Truckee win.
The Truckee boys held a 1-0 lead at the half before North Tahoe evened the score midway through the second. But the Wolverines woke up late to score three unanswered goals en route to the 4-1 win.
Following a senior farewell ceremony between games, the North Tahoe boys played the hosts evenly through most of the opening half as Truckee started all 11 of its seniors.
Finally in the 34th minute, Truckee senior Jose Sarabia took over possession from teammate Jordan Fereira as Fereira worked against a defender and blasted a hard shot into the back of the net for a 1-0 lead.
Sarabia, feeling his oats in front of the large home crowd at Surprise Stadium, celebrated by stripping off his shirt and flexing toward the crowd, which earned him a yellow card.
The second half started much like the first, with even play in the midfield, and neither team able to string together passes or sustain momentum.
Then in the 63rd minute, North Tahoe senior Nico Monforte crossed a ball from the wing to the front of the goal, where Trevor Semmens deftly headed it out of the air and past Truckee goalie Nacho Diaz.
Suddenly, the Wolverines' first-place status in the Mount Rose League was in jeopardy. And that was all the motivation they needed.
About three minutes later, Truckee worked the ball up field with several quick passes before senior Nash McMullen dished off to Fernando Rodriguez, who one-touched a low ball just inside the right post, past the diving reach of goalie Omar Vargas.
Truckee quickly added to the lead, tacking on goals in the 69th and 70th minutes off of corner kicks. Rolando Zarate took both corners, the first of which was headed into the goal by Sarabia, and the second by McMullen.
"Their second goal took the wind out of our sails," said North Tahoe boys coach Beto Alcaraz. "We hung with them for about 70 minutes. We played beautifully. It's too bad. But that's the way it goes sometimes."
Truckee head coach Casey Eberhardt said his team has struggled at times this season to get off to fast starts, which again was the case Thursday.
"That's kind of been a problem for us, not having the spark to start. We got the one goal and then kind of took a back seat. It took their one goal to fire us up to bounce back," Eberhardt said. "But they (the Lakers) played us tough. They are a good team. We let them hang in it, and you can't let good teams hang or they're going to get a goal sooner or later. I give them credit."
With the win Truckee improved to 7-1 in Mount Rose League play and 21-2 overall. North Tahoe is 1-6-1 in league. Truckee currently owns the league tiebreaker over Sparks based on defeating the Railroaders in the teams' second meeting.
"We couldn't afford a tie at this point in league, so there was a sense of urgency and a desire to win," Eberhardt said.
Much like the boys game, the girls played an uneventful first half in which neither team mounted any offense.
After some motivational words by their coach during a halftime speech, however, the Wolverines looked like a different team after the break.
Just five minutes in to the second half, senior Olivia Duner crossed a ball to Ashley Harris, who kicked it past the dive of goalie Angela Wood for a 1-0 Truckee lead.
Truckee cushioned its lead with three goals in about a seven-minute span shortly after.
After collecting a through ball from Kaylee Neill, Quinn Parker fired a shot on a breakaway that was skillfully saved by Wood. But Truckee senior Melissa Cardoza was in perfect position to follow up the rebound, which extended the lead to 2-0.
Less than two minutes later, Cardoza again followed the rebound of a shot by Neill, pushing the lead to 3-0. Just minutes later, Emma Warren got in on the scoring with yet another goal off of a rebound, as she cleaned up a shot by Cardoza that bounced off the post and directly to her.
"I thought the first half was relatively even, although they did have more scoring opportunities than we did," said North Tahoe head coach Jon Rockwood. "The second half I saw a little bit of flat-footedness. Truckee was relentless and determined to finish, even with junk rebounds."
The Lakers did not throw in the towel. Trailing 4-0 in the 74th minute, sophomore Francesca English gathered an assist from Bozhie Pokorny and kicked it past Truckee goalie Cassandra Sawyer to adjust the final score to 4-1.
"I'm really proud that we were able to put one on the board," Rockwood said. "Francesca was determined to put the ball in the back of the net."
Truckee head coach Katie Jamison said she was pleased with the way her team responded after a sloppy first half, as the Wolverines controlled the action the majority of the final 40 minutes.
"It was much better," she said of the second half. "We were actually connecting our passes, maintaining our composure and putting the ball where it needed to go.
"It was senior farewell, so all nine seniors started, and not necessarily in positions they're used to playing," Jamison continued. "So that was tricky. But they settled in and did OK."
About her halftime speech, Jamison added: "Every now and then they need a reality check that it's not going to come easy. They need to work hard and strive for it."
Truckee is now 6-0-2 in league play and 18-3-2 overall. North Tahoe is 2-4-2 in league and 5-8-2 overall.


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Ramona Quimby is no longer seven, but not quite eight. She's "seven and a half right now," if you ask her! Not allowed to stay home alone, yet old enough to watch pesky Willa Jean, Ramona wonders when her mother will treat her like her older, more mature sister, Beezus.
But with her parents' unsettling quarrels and some spelling trouble at school, Ramona wonders if growing up is all it's cracked up to be. No matter what, she'll always be her mother's little girl…right? This warm-hearted story of a mother's love for her spirited young daughter is told beautifully by Newbery Medal winning author Beverly Cleary.
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Ramona's at that awkward, in-between age—too little to stay home alone after school when her mother is at work, but too big to enjoy playing with pesty Willa Jean at her sitter's house. These days, all Ramona really wants is to twitch her nose and be her mother's little rabbit like she once was. Can't she be her mother's little girl forever?
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I guess we learned a long time ago that in Silicon Valley appearances often give you little to go on.
The company working out of Mom's garage? The next Fortune 500 firm. The guy in cutoffs and bare feet? Founder and CEO. The startup with the goofy name? The developer of technology that will change the world.
So, why shouldn't one of the valley's key startup accelerants be a 6-foot-6, bearded, bear of a man who is the son of missionaries and who was working as an ER nurse when he started his tech incubator in a Sunnyvale tavern. In a land where a company's creation story is almost as important as its business plan, Jonathan Nelson has a doozy.
Yes, he's the bearded bear. He's also the founder, with his wife, of the Co-op incubator, a spinoff of the informal Hackers/Founders meetups he hosted in Bay Area bars.
"This wasn't supposed to be a business," Nelson, 40, says. "It was mostly me hanging out in a bar with nerds forming startups. We've kind of bolted a business plan onto it."
Without really trying to, Nelson -- who with his wife, Laura, have nurtured 19 startups in the past few years -- has built something of the people's incubator. It all started when Nelson, a self-described hacker, came up with an idea for a financial news aggregation site. He'd spend three nights a week at El Camino Hospital and four nights a week coding. His passion for his project started to drive his wife nuts.
"I was interested, but he needed to be around people who were more like him," Laura, 47, says. "So, we decided he would start a meetup group, with encouragement from me."
Nelson turned to Meetup.com, the website designed to bring people together in the real world, and invited those with startup ideas to St. John's Bar & Grill in Sunnyvale. "The first one was four dudes in a bar," Jonathan Nelson says. "The next one was eight dudes in a bar, dudes being a gender neutral."
But the crowd grew and over time Nelson noticed a pattern: Entrepreneurs, many of them immigrants, had solid ideas, but no clue as to how to get funding or who to talk to. Nelson knew enough to talk to Naval Ravikant, a founder of AngelList, which connects angel investors with entrepreneurs. Ravikant said he'd love to talk to people with good ideas and he urged Nelson to start an incubator where those with the best ideas could learn from each other.
And so the Nelsons started Co-op, which brings business minds together, sets up meetings with venture capitalists and builds networks in return for a 2 percent stake. The Nelsons are pleased that they've been able to enroll companies with women and Latino founders. They pay no attention to the schools that their companies' founders attended. They're working hard to open a permanent incubator in San Jose, where they see San Jose State, Santa Clara University, UC Santa Cruz and even more distant Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Merced as gold mines for startup talent.
And while social networking, apps and other software plays might be buzzy, Nelson says he's betting on hardware companies, particularly those who plan to manufacture in Silicon Valley.
"I'm very, very bullish," says Nelson, who puts the average valuation of Co-op-incubated companies at $4 million. "San Jose is the second-largest manufacturing center in America. And it's all high-tech manufacturing."
Why should you listen to this guy? Co-op started nearly six years ago with a class of eight companies. Two died almost immediately. Of the other six, Nelson says, two were acquired, three have secured funding beyond their angel rounds and one is turning a profit. Since then, the incubator has helped 13 more companies start up. "Ten out of 13 raised capital; one didn't need to; two might be on the edge of dying."
Rob Katcher, founder of hiku, a Co-op company with fewer than 10 employees in downtown San Jose, says Co-op was key to the early success of his company, which makes a high-tech shopping list generator. "We would probably not be here if it weren't for Jonathan," says Katcher, whose hiku device attaches to a refrigerator and reads bar codes and accepts voice notes to create a list that it will then send to your smartphone.
The company had a promising holiday season, says Katcher without offering specific sales figures, and some of that comes from what he learned from others in his incubator class. Then there was Jonathan Nelson's ability to make the kind of match that results in investment.
"It comes down to him just being a genuine guy and that just resonates with people," Katcher says. "He just gets to know people and what they are interested in. Not everyone does that naturally."
And not everyone looks the part. Then again, that's something we learned long ago.
Contact Mike Cassidy at email@example.com or 408-920-5536. Follow him at Twitter.com/mikecassidy.


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In this article I will describe an experience I had that began with the failure of some RAID5 disks at the Hospital of Pediatric Especialties, where I work. While I wouldn't wish such an event on my worst enemy, it was something that made me learn about the power of knowledge—a deep knowledge, which is so important in the hacking culture.
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A 5-disk (18GB each) RAID5 was mounted on a HP Netserver Rack Storage/12. Due to a power outage yesterday, it would no longer recognize the RAID. As a matter of fact, there were two more RAIDs on the rack that were recovered... but this one (holding about 60GB of data) just wouldn't work.
The IT manager decided to call in some "gurus" to try to get the data back on-line. I (the only GNU/Linux user at the IT department) thought that something could be done with GNU/Linux. My first thought was: "If I get images of the separate disks, maybe I can start a software RAID on GNU/Linux. All I need is enough disk space to handle all of the images". I told my crazy (so far) idea to the IT manager and he decided to give it a try... but only once the gurus gave up.
Monday, May 2, 2005
The gurus are still trying to get the data back on-line.
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
The gurus are still trying to get the data back on-line.
Wednesday, May 4, 2005
These guys are stubborn, aren't they?
Thursday, May 5, 2005
The IT manager called me late in the afternoon. I was given the chance to Save the Republic. One of the disks of the array had been removed. I put the disks on a computer as separate disks (no RAID), booted with Knoppix (the environment of the IT department is Windows based, apart for my desktop, which has the XP that came with the HP box and Mandriva, which is where the computer normally stays) and made the four images of the four disks left from the original five:
# for i in a b c d; do dd if=/dev/sd$i of=image$i.dat bs=4k; done
I got all the files in a single HD and left the office.
Friday, May 6, 2005
I wanted to start a software RAID, fooling the kernel into thinking that the files where HDs. Just having the images was not enough to bring the RAID on-line. RAID5 has a number of options: algorithm (left/right parity, synchronous/asynchronous), chunk (strip) size, but most important: the order of the images in the RAID. I had to tell the kernel how the RAID controller had mounted them so it could replicate the RAID.
I had already been given the hint that the chunks were 64KB long. By the end of the day, the software RAID idea hadn't worked at all. I started thinking about rebuilding the data the "hard" way: Making a single image of the RAID from the separate images.
Weekend, May 7 and May 8, 2005
I did some research during the weekend, plus a little study of the images. The images didn't look encrypted at all. The first "chunk" of the four images looked like garbage, but one of the disks showed a Partition Table right on the second chunk and the other chunks appeared to have other kind of data:
# fdisk -lu discoa1 You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk discoa1: 0 MB, 0 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 0 cylinders, total 0 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System discoa1p1 63 142175249 71087593+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 254, 63) logical=(8849, 254, 63)
fdisk was complaining because it was a 64KB file, not the expected 72GB one (written in the partition table). I studied the images and noticed that the data chunks and the parity chunks were distinguishable from each other, and that they seemed to follow a plain RAID5 distribution and algorithm... I was hopeful.
|Disk 1
|Disk 2
|Disk 3
|Disk 4
|Disk 5
I made a java class that could rebuild the RAID content from the separate images (Had I used C/C++, I would still be coding!). It was all about placing the right chunk from the right disk (image of disk) at the right place of the final image. I was missing one image, but it could be calculated with the help of the parity chunks spread all over the disks (see Textbox 1). The class was no big deal: selecting the right chunks from the disks, and using XORs to calculate the missing chunks. I guess it took about three or four hours at most to code it. I was finally ready to give it a try. The problem I hit was that while testing the software RAID at home I had damaged the images. So, I have to wait until Monday to test the class with the images of the RAID.
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. All it does is make a number of disks "look" like they are one to improve throughput or fault-tolerance. There are a number of ways to put them together. Some of them are:
Mirroring: in this case, each disk has exactly the same content. Size of the array: the size of the smallest disk. Redundancy: There must be at least a disk working for the data to remain intact.
Linear: one disk follows the other. The size of each disk doesn't matter at all. Size of the array: the sum of the size of the separate disks. Redundancy: If you remove one disk, you will lose the information on that disk and potentially all of the data in the array.
RAID5: The information is spread in all of the available devices in a manner different from linear. Size of the array: the size of the smallest disk multiplied by the number of the disks minus one. Redundancy: At most one disk can be removed/replaced from the array without data loss. Instead of having disks that follow each other, the information is written in "chunks" of data, one disk at a time (see Table 1).
In Table 1, the numbers represent the order in which the chunks are written on the disks (in this example, it's left parity, asynchronous). There is a parity chunk per every n – 1 chunks of data. That is done for redundancy.
It works like this: parity is calculated by XORing the n – 1 chunks of data in a row. This logical operator has a very interesting property for redundancy. If you remove one of the data chunks and use the parity chunk instead for the XOR operation, you will get the missing chunk of data:
a xor b xor c xor d xor e = p
If you remove c, then:
a xor b xor d xor e xor p = c
What does this mean for the RAID? It means that if you remove a whole disk from the array, the RAID can still work... though with a little overhead to calculate the missing chunks. Furthermore, if you replace a missing disk with a new one, the data that was in the removed disk can be rewritten to the new disk. There will be no loss of data (provided that no more than a single disk is missing at any given moment).
The process of making a RAID image wasn't complicated. I started the Java class by telling it the conditions of the run: algorithm, images, order of the disks, chunk size, skipped chunks (remember there were 64KB of garbage at the beginning of every image), and output file.
I started thinking about rebuilding the data the "hard" way: making a single image of the RAID from the separate images
Monday, May 9 2005
I made some attempts at rebuilding the RAID content. Each try took roughly two or three hours. After a run, I had a RAID.dat file (about 72GB in size) that was the "supposed" image of a HD, just like doing:
# dd if=/dev/hda of=ata.dat
Please notice the lack** **of partition number in the input file (a raw HD block device).
Then I had to use that image as a hard drive. First, I had to use fdisk to know the "partitioning" of the hard drive (it had no problem handling the file at all). At that point, just as I had thought, I discovered that the file was the image of a HD and I could see a partition starting from sector 63. I was more than happy! There were no complaints from fdisk this time. Unfortunately, I can't give you console output from now on, because the files have already been erased. Instead, I'll show the commands that were involved:
# fdisk -lu RAID.dat
Then mounting. How could I make the kernel think that this file was a hard drive? Well... it took me some more research to learn that losetup is used to link loop devices to files. It felt like the solution was at hand! I had to link the file to a loop device starting from byte 32256 (I had to skip the first 63 sectors 512 bytes each, according to fdisk):
#losetup -o 32256 /dev/loop0 RAID.dat
It linked, no problem! Then mounted:
#mount -t ntfs /dev/loop0 /mnt/tmp
There was no complaint when mounting. All of the pieces were fitting together after all.
I just forgot to take into consideration one very important factor in the IT world: Murphy's Law. The RAID was not going to give itself away so easily after all.
When I ran
ls, in the mount point, I could see a few of the directories, but the information wasn't usable. I couldn't
cd to those directories and
dmesg said there were problems with the NTFS indexes. I guessed I must have made a mistake ordering the disks... or used the wrong algorithm. I tried twice (with different options), but failed.
Tuesday, May 10 2005
I had left another attempt working when I left the office. That one failed too. I was getting frustrated at the time. Three of the developers at the IT department offered their help and started analysing the whole thing with me. I made another class that rebuilt the missing image, which I felt would help us in the analysis—no matter what the algorithm, order or strip size, according to RAID theory, the missing image's content would always be the same.
We noticed that I had indeed made a mistake when ordering the disks! (Hey, I can't always be right, can I?) We studied the images a little further to make sure, and started the whole thing again. It was already getting late, so we had to wait until the next morning to see the results.
I just forgot to take into consideration one very important factor in the IT world: Murphy's Law
Wednesday, May 11 2005
First thing in the morning (and I didn't sleep very well because of the wait), I did a
ls and...
Eureka! It worked.
All of the directories were there (otherwise, I wouldn't have written this article in the first place, right?). I tried to work with some of the files in the partition... and it was perfect.
I suddenly became the spoiled kid of the IT department! I got a big chocolate cake—that's what I call a bargain!
Even better, the experience caused some of the guys from the IT department to install GNU/Linux on their own personal computers. That's quite an achievement!
I want to finish saying that I did nothing miraculous... but definitely clever! I certainly used the resources I had at hand... plus Knoppix. I also got a lot of help from the GNU/Linux community (through www.linuxquestions.org mostly). Thank you people!
It's very important that you make sure backups be made on a regular basis to avoid this kind of situation. I don't think it's likely you will find yourself in the same situation we got ourselves into. But, if you do find yourself in the same boat, I hope this information allows you to not lose the data the Microsoft way (just format the disk, and forget about your data). Don't freak out, get a Knoppix CD (if you can get a GNU/Linux guru along with it, all the better!), and with a little programming you will most likely solve the problem.
I'd like to thank Simon Carreno, Heberto Ramos and Javier Machado, for their help in analysing the way the images of the RAID had to be put together. I'd also like to thank the IT crew as a whole for their support.
Comments from old system
From: MAd MAco
Date: 2005-08-10
Subject: Don't fight against paleo-toys, buy a new one!
Ok.. you are fighting against this Baby-Dino-Disk... but have you ever mind about buy a cheap laptop with a 200GB HDD??? .. .. all these toys at your server have less info than my Digi-cam!!!
...please, don't be selfish... buy a real one!
From: melissa
Date: 2005-08-10
Subject: :)
although i'd say 89% of this article made no sense to me.....je je je.....i must say....nice work, sir ;)
From: Tormak
Url: lineak.sourceforge.net
Date: 2005-08-26
Subject: Device order?
How did you determine the order that the disks were in?
From: Redbox
Url: www.pv.com.pl
Date: 2005-08-27
Subject: I must say...
From: Moxy
Date: 2005-08-27
Subject: More info required.
How about publishing your Java class to see how you analysed and rebuilt the aid image?
From: rich gregory
Date: 2005-08-28
Subject: disk based backup
Here is a simple way to add a disk based incremental backup
to a production file system.
It MUST be integrated with a full backup system to tape or disk.
It is a simple way to use an older PC and a 80-120GB IDE drive to give sys admins of big raid systems some pice of
From: Adrin
Date: 2005-10-03
Subject: RAID 5 failer, Maybe you should look at RAID 1
While that is great you got the data back I have some questions. The Raid died on April 29, and you didn't get it back until May 15. I hope the practice wasn't down that long.
I hope you where able to restore form backup and get them going in the mean time.
Perhaps you should think about the raid setup. While raid 5 is great for makeing one large disk with smaller disks. You are screwed when there is a major failer. Perhaps you should think about a mirrored raid. Yeah you loos a lot of space, but one desaster and it is paid for.
You brought up NTFS partition in you article. Another reason for me to hate windows crash recovery. I have yet to see a good disk recovery. Like the one I use in Unix but this is not the place to spam it and it is not free.
lol 18 gig drives, those
lol 18 gig drives, those would have to be old..I'd go ahead and replace the server or at the very _minimum_ implement a backup system of some kind. although with that old of server, you could be looking at possible other hardware failing in the futute, so you'd want to make sure to backup the data to a medium that another machine definitely will read. such as, don't trust old HP dat tape drives!!
Answering the comments (after 1+ year)
I see there were some comments posted.... I think I replied to some in due time, but I'm not so sure... my memory sucks.
I can see there were some people talking about getting new hardware. Of course, that's one answer to the problem.... but when you are working on a public institution (in Venezuela, should I add) things are not that simple here (are they anywhere?). We have to work on a very very very tight budget and crack our heads to get the most out of everything we have at hands (even dyno-hardware).
No, the practice wasn't affected for that long. The main system of the hospital (though it was affected) was restored in basically no time. The data that was affected was "Users' Docs". Users had local copies of documents... but perhaps not all documents... and certainly not old documents. They carried on with what they had at hand at the time and waited for us to (hopefully) get the whole think back.
Coming to a more technical side of the article: how did I (we) determine the order of the disks? That took a little binary math to achieve. When we studied the images we noticed that there were markers that could be read in fixed positions in different chunks of the image of the disks (things like the string "FILE*" that were part of the structure of the NTFS partition). There were 5 disks in the array. For every chunk "row", 4 of them would have data and one disk would have the XOR checksum of the other 4 chunks (remember that checksums are spread among all the disks). If you calculate the XOR of 4 times the same value (like FILE*) you will get a beautiful 0 (for each byte), and so we were able to see were the data chunks and checksum chunks were (luckily there were 5 disks. Had they been an even number of disks, it would have taken a little more trickery because the XOR of an odd number of times of "FILE*" would be "FILE*"). We already knew where the partition table of the disk was (so the first data chuck) and could see where that image had its first checksum chunk, together with the position of the other checksums in the other disks, you can know which algorithm was applied and the order of the disks. I'm wondering if that was clear enough. :-? If you have questions, ask Tony for my email address. I'm sure he will kindly provide it. ;-)
The source code? It's there, right? It's a Free Software Magazine after all, isn't it? ;-)
My experience...
Hello everyone...
My name is Marco, and I had the same experience...
2 weeks ago my server go down...all disks whit red led on...
The first thing I thought "i've lost all data...all db..all users folders..."...the last backup was a few months ago!!
i tried to change the controller, but nothing to do...the controller don't recover the raid configuration from the disk.
Searching in internet i found this guide...and reading it i've seen that what Edmundo write is the samne thing that happen in my office...i think "ok...i want to try..."...
My raid is a single raid5 array with 8 disks...in the array 2 logical drives.
After three days of work...and with the valuable help of Edmundo (How much patience has this guy? :)))) )...i've recovered all data from the disks...recovere all db and users folders...in few words...all i need to restore the office software.
I want to again thank Edmundo for his help... :))
p.s. the first thing that i've installed in my office after the recovery of the data...is a very good system backup :))
sorry for my english...i hope that who read this can understand :))))
Recovery RAID Online
Hi Edmundo,
apparently the company Raid-Recovery-Online.com can recover all RAID arrays remotely in no time (providing 24/7 services)... So next time you need to Save the Republic , just contact them without all that fuss... and it's not even that expensive.
The library has been translated to python
Hello, everybody.
With the desire to get rid of using java to rebuild the images I have decided to translate (and correct... I think I found a couple of problems) the library to python.
The library is here:
I've already written a couple of articles on my blog about it:
There you go!
Little help please
Hey man nice article. I was looking for abit of advice, if possible.
I have a 3 disk hardware raid 5 that has collapsed. The backup was incomplete :) so I have been asked to recover it. With abit of messing around with the hardware I have 2 full disk images and 1 half disk image. What I need advice with is determining the chuck size and algorithm. I had a go rebuilding the 3rd drive myself with left-sync and 512k chunk size then compared what I got with the partial image. I found 50k-ish chunks of identical data in identical locations but the rest was junk. Then I saw this article, what should I be looking for to determine chunk size? what should I be looking for to determine the algorithm?
Would it be worth my time to create the first say 200M of the third disk with your script (using a variety of variables) and compare to the other disk I have?
I am of course working in knoppix.
The library has been translated to C++
First, I had said that it was translated to python and life was beautiful... but on python the recovery process was horrendously slow. Last night I migrated it to C++ and let me tell you that it's MUCH faster!