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Shoah Foundation tames 8 PB with tape and automation
Add this as a point in the 'tape' column if you're scoring the ancient debate at home.
The Shoah Foundation, founded by Stephen Spielberg to preserve Holocaust survivors' narratives after Schindler's List and now a part of the University of Southern California, has conducted interviews with thousands of survivors in 56 countries. The Foundation has 52,000 interviews that amount to 105,000 hours of footage.
CTO Sam Gustman says the footage was originally shot on analog video cameras, then converted to digital betacam and MPEGs for distribution online. It currently amounts to 135 TB. However, the Foundation is converting the footage to Motion JPEG 2000, which will create bigger files–about 4 PB of data, Gustman estimated. Each video will be copied twice, bringing the total to 8 PB.
Gustman says the Foundation received a $2 million donation of SL8500 tape libraries, Sun STK 6540 arrays and servers from Sun Microsystems in June. The Foundation has an automated transcoding system running on the servers, and that takes up the 140 TB of 6540 disk capacity for workspace. Sun's SAM-FS software will automate the migration of data within the system, to the 6540 and then to the SL8500 silo for long-term storage.
We're hearing a lot in the industry these days about rich content applications such as this one moving to clustered disk systems, but Gustman said disk costs too much for the Foundation's budget. He sees the potential for an eventual move to disk storage, but "disk is still too expensive–four to five times the total cost of ownership, mostly for powerand cooling."
Another advantage to the T10000 tape drives the Foundation plans to use is that they will eliminate having to migrate the entire collection to disk during copying, transcoding and technology refreshes. One T10000 drive can make copies or do conversions directly between drives in the robot, and the virtualization layer with SAM-FS means that can happen transparently.
However, as an organization charged with the historic preservation of records, Gustman agreed with others I've talked to about this subject in saying that there's still no great way to preserve digital information in the long term. "The problem with digital preservation right now is that you have to put energy into it–you can't just stick it in a box and hope it's there 100 years from now," he said. "Maybe there'll be something eventually that you don't have to put energy into, but it doesn't exist yet."
The vagaries of disaster recovery, cont'd
Last week, Tory Skyers wrote a post about the unforeseen complexities of disaster recovery after his PC's motherboard fried. This week, I had an interesting discussion with somebody working with a much bigger enterprise infrastructure who also found that people, process, and sometimes luck–good and bad–can influence disaster recovery planning more than any technology.
Mark Zwartz, manager of information technologies for privately held real estate conglomerate JMB Companies, has been signed on with SunGard's Availability Services for virtual server-based DR since August. Last week Zwartz gave me a deeper look behind the scenes at his disaster recovery planning process, and the ways it wasn't so simple.
For one thing, it might not have happened at all without a contract re-negotiation with SunGard. "Our original contract was a wacky deal with [one subsidiary] that expanded to the other entities, but the contracts were so goofy and webbed into each other that if we called with a problem or needing to fail over, the people at SunGard might not have any idea which company or machines we were talking about," he said. "We saved money on lawyers and negotiations, but quite honestly, if we had to failover, nobody at SunGard might've known what to turn on."
The renegotiation of that contract happened to coincide with the beta program for the SunGard service. "That was the foot in the door to change things," Zwartz said. Because it was a beta program, the companies got three free months of testing, which caught the attention of Zwartz's management.
Meanwhile, JMB was in the midst of a hardware refresh, as well as rolling out virtualization. Still, "one of the hardest parts was selling virtualization–these are highly intelligent people who are handling millions if not billions of dollars, and it's hard to explain the concept that they don't actually 'own' anything [with virtual servers]," he said.
A broker at a hedge fund firm in the conglomerate was highly reliant on Outlook contacts and notes in each contact file to do her daily business. Meanwhile, the company still worked with traditional tape backup, which wouldn't offer the granular protection to recover all of those contacts in the event of an outage.
I'm sure most of you out there in blogland know what happened next. "She was synching her BlackBerry herself, and blew out her contacts," according to Zwartz. The only option for restoring Exchange backups was to restore the entire Exchange database from tape to a separate server, which the company had declined to buy. "They lost a significant part of a trade before that," he said. "Nobody realized such a small thing would make her unproductive."
Of course, without a fully staffed and replicated secondary environment, Zwartz acknowledged, it's impossible to be disaster-proof. But the incident also had a silver lining when it came to convincing management to participate in the new SunGard program. "It would've cost $1,500 to get a new backup device," he said. "It wound up taking six weeks to get one contact back and cost between $15,000 and $20,000. It was a selling point when it came to virtual servers with SunGard."
NetApp discontinues replication app
NetApp today quietly pulled the plug on its SnapMirror for Open Systems (SMOS) heterogeneous data replication software, acquired from startup Topio for $160 million in 2006.
In a press release posted on the NetApp Web site – but not distributed – the vendor said it would discontinue SMOS and close the former Topio development facility in Haifa, Israel on Jan. 15. According to the release, NetApp "has not made final employment decisions" on the 51 employees in Haifa.
NetApp acquired Topio for its Data Protection Suite, at least partly in response to EMC's purchase of Kashya six months before. But while EMC built Kashya's replication and CDP into RecoverPoint – a staple of its replication platform — Topio's heterogeneous replication offering never caught on, even after NetApp re-released it as ReplicatorX and then SMOS.
NetApp's release blames the product's failure on a lack of interest in replication between multiple vendors' products. "Our decision to terminate SMOS product development was based on customer priorities and actual purchase histories," the release said. "The market for replication products for disaster recovery purposes is dominated by homogeneous, rather than multivendor, solutions. Our 'any-to-any' solution with SMOS was never adopted by customers in the way we anticipated."
NetApp added that it remains committed to its other SnapMirror versions for "any-to-NetApp" data protection. SMOS customers will get three years of maintenance and technical support.
Pillar pledges SSD support in 2009
Pillar's CEO Mike Workman dropped by our office today, and said that while Pillar retains its earlier reservations about SSDs not being best utilized behind a network loop, the company will support them next year. The systems vendor will not have an exclusive partner for the drives, Workman said, though he mentioned Intel as one supplier.
Pillar's Axiom arrays separate disk capacity from the storage controller with components called bricks (disk) and slammers (controllers). Workman says the Axiom will support SSDs in the bricks, and the arrays' QoS features will be updated to support moving workloads to SSDs. This can happen either according to policy or automatically (with prior user approval) when the system is under intense workload.
This is definitely a change in tune, though Workman has always said Pillar's systems were capable of supporting SSDs and probably would. He just thought network latency was too great, and he hasn't retreated from that position. "It's there," he said. "There's no way to get around that."
But Workman says the biggest obstance to SSD now is price. "When we show people how they work, they say, 'Fine,'" he said. "Then we tell them how much it costs, and that's when they keel over."
Despite offering an 80% utilization guarantee earlier this year, Workman said only about 15% of Pillar's customers are at 80%. But the company hasn't been paying out lots of guarantee money, either. The details of the offer are vague to begin with: the terms are negotiated on a case by case basis, "to remediate any issue, as well as financial pain." The terms of the guarantee would have to be negotiated as part of the original sale.
Analysts also said users might be wary of pushing utilization that high given that it requires capacity planning to be precise. "I can't make [customers] write data to the system," Workman said. "The guarantee was not that they will but that they can." He added that the average Pillar customer's utilization currently is 62%.
EMC and Dell extend partnership, add NAS
With sales of EMC storage systems sold through Dell on the decline, EMC CEO Joe Tucci declared last October "there's a lot more we could and should be doing together" to strengthen the EMC-Dell relationship.
Today, Dell and EMC say they've extended their agreement to co-brand Clariion midrange SAN systems to 2013 and added EMC's Celerra NX4 to the deal. Whether that's doing "a lot more" or not will depend on how well Dell does with the NX4, which gives Dell another NAS product to sell along with its Windows-based NAS systems. Dell will begin selling the NX4 early next year.
Dell and EMC are calling the new deal a five-year extension, although it's really a two-year extension because their previous deal was to run through 2011.
"The EMC-Dell relationship has been extremely successful," says Peter Thayer, director of marketing for EMC's multi-protocol group. "If you look at the storage industry, you won't find any relationship as successful as this."
He's probably right, considering how many Clariion systems Dell has sold in the seven years since the co-marketing alliance began. But the relationship hasn't been the same since Dell acquired EqualLogic for $1.4 billion in January, giving it its own midrange SAN system.
EqualLogic's products are iSCSI only, so Dell still relies on Clariion for Fibre Channel SANs. But it's probably no coincidence that Dell has sold fewer Clariion systems still picking up EqualLogic. Overall, EMC's revenues from Dell declined 26% year over year last quarter, and Dell has gone from 15.8% of EMC revenue to 10.4% in a year. Dell accounted for 35% of Clariion revenue a few years back, but less than 30% last quarter.
Wachovia Capital Markets financial analyst Aaron Rakers calls the extension good news because it could end speculation about the two vendors' commitment to each other. "There have clearly been increased questions surrounding this partnership throughout 2008, or rather since Dell has increasingly focused its attention on driving its EqualLogic business," he wrote in a note to clients.
Financial analyst Kaushik Roy of Pacific Growth agrees that investors have been concerned about the direction the EMC-Dell relationship is going and the extension should help, but he isn't sure about how much.
"We will have to wait to see if the relationship bears any fruit," Roy said of the extension. "While we are not expecting EMC's revenues from Dell to ramp up materially, investors would be happy if revenues do not decline precipitously."
EMC is also involved with Dell's plans to add data deduplication next year. While it hasn't disclosed any products yet, Dell last month said its dedupe platform will include Quantum software and be compatible with EMC disk libraries.
IDC report shows steady storage sales in third quarter, some warning signs
IDC's quarterly tracker numbers for the third quarter of 2008 show disk storage and storage software sales holding steady at a time when many industries are feeling the effects of recession.
According to an IDC press release, "worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted 8.8% year-over-year growth totaling $4.9 billion…total disk storage systems market grew to $6.6 billion in revenues, up 1.1% from the prior year's third quarter, driven by softness in server systems sales."
Meanwhile, the storage software market grew year-over-year for the 20th consecutive quarter with revenues of $3.1 billion, up 11.6% over last year's third quarter.
On the disk side, companies with server businesses showed declines. IBM disk revenue declined 18.1%, Dell dropped 8.7% and HP was down 0.5% in overall disk system revenue (including servers). Fujitsu Siemens and NEC also declined. But for external (networked) storage, HP increased 3.3% and Dell was up 8.6a% over last year. Storage system-only vendors EMC (16.2%) and NetApp (13.8%) gained significantly over last year, as did Sun (up 25%).
Year-over-year numbers looked similar on the software side, with outliers like HP increasing revenue 106.2% in storage management software from one year to the next. However, nearly all the storage software vendors stumbled from the previous quarter. HP took a 19.7% sequential hit in storage management. Storage infrastructure software slipped 7.8% from the previous quarter, with NetApp revenue declining 18.3% in that category.
According to IDC's software press release, storage software revenues in the third quarter are traditionally slower before a typically strong fourth quarter. However, the overall economy has been going in the opposite direction. Many industries look at the third quarter as the calm before the storm, with dire predictions of declines coming for next year. And having covered these trackers before, I can say anecdotally I don't recall seeing quite such sharp declines one column (the quarterly comparison) affecting almost all companies and almost all categories.
Other industry experts have told SearchStorage.com that the worst is yet to come. According to a report issued in October by Forrester Research, the third quarter for IT companies remained relatively stable because most vendors are still working through a sales pipeline. But poor sales are predicted for all IT vendors in the fourth quarter.
In the meantime, however, while budget growth may be constrained next year, storage managers have said they aren't expecting their daily tasks to change drastically because of the recession.
Users look increasingly to storage virtualization as data grows, analyst says
I had an interesting conversation today with TheInfoPro's managing director of storage research Rob Stevenson about the results of his firm's latest survey of 250 Fortune 1000 and midsize enterprise storage users. Fortune 1000 users surveyed by TIP cited block virtualization as having the biggest impact on their environment this year. TIP expects 50% of the Fortune 1000 to have virtualization in use by the end of 2009. All of this is in response to ongoing and relentless data growth.
"Impact" is difficult to define, as TIP doesn't offer definitions or parameters to the open-ended question for users, instead letting the responses shape the definition. (Midrange users cited server virtualization as having the biggest impact, and we all know that there are good and bad impacts involved).
What really stood out to me, though, when I discussed the results (as well as the semantics of the word impact) with Stevenson, was how block virtualization is being used and for what purposes. My general impression has been that block storage virtualization has not lived up to its initial round of hype as a "silver bullet" for single-pane-of-glass management of an overall storage environment. I wondered, had that changed when I wasn't looking?
According to Stevenson, while adoption for block virtualization has risen steadily even since this past February (number of respondents with the technology "in use" went from 21% in February's Wave 10 to 23% in Wave 11), 23% said they're using it with just 2% of the overall storage capacity.
Stevenson said the users in this case were petabyte-plus shops that in the past year or so have seen storage balloon from the single petabyte range to 2.5 petabytes or more, with no signs of stopping. These admins are scrambling to consolidate storage, move to new technologies that offer better utilization, and automate tasks. Where block virtualization comes in for most of them is performing data migration while moving to new technologies or systems — hence the relatively small proportion of data being managed by block virtualization devices from day to day.
Meanwhile, midrange enterprises are increasingly looking to maximize their resources on the server side. Close behind that, though, come utilization improvement technologies for storage like thin provisioning and data deduplication.
It's largely a matter of consolidating resources and improving utilization rates. "But the big Fortune 1000 shops have a bigger 'legacy drag' of data that they have to move," Stevenson said. Hence the use of block virtualization tools.
Stevenson said continued data growth and an increasing amount of complexity to go along with it–storage managers are not only managing an average of 400 TB each compared to 200 TB each a year ago, but the number of LUNs to manage within that volume is also increasing. That drives a need for automated management. While the most popular use case for virtualization seems to be data migration, Stevenson said users are finding day-to-day data movement is also increasing, bringing these devices to the forefront once again for management.
Does this mean we could be seeing block virtualization tools proliferate once the midrange market reaches the petabyte level? (After all, as the old chestnut goes, a megabyte used to be a lot of data). That's where Stevenson's crystal ball grows, well, cloudier.
Right now, one tentative theory is that users whose data centers already have large amounts of data under management tend to also already have specialized staff. But as the midrange market comes up against a need to scale staff as well as technology, they may turn to service providers before turning to storage virtualization devices.
"In large data centers, we see the pooling of resources among multiple data center groups to balance workload, like moving storage networking to a networking team or data classification and archiving to server and application groups," Stevenson said. "When it comes to midsize admins having to start 'not doing things', it's probably not going to come with an increase in internal staffing–instead they may look to offshoring those tasks to cloud service providers."
But that's not to say large enterprises won't be looking up at the clouds, too. "We're still working out the 'competing futures' if you will," Stevenson said.
Overland gets $9 million in financing, expects more
Overland Storage's employees and partners received an early Thanksgiving present last Wednesday when the struggling tape and disk vendor secured financing for up to $9 million of its domestic accounts receivable.
Marquette Commercial Finance will finance Overland's accounts receivable. Accounts receivable financing means Overland will sell its invoices for a percentage of their total value to generate immediate cash. CEO Vern LoForti says Overland will determine how much of its domestic accounts it will sell to Marquette, up to $9 million. He also says Overland is negotiating another deal to finance its international receivables.
In its last quarterly earnings filing with the SEC, Overland revealed it might miss payments to vendors, liquidate assets and suspend some operations if it did not get financing in November. Overland was looking for $10 million.
"There was a lot of anticipation about this announcement," LoForti says. "A lot of people were watching for this."
Now that Overland can pay its bills, it will concentrate on marketing the Snap NAS business it acquired from Adaptec in June. LoForti hopes the NAS business becomes profitable by the first quarter of next year.
"We're in the middle of a lot of big deals for Snap," LoForti says. "We're pushing it for video surveillance, which is a big market."
He also sees Overland's REO VTL as a potential growth area, but Overland is far from home free. The company lost $6.9 million last quarter and laid off 53 employees – 13% of its staff – in August. LoForti says no other staff reductions are planned now, although he won't rule out more.
"We're watching things closely, and prepared to do more if we need to," he says, pointing out his rival Quantum's cuts announced last week.
Lessons learned from personal disaster recovery
I've recently been at the fuzzy end of the data recovery/data availability lollipop. I lost a motherboard due to some crazy unknown issue/interaction with my front-mounted headphone jack, the motherboard and the sound card. During this nightmare I've come to appreciate even more the process of making sure that, in the event of a disaster, companies (even small ones like my home business) have access not only to their data but to their critical systems as well.
I've passed through all the phases of grief with this motherboard. At first, I was in denial for a good 24 hours, thinking 'there's no way this could be happening, something just tripped and all I have to do is reset a switch or jumper." Well, I moved around the three jumpers on the board, and the myriad of switches at least 10 times each, and it was still dead. I took out the CPU, the memory, all the cards, and tried a new power supply. No go.
By now I'd been down for about 48 hours and panic was setting in. So I set out to try and at least recover my data. I have most (funny thing, I thought I had all) of my important data on my file server in the basement, my email via IMAP (replicated from a protected server on the Internet to a server in my home virtual server farm) and the applications I'd need to carry out my work functions available via ISOs on another file server. I figured these steps would be good enough to get me up and running in case I lost my desktop. But I was wrong, ooooh so wrong. As it turned out, neither repairing the motherboard nor restoring data from other devices even came close to solving the whole problem.
The first tenet of data recovery planning is "Know the value of thy data" (Jon Toigo). The second tenet is "Know where it is, dummy" (Curtis Preston). I thought I knew the value of all my data, and I was absolutely certain I knew where it was. I had scripts built to move that data around from where I created it (my now-dead desktop) to a "safer" place (my super-redundant file server), while some of the smaller file size and text-based items were created directly on the file server.
I routinely categorize my documents, images, invoices and other data I create as well. As far as data classification is concerned, I really do eat my own dog food.
But apparently. this wasn't enough (or I need something new) because I still wasn't able to work after my desktop went down. I was literally dead in the water–production in my office came to a screeching halt with terabytes of storage, servers and such still happily whirring away.
Why? Here's the kicker. I was so used to my dual monitor setup with that fast storage subsystem that most of the things I was creating I couldn't easily (or in some cases at all) shift to working on a laptop. Not only that, but I missed small things that I thought were unimportant, like Outlook email filters I created to organize my email (I get about 100 or so real messages out of the 500+ total messages on a weekday). I found it almost impossible to sift through all the email to get at the bits I needed. I kept running into situations where documents I was creating depended on some bit of data that was easily accessible when I was working on my desktop but took me close to two hours to find when I was on my laptop (I have a desktop search engine setup that indexes my document stores).
I'd also gotten so used to the notepad gadget on Vista's sidebar that I stored all kinds of little notes to myself, URLs and such. All now inaccessible. While I could technically "work," it was taking me eight hours to do what normally took 30 minutes.
Being caught completely offguard by this made all the steps I took to prepare for this situation seem all the more pointless. I had most of my data. I could access most of my data. But I was having serious problems with productivity because key pieces were missing.
This cost me. . .and not just in terms of productivity. I actually ended up paying $100 more for goods for my hobby e-shop because I couldn't locate the original quote the company sent me and it had been a relatively long period of time between quoting and purchasing. Aargh!
Trying to find a motherboard (the same brand and model) locally was an exercise in futility. The board was out of production and stock had dried up everywhere but on the Internet, where the price was astronomical. I ended up having to RMA a second board and had to switch manufacturers and reinstall Vista three times.
What's more, there are always complicating factors at work in any recovery situation. Right before my motherboard shorted, my wife and I — given the economy — had revisited our budget looking to cut costs, and, seeing how much we were paying for communications and television, decided to switch to Comcast VoIP from a Verizon land line.
In doing so, we discovered that the cable line coming into our house had a crack in it, and when the wind blew or a bird sat on the cable the cable swayed, and the signal strength would fluctuate too much for the VoIP Terminal Adapter. So the cable had to be replaced. This meant that when the motherboard died, not only was my main computer down, but I also had no reliable communications besides my cell phone. The only way for me to get on the Internet reliably was to tether with my cell phone–all this only a week after I got my computer back to a semi-productive state!
Comcast would replace our modem four times, and send five different technicians out to diagnose the issue. After two weeks of no (or nearly no) Internet, they replaced the cable all the way out to multiples poles along the street.
And those were just the infrastructure disasters. The work stoppages caused by them were disasters in and of themselves. I have a home office, and my wife works exclusively from her home office. Without the Internet she is, for all intents and purposes, out of business, and I'm not too far behind her. Over the five weeks it took for these events to unfurl we've calculated the lost man (and woman) hours at about 350. . .give or take a few working Saturdays.
Lessons learned for me:
- Have a spare board. Sure, it's costly, but after almost two weeks of lost productivity just waiting for a board, I realized it's cheaper to have a board on a shelf.
- As an infrastructure engineer I do my best to plan for disasters by building in replication facilities and sourcing storage subsystems that lend themselves to replication and can operate in hot/warm and hot/hot configurations. This, however, is not disaster recovery planning, as much as I'd like to pat myself on the back and say it is. That part of the process is simply being prudent about hardware choices. While it helps with DR, it cannot be relied on as your main plan no matter what hardware vendors tell you.
- Really planning for DR involves things that I've always felt should be left to folks with proven expertise. My recent experiences have firmly cemented that belief. A storage professional is not a DR professional by default, no matter how many storage professionals happen to be extremely proficient at DR. Having a great protection plan for data with SRDF, snapshots and gigawatts of backup power does not mean that you or your business will actually be able to function in the event of a disaster.
- Make efforts to truly understand the value of metadata, indexes and other things required to conduct business in the event of a disaster, not just the Word file and a copy of Microsoft Office.
- Internet access has become a requirement. It is no longer a luxury plan for a backup line (DSL, cellular etc).
- If your computers not working means you will lose money at your business, pay someone to help you with a REAL DR plan. If you are a home-based business, do research on what you should be planning for and talk with a professional about DR.
- Have spares. . .wait, did I say that already?
Hopefully all this will scare spare some folks this nightmare by pushing them to take a real look at how they work and how they can continue working in the event of a disaster. Whether it's on a small or large scale.
No solace for Quantum
Like the rest of corporate America, storage companies will spend the holiday season implementing cost-cutting measures to get through the current financial crisis.
Quantum today kicked off Thanksgiving week by disclosing it is chopping 180 jobs – about 8% of its workforce – and people inside the storage industry are waiting for larger vendors to announce layoffs in the coming weeks.
Quantum's press release says the layoffs and other steps to decrease expenses will save the company around $18 million per year, after an initial $4.4 million cost to implement. Quantum emphasized it will increase its investment on data deduplication and replication, which leaves its declining tape business to feel the cuts.
The immediate goal of Quantum's cuts is to get its stock price up. Quantum's shares finished last week at a paltry $0.14. The New York Stock Exchange can delist Quantum if its shares do not rise to $1.00 by April 27. Quantum can also proceed with a reverse stock split that shareholders approved in August to raise its share price.
It's certainly no surprise that Quantum is concentrating on dedupe for its disk backup appliances. Its disk and software revenue has been increasing mainly because of dedupe while its legacy tape business has declined over the past few quarters. EMC uses Quantum's deduplication software with its backup disk libraries, and Dell recently said it would partner with Quantum to sell dedupe products next year.
Last week we reported privately held archiving vendor Copan Systems is laying off staff, giving unpaid leave to workers and slashing executives' salaries while waiting to close a round of VC funding.
Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Sun have all disclosed cost-cutting measures as well.
"Whether it's a private or public company, everyone is feeling the crunch," Pacific Growth financial analyst Kaushik Roy says. "The problem is that nobody knows if this is the bottom or if it could go down a lot more."


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Home from Con.
Failed to get a post up today, but look for a big post with lots of rambling, sentimental thoughts tomorrow.
My cousin Kane saw you there, I think he told you how much I like Zot, haha.
New York, NY
January 11, 2016
Lecture to NYC Teachers
Dept of Education Event
at the NY Historical Society
Irvine, CA
February 10, 2016
University of California, Irvine Campus
Public Lecture, 5:30 pm
Los Angeles, CA
February 20-21, 2016
Two-Day Making Workshop
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art
Los Angeles, CA
March 2-3, 2016
Riot Games
In-House Lecture & Workshop
San Francisco, CA
March 20 to April 2, 2016
The Exploratorium
Osher Fellowship
Claremont, CA
April 4, 2016
Harvey Mudd College
Irvine, CA
April 7, 2016
Blizzard Entertainment
In-House Lecture
Los Angeles, CA
April 9-10, 2016
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
In Conversation with Ben Blacker, 4 pm
Avon, CT
April 16, 2016
Avon Public Library
Keynote Speaker
St. Louis, MO
April 24, 2016
Washington University
Public Lecture
Atlanta, GA
May 19, 2016
HOW Design Live
Durham, NC
May 20-22, 2016
In Conversation with
Ryan Germick
San Diego, CA
July 21-24, 2016
Comic-Con International
Panels TBA
Bucheon, SOUTH KOREA
July 27-29, 2016
BiCof 2016
Panel and Lecture
Washington, DC
August 2, 2016
International Forum of Visual Practitioners Conference
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London, 18 December 2013 - IT Europa today announced further details of the 7th Annual European ISV Convention which will be staged at the Lancaster London Hotel on 26 March 2014. It also revealed the identity of some of the companies that have already signed up to support the event as sponsors.
Under the overall umbrella of Innovation, Intelligence and Integration – driving better business outcomes, the conference will feature sessions on key issues set to drive application development in Europe over the coming year.
Integration – How do hybrid IT, apps, mobile and M2M change the picture? How can developments in new device and cloud technologies be best harnessed and integrated with legacy systems to deliver better business value
Intelligence – the new black: how more effective analysis of diverse data can create real business intelligence
Innovation – Delivering better business outcomes. Harnessing the power of new technologies and evidence-based decision-making to create a new generation of smarter applications
Partnering to accelerate success – how leveraging vendor and distributor ecosystems and advances in communication and social networking can help speed application development, marketing and delivery
These sessions will be followed by moderated panel discussions which will examine the implications of some of these trends and the issues arising from them, including the challenges of differentiating offerings to create competitive advantage within a highly-competitive applications landscape.
Many of the leading platform technology companies and distributors who are driving application development in the European market have already signed up to sponsor and participate in the convention. These include: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Ingram Micro, Jaspersoft, SafeNet, and Avnet. ISVWorld, the world's most comprehensive database of software products and vendors, has also signed up to support the convention as a partner.
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To describe every element of this level, as we've done earlier, would be tedious, to say the least, not to mention that this is the shortest and by far the easiest level in Story Mode. Once again, don't worry about trying to collect those Minikits: if you happen to come across one while flying around, kudos to you, but don't make it a priority until you're playing in Free Play Mode.
When you see the shield generators, fire your torpedos. You'll repeat this act throughout the level, so disable the shields so you can continue throughout the rest of the level.
After shooting your way through the level, you'll make your way to the infamous Death Star trench. Avoid Darth Vader's TIE-Fighter and his escort until you get to the end of the level or if you feel like it you can flip over and try shot them, while shooting each turret that pops up around the shielded exhaust port. After the turrets are destroyed, the shields will go down on the exhaust port, making it vulnerable for one last torpedo.
"You're all clear, kid, let's blow this thing and go home." -- Han Solo
Minikit Locations:
1. Near the beginning of the level, after the first shield barrier, head towards the left of the screen to see a small + sign on the ground. Look for these throughout the level, because they will pop up a turnstile after you fly over them, and then shoot the green panels to rotate the turnstile which will bring up a Minikit for you to grab. See the image below for an example.
2. Similar to step one, locate the + on the ground in front of the TIE-Fighter, on the left side of the level, to bring up the turnstile. Shoot at the green panel for the Minikit.
3. Once again, similar to steps one and two, another turnstile is located in front of one of a shield generators. Just look for those +'s on the ground.
4. In a TIE-Fighter controlled area, you need to light up various green lights by flying over them. The tricky thing is that after you activate these lights, they time out after a few seconds. The best vehicle for this is the Falcon, but if you don't have it, just get your timing down with one of the tie fighters, since they're fast enough to light up each of the panels before they time out.
5. In the first TIE-Fighter-only-area, up on the left is a Minikit.
6. Directly across from the TIE-Fighter-only entrance, there is a blue striped panel that you can shoot to reveal a Minikit.
7. Directly next to a tie fighter only room, there is a blue striped panel that you can shoot to reveal a Minikit.
8. Inside a TIE-Fighter only area, there is a Minikit protected by a shield barrier. Shoot the shield generators on the sides, to fluctuate the shield, so you can obtain the Minikit.
9. After you shoot out the shields, towards the end of the level, blast down the wall and shoot out the panel directly to the left.
10. At the end of the trench, bring up the turnstile to get a Minikit.
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Darkslayer7 posted on Aug 11, 2008 10:49:44 AM - Report post
The steering is super . You must practice your driving skills . I am playing GRID from 3 weeks , and i won fast all races in ninja difficult ( without trainer ) .
pop33 posted on Aug 24, 2008 1:36:32 AM - Report post
you must know not to stick your opinion to others.why shouldnt we buy it? i brought it and the game kicks @$$. MY oponion.
Heroes never die. They respawn.
hungman94 posted on Aug 25, 2008 4:06:47 AM - Report post
I would totally agree with that.
GRID Is like really...GOOD!
I got it the first day and I can't stop playing it.
I have almost finished and made it to the last Level.
I'm either here, or I'm ... Uhmm?
Plasmatic posted on Aug 29, 2008 4:21:10 AM - Report post
I agree, i Like it! it actually takes some skill to drive, unlike the NFS series.
The cars feel more realistic, and the damage done to your car actually impacts performance, which is a nice change of pace from NFS.
The cars feel more realistic, and the damage done to your car actually impacts performance, which is a nice change of pace from NFS.
"The Way It's Meant To Die"
funkiller666 posted on Aug 29, 2008 6:51:36 PM - Report post
i agree with all of you this game needs mass amounts of work on the stering and damage functions but it is a hard core game for those of us that like a real challange and online free drift is the funnest thing to do. peace out
AdmiralThrawn posted on Sep 08, 2008 9:53:35 PM - Report post
I agree that the steering system is a BIT slow (about a tenth of a second, but that can mean everything), but I found that over time, I just got used to it.
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Throw a blanket over it
Ten minutes of entertainment, crammed into three hours.
obscuredeadfred posted on Oct 09, 2008 4:10:59 AM - Report post
Yes lets all get it for free on torrent then they can stop making p.c games altogether.This is a good game with a Logitech G15 wheel
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Sammich posted on Oct 09, 2008 3:24:07 PM - Report post
I love the NFS Series, but i also love playing GRID, its more realistic than NFS. You could finish a race in need for speed just by holding the accelerator and using the walls to guide you. In GRID you have to actually take into account the forces acting on your car. You WILL spin out if you dont take the turn correctly. I was frustrated with this at the beginning but after putting alittle More than 5 minutes into playing, i was able to master the corners. I beat the game about a month ago and am starting over! Its an amazing game!
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The Music Teachers' Association of California (MTAC) sponsors a music study program entitled Certificate of Merit (CM). Initiated in 1933, the CM Program now involves approximately 30,000 students annually statewide. There are evaluation opportunities for students of Piano, Violin, Cello, Viola, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, Bassoon, Horn, Voice and Harp.
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How the CM Program Works:
A detailed CM Syllabus has been created and designed for each of the above-mentioned instruments. There are specific set requirements for each of the eleven CM levels. Your child's teacher will decide on the level that is appropriate.
Student Registration takes place from September 15 through November 15. Your child's teacher will register your child through a secure online database. Students must be age 5 or older as of November 15 (the CM Registration Deadline) to participate in the CM Program.
Students work with their teachers on selected literature, technique elements, sight reading, theory and ear training for their enrolled level.
Registered students participate in an annual evaluation held from mid-February through April.
From the evaluation, students receive a written assessment.
Students will also complete a written theory exam, which includes an ear training component.
Upon successful completion of all segments of the evaluation, students receive an official MTAC CM Certificate.
Senior medallions will be awarded to eligible high school seniors.
Students who demonstrate exceptional skill at his/her evaluation may be selected to perform at annual MTAC State Convention Recitals.
Your child(ren) will benefit tremendously from this wonderful educational opportunity and experience. Please consult with your child's teacher for more information regarding registration and preparation.
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Any teacher who is an active, provisional, Cal Plan or student member of MTAC may enroll students in the Certificate of Merit program. Enrollment is limited to teachers in good standing who are California residents and who are affiliated with a local branch of MTAC. Students are evaluated on an assigned date at a site determined by the local branch of MTAC. These evaluations are administered by state-appointed evaluators. Evaluations include all elements of the CM program: performance, technique, ear training, sight reading and written theory tests. The branch fee for participation is $12.
The Certificate of Merit Syllabi are published by The Music Teachers' Association of California and is available for purchase exclusively through the MTAC State Office. To place an order for a Syllabus, go to MTAC's Online Shopping Page. You can also order with a credit card by calling 1-800-834-3340 extension 1 (24 hour automated service) or send check payment to: MTAC, 833 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103. Member and non-member prices are listed for each Instrument Syllabus.
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The four-game suspension of defensive end Jermaine Cunningham for violating the NFL's policy on performance enhancing substances will put more responsibility on the shoulders of veteran Trevor Scott, and perhaps rookie Jake Bequette, going forward into the final month of the season. In addition, it could hasten the return of rookie defensive end Chandler Jones, who went down with an ankle injury in a Nov. 18 win over the Colts and sat out Thursday's victory against the Jets. Regardless, it will leave the Patriots' pass rush thin as New England heads into an important four-game stretch.
The 6-foot-3, 255-pound Cunningham, who had been moved around some over the course of the 2012 season from defensive end to the interior, had six quarterback hits and 2.5 sacks over the first 11 games of the season. However, because of the suspension, he'll now be sidelined for the next four games, which means he'll sit out upcoming contests against the Dolphins (Dec. 2), Texans (Dec. 10), 49ers (Dec. 16) and Jaguars (Dec. 23). He'll be eligible to return to the team on Dec. 24.
Here's a look at the three who will be asked to step their game up in his absence.
'¢Scott is in his first season with New England, and has seen occasional work in relief of Jones and Rob Ninkovich at defensive end. According to Pro Football Focus, the 28-year-old has played 110 snaps this season, most of which came against the Colts after Jones went down with his injury. The 6-foot-5, 265-pounder, who had a career-high seven sacks in 2009 with the Raiders, will see a bump in playing time over the next four games for New England.
'¢Bequette was a third-round pick out of out of Arkansas who has fundamentally taken a redshirt season this year. The 6-foot-5, 265-pounder has mostly sat — he's only gotten into two games this year and has no stats — while others like Scott, Cunningham, Francis and Jones have gotten the bulk of the reps. (He was named a Practice Player of the Week in late October.) But with Cunningham's ban, Bequette will likely get bumped up the depth chart, and could see some situational work over the next four games as a result.
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In the 1980s, the cartoon landscape was a boring mess, with toy knockoffs ruling the airwaves. Then, animator John Kricfalusi introduced the world to his surreal, satirical characters Ren Hoek, a bitter asthma-hound chihauhua who sounds like Peter Lorre, and Stimpson J. Cat, a fat, dumb feline who receives the brunt of Ren's wrath.
When Ren & Stimpy appeared on Nickelodeon, it was an instant smash. The series was ported over to MTV, where it became even more popular. Now, a brand-new DVD of unseen R&S; episodes is being released, and you can check out some clips at John's blog. TV.com caught up with John K and chatted with him about corporate fear and the hundreds of R&S; episodes you haven't seen. Happy happy joy joy!
TV.com Thanks for taking some time to answer a few questions.
John K Sure.
TV.com Have you longed to return to these characters?
John K Yeah, still do.
TV.com Will you be doing more R&S; DVDs after this?
John K Well, I don't know. I guess if it does well, maybe somebody at Paramount will say make more. I been pitching them the idea of straight-to-DVD R&S; for years because we have about a hundred scripts written.
TV.com Oh really? Excellent.
John K Yeah, we got one of them storyboarded--called "Life Sucks"--probably the best R&S; ever. The people that worked on it, including the people who worked on the first two seasons of the series, think it is the best we ever came up with.
TV.com That sounds great. Is Paramount interested or are they waiting to see how this one does?
John K Everybody at the corporations is frightened. It is so complicated--so many people have to sign off on things that nothing logical and purely simple can happen. The R&S; DVDs have sold in the hundreds of thousands, there's obviously a huge audience still for this stuff, people are buying them.
TV.com Yeah, it doesn't seem like such a risk for them.
John K No. And they don't do a heck of a lot of marketing on the stuff either. I mean, why don't they get me on Conan O'Brien and stuff?
TV.com I can't believe you haven't been on Conan and the late-night talk shows.
John K Well, I can't either! If we showed some clips from these new DVDs on talk shows, I am sure they would sell like crazy. People just need to know about it.
TV.com How difficult was it to get the show on the air originally?
John K Very. It took nine years.
TV.com So you had to cart the characters around for nine years to pitch meetings?
John K Yep.
TV.com Did you get a lot of feedback that you had to ignore?
John K Yeah, in the '80s the cartoon world was pretty bad. There was no such thing as the creator-driven cartoon. The idea that I would walk in with a cartoon I just made up was unheard of. They wanted something that was a tie-in to a toy. They would say "What do you mean you just made them up? You don't make up characters, you take existing characters and then you make cartoons out of them." They didn't know that Bugs Bunny had a birth one time, that there was a point where there was no Bugs Bunny. In the '80s, they would only make cartoons out of things you already knew of.
TV.com Like the Transformers and He-Man.
John K Yeah, they already existed as a toy. And they'd sometimes pick up cartoons that already existed 40 years ago, and they'd, y'know, ruin them. "The Uglier Adventures of Mighty Mouse, in Filmation" or "Filmation Destroys Tex Avery"...I worked on lots of those kinds of shows at Hanna-Barbera in the '80s. But that was still better than He-Man.
TV.com You had a huge impact on animation. Since then, there have been a lot of weird and edgy shows, and R&S; was the progenitor of that. It opened up a doorway for TV and the Web stuff, as well.
John K I was one of the first to do the Web stuff, too. I did the The Goddamn George Liquor Show Web cartoon back in '97, the first Flash cartoons. Plus I did all the marketing for that show. I hired a PR firm, and I said "Go out and get me lots of articles where I can talk about this new medium of animation." They did, and I got the cover of Wired magazine and all kinds of magazines, and all of a sudden people started saying, "Oh you can make cartoons online? What's this Flash stuff?" Then suddenly it exploded, and everybody started jumping on the bandwagon.
TV.com Were the characters of R&S; based on any real people?
John K Well, Ren was based on Peter Lorre. And I take people I know and add them into lots of things, plus scenes of old movies. I just mix and match things, and whatever's appropriate I'll use.
TV.com Thanks for taking the time to talk to us, best of luck with the DVDs!


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How do you determine who the busts will be?
Sometimes, the numbers don't lie. So if you're looking at the right numbers, you'll get a tip. Other times, it's just a hunch. While very subjective, it can at times be more helpful than the numbers.
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Dear Abby: My 11-year-old daughter, "Gwen," just started middle school. She makes good grades, but she's strong-willed.
She wants to know if she can have a boyfriend. I told her not until she's 15. Now she's flirting with girls who ask her out. I told her to stay away from them, not because they are lesbians but because they are not good girls. They are always in trouble.
Gwen says I'm too strict, and if I don't stop, she will run away. I adopted her at birth, and she recently asked me if I am going to place her for adoption. I am very concerned that she is hanging out with the wrong crowd. Any advice? — San Antonio Mom
Dear Mom: From what you have told me about your daughter, it's clear that she is far from the grown-up she thinks she is.
If you do not to want Gwen to date until she is older, that is your prerogative as her parent.
Because you think she is hanging out with the wrong crowd, my advice is to make sure she is so busy she doesn't have time to spend with them.
Dear Abby: I am a 29-year-old woman who has just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
My issue is, when people find out, I get comments such as, "Wow, you look so good!" or suggestions on how I should "cure" my MS. The most hurtful one was that it's all in my head.
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We all knew this was a possibility, but the reality still seems so unbelievable. Les Miles is actually no longer an SEC head coach after 11-plus highly entertaining seasons at LSU.
Saturday's 18-13 upset loss at Auburn was the last straw for Miles, whose program opened the season as a popular pick to reach the College Football Playoff only to drop two of its first four games. And even if interim coach Ed Orgeron leads the Tigers onto more stable footing, it's difficult to envision LSU challenging Alabama as the SEC's alpha program this season.
Maybe nobody will.
Nick Saban's top-ranked Crimson Tide (4-0, 1-0 SEC) didn't do anything in Saturday's 48-0 shellacking of Kent State to create doubts about its status atop the SEC heap. Injuries to key offensive players -- particularly running back Damien Harris -- created concerns, but it does not appear they will be long-term issues.
Hence, the Alabama machine seems likely to keep trucking up to the key three-week stretch on its schedule, when it will visit No. 20 Arkansas (3-1, 0-1), visit No. 11 Tennessee (4-0, 1-0) and host No. 9 Texas A&M (4-0, 2-0) in consecutive October weekends.
Although a November trip to LSU (2-2, 1-1) will be tricky, it's those ranked October opponents that currently look like the biggest challengers to Alabama's throne.
Texas A&M ran away from Arkansas in the fourth quarter of Saturday's 45-24 victory at Jerry World, with transfer quarterback Trevor Knight performing exactly like the dynamic player Aggies fans hoped he would become.
And what about Tennessee's comeback against Florida (3-1, 1-1), following a dismal first half where it seemed the Volunteers had no hope of ending their decade-long run of futility against their SEC East rival? Up until that point, Butch Jones' team had hardly looked like the division favorites they were predicted to be in August, but the Vols dominated Florida on both offense and defense after halftime. That showdown with Alabama at Neyland Stadium on the third Saturday in November suddenly seems like a possible instant classic.
While we're discussing division contenders here, perhaps we wrote off Ole Miss (2-2, 1-1) too soon after the Rebels' matching September implosions against Florida State and Alabama. The Rebels crushed previously unbeaten Georgia (3-1, 1-1) on Saturday, handing Kirby Smart his first loss as a head coach and proving that the many shortcomings the Bulldogs displayed in earlier narrow wins become major problems against the most talented teams on their schedule.
Georgia simply does not deserve to be listed among the SEC's top programs this season, and its performance in the September's true separation Saturday proved it. Conversely, Alabama and Texas A&M further established themselves as Western Division powers, and Tennessee emerged as the lone unbeaten team in the East.
Perhaps teams like Florida, Georgia, Ole Miss and Arkansas can scratch their way back onto the top tier of division competitors -- there's more than enough time for that to happen, after all -- but the three remaining unbeatens look like the class of the conference at this point. Otherwise, the SEC appears to be a middling collection of teams, as evidenced by the four 2-2 squads in each division.
Among those 2-2 teams, Auburn, Missouri (79-0 over Delaware State), Vanderbilt (31-30 over Western Kentucky in overtime), Mississippi State (47-35 over UMass) and Kentucky (17-10 over South Carolina) all notched confidence-boosting wins over the weekend, but let's be honest about this: Missouri is the only member of this group that has any hope of challenging in its division this year.
First-year Mizzou coach Barry Odom's team is improving rapidly and displaying explosiveness on offense, although it has already lost to West Virginia and Georgia. The Tigers' next two games -- at LSU on Saturday and at Florida on Oct. 15 -- will tell us plenty about whether they will become contenders or also-rans this season.
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Racist MANNY PACQUIAO Extremist Fans Need To Stop…It's Just Sports
Saturday, June 26, 2010
By Tan Wang
Why can't the Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao Extremists talk normal? Whatever happened to having friendly sports debates? It's getting harder to find a normal Pacquiao fan to talk with who doesn't get butt hurt over comments praising other fighters and not proclaiming Manny Pacquiao as the greatest ever. I understand having pride in your fighter but throwing out racial slurs and vulgar insults towards someone who happens to have a different view than your own is just outright classless.
When people become fanatic to the point of extremism like many of these Pacquiao fans, it is bordering on obsession and stalking. It's just SPORTS!!! Sports are supposed to be fun. This is not a war, fighters win and fighters lose, debate reasonably without the degrading insults so you don't look weird and creepy unless you have an inferiority complex and enjoy belittling other people in a sick sadistic way.
As a Chinese-American, I was thrown insults by Pacquiao fanatics attacking my ethnicity all because I favored Floyd Mayweathr Jr. to beat Manny
Many of the Pacquiao extremists claim they are only doing it in self defense, comments like "Manny Pacquiao will lose because he is one dimensional" or "Floyd Mayweather is the superior boxer" is enough to trigger them into hurling vulgar comments at you.
Here are just a few examples of the racial and derogatory remarks left by Pacquiao extremists on my articles:
"We will kidnap all chinese living in the philippines to cut their heads off" - Abu Sayaf
"Mr.Tan Wang even if you're a chinese-american or a chinese born american.To the eyes of the pure blooded american you are still considered an asian with an ugly slit pair of eyes. a second class citizen in american soil.Always put that in your mind.Go and see yourself in the mirror and see if it is right for you to be with the Mayweather side.You should be on the asian side because your a bloody asian my boy!" – Jake
"Chinese don't know boxing, chinese are famous of Kung Fu style: SNAKE, CRANE, MANTIS, EAGLE, CAT AND MONKEY STYLE. NOODLES TOO!!! " – provin ciano
"Manny is a gentleman and a God fearing human being and the Mayweathers are the bad chimpanzees with no manners, oh yes they do have manners… manners of rowdy chimpanzees. LOL" – Monkees
"Tan Wang I beleive he is chinese and a table tennis coach in China. He don't belong in boxing. All chinese made are garbage..lol" – Abdul
"stop writing about boxing! chinamen don't know anything about boxing! chinamen can't fight.. you're more than a billion without a single boxing hero.. so you're a billion *******! People from countries with no boxing tradition have no right in writing or even talking about boxing! SO STFU!" – clogged
"Stupid Monkey Butt kisser Gayweather fan! Wang in China mean Penis, so Wang got a Tan dick? bwhahaahahaha " – Willie Santos
And trust me when I say this, those are tame examples. There are probably millions more vulgar comments on various other
If you are a real fan of boxing no matter who your favorite fighter is….these type of remarks don't belong in the sport. It's 2010 and we should be past the racially driven hate. Just because you see other people leaving vulgar comments doesn't make it right.
If you saw some kids jumping off a cliff you would do the same too? I bet you wouldn't like it if someone insulted your family or your ethnicity so why stoop to that level?
How about this, follow Manny Pacquiao's example be more like him and you might go somewhere in life.
I will leave you with a simple saying: "Treat people the way you want to be treated."
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Dude your late somebody already posted this in another thread. Yes there are a lot of crazy *******s out there same for any fan group. It just seems like 90 percent of them reside on NSB.
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Some of the obsession for Pacquiao is a bit out of hand. I'll be the first to admit that i've had a few excellent discussion with Pac fans and respect them for it, but most of the time an opposing opinion about Pacquiao is met with name calling and ignorance.
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Another dumb article written by a moron who doesn't realize it happens with every fanbase. And specifically with Pacquiao and May, it goes both ways.
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ST. LANDRY PARISH- Yesterday, Troopers with Louisiana State Police Troop I learned that an 11-year-old girl from Leonville died from injuries she sustained in a Saturday crash.
According to investigating Troopers, on June 15, 2013, at 8:22 p.m., a 16-year-old male was driving a 2004 GMC Sierra west on US Highway 190 west of Port Barre. A 1998 Mercury Sable, driven by 44-year-old Debra Trahan of Leonville, was traveling in front of the 16-year-old. Trahan had slowed down in preparation of making a left turn. As she was slowing, her vehicle was struck from behind by the 16-year-old.
Trahan was restrained and sustained no injuries. An 11-year-old passenger in her vehicle, Anna Trahan of Leonville, was also restrained and was taken to a local hospital in critical condition. A third juvenile occupant in Trahan's vehicle was also restrained and was taken to a local hospital with severe injuries. The 16-year-old was restrained and not injured in the crash.
Late yesterday afternoon, Troopers were notified that Anna Trahan had succumbed to her injuries.
Impairment is not suspected to be a factor in this crash. This crash remains under investigation.
While the cause of the crash remains under investigation, troopers urge the public to remain vigilant while driving and avoid distracting activities, especially the temptations of electronic devices that can substantially divert a driver's attention away from the road. Motor vehicle crashes are unexpected events. By taking precautionary steps including never driving while distracted or impaired, motorists can substantially reduce their risk of being involved and/or injured in a crash.