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Last week, fellow IBMer Ron Riffe started his three-part series on the Storage Hypervisor. I discussed Part I already in my previous post [Storage Hypervisor Integration with VMware]. We wrapped up the week with a Live Chat with over 30 IT managers, industry analysts, independent bloggers, and IBM storage experts.
This week, Ron continues this meme with his post [Enabling Private IT for Storage Cloud -- Part II (management controls)]. Here's an excerpt:
"The idea of shopping from a catalog isn't new and the cost efficiency it offers to the supplier isn't new either. Public storage cloud service providers seized on the catalog idea quickly as both a means of providing a clear description of available services to their clients, and of controlling costs. Here's the idea… I can go to a public cloud storage provider like Amazon S3, Nirvanix, Google Storage for Developers, or any of a host of other providers, give them my credit card, and get some storage capacity. Now, the "kind" of storage capacity I get depends on the service level I choose from their catalog.
Most of today's private IT environments represent the complete other end of the pendulum swing – total customization. Every application owner, every business unit, every department wants to have complete flexibility to customize their storage services in any way they want. This expectation is one of the reasons so many private IT environments have such a heavy mix of tier-1 storage. Since there is no structure around the kind of requests that are coming in, the only way to be prepared is to have a disk array that could service anything that shows up. Not very efficient… There has to be a middle ground.
Private storage clouds are a little different. Administrators we talk to aren't generally ready to let all their application owners and departments have the freedom to provision new storage on their own without any control. In most cases, new capacity requests still need to stop off at the IT administration group. But once the request gets there, life for the IT administrator is sweet!
Here comes the request from an application owner for 500GB of new "Database" capacity (one of the options available in the storage service catalog) to be attached to some server. After appropriate approvals, the administrator can simply enter the three important pieces of information (type of storage = "Database", quantity = 500GB, name of the system authorized to access the storage) and click the "Go" button (in TPC SE it's actually a "Run now" button) to automatically provision and attach the storage. No more complicated checklists or time consuming manual procedures.
A storage hypervisor increases the utilization of storage resources, and optimizes what is most scarce in your environment. For Linux, UNIX and Windows servers, you typically see utilization rates of 20 to 35 percent, and this can be raised to 55 to 80 percent with a storage hypervisor. But what is most scarce in your environment? Time! In a competitive world, it is not big animals eating smaller ones as much as fast ones eating the slow.
- Want faster time-to-market? A storage hypervisor can help reduce the time it takes to provision storage, from weeks down to minutes. If your business needs to react quickly to changes in the marketplace, you certainly don't want your IT infrastructure to slow you down like a boat anchor.
- Want more time with your friends and family? A storage hypervisor can migrate the data non-disruptively, during the week, during the day, during normal operating hours, instead of scheduling down-time on an evenings and weekends. As companies adopt a 24-by-7 approach to operations, there are fewer and fewer opportunities in the year for scheduled outages. Some companies get stuck paying maintenance after their warranty expires, because they were not able to move the data off in time.
- Want to take advantage of the new Solid-State Drives? Most admins don't have time to figure out what applications, workloads or indexes would best benefit from this new technology? Let your storage hypervisor automated tiering do this for you! In fact, a storage hypervisor can gather enough performance and usage statistics to determine the characteristics of your workload in advance, so that you can predict whether solid-state drives are right for you, and how much benefit you would get from them.
- Want more time spent on strategic projects? A storage hypervisor allows any server to connect to any storage. This eliminates the time wasted to determine when and how, and let's you focus on the what and why of your more strategic transformational projects.
If this sounds all too familiar, it is similar to the benefits that one gets from a server hypervisor -- better utilization of CPU resources, optimizing the management and administration time, with the agility and flexibility to deploy new technologies in and decommission older ones out.
Arthur Cole disagrees. His blog post asks [ 'Storage Virtualization' or 'Virtualization-Optimized Storage Management'?] Here is an excerpt:
Jon Toigo on his DrunkenData blog brings back the sanity with his post [Once More Into the Fray]. Here is an excerpt:
"Server virtualization is a fairly easy concept to understand: Add a layer of software that allows processing capability to work across multiple operating environments. It drives both efficiency and performance because it puts to good use resources that would otherwise sit idle.
Storage virtualization is a different animal. It doesn't free up capacity that you didn't know you had. Rather, it allows existing storage resources to be combined and reconfigured to more closely match shifting data requirements. It's a subtle distinction, but one that makes a lot of difference between what many enterprises expect to gain from the technology and what it actually delivers."
"What enables me to turn off certain value-add functionality is that it is smarter and more efficient to do these functions at a storage hypervisor layer, where services can be deployed and made available to all disk, not to just one stand bearing a vendor's three letter acronym on its bezel. Doesn't that make sense?
I think of an abstraction layer. We abstract away software components from commodity hardware components so that we can be more flexible in the delivery of services provided by software rather than isolating their functionality on specific hardware boxes. The latter creates islands of functionality, increasing the number of widgets that must be managed and requiring the constant inflation of the labor force required to manage an ever expanding kit. This is true for servers, for networks and for storage.
Can we please get past the BS discussion of what qualifies as a hypervisor in some guy's opinion and instead focus on how we are going to deal with the reality of cutting budgets by 20% while increasing service levels by 10%. That, my friends, is the real challenge of our times."
Did you miss out on last Friday's Live Chat? We are doing it again this Friday, covering parts I and II of Ron's posts, so please join the conversation! The virtual dialogue on this topic will continue in another [Live Chat] on September 30, 2011 from 12 noon to 1pm Eastern Time.
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"I miss you tucking me in bed."
The words were not from one of my children, now grown and away from home, longing for the comfort of days gone bye.
The words were from my dad. He had been diagnosed with cancer several weeks earlier and had just completed his first treatment when I visited him. The prognosis for longevity is not good - less than a year.
Dad told how me how he missed our nightly ritual after I had returned home from my visit with him and Mom.
Kim Davis has dominated the news across Kentucky over the past several weeks.
In case you don't recognize the name, Davis is the Rowan County Clerk, and one of her duties is to issue marriage licenses. That's a duty she has not been doing, even after an order from a federal judge to do so.
Construction of the new facilities has really taken off. We were initially behind 83 days due to weather. We are making up time considerably on the two buildings and are now behind approximately 50 days. Our goal is to have the primary center, which will house students from preschool through second grade, moved into their new building when school starts for the 2016-2017 school year. I feel good about making that happen.
There's an old saying that goes, "You get what you pay for."
In my opinion, the opposite holds true, especially when it comes to leaving tips at a restaurant; you pay for what you get.
It seems today the popular thing for those in the service industry to do, especially waiters and waitresses, is to post photos of customers' receipts and call them out for the tips they leave, or don't leave.
If you're offended by the words you are about to read, frankly, I don't care.
And I'm tired of everyone being offended about everything these days.
Granted, there are some things about which we should be offended, but most of the time, when we hear about them on TV or the Internet, those who are offended are not very well informed. I would have said they are stupid, but, well, you know.
If you are like me, sometimes it can be a little overwhelming doing something that you may not do on a regular basis. For me, that "something" can be flying. I have flown a total of three times in my life, and the last time I flew was directly into Chicago. Talk about a fish out of water. Some folks feel the same way when it comes to the property tax system in Kentucky.
A young Marine opened the flap of the tent and called out the the several Marines inside, "Is there anyone in here from Kentucky?"
The Marines had been slogging through the mud in Okinawa some 71 years ago.
The Marine asking the question was Robert B. Oldham, and the person who spoke up, saying, "I'm from Kentucky," was Bruce Heilman.
In the "What's Trending" segment on The Today Show last Friday, July 24, Savannah Guthrie reported on an advertising executive who sent out two resumes. The first was your typical resume showing successes and accomplishments.
"Is your refrigerator running? Well, you better go catch it!"
No, it's not clever, but it's one of the many lines used by kids making prank phone calls.
I must admit, when I was a kid, years before caller ID came along, my friends and I made our fair share of prank calls. I clearly remember our last one.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (435 votes).
In short: Hot! Really enjoyable, well organized, great atmosphereDate of review: June 21, 2009
In short: Lots of competitors running through pretty countrysideIn full: Big field, but room to run most of the time. Quite hilly early on but big downhill stretch on the way back.Always seems to be hot as hell, but there were plenty of water stations.Date of review: June 17, 2009
Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: Great atmosphere, loved it!Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: excellent event great for the whole familly, kids loved it and want to do it again!Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: Great event, excellent organisationIn full: I last did this in 2006 and it has improved dramatically with a much more interesting and varied course through country lanes. I wouldn't call it particularly hilly, but I do live in the Cotswolds. Excellent organisation, lots of friendly marshalls and more than plenty of water stops on a warm day. Thanks to all those volunteers who worked so hard. Nice tee-shirt too and the small things like free face painting for kids on the day was a nice touch.Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: Brilliant fun. Will be back next year.In full: This was my first time at the St. Albans and I will def. be back next year. Ok this course is hilly. People who had run it previously warned me about the hills at 3 miles and 6 miles. And yes, they are there but not killer hills - but tiring, my legs certainly felt it. Not a PB course but definitely one to enjoy. Marshalls were top class, friendly competitors, and the ice-lolly at the finish was perfect. Weather was great too! Date of review: June 17, 2009
In short: hot!In full: Seemed much better organised than last year, particularly in the availability of water Date of review: June 16, 2009
In short: Good race from start to finishIn full: Very well organised at the start, on the course, and at the finsh. Plenty of drinks stations and plenty of marshalls. Well marked out. Very undulating but the climbs were just the right length and steepness to test you . As others have said the lolly at the end was a welcome sight better than a bottle of lukazade.Enjoyed the whole event and will be back again next year. WELL DONE EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN THE ORGANISATION OF THIS RACE.Date of review: June 16, 2009
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In a recent New York Times article (here), Ted C. Fishman offers and in-depth feature on the Kalamazoo Promise:
Back in November 2005, when this year's graduates were in sixth grade, the superintendent of Kalamazoo's public schools, Janice M. Brown, shocked the community by announcing that unnamed donors were pledging to pay the tuition at Michigan's public colleges, universities and community colleges for every student who graduated from the district's high schools. All of a sudden, students who had little hope of higher education saw college in their future. Called the Kalamazoo Promise, the program — blind to family income levels, to pupils' grades and even to disciplinary and criminal records — would be the most inclusive, most generous scholarship program in America.
Since 2005, all graduates from Kalamazoo public schools who have attended since they were freshmen have been eligible for a scholarship program that sends them to college while they (and our government, for that matter) incur little to no debt at all. Given our country's looming higher ed bubble, this fact alone makes the Promise a significant achievement. However, Fishman's article highlights many social gains and lessons worth highlighting here as well. (more…)


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Scoring barrage sinks Negaunee hockey team on home ice
NEGAUNEE – Though they tied the score several times, Negaunee couldn't hold off a barrage by Kingsford and fell 7-3 in a high school hockey game played Thursday night at the Negaunee Ice Arena.
Miners senior forward Alex Ledford twice tied the score with goals in each of the first two periods. However, the Flivvers reeled off four goals in a nine-minute stretch spanning the second and third periods to take control for good.
"It's not the result we want, but you can see we're getting better," Negaunee coach Eric Hill said, adding that the Miners lost 9-1 in a mercy rule-shortened game the previous time the teams met in December.
"To come out and play as well as we did, I can see how our guys have been working hard. We can follow the leadership of guys like Alex Ledford; jump on their backs and see how much more we can improve.
"Ledford was the hardest worker in the game."
After Kingsford's Tony Ward scored on a power play less than two minutes into the game and Ledford answered about eight minutes later, racing for a loose puck that he put up high for an unassisted goal, according to Hill.
Reid Pietila gave the Flivvers a 2-1 lead about six minutes into the second period before Ledford again answered, this time on a power play, about 5 1/2 minutes later. He made another shot above the goalie's pads on a pass from sophomore Ryan Syrjala.
Negaunee (3-14) got its final goal with just over seven minutes left when senior Nate Clisch picked up a loose puck and fired it home from the high slot area. Sophomore Michael Farley was credited with an assist.
Sophomore goalie Anthony Moyle made 38 saves for Negaunee, including 15 in the first period and 17 in the second.


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Topic: Wiping out an svn repository
I starting following a tutorial to set up my repository and made a mistake in importing files. I'd like to start over fresh and was tempted to do a rm -r <directory> but wanted to seek advice from wiser people
I'm assuming running that command will certainly delete the files, but there will still be traces in the database right? My goal is to start over as if I never ran svnadmin create. Any help would be appreciated.


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The Long Lonesome: 38 Miles per Day, 57 Days
Jennifer Pharr Davis on love, death and getting struck by lightning on the Appalachian Trail
Photo by Maureen Robinson
The night of June 20, 2008, I tossed and turned in my sleeping bag, rubbing up against the walls of my tent pitched at the base of Mount Katahdin (5268 feet), Maine's highest peak and the northern terminus of the historic Appalachian Trail, a 2175-mile foot path stretched between Maine and Georgia. I lay awake, anticipating the sound of the 3:30 a.m. alarm marking the start of my Appalachian Trail (AT) speed-record attempt.
Many people thought of my record attempt as a run, while others saw it more as a hike. In truth, it would be both. Rather than classifying myself a hiker or a runner, I simply try to move like a deer—regardless of whether I am running or walking—moving gracefully and efficiently through the woods.
The previous fastest women's time for hiking the AT from end to end (known as thru-hiking) was set 15 years ago by Jenny Jardine, who completed the colossal trek with her husband in 87 days. Most hikers spend only a weekend or week on a small section of the trail, which passes through 14 states and six national parks.
Over the previous three years, I had accomplished several long-trail thru-hikes, all solo adventures, starting with an AT thru-hike in 2005 as a 21-year-old. Ever since that life-changing, five-month adventure, I planned to return and set the women's speed record in an entirely self-supported fashion—meaning I would receive no outside aid, carry all my camping equipment and purchase food at towns along the trail.
As I was preparing for my AT record attempt, an unexpected encounter impacted both my life and hiking plans. After I was introduced to my brother's friend Brew Davis, a school teacher in Asheville, North Carolina, love quickly blossomed and five months later, we were engaged. Ten months later, we were married.
Brew's job gives him summers free and, as newlyweds, we didn't want to be apart for months, so decided he would support me during the AT speed-record attempt, which would put it in the "supported" category.
Brew would meet me wherever the trail intersected a road to replenish my daypack with food and supplies, saving me from carrying a heavy backpack and letting me move more swiftly.
Most thru hikers begin their journey in April, starting at the AT's southern terminus at Springer Mountain, Georgia. But I started in June from the opposite end, in Maine, so that I could take advantage of summer's longest days on the AT's most difficult terrain, between Maine in New Hampshire.
Few people would choose to leave their family and the comforts of home for half a year to hike a long-distance trail through extreme weather with a heavy backpack and blisters on their feet. And almost no one would go back to that same long-distance trail with the goal of finishing it in less than two months. By the age of 26, I had done both.
Relieved when the alarm finally sounded, I emerged from the tent knowing I would cover a mountainous 45 miles before I would get to return to my tent's cozy comfort. And that tomorrow I'd get up and face a 43-mile day. And so it would go for nearly eight weeks.
Brew and I watched the sun rise over the distant mountains as we hiked to the top of Mount Katahdin. My feet traveled quickly over the rocky terrain, but even faster were the overwhelming and anxious thoughts swarming my mind. This would be the hardest physical challenge I had ever faced and I worried about not finishing in two months—or worse—that I would get hurt and not finish at all.
"How do you feel?" Brew asked.
"I am excited, but scared. I keep wondering what we have gotten ourselves into."
"We'll find out together," he said reassuringly. "After all, it's too late to turn back now."
Doubt lingered as I reflected on the past two years' preparation, during which I ran a handful of ultramarathons, each time with the goal to merely finish. I was never the fastest woman and always took time off from running after each race. I thought that the men and women who consistently win trail ultras should be trying to set an AT record, not me.
And I was right. In a few weeks, the ultrarunning legend Karl Meltzer, who has won an unprecedented 29 100-mile races, was coming to Mount Katahdin to try to break the men's record of 47 days. Realizing that I was attempting something similar to the great Meltzer psyched me out. Was I out of my league?
A chance encounter during my first AT thru-hike in 2005 also made me question my readiness. One rainy day while hiking down The Priest, a mountain in central Virginia, I felt completely isolated on the mist-shrouded mountain. I had encountered no one in 48 hours. Then a rustling sound startled me. At first I thought it was a bear, but then a man wearing short shorts came running out of the mist. "Here I am struggling to hike downhill and this man is running up the mountain?" I thought. When the tall, muscular figure looked up and saw me, he pushed a button on his giant wristwatch and slowed to a stop.
"Ya thru-hiking?" he asked enthusiastically with a charming southern accent.
"Yep, I'm going to Maine. Are you a runner?"
He laughed. "Yeah, you could say that. I like to run. And I really like to run on trails."
"Have you done any races?"
He laughed again. "A few."
"How far do you go?"
"Oh, 30, 50 or 100 miles usually."
At the time, I couldn't imagine running 50 or 100 miles at once. I was in awe of the discipline such a feat would require.
"Well, don't let me hold you up," I said.
"All right." He restarted the machine on his wrist and resumed the uphill grind. Before rounding the next switchback, he looked back and yelled, "By the way, my name's David Horton. Have a good hike."
David Horton? David Horton? DAVID HORTON!
My jaw dropped. David Horton was the Michael Jordan of trail running. He had won countless races—and, in 1991, set an Appalachian Trail Record of 52 days 13 hours 31 minutes.
When I arrived at the mountain's base I took a picture of his truck in the gravel parking lot. I assumed it was his truck because it sported several ultramarathon stickers. After finishing the trail, I sent Horton that picture, and since then we have been friends.


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Youngsville Area News in Brief
Tree Pick Up
in the Boro
Christmas tree pickup will begin on Friday, Jan. 4. Trees will be picked up on Fridays. Place your tree out by the curb. Jan. 18 will be the last Christmas tree pick day.
Scholarship Fund
The Youngsville High School Alumni Scholarship Fund received donations in 2012 from Luke Benedict, the YHS Class of 2012, the YHS Class of 1960, and Doris Lake.
Donations were received in memory of Jeanette Dailey, Charles Crockett, James Cowan III, Isabel Ward, Barton Abplanalp, Mary Lou Walter, Harold Peterson, Barbara Jackson Bates, Robert Bates, Gertrude Perkins Bidwell, Gail Coan Hillman, Regina Nelson Whitehall, Albert Scheck, Arden Taylor, and June Abraham Humes.
The Youngsville High School Alumni Scholarship Fund awards scholarships each June to several graduating seniors from Youngsville High School. In June 2012, ten $1,000 scholarships were awarded. Tax-deductible donations may be mailed to YHS Alumni Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 73, Youngsville, Pa. 16371.
Wrestling Tournament
The Youngsville Wrestling Boosters will be hosting their 11th Annual Christopher "Critter" Grady Youngsville Wrestling Novice Tournament on Saturday, Jan. 12. You must be up to 12 years old the day of the tournament. Novice wrestlers only.
Pre-registration fee is $17 if mailed byThursday, Jan. 3. Walk-in fee is $20 per wrestler. No refunds will be given. For more information and registration forms, call 563-1606 or 706 2371.
Bicentennial News
The Youngsville Bicentennial committee thanks the businesses and the individuals who donated the items for the four gift baskets and two gift bags. The drawing was held on Dec. 22 and the winners were Abbey Wolfe, James Farr, Diane Shannon, Tara Turner, Jean Neal and Doris Lake. Dan McLaughlin was the winner of the summer glider donated by Tops Markets.
The committee's next fundraiser will be a Valentine gift basket, the drawing will be Feb. 14. All of the fundraisers benefit the bicentennial on June 28-30, 2013.
With 2013 here and June fast approaching, the committee is still looking for volunteers to help with the celebration. The next meeting will be held at the Youngsville Dairy Queen on Saturday, Jan. 5 at 8:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to attend this meeting. If you would like to help out with the celebration, call the borough at 563-4604, 563-7807 or 688-0001.


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Congenital scoliosis, Idiopathic scoliosis, Neuromuscular scoliosis.
Introduction to scoliosis:
Although the spine normally curves gently from front to back, it is normally straight as an arrow from side to side.
What is scoliosis?
Scoliosis is simply a curve of the spine from side to side.
Who gets scoliosis?
The most common type of scoliosis occurs in healthy children with no neurological problems. This is called idiopathic scoliosis. It is slightly more common in girls, and much more likely to require treatment in girls. It can occur at any age, but is most common during puberty.
Some children are born with scoliosis. This is called congenital scoliosis, and usually happens in children with an underlying problem such as spina bifida or certain anorectal malformations.
Some children develop scoliosis because of an imbalance or weakness in the muscles supporting the spine. This is called neuromuscular scoliosis, and is common in conditions such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy.
Children who have leg length discrepancies may also develop compensatory scoliosis.
What are the symptoms of scoliosis?
The most consistent symptom of scoliosis is asymmetry of the back when leaning forward.
Is scoliosis contagious?
How long does scoliosis last?
Scoliosis usually lasts until treated. Curves less than 30 degrees do not tend to progress after puberty is complete. Those greater than 45 degrees, however, often tend to progress throughout life.
How is scoliosis diagnosed?
The forward-bending test is the simplest way to screen for scoliosis. X-rays are used to confirm the diagnosis, and to measure and follow the angles of the curves.
How is scoliosis treated?
Bracing and surgery are the main methods of treatment. Surgery is often reserved for those with greater risk of long-term progression (usually those with curves greater than 45 degrees).
How can scoliosis be prevented?
Usually scoliosis cannot be directly prevented. Early treatment of underlying conditions, such as leg-length discrepancies, can prevent some scoliosis. Also, preventing some underlying causes, such as taking folic acid to prevent neural tube defects, can prevent some cases of scoliosis.
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CherryPy as a Windows Service
Here is a short example showing how to configure a basic CherryPy application as a service in Windows. See the tips and tricks after the code for more information.
""" The most basic (working) CherryPy 3.0 Windows service possible. Requires Mark Hammond's pywin32 package. """ import cherrypy import win32serviceutil import win32service import win32event class HelloWorld: """ Sample request handler class. """ def index(self): return "Hello world!" index.exposed = True class MyService(win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework): """NT Service.""" _svc_name_ = "CherryPyService" _svc_display_name_ = "CherryPy Service" def __init__(self, args): win32serviceutil.ServiceFramework.__init__(self, args) # create an event that SvcDoRun can wait on and SvcStop # can set. self.stop_event = win32event.CreateEvent(None, 0, 0, None) def SvcDoRun(self): cherrypy.tree.mount(HelloWorld(), '/') # in practice, you will want to specify a value for # log.error_file below or in your config file. If you # use a config file, be sure to use an absolute path to # it, as you can't be assured what path your service # will run in. cherrypy.config.update({ 'global':{ 'autoreload.on': False, 'log.screen': False, 'engine.SIGHUP': None, 'engine.SIGTERM': None } }) # set blocking=False so that start() does not block cherrypy.server.quickstart() cherrypy.engine.start(blocking=False) # now, block until our event is set... win32event.WaitForSingleObject(self.stop_event, win32event.INFINITE) def SvcStop(self): self.ReportServiceStatus(win32service.SERVICE_STOP_PENDING) cherrypy.server.stop() win32event.SetEvent(self.stop_event) if __name__ == '__main__': win32serviceutil.HandleCommandLine(MyService)
Save this source code into a file called MyService.py and then type:
python MyService.py
You will see a list of options for installing, removing, starting, and stopping your service.
To install your new service type:
python MyService.py install
Then type:
python MyService.py start
to start it. You can also start and stop the service by going to the Start menu, Administrative Tools, Services, and looking for the name of your service.
Running Your CherryPy Application
When you are ready to turn your own CherryPy application into a service, you will probably encounter several things that the simple example above does not.
Working Directory
When your service starts, the working directory is likely to be somewhere different than when you launch your CherryPy application from the command line. You will need to use full path's to configuration files, etc.
Another way around this is to add os.chdir('c:\\path\\to\\CherryPy\\application') just before cherrypy.server.start(). This will change your working directory to the place where your application is installed.
No Autoreloader
The autoloader doesn't play nice as a service. It watches for stuff to change, and then tries to restart the application. Which fails. Make sure you have
[global] engine.autoreload.on = False
in your server configuration file.
Debugging a Windows Service
It isn't very easy to debug a windows service. Make sure your application runs from the command line with no problems before spending any time trying to get it to work as a service. If your application works from the command line, but doesn't work as a service, these tips may help you see what is wrong.
Beware of the XP Service Pack 2 firewall. If it is on, it will block programs from listening on ports. When you run your CherryPy application from the command line, it will pop up a window and ask you if you want to grant access to the program python.exe. You say yes, thinking this will work for both the command line and the service. Nope. The service actually runs the executeable pythonservice.exe. If the firewall is blocking that program from opening ports, your service will silently fail to start. This is probably also true for ZoneAlarm, BlackIce Defender, and other firewall programs.
Look in the Event Viewer
Go to the Start Menu, Administrative Tools, Event Viewer, and click on "Applications". Look for events with a source that is the name of your service.
Make sure you have a log file
CherryPy will log stuff to disk if you put the following in your app configuration file:
log.error_file = 'c:\\path\to\logfile' log.screen = False
Look in the log file and see if anything looks strange.
Log tracebacks
Tracebacks may help you see where your application is failing. Put this in your app config file:
tools.log_tracebacks.on = True
Restart your service, and look in the log file again.
Thanks to Robert Brewer for tips on getting this working and Jared for the thorough documentation.


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The Picture Gallery
The Picture Gallery is an antechamber, a passage which leads on to the Grand Salon. Lit from the outside by three picture windows, it gradually leads visitors into the State Apartments. From one panel to another, visitors follow the display which, as Edouard André and his wife intended, alternates between decorative works, overdoors, mythological compositions, still lifes, landscapes and portraits.
The prestigious artists Boucher, Chardin, Canaletto and Nattier have all been brought together in the Picture Gallery. They greet the visitor as, over 100 years ago, they greeted the guests of Mr and Mrs André, making this first apartment an extraordinary gallery of paintings. Despite his attachment to the decorative arts, in this first room Edouard André focused on striking paintings; the visitor cannot help but be impressed by the quality of all the paintings displayed side by side.
Edouard André and Nélie Jacquemart loved 18th century paintings, which the upper classes were rediscovering after having long judged them to be excessively frivolous. The decadence of the 18th century is illustrated in this gallery by two oval compositions by François Boucher, Venus Asleep and The Toilet of Venus, two examples of a sophisticated erotic art.
But the 18th century was also the century of the Encyclopédie, the century of "Enlightenment". Here it is embodied in two works by Chardin The attributes of Arts and The attributes of the sciences.


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Continuing my coverage of the [IBM Storage Innovation Executive Summit], that occurred May 9 in New York City, this is my seventh and final in a series of blog posts on this event.
- Cosmic Scale of Data
Dan Galvan, IBM VP of Marketing for Storage, was the next speaker. With 300 billion emails being sent per day, 4.6 billion cell phones in the world, and 26 million MRIs per year, there is going to be a huge demand for file-based storage. In fact, a recent study found that file-based storage will grow at 60 percent per year, compared to 15 percent growth for block-based storage.
Dan positioned IBM's Scale-out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) as the big "C:" drive for a company. SONAS offers a global namespace, a single point of management, with the ability to scale capacity and performance tailored for each environment.
The benefits of SONAS are great. We can consolidate dozens of smaller NAS filers, we can virtualize files across different storage pools, and increase overall efficiency.
- Powering advanced genomic research to cure cancer
The next speaker was supposed to be Bill Pappas, Senior Enterprise Network Storage Architect, Research Informatics at [St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]. Unfortunately, St. Jude is near the flooding of the Mississippi river, and he had to stay put. An IBM team was able to capture his thoughts on video that was shown on the big screen.
Thanks to the Human Genome project, St. Jude is able to cure people. They see 5700 patients per year, and have an impressive 70 percent cure rate. The first genetic scan took 10 years, now the technology allows a genome to be mapped in about a week. Having this genomic information is making vast strides in healthcare. It is the difference of fishing in a river, versus putting a wide net to catch all the fish in the Atlantic ocean all at once.
Recently, St. Jude migrated 250 TB of files from other NAS to an IBM SONAS solution. The SONAS can handle a mixed set of workloads, and allows internal movement of data from fast disk, to slower high-capacity disk, and then to tape. SONAS is one of the few storage systems that supports a blended disk-and-tape approach, which is ideal for the type of data captured by St. Jude.
- IBM's own IT transformation
Pat Toole, IBM's CIO, presented the internal transformation of IBM's IT operations. He started in 2002 in the midst of IBM's effort to restructure its process and procedures. They identified four major data sources: employee data, client data, product data, and financial data. They put a focus to understand outcomes and set priorities.
The result? A 3-to-1 payback on CIO investments. This allowed IBM to go from server sprawl to consolidated pooling of resources with the right levels of integration. In 1997, IBM had 15,000 different applications running across 155 separate datacenters. Today, they have reduced this down to 4,500 applications and 7 datacenters. Their goal is to reduce down to 2,225 applications by 2015. Of these, only 250 are mission critical.
Pat's priorities today: server and storage virtualization, IT service management, cloud computing, and data-centered consolidation. IBM runs its corporate business on the following amount of data:
- 9 PB of block-based storage, SVC and XIV
- 1 PB of file-based storage, SONAS
- 15 PB of tape for backup and archive
Pat indicated that this environment is growing 25 percent per year, and that an additional 70-85 PB relates to other parts of the business.
By taking this focused approach, IBM was able to increase storage utilization from 50 to 90 percent, and to cut storage costs by 50 percent. This was done through thin provisioning, storage virtualization and pooling.
Looking forward to the future, Pat sees the following challenges: (a) that 120,000 IBM employees have smart phones and want to connect them to IBM's internal systems; (b) the increase in social media; and (c) the use of business analytics.
After the last session, people gathered in the "Hall of the Universe" for the evening reception, featuring food, drinks and live music. It was a great day. I got to meet several bloggers in person, and their feedback was that this was a very blogger-friendly event. Bloggers were given the same level of access as corporate executives and industry analysts.
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History's Headlines: America on Wheels keeps on rolling
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - "The game's afoot, Watson," Sherlock Holmes once said to his colleague, Dr. John H. Watson. But after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective visited Allentown's America On Wheels Transportation Museum, he might well have said, "the game's on wheels." But you don't have to be a Sherlock Holmes to enjoy America On Wheels. Located on Allentown's waterfront, which is currently planned to undergo a revival, AOW attracts between 30,000 and 35,000 visitors a year, according to Christine Bauder, its director of marketing and development.
Located on the site of the old Arbogast and Bastian meat packing plant, its offices are in the circa 1925 Art Deco office building originally designed for the company by local architect Tilghman Moyer.
Originally conceived in the early 1970s as a Mack Truck centered museum, AOW, a non-profit, retains strong links to Mack. Jack Curcio, the retired CEO of Mack, is the president of its board of directors. Among its board members are retired and current Mack executives.
AOW covers every type of over-the-road vehicle. It includes everything from racing cars to kid's peddle cars, to fire engines, to luxury sedans.
There are exotics like the Stanley Steamer and some of the first electric cars that were produced over 100 years ago, represented at the AOW by a 1922 Detroit Electric. In that era electrics were popular primarily with doctors and with women drivers.
Physicians liked them because they did not have to be cranked like a gas powered car and promised a quick start in an emergency. Women tended to like them because cranks were not easy to turn and none was needed for an electric car.
Electrics were made fashionable by Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. Although known for being a liberated woman, she drew the line at gas powered cars. "It's no child's play to run a motor car," Roosevelt told the press. "No license should be granted to anyone under eighteen & never to a woman, unless possibly for a car driven by electric power."
Roosevelt was given an electric by her husband Nicholas Longworth shortly after their marriage. In 1910, it was reported in a popular magazine that she often drove up to the Capitol Building where he was member of Congress.
Linda Merkel, AOW's executive director, notes that many of the young brides who are married at the museum like to have their pictures taken alongside of the Detroit Electric.
Merkel takes a great deal of pride in noting AOW's links with so many volunteers, people in the region who are either collectors of rare and exceptional types of over-the-road wheeled transit, or automobile dealers, or those who are fascinated by what Merkel calls "the romance of the road."
As an example Merkel points to the special exhibit space in AOW run by the Lehigh Valley Timing Association. The group was formed about 60 years ago in the golden age of the "hot rod" era. Young men with a yen to run their "rods" found that the police did not appreciate them doing it on public roads.
Thanks to a number of folks, among them the popular Pennsylvania Dutch humorist "Dopey Duncan," aka Luther Gehringer, the then-largely unused airfield at what is now Queen City airport was given by the city as a place where the speedsters could run their cars against a clock. Today the graying group has made a loving contribution to the museum in the form of an exhibit of the hot rod era.
Perhaps the vehicle on display with the most local history behind it is a car owned by David K. Bausch, former Lehigh County Executive and Allentown City Councilman. The Nadig, a gas powered car, was built by Allentown mechanic Henry Nadig.
The late Allentown newspaper man Brit Roth, who was 28 years old at the time, recalled that it was in 1887 that Nadig began working on the car and had it running by 1889, a full four years before Charles E. Duryea unveiled his gas powered car in 1893, which is usually given credit as the first vehicle of its kind in America.
Bausch noted in 1989 that many auto historians today recall Nadig as the first builder of a practical gas powered automobile in America. Unfortunately Nadig never took out a patent on the car or began mass production. Local bankers refused to give him loans and public opinion forced him to drive the car only at night. Colonel Edward Young, General Harry Trexler's business partner, told the Allentown police he did not want the car frightening his horses. Bausch was able to recover the car in the 1960s, but that was only after it had suffered years of neglect.
Along with its many permanent exhibits, AOW recently opened a new temporary exhibit titled "Brilliant Brass Beauties," focusing on the great classic cars from 1905 to 1915. On loan for the exhibit that runs through April, those "beauties" include a Franklin and a Mercer.
The Mercer on display is a bright, yellow sports car that was a rival with the famous Stutz-Bear Cat for the title of handsomest car on the American road. For more information call AOW at 610-432-4200 or go online at www.americaonwheels.org.
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Those are fun stories to read about with the various people there who are digging your pizza's
Bob,I am glad you enjoyed the stories. If you want to hear a really good one, I have had a man and his wife as customers that have been usually purchasing a whole pizza in the evening almost every week for a long while the whole way back to my preferment Lehmann dough pizzas. That man cant tell the differences in any of those iterations I have gone though since then. The only thing him and his wife want is a light rim crust and a bottom that is lightly browned. Norma
That's a good one. Sounds like they are swell customers.I believe more people are like that than we probably know(or don't want to know! )
Norma, your pizzas are the most amazing pizzas I have seen. Can you tell me if you do an autolyse? I've read good and bad on autolyse on this site so the jury is still out on this for me at this point. I figure whatever you're doing is the right way. I've read the post on this new dough formulation you are using (flour 100%, water 59%, IDY .55%, Morton salt 2%, oil 3% and sugar 1%, right?) but can you tell me how you process the dough from mixing to room or fridge ferment (and how long) to how long you let the dough sit out at room temp before forming, etc. Thank you, Cindy
Thank you Norma for your quick reply, as always, very helpful. Keep the pictures of your pizza's coming, I always look forward to seeing what you're making. Thank you again, Cindy
Can someone post a link to the dough formulation that doesn't require a professional brand of flour?What I use is King Arthur all purpose.Thanks
Norma makes a much better "boadwalk" pizza than the boardwalk guys!
Wow, you hear that Norma? Congratulations! Did I miss the news about what happened concerning your moving to the other more desirable location at the Market? Did anything become of that?Bob
I would have to agree with Steve's review. After reading all the great reviews on here and elsewhere, I was excited to try their pie. However, I was not impressed AT ALL.


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I have an app which I have upgraded to rails3. It is working fine but for displaying error messages.
Take i.e. new.html.erb. In the model I have several validations that work, they do not create a user if the entries are wrong. On submission it dutifully returns to new.html.erb but WITHOUT the nice red error messages.
Where is it going wrong and why?


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13 Children, 26 Letters
You have thirteen children and the rules are simple! First rule: You can only use each letter of the alphabet once for the initials. For example, your children could be:
Alexander Brandon
Christina Dawn
Elijah Franklin
George Harold
Isla Jane
Katherine Leigh
Madeline Nichole
Owen Patrick
Quinn Rhys
Sebastian Thomas
Ulrich Vincent
William Xavier
Yasmine Zola
Don't do it in alphabetical order like that though ... mix it up! The example is so you get the idea Second rule: You can choose the genders for your children, but make it equal (7 girls & 6 boys, or 7 boys & 6 girls).
Third rule: You can go in any order you want, but you must follow these guidelines:
A single child named after someone who inspires you
A single child named after your favorite actor/actress
A single child named after a favorite book character
A single child with your initials (first & middle initials or first & last initials)
Three set of twins; one B/B & one B/G & one G/G
A set of triplets
Good luck!
... would it be possible for everyone to distinguish the twins and triplets? It's no fun if you just show 13 names
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Jason ~ Matthew ~ Ryan ~ Thomas ~ Shane
Serena * Ariel * Miriam * Kari * Veronica
Perseus ~ Chandler ~ Harvey ~ Bartholomew ~ Darien
Sakura * Winry * Raven * Meredith * Monica
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Adelaide Hazel (my initials)
Lucy Charlotte (favourite book character, Lucy from The Chronicles of Narnia)
Julia Elizabeth (two people who inspire me)
Noah Zion & Benjamin Gray
Peter Xavier & Felicity Ysabel
Ivy Katherine & Sage Oriana
Dorian Walter, Quentin Umber & Talia Violetanne teresa. 20.
bibliophile & anglophile.
"if you'll only call me anne spelled with an e i shall try to reconcile myself to not being called cordelia." -anne of green gables
Eliza Magdalene | Beatrice Mercy | Lucy Katherine
Eleanor Felicity | Vivian Althea | Adeline Fiona
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Area Horse Riding Group Ready To Begin Activities
The Bits N Spurs Trail Riders are brushing their horses and getting them ready for the trails.
Members are ready to switch from their snowmobiles, skis and snowshoes and head out on the trails on their horses. Their trail riding schedule for this year has been set and will be from April to November. Some places rides are going to be held are Cockaigne, Meadows Road, Ruttenbur Road, Allegany State Park and the Pine Hill/South Valley trail system. Some rides will include overnight camping. Guests are welcome with a fee to cover insurance for the day.
This is a local horse club founded in 1994 by a small group of trail riders in the Forestville area. Since then its membership has grown to include other parts of Chautauqua County and beyond. Riders of all levels of experience are welcome. Rides are at a walk and last from two to four hours. The longer rides include a lunch break, with members bringing a dish to pass for supper after the ride.
The group usually has a monthly meeting either at a member's house or after the ride. New members are welcome, with membership welcome for individuals and families. Some activities are helping develop and maintain the Eastern Equestrian Trails, the Pine Hill/South Valley trails and the trails at Allegany State Park. Members often get together to attend a variety of other horse-related events.
For more information, visit the group's Facebook page by searching for Bits 'n' Spurs Trail riders or email Sandy Colvenback, president, at email@example.com.


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Event Details: Global TC Day: Tokyo, Japan
Teachers College is celebrating its 125th Anniversary and alumni worldwide are gathering to commemorate this milestone. Connect with area alumni and celebrate Global TC Day on Saturday, July 27. Join the conversation online using #GlobalTCDay.
Global TC Day: Tokyo, Japan
COST: ¥2000, payable at the door.
Hosted by: TC in Tokyo- Jennie Roloff Rothman
Date: Saturday, July 27, 2013
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Cafe Amarphie, Tokyo, Japan.
Additional Information:
Special Guest Speaker - Professor Kumiko Torikai, Graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University and Professor and the founding dean of the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication at Rikkyo University; Visiting Professor at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Event includes:
*TCCUJAA birthday ceremony (with cake!)
*Announcement of TCCUJAA election and constitutional ratification results
*Mingling and socializing with other TC alums/students
*Raffle of TC goods and prizes
For more information or to RSVP, email TCCUJAA at email@example.com. We look forward to seeing you there!
Registration for this event is now closed. Walk-ins are welcomed!
By entering the event premises you consent to videotaping, photography, interview(s) and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for public relations, news articles, telecasts, education, advertising, research, inclusion on web sites, fundraising, or any other purpose by Teachers College (TC) and and/or its affiliates. Full photo consent information here.
Type: Alumni
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date & Time: 7/27/2013, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Debates of June 6th, 2003
House of Commons Hansard #113 of the 37th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was amendment.
- Lobbyists Registration Act
- Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Cruelty to Animals)
- Juno Beach Centre
- Campbell River Indian Band
- Poetry Competition
- Juno Beach Centre
- Young Architects Competition
- St. Albert Riding
- D-Day
- Hélène Alarie
- D-Day
- Diabetes
- Canadian Alliance
- Juno Beach Centre
- Agriculture
- Emergency Assistance
- Agriculture
- Air India
- Transport 2000
- National Security
- Agriculture
- Emergency Assistance
- Immigration
- Softwood Lumber
- Foreign Affairs
- Middle East
- Correctional Service of Canada
- Pharmaceutical Industry
- Agriculture
- Foreign Affairs
- International Trade
- Agriculture
- Canadian Television
- Foreign Affairs
- Citizenship and Immigration
- Firearms Registry
- Canada Post
- Health
- Justice
- Member for Saskatoon--Humboldt
- Housing
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Montreal-Beirut Air Service
- International Cooperation
- Health
- Fisheries
- Montreal-Beirut Air Service
- National Defence
- Order in Council Appointments
- Government Response to Petitions
- Antarctic Environmental Protection Act
- Committees of the House
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Question No. 226
- An Act to amend the Criminal Code (cruelty to animals)
- Points of Order
- Criminal Code
Oral Question Period
June 6th, 2003 / 11:55 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Peter Goldring Edmonton Centre-East, AB
Mr. Speaker, $1 billion has been spent over three years and homeless numbers are up. The minister responsible for homelessness hates private landlords, mumbles misinformation and myths, while the minister responsible for CMHC ignores singles altogether.
CMHC states that the census information is missing on singles' housing needs but government spends billions to wine and dine in luxury hotels. A government ignorant of independent living singles' housing needs leaves 15,000 singles languishing in emergency shelters. Does the government not care for Canada's singles?
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Mississauga West
Steve Mahoney Secretary of State (Selected Crown Corporations)
Mr. Speaker, the government has shown a great deal of compassion in the area of affordable housing. We have announced over $1 billion with provincial, municipal and NGOs and private developers, matching the funding to create over 40,000 units in the next five years. That is only the beginning.
Unlike the member opposite, we do not want to put people in compartments. We would rather put them in apartments and build homes that Canadians can be proud of.
Aboriginal Affairs
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Canadian Alliance
Brian Pallister Portage—Lisgar, MB
Mr. Speaker, the leadership chaos on that side of the House continues. We have rebels taking over caucus meetings, secret pseudo cabinet meetings in dark hallways and Chinese restaurants, and now backroom deals with party executives.
According to a member of the Liberal Party national executive, when the member for LaSalle—Émard inevitably wins the Liberal leadership, the first nations governance act is "dead in the water". Since the fate of this bill is a foregone conclusion, why does the government continue to waste Parliament's time and taxpayers' money?
Aboriginal Affairs
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Kenora—Rainy River
Bob Nault Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Mr. Speaker, I think the objective of a good governance structure for first nations is one that we all share. We are going to continue to work with that in mind. The objective of the exercise for all of us is to improve the lives of first nations citizens. This is a work in progress. If the member has any good amendments to suggest, we would like to hear them. So far we have not heard any.
Montreal-Beirut Air Service
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Benoît Sauvageau Repentigny, QC
Mr. Speaker, air service between Montreal and Beirut that Air Canada was slated to provide was cancelled this week by the Canadian government. However, many international airlines continue to offer direct flights to Lebanon from major European cities.
Should we understand that this decision by the Canadian government, far from being the result of air security concerns, is instead a political decision due to pressure from the U.S. government?
Montreal-Beirut Air Service
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Wayne Easter Solicitor General of Canada
Mr. Speaker, as the member indicated in his preamble, there are still all kinds of options to fly from Montreal to Lebanon and that was certainly taken into consideration in the decision.
I want to point out that it was not as a result of pressure from the Americans that the Canadian government made the decision that it did. We made the decision based on current security information. As a result, we felt it would not be appropriate for that flight to fly directly to Beirut at this time.
International Cooperation
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Karen Redman Kitchener Centre, ON
Mr. Speaker, each minute 11 people are infected with HIV. One in every 13 people in sub-Saharan Africa between the ages of 15 and 49 is HIV positive.
Canada has been an international leader in the global fund, being a key founder and one of the first countries to actually contribute.
Could the Minister for International Cooperation inform the House what other initiatives her department has undertaken to fight the AIDS epidemic?
International Cooperation
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Susan Whelan Minister for International Cooperation
Mr. Speaker, Canadians can be proud of their contributions to the global fund, essential in the fight against HIV and AIDS.
We must use all of the tools that are at our disposal to fight the profound challenges that we face with HIV and AIDS. That is why, through CIDA, we have committed to quadrupling our funding to HIV and AIDS between 2000 and 2005 for a total of $270 million. That is why we have contributed $50 million through the Kananaskis fund to find a vaccine for HIV and AIDS. That is why we continue to support HIV-AIDS awareness programs and education programs and treat those who are living with HIV and AIDS in many countries. We are working to provide hope for many people suffering from HIV and AIDS.
Oral Question Period
11:55 a.m.
Réal Ménard Hochelaga—Maisonneuve, QC
Mr. Speaker, the ministers of health of the member states of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, APEC, will hold a meeting on SARS in Bangkok, Thailand. The purpose of this meeting, set for the end of June, is to coordinate the efforts of member states in containing the SARS epidemic.
Has the Minister of Health been invited to this meeting, and if so, will she attend?
Oral Question Period
New Brunswick
Jeannot Castonguay Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health
Mr. Speaker, I cannot claim to know if the minister has been invited; obviously, I have not rifled through her mail. Naturally, I will find out from officials in her department, in order to provide my hon. colleague with an answer.
Oral Question Period
Progressive Conservative
Gerald Keddy South Shore, NS
Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is allowing the scallop fleet from his riding to fish in area 29 in my riding and on the best lobster grounds in the world. Meanwhile, area 29 scallopers are not allowed to fish in the minister's riding. As a result, lobster fishermen in area 34 are worried about diminishing stocks that threaten their livelihood.
If the minister's machinations ruin both the scallop and the lobster industries in lobster fishing area 34, will he then allow our fishermen to fish in his riding?
Oral Question Period
West Nova
Nova Scotia
Robert Thibault Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
Mr. Speaker, the full bay scallop fleet has developed the scallop in that area with sound scientific analysis. Last year we included some area lobster fishermen within that fishery, as they will be this year. They are fishing at a very low level with a low yield in a safe manner. I am sure that the fishery will be sustainable both for lobster and scallop forever.
Montreal-Beirut Air Service
Oral Question Period
Svend Robinson Burnaby—Douglas, BC
Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Solicitor General. A few hours after the first Air Canada flight between Montreal and Beirut took off, the Liberal government withdrew authorization for these flights.
Why has the government given in to pressure from the U.S., particularly when many other airlines, such as Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines, offer direct flights, and no Lebanese nationals have ever been involved in terrorist acts in Canada?
When will the government restore these flights, because it now takes some 27 or 28 hours—
Montreal-Beirut Air Service
Oral Question Period
The Deputy Speaker
The hon. Solicitor General.
Montreal-Beirut Air Service
Oral Question Period
Wayne Easter Solicitor General of Canada
Mr. Speaker, I want to underline again that the government does not make decisions based on what the Americans might say. We do our security analysis in a number of ways and we constantly monitor the situation worldwide.
I want to point out that as the member said in his comments on Lebanon, this is not to target any one people. We look at the consequences of terrorist acts around the world. We have a responsibility to protect the security of Canadians.


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This week I am at the Data Center Conference 2009 in Las Vegas. There are some 1700 people registered this year for this conferece, representing a variety of industries like Public sector, Services, Finance, Healthcare and Manufacturing. A survey of the attendees found:
- 55 percent are at this conference for the first time.
- 18 percent once before, like me
- 15 percent two or three times before
- 12 percent four or more times before
Plans for 2010 IT budgets were split evenly, one third planning to spend more, one third planning to spend about the same, and the final third looking to cut their IT budgets even further than in 2009. The biggest challenges were Power/Cooling/Floorspace issues, aligning IT with Business goals, and modernizing applications. The top three areas of IT spend will be for Data Center facilities, modernizing infrastructure, and storage.
There are six keynote sessions scheduled, and 66 breakout sessions for the week. A "Hot Topic" was added on "Why the marketplace prefers one-stop shopping" which plays to the strengths of IT supermarkets like IBM, encourages HP to acquire EDS and 3Com, and forces specialty shops like Cisco and EMC to form alliances.
Day 2 began with a series of keynote sessions. Normally when I see "IO" or "I/O", I immediately think of input/output, but here "I&O" refers to Infrastructure and Operations.
- Business Sensitivity Analysis leads to better I&O Solutions
The analyst gave examples from Alan Greenspan's biography to emphasize his point that what this financial meltdown has caused is a decline in trust. Nobody trusts anyone else. This is true between people, companies, and entire countries. While the GDP declined 2 percent in 2009 worldwide, it is expected to grow 2 percent in 2010, with some emerging markets expected to grow faster, such as India (7 percent) and China (10 percent). Industries like Healthcare, Utilities and Public sector are expected to lead the IT spend by 2011.
While IT spend is expected to grow only 1 to 5 percent in 2010, there is a significant shift from Capital Expenditures (CapEx) to Operational Expenses (OpEx). Five years ago, OpEx used to represent only 64 percent of IT budget in 2004, but today represents 76 percent and growing. Many companies are keeping their aging IT hardware longer in service, beyond traditional depreciation schedules. The analyst estimated over 1 million servers were kept longer than planned in 2009, and another 2 million will be kept longer in 2010.
An example of hardware kept too long was the November 17 delay of 2000 some flights in the United States, caused by a failed router card in Utah that was part of the air traffic control system. Modernizing this system is estimated to cost $40 billion US dollars.
Top 10 priorities for the CIO were Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Business Intelligence (BI), Networking, Web 2.0, ERP applications, Security, Data Management, Mobile, and Collaboration. There is a growth in context-aware computing, connecting operational technologies with sensors and monitors to feed back into IT, with an opportunity for pattern-based strategy. Borrowing a concept from the military, "OpTempo" allows a CIO to speed up or slow down various projects as needed. By seeking out patterns, developing models to understand those patterns, and then adapting the business to fit those patterns, a strategy can be developed to address new opportunities.
- Infrastructure and Operations: Charting the course for the coming decade
This analyst felt that strategies should not just be focused looking forward, but also look left and right, what IBM calls "adjacent spaces". He covered a variety of hot topics:
- 65 percent of energy running x86 servers is doing nothing. The average x86 running only 7 to 12 percent CPU utilization.
- Virtualization of servers, networks and storage are transforming IT to become on big logical system image, which plays well with Green IT initiatives. He joked that this is what IBM offered 20 years ago with Mainframe "Single System Image" sysplexes, and that we have come around full circle.
- One area of virtualization are desktop images (VDI). This goes back to the benefits of green-screen 3270 terminals of the mainframe era, eliminating the headaches of managing thousands of PCs, and instead having thin clients rely heavily on centralized services.
- The deluge in data continues, as more convenient access drives demand for more data. The anlyst estimates storage capacity will increase 650 percent over the next five years, with over 80 percent of this unstructured data. Automated storage tiering, ala Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) from the mainframe era, is once again popular, along with new technologies like thin provisioning and data deduplication.
- IT is also being asked to do complex resource tracking, such as power consumption. In the past IT and Facilities were separate budgets, but that is beginning to change.
- The fastest growing social nework was Twitter, with 1382 percent growth in 2009, of which 69 percent of new users that joined this year were 39 to 51 years old. By comparison, Facebook only grew by 249 percent. Social media is a big factor both inside and outside a company, and management should be aware of what Tweets, Blogs, and others in the collective are saying about you and your company.
- The average 18 to 25 year old sends out 4000 text messages per month. In 24 hours, more text messages are sent out than people on the planet (6.7 billion). Unified Communications is also getting attention. This is the idea that all forms of communication, from email to texts to voice over IP (VoIP), can be managed centrally.
- Smart phones and other mobile devices are changing the way people view laptops. Many business tasks can be handled by these smaller devices.
- It costs more in energy to run an x86 server for three years than it costs to buy it. The idea of blade servers and componentization can help address that.
- Mashups and Portals are an unrecognized opportunity. An example of a Mashup is mapping a list of real estate listings to Google Maps so that you can see all the listings arranged geographically.
- Lastly, Cloud Computing will change the way people deliver IT services. Amusingly, the conference was playing "Both Sides Now" by Joni Mitchell, which has the [lyrics about clouds]
Unlike other conferences that clump all the keynotes at the beginning, this one spreads the "Keynote" sessions out across several days, so I will cover the rest over separate posts.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The dogs will remain dogs, but the thoroughbreds are still worth betting on. That was Jim Cramer's assessment of the Dow Jones Industrial Average going into 2013.
Cramer told his "Mad Money" viewers Thursday that 2013 should be a lot better than 2012 for the Dow, and he gave a quick assessment of all the Dow stocks to show why.
Starting from the best performers in 2012, Cramer said that Bank Of America (BAC) remains cheap, despite its 108% gain last year. Bigger gains will come, he said, as the housing recovery continues. Home Depot (HD) continues to take market share, which makes that stock a winner as well.
Cramer said that Walt Disney (DIS) can extend its 32% rally last year thanks to strong attendance at its parks and strong entertainment properties. And while he's not as bullish on JPMorgan Chase (JPM) , American Express (AXP) and Travelers (TRV) , Cramer expects all three to still have a good 2013.
Cramer was also bullish on General Electric (GE) , a stock he owns for his charitable trust, Action Alerts PLUS, along with Pfizer (PFE) , 3M (MMM) and United Technologies (UTX) , all stocks he said should be able to at least match last year's slow-growth performance.
His only bearish call in the slow-growth group, Wal-Mart, in the face of a weaker U.S. consumer going into 2013.
Cramer said AT&T (T) will allow investors to sleep at night, while Cisco (CSCO) should see its shares rise in 2013. Meanwhile, Merck (MRK) needs a big catalyst to match its 8.6% performance last year and Cramer doesn't see one.
He felt Verizon (VZ) will likely play catchup this year, while United Healthcare (UNH) will do poorly without job creation.
Then there were the dogs of the Dow, the under-performers. Cramer was bullish on Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and IBM (IBM) , another Action Alerts PLUS name, and felt that Coca-Cola (KO) should be able to beat its 3.6% gain in 2012, as should Boeing (BA) given the aerospace cycle. His only worry is Microsoft (MSFT) , a stock he said is "hard to love."
Cramer was lukewarm on Exxon Mobil (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) , but gave Chevron, an Action Alerts PLUS name, the edge. He was bearish on Alcoa (AA) and DuPont (DD) and said he doesn't trust McDonald's (MCD) .
Cramer made an exception for Caterpillar (CAT) , calling that dog of the Dow undervalued, but rounded out the group by saying that Intel (INTC) will likely remain flat in 2013 and the worst performer, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) could only save the averages by being booted from them, even with it's 44% loss for 2012.


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In short: My new Personal Worst half marathon timeIn full: I slipped, and sprained my ankle, on the first slippy downhill section. I didn't want to pull out so near the start, so I plodded on, thinking "I'll see how I feel at the next water stop".I seemed to be going backwards compared to everyone else, but I (eventually!) made it all the way around. I wouldn't have made it without all the support from fellow runners and the marvellous marshalls.My ankle is the size of an orange, and my whole foot has turned some unbelieveable colours, but I'll be healed in time for the Picnic....Date of review: March 20, 2012
In short: The perfect New Year's Hangover busterIn full: Rob, you did it again! Many thanks for a fantastic day, although it's now Tuesday and my legs are a bit sore. Fantastic organisation as usual, with friendly marshals steering us around the hard course. Some of it was very muddy, but that was just a good excuse to use my Christmas XC shoes.Not many people can say that they spent New Year's Day chasing a Dalek and a French Maid up a hill...Date of review: January 3, 2012
In short: Must be the only half-marathon with Morris Dancing and free beer.In full: A beautiful course with marvellous views and the usual encouragement from the trionium marshals. Brilliant facilities at the start, the weighing-in scales were an interesting touch.The extra loop at the bottom of the hill added a few minutes, but no harm done. Overall, it was a beautiful course and the views off the top made all the climbing worthwhile. Off-road shoes are a must for next time though, some of the paths were very slippy.Date of review: November 28, 2011
In short: What? Another lap?In full: Dr Robert, you keep organising these horrible things, and I keep entering them. As always, very hard work. the submerged stepping stones and the extra slippy approach to the turnaround point make things even more interesting.I'm in agony today, but I know I'll be back for more in two years.See you in Bath for the Hilly Half!Date of review: June 20, 2011
In short: Tough but RewardingIn full: Doctor Rob, you did it yet again! Fantastic organisation, horrible hills made bearable by enthusiastic marshalls a very friendly field of runners.A swim and a fry-up afterwards, what's not to like?My knee hurts now, but I'll be back for the Picnic. Date of review: March 7, 2011
In short: Dr Rob develops ultimate hangover cure!In full: Maybe a whole bottle of wine the night before was a mistake, but there's nothing like a nice fry-up to put things straight.The fry-up comes after a friendly sing-along and a relaxing amble over some gently rolling countryside, just the ticket!The head is very clear now, but my legs are a bit sore. Now I only have to do the Knacker Cracker to complete the T-shirt collection...Date of review: October 18, 2010
In short: Argh! My Legs!In full: Horrible steps, wonderful views, friendly crowd and excellent marshalls.Four days later and I can walk again. I'll be back next year, I've already booked for The Picnic.A proper picnic at the end, smoked salmon sandwiches and everything, and the pub is on the way to the station. What a wonderful way to spend a summer afternoon. Thanks Dr Rob, I'll definitely be back.Date of review: June 23, 2010
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In an article on page C-1 of your Friday, April 12, edition it states that the Panama Central School District will be fined $4.9 Million for failure to submit required paperwork.
Look at the article carefully. They will receive from the State Ed Dept. $500,000 this year to assist with this and should simply sign over and return the check to the state for this years payment.
Is this crazy or what?
Now, if the District applies for the same grant for the next nine years; the fine will be totally paid off and the District will end up with a $100,000 profit! Not so bad when you look at it that way. That probably will not happen but why in the heck is the NYS Dept. of Ed fining a school district and then giving them a grant to pay the first year's amount due. And pity the poor taxpayers who will have to cough up $500,000 a year for the next nine years to settle the account.
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Cheaper Apple iPhone Would Trigger Tim Cook's Departure
That supporters of a less-expensive iPhone have to "defend" the idea tells you much of what you need to know.
No doubt, there's a theme to the emails and Tweets I received in response to the above-linked article where I expressed concern over a cheaper iPhone but ultimately discounted the rumors. I don't think Tim Cook is dumb. He will not slum it with a $100 phone made of plastic. Not going to happen. If anything, we have a repeat of iPad mini coming; a situation where people ( except for me ) expect low-end, but get a slightly less expensive, still premium-priced, high-quality product.
But, let's assume the rumors are true and Apple mindlessly churns out a cheaper iPhone.
The ring to that -- "cheaper iPhone" -- should scare you. I'm not sure how anybody who has ever heard of Steve Jobs, let alone paid attention to the magic he made, could be all right with the notion of a "cheaper iPhone."
I didn't realize this until late last night, but Wednesday (yesterday) marked six years from the day Jobs introduced the original iPhone, at least according to one story I came across. The actual date doesn't matter. Neither does iPhone's incredible success. It's the qualitative stuff -- the multi-method stock market ethnography -- that counts.
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According to reports, Apple will release an across-the-board cheap product simply because it can. That stands in opposition to everything that has made Apple the greatest company in the world.
Again, forget the quality products and the billions in sales and profits. The war chest full of cash. The skyrocketed stock price (even after the crash). Focus on the underlying, more abstract, conceptual stuff that brought Apple to prominence. The Steve Jobs' credo that we could do a whole bunch of stuff, but most ideas hit the cutting room floor. We're great because we're focused and selective.
Apple could do plenty of things to make money and open new markets. In the near-term, there's no question the approach would work. With scant competition, Apple will only lose if it beats itself .
Moving away from the core ideas that Steve Jobs cemented as Apple's foundation will not kill the company today, tomorrow or even next year. That's why any mass selling in Apple comes at least a year too soon . However, if you're thinking long-term here, be afraid.
Do not discount the power of Apple as a no-compromise provider of relatively expensive, high-end products. There's something to be said for the fact that not everybody can afford the things Apple makes. Or that some have to settle for an iPod Shuffle. This doesn't sit well with the humanitarian in me, but that person also thinks we have more important issues to worry about.


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Unconnected: Social Isolation and Disability
So summer is finally here and hopefully the good weather will continue. With that comes more opportunities to go outside. I welcome the warm weather, even if it does rain. Unhampered by the snow, I can go out to restaurants, decks, parks etc provided it's not too soggy! But the social isolation feeling still lingers. In the colder months I feel the isolation more. It's not just the difficulty of getting through the snow but also the fact that it's difficult, and dangerous, to carry a wheelchair up and down icy, snowy stairs/steps.
Social isolation is a major issue for the disabled community. It can lead to depression and loneliness. On one of the forums I belong to a woman commented on how little they can see friends since her husband became a high level quadriplegic and needed a power chair. They've lost friendships not because people don't like them anymore but just for the fact they cannot get into their friends' homes. And so, people do not invite them over anymore. In turn, the couple doesn't feel like taking the step to invite them over to their place, or the expensive choice of always going out to eat as that lonely depression is exacerbated by seeing friends. I understand this 100%. There are friends' apartments/homes that I have never seen, nor will I probably ever see. And so there is this constant palpitation of loneliness in my everyday life. It's another example of how my environment can be so disabling. School has been a great equalizer as with my fraternity we are always doing things together but man what about just showing up to a friend's house just to say hi? Or late night fun watching movies.
Lack of access to friends' homes doesn't just affect the person with a disability, but their social circle as well. Some friends of mine were looking for apartments and were hard pressed to find one that I could visit easily. Should they feel like terrible people because they couldn't find a place that their friend in a wheelchair could get into? One of my dearest friends is pregnant and her apartment is up some very steep flight of stairs. I often worry how I will be able to see her baby and feel a tinge of jealousy that others can come into her home so freely to see her, and I cannot. Now I will probably end up crawling up those stairs myself to see little Seedling (it's my nickname for the baby) but I honestly shouldn't have to pull Rambo-like moves in order to see my friends.
Even just writing this article I can feel the depression and sadness inside. Everyday it's something, another silent message stating I am worthless. And that message can eat away at you. It's something of a very hard, bitter pill that I learned to swallow with ease growing up every time I went to school and heard my friends retell their adventures at so-and-so's house reinforced that lonely feeling. I couldn't be in on the fun, because I couldn't get into that friend's house anyway. It makes people with disabilities feel like they are a burden and inconvenience to their loved ones even if the loved ones do not mind helping. It's the lack of being able to come and go and do for yourself, to be included. It's a disconcerting feeling to feel an outsider amongst those you are so very close to. The freedom to come and go as one pleases was something that I craved like a thirsty man craves for water; I still do not have that freedom, not 100%.
Such a simple thing, when you look at it. Being invited to a friend's home and sharing memories and food and getting that human interaction is good for the soul. So good that it is celebrated in cultures all over the world for thousands of years, most likely more. Still today, it is seen as a snub when someone doesn't invite you to the party and yet, the world feels it's ok to snub a whole group of people by building in a manner which does not allow them to participate in social home gatherings even if they wanted to.
The majority of the readers may know what it's like to be uninvited and then hear about the party later or to hear of people talk about a coming up event and going "Oh!Who should we invite?" and as they list everyone they know, except you. Now take that hurt and each time you see stairs to a house/apartment entrance, or any accessibility violation and multiply by two. Then you may come close to how that feels to someone with a disability. But it's not like we're all just big gaping wounds crying about our lives all the time, especially not me. A weird coping mechanism happens when you have to ignore parts of your environment. Dr. Rhoda Olkin, a distinguished professor at the California School of Professional Psychology and Executive Director of the Institute on Disability and Health Psychologyand who also has polio, spoke about this in an interview.
The article partly explains the funk I've been in since I began writing this. Before I came to Rochester I really had close to zero social interaction outside of my family. I was trapped not only by lack of accessibility laws, but also due to not being able to get into others' homes and not being able to do my own personal care. I didn't have friends to speak of. I spent a lot of time, as I mentioned, reading. It's made me very socially awkward with tinges of social anxiety sometimes bordering on panic/anxiety attacks, for huge social events. But with the interactions of friends after coming here, and just because of life in general, I have acquired the skill of ignoring the parts of my environment that are aggravating and hurtful. I have had to develop the mental toughness that has empowered me to climb up stairs to visit people, to get up and face my reality with no reservations or anger. This is what my life is; I will make the best of it. And I have been grateful to have an army of friends who are willing to help me live life to the fullest and share in life's joys and sorrows. So, over time, I just don't dwell on the hard things. I adapt, be as flexible as I can and just go on with life. This is not something I was taught to do but what's the alternative? Being depressed all the time? Hating myself? Sadly, many, especially in the world of SCI, are plagued by depression and self-loathing. People blame themselves, are angry, depressed. Sadly, for a time, I was once one of them.
What I am really talking about here is not just social isolation. Social isolation is one result of what I'd like to call the Trifecta of BS that many people with disabilities have to deal with: Social Security/Healthcare, Transportation and Housing (or should I call it the Quadrilateral of Aggravation?). The two easiest to solve are transportation and housing. But lets focus on the housing. Over the years some design ideas have come about to help solve this issue: universal design and "visitability" aka Inclusive Home Design are just two examples. I am sure you're asking what those are, and luckily, we need not look further than our own backdoor to our friends at the University at Buffalo for the answers to these questions.
UB has a nationally renowned Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access and you can visit their page on visitability to find out more about their projects. They describe visitability as "an affordable, sustainable and inclusive design approach for integrating basic accessibility features into all newly built homes and housing … based on the conviction that inclusion of basic architectural access features in all new homes is a civil and human right and improves livability for all." The handy booklet which outlines the guidelines is broken down into three conditions: one zero-step entrance at the front, side or rear of the home; 32in wide clearances at doorways and hallways with at least 36 inches of clear width; and, at least an accessible half bath on the main floor. We can say that visitability is a subset of universal design. Universal design is all about the broader view in making products and environments easy to use for ALL people. It does have some standards that include flexibility in use, low physical effort and simple and intuitive designs. You can read some of the standards here and here in pdf format and you can visit UB's Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access main page to read more on what they are doing as well as NC State University's Center for Universal Design.
These ideas of building homes isn't just about the person with a disability, but about the family unit as a whole. if we build according to these guidelines, then elderly relatives can visit with ease, or if we reach that stage of life, we can stay in our homes and not worry about having to sell it and go into a nursing home because our own home is no longer safe/the cost of renovating is too high. And, god forbid, we acquire a debilitating illness, or suffer an injury if the home is built with universal design and visitablity in mind, that is one huge stress a family does not have to think about: how am (I, they) going to get around in the house? How much will it cost to renovate? It's funny how we plan for retirement, for kids, but our homes are not built in a manner that is forward thinking in how we will change over time.
Lastly, I would be remiss in not referring you to the site of the woman (and now the group) that spear-headed this movement all the way back to the mid 80s Concrete Change. Eleanor Smith asked a simple question of "If every new bus can have a lift, then why can't every new house have a zero step entrance?" The group has been making strides all over the world. What about legislation? The Inclusive Home Design Act was proposed but according to govtrack it never became law. I personally would like to see this expanded to requiring apartments with two or more stories to have an elevator. I've seen some inconsistencies, some buildings having them, while others do not. And this goes to, again, choice. What if the only available units are upstairs? I'm reminded of one of childhood friend's old apartment in Canandaigua, if I recall correctly. Awesome wide doors and a bathroom I could easily get into, as well as a leveled entrance to the building. But his apartment was upstairs. We left at around 2am and were giggly and he fell on the stairs as he carried me down. I still feel guilty bout this. So, hopefully, one day, we can live in a society where everyone can come and go as they please, visit friends without hesitation or trepidation, nor worry that their friends may get hurt because they were helping to carry them up flights of stairs. Until then, I'll relish the summer heat, and get outside as much as I can and enjoy the company of those I love so dearly until Old Man Winter ushers me inside once again.


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