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Citation: Ellis, K.J., Shypailo, R.J. 2008. COHN analysis: Body composition measurements based on the associated particle imaging and prompt-gamma neutron activation analysis techniques. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry. 276(1):79-83. Interpretive Summary: Obesity is defined as an excess amount of stored body fat. But there are also changes in the composition of the lean tissues, often with an increased amount of water and a reduced amount of proteins. When a weight loss program of any type is initiated, the focus is to reduce the amount of excess fat without significantly compromising the quality of the lean tissues, especially the amount of protein. To accurately follow changes in the amounts of fat, water, and protein in the body, three separate measurements have had to be performed. In this paper, we describe a new system, based on nuclear principles, that can directly measure the body's content of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen. Using this information, and knowing the chemical makeup of water, fat, and proteins, it is now possible to accurately measure the relative amounts of each in the living human body, and to monitor changes with weight loss. It will also be possible to monitor changes in body composition when gaining body weight is the objective, such as after a serious illness.
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Despite its somewhat austere shoreline of gravel and sagebrush, Martis is a flyfisher's dream. The lake is a veritable soup of insects, scuds, snails and baitfish: perfect for growing big trout fast. A strict zero kill, catch and release policy insures that the trout can grow to trophy size and naturally replenish the lake with wild fish. The feeder streams are closed to any kind of fishing to protect the spawners and fingerlings. A quiet lakeside campground and close proximity to the amenities of Truckee and Lake Tahoe make Martis an ideal destination.
The incredibly rich waters of Martis qualified it as the first lake inducted into the California Wild Trout system. The Department of Fish & Game poisoned the lake of all the fish and planted it with threatened Lahontan Cutthroat. The Cutts grew rapidly and provided excellent fishing for a couple of years. The lake was destined to be a rearing ground for trophy Cutthroat, but nature isn't quite that easy to manipulate!
Unknown to DF&G personnel, brown trout eggs, hidden in the gravel of Martis Creek, survived the poisoning of the lake and hatched. These little browns quickly grew to trout large enough to feed on the Cutthroat. At the same time, an illegal planting of green sunfish was made in Martis and the resulting boom in baitfish provided perfect fare for the browns. By the mid-eighties, Martis was nationally known as a trophy brown trout fishery.
DF&G gave up on the Cutthroat project and began planting the lake with various types of rainbows, including sterile "English Ladys" that can grow to double digit figures. In the early nineties in the midst of a prolonged drought, the fishery crashed and most of the browns were lost. Today, the fishery has rebuilt itself and harbors a dense population of fat rainbows and cutthroat. Unfortunately any number of non-game fish including goldfish, suckers, dace, have found their way into the system to compete for your fly.
Early in the season (the lake opens the last Saturday in April), Martis is typically fished with small gray midge imitations. As soon as the water temperatures break fifty degrees, the famous Martis blood midges begin to hatch. These insects thrive in most of the West's alkaline lakes and they become the hatch to watch for in lakes with a population of perch or sunfish. The perch are deadly predators on callibaetis and siphlonurus mayfly nymphs and reduce the dry fly fishing dramatically.
The blood midge larvae live deep within the mud of the bottom of the lake, safe from predation by the voracious baitfish. The bright red midge larvae are filled with hemoglobin, the same stuff that makes our blood red. This hemoglobin has a tremendous affinity for oxygen and allows the larvae to live in the severely hypoxic environment at the bottom of the lakes. Protected in this nutrient rich and predator free environment, the midge larvae population can exceed 3,000 insects per meter.
The blood midge can hatch any time of any day throughout the season, but can be anticipated in greatest numbers when the sun is below the horizon or hidden behind clouds. The best way to fish the midge is as either an ascending pupae or as the emerging adult in the surface film. The best pupae pattern is a #14 brassie slowly drawn towards the surface on long light tippet.
The emerger pattern is deadly and much more fun to fish than the brassie because the grab is a visual experience. The number one fly at Martis is the aptly named Martis Midge tied on a #14 hook. This fly resembles the adult midge pulling out of a pupal sheath at the surface. The Martis Midge's bright deer hair post makes it easy to see, the parachute hackle floats it in the film, and the subsurface orange dubbing and wisp of Crystal Flash imitate the pupae. Dress the leader, the deer hair and the hackle with fly floatant and cast it toward the rings of a rising fish and hold on!
Even though the callibaetis population is hammered by the sunfish, these speckled winged mayflies still occur in very fishable numbers. A pheasant tail nymph "mooched" above the weed beds does a credible job imitating the callibaetis nymph. A quigley cripple mayfly in gray does a great job imitating the emerger and usually outfishes any of the specific dun imitations. In the afternoon, be prepared to toss a rusty colored CDC biot spinner to imitate the egg-laying females.
Another Martis Lake standby is the sunfish imitation. Truly huge trout are taken every year on green wooly buggers wooly buggers and matukas. Fish these streamers near the margins of weed beds where big trout are stalking the errant sunfish that might leave the refuge of the aquatic vegetation. Use 20# braided GSP spinning line for your entire leader. Trout are not afraid of it in Martis' murky water, and the abrasive fibers will saw through aquatic vegetation when fish duck into cover.
As with most of the Northern Sierra lakes, damsel flies are an important hatch that peaks around the Fourth of July weekend. Fish the nymph imitation on a floating line with a very slow retrieve, stopping frequently to allow the fly to sink. Most of the takes occur during the drop, so pay strict attention to the movement of your leader. It is all to easy to get distracted by the numerous gliders, ospreys, bald eagles or pelicans.
Adult damsels are often overlooked by even experienced anglers. Trout occasionally take the egg-laying adults as they dap their abdomens into the water, but many more are taken just as they are drying their wings after emergence.
The damsel nymphs crawl out onto weeds and the shoreline to hatch into adults. The newly emerged adults, called tenerals, take twenty minutes before they harden and take flight. While drying, they lack much structural integrity and even a slight breath of wind can cause them to lose their footing and fall into the water. Trout are well aware of this and eagerly anticipate teneral falls.
In the fall, Martis is pretty much a streamer proposition. Again, be sure to try the baitfish patters, but don't fail to experiment. These fish have spent all summer looking at fraudulent flies and have become quite suspicious of anything that doesn't look perfect. Often they will fall for something they've never seen before, such as a pink-headed bugger with lime green legs.
Time has shown us that the Martis fishery and its surrounding environment are fragile. Massive land development and well-fertilized golf courses now surround the creeks feeding Martis and the lake has become over run with nutrients and choked by invasive weeds. Algae blooms, once a rarity are common. The lake is still well worth a visit but please don't drive over soft or mushy terrain and don't let your dog harass the baby geese and sandpipers. Do treat your fish with respect. Play it quickly and fully revive it by swishing it to and fro, forcing oxygenated water through its gills, before you release it.
Please fill out an angler survey card before leaving the lake--there are several survey stations at the lake--so Fish & Game can better manage the resource. Thanks and enjoy.
Check the Sierra Nevada Hatch Chart for complete Martis bug information.
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BATON ROUGE (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's budget proposal would leave colleges with shaky and uncertain financing next year and create cash flow problems at the schools, Louisiana's higher education commissioner said Thursday.
Commissioner Jim Purcell told the House Appropriations Committee that he's troubled by the governor's budget recommendations for public colleges, which would strip state general fund money from the schools for a sixth straight year.
Jindal's spending plan would plug $490 million in patchwork funding into colleges — dollars that are tied to leases, property sales, legal settlements and legislation that haven't yet happened.
If the dollars don't show up, higher education would take a 19 percent cut in the 2013-14 fiscal year that begins July 1.
"How do you plan, how do you project, how do you hire faculty when you have contingent funds and non-recurring funds in a budget?" said Purcell, head of the Board of Regents.
"At the minimum, I would like to have some of this risk redistributed across all state agencies," he told lawmakers.
Barry Dusse, director of the governor's Office of Planning and Budget, said the Jindal administration is confident the dollars will show up for spending.
"I've been told by those in the executive branch that they're going to be there, like you heard today. Personally, I don't think that's going to happen," said Regents Chairman Clinton "Bubba" Rasberry.
Appropriations Chairman Jim Fannin, D-Jonesboro, questioned whether the dollars would arrive quickly enough to keep the colleges with enough money in the bank to make regular their regular payroll and meet their ongoing expenses.
"It is a concern strictly from a cash flow issue," said Barbara Goodson, Regents deputy commissioner for finance and administration.
Dusse said the colleges could get "seed" money to help them upfront until the one-time dollars come in, essentially borrowing from other state funds.
College system leaders echoed Purcell's worries.
The governor and lawmakers have slashed annual state funding for higher education by $650 million since 2008. Tuition increases have only closed part of the gap.
"As we look at the appropriations bill, there's a lot of reasons to be even more concerned than we have been in the past," said Joe May, president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System.
In addition to the patchwork financing, Jindal's budget proposal would strip more state dollars from higher education. The governor's office says tuition increases will cover the lost state funding.
But higher education leaders and a House budget analyst noted that the tuition hike isn't a dollar-for-dollar swap because there are hardship waivers and needs-based aid for students that shrink the amount of tuition actually collected.
May said the tuition estimates used for his college system this year, for example, were $8 million higher than what will be collected.
Rep. John Schroder, R-Covington, asked why nearly all the patchwork funding was plugged into higher education, rather than spread across several agencies.
"What's your philosophy here? Why are we picking on higher ed?" Schroder asked Dusse.
Dusse didn't directly answer the question, but repeated that the administration expects all of the money to arrive as projected.
The budget hearing came as several GOP lawmakers have accused Jindal of trying to pressure the Board of Regents to fire Purcell, because he disagrees with the governor on how to characterize the budget cuts.
Jindal's office has said that decision is up to the board — but Jindal has named all appointed members.
Suggestions that Purcell's job was at risk came up at Thursday's budget hearing.
"I certainly don't want to get you in any more trouble than you might already be in," Schroder told Purcell at one point.
In another part of the discussion, Purcell talked about his reasons for coming to Louisiana to take the job and said, "I plan to spend a long time here if all goes well."


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Amendments for high school soccer
INDIANAPOLIS---Clarifying when and how coaches can communicate with players highlighted the high school soccer rules changes approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations Soccer Rules Committee.
Effective with the 2013-14 season, coaches and players can communicate during a stoppage of play for an injury. Rule 3-3-1c(1) still requires a coach or appropriate health-care professional to have the approval of the referee before entering the field; however, teams may now huddle and receive coaching instruction during the stoppage, which previously was prohibited.
Another change in regard to communication involves electronic devices. While using electronic communication devices to communicate with on-field players is still prohibited, the use of electronic devices on the sideline is allowed.
Another of the seven rules changes involves the intentional fouling of a player who has an obvious goal-scoring opportunity. The new rule states that if a player commits a foul while attempting to deny an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the goal is scored, that player will be issued a yellow card. If the foul is considered serious foul play, however, the player will still be issued a red card.
If a goal is not scored, the player who committed the foul will be issued a red card.
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At the start of the half, the players can enter the field of play without being beckoned by an official.
Another rules change for 2013-14 involves uniforms, specifically the use of tape on socks. Rule 4-1-1c requires both socks to be the same color and consist of a single dominant color. The change results in the use of tape that is applied outside of the sock, which now must be a similar color to the area of the sock to which it is applied.
The Soccer Rules Committee also approved a change to the definition of the Free Kick. The committee agreed that just tapping the top of the ball was not putting it in play. For the ball to be considered in play, it must be kicked and move.
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Kufunda (www.kufunda.org) is amazing. This week we hosted community organizers from various rural communities that Kufunda is helping. My permaculture facilitation was put to the test, and I passed. I've been teaching key points daily (principles, design, water, trees, soil, animals so far) and we're now ready to go at it on the ground with some heavy mulching and water works. The seeds I brought have germinated. Next we'll get into the realm of organizing inter-human relationships (meetings, direct action, etc.).
Marianne Knuth started Kufunda on her family farm about 30 minutes drive from Harare
Kufunda, the village, is made of about 20 core individuals and couples plus children, and about 20 or so hand-made earth brick buildings, some of which are homes, dorms, common spaces, an office and a classroom. One building has been designated as an herbal laboratory for processing the 30 or so medicinal herbs they grow here. In a month or so they will begin a year-long clinical trial of a few selected species on local HIV/AIDS patients.
Kufunda is surrounded by corn fields. The ones that they control are organic and intercropped with beans and squash, just like the native Americans. They also have a few banana cirles and a nutrition garden, and they've planted over hundred each of moringa and jatropha trees. I'm encouraging them to plant more food trees, having told them that deep mulch should get them through the first few dry seasons. One of the Kufundees is growing oyster mushrooms, and we are planning an exchange of mushroom growing techniques next week. I'm blessed to be here during mushroom season; the chantrelles are popping and delicious.
I'm eating very well
As I mentioned, Kufunda is sharing its wealth and knowledge with various other communities around Zimbabwe. They're all dealing with the same issues - AIDS, orphans and school fees, transition to permaculture, and devaluation of the dollar. Five years ago 1 USD was worth 50 Zim dollars; now it will buy 150,000 Zim dollars, and commodities are way too expensive for most people. Plus, it makes no sense to save any money if it continues to lose its value. The causes of this are quite complex, but I've learned that the white farmers who were kicked off their land were not so innocent after all. All their profits were being exported to European banks. And the opinion that the black hands who were granted this reclaimed land don't know how to farm it is a bunch of crap. I don't know any black Afrikans that don't know how to plant a seed. Even today, any Zimbabwean can apply for and be granted a piece of land. Some of my Kufundee friends are the beneficiaries of this system. I'm not standing up for Mugabe, though he was once a brilliant leader. He has lost the righteous spirit that once possessed him.
Kufunda hosts what they call "Learning Journeys" once or twice a year. These are great opportunities for foreigners to come to Kufunda and obtain a huge wealth of knowledge, visit incredible Zimbabwean sites, and help good-intentioned people making a real and lasting difference. I will be here when the next one starts and will be able to give some permaculture facilitation to the participants.


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Choice, privacy and a sense of identity are just some of the things that older people living in residential care need to maintain a good quality of life, according to research in the May issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.
Researchers from the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway, spoke to 101 older people living in 12 long-stay care homes, including small and large facilities, well-established and recently built homes and those provided by the public, private and voluntary sectors. They found that four key themes had an impact on the subjects' quality of life: the ethos of care provided by the home, the residents' sense of self and identity, how connected they felt and the activities and therapies they got involved in.
"It was clear from our research that practitioners and policy makers need to take all these factors into account if they are to provide older people with the sort of residential care that enhances their quality of life," says lead author Dr Adeline Cooney, from the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University.
"We also found that residents tended to be happier if they had been involved in the decision to move into residential care, as they were more likely to make the best of it, getting involved in activities and making friends. People who were not involved in the decision tended to withdraw into themselves and were more likely to be lonely, unhappy and keen to return home."
Two-thirds of the residents who took part in the study were male. All were 65 or over and the majority of residents (45 per cent) fell into the 75-84 age group and had been in residential care for two to four years (37 per cent).
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"This study highlights the importance of providing a holistic, person-centred approach that goes beyond satisfying the technical and procedural aspects of care," concludes Dr Cooney. "Care staff should regard the quality of life of residents as an integral part of their role and residents and their families should have significant input into how services are structured and delivered. Although this study was carried out in Ireland, the basic principles of how the quality of life of older people in residential care can be enhanced are universal."
The study, which was funded by the National Council for Ageing and Older People, was led by Professor Kathy Murphy from the School of Nursing and Midwifery and Professor Eamon O'Shea from the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, both at NUI Galway.
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Tim Scott graduated from Cambridge University, England, and decided to use his hard fought education to work a plasterer, decorator and delivery driver. He writing career began with a training video which warned office staff that falling over could be dangerous. He then went on to write and appear on BBC Radio 4 in around fifty comedy half hours and finally ended up being given his own late night comedy television series on network ITV. It ran for twenty six episodes and was so surreal that even Ionesco or Salvador Dali would have been shaking their heads in confusion. He has written a large number of children's books, and also for children's television. He more recently became a television director and in 2003 won a BAFTA for co writing and directing a children's series, "Ripley and Scuff," for the BBC. He likes to travel around the world, often in search of surf. From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Leaked behind-the-scenes footage — allegedly showing two news anchors from Pakistan's privately owned Dunya TV agreeing on questions with a high-profile interviewee during a break of a live show on Wednesday — has caused public outrage. The two-part video was uploaded to YouTube by an anonymous source and shows footage of the anchors talking over the interview with real estate tycoon Malik Riaz, prompting a Twitter storm under #mediagate.
The videos reportedly show that a large extent of the live show was planted by co-anchors Mehar Bukhari and Mubasher Lukman, while fooling viewers into believing that Riaz was subjected to a tough questioning.
Sources told Pakistan Today that an inquiry has been ordered against those who leaked the video.
Bokhari is heard saying a question is planted towards the end of the video.
"Say what you want… what question should we ask. It will appear as though it is planted… it is, but it shouldn't appear it is."
The footage shows conversations between Lucman, Bokhari and Riaz focused on the kind of questions they will be asking. Both anchors are also instructed against interrupting Riaz during the interview.
Source: The Express Tribune
Prior to the show going on air news anchor Lucman responded to followers on Twitter requesting that certain questions be posed during the interview.
I will hopefully be asking all questions that you are talking about. But in 36 minutes one may have 9 to 10 questions at most. So do advise
This is the second part of the leaked footage. At present there is no translation available.
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Thousands of people viewed the videos after they were uploaded on Thursday, posting angry comments about the media's complicity in manipulating public opinion to Twitter and YouTube. One person wrote:
Watched only two minutes and it's horrible to see how Meher Bokhari is telling MR what lines to take. Media is merely a pimp.
The videos emerged as the Supreme Court ordered legal action against Raiz on Thursday in a contempt of court case that accuses him of attempting to bribe a judge.
The court ruled that Malik Riaz had attempted to "buy justice" through bribery, and that he had grown into a habit of buying everything with money.
It also declared that Riaz had fuelled skepticism and raised doubts on the apex court's credibility.
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Pakistani media also picked up documents circulated on Twitter on Thursday that alleged to show 19 renowned Pakistani journalists on Raiz-owned Bahria Town's payroll, further fuelling the outrage.
Source: AAJ News
Pakistani Twitter users have heralded social media for providing a platform on which scandals such as these can be exposed and accountability enforced.
@raveemchoudhry see on social media everyone gets to speak. If it wasn't for social media no tv channel was gonna show us those leaked vids
Social Media is a real counter of Electronic Media's Dons and Godfathers. Accountability for Media too. #MediaGate #AnchorGate
The question remains whether exposing foul play on social media is truly enough to invoke change. A political blogger and supporter of the centrist PTI party commented:
@faisalqureshi the #mediagate needs to be exposed - what good is it - if the video lives on Youtube - 80% of pakistan never see YT
Nevertheless, many did believe that the scandal could prove a catalyst for change as it tabled issues that had so far remained hidden.
#MediaGate is perhaps the best thing for Pakistani media. Swaying public perceptions out of inaccurate and speculative facts is a crime
In an interview following the revelations, news anchor Bokhari claimed that she had been instructed by the TV station not to harass the guest but stopped short of blaming the station for arranging questions.
All instructions I got were don't harass the guest, let him talk: Meher Bokhari #AnchorGate #Pakistan
Amid the outrage, at least one person – the former Pakistani ambassador to Washington – was gleeful about the storm against Dunya TV and its anchors:
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The Passing Scene: November-December 1995
By Jonathan Landaw
A few months ago, in the first issue of Mandala magazine, I attempted to describe one of my most cherished travel memories: the dreamlike appearance of the fog-filled Kathmandu Valley when viewed from Kopan hill. The Valley is a place of extraordinary beauty and I am sure everyone who returns from even a brief visit there treasures his or her own set of enchanting visual images. The surrounding snow mountains glowing pink at sunset, the undulating geometry of the terraced hillsides, the patchwork yellows and greens of the mustard and wheat fields – these are just a few of the mental snapshots collected by those who have journeyed to the magical Kingdom of Nepal.
But here is another Nepal, and it is very different from the one prized in the visitor's memory and pictured so romantically in the beautifully illustrated guidebooks. This is the Nepal of squalor and grime, of impossibly crowded roads and air thickly laden with dust and fumes. Kathmandu, the once charming capital of Nepal, seems to be transforming itself willy-nilly into a miniature Bangkok, so dirty and polluted in parts as to be almost unlivable.
I am not pretending that in the good old days – which for me only go back as far as 1973 – everything was clean and tidy. Far from it! Roads and alleyways strewn with the waste of animals and humans have been a part of the Nepalese experience from my first visit. But, as long as I watched where I was stepping, these passageways were innocuous and even seemed quaint – at least to someone like myself who was only passing through and not examining things too closely. Nowadays, however, the filth and indeed danger of these same streets are too obvious to be dismissed so heedlessly. Not only has traffic increased dramatically, but the air has become so dense with automotive emissions and other pollutants that I have often found it necessary – especially in the center of Kathmandu itself – to cover my mouth and nose with a piece of cloth soaked in an aromatic oil simply to be able to breathe without discomfort.
Nor has the countryside escaped the influences ravaging the capital. Stories abound of once forested mountainsides that have washed away because population pressures, ignorance and short-sighted greed combined to strip them of their protective covering.
This litany of degradation and destruction may appear overly pessimistic; after all, Nepal is still a land of great physical beauty and, for all its changes, Kathmandu still attracts many visitors charmed by its special character. Furthermore, the forces that are transforming Nepal are in no way unique to that area. To cite just two examples from the West: here in California magnificent stands of old growth redwoods are under continual threat from "developers" and there are many places throughout the state where the air quality is regularly and officially determined to be "unhealthful" (a word that sounds as awkward as its meaning is ominous). So what about Nepal is so special that its situation is particularly worthy of comment? Is it simply that I have had the chance to see these changes for myself and therefore feel personally affected by them?
This is only part of the answer. For me and so many others what is most significant about Nepal is that its natural beauty seems to point beyond itself to a transcendent dimension of beauty, something that no amount of despoliation can entirely eradicate, obscure it though it may. For those who have been touched by this transcendent beauty there exists a third Nepal, the Nepal of spiritual inspiration. This is not a land of mountains and valleys and fields but a place sought and found in the depths of the heart itself.
Over the centuries the external landscape of Nepal has seen a succession of spiritual pioneers triumphantly explore this innermost landscape, including Shakyamuni Buddha himself. Not far to the east of the Kathmandu Valley, for example, is Namo Buddha, revered as the site where the Buddha-to-be practiced the perfection of generosity by feeding his body to the starving tigress; much further to the west is Lumbini, where he was born as Prince Siddhartha of the Shakya Clan and demonstrated the selfless path to spiritual maturity; and the hill of Swayambunath, a short walk from the center of Kathmandu itself, is where Shakyamuni Buddha's most profound and compassionate teachings on the perfection of wisdom were held in safekeeping, awaiting retrieval by Arya Nagarjuna for later dissemination throughout the world.
These, and countless other sites in this mountain kingdom, have been blessed by the presence of so many enlightened beings that nearly every trail one takes leads to a still living source of inspiration. Padmasambhava, Vasubandhu, Milarepa and the Pamdingpa brothers – who achieved the rainbow body of enlightenment through Naropa's transmission of the Vajrayogini practices – all came here, and this list of master practitioners extends right up to the present day. When I look into the Kathmandu Valley from Kopan hill and can see the Great Stupa of Boudhanath down to the left and the hill of Swayambunath Stupa away to the right, it seems these two monuments are magnets drawing the spiritually gifted to this blessed land so that their inspiring influence can be transmitted throughout the Valley and the rest of the world.
Whatever may happen to the geographical and political entity of Nepal, this Nepal of the innermost heart shall exist as long as the precious transmitters of the pure Dharma – such as Lama Zopa Rinpoche – enact their enlightening deeds. If there are disciples worthy of such precious gurus, perhaps even the destruction of forests, the fouling of the air and all the other insults to our environment will be unable to prevent this and future generations from discovering the path to this hidden kingdom.
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Like a lot of healthcare organizations, the Roger Williams Medical Center (RWMC) came late to its storage area network (SAN) and has been quickly making up for lost time.
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To store PACS medical images, as well as its quickly expanding collection of electronic medical and business records, RWMC installed a Hewlett-Packard EVA8000 array with an HP LTO-3 tape library and an EMC Centera for archiving in 2005.
Capacity on the SAN has quadrupled from 4 TB to 16 TB, and the Providence, R.I.-based medical center now has 57 VMware virtual machines in the environment and a disaster recovery site about 100 miles away in Springfield, Mass.
The growth in capacity and complexity led lead technical engineer Andrew Fuss to the conclusion that he needed a better system for protecting his data.
Last November, Fuss and his team started looking into data depulication backup systems. He considered EMC's Avamar and systems from Data Domain and ExaGrid. After a quick evaluation, RWMC installed two Data Domain DD565 appliances – one at the hospital's main data center and the other at the disaster recovery site. RWMC uses Data Domain's Replicator software to replicate data between the sites.
"One of the big pluses for Data Domain was its replication piece was solid," Fuss said. "It just worked. I didn't get the same feeling from looking at the other solutions."
Fuss also said he was impressed by "the basic methodology of how [Data Domain] does data dedupe. We were concerned about throughput. Did we have enough bandwidth to feed this? We originally set it up with six copper ports, but we're only using two ports, and we're not overwhelming that. We're pushing data fast to this thing and not overwhelming two 1 Gbit [Ethernet] connections."
The medical center still uses tape to archive data at the end of each month, but Fuss estimates he saved $16,000 on tape this year by not using it for daily backups.
As for data deduplication ratios, he said that varies according to data type – RWMC dedupes the PACS data, Meditech database that runs its hospital management system, Exchange files and other business records. "We get in the vicinity of 20:1 on a lot of stuff," Fuss said. "Some stuff we get 9:1 or 10:1, other stuff 100:1. We average around 20:1.
Along with VMware's VMotion, the DD565s are a key piece of RWMC's disaster recovery plan. "Going across the wire to the DR site in Springfield was huge," Fuss said.
"We wanted to get it over there and get it compressed using the smallest amount of bandwidth possible. I have one of my VM servers over in there. I can VMotion to it if we have a crash in the data center. Even if we experienced a catastrophe, we have enough with one VMware server and the other servers I keep over there that I can keep this place rolling while we do a restore on the disaster recovery site."
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