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OPINION and JUDGMENT
DALTON, Chief Judge.
This action is before the court on plaintiffs' petition to review the determination of the Review Committee of the United States Department of Agriculture Commodity Stabilization Service (hereinafter Review Committee) that the plaintiffs' two farms should be combined as one farm unit for purposes of tobacco acreage allotment. Jurisdiction is based on § 1365 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 7 U.S.C.A. §§ 1281-1393 (1964).
The plaintiffs are husband and wife. The plaintiff Ira Stallard owns a farm identified as farm number E2628 which contains sixty-seven acres of land. The plaintiff Beulah Stallard owns a farm identified as farm number E2630 which contains twenty-four acres. For a number of years the plaintiffs have raised tobacco on each of their farms separately and independently of each other. During this time the Secretary of Agriculture has treated both of plaintiffs' farms as separate farming units and provided separate tobacco allotments. Ira's farm has had a .64 acre tobacco allotment and Beulah's has had a .50 acre tobacco allotment. However, on June 14, 1966, the County Committee of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service of Scott County, Virginia, (hereinafter County Committee) notified the plaintiffs that their farms had been combined to make a single tobacco allotment under 7 C.F.R. § 719.4 (1967) because it had been determined that both farms were being operated by the same person. The pertinent portions of the County Committee's letter of notification are as follows:
Thus, the tobacco allotment was set at 1.14 acres for the combined farms. Upon notification of the change Beulah Stallard took issue with the County Committee's decision and on February 16, 1967, represented by her son, I. L. Stallard, met with the County Committee to review its decision. At that time the County Committee upheld its finding and according to its answer "again determined that the two tracts were operated by the same person and that they needed to be combined to comply with the definition of a farm."
After the County Committee reaffirmed its findings Beulah Stallard
Findings of Fact:
The action of the County Committee is in accordance with C.F.R. 719.4 and is required by C.F.R. 719.3. The combined allotment of 1.14 acre is correct for the farm as constituted.
The Burley Tobacco allotment for this farm shall be 1.14 acre and the farm shall remain as constituted for A.S.C.S. Program purposes.
The plaintiffs then brought this action praying "that the action taken by the Review Committee be reversed and that an order be entered directing these tracts of land to be separated as they have been in the past with the original farm numbers, and with the original tobacco allotments * * *." The Review Committee has filed a motion to dismiss against Ira Stallard for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies as required by 7 U.S.C.A. § 1363 and a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim under Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b) (6) or for summary judgment, rule 56, in the alternative against both plaintiffs.
Upon examination of the record the court finds that the case must be remanded to the Review Committee due to its failure to state the reasons for its conclusions. The Review Committee concluded that the County Committee acted in accordance with the regulations and that the allotment was correct but without giving any reasons for these conclusions. It may be that the Review Committee arrived at these conclusions because it thought that both farms had been operated by the same person or because it thought that farms owned by husband and wife should be combined. However, the court will not speculate as to any such reasons. Where the Review Committee fails in its duty to render a reasoned opinion the court has no choice but to remand. Austin v. Jackson, 353 F.2d 910
We find Austin to be controlling in the present case.
Furthermore, on remand the Review Committee must more fully state its findings. As the court said in California v. Federal Power Commission, 345 F.2d 917, 926 (9th Cir. 1965):
It is, therefore, adjudged and ordered that the case be remanded to the Review Committee to state the reasons for its conclusions.
This case is now dismissed and each party shall bear their own costs, and in the event that plaintiffs hereafter desire to have this action reinstated on the docket, it may be done after notice and for good cause without the payment of additional costs.


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I've purchased a Barnett Ghost 400 and love it dearly. A bit heavy from compounds, but it is deadly accurate.
Here's the situation I've encountered.
I live in the south...Specifically South Carolina and I hunt in the low country around Allendale.
Anyone who has ventured to the South or lived here knows of the HIGH HEAT and unbearable HUMIDITY. Especially during the opening of deer season on August 15th thru September then it starts to cool off.
I store the crossbow indoor climate controlled 72 degrees.
When I step outside to the back yard range to practice the other wise accurate shooting machine is off center in any direction, ranging from 4" to 6" from the aim point.
This lasts until the limbs get acclimated to the almost 98 degree temps and equal 100% humidity.
Once the limbs seem to get equalized with the temperature and humidity it again is dead on target.
This is only after a volley of about ten bolts flying at the target.


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We knew any one of the Republican candidates who won would start a war because they saw how much Cheney made. So, with Trump, will it be North Korea, Syria or China? It will be one of them. It doesn't matter how many Americans are killed as long as he and his comrades make a good buck off it.


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With the show now behind us, Volkswagen has now confirmed that the Up! will be available later next year as a five-door model to join the three-door unveiled in Frankfurt. So what can we expect? Sneaky as VW is, they've already showed us with the Cross Up! concept that was mixed in with the batch of otherwise three-door (or entirely doorless) show cars displayed at its sprawling show stand at the Messe.
The concept's five-door shape – including a straighter shoulder-line instead of the upward kink in the three-door – will carry over from the Cross Up! but the off-road bits (like the beefed-up bumpers and wheel arch extensions) likely won't. At least not on the standard five-door Up!, though there's no telling what variants VW could squeeze out in the future.
Visitors to this month's Frankfurt Motor Show got the biggest clue yet as to the look of the production five-door up!, in the shape of the cross up!, one of six small car family concepts that were displayed alongside the three-door city car model.
The cross up! previews the five-door up! but with the styling cues of an SUV, including suspension raised by 15 mm all round. The most obvious differences when compared with the standard up! are of course the additional doors and the styling of the C-pillars. While on the three-door car the shoulder line and windows ascend towards the rear near the C-pillars, on the five-door the two elements form a straight line, creating a more upright appearance.
Many of the styling elements on the cross up! (such as the wheel arch and side sill extensions and the black side protection strips above the sills) will be familiar to those who recall the last-generation Polo Dune, sold in mainland Europe as the Cross Polo. These styling cues give the vehicle a more rugged look, as can be seen in the eye-catching front bumper with silver cross-bar and integrated fog lights. The front air intake is also modified, with a honeycomb grille that is distinctly larger, especially towards the bottom.
Underneath, there is robust silver-coloured underbody protection at both ends. Like the front bumper, the rear bumper also gets a silver cross-bar. That colour is echoed in the matt silver roof rails and the light silver door mirror caps, all offset by the eye-catching Tornado Red paint of the body, which can also be found surrounding the Volkswagen logo in the centre of the 16-inch alloy wheels.
On the cross up! study, the red theme continues inside the spacious interior where the seats have red centre panels, offset by grey side panels. The dashboard panel and upper door trim panels are also body-coloured. Other accents, such as the bezels of the air nozzles and the centre console, are designed in black piano paint, while the leather-wrapped steering wheel, gearlever and handbrake all have decorative coloured seams.
Order books for the three-door up! will open in October with the first models arriving in the UK in spring 2012. The five-door model will follow later in the year.


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iPods don't have Bluetooth
Just plug it in behind the screen
here's everything I've done to this car:
Hidden Content
Detailing for "non detailers', My Detailing docs: Hidden Content
When I pair my iphone via bluetooth, it doesn't let me hands free ask to play a song. Is this not possible over bluetooth or I doing something wrong?
My iPhone music and Pandora are nice. Is there any way to play iHeart Radio from my iPhone through the infotainment system? I haven't discovered how, if possible, to add iHeart app to my system. Reception of my favorite radio stations is not always good so I was hoping to use iHeart to solve that issue.
Anything that comes out of the iPhone can be played thru Bluetooth...
here's everything I've done to this car:
Hidden Content
Detailing for "non detailers', My Detailing docs: Hidden Content
Dont be a sheep
Anything that comes out of the Android can be played thru Bluetooth...
Thank-you! I just needed a little prodding. Connecting iPhone to Bluetooth was a little slow, but connection was made. My iHeart Radio stations came on just great. Every little techno-skill I gain increases enjoyment of our car! Now I can focus on the Nav system!
Your help is appreciated.
My C7 was built Nov 1st 2013 if it matters. I'm using a 16 gig SD card in the SD slot in the armrest. I'm having trouble getting my C7 to do what the manual says regarding SD cards (or USB thumb drives, for that matter). Namely,
1) The car does not recognize (or display) folder structure; i.e. In "menu" where the option is supposed to be located, I think, it does not appear (or anywhere else I can find).
2) Regardless of how I've arranged the MP3 content on the card the car arranges it the way it wants to: by title, album, artist - and does so alphabetically. This happens even when I've renamed the song files preceded with a number such as the way computer folder structure works when "arrange by file name" is selected. The car ignores the file name and still arranges them alphabetically.
3) No option I can find appears for "play all" so I have to select a new song or album each time.
4) It does not recognize playlists created in either WMP or Amazon Music, or else it does and only does what is described in "a)" below.
I have tried a number of things thinking the files might have the wrong or incomplete or corrupted hidden file info such as:
a) format a thumb drive or SD card and put the songs (only a small number - like 40 for test) and playlist file (created by either WMP or AM) directly on the card or thumb drive.
The car finds the playlist and plays (or lists) only 5 of the 43 songs.
My Sanza MP3 player works fine plugged in with the "stereo mini-plug" into the armrest plug.
Does anyone have some answers for me? Does your C7 recognize the folder structure of your SD card and display it onscreen to select from?


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Quick Review Burton Juice Wagon 163
So last weekend here at blue mountain Ontario we go almost a foot of snow early Saturday morning, with temps below freezing so it was nice and fluffy, a real rarity for us here in the east.
I got out early and had a lot of fun on my Sherlock (bear with me, I will get to the juice wagon). Anyways, in the afternoon things got mounded up and cruddy, and the rocker part of the Sherlock got pretty bouncy; even in soft snow I find that the flying V boards bounce off the tops of the bumps rather than cutting through them. I've also concluded that while I might work a bit on riding switch from time to time I'm never going to get to be any good at it so the twin nature of the Sherlock is a bit wasted on me. So that's enough for me to buy another board, what the hell.
So at the end of the day last Saturday I was still basting in the glow of such nice conditions, and I ordered a 163 juice wagon from the folks at alternative 113 in Quebec, figuring that as a tapered, cambered board it would be good for soft snow (ideally powder) but the camber would help in less than ideal conditions. Got the board in the mail Friday, and today (Saturday) I took it out.
Conditions today were shit. Half an inch of scraped off ice shavings passing for show, with a rock hard base of ice below. Overnight temps were well below zero so everything was rock hard. In a few places there were chunky icy crap, and in a couple spots there were runs with mounds of hard, sort of cruddy snow.
The juice wagon did pretty well in these lousy conditions, had good edge hold, was quick edge to edge, pretty stable for the sort of stuff where you feel like at any minute you could lose an edge and go for a spin. When I could find some actual snow it was a fun ride very surfy on corn snow that was piled up here and there. Burton sends their boards out pretty sharp so that probably helped as well.
So I can't comment yet on whether its a good board for the powdery conditions it's designed for, but it performed well in icy east coast bullshit. It turns quickly, is fairly stiff, and has quite good edge hold.
I see a lot threads looking for board that are good in powder but also can handle crappy conditions, and the crc type boards are to my mind good in ideal conditions but fare poorly as things degrade, whereas this deck seems to be pretty good in the bad stuff, and I expect it will be fun when the snow is nice.
I think that this board could be a one board quiver type board for directional riders; it should be fun in soft snow and it deals well with bad snow conditions, not good for switch of course, due to taper and directional flex.
Matched up well with this year's genesis bindings as far as bindings go.
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The Taliban has been told to issue a declaration distancing itself from al-Qaida and committing itself to peace talks before it can open a political office in Qatar, according to diplomatic sources.
The conditions have been laid down by the Qatari government with the backing of Kabul and the US. They would involve making an unambiguous public break with global jihadism and promising to use the office in the capital city of Doha as a base for negotiations with the US and the Afghan government, rather than as the seat of a government in exile or for fundraising.
At a three-way meeting outside Brussels last week – attended by Afghan president Hamid Karzai – the US secretary of state, John Kerry, asked Pakistan's army commander, General Ashfaq Kayani, to demonstrate his stated support for peace talks by putting pressure on the Pakistan-based Taliban to make the declaration.
David Cameron made the same appeal to Kayani at Chequers in February, hoping to build on the general's public statements that Pakistan saw the continuing insurgency not as a hedge against Indian influence, but as a direct threat to its own national interests.
But the Pakistani delegation told British officials that Islamabad's influence over the Taliban was far from absolute. The government is said to fear an outcome in which the Taliban fragments, with moderate elements returning to Afghanistan and extremists staying behind in Pakistan.
The Taliban sent representatives to Doha last year with the aim of pursuing talks with the US, but the peace process stalled over a failure to agree terms for the release of five Afghan insurgent commanders held at Guantánamo Bay.
President Barack Obama's restated commitment this week to close the prison camp has revived hopes that releases could be back on the table, but it is far from clear whether the Taliban would accept conditions it rejected last year, including the pledge that the prisoners released would stay in Doha, under Qatari supervision.
Michael Semple, a former EU envoy in Afghanistan with long experience of dialogue with the Taliban, said: "The consequence of Taliban grandstanding has been to leave their comrades in Guantánamo for another year. Ultimately, Taliban supporters will have to make a decision whether they are ready to engage in a political track or not."
Semple, now at the Carr Centre for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, pointed out that the start of a new fighting season in Afghanistan illustrated the fact that there were still powerful voices in the Taliban opposed to talks, either because they still believed a military victory was possible once Nato withdraws combat troops by the end of next year or because they thought conditions would be more favourable for their bargaining position next year. "The ball is now in the Taliban court on whether to pursue a political process," he said.
"If they decide not to, the onus will be on them to explain it to the young men who risk getting blown up in the new fighting season. The excuse before was they were fighting to end foreign occupation. Now they are being told to risk their lives so their leaders can become ministers.".
However, there are signs the Taliban leadership remains interested in keeping the dialogue going. It sent two senior representatives to off-the-record international meetings at Chantilly, outside Paris. The chief delegate at the latest such gathering in December, Maulvi Shahabuddin Dilawar, began the meeting by publicly insisting his movement would not negotiate with the Karzai government, which it portrays as a western puppet – but he did speak informally in Chantilly to Massoom Stanekzai, appointed by Karzai as the head of the secretariat of a council to pursue talks.
Official Taliban statements now accept girls' rights to education and women's right to work. Furthermore, diplomats say Tayyab Agha, a Mullah Omar confidant who took part in exploratory talks with American officials last year, has remained in Doha as part of a Taliban negotiating team, despite reports he had been forced out by Taliban hawks for failing to secure the release of the Guantánamo five.
Alex Strick van Linschoten, the co-author of several books on the Taliban, said: "Even if nothing concrete comes out of these talks, it's still immensely valuable to keep up this regular interaction and have an open line of communication."


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Posted by James Staten on July 27, 2010
With all the hype and progress happening around cloud computing, we know that our infrastructure and operations professional clients are under pressure to have a cloud answer. This is causing some unproductive behavior and a lot of defensiveness. A growing trend is to declare victory – point to your virtual infrastructure where you can provision a VM in a few seconds and say, "See, I'm a cloud." But you aren't, really. And I think you know that.
Being a cloud means more than just using server virtualization. It means you have the people, process, and tools in place to deliver IT on demand, via automation, are sharing resources so you can maximize the utilization of assets and are enabling your company to act nimbly. In our latest Forrester report we document that to be a cloud you need to have:
Posted by James Staten on July 25, 2010
There's an old adage that the worst running car in the neighborhood belongs to the auto mechanic. Why? Because they like to tinker with it. We as IT pros love building and tinkering with things, too, and at one point we all built our own PC and it probably ran about as well as the mechanic's car down the street.
While the mechanic's car never ran that well, it wasn't a reflection on the quality of his work on your car because he drew the line between what he can tinker with and what can sink him as a professional (well, most of the time). IT pros do the same thing. We try not to tinker with computers that will affect our clients or risk the service level agreement we have with them. Yet there is a tinkerer's mentality in all of us. This mentality is evidenced in our data centers where the desire to configure our own infrastructure and build out our own best of breed solutions has resulted in an overly complex mishmash of technologies, products and management tools. There's lots of history behind this mess and lots of good intentions, but nearly everyone wants a cleaner way forward.
In the vendors' minds, this way forward is clearly one that has more of their stuff inside and the latest thinking here is the new converged infrastructure solutions they are marketing, such as HP's BladeSystem Matrix and IBM's CloudBurst. Each of these products is the vendor's vision of a cleaner, more integrated and more efficient data center. And there's a lot of truth to this in what they have engineered. The big question is whether you should buy into this vision.
Posted by James Staten on July 20, 2010
What is the opportunity for Microsoft partners (or other VARs, SIs, ISVs and technologists) in the emerging cloud computing space? Don't think of cloud as a threat but as an opportunity to ratchet up your value to the business my evangelizing and encouraging their transition to the cloud. How? At the recent Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference I addressed this issue in an Expo Theater presentation. Missed it? Now you haven't:
Watch the video here.
Share your thoughts here by commenting below.
- James
Posted by James Staten on July 19, 2010
It seems every few weeks yet another company announces a cloud computing infrastructure platform. I'm not talking about public clouds but the underlying software which can turn a virtualized infrastructure into an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) — whether public or private.
Posted by James Staten on July 13, 2010
VMware today released an incremental upgrade to its core vSphere platform and took the opportunity to do some product repackaging and pricing actions - the latter being a big win for enterprise customers. The vSphere 4.1 enhancements focused on scalability to accommodate larger and larger virtual pools. The number of VMs per pool and number of hosts and VMs per instance of vCenter have been ratcheted up significantly, which will simplify large environments. The new network and storage I/O features and new memory compression and VMotion improvements will help customers pushing the upper limits of resource utilization. Storage vendors will laud the changes to vStorage too, which finally ends the conflict between what storage functions VMware performs versus what arrays do natively.
The company also telegraphed the end of life for ESX in favor of the more modern ESXi hypervisor architecture.
But for the majority of VMware shops the pricing changes are perhaps the most significant. It's been a longstanding pain that in order to use some of the key value add management features such as Site Recovery Manager and AppSpeed you had to license them across the full host even if you only wanted to apply that feature to a few VMs. This led to some unnatural behavior such as grouping business critical applications on the same host - cost optimization that trumps availability best practices. Thankfully that has now been corrected.
Posted by James Staten on July 12, 2010
If you are an infrastructure service provider and partner of Microsoft you probably haven't been too pleased with the Redmond horde of late. Are they friend or foe? Sure, you can resell and host Windows Server and a plethora of Microsoft applications from your data centers. And if you're ambitious you can even use their Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit to build your own infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud. But Microsoft's own online services for the enterprise are off limits. Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), Windows Azure, and SQL Azure are offerings that look a lot like a formidable competitor. Well partner centricity now rules the day when it comes to Azure.
At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, D.C. today, Microsoft announced the Windows Azure platform appliance program that will let large service providers (and very large enterprises) bring this PaaS platform (plus SQL Azure) into their own data centers. This move is powerful for both Redmond and its service provider partners.


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For the beginning pages of each month, I like to choose a photo of myself as the top picture.
Then go through my planner and write down the different things that happened that I think are worth documenting in this album. The monthly font is in green each month, and then another text box listing all of the different things that happened.
Then I go to town with the photos! I keep track of photos for each month and I choose the ones I think are the most memorable to document in this album.
I have to say in the beginning few months of this year I was all over this album. Doing it consistently towards the end of each month. After May came and gone, I sort of lost interest.
Sometimes that happens.
I just have to step away from things sometimes if I find it a struggle to try and finish them. To me that means I'm not fully into it. So I stop. But.....yesterday on my day off I got back into it. Big time. I caught myself back up with this album and found myself full force into it again. When I say I caught myself up, I really mean caught back up. I did three full months of this album last night. May, June, and July! So so happy with it again. Those 3 months of taking a mini-hiatus of documenting this year seemed to do me better than not.
Happy to be back into this album.
Check out all 2012 Album posts here!


text: I watch the Coaches film... The Ravens receivers really rarely get separation thru playcall design or their own route running. If it was simply Joe late on an open window, I'd be critical of him but I just dont see it. Only times I see it is when teams blitz. Teams typically dont rush more than 5 against Ravens now, b/c Joe is successful against the blitz. Teams can usually get decent pressure with 4 guys against our OL.


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Call of Atlantis should be put into the mix 3 bubbles of a kind to burst them, though it's far beyond that, because there are also point and find stages between, deliciously scattered and illustrated with beautiful pictures. An other great novelty is that there's a plot, which is quite usual in point and find games but rather amazing in puzzle-bubblish games.
Therefore gameplay is one of the best we've found so far. The mix of both genres makes difficult to be bored at least before ending the game for first time. Graphics aren't the best for a point and click adventure, but are definitively better than any burst-the-bubbles game. Music can be a little bit repetitive sooner than later, but it's appreciated and gives a halo of antiqueness to the whole. In exchange, voices and sound effects are great and cutscenes add somehow dramatic tension to a casual game that wouldn't necessarily have it; and there's some trivia here and there just for curiosity's sake.
Then, the only flaws would be a 61 Mb package and that, even when there are more than fifty levels (divided into 7 areas with different backgrounds) it may make you feel it's too short.
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The last time the Jeffco Public Library saw a tax increase, the Internet was still a gleam in Al Gore's eye. Nor had DVDs been invented. E-books? Forget it. "Portable" computers that didn't result in a hernia? Surely you jest.
In fact, the last time our library saw a boost in taxpayer support was some 29 years ago, and since then in Jefferson County, demand for services that the library offers has exploded:
• The county's population has grown by 130,000 people.
School board majority should be lauded, not recalled
Having seen several good companies driven into bankruptcy or demise by intransigent unions, as I have, shouldn't we all congratulate Jeffco's unjustly maligned school board for reaching a teachers contract agreement on time and within budget?
Do you think that its new open-to-the-public negotiations helped?
The worst thing about the almost two years of turmoil that we've experienced in Jefferson County schools is that it's been a continuing distraction from the school district's most important responsibility — to educate the kids who live in this county. Anything that distracts teachers from focusing their energy on giving kids the best possible education is a major flaw that should be resolved as soon as possible.
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The political news is surprising as two unlikely candidates are soaring in the polls. Not many would expect a self-identified socialist to challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president, but U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is gaining some traction. He trails her in a recent Iowa poll 52 percent to 33 percent. In New Hampshire, it's 56 percent to 24 percent. No, he is not the front-runner, but his strong numbers are very surprising, and Clinton must be looking over her shoulder.
Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered!
That should be the simple lesson for some grousing small arts organizations that have argued that the proposal to continue the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District and shift modest revenues from large organizations to smaller ones doesn't give them enough.
County commissioners' decision questioned in Jared's rezoning
Jefferson County has a Planning Commission that responds to zoning issues presented in unincorporated areas of the county. That commission recently held hearings on a request by Jared's Garden Center to build an indoor volleyball facility and a pub on its property on West Bowles Avenue.
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HTC Status delivers instant Facebook access
Facebook isn't exactly hurting for more access.
The social network has ballooned to more than 750 million users and the amount of data shared each day on the social network is growing exponentially, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said.
But phone maker HTC is looking to make all this even easier with the Status, the first phone built around Facebook and the first to feature a dedicated Facebook button.
The Android-based Status, first released in Europe under the name ChaCha, was released Sunday in the U.S. and is available for $50 from AT&T with a two-year contract.
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It runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), the latest version of Google's operating system, so you've got all the latest features and apps. The Status has a low-quality front-facing camera for video chat.
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Bottom line: We still haven't seen a true Facebook phone. We would need better integration to call it that.
More powerful phones like the Apple iPhone and top-tier Android-based smartphones do everything this phone does on the social network but with a couple more clicks.
The Status is a neat little phone that should be appealing for younger users keen on quick texting and basic social networking features.
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Greetings from Thailand! Yes, you read correctly. We have been in Chiang Mai, Thailand since Jan. 2, taking part in a microfinance training event sponsored by the New Life Center.
The New Life Center is directed by our colleague, IM missionary Karen Smith. Kit Ripley is also an IM missionary who serves at the New Life Center in pastoral and leadership development ministries. For some time, they've been interested in ways microfinance and microcredit enterprise development services might meet the needs of the Hill Tribes and rural Thailand people, and enhance the New Life Center's ministries.
Conversations between a longtime supporter of International Ministries who believes in the importance of microfinance in the context of missions, and the New Life Center led to a partnership with the Chalmers Center at Covenant College in TN. Chalmers' unique mission is to equip missionaries, churches, and others with skills and knowledge to serve the poor through economic development.
Like all of our faithful supporters, this generous partner is committed to the holistic mission of International Ministries, addressing the spiritual and material needs of people. He wants to help IM missionaries enhance their skills and knowledge in Micro-Enterprise Development and Micro-Finance services. With these skills we can help our partner churches develop effective ministries that actually transform lives and communities, all in the name of Jesus Christ.
To our amazement and delight we were invited to participate in this training and here we are, at no expense to IM, but because of the generous partnership of one mission-minded American Baptist family whose stewardship has made possible many good things for the Kingdom of God.
Solidly based on biblical principles, the information and training we have received is very practical. We are already thinking of many ways we want to put it in practice to expand and enhance our ministries in Chile. We especially want to focus on facilitating groups in the Mapuche churches and communities that will gather to save money and obtain small loans to start businesses and meet family needs. Also, we have received helpful materials to teach and train low-income people in small business skills.
So here we are. The boys have just come back from their first ever elephant ride and having lunch with the tigers. We're all heading down now to take a swim as we rest and get ready for one more week of training before we head home.
Last night we enjoyed a Chilean meal with our Thailand missionary colleagues, Karen Smith, Kit Ripley, Kim Brown, and the Matt and Lori Mann family, and our colleague Jim Wiegner. What a wonderful time!
Please know that our hearts are full of gratitude for the rich blessings we have received. At the same time, we strive to be worthy of the trust and investment you have given to our ministry in Chile and look forward to updating you on many new developments throughout 2010.
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I'm guessing it will work on the SP01, but I don't know about the Rami.
I had an LGS order mine from I don't know where, ended up being close to $300, with taxes. Two ten round magazines.
I fitted mine to a CZ-75B, and it is very accurate.
Ok just came out my coma and realized that I should get a Kadet kit instead of another 22. Have a couple of questions hope they don't seem too stupid.
1 Will the kit work on a SP01.
2 Will it work on the Rami if it has been modified for the SP01
3 Best place to buy the kit inexpensively and how many mags does it come with.
I'm guessing it will work on the SP01, but I don't know about the Rami.
I had an LGS order mine from I don't know where, ended up being close to $300, with taxes. Two ten round magazines.
I fitted mine to a CZ-75B, and it is very accurate.
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Today I purchased:
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The guys at the gun shop where I went are really experts..Right away they told me that the conversion kit needs some minor filinig to fit on the SP01 Tactical which is the same as the SP01 (the only difference is that the tactical has a decocker instead of safety lever arm)..Any ways, it took the guy 5 minutes and the kit was fitted perfectly on the SP01...I actually tried the kit right away and wow..this thing is sweet..100 rds of 0.22 cal for $6.35 .. The kit comes with two magazines and a little carry case with a brush tool. The only thing is the 0.22 cal mag doesn't drop off when you press the mag release button, you have to pull the mag out, but that's fine with me, I mean I shoot the 0.22 cal for practice to enhance my aiming and trigger techniques, I am not in a hurry to switch mags under pressure..
I paid $589 for the SP01 Tactical, $324 for the Kadet kit and $519 for the CZ 75 compact..These guys are right on the money and very experienced..
hey Jimmy,
I also have a sp01 tac. and am thinking of getting a kadet kit. I'm want some cheap fun and to smooth out my trigger action. Curious if you changed your mainspring. I went from the stock 20#(i believe) to a 16# spring to lighten up the pull. I've heard that .22s need a good hit and I'm not sure if a 16# is enough. I don't want to change springs everytime I use the .22.
After about 300 rounds and about 10 times that with snap caps I'm still waiting for the trigger to smooth out. Hopefully the kadet kit will fix that problem.
Hi Branch,
I didn't change any springs, and the kadet works just fine..The trigger on the CZ is OK as is, it just has a little creep into it but really this never bothered me..I got used to it and I am a happy camper as is..You will love the Kadet and it is so much fun to shoot and accurate too. Good Luck..


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Pralle-Sodaro Hall is arranged into four floors, each with two wings. All rooms open to an interior hallway with the main stairwell in the center of the wings. The building offers underground parking that is reserved for students living on campus. Pralle-Sodaro is the closest residence hall to main campus.
+ - Room Amenities
- Room measures approximately 19'4" x 11'5"
- Twin extra-long bed for each resident
- Dresser for each resident
- Desk and desk chair for each resident
- A/C & heater
- 2 Ethernet connections; wireless Internet throughout building
- 2 phone jacks
- 1 bathroom (may be shared with adjoining room)
- Walk-in closet in each room
To learn more about what you should bring with you to your Chapman room, visit Moving In.
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- Home to the First Year Residential Experience
- Laundry on every floor
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- Two elevators, and central stairwell
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Date of Stay: January, 2012
Stay away from site #4 unless you want to get a tingle from an ungrounded power box! We had left a nice Super Walmart in Dothan, AL, that morning, but realized our trailer generator was not working up to par, and we were low on propane. We decided to find a park close to I-40 and out from Little Rock (the highway from Birmingham to Memphis had taken its toll on us). The best thing I can say about it is that most of the electrical hook-ups worked. We were able to turn on the electric element in the hot water heater and use our electric space heater and then get the heck out of here early the next morning. In our situation it was worth the price for a ONE night stay. Although they say all lots are pull-throughs, you had better walk it first. The tree limbs are not trimmed back enough to safely pull through with a rig that is nearly 13' high, and it is difficult to find a pad site that will accommodate a 53' rig (left connected for a fast exit). From the look of it only sites 5, 6 and maybe 7 were able to be backed into, if the cars of the motel "guests" weren't in the way. I'd pick pad 5 (easier to back into and less likely to get blocked in). Oh yes, the night manager really doesn't seem to care about much of anything.
Date of Stay: July, 2009
This is a Corp of Engineers park. It is a little dated. HOWEVER the park is scheduled for a complete redo at the end of the 2009 camping season. It is very accessible from Tulsa and The Muskogee Turnpike. My wife and I parked for nearly a week as a little get-away in our new 5th Wheel and I easily drove into my Tulsa office each workday. We will stay here again and look forward to the renewed park next year.
Date of Stay: July, 2009
We were in Houston for a dog show at the Reliant Center and chose not to dry camp there. We selected All Star for its relatively easy travel route (Houston traffic considered). Full hook-ups and trees are very nice. Although the park is only about 3 blocks from a major expressway, we found it peaceful and quiet. Approximately half of the sites are occupied by long-termers, but their sites were maintained, as was the entire park. We would certainly consider this park for future use.
Date of Stay: July, 2009
This is a Corp of Engineers park that has been in service for several years. Although the park is well maintained, the majority of pads are designed for shorter rigs than my combined length of 53'. It is not particularly convenient to anything but the lake. Regular week days the park is quiet and relaxing. On the weekend tenters and families with children converge and then it can be a little less relaxing. (However the staff and Rangers do keep a good patrol going.) The vast majority of campers at this site are basically local due to its location. Since it is not overly far from home base, we might stay there again for a little get-away location. The dump station is convenient and easy to get in and out of.
Date of Stay: May, 2009
We found this campground to be well maintained and convenient to the entire area. During the week days the park is quiet and on the weekend (Memorial Day) it was packed with a lot of youngsters. However this was never a bother because the majority of the kids were very well behaved. We stayed an extra day and would certainly stay here again!


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If Senator Joe Manchin's call for an outright ban on Bitcoin had you worried yesterday, there's good news in store – apparently, the Federal Reserve has no authority to do so, and indeed, it's doubtful it could even if it did have that authority.
The word came straight from the horse's mouth. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen was quite clear when she told the Senate that "the Federal Reserve simply does not have authority to supervise or regulate [B]itcoin in any way." Yellen went on to say that Bitcoin is "a payment innovation that is taking place entirely outside the banking industry," a comment that seems to suggest there's little it could do to stop it so easily.
If anything, Yellen's remarks can be taken as a kind of acceptance that Bitcoin is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future. She believes that Congress needs to work on accommodating Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies:
"It certainly would be appropriate, I think, for Congress to ask questions about what the right legal structure would be for virtual currencies that involve nontraditional players," she added.
Yellen's comments came less than 24 hours after Sen. Manchin wrote a letter calling for the US government to ban Bitcoin, citing problems with its volatility and concerns that it could be used for illegal transactions.
Claws are out for MtGox
In other Bitcoin news, there's been a few more developments with MtGox's slow and agonizing death. First up is the news that authorities in both Japan (where MtGox is based) and the US have launched investigations into the exchange's activities. The Wall Street Journal reports that Japan's financial regulators finally appear to have been jolted from their slumber, having previously all but ignored MtGox's misdemeanors. Now though, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has issued a statement, saying that "ministries and agencies concerned — financial services, police and the finance ministry — are looking into the matter to learn the full scope of the issue." However, it's not clear what action these concerned agencies might take, if any.
Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara has reportedly issued subpoenas to MtGox and other prominent Bitcoin exchanges, says Reuters. Bharara reportedly wants to know what happened during the latest wave of attacks on Bitcoin exchanges in the wake of the transaction malleability debacle, and what Bitcoin-related businesses are doing to protect themselves.
No acquisition likely
This morning, the Bitcoin entrepreneur who first leaked details of MtGox's "crisis strategy draft" revealed in a new post that the exchange has been unable to woo any new investors, which means that those who still have BTC or fiat with the site can almost certainly kiss it goodbye.
Ryan Selkis claims that it was the investors themselves that blew the lid on just how bad the crisis was at MtGox:
"The solicited investors rebuffed Karpeles and his colleagues, demanded they come clean to customers and stakeholders immediately, and then notified other industry executives, including those at the Bitcoin Foundation, of the catastrophic losses at Mt. Gox."
Presumably, this is what prompted a number of other prominent Bitcoin businesses to unite in their condemnation of MtGox, describing the business as "insolvent" and accusing it of a "tragic violation" of its user's trust.


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General Networked Storage Systems
- A storage platform designed to perform a specific task, such as NAS, routers, virtualization, etc.
Auto Loaders
- A single tape drive with robotics and multiple tape cartridges.
- A large-scale tape device with robotics that can house multiple tape drives and a significant amount of tape cartridges.
- Building block system where controller/host connection function is physically separate from storage, and storage and/or controller function may be added independently of each other.
- Single box system containing all control and storage in a single system, where the storage is integrated with the other components and cannot be segregated.
- Storage system that connects to a network (typically Ethernet) that presents storage as network volume shares (CIFS) or NFS mounted devices.
- Storage device designed for a specific purpose or application that includes specialized hardware/software to provide that function.
Solid State
- RAM (memory)-based disk device.
- Storage capable of providing quality of service, carrier class availability and serviceability, on-line expansion or reallocation of resources, typically used as a back-end to an IT profit center.
Virtual Tape
- A system that presents itself as a tape device (drive, autoloader, or library) that actually contains disk drives and memory (and also tape devices possibly), in order to provide performance improvement, and possibly increased connectivity to multiple backup software environments concurrently.
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RAID Storage Systems
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
- A disk subsystem that is used to increase performance or provide fault tolerance. RAID can also be set up to provide both functions at the same time. RAID is a set of two or more ordinary hard disks and a specialized disk controller that contains the RAID functionality. Developed initially for servers and stand-alone disk storage systems, RAID is increasingly popular in desktop PCs. RAID can also be implemented via software only, but with less performance, especially when rebuilding data after a failure.
RAID improves performance by disk striping, which interleaves bytes or groups of bytes across multiple drives, so more than one disk is reading and writing simultaneously. Fault tolerance is achieved by mirroring or parity. Mirroring is 100% duplication of the data on two drives (RAID 1), and parity is used (RAID 3 and 5) to calculate the data in two drives and store the results on a third: a bit from drive 1 is XOR'd with a bit from drive 2, and the result bit is stored on drive 3 (see OR for an explanation of XOR). A failed drive can be hot swapped with a new one, and the RAID controller automatically rebuilds the lost data. In addition, RAID systems may be built using a spare drive (hot spare) ready and waiting to be the replacement for a drive that fails.
RAID systems come in all sizes from desktop units to floor-standing models. Any desktop PC can be turned into a RAID system by adding a RAID controller board and the appropriate number of IDE or SCSI disks. Stand-alone units may also include large amounts of cache as well as redundant power supplies.
In the late 1980s, RAID used to mean an array of "inexpensive" disks, being compared to large computer disks or SLEDs (Single Large Expensive Disk). As hard disks became cheaper, the RAID Advisory Board changed the name to mean "independent." See SAN and sector sparing.
Level 0 is disk striping only, which interleaves data across multiple disks for better performance. It does not provide safeguards against failure.
Uses disk mirroring, which provides 100% duplication of data. Offers highest reliability, but doubles storage cost.
Bits (rather than bytes or groups of bytes) are interleaved across multiple disks. The Connection Machine used this technique, but this is a rare method.
Data are striped across three or more drives. Used to achieve the highest data transfer, because all drives operate in parallel. Parity bits are stored on separate, dedicated drives.
Similar to Level 3, but manages disks independently rather than in unison. Not often used.
Most widely used. Data are striped across three or more drives for performance, and parity bits are used for fault tolerance. The parity bits from two drives are stored on a third drive.
Highest reliability, but not widely used. Similar to RAID 5, but does two different parity computations or the same computation on overlapping subsets of the data.
A combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0 combined. Raid 0 is used for performance, and RAID 1 is used for fault tolerance.
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Storage Software
- Software or appliance technologies designed to migrate fixed content data from primary storage to secondary storage, stored offline or online, to a form of transportable media to put away for long term data retrieval.
ARM: (Automated Resource Management)
- Storage software solutions which combine elements of SNM, SRM and Policy Management in order to provide user-defined SLA enforcement and auto-provisioning of capacity.
- Software or appliance technologies designed to enable the migration of data from primary storage to secondary storage, in order to enable restoration in of primary data in the event of a system failure.
- Technology used to ensure the greatest available uptime of any system. HA Technology includes redundant hardware and intelligence that allows hardware and applications to "fail over", restart and maintain proper business functions.
Data Management
- A category of storage management software designed to migrate data from primary storage to secondary storage in order to protect primary data sets or to create a replica copy of primary data.
File System
- A system that organizes files and metadata in a hierarchical structure and is responsible for managing the physical placement of blocks that make up the files.
HSM/ADM: (Hierarchial Storage Management/Automated Data Management)
- Solutions that migrate data within the storage environment according to user-defined policies.
Policy Management
- Enables users to set specific policies about how storage is implemented and used. Solutions containing policy management will automatically enforce those policies and take specific actions based on user-defined conditions.
- Software or an appliance used to make an exact copy of data from one location to a secondary location(s).
- Hardware and/or software solutions that are designed specifically to protect storage assets and resident data from unauthorized access.
SRM: (Storage Resource Management)
- Storage software solutions that discover, assess, and report the usage patterns of storage systems.
SNM: (Storage Network Management)
- Storage software solutions that discover, monitor, manage, and display the physical elements that make up the storage network infrastructure.
- Storage software solutions that abstract the physical and logical storage assets from the host systems.
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Storage Networking
- An integrated system made up of purpose-built software and hardware designed for a specific task (or set of tasks) and sold as a turnkey solution. The concept is to simplify installation and management, and deliver high performance.
- High-end version of storage switches (FC, ICON, SCON) that are designed specifically with 32+ ports and are highly available. These usually have redundant switch cores and are based upon a bladed architecture.
Intelligent Switching Platforms
- Switches which provide a platform for intelligent storage services to reside on, which makes the storage intelligence, such as replication, volume management, virtualization, and file serving, part of the switching infrastructure. These switches are often multiprotocol (FC, IP, IB).
- A router is a device or, in some cases, software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its destination. A gateway is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network.
- Devices that reside in the network and direct traffic based on source and destination addresses. Most common examples are Fibre Channel or Ethernet switches.
WAN/SAN Extension
- Gateways that connect geographically distributed SANs via existing WAN infrastructure. These solutions may use IP, DWDM, or SONET transport technologies and support protocols that carry FC blocks via those WAN networks (FCIP, iFCP etc).
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Storage Services
Assessment & Design
- A methodical process conducted by companies that identifies key storage usage patterns.
Implementation & Deployment
- Installation, setup, migration, and process change services of storage technologies.
Solution Integration
- The planning and staging step of all technology elements prior to production deployment.
- "Proof of concept" testing prior to design selection and or deployment.
- The staff education and competency development step that typically follows deployment and includes knowledge transfer.
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Storage Technologies
Array Controllers
- The intelligent component of a disk subsystem where control software executes.
ATA: (Advanced Technology Attachment)
- The specification for IDE drives. The specification was published in 1994 as ANSI standard X3.221-1994, titled AT attachment Interface for Disk Drives.
- A set of microminiaturized, electronic circuits that are designed for use as processors and memory in computers and countless consumer and industrial products.
DLT: (Digital Linear Tape)
- A family of tape device and media technologies developed by Quantum Corporation.
ESCON: (Enterprise System Connection)
- A 200Mb/sec serial I/O bus used on IBM Corporation's Enterprise System 9000 data center computers. Similar to Fibre Channel in many respects, ESCON is based on redundant switches to which computers and storage subsystems connect using serial optical connections.
FC: (Fibre Channel)
- A high-speed transport technology used to build storage area networks (SANs). Although Fibre Channel can be used as a general-purpose network carrying ATM, IP and other protocols, it has been primarily used for transporting SCSI traffic from servers to disk arrays. The Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) serializes SCSI commands into Fibre Channel frames. IP, however, is used for in-band SNMP network management. Fibre Channel not only supports singlemode and multimode fiber connections, but coaxial cable and twisted pair as well.
Fibre Channel can be configured point-to-point, via a switched topology or in an arbitrated loop (FC-AL) with or without a hub, which can connect up to 127 nodes (see below). It supports transmission rates up to 2.12 Gbps in each direction, and 4.25 Gbps is expected. Fibre Channel uses the Gigabit Ethernet physical layer and IBM's 8B/10B encoding method, where each byte is transmitted as 10 bits. Fibre Channel provides both connection-oriented and connectionless services. Following are the class and functional levels of the architecture.
FCIP: (Fiber Channel Over Internet Protocol)
- An Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking technology developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). FCIP mechanisms enable the transmission of Fibre Channel (FC) information by tunneling data between storage area network (SAN) facilities over IP networks.
FICON: (Fibre Connectivity)
- IBM Corporation's Implementation of ESCON over Fibre Channel.
GigE: (Gigabit Ethernet)
- A type of high-speed network hardware. Also known as 1000Base-T.
HBA: (Host Bus Adapter)
- Any hardware bridge between a storage interconnect and a system's I/O bus.
HCA/TCA: (Host Channel Adapter/Target Channel Adapter)
- Host Channel Adapters (HCA) and Target Channel Adapters (TCA) enable servers and I/O devices to connect to the InfiniBand fabric, respectively. These adapters are comprised of specialized chips that process the InfiniBand link protocol at wire speed and without incurring any host overhead.
- A switched I/O architecture that delivers a high performance, low latency interconnect for the data center.
IP: (Internet Protocol)
- A protocol that provides connectionless best-effort delivery of datagrams across heterogeneous physical networks.
IP Storage (Internet Protocol storage)
- Using IP and Gigabit Ethernet to build storage area networks (SANs). Traditional SANs were developed using the Fibre Channel transport, because it provided gigabit speeds compared to 10 and 100 Mbps Ethernet used to build messaging networks at that time. Fibre Channel equipment has been costly, and interoperability between different vendors' switches was not completely standardized. Since Gigabit Ethernet and IP have become commonplace, IP storage enables familiar network protocols to be used, and IP allows SANs to be extended throughout the world. Network management software and experienced professionals in IP networks are also widely available. iSCSI, iFCP and mFCP are protocols that turn SCSI and Fibre Channel Protocol commands into TCP/IP.
iSCSI: (Internet Small Computer System Interface)
- A protocol that serializes SCSI commands and converts them to TCP/IP.
IS-NIC: (Integrated Storage Network Interface Card)
- A NIC card that incorporates TCP/IP offload features and fully implements the TCP/IP stack.
LTO: (Linear Tape Open)
- A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Seagate that are licensed to third-party vendors.
NAS: (Network-Attached Storage)
- A file-storage device that is accessed through a network.
NIC: (Network Interface Card)
- A printed circuit board that connects a computer or other node to a network. Also known as a network adapter.
SAN: (Storage Area Network)
- A network that transfers data between computer systems and storage devices via peripheral channels such as SCSI or Fibre Channel.
SCSI: (Small Computer System Interface)
- A collection of ANSI standards and proposed standards that define I/O buses primarily for connecting storage subsystems or devices to hosts through host bus adapters.
A fully usable copy of a defined collection of data that contains an image of the data as it appeared at the point in time at which the copy was initiated. A snapshot may be either a duplicate or a replicate of the data it represents.
TOE: (TCP/IP Offload Engine)
- Network Interface cards with hardware or firmware onboard which is designed to offload the majority of all TCP/IP processing from the host CPU. The intent is to speed up I/O by increasing the speed of TCP/IP processes.
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Storage Architectures
SAN (Storage Area Network)
- A network of storage disks. In large enterprises, a SAN connects multiple servers to a centralized pool of disk storage. Compared to managing hundreds of servers, each with their own disks, SANs improve system administration. By treating all the company's storage as a single resource, disk maintenance and routine backups are easier to schedule and control. In some SANs, the disks themselves can copy data to other disks for backup without any processing overhead at the host computers.
The SAN network allows data transfers between computers and disks at the same high peripheral channel speeds as when they are directly attached. Fibre Channel is a driving force with SANs and is typically used to encapsulate SCSI commands. SSA and ESCON channels are also supported.
SANs can be centralized or distributed. A centralized SAN connects multiple servers to a collection of disks, whereas a distributed SAN typically uses one or more Fibre Channel or SCSI switches to connect nodes within buildings or campuses. For long distances, SAN traffic is transferred over ATM, SONET or dark fiber. To guarantee complete recovery in a disaster, dual, redundant SANs are deployed, one a mirror of the other and each in separate locations.
Another SAN option is IP storage, which enables data transfer via IP over fast Gigabit Ethernet locally or via the Internet to anywhere in the world. See LAN free backup.
Channel Attached Vs. Network Attached
A related storage device is the network attached storage (NAS) system. The NAS is a disk subsystem that attaches to the LAN like any server or workstation. But rather than containing a full-blown operating system, it typically uses a slim microkernel specialized for handling only file reads and writes (CIFS/SMB, NFS, NCP). Adding or removing a NAS box is like adding or removing any node in a network. In contrast, the channel-attached storage system of the SAN must be taken offline to reconfigure it. However, the NAS is subject to the variable behavior and overhead of a network that may contain thousands of users.
SAN-NAS terminology is confusing (storage area network vs. network attached storage). NASs are often contrasted with SANs, but are also included under the "storage network" umbrella. The major difference is that the channel-attached SAN extends the peripheral channel to long distances, whereas the NAS is another file server on the network.
NAS (Network Attached Storage)
- A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down (microkernel) operating system and file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting popular file sharing protocols such as NFS (Unix) and SMB/CIFS (DOS/Windows). Using traditional LAN protocols such as Ethernet and TCP/IP, the NAS enables additional storage to be quickly added by plugging it into a network hub or switch. As network transmission rates have increased from Ethernet to Fast Ethernet to Gigabit Ethernet, NAS devices have come up to speed parity with direct attached storage devices.
General-purpose computers with a full-blown operating system such as Windows or Unix are sometimes labeled as NAS products, but the true NAS is built from scratch as a dedicated file I/O device.
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