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|Sanjeev Verma, Ram Gopal Lakshmi Narayanan
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The present invention relates to a method of organising servers.
Highly available systems are designed to protect against network and operational failures. To support high availability (HA) in telephony networks, redundancy is built into each network element. Availability of a system is defined as the probability that the system provides correct Service delivery at a certain time 't'. Its a measure of correct service delivery with respect to the alternation of correct and incorrect service, measured by the probability A(t) that the system is ready to provide the service at a point in time t.
However, the Internet currently provides redundancy in the network as a whole rather than in each individual network element. In the Internet, the networks do not maintain states for individual user sessions. Rather, redundancy is provided through alternate routing paths in the Internet. In this instance, if a user sends a packet to another user the packet goes through the routing infrastructure. If a failure occurs in the network element, the path may not be active any more and the routing elements detect this failure and finds a suitable alternative path. This process takes time and the routing system performs self stabilization to overcome this failure.
The internet is a decentralised, fast growing network and it adapts itself to new changing requirements to incorporate new services such as voice over IP (internet protocol) (VoIP), virtual private network (VPN), quality of service (QoS) etc.
In addition, as wireless and Internet technologies converge, new requirements will need to emerge to support seamless real time services. This will place a very high demand on per hop packet processing on each network element in the Internet. To support the growing of such needs the network element needs to delivery high performance, and scalability. To meet these demands, networks elements such as routers have evolved from a monolithic software entity to distributed software and hardware entity. To support converged network service, network elements like routers may need to maintain per flow or per user information states to satisfy the service requirements. If such a network element fails, failover operation should be fast and the user of the service should notice no service distruption. Thus, each network elements in the Internet may need to provide high availability features in order to avoid disruption in the service. This suggests that network elements should support high availability features such as failover, load balancing, state replication etc.
Recent advancements in network processor technology have made it possible to present network functions as configurable and programmable modules.
The idea for establishing open interfaces in the control and forwarding plane enables a new building block approach in system architecture design which has demanded open interfaces for multi vendor operation. In this regard, reference is made to the network processing forum (www.npforum.org).
Network elements are provided with control cards and line cards. Routers or switches, which are based on a distributed architecture, are composed of one or more line cards and one or more control cards. A control card contains service logic and applications to perform control (signalling) and management of service functions. The control card typically contains one or more applications of logic to perform routing, QoS, security, mobility and charging services.
A line card in a distributed network element performs forwarding functions. It performs fast packet forwarding on a data path. In addition to forwarding, it also performs minimal signalling or filtering functions. Control cards provide instructions in the form of messages and program line card logic. The line card processes each incoming and outgoing packets and if any exceptions are encountered in a process a packet it will inform the control card. In order to provide a seamless continuous service, the control cards and line cards inside the network element need to synchronise amongst themselves and provide a single system viewed from the outside world. Although there are several standardisation efforts to provide higher availability in routing protocols, middleware and applications, they all make the assumption that the HA middleware is a single monolithic entity. The purpose of the middleware is to provide transparency. The following are middleware services.
Applications like VoIP and other services require per hop behaviour processing and these network elements need to maintain states. When a network element fails, there should be an alternative network element that should take the state of a failed network element. At present, there are several proprietary solutions, which provide control card redundancy, line card redundancy or network element redundancy. However, there is no open standard protocol or mechanism that exists for providing control card and line card redundancy mechanisms. Rather, vendors will provide their own redundancy mechanisms and solutions. For network element redundancy, the mechanisms proposed in IETF (internet engineering task force) proposals are coarse and do not take care of all state synchronisations of the application nor do they provide a single system image view. Rather, the mechanisms are mainly targeted for network protocols and not for network services such as VoIP state maintenance. This also requires redesigning the existing applications and does not account for heterogeneous multivendor software and hardware.
CGL (carrier grade LINUX) is mainly targeted for LINUX and proposes the extension to the basic POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface Reference—http://www.pasc.org/#POSIX) system calls and it uses the service availability forum's API and the focus is the same as the service availability forum.
IETF virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP) is a simple heart beat mechanism to detect the network element failure. It does not provide a single system image. It is a network protocol and does not accommodate check pointing and other event management servers.
Common object request broker architecture (CORBA) is a middleware service that mainly supports network access. CORBA has recently added fault tolerance plug in the components. CORBA provides API implementation and enables interoperable applications. It is applicable to network elements but its fast path processing is limited. Interoperability with different CORBA domains has a lot of issues although IIOP (IIOP—Internet Interoperability protocol Reference;—http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/corba_iiop.htm) enables them to perform such communication that requires complex processing.
There are various network elements from for example Cisco, Juniper and other vendors. However, they do not support multi-vendor and open interface protocols. These solutions require a lot of configuration and the boot-strapping procedure is hard coded and is not flexible.
In summary none of the known systems enable multiple HA servers to be in a single HA middleware that works with heterogeneous HA servers and provides interoperability between multi vendor hardware and software systems.
Embodiments of the present invention seek to mitigate or obviate the problems with the current proposals.
According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of organizing at least two servers, the method comprising the steps of: defining a set of servers comprising at least two servers, said set of servers being arranged to run on different functional units and to manage the same set of resources; and defining a server of said set of servers to control at least one predetermined function of at least one other server in said set.
According to another aspect of the present invention there is provided a plurality of servers organized in a set, said set of servers being arranged to run on different functional units and to manage the same set of resources wherein a server of said servers of said set is configured to control least one predetermined function of at least one other server in said set.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention there is provided middleware comprising: a plurality of servers organized in a set, said servers being arranged to run on different functional units and to manage the same set of resources, wherein a server of said plurality of servers in said set comprises the server to control at least one predetermined function of at least one other server in said set.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention there is provided a system for organizing a plurality of servers, the system comprising: first defining means for defining a set of servers, said servers being arranged to run on different functional units and to manage the same set of resources; and second defining means for defining a server of said servers of said set of servers to control at least one predetermined function of at least one other server in said set.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of organizing at least two computers, the method comprising the steps of: defining a set of computers comprising at least two computers, said set of computers being arranged to run on different functional units and to manage the same set of resources; and defining a computer of said set of computers to control at least one predetermined function of at least one other computer in said set.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention there is provided a server configured to control at least one predetermined function of at least one other server in a set of servers in which said set of servers is configured to run on different functional units and to manage the same set of resources.
According to yet another aspect of the present invention there is provided a backup server configured to provide a backup function to a controlling server configured to control at least one predetermined function of at least one other server in a set of servers in which said set of servers is configured to run on different functional units and to manage the same set of resources, said back up function comprising controlling at least one predetermined function of at least one other server in said set of servers when said controlling server is not operational.
For a better understanding of the present invention and as to how the same may be carried into effect, reference will now be made by way of example only to the following drawings in which:
Embodiments of the present invention provide an open HA middleware architecture for a distributed network element where the control and line cards may be from different vendors. Additionally, the control and line cards support third party applications. Embodiments of the present invention seek to provide a system, which is a plug and play system that supports heterogeneous software and hardware components. In order that the systems work co-operatively and provide high availability, smooth fail over and redundancy are supported both at the application and the control/line card levels by implementing an open HA middleware. The HA middleware itself is composed of various HA servers or HA daemons running on each control or line card. In the arrangement of embodiments of the present invention, the HA servers need to discover themselves first and then provide HA services to both software and hardware contained in the network element. Embodiments of the invention provide an automatic boot-up procedure for HA Servers in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor network element
In embodiments of the invention, each card when it comes up in a network element, discovers every other card in the network element, then each card describes their capabilities and how they are configured to other HA servers in the systems. The HA server that was started first in the control card has complete knowledge about what services need to be enabled and how the monitoring of the system should be performed. Once this information is provided to a just booted control or line card, they will start functioning and provide the notion of a distributed network element.
Middleware exists between a client and server machine.—Middleware is often provided by software. A collection of HA Servers running in each line or control card provide the notion of HA middleware to applications that are running in the control and line cards. Middleware provides location, access, network, database transparency. In other words, the user has no information about the routing of the connection between the user and the destination. In embodiments of the invention, the middleware may be provided by the network element made up of a plurality of line and/or control cards.
Reference is made to
The HA server (HAS) provider uses HA protocol and communicates over the HA bus 8. As can be seen, the two functional units shown in
Applications that are running on control cards or line cards are called resources. Additionally dumb control managed by a control card is also called a resource. The first functional unit 2 has a resource A 10 and a resource B 12. Likewise, the second functional unit 4 has a first resource A 14 and a second resource B 16. When a resource gets started by operator, the resource registers with the HA middleware. Then the HA middleware seamlessly performs state synchronisation and detects the application failure and accordingly activates the standby system (if any) to the active state. Each control card/line card has a NPF software high availability implementation 18 and 20. This provides HA state management and monitoring functions and performs seamless switchover operations.
Each control or line card also comprises an NPF software high availability protocol end point 22 and 24 respectively. The HA bus is connected to the respective protocol end points of each of the functional units. The HA bus supports reliability, ordered delivery, congestion friendly mechanism for all HA messages.
Each functional unit also has a HA service API 26 and 28 respectively. This part of the functional unit is connected to the respective resources contained on that functional unit. Using HA Service API 26 and 28, the application server can update or inform their internal state to the HA server or they can communicate to their standby systems by sending an application specific event. When the application server (resources) is abnormally terminated and later restarted, it can perform warm restart. That is it can resume where from previous session settings/conditions before the abnormal termination or error occurred.
Also provided is a HA application management function API 30 and 32 in each of the functional units. The purpose of the HA application management function is to keep track of the registered HA applications and their operations.
The HA application management function API 30 and 32 are connected to respective state functions 34 and 36 of the first resource 10 and 14 respectively. HA States are states of the application and are maintained by the HA implementation. This is used as input for state management. Hm connection is an API interface. Likewise the HA service API is connected to a state function 38 and 40 of the respective second resources 12 and 16. Hm is the interface between the HA application management function API 30 or the HA service API and the resource A and its associated state. Hs is the interface between the HA application management function API 30 or the HA service API and the resource B and its associated state.
Embodiments of the present invention provide an open interface that allows for interoperability between components from different vendors. In embodiments of the present invention it is realised how a complete system comes up as a single HA middleware and is able to start providing HA services to the application. Embodiments of the present invention do not assume any transport medium. The proposed HA middleware boot strapping mechanism can be extended to network elements even if it spans multiple hops. Proposed mechanisms can scale to several hundreds of blades and provide a single system image to the external network. Scalability refers to number of services that can be added in a single network element to support HA. The solution will allow us to perform logical and physical portioning of a network element
Reference is now made to
When the number of functional units is large, for example hundreds of line cards or control cards, fail over operations may get very complicated, any resource status change needs to be propagated across the functional units so that the HAS running in each functional unit has the same system wide view. This may require unnecessary message exchanges amongst functional units.
In embodiments of the present invention, to minimise the unnecessary message exchanges, a set of functional units are grouped together. Functional units providing the same or similar services are grouped together into a set SET. In this regard,
The first set 50 comprises four functional units 54, 56, 58 and 60. The second set also comprises four functional units 62, 64, 66 and 68. It should be appreciated that different sets can have different numbers of functional units. A set can have more or less than four functional units. The HA set is a collection of HA servers that are running in different functional units and manage the same set of resources.
Each HA server in a set is given a HA set identifier. In other words, all of the HA servers shown in
The HA server that is contained in a particular HA set needs to update and synchronise its states with other HASs in the same group. HA server manages applications that are running in line card or control card. The state of the application may be stopped, active, standby, etc. This mechanism allows the number of messages to be reduced, increases the manageability and scalability of the system.
When the operator starts the system normally the control card will be started first. The HAS server when it starts tries to discover other HA Servers in the network element. Since this is the first card booted by the operator it declares itself as the Root HA Server.
It is also possible that if there is no difference between control card and line card hardware and software processing then the concept of RHAS will be absent. The card which comes up first will be called master (say master-1), and the card which comes up second will be called slave (say slave-1). The slave will be monitored by master and master will monitor the slave. Later when the third card comes up this card will be monitored by slave-2 and this card will monitor the master-1 card and forms a ring type of state management.
Where there is communication between the groups, typically it will be through Root HAS only, but if the underlying communication medium is shared then everyone can communicate to each other.
Reference is now made to
It should be appreciated that in embodiments of the present invention, each functional unit may have a different identifier i.e. a unique identifier. In an alternative embodiment of the present invention, the same identifier may be used in different sets. For example, set 1 could have identifier 1 as well as set 2. However, each functional unit would be uniquely identified by a combination of the set identifier and the HA-ID.
If there is any state change in a HAS belonging to a HA set, then it is communicated to the corresponding RHAS. The RHAS then communicates the updates to other members of the HA set through a unicast connection. It should be appreciated that embodiments of the invention are not only applicable to a unicast scheme but can also work both in broadcast and multicast situations as well.
In order to reference a HAS running under a given network element, the HA-set-ID is concatenated with the HA-ID as shown in
Reference will now be made to
At a later point, if another HAS becomes active, it will send an HA discovery message on the multicast channel, however, the RHAS will respond to the newlyjoining HAS. The responsive information contains the details of the HAS end point information. Upon receiving the response message, the joining server connects to the RHAS through a unicast TCP (transmission control protocol). It should be appreciated that embodiments of the present invention are being described using TCP/IP interconnect mechanisms. However, it should be appreciated that embodiments of the present invention may use non-IP interconnections as well. The root HAS computes an HA identity and passes the identity to the new HAS. The computation of the HA-ID is monotonically increasing in value and is always one higher than the previously assigned HA-ID. Thus, after the successful completion of the joining process, the newly joined HAS will have the HA-ID 2 and will send an update regarding its readiness to the root HAS as shown in step b) of
It should be appreciated that step b) shows a second HAS within the same HA set as the route HAS.
Step c) of
The HAS which first becomes active in a HA set will take up the roll of RHAS. If for some reason the active RHAS fails or is being shut down, then the HAS which has the next higher HAS-ID becomes the active RHAS.
In step b), the HAS 104 that was down comes back and is given a new identity as shown in
In preferred embodiments of the present invention to minimise the fail over time to the new RHAS and reduce the number of messages exchanged, it is recommended that all HAS's should have pre-established transport level connections with the back up HAS. The back up HAS is the pre-assigned back up HAS with a next higher HA-ID that takes the role of RHAS when the current active RHAS fails. Each HAS may be connected to both the RHAS and the back up HAS. This mechanism will reduce the latency time during failure fail over operation. In other words, the time taken to switch between the RHAS and the back up HAS is reduced.
In embodiments of the present invention, the HAS with the next higher identity is selected as the back up or next RHAS. It should be appreciated that this is one implementation only of an embodiment of the present invention and other criteria can be used for selecting the next or back up HAS.
Reference will now be made to
Switch over operation can happen across control cards or across line cards. It may be possible that line cards may have intelligent software running on it and if there is any existing hardware redundancy mechanisms then these should be conveyed to the root HAS during the HAS start up procedure. This way HASs in a HA set know to which HAS to switch in the event of a failure.
In preferred embodiments of the present invention there is a existing hardware redundancy mechanism between the control cards 150 and 152 in the first set and the control cards 160 and 162 in the second set. There is also an existing hardware redundancy mechanism between line cards 156 and 158 in the first set and line cards 166 and 168 in the second set. This hardware redundancy is indicated by respective arrows 170, 172, 174 and 178 between the two cards for which there is redundancy.
Each functional unit runs one instance of the HAS. If the HAS with HA-ID 1 fails in set 1, that is HAS 150, then the HAS with HA-ID 2 in set 1, that is HAS 152 will become the root HAS. In order to provide fast switch over and provide a line card redundancy, the switch over should happen based on the hardware redundancy mechanism. This configuration information needs to be conveyed to the HAS running on the functional unit. In the example shown in
In the arrangement shown in
Embodiments of the present invention provide a mechanism, which works well for a heterogeneous HA server. The mechanism uses existing communication mechanism and scales wells for hundreds of HA servers. The mechanism can be made secure by using a asymmetric cryptography when the HA servers are multiple hops away. Most of the time the network element contains one physical chassis and in it, it contains several control and line cards. But there are situations where a network element is composed of several physical chasses and it can be placed at different locations. But all the discrete physical chasses are interconnected via a network. In those cases, the communication mechanism between the line cards and control card can be secured by using cryptographic techniques. The proposed mechanism eliminates unnecessary messaging processing if one of the HA server fails.
High availability is used to describe an entity that has a very low downtime. For example an entity may be required to have a down time of less than 1% to be classed as a high availability entity. This is by way of example only and different measures can be used to classify a high availability entity.
Embodiments of the invention have been described in the context of servers. It should be appreciated that embodiments of the invention will also have application to the organisation of computers or computer units.
In embodiments of the invention, the controlling or root server is able to control predetermined functions of other servers in the set. For example the root server is able to control the communication of information to other servers in the set. The root server may for example be able to control the synchronisation of other servers in the set.
In preferred embodiments of the present invention, the servers in the set may have substantially similar functionality.
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The Vishay VSOP98260 is optimized for universal remote controllers. It is the first chip to integrate signal detection and processing into a single component. Before the VSOP98260, signal detection and processing functions for code learning in universal control devices required discrete solutions. By combining these functions into one component, the VSOP98260 simplifies designs in these devices, saves space and reduces overall costs.
The output from the VSOP98260 accurately corresponds to the carrier frequency and data burst length of the input signal. It is also immune to noise from other light sources such as compact fluorescent lamps.
The VSOP98260 can receive any carrier frequency from 20 kHz to 60 kHz, and it operates on a supply voltage from 2.0 V to 3.6 V and a supply current of 0.6 mA to 0.9 mA. The IC is packaged in a small 2 mm by 2 mm QFN package with a low height of 0.7 mm. The VSOP98260 is RoHS and WEEE 2002/96/EC compliant. It is free of halogens, and is compatible with lead (Pb)-free soldering. The IC operates over a temperature range of – 25° C to + 85° C.
Vishay VSOP98260 IR Remote Control IC Features
- Carrier-out-function: carrier frequency and burst length accurately correspond to the input signal
- Small QFN package with 2 mm width
- Can be used with either a photodiode or an IR emitter in forward or reverse polarity
- AC coupled input is insensitive to DC photo currents
- Material categorization
More info: Vishay VSOP98260 for IR Remote Control (pdf)

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The so-called "plus one" is coming. At least that's what you hear over and over in conversations with people inside college football.
"I think it's inevitable at this point," Stanford athletic director Bob Bowlsby told Sports Illustrated.
That was echoed in speaking on and off the record with more than a dozen conference commissioners, athletic directors and television executives this week. Some say it directly. Others just come to the conclusion because, well, it makes too much sense. Best anyone can tell, there aren't more than a few opponents: Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, BCS executive director Bill Hancock, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick and some (but not all) bowl executives.
"There is a strong sense that it's time to push back," said one Big 12 athletic director. "This should've been done long ago."
This is potentially great news for college football – players, coaches and fans – which has needed something better than the current BCS, whose only positive is that it's not as bad (a debatable point) as the old system. The future of the postseason will be determined next year at meetings between the 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame.
So we'll eschew our normal how-to-stage-a-playoff column this year in favor of this: What, exactly, is a "plus one" and how should it be set up to so it can get through the dicey political process?
Yes, even one Delany can live with.
We're still in favor of more, but the landscape has changed and compromise is in the air. This is a good thing.
[Bowl talk: Dan Wetzel's Week 15 podcast]
Let's start with this: The term "plus one" is both confusing and confused. It came from the idea that you stage all the traditional bowls, run the BCS formula again, then have one more game – a "plus one" – between 1-2.
That isn't what people are looking for here, and for good reason. It makes little sense and only extends many of the current problems.
This "plus one" is actually a seeded, four-team playoff. It's just that people don't want to say "playoff," so they call what is undeniably a playoff by another name. Whatever. Let's call it the "Football Final Four" and let everyone who said there'd never be a playoff save face.
Here are the hurdles to getting this done:
1. You have to include existing bowl games. (I wouldn't, but that's the reality of the bowl industry's power over the sport.)
2. You have to protect the Big Ten/Pac-12 matchup in the Rose Bowl. (It's mostly all that Delany cares about.)
3. You have to make more money. (Done, no problem whatsoever.)
4. You have to have the illusion that you're protecting the regular season. (A playoff actually would increase interest and TV ratings in the regular season, but the head-in-the-sand crowd argues otherwise. Even they can't claim a four-team playoff changes much of anything, though.)
5. All other bowls need to survive. (Easy, this never was in question.)
Here is your setup:
You eliminate the term "BCS bowl" – currently the Fiesta, Orange, Rose and Sugar bowls. All bowls are equal. All can contract with whatever leagues they want and are not tied into any kind of BCS standings or arbitrary rules. Allow the four former BCS bowls to host the Football Final Four.
I'm not opposed to letting Jerry Jones (or any other game and/or city) bid his way in and bump one out. After all, who is against the free market? Actually, college athletics is, which is why they may stick to their old bowl cronies. Either way, this is not a deal-breaker. If you want to grandfather these four in, go for it.
The four bowls would rotate hosting a semifinal and the championship game. You need three sites each year to accomplish that (two semis, one title game).
The Rose Bowl would sit out its turn at the semifinals, preferring to instead host a traditional Big Ten/Pac-12 matchup on Jan. 1 every year. As they do now, they would "double-host" once every four years – the traditional Rose Bowl and the title game a week later. This is a plan the Rose itself expressed interest in during a meeting last summer between Big Ten and Pac-12 athletic directors, as first reported by the Seattle Times.
It is the single most important compromise to date.
[Wetzel: Flawed BCS process must be scrapped]
Here's how it would look this season. All the other bowl games would continue as is; nothing would change there. But this would be your Jan. 2 schedule:
1:30 p.m.: Orange, No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 3 Oklahoma State.
4:30 p.m.: Rose, Oregon vs. Wisconsin.
8:30 p.m.: Fiesta, No. 1 LSU vs. No. 4 Stanford.
Is that a day of football you might be interested in?
On Jan. 9, the winners of the Orange and Fiesta then would meet in the Sugar Bowl for the national title.
Next season, it would rotate. Since the Rose would be involved only once every four seasons, over a 12-year period the other three games would be left out of the Football Final Four just once each.
That season, they would have to go out and find two non-tournament teams to play in their game. It's a small price to pay for having a meaningful (and hugely profitable) game 11 of the other 12 seasons. That's an exponentially better setup than the current one, where in off years, they struggle to sell tickets and generate interest.
During the seasons in which they are hosting the title game, they could even stage another game a week earlier. Just find two teams. Again, it's not that important. These bowl games just got the most sweetheart contract of all time. One complaint out of them and the Cotton Bowl gets called in. Or someone lets Indianapolis or Tampa/St. Pete or wherever offer a bid, the way the NFL does with the Super Bowl.
Now, on a side note, college football would be wise to re-work their contract with these games, demanding a far greater cut of the revenue from the playoff and ending the sea of cash these guys currently swim in – best exemplified by the Fiesta Bowl scandal. These games are often corrupt, out of control and an embarrassment to the sport and any public institution that funds them.
That's a side issue, though. If Delany is fine with corruption and cronyism now, he isn't going to oppose the Football Final Four because it continues.
[Video: Alabama-LSU rematch will be another slugfest ]
Most of all, this plan is the olive branch to the Big Ten and Pac-12, who own access to the most valuable of the bowls. Every single season, it guarantees the Rose Bowl matchup those leagues care so deeply about. Even if one (or two) of their teams makes the Final Four, the Rose would be allowed to pick the next-best Big Ten or Pac-12 team. No more teams from other leagues in the Rose. It always will be 1955 in Pasadena.
It's possible Delany will remain steadfast against it anyway. He suggested to SI.com's Andy Staples on Thursday that if pushed, the Big Ten might sit out the Football Final Four. Good luck with that. How quickly will coaches from other leagues point out to recruits that if you sign with a Big Ten team, you won't have a chance to compete for the national title?
"I like that," texted one ACC assistant Thursday. "[I] might start using [it] now."
Urban Meyer, Bret Bielema and the others are going to stand for that?
The Rose Bowl also benefits from this plan. Not only does it keep its historic ties, it now will enjoy the ratings bump of having a must-watch playoff game as its lead-in programming. Allowing the Rose to maintain its exclusive late-afternoon window is a considerable, but worthwhile, concession.
Who loses in this? The Gator Bowl, the Outback Bowl, the TicketCity Bowl and the other games currently staged on New Year's Day. They'd either have to go up against a playoff game or move to a new date.
Guess what: Who cares? The executive director of the Outback Bowl made $808,000 in a single year recently for running a third-tier event. These guys have pillaged college football long enough. They can compete in the marketplace or just play it another day. If someone claims protecting the sanctity of the Outback Bowl is a deal-breaker, then maybe we do need a Congressional investigation after all.
The bigger question is whether fan bases will travel consecutive weeks in a row to neutral sites. Many may sit out the semifinals and save their travel and ticket money for the title game if they reach it. That is just one reason the NFL uses home fields until the Super Bowl.
I'm strongly in favor of using campus sites and cutting bowl directors out entirely, but there is staunch resistance to that at this time. The bowl lobby is influential. So this could be an experiment that needs to play out. The onus to sell tickets needs to be on the bowl games, which are getting one of the greatest deals in sports by having college football outsource its most profitable product (its postseason). No one wants to hear them complain.
Besides, the increased viewership should deliver a revenue bump that will offset some unsold seats. This is essentially a TV show anyway.
How do you select the four teams?
It would be best to scrap the absurd BCS standings in favor of a small, educated selection committee. If you must keep the BCS standings, at least make some obvious adjustments, such as not using season-long polls and secret computer formulas.
Again, that's not the issue that's standing in the way of the Football Final Four. Delany, et al, are fine with the BCS standings.
The bigger issue is not having any automatic bids. You simply can't do it with a four-team field; there are at least five strong conferences.
You have to open it up and take the top four, even if multiple teams come from the same league. Not having automatic bids also lessens the chance of an anti-trust lawsuit, which administrators fear because just defending it will cost millions of dollars and immense effort. If somehow, someway, a team from a smaller conference can reach the top four, hey, they are in. With conference realignment, this is extremely unlikely.
And while it may appear that you often could end up with two SEC teams in the field, last season it would've been two Pac-12 schools (Oregon and Stanford). This can work for everyone.
Either way, four access points are better than two.
As for everything else, there aren't a lot of hang-ups. The increased pile of money can be divvied up. And an expanded playoff field (from two to four) will result in higher interest in regular-season games, especially in November and early December, as most teams still are alive for the postseason. TV executives are adamant about that, no matter that the BCS talking point says otherwise.
"I don't know how anyone could put that out there," Texas AD DeLoss Dodds said. "It's the [opposite]."
[Video: Oklahoma State isn't the biggest BCS snub]
Delany's chief complaint is that a four-team playoff will prove so popular and so profitable that the public will demand more and college football will have to expand the field.
How exactly do you argue against someone who is opposed to a new idea because he believes it will be too successful? Did anyone at Apple try to stop production of the IPad because they thought it might force them to make the IPad 2?
This is nonsense.
"Bracket creep" is the term that BCS executive director Bill Hancock throws out there. Of course, expansion because of market demand is hardly "creep." It's called success. Besides, it only happens if future generations of the sport's leadership deem it a good idea.
It doesn't have to happen. The NFL hasn't expanded its playoffs in 21 seasons and never considered it when negotiating its recent 10-year collective bargaining agreement.
Hancock also expresses concern that the "multi-day bowl experience" might be altered for the semifinal teams, but that, too, is silly. Players overwhelmingly want to settle things on the field, and the chance of winning a championship vastly overrides the chance to participate in a bowl-week pie-eating contest or some other frivolity.
The truth is the only reason bowl games force teams to come and hang out for a week is because for many games, the hotels they use are kicking them back a commission on all those rooms. The Sugar Bowl, one example among many, collected $191,587 in "hotel/motel commission," according to its most recently available federal tax filings.
The bowl "experience" is about money. Please stop insulting our intelligence and claiming otherwise.
You won't find too many who don't believe the above is not only an exciting, positive step forward, but might, in the end, be agreeable even to Delany. We'll see, of course. He remains the biggest obstacle, according to people throughout college athletics.
While Notre Dame's Swarbrick has expressed philosophical opposition and enjoys numerous benefits (financially and in access) in the current BCS, few believe the school has the juice any more to stop anything. Others don't believe he is steadfast anyway, and the elimination of automatic qualifying for major (non-playoff) bowls will put ND, the game's top TV draw, in demand.
Still, Delany, 63, is so entrenched on this issue that a number of power brokers believe nothing will be done until he retires.
And it's worth remembering that while optimism soars here in December, a decision won't be made until next spring at the earliest. A lot can happen. In 2008, SEC commissioner Mike Slive was confident he could get something done. He was shot down immediately.
This is a new day, though. The SEC and ACC have, in the past, been supportive of a similar concept. The Rose Bowl has found a reasonable alternative, according to people at that meeting of Big Ten and Pac-12 athletic directors.
The Big East, which opposed it in 2008, has been gutted as a result, and must be smart enough now to know its only chance at relevance is getting a team (such as Boise State) into the top four. The Big 12 once was opposed, too, but its interim commissioner and ADs have publicly expressed unified support for a "plus one" this week. The Mountain West and Conference USA are merging, and while they'd prefer a bigger playoff, they'll accept this.
Then there is the Pac-12, once an old-school outfit that walked lockstep with the Big Ten. It apparently has seen the light under new commissioner Larry Scott.
"I happen to agree with my conference colleagues about the plus-one game," Bowlsby of Stanford told SI about the support for a new system.
The Football Final Four is a simple plan. It's a better plan. It's a plan that stops worrying about the issues of the 1990s and starts looking at the realities of the 2010s, where the game is a national, not regional, pursuit.
This would be the clearing of college football's biggest hurdle. Once everyone settles in and watches a New Year's Day tripleheader of two playoff games sandwiched around the Rose Bowl, they'll wonder why the heck it took so long.
The Football Final Four may not be perfect, but it ought to be perfect enough for anyone that matters. And if not, hey, good luck explaining it to recruits.
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Making comparisons between Yamaha pianos and Essex pianos is difficult because Yamaha has many different makes and models while Essex is essentially only one line produced in several styles based on a Steinway design. Yamaha pianos are more widely known and are well-accepted, although Essex models have credibility due to their affiliation with Steinway that other cost-effective pianos lack.
What would eventually become the Yamaha Corporation was founded in 1887 by Torakusu Yamaha. Yamaha's first Japanese-made piano was built in 1900 and its first concert grand was produced in 1950.
The Essex pianos were designed by Steinway (America's leading piano manufacturer) to be produced overseas for less expense. Steinway's goal was to make pianos more affordable to reach a larger audience, using a design that is similar to the more expensive Steinway models. Essex models utilize Steinway's diaphragmatic soundboard design, which starts out thicker in the middle and tapers toward the edges.
Yamaha pianos were originally made in Japan and are now manufactured primarily in Japan and the United States. Essex pianos are made in South Korea by the Young Chang Corporation.
Essex Styles
Since Essex pianos are a subset of Steinway, the models available are fairly limited when compared with what Yamaha has to offer. Essex models come in both grand and upright designs. The grands are available in several different lengths, including 5'1", 5'3.5", 5'8", and 6 feet. The smaller models come in a greater variety of styles, such as the Neo-Classic, French Provincial, and Traditional, while the two largest sizes are only available in Classic. You can also choose the luster and color of many of the models. The Essex uprights are also available in a variety of styles, colors, and finishes, and come with heights of 43",44", 45.5", 46.25", 48.5." The taller the piano is, the greater the sound production you will get.
Yamaha Styles
Yamaha pianos come in a much larger variety of styles with availability that varies depending on the region in which you live. Yamaha offers grand pianos in models that are suited for small rooms and salons, all the way to some of the very best concert instruments. Some models that you can find in the United States from Yamaha are the Classic Collection (that includes the GB1, GC1, and GC2 models), the Conservatory Collection (includes the C1, C2, C3, and C5 pianos that are suitable for use in performance, recording, and music schools), the Conservatory Concert Collection (models C6 and C7), and the Handcrafted Concert Collection. Yamaha also offers uprights in a variety of makes and styles: Disklaviers (modern player pianos), digital pianos, silent pianos and other types of pianos.
Yamaha pianos can range anywhere from a few thousand for the uprights to more than 100 thousand for the concert grands. Essex pianos can cost on average about $4,000 to $20,000 for the grands and less for uprights.
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"I could have been an English teacher," Oscar nominee Julianne Moore, 52, told Yahoo! Movies while discussing "The English Teacher," which opens Friday. She plays a repressed high school instructor whose career unravels when she encounters a former student- turned- playwright (Kristen Stewart ex Michael Angarano).
"I really related to my character," said Moore. "I was that kind of kid who loved to read, who was happier in a book than outside with other kids.
"I would win the summer library reading contest," Moore confessed. "I started acting after school because I wasn't athletic. It was an extension of reading. If I hadn't had my high school English teacher saying I could be an actress, I may not have the career I do."
Asked about her favorite book, the face of L'Oreal and mother of two paused for a moment and said, "'Little Women,' probably. It's a book that I read over and over and over again. So much of that book is about self-determination. Rich family life, a lot of tragedy, and through it all Josephine March grows up and she says 'I'm going to do something unexpected. ' That book started me thinking I could do whatever I wanted to do."
And, while movie audiences recognize the Oscar nominee's success, Moore also writes books. She authored two New York Times best-selling children's picture books, "Freckleface Strawberry" and "Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully"; the former inspired a Broadway musical.
While Linda the English teacher does toss caution to the wind and have sex on her desk with her former pupil, she's tame compared to Moore's rock 'n' roll mother Susanna in "What Maisie Knew." Currently in limited release, the drama is a cockeyed contemporary "Kramer vs. Kramer," in which Susanna battles her partner (Steve Coogan) for custody of their daughter, Maisie (Onata Aprile).
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Understatement! What's up next for Moore? "I'm doing the David Cronenberg movie 'Maps to the Stars.' I'm playing Havana. She's a movie star, but she's not like me. She's as far from me as you can get. She's a pretty extreme character."
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The eastern section of Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Alta
By Tom Perry
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Geo-coordinates: Latitude: 42:34:6N (42.56828) Longitude: 2:35:29W (-2.59125)
The inspiration for the name of this winery was Isis, the Egyptian goddess of magic, and it is truly magical when you see the place for the first time, with its undulating aluminium roof against the stark backdrop of the Cantabrian mountain range. When you approach the winery, the roof reflected in a pool looks like a row of casks. Inside, architect Santiago Calatrava has created a simple yet functional design to make winemaking as easy as possible, with the movement of wine directly from one end of the winery to the other. Ysios is one of four Rioja wineries in the Domecq Bodegas group, now owned by Pernod-Ricard.
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Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Happy Valentine's Day
The people who raised me were cynics about love. True cynics.
My mother believed love was possible but perishes.
My dad did not believe there was such a thing as love, and that all love is faked.
These two people were true cynics and their favorite rant was young women who marry old men!! We all know what that is about!!
An old besotted stupid man and a gold digging girl.
Pathetic. Trashy. Criminal, even!
You can see how I became an "early-on cynic".
Then I met Leonard.
I met Leonard when I was only 25 and he was 94. I do not know exactly when I fell in love with him but it was quite soon. Perhaps it was after a particularly crushing fight with my husband. No, I was not a physically abused wife. And for the record, the slinging items thrown at my husband all missed. Men are such good duckers! It is built right into their DNA.
Still and all it was a loveless marriage and I was on a wasteland at age 25.
I always thought of Leonard as old, of course.
But never, no never, not ever did I see Leonard as a father figure or a grandfather figure.
Leonard was always a man to me, a fine fine man. A man with a tucked in shirt.
Leonard was the man I wished to be married to. To sleep with. To talk with. To run away with.
Trapped by marriage, two small children, a graceless religion......and my youth.....I was not a candidate for anything...except true love.
True love knows not boundaries, needs not bridges, seeks not the approval of society.
I was in love with a man who honored me as no man had ever honored me.
I was in love with a man whose face so lighted at the sight of me that every crumbled thing inside me went back together for a bit.
I was in love with a man who desired me, who appreciated me, who asked nothing from me but love.
Leonard had accomplished great things in his life, with the help of his wife, God rest her soul, and Leonard was just living now.
Great tasks done.
Great loves laid to rest.
Time to smell the roses.
We spent great time together, doing nothing, building nothing, dreaming nothing, hoping for nothing.
Living totally in the present, we spent time "being", being together.
It was the best of times.
It was the era of mini skirts, and I wore mini skirts. Being a tiny bit modest, I always wore silk stockings or tights with my short skirts.
Life is so much more enjoyable in skirts of such ilk!
Leonard liked my mini skirts. One spring day sitting together on a bench in a park, he smiled down at my happy upturned face and put his hand on my silk stockinged thigh. "For a fat girl", he beamed, "you sure have class."
There has never been a compliment since which could dislodge Leonard's compliment from top place on my carefully kept stash of compliments-I-have-received.
I never thought he would die.
Two years into our strange courtship, he died. Quietly. Suddenly.
I cried more for Leonard than I have ever cried for anybody.
It was the worst of times.
He was gone.
A light that had illuminated living for me had disappeared.
He was gone.
Worse than that, he was beyond my world even if he had not died.
We were separated by a gulf where bridges did not exist and could only be built on fairy wings, and I cried for tragic love haunting our world throughout time immemorial, the haunting of "you cannot really have, you cannot really possess".
He was gone.
And I was not with him when he died. I cried about death. I cried about aging. I cried about being powerless against the tide of life. I cried about life.
He was gone......and who in my world could understand my tears, my tragic loss?
Society forbade young mothers being stupid and irresponsible.
I grieved and grieved and grieved.
Having been in love with Leonard and known deep desire for somebody far outside the "norm", I am not a cynic about love.
Love is strange and attractions between people are inexplicably unexplainable.
True love crosses all kinds of boundaries and true love never dies.
"Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass."
"Hear this now. Death cannot stop true love".
Wesley from Princess Bride
Throughout my journey since knowing Leonard, I can always bring myself up from the depths of discouragement by looking into a mirror and reminding myself that for a fat girl, I sure do have class! And isn't that all that matters?
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Like watching your grandma sleep.Some episodes are 20 straight minutes of a girl with an unusually puffy bulging crotch being held in a single submission hold.Read more
The rest are a little better. 20 or so minutes of a girl with questionable gender due to abnormally puffy crotch being beaten or sat on.
The main character is a punching bag ragdoll. Never becoming even remotely better. She gets a lucky win after losing an ...
2 Stars for a good reason.I just can't help to see they missed the mark. To understand, one has to know the wrestling momentum first and it's mechanics.Read more
Positives: It's refreshing to see a character not win constantly. Sakura loses about 50 times in a row before she wins her first match. It's nice to see her train and get her ass handed to her self to get better.
Negatives: I just can't help feel like ...
God awful waste of time.If you're expecting a serious anime about women's professional wrestling, look elsewhere. It's nothing more than a fanservicey train-wreck made to appeal to lonely men. If you want some pro-wrestling anime, watch Kinnikuman Nisei or wait for the remake of the venerable Tiger Mask series to hit Crunchyroll.
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The sheer amount of flat characters and extremely unlikable main character is awful.
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Squealing, crying, and vaginaReally, that's basically all this is. Five episodes of the way through this lowest common denominator schlock and it's essentially a naive idol turned wrestler giving up because there's the slightest bit of pain. The main character is so algophobic that she just cries and scream like some stock character in some torture heavy horror film, all the while there's close-ups of her crotch.
Painful to watch, but maybe not for the reason you'd thinkI was pretty excited when I heard about this show. Female wrestlers! Even if it was a silly fanservice show, I would watch it and probably have a good ol' time. (I like Battle Girls: Time Paradox which was fun but made very little sense.)Read more
But I couldn't get past the first 4 episodes. Why? Simply because I couldn't take any more of the Sakura laying on the mat crying in pain. It was just ...
Pretty decent seriesMost people say this is ALL fan service but its not in the same league as Sekirei or Freezing. This does have a lot of female wrestlers wearing small outfits and putting submission holds and awkward suplexes so thats expected of a show about women wrestlers. Checkout the WWE and tell me its not any different lol. Anywho I finished the whole series on and actually I was hoping for more. It is short ...Read more
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful:Rumble Roses meets anime. Nuff said.Wanna be the Strongest in the world is another entry in the ecchi genre, which has seen more of a rise over the past years. This series is actually pretty similar to the video game Rumble Roses, which is basically all about fanservice.Read more
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0 out of 5 people found this review helpful:1 star for fanserviceEp 1, Elena say: " Pro wrestling is easier than she thought ", she just a fucking idol , didn't know anything about wrestling. She was the one disrespect westling. Everyone in that gym train so hard so they can become a wrestler and a airhead bitch came in kick a sandbag then say wrestling is easy. WTF come into her head. And I hate the part Sakura say : Rio underestimate idol, even though her ...Read more


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Park officials said the new disc golf course is expected to be complete midsummer, but a portion already can be used now.
Union Parks and Recreation Director Kevin Arand said there are now four baskets installed in the course located at Autumn Hill Park. There also is a practice basket.
According to Arand, park staff are working on other projects, including preparing sports fields for youth seasons, and getting facilities ready for the spring.
"We have so much going on. There is a lot of things happening," he said. "Hopefully they will be done by midsummer."
Arand noted that there still is clearing of paths in the course to be completed, but the baskets that are in place can be used. Crews also have built a bridge across a creek at the park that will be part of the course.
Disc golf is an individual sport in which players throw a flying disc, similar to a Frisbee, into a basket or at a target, or basket. The object of the game is to complete the course using the fewest number of throws.
Arand said there would not be changes at the park, other than the addition of the disc baskets. The park was donated to the city under the condition that it stay a wooded area.
He added that the majority of the cost to install a disc golf course is the baskets. Parks crews built baskets for $75, that is compared to $530 that it would have cost to purchase similar baskets.
Arand added that the baskets will require little work to install.
A disc golf course has been discussed in the past, and is listed on the city's "wish list." The list was developed following surveys of Union residents.
Initially, players will have to provide their own equipment, but eventually the parks department will have discs available to use, Arand said.
Course History
There were talks in 2007 to install an 18-hole disc golf course at the Autumn Hill Park at the cost of $8,000-$9,000. Those plans never came to fruition.
In 2010, a St. Louis Disc Golf Association representative contacted city officials stating he had been asked to develop plans for a course before earlier plans fell through. He told park board members that the course would cost about $15,000 to build at the same location.


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