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I guess if I wanted to be traditional, I could title this the "12 Best" instead of the "10 Best." But 10 is always a good round number when doing lists "" and we all have 10 fingers besides "" much easier to cross names off sans paper and pen. When coming up with this list, I thought long and hard about what I'd love to receive for Christmas. Obviously, it couldn't be just all desserts, though I of all people certainly wouldn't mind "" but variety is key and I myself would love to receive any, heck all of these gifts come December 25.
So here then are my 10 chosen gifts that I'd give to the food lovers on my list this year. I did a lot of shopping, browsing, and tasting to find these items. I didn't settle for just anything, since that would be totally missing the point of giving, wouldn't you agree?
Taza Platito stands for cup and saucer, and the memorably delicious conversation that arises over coffee and dessert. Owned by Tina Diaz who also does all the baking herself, it's a cozy set-up that provides sweets to caterers and some coffee shops in the metro. Tina and I used to be colleagues, both contributors at a food magazine; I've moved on, but she's still there, their recipe tester extraordinaire. I find it hard to believe that in the three years we worked together, I never got to try any of her pastries except for her brownies.
pastillas de leche cake and assorted bars
Let me tell you about Tina's brownies: cut rather diminutively, these bars have bite, owing to the baking soda which opens up their crumb. High quality cocoa powder instead of baking chocolate ensures that her brownies have the softest centers and a chewy, candy-like crust. Drizzled with caramel and decorated with almond slivers, these brownies are a revelation and a good change from the overly fudgy blocks of brownies common today. Other bar cookies that Tina offers are mango bars, food for the gods, oatmeal raisin bars, prune walnut bars, and almond fudge bars (all P240/box of 24; P350/48 pcs). She also bakes up nutty oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (P250/box of 10; P450/20 pcs), as well as some mean chocolate crinkles (P150/box of 10; P250/20 pcs), the only desserts her brother will eat, so enamored is he with them.
It is Tina's cakes however, that have no equal. She reinvigorates classics. Take her caramel chocolate cake (P495) for instance. Often called a decadent chocolate cake in Manila because of the characteristic caramel pool that it sits in, Tina has instead piped little rosettes of dulce de leche around the cake's border. "I wanted the cake to look clean instead of sloshing around in caramel while it's being transported," she explains. The dulce de leche is homemade and also serves as the filling to this cake enrobed in ganache.
Another chocolate cake, but which sits on another pinnacle is Tina's Tsokolate Cake (P520), which utilizes native ingredients with talent and class. Made from tablea, our local cacao, it's a powerful hit of chocolate. Usually gritty, I'm amazed at how Tina has ground the tablea so that it's smooth, almost like a ganache. This "revamped tablea" is now the chocolate base that makes up the cake and the silky frosting. A whisper of coffee rounds out the robustness of the cacao, emphasizing the pillowy-denseness of the cake. And to think that I thought tableas were only good for my hot tsokolate.
Tina, who declares it her mission to celebrate native ingredients through her desserts, has created a stellar dessert in her Pastillas de Leche Cake (P520). Pastillas de leche is a candy made from carabao's (water buffalo) milk, it's mixed with sugar and stirred over low heat until thick. Usually wrapped in white crepe paper, Tina jokingly tells me, "Imagine, I had to unwrap each and every pastilla!" Seeing my shocked look, she giggles and says, "Of course not! I use the one that comes in bottles." Sometimes I just don't know how to take a joke. Anyway. This is a chiffon cake so soft that I can press it down with the roof of my mouth, dissolving it into divine oblivion. The pastillas, which she whips with cream, is actually present only in the cake's frosting and filling. A nut brittle mixture provides textural variety.
It's this riotous nut brittle crunch that echoes in another cake, the Caramel Espresso Crunch (P520 — see cover photo). Infused with Kahlua, and an intermingling of dulce de leche and cream, it's a cake that speaks to those who adore coffee and caramel equally. I think of it as a honey crunch cake, but lots, lots better. As I bite down noisily on the cake's honey crunch topping, Tina and I both laugh.
fallen chocolate cupcakes and cheesecake shooters
If there's one thing that can't be forgotten at Taza Platito, it's the Double Chocolate Chip Fallen Cupcakes (P180/box of 6; P340/12 pcs), which along with the caramel chocolate cake are Tina's trademark desserts, the ones she's known for. I see from my notes that the fallen cupcakes are the dessert that I've scribbled the most about in my notes. Called "fallen," because of its sunken middle, and "double" because of the presence of chocolate chips in the batter and on the top, Tina tells me that this is best eaten at room temperature. Why? Because it's only then that the cupcake's sweet density is appreciated, its echo upon echo of romantic chocolate flavor reverberates on your tongue and in your heart, and its crumbs that tumble upon themselves as bite after magnificent bite is taken. This is a dessert to serve when you want your guests to swoon to the floor.
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Biomass and Coal: A Powerful Combination
When Minnesota Power began cofiring coal and biomass at its power plants in Duluth and Grand Rapids, Minn., more than 20 years ago, they started out combusting 75-25 coal to waste wood ratios.
Back then, biomass was plentiful and cheap and it was common to get it for free, says Mike Polzin, renewable fuels coordinator for Minnesota Power. "We started burning wood in Duluth only because a new paper mill had bark they had to get rid of and they didn't know what to do with it," he says.
That has changed significantly as the years have gone by, as biomass has become a hot commodity. Competition for material has become stiff and in many cases can be pricey. Still, certain incentives that have come into play during that time—such as state renewable energy credits—make it enticing for power utilities such as Minnesota Power to use more biomass.
And, that's precisely what the utility has done and continues to do. Today, the facility in Grand Rapids produces about 25 megawatts (MW) of electricity from a 15-85 coal to biomass ratio, and the Duluth facility typically generates about 50 MW from a 10-90 coal to biomass ratio. Using that much biomass at facilities that were meant for coal hasn't come without its challenges, Polzin says, the biggest of which are related to materials handling and storage.
While it won't be the case at every facility, so far, there have been ways around these challenges.
Storage Situation
Biomass can be bulky and requires a lot of space, but storing it isn't as simple as just finding more space—it must be kept dry, hence requiring some type of covered storage system. "The biggest challenge has been on-site storage," Polzin says. "We just don't have enough of it—we're at 90 percent biomass at Duluth, but site storage is much too small."
That necessitates deliveries of biomass seven days a week, a process which Polzin is charged with facilitating. "We have about 900 tons of on-site storage, but we burn over 1,000 tons of biomass each day," he explains. "So it's there only for a number of hours. We dump it into a large building then pull it back out to be used; all the wood that comes in and gets stored is gone in 24 hours or less."
Getting the appropriate amount of deliveries each day is where the challenge lies, as the weather can create havoc on timber harvesting. "Significant snow or rain handicaps loggers from getting into the woods and bringing materials to us, and spring road restrictions can also create problems," Polzin says. When there isn't enough stored fuel, it could mean a shortage.
To mitigate that problem, Minnesota Power has 50 possible suppliers, and requires only two to three truckloads per day from a given supplier. "They have the potential to put out five or six [truckloads], but if we can get two or three from several suppliers, we make sure we can always get enough to satisfy our appetite for wood," Polzin says. "We suggest that our suppliers have more than one market to deliver to, because inevitably we will have to go off-line due to plant outages, equipment failures and things like that. That way, they can reroute deliveries to another market. If those other markets have outages, they can deliver more to us."
However, if a situation does arise where they can't secure enough wood—and it does happen—it's just a matter of calling for more coal. "[Using more coal] doesn't create any problems with our infrastructure," Polzin says. "There are large coal suppliers close to both facilities, so we can get more coal within two hours, to keep us online."
Bruce Browers, senior engineer at Barr Engineering, agrees that storage is one of the biggest challenges in cofiring. Last summer, Barr completed biomass cube test burns at Wyandotte Municipal Services in Wyandotte, Mich., and says if the company were to cofire biomass for the long-term, the current storage system would have to be significantly modified. "[Biomass] doesn't stand up to moisture," says Browers, who, coincidentally, was a project manager at Minnesota Power when its plants were built in the mid-1980s. "Pulp and paper guys who burn waste biomass fuel have different fuel handling systems and somewhat different boilers so it can sit out in the snow and rain in those situations, but when you're dealing with a processed biomass fuel, it has to be stored."
Adding a new biomass storage system to an existing coal plant can be costly. "We've seen fuel handling yards as cheap as $12 million, to all the way up to $50 million," Browers says. "It's a very expensive part of burning biomass; using biomass as you get it doesn't work everywhere, and there isn't always an active forest products residuals industry. The whole volume of storage becomes a critical driver. It's a huge issue."
Since the biomass is used so quickly at Minnesota Power, potential storage issues such as molding aren't relevant. At other large-scale cofiring operations, which are common in the U.K., molding and caking are potential problems when the biomass and coal are mixed and stored together.
Minimizing Mold and Dust
"When you have a mix of biomass and coal, the water transferred from the coal to the biomass often causes it to go moldy," says Mike Bradley, director and professor of bulk and particulate technology at the Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology on the Medway campus of the University of Greenwich in the U.K. The mold growth gives strength to the material, which is referred to as caking. "You tend to get hard cakes in nonmoving areas of bunkers and silos, and this prevents flow," Bradley says.
Likewise, water ingress into the storage area can cause mold growth and caking. "The best way to prevent this is to ensure that the bunker or other storage vessel discharges in a 'first-in, first-out' pattern, so the oldest material is used first and any discharge of material disturbs everything above it," Bradley says. "We call this mass flow, which means good stock rotation. It prevents areas of long-term static residence."
Many biomass materials that have high moisture content will mold and ferment by themselves in storage, so they must be used in strict rotation to prevent self-ignition, much like a wet haystack can do, Bradley adds. The same is true for coal.
"With direct cofiring the coal is pretty hands off," Polzin says. "The only problem with coal is that if we get wet coal and leave it in the storage bins for too long, it'll self-combust. We have to make sure that if we're having an outage we don't put too much in the storage silos. Managing your coal inventory is critical."
Usually, mold growth that leads to caking takes about two days to become significant, but it depends on the temperature, according to Bradley. "Warm, moist conditions accelerate it; cold conditions retard it. It also depends very muchon the particular biomass—some do not cake readily, others cake very easily and quickly."
In contrast to moist conditions creating mold, dust is also a potential issue at cofiring operations.
"Dust is an issue because biomass has a much greater capacity to suck up water than coal," Bradley explains. "When you mix coal—typically wet on the surface at 6 to 10 percent moisture—with biomass, which is often 10 percent water, the biomass sucks in all the water and that leaves the coal dry and dusty. Hence, you get much more coal dust emissions when you cohandle."
In addition, biomass has its own dust content, so even materials that have low dust tend to break down in handling and produce dust, Bradley says. "Both coal and biomass dusts are a serious explosion hazard. With the dust on cohandled coal and biomass being more mobile than on coal alone, it can easily create [hazardous] conditions in a plant."
These types of explosions occur when a mix of combustible dust and air are ignited by a hot surface or spark. "Usually this happens locally at first, typically due to an overheating bearing, a static discharge or someone doing some grinding or welding," Bradley explains. "The draught from that small initial explosion whips accumulated dust up off the floor and other flat surfaces, creating an explosive mix of dust and air—then a fireball sweeps through the whole building in seconds, devastating all before it."
Polzin agrees that dust can create a hazardous situation. At Minnesota Power's Duluth facility, all of the conveyors are covered with metal, horseshoe-shaped hoods so dust cannot be blown off the conveyors. "The storage facility is completely closed, so we don't get a lot of fugitive dust blowing around," he says. "We have a large truck dump where, when a surge of wood is dumped from the truck into the bin or receiving hopper, it creates a dust plume, so we have some vacuums to help mitigate or minimize that."
Additionally, the company's operating permit requires dust minimization in the entire area of the plant, so parking lots and roads are paved, and a street sweeper is used to sweep up loose dust and wood chips. The situation is similar at the Grand Rapids plant. "We're sensitive to dust blowing around; we don't like a lot of fines," Polzin says. "The reason we have a hog fuel grinder at each facility is because we'd rather have material come to us at a larger size initially, so it doesn't blow around."
Once biomass is ready to enter the plant, another slew of potential problems can surface, including fuel feed system issues.
Other Potential Issues
Biomass won't always flow smoothly through a feeding system meant for coal for a number of reasons, one of which is winter weather conditions. "On the biomass side, [frozen] wood going through our chutes and storage system is a big problem because it tends to bridge and plug up the system because in the winter it often comes in frozen chunks," Polzin says.
Plant attendants usually realize that not enough wood is getting into the boiler when the heat rate can't be sustained, or bin indicators sound an alarm. "We simply have to go out there and ram the wood through," he says. "We have customized some hatch doors that we open, and then we poke and prod the wood with long rods until it is muscled through."
At Wyandotte in Michigan, which has a 25-MW circulating fluidized bed (CFB) system designed to burn coal and tire-derived fuel (TDF), Browers says the plan going into the test burns was to do 30 and 60 percent biomass ratios. Due to the limestone feeder capabilities, however, the tests had to be modified to 15 percent. "[Running the biomass through the limestone feeder] wasn't the best way we could do the test burns, but it was about the only way," Browers says. Since there was no way to get the desired blend out in the coal yard, the only way get it was to let the fuel feeders take the coal and TDF, and put the biomass fuel in the limestone feeders. "The measuring device coming out of the feeders allows us to control the blend."
A 60 percent blend would have worked fine in the boiler, he adds, but it wasn't feasible because of the delivery issues with the limestone system.
Another issue Browers says that needs attention are potential sparklers. "Sparklers are what happen when you burn biomass in a CFB or stoker," he explains. "There are a lot of particles to it, and they don't always combust where they are supposed to. They can carry over from the bed into the convection pass, and you don't want combustion in there."
Attendants must physically open the boiler door to check for sparklers. When they do occur, it indicates a couple of problems—inefficient combustion, and carry-over of carbon particles. "Then you have to worry about fires," Browers says. "There isn't enough to explode, but as it falls out in your duct work or gets removed in your particulate removal device, you've got carbon particles in there and they're susceptible to fires."
Overall, Browers says that cofiring isn't all that simple. "People who think it's easy to chip raw biomass and run it through their coal system may want to rethink that assumption," he says.
In fact, it can take a long time to work out the kinks. Even at Minnesota Power, which has been cofiring for decades, the company is working to optimize its cofiring operations, according to Polzin. In an upcoming project that will take place over the next couple of years, the company will put in new feeders, more robust material handling systems and more storage, though biomass deliveries will have to be more coordinated than ever with the near doubling of biomass consumed at each plant.
Unlike the U.K., cofiring biomass with coal in the U.S. is still largely in the testing phases, and many utilities that have been interested in cofiring in the past have slowed down plans due to regulatory uncertainties surrounding biomass. "More incentives are needed," Browers adds. "There is a lot of talk here about cofiring, but if you look at who has actually done it, there aren't many."
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Aus 80 Designs von 26 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
OK so it has become time to ask the design community for a little help. I have always put more time into developing other peoples ideas then I have for myself. As any designer will tell you its one of the biggest challenges you will face trying to design for yourself. So this is the reason I'm asking for the help.
uneekGrafix® is a small design and photography studio located in Chicago. Most of the work I do is print based with some web, intercative and development/concept ideas. I have been around for a while now and its getting to be time to update my look. You can view my site listed below, which has my old logo. But it will give you an idea of the type of work I do.
This site has my current logo on it.
I'm looking for a new icon/logo for my company uneekGrafix®. I recerly started doing photography aswell as design so I want to be able to incorporate that into the overall look and feel of the logo. I want to have a small icaon that I can useon things like cellphones, stickers, clothing tags, avatars, favicons, photograph's. I want it to be part of the brand but still be able to stand out on it's own. For example Volcom (The skate company)-they have the "stone"- stands great out on its own but is also part of the brand equity. Or Apple- they have the "bitten apple" that is also part of the brand. Easily recognizableto the brand and able to stand out on its own. I want something to be able to be simplified down to a single element that represents uneekGrafix®, in both fields I work in; graphic design and photography and will work well with- "uneekGraifx® design & photography"
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An inherited sense of craftsmanship and untaught creative savoir faire have shaped Gianvito Rossi's distinctive approach to women's footwear. In his eponymous label, the designer has employed the wealth of industry experience acquired while working under his father, venerated design linchpin Sergio Rossi, in pursuit of his own vision of the perfectly well-rounded women's collection. Rossi's straightforward and intuitive silhouettes are brought to completion through a painstaking and multi-faceted production process, led by a design ethic that prioritizes unique, luxe textiles and rich color palettes over ornate embellishments. The risk-taking afforded by the label's now decade-long tenure in the fashion industry has given way to a rewarding exploration of contrasting elements, evidenced in collections that find delicate satin kitten heels cohering with rugged combat boots. Yet Rossi's oeuvre is unified by the label's overarching commitment to comfort, resulting in footwear engineered from the perspective of the wearer while having been designed from the perspective of the viewer.
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Ross on Wye is a small market town nestling alongside the meandering River Wye. It is an ideal base to explore the surrounding countryside, including the Forest of Dean, The Brecon Beacons, Malvern Hills and the Cotswolds. Also a great stopping off point for trips to Cardiff or even racing at Chepstow or Cheltenham.
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This is my second look for the 2010/11 regular season at which teams have been hit hardest by injuries by trying to place a value on the games missed by players due to injury/illness. (Last month's analysis is HERE.)
The concept again - multiply each game missed by a player by his 2010/11 cap charge, then take the aggregate of these figures for each team and divide by 82. This indicator of value lost to a team by injury/illness is called CHIP (Cap Hit of Injured Players).
Alternatively...Again, for a different indicator of player "value", I've also illustrated a similar metric based on TOI/G alongside the CHIP numbers. Clearly, neither cap charge nor TOI/G are perfect measures of player value, since each have a number of limitations and inconsistencies, but they provide a decent comparison and the results do vary somewhat.
A quick summary of the alternative metric:
- TOI/G (through games played on 30 November) replaces cap charge as the measure of value in the calculation
- For goalies, TOI/G has been worked out as Total Minutes Played / Games Dressed For* - i.e. a goalie playing every minute of 75% of the games, zero in the rest, would end up with a TOI/G of 45 minutes (or close to it, once you factor in OT and so on). [*Actually, "Games Played by Team - Games Missed by Goalie" - I'm not inclined to disentangle any three-goalie systems or minor-league conditioning stints.]
- This arguably overstates the worth of starting goalies somewhat, but it's simple and you could equally argue that a workhorse goalie is the hardest position to replace, so it's fair for them to have a much higher TOI/G figure
- Where a player hasn't played all year (several examples at this point of the season) or where a player fairly clearly has a reduced TOI/G figure due to getting injured in their only game or one of very few games (e.g. Chris Drury), I've used TOI/G from last season (or further back if necessary)
- For each player, multiply games missed by TOI/G to get (for a more palatable name) Cumulative Minutes of Injured Player (CMIP)
- Take the aggregate of CMIP for the team and divide by games played by the team to arrive at AMIP (Average Minutes of Injured Players) - it feels more understandable expressing this metric as an average per game (whereas CHIP is a running total)
The table below shows:
- Total CHIP for each team for the 2010/11 regular season (through games played on 30 November)
- The player who has contributed most to the team's CHIP figure
- The number of players with a CHIP contribution of over $250,000 (think of it as being equivalent to a $1m player missing 20 games or a $4m player missing five games)
- AMIP for each team over the same period (e.g. an AMIP of 40:00 could be seen as the team missing two 20-minute per game players for every game this season)
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The Rangers continue to surge way past the CHIP numbers they recorded the last two years. Has the absence of Chris Drury's clutch face-off wins and shot blocking really been the devastating loss that the numbers here suggest? In a word: You must be kidding.
The Devils have not seemingly coped well with the absence of a handful of players during games this year. Puzzling, given there are normally around 10,000 men missing from most of their games, so you'd think they were used to it.
Colorado's figures suggest they must have faced an epidemic of injuries to minor league defensemen and are not paying Craig Anderson enough
The next lists are the top 30 individual CHIP and CMIP contributions:
Finally, another update of the crude injury-by-location analysis. Again, I've just used the descriptions found in the player profiles on tsn.ca, so the figures will encompass all the inaccuracies and vagueness within them. It should give a broad indication, if nothing else, though.
- Figures exclude a few minor-leaguers / marginal NHLers (Ryan Stone?) who are or had been on the NHL club's IR since pre-season. Generally, if a minor-leaguer gets called up and then injured in an NHL game, his games missed will then count towards the CHIP though.
- There are undoubtedly a few inaccuracies and inconsistencies in there - I do the best I can with the information out there. Some corrections are picked up month-to-month too
- The cap figure doesn't really correlate very well to the "worth" of a player in some cases, e.g. where rookie bonuses are included this year, where players are seeing out an old (underpaid or rookie) contract or where players are horrendously overpaid
- Also, for any player who was acquired on re-entry waivers (e.g. Sean Avery), the cap hit will only reflect that for their current team, i.e. 50% of the player's full cap hit (shared between his current and old teams)
- I've once again stuck a full team-by-team listing of games missed and CHIP/CMIP numbers by each player on the web HERE
- Injury/games/TOI info courtesy of tsn.ca and nhl.com - man-games lost info more than likely does not exactly match up with the "official" figures released by individual teams
- Cap info courtesy of capgeek.com


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Online jigsaw puzzles vs. Offline jigsaw puzzles (Part 1)
Nowadays, almost everyone has a computer and regular internet access. We're not talking politics here, and we're not in the social science business either. We're being pragmatic. So we're not leaving starving populations and distant cultures out of the picture or considering them to be less "human," we're just not addressing them at the moment. The almost everyone above is almost everyone able to read this post. This being said, in order to address the possible critics who might rise and criticize the above comment, let's get to the point: why would anyone buy a regular jigsaw puzzle, when we have online jigsaw puzzles? There are tons of puzzles available online and, as far as the assembling process goes, it doesn't really make any difference if the puzzle is displayed on a screen or laying on the floor in a box. An online jigsaw puzzle might even be more appealing than an offline one, for more than one reason. It is easy to carry. As long as you have your computer with you, you also have the puzzle(s). And, with the computers becoming more and more indispensable, so to speak, you'll practically be able to access your jigsaw puzzles from anywhere, at any time. You can even take a short break from work and put a couple of pieces together to clear up your mind (although we do not encourage you to evade your work duties). Online puzzles are cheaper (you're already paying for the internet), and do not require the same amount of space or material settings. So why would anyone want to assemble a traditional jigsaw puzzle? You'll learn that in the second part of this article on Saturday.


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Modern tape drives are designed to operate at their advertised speeds, and operating them at lower speeds is what causes them to fail more often; there's a minimum speed at which the tape must move past the head to achieve a good signal-to-noise ratio. Even variable speed tape drives have a minimum speed at which they can write data. LTO-4, for example, has a minimum native transfer rate of 23MB/sec. And while few users experience the 2:1 compression ratio advertised by drive manufacturers, whatever compression rate they do experience must be multiplied by the minimum transfer rate of the drive. For example, data that experiences a 1.5:1 compression ratio being sent to a tape drive with a minimum speed of 23MB/sec makes that drive's minimum transfer rate 34.5MB/sec (23 x 1.5).
Depending on which backup software you use, you can increase the speed of backups that go directly to tape with the following: LAN-free backups, multiplexing and not using additional tape drives until you've given the initially used tape drives enough throughput. The second (and simpler) solution is to stop using tape as your primary target for backups and instead back up directly to disk. Using disk as an intermediary staging device usually gets the initial backup done much faster, and then the local (LAN-free) movement of data from disk to tape can go much faster. These backup methods will keep the tape drives much happier, they'll fail less often and you can reduce the number of tape drives you'll need to buy to get the job done.
Consider the following two real-life stories: One day a backup administrator was asked to restore a set of files on server hpdbsvk. According to the firm's naming convention, this meant HP-UX database server "k." The backup administrator also knew that because servers were named in alphabetical order, there were also database servers hpdbsva through hpdbsvj, and he was only backing up servers hpdbsva through hpdbsvj. Immediately, he knew he had some work to do, but soon afterward someone walked into his office and asked him to restore a database on hpdbsvk. While the data was never restored, the administrator didn't lose his job and didn't even get in trouble. How is that possible?
Real-life story No. 2: One day an administrator was asked to restore some code sitting in /tmp on an HP-UX system. The file system had disappeared upon reboot because it was a RAM file system. The customer requesting the data was furious when he found out that the backup system didn't back up /tmp. Again, the administrator didn't lose their job or get in trouble. Why not?
In both cases, the reason the backup administrator didn't lose their job was the same: documentation. Back in the days before the Web, the backup system in question used a paper-based request form users had to fill out if they wanted a system backed up. The form included a line that read "Do not consider this request accepted until you receive a copy of it in your in-box signed by someone on the backup team."
In the case of the customer who requested a restore from hpdbsvk and started fuming because it wasn't being backed up, the backup administrator asked to see the form with his signature on it. The customer didn't have the form, so the issue became what I like to call a "YP not MP"--Your Problem, not My Problem--as far as the backup administrator was concerned. As for the /tmp situation, it was excluded from backups, and the exclusion had been approved by upper management and well-advertised. (After all, the "T" in tmp stands for temporary, so why would you back up temporary things?)
Applying the paper backup request system to today's Web-based world is simple. Create a backup system request Web page that notifies the user who requested the backup that the backup is being performed. If you're using a data protection management tool, the user who requests the backup can even be notified every time the backup succeeds or fails. How's that for customer service? The Web page should also list standard backup configurations, including things like what gets backed up (or not backed up) by default.
It's also important to mention how important it is to use your backup software's ability to automatically discover and back up all file systems or databases on a given machine. If your backup software has this feature, use it; don't attempt to manually list all file systems. You're just asking for trouble and an RPE when you discover that you forgot to add the F: drive on a particular server. If your backup app doesn't have this feature, get a new one.
As a result, backup administrators often don't notice if a given server, file system or database doesn't successfully back up for multiple days. Some environments where I've performed backup assessments have had servers that have gone several days--even as much as a month--without a successful full or incremental backup; and the larger the environment, the greater the problem. At one customer's site where they back up 10,000 systems, more than 1,000 systems went four days or more without a successful backup of any kind.
Servers that go several days without a backup are obviously at greater risk than others. If a backup administrator was aware of such a trend, they might do a number of things, such as cancel less important backups so that the server that hasn't backed up for several days can be given more resources. At a minimum, the storage admin may set the priorities on the backup system so that a server that hasn't backed up for several days is more important than other servers.
Most backup products don't provide the kind of tools necessary in their base product to see this kind of information. The solution is a relatively simple one, but not an inexpensive one: Buy a data protection management tool. There's a reason a whole industry has grown around such tools, and it's difficult to properly manage a backup system without one.
Backup administrators good at shell or batch scripting can create programs that help them automate certain tasks. One customer I visited had 150 custom scripts written around their backup system. The problem with this kind of customization is that it's hard to maintain and even harder to pass on to the next backup administrator. Administrators who create too many scripts may find themselves stuck as "the backup person" because no one wants to take on and maintain all of those custom scripts.
Another way customization manifests itself is in unique backup configurations. Instead of having a standard backup configuration for everyone, some environments create custom backup configurations for each customer that requests one. For example, "For this server, we're going to back up only the F: drive and we'll do it only on Thursday nights from 3:00 am to 4:00 am." Besides making things much more complex, this kind of customization also goes against the way most backup software is designed. Backup software is designed to share resources and automatically send things to the right resource as it becomes available and as priorities dictate. Unique backup configurations drastically reduce the overall utilization of all resources by not allowing the backup software to do its job.
Deviations from this standard must be justified by business reasons and approved by a business unit manager who will receive a chargeback for the extra cost involved in such customizations.
Regarding custom scripts, the best thing to do is to consult the forums and mailing lists for the backup software you're using to find out if anyone has discovered another way to meet your requirement without custom scripting. Software updates often fix such problems found in earlier versions, but people continue to use their old ways because it's what they know.
Finally, if the software you're using can't be made to do what you want it to do without all of those custom scripts, perhaps it's not the right backup software for you and another backup application would do what you need it to do out of the box. Although changing backup software packages should be considered a last resort, it may actually be the best thing in some cases.
There are two solutions to this problem. First and foremost, encrypt your backups. There are a number of ways to encrypt data, such as using backup software encryption and encryption engines built into fabric switches, tape libraries and disk drives. The second solution is to not ship tapes offsite but to use a disk-based deduplication backup system that replicates your backups offsite. If you still want to make tapes, make them at your offsite location.
In my opinion, anyone in management who refuses to fund the security of backups should be relieved of their duties, and very well could be if things go wrong. Make sure that person isn't you. If your company is shipping unencrypted backup tapes with personal information on them, you should immediately notify your superiors in writing of the seriousness of this problem and request a project to solve it. Document your request and the response, especially if it's a negative one. Continue to make yourself a pain until they solve the problem or give you another job; you don't want the job of enabling identity thieves.
In sum, while some of these solutions may be simpler than others, a lot of what you can do to make your backups better comes down to understanding the limitations of what you're using and knowing how to document and improve your backup processes. Sometimes it pays to spend money on specialized backup tools that provide a clearer view of your backup environment.


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"Do you remember when you forgot about RICK SPRINGFIELD?" That's the tagline for the new film An Affair of the Heart, a loving look at the steadfastly intense relationship between the New Wave-era power pop heartthrob and his core audience. The documentary, currently playing the festival circuit, offers many pleasures. It's a stirring defense of female fandom; a look at how a musician whose fame peaked three decades ago survived the breakdown of both the conventional music industry and his own renown and a concert flick that will get "Jessie's Girl" stuck in your head all over again, after who knows how long. It's also the perfect rock doc for late summer, when the superstars are busy finishing up major tours or prepping for blockbuster fall releases, and the scrappier side of pop music comes to the forefront.
It's easy to forget that the "popular" in pop music signifies more than the stuff that gets the most repetitive attention. Cross-marketed superstars dominate the mainstream, and the visible and audible underground sometimes doesn't seem much better. Internet memes explode and quickly get boring — can you believe how quickly "Gangnam Style" replaced "Hot Cheetos and Takis" in the collective id? — while whatever's dubbed "alternative" also often seems dictated by habit and hype. (Note the recent debate over Pitchfork's "People's List" for more on that.)
Pop can come from anywhere, though, not just the dead center or well-trod underground. Last week's Top 20 albums, according to Billboard, include many artists who have managed to sustain audiences even though they'll likely never be mentioned on a basic cable entertainment show or in a blog run by the music intelligentsia. Who are these artists? They're all Rick Springfield, in a way. They're seasoned performers who've secured a strong spot in a particular corner of the pop world, flourishing within an established style and embraced by a dedicated music community. Here's some rich stuff from one layer down on the pop charts, where artists make sure to provide that human touch.
Yellowcard, Southern Air
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A perusal of the online reviews for this Florida-born, Los Angeles-based band's eighth album reveals the secret its ongoing success: some variation on the phrase "I grew up with Yellowcard" marks each enthusiastic response. Pop-punk like this started out as the music of mall kids trying to figure out how to be cool; now, at its best, it's a guiding force for young adults wrestling with the seriousness of the day-to-day. Annual gatherings like the Warped tour and the consistently maturing output of groups like Yellowcard have transformed pop-punk from a youthful joy to a lifelong navigational tool.
Slightly Stoopid, Top of the World
(Debut chart position: 13)
Who doesn't crave jam in the summertime? Listeners who think Phish pretty much defines improvisational post-hippie rock have much to learn. The jam band style has many variations, and one of the most popular is a kind of surf rock that has little to do with the hot-dogging legacy of the Ventures. San Diego's Slightly Stoopid grounds its sound in reggae and laid back hip-hop, adding in dashes of brightly-flavored ska and hefty psychedelic rock. There's a whole world of this stuff out there, from singer-songwriters like Jack Johnson to alternative rockers 311. If you like your hemp grown close to the beach, this is your soundtrack — and seven albums into a solid career, Slightly Stoopid thanks you.
Tamela Mann, Best Days
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Contemporary gospel music has supported its own industry since the mid-twentieth century, and it's still making stars like the actress and righteous shouter Tamela Mann. A former member of genre innovator Kirk Franklin's group The Family, she's a successful actress too — one of Tyler Perry's muses and the star of his sitcom Meet the Browns. Often, major black entertainment stars like Mann receive little acknowledgement beyond their home base — Best Days, the singer's fourth solo effort, is probably getting a boost from her role in Whitney Houston's last film, Sparkle (the soundtrack to that movie landed at No. 21 on last week's chart). She's likely welcoming the crossover love, but the fact that Best Days debuted at No. 1 on the Christian/Gospel chart confirms that her status is solid as a rock.
In This Moment, Blood
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It's been decades since rock critics first started throwing around the phrase "heavy metal," and hard rock has mutated into countless other life forms since then. In This Moment, the Los Angeles-based band formed by the vocalist Maria Brink and the guitarist Chris Howorth in 2005, fits in somewhere south of raw, melodic metal and north of the hot tropics of emotive bands like Evanescence. Brink, who likes to wear lace-up barmaid's dresses and smeared make-up, is a frankly sexual beauty who gets dismissed for being self-exploitative (she has posed in Playboy). Yet her bloodletting roars qualify as seriously metal, and with Blood, its third album, In This Moment has stepped into a zone where serious metalheads and more casual fans of the hard can coexist.
Colt Ford, Declaration of Independence
(Debut chart position: 5; this week: 20)
The melding of country and rap may still seem novel to most music fans, but "hick-hop" (yes, the subgenre has its own website) is just regular life to the ears of many young country fans. Colt Ford is the young granddaddy of the genre, having abandoned a pro golf career to pursue the rhyming life in 2008. He's been fully embraced by a Southern audience — I've seen him pack clubs in Alabama — and by the Nashville glitterati, especially since he cowrote Jason Aldean's "Dirt Road Anthem," the triple platinum single of last year. He's still versifying about the double-wide and the honky-tonk on his own fourth album, which features guest spots from bigwigs like Aldean, Darius Rucker, Kix Brooks and Montgomery Gentry.
Update (August 29, 4:00pm): A previous version of this article referred to the singer Rick Springfield as a "one-hit wonder." He's not. That line has been corrected.


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Just to prove that it's not all fun and games, I spent most of yesterday emailing a number of artists and asking about "that piece that was due today." Nearly none of them were done...or even particularly close to being done in a few cases.
I love artists, I really do...Some days it's just harder to remember why.
Many artists don't understand book publishing schedules and it's no wonder. In magazine or newspaper publishing, if a job is due at 3:00pm Thursday then it gets done by 3:00pm Thursday. Period. If not, the story runs without the art, you never get another job from that AD, and it's likely that you don't get much work from anyone that knows that AD. In book publishing...well, we have these odd cumulative deadlines. Three times a year I need to get four month's worth of covers designed and ready for meetings, a black and white catalog, a color presentation, proofing deadlines, more meetings...all leading up to the actual printed book. I often hear artists complain, "I was working like crazy to meet the deadline and now, suddenly, there is tons time in the schedule!?" More often then not, missing that first deadline has caused some quiet havoc behind the scenes. It means that the AD has found a way to make-do for a while with a sketch or a shot of the painting in-progress, or they begged the patience of various Sales and Marketing peoples, or were willing to stay up very late the night before a deadline trying to wrestle out a quick design. None of this is seen by the artist so it seems that the first deadline was rather arbitrary. But those deadlines really were there for the good of the book, not to mention the mental health of the art director. (Artists - You want the books sporting your artwork to do well. If a book does well, the company will want to try and copy that success, which includes working with that cover artist again.)
If artwork is going to be late, communicating with the AD is key. We may have lots of time in the schedule and we may not. If asked, there may be easy ways to work it out so that both the AD and the artist is happy. Tom O'Brien created the artwork for our Starscape edition of Prince Umbra. In the middle he got a call from Time Magazine to do a cover. He asked if there was any way that he could squeeze an extra week from us. (Mind you, he did stress that he was prepared too turn Time down so that he could meet his prior commitment to us.) We had the time. He did both covers. Everyone was happy.
I should say that there are many reasons a cover can be late that is not the artist's fault. I screw up, the editor might not be forthcoming with information at the time I need it, a book is added to the schedule late, etc., but since yesterday was "Prod the Artist Day"....
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Just to prove that it's not all fun and games, I spent most of yesterday emailing a number of artists and asking about "that piece that was due today." Nearly none of them were done...or even particularly close to being done in a few cases.
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12 comments:
- Unknown said...
Irene, you should come to the Beer Garden tonight (09.03) and drink your troubles away :P
- Jack Ruttan said...
Not trying to cheese you off, but have you looked into aspects of your management style that might make it "all right" to be late?
I've worked as a freelance under both conditions. It's a fine line between pressure to be on time, and unnecessary pressure, and a kind of "slough of despond" where whatever you do doesn't matter.
Not that I imagine you're like that, but I was a better freelancer than an editor, where I let contributors get away with too much, because they knew they could. Even normally conscientious people can be sucked into this mindset if they see all others around them doing it, and getting away with it.
- Irene Gallo said...
Ha! Well, it probably IS true, that I am a bit too lenient with them. I have a reputation among illustrators for being good to work with and for understanding their issues. (Although, I know there are a few that would disagree. ;-) ) That reputation certainly has many adavantages...But I can also let it be pushed too far. Still, if you get two or more ADs in a room together they will have similar complaints so I can't be _completely_ blamed for spoiling anyone.
- Irene Gallo said...
Arkady - I wish I could join you but I'm out on Long Island. See you Thursday for Sketch night at the Society? The Half-Tones are playing!
Hey, speaking of, I wanted to blog the sketch nights. Can I swipe one of your fantabulous watercolors for the post?
- Jack Ruttan said...
I think you can still be good to work with, but not one to be trifled with, either.
I treasure good editors and ADs. Good ones often made me feel part of a team, even though I only communicated with them through e-mail and phone calls, and was possibly in a different city.
- Unknown said...
sure thing, Irene. Swipe away.
Sketch nights start back up on Tuesday the 12th.
- Tristan Elwell said...
It's funny because it's not me.
This time...
- stanko said...
Having been on that side of the fence "I feel your pain" My worst was dealing with the copy-writers. The almost done, almost done... then finding they doubled the copy, or changed headlines the after the comps were approved could make the most seasoned designer cry.
- Irene Gallo said...
Stanko - Don't I know that pain! Arg...And then everybody looks at you like, "What's the big deal. You just have to retype it." Unfortunately, it really does breed bad typography. I'll not worry about the text blocks on the back cover or flaps assuming that it'll come back with new copy inserted. But, if it doesn't, or you are too rushed at that point, then the jacket goes out without attention being paid to loose lines and such. Huge waste of my time, the copy-editors time, the proofreader's time.
- Mike Corriero said...
Very informative read Irene, thanks ;) I understand that AD's have just as much if not more stress than the artist working for them..and it goes unseen. I've had my fair share of deadline changes, topics being changed and 2 or 3 different AD's all giving contradicting advice causing me to have to change something two or three times and eventually they settle on the first design after the other art directors told me to change about 10 things. So I have found it hard some times to keep my cool ;) but I never take it out on the individual since I know it's some times not that persons fault. A blog article like this at least gives some insight into the troubles that are often present when working with publications, artist, deadlines and how the Art Director is putting forth the extra effort and double overtime to help the artist and make the best of a bad situation in cases.
I some times get scared that if I don't meet a deadline that I'll lose out on future jobs with that client, which is true depending on the company. If I honestly feel like things are going bad and or something came up that couldn't be avoided I'll let the art director know as soon as possible and they are often very nice and generous enough to provide some extra time. In one case just recently this involved my grandfather passing away suddenly due to cancer, I let the AD know but continued on with the job, I wasn't late for the agreed deadline but would have finished much quicker had personal things not taken a turn for the worse.
Anyway thanks for sharing your opinions and information.
- D. EVANS said...
If on your next "Prod the Artist Day" you get so frustrated that you find yourself daydreaming about those seasoned news artists that make their 3 o'clock deadline drop me a line. I've worked in a breaking news environment for nearly 10 years and understand how important it is to deliver on time. I'm chomping at the bit.
- Doodle.nl said...
Hey, if you ask me the artist is responsible when he/she agrees on a deadline. The costs caused by being late are for the artist. That's the risk of being an illustrator.
On the other hand: Commissioners should agree on a term like 'with every day of delay caused by a commissioner the illustrator gets that extra time on the deadline'. Not every publisher seems to realise that they are as much responsible for the deadline as the artist.
Glad to hear you do :)


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A fiscal emergency is considered the first step towards Chapter 9, said CNBC's Jane Wells, reporting on whether Atwater, California will become the fourth town to declare bankruptcy in the state.
Municipal bankruptcies are spreading like a "disease" in California, one public finance expert warned Wednesday as the city of Atwater declared a fiscal emergency with a budget gap of more than $3 million.
The city's council approved the move on Wednesday night, putting it on the path to becoming the fourth city in the state to declare bankruptcy this year.
With a population of 28,000, Atwater fell on hard times after its housing market imploded and sent property tax revenue plummeting. Furloughs and a hiring freeze had not been able to stem Atwater's losses.
San Bernardino becomes 3rd Calif. city in 2 weeks to file for bankruptcy protection
Municipal debt market analysts are keeping a close eye on the finances of local governments in California out of concern that some could use fiscal emergency declarations as a way to speed Chapter 9 filings to attempt to shed financial obligations.
"In California, we have a disease, and the disease is spreading," David Kotok, chief investment officer at Florida-based Cumberland Advisors, told the State & Municipal Finance Conference conference in New York on Wednesday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
"I suspect we're going to see wholesale warnings and downgrades" among bond rating issuers in the state, he said.
If it went bankrupt, Atwater would follow Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes by making a Chapter 9 filing.
San Bernardino, California's city council in July authorized a bankruptcy filing after declaring a fiscal emergency. The city of 210,000 residents 65 miles east of Los Angeles, filed for bankruptcy on August 1.
By contrast, Stockton, a city of 300,000 located about 62 miles to the northwest of Atwater, became California's first city to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection this year after 90 days of inconclusive mediation with its creditors.
Kim Rueben of the Tax Policy Center explains why some American cities are running out of money, filing for bankruptcy, and making drastic cuts in the process.
Mammoth Lakes, a resort town of about 8,000 residents in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, followed Stockton into bankruptcy court, saying it could not afford a $43 million legal judgment against it. Mammoth Lakes has since reached a settlement with the property developer in the legal dispute and later this month will seek to have its bankruptcy case dismissed.
City officials in Atwater are looking into options for increasing revenue such as raising 20-year-old rates for water services and 10-year-old rates for garbage collection services while clamping down on costs, all while considering whether to pursue a bankruptcy filing.
Union representative Nancy Vinson said 38 of Atwater's non-safety employees have received layoff notices and that 12 are sure to lose their jobs as part of the city's efforts to pare spending.
Vinson told Reuters by telephone that she believes Atwater's financial troubles are so severe that the city will not be able to avoid a bankruptcy filing.
"I believe they're heading straight to bankruptcy," she said.
Mayor Joan Faul could not be reached by Reuters for comment.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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She received "welcome back" messages from stars such as Justin Bieber, The Wanted and Ronan Keating as she hosted her ITV1 show once more.
The 52-year-old was in hospital for more than a week after falling from a horse and then being trampled by the animal. She had to undergo surgery for a deep wound on one of her thighs.
Resuming her TV role, she said she had now recovered, and was pleased her injuries had not been more extensive.
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"I lost three pints of blood on the scene, which was bad, but the hospital, St George's, was amazing and it was the NHS at its absolute finest, they really looked after me. But it was really scary."
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Fay Ripley has confessed the stress and pressure of playing a police detective got to her, working on new crime drama Suspects.
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A broken all-terrain vehicle shock helped lead a team of SUNY Canton mechanical engineering technology students to become finalists in a national competition.
Joel R. Landry of Malone, Kyle C. Szelestey of Salisbury Mills, and Brandon M. Trimboli of Norwood recently found out that their project was among the top 10 considerations in the nation for the Dimension Printing 2011 Extreme Redesign Challenge at the collegiate level.
The project took shape when another student blew out the rear shock on his Honda ATV. Instead of repairing the damaged unit, the three aspiring engineers collaborated in their courses to design a brand new suspension system.
"Our (Advanced Computer Drafting) class assignment was to create a real-world solution using modern materials," Trimboli explained. "We decided to reverse engineer the shock to improve its performance."
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I never expected Wretched's 2010 sophmore release, Beyond the Gate, to be as good as it was. It was leaps and bounds ahead of its predecessor, The Exodus of Autonomy, and featured some of the most impressively original songwriting I had heard from an American death-metal band in a very long time. Well, the Northern Carolina metalheads have returned with their follow-up, Son of Perdition, last month, and though it may not be as huge a leap forward as Beyond the Gate was, it's another strong offering from one of the most underrated emerging bands in death metal.