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With mainframe constraints slowing down its backup, L.L.Bean's IT group created a three-phase initiative to overhaul its entire approach to mainframe and open-systems backup and recovery.
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and adds SATA disk to its backup environment.
Sandy Rideout, a storage engineer at L.L.Bean Inc. in Freeport, ME, had become increasingly unhappy with the outdoor gear retailer's storage backup and restore environment. The system was built around IBM Corp.'s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and ran on the mainframe under z/OS, but was backing up more than 240 open-systems nodes--Windows, AIX, Linux, Sun and NetWare.
Rideout had long suspected mainframe constraints were slowing down the backup, and things came to a head in the summer of 2005. "We had instances of excruciating, long restores," she recalls. "In some cases, not all the data was recovered." Open-systems backups were a particular concern.
The problems propelled L.L.Bean's IT group into a three-phase initiative to overhaul its entire approach to mainframe and open-systems backup and recovery. The project took a team of four storage and systems engineers (with some early help from an outside consultant) less than a year and came in at considerably less than $1 million.
On average, the company was backing up 560GB each night (890GB at peak). It was running 35TB of disk storage and 1,550 Magstar tapes under TSM. And going forward, L.L.Bean expected to grow considerably.
L.L.Bean's mainframe backup had its own problems. "There were no consistent point-in-time backups," says Rideout, adding that "we had different backup processes in place and ended up running multiple backups of the same data." Compounding the problems, applications were running backups on their own. Critical production data was being replicated synchronously via EMC Corp.'s Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) to remote data centers for business continuity--but that was the only data being fully protected in that way.
The company was running two Amdahl Corp. plug-compatible mainframes that were subsequently replaced with the IBM eServer zSeries 900 (z/900). Constrained mainframe resources weren't the only culprit. The problem, Rideout suspected, was a fragmented, disjointed and uncoordinated backup and recovery process.
Rideout proposed a project to establish an enterprise-wide approach to backup and recovery of all centrally stored corporate data. At the least, it would improve efficiency, allow greater consistency and reliability, and produce cost savings. With the summer of 2005 experience fresh in their minds, IT management agreed. After immediately securing the sponsorship of L.L.Bean's vice president of information systems, Rideout began a three-phase project--assessment, policy and recommendations, and implementation--to revamp the backup and recovery system.
|Fixing mainframe Tivoli Storage Manager backup problems
Phase I: Assessment
L.L.Bean's direction with open systems is to move to Linux, but the mainframe is there to stay. The new backup and recovery approach will encompass all company data, open systems and the mainframe.
"The assessment phase was key to the whole project," says Rideout. It involved evaluating the existing backup and recovery infrastructure with a focus on mainframe backup operations and the open-systems TSM environment. "We spent several months just gathering data," she says.
This entailed interviewing mainframe and open-systems people, using the TSM reporting tool to capture data at different time periods and analyzing mainframe SMF records for various time slices. The team was surprised by what it learned. "One problem we had in the summer was running multiple TSM instances on the mainframe to back up portions of the open-systems environment," says Rideout. That created contention for CPU. If it was a problem in August, it would be far worse when business peaks in November and December. "CPU becomes a hot commodity then and there's a lot of contention," she adds.
The team found other troubling issues. For example, all file and application servers are treated the same in terms of recovery time objectives (RTOs). The company was backing up and retaining data for the same amount of time whether it was a production system or a development system. The team also discovered that TSM backups averaged only 8MB/sec, whereas the native speed of the IBM TotalStorage 3590 enterprise tape drive should be 12MB/sec. Restoring data was equally slow.
Although the team generally liked how EMC's SRDF performed synchronously replicating mainframe data, they had concerns about SRDF's tendency to propagate mistakes in the data and its inability to provide logically consistent data. In the event of a rolling disaster such as a security breach or code error, SRDF would replicate bad data to the remote site.
|Decision matrix: Virtual tape library vs. SATA tapeless backup
Phase 2: Policies and recommendations
The assessment indicated new data retention policies were needed. "We realized we had to have separate policies for production and development," says Rideout. The team reviewed a year's worth of restore history to create its new retention and recovery time policies.
For example, they recommended an onsite RTO of two hours to eight hours for individual files, eight hours for a file server OS, 12 hours for a database server and 24 hours for an email server. They set data retention policies of 14 days for a database server (because the data changes so frequently), 30 days for development systems, and 90 days for email and production systems.
To establish a consistent backup and recovery process, the team recommended such things as consistent configuration of all TSM clients, use of an enterprise job scheduler, and dedicated staff resources to manage and maintain the backup and recovery environment.
The team also decided to stay with TSM. "At the beginning, we talked about other backup utilities. TSM had worked well. Our problems weren't due to TSM," says Rideout. "Also, we had a lot of knowledge of TSM in-house." L.L.Bean will use TSM for open-systems backup and recovery; it handles mainframe backup through IBM's hierarchical storage management (HSM) utility.
Two major decisions revolved around disk backup and the choice of SATA or a virtual tape library (VTL). If they opted for disk backup over tape, they'd have to use a low-cost SATA array in conjunction with a tapeless TSM environment or a VTL product.
Previously, L.L.Bean had always done backup to tape using an IBM 3494 ATL connected via ESCON to the mainframe. The ATL used Magstar tape drives and the company had eight ATL frames holding a few thousand tapes, some dedicated to HSM data and others to TSM data. "We were already running out of room," says Rideout. "We had gotten to the point where we would have to eject tapes to make room for new tapes." If they expanded the ATL, however, they would have to add frames and upgrade the connection to FICON.
The tape space crunch simplified the choice. "We could take TSM off the mainframe and gain all the ATL space for HSM. It would extend the life of the ATL," says Rideout. The team recommended moving the TSM open-systems backup to disk. But the question remained: Which disk backup format should they choose: VTL or SATA disk array? The difference came down to VTL, which spills over to tape automatically, or a totally tapeless approach that relies solely on SATA disk (see "Fixing mainframe Tivoli Storage Manager backup problems").
"This was a very tough decision, but we had to be able to grow," says Rideout. To make the choice, the team put together a decision matrix identifying the advantages and disadvantage of VTL and SATA disk. For example, VTL could be used for development if recovery wasn't going to be a high priority. When you run out of capacity with VTL, however, "you need to bring in a new frame," says Rideout. That brought the team back to its desire to avoid adding frames.
SATA arrays required more monitoring and active management to make sure file spaces didn't fill up or to identify hot spots. They're more flexible than a VTL in terms of adding disk and increasing capacity, support recovery at the volume level and provide a faster restore time (see "Decision matrix: Virtual tape library vs. SATA tapeless backup," this page).
The team recommended, and management accepted, moving open-systems backup off the existing ATL to tapeless TSM in conjunction with SATA arrays. At the same time, L.L.Bean opted to go with Linux over AIX. It would deploy two TSM servers, one for production backup and one for testing/development.
With the open-systems backup decided, the team turned its attention to mainframe backup. Here the team's main concern was its reliance solely on SRDF to mirror the data to its remote backup site. Under conditions like rolling disasters caused by a security breach or human error, the company could experience data integrity issues due to the synchronous mirroring of corrupted data.
"We realized we could add EMC TimeFinder/Clone to eliminate rolling disasters," notes Rideout. The company would continue using HSM to back up data, even with SRDF and TimeFinder pumping out copies of the data to the remote site. TimeFinder's consistency group capability would also protect the production SRDF DASD against a rolling DASD disaster, as well as maintain data coherency across TimeFinder-protected application and database volumes (see "L.L.Bean's backup objectives," this page).
"The combination of SRDF and TimeFinder will work very well in L.L.Bean's situation," says Greg Schulz, founder and senior analyst at The StorageIO Group in Stillwater, MN. "If they want even more protection, they could add something like one of the GoldenGate Software [Inc.] products." GoldenGate captures changes to database data before they hit data buffers, logs or disk.
|L.L.Bean's backup objectives
Phase 3: Implementation
The implementation of the new backup process proved to be the simplest part. It consisted of acquiring the new hardware and then migrating the nodes to be backed up.
The migration task was simplified by the initial assessment. "During the assessment, we listed all the nodes that needed to be backed up," says Rideout. The team assigned each node--a total of 178--to a system administrator. Once the hardware was in place, the team proceeded to move three to five nodes each day. The whole process took approximately three months.
L.L.Bean ended up doing very little actual moving of previously backed up data. "We would switch a node and it would back up to the new system," says Rideout. Based on its previous retention policies, it could remove the old backup data in 90 days or 180 days. As that data was removed, L.L.Bean freed the tape in the ATL for mainframe HSM backup. "Most of the migration was just attrition," notes Rideout. Simply by redirecting nodes to the SATA disk and backing them up as the team normally would, over time, they would have all the backed up data in the new system.
The mainframe implementation required the most attention; the team had to implement new tools like TimeFinder, but the implementation wasn't disruptive or difficult. By August 2006, the new backup and recovery process was fully implemented and operating without a hitch, 11 months from start to finish, according to Rideout. More importantly, she says, the "backup and recovery performance exceeded the criteria we had set." This success contrasted with a previous effort. "We attempted to do something like this on a smaller scale three to four years ago and we just couldn't get it off the ground," says Rideout.
Looking back, it seemed so easy, but Rideout had learned a few lessons from the previous effort that ensured success this time around. "The first time we lacked a corporate sponsor," she says. This time, she had the vice president of information systems lined up from the beginning. She also insisted that a project manager be dedicated to the project.
Finally, the success of the assessment phase--the team's ability to gather detailed data--paved the way for everything that followed. The assessment data enabled the team to develop better retention policies and alerted them to the looming tape crunch.
In terms of performance, L.L.Bean has reduced retail database backup from 7.5 hours to two hours. In addition, file-server restore has been reduced from 10 hours to 1.5 hours.
Buoyed by the project's success, the L.L.Bean storage team doesn't intend to stop at backup. "We have all this SATA capacity. I'd love to look at archiving," says Rideout. L.L.Bean currently doesn't archive email, but with 34TB of SATA capacity, Rideout thinks it should.
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It'll be easy to overlook Resogun - Sony's welcome gift to PS4 buyers who join PlayStation Plus.
After all, if you've just bought a next-gen console why would you want a reincarnation of Defender, the classic 80s blast 'em up that came out before Britney Spears was even born? But Resogun is more than a rose-tinted throwback. In fact, it's the must-play PS4 exclusive - here's why.
Virtuoso manoeuvres
Resogun has no time for storytelling. You're here to save the last humans by incinerating vast alien armies with your spacecraft's energy beams as you orbit left and right around futuristic structures, and that's as much scene-setting as you're going to get.
Luckily, whichever of the three ships you choose to pilot is well-equipped for the task. Each is nippy - capable of turning on a penny and punching through the alien hordes with a high-speed boost. What's more, the direction of fire is controlled with the right stick so you can carry out virtuoso manoeuvres while blasting enemies on all sides. The result? Instantly pleasing, fast-paced, raw arcade thrills.
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Alongside the blasting you also have to try and rescue 10 humans imprisoned on each level. To free them you must kill special, green-glowing aliens called Keepers. Fail to wipe them out before they escape and a human dies. Succeed and then you have to find and haul the freed human to the safety of awaiting escape pods before the aliens kill them.
This means that when the Keepers appear Resogun becomes a race-against-time to kill the Keepers and save the human. It's a regular injection of urgency that transforms the game from a good blaster into something vital.
Fizzing pixel showers
Resogun's retro-tastic looks might not impress when static, but in motion it's a mighty impressive sight. The game is lightning quick, even when it's throwing particles and objects around like confetti. Aliens pop like fireworks - exploding into bright, fizzing pixel showers. Alien cities crumble like castles built from sand and the spectacular smart bombs send impressively devastating walls of crackling energy shooting around the level. Make no mistake, simple though it seems, this is a beautiful game, and one that does make use of the PS4's next-gen processing muscle.
The fabulous eye candy is backed by strong sonics, too, from the rousing music to the alerts spoken through the DualShock 4's in-built speaker.
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While Defender is clearly the blueprint for Resogun, the developers have - like crazy coding scientists - also spliced in the DNA of many other classic shooters.
There are glimpses of Robotron in how the aliens close in on you, whiffs of R-Type in the power-ups and alien attack formations. The end-of-level bosses have a touch of Rez about them and there are hints of Scramble and Asteroids, too. In short Resogun plays like a shoot 'em up best of, raiding the genre's finest moments to create something new yet comfortingly familiar.
Staying power
If Resogun has an Achilles' heel it's that there's just not quite enough of it. There are only five levels in the game so it doesn't take long to see all that it has to offer, but the draw of a game like this is the on-going challenge of mastering its deceptively deep mechanics and striving for boast-worthy high scores.
Beyond that there's an online co-op mode and talk of a 3D update, which might even tempt us to dust off our 3D TV glasses to see its retro-explosions in their full stereoscopic glory.
Resogun might draw on arcade gaming tradition but its feisty action, clever mechanics and thrilling visuals turn it from an exercise in dad-gaming nostalgia to an electrifying dose of instant thrills and primal action.
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Yeah I'm surprised they have a complete set to sell me considering the Joe Hill issues.
Anyone know why Borderlands is going from a limitation of 500 to 350? Series I and II were both 500, right?
Would be even sweeter if Lansdale appeared again!
I could probably stomach $35 IF they came through on all the authors they claim they're in negotiations with for this series, but they're hitting a regular who's who of my list of favorite authors. In general I agree that $30 is probably the sweet spot for these books.
And like Brian, I'm interested to see how they handle King if they can get him. Inexpensive signed books aren't totally unheard of, and Tom Monteleone has been around long enough that I suspect he could call in a favor or two to make it happen. Perhaps more likely, now that I've had some time to think about it, is that a King Little Book just wouldn't be signed at all (despite the claim that all books will be signed by the author), or perhaps signed by the editor of such a volume.
I like these books quite a bit, but agree that the $30 range is about where I would top out. I might be willing to go higher for original material, but this almost all reprints. My favorites from Series II that I've read so far are the ones by David Schow, Ed Gorman and Jack Ketchum.
I'd be rather frustrated if I had a complete set of Series I and II with a number over 350. Though it isn't the press's fault that the print run might have to be reduced for financial reasons, the loss of maintaining that matching numbered set would sting quite a bit.
As far as King goes, I guess we'll have to wait and see. I can see both the editor's signature or facsimile signature as an option, but I'd think it would be cool of King to do one at a reduced price point. Both Hill and Gaiman did volumes so it might not be a huge stretch. To be honest even without King, the lineup for Series III looks phenomenal.
I can see a few other ways to handle King.
1. A subscriber's only price with an expanded print run. Let's say the King book gets a print run of 500. For those who "own" a number (1-350) to all books in series 3, you will be eligible to buy a King Little Book at $30. Numbers 351-500 can be sold to the cherry picking public at a much higher cost.
2. A subscriber's only exclusive. King's book is NOT one of the 15 in series 3. It is a bonus book that will be available to subscriber's first (those who "own" a number) and once that preorder window is closed then it will be offered to the cherry pickers. They can set whatever price they want. And they can also offer a discount to "subscribers."
3. Just another book in Series 3. No catches. No special deals. Just another book in the series that will go to people who own a number first and then everyone else first come-first served.
I like the fairness doctrine you're trying to create, the from-the-top filter that protects reserved-number owners, but I don't see how that's at all possible, given the issues I outline above, i.e. Borderlands' inability to know and determine who many of these owners are.
It seems Borderlands could avoid that issue by just treating other retailers (CD, Camelot, etc.) as subscribers in their own right, so they'll get as many copies of a potential King Little Book as they would any other, offering to match numbers per usual.
Really the main thing to avoid is a repeat of the clusterfuck that surrounded the Joe Hill Little Book last year, and having an exclusive preorder period for customers (including other retailers!) that have bought all the other books in the series up to that point. That satisfies all of their direct long-time customers, and shifts the onus of non-direct customers onto the other retailers (most of which can handle these things just fine). Once subscribers are taken care of, you open up preorders to the general public on a first-come, first-served basis.
It's not an especially difficult thing to do, Borderlands just need to be willing to cancel the orders of people that don't qualify but get the order link anyhow.
For what it's worth we confirmed with Borderlands that we'd be able to get the same number of books for every book in the series, including a King one if there is a King book.
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I have opted to stay quiet on this as I will not order directly from Borderlands Press.
Side Note: I have been unwilling to order from Borderlands long before the Joe Hill Little Book issues. I had issues with them back around 2006 and they are simply a company I will not deal directly with. As they have produced books I want I have picked them up from other retailers, and that has worked for me. The first snag in that was last year with the Joe Hill book. With my prior issues with Borderlands that was a last straw for me and I decided it would be very hard for me to buy a Borderlands book again.
Well then this series comes along with many confirmed authors I want including Owen King and Richard Chizmar, including a possibility of a Stephen King book. I initially disregarded them as not for me as I expected with the reduced quantity and the issues from last year that you could only buy it from Borderlands and I will not do that. Trust me on this, I will never buy directly from Borderlands without regard of what they offer. Then today I got the offer to begin the series III little books with rights to each subsequent book. I truly believe that Borderlands as a company does not care about its customers but I do like some of the books they produce. I am trying once again to buy their books through another retailer. Hopefully it will go well, I will not be surprised if it does not.
Regarding a King signed book for $30.00, I do believe they would have no problem doing that. One of my prized books is actually a Borderlands book bought directly from Borderlands. Quietly Now is signed by Stephan King and many others and retailed for $40.00.
This will be my first experience going directly through Borderlands. May of the Hill books were damaged I believed and I'd heard that their packaging isn't that great. I guess I'll find out first hand soon enough.
I don't recall the fiasco that surrounded the Hill book. Did they oversell it? I had to get a copy on the secondary market.
Borderlands oversold, and someone posted the secret CD link over at TDT prior to open orders here, so they (CD) sold out before at least some folks that had been getting the whole series had a chance to buy their copy.
Here's Brian F.'s post on the topic.
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|Michael Voris
I, like Michael Voris, am a "cradle" Catholic (I don't really like that term) who left and then came back to the Church after 38 years. I could barely recognize the Catholic Church as the same one I had known as a child. The church buildings looked completely different, with tables in place of the glorious high altars I had known as a kid, most of the statues seemed to have been removed, the magnificent Stations of the Cross had been replaced with little stick figure stations and many of the confessionals were now storage closets, to name just a few of the changes. I was stunned at people's demeanor in church, from the kind of clothes they were wearing to the fact that no one seemed to have any qualms about holding loud and disruptive conversations before and after Mass (and sometimes during Mass), children playing with toys during Mass, and almost no one bowing or genuflecting in front of the Tabernacle.
These are the kinds of issues that Michael Voris speaks to, so he really captured my attention. I felt like he gave a real voice to my feelings and frustrations.
Lately, though, I have begun to feel differently about the way in which Voris defends the Church. He is a lot like talk radio in that he creates an "us versus them" mentality, and the "them", more often than not, is not even those in the secular world world who actively oppose the Church, but our own bishops and priests. Voris actually seems to relish pointing out the spiritual failings of the bishops and priests of the "Church of Nice" as he calls it.
On January 3 Voris produced a video to explain the mission of his organization. He entitled this, "Slaying Dragons." You can watch the video here. As he explains, he sees the role of the Church as basically a militant warrior destroying evil wherever it is found:
We are prepared to do battle against the forces of darkness .. namely the kingdom of Hell and Satan which hates humanity because we are God's most precious and beloved creatures. As the Old testament says of God .. "it is my delight to strive with the sons of men." Imagine.
|Michael Voris says we should all look like
beat up warriors at the end of each day
[UPDATE: FidesSpesCaritas and Christine in the combox below pointed out that I have misunderstood this statement from Voris that "As the Old testament says of God .. 'it is my delight to strive with the sons of men.' Imagine.", and I believe they are right. I think Voris was trying to make a positive statement about God's relationship with man and was actually using a bad translation of Proverbs 8:31 which says, "my delights were to be with the children of men." I was very confused by Voris' statement because it is very similar to Genesis 6:3 which says, "My Spirit shall not always strive with man", which would seem to contradict Voris. But upon reflection, I think Voris did mean this in a positive light, and he means God wants to be with man and yes, it is absolutely amazing that God chooses to have a relationship with sinful and weak human beings. I apologize for misunderstanding and mischaracterizing Michael Voris' statement here.]
Michael further expounds on what he sees as the Church's role:
Its role is to fight .. its charter to attack and tear down the kingdom of Satan .. the empire of lies and falsehood and heresies that so dominate the world today .. in short .. the mission of the Church and Her members is to slay dragons.
In James 4:7 we are told, "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." The most effective way to defeat Satan is not to go on the attack against all that we perceive to be wrong in others, but, as James the brother of Christ told us, to submit to the Will of God in our own personal lives. We don't "attack and tear down" as much as we enlighten the world through the preaching of the Gospel. That certainly does involve pointing out sin and evil in the world, but this must always be done with love and concern for the souls of others. We are not told that we are the nuclear weapon of the world but rather, a light set on a hill. A light illumines, it does not destroy. Christ also called his followers the salt of the earth, salt being a preservative, not something which destroys. As for any fighting that may be involved, Deuteronomy 20:4 says: "For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you." Jesus defeated Satan through His Death on the Cross. He is the one who fights. Our job is to preach His Message.
And please, we most certainly should not be attacking and tearing down one another in the Church, and yet Michael Voris seems to take particular delight in doing just this.
An example of Michael Voris' delight in attacking others in the church is a Vortex episode he did in December entitled, "Trendy Catholics." You can watch this episode here. This episode is promoted as follows: "The clock is ticking on the Church of Nice. It won't be long now." He referenced an article in the Economist magazine which said that Traditional Catholicism is becoming more and more popular in the Church:
Traditional Catholicism is all the rage .. at least in England. But that is the case all over the western world. It's avant-garde .. trendy .. almost like a hipster to actually bow before God and receive His Body and Blood on your tongue. It's fashion forward for priests to be in cassocks and nuns in habits. Oh My. Imagine the shock all and horror bouncing off the walls of the Church of Nice. Unable to hold or inspire their own flagging parishes .. where are these other "nut job" Catholics coming from.Voris describes the Church of Nice as follows:
the saccharine syrupy hand holding ultra-feminized altar girl protestant hymn singing social justice priest facing with his back to God staring at the people staring back at him Church – in short practically every parish in the western world.Is this really what Our Lord wants us to do, to attack fellow believers? I am also very concerned about the blanket statement Voris makes here: "in short, practically every parish in the western world." By making this statement Voris is, in effect, setting himself up as judge and juror over the entire contemporary Church. Painting the entire Church with one broad brush stroke is prejudicial to say the least and, as can be seen, leads to very judgmental thinking. If we really believe that "practically every parish in the western world" is in spiritual trouble, shouldn't we, with great humility and mindful of our own sinfulness, be reaching out to them with love and compassion and praying that they will turn from error instead of just gleefully pointing out how wrong they are?
Voris recently produced another Vortex episode that I felt was even more cutting against fellow Catholics. This one is entitled, "Dead Branches." You can watch this episode here. Once again, he is attacking what he has labeled the "Church of Nice," this time telling us that they are all dead branches that need to be thrown out.
Take a good look around the Church these days .. look up and down the disastrous parish life that predominates the Catholic life on the ground. Take a look at the educational establishment .. universities and local religious ed departments. Closely examine the sprawling infrastructures and bureaucracies that permeate every diocese and archdiocese. Take a good long look at them all .. and then prepare to say goodbye. There is simply no way in 20 years .. most likely less that this sprawling behemoth is still going to be around. It has simply abandoned its mission of saving souls and making saints and as such .. the need for it no longer exists.There can be no denying the truth of what he says about the spiritual condition of many parishes and dioceses. But should we be rejoicing over the fact that those who are running these institutions are going to "get what they have coming" as Voris says here:
For a crowd so bent on social justice .. it's actually good to see a little meted out to them. Not good that the faith has been eviscerated, but that many who have done the eviscerating get to see their life's work crumble around them. And so it will go, with ever increasing pace and rapidity as the next few years roll along.
The leadership of these dioceses around the nation can fool themselves all they want that they have developed some new marketing plan or restructured evangelizing platform ..and give it all kinds of corporate sounding jingo names like parish "clusters" and new "collaboratives" .. neither of which by the way is a term from canon law .. but does sound very Madison Avenue .. go ahead and keep kidding yourselves. The old modernism is vanishing like the morning dew .. thank God. These people who have bought into this fake Catholicism and promote it until their dying breath have wreaked havoc on untold millions upon millions of souls .. betrayed Our Lord and are now receiving their just desserts.
And while it's a pity that they made these choices .. it is NOT a pity that it has come to this. How can Our Blessed Lord continue to bless dead branches. They must be cut off and thrown into the fire .. and that is exactly what is happening and frankly .. too bad it didn't happen sooner.We absolutely do need to hold the Church hierarchy accountable for their actions. Should we be rejoicing when they get their "just desserts? Should we be saying "too bad it didn't happen sooner"? Shouldn't we instead be praying that they will repent of any wrongdoing, and shouldn't we mourn the choices they made instead of applauding their destruction? Voris would have us believe that the Church hierarchy is our enemy. But St. Paul specifically tells us in Ephesians 6:12: "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
|Michael Voris comparing the hierarchy of the
church to dead branches and saying they must be burned up
It is an interesting contrast to look at how our Lord treated his betrayer, Judas Iscariot. He always knew Judas was going to betray him. But that didn't stop Jesus from treating Judas just as he did all the other Apostles. In fact, Christ even honored Judas by making him the treasurer, entrusting him with money. At the last supper, Jesus washed Judas' feet and even gave him Communion with the other apostles. All of this, we can be sure, was Jesus' way of attempting to draw Judas to repentance. And when Judas finally got his "just desserts", did our Lord take joy in it? Hardly.
Voris defends his statements with the following:
Think of all the human misery .. temporal and especially eternal that most assuredly would have been prevented if this demonic mischief and chicanery had been exposed and cleared away with sooner.We should never refer to any human being as "dead branches" as Michael Voris has done. That is the equivalent of condemning a person to hell. The only one who can make that judgment is God. Only God knows the state of a person's soul and what they are capable of. We know that the greatest enemies of the Church can sometimes become our biggest saints, as in the case of St. Paul, who was actually killing Christians before he repented. We need to be in prayer for the souls of those whom we think have gone off the track.
In this Vortex episode, Michael Voris actually makes the following statement about the hierarchy of the Catholic Church:
Too much of the establishment in the Church have turned to dead branches and the sooner they are cut off and become fuel for the fire .. the better for the rest of the vine.
|David spares Saul's life
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Our Catholic bishops and priests have been specially ordained by God. We have no right in making any judgments about their souls and hoping for the day that "they are cut off and become fuel for the fire." We certainly need to call them out when they are disobedient to the Church, but we must never, never rejoice in their destruction.
We live in very evil times when the Church is under attack. And we undoubtedly have enemies inside the Church as well as outside. But it is not our job to judge any one's soul and then to actually rejoice when they "get what they deserve." Our Lord showed us how to treat our enemies in the very fact that he did not rejoice but mourned the fate of Judas, the one who betrayed him.
I supported Michael Voris and his organization for a long time. And he does some good work. But his penchant for attacking the hierarchy of the Church has really started to bother me. I have personally been guilty of this sin as well, and I truly repent of that I hope Michael Voris will do the same.
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Citizen Erased (song)
|Muse song
|Citizen Erased
|Alternative titles
|First live performance
|12th February 2001
|Latest live performance
|24th February 2018
|Real World Studio Wiltshire, 2000/2001
|Matthew Bellamy
|John Leckie
|Chart position
|Song Nav
|Plug In Baby
|Citizen Erased
|Micro Cuts
|Album Nav
|Showbiz (1999)
|Origin of Symmetry (2001)
|Hullabaloo (2002)
Matthew Bellamy: "It's an expression of what it feels like to be questioned. I spend more time than most people being asked about purpose, and it's a strange feeling. I don't really have the answers and I have to respond on the knowledge I have obtained so far, but the problem is that it gets printed, and something else has come along that's made you completely disagree with what you said".[1]
It was written around a drum beat that Dominic Howard composed, matt said: "On Citizen Erased, Dom came in one day with this funky James Brown beat and Chris just started playing along. I then applied the chord structure that I already had and it suddenly became a full-on metal track out of nowhere. Because it was so heavy for so long we decided to add another song on to the end of it." [2]
The song could also be a reference to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in which citizens are erased and lies control society.
When asked about The Globalist and Citizen Erased, Matt referred to them as "opposites": "I guess Citizen Erased is loosely about a person disappearing into nothing, declining to take control/power and choosing to fade from memory rather than embrace the chaos; feeling trampled and bowing away."[3]
The first live performance of Citizen Erased had the outro played on guitar rather than keyboard. The keyboard outro was introduced at least as early as the 12th April 2001 - no recording exists between the first performance and then.
A different riff replaced the guitar solo towards the middle of the song during the Absolution tour. During the 2006 tour, the vocals of the instrumental between the final chorus and final verse were removed. These returned partially by Paris-Bercy, 15th December 2006, or possibly sometime prior on the late 2006 European tour. Additional drumming was added during this interlude on the aforementioned date.
Citizen Erased is the only song where the 7 String E Guitar is used. Coincidentally, it is assumed a six-string was used to record this song, thought to be the Delorean, as a Fuzz Factory is featured in the solo, and early photos of said guitar show a bass string in place of the low E string, in order to accommodate drop A tuning. Matt owned both guitars at the time of recording, so it can't be said for sure which guitar(s) he used.
The song was played regularly during The Resistance Tour, made occasional appearances during the The 2nd Law Tour, and regularly during the Drones Tour.
Music trivia
For the week starting 9th July 2007, some members of Muselive.com and other fan-sites attempted to get Citizen Erased into the UK charts. It eventually reached position No 122. Jesting about the song's popularity three years later, Matthew Bellamy commented "[...] so we've got to change our website I think to uh— from Muse.mu to CitizenErased.com", before performing it within Old Trafford Cricket Ground.
During the Resistance tour in Sydney on the 9th of December, Bellamy dedicated "Citizen Arrested" to Julian Assange, the Australian WikiLeaks founder who had been arrested in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences just days earlier before the song.
Break me in,
Teach us to cheat And to lie, and cover up What shouldn't be shared
And the truth's unwinding Scraping away at my mind Please stop asking me to describe
For one moment I wish you'd hold your stage With no feelings at all Open-minded I'm sure I used to be so free
Self-expressed Exhausting for all to see and to be What you want and what you need And the truth's unwinding Scraping away at my mind Please stop asking me to describe
For one moment I wish you'd hold your stage With no feelings at all Open-minded I'm sure I used to be so free
For one moment I wish you'd hold your stage With no feelings at all Open-minded I'm sure I used to be so free
Wash me away Clean your body of me Erase all the memories They'll only bring us pain And I've seen all I'll ever need
Alternatively, the line:
Exhausting for all to see and to be
is sometimes be changed to:
Exhausting for all to see I still want to be
- ↑ Rock Sound - 2001
- ↑ Guitarist Magazine - What all the Hullabaloo is about. [september 2002]
- ↑ Muse Messageboard - Muse answers your questions (2016-14-04). Muse Messageboard. Retrieved 2016-27-04 from board.muse.mu.


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ICC WCL Div 5: Team US Fail To Bring Home Title
By Lloyd Jodah
Perhaps the ICC is waiting until after the completion of this tournament to announce any penalties against the home team, Nepal, for the crowd behavior the day before, as the same two teams USA and Nepal took the field to determine the first place winner. Singapore seems to be the loser in all this. On the plus side the games were being shown on Nepalese TV and the USA Team was getting unaccustomed media exposure.
Lennox Cush and Olando Baker opened the batting for USA, though this would have been a good opportunity to give one of the USA's best young batsmen, Akeem Dodson a knock. Cush edged a 6 and 4 off the opening pace attack of Binod Das and Alam before going for a swipe and getting bowled by Das for 10. USA 19 for 1 and Steve Massiah strolled to the wicket.
By drinks Baker and Massiah had inched the score along to 73/1, with Baker on 34,Massiah on 18. Gaucham and Regmi tightened the screws further and it was 98 for 1 oof 26 overs.Massiah hit one to longon and the two batsmen made difficult going of what should have been an easy two, and Baker was run out for 49. USA 100 for 2.
The calling of wides in limited overs cricket for balls going down the legside has retricted bowlers, and also resulted in batsmen relying more on the pull shot, as the bowler bowls mostly to the off, with packed off-side fields. Sir Donald Bradman, master of the "crossbat" pull, would have made millions more runs under these rules. Nadkarni pulled one from outside off to squareleg for 4 to get off the mark. Massiah then took a shot at the Pepsi sign at midwicket for 6. USA 138 for 2 off 35 overs. 250 seemed difficult at this point, though USA had wickets in hand, and the in form Thyagarajan was still to come.
Nadkarni then tried to pull another from outside off, and was stumped for 17. Thyagarajan joined Massiah who brought up his 50 with a pull from outside off for 6 over midwicket! It was Massiah's fourth fifty of the tournament. However it had taken him 111 balls. Going for another pull/sweep from outside proved to be Massiah's ondoing as the ball took the top edge and went high in the air for the keep Gaucham to take a diving catch.
After this the USA batsmen seemed eager to field, and the side collapsed to 172 all out in 47.2 overs. No one from # 5 to the not out # 11 scored double figures. Vishvakarma bowled a magnificent spell of left arm spin of 8.2 overs for 15 runs, taking 7 wickets.
Anil Mandal and Mahesh Chhetri opened the batting for Nepal whilst Kevin Darlington and Usman Shuja, who had both bowled well in the previous game, comprised the USA opening attack. Nepal's openers comfortably put on 85 before losing both quickly, Mandal made 37 off 66 balls, with 5 fours and 1 six, whilst Chettri compiled 28 in 73 balls with 3 fours.The batsmen didn't need the wisdom of Buddha to understand that run rate was not an issue, it was more important to get a solid start.
Buoyed by the 12,000 strong crowd the Nepal side seemed shaky only twice, when they were 88 for 2 and 140 for 5 in 41.2 overs…The dangerous duo Khadka 5, and Vewsarkar 11 were dismissed cheaply by Cush and Shuja but the Nepalese soldiered on. Of course some of the greatest soldiers in world history, the Gurkhas, come from Nepal and northern India.
Some trash throwing onto the field by spectators revived thoughts of the previous day's riot before Malla blasted a six and a four to give Nepal victory with 5 wickets to spare. The Stadium's 10,000 spectators (some had left, perhaps to avoid any repetition of the day before) erupted, this time in celebration and the Nepal team took a victory lap, flag waving.
The USA team lost the game but will leave Nepal happy that they will move up to Group 4. Between now and August USA Cricket will no doubt have the team undergo intense preparation for that tournament -the first part of that preparation is a game against a touring MCC side on March 28 at the Central Broward Regional Park Cricket Stadium.


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Do they work they same as major league rain delays? do you get the win if your teams winning after 5 innings?
Just wondering because Dayton & Wisconsin are playing right now and Daytons up 6-0 after 5 innings and the game has been delayed because of rain.
Cueto is pitching good in the game: 5 IP, 0 Hits, O R, 2 BB, 8 K


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I was working at Sun Microsystems when the whole Y2K scare approached like an impending apocalypse. When the lights didn't go out as the big ball dropped, it was quickly forgotten. The real boogy man amongst UNIX programmers was the Y2038 bug. That is when UNIX time, a 32 bit number representing the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970, would wrap back to zero.
At the time I took solace in knowing I would have long since retired from programming by 2038. No worries.
I was wrong, so wrong.
Fast forward to Jan 19, 2008. Bottlecount.com logins stop working while I'm on a two week vacation in Costa Rica. I am blissfully ignorant of any problem and don't learn about it until I'm home again plowing though my unread emails. As it happens I was setting the login cookies to expire in 30 years, no need to annoy users with constant logins (are you listening Yahoo!?). However as of Jan 19, Perl's CGI::Cookies module thinks that +30 years is 1901. All of Bottlecount.com's cookies being expired by the browser, and all logins fail. Epoch fail. Sigh.
Two hours of debugging and two characters changed in my code, I won't have this problem again for another 25 years. By then I'll be retired. (insert sounds of knocking on wood)
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Rival coaches on guest list for recruit's grandfather's birthday
Rashaan Evans is one of the nation's top uncommitted players.
Everyone in the nation has been after the 6-3, 220-pound linebacker, but he's whittled his list down to UCLA, Alabama and Auburn. After canceling a visit last weekend to UCLA, the general consensus is this is a two-team battle between rivals Auburn and Alabama.
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So both coaching staffs are scheduled to visit Evans this weekend. In fact, Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn and Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart are both expected to attend Saturday's 80th birthday party for Evans's grandfather.
But no word if they'll be a bouncer or how tight security will be.
"That we don't know," Evans' father, Alan, told 247Sports.com when asked if Malzahn and Smart would be at the party at the same time. "We haven't figured that part out yet. They may butt heads — I don't know. My understanding is there's not a particular time. I just know that both of them are coming and will be a part of the festivities. How long they'll stay, I don't know.
"They may just come, spend some time with Rashaan, shake a few hands, and then leave. I know they're both planning on making an appearance. It will probably go late into tomorrow night. There's no telling when the party will end. The party is a late-type party."
That bodes well for Malzahn since Evans plays in Auburn's back yard at Auburn High School. His father, Alan, played at Auburn in the early 80s.
But that doesn't make a commitment to the Tigers a done deal.
The Bruins aren't giving up. UCLA defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich visited Evans at home Thursday and, of course, Alabama is Alabama.
Evans, rated a 5-star prospect by 247Sports.com, is the site's No. 1 outside linebacker and No. 11 overall prospect in the country. He will announce his college choice at Auburn High School on Feb. 5, National Signing Day.


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|A volunteer from the audience assists the magician. The magician breaks open an egg and apparently dumps it into a small can. The magician then takes a rectangular piece of cardboard, covers the mouth of the can, and turns the can and cardboard upside down, placing all on top of the volunteer's head. With the volunteer holding the cardboard and can in place, the magician starts searching for his misplaced sheet of instructions. Suddenly he realizes that the cardboard is the instruction sheet and so he whips it out from between the egg can and the volunteer's head! The card appropriately states, "Do Not Remove!" The precarious situation is resolved however when the magician raises the can to reveal not the egg mess, but a glass full of candy that he gives to the volunteer for his assistance! A great trick invented by the late Don Alan. Our version is a couple of dollars more expensive than our competitors, but our version includes a laminated "instruction card" to make the effect last indefinitely.
|The classic magical effect, The Egg Bag, has never been explained as well as on this DVD, from the Greater Magic Video Library. Four top professional routines are performed. Martin Lewis shows and explains the Senor Mardo Egg Bag, Tom Mullica entertains with the Comedy Egg Bag, Billy McComb bedazzles you with his favorite routine using the Whiskey Egg Bag, and finally, the last segment is a lecture by Charlie Miller and Johnny Thompson the famous "Malini Egg Bag." Long a classic effect, but seldom performed, this DVD will instruct and teach how the novice or professional can add an excellent effect to their act. Excerpts from the Greater Magic Video Library, plus new material from Martin Lewis' great routine and explanation with the Senor Mardo Bag. This teach-in DVD, the third of the "Teach-in" series, spotlights another magic classic and gives an in-depth view of this popular effect.
|This is one of the most incredible versions of the traditional Egg Bag effect that has ever been released to the magic fraternity. Because of the direct and simple effect of an egg appearing and disappearing in the bag, the Egg Bag is considered to be a classic magic effect. It is not surprising therefore that many professional magicians feature the Egg Bag in their act at some point in their career.
The Bighorse Egg Bag brings a new dimension to this wonderful effect. With this incredible prop, the magician can simply drop an egg into the bag, immediately turn the bag inside out, and show the egg has vanished. There is no fumbling or hesitation to make the egg disappear. Simply drop the egg into the bag, turn the bag inside out, and the egg is gone! Or in reverse, turn the bag inside out to show it empty. Reach into the bag and produce the egg.
Also the traditional "sucker" routine of the magician pretending to sneak the egg out of the bag, hide it under his arm and so forth, is easy to do with this bag. For the climax, the magician reaches into the bag and produces a rubber fried egg! The yolk's on you!
We won't "egg you on," but this egg-straordinary effect features egg-ceptional fun and applause! This beautifully made cloth bag is expertly tailored and hand-made by Cindy Bighorse. The outfit comes complete with bag, fake egg, climax fried rubber egg, and complete instructions.
|A small bag is shown empty inside and out. The magician reaches into the bag and produces an egg! The magician then proceeds to make the egg vanish and reappear inside the bag. He can even incorporate a bit of comedy by-play when he apparently places the egg "under his arm" to make it look like the egg vanishes! Still the egg vanishes and appears in the bag! The Malini style bag is black in color.
|This wonderful Egg Bag is manufactured by Gladys Lewis of Magikraft Studios. This bag is easy to handle and the gaff is invisible event with direct inspection. This style of bag provides many other effects and novel moves as compared to traditional egg bags. Comes complete with detailed instructions.
|This unique Egg Bag features a see-through mesh front. The magician simply displays the bag to be empty, something apparent due to the transparent panel. Suddenly an egg visibly appears in the bag! The magician removes the bag and places it into his hat or other container. Suddently a second egg appears in the bag! Routine this sequence over and over again with egg after egg apparently appearing. The bag can also be used to vanish an egg as well. Comes with fake egg and complete instructions. 054nuf01230
|An egg appears in the magician's mouth. He takes it out and discards it. Again another egg appears. He takes it out and discards it. The trick can be performed over and over again. No difficult sleight-of-hand required. You can stop laying eggs at any time! As seen in the movie AIRPLANE with Leslie Nielsen.
|This is one of the most beautiful magic tricks in the world. The magician tears a corner off a sheet of tissue paper. He crumbles it into a ball and lays it on a Japanese style fan. Using the fan to repeatably bounce the ball up into the air and catch it on the fan again, the ball of paper slowly transforms into an egg! The egg is then taken from the fan and broken into a glass to prove it is real. Another way to do the effect is to place the small piece of paper into a brandy snifter type glass. The glass is slowly shaken around and around, back and forth until the paper slowy transforms into an egg. The egg is then poured out of the glass into the magician's hand and then is broken into the glass to prove it is real. This outfit comes with the egg and instructions. Brandy snifter and fan not included.
|The magician reaches into his hat and removes a bamboo mat. He shows both sides of the mat, folds it in half and proceeds to dump an egg out of the mat! Again the magician shows the mat empty on both sides, folds it, and dumps out another egg. The trick can be performed over and over again. When finished, the magician picks up the hat, turns it upside down, and the eggs have vanished! Comes with mat, the "eggs," and complete instructions. Use your own hat or any other receptacle to catch the eggs.
|This is the most realistic fake egg we have ever seen for the Silk to Egg effect. Lay it next to a real egg and you cannot tell which one is fake and which one is real! The hole size is correct and the egg will take either a 12 or 18 inch sized silk hank with room to spare. Note that this is the egg only and does not come with a routine. For a description of the effect as it is usually used, please see the Silk to Egg - Vernet description below. Recommended.
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It's not a for-your-eyes-only secret that, despite this being such a wonderful city, filled with top scientists, educators and doers who try their best to overcome governmental myopia, many San Diego sports fans — myself included — live behind the oddball.
We know what we want and when we get what we want we don't want it anymore.
A case in point is the job of Padres manager.
Since their birth in 1969, the Padres have had 16 skippers, including Jerry Coleman for one remarkable season and Bob Skinner for a less-than-remarkable day. Alvin Dark was fired during spring training. But since 1995, the ballclub has known two managers — Bruce Bochy, who served through 2006, and currently Buddy Black.
Now that's the continuity new team ownership is talking about. And trust.
I don't know how many "fire Bochy" emails I received over the years, but there probably were at least as many as the "fire Marty" and "fire Norv" missives, and that means thousands.
Then the Angry Villagers wanted Marty Schottenheimer back. I can't recall one begging for Bochy's return.
Bochy is a fine man and manager — he's since guided the Giants to their only World Series title since their move from New York — but let me tell you, there was an agglomeration of fans who couldn't stand him. For whatever reason. Never could figure it out. With Schottenheimer, Chargerites didn't like his conservative play, and then they disliked Norv immediately, calling for the return of rah-rah Marty.
I love what San Diego State head football coach Rocky Long has to say about cheerleading coaches: "I think the rah-rah speech is ridiculous."
Buddy Black is calm. Hardly rah-rah. But we don't hear much about this from his critics (surely not nearly as much as we hear about Norv's demeanor). And there shouldn't be. Not that the detractors aren't out there, blaming Black for everything that's gone wrong, but next to Bochy, Black is Captain Kangaroo. For whatever reason. Can't figure it out.
There is no knee jerk to new Padres ownership. Any speculation that Black will be relieved of command should cease. The bosses say it isn't going to happen, and as I've discovered after 42 years in this business, bosses always have the final say, which is why they're bosses.
There was some criticism of Black during April and May, when the Padres were the worst excuse for a baseball team I've seen here, when they couldn't hit or field and injuries to the pitching staff, especially (try to win when you go through 15 starting pitchers), made it all but impossible to do much of anything.
But Black and General Manager Josh Byrnes banged heads and got rid of some players who were done — such as second baseman Orlando Hudson and shortstop Jason Bartlett — admitted a few mistakes in talent judgment, mixed and matched with young and old, signed some key players, and came up with a competitive team that has flourished in recent weeks.
The thing about Black — as was the case with Bochy — is that he always seems the same. He will get tossed from a game now and then, but the days of Leo Durocher, Billy Martin, Earl Weaver and Bobby Cox are gone. The Padres have known no manager better at pushing game buttons than Larry Bowa, but Bowa was so mercurial and unpredictable he seemed to scare the hell out of his players.
It doesn't work anymore and it's not how Black operates. He's in command. He's no pushover but isn't a tyrant, either. If you have a complaint, look no further than Bud Black.
"You never hear a single excuse from Buddy," says Padres CEO Tom Garfinkel, who just the other day called the notion of Black not returning "nonsense." "He's a proven leader, a knowledgeable baseball person, he knows his players and he knows the city. And, as we've seen, he's been able to turn the fortunes of the team around, and it would have been easy for him to point fingers. It's not an act. Buddy is a pro.
"There is no finger-pointing in the clubhouse. Not with Bud, not with Josh, not with anyone. We all respect one another. I let Josh do his job and Josh lets Buddy do his job. It's a good situation."
Byrnes and Black have known one another for a long time. Their relationship is very similar to the one Bochy and then-GM Kevin Towers (who obviously was forced to fire Bochy and hire Back) enjoyed here.
The day after Bochy was fired, I was on the phone with Towers, who was in his Petco Park office, and he paused, then said he was putting me on speaker. Bochy had just walked in and they were yukking it up.
Why was it not surprising? It appears Byrnes and Black share a similar page.
"People see Bud as a good guy, but he's extremely competitive," Byrnes says. "Look at the transition Buddy's led us through after everything that happened to us this year, from our bad start to the change of ownership to all the injuries. Buddy never pouted. Buddy's never wavered. He's done a great job. He's the one constant."
Black has one more year on his contract, then there are options.
"That's not a decision we're mulling," Byrnes says. "Maybe we'll talk after the season. There are a lot of good things going on here. Buddy's our manager. No doubt about that."
No doubt is the best doubt.


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January 28, 2014, 4:50 am
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I am a follower of your blog and others who use SBG in their classrooms. This year I am implementing it with my Algebra classes this year for the first time with the hopes that next year I will be able to do it with my Pre-Algebra classes as well. I teach 8th grade in a middle school.
I love SBG. It is working very well, minus a few small issues that I am trying to address. Since I do not have a blog of my own (school district policy), I am resorted to emailing those that use SBG to find a solution to my issues. I hope that you are able to help, even though you are busy being a teacher yourself. If you are not, feel free to pass this along to anyone you think could provide me with some assistance.
Being a math teacher, I love lists:
1. Any suggestions for how to make creating reassessments easier? Even though I do not currently use it to help me, I have Examview available to me, but it is only organized by Chapter in the book, not skill and in order to find the skill I need I have to view ALL problems available for the chapter and weed out what isn't necessary. I haven't been able to find an easier way, which is why I don't use it. So then I am finding that my reassessments are mostly hand written and given to the students when they come in. I want a better way to organize my problems into skill electronically to use from year to year and I can't figure it out.
2. Since I teach middle school, specifically 8th grade, I found that by only keeping track of the highest score (in my hard copy and electronic gradebook), I have NO idea how many times a student has reassessed. Which causes three problems, one I don't know what specific reassessements per skill they have taken so they don't receive repeats, two I have no way to gauge their continual struggles if I don't know how many times they have taken a reassessment, which also prevents me from sharing that with a parent. With that information I feel I could have a great discussion with the student and parent about their comprehension of said skill. And three, I am finding that my students are just coming in to reassess over and over and not coming in to receive help BEFORE reassessing. I want to find a way to almost force them to come in for help, for example, before their fourth reassessment of a skill, they have to come in for additional help in that skill first. But then I have to keep track of that information somehow and I don't have enough spots in my gradebook. :)
3. Actual grading, I use the 5, 4, 3.5, 3, 2, 1, 0 scale with the 5 being two 4's. I sometimes struggle with what would receive a 3 or a 2. I only use 3.5 if a smaller mathematical and non-conceptual error is made, but the difference between a 3 and a 2 seems to be my gray area...I don't know how to decifer between the two.
Okay, I think that is it. Thank you for reading and if you can't address my questions, please forward them to someone you think could help!
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The first thing I like to do is to get all of my fabric prepped and cut before starting to piece any blocks. If you're a pre-washer, now's the time to do it! (I usually don't pre-wash my fabrics, but the ones I'll be using for this quilt-along were pre-washed already.)
Whether you pre-wash or not, I do recommend that you iron all of your fabrics before you start cutting. It's not because precision is important when we start to cut fabrics -- it's just that I've found it makes the fabrics much easier to work with.
What I like to do before starting a project like this is to go ahead and just cut up all of my fabric at the start. I think it's much easier when constructing blocks to just be able to pull pieces from a pile than stopping to cut every time. Trust me, it will make your block construction go much more quickly!
(Edited to add: if you are working with Jelly Rolls, feel free to skip this post entirely!! You're already ahead of the game!)
I'm going to assume that we're working either with fat quarters (pieces of fabric sized 18" x 22"), or half-yard cuts of fabric (which, when folded, still measure 18" x 22").
I like to cut in layers of 3 or 4, so grab a few fat quarters or 2 half-yard cuts of your fabric. Lay them on your cutting mat so that they are 18" wide by 22" tall. We'll be cutting our strips along the length of the fabric.
(Before going any further, let me first apologize for the quality of the pictures you are about to see. You may have noticed that I usually like to photograph my stuff outdoors because ... well, because my indoor pictures usually come out like this. Apparently, Mother Nature didn't get the memo about Wonky September, because it's been too rainy the past few days to take any pictures outside!)
Cheat a little bit to the left of your 0" line (or whetever line you're starting at). If your fabrics are pre-washed like mine, you might notice that they don't quite reach the 18" mark in width. Mine don't. That's OK -- don't worry about it!
Start your cutting with a fresh edge. I believe this is called "truing up" the fabric. I like to start mine on the 0" line.
Now we're going to cut our logs. This is how I like to do it:
- Cut 2 x 3" strips
- Cut 2 x 2.5" strips
- Cut 2 x 2" strips
- Cut 2 x 1.5" strips
As I told you, my pre-washed fabric was shy of 18", so I only got one of my 1.5" strips cut from each fat quarter. That's OK!
(Repeat it with me, people ... "that's OK!" We're going to be saying that a lot for this quilt. There is little to no precision or stress required for a wonky quilt block -- that's why I love them so!)
If you started with half-yard cuts, the fold will be along the width of the fabric closest to you. You will have half as many strips as your fat quarter counterparts, but they will be twice as long. That's OK! You'll be cutting them down further when you make your blocks.
We're going to be cutting our logs down a little further when actually making the block, but I like to start with a variety of different sizes. You can choose to cut your strips however you'd like -- all the same size, all smaller to get more strips, or any other variation.
And here are all of my logs, cut and ready to go.
Next up, we'll start piecing our first block!
If you have any questions, please leave me a comment or post to the Frequently Asked Questions thread in the Flickr group.


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What's Up in Ottawa – Spring 2019
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The Mountain View-based search giant's group buying discount program has gone live in select cities across the country.
Tueday Google introduced Deals in San Jose with select deals:
Enjoy the "best of Silicon Valley" at Sonoma Chicken Coop, which serves up an award-winning combo of fresh fare, fast service, and friendly prices to all corners of Silicon Valley. Grab today's Google Offer for San Jose and get $30 toward food and drinks for just $15 at participating locations.
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Public Comment
Math and Race: Why Don't More African-Americans Do Science and Engineering?
In November 2012, fifth graders from Rosa Parks Elementary School in Berkeley, California won four of the top ten prizes in a regional math contest with over 90 participants, including the top prize.
An anonymous commenter—we'll call him "Aperson," and also call him "him"—wondered why, when 44% of the school's students are African-American or Latino, were none of the members of the winning team African-American, and only one Latino? Haven't we had five decades of affirmative action?
Aperson ignores the question of sex, despite the fact that only one of the top ten prizes went to a girl, and cuts to the race.
Of course we haven't had five decades of affirmative action, as Allan Bakke can testify: we had about five years. And Aperson's confederates who mock the role racism has played in retarding the development of black mathematicians are being ahistorical, if not A-something else: Race kept the respected mathematician David Blackwell out of Princeton University's math building in 1941, and only a decade ago a black mathematician in Tennessee had to flee the state after receiving death threats from Klan supporters.
I'll concede, however, that it is no longer 2002, and that direct racism is not the sole reason why there is "such an egregious under-representation of black and Hispanic kids in the competition…." Unlike Booker T. Washington or W. E. B. DuBois, today's typical inner-city African-American student has no respect for teachers or education.
In September 2012, I taught geometry at an urban high school. One boy's first words to me were: "Get your a** out of my face." Another student was talking in class, using the S-word, the A-word, and the N-word. I asked him politely not to swear, and he snarled at me to stay out of his conversation. When I mentioned the great mathematician Ramanujan and magic squares to the students, one girl shouted, "We don't care!"
I tried to point out to the students that education was the route by which they could escape their current circumstances, that people like Frederick Douglass had endured far worse than a ghetto upbringing, and emerged victorious. Rather than rise to the example of Douglass, one girl said that maybe they had a different learning style than he.
Fifty-three percent of African-American men drop out of high school. What Aperson must understand is that this dysfunction is not a matter of race, but of culture. I taught an advanced class on enumerative combinatorics to teens at a public school in the New York City area; most of the students who attended were of African descent, and one black girl, "Lisa," whose father came from Guyana, was faster than I was at calculations I had done several times before. The town is 72.5% white and only 5.5% black.
What accounts for the difference? Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean are the most highly educated segment of the U.S. population. One day last summer, I was delighted to see that, of the seventeen or so students I was teaching in Harlem, four of them, on their own time, were playing around with quadratic equations: a Hispanic, a Nigerian and two Haitians. My brother, a certified teacher, quipped that the children of Haiti would swim to America if they knew they could get into a free public school. I suspect that most of the Asian winners of the Berkeley math contest also have foreign parents.
In conclusion, Aperson must understand that if Marlon Brando hadn't had to come to Berkeley in 1968, black America would not be in such bad shape today; but, looking forward, the solution to the problem Aperson has identified is to disaggregate the black race, and recognize that African and Caribbean immigrants are not African-American city dwellers. Let more of the former in, and we'll see more great stories come in shades of brown.
Dr. Jonathan David Farley is an Institute Researcher at the Research Institute for Mathematics (Maine) and an advisory board member of the Baxter Academy for Technology and Science. His family came to the U.S. from the Caribbean. He is a former professor of mathematics and computer science at The University of the West Indies.


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