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On last night's 55th Annual Grammy Awards broadcast live on the CBS Television Network, President/CEO of The Recording Academy and GRAMMY Foundation Neil Portnow, TV and radio host/producer and GRAMMY Foundation Honorary Board Chair Ryan Seacrest andmulti-GRAMMY -winning artist Justin Timberlake announced that the GRAMMY Foundation and The Recording Academy are partnering to present their first-ever Music Educator Award to recognize music educators for their contributions to our musical landscape and their positive influence on their students' musical experiences.
The award is open to current U.S. music teachers from kindergarten through college, in public and private schools. Anyone can nominate a teacher - students, parents, friends, colleagues, Community members, school deans and administrators - and teachers are also able to nominate themselves. Nominated teachers will be notified and invited to fill out an application. One winner will be selected from 10 finalists each year to be recognized for their remarkable impact on their students' lives. The first award will be presented during GRAMMY Week 2014. The winner will be flown to Los Angeles to accept the award, attend the GRAMMY Awards, and receive a $10,000 honorarium. The nine finalists will receive a $1,000 honorarium.
The honorariums provided to the winners are made possible by a grant from the Ford Motor Company Fund. This new partnership with the Ford Motor Company Fund expands their financial support of GRAMMY Foundation music Education initiatives.
The nomination process is open now and the deadline for nominations is April 15, 2013.
To view guidelines and/or to nominate your favorite music educator, visit www.grammymusicteacher.com.
The GRAMMY Foundation was established in 1989 to cultivate the understanding, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture. The Foundation accomplishes this mission through programs and activities that engage the music industry and cultural Community as well as the general public. The Foundation works in partnership year-round with its founder, The Recording Academy , to bring national attention to important issues such as the value and impact of music and arts Education and the urgency of preserving our rich cultural heritage. In recognition of the significant role of teachers in shaping their students' musical experiences, the GRAMMY Foundation and The Recording Academy are partnering to present our first Music Educator Award. Open to current U.S. music teachers in K through college, the Music Educator Award will be given out during GRAMMY Week 2014. The nomination process is online at grammymusicteacher.com and the deadline for submissions is April 15. For more information about the Foundation, please visit www.grammyfoundation.org. For breaking news and exclusive content, please like "GRAMMY in the Schools " on Facebook at www.facebook.com/grammyintheschools, follow the GRAMMY Foundation on Twitter @GRAMMYFdn at www.twitter.com/GRAMMYFdn and join us on Instagram @GRAMMYFdn at www.instagram.com/GRAMMYfdn.
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You mean migrating to Canada where unions aren´t the vampiric leeches they are here. Hollywood just won´t admit it.
2,000 jobs per year loss; not a big deal in this economy.Discount people moving to other states to go where the industry moved, then even smaller numbers.Lastly, if they made more decent stuff, people would probably attend and not watch it on Netflix.
Of course we notice that many (too many) new TV shows push the GLBT agenda.This is the "education" of our youth; the new normal. The Modern Family.The Hollyweird Activists for less than 10% of the population want to make you think everyone needs to act this way.
Yup. And just like Chicago, Philadelphia, and almost every other large city; elections have consequences. And they never see them.
Many of us have ceased going to the movies that the arrogant and ignorant left wing liberals are producing. I will not give them one dime of my money. The movies that they are producing are mostly crap anyway.
Not at all surprised judging by the product Hollywood produces. Democrat were never big on Jobs.
I´m OK with Hollywood going down the toilet...
Finally, some good news.
you´re correct #1 I could list hundreds if not thousands of union inflicted "paper cuts" in the industry
article doesn´t mention the TV production companies filming in Canada...
I´m illconsoulable (sp) Sob@!
So sad. Never watch any of their programs on tv, never attend any of their movies. When I look for dvd´s these days, I put them back on the shelf if any of the Hollyweird Leftists stars are in them. Almost got one yesterday before I realized that Kiera what´s her name was starring in it. She did one of those War on Women ads. Never going to give that Leftist one dime of my money. Only wish more Americans would boycott the Hollyweirdites.
In the current California trends this figure will grow much bigger, I can´t see LA keeping much if the dreadful insustry, wait till the big mogals get his with the new "Jerry Brown Tax" on the nasty 1%ers!
Fantastic. Hope the place reverts into an orange grove.
This problem is easily solved - -Raise taxes on the rich even more - - and build another bullet train.See - - I fixed it - - just like THAT!
I´m a tv/film producer and used to live in LA. I took my business to Texas and am very happy making films here without the bureaucracy and taxes. I also don´t have to worry about the unions here, since we are a right-to-work state. They scare their members out here, but they are powerless to stop them from doing my non-union projects.
Hollywood routinely leaves the state and finds low tax areas then come back and campaign for Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi and all state democrats who want to keep raising taxes....!!Must be the rampart drug use.
Well you know the porno industry is leaving since LA passed the condom act.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. — The first large, population-based study to follow children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder into adulthood shows that ADHD often doesn't go away and that children with ADHD are more likely to have other psychiatric disorders as adults. They also appear more likely to commit suicide and to be incarcerated as adults. The findings appear in the March 4 online issue of Pediatrics.
"Only 37.5 percent of the children we contacted as adults were free of these really worrisome outcomes," says lead investigator William Barbaresi, M.D., of Boston Children's Hospital, who started the study when he was at Mayo. "That's a sobering statistic that speaks to the need to greatly improve the long-term treatment of children with ADHD and provide a mechanism for treating them as adults."
The study is unique because it followed a large group of ADHD patients from childhood to adulthood, says Slavica Katusic, M.D., an epidemiologist and Mayo Clinic's lead researcher on the study.
ADHD is the most common neuro-developmental disorder of childhood, affecting about 7 percent of all children and three times as many boys as girls. Most prior follow-up studies of ADHD have been small and focused on the severe end of the spectrum — such as boys referred to pediatric psychiatric treatment facilities — rather than a cross-section of the ADHD population.
The study followed all children in Rochester who were born between 1976 and 1982, were still in Rochester at age 5 and whose families allowed access to their medical records. That amounted to 5,718 children, including 367 diagnosed with ADHD. Of this group, 232 participated in the follow-up study. About three-quarters received ADHD treatment as children.
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"We suffer from the misconception that ADHD is just an annoying childhood disorder that's overtreated," Dr. Barbaresi says. "This couldn't be further from the truth. We need to have a chronic disease approach to ADHD as we do for diabetes. The system of care has to be designed for the long haul."
Dr. Barbaresi thinks the study findings may underestimate the bad outcomes of childhood ADHD. Most of those studied were white and middle class, with good educations and access to health care.
"One can argue that this is potentially a best-case scenario," Dr. Barbaresi says. "Outcomes could be worse in socioeconomically challenged populations."
He advises parents of children with ADHD to ensure that their children are in high-quality treatment — and remain in treatment as they enter adolescence. Children also should be assessed for learning disabilities and monitored for conditions associated with ADHD, including substance use, depression and anxiety.
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At least 22 people are dead after a series of explosions that tore through central Baghdad today within minutes of each other, followed by an assault by gunmen on a government building. More than 50 others have been hurt.
The gunmen battled security forces in the streets for about an hour. In the end, police say, security forces stormed the building that was attacked, killing the gunmen and evacuating hundreds of people who had hunkered down in their offices.
There's no claim of responsibility, but the attack bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida's arm in Iraq. It frequently uses car bombs and coordinated blasts in an effort to weaken the confidence of Iraqis in the Shiite-led government.
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The best archers in the country are in College Station with the hopes of making it to the 2012 Olympics.
The USA Olympic Team Trials are being held on the Texas A&M campus at the Penberthy Rec Sports Complex and 150 hopefuls have already been narrowed down to 32 potential Olympians. Six archers will be making the trip to London for next year's summer Olympics.
Among the 16 female finalists is Aggie Jennifer Nichols who is hoping to attend her third straight Olympics.
Plus, age doesn't really matter when it comes to archery, candidates for the USA Archery Team range in age from 14 to 56.
"We've had great success with Texas A&M and with the surrounding community. Texas A&M has one of the biggest collegiate archery programs in the United States and they've generated Olympians like Vic Wunderle and Jennifer Nichols. World Champion team member Guy Krueger who's now an assistant head coach for the United States. So the Aggies have a long rich history of producing great archers," said Teresa Iaconi with USA Archery.
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Pakistan are scheduled to play two Twenty20 Internationals and three ODIs from December 25 to January 6.
Pakistan on Monday axed former captain Shahid Afridi from their one-day squad for the much-awaited series against India but retained the seasoned allrounder in the Twenty20 line-up for the brief tour.
Experienced allrounder Abdul Razzaq was dropped from both the squads while Shoaib Malik was overlooked for the three One-day Internationals against India but was kept in the touring party for the two Twenty20 Internationals.
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Energy Efficiency. Prior to 1973, the value of energy efficiency was not widely recognized. As a result, U.S. energy consumption grew rapidly, more than doubling from 1950 and 1973. Then, U.S. oil and natural gas production peaked in the early 1970s and OPEC imposed its oil embargo in 1973. The resulting economic, political, and psychological shock forced the U.S. to focus on energy efficiency. Consequently, energy consumption grew more slowly after 1973 and leveled off in the last ten years at about 100 quad per year. By continuing (and redoubling) its focus on energy efficiency, the U.S. can achieve robust economic growth for the foreseeable future without increasing per capita energy consumption. For example: 1) the efficiency of new light vehicles could double in the next 15 years if the U.S. implements the recently proposed CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standard, 2) new natural gas power plants are twice as efficient as old coal plants, and 3) new buildings, equipment, appliances, and industrial processes are often much more efficient than old buildings, equipment, appliances, and industrial processes.
Natural Gas. U.S. natural gas production peaked in 1973 and declined 17% by 2005. Then a near-miracle occurred: U.S. natural gas production began increasing again. Why? Because two technologies (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) enabled economic production of shale gas. Between 2005 and 2010, U.S. natural gas production increased 19%. It now exceeds peak production in 1973. As a result, natural gas is plentiful in the U.S. and its price is less than half that in many other countries. The EIA (Energy Information Administration) projects that U.S. natural gas production could increase another 24% by 2030. This is enough to satisfy not only normal demand growth, but also allow natural gas to replace coal and oil in some applications. Abundant, low-cost natural gas could give the U.S. a significant competitive advantage for many decades.
Oil and Liquid Fuels. U.S. production of oil and other liquid fuels peaked in 1970 and declined 30% by 2005. Then a turnaround occurred, just as with natural gas. From 2005 to 2010, U.S. production of oil and other liquid fuels increased 16%. In parallel, oil imports from Canada increased over 300% since 1970. As a result, U.S. liquid fuels production plus imports from Canada are now roughly equal to their peak value in 1970. Most of this growth is attributable to increased oil production from unconventional resources (oil sands, shale oil, and shale gas liquids), but some is also due to biofuels (primarily ethanol). This increased production, coupled with reduced consumption, has dramatically decreased U.S. oil imports -- from 60% in 2005 to 49% in 2010 and 45% in 2011. In addition, imports from Canada have steadily increased, so Canada now provides over one-quarter of U.S. imports. The EIA projects that liquid fuels production in the U.S. (and Canada) could increase an additional 30% (and 62%) by 2030. Smart energy policy could take advantage of this opportunity and eliminate most oil imports from countries other than Canada by 2030, making the U.S. essentially energy-independent. Energy independence will improve the U.S. economy, enhance national security, and expand foreign policy options.
Renewable Energy. Eventually, the U.S. and the world must transition from fossil energy to renewable resources or other alternatives. Currently, renewables provide only 8% of U.S. energy supplies, and less than half of this is provided by "new" renewables such as biofuels, wind power, and solar energy. But renewable energy production is increasing rapidly, about 7% annually during the past four years. If renewable energy production continues to grow 7% annually for the next 20 years, renewables could provide over 25% of U.S. energy needs in 2030. However, if the U.S. relies too heavily on (arbitrary) government mandates and subsidies to force widespread adoption of high-cost renewables, the public will become disenchanted with renewable energy and slow its growth. A better approach is to 1) reduce the cost of renewable technologies (for example, with research and development) and 2) internalize the external cost of fossil fuels, so renewables can compete in the marketplace. Note: Internalizing the external cost of fossil fuels will help renewables compete in the marketplace because it will increase the price of fossil energy and also stimulate industry research and development to reduce the cost of renewables.
Climate Change. A great deal has been learned about climate change since the Rio Earth Summit highlighted the problem in 1992. Clearly, those who deny that human activities are increasing the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere and affecting the world's climate are wrong. But so are those who say that climate change is the most urgent problem facing humanity. Smart energy policy will find the middle ground and address climate change by encouraging cost-effective low-carbon, carbon-free, and carbon-negative (sequestration) technologies, without sacrificing U.S. and global economic growth. Some approach for internalizing the external cost of greenhouse gases is needed to provide market incentives to address climate change.
Cap and trade is not the best way to address climate change. Carbon taxes would be better, but the best approach may be a "bottle bill" for greenhouse gases. Such a bill would work as follows: Those who extract carbon from the ground, import it, or emit other greenhouse gases would pay a fee, similar to the refundable deposit for beverage containers. Any company or person who prevents this extracted carbon from entering the atmosphere (or removes it from the atmosphere) would receive a payment equal to the refundable deposit. Bottle bills generally reduce bottle litter by 70% to 80%, and a well-designed bottle bill for greenhouse gases could be equally effective over a period of several decades.
The U.S. will benefit from implementing a bottle bill for greenhouse gases -- whether or not other countries follow -- for four reasons. First, and most importantly, such a bill will stimulate investment in new, clean, and efficient facilities, equipment, vehicles, and technology. This will encourage economic growth and reduce oil imports and air pollution while also decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. Energy is much cheaper in the U.S. than in most other countries, so even with a reasonable refundable deposit on carbon and other greenhouse gases, the U.S. will still enjoy a significant "energy cost" competitive advantage.
Second, the U.S. has many oilfields, farms, and forests that can beneficially sequester carbon, so the refundable deposits will not be wasted, but rather put to good use expanding oil production and encouraging good farming and forestry practices. No other country has so many opportunities to usefully sequester carbon and the technical and entrepreneurial capability to take advantage of these opportunities.
Third, a bottle bill for greenhouse gases will make renewable energy more competitive with fossil fuels and thereby allow elimination of the current (unsustainable) government mandates and subsidies for renewables. Instead of politicians picking energy winners and losers, a bottle bill will allow free markets to decide which technologies are best (and lowest cost).
Fourth, a bottle bill will provide a large financial surplus for at least several decades. This surplus could be instrumental in addressing the current government fiscal problems. For example, it could be used to reduce taxes (perhaps as part of fundamental tax reform), stimulate economic growth, and limit the size of the national debt.
The U.S. is in a unique position to take advantage of these opportunities. By improving energy efficiency and increasing oil and natural gas production, the U.S. can create many good jobs, reduce the real (explicit and implicit) cost of energy, achieve energy independence, and stimulate robust economic growth. Energy independence will allow the U.S. to be a more effective global leader, because foreign policy and military strategy will not be as constrained by oil-supply concerns. By developing cost-competitive renewable energy technologies, the U.S. can ensure that these technologies will be available (and scalable) when they are needed. By implementing a practical market-based approach to address climate change, the U.S. can cost-effectively position itself for the future by encouraging 1) energy efficiency, 2) fuel shifting from coal and oil to natural gas, 3) renewable energy, 4) nuclear power, and 5) value-added carbon sequestration.
The whole world will benefit if the U.S. exploits these opportunities. A strong U.S. economy will be an engine for global economic growth. More importantly, energy technologies developed in the U.S. can be used worldwide for the benefit of all people on the planet. By solving its own energy problems, the U.S. can help the world address global energy challenges.
What will it take to capitalize on these opportunities? To some extent, the U.S. is already benefitting from them. Energy is the primary engine for economic growth in some states such as North Dakota (which has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation) and Texas (which has created more jobs in the past few years than any other state). It is also a major contributor to economic growth in several other states such as Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. Nevertheless, to realize the full potential of these opportunities, politicians must put aside their ideological differences and work together to implement pragmatic, nonpartisan energy policies based on common sense and compromise. Three policy objectives of particular importance are 1) improve energy efficiency, 2) expand oil and natural gas production, and 3) implement a practical, cost-effective system to internalize the external cost of fossil fuels.
There may be scope to implement a similar paradigm in many areas that involve the use of energy. Technical and logistical innovations that ultimately increase productivity, perhaps by changing the methods by which to achieve the desired end result, may go a long way in terms of energy efficiency.
Fact is we simply do not know whether or not CO2 will significantly warm the planet. Further, we have no idea whether or not any warming will be particularly catastrophic. Case in point: the current climate is more beneficial for mankind than the substantially colder last ice age.
To leap to the conclusion that renewable energy is going to meaningfully reduce man's rather feeble contribution to global CO2 levels is just plain dumb, as a simple mathematical calculation easily demonstrates.
Worse yet, spending vast amount of money on a fundamentally wrong-headed solution only serves to make us poorer from an economics standpoint.
What we should be doing is using energy wisely to save money and that directly leads to a stronger economy. More efficient production and use of energy is the very definition of wise. The byproduct (as opposed to the driving force) of such an approach happens to be lower CO2 emissions.
Further, from a purely engineering standpoint, the best forms of energy are those that are the most concentrated. That places renewable energy more-or-less "off-scale, low" and not particularly helpful. Nuclear energy happens to be "off-scale, high" and is thus superior in terms of usefulness.
Comment: The actor John Wayne is alledged to have said:
"Life is hard; its harder when you're stupid."
Lot's of email activity seen in New Mexico Gas Company Case No. 11-00369-UT. Let's look through the 674 page document for examples of unintelligence.
Tuesday March 13, 2012 09:46
Ms Annette Gardiner, President
New Mexico Gas Company
Subject: Rate increase procedure complaint
Hello Ms Gardiner,
Procedure used to present case to public for gas price increases needs to be changed, I feel.
Methodology of verbal assault to reach a conclusion in New Mexico Gas Company Case No. 11-00369-UT by apparent liberal arts educated participants appears not to be working because data is not being examined.
And we can prove this with 649 page document which I feel should have never been assembled or apparently published at expense of New Mexico Gas Company customers.
What I heard appeared to be be unintelligent nonsense uttered by Ms Stevens and Ms Rising. They tried to appear intelligent and well educated but hubris, arrogance, incompetence and poor education emerged instead, imo.
Let's look at examples from the record.
[Have you ever had so much fun? This would have been impossible before Internet!]
Mary Homan has not returned my phone requesting data.
Our complaint is liberal arts 'educated' attempting to dominate energy issues..
We hope to file
by the end of 1390. :-}.
Only reduced use with smarter technology and more Renewables is the way to go for a real clean and prosperous future.
Our homes should all be built efficient for zero energy use or even positive energy.
Our vehicles are also very inefficient . All should be full hybrid at the least and lighter and smaller.
The CFL light is so last century. LED last longer,makes no heat and is 10 times more efficient !
We have the technolgy we just have to start using it. The best way is to let prices rise on gas and electric rates. That is the only way prople respond. In Germany gas is $8-10 a gallon so people drive micro cars and bicycles since they see the payoff. To do this we stop subsidizing OIL, Nuclear, COAL and NG.
Although the energy is free and renewable as long as the sun shine. Effectively harnessing it 24/7 on the grid is another matter. Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. The RPS, or feed in tariff, has been one big failure in making countries independent of oil or even coal. Therefore energy policy makers should let the free market decide and restrict their actions to incentives instead of subsidies and mandates.
Then there's the continuing fallacy that emissions, particularly CO2 are causing so called global warming or even climate change. A quick review of reality, past the hype and mantra of politico, reveals no real increase nor acceleration with the increasing CO2 levels. In fact studies show that increased CO2 levels are good for plant growth, especially food crops.
Perhaps we should all stop drinking the koolaide and let real scientists discover the causes which do not parallel CO2 emissions.
The Skeptic's Case
Mar 08, 2012
Climate Change Impacts In The USA is Already [NOT] Happening
Klaus Eckhart Puls: "Goodbye Warming - Hello Cooling" From Wrong Science to Fraud Science"
Can we now move on to real energy development past the renewable, clean, green hype as most of the infrastructure/maintenance costs are neither! The best case for renewable is passive solar and some bio like processing methanol into a liquid gas alternative. But so far they can only supplement the mainstay of either coal, gas or nuclear.
The problem here is that too many environmentalists want to completely dump nuclear. I view that attitude as an attack on the living standards of the gainfully employed, in whose ranks I include a large fraction of millionaires and multimillionaires.
to the energy parasites.
To rectify that situation energy supplies must be developed on a massive and unprecedented scale and as much as many would like to think otherwise solar panels and wind farms are just nowhere near up to the job. That leaves natural gas (unavailable in many parts of the world) Coal or nuclear power.
To bring the worlds population to even 10% of the standard of living in North America Don Hirshberg - a frequent commentator here - estimates that a 1000MW power plant is required to be built EVERY WEEK for the foreseeable future.
Such a vast increase in the consumption of coal to power these facilities would be catastrophic to the worlds atmosphere aswell burning natural gas at that rate will rapidly deplete world reserves. That leaves one option which is nuclear.
Despite the rhetoric nuclear is the safest industry in the world bar none and when it dawns on people that the 7 billion people in the world WILL live in poverty without it then - as in China - large numbers of plants will be built.
Energy efficiency has a role to play and of course engineers strive to do things more efficiently every day - it is what we do. New developments like the CO2 Brayton Cycle being developed at Sandia Labs will increase the thermal efficiency of existing nuclear plants by using CO2 - not water as the working fluid. But efficiency can only take you so far. Sooner or later you must produce more and that production is going to come from nuclear.
Even the United Arab Emirates is building a 4-unit nuclear plant and they are sitting on some of the worlds richest oil field.
Why would they do that - it is simple. The UAR knows oil is going to skyrocket in price as it gets harder and harder to find so they are conserving what they have left by using nuclear to power their state. Wise thinking in my view.
So from the article I assume it's used directly from the reactor core to the turbine? Or are they using an intermediate loop?
I agree that internalizing the cost is necessary but most of the times these costs are past to consumers. We need policies that prevent oil companies from passing the cost to customers and in this regard cap-and-trade probably is a good choice than carbon tax.
When you are going to buy laptop hard drive, it is extremely important to look for one that is going to be fast and large enough to accommodate all of your files and data needs. It
Yeah, it's just what I need, I'm about to have a new one
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Iowa author to sign copies of her books in Grinnell
Stepping Stones will host Iowa author Elaine Marie Cooper from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at its Marshalltown location and Saturday, Feb. 2, at its Grinnell location.
Cooper is the author of the "Deer Run Saga – Tales of Love, Honor, Family, Challenge, Adventure and Life as it was in Early America." She will sign copies of her books during the events.
"The Road to Deer Run" was a finalist in 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Religious Fiction. "The Promise of Deer Run" was Romance Winner for 2012 Los Angeles book Festival.
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Hi Tim.
I've got a library of Exabyte and Metrum tapes that......... no, no we won't go there... no Red files on them. :clown2:
Welcome Tim, look forward to reading your posts. :)
Tim, what's your opinion on the various flavors of LTO setups? LTO-3, LTO-3A, or LTO-4? LTO-3 is the cheapest, but has no directory like LTO-3A. LTO-3A has a good directory setup for retrieval, but is expensive. LTO-4 is the newest, but as you said, it's expensive.
Id go with LTO4, apparently LTO3A has compatibility issues.
Welcome aboard, Tim!
LTO-3A is a compatibility issue. I personally recommend LTO-4. it's not quite as cheap as LTO-3, but it's faster, prices are falling like a rock, and is the current spec. Complete desktop SAS kits with some tapes and software can be had for under $2500. In the long run, if you are archiving 30TB or more over the next year, it's both cheaper and more reliable than HDD. It still boggles my mind how people trust shelf-destined backups to hard drives.
I've never ONE time, in 20 years had a hard-drive fail or go bad after sitting on the shelf for 5 or 10 years. Why is everyone so worried about that. Sure I hear stories but I also have had many situations where I could NOT retrieve data off tape backups because the unit failed and I couldn't find similar used unit or because operating system, drivers, indexes or some other incompatibility issue. Let's put it this way. I'd rather have 3 separate 1TB hard drive copies of my critical data (at $295 total cost) stored in three separate locations for 10 years than 1 tape backup that I may not be able to read 10 years from now.
Just my humble opinion. :)
BTW, I sometimes have nightmares about Retrospect from the 90's. ;)
Because over the last 15+ years, I've purchased literally thousands of hard drives and had hundreds of them fail. Hard drives are not designed to sit. Platters are not designed to store data for extra long periods of time. Most HDD manufacturers recommend reformatting and reconditioning drives every couple years. If you have not had any troubles, then you are one of the rare and fortunate few. Seriously, how many hard drives have you purchased over the past 10 years? How many have you allowed to sit on a shelf with data for that period of time? Have you checked them all recently?
All mechanical devices can fail. I've heard a lot of horror stories about tape over the years too. I've had drives eat tapes, I've had tapes go bad or have corrupt data and not explanation can be found. What I think is laughable is that people use compatibility or "inability" to locate a drive and software to read a tape at some point in the future as an excuse to not use tape. The same logic can be applied to any other format -- HDDs, optical media, etc.. All the good tape formats from 25 years ago are still readable today, many of them (like LTO) are readable in the newest LTO-4 drives.Sure I hear stories but I also have had many situations where I could NOT retrieve data off tape backups because the unit failed and I couldn't find similar used unit or because operating system, drivers, indexes or some other incompatibility issue.
I would prefer 3 HDDs to 1 tape copy any day myself. Why only use 1 tape? What kind of comparison is that? 1TB HDD's are $60 these days. 800GB LTO-4 tapes are $50. What's the point? The only argument against tape that I can see is that they are slower than HDDs and require an additional piece of hardware (drive). OK, fair enough. But what makes you think that in 15 years, you will just be able to connect that SATA drive to a common computer without additional hardware? 15 years ago, RLL, ESDI and 25-pin SCSI were all common drive standards. All would be a real PAIN IN THE ASS if you had to connect one today. Whereas I can put an LTO-1 or LTO-2 tape in my LTO-4 drive and just read it.Let's put it this way. I'd rather have 3 separate 1TB hard drive copies of my critical data (at $295 total cost) stored in three separate locations for 10 years than 1 tape backup that I may not be able to read 10 years from now.
I have nightmares about any version of Retrospect. I wish it upon all of my enemies.BTW, I sometimes have nightmares about Retrospect from the 90's. ;)
I agree about drives being the answer not tape. You can get decent drives cheaply today and it's not a huge deal to put them in a mirroring capable enclosure and spin them up once in a while. You have random access and an easy migration path. Corporate backup is moving away from tape in large numbers. Furthermore Compact Flash is getting cheap. We are getting to the point where we can just keep the cards and not overwrite them. San disk is working on write once media that will be great for archiving. You hardrives in a mirrored setup will last long enough to migrate to the better media.
I agree that FLASH, especially write-once media will play a huge role in the future. I don't agree with the hard drive deal though. I'm not sure where you're coming up with "Corporate backup is moving away from tape in large number" statement. LTO-4 is selling like crazy and provides huge cost savings over drives for large archival volumes. When it comes to archiving petabytes and zetabytes of data, hard drives don't make sense at all.
SAN installations with online backups are predominantly hard drive based these days, and typically that is where "corporate backup" tech is migrating to, but this is not long-term archival.
I seriously do not see how hard drives can provide a realistic and simple solution to archiving anything in the PB range or larger. Look at the size, weight, additional storage containers, etc.. needed to store that many hard drives. Tapes occupy less physical space and weigh a lot less. Plenty of autoloader systems for tapes that can be had for a lot cheaper than hiring an IT school flunkee to swap drives into a RAID enclosure. Buying enclosures for every collection of drives becomes a huge burden in terms of cost and physical size as the archives grow.
I often wonder just how much data people on reduser are really intending to archive and for how long. I'm shelving duplicate copies of 1.2 to 1.8 TB every week or two. LTO-4 tape has already proven to be more cost effecting than hard drive over the past few months. I transferred all my HDD based REDCODE archives over to tape. Done. Out of the 500GB HDDs I was using to archive my RED footage and everything else I have done over the past year, I had one drive failure. Out of about 40 drives. And they were all less than 6 months old, bought and used just for backup. Had one bad tape, too... The drive failure was not an issue, as I had duplicate copies of all things. It was defective right from the factory, two separate tape drives would reject it with tape transport error.
I feel a little sorry for a few reduser members I know that have been going the HDD route, who had bought many of the Seagate 1TB units that are failing like crazy. Oh, well, shit happens.
Larry Jordan, esteemed final cut guru has this to say about hard drives.
Magnetic signals recorded on a hard disk are designed to be refreshed periodically. If your hard disks stay on, this happens automatically. However, if you store your projects to a removable hard drive, then store that hard drive on a shelf, unattached to a computer, those magnetic signals will fade over time... essentially, evaporating.
Link to his article
Hard Disk Warning! by Larry Jordan
I know cost of LTO is an issue for a lot of us so I started a thread called
HP DAT as a backup alternative to LTO
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With the new year under way, you may be thinking about needed home improvements and how you'll use your credit to fund them. While it's important to understand your credit before making major home improvement decisions, you should also consider another kind of credit - tax credits for energy efficient home improvements.
If you've ever had new carpeting installed in your house and found yourself suffering from a nagging cough for days afterward, you've experienced the effect some home improvement materials can have on your health.
It's not uncommon for homeowners to get the itch to move when they've been in their house awhile. While just picking up and moving isn't an option for most of us, there's another approach that people are taking: Refreshing their house to create a high-impact, high-style look, but doing it in a way that's cost effective.
What does $325,000 buy you in Manteca today? The short answer is just about any house on the market. You could buy three homes in Powers Tract or a good sized McMansion. That wasn't the case seven years ago in December of 2004. Prices were starting to climb. They had climbed on average $71,933 during the previous 12 months. A home in an older neighborhood near Manteca High at 534 Mikesell Street closed escrow in ...
The American home may be shrinking, but not the Great American Dream. Americans are still living large, just doing so in smaller spaces.
DEAR BENNY: Our buyer defaulted on his real estate contract and has decided not to buy our house. He had put up a $20,000 earnest money deposit, which we want. However, our real estate broker is refusing to release those funds. What can we do? --Dylan
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fixed mortgage rates rose slightly this week off their record lows. The year ends much like it began, with few people able to take advantage of the best rates in history.
FRENCH CAMP – The Central Valley Association of Realtors is holding their annual Leadership installation at the historic River Mill on Jan. 12.
In today's world where news travels at the speed of now, people are searching for balance and purpose and are tapping into the power of plants to cultivate the 'new good life'.
Say goodbye to the McMansion. According to a leading real estate website, Trulia.com, 2010 was officially the year that homes over 3,200 square feet ended their dominance and appeal. But don't think that downsizing means downgrading. In fact, homeowners are looking to upsize their amenities to help them enjoy every inch of their homes.
New Year's is a time when many people commit to starting fresh or developing some positive changes in their lives. As you consider what you will change in 2012, think about where you spend the majority of your time. Your surroundings can greatly influence your mood and actions, and a refreshed interior can help you step forward into a new and improved lifestyle. Enjoying life more in 2012 could start with just a few simple updates to your home.
DEAR BENNY: My husband died this past August. We owned and lived in our house for more than 15 years, but now I want to sell. Am I eligible for the up-to-$500,000 exclusion of any profit that I will make? --Annie
Ready to give your bathroom a facelift, but can't decide what changes to make? From tubs to toilets to tile, the sky is the limit when it comes to bathroom renovations, even if budget is not.
The California Housing Finance Agency is now offering the Schools Facility Fee Down Payment Assistance program to qualified buyers of newly constructed homes. With home prices and mortgage interest rates already near all-time lows, the down payment assistance increases the affordability of new homes even more for qualified buyers.
STOCKTON - Wells Fargo & Company is hosting a free Home Preservation Workshop in Stockton for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Wells Fargo Financial, Wachovia Mortgage and Wells Fargo Home Equity customers facing financial hardships.
Q: My dad is in his 70's still working. Mom died a couple years ago and he's left with a mortgage (remaining balance of $330K on a single-home) on top of house maintenance, monthly costs and unpaid debts. Lately, dad expressed concern that he is getting old and worried how he can pay for the house. He is opposed to selling the house because of life memories. Stated the idea of us (family of 3, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans who signed contracts to buy existing homes fell in September to the lowest level in nine months. The decline reflects higher mortgage rates and home prices that have made purchases more costly.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Average U.S. rates on fixed mortgages fell for the second straight week and are at their lowest levels in four months.
As decorations are hung this holiday season in preparation for entertaining family and friends, consider creating ambiance using lighting in the main social rooms of the home, including the kitchen, dining and living rooms. Beyond the trimmings, presents and other jolly adornments, it is essential to have the proper lighting to enhance the glow of the holidays and adjust the mood of a room.


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Telstra and CBA join ODCA
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The Open Data Centre Alliance (ODCA) has extended to its expansive adopter member list through the addition of Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA).
ODCA was formed in 2010, and features a range of global IT giants. It is a led by a steering committee of senior IT executives from major companies including the likes of BMW, Deutsche Bank, NAB, and Disney Technology Solutions, among others.
As adopter members, the two will be able to participate in ODCA Roadmap reviews and utilise its usage models to guide their own datacentre purchase and planning decisions.
According to ODCA executive director, Marvin Wheeler, CBA and Telstra's role in helping the alliance develop standard requirements for Cloud computing will be valuable.
As listed on the ODCA Web site, CBA and Telstra will also have the opportunity to gain insight through review and commentary on 0.7 usage model drafts prior to public distribution. In addition, both will have access to members-only events, and be able to participate in networking with other members through ODCA discussion forums.
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Texas A&M and Florida fans are arriving in droves for Saturday's big game and a national television audience.
Aggieland will be in the national spotlight as ESPN broadcasts the 2:30 game, and also College Gameday Saturday morning.
Gameday crews have assembled the set and jumbotron screens at Texas A&M's Simpson Drill Field.
The site will give Saturday's audience a scenic view of The Zone at Kyle Field, overlooking the newly-renovated Memorial Student Center.
This is GameDay's third overall visit to Aggieland, and the first since A&M played Oklahoma in 2006.
And the anchors of that show, Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard arrived on campus Friday, with an interesting perspective on The 12th Man.
ESPN anchor Chris Fowler said, "Yeah, I don't think I expect an extra level of crazy from The 12th Man because it's the SEC, because it's already been off the charts. It's already as good an atmosphere as anywhere else."
But Fowler says don't expect Florida to wilt.
The Gators are used to loud and raucous crowds in the SEC.
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It was twilight as Captain Hood stood on the roof of a 12 story structure and surveyed the war ravaged city before him. He felt good. Truly invigorated, more so than he had in years.
"Everything alright?" asked a voice in his head.
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Emily, a straight-A and B sophomore, developed persistent migraines about two weeks before she wound up in the ICU early on Dec. 8, said Bryant. One bad migraine even sent her to the ER, and doctors scheduled an MRI.
But anxiety and claustrophobia prevented Emily from getting the test.
Bryant said doctors at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center said the migraines were possibly related to using the drug.
"We correlated the time she got migraines with the time she started smoking this stuff," he said. "In their professional opinion, they think it's related. But medically speaking, they don't have a picture of her brain from before and after, so they can't say."
While her family doesn't know how long she'd been using the drug, her stepfather suspected she started around two weeks before the night that sent her to the hospital.
Common side effects to smoking synthetic marijuana include bloodshot eyes, disturbed perceptions and a change in mood, said Dr. Melinda Campopiano, a medical officer with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
"People can become very agitated or can be come unresponsive -- conscious but not reacting normal to situations," she said. They may also appear paranoid or describe hallucinations. Some of the more potentially serious effects include an elevated heart rate and elevated blood pressure.
Campopiano said she had never heard of a patient having a stroke in these circumstances, but she described how high blood pressure could lead to one.
"Generally, strokes are caused by restricted circulation, or a blood clot that blocks circulation. What we would be looking at with Spice, or K2, is the restrictive circulation model," she said.
Bryant told CNN that doctors diagnosed his daughter with vasculitis, which is an inflammation of the blood vessels. The vessels going into Emily's brain were constricting, limiting blood and oxygen flow. Campopiano confirmed that vasculitis is one of the causes of strokes of this type.
"One of the difficulties is that there's no existing toxicology screen that can reliably detect these substances," said the physician. "There could very well be harms out there that we don't know about yet."
'She was literally just a shell'
Emily complained of a migraine and took a nap at her house after allegedly smoking Spice with friends on December 7, said Bryant. She woke up a different person.
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"We thought once she comes down off the drug, we'd take her home and show her the dangers of this drug," said the 22-year-old. "We didn't think it was as big of a deal until 24 hours later she was still violent and hurting herself. We realized you're not supposed to stay high this long."
To keep Emily safe, doctors put her in an induced coma.
After days in the sedated state, an MRI revealed she had suffered several severe strokes, said Bryant.


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POISONOUS PRODUCTS?: Physician Paul Blanc discusses how seemingly harmless, everyday consumer products may be bad for health.
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We are continually exposed to a mélange of potentially toxic chemicals through the air we breathe, food and water we consume, and products that come in contact with our skin. Some of these chemicals are suspected of interfering with hormone function; causing cancer, asthma or other respiratory harm; damaging the brain and nervous system; and promoting reproductive disorders or negatively impacting developing embryos. More than 83,000 chemicals have been registered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976 for use in U.S. commerce. Most of these substances have not been thoroughly tested for their effects on human health. What's more, we are often exposed to chemicals in various multiple combinations that may produce unpredictable effects.
Some critics say the EPA fails to do enough to protect health and are pushing for reform of the 34-year old TSCA. In recent moves that suggest reform may be closer, the EPA in 2009 issued action plans for compounds that pose serious health or environmental concerns and announced as well the establishment of a "Chemicals of Concern" list. Furthermore, the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010, a bill that would strengthen TSCA, was introduced in Congress this past April; it may be taken up for consideration later this year.
In the meantime, seemingly harmless, ubiquitous products such as glue, weatherproofing sprays, household cleaners and gasoline additives have been causing illness in both workers and the general public for many decades. Paul Blanc, a physician who holds the endowed chair in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, discusses the health risks associated with hazardous chemicals found in common consumer products. He is the author of How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (University of California Press, 2007), which addresses the following topics, along with many others, in more detail.
[An edited transcript of the interview follows. ]
How do everyday products make people sick?
There are two main issues: how people are exposed making everyday products, and how people are exposed using everyday products. But I think it is also important to remember an important third phase, which is what happens to these products after people are done using them and they are disposed of, recycled or put into the environment. The take-home lesson is that everything is connected to everything, and there is no magic wall that separates or protects consumers from hazards that are otherwise considered industrial hazards or the environment downstream. We have to think about things from cradle to grave.
How are these illnesses discovered? How do you link an exposure to a health outcome?
It gets progressively more difficult because, generally speaking, as you have lower levels of exposure stepping down from the industrial site to the home, and then from the home to the environment, it is more difficult (but not impossible) to make the connections. Often the connection between exposure and illness is made quite quickly and quite obviously early on in the life cycle of these materials. It is not simply that now we're clever enough to identify these things. If you look back in time you can see that often the lag time between the introduction of a new process or product and the recognition of a health risk was pretty rapid, within just a few years in many cases—even for sophisticated new materials. If it is an acute or fairly immediate effect following exposure, it is easier to identify the link.


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on 07-03-2012 01:06 PM
I just bought Unit 13 and the online pass doesn't seem to work. I can play the "objective of the day" or what it's called but it doesn't show up in the download list. The network pass, not the game. I bought the game in sweden on game.se and got it today. But I have acces to some of the online features. But why doesn't it show up in the download list on playstation store then? I don't get it.
Please help me// Alvin
Solved! Go to Solution.
on 07-03-2012 01:43 PM
on 07-03-2012 01:47 PM
BlackKnightJP wrote:
I read your post at least four times and still find it confusing.
I'm not the only one then.
on 07-03-2012 01:48 PM
on 07-03-2012 01:49 PM
Well I bought it on a store so I got the game card and the Network Pass was on the back of the manual (as usual). And when I activate it it says that it's invalid. But I can use the online features such as "objective of the day". So why is it working and how come the network pass doesn't?
And now when I read it I find it confusing too...
on 07-03-2012 01:51 PM
on 07-03-2012 01:52 PM
on 07-03-2012 01:53 PM
on 08-03-2012 06:02 PM
What he is trying to say is that the when you put the redeem code and press download, it won't download. And when you try to re download it you can't because is not in the download list
08-03-2012 06:15 PM - edited 08-03-2012 06:20 PM
That's because it's in the Services List... There isn't a file to download.
What I did was power off my vita..power on... start up Unit 13. Should be active then
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the online may not be switched on yet.
It's definitely up and running had a look before and there were online games available
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Posted 22 December 2012 - 10:29 AM
1)trade Garza and Soriano to the Rangers for Mike Olt, Justin Grimm and Robbie Ross.
2. Trade Vogelbach, Soler and a PTBNL to the Rays for David Price.
The line for 2015 would look like
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Posted 22 December 2012 - 10:54 AM
I'm not familiar with Grimm or Ross. Can you tell us a little more (too lazy to look them up now)?
If the Cubs could actually get Price for Vogie and Solar, they should do that right this minute.
Ross is a LHP with a very good power sinker that was used in relief by Texas but most experts believe he can start. Grimm is a RHP with #3 or #2 stuff.
Posted 22 December 2012 - 11:11 AM
Posted 22 December 2012 - 12:15 PM
These are the moves that could speed up contention not including the draft.
1)trade Garza and Soriano to the Rangers for Mike Olt, Justin Grimm and Robbie Ross.
2. Trade Vogelbach, Soler and a PTBNL to the Rays for David Price.
The line for 2015 would look like
C: Castillo
1B: Rizzo
2B: Watkins
SS: Castro
3B: Olt
LF: BJax
CF: Almora
RF: Baez
I'm for hanging on to Soler.The Rays will likely require more than the pkg. you proposed. Price is arguably a top 3 pitcher in all of MLB AND the Rays will require lots of players in return,think what it took to get Garza from them, and Price is more valuable than a Garza.
Posted 23 December 2012 - 08:26 AM
The lineup looks prettyngood, but certainly no guarantees that any or some of those minor leaguers are destined for the big leagues or will stay when they get here.
Posted 23 December 2012 - 10:06 AM
CF Nate Schierholtz (L) / Dave Sappelt
2B Javier Baez
1B Anthony Rizzo (L)
RF Jorge Soler
LF Shane Peterson (L)
3B Mike Olt
SS Starlin Castro
C Jarrod Saltalamacchia (S) / Welington Castillo
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Trade Garza for Mike Olt.
Trade Ian Stewart and Darwin Barney for Shane Peterson.
Trade Brett Jackson, Trey McNutt, Austin Reed, and Daniel Vogelbach for David Price.
Posted 23 December 2012 - 10:53 AM
Peterson doesn't project well as his primary position is all over the diamond,that is 1B and all outfield spots, and quite frankly his bat just isn't good enough.
If Tampa is stupid enough to bite on that pkg. by all means we do it.Friedman as evidenced by the Garza deal were offered it, he'd hang up immediately.
Posted 25 December 2012 - 12:58 PM
And then we will trade vitters and a ptbnl for Ryan Zimmerman.
This is so easy to build a world series team. What are the cubs waiting for?
Let's also do just a ptbnl for kugel.
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Posted 21 January 2013 - 12:29 AM
There is no way the Cubs can possibly get David Price that easily. Look at what the Royals had to give up for James Shields. They included the best prospect in the game in Wil Myers and they still had to give up more valuable pitching talent. Price to the Cubs cannot be done without depleting the farm.
Here is why you are wrong. Shield had a friendly contract Price will get a big pay day next year and the year after. Yes Price is a better pitcher but there are some serious money issues involved.
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