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Softlayer Cloud: a Scary Story of One Bad Service
Disclaimer: the information in this post is the author's personal opinion and is not the opinion or policy of his employer.
It was spring 2010 when we decided that even though Softlayer's server provisioning system is really great and it takes only a few hours to get a new server when we need it, it is still too long sometimes. We wanted to be able to scale up when needed and do it faster. It was especially critical because we were working hard on bringing up Facebook integration to our site and that project could have dramatically changed our application servers cloud capacity requirements.
What buzzword comes to your mind when we talk about scaling up really fast, sometimes within minutes, not hours or days? Exactly – cloud computing! So, after some initial testing and playing around with Softlayer's (really young back then) cloud solution called CloudLayer and talking to our account manager we've decided to switch our application from a bunch of huge and at the time pretty expensive 24-core monster servers to a cluster of 8-core cloud instances. To give you some perspective: we had ~250 cores at the start of the project and at the end of 2010 we'd have more then 100 instances – we weren't a small client with a few instances).
For those who are not familiar with Softlayer cloud: they sell you "dedicated" cores and memory, which is supposed to give you an awesome performance characteristics comparing to shared clouds like EC2.
Long story short, after a month of work on the project we had our application running on the cloud and were able to scale it up and down pretty fast if needed. And since the cloud was based on faster cpu and faster memory machines, we even saw improved performance of single-threaded requests processing (avg. response time dropped by ~30% as far as I remember). We were one happy operations team…
But then the problems started. Pretty painful and weird problems. The problems all looked exactly the same – some day (or night) some of our cloud instances would start blocking on I/O operations forever or for really long periods of time. Then some time after that our filesystems would switch to read-only mode because of write errors (timeouts) on their storage.
Just to make it clear: our application does not log much to local disks and almost does not read anything. But sometimes we still need to read a config file or write some logging information, and syslogd was still there and sometimes needed to write to disk. So, many times a week we would wake up, see an instance dead (all critical processes locked in D-state), call Softlayer, and spend hours (literally) to bring it back up. Sometimes it'd happen to one server, sometimes to ten of them. First time in my life I was afraid to go to bed because I was almost certain a monitoring SMS would wake me up within a few hours. This was probably one of the most stressful periods of my professional life to date.
What was making the situation even worse, nobody on Softlayer's side seemed to care about the trend we all were seeing pretty clearly – their cloud was seriously broken. Every ticket about a dead instance was processed as if it was the first one with such problem ever. Support people would poke around an instance for some time, then try to restart it, etc. After some time they'd give up and escalate it to so called InfoSys team. Which would take its time (usually hours) to finally respond with a template answer telling us there was a problem with their SAN and we were the only customers experiencing the problem and that they are working with their SAN vendor to fix this problem. We've got dozens of tickets and they all looked exactly the same (compared word by word) even though they were sent weeks apart.
After a month (I believe) of this hell in our operations team's life and being close to a nervous breakdown I've contacted our dedicated account manager and told him we were going to start leaving Softlayer for some other provider (not only the cloud but all servers) if they would not fix the problem within one week. And this is where things started moving really fast: I've received dozens of calls from all kinds of managers, was called-in to a few meetings with a senior manager responsible for the cloud, etc and within a week they've found a solution. They'd setup local disks on their hosts systems and move our filesystems to local disks instead of putting them on their SAN. This was supposed to "fix" the problem until they figured it out completely and, as expected, it did help us. The problems went away and if they were still happening again – that'd be some instance they forgot to switch to local storage.
Time was passing by and for a few months we did not have any serious issues with the cloud. Then we've started growing. Being pretty sure the problem had been solved by that time we didn't actually realize that new cloud instances were created on SAN again. And really soon we've got bad news – their problem was still there. Any issues happening with our instances were processed within the same template:
- an instance breaks;
- we receive a notification and file a ticket;
- Softlayer support guy spends up to an hour trying to figure out what's happening;
- the ticket is escalated to the InfoSys team;
- we wait up to 1 day (yes, two cases out of dozens we had with them it took more than a day!) for an answer from this systems team and the problem resolution.
This InfoSys team from my point of view was a really interesting case of a poorly integrated third party service within a huge company (this is my vision of the problem, I do not know how this happened in reality). Every time we'd have a problem that needed their attention, support guy would escalate the problem to the systems team and this is it – nothing he could do and the only thing we'd hear hours after the escalation was "we can't contact systems team to get an update, we should wait". Nobody from this team ever contacted us directly, it was impossible to reach out to any of them, they never seemed to care about those downtimes we had – they'd follow the same "fix one instance at a time" patterns again and again and whole Softlayer support department would not be able to get a few words of an update from them.
At this point we've started thinking about moving away from the cloud, but it'd involve a month or two of work and having a small operations team with lots of concurrent tasks limited your ability to allocate so many resources to such a project so we didn't do that back then.
After a few more months of work with their cloud and having intermittent downtimes (rare, but still painful) at the beginning of 2011 two things happened:
First, we've got Softlayer guys to admit that their "dedicated" cores are actually Intel Hyper-Threading threads (1/2 of a cpu core). This made us realize that the cloud wasn't actually cheap comparing to the new hardware available on the market.
Second, our account manager and a few guys from the systems team in clear text asked us to leave their cloud because they could not support our I/O requirements anymore (remember I told you before – we barely used their storage).
This was enough and we've finally made the decision to give up and go back to real hardware only we control and manage. It took us more than a month of work, but we think we've got pretty good system built as the replacement for Softlayer cloud based solution.
Now, the reason I've decided to finally write this blog post is funny: I was going to write it a few times and didn't have a chance to do it. But today (April 30, 2011) one of 5 cloud instances we have left in Softlayer cloud has died. We use those instances for all kinds of experimental "servers", etc and it wasn't uber-critical downtime. So, this instance died and so far (4.5 hours after its death) the problems looks really similar to what we've experienced many-many times in the last year and again – they follow the same template: support guys have spent an hour messing with the instance, then they've transferred the ticket to their InfoSys team and 3 hours later there weren't any updates and they would not be able to reach that team to get anything from them. Update: It took them 4.5 hours to recover the instance and the only explanation we've got was "there were some problems with the host system".
I really hope every single operations team in the world considering using Cloudlayer as their solution for some problems would google first, see my experience and would make their own conclusions. These are the facts and my own experience and it is up to you guys to decide how to interpret them and apply them to your own cases.
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Perhaps, your words would have a not-good effect to theirs business but I hope Softlayer will soon release a more clearly explanation about the case.
SL is a well-know Cloud service provider so far, but in my opinion, they have to deal with any unwanted problem better than what they have done with your case.
BTW, nothing is perfect, either Amazon or Google!
Yeah, nothing is perfect. But the thing is, their main offering – dedicated server hosting – is just awesome, the best I've ever seen. And when their cloud stuff was this bad and they couldn't actually provide any support for it – this is what made me so frustrated and thinking that this was actually some crappy 3rd party service poorly integrated into their system.
Interesting post Alexey. Looking at your Quantcast graph, it appears you do have the type of workload that makes sense in the cloud–namely, much larger traffic spikes on weekdays. At Squidoo we also see higher traffic during the week, but fortunately we are able to absorb it using aggressive Varnish caching (Istvan from Percona set this up for us–you can read details on my blog).
Switching hosts might not be as bad as you think. For one, you may be able to get much more aggressive pricing given your size and reputation. Another hidden gem is that you get to document (if you haven't already) and test your server provisioning and backup strategies. This is an invaluable task. Try to look at the bright side
I think you guys are working on some interesting stuff. I would love to compare performance and operations notes sometime. Are you planning to attend Velocity Conf this year?
Yeah, we have caching in place too. I'd say ~90% of our traffic is served from squid. It really helps
re: Velocity – unfortunately I missed my chance to get the tickets and then it was all sold out
My experience with Softlayer's cloud is similar. Their "SAN" was constantly giving us problems (slow and or hung instances due to IO), which forced me to quit using them. This was about a year ago so I don't know if things have improved.
I have found their dedicated servers to perform well for very heavily loaded mysql databases (dual quad core xeons, 32GB RAM, RAID 10, 4x15k drives, BBU). This setup has worked well for our custom sharded Rails app (based on db-charmer which works great btw).
Hi Alexey,
As one of the folks on the front lines for SoftLayer, I'm bummed to read your experience in the cloud. While it's true that the cloud isn't necessarily the right medium for every application, I understand why it should fit your use case.
We've corresponded a few times in the past, and I'm going to send you an email with more info, but you should know that our number one priority is our customers' experience, and the fact that yours has been so negative is a terrible black eye. I've made executive management aware of this post and have given some background on your account. I know it doesn't mean much to you right now, but the experience you describe is completely unacceptable.
I understand your frustration and hope that as we move forward, you let me know directly if there's anything I can do to help: firstname.lastname@example.com
This is exactly the same story we had on the SoftLayer cloud. We have very low I/O requirements, but our systems would regularly be waiting on it (with average service request times often hanging around 1-60 *seconds*).
Any correspondence I had with the SoftLayer support team was terrible followed the same format: say they'll look in to it, an hour later they'd "escalate it," and I'd find out some time later they didn't "correctly" escalate it so no one had even looked at it. When we finally did get to the right group, they would work with their SAN vendor to correct it – but never did before we were able to move to another provider.
While working with different levels of supervisors and executives there, I /feel/ I was outright lied to by a number of SoftLayer employees, because I genuinely don't know how so many people can have so little of a clue what is going on there. As the cloud instances all use the SANs, one would think a client wouldn't always be the first one to let SoftLayer know when a severely debilitating problem is going on with one of them. Having reached a (always temporary) solution with some of the engineers, it seems as though there are a handful of people who know how compartments of SoftLayer's infrastructure works – and if you don't reach one of them, you're out of luck.
At any rate, I'll be publishing a similar write-up shortly covering my experiencing in further detail… I just thought it was very interesting that we had such a similar experience.
This sounds a lot like the problems we had with Sun/Oracle Unified Storage. The systems were pitched as supporting "unlimited" snapshots, but in reality within 90-ish days of deployment snapshot deletions would exclusively lock the storage pools, taking them out long enough for the initiators to time-out, and on Solaris 10, you can't restore an initiator when that happens. You just have to reboot the initiator.
Maybe SoftLayer bought Sun equipment? Ours was the Sun 7310. It sounds so similar to our issues it's scary.
Doesn't help you since you weren't managing the SAN, but our "solution" was to disable de-dupe, never delete a snapshot, and migrate off the 7310s as fast as we could, onto Nexenta boxes. Crazy sounding I know since they're very close to the same OS in most ways that matter. The big difference is you have zero access to address these issues on the Sun systems. With the Nexenta box you could simply order deletions, stagger them so you don't queue up too much IO. Replicate in both directions easily if the worst happens and your Target is no longer serviceable. You have none of these options on the Sun equipment without being warned that you'll void your very expensive warranty/service-contracts. That and they hide the log files and most tools you might use to debug the issues.
I can't say enough bad about those systems. They really managed to take a great foundation and turn it into garbage with enterprisey BS.
Yeah, this sounds a lot like the explanations we've heard at the end of our cloud trial. They told us there were some problems with their SAN's internal maintenance procedures taking up too much resources.
My name is Steve Kinman (skinman) and I knew your blog about CloudLayer was coming. I have a technical background but only in Windows and pre-cloud so I cannot speak to the technical challenges you list in your review of our service but can assure you that eyes will see it. The reason for my comment here is my concern for the support you received from Infosys. I am very interested in hearing your concerns and challenges you saw when dealing with them and other avenues of support. Please email me at email@example.com if you have some free time. Sorry it took a review like this to get our full attention. We do take all feedback very seriously even when it hurts.
Softlayer service has gone downhill amazingly over the past few years, I guess it's the iplanet curse. High network latency and mystery outages and poor connectivity on the pod level let alone a datacenter level. I've stopped recommending them and we are planning to move what we have left shortly.
As an aside, most of the frontline staff have no idea what they are doing now. On ESX they told me to go to my start menu and open up adaptec storage manager. It really is like aol..
Beautiful post about poor qualification of cloud provider. If you make a cloud hosting you have to hire best hardware and software engineers or your clients one day will run from you.
I empathise, we had exactly the same experience though luckily we weren't using the cloudlayer for mission-critical services. But we had the same problems with cloudlayer instances switching the root filesystem to read-only mode after a series of write errors, and I had exactly the same experience trying to get the helpdesk team to do anything other than minimal troubleshooting. Every time the response was "I rebooted your server and it's ok now".
Needless to say I've recommended that we avoid Softlayer's cloud for future projects.
We've had the same problem at a smaller scale. One of our instances in particular has repeatedly switched to read-only mode. The response has been pretty much the same. Reboot of the server and a long fsck with hours of downtime.
It's nice to get confirmation that others have experienced this, as when I insisted at Softlayer that there must be a larger issue I just got a standard "sorry for the inconvenience" type reply. Softlayer really need to be a bit more transparent with their clients that are investing on their infrastructure.
I have several dedicated and cloud instances with SL. Their dedicated machines are GREAT. Top notch data centres, connectivity, rapid provisioning, etc.
However. Stay the hell away from CloudLayer. I've had dozens of cloud machines on Rackspace, Amazon, Linode, and a bunch of other lesser known regional operators. I can't even take SoftLayer's "cloud" offering seriously in comparison. It's a complete joke. You couldn't even compare the offering with your average cheap virtual server provider.
- I/O performance in particular came up between 20-50x slower than the competition (depending on the tests and time of day)- it all runs on networked SAN instead of local RAID10. Which also makes it vulnerable to network congestion and router issues…………
- CPU doesn't stack up in tests either
- Some of the default o/s install images are faulty
- I've had numerous, multiple-hour long outages with no-one to talk to, just dumb ass useless ticket responses, like "thank you for using softlayer" for hours on end while I'm sat pulling my hair out with sites down thanks to stuff like router issues. Hell, that's why I'm in a data centre and not my own garage right?
- I could go on!!!!!
Hopefully they can hire some cloud gurus and get their acts together. If/when they do they'll have the best platform around. Until then, choose dedicated if you want to use SL.
We've had similar issues on Amazon EBS. Once every few days, I/O operations on EBS device would freeze either completely or for about a minute. After weeks spent debugging and trying to reproduce the issue (which initially was thought to be userland), it turned out to be a kernel bug in Ubuntu 10.04, so upgrading to 10.10 completely solved the problem.
Hi Alexey,
Just wanted you to know we have the same problem. Two cloud machines (not even in production, no load) had the file system go read-only after our first month and and again in month 2. It took one hour each both times for them to bring it back up and do an fsck. Softlayer's support was great however, but the cloud service is unacceptable. I've been with Linode/Slicehost/Rackspace and have never had such problems.
On a good note though, their dedicated machines are a dream to work with. I wish there was a company with a good hybrid solution, but Softlayer as it is, is not it.
Good luck,
Same story here. Their dedicated server setup and hosting is fantastic but their cloud offering is embarrassingly bad.
A quick, concrete example that anyone can verify: rebooting a cloud instance on SoftLayer by typing "reboot" at the command line will work *maybe* 50% of the time on a good day, the instance will not come back up the other 50% of the time.
We've had a half dozen instances where even a hard reboot through their portal does nothing and we had to file tickets just to get an instance booted back up. One time we had an unclean shutdown and corrupted filesystem all from trying to reboot the thing. I've filed at least a dozen tickets and always get BS non-answers like the ones you mention above.
Finally, even when the instances are working the IO on them is really, really bad. My bonnie++ runs show 29MB/s read, 6MB/s write, and 86 seeks/s. To put that in perspective, you are looking at a fraction of the performance you would expect from a single 4200rpm hard drive. I've got a blog post in the works benching all of the cloud provider's IO and Softlayer wins the "worst" award by an enormous margin.
The take away is that you should consider them for dedicated hosting but not VMs. It is frustrating though as if they brought the service level of their cloud offering up to snuff they would have a really killer combination for mixing and matching metal with VMs.
Found this blog entry via WHT forums. Thanks for the write up and info about your experience. Softlayer Cloud is on my list to test out as I am already testing out Amazon EC2, Rackspace Cloud, GoGrid all via Rightscale.com. Still disk end is the weak spot for cloud hosting. Some of the hardware behind these cloud hosting servers ain't all that as I found i.e. Rackspace poor performance.
Would be interested to hear if they ever get to bottom of the issues you experienced.
[...] week, Alexey Kovyrin's post on his frustrations caught my attention. In particular, the following two paragraphs just made me [...]
[...] Softlayer Cloud: a Scary Story of One Bad Service [...]
At one point we had considered their cloud service, however opted to their dedicated offerings. I did love how their provisioning was super fast, new boxes within 4 hours, always.
What aggravated our team was when there were hardware issues, for example a drive failure or ready to fail (throwing smart errors) they could not or did not want to do a direct drive/drive copy which would have been completed within 2 hours, rather we had to load all the software then transfer data which took much longer. There reason what they had told us was that their policy prohibits then from touching data. I has expected more from them.
Indeed a poor excuse and not very flexible, they could of easily had a customer sign some form of waiver/agreement to 'touch the data' ?
Heya i'm for the first time here. I found this board and I to find It truly helpful & it helped me out a lot. I am hoping to give something back and help others like you helped me.
We're a service-oriented managed cloud provider, in business since 2006. While there are always issues with shared infrastructure because it's impossible to predict which users will push a component to the edge, with sufficient monitoring and aggressive hardware management, we've been able to support a reasonably large community of cloud clients in each of our hardware clusters with minimal cross-talk. It's true, our prices are a bit higher on entry-level configurations (small number of cores) than cut-rate clouds but we believe the extra, personal service we give, and the extra performance headroom in our cloud provides our customers greater value, and they seem to agree.
What I find interesting is the tradeoff between the savings and increased reliability that can be provided in a shared cloud versus self-managed physical hardware, which people always seem to return to after a bad cloud experience. We offer virtual data centers in our cloud that "look" like dedicated hardware, including allocating "real" cores to applications, 80BGbit infiniband connections between servers and storage, and fast SANs – except there is guaranteed reliability, scalability, and pay-per-use. So the question is, how do you trade off any shared infrastructure drawbacks against having to build and manage your own hardware (or at least be responsible for systems design and administration)? The more I know about this, the better we can provide a cloud that is a nearly indistinguishable alternative to having your own hardware, unlike some of the public clouds today where you really have no idea what you're getting (like the comment above where you get one hyper-thread as a "core")
I'd love to hear from you.
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A mining panel chaired by Janesville Democratic Senator Tim Cullen met for hours on end in 2012, hearing testimony from geologists, environmentalists and mining industry representative including Walker administration consultant Tim Sullivan. At the end, Cullen unveiled a plan that would set a two-year permitting process for mines with a chance for pauses in between.
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Boxing champ Max Baer made his film acting bow in
The Prizefighter and the Lady
(1933). This MGM "special" co-starred Baer with Walter Huston and Myrna Loy--not to mention his fellow pugilists Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jesse Willard, Jim Jeffries and Stranger Lewis. Though he evinced movie-star potential, Baer would never again have so worthwhile a film role. Nor was he as busy in Hollywood as his boxer brother Buddy Baer, with whom Max appeared in the 1949 Abbott and Costello comedy
Africa Screams
. In 1951, Baer was teamed with another boxer-turned-thespian Maxie Rosenbloom in a quartet of inexpensive Columbia 2-reelers. Max Baer was the father of Max Baer Jr., famed for his portrayal of Jethro on TV's The Beverly Hillbillies and for his second career as a film producer/director. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Prizefighter and the Lady
One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer) is a ex-sailor tending bar in a seedy dive when The Professor (Walter Huston), a boxing coach, sees Morgan make short work of a troublesome customer. The Professor convinces Morgan that he has what it takes to be a successful prizefighter, and takes him under his wing. One day, while Morgan is jogging, he's nearly hit by a car operated by an attractive woman named Belle (Myrna Loy), who is making a name for herself as a nightclub singer. Belle has been dating underworld kingpin Willie Ryan (Otto Kruger), but before long Morgan is able to win her away from Ryan, and they get married. Morgan's marriage to Belle turns out to be god for publicity, and soon he's racked up an impressive string of victories, but Morgan can't keep his eyes off other women, and she has reason to believe he's been unfaithful. Belle, despondent, goes back to Ryan, while Morgan starts hitting the bottle, just as he's lined up a championship fight with Primo Carnera. The Prizefighter and the Lady gave heavyweight contender Max Baer his first leading role; a year after the film was released, Baer faced off against Carnera in a real championship bout, which Baer won by a knockout. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Over She Goes
Stanley Lupino, a member in good standing of the ancient British performing family which also produced comedian Lupino Lane and actress Ida Lupino (Stanley's daughter), is the author and one of the stars of Over She Goes. John Wood portrays an ex-musical hall performer who becomes a British lord. He finds it difficult to properly enter society, especially when threatened with blackmail by a woman from his past. Wood calls upon his old vaudeville cronies to get him out of his jam. Over She Goes is enlivened by comic turns from such veteran British stage clowns as Laddie Cliff, Syd Walker and (of course) Stanley Lupino. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Navy Comes Through
A combat picture was virtually a license to print money in 1942, and RKO Radio's The Navy Comes Through was no exception (net profit: $542,000). Most of the film takes place on the ramshackle old merchant-marine freighter, skippered by Captain McCall (Ray Collins). The captain and his stalwart crew-the most stalwart of which are Mallory (Pat O'Brien), Sands (George Murphy), Babe (Jackie Cooper), Tarriba (Desi Arnaz) and Berringer (Max Baer Sr.)-keep busy by blowing Nazi bombers and U-boats to smithereens. The crewmen cap their accomplishments by capturing a Nazi supply ship and using it against its own navy. The easily forgettable romantic subplot concerns Sands' on-and-off relationship with Myra (Jane Wyatt). The Navy Comes Through was inspired by Borden Chase's serialized Saturday Evening Post story "Pay to Learn". ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Buckskin Frontier
Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as railroad troubleshooter Stephen Bent, assigned to supervise the building of 120 miles of track through the treacherous Santa Fe cutoff. He is opposed in this mission by land baron and freight service owner Jeptha Marr (Lee J. Cobb), who backs up his opposition with hired guns. Marr, in turn, is defied by his daughter Vinnie (Jane Wyatt), who is not only a visionary, but has also fallen in love with Bent. Amusingly, though Lee J. Cobb and Jane Wyatt play father and daughter in Buckskin Frontier, both actors were 31 years old at the time! The film was produced by Harry "Pop" Sherman, of "Hopalong Cassidy" fame. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Ladies' Day
Lupe Velez is "The Mexican Spitfire" in everything but name in the frantic baseball farce Ladies Day. Eddie Albert plays Wacky Waters, star pitcher of the Sox, a league-leading contender for the World Series. Alas, whenever Wacky falls in love, his game suffers-and so do the wives of his teammates, who are counting on that Series bonus money. When Wacky marries vivacious movie star Pepita Zorita (Velez), the wives, led by Hazel Jones (Patsy Kelly), take drastic action, kidnapping Pepita and hiding her out in a hotel room. But Pepita manages to wriggle out of the hotel towels that bind and gag, disguise herself as a bellboy, and head to the ballpark during the Big Game. Fortunately, Pepita turns out to be Wacky's prime motivation for winning the Series, and there's a happy ending for one and all. Pretty lame as far as baseball films go, Ladies Day will be best appreciated by fans of Lupe Velez and Patsy Kelly, who never speak when shouting will do. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Bride for Sale
Bride for Sale is an old-fashioned romantic triangle brightened by the star power of Claudette Colbert, George Brent and Robert Young. In search of a "perfect" husband, Nora Shelly (Colbert) decides to comb through the tax records of several eligible males, and to that end takes a job at Paul Martin's (Brent) accounting firm. When Paul learns the real reason behind Nora's diligence, he decides to teach her a lesson. He convinces his wealthy friend Steve Adams (Young) to woo and win Nora, then leave her flat. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that Paul and Steve will both fall in love with Nora by reel seven. Produced independently by Jack H. Skirball's Crest Productions, Bride for Sale proved to be a moneyspinner for its distributor, RKO Radio. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Africa Screams
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello temporarily leave their usual Universal stamping grounds to star in the Huntington Hartford production Africa Screams. Costello plays the colorfully inept Stanley Livingstone, a meek book salesman who poses as a big-game hunter at the behest of his shifty pal Buzz Johnson (Abbott). It's all part of a scheme to extract some money from adventuress Diana Emerson (Hillary Brooke), who intends to search for a lost diamond mine in the heart of Africa. It seems that Stanley has committed to memory a long out-of-print book which contained a map to the mine. Despite his mortal fear of wild animals, Stanley accompanies Buzz, Diana, and Diana's henchmen on the African expedition. The subsequent comic complications involve a legendary giant gorilla, a cannibal tribe, and a friendly orangutan who falls in love with Stanley. Animal trainer Clyde Beatty and big-game tracker Frank Buck make cameo appearances while character comics Shemp Howard and Joe Besser provide laughs as, respectively, a nearsighted gunman and a sissified flunky. Also on hand are boxer brothers Max Baer and Buddy Baer, who engage in an amusingly unconvincing display of fisticuffs. But the film belongs to Abbott & Costello, who are in fine form. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Riding High
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Anxious to remain active in the 1950s, director Frank Capra wanted to prove to Paramount Pictures that he could deliver an "A" picture on a modest budget. To that end, Capra bought the rights of his 1934 film Broadway Bill from Columbia, and remade it under the title Riding High. He then hired many of the supporting actors who'd appeared in Broadway Bill -- including Clarence Muse, Douglass Dumbrille, Ward Bond, Charles Lane and Frankie Darro -- so he could match up his newly shot scenes with stock footage from the earlier film. Capra even kept the musical costs down by having star Bing Crosby sing such public-domain favorites as "Camptown Races" (though there is one delightful original song, "We Ought to Bake a Sunshine Camera" performed without dubbing by Crosby, Muse, and leading-lady Colleen Gray). Crosby steps into the old Warner Baxter role as Dan Brooks, scion of a wealthy family who prefers hanging around racetracks to the responsibilities of his family business. Scheduled for a "proper" marriage to Margaret Higgins (Frances Gifford), the snooty daughter of millionaire J. L. Higgins (Charles Bickford), Dan infinitely prefers the company of Margaret's younger sister Alice (Coleen Gray), who loves horses as much as he. Hoping to declare his financial independence, he pins his future on a racehorse named Broadway Bill. Though not in the same league as Capra's earlier classics, Riding High is lots of fun. It is especially enjoyable for film buffs, thanks to Capra's decision to fill the picture with uncredited celebrity cameo appearances -- including Oliver Hardy, minus Stan Laurel, as an apoplectic horse player. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Skipalong Rosenbloom
Originally slated for release by Eagle Lion, Skipalong Rosenbloom purchased by United Artists -- who gave it a cursory theatrical release before selling the film to television. As it turned out, TV was the appropriate medium for this heavy-handed satire of video westerns. Former boxing champ Maxie Rosenbloom plays a lampooned variation of Hopalong Cassidy, with all the standard western cliches in evidence. "Skipalong" Rosenbloom is depicted as the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. The plot proper finds "Skipalong" at odds with western bad guy Butcher Baer, played by Rosenbloom's onetime ring opponent Max Baer. Others in the cast are Jackie Coogan, Fuzzy Knight and Hillary Brooke, who seem to be having fun with the dreadful material foisted upon them. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Harder They Fall
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An obviously ailing Humphrey Bogart made his final screen appearance in The Harder They Fall. Adapted from a novel by Budd Schulberg, the film is a thinly disguised a clef account of the Primo Carnera boxing scandal. Bogart is cast as unemployed newspaperman Eddie Willis, who sells his soul down the river when he signs on as press agent for slimy fight manager Nick Benko (Rod Steiger). It is Willis' job to stir up publicity for Benko's newest protégé, Argentinian boxer Toro Moreno (Mike Lane). Benko's boy quickly rises to the top of his profession, though everybody but Toro knows that all the fights have been fixed. Upon learning that Benko intends to bilk Toro of his earnings, Willis regains his integrity, tells the wide-eyed young pugilist the truth, then sits down to write a searing expose of the fight racket. Jan Sterling costars as Willis' estranged wife, while real-life boxers Jersey Joe Walcott and Max Baer are suitably cast as Toro's trainer and ring opponent, respectively. There is also a heartbreaking cameo appearance by ex-fighter Joe Greb, cast as a punchdrunk skid row bum. The Harder They Fall originally went out with two different endings: in one, Eddie Willis demanded that boxing be banned altogether, while in the other, Willis merely insisted that there be a federal investigation of the prizefighting business. The videotape version contains the "harder" denouement, while most TV prints end with the "softer" message. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Utah Blaine
Rory Calhoun is Utah Blaine in this pinch-penny Sam Katzman-produced western. Adapted from a novel by Louis L'Amour, the story concerns the efforts of gunslinger Blaine to save a group of ranchers from an outlaw gang. When one the ranchers is killed, Utah finds himself half-owner of a valuable spread, placing him directly in the line of fire along with his attractive "business partner" Angie Kinyon (Susan Cummings). Ray Teal is all snarls as the outlaw leader, while former boxer Max Baer Sr. does a brief turn as a slow-witted hooligan. Like most Sam Katzman efforts, Utah Blaine turned a tidy profit for Katzman's home base of Columbia. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Once Upon a Horse
Having gained a measure of TV fame by 1958, the nightclub comedy duo of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin decided to give movies a try with Once Upon a Horse. Dan and Dick play Dan Casey and Doc Logan, a pair of nitwitted cowboys who turn to outlawry because they can't make a go at any honest profession. Stealing a valuable herd of cattle, the boys' dreams of financial security are dashed when they're forced to raise money to feed their stolen bovines. Martha Hyer costars as Miss Amity Babb, a resourceful saloon hall owner who applies 20th century business methods to her 19th century operation. For nostalgia buffs, several western-movie favorites (billed as "Our Old Pals") make cameo appearances, including Tom Keene, Bob Livingston, Kermit Maynard and Bob Steele. Hal Kanter's screenplay is full of clever, satirical touches, most of which proved to be too smart for the room in 1958. A financial disappointment, Once Upon a Horse (aka Hot Horse) would be Rowan and Martin's last joint film effort until 1969's The Maltese Bippy. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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He rose from poverty to become an unrivaled champion in the boxing ring and inspire a entire nation to carry on in a time of unrelenting hardships, and now viewers can take a look at the real-life Cinderella Man who inspired Ron Howard's triumphant tale in the documentary that follows the life of boxing legend Jim Braddock. From his early struggle to make a name for himself in the world of boxing to the late-career comeback that serves as the ultimate example of the American spirit, Braddock was an underdog whose rare, late-career second chance ultimately led him to win the World Heavyweight Champion title and forever alter the course of boxing history. A story as inspiring today as it was when Braddock stepped into the ring to fight for the World Heavyweight title back in 1935, this remarkable story of one man's unbreakable will is sure to have sports fans cheering in their seats. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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MONTGOMERY TWP — The vintage 1990s computers and cathode ray tube television screens are gone, and in their place is a fully functional, state of the art communications turret, with another right next to it.
Flatscreen shared monitors, fiber optic links to dozens of traffic cameras throughout the township, and realtime access to township, county and state records systems are just a few of the features in the Montgomery Township Police Department's new communications center.
"Before, we just had our primary township radio network, and now with the county radio network we have the ability to monitor both, and have it duplicated at both turrets," said MTPD Lt. William Peoples.
"When you have an emergency, you can run two dispatchers with two totally different scenes," he said.
The township's board of supervisors included funding for a communication center upgrade in the township's 2012 police department budget, and work started roughly two and a half months ago on removing computers and cathode ray tube monitors that had been in use since 1996, the last time the communications center was upgraded.
In their place are two turrets, one for everyday police dispatches and another for emergency use. Each features three flatscreen monitors — one each for the department's records management system, for dispatches from Montgomery County's Department of Public Safety and for interface with state police if need be — for dispatchers like Jo Marie Pearson to keep an eye on.
"I love it. What we had in here was antiquated, even though we moved into the building in 1995. Everything's a little more labor intensive, but with the upgrades everything's at your fingertips, the equipment runs faster, it's just great," she said.
Directly next to the township police turret that Pearson monitors all day, a second similar turret provides the same information for emergency responders. It hasn't happened yet this year, but Rick Lesniak, the township's Emergency Management Coordinator and Director of Fire Services, says the second turret will be used for information gathering if an emergency takes place.
"This side of the console is going to be used to coordinate the emergency management activities from the field. The emergency responders, police, fire, EMS, Public Works, everything will come in through here," he said.
"If, say, the fire company needs an ambulance to go to a certain location they'll be able to just radio right in, and the person sitting in this console will be able to coordinate all of those resources," Lesniak said.
And not just township resources. While decisions at a policy level will be made from another emergency operations center, the communications turret will be able to gather data and link communications with departments throughout the five county region in case an incident in Montgomery Township requires some sort of specialized equipment or personnel from Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester or Delaware as well as Montgomery counties.
"It's like a huge emergency management phone book that you can research for emergency contact information. If you need lumber, backhoes, or certain specialty equipment, it's all in that software," Lesniak said.
"We'll be able to get communications from the field, giving us the field conditions back here so that we know how to plan and react from a higher policy level," he said.
What's the fastest way to get that equipment and personnel to the scene if an accident takes out, say, the township's Five Points intersection? Dispatchers can now check PennDOT cameras at various intersections throughout the township on a wall-mounted flatscreen monitor, which show real-time traffic footage from the township's busiest intersections.
"We'll be getting a straight feed from PennDOT, straight through their servers, so we're going to be able to see all of Montgomery Township at one time," Peoples said.
"If there's an accident or something like that, you'll be able to tell the tow truck driver 'We're looking at it, come from this area because 309 southbound is backed up, you might want to go a different say,'" he said.
Those feeds are currently provided by PennDOT through a standard internet broadcast, but fiber optic connections directly from the PennDOT signal network into the station are in the works, Peoples said.
Shared between the police turret and the emergency turret are two additional monitors, one a larger version of the other: both show real time feeds from more than two dozen cameras in and around the township police station itself, which can be used to keep an eye on cars parked outside, visitors entering the building, and officers and anyone else walking through the station's hallways and into meeting rooms and holding cells.
"If a police car brings a prisoner in, you'll see them come into the sally port, inside the sally port, then you'll be able to see them go down the hallway right into the cells themselves," Peoples said.
Those digital cameras can pan and zoom in to read license plates or capture gestures from inside the cells, and footage from all is saved on hard drives for up to three months if court proceedings require any footage.
"In the rear parking lot, if we had a car in there that was locked up, we would move the camera specifically to it to show it for security reasons, and it's going to be locked so it will be in the chain of custody," Peoples said.
If a prisoner claims they were hurt in custody or if a criminal claims their vehicle was damaged while at the police station, that footage can immediately be entered as evidence. And dispatchers can see where everyone in the department is at one time, either by keeping tabs on GPS units located in their mobile computers or by watching the hallway cameras.
"With evidence, that's not our main way of tracking because we have different codes we have to enter and things like that, but it's another step in the process that shows 'This person went in here at this time and came out at that time,'" said deputy Chief Scott Bendig.
The communications center is powered by its own backup generators, according to Bendig, and the emergency operations center currently being outfitted by Lesniak will be independent but networked with the communications center too.
In theory, the new communications center could even handle streaming video from each of the department's patrol cars too, although Peoples said that while the capability is there, the cost may be a bit high.
"That's a technical issue more than anything, but we would need air cards in each car, and the data charges would be at a level we probably wouldn't want to take to the board," Peoples said.
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Through Y-DNA testing last summer I have confirmed that my Hutton line goes back to one of the 3 brothers that came over to New Garden, Chester County, Pa from County Carlow, Ireland.
I have traced my line back to John Hutton and Mary Parsons who were married in 1802 in Centre County, Pa and spent their whole life there. My problem is that I am missing at least two generations of Huttons to figure out which of the 3 brothers we are related too.
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Give your favorite Disney princesses a "magical" makeover with the Play-Doh Disney Prettiest Princess Castle Playset! Dress up the Aurora, Belle and Cinderella princess figures with the beautiful pretend slippers, roses, tiaras, and other accessories you'll make out of the 6 colors of Play-Doh modeling compound! When you put a princess figure in one of the castle's book molds and add Play-Doh modeling compound, she comes out with a dress and accessories you've created. One of the cans contains sparkle compound, so you can give Cinderella's tiara or Belle's gown a special sparkly beauty! Make your lovely princesses their loveliest with the Prettiest Princess Castle set!The Play-Doh Disney Prettiest Princess Castle Playset features:
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My Disney princess obsessed 3 year old daughter loves this. The door to make the prince is a little difficult for her to do on her own, but creating the princess dresses is a ...Read complete review
My Disney princess obsessed 3 year old daughter loves this. The door to make the prince is a little difficult for her to do on her own, but creating the princess dresses is a breeze for her. I can easily set this on the table with her for at least an hour while I get housework done without the need to assist her constantly in creating the items.
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I'd go with the smaller princess dress set.This has 3 dress imprints, but they all look the same. My 3 year old was bored with it after awhile. I feel another...Read complete review
I'd go with the smaller princess dress set.This has 3 dress imprints, but they all look the same. My 3 year old was bored with it after awhile. I feel another set would have gotten more use.
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I bought this as a gift for my niece and she absolutely LOVED it! It's the perfect item for any princess loving little girl :)
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By Dad
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My 5 year old daughter absolutely loves it perfect for her.
She Will Be the Prettiest Princess
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Associates showed me the perfect gifts for children her age and the item was perfectly packaged and the price was fantastic.
Great Birthday Present!
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The product was great and my 4 year old daughter loved it.
Definitely would buy this product again
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This was a gift for my granddaughter. She spent much time enjoying playing with it. Great for the imagination.
Girls love it!
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Met expectations
So cute!
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So many things for my 3 yr old to play with. Making princes, princess dresses, rapunzel let down your hair and a lot of little molds. Wish they were a bit bigger and came with a trimming knife.
Keeps the kids busy for hours
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This is great easy to put together and easy for children to use
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Bought the item as a gift for a 5 yr old girl. Not only did she love it, so did the parent.
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Playdoh extravaganza with all the playdoh accessories. My just turned four year old did not do well with all the little pieces but my 6 yr old loved it SO much. It was a gift for the four year old. So there is potential for loving it later. (If I can keep all the pieces together)
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Tweaking the right controls lets users fight power hogs on laptops and desktops. Some tips are fairly easy to implement, but for others, you will need to delve more deeply into your system settings. In all cases, the reward for your work will be vastly improved battery life on notebooks and power savings in the long run.
Laptop Mode Tools
Configuration file: /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf
Activity monitor: /proc/sys/vm/laptop-mode (1 = aktiv)
The Laptop Mode Tools are disabled by default on Ubuntu. To enable, change the value false in the ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=false line of the /etc/default/acpi-support file to true. The Powersave daemon provides functionality similar to the Laptop Mode tools on openSUSE.
Display Power Management Signaling is a method of using the graphics card to trigger monitor power state changes with three energy-saving states: Standby, Suspend, and Power off. Both devices need to support this approach.
C States
Sleep or idle states for ACPI-capable processors. Five levels range from C0 to C4. The higher the number, the less power the CPU uses.
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For more than 25 years, Norm's has offered American diner comfort food with a fantastic view of a fairly busy local strip. Run by Norm's daughter Kathy Touche since 2004, the coffee shop is an institution. It has a lot going for it. First, patrons get to listen to Brackett Tower communicating with pilots over the restaurant sound system. Second, nearly every seat has a view of the action a few hundred feet away. Third, breakfast is served all day. Lastly, the LA County Fair Grounds with its ominous "Le Grande Wheel" are within walking distance from restaurant and airstrip.
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