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George and Amal Clooney have welcomed twins Ella and Alexander Clooney.
The pair was born Tuesday morning, according to George Clooney's publicist Stan Rosenfield. He says both are "happy, healthy and doing fine."
Click through to see more new moms and dads from across Hollywood.
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Jimmy Kimmel and his wife, screenwriter Molly McNearney, welcomed a baby boy in April, but Kimmel tearfully explained on his show that his son had a severe heart defect. Billy survived and is doing well, but Kimmel made a plea for affordable health care for parents.
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Pop stars Cheryl Cole and Liam Payne announced on Saturday March 25, 2017, the birth of their first child Bear.
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Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk reportedly welcomed their baby girl in late March.
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Gal Gadot welcomed her second daughter with husband Yaron Versano, making the announcement on March 20.
"And than we were four ... She is here, Maya," the 31-year-old actress wrote on Instagram. "I feel so complete blessed and thankful for all the Wonders in my life."
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Tori Spelling and her husband Dean McDermott welcomed their fifth child together on March 2. Spelling announced the news on Twitter with a photo of their newborn holding her finger, which she captioned, "We are so excited to announce the birth of the newest member of the McDermott family!"
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Natalie Portman's representative said that she and her husband, Benjamin Millepied, welcomed daughter Amalia on Feb. 22.
Portman was notably absent at the Academy Awards on Sunday, where she was nominated for best actress. This is the second child for Portman and Millepied, who wed in 2012. Their son, Aleph, is 5.
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Nick Cannon posted to Instagram that his ex-girlfriend, Brittany Bell, had given birth on Feb. 21 to a baby boy named Golden "Sagon" Cannon, making Cannon a father of three.
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Amber Tamblyn and David Cross announced the arrival of their first daughter on Feb. 21.
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Hoda Kotb said in an emotional phone interview Tuesday on the "Today" show that she adopted a newborn and named her Haley Joy.
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Mel Gibson is a father for the ninth time. Girlfriend Rosalind Ross, a writer, gave birth to the couple's son, Lars Gerard Gibson, on Jan. 20.
Amy Smart and husband Carter Oosterhouse ended 2016 on a high note by welcoming their first child together.
"It is with great gratitude and pleasure to welcome our little girl Flora to the world," Smart wrote in an Instagram post of the happy family in the hospital on Saturday. "What a blessed way to bring in 2017 Amen and Thank You God for this special new life!!"
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd welcomed a baby boy on Jan. 4, 2017.
"This is, without a doubt, the best thing that has ever happened to us!" the couple said in a statement to ET of their son, Shai Aleksander Chmerkovskiy.
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Janet Jackson welcomed her first child -- a boy named Eissa -- with husband Wissam Al Mana on Jan. 3.
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Pink and husband Carey Hart welcomed their second child, a boy named Jameson, on December 26, 2016, the singer announced on Instagram.
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"Today" show co-host Savannah Guthrie gave birth to her second child, a baby boy, on Dec. 8.
Her co-host Matt Lauer said Charles Max Feldman weighed in at a healthy 9 pounds, 8 ounces. Charley, as he will be known, is named after Guthrie's father. The middle name comes from the grandfather of Guthrie's husband, Mike Feldman.
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Mick Jagger and his girlfriend Melanie Hamrick welcomed a baby son on Dec, 8. The child was the eighth for the 73-year-old.
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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis welcomed their second child in December.
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Actor Kelsey Grammer and Kayte Walsh welcomed their third child together and Grammer's seventh. The 61-year-old actor's rep confirmed to ET that he and wife Kayte welcomed Auden James Ellis Grammer into the world on Nov. 14, weighing 7 lbs. and measuring 21 inches long.
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Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna welcomed their first child, a daughter named Dream, on Nov. 10, 2016.
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DJ Khaled and his fiancée Nicole Tuck welcomed a baby boy on Oct. 23. The social media star and rapper documented the process on Snapchat.
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Olivia Wilde revealed on Instagram that she and fiancé Jason Sudeikis welcomed their second child together, Daisy Josephine Sudeikis, on October 11, 2016.
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Kerry Washington and her husband, former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha, welcomed a son, Caleb Kalechi Asomugha, on Oct. 5.
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Blake Lively gave birth to her second child with Ryan Reynolds at a New York City hospital in late September 2016, a source confirms to ET.
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Adam Levine and wife Behati Prinsloo welcomed their first child, a daughter named Dusty Rose Levine, on September 21, 2016.
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Alec and Hilaria Baldwin welcomed their third child, a son named Leonardo Angel Charles, on September 12, the former "30 Rock" star announced on Twitter.
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Actress Carice Van Houten's manager in the Netherlands, Janey van Ierland, confirmed the birth of baby boy Monte Pearce in Amsterdam, but divulged few other details.
Van Houten's partner, Guy Pearce, tweeted on August 29, 2016, "A cute little package arrived and told us his name's Monte Pearce. We think we're gonna keep him. Placenta smoothie anyone? @caricevhouten."
Former Playboy model Holly Madison and her husband, Pasquale Rotella, welcomed their second child, a son, on August 7, 2016, they announced via Instagram.
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Megan Fox and actor Brian Austin Green welcome their third son together, Journey River, on August 4, 2016 after briefly separating.
Alicia Etheridge and Bobby Brown welcomed their third child together, a girl, on July 21, 2016. The girl is Brown's seventh.
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Liv Tyler and her fiancé, sports agent Dan Gardner, have welcomed their second child together -- a daughter -- ET confirmed on July 10, 2016. The pair are also proud parents to 1-year-old son Sailor Gene. This is the third child for the "Leftovers" actress, 38, who shares a 11-year-old son, Milo, with her ex-husband, Royston Langdon. Gardner also has an 8-year-old son, Grey, from a previous relationship
"Come Away with Me" singer Norah Jones welcomed her second child, ET confirmed on July 7, 2016 -- but the publicity-shy singer kept quiet on details, as per usual.
"Parenthood" actress Erika Christensen and her husband, Cole Maness, welcomed their daughter, Shane Maness, on June 21, 2016. She kept fans updated on her labor via Twitter.
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"Fast & Furious" star Jordana Brewster welcomed her second child, Rowan, with husband Andrew Form on June 9, 2016.
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Jena Malone and Ethan DeLorenzo welcomed their first child together in May 2016. Malone announced the birth on Instagram. The couple named their son Ode Mountain DeLorenzo Malone.
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"The Americans" co-stars Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell welcomed their first child together in May 2016, according Us Weekly.
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Alexis Bledel and Vincent Kartheiser had a baby boy in the fall, unbeknownst to anyone. Bledel's co-star, Scott Patterson, let the cat out of the bag in an interview with Glamour.
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Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling welcomed a second daughter, Amada Lee Gosling, on April 29, 2016, according to a birth certificate obtained by TMZ.
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In an Instagram post, the 39-year-old actress said Josephine Kate Gavigan was born on May 2. She writes that she's "endlessly grateful for her safe arrival," adding that her "heart is so full of love that it threatens to burst."
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Eddie Murphy and girlfriend Paige Butcher welcomes their first child, a daughter named Izzy Oona Murphy, on May 3, 2016. The baby marks Murphy's ninth child.
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Nick Carter and Lauren Kitt welcomed a baby boy on April 19, 2016. Odin Reign Carter arrived after 30 hours of labor during a water birth at home. Their new bundle of joy weighed in at 8 pounds, 11 ounces.
Chrissy Teigen and John Legend took to Instagram April 17, 2016 to announce the birth of their daughter, Luna, who had arrived on April 14.
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The original "American Idol" winner gave birth to her second child, a boy named Remington Alexander Blackstock, on Tuesday, April 12, she confirmed via social media.
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Adam Shulman and Anne Hathaway welcomed their first son Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman on March 24.
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Rapper Fetty Wap and former "Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood" star Masika Kalysha welcomed their first daughter on March 29, 2016.
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Rapper Clifford "TI" Harris, and his wife, Tameka "Tiny" Harris, welcomed a daughter on Saturday, March 26. They have nicknamed the baby girl "Lucky."
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"Late Night" host Seth Meyers and wife Alexi Ashe Meyers welcomed their first child, a boy, on March 27, 2016.
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump welcomed their third child, son Theodore James, on Sunday, March 28.
The businesswoman wrote that the family feels "incredibly blessed."
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Musician Ziggy Marley and his wife Orly Agai welcomed their fourth child on Monday, March 14, in Los Angeles.
The son of the iconic reggae singer Bob Marley and his wife named their son Isaiah Sion Robert Nesta Marley.
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"Lost" and "Once Upon a Time" star Emilie de Ravin announced via Twitter on March 13 that she'd given birth to a daugther, Vera Audrey de Ravin-Bilitch, the day before.
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It's a girl for "Gotham" co-stars and real-life couple Ben McKenzie and Morena Baccarin! The pair's reps confirmed to ET that they had welcomed a daughter on March 2. The little one's name is Frances Laiz Setta Schenkkan.
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Actors Bobby Cannavale (L) and Rose Byrne welcomed their baby son Rocco on Monday, Feb. 1, 2016. Cannavale joked on the "Late Show," "I'm so tired. I think I've gained 28 pounds since Monday."
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Tyra Banks and Erik Asla welcomed son York Banks Asla in January 2016. Banks wrote on Instagram, "The best present we worked and prayed so hard for is finally here. He's got my fingers and big eyes and his daddy Erik's mouth and chin." The baby was born via a gestational surrogate.
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Actress Zhang Ziyi and musician husband Wang Feng welcomed a baby girl. Zhang posted a photo of her baby's hand on microblogging site Sina Weibo and wrote, "December 27th, 2015, you, me, her ... With the birth of this little life, we have our own family. Everything went safely and smoothly. Infinite gratitude!"
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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and artist Chloe Mendel welcomed their first child together in November 2015. They named the baby boy Augustus Juppiter Corgan.
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Dwayne Johnson and Lauren Hashian welcomed their first child together -- a baby girl -- in December 2015.
Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West welcomed their baby boy on Dec. 5, 2015. Kardashian West had documented her pregnancy complications -- the baby was breech before she received a procedure to turn him over -- and gave birth earlier than her original due date. The couple are already parents to North West.
Josh Hartnett and Tamsin Egerton, who starred together in "The Lovers" in 2011, welcomed their first child in December 2015. The couple were spotted leaving St. Mary's Hospital in London with a baby carrier.
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Sandra Bullock revealed in December 2015 that she had adopted a 3-year-old girl named Laila. "When I look at Laila, there's no doubt in my mind that she was supposed to be here," Bullock told People magazine. "I can tell you absolutely, the exact right children came to me at the exact right time." In 2010, Bullock adopted her son, Louis.
Kristin Cavallari and NFL quarterback Jay Cutler welcomed their third child, Saylor James Cutler, on Monday, Nov. 23. The couple already have two sons.
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Jessa (Duggar) Seewald and Ben Seewald welcomed a baby boy on Nov. 5, 2015.
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Mike Myers and his wife Kelly are proud new parents yet again. A spokeswoman for Myers said that Kelly gave birth to their daughter Paulina Kathleen in New York City in the fall of 2015.
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Jacob Pechenik and Zooey Deschanel welcomed a baby girl in June 2015. They announced in October 2015 that their daughter's name is Elsie Otter.
Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons became parents in the fall of 2015. The baby comes three years after the couple wed on a farm in Somerset, England, in front of about 100 guests.
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Actress Brooklyn Decker and pro tennis player Andy Roddick became parents to a baby boy in September 2015, marking their first child together. The couple met in 2007 and were married in 2009.
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Naya Rivera and Ryan Dorsey welcomed their first child -- a boy -- in the summer of 2015. The new addition comes a little over a year after the couple wed in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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Adam Brody and Leighton Meester are parents. The couple welcomed baby girl, Arlo Day, in August 2015.
Lucy Liu welcomed her new baby boy on Instagram and Twitter on Aug. 27, 2015. Liu's rep confirmed that the actress Liu "is the proud mother of Rockwell Lloyd Liu, brought into the world via gestational carrier."
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and his wife, Tasha McCauley, are parents. They welcomed a baby boy in August 2015. Though the little one's name hasn't been announced publicly, an insider says "the family is all happy and healthy." The couple married in December 2014.
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Henry Hager and Jenna Bush Hager welcomed daughter Poppy Louise Hager on Aug. 13, 2015; Poppy Louise is named after great-grandfather George H.W. Bush. The married couple already have daughter Mila.
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Alexis Roderick and Billy Joel are parents together for the first time. The married couple welcomed baby girl Della Rose in August 2015. They tied the knot on the Fourth of July.
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Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross have become parents for the first time. The couple, who wed in 2014, welcomed a baby girl on July 30, 2015. Simpson already has a son, Bronx, with her ex-husband Pete Wentz.
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Emily Maynard, who appeared on "The Bachelor" and then "The Bachelorette," gave birth to her first child with husband Tyler Johnson, she announced on Instagram on July 16, 2015. She is also a mom to Ricki, her daughter with late fiance Ricky Hendrick.
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Noah Wyle and his wife, actress Sara Wells, welcomed a baby girl -- named Frances Harper Wyle -- in June 2015. The pair married in 2014.
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Jennifer Love Hewitt and her husband Brian Hallisay welcomed a second child, a baby boy named Atticus James, on June 24, 2015. The couple already has a a girl, Autumn James, who was born five days after they got married in November 2013.
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In June 2015, actor Benedict Cumberbatch and wife Sophie Hunter became parents of a baby boy. A spokesman said the couple is "delighted to announce the arrival of their beautiful son." The baby was born the day after Cumberbatch was honored by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the performing arts and charity.


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Not sure if anyone (or perhaps everyone) is aware of this, but the subreddit /r/xkcd is currently the locus of a lot of drama (and rightfully so).
The head moderator (who is in no way affiliated with XKCD) is a known neo-nazi, conspiracy theorist, holocaust denier (and also moderator of /r/holocaust). He recently banned the other mod of the subreddit for removing his propagandistic links on the sidebar, and replacing them with page appropriate CSS styling.
There was community outcry to have him removed and the other reinstated. Now the page appears to be a legit xkcd fan page, but all content that was critical has been deleted.
Here is the current state of the drama:
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FEATURE: The MySpace Generation: Where Are They Now?
April 26th, 2016
In February, the social media giant that is Facebook celebrated their 12 year anniversary. Back before the days when Facebook ruled the roost (yeah, we're going back a bit now), MySpace was the social media daddy.
Sure, if you were a regular MySpace user, you probably recall the intense amounts of huge fake hair with multiple colours, the range of 'scene' names where you'd include anything mildly gory or dangerous if it wasn't "RAWR", whore trains, a plethora of bulletins asking for PC4PC/S4S/W4W/etc or telling you to repost something or you'll die, amongst others. However, one of the things that kept MySpace such a interesting prospect from its inception to its dwindling demise from about 2008 onwards was what it did for music.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The latest inspection at Hibachi Grill and Supreme Buffet revealed three big problems: roaches, rodents and live flies.
Channel 4's Melanie Lawson talked with an employee who was there when the inspector came. She said the restaurant got the problem fixed but couldn't say how. She also said the owner had taken a trip to China.
In Jacksonville at the restaurant on Deer Lake Court, an inspector wrote she found dead roaches at the buffet, rodent droppings in a box of sugar and rice, and rodent rub marks on the ceiling and walls.
Channel 4 also checked online reviews and found people who said they've eaten at Hibachi Grill and found roaches in their food. A complaint is what sparked this latest inspection.
The inspector did go back the next day and apparently only found flies.
At Hardee's on Mayport Road, the general manager was not permitted to go on camera, but the restaurant also had a rodent problem. The inspector found droppings near a hole in the wall and a trap under a shelf. She also found raw burgers and ham in a broken cooler. The manager had to throw the meat away.
The general manager said the store just reopened after a remodeling last week. She said she told the inspector the problem with the cooler was because of a new employee who put the meat in the broken cooler and never had any intention on using it.
She also said their exterminator didn't alert them about the hole in the wall, and it's now patched up, so they no longer have a rodent problem.
The inspector did go back to Hardee's the next day, and it passed with 0 high priority violations.
The third restaurant was inside the CSX building downtown. The cafe was closed for the night because of dead and live roaches.
The cafe is only open for employees and guests, and it's back open now.
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Topic: chemo and CA 19-9, etc.
Dad had a lot of tumor when he was diagnosed. chemo totally cleared his pancreas (per CT), shrunk everything in the liver, and shrunk or cleared everything in the lung. to say that everyone has been flabbergasted would be an understatement.
so why is the d**n CA 19-9 going UP? he's been scanned from top to bottom, there isn't anything new anywhere that they're aware of. he goes back to MDA in 2 weeks and scanxiety has set in, his local oncologist is talking that a change in chemo might be considered because his protocol is for pancreatic adenoCA which he no longer has. i get that it's like using a breast protocol to treat leukemia, but still...if something worked so well it's hard to conceive of changing it.
unless, of course, the scans missed something huge.
gah. i'll stop talking. i haven't had enough coffee to be this freaked this morning.


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next Windows XP
" aren't true, because it's counting on Windows 8 to revive sales, with movement of the
once-sterling Windows 7
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Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft,
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, commenting in the earnings release, "The launch of Windows 8 is the beginning of a new era at Microsoft. Investments we've made over a number of years are now coming together to create a future of exceptional devices and services, with tremendous opportunity for our customers, developers, and partners."
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Microsoft remains one of the best earning and most successfully diversified hardware/software giants in the consumer electronics industry. However, it continues to be defined by the burden of high expectations, speculation, and intense scrutiny surroundings its "misses".
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The Liberty swimming team placed 15 student-athletes on the 2013 Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) All-Academic Team.
The CCSA honored 260 men's and women's swimming and diving student-athletes for academic success during the Fall 2012 semester. All-Academic status was awarded to all conference competitors who obtained a 3.0 grade-point average or better on a 4.0 scale while completing the season as a member of the team's roster.
Liberty's swimmers who were featured on the list include: juniors Sarah McCorkle, Emily Mudd, Brye Ravettine and Bethany Wakeley; sophomores Meghan Babcock, Carley Drye, Emily Duff, Cori Gary, Rachel Nelson and Chloe Thomas; and freshmen Laura Day, Ranndi Grubbs, Kendall Hough, Katie Shoemaker and Hannah Wakeley.
Head Coach Jake Shellenberger's Lady Flames had previously received the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Scholar All-America Team award, posting a 3.25 GPA as a team during the fall of 2012.


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Bob McKenzie checks in with the latest on Mats Sundin, saying that "the Rangers haven't made a formal offer to the center":http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=259800&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_nhl, which we can all agree is kind of hard when the team doesn't yet have much money to offer.
Once a four-team race, McKenzie now says the competition is squarely between the Rangers and Vancouver, making this the most heated battle between the two teams since the 1994 Cup finals.
Sundin's agent, J.P. Barry is set to meet with the Canucks over a variety of topics tomorrow. The player, meanwhile, is headed home to Sweden until after Christmas.
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Ed Corrie saw his Wimbledon singles dream end at SW19 qualifying in Roehampton on Monday but the British youngster refused to be downcast.
Corrie, who has already been handed a doubles wildcard for Wimbledon alongside fellow Brit Daniel Smethurst, was beaten 6-3, 7-6 by Australian Samuel Groth out on court number 13.
Harpenden's Corrie, who trains at Gosling Sports Park in Welwyn Garden City, admitted he left a number of points out on the court and should have pressured his Australian opponent more than he did. But with his Wimbledon bow now on the horizon Corrie has promised to learn from his experience during singles qualifying.
"I think I played pretty well and created some good opportunities and unfortunately I just couldn't take them," said Corrie.
"There were some shots here and there on big points that if I'd executed better and at the right time could have won me the match.
"It's frustrating to lose on a tie-break in the second set because it shows how close I could push him.
"He played a good tie-break but again I created a few opportunities there and it was just poor shot execution.
"I felt really good coming into the tournament and that's why I'm disappointed.
"I felt I'd prepared really well and I put in a good performance but it just wasn't enough.
"I started pretty well and created a couple of break points but lost one tight service game [in the first set]. Like I said it was just a few points here or there."
Corrie insisted the standard of Wimbledon qualifying is improving and there was no shame in losing to Groth, a player who had recently reached the final of a Challenger event in Nottingham.
"Sam's a good player and he's playing good tennis," Corrie said.
"I'll take from this more confidence. I'm competing with some of the better players in the world now consistently. I feel much more comfortable every time I'm on court so I'll just keep working.
"Right now I'm disappointed but I can't wait to play in the doubles [with Smethurst] in the main draw. It will be both of our debuts this year so we're really looking forward to it."
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ADNAN OKTAR: Our policemen have an origin of Anatolia. They are brave and stouthearted. How do you dare to throw stones to the policemen?... It does not differ if you fire a bullet or throw a stone? Are these people crazy? THEY SAY, "THESE PEOPLE THREW MOLOTOV COCKTAILS" THEY SAY, "IT IS SOMETHING VERY SLIGHT" BUT, A MOLOTOV COCTAIL IS A CLASSICAL BOMB. IT IS A DEADLY WEAPON. THROWING IT CANNOT BE AN INNOCENT ACT. For example somebody throws a stone of one kilogram and then say, "a child has thrown a stone". If this stone hits someone on the head then what will happen? A stone of one kilo or one and a half kilos; this will be a bullet effect. It does not differ when you fire a bullet or throw a stone. May Allah forbid! This is tactlessness, which is unacceptable. This has nothing to do with democracy.
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People who threw Molotov cocktails were sentenced to a record level punishment
Last year 28 people were taken into custody in an operation aimed terrorist organization's senior organizational structure in Kurtalan, Siirt of Turkey.
Two of them were arrested as they threw Molotov cocktails and were sentenced to an imprisonment of 22 years and 8 months plus a pecuniary penalty of 4 thousand Turkish Liras.
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Good Tuesday morning. Here's a glance at opinion content published today in The Journal News:
Andrew Cuomo: Editorial
We congratulate Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his success in realizing the legalization of same-sex marriage, a property-tax cap, ethics reform and more in the just-concluded legislative session. New Yorkers, we argue, deserved a bit of functional government. Still, there's plenty left for Albany to tackle. We write:
… The weary voters, discouraged by a succession of failed governors and corrupt elected officials, won a new ethics law; it requires, for the first time, disclosure of legislators' outside business interests, and calls for greater oversight of both the Legislature and the executive branch. Cuomo threatened legislators with a host of official inquiries if they failed to approve a new ethics law. What they delivered won't address all of the ethical shortcomings that confound Albany politics, but it is better than what was on the books.
The score run up by Cuomo was such that there was open speculation Monday about a Cuomo run for the White House in 2016 — the kind of nonsense talk that seems to crop up whenever something actually goes right in politics. Cuomo reportedly discouraged such conjecture, and with good reason: New York remains a harsh place to do business; the schools do not return results commensurate with taxpayer expenditures; too many New Yorkers remain jobless; and the list of required additional fixes — on pensions, health care, redistricting, and unfunded mandates, to name a few — is lengthy.
Cuomo is off to an impressive start, but it just wouldn't be New York if we could not soon wonder: What has the governor done for us lately?
Gay marriage: Reisman
Phil Reisman comments on how the legalization of same-sex marriage may become an issue in the Republican mayoral primary in Yonkers. Republican Councilman John Murtagh supports the measure while his likely opponent, former Councilman Richard Martinelli, does not.
Gay marriage: Commentary
Jeffrey Allen, a Larchmont native who lives in London, offerrs a Community View in which he argues that while New York's passage of same-sex marriage is certainly encouraging, the federal Defense of Marriage Act still needs to be repealed.
More opinion
Here's a glance at what our colleagues are saying today:
Things are looking up for New York: Editorial, Newsday
Big achievements in Albany: Editorial, Syracuse Post-Standard
Cuomo's triumphs are historic gains: Editorial, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
The day that had to come: Editorial, The Buffalo News
The Legislature's comeback?: Editorial, Albany Times Union
Reject stopgap measure on school pension costs: Editorial, Watertown Daily Times
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UF, SF College team up to boost engineering enrollment
Published: Friday, February 15, 2013 at 9:33 p.m.
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A new collaboration between the University of Florida and Santa Fe College will expand enrollment for freshmen going into the College of Engineering.
The program is called Gator Engineering @ Santa Fe, and it's the brainchild of UF engineering dean Cammy Abernathy and numerous members of logistical departments from both institutions. The program will have its initial run this fall.
"This is momentous for Gator Engineering," Abernathy said in a news release. "We are transforming the way we approach admissions and education in order to meet the demands of both students and employers. … This is truly a win-win for all."
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According to enrollment numbers given by the college, for the 2012-13 school year, the engineering college received 3,716 applications, made 1,831 offers, and accepted 1,276 freshmen. This disparity is one of the main reasons the program was created.
"The majors offered in this program — there's such a demand for them in the workforce, and there's a limited capacity for increasing the number of freshmen (at UF)," said Angela Lindner, associate dean for undergraduate student affairs. "It's incredibly competitive."
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Product Design focuses on the experience of product conception and design for the benefit of society. It encourages creativity, craftsmanship, and personal expression, while serving larger goals of common good. Students studying Product Design generally follow the Mechanical Engineering curriculum and focus on a process that resolves constraints arising from technical, human, aesthetic and business concerns. The course work provides the skills necessary to carry projects from initial concept to completion of working prototypes.
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- ENGR 70A same as CS 106A). Programming Methodology (required), 5 units
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- ME 103D. Engineering Drawing, 1 unit
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I am looking to start a game website with my own games on it. I have looked into many different hosting sites, but it all looks so confusing. The hosting company that seems like the best so far is "InMotion hosting", but I have also looked into Fatcow, iPage, and many others. My main question: What is the best hosting that will allow for enough bandwith for games, but is low buget, so that I can actually afford it?
Thanks for the help,Purple Donut Games
Choosing a server/package for hosting a game would depend upon the system requirements of the game and the number of concurrent users you expect. I don't think a Shared package will work for hosting a game, and if you have a tight budget, you can opt for a cheap VPS which will have enought resources to allow your game to run swiftly.
I do not think that I will be able to afford the VPS thing. My games aren't too big, (the largest one tops out to 4 mega bytes), so will this slow down a shared server too much? PS: If anyone wants to play some of my games go to http://games.softpedia.com/progMoreBy/Publisher-Purple-Donut-Games-24813.html.
so will this slow down a shared server too much?
If I get it right, you're not going to run the games on the server, you'll just offer offer them for download. If so, bandwidth is indeed your main obvious requirement. In a shared hosting environment though, if you're asking too much from the hard drives, you'll be affecting other customers. Chances are that things will get to a point where the host notices this, quite soon. I imagine that when you release a new game, or batch of games, the number of downloads will spike, which is yet another problem.
IMHO, you could start with shared hosting, but you need to be ready to upgrade. You could also use subdomains and host them on a number of shared hosting accounts, to spread the load. Alternatively, if you want to keep your costs low, there are file hosting services out there, such as rapidshare.com.
Thank you for the ideas idcdc. As for the games: I am going to put them up for download, but I am also going to embed them on the site. Will this change anything. Also, how much space and bandwidth should I look for in a VPS server.
but I am also going to embed them on the site. Will this change anything.
As long as the games do not require a server to work (they run 100% on the client side), then little is changed. What is changed is the fact that your users will tend to load the game(s) each time they want to play them, as opposed to having them on their computer. This will likely increase your bandwidth needs by quite a bit. On the other hand, it also makes your site much easier to monetize, since you will get repeat visits, and thus more page views. Advertisers are looking for exposure, and generally repeat exposure is necessary if your goal is branding.
So far on my search for VPS, I have favored HostGator. Will this Host work well? And also, what level of VPS should I get? I was thinking to start out on the first level of HostGator, but I'm not too sure. Thanks very much for all the help...
I was thinking to start out on the first level of HostGator
Not a good idea, unless you're a server admin. The first 2 levels of VPS there are unmanaged. Typically, a fully managed VPS start at about $40-50. I've only used a managed VPS from Liquidweb, and the experience was very good. Then again, I'm not an overly demanding customer, and I also lack experience with VPSs from other providers to compare them with.
I don't think that I can afford the forty or fifty dollars a month. Are there any other VPS plans that would cost less. Also, If I do go for this forty dollars a month, would I be able to make it back in ads, or would I lose money...
I came across vpslink, who are certainly cheaper, but I've never used them so I can't recommend them or otherwise.
Most of the very cheap VPSs are unmanaged, and it appears to be the case with VPSlink as well. www.lowendbox.com is a good site for finding good offers.
I have found QuickWeb from many seaches through lowendbox.com, and think that it is a reasonable choice. The VPS VZ2 plan looks like it will be able to withstand the data of my site. Anyone know if this is a good idea or not... the link is http://www.quickweb.co.nz/softlayer-openvz-plans.html Thanks again for all the help.
It looks like those VPSs are unmanaged, and have no control panel. If you're not a server admin, you may feel like you've just been planted in the middle of the traffic, without knowing how to drive, in a car without a steering wheel.
I have decided to go with hostgator. Would it be a good idea to start with shared hosting untill people actually start showing up, then move to the VPS and work my way up to the big stuff? Thank you for helping solve my hosting problems...
i had suggest hostgator and dreamhost
Would it be a good idea to start with shared hosting untill people actually start showing up, then move to the VPS and work my way up to the big stuff?
That is a common path for most website owners. Be careful when switching from shared to VPS. When you're using shared hosting, you share a big dance floor with many other dancers. You all move about, but most of the time there's room enough for all of you to do your thing. When you go for a small VPS, you place yourself in a cubicle. There's not much room for fancy stuff in there. Talk to your host/prospective host in order to assess the right VPS size for your site.
I know that this thread is pretty old but I would like to close out on it by saying that I went with the shared plan from a small hosting company in Colorado called Buzzy Bee Hosting. I am nearing the one month mark and there service has been excellent. If you want to run a small flash game website go to Bzybhosting.com...
Even a unlimited hosting is not enough to host a game. A minimum enquirer will be VPS or cloud VPS. Cloud VPS will be good for you so that you can upgrade resource and downgrade base on the demand . While doing download site you need a high bandwidth , you might need CDN or a better hosting to support.
As PurpleDonutGames has found hosting and is very happy with the service, there is little point in continuing to offer advice on the subject. Thread closed


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ioSafe SoloPRO: Disaster Proofing Your Storage Needsby Ganesh T S on 4/9/2012 6:00 PM EST
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ant6n - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkMost of the inventions related to cooling the drive while fire/water-proofing will be moot once SSDs get cheaper. Maybe they should focus on finding ways to redundantly store data in SSDs in a fire/water proofed way. Reply
ganeshts - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkioSafe has a disaster proof SSD solution also. Why do you think fire/water proofing is not necessary for SSDs? Reply
bji - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkI think you misunderstood the comment.
The comment was that COOLING THE DRIVE is not necessary for an SSD which makes it easier to develop fire/water proof solutions based on SSDs.
The comment was NOT that fire/water proofing is not necessary for SSDs. Reply
B-Unit1701 - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkI would imagine that is the basis for the internal drive plugged at the end of the article. A standard sized SSD in a 5/12" vault. Reply
PostToaster - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - link
bji -
Mmh didn't misunderstand your comment. You mis-wrote it. You should have said "trivial" instead of "moot". They mean different things. Reply
robb.moore - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkHi bjl-
Cooling electronics is always important as HDDs, like SSDs, all generate heat. SSDs generally do generate less heat than HDDs at idle but when operating - they both use about 4-5W of energy. Even 1W in a small enough enclosure can get incredibly hot if insulated.
ioSafe technology is about how to built a heat generating computer in a perfectly insulated box. It's tricky to do both at a price point that everyone can afford. Thanks for your comments!
Robb Moore
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Samus - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI agree. 5-watt SSD's get pretty hot, you can't just put them in an air-tight enclosure. I've read a number of stories involving OCZ's drives (among the highest wattage drives) failing in laptops, especially older Thinkpad's that were designed for 4200RPM drives. Reply
g00ey - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkI'm still concerned about the integrity of data storage. It is a well known fact that storage devices are prone to failure no matter how fire- and waterproof you make them. This means that some form of redundancy is required and at the moment only ZFS can deliver proper protection against data corruption.
File systems such as BrtFS and HammerFS look promising but it will take years until they can deliver the same data integrity protection as ZFS currently does. Reply
robb.moore - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkAgreed - redundant copies of the data is VERY important. (See 3-2-1 Backup in the comments further down.)
The simple choice with ioSafe is that if you're going to buy an external hard drive anyway...would you like the RED hard drive or the FIREPROOF WATERPROOF hard drive for your data.
Robb Moore
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JNo - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkOff site cloud storage (as well as onsite secondary backup system) is surely the way to go? Onsite backup can burn down too but one or more cloud systems are unlikely to go down simultaneously. Now if only it was cheap enough to back up my movie collection as well as my documents :) Reply
ganeshts - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkMany companies are still paranoid about cloud storage (security and other concerns).
Syncing data in real time from the main office to the cloud is also dependent on the bandwidth available.
Yes, the cost is a concern. I am hoping that ioSafe can easily scale up the number of disks without increasing the cost of the enclosure too much. Reply
zanon - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkOnsite matters for rapid recovery from hardware failure, but in this age I think it's highly questionable for serious disaster recovery. Syncing to your own offsite location (between friends and family for example) offers far more robust protection for nothing beyond the hardware, which not needing to be "disaster proof" per se carries no premium. Good cloud backup is cheap and even more reliable. Encryption means that there are no inherent security issues beyond one's own. A $200 premium will buy more then *5 years* of cloud service for something like CrashPlan+.
This seems like an interesting product, but with a pretty niche application of areas that do not have broadband access. Those applications absolutely do exist of course, but it's a shrinking market, and even then it'd still generally be smart to buy some duplicate media and rotate it offsite manually. Reply
robb.moore - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkHi zanon and cloud surely-
Over the years, we've experience numerous disasters with users backing up on nearly 100K ioSafe units . When used in conjunction with our Data Recovery Service, our users are better than 99.9% success of retaining their data - human error, hdd crashes, fires, floods, etc. ioSafe is making a difference in our customer's lives. Much better imo than the 50% of people that have typically lost data.
Our opinion is that the public cloud is great for backing up 20, 30 or maybe even 100GB but it starts to break down after that. It's faster to FedEx a TB across the country than to pipe it over the cloud. If you're a small business, you need to get your business back tomorrow - not next week after all your customers have gone somewhere else.
I have 2TB+ at home on my Synology NAS and CrashPlan, Mozy, etc. simply isn't an option for people in this position as "unlimited" cloud storage is "limited" to data files on a PC and doesn't backup the OS, programs or NAS devices. Rotating media offsite regularly is a pain and I often can't remember to do it. I use a SoloPRO as a backup target for my NAS. With that I get fire, flood, RAID, NAS, "private cloud access" and backup - all without having to install any additional software on my computer.
Disaster proofing terabytes of data, imaging multiple PC OS's, programs, settings, etc. is tough. There's no magic bullet for every situation. ioSafe technology is intended to be used wherever data sits vulnerable and be a simple "disaster plan in a box" solution for data backup and protection.
Combined with cloud and offsite vaulting as you like - ioSafe technology can be layered in wherever vulnerable data exits or your recovery time objective demands.
Great comments - thanks!
Robb Moore
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Samus - Thursday, April 12, 2012 - linkRobb, this is great technology. I've been an IT consultant for small business for 10 years and have a number of clients, especially those with small medical practices, that are paranoid about off-site backup solutions. Most of my clients use Carbonite, iDrive, or CTERA without hesitation, but there are a few they just rely on local tape backups or external hard drives that have no fire protection. I try to have clients always keep a rotating tape or hard drive in a fire safe, but there is a lot of room for human error as they can be weeks out of date when someone forgets.
I will be trying one of your drives shortly. It's mind boggling you are the first to market something like this when it has been a field waiting to be exploited for 30+ years. Reply
stolid - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkIt seems like it would defeat the purpose if the drive were to fail in a typical manner. This would be cooler if it were two drives within the enclosure in RAID1. Reply
robb.moore - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkThanks stolid-
We're constantly working on new products with ioSafe technology - stay tuned!
That being said - the ioSafe SoloPRO is meant as a backup target - not primary storage. At ioSafe we highly recommend that our users follow a minimum of our 3-2-1 Backup Rule:
<> Keep at least 3 complete copies of your data
<> Keep them on at least 2 different devices
<> 1 copy should be on an ioSafe, taken offsite or disaster proofed in someway
Even a RAID 1 device can be accidentally formated or have RAID controller failure causing all the data to be lost. RAID is not "backup". Humans have, many times, pulled the wrong "dead" drive from a RAID 5 array only to discover that the entire array is now corrupt.
Again - just a guideline. Everybody's situation is a little different. Do what makes sense for your data, computer, business, etc.
Robb Moore
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P_Dub_S - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkI have a 1TB Solo and it works great in conjunction with Mozy backup. The server is on a RAID 5 that backs up the entire server locally on the ioSafe incase more than one drive dies or fire/water damage. Then I use Mozy to backup the company data. Very cost efficient backup solution for a small business with under 20 users. Reply
robb.moore - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkthat's perfect - thanks P_Dub_S. Layering different technologies together to make a disaster recovery plan that works for you is the way to do it.
We have 3 ioSafe's go through the Joplin tornadoes. All the offices were destroyed. They recovered all servers the next day.
Tough to do via a pure cloud solution - pushing a pulling TB's of data up and down across an internet connection that's a shredded wire :) The added problem of all the original program disks scattered across the neighboring county!
Robb Moore
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zanon - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkThe cloud stuff in this article is really silly.
Home users dealing with small amounts of data can always back up their contents using cloud services like Dropbox and Box.net.
However, the former is not suitable for large amounts of data (say, more than a few hundred GBs),
For small amounts of data, an online backup service should suffice.
It is not 2005 anymore. Dropbox and the like are general cloud services, not dedicated backup services. Dedicated backup services, like CrashPlan and Carbonite, offer unlimited plans for $3-5 a month. There are even seeding options, wherein they send you a 1TB (or whatever size) drive by mail to start things off for people with slower connections (and vice versa, can pay for a courier service to get data back rather then downloading it). Terabytes of storage is plenty for the vast majority of home users.
After initial replication, obviously backup is incremental. If someone is actually generating many gigs per day in critical new data and has a slow connection, then yes, local is important. I don't think that is describing either most home users or most small businesses, however.
Serious businesses always have an off-site tape backup or some other similar mechanism for data backup.
and the latter is not suitable for making a disaster proof copy of files changed recently.
Ridiculous. Serious businesses have real time online backup offsite, if not to multiple offsite locations.
Many small and medium businesses continue to remain paranoid about cloud storage.
Maybe so, but that's due to either miseducation or stupidity, and Anandtech shouldn't be feeding either. This site should be better then that :\. Reply
ganeshts - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkzanon, I am sorry you feel that way about my approach to the cloud in this piece.
I see your point about Carbonite and CrashPlan, but what is the guarantee that the company won't shut shop suddenly ? Rather than trusting someone with their backups, some people might prefer to have their data close by.
I won't comment on the real time online backup offsite comment, but I do know of companies personally which do an offsite backup once a week (Think in terms of non-IT companies). I do see that ioSafe claims McD, Best Western, Sheraton Group etc. as customers, and I am sure they have their own reasons for choosing ioSafe as their disaster proofing solution. Reply
zanon - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkFirst, thanks for your reply! Regardless of the situation, it's always appreciated when the author gives feedback.
My biggest fundamental problem with your coverage is that I really think it does get some key points wrong and do a disservice to readers who might not know better. There are certainly valid reasons why a local solution might be useful/necessary, but storage and security aren't among them and Anandtech isn't a site that should be fuzzy with the details on matters like this, IMO.
I see your point about Carbonite and CrashPlan, but what is the guarantee that the company won't shut shop suddenly?
This is silly. You have no "guarantees", per se, about anything tech related. What's your "guarantee" that a meteor won't come out of nowhere and obliterate Microsoft next week? Nothing. But that's not how data security or uptime is managed, no one ever says "100%", it's all about probability, and how many "9's" you're willing to pay for. A company like Code 42 or Amazon have been around many years now, and appear to have very stable models. Same with all the other reputable players. The odds of them just up and vanishing without warning are miniscule, and the important thing is that those odds are weighed against the risk odds of the individual, which are far more significant.
Rather than trusting someone with their backups, some people might prefer to have their data close by.
No common individual can even vaguely match the kind of backup and redundancy that a pro solution can. Good ones have replication to multiple redundant data centers (which in turn have their own replication). They have physical and environmental security. Having data "close by" is good as a secondary level to aid in rapid restores (for hardware failure and such). But a hardened case won't necessarily work for serious disasters, or against some of the most key threats of all, like theft (or confiscation). A single drive with no redundancy isn't even much use against data corruption.
I won't comment on the real time online backup offsite comment, but I do know of companies personally which do an offsite backup once a week...and I am sure they have their own reasons for choosing ioSafe as their disaster proofing solution.
Oh, I'm sure too. There are situations where a given location may simply not have access to broadband, or only via something expensive/highly asymmetric like satellite. When data is expensive enough, it also just makes sense to have multiple redundant setups in place. But if they could do an online remote solution as well (online remote doesn't mean "cloud" necessarily) but aren't because they're worried about space, security, or more likely are just ignorant that's not a shining example for you to point to, that's companies being foolish, as they so often are. We know better.
It's worth repeating and double emphasizing too that "remote replication" doesn't necessarily mean "cloud". Software like CrashPlan (or lots of others, or roll your own with open source), for free, enables backing up to any system connected to the net. So a few friends living in different areas can all agree to host backups for each other (or a business might replicate between offices).
Thanks again for your response. Reply
robb.moore - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkHi zanon-
Great comments - you seem like a really knowledgeable person. Couple of observations:
1. The Pentagon uses ioSafe. Arguably with the biggest IT budget on the planet, why choose ioSafe? They have a remote office with Macs. Pentagon runs on Windows. The remote office has vulnerable data, at risk and they're not allowed to backup over the internet due to security concerns.
2. "Serious" business with thousands of remote offices choose ioSafe to backup vulnerable data not in the data center. They utilize ioSafe as a temporary backup location until the data can be uploaded or taken offsite. ioSafe plugs a vulnerability in their DR plans. It's not perfect but it was better than having thousands of endpoints backing up to the data center between the hours of 2am and 4am.
3. Many IT people don't like the idea of perpetual incrementals. They prefer to take daily or weekly snapshots of the entire server, OS and programs and recover from "clean" images. Balancing Recovery Time Objective (RTO) with Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is tricky for all businesses to do more with less. ioSafe can often times help RPO/RTO for business with vulnerable data and limited budgets.
4. Data creation outpaces online bandwidth in growth. This is expected to remain true for decades to come. It's as if the Atlantic Ocean is growing faster than the garden hose you're pushing it through. Data created locally will generally stay local. Data created in the cloud will generally stay in the cloud. It's tough to push massive amounts of data across a pipe that proportionally getting smaller over time.
We're big fans of the private cloud - Local data that can be access remotely on any device. ioSafe is one solution of many to help mitigate the risk of loss for the local data. Every situation is a little different though.
Excellent comments.
Robb Moore
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DanNeely - Monday, April 09, 2012 - link"The unit protects data from loss up to 1550°F for 1/2 hour as per ASTM E119"
Without comparison to major house/apartment/office fire numbers this rating by itself is fairly meaningless. My biggest question would be what does the long tail of fire heating to do it? The main blaze could be extinguished in a house fire within the 30m timeframe; but fire fighters need to hang around for hours afterwards because hot spots will periodically flare back up. Reply
robb.moore - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkHi Dan-
The average house fire lasts 10-20 minutes at about 1100 degrees. Almost all fires involve water. In fact most of the damage is done by the fire fighter hoses than by the fire. Typically, when a room burns, all the fuel in the room is used up in a relatively short time. If a building burns for a couple hours, it's not the same spot burning as the fuel gets used up over a few minutes.
1400 degrees is a VERY hot section of the fire (typically right at the ceiling. As you move downward in the room, the temps drop into the 300-400 degs F near the floor.
Robb Moore
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rs2 - Monday, April 09, 2012 - linkA simple hard-drive failure is a far more likely occurrence than a fire or a flood, and for all its imposing presence and costly engineering this solution does nothing whatsoever to protect against internal failure of the mechanical disk. That shows a troubling lack of foresight.
Would it have been so difficult for them to also include some sort of cloud-based data backup/replication service with this device? Obviously the people in the market for such a product are people who seriously care about the safety of their data, so it would make sense to market a solution that covers all common failure modes; fire, flood, and physical device failure. Reply
robb.moore - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkHi rs2-
As mentioned in a previous response:
That being said - the ioSafe SoloPRO is meant as a backup target - not primary storage. At ioSafe we highly recommend that our users follow a minimum of our 3-2-1 Backup Rule.
Human error (accidental deletion, format, etc.) is our #1 reason for recovery. It's amazing to me how many people confuse "backup" to mean "move" and not "copy"
It's very wrong (as I think you're trying to explain) to "move" all your data onto a single drive. It's also very wrong to move all your data onto a 100 disk RAID array without a backup.
It's just as easy to accidentally format a large RAID array as it is a single disk - the human is the weak link.
We've considered layering in some kind of cloud offering. Mozy and Carbonite both recommend onsite external drives to supplement their cloud backup. I guess I see it as we're better than 99.9% "good" already. There are lots of companies that do cloud backup and there's only one ioSafe.
thanks for the comments!
Robb Moore
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DonCBurr - Monday, April 16, 2012 - linkRobb
I agree with your 3.2.1 strategy and I agree with your analyses of the cloud when data becomes large which is why I like this concept; but I have to disagree with the idea of a single drive rather than RAID 1
Even in my home environment data is stored in RAID 50 (fifty) and complete images are backed up to external drive RAID 1 drives; which I can put into our fire-safe that has a .rating of 45 minutes @ 1400 degrees BUT that requires backing up and swapping drives. RAID 1 because drives can and will fail and Murphy's Law says it WILL fail when you need it the most. (and frankly most RAID implementations are not that much more than single drives implementations e.g. Sans Digital))
Now if I could only run a long cord into the safe and continuously back up the data that would be great, but not practical; which is why I looked at your product: however IF I am to rely on your solution for the Fire/Water/Earthquake event (as opposed to the long-cord solution ) then I surely want the latest online real-time backup and RAID 1 simply reduces the odds that a single drive and single point of failure will be responsible for data-loss since the odds that two drives will fail at exactly the same time is pretty low.
I hear you may have a NAS version with RAID coming out, which I am excited to see; but NAS adds a bunch of costs that a simple eSata, USB3.0, FireWire would not have.
I certainly think that a $200.00 premium over standard drives as Anandtech points out, is worth it. So if I use this as the bench mark and I can buy a SansDigital RAID 1 box w/ eSata and USB 3.0 for 130.00 and put 2 1TB drives into it for about $200 that 330 + 200 = $530.00: I am a buyer at between $495.00 and $530. (doesn't $495 sound SO much less than $530)
My two cents…. Reply
robb.moore - Monday, April 23, 2012 - linkThanks Don for the feedback. Disks in RAID can be a good way to help guard against single disk failure. For many though, the concept of RAID, or confusing RAID with "backup" is common.
Specifically speaking to the odds, ioSafe has a track record of protecting people's data better than 99.9% when our hardware + Data Recovery Services are used together. This stat is inclusive of all our customers various techniques and scenarios for data loss (human error, fires, floods, hdd failure, etc. etc.)
Adding RAID to the backup target will incrementally improve chances of recovery but probably not as much as you think if you're already creating a redundant backup copy in the first place.
Where RAID can dramatically benefit a business is what Disaster Recovery folks call Recovery Time Objective (RTO). There's a big advantage to having a disk failure that can be corrected by hot swapping a disk resulting in zero downtime if you business requires it.
We highly recommend a RAID array for your main server if you're a business. RAID on the backup target can help incrementally improve your chances (0.005% better?) but so will 2 backup targets (twin external hard drives), online backup and offsite vaulting if this worries you.
There are all kinds of techniques to improve your chances and every situation is a little different.
Thanks again for your comments.
Robb Moore
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EddieBoy - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkI see that Costco.com has the 3 TB version for $349.99. Very tempting... Reply
bobbozzo - Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - linkNothing is Disaster-Proof (or fireproof or hackproof or whatever)... Please use terms like disaster-resistant instead when reviewing such products. Reply
Coup27 - Monday, April 16, 2012 - linkHi Rob,
It's nice to have a CEO, or even a company rep in these comments. I don't know if you are still checking these comments but if you are, is there a reason why there is no NAS version of this product? USB obviously has cable length limitations and if you wanted to secure the ioSafe somewhere on-site out of the practical reach of theft, the chances are it's going to be more than 5M away from my expensive server.
My company is only small, about 30 staff with 10 computer based users. Today I have spent longer "discussing" the my options for backing up my IT provider than I did talking about the actual server implementation and roll out. Every option we discussed had a pit fall and we were left with the classic and incredibly frustrating "2 x external drive shuffle alternating once a day/week by a member of staff who someone then takes home" [insert expletive here]
As has been mentioned already, cloud backup completely fails when backing up considerable data, especially large email repositories.
Regards Reply
robb.moore - Monday, April 16, 2012 - linkHi Coup27-
At ioSafe we use a Synology NAS (RAID, NAS, Private Cloud, Etc) with an ioSafe SoloPRO as the backup target for the NAS using the eSATA port on the back of the NAS. This will allow you to place the ioSafe anywhere on the network (wired or wireless).
This works really well imo for the small business as there's no backup software to install on the clients if you're just after protecting the NAS. If you'd like to image the entire OS for the attached clients, you can either buy an ioSafe for each computer user and image it that way - reducing the data pushed across the LAN (this is what we do at ioSafe). Or you can image the user's hard drives across the LAN to the NAS which in turn backs up to the ioSafe (this is what I do for my home computers).
Additionally, you can layer in whatever offsite strategy you'd like if you feel you need it at this point.
We're also working on some other NAS solutions that we'll be announcing later this year. Hope that helps.
Robb Moore
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Coup27 - Thursday, April 19, 2012 - linkHi Robb,
Unfortunately having to rely on a seperate NAS to add network capabilities adds a significant cost to a quite reasonably priced item.
When I can eventually afford my own house I would certainly consider a NAS ioSafe to place in my loft as a secure backup. This would be inpractical to be taken during a theft, and would survive water and fire damage. Obviously that would not include an off-site backup but I'm not sure how practical that is for a domestic user with TB's of data. I think a NAS ioSafe would be an excellent overrall solution and hope so see them soon!
Cheers Reply
glugglug - Monday, March 04, 2013 - linkCan the ioSafe be opened up and the drive inside it replaced with a larger one?
Will opening it break some seals required for the disaster proofing? Reply


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