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When the wealthy and reclusive copper heiress Huguette M. Clark died recently at the age of 104 , she left $30 million to her personal nurse and $100,000 to her doctor, among other gifts bequested to charities and her accountant and lawyer .
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The nurse, Hadassah Peri, was thrilled. She said in a statement to the media that said, in part, "I saw Madame Clark virtually every day for the 20 years. I was her private duty nurse but also her close friend."
So what's the problem? A nurse who spent years caring for an elderly heiress got a great windfall. But there are serious ethical challenges when patients are the source of big gifts directly to their health care providers.
While hospitals allow gifts to the institution itself, most have strict rules against a doctor or a nurse personally accepting anything more than a small gift from a patient. And those rules make good sense. Patients ought not be put in the position of trying to bribe their nurse to get attention. And doctors and nurses must not shower favors on those they think might make them personally wealthy. And when a life hangs in the balance, you don't want your doctor thinking about whether it is better for his bank account if you live or die.Story: Heiress Huguette Clark's will leaves $1 million to advisers
When it comes to big gifts to home caregivers, personal nurses and physicians and those who work outside hospital settings, the ethics are just as sticky but the rules are slim.
A patient, particularly an elderly and frail one, can get very dependent on a caregiver, particularly if they have few, if any, other social contacts. And a caregiver can be in a good position to start to influence the patient simply because they are there — never mind that they are paid to be, not because they necessarily have a strong emotional relationship to the patient.
Years ago, a private physician asked me if it would be appropriate to be named the conservator of his wealthy elderly patient's estate. She wanted him to be in charge of her fortune, and he told me that she trusted him over anyone else she knew to do the right thing with her money. I thought this was a bad idea. If he was in charge of her medical care knowing that he stood to control a huge sum of money should she die, it would create a mountain of conflict of interest. If he had been at a hospital, that relationship would have been frowned upon — but out in the community there was nothing to prohibit it. In the end he became the conservator but stopped being her doctor.
People like Huguette Clark have the right to do with their money as they wish. Heck, when Leona Helmsley died she left $12 million dollars to her dog ! But the bequests that patients make directly to doctors and nurses who care for them in their old age in their homes or in private settings need close scrutiny by courts.
Special report: Huguette Clark, the reclusive heiress, and the men managing her
It is not always clear how competent a frail elderly patient might be when leaving big sums of money to one of the only few people may have seen for decades. Nor is it certain that ideas about how to make a gift were not suggested by those who might stand to benefit. And doctors and nurses are not above trying to alienate a patient from their families when the stakes are high.
Ideally, no doctor or nurse should allow a grateful patient to make them rich. In a non-ideal world, courts need to treat large personal gifts to healers as possibly in need of a legal cure.
Huguette Clark's nurse promised in a statement to "devote a substantial portion of this bequest toward making the world a better place for all people."
The ethical choice is for her, and Clark's doctor, to donate all of their windfall.
Arthur Caplan, Ph.D., is director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Great vision, that's what it takes to refuse to rest on previous success and instead focus on what you need to become in the future, which is exactly what Lodi, California's A Skylit Drive continues to achieve with every album. Vocalist Michael "Jag" Jagmin, guitarist Nick Miller, bassist/screamer Brian White, drummer Cory La Quay and keyboardist Kyle Simmons, officially exploded onto the scene in 2007 with their EP She Watched the Sky. They followed that release up with three full-length albums titled Wires and the Concept of Breathing, Adelphia and Identity on Fire, which all charted on the Billboard Top 200, and their live DVD Let Go of the Wires.
A Skylit Drive has toured extensively with similar artists like Blessthefall, Sleeping with Sirens, Pierce the Veil, and Of Mice & Men; as well as contributing songs to the well known compilations Punk Goes Classic Rock and Punk Goes Pop Vol 4. A Skylit Drive's musical resume would be enough of a career for most bands, but they have no intentions of slowing down. In fact, the band believes they are just hitting their stride. They released their new single Fallen to critical acclaim and assured their fans that this was just a taste of things to come on the new album that will be out in 2013. Fallen joins the essential characteristics of A Skylit Drive's signature sound heard on Wires and the Concept of Breathing while showcasing a wide spectrum of tones, textures and song structure.
The band recently entered the studio with platinum producer Jim Wirt (Hoobastank, Trapt, Something Corporate) to write songs for the new album. "I thoroughly enjoyed the time we spent in Cleveland with producer Jim Wirt," says vocalist Michael "Jag" Jagmin. "It's a nice change of pace writing with someone outside of the band. We're used to writing our albums completely secluded locked away in a practice spot somewhere. Including someone as knowledgeable as Jim into the mix has been a great benefit for us." In addition to working with Jim Wirt, A Skylit Drive will also record demo tracks with Kit Walters (Alesana, Letlive, He Is Legend), Mitchell Marlow (In This Moment), as well as production by Cameron Mizell (Sleeping With Sirens, Capture The Crown) for the highly anticipated album on Tragic Hero Records.
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Kyle Simmons- Bass / Keyboards
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What Makes MICKEY MOUSE Move? (Apr, 1934)
What Makes MICKEY MOUSE Move?
Illustrated by Walt Disney
Fifty highly trained artists and scores of sound engineers unite to bring fast-moving animated talking cartoons to screen. Here's how amazing job is accomplished.
by EARL THEISEN – Honorary curator motion pictures, Los Angeles Museum
MAKING Mickey Mouse move is not a mysterious technical process that Walt Disney does behind studio walls. It is an interesting thing that everyone can understand. The methods of animating a cartoon are fascinating. The fact that a hand-drawn picture can show motion is little short of miraculous.
A cartoon studio, in many respects, may be compared with a real life studio. In both they have stars or characters, a story or scenario, a director, and sets. In the Disney studio, the stars are cartoon pictures painted on sheets of celluloid and the sets are not made of wood by a carpenter, but are water color paintings made by an artist. The cartoon director is known as the "layout" man. As the term implies, it is his duty to lay out the story. He does this in the form of rough pencil sketches which serve as a guide for the artists who draw the story action. These sketches illustrate the various things the cartoon character does in the story.
How "Motion" Is Supplied
In order to explain how a cartoon moves, we will look at a piece of motion picture film. Each foot of the film has sixteen individual photos that are a little larger than a postage stamp. These tiny photos are quite similar to the kodak pictures except that movies are finished on transparent celluloid. As a movie camera photographs motion, the movement is recorded as a series of progressive poses. For instance, if a person is photographed while walking, the camera "shoots" the action as a series of different poses. When these various poses are projected to a screen at high speed, the individual pictures blend and give the illusion of motion.
There are two different sets of gears in a movie camera. One set takes sixteen pictures or a foot of film for each turn of the crank while the second set "shoots" only one picture for each turn of the crank. This last named camera is known as a "stop action camera" and is the one used in making cartoons.
Drawing Made for Each Pose
To create the illusion that Mickey Mouse is moving, a different drawing for each pose is needed. These different poses are "shot" one after the other with the stop action camera. While the different drawings are being changed in front of the camera, it is, of course, stopped.
For example, imagine Mickey Mouse in "Mickey Mouse and the Bean-Stalk." He is on the giant's dinner table and the giant sees him. Of course, Mickey turns and runs. To portray this, Walt would first paint a water color of the dinner table. Next, he would draw a cartoon of Mickey Mouse which would then be traced to a sheet of celluloid.
How Mickey Mouse Eludes Giant
When this celluloid cartoon is laid on top of the table painting, Mickey Mouse appears to be standing on the table. This picture of the Mouse standing on the table is photographed. Since Mickey is to run away from the giant, the next cartoon drawing would be of Mickey with one foot off the table in a position wherein he is starting to run. This last picture is now substituted for the one already photographed on the table. Walt would continue to draw Mickey Mouse with first one foot off the table and then the other as he runs away from the giant. These pictures would be photographed one after the other on motion picture film with the stop action camera.
In this picture Mickey runs and hides in the Swiss cheese. To show him running to the cheese, it would be necessary to draw about fifty different poses. When these pictures are projected in a theater at high speed, they blend together and give the illusion that Mickey Mouse is running.
It must be remembered that every bit of action in a cartoon is drawn as a set of progressive poses. Of course, to do this a great number of drawings are required. Walt Disney and his staff draw from 10,000 to 12,000 individual drawings for each cartoon movie. These are viewed on the screen in about seven minutes. That seems like a lot of work for only seven minutes.
Artists Study for Six Months
It is no simple matter for fifty artists, all working on the same movie, to have their drawings similar. The technique of all the artists must be the same, otherwise the movement and character of Mickey Mouse would vary. In order to standardize the drawings, the artists go through a period of training of about six months.
The cartoon scenario is the result of a "gag – meeting." When a story idea is thought suitable for a Disney cartoon, everyone from the janitor to the studio cat knows about it and submits ideas or gags. The cat submits gags in the way of antics and stunts. Every idea is considered.
The result of this meeting is a cartoon scenario. In it may be ideas and stunts from perhaps a dozen of the Disney tribe. They have been thoroughly gone over under the close supervision of Walt until they are Mickey Mouse.
The cartoon scenario is not like the conventional motion picture scenario. It differs in that it is really two manuscrips in one. One part tells the story or action for every inch of the film while the second part notes and describes the corresponding music and sound. These two parts are carefully matched by musical beats. Each beat of music requires a certain length of film and for each beat of music, the characters must do a definite bit of action. The reason for the two scenarios is because the picture part of the story cannot be photographed with sound. They are recorded independently on different films. Sound cannot be photographed by a stop motion camera, while that is the system necessary in animating a cartoon. The sound film and the picture film are later synchronized.
Sound Stage Mysterious Place
One of the most interesting places at the Disney studio is the sound stage. Within it is a mysterious quietness. Each sound has a hol-lowness due to the sound-proofing. Off in one corner is the "monitoring" room where the sounds are judged in rehearsal. Here Walt and his musical director sit and listen to the sounds as they come to them over the circuit to the sound recorder.
An imitator speaks for each of the cartoon characters. A large orchestra provides the musical score. Working with the orchestra is a group of "effect men" who manipulate mechanical devices that create the many incidental sounds.
Recording sound effects at the cartoon studio is more than just interesting. It is like a scene in an old alchemist's laboratory. You hear the director asking for a dog bark, or a dog sniff, for a kiss or shivery growl. Perhaps a door slam. The kisses are made by a musician who kisses the back of his hand A bottle and a cork in their hands can be made to sound like a monkey chattering. A tin car with a resin covered string sounds like Mickey's trousers tearing. They have dog barks in all pitches, deep barks for big dogs, little barks for little dogs, and yips for frightened dogs. These sounds are made by the imitators who have specialized in voice control or by special apparatus designed for the purpose.
Rhythmic Ticks Keep Time
The imitators group themselves around the microphone. On their heads are earphones through which come rhythmic ticks that serve to keep them in time. It is a guide that tells them when to begin their lines. By previous rehearsal, they know that at a certain point, as represented by the ticks or beats, Mickey Mouse is saying something. So the conversation must punctually begin at that point.
This is the time to again point out that the picture film is being recorded in another part of the studio on another film. They are not recorded on the same film. The sound recording camera "shoots" ninety feet of film per minute while recording the sound and the cameraman on the "stop action" camera is lucky if he gets fifty feet of film in a whole day. He is delayed because he must tediously change each pose before it can be photographed.


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James McGirk takes a look at the juggalo phenomenon, the cult-fan base of the Insane Clown Posse.
Insane Clown Posse are a band of forty-somethings who sing threatening lyrics set to menacing music, all while wearing full circus makeup.
…, but juggalos are so spectacularly unappealing to mainstream tastes that in the eighteen years the band has been playing for major audiences they remain a cult phenomenon.
No Insane Clown Posse concert would be complete without dousing its audience in Faygo, an off-brand cola sold in the Midwest. Even after fans have complained after being hit with full bottles and sued. ICP claims they chose Faygo because it was the only soda they could afford growing up in Detroit. Off-brand soda is potent a symbol of American poverty.
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Studio Fine Arts majors to open exhibition in Dreitzer Gallery Dec. 12
Final exams are fast approaching, but senior Studio Fine Arts majors have an additional responsibility to manage in the midst of all the studying. They will open their midyear exhibition from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 12, in the Dreitzer Gallery in Spingold Theater Center.
The exhibition of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking will be on view through Jan. 28, 2013.
"I believe I speak for all of the senior studio students when I say we have worked incredibly hard thus far," said Lenny Schnier '13. "Each artist is expressing an individual journey that they have taken throughout their time at Brandeis. It is really a special experience to see the maturity of most of the work exhibited."
Every year, the senior Studio Art majors put on exhibitions in the winter and the spring, usually on the last day of classes of each semester.
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Lindsay Lohan's 'pregnant' tweet? 'April Fools'
Is it an April Fool's joke?
Perpetually unpredictable Lindsay Lohan, who made news Monday by spilling out of her dress while getting out of a helicopter in Brazil, is making more news today with a mysterious Twitter entry.
"Its official. Pregnant ..." she wrote.
It could be that her account was hacked. But many are chalking it up to being an April Fool's joke even though she seems to have tweeted it in the wee hours of April 2.
UPDATE: And yes, says Lilo, it was just a prank. "April Fools," she tweeted, "Where's everyone's sense of humor?"
Lohan, 26, recently started dating musician Avi Snow and must start 90 days in rehab by May 2.
She wasn't the only star to try to punk followers on April 1. Snooki posted a photo of herself in a wedding dress saying, "Jionni and I eloped ... here's a pic of the magical day!" She later wrote: "APRIL FOOLS ya freaks!!" She added that she'll "have a huge wedding lets be serious lololol"
Meanwhile, new photos are out from Lohan's guest-star stint on FX's Anger Management. She plays herself as a patient to Charlie Sheen's therapist. The episode is slated to air on April 11 at 9:30 p.m. But before that, look for her to chat with David Letterman on his Late Show on April 9.


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Currently, reader comments have to be pre-approved by one of a handful of moderators before they appear online. We began this initially to help keep the vitriolic personal attacks so often associated with political debate at bay. And in many cases, the process has served its purpose — misogynistic, racist and toxic comments are deleted before being published for all to see.
But often enough, limited staff resources keeps reasonable comments sitting in the comment queue for several hours before being published. This delay stifles the potential for real-time debate and discourse, and ultimately, we believe, doesn't serve our readers.
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Wasfia Nazreen On Summiting Everest, Supporting Female Climbers, And Living Every Day Like It's Earth Day
In November 2015, Wasfia Nazreen stood atop the Carstensz Pyramid in West Papua, 16,024 feet above the ground. A seasoned climber and National Geographic Explorer & Adventurer, Nazreen was used to the rush that comes from making it to the top—but this peak was special. She walked back down it as the first Bangladeshi and Bengali person to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on each of the seven continents.
Raised in a society where girls were often silenced, the outdoors served as Nazreen's source of comfort and respite after her parents divorced and abandoned her at a young age, and she was sent to live with an aunt.
"I recognize that nature healed me," she says over coffee in midtown Manhattan, during a recent visit to New York, adding that heading out to play in the hills in Bangladesh—which felt like mountains at the time—served as her escape.
In Bangladesh, girls are often married off at a young age and they lack the same access to education, healthcare, and jobs as boys do. Violence against women is widely reported. Just this month, a Bangladeshi teenager was brutally killed after accusing her teacher of rape. Nazreen's success on the mountains was a testament to what can be achieved in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles; a feat that the Dalai Lama said, "goes to show that all of us, both men and women, are equal and have the same potential."
In a tone equal parts calming and captivating, Nazreen explains that for her, climbing mountains is more of a surrender than a conquering. Though there's certainly physical strength involved, it's more spiritual than anything. She's credited meditation as the most important part of her training, and describes the journey up as a practice in mindfulness.
The journey to the top.
Introduced to high-altitude climbing in her early twenties, when she was working with Tibetan refugees around the Himalayan belt after attending college in the U.S., Nazreen picked it up as a hobby right away.
"I would go climbing with other colleagues who were mountaineers. We didn't have much else to do on the weekends. It's not like I planned it out; I didn't have a goal," she remembers. "Then, I would take loans out and go climbing.... When you fall in love with the Himalayas, there's no way out."
The infatuation, bordering on obsession, fueled her up many mountaintops—but none more memorable than Everest.
My life flashed before me and I felt this overwhelming sense of gratitude.
"As cliche as it sounds, Everest was a very spiritual journey for me. The last part I really felt like there was something higher than me that took over," she recalls of her journey. Getting there was grueling in every sense of the word ("I crossed seven dead bodies on my last 3,000 feet—some of them I had had tea with back at basecamp. That's the reality of climbing Everest," she says), but her experience at the peak at sunrise, alongside friend and guide Ngima Gyurmen Sherpa, proved worth it.
"My life flashed before me and I felt this overwhelming sense of gratitude, for being alive, for being where I was." She likens it to her version of the "orbital perspective," the term coined by Astronaut Ron Garan to describe the feeling he had looking down at the Earth from space. When you're that removed from society, you somehow connect with it more deeply.
But that sense of awe didn't last forever, Nazreen says, and those surface-level worries crept back in when she returned back to level ground. "That moment when I saw the sunrise at the top of the world, it just went away," she says. "I thought it was going to stay with me forever, but it doesn't. Now it's a process of how to go back to that awareness."
Nazreen still lives in service to the mountains and those who climb them.
Fast forward to 2019, and Nazreen is still climbing—though these days, she's also summiting more metaphorical mountains. She lives between Bangladesh and Los Angeles and has established herself as an environmental and human rights activist fighting to protect the land and people that mean so much to her. Only 7 percent of people who climb Everest are women. Nazreen hopes that the Ösel Foundation, which she started to help women and girls around Bangladesh gain confidence from exploring outdoors and learning about conservation and mindfulness, will help increase this number.
On any given day, you can find Nazreen working with her foundation, producing a film on outdoor adventurers, writing her memoir, penning a children's book loosely inspired by her life, or planning her next summit. As she said, the love of the mountains never goes away.
Since 2013, she has been guiding groups of everyday people—often women—to Everest Base Camp to experience the magic for themselves. "When you go to Everest or the Himalayas, it's such a magnet. It's about helping people realize that connection to themselves, spirit, and the earth." While she calls the experience of climbing with others "eye-opening," not all parts of the trip back to Everest are positive.
Nazreen's work is a testament to the transformative power of the outdoors and our responsibility to protect it.
"It's so sensitive now over there from years of pollution," she says of the mountain. The glaciers around Everest are shrinking rapidly, and thanks to a rise in foot traffic, pollution is everywhere. (To give you a sense of how commercialized parts of the mountain have become, you can now find WiFi and the occasional live DJ set at base camp.) On Nazreen's trips, trash is disposed of properly, and a portion of what people pay to get to Base Camp goes back to the local Sherpa people.
True athletes who hardly get recognized for their accomplishments, Sherpas around Everest actually fix the rope before anyone else can climb. "They're the first ones to go, and you never hear that," Nazreen says. "They don't go with supplemental oxygen—they're like ninjas."
Through her work as an activist, she's hoping to bring more attention to female Sherpas, too—women such as Lhakpa Sherpa, the single mom who has summited Everest an incredible nine times, and Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, the first Nepali person to become a North Face athlete.
Nazreen's work is a testament to the transformative power of the outdoors and our responsibility to protect it. "We talk about it so much, but to me sustainability really means solutions," she says. "Whether it's being vegan, cutting your meat consumption, or not using plastic straws, you need to take step-by-step efforts to lessen your consumption. Be mindful of what's going on around you; the amount of plastic that's out there is crazy."
Ultimately, she lives a life of less impact in reverence for "Chomolungma"—the traditional Tibetan name of Everest, which translates, fittingly, to Mother Goddess of the Universe.
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SPEED call-in show WindTunnel with Dave Despain is known for giving strongly-opinionated NASCAR fans a voice, and like many programs it's now featuring tweets from viewers. One such viewer, "Douche McGee," has an issue with the off-the-track drama that's emerged as one of stock car racing's hallmarks—and had such a valuable comment the show simply had to highlight it.
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Passengers who fly Lufthansa First Class know they can expect perfect 5-star service from booking to landing.
An oasis of relaxation – that's Lufthansa First Class in a nutshell. Not just because the cabins have special soundproofing to minimize sound, or because the luxurious seats fold out into a comfortable bed and the screens are equipped with advanced hardware and software. At Lufthansa, 5-star comfort also means that each passenger enjoys individual service and assistance from the moment they arrive at the airport. In Frankfurt, a limousine service welcomes passengers at the dedicated First Class Terminal. Personal assistants are on hand to get passengers swiftly through all security checks, and passengers are entitled to use the exclusive Lufthansa Lounges all around the world. This unique level of service is embodied in the iconic red rose each guest receives to welcome them on board.
Business Class
Lufthansa's new Business Class now features flying beds – to ensure passengers arrive perfectly rested at their destination
Preferential check-in and priority boarding: These are some of the benefits that make travelling in Business Class a pleasure from the word go. And Lufthansa is continually working to improve its products and services: The introduction of the Boeing 777-9X will see the launch of a brand new Business Class that is even more comfortable. All seats will have direct aisle access and can be folded out into a comfortable, ergonomic bed. To make the night even more restful, starting from spring 2018, passengers on long-haul flights will get pajamas for the night. Business Class passengers receive their menus before takeoff and the meals they select are served on beautifully laid tables. When the dessert is served or a wine glass topped up is entirely up to the passenger.
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A new generation of the cabin class with extra comfort is about to launch – making long-haul travel even better
Lots of personal space, large screens, china tableware – Premium Economy offers details that make all the difference. Passengers who want that little bit more comfort can book this most recently introduced travel class on all long-haul Lufthansa flights. The new class is being continually refined and a new concept is currently in the works. The central element of the new comfort drive is the seat, which already offers passengers up to 50 percent more space than in Economy Class – as well as a more generous and restful angle of inclination. The new generation will be even more comfortable and offer more privacy. The integrated screens will be bigger, enhancing the pleasure of the in-flight entertainment, and passengers also have more space to work on a laptop.
Lufthansa is a firm believer in never resting on one's laurels, which is why the airline is refitting and updating its Economy Class cabins for an even better flying experience.
Whether it's First Class or Economy Class: Lufthansa is constantly working to improve comfort in all travel classes. Lufthansa has already picked a new seat design as part of a campaign to enhance comfort across the entire fleet. The new seat also incorporates suggestions made by passengers and test fliers, a procedure used when designing the Economy cabin for the wide-body jet Boeing 747-8, which features vastly improved seats. The new seats are more contoured, the seat pocket with Lufthansa Magazin has been moved up to head height; there is more legroom and the seat rests have a better ergonomic shape. Also, power sockets were added and there is more storage space for hand luggage, giving the whole cabin a wider and more open appearance.


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The latest housing starts report was released Tuesday morning, and as so often in recent years, the data offered both positive and negative signs.
According to the Commerce Department, the number of housing starts declined 1.1% in February, from the previous month, for an annual rate of 698,000 units. On the other hand, building permits jumped 5.1%, to a 717,000-unit annual pace, besting economists' expectations of a 690,000-unit rate. This was the highest level for permits in over three years.
Another positive was that even with February's dip versus January, residential construction starts were actually up over 34% from a year ago.
As I have noted before on InvestorPlace, building permits aren't as important as actual starts, because not all permits will eventually lead to new homes being built. It's the equivalent of a pending home sale versus actual closed sales.
And when the new starts numbers are broken down, a familiar pattern emerges: Single-family residential construction was down 9.9%, while multifamily starts were up 21.1%. Thus, builders are expecting the booming demand for rentals to continue, while home ownership demand remains slack.
Wall Street wasn't impressed with the latest numbers, and most of the homebuilder stocks were lower in morning trading. Beazer Homes (NYSE:BZH) is down 2.7%; Ryland (NYSE:RYL) down 1.6%; D.R. Horton (NYSE:DHI) down 1.5%; KB Home (NYSE:KBH) down 0.9%; and Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL) down 1%.
Clearly, these "schizophrenic" results aren't giving investors a warm fuzzy feeling about the immediate future for real estate.
Looking Forward in 2012
However, I continue to like the homebuilders group for the long term, and would be a buyer on any decent pullback. Despite today's mixed results on starts and permits, the industry still has many positives, such as:
- Fannie Mae recently began selling large numbers of foreclosures to private real estate hedge funds to create rental properties. Bulk sales will deplete the foreclosure inventory.
- Mortgage interest rates continue at historically low levels, with the national average for the 30-year fixed-rate loan around 4%.
- Home prices in many areas of the country are now cheap enough to where it costs less to own than to rent. Historically, this has usually led to an increase in home ownership. Interestingly, this flies in the face of the recent surge in multifamily starts.
Homebuilder success and the U.S. unemployment rate will continue to be linked together closely as 2012 progresses. The next jobs report is due in early April, and as always, that can have a big effect upon the real estate-related stocks.
But until we see real growth in employment numbers, I wouldn't chase the homebuilder stocks. However, in this uptrend, they can be traded by buying on pullbacks to their 50-day moving averages.
You can see this pretty clearly on the chart, Lennar (NYSE:LEN) has been one of the stronger homebuilders recently, but it really appears to be quite overextended at current levels and in need of some correction. I wouldn't be a buyer unless the price comes back near the 50-day moving average, currently at $23.23.
So, perhaps this weak housing starts report will lead to a pause that refreshes for housing stocks. That would be a positive for the long term. I continue to like this sector, and as long as you buy homebuilders on pullbacks, you'll do quite well to own them in 2012.


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Writing Unglued was a scary thing for me. Putting my crazy tendencies to stuff and explode on paper for the world to read wasn't easy. There's this weird tension inside me between honoring God and being honest sometimes.
If I really say it like it is, is that dishonoring to God?
Sometimes the answer to that question for me, is yes and I have to reign it in.
But most times, I think my reader friends find it refreshing to know we can love Jesus like crazy and still get tripped up by the messes of life.
In the end, I decided being honest about my very imperfect progress not only honored God, but could help others who feel a little unglued at times too. If you've read the book, you know I'm not the hero of this message. I'm just a messenger of hope. If I can make better choices in the midst of my crazy, so can you.
Today, I have a really fun thing to announce-the Unglued blog tour!
A wonderful friend, Amy Bayliss, helped me gather up some blog friends to all post about Unglued in the next 2 weeks.
I have loved getting to know these ladies through their blogs and I really think you will too! These women are amazingly smart and witty and the kind of girls I wished lived next door to me.
On my better days.
Not on my "stand in my driveway and come unglued days." Have mercy.
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Fife College was formed in August 2013 from the merger of Adam Smith, Carnegie College and the non landbased department of Scotland's Rural College (SRUC).
The main campuses are in Dunfermline (Halbeath), Kirkcaldy (St Brycedale and Priory), Glenrothes (Stenton), Levenmouth and Rosyth, with a network of local learning centres throughout Fife. There are 6,000 full time and 14,000 part time students. A new campus in Dunfermline on the Shepherd Offshore site is planned.
Courses and subjects
The college offers over 1,000 education and training courses at a range of different levels, including National Certificates (NCs), Higher National Certificates (HNCs), Higher National Diplomas (HNDs), degrees and Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQs).
As well as providing a route to university (with some HNDs offering direct access to year 3 of a degree), the college also offers the opportunity to study for a full degree locally, saving you money on living costs and travel expenses, or allowing you to fit your degree around your other commitments.
There is a wide range of subjects including: Access to Qualifications, Further Study and Higher Education; Administration, Information Technology and Legal Services; Built Environment; Business, Enterprise and Accounting; Care and Social Sciences; Childcare; Community and Supported Learning; Computing and Digital Technologies; Creative Industries; Culinary Arts and Hospitality; Engineering and Energy; Hair, Beauty and Make-Up Artistry; Languages and ESOL; Mathematics; Science; Sport and Fitness; and Tourism, Events and Customer Service.
65% of students go on to further study or employment, and 65% of students successfully achieved recognised qualifications. Their courses provide you with relevant work ready skills to get you the job you want.
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There are libraries, student support and guidance teams, student support and guidance teams, student association, cafes, bistros and restaurants, available across all campuses. In addition there is a theatre at St Brycedale, hair, beauty and holistic therapy salons located at Cupar, Halbeath, Stenton and St Brycedale Campuses, and a fully equipped gym with sports hall and fitness studio, also at St Brycedale.
The college have a number of specialisms but place particular focus on the key employment sectors in the region, including Construction, Engineering, Digital Technologies, the Service Industry and Food and Drink.
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Label Biography:
"One of the great, and uncompromising, poets of television" Sight & Sound
"Tony Palmer…a clear seeing, visionary artist, pursuing with precision and perfection the image which draws him onwards." Yehudi Menuhin
TONY PALMER's vast filmography of over one hundred films ranges from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa (200 Motels), to the famous portraits with and about Walton, Britten, Stravinsky, Maria Callas, John Osborne, Margot Fonteyn and Menuhin. His 7 hour 45 minutes film on Wagner, starring Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave, was described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the most beautiful films ever made". Among over 40 international prizes for his work are 12 Gold Medals at the New York Film & Television Festival, as well as numerous BAFTA (British Academy of Film & Television) and EMMY nominations and awards. He is the only person to have won the Prix Italia twice. With his wife Michela, their sons Angelo and Gabriele and their daughter Apollonia, he lives in the most westerly house in England. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and honorary citizen of both New Orleans and Athens.
Tony Palmer is one of the leading directors of music documentaries and historical drama films in the world. He has won over forty international prizes for his work, including and especially television's most coveted award, the Prix d'Italia; indeed, he is the only person to have won this prize twice, and has been honoured by the Italia Prize with a gala screening of his work. From Cambridge University (where he was also President of the Marlowe Society), he joined the BBC. Following an apprenticeship with Ken Russell and Jonathan Miller, Palmer's first major film, Benjamin Britten & his Festival, became the first BBC film to be networked in the U.S.A. With his second film, All My Loving, an examination of rock 'n' roll & politics in the late 60s, he achieved considerable notoriety overnight.In 1989, he was awarded a huge retrospective of his work at the National Film Theatre in London, the first maker of arts films to be so honoured. Among over one hundred films are: Callas, a profile of Maria Callas, "a marvellous film; a deeply moving experience; truly superb" (Daily Express). Gold Medal, Best Documentary, New York Film & TV Festival & BAFTA. Wagner, starring Richard Burton, with Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Vanessa Redgrave. "A masterpiece" (The Sunday Times); "one of the most beautiful films ever made" (Los Angeles Times). "A monumental film…a complete work of art…truly visionary" (Der Spiegel). Among many awards, Best Drama at the New York and London Film Festivals, Emmy etc. A Time There Was, a film about Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears which won the Prix d'Italia. Also a BAFTA award. "The most absorbing film ever made about a composer" (Dallas Morning News). A profile of Peter Sellers, described by the actor himself as the only documentary ever to approach the truth. The official 100th birthday portrait of Stravinsky, which won the Special Jury Prize at the San Francisco Film Festival. "A superb documentary which achieved miracles of compression, lucidity and respect" (New York Times). All You Need Is Love, a 17-part series on American popular music, described by Bing Crosby as "a mighty achievement". "A brilliant authoritative, historical study" (New York Library Journal). At The Haunted End Of The Day, a film about the composer Sir William Walton, which won the Prix d'Italia. Profiles of Liberace, which opened South African TV, Playboy owner Hugh Hefner, and Michael Crawford, the original 'Phantom'. God Rot Tunbridge Wells, the life of Handel, by John Osborne, starring Trevor Howard. Prize winner New York Film & TV Festival. Menuhin, an intimate profile of the violinist. Gold Medal Best Documentary & Grand Award, New York Film & TV Festival. Emmy etc. "A wonderful and emotionally charged biography" (Chicago Tribune). Testimony, starring Ben Kingsley as Dmitri Shostakovich. "The best British film of the year - truly remarkable" (Films & Filming). Fellini Prize. Critics Prize, Sao Paulo, BAFTA etc. The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, about the Polish composer Górecki. Prize Winner, Chicago Film Festival. Platinum CD. Described by The Guardian as "a major work of art in itself". England, my England, a massive biography of Purcell, starring Simon Callow & Michael Ball, with music conducted by John Eliot Gardiner. It was the last work written by John Osborne and completed by Charles Wood. "Along comes something that looks and sounds like a masterpiece. It will blow you out of your seat" (The Australian). Best Director Award, New York. Brahms and the Little Singing Girls, starring Warren Mitchell, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Brahms' death. Hero - The Story of Bobby Moore, "The most brilliant sports documentary I have ever seen." (The Daily Mail). Toward the Unknown Region – Malcolm Arnold which was premièred at the Royal Festival Hall to great critical acclaim ("overwhelming", The Times), and was the first 'South Bank Show' film in 25 years to be shown over two Sundays. "An amazing film, the most rawly truthful of its kind I have ever seen" (The Sunday Times). Margot - an intimate portrait of a greadancer. "A masterful portrait, superlative, told with a thrilling narrative. An astounding and wonderful film – quite simply, priceless" (The Times).Mr Palmer's film, The Harvest of Sorrow, a portrait of Rachmaninoff, was premiered at the Royal Festival Hall, the first music documentary film to be shown in London's main concert hall. He had the honour to be asked by the Kubrick family to introduce a major concert in honour of Stanley Kubrick on the first anniversary of his death. His film on the violinist Ivry Gitlis, sponsored by the distinguished American benefactor Donald Kahn, was first shown at the Prague Spring Music Festival where it was heralded by the Oscar-winning director Andrea Anderman as "the best artist's profile I have ever seen". Another recent film The Adventures of Benjamin Schmid, also a successful collaboration with Donald Kahn, featuring Seiji Ozawa and the Vienna Philharmonic, Hans Graf and Hans Werner Henze, and filmed in Tokyo, Salzburg, St Petersburg, Hong Kong & Houston, was premièred during the 2005 Salzburg Festival. Tony Palmer's 1997 film on John Adams is finally released on DVD. Entitled Hail Bop, this critically acclaimed portrait of the great American composer was described at the time as "a thrilling ride by a master film-maker about a master composer". Also released on DVD is his 1971 film Ginger Baker in Africa, the hair-raising story of CREAM's legendary drummer and his journey across the Sahara Desert to Nigeria. Tony Palmer's recent work includes the only authorized film-biography of John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship, for which he had exclusive access to all Osborne's correspondence and other unpublished work. "Mesmerising, definitive & superb" (The Times). The Salzburg Festival – a brief history, premièred in Salzburg during the 2006 Festival, was described in The Independent as "a powerful and riveting epic". And on New Year's Day 2008, his definitive film on Vaughan Williams O Thou Transcendent, the first full length portrait of the composer, was premièred on British television to ecstatic reviews. The Telegraph described it as "the reference point for decades to come"; The Observer said it was a "mesmerising masterpiece"; and the DVD, released simultaneously, was immediately voted DVD of the Month by the BBC Music Magazine
In addition, Mr Palmer has won various platinum and gold albums for the best-selling CDs of the soundtracks of his films. He was a music critic for The Observer for seven years, and has written for numerous international magazines and newspapers, including The Times, The New York Times, Punch, The Spectator, & Life. He has also written seven books, including:
- A biography of King Charles II
- The Trials of OZ, a study of pornography and the law, which has sold over a quarter of a million copies.
- Life On The Road, a biography of Julian Bream, the guitarist.
- All You Need Is Love, a history of popular music, which remained in the American best-selling list for almost a year.
- Menuhin - a Family Portrait, a biography of the violinist.
Tony Palmer has also directed in the theatre and in the opera house. After a successful debut at the Zurich Opera House with Peter Grimes ("the high point of the season", Neue Zürcher Zeitung), he had a double triumph in Karlsruhe, War and Peace, and again in Zurich with Berlioz's masterpiece, The Trojans ("marvellous" - London Daily Express). In St. Petersburg, he directed the Russian premiere of Parsifal ("world class" - The Times), conducted by Valery Gergiev, with Plácido Domingo. He has also directed in Hamburg, Munich, Augsburg, Savonlinna, Berlin and Helsinki and recently became the first Western director ever to work at the Bolshoi in Moscow. Parsifal won Best Theatre Production ('Casta Diva') in Moscow, 1997, as well as a 'Golden Mask'. On the West End stage he has directed the world premiere of John Osborne's 'Look Back in Anger' Part Two, Déja Vu. Mr Palmer also presented the BBC Radio 3 Arts magazine 'Night Waves', for which he won a SONY Award for best arts programme.
Artists on Tony Palmer Films
Andre Previn
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Schmid
Chopin Recital - Valentina Igoshina
Fairport Convention And Matthews Southern Comfort
Hugh Hefner
Ivry Gitlis
John Adams
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John Osborne
Julian Bream
Margot Fonteyn
Maria Callas
Menuhin, Yehudi
Michael Crawford
Mitsuko Uchida
Peter Sellers
Puccini starring Virginia Mckenna and Robert Stephens
Purcell, Henry
Renee Fleming
Tangerine Dream
Tony Palmer
Valentina Igoshina
Various Artists
Wagner Family, Carl Orff and Hindemith
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Lakewood apartment manager tied up, blindfolded and strangled
Alex Jameson retired from the Lakewood Police Department in the early 2000s after many years of hunting down killers.
In the first few years of retirement he loved traveling with his wife to places like Bermuda, but he also missed being a detective.
He was so good at what he did that when Lakewood police officials organized a cold case unit they asked him if he'd be interested in coming back on a part-time basis to try and solve some of the cases.
That was in 2008.
Since then Jameson and fellow cold case investigator Michelle Stone-Principato, who has since been promoted to sergeant, tracked down dusty files of unsolved homicide cases and began interviewing witnesses from crimes going back decades.
They tracked down evidence and organized misplaced reports scattered in various files in storage and in old filing cabinets. They created large "murder books" that organized investigative files in chronological order.
They reviewed which cases had a good chance of being solved with advances in technology.
The investigative partners sent clothing to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, hoping that they would get hits that could identify suspects. Their efforts have led to some discoveries.


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This is something that has always been obvious to me, but it's nice to see some actual data on it: if you want to get a higher chance of retweets, your tweet's length should be 71 to 100 characters.
That's long enough to be informative, but short enough to let people add their own commentary to the retweet. [Tracksocial via Business Insider]


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An 81-year-old woman, whose body was discovered Tuesday night in Alpine, was reported missing two weeks ago, according to the Los Angeles sheriff's department.
Officials said the victim's own son, 53-year-old Jorge Rodriquez, was booked into jail for murder. He is being held on $2 million bond.
Authorities believe Rodriguez murdered his elderly mother in Los Angeles County, then dumped her body in Alpine.
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Family members reported the woman missing from Maywood on Nov. 15, according to LASD. LASD did not release the woman's name in a news release sent Wednesday afternoon.
After receiving a tip from Los Angeles County homicide investigators, San Diego sheriff's deputies found the woman's body at 616 Alpine Heights Road.
The location was a 20-acre piece of property on a stretch of road east of Harbison Canyon Road and south of Interstate 8.
"That's a dead end road, and that's not a heavily trafficked street and not a well-known street to other people than Alpinians," said Dawn August, who owns the property.
The incident has left people who live in the quiet East County community on edge.
"That's a shock, especially so close to my home," said resident Jeanine Adams-Kotz.
"To think that our property was a dumping ground for a person," August said.
"I'm very relieved, though, that it's not related to Alpine, an Alpine crime, that it is something outside this area," she added.
Rodriquez was arrested in Los Angeles and remains in jail.
Alpine is a small community approximately 30 miles east of downtown San Diego.


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My dual purpose page: applying Jana's lesson 1 to the 1Theme3Scrappers Heritage challenge.
I've now been living in the United States longer than where I grew up. But when I think of the Philippines, I think of the beautiful beaches, the tropical fruits and vegetables and the gorgeous weather to name a few! It brings me right back! TFL!
Credits for layout:
Katie Pertiet
Destination Seaside paper pack


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A thorough introduction that lessens the learning curve to building sites with Drupal 7
Drupal 7 is the latest version of the free, open source content management system Drupal. A powerful content management system and framework Drupal has an unfortunate reputation of having a steep learning curve. This guide to Drupal 7 methodically demystifies Drupal and shortening the learning curve.
Author Jacob Redding is deeply embedded in the Drupal community, and walks first-time Drupal developers through the installation and configuration of a Drupal system. In-depth information on key areas of Drupal explore the Drupal hook system, Drupal's theming layer, and Drupal's API. You'll also get sample code, and lessons that guide you through various aspects of Drupal.
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Tougher government regulations and increasing distance requirements are driving new remote copy tactics and technologies.
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|Case Study: Mixing it up with remote backup
Initially, Charlie Roberts had a modest goal for improving his organization's disaster recovery capability: He wanted to replace a patchwork quilt of third-party backup applications with a single solution in the same location.
"We were just looking for a more elegant backup solution than the one we had," says Roberts, VP of IT at the Travis Credit Union in Vacaville, CA. "The applications were all different and they required a lot of human intervention."
Since then, Roberts has streamlined things at his 51-year-old institution, which serves 113,000 members in nine Northern California counties. His team is gradually weeding out those old labor-intensive programs, replacing them with an online solution that automatically seeks, copies and stores new data daily.
The biggest change: The new system no longer nestles next to the core systems it's designed to protect.
For now, Travis--with $1.2 billion in assets ranking among the nation's largest credit unions--relies on a remote backup site just across town. But that's just the first step. Later this year, the institution--located near Travis Air Force Base--will begin backing up all of its data to a permanent disaster-recovery center in Merced, CA, more than 150 miles away.
Based in earthquake country north of San Francisco, Roberts had been investigating ways to better protect his organization's critical financial data even before Sept. 11. After the terrorist attack, he stepped up his quest. "It showed everyone how potentially vulnerable we are," Roberts says. "If I had a catastrophic failure, I wasn't necessarily convinced that I could restore everything." In addition, the old setup made it tough to find and retrieve individual records from the hundreds of gigabytes of stored information.
Today, Roberts has what he describes as "a mixed storage environment." He uses Adaptec 160 SCSI adapters to connect to six RAID arrays from Nexsan Technologies Inc. of Woodland Hills, CA. The setup includes two Nexsan ATAboy and two Nexsan ATAbaby devices onsite and two more ATAboys offsite. He still backs up transactional data on tape cartridges and less critical information--such as employee files--gets copied to local servers, magnetic media or CD-ROMs at both locations. But he primarily relies on the EVault Inc. InfoStage online backup and recovery suite and an existing T1 network for taking snapshots of his networks several times daily.
"The copies we're making are good, clean and robust, and we don't need to physically send anything" to the remote facility, Roberts says. "We just do an electronic copy and send it online." He can also restore specific pieces of information quickly right from the network--a capability he used even before the system went live.
"While we were testing, our executive VP couldn't find an e-mail she needed," Roberts recalls. "We had just done the seed load--the initial snapshot of the system--and it turned out the message she needed was in that load." He retrieved the message instantly, solidifying at least one executive's support for the effort.
The switch hasn't been painless. "Initially, we weren't able to restore as quickly and painlessly as we'd seen in the demos," Roberts says. But Walnut Creek, CA-based EVault has consistently responded promptly, Roberts says, once sending two representatives to help speed things up.
The new system has freed up one team member previously dedicated to manual backups nearly full time. Beyond that, Roberts declines to discuss the system's cost or its potential ROI. "I put it in the category of the cost of doing business," he says. "You don't know how much you need it until you need it. The first time I have to use it will pay for itself many, many times over. When you don't have to tell customers 'I don't have your transactional data, I don't know how much you have in your account'--how do you put a price tag on that?" --Anne Stuart
As the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States proved, it's no longer good enough to stash backup tapes on a different floor from the data center, or even down the block. And in some cases, the government is mandating tougher disaster recover procedures for certain industries. For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), as part of establishing standard data formats and content for all health insurance providers, requires safeguards including technology-based contingency planning and disaster recovery to ensure the safety of patients' records. These safeguards include "periodic tape backups of data" and the ability to continue operations "in case of an emergency," according to HIPAA rules.
All told, "companies are thinking more regionally now," says Dianne McAdam, a senior analyst at Data Mobility Group in Nashua, NH. "We have more reasons to replicate data over longer distances," she says.
There are already numerous ways to send data afar. Methods include synchronous replication products available for quite some time, primarily from the storage hardware vendors--IBM's Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) and EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) fall into this camp. But there are distance limitations, or else the products can replicate only onto like hardware boxes. They typically don't work in a multivendor storage environment.
More important, the traditional synchronous mode of replication won't work well for really long distances--anything over 12 miles or so. In synchronous mode, system A sends data to system B, and then waits for a response that system B received the information before sending any more. This usually means a delay of 1 ms per 25 circuit miles. (Keep in mind that a circuit mile isn't the same thing as a regular mile. A phone call that travels between New York and Boston might be only 200 distance miles apart, but that call can pass through 400 miles of circuits or more. The 1 ms delay applies to circuit miles.)
That leaves asynchronous replication--where the first system doesn't worry about a response from the second. This avoids the performance delay, although it doesn't address network latency. Still, it leads to problems of its own. First, if there's a failure on either side, it's not clear how far behind the backup volume is from the primary copy. It's certain that they're not exact duplicates of each other, and it will take some human time and effort to sort out what's missing and how to recapture it.
Second, some backup systems batch I/Os together instead of shipping them in the exact order they came in. So, the backup copy might not be usable because the data is out of order.
One new product that attempts to solve these problems is SANSafe from Topio Inc., Santa Clara, CA. It essentially timestamps each piece of data before it's sent, then sends the I/O to the remote site via an IP network and then sorts each transaction in order. The remote volumes are updated on a periodic basis, so there's a copy that consistently matches the local volume. Topio promises that, despite its name, SANSafe works with direct-attached storage (DAS) as well as data residing in SANs. Topio also claims that SANSafe can work with multiple hosts sending to multiple remote locations.
Backup over IP
Backup over IP seems to be one popular way of approaching disaster recovery these days. Products are popping up all over in this space, ranging from supporting iSCSI to sending data to tape devices via IP. Mike Karp, a senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates in Boulder, CO, is a big fan of iSCSI in particular (see "Getting real about iSCSI").
"It's known to work, it's relatively easy to implement and it's a proven technology because it combines things we've been doing for 15 years," he says. He maintains there are no more inherent security risks by moving data over long distances than there was moving data between two systems located a half-mile apart.
"There is nothing in iSCSI that makes it more vulnerable as a system than any other technology," Karp says.
One notion that's seeing quite a bit of action these days is providing central access to distributed data--in other words, recentralizing all corporate assets into a data center and then backing it up to tape or by some other means. Distributed users are provided access to the centralized information via IP or other type of WAN.
Here's how this works. In each remote office, companies place a low- or no-maintenance caching appliance. A full-fledged server goes into the data center. The appliance and bundled software scan for the portion(s) of any file that has changed since it was last written or requested. Once everything is centralized in the data center, it can be backed up to tape or to a secondary data center or storage vaulting provider.
|Case Study: Disaster recovery on a tight budget
Qs the nation's largest airline fights for its life, Apolonio Maranion's backup and recovery systems could play a big role in the carrier's survival.
Maranion is a systems administrator for UAL Loyalty Services Inc. (ULS), the e-commerce wing of beleaguered United Airlines. The Chicago-based airline's parent company, UAL Corp., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from creditors in December 2002.
Company executives and industry analysts both call United's vaunted customer outreach and rewards programs crucial for keeping the company aloft as it struggles to restructure in a sagging economy.
That's where Maranion comes in. In addition to supporting the airline's main Web sites--United.com, UALCargo.com and local sites in 23 countries--his ULS IT team handles all online transactions for the airline's rewards programs, including Mileage Plus (for frequent travelers), Silver Wings Plus (for senior citizens) and MyPoints.com (for frequent visitors to participating stores and restaurants). Together, the loyalty sites serve nearly 1.5 million unique users monthly--thousands more use them to connect to United's online booking engine.
As United continues downsizing, keeping those sites running smoothly and securely is more important than ever. Says Maranion: "When you're reducing the number of city ticket offices and you're reducing the number of people at the [airport] counters, you need to make [the customer's] online experience as robust as possible." That's easier said than done, considering that ULS remains under stringent cost-cutting mandates, with little hope for increasing IT headcount anytime soon.
Before the downturn, ULS outsourced all its Web operations--including backup and recovery--to managed hosting companies such as Laurel, MD-based Digex Inc. But as airline travel plummeted following the 2001 terrorist attacks and the continuing economic slump, United moved all e-commerce activity in-house.
Today, the ULS IT group operates from a 4,000 square foot data center in the basement of a United-owned building in Elk Grove, IL, about 20 miles west of Chicago. Its backup facility is in nearby Schaumburg, IL. Although the centers are fewer than six miles apart, Maranion calls the distance sufficient for protecting ULS' 20TB of data because the Chicago area is unlikely to suffer from a disaster--such as an earthquake--that would cause widespread damage.
However, because the two data centers are so close, ULS does exercise unusually stringent security measures, such as limited access (biometric palm-print readers for IT staff, escorts for everyone else) locked storage racks and cameras throughout both facilities.
The ULS set up consists of a storage area network (SAN) using three Hitachi Data Systems Lightning 9960s subsystems, two in the main data center and one in the backup facility. Initially, Maranion says, ULS used EMC products, but switched to Hitachi to save money. The Hitachis connect to 200 Windows and Unix servers over five Brocade SilkWorm port switches. Maranion says he can easily add new clients. A Gigabit Ethernet network links the two centers: A suite of Veritas software products, including Net Backup 4.5, handles storage and duplication of thousands of member transactions daily.
ULS also uses a collection of Quantum DLT 7000 and 8000 tape drives for storing archival tapes in libraries in each facility, but Maranion says he doesn't use tape drives for routine backups because he doesn't consider them cost effective.
In a true spirit of efficiency, ULS uses the backup servers in Schaumburg for staging whenever they're not in use for disaster recovery. If the Elk Grove center fails, everything switches to the backup facility, automatically shutting down staging activity until normal business resumes. Meanwhile, says Maranion, "there's no single point of failure within the United environment."--Anne Stuart
New names here include DiskSites in Santa Clara, CA; Tacit Networks Inc. in South Plainfield, NJ; and Actona Technologies Inc., formerly called VersEdge, in Los Gatos, CA. Theirs is a slightly different take on existing replication vendors including NSI (maker of Double-Take software), but the fundamental concept is much the same.
Some companies are attempting to boost the speed of iSCSI-based devices. Alacritech Inc. in San Jose, CA, makes a line of storage accelerators for Windows and Linux. They move both block- and file-level traffic, and offload data movement via a custom adapter.
EVault Inc., in Walnut Creek, CA, is an older player with a new tale. Formerly a software services provider, it now sells the bulk of its service as a software suite. Its InfoStage family includes agents to scan the server for new data, dedicated hardware to send the data out to remote locations and management and monitoring tools to make sure it all happens correctly.
For its part, SANgate Systems, Southborough, MA, is working on the next generation of the SANblaster--a data migration appliance--which will be an in-line device that's part and parcel of the storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, says Tom Grave, SANgate's product marketing manager. Where today's device is an appliance that's used only when needed, tomorrow's will be a permanent part of the SAN architecture, used for data replication in applications including disaster recovery.
Finally, there are some new twists to the old standby--tape backup. Computer Network Technology (CNT) recently announced a way to stream data to tape over IP. Using CNT's UltraNet Edge Storage Router, the technique is called tape pipelining, which uses buffering and error recovery to do for Fibre Channel (FC) what's been available for some time for ESCON, and can go "thousands of miles," the vendor promises.
State Street, a financial services company, is one happy user. "By deploying CNT's remote tape pipelining solution, we were able to use the same storage infrastructure for both disk mirroring and tape backup," says Mark Sontag, assistant vice president, manager of technical services at State Street's Kansas City office. "Additionally, the UltraNet Edge's tape emulation and compression capabilities helped us increase the throughput over our available IP bandwidth. The full backup of approximately 1TB of data was decreased from 18 to 24 hours to an amazing four-and-a-half hours."
Veritas has updated NetBackup 4.5 to make disaster recovery easier and announced a new version of its Global Data Manager software. The new version of its Global Data Manager software includes a tool that manages and monitors backup and recovery processes for both Veritas NetBackup and Backup Exec. Global Data Manager gives administrators a dashboard view of multiple data protection processes that may be spread across an enterprise.
Bob Maness, Veritas' senior director of product marketing, says that administrators can use Global Data Manager to efficiently manage remote office backup with Backup Exec and multiplatform enterprise data protection with NetBackup by controlling the processes and policies from a single point. Says Maness: "It makes the road to consolidation of backup and restore systems easier."
Which product for you?
Finding a backup product is the easy part. Figuring out which one might work best in your storage environment is the difficult part. Most customers--particularly large ones--need to think about a multitiered approach to backup and recovery, experts say. One product isn't going to work for all applications. IT and business users need to sit down together and figure out what constitutes the company's mission-critical applications, and how many minutes or hours those can afford to be down. Then they need to do the same for their second-tier and third-tier applications--things like payroll or human resources, which probably won't need to be restored right away.
Once the pecking order is established, figure out what you're willing to spend. The most expensive types of solutions involve disk mirroring, the next expensive are disk-to-disk and the least expensive are tape backup. You'll probably want to throw the best backup at your most critical applications.
Whatever you decide, know that the remote-backup product train is just beginning to roll. New companies are springing up that promise to make remote backup easier. Older, established storage companies are beefing up their disaster recovery options--sometimes by upgrading established products or coming out with feature packs or modules that work side-by-side with their backup offerings. Many other vendors will be jumping on this bandwagon, and it will be a matter of deciding which approach makes most sense for your particular situation.


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|Nicotine addiction - Reference pathway + Dictyostelium
|Nicotine is one of the main psychoactive ingredients in tobacco that contributes to the harmful tobacco smoking habit. A common feature of addictive drugs, including nicotine, is that they increase dopamine (DA) release in the nucleus accumbens (NAc). The principal dopaminergic projections to NAc arise from neurons in the ventral tegmental area (VTA). In the VTA, alpha6- and alpha4beta2-containing nAChRs (alpha6*-AChRs and alpha4beta2*-AChRs, respectively) are located on GABAergic terminals and provide inhibitory inputs onto DAergic neuons, while alpha7*-nAChRs are located on glutamatergic terminals and activation of these receptors enhances glutamate release and increases excitability of DAergic neurons. Nicotine acts as an agonist to activate and desensitize these nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). After a short exposure to nicotine, alpha6*- and alpha4beta2*- nAChRs on GABAergic afferents are desensitized, decreasing GABA release and decreasing local inhibition of DA neurons. But the alpha7*-nAChRs on glutamatergic afferents remain active and enhance glutamate excitation of the DA neurons, leading to increased DA release in the NAc -and so facilitate the reinforcing effects of nicotine.


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Ripper by Stefan Petrucha. Penguin, 2012.
All of his life, Carver Young has only known the orphanage he lives in. It's there that he met Delia, his closest friend, and Finn, his worst enemy. It's also the place he learned skills like picking locks and not being seen or heard, perfect skills for detecting.
Carver's life has always been a mystery, and it's one he'd like to solve. Who was his father? When hacking into his file, all he stole was a piece of paper dated July 18, 1889 with words like "boss," and "knife," and a description of Carver as an eight year old boy, including a unique mole he has.
But now, it's the year 1895 and the orphanage is closing down. Fourteen-year-old Carver has two options: become adopted immediately by the wealthy clamoring to this "Prospective Parents Day" (mostly because the young police commissioner of New York City, Theodore Roosevelt, is there) become a street rat, selling papers or cleaning offal. And this night is where Carver meets his fate – a Pinkteron Detective by the name of Hawking….
Carver isn't sure what to make of this mysterious and surly man who has adopted him, but the more time he spends around Hawking, the more intriguing his situation becomes and the closer Carver gets to the mystery surrounding his father. The New Pinkertons headquarters, carved deep under bustling New York City, has all the tools and people Carver needs to find out more about his father, and when he realizes who his father is, the more horror and bloodshed arrive at his doorstep. Jack the Ripper is looking for his long-lost son….
Petrucha knows the Gilded Age and New York City well. Not only his is novel a compelling and interesting mystery, but the scenery he writes about as well as the characters and inventions will take the reader back to that most interesting era of the late 1800's. Jack the Ripper has left the foggy streets of London to go head-to-head with Theodore Roosevelt, but will macabre cunning or intelligent bravado win? Petrucha takes the reader to the very of the novel for it all to play out. Readers may think they're reading steampunk, but the author bases most everything on reality, including the New Pinkertons headquarters, on fact. Of course there are a few exaggerations, but they work well in the book. The end of the novel has a character and gadget glossary, which gives historical accuracy on everything Petrucha refers to. This is an excellent book that will fascinate readers of both historical fiction and mystery fiction. Highly recommended.
Common Core/Non Fiction Pair: Secret Subway: the fascinating tale of an amazing feat of engineering. Martin Sandler, author. An illustrated overview of the history of New York's first subway that discusses why it was necessary to build, Alfred Beach's vision for the system and efforts to see it through, resistance to its construction, and other related topics.


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Holiday Chocolate Scones
Use a muffin mix to whip up these anytime holiday treats in a snap.
- Preheat oven to 375°. Coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, combine muffin mix, flour, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. Cut cold butter into cubes and blend into flour using a fork or pastry cutter until butter resembles small peas. Add dried cherries and orange zest, stir to combine.
- Add half and half, stir until dough begins to come together (dough will seem dry). Turn the dough onto a flat surface lightly dusted with cocoa powder and knead dough for 1-2 minutes.
- Shape dough into an 8-inch circle. Cut into 8 wedges and place 2 inches apart on baking sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes until firm in the center. Cool on a wire rack.
- While scones bake, prepare the glaze: In a small bowl, combine all glaze ingredients and whisk together until smooth. Drizzle glaze onto cooled scones.
Chocolate-Peppermint-Crunch Variation: Substitute ½ cup crushed candy canes for the spices, orange zest and dried cherries. For glaze, omit orange zest. After topping scones with glaze, sprinkle scones with 3 tablespoons crushed candy canes.
Recipe Courtesy of Chef Kates,
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I've been reading what I can of other people's posts, but my problem doesn't seem to match theirs, so I figured I'd make a new thread. That being said, I may have missed such a post, so please feel free to point me in the right direction :)
I have an ATI 5xxx video card, AMD processor (I don't remember the specifics and do not know how/where to find this information, sorry)
I am running 64 bit, and originally had another users error where they needed to install the 32-bit files to help Steam run. I ran that command line and installed everything, and then rebooted.
After that first attempt where it failed to run Steam, it hasn't even tried to open since. Double-clicking the icon does nothing; typing steam into Terminal only gives the following:
Running Steam on ubuntu 12.10 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
and that's it! No following message or anything.
I've uninstalled Steam through Terminal twice, and reinstalled again through different methods, whether it's through the .deb file which then runs the Software Center, or through 'sudo apt-get install steam'.
Nothing even puts the icon back on the desktop, and typing steam into Terminal only gives the same response, regardless of what I do.
Any help or suggestions? I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking of just reinstalling Ubuntu, THEN installing the 32 bit information, THEN installing Steam...


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A Public Service Announcement ...
After just getting the kabash by somebody else's poorly written, obviously not tested, definitely ill conceived multithreaded code, I felt an overwhelming urge to pause for a public service announcement.As software developers we produce applications in the fields of medicine, manufacturing, homeland security, transportation, finance, education, scientific research and all areas of business, we have an ethical and moral responsibility to produce software that is safe, correct, reliable, and fault tolerant. Anything less is malpractice.
Multicore Moment
Bad designs and poorly written code tend to degrade over time. Adding multithreading and multiple cores is not likely to change that tendency.


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Responding to a lack of quality coaching for students in professional courses, IDEAL introduced classes for all levels of CA (Chartered Accountant),CS (Company Secretary) and Inter-CWA courses. These classes are designed to cover all subjects and detailed aspects of the courses. IDEAL is the only institute to conduct separate classes for the CS course. With the strength of a highly experienced faculty it has consistently helped students achieve excellent results that have furthered its reputation as a premier destination for professional courses.
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The faculty at Ideal includes professionals with experience in the industry as well as professors who are subject matter experts. In this competitive age, learning from such expert faculty can give students the edge.
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In exams like these, where you study from can make all the difference. Having all the relevant information in one place can be extremely helpful for any student. The study material at Ideal presents this information in a concise form that allows detailed study as well as quick reference.
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IDEAL has a proven track record of shaping success stories which is testament to the expert coaching given to the students at IDEAL.
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The focus, at the time of teaching is on Concept Building which serves the students well not only in the exams but also in their careers.Strengthening concepts helps students perform well in exams consistently.
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In these courses, questions and question types are often repeated from previous years. At IDEAL, the course content is designed keeping this in view and a lot of emphasis is placed on previous years' exam papers.
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A lot of emphasis is laid on solving problems of various difficulty levels. Several solved problems are provided as examples, along with solutions of some of the difficult problems. This provides students with strong fundamentals and helps rid students of any apprehension regarding problems.