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Monday, April 03, 2006
Calling All History Teachers.....
The second email I will address at a later date because it's late, and the email is rather long with several attachments. It involves George Washington and the belief that he is responsible for adding the words "so help me God" to the oath of office. I look forward to delving into the sender's comments.
The second email comes from someone who found my post George, We Hardly Knew Ye through a google search. They keywords they were using was "George Washington" and "slave owner". Here is the text of the email "Anonymous" sent to me. I copied and pasted it directly from my email with no corrections or deletions.
I used to wonder how slavery could go on for almost 400 years and not one person in the history books is blamed for it!!! Not to mention who were the people who stole all the land from the Indians and Mexicans. I guess the people who did these things were the ones who wrote the history books, no doubt!! The history books have no input from the slaves or Indians at all. If they did then maybe there would be some truth to them. These devils actually convinced us that they are angels and heroes! They did not even like poor whites...they were an elitist class....I cannot think of anyone in history as we know it more selfish, greedy and evil than the founding fathers. Isn't it funny how Charlton Heston plays a slave in 'The Ten Commandments'and fights the evil Egyptian slaveowners but in real life he supports the exactly same kind of evil men by quoting the founding fathers in the 'Bowling For Columbine' movie. He might be a racist but he is definetly stupid.
I'm considering my own post in response, but as I am just back in the classroom after spring break I need a day to two to readjust to being back in class. I am as they say 'in mourning'.
So….here's what I was thinking. I would love for some of you history types and non-history types to weigh in with your opinion here. Everything goes as long as the language is clean and you're on topic. If you don't want to attach your name to it then sign in as anonymous.
How would you respond to Anonymous?
9 comments:
- The Plant Man said...
I'd tell him bias will always exist and it is the job of the historian to examine different sources. Not an easy problem...Refer him to Hegel, Kant, Humboldt...
- Amerloc said...
Honestly? I don't think I'd even bother responding. It's one thing to have a different perspective, but that seems to come from an entirely disjointed universe.
- Kevin said...
Thanks for sharing this email. I think there is a great deal going on in this email. There is an element of recent Founding Fathers bashing that has been fashionable of late. However, the author does have a point re: textbooks. Perhaps you can recommend James Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. My research centers on how Americans have chosen to remember the Civil War. If you look at textbooks from the turn of the last century you will find very little on slavery or emancipation. And as late as 1937 W.E.B. Dubois was still responding to people who viewed Reconstruction as a defense of "ignorant" black politicians and white Carpetbaggers. Whatever you decide make sure you give this individual a few references, assuming that he/she is really interested in exploring this topic. Good luck.
- Deb Sistrunk Nelson said...
I think the plant man and Kevin offer some good suggestions. Kevin's response is particularly on target. Works by John Hope Franklin and Carter G. Woodson are also helpful.
Textbooks aren't perfect yet, but they are much better now than they were when we were in school.
Anonymous makes some very valid issues. Even I have some some touchy points when it comes to the Founding Fathers, but I keep it all in perspective. Hopefully, Anonymous is doing some independent reading/research.
By the way, thanks for adding me to your Blogroll. I'll add you to mine. Great site and resources!
- EHT said...
Thanks for the comments so far. I really appreciate the suggestions. I'm still working on my response.
- Janet said...
Anyone who has been out of school for at least a few years knows that not everything we see in history books is exactly how it happened. There are going to be some liberties taken. Even a biopic on tv can't show everything. Not only is it possible, it's time consuming.
Maybe it's the books used, but I do think some texts are not as cut and dry as anonymous tries to make it seem.
What worries me, however, is the seemed attack on you for being a messenger of such liberties. I could be reading this wrong, but to me, it's one thing to hate the game, another entirely to hate the players.
- Dan Edwards said...
History is in the eyes of the beholder. Take the Rev. War for instance. No, wait, it was not a revolution, it was a revolt by a group of ungrateful spoiled colonists who don't appreciate all that has been done for them by the King....that is, if you are British. Wait! this rebellion must be stopped! If these greedy white people get their way, where will my people be? That is, if you are a Deleware, Shawnee, or other member of a tribe in the Ohio River Valley.
History is perspective. No textbook can provide the complete prosepective....it takes a more specialized telling than a survey type textbook can provide, (unless you want to cart around a 20,000 page textbook)
With the recent protest marches by those who profess to be against Congress and their recent talks about illegal immigration reform, well, these people should wave the flag of Mexico and complain about how Mexico was stolden by los gringos del norte. Hummmmmm, or was it conquered militarily? Kind of like the Spanish took it away from the Aztecs? Kind of like the Aztecs carved their niche out of lands claimed by other tribes.....
I'd ignore that email. How did it get sent to you anyhow?
- Christine said...
I have a quote on my wall attributed to Napolean, if I remember correctly. It's along the lines of "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
I start every year explaining that everything the kids read and hear has some kind of bias built into it and part of their job as students is to figure out how to sort the bias out from the facts.
Personally, I think that attitude makes teaching history far more interesting. I live in Virginia where all of the founding fathers owned slaves. You can bet that's something we talk about. I try to use primary sources whenever possible during this discussion.
- allendrury said...
It is soooo late here but I am still reading and thinking. With that in mind I offer a quick viewpoint that is critical to remember anytime we read/consider the past.
Whenever we talk about politics and history we must put it all in the context of the times. That is not to rationalize anyone's conduct or to white wash history. (No pun intended)It is important to try and see history from the viewpoint of those who lived it. 20/20 is wonderful but we are the only ones to see it from this perspective .


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"I'm 27. I'm retired. But I still want to compete."
That's Olympic champion Michael Phelps talking in "The Haney Project," a Golf Channel series that stars Tiger Woods' one-time coach taking on a new celebrity student each season. Phelps' words pretty much summarize the premise of this year's edition, which starts Monday night.
In the past, Hank Haney's celebrity pupils have included Ray Romano, Rush Limbaugh, Charles Barkley and Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine. This season, the student is the swimmer from Baltimore who won 18 gold medals in Olympic competition.
Those viewers who are used to only seeing Phelps in the pool, arms raised in triumph at the end of a race, might be surprised to see him struggling mightily off the tee, gouging divots, shanking shots and throwing clubs.
He sometimes pouts when Haney pushes, he fails to master his Haney lessons before pro-am tournaments and he sneaks a hot dog in the middle of a practice session. Even he acknowledges his lack of focus near the end of Monday's episode, saying, "I have let myself go in a lot of ways."
If that sounds like formulaic reality TV, that's because "The Haney Project: Michael Phelps" is a reality TV show — make no mistake about it. True, it's an Olympic legend featured in the series — not Kate Gosselin, Honey Boo Boo or a noodling "expert" in Oklahoma who sticks his hand in the water hoping to be bit by a fish.
But Phelps is doing reality TV on a niche cable channel. Of all the doors open to him after one of the greatest athletic accomplishments of all time, the Baltimore native chose to star in eight hours of reality television that will play out over the next two months on the Golf Channel.
Phelps, normally not a man of many words, explained the decision during a telephone conference call last week.
"One of the craziest things was when I got my first set of golf clubs, I wanted to do it just to give myself, ... something away from the pool that doesn't have to be always ... focused around swimming," he said.
"I have friends that played in high school and played in college. And I was able to go out with them and at that point, I was like, 'Wow, maybe I'll just quit swimming and start golfing.' But then, we decided that probably wasn't the best idea," he added.
Once the swimming career ended, however, Phelps said, he decided to go beyond golf as a "hobby" taking time off "to really focus" on the game.
"Being able to travel the world and play some of the best golf courses and learn from the greatest golf coach," he said of the Gold Channel offer, "for me it's just a cool opportunity of being able to learn a game that's so challenging."
The first hour definitely shows him being challenged by what's referred to as "the geometry and geography of golf" on the show. And that's part of the intended appeal.
As Mike McCarley, president of the Golf Channel, explained in a statement: "We stand in awe of Michael's Olympic accomplishments, but it's hard to put ourselves in his shoes except when it comes to golf. So, as Michael experiences the ups and downs of improving his game through 'The Haney Project,' Golf Channel's audience can relate to his transition from Olympic icon to a guy simply trying not to spoil a good day on the golf course."
But there's a deeper appeal with this edition of "The Haney Project," which it didn't have with baggy-pants old guys like Limbaugh, Romano or Barkley: This is a guy in his 20s living a young, adult, male fantasy. Phelps has millions of dollars in the bank, girlfriends who pose in bikinis, a record of athletic accomplishment that will probably never be matched, the respect of other celebrities like Michael Jordan and lots of time to play, play, play.
On Thursday, for example, "The Haney Project" cameras followed Phelps around the Baltimore Orioles training camp in Sarasota, Fla., as the Olympic champion took batting practice and kidded around with the players and coaches. Then, it was off to play some golf. Pretty much a day in paradise for most young — and many old — men. Probably, some women, too.
Monday's episode deftly mines some of that appeal with backstage videotape of Phelps appearing on the Golf Channel's "Feherty" talk show with Jordan. More video shows Phelps lobbying Congress with actor Denzel Washington
In fact, Monday's episode spends more time off the course than on with Phelps. The first portion of the hourlong episode is virtually all biography with lots and lots of Phelps in the pool running up the medal count.
Give the Golf Channel credit here — this is not just a cut-and-paste, video-clips job. The producers came to Baltimore for interviews with the Phelps family and his coach, Bob Bowman. Phelps' mother, Debbie, tears up talking about the moment when Phelps came over to her and his two sisters in the stands after winning his first gold medal and stood there like a proud little boy, saying, "Mom, look what I did."
And they even get Phelps himself to open up a tiny bit in talking about his past. Phelps is never going to be a chatterbox in front of the camera. On the course, however, he does seem relatively at ease with the reality-TV cameras surrounding him — relatively.
To be as successful as Phelps, an athlete has to be able to go to a private mental place where there are no distractions — and no thoughts of failure. It's not a place most athletes talk about or share with anyone but coaches — certainly not the media.
A glimpse of that came through in the teleconference last week when I asked Phelps whether he could be more specific about vague "goals" he kept referring to in connection with golf and his participation in Haney's show. Even though Phelps says the best score he ever had was 91, I asked if his goal was to be a professional golfer.
"Well, I mean, one thing with me and every goal I've had — in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals," he began.
"The only person that knew my goals were my coaches," he continued. "That's something — no offense to you guys, but I don't think you guys are going to help me to my goals of X, if I do tell you my goals. So, I see my goals as personal, and I always have. That's just been how I've worked."
That's not the way it usually works on reality TV, though, Michael. Sharing is a good thing on reality TV. Just ask Dr. Drew.
Based on what I saw in the first hour, I wouldn't expect to see Phelps in a "confessional" room, like the one on MTV's "The Real World," baring his soul during this season of "The Haney Project."
With Phelps, though, a few thrown clubs, sullen looks and bleeped words of frustration after bad swings might be enough for young male viewers watching him "live the dream" — or, at least, a pretty big part of it, divots notwithstanding.
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"The Haney Project" starring Michael Phelps debuts at 9 p.m. Monday on the Golf Channel


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That is other than the McLaren Senna but that is not even a street car. It is nice to see what the Senna can do at Laguna Seca in this context but it is on an entirely different level.
Where is the McLaren 720S? The Ferrari Pista? The C8 Corvette? The GT500 Mustang? An R8 or Huracan? The 992 Carrera S is really the sportiest car out there short of the Senna.
Here is the lineup in order of least favorite to most favorite driver's car by Randy Pobst:
12. Challenger SRT Hellcat
11. Lamborghini Urus
10. Bentley Continental GT V8
9. Toyota GR Supra
8. Aston Martin DBS Superleggera
7. Jaguar XE SV Project 8
6. Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S 4Matic+
5. BMW M850i xDrive Coupe
4. BMW F87 M2 Competition
3. Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang
2. McLaren Senna
1. Porsche 992 Carrera S
Now in order of laptime:
12. Challenger SRT Hellcat - 1:42.70
11. Bentley Continental GT V8 - 1:41.21
10. Lamborghini Urus - 1:40.90
9. BMW F87 M2 Competition - 1:40.83
8. Toyota GR Supra - 1:40.57
7. BMW M850i xDrive Coupe - 1:39.40
6. Aston Martin DBS Superleggera - 1:38.27
5. Jaguar XE SV Project 8 - 1:36.96
4. Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang - 1:36.83
3. Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S 4Matic+ - 1:36.26
2. Porsche 992 Carrera S - 1:35.52
1. McLaren Senna - 1:27.62
It is rather incredible how well the Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S 4Matic+ does. We keep saying it but Mercedes-AMG really worked some magic on that car. The BMW M850i xDrive does a fairly good job considering its heft and that it is not the M8 model which of course bodes well for the M derivative.
Laguna Seca exposes the heft of the Urus. Power can not mask it here. The Supra also edges the M2 Competition although the M2 Competition is the preferred driver's car.
The Hellcat Redeye is in the rear because someone took it off a dragstrip.
The new Carrera S is the big winner here.


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Following recommendations from the Oakdale Police Department, the Oakdale City Council denied renewing Smokedale Tobacco's tobacco licence at its Oct. 23 meeting. The store, located in the 7100 block of 10th Street North, had long been under scrutiny from law enforcement.
At Oakdale's Oct. 9 city council meeting, Oakdale Police Chief William Sullivan said his department had "revealed a pattern" of unlawful business at Smokedale Tobacco.
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Oakdale employs a metro area bowhunting organziation to control its deer population when it gets too large. Hunts are planned in early November at varous sites in the city.
Deer can easily become overpopulated in the metro area, where natural predators no longer exist and hunting is limited or prohibited by local ordinance.
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Sam Henriksen in the original Seventh Avenue North St. Paul location of Henriksen Ace Hardware in 1982.
After being a North St. Paul community staple for 57 years, Henriksen Ace Hardware off Highway 36 will close at the end of the year.
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City, county and state officials broke ground on a 32-unit Suite Living Care assisted living and memory care facility Oct. 25 at Commerce Park on 13th Avenue in North St. Paul. The $5 million to $6 million facility is slated to open in nine months.
North St. Paul city officials and others gathered Oct. 25 at Commerce Park on 13th Avenue for the groundbreaking of a 32-unit Suite Living Care assisted living and assisted care facility.
With three out of four Oakdale City Council positions on the ballot this fall and only one incumbent running, there will inevitably be new people on the council come next year.
A lively Roseville City Council race, in which the city held it's first primary since 2012, is nearing its end.
The Oakdale City Council unanimously passed its preliminary 2019 tax levy at its Sept. 11 meeting.
The preliminary tax levy establishes the maximum amount the city can levy in 2019, though the city still has time to reduce it.
Boy Scout Troop 515 held its second annual flag retirement campout at House of Prayer Lutheran Church in Oakdale Aug. 17 and 18.
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May 31, 2012, 6:00 am
Fluff Bar, a Denver bar and salon in LoDo on Wazee Street (Girl Walks Into a Bar)
Alcohol, hot irons and mascara wands can be a dangerous combination at home. At Fluff Bar, guests take care of the tippling while professionals safely handle the primping.
Fluff, a full-service salon and bar, is the brainchild of owners Benjamin Chizzick and Britt Chambers. Before opening in December 2011, the two moved from Los Angeles to Denver to work on the concept — Chambers still flies back to work one week a month at a salon in tony Brentwood.
According to Chambers, the Fluff idea came from her experiences prepping clients for red-carpet events in L.A. The lady of the manor would invite friends over to hang out while she got ready, and her beauty ritual would become a full-fledged party, complete with drinks.


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Shadow of the Bear
Shadow of the Bear is a novel by Regina Doman about two Catholic girls named Blanche and Rose Brier who live in the Bronx with their mother after the unfortunate death of their father. They meet the myterious Bear one cold night and are pulled into his adventure which involves discovering who murdered the priest Father Raymond, kidnappings, and investigations on the people who surround them. They have to decide whether or not they can trust their new friend Bear, or if the rumors they hear of him being involved with drugs are true.
This book is written by a Catholic woman who gives a very good portrayal of trying to preserve one's faith while being assailed from all sides by the enemy. It is a retold story of the Grimm fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red.
The original copies of Shadow of the Bear were published as a hardcover in 1997 as Snow White and Rose Red: A Modern Fairy Tale. In 2002 is was released as a paperback by Bethlehem Books as Shadow of the Bear: a Fairy Tale Retold.
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You can take your chances and believe the deduplication ratios and performance the vendors say you'll get, or you can do it right and test the systems yourself.
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Some data deduplication vendors are lying to you. Although I knew this, it became immediately apparent after the feedback I received to my BackupCentral.com blog post on deduplication performance. All I did in that article was compile and interpret publicly available information, but some people felt I was validating those vendors' claims despite a disclaimer to the contrary.
I received public and private comments from vendors and users alike that said, "How can you say vendor ABC does xxx MB/sec? We've never seen more than half that!" or "Have you asked that vendor for a reference? I doubt a single customer is using the configuration you listed in your article!" Suffice it to say that some of those numbers, while openly published by the vendors, are complete and utter fiction. Which ones, you ask? Given the confusion about published statistics and the lack of independent testing of these products, the only way you're going to know is to test the product yourself. The following explains what you should test, and what I believe is the best way to conduct those tests.
Target vs. source dedupe
There are two very different types of data dedupe, and they require very different testing methodologies. With target dedupe, deduplication occurs inside an appliance that accepts "regular" backups, that is, backups from a traditional backup application. These appliances usually accept those backups via a virtual tape interface, NFS, CIFS or other proprietary API, such as the Open Storage (OST) API in Symantec Corp.'s Veritas NetBackup. Backups are received in their entirety and are deduped once they arrive. Target dedupe saves disk space on the target device, but does nothing to reduce the network load between backup client and server. This makes target dedupe more appropriate for environments where bandwidth utilization isn't the primary consideration, such as in a centralized data center.
Source deduplication products require custom backup software at the backup client and backup server. The client identifies a unique chunk of data it hasn't seen before, and then asks the server if it's ever seen the chunk of data before. If the server has backed up that same chunk of data from that (or another) client, it tells the client not to send the chunk over the network and simply indicates that the chunk was found in another location. If the chunk is determined to be truly unique, it sends the chunk across the network and records where it came from. This makes source dedupe most appropriate for environments where bandwidth is the primary consideration, such as remote offices and mobile users.
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Target deduplication. Data deduplication is done in an appliance that sits inline between the backup server and the backup target. The appliance receives the full backup stream and dedupes the data immediately.
Source deduplication. Backup software performs the deduplication on the backup client and the backup server before sending data to the backup target. This approach has less impact on the available bandwidth.
Testing target dedupe
There are three things to verify when considering a target dedupe solution: cost, capacity and throughput. When considering the cost of deduplication systems (or any system for that matter), remember to include both capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenditures (OPEX). Look at what hardware and software you'll need to acquire to use a particular appliance to match a given throughput and capacity model. Some dedupe vendors make it very easy to arrive at a CAPEX number: for example, you need to store 30 TB of data, and you back up 5 TB/day, so you need model x. It includes all the computing and storage capacity you need to meet your requirements. Other vendors just provide a gateway that you can connect to your own storage. Finally, some vendors provide just the software, leaving the purchase of all hardware up to you. Remember to include the cost of the server hardware in this configuration, making sure that you're specifying a server configuration that's approved by that vendor. In both the gateway- and software-only pricing models, make sure to include the cost of the disk in your comparison even if it's "free." The dedupe pricing world is so unique that there are scenarios where you can actually save money by not using disk you already have.
One final cost element: Remember to add in (if necessary) any "extra" disks, such as a "landing zone" (found in post-process systems), a "cache" where data is kept in its original format for faster restores or any disks not used to store deduplicated data. All of those disks should be considered in the total cost of purchasing the system.
You then need to consider OPEX. As you're evaluating each vendor, make note of how you'll need to maintain their systems and how the systems will work with your backup software vendor. Is there a custom interface between the two (e.g., Veritas NetBackup's OST API), or will your system just pretend to be a tape library or a file system? How will that affect your OPEX? What's it like to replace disk drives, disk arrays or systems that are part of this system? How will global dedupe, or the lack of it, affect your ability to scale the product to meet your needs?
There are two ways to test capacity. The first is to send a significant amount of backups to the device and compare the size of those backups with the amount of storage they take up on the target system. This will show your dedupe ratio. Multiply that ratio times the disk capacity used to store deduped data and you'll get your effective capacity. The second method is to send backups to the device until it fills up and then record how many backups were sent. The latter method takes longer, but it's the only way to know how the system will perform long term. (The performance of some systems decreases as they near capacity.)
Finally, there are several things you should test for performance.
Ingest/Write. The first measure of a disk system (dedupe or not) is its ability to ingest (i.e., write) backups. (While restore performance is technically more important, you can't restore what you didn't back up.) Remember to test both aggregate and single-stream backup performance.
Restore/Copy/Read speed. The second measure of a disk system (dedupe or not) is its ability to restore or copy (i.e., read) backups. I like to point out that the whole reason we started doing disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backups was to use disk as a buffer to tape; therefore, if a disk system (dedupe or not) isn't able to stream a modern tape drive when copying backups to tape, then it misses the point. Remember to test the tape copy where you plan to do the tape copy; for example, if you plan to replicate to another system and make the tape there, test that. Finally, don't assume that restore speeds will be fine, and remember to test both single-stream and aggregate restore performance.
Deduplication. Once the data arrives in its native format to the device, it must be deduped. Inline boxes dedupe the data the second it arrives. The original data never hits disk; therefore, an inline vendor's dedupe speed is the same as its ingestion speed. Post-process vendors can take from seconds to hours to dedupe data. You'll have to investigate how long the dedupe process actually takes.
Replication. Your dedupe ratio comes into effect with replication as well. The better your dedupe ratio is, the fewer blocks will have to be replicated. But the only way to know for sure how replication will work is to actually do the replication. Observe how many blocks of data are replicated and note when the replication starts and stops. You may be able to capture this data from the dedupe vendor, but to test it yourself you may need to use a network tool to get this information. Remember that not all vendors start replicating at the same time. Of course, nothing can be replicated until it's deduped, but don't assume that an inline vendor will replicate backups immediately after they're deduped; many vendors will wait until a given tape is no longer being used or a file is closed (in the case of NAS).
Test with production data, but…
You must test target dedupe systems by storing your actual production backups on them. However, don't test your dedupe system by backing up production systems directly to it. Vendors would love for you to test that way, as it's hard to give the system back when you're using it to store real backups needed for real restores. It's always a bad idea to use a test system in production.
So how do you test dedupe systems with production data without backing up production systems to them? It's simple. Copy your production backups from tape or disk to the dedupe system. When testing restore/copy speed, copy backups from the deduped device to disk or tape because the "reconstitution" process the dedupe system has to go through for a copy is exactly the same as what it does for a restore.
Determine how long you plan to store your backups in the dedupe system. In my opinion, if you plan to store 90 days of backups in your dedupe system, that's how many days of backups you should store in your test system. (It won't take 90 days to store 90 days' worth of backups.)
If you plan on testing 90 days of backups, pick a period of 90 days that starts with a full backup (or an IBM Corp. Tivoli Storage Manager backup set) and continues for 90 days. If you're testing multiple dedupe systems, make sure to use the same set of backups with each test (ceteris paribus -- with all other factors or things remaining the same). Copy the first full backup (or backup set), followed by backups that are 89 days old, then 88 and so forth. Do that until you've worked your way up to 90 days.
Each simulated "backup day" should include a single backup (i.e., one backup set copied until it's complete), simultaneous backups (as many simultaneous copies as you have tape drives), deduplication and replication. If possible, the simultaneous backups should supply enough throughput to reach that system's maximum throughput. Once all of those activities have completed, the next day's "backups" can continue by copying the next set of backup tapes into the system.
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Use real data: To get accurate results, all testing should be done using copies of the data you actually back up.
Try restores, too: It's not enough to just test backup performance, you should also test dedupe products by doing typical restores.
Recreate replication: It's likely you'll also replicate backup data to a disaster recovery site or vaulting facility, so you should test how well -- and how quickly -- a dedupe product handles replication.
Tally costs correctly: The actual price of the dedupe product might not reveal the total bill for the solution. Be sure to include the cost of any new disks or disk systems, as well as software upgrades that may be required to implement the product correctly.
The beginning of each simulated "backup week," including the first one, should include a number of simulated restore tests. The best way to test restore speed is to actually copy a predictably sized backup set from the dedupe system to tape. You should do two single restores by themselves (i.e., one backup set copied from the dedupe system to tape until it's complete), followed by two sets of simultaneous restores (as many simultaneous copies from the dedupe system to tape as you have tape drives). The reason you should copy two sets in each test is that you want to copy from the oldest and newest backups in each test cycle. What you're looking for with these tests is a difference in restore time from older backups in relation to newer backups, and from backups when the system is relatively empty to when the system is relatively full.
One key to doing this right is automation. This will allow you to do testing around the clock and will provide the best way of documenting the timing of all activities. Automating things is also the key to ceteris paribus, which is absolutely essential when testing multiple systems. If possible, another approach is to use a completely separate backup server and tape library. That will isolate the test from the backup traffic, both for the sake of production backups and to ensure that production backups don't impact the test.
Testing source dedupe
In most cases, source dedupe is being considered as a replacement for some backup software that's already "doing the job" via backups to an inexpensive tape device. While that configuration comes with a lot of drawbacks that source dedupe intends to fix, the fact that you're replacing an existing product creates a greater burden of proof on the source dedupe product.
Basic backup functionality. You'll be using this product to perform all backups and restores for supported clients. Make sure you try everything with this product that you currently do with your backup system. Schedule automated backups and see how it reports their success. If any of them fail (and you should force some of them to fail), what happens next? What's it like to rerun failed backups? What are restores like? Can the administrator do them or can users do them? Use the same workflows you're accustomed to using and see if they can be adapted to this new product.
Advanced backup functionality. Do you plan to replicate these backups to a second location? Once you've replicated all backups to a centralized location, do you plan to copy some or all of them to tape? How does that work?
Performance. What kind of backup performance do you get? How fast is the replication? How much data is sent across the wire? (Don't assume that two different deduplication products will send the same amount of data over the wire.) If you're planning on replicating across long distances, how do latency and an unreliable connection affect the overall performance and stability of the product?
As with target dedupe, there's no substitute for real data during testing. But unlike target dedupe, it can be very difficult to reliably test these products doing anything short of backing up the types of systems you plan on actually backing up. You can back up test systems, but the test is only valid if you can simulate user activity, such as emails to the Exchange database, and new and updated files in the file system. Without those changes, your source dedupe system will perform very well, but will offer no insight into how it's going to perform in the real world.
Most people can't simulate real user activity on a large test environment, so their only alternative is to back up real systems. Once you've verified in a test environment that the software in question can run on the types of systems you'll be testing, you need to begin a proof of concept on "real" systems that will represent the types of systems you'll be backing up. To minimize risk, it's best to start with systems that aren't currently being backed up and don't have a mission-critical uptime requirement, such as laptops. Select a few users to pilot the software, make sure they're aware it's a pilot and ask them to report their experiences to you. Once you've logged a little time with those types of systems, you can expand to file servers at a remote site, followed by application servers (such as Exchange). Just remember that each time you start backing up a new type of system, you risk negatively impacting the stability or performance of that system -- so you must watch for any instabilities during each test.
Any systems already being backed up in the proof-of-concept test should continue being backed up via the previous method until you're in production with the new system. If they're Windows systems, you must verify that the two programs won't interfere with each other by resetting and/or using the Windows archive bit. The worst-case scenario would be if they're both using it, as new or modified files would get backed up by the next backup product to run and wouldn't get backed up by the following product. You must verify how the archive bit will affect two products running in parallel.
Make sure to get answers for all of these questions. Also simulate all of the things that are likely to happen, such as a laptop user suspending their laptop in the middle of a backup, an Ethernet cable being unplugged or an Internet connection timing out. The hardest question to answer may be how many bytes are actually sent across the network, so you may need third-party network monitoring software to get a verifiable number.
Nothing proposed here is easy. However, the potential risks of buying dedupe systems without proper testing are simply too great to consider skipping testing. With some dedupe vendors possibly exaggerating their products' prowess, testing is the only way to separate truth from fiction -- and probably save some money in the process.
BIO: W. Curtis Preston is an executive editor at SearchStorage.com and an independent backup expert.


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Vaseline on the door knob. Mustard in the toothpaste tube. Tape over the light switch.
Let the April Fool's Day pranks begin! Whether the joke is on you, or you're planning
some pranks yourself, April Fool's Day is all about having fun. And we're here to help.
But first things first. How did April 1 become the biggest prank-pulling day of the year? Nobody knows for sure. But the most popular theory dates back to the 1500s when the adoption of the Gregorian calendar changed New Year from being observed on April 1
to January 1. It was a popular joke to trick people into thinking April 1 was still the New Year, and those who believed it were dubbed "April Fools." Other theories range from Mother Nature "fooling" us with her fickle weather to Roman ruler Constantine letting
a court jester be king for a day because the "fool" thought he could do a better job.
Now April Fool's Day is celebrated worldwide—with some of the most elaborate hoaxes pulled by the media. Taco Bell once took out a full page ad announcing their purchase of
the Liberty Bell. Expedia has touted flights to Mars. And Google plays a new prank every year. But one of the most popular hoaxes of all time was the 1957 BBC report of Switzerland's "exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop" with video footage so convincing that callers jammed the switchboard seeking their own Spaghetti Tree. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ
Fortunately, you don't have to go that far to get a laugh. In fact, you probably have plenty of joke supplies right in your own junk drawer!
Here are some quick and easy popular pranks:
- Rubber band the kitchen sink sprayer to soak an innocent victim's face.
- Put food coloring in the toothbrush (the same color as the bristles).
- Insert frozen coins inside your family's shoes.
- Ben Gay the toilet seat.
- Block the remote signal with a piece of electrical tape.
- Put hair gel in the liquid soap bottle.
- Unplug your co-worker's mouse.
- Tell them they're getting brownies for desert. Then give them "E"s cut out of brown paper.
- And the lazy-fool's approach: Say you've planned a prank just to watch people squirm.
For more joke ideas and hilarious media hoaxes, check out the following links:
And, of course, don't forget BlueMountain.com for plenty of April Fool fun!


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What do stranded commuters trudging wearily along the SkyTrain tracks and a giant porcelain poodle sitting on top of an eight-metre-high pole have in common?
Both are examples of a Metro Vancouver transit system that has lost its way and gone to the dogs.
The commuters who abandoned their crippled SkyTrain cars were among thousands inconvenienced by a rash of SkyTrain breakdowns.
The giant porcelain poodle was part of a recent $100,000 public art project TransLink sponsored.
The point: Maybe if TransLink spent more of your money on an efficient, safe transit system instead of on dog statues, people wouldn't have to risk their lives to escape broken-down SkyTrain cars.
An unfair comparison? TransLink thinks so. But the uproar over "poodles on pogo sticks" is just one example of dubious TransLink spending and mismanagement that upsets critics like Jordan Bateman of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
"There are so many examples — I call them the 'deadly sins of TransLink,'" said Bateman.
Since no one was accidentally electrocuted during last week's train-tracks exodus, maybe "deadly" is too strong a word.
But there's little doubt TransLink's record is a spotty one. Consider:
Compass Card capers: The smart-card fare-gate system was supposed to stop freeloading fare cheats and offer greater convenience for the public.
It still might. But the system is already well behind schedule and $23 million over budget — more than the cost of a backup computer system that might have prevented last week's SkyTrain snafus.
Executive feeding frenzy: TransLink CEO Ian Jarvis made $394,730 in 2012 — more than Premier Christy Clark and even more than Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
More significant, Jarvis made $88,000 more than Toronto's transit CEO and $97,000 more than Montreal's. The comparisons get uglier south of the border. Jarvis made $203,000 more than the King County transit boss in Washington state, and $166,000 more than the transit CEO in Portland.
Sunday is payday for SkyTrain cops: The budget for TransLink's independent police force was $27 million last year and is set to rise steadily.
Among the cost drivers: a contract that pays officers a 25-per-cent bonus if they work Sundays. Try finding a deal like that in the real world.
Wasted space: TransLink has been paying $60,000 a month to rent a Burnaby warehouse where it planned to restore aging SkyTrain cars.
But the union representing SkyTrain workers complained in March that much of the building is sitting empty.
"The top floor is totally vacant and the warehouse is totally vacant," Bill Magri, president of CUPE Local 7000, told the Burnaby Now newspaper.
"What bothers me is the outright waste and the poor financial decisions made by TransLink."
Directors multiplying like rabbits: Why have just one board of directors when you can have six?
TransLink has its own a board of directors, of course. But so does the Transit Police. And the B.C. Rapid Transit Company, which operates the Expo and Millennium SkyTrain lines. And the Coast Mountain Bus Company. And the West Coast Express. And then there are the 23 members of the TransLink Mayors Council.
Salaries for all the members of all those boards in 2012: $751,589.
The too-short sound wall: After years of pressure from Pitt Meadows residents, TransLink decided last year to tear down a sound-blocking wall meant to shield residents from the noisy Golden Ears Bridge.
The problem? The first sound-blocking wall was shorter than the trucks rumbling noisily over the bridge, driving neighbours nuts.
The solution? Rip the wall down and build a new one that's one-and-a-half metres taller.
"It's just, 'Roll the windows down and throw the money out of the window and we'll build a new one,'" lamented Pitt Meadows Mayor Deb Walters.
"It's very frustrating, especially when we talk about finding funding for TransLink."
The cost of the taller wall: $817,000.
Public art: Which brings us back to those porcelain poodles on pogo sticks. Despite controversy over that Main Street installation, TransLink plans to spend more on public art.
TransLink approved spending $615,000 on public installations at three SkyTrain stations last year, despite complaints the money would be better spent on actual transit improvements.
"The TransLink people are always crying for money from local government," Delta Mayor Lois Jackson told the Burnaby News Leader. "But, on the other hand, they're spending money as if it comes from a bottomless pit."
Here's the biggest problem for TransLink: Public confidence has been eroded by this stuff at the same time that TransLink wants more money from the public.
"Why should anyone trust TransLink with $500 million more a year in taxes when they can't manage the $1.4 billion they already get?" asks Bateman, TransLink's fiercest critic.
It brings a fierce response from TransLink.
"We do not have the resources to investigate each one of his (Bateman's) claims, nor is the public purse well served by going down such dirt trails when we have important operations and communications matters to pursue," said Cheryl Ziola, TransLink's manager of media relations.
If we ever get that referendum on TransLink funding, taxpayers may get the last word.


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I have not been able to duplicate the problem you report when I'm using the Windows B4 version.I just cropped a bunch of TIFs (100MB file size scans of 35mm Kodachrome slides) and exported them to JPGs to produce a slide show. Bud JamesNorth Wales, PA[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77564\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Not sure it is what you are referring to, but there is a known bug in the cropping tool described in the "readme" file that comes with the beta4 download. You might look at that to see if it is a known issue.Tim[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77642\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Is this the slowest bloatware ever devised? Answer: it might be on my admittedly ageing Windows machine. Silkypix, itself quite a memory hog, seems lighting fast in comparison.Looks great, but on a 2 year old Athlon machine with 1.5gb ram, its unuseable.Quentin[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77683\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Is this the slowest bloatware ever devised?[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77683\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Oscar,I haven't noticed that issue (G5 mac). Perhaps you could post a screenshot?
I really like the rendering in LR. The smooth slider seems to get rid of the maze problem formerly present in ACR renderings, yet it retains fine detail better than DPP. I'll see if I can create an example later.
It ain't finished folks, so lets hold the performance judgments 'till it is as complaining about it accomplishes nothing.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77826\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
It is worlds faster that the previous beta. Still slow.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77827\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
I found B3 a little faster, but still slow. Maybe there is too much processing going on with the thumbnails, as it just takes over the processor. Possibly its not optimised for older processors. My PC runs everything else reasonably well. I'd like to use it but I can't.Quentin[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77889\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
How about they stop expecting people to give them feedback on a product that isn't totally useable to evaluate? I know it's a beta, but if someone mentions its slow, then, SUPRISE!, they are giving feedback saying that it needs to be faster. I find it funny that complaining about features denotes "Feedback", but complaining about a lack of speed is just complaining.*Waits to be attacked*[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77870\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]
Everyone knows it's slow, and they (Adobe and those deeply involved in the project) have stated several times that it is not finished nor optimized but it will be once it is released. Thus...Complaining about its slowness = non-constructive feedback.Stating X function doesn't behave correctly = constructive feedback.Requesting a feature because ___ = constructive feedback.Etc.We all have a chance to use a very nice organizer/converter/etc program for free and we all have an equal opportunity for give feedback to make it better. Why then, would anyone want to waste their time complaining about something that everyone knows will be taken care of? All that does is make the complainer look ungrateful of the opportunity they have as well as make it harder to take their other feedback seriously.[a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=77913\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a]


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The NWA Adds Ric Flair to its Hall of Fame
The following press release was issued today by the National Wrestling Alliance…
Whoooo the Newest Inductee
Charlotte, NC (May 30, 2008) – The word legend is thrown around a lot these days, but "The Nature Boy†Ric Flair is the very definition of the word and the National Wrestling Alliance® will be inducting him into the NWA™ Hall of Fame on June 7th at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, GA!
Flair is an icon of Pro Wrestling and has collected 16 World Heavyweight Championships including 8 recognized by the NWA™, 6 by World Championship Wrestling and 2 for World Wrestling Entertainment. Flair was also the leader of "The Four Horsemen,†a dominant group of fighters that ruled the Pro Wrestling world for many, many years.
"With Ric Flair's involvement, I'd say our 60th Anniversary event is truly going to be a history making one. I have been around the NWAâ"¢ longer than anyone and I can tell you this marks the first time in close to 20 years that Flair is going to step into an NWAâ"¢ building,†said NWAâ"¢ Executive Director Robert K. Trobich, he continued "Atlanta this is a great homecoming for many of these men, I mean Rich, Sheik, The Midnights, Koloff and Flair at the site of the old Omni? I hope every wrestling fan in Atlanta comes out and shows the support these men earned and deserved. This may be the greatest Class we've ever inducted.â€
Since the year 2000, Flair has wrestled for World Wrestling Entertainment on their RAW and Smackdown brands. Earlier this year he lost a match at WrestleMania 24 in Orlando, FL that required him to retire ending a storied 30 plus year career. Today Flair acts a WWE Ambassador, representing the company at special events.
The 2008 NWAâ"¢ Hall of Fame Ceremony will take place on June 7th in Atlanta, GA. It is a featured attraction during the NWAâ"¢ 60th Anniversary event. Tickets to this event are on sale now at ticketmaster.com or the Philips Arena Box Office.
Flair joins Nikita Koloff, the Midnight Express, the Iron Sheik and Tommy Rich as new inductees. As previously announced, Hall of Famer Jim Cornette will emcee the festivities on June 7. For a list of previous inductees, see this earlier press release.
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Simple, naked drums fire up through the silence and a rhythm forms. It loops as a crunchy guitar line joins the party and takes you with it. You're starting to feel it, that desire to drum your toes or bang your steering wheel in time, then Liela Moss's vocals pour in, like a delicious syrup bringing everything together, tight and thick into some kind of flapjacky goodness. You know you shouldn't but it tastes too good to resist, and before you know it you've ploughed your way through the whole album and devoured the lot. Nom.
'Cherry Tree' is the carb-filled opener on the latest offering from The Duke Spirit. It's an instant grabber with chunky, rolling riffs, perhaps a bit rockier than you might be used to from the band, but still with the sweet harmonies you've come to expect. In fact, while it definitely differs from debut Cuts Across The Land and 2008's Neptune, new album, Bruiser, remains distinctly The Duke Spirit in style and sound.
Stripped back to the bare essentials, this five-piece don't need to hide behind battlements of techy effects and computerised whizzbangery. They don't trade in overcomplicating things. As with their previous two albums, songs are played strong and hard but simply, resulting in a record which feels as much a performance in the studio as it would do live.
Track three, 'Villain', opens with the haunting melancholy of a solitary piano and Moss's crystal voice, conjuring cinematic images of a dark and smoky club of old, a single spotlight picking out her face on a lonely stage. Theatrical and elegant, this is the first joltingly different song on the album, but as the wailing guitars sidle in, there are touches of QOTSA and surf noir, swinging and swaying like a distressed damsel atop a windswept outcrop, crying into the crashing seas below. Beautifully sad, yet wonderfully rousing, this has grown to be one of my favourites of the album.
Similarly favoured by me, 'Surrender', and later 'Everybody's Under Your Spell', are perfect examples of what The Duke Spirit do best. They hark back to the best tracks of their first album, with all the driven energy of a new band but frantic riffs, throbbing electricity and a belting tune added to the mix. 'Bodies' follows with Radiohead-esque guitar progressions and near-Muse moments of electric grandeur, all punctured by the quenching delicacy of a moment's quiet as Moss sings "You / seem to / Oooh...".
The mood takes a sombre dip with 'De Lux', reminding ancient Placebo fans like me of Molko's 'In The Cold Light of Morning', followed by 'Sweet Bitter Sweet' which sails on velvet vocals before building to a bellowing crescendo.
The prize for song most sung has to go to the penultimate track, 'Northbound', whose stirring and painfully catchy chorus has a habit of ramping around my head all day. On top of this, being a Bristolian who's recently acquired a Blackpool-based fella, the words seem strikingly poignant when Moss sings "The fire of love / sends you northbound". Bloody geography.
Admittedly, I'm a long-standing fan of this band and have a definite girl-crush on Liela Moss but that really hasn't swung me. It may have been some time coming and it may be a little late for this band in many ways, but Bruiser has managed to take what The Duke Spirit are great at and expand it to create something greater. Mixing classic rampant riffs and exploring newer matured sounds, Moss and co have crafted another hearty album that should satisfy even the hungriest of followers. Ok, it might not be Heston but at the end of the day there's no denying, everyone enjoys a good gastro-pub.
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For many advisors, the promised efficiencies of new 'integrated'software tools have been nothing short of a high-priced scam. Instead of instantaneous, critical and actionable client information at their fingertips, they've had to contend with disparate, costly systems that inundate them with useless data. The end result is the creation of unnecessary processes and needless wastes of time.
The truth is, most of these systems are created without the end user—you, the advisor—and your clients in mind. They're built to benefit the broker-dealer or custodian and their back offices rather than as business solutions to help you grow and serve your existing and prospective clients. Even worse, the reality is that much of the technology being offered to advisors focuses on tackling yesterday's problems, not the challenges advisors face today, tomorrow or even several years from now. At their core, they are either thrown together hoping to rely on loose integrations between vendors or, even worse, lack any ability to react to the fast evolving challenges and solutions emerging in our market.
Okay. You get it. Many technology systems aren't designed or built to make your life easier. They're simply minor improvements to old legacy systems and obsolete methodologies. But did you know that these software systems present more than just a technological headache for advisors?
Many national RIA and broker/dealer technology 'solutions' are actually designed to hold your data hostage, locking critical information in a virtual proprietary silo. All the time spent entering your valuable data will have to be repeated when you 'convert' to a new system. The result: precious hours wasted that could have been better used growing your business and serving your clients.
Why Portability Is Crucial
The issue ultimately comes down to portability. As an independent advisor, you can take your clients with you when you move, but taking your data may be more difficult. There's been a steady flow of registered representatives moving away from the traditional wirehouse or 'captive' model, since they see greener pastures if they move to a more independent model. What a pity to make the change from full-service brokerage W2 employment or 1099 subcontractor status with a regional firm thinking you'd be reaching the 'promised land' only to find out that your national RIA or independent broker-dealer, either intentionally or unintentionally, would be chaining you and your data to their technology.
I believe that RIA and IBD business solutions should be liberating; so our approach at United Planners is to focus on business solutions rather than on technology per se. There are scores of excellent software solutions offered in the marketplace, and advisors are wise to ask hard questions about the solutions any firm provides.
In my opinion, what best serves the advisor is a way to integrate the solutions so that they work seamlessly, securely and efficiently—with a single secure sign-on, single accurate source of data, paperless solutions, and efficient back office systems. Our approach is to focus on business solutions over technology by acting as the middleware, sometimes know as "software glue." This is a term used to describe software that provides services to other software applications beyond their current capabilities. In a nutshell, it acts as a middleware that enables business solutions by empowering various system components beyond their general interactions.
For example, if three systems each have shared data and their own integrations, the software glue will decide which systems should be updated, in which order, and with which data to ensure all systems are in sync. This helps to avoid potential problems such as data out of sync or continuous loops of updates between systems. Software glue answers the question of "Who's on first?" in the complex world of integrations and ensures that the advisors' best-of-breed systems all operate efficiently.
Many advisors opt for 'all-in-one solutions' as opposed to 'best-of-breed.' But while an all-in one solution seems appealing, it's really the convenience that is so compelling. Please keep in mind that you may be giving something up in the way of functionality and portability if you go with the convenient all-in-one solution.
My point here is that because middleware can effectively join the applications of choice, it offers the best of both worlds: the best solutions, seamlessly integrated so they function as conveniently as an all-in-one solution.
Look Under the Hood
In many ways, when an advisor is choosing to switch to a national RIA or a new broker-dealer—or when an RIA decides that realigning with an independent BD can simplify life by providing significant back-office support—the process is akin to buying a car. While the bells-and-whistles may be enticing, the most important question may be: What's under the hood?
In my experience, advisors looking to make a change generally know what they're looking for (though not always). They'll do extensive discovery with independent broker-dealers and/or national RIA firms on their "short list" around issues such as payout, culture, ease of doing business and technology.
If you find yourself in this situation, I offer you this caution be sure to check under the hood by asking these five questions:
- Ask direct questions, such as "Can I be technologically independent of this broker-dealer or custodian?" Determine if the company's technology provides business solutions that truly enhance your independence, or if they are designed to bond you to them. Review any proprietary technology that's offered and look for an 'export' button for your information, rather than accepting their general promise to give you your data when you leave.
- Find out whether the various solutions (e.g., CRM, trading, imaging, workflow, portfolio rebalancing, etc.) are "best in breed"—leading their category.
- Determine whether the solutions are connected in a way that makes them efficient to use without limiting the portability of your data.
- If the 'engine' is enclosed in a big black box, consider that a red flag. It probably means that it utilizes solutions customized for only that broker-dealer or national RIA, and may even include cumbersome legacy solutions that aren't nimble enough for today's business environment.
- Ask specific questions about portfolio and account management; CRM; compliance; security; mobile access; training and troubleshooting. Questions in each area should elicit details.
While few advisors make this type of major change to a national RIA or new broker-dealer intending to make a similar move in the future, the reality is that "stuff happens" outside of their control and it's not easy to predict the future. The technology solutions delivered by a national RIA, BD or custodian should make life easier for advisors and staff, not cause headaches and inefficiencies due to inflexibility.
Ultimately, your broker-dealer or national RIA should be helping you run the most efficient, profitable business possible. The relationship should be one you would maintain, even if your business model didn't require it. So ask yourself, "Would I still be here if I didn't have to be?" The answer should be an unequivocal "Yes!"


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The 2008 F-Series Super Duty trucks will get improved fuel economy, in addition to the Tonka Truck looks. According to Ford, new trucks could see an improvement of as much as 1.5 MPG, or 10 to 15-percent over current models, depending on how the truck is used. In order to achieve this improvement, Ford lowered the front spoiler to improve aerodynamics and replaced the 3.73 ratio rear axles with 3.55 rear axles, thus shortening the amount of rotations needed by the driveshaft to turn the axles.
The good news for Super Duty truck owners, other than having to fill up only every 23 miles, is this shouldn't have an impact on towing capability for either the F-250 or F-350. PickupTruck.com has a full rundown of the changes to the "Job 3" Super Duty. [PickupTruck.com]


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alexh wrote:It's was the next Atari Corp computer to be produced after the Falcon. Never released. There is quite a bit of information on the Microbox and higher resolution photos over the net.
The Falcon040 Microbox case is widely considered to be the inspiration for the PS2 case.
wongck wrote:I think it suppose to have some slots for expansion.
would have been great....
DarkLord wrote:When you read the stats on it, it just makes you want to cry that it never made it out the door.
Dal wrote:As I remember, the Atari press had strong reasons to believe that Atari were designing a new 'PC-Style' case for the Falcon. However after delays and their clear intention to get it out the door to focus more on the Jaguar, it was just released in the STE-style case.
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Sometimes I think the Atari marketing bods actually went to great lengths to try and make absolutely sure their systems would fail in the market
Similarly, the whole process of development for the Falcon and Jaguar seems slightly bizzare. Using the ST case and the MultiTOS debacle both looked bad, as did hobbling the system with slow RAM and a 14mb maximum.
calimero wrote:- Rodolphe Czuba explain why Falcon have 16bit CPU bus to memory: if it had 32bit bus, than Falcon would need to have 8MB as standard and that will increase price
calimero wrote:@mal at atari museum there are infos only about EST. i will try to find ST Format issue with info about SST.
There are lot infos about Jaguar, Loki, Panthere, VM labs, ATW, Helios... on net but there is no background info about Falcon!
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A new Sandy Hook Elementary School could cost between $47.5 million and $65.4 million.
A planning process has narrowed the future location to five possible sites, including the existing school where 20 children and six adults were killed in a mass shooting Dec. 14.
The cost estimates are preliminary and they are probably at the high end, said First Selectman E. Patricia Llodra. It is not clear how much of the construction will be paid by federal and state funds or private donations.
"Right from the very beginning, our state representatives have been saying that the state will pick up the full cost, or the state will work with the town to find sources for the full cost, because there could be some federal support in there, too," Llodra said.
Llodra said she realizes that the state doesn't have a lot of money and has "significant financial challenges."
A 28-member task force, which includes the town's three selectmen and the school board, has met for the past two Fridays and will choose a site location as early as May 3, or possibly May 10. Before a shovel hits dirt, the school board would have to draft educational specifications for the new building and the proposal put to voters at a referendum.
The town's planning officials and volunteer professionals from The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation examined every lot in Newtown to identify places a school could be built. The 40 potential sites were categorized in tiers, with five sites in the top tier, meaning they have the most ideal conditions.
The task started in early February, days before the two-month anniversary of the shooting. A massive book detailing all the sites is available as a 187-page downloadable document on the town's website, newtown-ct.gov.
"We've had a lot of help from a lot of people… the work they did for this book normally would take eight months to a year to finish. They did it in two months," said George Benson, the town's director of planning & land use, referring to the Harwood Institute.
The factors relevant to choosing a site include its topography; soil type; nearby traffic patterns; proximity to utilities, such as gas and sewer; and whether it has wetlands, among other considerations.
The existing Sandy Hook school property is shuttered and fenced off. Sandy Hook students are temporarily attending Chalk Hill Middle School in Monroe.
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There are three possible strategies being considered for the option of rebuilding the Sandy Hook school. They vary in the degree to which the school is renovated or rebuilt and where to put entrances and exits — on Crestwood Drive or Dickenson Drive. Benson said planners are conscious that the existing Dickenson Drive entrance could trigger memories of the shooting for some people.
In one scenario, the square-shaped building would have two sides demolished, leaving an L-shape that could be redesigned as part of a new school. Another option would be demolishing the existing building altogether. The third option has an entrance on Crestwood Drive and an exit on Dickenson Drive.
Every option uses a building prototype that is 99,000 square feet, compared with the existing 69,000-square-foot Sandy Hook school. Construction could take 17 to 21 months. There has been no word yet of a start date.
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Sure, you can employ the help of a Plant Nanny or recruit a greenthumbed friend to tend to your houseplants, veggies, and herbs while you're away, but how well do they really know your greens? How intimate are they with your plants'
innermost thoughts and desires precise watering needs, light requirements, and pH levels? Come to think of it, how familiar are you with the vital signs of that struggling tomato plant?
Amit Kumar and Michael Doherty, the developers of a clever, cloud-based "personal gardening assistant" for hydroponic growing operations called Bitponics, are banking on the fact that we don't know our plants nearly as well as we think we do. Described as a "shortcut for a green thumb" and geared towards tech-savvy urbanites (or anyone, really) prone to accidentally committing horticulture-related homicide, the aim of Bitponics is to take the guesswork out of indoor growing and to render the somewhat mystifying art of hydroponic gardening an easy, breezy and murder-free affair.
The plug-and-play Bitponics system is composed of two mains components: a base station that, via several simple sensors placed throughout the garden, reads and analyzes humidity, pH, air temperature, water and brightness levels. An electrical conductivity (EC) sensor that measures the concentration of nutrients in the growing solution — keep in mind that hydroponics is a soil-less gardening system and that plants are fed through nutrient-packed liquids — will also be available for an additional charge. When the system is set up, the device generates a "personalized growing plan" based on initial readings and other info that you manually provide, i.e. what kind of plants you're growing and details about your hydroponic set-up.
The data collected from the sensors is then sent from the base station to the second component of Bitponics, the user's online Bitponics account complete with dashboard. From the dashboard, users can tweak settings based on "friendly" alerts/recommendations generated by the readings.
For example, the system has the ability to tell the user exactly how much light is needed for each plant per day and what balance of nutrients to use. Are those tomatoes getting too much water? Are the nutrient levels off with the lettuce? Bitponics will alert you to this and help set you on the right path. Also, the base station comes equipped with two power outlets allowing users to remotely adjust various aspects of the garden including water pumps and lights, making it ideal for gardeners who travel frequently. Of course, Bitponics can't do it all when you're away as you'll need someone to actually refill the reservoirs when water levels are running low. It's a shame that Bitponics can't bring the mail in, too.
The whole shebang revolves around an online Bitponics community where users can interact with other hydroponic gardeners and share their own trials and tribulations while picking up tips and tidbits. Bitponics isn't just about easy automation — it's also about sharing and collaborating. What's more, the Bitponics hardware will be open-source so that tech tinkerers can pitch in and help develop it if so inclined.
Kumar, who in addition to co-founding the Brooklyn-based start-up serves as its head software engineer, explains the crucial role that community plays in Bitponics:
We created this project for everyone that loves plants. For people just starting their first garden and for old pros with experiences to share. In addition to helping people manage their own garden, we want to create that sense of community that gardens have always offered. A place for people to learn from each other, but with the knowledge structured in a smart way so it's super-easy for people to model their garden on proven successes. As the community grows, everyone's knowledge grows. And we all help each other make our world a little more green.
The Bitponics team has taken to Kickstarter in an effort to crowdsource funds in order to manufacture the system now that the prototype device and the software has been developed. The goal is to raise $20,000 by June 11. Kumar, Doherty and Co. appear to be almost halfway there. The team anticipates that if the fundraising goal is met, the device will retailer for a little under $400. However, those who contribute $250 or more now will receive the device plus a slew of other perks including free membership to the Bitponics website and early access to the beta software. Those who donate less than $250 won't receive the device when released, but will be in line for various perks such as an invite to a hydroponics workshop and a beginner-friendly hydroponic growing system (the device itself doesn't come with one).
In addition to getting to kicking off the fundraising campaign, Kumar and Doherty are in the process of developing partnerships with Brooklyn-based urban farming orgs such as Boswyck Farms and the Dekalb Market Farm and are exploring the myraid educational possibilities of the platform. Explains Doherty:
Growing hydroponically is more than just about providing free food to your home — it is also about the educational experience that allows us to reconnect with what we eat, empowering us to eat healthy and protect our environment. It is also a great way for students in the classroom to use hydroponics as an applied method of understanding sciences such as biology and chemistry. They can see in real time the changes in the plants environment and how this correlates to plant growth.
For more, check out the Bitponics homepage and, of course, the Kickstarter campaign (the clock is ticking, folks). Hydroponic gardeners: what do you think of Bitponics? Is this something you'd invest in? Non-hydroponic gardeners: are you intrigued?
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When I met Jenny Dwyer earlier this year I knew she was the kind of pet-oriented professional I wanted to be in line with. Her company Mutt Nose Best is located at 30 Bomarc Road in Bangor and its mission is to provide environmentally-friendly and chemical-free dog grooming products. The shampoos and balms Mutt Nose Best crafts in its Bangor facility are in over 700 locations nationwide and now they can be found overseas.
With all that success, you might think that the company is focused on the products and its business plan. But that's not so. And on Saturday, September 28, Mutt Nose Best will host its first event: "BARKK… to End the Silence, a 5K Walk, Run, or WOOF: A dog-friendly dash to end domestic violence." The event will happen on the Bangor Waterfront from 8:30 a.m.-Noon.
This cause is one near and dear to Dwyer who is a survivor of an abusive relationship.
And she's not alone. In Maine in 2012 police recorded 5,593 domestic assaults, up from 5,353 in 2011. According to The Animal Welfare Society, animals are abused in over 88 percent of homes where people are abused.
And while she doesn't have children, she does have dogs. The day she decided to leave, she made sure she took her two dogs, Cooper and Kiwi, with her.
"I felt I couldn't leave when I should have because I didn't have a place I could go with my dogs," Dwyer said. "Leaving them wasn't an option. And it wasn't because I thought he'd hurt them. It was because I couldn't leave without them. They were my kids."
According to the Maine chapter of the Humane Society of the United States, studies have shown that 48 percent of battered women delay leaving a dangerous situation due to fear for their pets' safety. That barrier includes the lack of shelters that allow family pets to come along with their humans. While Maine is a pioneer in protecting animals in homes where there is violence, there are still no shelters in the state which accept pets.
The event, in conjunction with the Mutt Nose Best Foundation, is determined to make leaving early in the abusive relationship a little easier.
"It is our mission to provide grants to domestic violence shelters to help them become equipped to house family pets so these special furry family members are not separated from the humans they love during such a traumatic event," Dwyer said. "Until that goal is met, we will strive to provide funding for families in harm's way for emergency temporary, pet-friendly housing, or a temporary foster home for their animals."
In addition to helping shelters overcome the barrier of taking pets, Dwyer's organization will work with a network of pet-friendly hotels and foster homes to enable people to get out with their animals, even if for just one or two nights.
To register for the event, visit muttnosebest.eventbrite.com. The registration cost is $25 plus $2.37 in fees and is open to solo humans or human-canine combos.
To read Jenny's story, visit critters.bangordailynews.com/2013/06/13/events/life-after-leaving.
Debra Bell is a freelance writer and graphic designer and is the owner of Bell's Furry Friends Photography (a division of Bell Imaging & Design LLC). She, and her husband Bill, are owned by a Maine coon cat named Olivia and a greyhound named Laura. She also writes a blog called "Critters" located at critters.bangordailynews.com.


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I'm sure you're right, Bill - but still I keep hoping that, if I do enough research on such passages, and study them intensively, everything will drop into place - a vain hope, I know, given that generations of distinguished scholars have frequently reached an impasse on them. The best I can realistically aim for is to find an interpretation that seems more convincing to me at the time than any other.Qimmik wrote: After reading this passage and the various arguments, I think Thucydides' meaning here is irrecoverably opaque. This is simply a crux, and neither of the suggested lines of interpretation seems to make sense in a wholly satisfying and convincing way.
I sometimes wish that I'd 'done a Jowett' with my translation, in terms of recording alternative interpretations in footnotes. I didn't do so because I thought it would smack of vacillation, and because, once I'd started down that route, the number of instances in which I felt moved to do so might multiply; moreover, in some places it's not just a question of two possible interpretations, but of several (and sometimes with sub-options too!). So I think all I can do, with the kind assistance of colleagues on here, is, as Winston Churchill says in 'Victory of the Daleks' (any Doctor Who fans out there?), 'KBO'!
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