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SPOTSWOOD, NJ - An anonymous source in the Spotswood School District has confirmed a published report that Spotswood Superintendent Dr. Scott Rocco will be leaving his position in the spring to become the Superintendent of Schools in the Hamilton Township District. Rocco previously left his position as the Assistant Superintendent of Schools in the Hillsborough School District to become the superintendent in Spotswood, replacing Dr. Walter Uszenski.
Uszenski resigned from his position in the district in June of 2012 to become the superintendent for the Brick school system. Rocco began his tenure in the Spotswood School District on January 1, 2013 after working in Hillsborough for a little over five years as the assistant superintendent. According to his LinkedIn profile, Rocco was a vice-principal and principal in the Hillsborough District before taking that position.
The Hamilton Township School District has been in the hunt for a superintendent for the past two years. According to their website the Hamiton Township Board of Education will convene a special meeting on Monday, February 6 to appoint a permanent superintendent.
At a BOE meeting on October 14, 2014, the Spotswood Board of Education voted to extend Rocco's contract with the district through June 30, 2019.
"Spotswood has become a second home to me," Rocco stated at the time of his contract extension. "I appreciate the Board of Education extending my contract to continue the educational, technology and facility initiatives started during my first two years. But most of all, I appreciate the opportunity to continue to work with the outstanding teachers, staff, students, parents and community members in Spotswood."
According to an anonymous source in the Spotswood School District, the system does not currently have a replacement in the works for the superintendent position.
Rocco is scheduled to host a Superintendent's Forum on Wednesday, February 8 at 7 p.m. at the Spotswood High School Media Center. The agenda for the forum is the educational issues affecting the students in the district. Residents must RSVP via a form on the district's website to attend the forum.

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The International Business Gateway (IBG) is a strategic development adjacent to Edinburgh Airport to the west of Scotland's capital city. The development has planning policy support being listed in the National Planning Framework (NPF3), the Strategic Development Plan (SESplan) and the adopted Local Development Plan for Edinburgh.
The development is business-led and is to comprise a successful extension to the City of Edinburgh, attracting international investment and creating jobs allied to a strong and cohesive placemaking agenda.
The IBG is served by the Edinburgh Tram giving excellent sustainable transportation links both to the centre of Edinburgh and the Airport. Several tram halts serve the IBG and it is around these that a very high standard of public realm is planned to drive the creation of an attractive place with a strong community spirit.
The IBG extends to 105 hectares and current masterplans show some 232,000m2 of high quality business space, hotels capable of housing some 1,410 bedrooms and 2,350 residential units split between build for sale, build for rent (PRS) and affordable homes.
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Genesis 3: 1-6 and Matthew 4: 1-11. Eve approached the forbidden tree and saw it "pleasant to the eyes." Jesus was transported to the pinnacle of the Temple in Jerusalem and was tempted to jump down from it like an ancient Superman, showing His prowess and power. Eve ate the apple. Jesus rebuked the devil, quoting Duet. 6:16; "It is written again, 'You shall not put the Lord, your God to the test.'"
This is the test of mans' soul which is made up of intellect, emotions, and will. Apart from the physical and spiritual, it is who we are, our personage. Having been made to commune and walk with our Creator in peace, whatever is thrown into our thought process contrary to that sends us walking in concentric circles, each circle smaller than the one before. Concentric means "having a common center." It is the equivalent of self-centeredness, or a self-centeredmess.
We cannot blame society for our ills, as we are society. And we don't think straight. Satan wanted Eve to think she was above God's law, and he wanted Jesus to show Himself superior to the very ones he had humbled Himself to save. In both cases our souls were represented. Intellect: I know better than God (if there is one) just how to handle this. Emotions: the rush of admiration, praise and applause as we get the credit. Will: Who are you (being God) to tell me what I can and cannot do?
Psalm 27: 10. "Teach me your way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path." Jesus' mind was saturated with the Word of God. He was never one to find himself walking in circles, as we often do. Eve, on the other hand, simply represented the circular trap of sin that repeats itself, makes us dizzy, and finally screws us into the ground, having really accomplished nothing of value in this life. We're totally blinded to the freedom, guidance, and peace available to followers of Christ.
We were born to walk straight and at peace with God and His specific will for each of us as individuals. Our intellect, will, and emotions can be released from circular futility by the Word and Spirit of God, prayer and commitment to following Jesus, who then walks beside us through life. He purchased this freedom for us through His cross having prepared for it through this wilderness temptation. Your soul can be set free.
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Christina Ferris of Somerset is part of Evangelical Christian Church Ministries, an organization committed to spreading the Gospel through the teaching and preaching of the Word of God. ECCM is an impartial group, caring only for the saving and nurturing of souls in Christ Jesus. She can be reached at: email@example.com.


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More than 30 domestic workers arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport yesterday morning to fly to Malaysia, despite a decision by the prime minister to ban recruitment firms from sending workers to the country following abuse scandals.
Crying as they bid farewell to their families, the young women form part of an estimated 3,000 workers who are expected to slip through a loophole in the recruitment freeze – which government officials say will not apply to workers who already have contracts and travel documents.
An estimated 28 recruits from Top Manpower and International Investment Service boarded the 8:20am AirAsia flight to Kuala Lumpur yesterday, while four recruits from Century Manpower – which was raided by the government earlier this month – flew on a later flight after being accosted by reporters.
One recruit from the firm told a Post reporter she was only 19 years old, but prevented the journalist from seeing her passport.
The legal working age for domestic workers in Malaysia is 21 and five underage recruits were rescued during raids on Century Manpower earlier this month.
"I can learn something new abroad. I can send money to my family. I will defend myself to be safe," Krong Kunthea said before flying out.
Meanwhile, a representative from Top Manpower shouted obscenities at a Post photographer and tried to prevent him taking photographs of the company recruits. Human rights groups yesterday lambasted the Labour Ministry's "ridiculous" decision to still allow trainees to be sent to the notorious destination and said the exemption rendered the ban signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on Saturday a "cosmetic smokescreen".
Moeun Tola, head of the labour program at the Community Legal Education Centre, said that by providing exemptions to a ban prompted by recurring cases of abuse, Cambodia had become a country that effectively sanctioned "legal trafficking".
"It's clearly identified as human trafficking," he said.
Mathieu Pellerin, a legal consultant with the rights group Licadho, said the decision was a ridiculous contradiction of the premier's ban and clearly demonstrated that the Ministry of Labour was incapable of regulating the sector.
"That is crazy, that doesn't make any sense," he said.
"This effectively renders the ban a useless cosmetic ban which fails to protect migrant workers."
Om Mean, a secretary of state at the Ministry of Labour, confirmed yesterday that recruits with travel documents and contracts could be sent to Malaysia.
"But from now on the recruitment firms cannot recruit any worker to send to Malaysia, provide training or prepare any documents for them," he said.
Within the industry itself, the move has been welcomed. Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies head An Bunhak, whose company Top Manpower sent workers to Kuala Lumpur yesterday before the Labour Ministry met with recruitment firms to announce the decision, welcomed the move as a "win win".
"The minister [of labour] has agreed that all the maids that have documents and have the training, they have the right to fly," he said, estimating that this applied to about 3,000 of the 7,000 domestic recruits currently living inside recruitment agency training centres.
His company alone would send about 100 more recruits during the next two to three months that would pass before all domestic workers that could still be legally sent had departed.
A representative of Century Manpower said the firm would send many more workers to Malaysia, but declined to comment further.
Despite the furore, families seemed willing to send their daughters abroad regardless of reported abuse. Waiting to wave farewell to two of his daughters, Kroung Sambath said he had registered his children with Century Manpower after a bad experience with another firm. "One of my daughters used to be in Malaysia with another company. It was so difficult. They hid information about my children,"
he said. "I [will] miss my daughter very much but I have agreed to let her leave because she is leaving to get work to get a salary to support her family. And it is her future," Kroung Sambath said.


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I always was interested in the environment and in animals as I was growing up so, when I got to RIT, I majored in Environmental Science. Studying biology and chemistry, specifically, and environmental science in general helped me develop the right skills and gave me a strong background in the field. My education prepared me for a wide variety of career opportunities. My co-op gave me some real world experience that I could use on my resume. I originally started as an Agriculture Specialist doing food inspections on cargo that arrived in the United States by air or by sea. We would look for pests such as insects and plant diseases. Working with animals as partners gives K-9 officers a higher chance of detecting prohibited food or plant items in people's baggage. What we do together helps prevent the spreading of exotic pests and diseases that might threaten the American farming industry and our native plants.


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Episodes 1-13 of the first series of the Japanese anime about a boy who is brainwashed and turned into an assassin. Zwei (voice of Miyu Irino) is kidnapped by the elite assassination gang, Inferno, after he accidentally finds himself witness to one of the group's hits. The gang use technology to wipe his memory and train him in the art of assassination. However, as Zwei begins operations and comes into contact with Ein (Ayahi Takagaki), a beautiful fellow assassin with a will of iron, the boy begins to question his past and imagine a different future. Episodes are: 'Awakening', 'Training', 'Practice', 'Assassination', 'Moment', 'Conflagration', 'The Past', 'Sudden Change', 'Name', 'Finale', 'Succession', 'Ghost' and 'Camouflage'.


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Fiscal consolidation continues at the expense of growth
Saudi Arabia released its 2Q17 fiscal balances, showing the deficit narrowing 20% Y-o-Y driven by 28% Y-o-Y growth in oil revenues and a 1% decline in expenditure. The numbers continue to reflect Saudi's poor economic growth outlook as fiscal consolidation continues to be sought at the expense of growth. Indeed, wages continued to contract (albeit at a slower pace of 0.4% Y-o-Y versus 5% in 1Q17 as the reinstatement of allowance kicked-in in the latter part of the quarter), spending on goods and services fell 39% Y-o-Y and investment declined 12% Y-o-Y. We expect these poor growth dynamics to persist in 2H17 with recently approved fiscal measures weighing on consumer sentiment and purchasing power, while weak oil prices might drive the government to make further spending cuts.
Non-oil revenues decline is key disappointment, but expect a pick-up in 2H17
A 17% Y-o-Y contraction in non-oil revenues was probably the key disappointment in the released numbers given the importance the government has put on boosting these revenues. Customs revenues plunged 44% Y-o-Y in 2Q17, largely reflecting a weak economic backdrop, while other revenues (mostly comprised of dividends from SAMA and PIF) fell 23% Y-o-Y. Non-oil revenue's share in total revenues also fell to 31% in 1H17 vs. 45% a year earlier though it remains well above pre-2016 levels. While generally a disappointment, we expect this situation to reverse in 2H17 as new revenue-increasing measures, including excise taxes and expat levy, kick in. Moreover, we expect larger contributions from state-owned institutions to the budget, in the form of revenues, especially in 4Q to shore up non-oil revenues.
Heading for a narrower deficit in 2017; but quality remains key focus for us
1H17's deficit of SAR73bn represents only 37% of the budgeted deficit of SAR198bn for the year, indicating there is a good chance the budget deficit may come in lower than budgeted. This is especially the case when taking into account that higher spending in 2H17 (whether due to reinstatement of allowances or a typical acceleration of investment spending towards end of the year) is likely to be mitigated by higher non-oil revenue as clarified above. The key risk for the deficit remains oil prices, in our view, with 1H17 revenues representing 44% of 2017 target. As such, we believe authorities may have to look at additional spending rationalisation in 2H17 to ensure a narrower fiscal deficit. The quality of the narrower deficit, however, remains a concern to us given the rising role of dividends from state-owned institutions.
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There are a lot of things that need to be taken into account when it comes to investing in a business. Not only the potential of the business but the current market, daily news, and trends. But, according to the Oracle of Omaha, the last thing you should be taking into account when you decide on investment opportunities is the leadership behind the company.
"If you've got a good enough business, if you have a monopoly newspaper, if you have a network television station — I'm talking of the past — you know, your idiot nephew could run it. And if you've got a really good business, it doesn't make any difference," Buffett said.
This goes completely in line with Buffett's strategy for investing in common businesses that are simple and make him more money. After all, people come and go. If you have a fantastic business with terrible people running it, and the business is still halfway doing well, then you have a much better prospect than if you have a terrible business with brilliant minds making it somehow work. The moment those people are gone, the business is in trouble. You want a business that is going to succeed no matter who is at the helm. Then, find someone amazing to run it, and you've got a lasting investment that will easily pay for itself.
Noted investor Peter Lynch expressed the exact same opinion. "Invest in businesses that any idiot could run because someday, one will."
Of course, that isn't to say that buying a company with management that you can't trust is something that Buffett would or does condone. In fact, one of his four criteria for selecting a business to invest in is whether or not he trusts the management. Charlie Munger, the VP Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Buffett's partner, agrees.
"There are so many wonderful people out there, and there are so many awful people out there. And there are signs, like flags, waving over the awful people. And generally speaking, those people are to be avoided," Munger said.
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The hundredth New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest is now past, but the Emdashes bloodhounds, just as the trail was falling cold, picked up the winner's scent. In a gathering-momentum tradition, the victor sat down with assiduous Canadian intern John Bucher to discuss his win.
Congratulations to David Kempler, of Island Park, New York, for winning Cartoon Caption Contest #100—a drawing of a tourist couple marooned on Noah's Ark—with the line, "Don't tell Noah about the vasectomy." This week, an additional treat: commentary from the cartoonist himself, Mick Stevens. The bolded questions are for David, and so it probably works best if you read the slanty portions, which are Mick's, in a Wonder Years-style voiceover. —JB
It wasn't clear to me until this last, much closer scrutiny that it was in fact a woman saying to a man, "Don't tell Noah about the vasectomy." I'd assumed it was one of those nonplussed-looking elephants. How did you first take in this drawing, and how did the caption come to you?
First off, you're right that it's often difficult to tell who is actually doing the talking in New Yorker cartoons, and I've actually submitted two entries in the past that had the wrong person talking.
Says Mick: I can see why you didn't see right away that it was the woman speaking. I should have emphasized her a bit more. Cartoons depend on getting the visual across right away, otherwise the joke gets blunted some.
As to how this caption came to me, I'm not really sure. I do know that how I used to construct my entries didn't seem to work so a few weeks before this particular cartoon I decided to try and think like a New Yorker staff member. After playing with that idiotic notion for a while I dropped the strategy and just went back to think what I thought was funny. I think I just got lucky.
Says Mick: The idea for the cartoon came to me this way: I started with the "Noah's Ark" cliché, then started thinking about the various animal couples on the boat and what they might say to one another. Then I thought about the fact that humans are animals, too, and imagined them as tourists who had booked a cruise and somehow ended up there.
I think David's caption is a good one. In most cases, those drawings are done specifically for the contest, but this one originally had a caption. The editors decided to drop mine and use the drawing by itself. (My original one: "Next time, I book the cruise.")
Your caption, David, is a riff on the sacred and the profane—or, at least, the Biblical and the genital. What is your religious temperament, generally, and what are your feelings about the Noah's Ark story?
I was raised Jewish and am the only child of two Holocaust survivors. I think I have a morbid sense of humor. Whether or not that is because I am a child of Holocaust survivors is impossible to determine. I also participate in a celebrity death pool, where I have enjoyed some success. They get about 1,200 entries for each game, and I have won a couple of times and been in the money a few other times.
I'm not religious but, as I get older, I reflect more upon my family history. This past March I was invited to Germany by a woman who started a program that features an artist who puts plaques outside the buildings from which people were taken to concentration camps. They unveiled four plaques—for my mother's mother, father, sister, and brother. My mother did not attend because she felt it would have been too upsetting. It was a good decision on her part.
I view the Noah's Ark story the same way I view all of the Bible. To me, it's a somewhat honest attempt to represent history. Unfortunately, it suffers from the same problems you encounter playing a game of telephone, where one person reads a passage to a second person, who repeats it from memory to another, to another, etc. Eventually the story veers pretty far away from the original.
Let's pursue the connection between morbidity and humor a bit more. What impact, if any, did your parents' being Holocaust survivors have on your sense of humor? Do they share your sense of humor? And what is black humor, exactly?
Hard to say their impact on my sense of humor: I've never experienced life as another person or in different circumstances. Maybe I understand better than some how quickly our lives can be snuffed out. My father is dead. He was always clowning around but not in a morbid way. His brother shared my sense of humor. My mother is a much more serious person than my father was.
Black humor is comedy with an underlying uneasy feeling that tells you perhaps you shouldn't be laughing. One of my favorite examples of black humor is the movie Happiness. One of the plot's central points concerns child molestation. I thought it was brilliant—but both times I saw it in a theater about a third of the audience walked out, offended.
What is your first memory of reading The New Yorker? What are three pieces that stand out for you?
I don't remember my first reading, but it was probably in college. Top three is tough and I'm sure I'll forget something, but, off the top of my head, I would have to go with the Richard Preston piece about Ebola that ended up as the book The Hot Zone—one of the most terrifying things I have ever read. My favorite cover is the Art Spiegelman silhouette of the World Trade Center after 9/11. My favorite reading is anything by Hendrik Hertzberg.
I can't help but ask a person who confesses a morbid sense of humor: What will your tombstone read? Or, if you prefer, what song will you have played at your funeral?
Never thought about my tombstone, but perhaps I should. Final song would be either something by David Bowie or Elvis Costello. "The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes" pops into my mind at the moment.
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My lifelong curse—no one ever spells my name correctly (see above).
David Wilkner
Oh, sorry about that, David! I'll fix it right now.
So what do you think of Kempler's strategy? And have you gotten your signed Cullum print yet?
Thanks for the spelling correction. I often shared David Kempler's dilemma of:
A. Not being sure who is really speaking.
B. Being torn between submitting my favorite caption versus one that fits the New Yorker criteria. Some weeks they are both the same, and then it's easy. My advice to others dealing with this situation is— go with the one YOU like the best. The mathematical odds are against either one being picked, but at least you won't second guess yourself for submitting your favorite.
No, I haven't received my Leo Cullum signed print yet, and it's been over three weeks.
David Wilkner
Sorry for the misspelling, David. And I agree with the existentialist tenor of your choosing-captions point—the odds are absurdly against you, so you may as well go with what you like.
Michael Shaw, are you reading? Could you put in a good word for our friend David W. here? Or maybe the esteemed Mr. Cullum is at some summery hideaway and not able to dispatch autographed drawings till he returns.
Hello! I'm Emily Gordon, an editor, critic, copywriter, and pre-web internet nut. Emdashes, born in 2004, spent many years as a New Yorker fan blog. The project garnered some nice compliments and press.
The blog's now treading the territories of punctuation, publications, movies, design, and other things that stir me.
Over the years, I've worked with a brilliant brigade of culture writers, editors, and artists. You can read all about the people who've helped build Emdashes here at "Who We?" (That's a New Yorker joke. Old habits die hard.)
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|Scientific name
Calophyllum spp. principally C. vitiense, C. leucocarpum, C. kajewskii, C. paludosum. Family: Guttiferae
|Local names
Bitangor, penaga (Malaysia), bitangur (Indonesia), vintanina (Madagascar), damanu (Fiji), island cedar, kalofilum, bush calophyllum (PNG), gwarogwaro, guoria, oleole, ba´ula (Solomon Is), canoe tree (Andaman Islands), galba, galaba (West Indies), poon (India, Myannmar), kathing (Thailand), cong (Vietnam).
|Description and natural occurrence
There are over 100 species of Calophyllum. They are large hardwoods attaining 30 m in height and a diameter of 0.8 m, rarely buttressed (with the exception of Papua New Guinea species), but occasionally with stilt roots. The shallow grooved outer bark is grey or white and decorticates in large thin strips. Trees are fast growing and often gregarious due to natural regeneration.
They grow in widely different habitats from ridges in mountain forests to coastal swamps, lowland forests, and even coral cays.
Species of the genus marketed under the trade name calophyllum occur from Madagascar, India, throughout South-East Asia, across the Pacific Islands and also in South America and the West Indies.
Four species of Calophyllum occur in North Queensland rainforests, but are marketed under different trade names.
|Wood appearance
Colour. Sapwood varies between species from pale yellow, yellow-brown often with pink tints, to orange. It is sometimes distinct from the heartwood, depending on the species. Heartwood is pink red, or red brown.
Grain. Grain is interlocked, wavy or irregular, producing streaky or ribbon figure on the radial face. Backsawn boards commonly produce a zigzag type figure.
|Wood properties
Density. Air-dry density varies considerably between species. The range is between 540 and 900 kg/m3, and 640 kg/m3 is used for reference purposes.
Strength groups. S5 unseasoned; SD6 seasoned.
Stress grades . F5, F7, F8, F11, (unseasoned), F7, F8, F11, F14, (seasoned), when visually stress graded in accordance with AS 2082:2000, Timber - hardwood - visually stress-graded for structural purposes.
Joint groups. J4 unseasoned; JD3 seasoned.
Shrinkage to 12% MC. 4.4% (tangential); 2.5% (radial) for C. kajewskii, Solomon Is. 5.3% (tangential); 2.8% (radial) for C. papuanum, PNG. 5.1% (tangential); 3.3% (radial) for C.vitiense, Fiji.
Unit shrinkage. 0.23% (tangential); 0.16% (radial) for C. kajewskii, Solomon Islands. 0.30% (tangential); 0.23% (radial) for C. papuanum, PNG. 0.23% (tangential); 0.19% (radial) for C. vitiense, Fiji.
Durability above-ground. Class 4 - life expectancy less than 7 years.
Durability in-ground. Class 4 - life expectancy less than 5 years.
Lyctine susceptibility. Untreated sapwood susceptible to lyctine borer attack.
Termite resistantance. Not resistant.
Preservation. Sapwood readily accepts preservative impregnation.
Seasoning. The timber is difficult to season and the use of weights, end sealing and close sticker intervals are recommended to minimise degrade.
Hardness. Firm (rated 4 on a 6 class scale) in relation to indentation and ease of working with hand tools.
Machining. Calophyllum saws and machines well, though irregular, interlocked grain may make finishing difficult. Irregular grain may show up in woolly patches.
Fixing. Screws well, but nailing properties are relatively poor. Pre-drilling is recommended to prevent splitting.
Gluing. Can be satisfactorily bonded using standard procedures.
Finishing. Filler may be required but calophyllum finishes well, taking stains, polish or paint.
Construction. Has been used in general construction as flooring, framing, plywood.
Decorative. Cabinet work, mouldings, joinery, panelling, turnery and veneer.
Others. Boat building, ribs, masts, spars, oars and canoes.
|Identification features
General characteristics
Sapwood. Pale yellowish pink not easily distinguished from heartwood, depending on species.
Heartwood. Pink red to reddish-brown.
Texture. Coarse, open and uneven. Grain interlocked or wavy.
Wood structure
Vessels. Large to medium size, solitary, arranged in oblique flares. Vessel lines very prominent on dressed surfaces, darker than surrounding tissue.
Parenchyma. Abundant, paratracheal, widely spaced concentric bands, visible to the unaided eye.
Rays. Very fine.
Other features
Burning splinter test. A match size splinter burns to ash.
|Further reading
Hopewell, G (ed.) 2006, 'Construction timbers in Queensland: properties and specifications for satisfactory performance of construction timbers in Queensland, Class 1 and Class 10 buildings', books 1 and 2, Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Brisbane.
Ilic, J 1991, 'CSIRO atlas of hardwoods', Crawford House Press, Bathurst, Australia.
Standards Australia, 2000, 'AS 2082-2000: Timber - hardwood - visually stress-graded for structural purposes', Standards Australia.


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Blair Wants Five More Years
Tony Blair wants another five years in charge - simultaneously dismissing Gordon Brown's chances of ever becoming Prime Minister, and arrogantly assuming his party and the country actually want him. Perhaps he forget when he said "if I get elected at the next general election" that we live in a party democracy not a presidential one. Moreover, given that Labour lost 19% of its vote at the Hartlepool by-election last night he ought not to assume that a win, of any kind, is guaranteed. Where that leaves Gordon Brown is unclear. It seems that Brown was not consulted on Blair's statement. Could it be that Blair is attempting to provoke Brown into doing something rash, like challenging him for the leadership of the party after the next General Election? Time will tell.


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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Heading into the playoffs, teams with high hopes for the postseason provided two players for this week's Sportsline Player of the Week.
A Tiger from East Feliciana, who is being mentioned in the same breath with Southern's Danny Johnson and former Warrick Dunn Award winner Kendell Beckwith of LSU, turned in a stellar performance against Northeast.
GeMontae Franklin, or G-Money, had 114 yards on two kick returns, 104 yards rushing and three touchdowns as well as another touchdown on a pick six and a fifth touchdown receiving.
"The mindset I have like every time I touch the ball - score! That's my mindset, and I go in every game thinking like, when I touch the ball - score," said Franklin, who is a running back and strong safety.
"He creates a lot of momentum real fast. As I said, he's capable of scoring from any part or portion of the field. So anytime he's on the field, look for some good things to happen, for us," said East Feliciana head coach Cedric Anderson.
Franklin had 261 all-purpose yards and also had five tackles.
He is joined by a St. Amant senior who might be even more versatile than Franklin, or anyone for that matter.
Briggs Bourgeois, who is headed to Southern Miss as a kicker, drilled a 49-yard field goal and eight kickoffs through the end zone for touchbacks.
He added 181 yards and three touchdowns on receptions and punt returns including a 65-yarder against Dutchtown as the Gators capped a 9-1 season, beating the team they have been sharing a campus with since the flood.
"I couldn't do anything without my teammates, you know if they don't do the right block, I wouldn't be able to get those returns, said Bourgeois, who is a wide receiver and kicker.
"He's really put up some huge numbers, as a receiver, as a kickoff specialist, as a field goal kicker," said St. Amant head coach David Oliver.
"Growing up playing soccer my whole life, I really didn't start thinking about kicking a football until the eighth grade. So I was like 'Let me go see if I can... it can't be that hard.' It's just like kicking a soccer ball," Bourgeois said.
This is Bourgeois second Sportsline Player of the Week award. He won his first last season.
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FREEFALL presents David Auburn's Proof at the Q with Ylaria Rogers
Proof. By David Auburn. Originally directed by Derek Walker. Tour director Tyran Parke. FREEFALL Productions. The Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre. March 14-17. Tickets $52/$47. theq.net.au.
Ron Cerabona
Former Canberra actor Ylaria Rogers is returning to the region professionally for the first time with her theatre company FREEFALL Productions. They're touring the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play Proof - a work which has particular resonance for her.
Derek Walker, who co-founded the company with her and directed the production in its initial Sydney season a couple of years ago, suggested Proof, she says. It struck an immediate chord with her.
"I'd looked after my dad when he was very sick."
Proof deals with a number of subjects, among them the challenges of caring for an ailing parent. Robert (Gerard Carroll) was a brilliant young mathematician who revolutionised the field twice before he was 22 but as he grew older became increasingly mentally unstable. His younger daughter Catherine (Rogers) - who may have inherited some of his genius but also wonders if she might also have his instability - withdrew from her own career prospects to take care of him at home in Chicago. Her older sister Claire (Julie Christensen) visits from New York, where she has used her own facility with numbers to make money. She also has a partner, which Catherine does not.
"They're resentful of each other," Rogers says of the siblings.
While the sisters agree their father needs to be looked after, they disagree on the best way to do it - Claire thinks he should be in professional care, while Catherine thinks he's better off with her and sees her sister's view as an adverse judgment on her abilities
"What are we giving up by caring?" is one of the questions the play asks," Rogers says. But it's about much more than that, she says. It deals with issues of trust, of the place of women in mathematics, of relationships, and the nature of genius.
. Into the tense family situation comes Hal (Alex Brown), one of Robert's former students, who hopes to find a hint of the former genius in the 103 notebooks of incoherent scribblings the older man has produced.
When something significant does turn up, other questions arise that need to be addressed.
Rogers says the play - which ran for more than 900 performances on Broadway in its original production - was well received when FREEFALL first presented it at the New Theatre in Sydney.
She had met Walker in Canberra when they were both in Urinetown the Musical. He went on to do the directing course at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts and worked on such musicals as King Kong and Once and she studied musical theatre at the Australian Institute of Music and did independent work in Sydney before they decided to found FREEFALL.
For this tour, Carroll replaced the original Robert but otherwise the previous cast has been reassembled. Because Walker is overseas, Tyran Parke is the tour director.
Ron Cerabona is an arts reporter for The Canberra Times.


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The Rennsport Archetype
Every four years Porsche gathers their most influential racing cars the world over. We follow 962-101 across the country from restoration to the racetrack.
Dyson Racing Porsche 962-101
Dyson and the team were waiting for the right time to debut the car under the Dyson livery, knowing that they needed to do some work on the car to get to a point where they felt comfortable running in the IMSA Camel GTP series and at a competitive level. According to Dyson, the 962 as delivered to the team was already properly set up, but getting acclimated as a team to race the car was something entirely different. Their inaugural GTP event would come in late May at the Memorial Day Lime Rock race after becoming properly acquainted with their new turbocharged monster in some extra private, prerace testing.
The testing was necessary but not crucial as the team — six members strong, initially — would quickly learn along the way that their own input and in-house innovation improved the base 962 model to see off challenges from other Porsche teams, as well as major OEM rivals that entered GTP in the mid-'80s. Indeed, by experimenting with different aerodynamic setups, bigger wings, longer and short tails, larger inlets for cooling, and even front-mounted spoilers, Dyson carved out a niche as a team that pushed the design envelope in a relentless pursuit of performance. It was a fruitful and successful pairing: Dyson would eventually go on to buy and campaign chassis No. 120, 122 and 148, and the team co-developed its own DR-1 and DR-2 chassis during a Porsche 962 affiliation that spanned eight seasons.
"We never had a tunnel, we just kind of thought we ought to try something," Dyson confesses. "We had some excellent intuitive engineering minds on our team, with firm mechanical backgrounds. So very soon after we started running 101, we started doing different brake setups, different hoods, scoops, air dams on the fenders…we had no real clear empirical data if it worked or not, but we just tried it anyway. It was kind of like cut and try."
Racer Revival
It would be unheard of now to buy a brand-new, never-raced (for team Dyson) prototype and campaign it midseason while working out the kinks — without seriously devoting months or years to testing and development. However, this was typical of the era. Teams were just learning how to handle Porsche's turbocharged rocket and make the most out of its advanced technological platform.
"[Before racing the Porsche] we were running a GTO Pontiac, which was more of a prototype than the prototypes racing in GTP, because it was a one-off car by a builder in Connecticut," Dyson notes. "We had to make substantial changes to it almost every weekend to make it work better. It never did come out right, but we got it better. In essence, we already were doing prototype racing without doing prototype racing [in GTO]. So I said, 'Jeez, we might as well take a look at prototype racing,' and I asked around to see what the story was with the 962s, which were the new cars."
In order to adhere to stricter IMSA guidelines, the 962 was born from a modified 956 chassis with safety in mind. A longer wheelbase of 12 centimeters and a shorter nose allowed engineers to position the driver's cockpit rearward, making their legs situated behind the front wheel centerline, which would potentially prevent catastrophic damage to flesh and bone.
Borrowed and adapted from Porsche's abortive early 1980s IndyCar attempt, the 3.2-liter flat-six, 935-sourced motors used air-cooled cylinders with water-cooled heads, massaged by noted Porsche engine tuner ANDIAL. A single Kühnle, Kopp und Kausch (KKK) AG K36 turbo was used to produce around 1.2-1.4 bars (17.4-20.3 PSI) of boost. All of this culminated in roughly 680 horsepower around 8,200 rpm with around 1,900 pounds to push.
"The boost would get so high that it would literally pull the heads off the barrels. You would see combustion on the undertray."
A synchromesh five-speed dogleg transmission was used on the American 962, while over in Europe, the Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (the now ubiquitous PDK) was being developed and used to great results. Bosch hopped onboard with Porsche to co-develop Motronic, and ANDIAL — named after principals Arnold Wagner, Dieter Inzenhofer and Alwin Springer — was building reliable and stout engines.
"[We were] constantly going through suspension, brakes, uprights, diffs and transmissions," Dyson says. "We didn't have to change the engines that much because they were very reliable, and we were really running them hard."
He adds, "You didn't run 1.4 [bars] for very long, because the air-cooled engines, you didn't want to run too high up. The boost would get so high that it would literally pull the heads off the barrels. You would see combustion on the undertray."
One of the major issues — more of a steep learning curve — was the 962's tendency for serious turbo lag. With the mechanical wastegates, Porsche and Bosch were always trying to eliminate lag with different tricks and methodologies, but it always remained with the car. "There was a lot of power, and man, it showed up in a hurry," Dyson remembers.
"When we started running the Porsche, there was a sensation that this was a real racecar."
"In those days the lag was pretty significant. You could go into a corner and, depending on what corner it was, you put your foot to the floor as soon as you got off the brake [in order] to get through the corner to have the boost coming out for the straight."
Mastering throttle lag became the way to control the 962's tremendous power upon full boost.
The juxtaposition of the 962 was the way massive power, cornering, braking and speed were handled with this new aluminum chassis, which made it, according to the drivers, a sublime racing experience. Derek Bell is quoted as metaphorically comparing the 962 to a Rolls-Royce, commending the quiet and cooler cabin. Even Dyson, coming from the IMSA GTO class, immediately noticed its benefits.
"You knew right away that the car was really put together: well designed, terrific cockpit and great visibility," Dyson says. "When we started running the Porsche, there was a sensation that this was a real racecar. And when you put your foot to the floor, it really went. And it really steered. And it really braked."
Coming from the 956, the 962 excelled at almost everything right away, and it would be almost a decade later when the model was retired from IMSA. Though technically way beyond its prime, privateers engineered the car to perform even when new technology was passing it.
When they did finally debut it, Team Dyson took their 962 to a Cinderella race win at their home racetrack at Lime Rock Park, with Drake Olson at the helm. It's fitting that 30 years after that race, we're standing on the front straight at Lime Rock photographing the car that would make its way across the country to Rennsport, a celebration of Porsche motorsport achievements.
The reason Rennsport exists — and the reason I look at it as a bucket-list item — is for the sheer history and provenance of these cars to shine in full racetrack rage for enthusiasts of all types.
The cars, the histories and the drivers — Jochen Mass, Hurley Haywood, Brian Redman, Michael and Mario Andretti, and Derek Bell, to name a few who were finessing these incredible racecars on road courses to speeds above 200 mph — get to strap in and take another ride.
It was arguably the golden age of racing. The races were broadcast nationwide into American homes, technology was budding with in-car cameras streaming live images to TV sets, and announcers conveyed how turbocharging and aerodynamics worked to a big, interested audience that would later understand it as normal code with their production cars. Street courses like Columbus and Riverside played host to the GTP cars. Unlike the smoother European circuits, American racing was bumpy and gritty.
Racecars are inherently blessed with the ability to make you feel something special. Whether through look or sound, they make the imagination run wild, and they usually inspire road cars to get better. They're the peak of technology in any current environment.
Seeing the car with body panels off in the Dyson shop reveals the dated nature of the 962. Carbon fiber is nowhere to be found. The monocoque, aluminum structure looks like something a garage tinkerer would fabricate in a shed. Electronics predating the modern Internet showcase huge Motronic architecture running at whatever antiquated bit rate worked during the '80s to control this computer. A massive single exhaust outlet hints at what kind of power is concealed beneath metal and plastic. It is the voyeuristic feel of a motorsport Peeping Tom, knowing full well that this gal won't be unclothed for much longer.
Though a classic, the 962 still oozes purpose and achievement. These racecars toppled Le Mans at over 240 mph and broke records everywhere. The liveries were fantastic, the shape unforgettable and the drivers fearless. Porsche's 962 would go on to record more than 50 wins and cement its place as a legend in a sport that has so many.


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I don't know about you but every year around Spring I receive the Hollywood Bowl Calender. It is not only a reminder that summer is around the corner but of great times. What a pleasure it is to know that again my friends and I are going to get together and enjoy beautiful Summer nights at the Bowl listening great music. The experience of the Bowl begins when you walk down the steps through the tunnel and feel a warm welcome of music echoing thru the tunnel. From a distance you see the Sax Man playing suave music. A tradition at the Bowl, this being Ken's 29th season, greets us all to another lovely night of music and good times.
An accomplished bass and saxophone player who toured Europe playing for Solomon Burke (the founding father of soul music), a native of South Central, Ken's interest in music goes back to his childhood. In junior high he was introduced to the baritone horn though it did not last for very long. In High School he did not play music because of his interest in computers. After graduation Ken got a job as a computer operator. One day a co-worker played a Jimmy Hendrix record and Kenny became fascinated by Hendrix's guitar. Kenny went and bought himself one. However, after two weeks Kenny realized it was not the instrument he identified with. After listening to The Sly & Family Stone an influential psychedelic soul/funk band and founder Larry Graham (ranked #3 on Digital Dreamdoor's list of 100 Greatest Rock Bass Guitarist of All Time), Ken decided the bass guitar was what he was looking for. His early experience with the baritone horn (bass and baritone horn were very similar) lead Ken to buy a bass guitar.
Kenny doesn't have a classical education and could not read music. He learned how to play by listening-- "You put the record on and you learn one note at time". He practiced everyday and one day sitting in a friend's house drinking beer, listening Latin Jazz music his friend' wife came out of the kitchen and mentioned how good they sounded. His friend John said, "we should have a band". Ken hollered, "I have a bass", another one "I have a guitar", somebody else had drums. A few days later there were 15 people in a room with an instrument and none had a clue of how to play. They played the record and everybody listened carefully. You learn your part and for every song they played the same routine. The neighbor hooked them up with their first gig but they never played. They were so nervous that the band broke up and the gig was canceled. After a few weeks seven of them came back but this time a saxophonist who had a little bit more music knowledge gave this group of friends who grew up together some direction and they ended up getting call for another gig. The band needed a name and they called themselves "Acapulco Soul".
Latin Jazz was the band's inspiration because back then Ken's friends were coming back from the Army and it was the genre they were listening and playing. Latin musicians such as Tito Puente and Ray Barretto and some Jazz musicians such as Lee Morgan, John Coltrane among others, influenced Acapulco Soul. They were playing all over Los Angeles. At the California State University Jazz Festival they had the pleasure to share the stage for a song with the legendary Herbie Hancock who played the tambourine. The band had a great time for probably three years but Ken wanted to venture out by himself and try different things.
Ken left Acapulco Soul and started to play with some blues and rock roll bands, and as he said "traveling about". During this time Ken continued to learn and improve his bass techniques. Around 1974 while playing with his younger brother Michael who played the saxophone, they were part of a band called Solid which played mostly Blues. He described the experience as magic to be on stage playing music with his brother. Needless to say, inspired by his brother, Kenny walked to a pawnshop and bought a saxophone. He kept it in the closet for a few months since he had no idea of how to play. Than one day Michael asked him to put his sax together and gave him a lesson. Ken was introduced for the first time to chromatic scale (musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone apart). A few months later his brother was assassinated.
After his brother's passing, Ken did not touch his sax again for five years. During this time Kenny was making a living working as a custodian at the La Brea Tarpits. After a while and with very little understanding of chromatic scale Ken started to take his sax everyday to work and started to practice after work hours in the park. Again he had to find songs that he liked such as Stardust by Hoagy Carmichael and lyrics by Mitchell Parish, and learn by ear. Every note, step-by-step, just taking one note at time and writing the letters A, B, C he finally learn how to play. Inspired by Charlie Cox a fellow musician who played the banjo in the park but also made a little money with a little tip basket. Ken liked the idea and decided to quit his job to play music full time.
Ken's first place was on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax in front of the old May Company building. At 8:00 o'clock in the morning Ken was already playing. Some days were good others were bad. Still learning songs but making a living he also went on to play outside Canters Restaurant on Fairfax. Finally in 1983 someone suggested that he should go to the Hollywood Bowl. When he got there and asked the security guard where he could play, off course the answer was no "you cannot play here". Kenny just had finished reading a book in positive affirmation and thinking and everything positive, positive… "You acknowledge, you understand but… you don't give up". He asked again and again and again until the security finally pointed in the direction off Highland Avenue; it was out of his jurisdiction and he could play somewhere over there. Walking through the tunnel under Highland Avenue, halfway through, he said to himself "I am in the tunnel and I am in Highlands". Kenny found his spot at the end of the tunnel were he has been playing for the last 29 years.
At first there were times when life was not so good. You would think that one would make a lot of money because people come to the Bowl to listen music and would appreciate him. "It is not necessarily true". Sometimes Kenny would play between six to seven hours and he would go home with just a few dollars. Some days feeling discouraged at the end of the night he would sit on the bench and cry of disappointment of human kind. His love for music and the desire to get better kept him playing his sax every day.
Over the years the Sax Man has seen the best and worse in people. For him the most appreciative and respectful are the employees of the Hollywood Bowl. At the end of the night when they are going home they show how grateful they are to have him as part of the team. When he first started to play there, back then the Bowl's Superintendent of Operations was a fellow named Patton S. Moore. Patton sent his assistant Ed Tom now the Director of Operations of the Bowl with a dollar to give to him because he liked the way he played Stardust. For Ken it meant he was welcoming him to the Bowl. It was also an acknowledgement of his presence. Over the years Kenny's experienced some unpleasant moments but overall he is very thankful for all the years and for so many unforgettable moments of joy. He has seen so many generations and so many people coming and going. And as he said "every year he is looking forward to come back to the tunnel at the Hollywood Bowl for another season" and in 29 years Kenny (have lost less the 10 concerts—what?).


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Assassin's Creed™ is the next-gen game developed by Ubisoft Montreal that redefines the action genre. While other games claim to be next-gen with impressive graphics and physics, Assassin's Creed merges technology, game design, theme and emotions into a world where you instigate chaos and become a vulnerable, yet powerful, agent of change.
The setting is 1191 AD. The Third Crusade is tearing the Holy Land apart. You, Altair, intend to stop the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict.
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Nah, there's no way. The President wouldn't benefit from some sort of oil deal...
And then he stumbles onto something that makes a whole lotta' sense.
I've previously suggested that the President wanted to invade Iraq to get back at Saddam for attempting to kill is father. Russ Baker over at Common Dreams thinks I'm on the right track, but it's a wee bit more complicated than that.
President Bush is alleged to have told his biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, in 1999:
One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade, if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency.Later he told Mr. Herskowitz, "As a leader, you can never admit to a mistake. That is one of the keys to being a leader."
Mr. Herskowitz also notes that the President's beliefs could have been swayed by Vice President Cheney, Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee under Reagan. "Start a small war. Pick a country where there is justification you can jump on, go ahead and invade."
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The Renault UK Clio Cup returned to the fearsome Thruxton circuit three weeks ago, with the high-speed nature of the Hampshire track producing two enthralling slipstream-filled races.
The star of the weekend turned out to be Ash Hand, who led qualifying with a double pole position and went on to lead both races from lights-to-flag to make it three wins in the last four races for the Team Pyro ace.
His team-mate Ashley Sutton followed him home in every session for a Pyro one-two, while Ant Whorton-Eales bounced back from a tough qualifying session to finish third and fourth in the races to maintain his championship lead.
Here's a look back at the action from Thruxton courtesy of Renaultsport and ITV:
The Renault UK Clio Cup is back in action next weekend (6/7 June) at Oulton Park in Cheshire.


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Toronto boutique owners dispel millennial stereotypes of inexperience, laziness and technology addiction and CONVEY their secrets to entrepreneurial success.
After years of working in various levels of retail, Daniela Figliomeni and Jennifer Shotbolt were ready for a new challenge. As two young women approaching their mid-20s, both had secure jobs that were set to advance toward higher positions. However, the two had also reached a crossroads. Having felt uneasy about the trajectory of their career paths, Figliomeni and Shotbolt explain, "We questioned whether we would ever be fully happy helping someone else reach their dream rather than chasing our own. It was in that moment we decided to leave our jobs and create our own boutique, CONVEY." The duo confronted an occupational dilemma that many millennials face when starting their careers: do I want to work my way up a company or do I want to be my own boss? More important, how do I turn that dream into a reality?
Following months of planning in the off hours of their full-time jobs, they finally needed a brick-and-mortar location to realize CONVEY. As it so happened, in 2014, Vogue named Toronto's West Queen West the second coolest neighbourhood in the world. A national hotspot for arts and culture with a reputation of youthful occupancy, Queen Street West is a young fashion entrepreneur's dreamland. It can be an intimidating playground for a new business owner, but these women readily accepted the challenge. The young entrepreneurs had a meticulous vision for CONVEY and ultimately found their perfect location at 754 Queen Street West in 2015.
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After CONVEY's launch, the pair received impressive press coverage from Elle Canada, The Globe and Mail and Toronto Star amongst others. As young businesswomen that really do it all (Shotbolt is currently learning how to do the company's accounting records), they've found not everyone has been confident in their professional capabilities, "We have definitely encountered people that assume we don't have the same amount of experience because of our age or who are intimidated by two young women in business. We don't mind being the underdog and think that gaining respect and working hard is the easiest way to prove people wrong," says Shotbolt. When asked which women inspire them most in life, Figliomeni replies, "We are both huge fans of Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amaruso. We are also very lucky to have many amazing women in our lives: our Moms, friends and mentors are all such strong entrepreneurial women and we can't help but to be inspired by them daily."
So what exactly has CONVEY accomplished in the first year of business? Between creating an e-commerce platform, sourcing new brands from around the globe, adding menswear into their product line and collaborating with Toronto's finest, the women of CONVEY have been full-speed-ahead since the boutique's inception. With no signs of slowing down, they discussed how time-consuming the transition from corporate employee to business owner has been: "Our lifestyles have definitely changed since we started CONVEY but we both agree it's for the best. CONVEY comes first, so we don't have all the free time or flexibility we did when we were working for someone else. That being said, our lifestyle has routine and that's a big part of what keeps us rested and eager to work. Regardless of what you are doing for your career, you should never do anything you don't want to do. That is something we truly discovered when our lifestyles changed," says Figliomeni.
|Shotbolt and Figliomeni at Toronto Fashion Week. Image by Elaine Fancy
When asked to reflect on their recommendations for entrepreneurial success, the millennials offered up ambition and integrity as their foundational source: "We think the secret to success is having integrity, being nice to people and working hard. Success doesn't come to those who wait for it. Ambition and drive are skills that cannot be taught. We wake up every day running towards our goals both within CONVEY and in our personal lives." What exactly does having integrity mean to them? "Having integrity goes beyond doing what you say you will, it's also the courage to admit faults and take responsibility. We don't want to be successful by stepping over people either. Reputation and respect are two things that are very easy to lose and it's important to us to never compromise our values to gain success," explains Figliomeni.
With such a demanding workload required to run an entire business on their own, how exactly does the duo maintain a healthy balance between work and play? Shotbolt explains: "We are both very good at separating business and pleasure. In order to have the ability to do the things we love outside of work, we need to stay focused at work." Not losing sight of the implications of constant connection to technology, the pair notes, "We also find it crucial to unplug from time to time. Putting away your phone while sharing a meal or not reaching for your phone first thing when you wake up has proven to make the hours you spend working more productive."
Happy with their continued growth and excited for the future, there seems to be nothing Figliomeni and Shotbolt can't handle. As driven entrepreneurs who sacrificed certainty for the opportunity to create their own dreams, the duo have proven that youth not only have the same work ethic as previous generations but are also able to successfully harness passions into realizing goals. Next time you hear baby boomers lump all millennials together, tell them about the boss ladies over at CONVEY, because we don't see any contribution to stereotypes here.


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Channeling has been used by psychics and mediums for thousands of years as a way of bringing information from the beyond to this world. The whole process is examined in this episode and an extraordinary channel is recorded who presents a very different representation of our universe and what life actually is.
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We have a software product that is currently live and hosted locally (California). We are virtualizing and transferring it to a data center in Texas for reliability and management reasons. Problem is that it is in production with external customers until 7pm Monday through Friday - Impossible to change. I'm planning to move over a weekend and test on Sunday so that it can go live the next Monday morning.
All in Its about 300GB currently and our pipe isn't able to move that over a weekend. So the only other methods I see are to export to a portable hard drive and try to find someone to ship 1-2 day over the weekend or jumping on a flight and carrying it with. Leaving enough time to import and test on the receiving end.
ideas? Ever done something like this?
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One thing you might want to do if you go the flight option is take two drives. What if you drop one?
I've thought about the differential approach but my problem is that its a combination of SQL DBs (about 10) and thousands of small files in disparate locations - that change daily. The DBs are about 70GBs total. Is there an application that you would recommend for doing differentials in such a scenario? Please no Symantec... something you actually trust or have used? heck even trial ware could work for a one off like this.
Maybe virtualize on say Wednesday then use 'x' application to snapshot the environment. Overnight the original data to the remote data center for them to import. Then Friday night get a differential from 'x' application and transfer it over the net.
FYI This is running on MS Server 2003
Shut it down and do a differential file copy over several preceding weekends? Then shut it down and do a final differential then bring it up?
This will work best if there is not one huge database file.
That's pretty much what I did to move our data when our division was sold. If you are taking a drive use a NAS USB take a long time to copy. We underestimated how long it would take to transfer all of our data (600-700GB).
what city in California? SoCal / NorCal?
Like the backup option... do a full backup will take a few days I'm sure...
Then do differentials which should only be a few gigs...
The original should only take ~ 20 days @1.5mbit / T1 Average
Looks like you need a backup on site - then compress each DB which will make it much much much smaller then transfer...
What backup solution do you use currently? Big $olutions will do dedupe and compression over the wire which also helps....
I've thought about the differential approach but my problem is that its a combination of SQL DBs (about 10) and thousands of small files in disparate locations - that change daily. The DBs are about 70GBs total. Is there an application that you would recommend for doing differentials in such a scenario? Please no Symantec... something you actually trust or have used? heck even trial ware could work for a one off like this.
Maybe virtualize on say Wednesday then use 'x' application to snapshot the environment. Overnight the original data to the remote data center for them to import. Then Friday night get a differential from 'x' application and transfer it over the net.
FYI This is running on MS Server 2003
Check out the SQL backup product from RedGate
What is your current backup solution? If you're open to a change, I'd recommend Appassure's Replay. It would make your current issue trivial. It creates compressed, de-duped "incremental forever" block-level backups, and replicates them to other locations. You can install it on Win7 or any server. It would require a backup server (they call it a "core" server" at your site and a target at the remote site. You would buy licenses for the number of servers to be backed up, and this includes the license to put up as many core servers as you want. It also includes DR functionality such as maintaining a cold standby server. It takes snapshots as often as every 15 minutes. You can also right-click on any "Recovery Point" and create it as a virtual server or do a bare-metal restore. You could have a previous version of the server up and running at the new location and then just switch it to production. I could think of a couple of ways to do it where your down time could be less than an hour.
It's also easy to step into without doing a forklift upgrade of your backup system.
Ran across this on the Appassure site:Using Replay for Server Migration
Great use case of using Replay to migrate to a 1TB SAN without any user down time whatsoever.
"...we used Live Replay to move a 1TB volume to a new SAN, live. It took 24 hours but users had access to their data the entire time as the data was being transferred. There was no interruption for our folks. No one waited for the files to copy. This is the best product for what we want to do."
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We had a girl (try) to take a tape 400 miles away during a conversion to a Data Center. 11:00 PM on Friday night I got a call, She rolled her car 200 miles down the road. 11:15 I was on the road in the middle of the worst snow storm we saw all year. Long story short, the tape got there on time, but just barely. 11:00 the next day, I was back at work, actually converting everything. 36 hours later, I finally got some sleep.
Always have a plan B.
I think the backup solution is much much better.
I use a remote backup solution based on software named AHSAY software that is able to reduce volume trasferred from 50% to 80%.
You should have the software installed on your virtual server and perform a first full backup af your files / databases.
The next backups will be always incremental and very small to transfer: is trasferred in compressed mode ONLY the portion of file that is modiifed. This reduce a lot the time of the backup.
After the last backup from your actual server to the virtual server, you should make a restore (locally) into the virtual server and the job is finished!
Good luck
You may want to consider Double-Take Move. We recently used it here and it works great. No down time. I used what they now call "Availability" at my previous company for realtime server replication and that was also a good product. By using move you can mirror your data while it is in use. You can throttle it down during the day so you don't impact your users and crank it up at night. Then just make the swittch when you are ready. I think it was under five hundred bucks.
I agree with Kurt if you have the time look at double-take. IF you don't have the time to allow the slow duplication over the wire then setup to double-take to an external drive, find the Fedex or UPS drop that has Friday 8pm or later drop off (depends on where you are) and pay the extra for Saturday morning delivery.
Delta Dash is another option, probably cheaper than you physically going unless you need to be at the other location to bring the data back online.
Either way, before shipping or going with the external storage option i would test it. And time how long it takes to do everything.
Double-take has a free trial and will allow you to run your sync at night when bandwidth demand is less and can throttle the bandwidth consumption for during the day sync.
We use Replistor to take live copy of our SQL which enabled us to move from one location to another.
This is an EMC product and they have other tools for data migration which I haven't used but could well be worth a look.
We push 90gbs 200 miles over a 4.5mbps link every night using robocopy and... wait for it... 7zip.
My colleague here built a 'NewEgg server' for the most ghz-per-core possible, and we collaborated on the script. 7zip chews the .bak file down to about 5 gigs, then we push it over. Extract and restore is SSIS on the other end.
The server itself isn't super stable, but we think that's due to the hardware. We would have gone with bigger iron had there actually been horsepower available at a decent price.
Treating the new site as a co-location / hot site backup might work. Our backup software is called Unitrends and I think it will do this. You basically make a copy of all the data, like on a SAN or NAS. Then truck it to the new site. Fire it up and get it talking to your original site and doing de-dup backups to the new site. This keeps your data basically the same. What you are doing is making the new site an off-site hot backup. Then just turn off your old site and switch over. Just guessing, we are trying to setup one of these now and wading through lots of SAN quotes.
Always have a plan B.
We called those re-run docs or a roll back plan back in my Big Iron Cobol days. Thomas is right, think of what could go wrong and have a contingency plan. Never underestimate the power of an unforeseen earthquake, velociraptors running lose or the inevitable zombie apocalypse. If it can go wrong it will and usually at the worst possible moment.