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Storage Horizon 2008
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It's time once again to look back on the storage predictions I made a year ago and look ahead at what might be in our storage future for 2008 and beyond.
Enterprise Storage Forum's Henry Newman reviews how accurate his 2007 predictions were and weighs in on where he thinks storage is headed in 2008.
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We'll start with a review of how I did last year, which for me is always an interesting exercise because I get to see how the market measured up to my perceptions. We'll break it down into hardware and software, then look at where the storage market might be headed next year and beyond.
Last Year's Software Predictions
Last year I wrote that "Object storage will be available from the host side in 2007, and to storage devices, including object managers that replace RAID controllers, but not until 2008. This will be the first major change in storage technology end-to-end for many decades. This will have impacts on areas such as HSM, write reconstruction and virtualization, just to name a few."
Boy was I off on that one. There is no host-side object storage file system or device drivers, nor will object storage managers replace any RAID devices in 2008, mostly because there is no host-side object storage environment except for Panasas. This is a chicken and egg problem. Without vendors' development in the data path, this will not change.
POSIX Changes
Last year I said that POSIX file system semantics "will be changed to allow for things like lazy metadata updates for shared file systems in 2008. This is a pretty easy prediction, but it still needs ratification. The standards are more than 25 years old at this point, and we must update these standards."
This process is currently moving forward, and there is a reference implementation. The group is moving more slowly than expected, but the movement is still in the right direction. I have not gotten this prediction wrong yet since it was for 2008, but I will likely be wrong given the current slow pace.
I said that metadata allocation and management for file systems "will begin to be seen as a problem in 2007 and will be addressed in 2008. Areas such as databases and other additions for file systems to address the problems of ls–l and find and the impact on file system performance."
A number of vendors have started to address this problem and are using databases for metadata management, so I'll put this one in the win column.
"Storage management will not get any major standards, and managing thousands of disks and RAID controllers is not going to be easy, much less standardized," I wrote. "The vendors cannot get together to support all of the layers of management and reporting. The global tools that exist today do not show all the tunable parameters or all the details various error conditions."
Yes, SNIA has released SMI-S, but many vendors are still not completely compliant, and more importantly, information such as per disk SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, which provides a common framework to collect disk error information) data cannot be collected. Some vendors disagree and claim they provide everything, but SMI-S is not rich enough to provide everything. Remember that SNIA is a group of vendors that have to agree and play nicely together in the SAN box. It is hard enough sometimes to get interoperability (this is better than it was five years ago but still a problem for new technologies), much less agreement of management and error statistics. I got this one right.
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Software Summary
I got one very wrong, another one will likely be wrong in 2008, and two correct. Not all that good this year at 50 percent.
Last Year's Hardware Predictions
My prediction from last year: "Disk drive densities will continue to slow both in 2007 and 2008. This is an easy prediction. Drive vendors will push SAS drives as an alternative to both Fibre Channel and SATA, given the SAS characteristics, in late 2007 and 2008. Given the cost and the reliability, SAS 2.5 inch drives will make their way into midrange and enterprise RAID controllers in 2008. Database index file and file system metadata need high numbers of IOPS, and 2.5 drives are the answer."
I think this is all true and everything is on track for 2008. One right.
I said that vendors "will announce support for tapes over 1TB in late 2007 and release in 2008. Tape densities and performance will continue to grow at a rate faster than disk for at least a few years."
Close but no cigar. IBM's TS1120 is now 700GB and LTO-4 is 800GB, so I was wrong on this one. One of these days...
I said that RAID controllers from high-end enterprise and midrange vendors will support 10Gb Fibre channel, InfiniBand and 10Gb Ethernet in 2008. "The first two parts of the prediction are easy, but I am going out on a limb for 10Gb Ethernet in 2008," I wrote. "I believe that RDMA technology will become standard in the enterprise."
The introduction of 10Gb Ethernet in 2008 is a stretch, but still likely from some vendors. The introductions of FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) from T11 will make this happen much faster than for the broad market after 2008, and this might be the final blow that prevents iSCSI from market penetration. This one looks like it will be wrong for 2008 but not 2009.
"With NFSv4 and pNFS, you will see the convergence of NAS and SAN devices because of high-performance Ethernet connections such as 10Gb Ethernet," I predicted. "The complexity of management of large SANs is not easy, nor is the management of huge numbers of NAS devices. Given the performance limitations with NFS, NAS was not scaling to the performance of SANs and many NAS file systems were designed around NFS. If the NAS vendors rewrite and/or update their file systems and use NFSv4 and pNFS, they might achieve the performance of SANs. Combine this with object storage, which is a bit farther out, and the world we know might change."
The NFSv4.1 standard will integrate pNFS. The NFSv4.1 standard is expected to be published sometime in early 2008 and be put out for ratification. This is on track, along with 10Gb Ethernet, to change the world, so another one in the win column.
Big Switches
I predicted that big switches for both FC and IB running at rate to all ports full duplex would be announced in late 2007 and shipped in 2008. "Right now, large switches are limited to less than around 300 ports," I said. "I think this number will at least triple given the need for consolidation."
Cisco has a 528 FC switch, but it is not full rate full duplex any port to any port. On the InfiniBand side, Cisco, QLogic and Voltaire are all are stuck at 288 ports, so I got that one wrong.
I said that enterprise drive vendors "will begin discussion of other interfaces besides FC. This will not happen till 2008. The cost of FC interface per drive compared to commodity parts such as Ethernet might force drive vendors to consider other technology."
I got this one right. Enterprise drive vendors are going to SAS, at least for now. With FCoE, this might change. I am not yet ready to predict when, but it is coming.
PCIe Bus
I predicted that PCIe bus interfaces performance will grow faster than memory bandwidth. Right now, it is reasonably standard to have 8 Lane PCIe buses, which is about 2,000 MB/sec, I noted; given that memory bandwidth on most single boards is 6,400 MB/sec, the ratio was 3.2 to 1. "With 16 Lane buses becoming available, this might be an easy prediction," I wrote. "It is easier to build a bus that can move data at high rates than to be able to read or write it to and from memory."
I got this one correct. PCIe 2.0 is now out with double the performance. Memory bandwidths have not doubled in the last year.
Hardware Summary
I got four right, two wrong and one likely wrong. I'll give myself 57 percent — great for a baseball player or point guard, but pretty bad for a storage pro.
This article was originally published on Enterprise Storage Forum.
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Despite allowing Hamilton (8-8-6) to force a 3-3 tie on Military Appreciation Night and then losing 3-1 to No. 10 Amherst (16-4-2) on Senior Night, Tufts (7-13-2) played stretches of its best hockey this weekend. The Jumbos were up a goal on the Continentals and had led all game before junior defenseman Marko Brelih snuck one past sophomore goaltender Mason Pulde. The goal came with just 27 seconds left in regulation. Overdue for a win after suffering three straight losses, the resulting tie was crushing for the Jumbos.
Tufts' game against Amherst on Saturday was representative of its season as a whole, as it played well but could not finish its chances.
The Jumbos held the Lord Jeffs, the second ranked team in the NESCAC, to only two first period shots. For their part, the Jumbos shot six and controlled the period, as they consistently stopped the Lord Jeffs from breaking out of their defensive zone.
In the second period, Amherst senior forward Andrew Fenwick broke the stalemate at 13:05. The Lord Jeffs quickly built their lead when senior defenseman Aaron Deutsch scored a power play goal at 15:37 to go up 2-0.
A penalty for too many players on the ice towards the end of the second forced the Jumbos back on the defensive but they were able to kill.
First-year forward Brian Brown was able to open a window for Tufts with a power play goal early in the third period — his team leading 12th of the season — off assists from sophomore defenseman Sean Kavanagh and Ouellette. The Lord Jeffs scored again, however, with just under seven minutes to play to seal the win.
First-year goaltender Ryan McConnell got his first start of the season against Amherst.
Murphy thought the loss was more of a result of several mental lapses than of any systemic issues.
In its game against Hamilton, Tufts got off to a hot start, scoring the first goal of the game only 38 seconds in on a fast break. Kavanagh found the back of the net on an assist from junior forward Stewart Bell and sophomore forward Conal Lynch. Just under nine minutes later, Continentals senior forward Nick Vassos broke out and scored on a pass from first-year forward T.J. Daigler.
True to their gritty mentality, the Jumbos again blitzed the Continentals and scored only 16 seconds into the second period. Tufts sophomore forward Matt Pugh won the face-off against junior forward Kenny Matheson, then passed to Brown who shot, but was blocked. First-year forward Scott Majkowsky scored off the rebound to earn his third goal of the season.
Tufts scored again at the 5:09 mark in the second when Lynch won a face-off in the offensive zone, ripped a shot at first-year goalie Tim Nowacki who saved the shot but lost control of the puck. Senior forward Tyler Voigt reacted quickly and put the Jumbos ahead 3-1.
Hamilton answered back as first-year forward Tyler Bruneteau redirected a rebounding shot by sophomore forward Brad Smelstor past Pulde 11 minutes into the second period. Sophomore forward Truman Landowski also had an assist.
Despite leading for the entirety of the game and taking a timeout at 18:26, the Jumbos were unable to preserve their lead and Brelih's late goal forced overtime.


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A former TV junkie & workaholic – turned – stay-at-home-mother – recently turned work-at-home – mother Rituparna Ghosh loves herself as @VeesMother (my twitter identity as a parent). Her son's student, she is learning the ropes of parenting every day.


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The Law Society Gazette has reported that: "The Ministry of Justice [has] outlined proposals to shut nearly a third of the courts in England and Wales and confirmed it will be looking at ways to make 'efficiency' savings in the legal aid budget. A consultation document details plans for the closure of 157 of the 530 courts in England and Wales – 103 of the 330 magistrates' courts, and 54 of 219 county courts."
Although it has not been officially announced, the Legal Costs Blog understands there are plans to move the Senior Courts Costs Office to a portacabin outside Dudley.
Here's the new SSSO Offices and Court
It's hoped the new outdoor court, with only the Cost Judge/Master being seated will speed up assessment hearings.


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Q: loop through list of Tuple I have a list of a tuples and I want to iterate through it and calculate the total cost. I want to get the total cost of orange plus the total cost of the banana. For example, 5.26*8 + 2.00* 10 to find out the total cost.
How do I access these values? I try to access for example 5.26 using b[1]*b[2] but I get an error.
def totalcost(shoping):
    for a in shoping:
        for b in a:
        total1=b[1]*b[2]
        print(total1)

shoping=[("orange",5.26,8),("banana",2.00,10)]
totalcost(shoping)

A: One way is to unpack each tuple into three variables:
def get_total_cost(shopping):
    total_cost = 0
    for line_item in shopping:
        product, cost, quantity = line_item  # Unpack the tuple
        total_cost += quantity * cost
    return total_cost

shopping=[("orange", 5.26, 8), ("banana", 2.00, 10)]
print(get_total_cost(shopping))

One can combine the unpacking with the loop:
def get_total_cost(shopping):
    total_cost = 0
    for product, cost, quantity in shopping:
        total_cost += quantity * cost
    return total_cost

It is possible to write the entire computation as a single generator expression:
def get_total_cost(shopping):
    return sum(quantity * cost for product, cost, quantity in shopping)

I gave product a name for clarity.  However, in code like this it is customary to see _ in place of unused variables:
def get_total_cost(shopping):
    return sum(quantity * cost for _, cost, quantity in shopping)

For completeness, I'll mention that it is possible to access tuple elements by index:
    return sum(line_item[1] * line_item[2] for line_item in shopping)

though to my eye this is significantly less readable than using named variables.
Finally, if you're on Python 3.7 (or 3.6) you should consider using dataclasses.  If you're using an earlier version of Python, collections.namedtuple is an option.

A: You have tuple in for loop in a so you can slice values from that tuple.
def totalcost(shoping):
    for a in shoping:
        total1=a[1]*a[2]
        print(total1)

shoping=[("orange",5.26,8),("banana",2.00,10)]
totalcost(shoping)

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A properly functioning body does not have asthma or any disease for that matter. Additionally, any body that does have asthma or any disease, the only way to cure it is for the body to self-heal, and cure itself. I believe my body was mal-functioning due to subluxation for 23 years.
I am an asthma success case. For 23 years I struggled with asthma, beginning in 1980. I was either five years old at the time. I woke up one morning, gasping for air, took a look at my Pittsburgh Steelers football helmet clock, it read 5:30 am. I woke up mom and said, "Mom, I can't breathe." It's funny, children are so naive. I remember saying it so calmly, yet I couldn't breathe. Then mom freaked out, woke up my father and we were off to Dr. Casselberry's. She was a good doctor, did what all good doctors do, save a life in an emergency. She gave me a shot and after what seemed an eternity, I still remember, I calmed down. Breathing returned to normal, and from that point on, I was reliant on drugs. Through the years, I had probably a dozen or so asthma attacks, three happening in my late 20s each requiring trips to the emergency room. I had downed thousands of Slo-Bid capsules, puffed thousands of breaths of Intal, Provental, and later Advair. Thousand of allergy pills (I remember when Claritin was available by prescription only). And thousands of minutes spent on the nebulizer. That Pulmo-Aide picture is the exact one I used for years. When I look back on it, what a miserable existence, but I didn't know any different. My parents only wanted the best for me, they didn't know there was another way.
In 2003, I went to see Dr. Mike Stewart. I had severe sciatica and Dr. Stewart thought my sciatica might be related to a subluxation (nerve interference) at L5. Dr. Stewart had previously practiced as a respiratory therapist and suggested to me that a subluxation at T4 (obviously misaligned on the x-ray) may be related to my asthma. I doubted that because I had asthma for the previous 23 years and no one related my asthma to my spine. The sciatica subsided quickly. Two months later, Dr. Stewart asked how my breathing was. I told him I haven't been taking my meds as much. I didn't understand why but that very day I stopped all medications. Never had a problem since. Less than a year after meeting Dr. Stewart, I enrolled in chiropractic college.
According to Clinical Medicine, asthma is "a disease characterized by episodic and reversible narrowing of the smaller bronchi and bronchioles through a combination of smooth muscle constriction, inflammation, mucus formation and cellular secretions." I'm all too familiar with this. Easy to breathe in, difficult to breathe out. Wheezing as the air passes through smaller airways.
Muscle spasm is the main characteristic or as stated above, "smooth muscle contraction". A muscle can only contract with a nerve impulse. The nerves innervate the muscles and the brain sends messages down the spinal cord to the nerves out to the muscles in the airways. If there is interference to those messages from the nerves, the muscles may spasm. Therefore, the disease of asthma lies in the nervous system, not necessarily the lungs themselves.
Chemicals also may induce this reaction. During pollen season in Atlanta, my body was hypersensitive to it, pre-chiropractic. If the nervous system senses pollen as a poison, your body reacts irrationally, histamine is released, induces inflammation, and now the air pathways are inflamed as well. In people with allergies, pollen is not a poison, but the nervous system is interpreting it as such. Again the disease of allergies lies in the nervous system, not the lungs or airpathys themselves.
Muscle spasm/constriction and inflammation are ALL mediated by the nervous system. Adjusting the spine to reduce nerve pressure can alleviate asthma symptoms, as it did in my case. In my case it happened to be in the middle of my back (T4) as in the diagram. In a 10 year old patient, it was his sacrum that was the problem. Once the pressure was reduced through the chiropractic adjustment, the body can start to function normally, without airway constriction or inflammation.
I remember as a kid hearing stories of kids who outgrew their asthma, though it never happened to me. There's no point in waiting for something that may never happen. During growth if the spine changes, a few hits on the right vertebrae in the proper direction on the football field, maybe even during growth spurts, the spine may realign and pressure may be relieved. I wasn't this lucky. I spent 23 years suffering and thank God I found a chiropractor competent enough to explain to me how the nervous system works, and that with chiropractic there was hope! I had a great childhood, great friends, great parents. The asthma at times really held me back. It's the only thing I would've changed from my upbringing.
If my parents knew about chiropractic, they would've tried anything. For any questions, please contact your Chiropractor Carlsbad.


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Shirley A. Beil, 86, formerly of Walnutport, passed away Monday, November 2, 2020 at Fellowship Manor, Whitehall. She was the wife of the late Harold F. Beil, who passed away in 2013. Born in Berlinsville on July 11, 1934, she was the daughter of the late Edgar and Olive (Graver) Minnich. She was a graduate of Slatington High School Class of 1952. Shirley worked as a factory worker for the former DeVille Blouse Factory and Edgemont Factory. She was the also the owner/operator of Something Always Beautiful, a custom floral arrangement shop and a receptionist for Kirsten Anderson Weight Loss Center in Bethlehem.
Shirley is survived by daughters: Colleen and husband Dean Spadt of Northampton, Tammy Beil of Blue Bell; grandchildren; Brian Spadt of Palmerton, Eric Spadt and wife Stacy of Northampton; Great-Grandchildren: Dylan, Makenzie, Chase.
Private family services will be held at Arlington National Cemetery, Washington DC, where she will be interred with her husband. Arrangements are under the care of Harding Funeral Home, Slatington.
The family requests no flowers, contributions in Shirley's memory can be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10001.
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The benefits of reading proficiency are arduously enumerated, researched, cataloged, weighed, argued about … but never questioned. Reading is good for children, it's a fact. Which is why teaching children how to read is the overarching goal of most early childhood and elementary teachers.
But that's not all. Reading is good for grownups too, and that's one reason it's good for children: A child who reads will continue to reap the benefits throughout his or her life.
In addition to teaching children to read, the teacher's second—and more challenging—role is to teach children to want to read. Not just to do the assigned reading, but to make of reading a self-propelled impulse, so that children choose to read for both information and pleasure so that they continue to do so into their adulthood.
Such a noble goal is so difficult that teachers achieving any degree of success are the heroes of society.
Except for children with special learning difficulties, there is basically one reason why that goal can be so excruciatingly difficult: lack of motivation. Children are wildly different in their approach to reading. Research has shown they differ according to gender, and according to social status, and according to ethnic group.
Still, those differences are insignificant compared to plain individual differences in motivation and for many, the motivation is low. For example, one survey found that one in four Americans hadn't read a book in the previous year.
The motivation question has kept researchers busy for decades, and rightly so. Motivation is a very complex psychological phenomenon, but a little less so when restricted to just reading.
There are degrees and types of motivation. A coarse distinction that fueled heated controversies is intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. There should be no controversy about which is better: intrinsic, obviously. Intrinsic motivation is what ignites the desire to read, not just now, but later as well.
But not always: it depends on the type of reading the child is motivated by. In her book "The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transactional Theory of the Literary Work", Louise M. Rosenblatt made an interesting and fruitful distinction between two approaches to reading: aesthetic and efferent.
Aesthetic reading is reading for the pleasure of reading, like reading a story you're captivated by. It engages you in a relationship with the content and the pleasure derives directly from the act of reading, whether or not you get anything from it after the reading—which, paradoxically, you most assuredly do.
Efferent reading is reading with a purpose, a purpose external to the act of reading. A child might read about dinosaurs because he's interested in dinosaurs, not because he likes reading. That's the next best thing to aesthetic reading.
And what of extrinsic reading motivation? Much maligned, extrinsic reinforcement is blamed for inciting children to read for the wrong reason.
Sure, a teacher would prefer a child to read for a better reason than the ice cream he was promised—like reading because he wants to know how his toy car works; or better still, because she likes reading, period.
But what if curiosity is not enough to overcome the effort of reading? Every teacher has children like that in her class. For such children, extrinsic motivation can be a valuable tool. A tool to be chosen carefully and used creatively. That's the subject of another post.
We'd love to know about your experience with motivating the reluctant readers in your life to read. Have you used extrinsic motivation? Do you have any tips to share? We look forward to hearing from you in the comments.
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"….for many, the motivation is low." This is such a sweeping statement without basis. All the kids who could not read and were sent to me were highly motivated but could not read. read my posts on LinkedIn or write to me and we can have a discussion on this matter.
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ABOUT POLES IN WESTERN EUROPE
Fr. WIESŁAW WÓJCIK TChr
On 4-6 October this year in the sanctuary of Mariabersna near Budapest there was a conference held ' Media in passing faith', organized by the Polish Pastoral Council of Western Europe. The meeting was attended by: most rectors and coordinators of the Polish Catholic missions, European pastors, the General Superior of Christ's Society, the General Mother of King Christ's Missionaries for Polish Diaspora abroad, the Director of the Emigration Pastoral Ministry Institute from Poznań and laymen engaged in the activity of centres of Polish Diaspora in Germany, France, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, Switzerland, Scotland, in Hungary and in Italy. The debates were presided over bishop Wiesław Lechowicz, the delegate of the Polish Episcopal Conference for Polish Emigration Pastoral Ministry.
Implementing such an important issue today, bishop Lechowicz emphasized that media communication in the light of the Church teaching should be based on four basic pillars: the truth, freedom, respect for the human being and aiming at building the community.
A new dimension of network
In the modern world media are playing an important role. It is necessary for them to participate in passing the truth to others – said Fr. Andrzej Koprowski SJ, a program director of the Vatican Radio. In his opinion, the current generation of the youth is reacting more to 'what it sees', than to 'what it reads' – it does not have a developed memory. He emphasized that 'participation in the social network makes contacts with others easier, opens others to possibilities of gaining knowledge and also manipulation, addiction, a false image of others and oneself'. He pointed to the need of 'preaching the Gospel in new ways, which are able to speak to the modern cultures'. This way of preaching is pointed by pope Francis today, and his pontificate can be a chance for significant reaching of the Church to people with its message through mass media.
The Gospel through Skype
The usage of media in parish pastoral ministry was discussed by Fr. Marek Ciesielski, from Christ's Society, a pastor of Polish Diaspora in Germany. He emphasized that the general principle in the pastoral ministry should be the method used by Jesus – 'concentrating on an individual, not on a crowd'.
- A crowd of people must have a demagogue, a revolt, ruler and a tyrant. Revolutions were caused by those who knew how to use a crowd, but Jesus was loved by a crowd and betrayed by the same crowd – Fr. Ciesielski said. Basing on his pastoral ministry in Poland, USA and Germany he emphasized that every pastoral ministry should be concentrated on passing a message to an individual, not the crowd if it is to bring fruits. Only individuals, who live with the truth are able to create a community which is the Church.
Speaking about using media in a parish, in the first place he mentioned the need of systematic editing a parish newsletter, every week, the best. It should be available both in the church and sent via email.
Passing information from the parish and integrating this community should be done through a website today. A significant role is also played by Skype, for example, in creating parish biblical groups. Priests should be active in various social networks, for example, on Facebook, etc.
A strategy towards media
Marcin Przeciszeski, a chief editor of the Catholic Informative Agency, present at the conference, presented a media sphere surrounding us, which should be one of the most important missionary areas for the church today. – The Church cannot be absent in media, or what is worse, be in an atmosphere of tension with them – he said. He also explained that it is 'an element of new evangelization which is also a way of using new methods and means which appear in a particular history moment'.
The picture of the Church presented in the most opinion-making media is mostly based on negative stereotypes which have nothing in common with the truth. – If we were to evaluate the activity of the Church only on the basis of relationships of the most opinion-making Polish media, we would deal with a greedy and narrow-minded institution, restricting freedom of its members, discriminating women and sexual minorities, but tolerant for pedophiles in their own groups – he said. The editor emphasized that regardless of the need of improving Catholic media, it is necessary to have a well-considered strategy of the Church towards secular media: the private and public ones. It should be based on the three pillars: a quick information of preemptive character than reacting to criticism, a clear and effective presence of the Church in a public debate, good contacts with the journalistic environment.
During the conference there was a discussion about the issue connected with organizing a pilgrimage of the Polish Diaspora community to Rome at the end of the Year of Faith, which will take place on 18-21 November this year.
Polish – Hungarian hospitality
The annual meeting of the Polish Council ended with a solemn Holy Mass in the Polish parish run by Christ's Religious Order in Budapest. The parish priest Karol Kozłowski TChr in the Church of Mary Help of Believers welcomed the gathered pastoral groups of the Polish Catholic missions with bishop Wiesław Lechowicz and the current Roman Kowalski, the ambassador of the Polish Republic in Hungary.
The Polish Diaspora from Hungary, present at the prayer, in which there are most married couples, was very happy to welcome guests in the Papal House, erected before the Second World War, and renovated in 2000 by the Association Polish Community.
The meeting on the Hungarian land was an occasion to exchange experiences of the Polish Diaspora groups run in Western Europe. It was well-emphasized by bishop Lechowicz, who thanked for organizing this event – 'common faith which united and unites Poles and the Hungarians requires a special care and development today'.


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Bizon was a Polish combine harvester producer based in Płock, Poland. It designed machines for harvesting cereals, rapeseed, maize, sunflower and other crops.
Bizon company was privatized in 1992 after the reorganization of Agromet, a state-owned agricultural business. In 1995 Bizon reached account profitability  and in 1997 had a net sales of about $40 million and a $4 million net profit.

Bizon harvesters used Domestic Engines such as SW400 and SW680 manufactured in Polish engine factory called "Andoria"
Standard Bizon tyres were STOMIL.

Bizon held approximately 80% of the Polish combine harvester market and had begun sales expansion in Latin America, Pakistan, Belarus and Ukraine.

On 29 July 1998, 90.87% of Bizon Sp.zo.o. was acquired by New Holland for $33 million. The remaining shares of the Polish company were purchased in March 1999. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission estimated that New Holland had paid $18 million more than the company's actual value.

Z055
Bizon America harvesters were produced only twenty-something. All of them went to Scandinavia. The harvester was produced in 1975, it already had a hydraulically foldable discharge pipe, loss sensors, wide tires, a cabin with sliding doors and, above all, a characteristic large grain tank, holding 3 tons of wheat, which is almost twice as much as in the Bizon Super. The capacity of the tank was used in it, partly due to the fact that the mounted short oblique auger poured the grain only into the center of the tank.

Z056
The Z-056 combine, developed as the successor of the Z-050 combine in the "Super" type, is intended for harvesting four basic cereals, rape and some legumes from the trunk. The use of a swath pick-up enables harvesting with the two-stage method.

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External links
 Technical data of Bizon combines
 RetroTRAKTOR discussion group

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As rural communities continue to feel the crippling effects of drought, the state government has launched a $2 million wine marketing campaign aimed to drive international visitation to rural and regional NSW. Minister for Tourism and Major Events Adam Marshall said the campaign would involved a mix of new and traditional marketing. "Every extra tourist, interstate or international, we can drag to regional areas for a few nights helps drought-stricken communities get through what is a rough period. "It will help sustain the local economy but hopefully in the longer term this campaign helps create new jobs and wineries like Topper's develop a sophisticated seller door with an outward facing environment to encourage tourists to get involved." The marketing campaign was announced as part of the government's NSW Food and Wine Tourism Strategy, created with the help of Wine Industry Association Incorporated (NSWWIA). Mr Marshall said another goal of the campaign was to see more wine producers' products on the international markets. "We are producers of the best quality wines you will find anywhere in the world. "We want to use the massive asset base and resources we have in our 14 wine regions throughout the state to act as a magnet to lure more of those international tourists across the Great Dividing Range." Taking many forms, the campaign will be shared across print media, television and social media to package some of the regions as a whole food and wine experience. A number of overseas journalists will be flown to regional NSW on familiarisation tours as part of the campaign. "Social media influencers will also be engaged as social media has become such a driving force influencing people world wide when deciding where to holiday." Topper's Mountain Wines owner Mark Kirkby saw a significant increase in the past three or four years in locals visiting the vineyard. "But I don't think we've had one international visitor. "If we can get any of out this campaign, that will be absolutely fantastic. A large portion of international travellers to Australia come to Sydney and the real trick is to get them from the city to regional areas such as Armidale, Glen Innes and Inverell," he said. Mark said tourism was a fairly small part of their business, however it was something they were looking at growing. "We need to find smarter ways to engage people who want a whole experience not just the finished product." Topper's Mountain Wines have been established just outside of peaceful Tingha since 2000.
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State Government announce $2 million wine marketing campaign at Topper's Mountain
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Topper's Mountain Wines owner Mark Kirkby, Angus Barnes from the NSW Wine Industry Association Incorporated and Minister for Tourism and Major Events Adam Marshall toast to the annoucement.
As rural communities continue to feel the crippling effects of drought, the state government has launched a $2 million wine marketing campaign aimed to drive international visitation to rural and regional NSW.
Minister for Tourism and Major Events Adam Marshall said the campaign would involved a mix of new and traditional marketing.
"Every extra tourist, interstate or international, we can drag to regional areas for a few nights helps drought-stricken communities get through what is a rough period.
"It will help sustain the local economy but hopefully in the longer term this campaign helps create new jobs and wineries like Topper's develop a sophisticated seller door with an outward facing environment to encourage tourists to get involved."
The marketing campaign was announced as part of the government's NSW Food and Wine Tourism Strategy, created with the help of Wine Industry Association Incorporated (NSWWIA).
Mr Marshall said another goal of the campaign was to see more wine producers' products on the international markets.
"We are producers of the best quality wines you will find anywhere in the world.
"We want to use the massive asset base and resources we have in our 14 wine regions throughout the state to act as a magnet to lure more of those international tourists across the Great Dividing Range."
Taking many forms, the campaign will be shared across print media, television and social media to package some of the regions as a whole food and wine experience.
A number of overseas journalists will be flown to regional NSW on familiarisation tours as part of the campaign.
"Social media influencers will also be engaged as social media has become such a driving force influencing people world wide when deciding where to holiday."
Topper's Mountain Wines owner Mark Kirkby saw a significant increase in the past three or four years in locals visiting the vineyard.
"But I don't think we've had one international visitor.
"If we can get any of out this campaign, that will be absolutely fantastic. A large portion of international travellers to Australia come to Sydney and the real trick is to get them from the city to regional areas such as Armidale, Glen Innes and Inverell," he said.
Mark said tourism was a fairly small part of their business, however it was something they were looking at growing.
"We need to find smarter ways to engage people who want a whole experience not just the finished product."
Topper's Mountain Wines have been established just outside of peaceful Tingha since 2000.
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Monday musings on Australian literature: Indigenous Australian writers and the Miles Franklin Award
July 20, 2020 July 20, 2020 / whisperinggums
This is not going to be a treatise on the Miles Franklin Award and diversity. We all know literary awards have not been as diverse as they could have been (and that they still have a way to go). We know, too, that this is not only due to judging, but also reflects the fact that the publishing industry has not been as diverse as it could be. It is probably also true that, in the past at least, we readers have not demanded more diversity in our reading. However, this story is too complex for this post, and, anyhow, has been explored many times. Today, I simply want to celebrate those Indigenous Australian writers who have been listed for and/or won Australia's (arguably) most prestigious literary award, the Miles Franklin, in the spirit of bringing attention to their work as a body of literature.
Notwithstanding the above, I do need to make the point that it wasn't until 2000 that we started seeing Indigenous Australian writers appear in the short and longlists for the award*.
2000 Kim Scott's Benang (won) (Lisa's and Bill's reviews)
2007 Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (won) (my review)
2011 Kim Scott's That Deadman Dance (won) (my review)
2012 Tony Birch Blood (shortlisted) (Lisa's review)
2014 Melissa Lucashenko Mullumbimby (longlisted) (Lisa's review)
2014 Alexis Wright The Swan Book (shortlisted) (Lisa's and Bill's reviews)
2016 Tony Birch Ghost River (longlisted) (my review)
2018 Kim Scott's Taboo (shortlisted) (Lisa's and Bill's reviews)
2019 Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip (won) (my review)
2020 Tony Birch's The white girl (shortlisted) (my review)
2020 Tara June Winch's The yield (won) (my review)
You could probably call this a round-up of the usual suspects, in terms of contemporary Indigenous Australian novelists, with Kim Scott and Tony Birch appearing three times, Melissa Lucashenko and Alexis Wright twice each, and of course relative newbie, Tara June Winch, once. It's notable that every book here deals with Indigenous issues. This is important for truth-telling, but it will be a measure of our maturity as a nation when Indigenous Australian writers can feel free of the need to carry these truths on their backs.
Anyhow, I wonder what Miles Franklin would say? When she said "without an indigenous literature, people can remain alien in their own soil", I don't believe she was thinking of the real Indigenous people of this soil. However, I imagine that, were she living now, she would love the richness that the growth of Indigenous Australian literature has brought to Australian life and culture.
It seems apposite, then, to leave this (very) little tribute with the words of this year's winner, Tara June Winch, as quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, "It doesn't have to be POC writers against white voices – we have to work together to bring voices to the fore." Absolutely. Let's hope more and more diverse writers get to tell their stories to us. I – and I know many of my litblogging friends – love to read them. Meanwhile, if you haven't read it yet, I recommend that you do read The yield, a complex but strong book which its author calls "a once-in-a-lifetime love letter to Australia."
Have you read any of the listed books, and if so, would you like to share your favourite/s?
* I may have missed a writer or two, as I didn't find complete lists of short and longlisted authors from the beginning of the award, but I think my point still stands.
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32 thoughts on "Monday musings on Australian literature: Indigenous Australian writers and the Miles Franklin Award"
Thanks for those links, I have reviewed some of the others too, adversely in a couple of cases. But Wright and Scott are Australia's two best writers IMO at the moment. If Wright had a larger body of work she'd be in line for the Nobel that Murnane should have got. On the other hand, Too Much Lip was one of a number of ordinary MF winners in recent years, so I'll be pleased if The Yield is worthier. I'd better read it.
You had! I can't guess what you'll think, but if I had to I'd say you'll like it! I knew you, and Lisa, had reviewed others, but just popped yours in for the ones I hadn't!
I have taken note of two names there – Kim Scott and Tony Birch and will download both of them to my kindle when I finish current books. Thanks for the review.
Thanks Pink Roses. I'll look out for your reviews!
beckylindroos
I read That Deadman Dance a long time ago so I was pleased to find Taboo on your list for a few years ago. I think I might have tried to get it back then but no luck. Here it is now :-). I also put both of the books by Alexis Wright on my wish list, Thank you!!!
Excellent Bekah!
It'd be terrific if, e.g., Philip McLaren won an MF award one day, eh ? – we know it can be done. 😀
Who's Philip McLaren when he's at home, M-R? No, wait, let me guess, he's a crime writer!? 😁
An indigenous crime writer ..
No doubt Sue will be in shock when she reads this because "I don't read crime" but I have read and reviewed not one but two of Philip McLaren's novels, see here https://anzlitlovers.com/category/writers-aust-nz-in-capitals/mclaren-philip/
Sweet Water Stolen Land (which *is* a crime novel) won the David Unaipon in 1992, but — to quote my own review — There'll Be New Dreams (2001) is not, as I've seen it labelled, a 'police procedural', because the interest is in justice as a human right, not a who-or-whydunnit.
I admired both of these novels, which are a bit of a rarity because there weren't all that many Indigenous novels around back then since most IndigLit was memoirs at that time, but I don't think either of these two novels were 'in the race' for the MF. There was a *very* strong shortlist in 2001 which was won by Frank Moorhouse for his stunning Dark Palace, and the same is true for the 1992 list, won by Cloudstreet.
McLaren is a Kamilaroi man from the Warrumbungle Mountain region in northwestern New South Wales. He won the 2010 Prix Litteraire des Recits de l'ailleurs (a French prize for foreign literature, but I don't know which book it won it for).
GOODONYERMATE ! Thanks, Lisa ! 😀
Well well well, I am surprised Lisa. But thanks so much for sharing all this. Fascinating.
*chuckle* I thought you would be!
Well, you learn something new every day! Thanks M-R.
Gosh ! I told you something you didn't know .. a-ma-zing. I feel proud. 😀
I like that you do M-R, but I wouldn't put too much store by it, because, I hate to tell you, there's a lot I don't know.
I would love to read these authors but its nigh on impossible to get reasonably priced editions of the books in the UK. I tried the library but they don't have any of them. Having fought to gain recognition in their home country, these authors now have another barrier to overcome: international awareness….
We know that, Karen, and it's a big shame isn't it? Your library should at least try for some major Aussie award-winners I think!
kimbofo
That Deadman Dance was published in the UK by Bloomsbury many years ago now and promptly went out of print, but it's available in Kindle. His latest, Taboo, was published in the UK by Small Beer Press last year. Alexis Wright's work is also published in paperback by Constable and readily available. The Yield will be published in Jan 2021 I believe. Most of Tony Birch's work is available as Kindle editions. Hope this is useful!
Thanks for sharing all this kimbofo. I hope it's useful too.
Hi Sue, I have read them, and liked most of them. It is wonderful that Indigenous writers are now more readily recognised, and given the recognition they deserve in awards. And, as you say, The Yield, is a must read.
They are a good bunch of books aren't they Meg. A similar underlying concern with dispossession, but so varied in approach.
Thanks so much for assembling that list, It turns out I've read five of the 11 books and am part way through a sixth. Unlike Bill, I just loved Too Much Lip.
Me too, Jonathan. I thought Too much lip was inspired. Sometimes you just can't understand someone else's taste can you! Sorry Bill!
I have read all of Scott's work and I would Benang on a list of the most powerful (and memorable) novels I have ever read. I've also read The White Girl, but didn't think it was literary enough for the MF. That's not to take away from the importance of the story but I think it was written for a more generalist audience. You could almost say the same for Too Much Lip. I am currently reading The Yield and LOVING it. I need to put Alexis Wright's work on my TBR
Yes, I'm with you, kimbofo, about The white girl. A good read but a bit conventional. I must read Benang.
WG (and Johnathon!) can have a dig at me because I think Too Much Lip didn't deserve an MF. But Benang and The Swan Book are, outside maybe of Murnane, quite easily the two best literary books written in Australia in the last quarter century, and maybe ever.
Hurry up, the pair of you, ie. Kim and WG, and read them.
I love your confidence Bill! I find it really hard to make such "best" pronouncements. I have The swan book on my TBR. I must put my Indigenous Australian TBR books in a special pile so I can go to them easily.
If nothing else, this is a great starter list for an introduction into indigenous writers. I have read some, but not enough!
Thanks Marg. I sort of hoped the list could play that role.
I have read most of this list, as well as Alexis Wright's Tracker, which you have somehow left off your list – it won the Stella Prize in 2018. A couple of years ago I excitedly took my Kim Scott books to the Perth Writers Festival for signing (Taboo had been published shortly before). Kim had just spoken brilliantly on a panel, but I was stunned to find myself the only one there for him – for someone who has won the Miles twice I think he is shockingly undervalued (though admittedly I found Benang hard work). I saw/heard Melissa Lucashenko speak the day after I finished her book, and immediately liked the book more – her personality somehow put a different slant on it for me. She could be a stand-up comedian if the books don't make enough money! Loved The Yield too and was very glad it won, though had also much enjoyed The White Girl, and am keen to read more of his.
Thanks very much Sue. I left Tracker off the list because this list was about books which were long or shortlisted for or won the Miles Franklin Award. Tracker, being non-fiction, of course was not in the running, and wasn't listed for it.
I have heard Kim Scott speak – in 2017. He had a packed audience (the theatre took 300 people) and we all hung on every word. I have heard Melissa Lucashenko speak too, a couple of times. She is powerful. A very different personality to Kim Scott! And, I heard Tara June Winch last year – she was great, and it, unlike the other occasions I've mentioned, was in a small venue with maybe 40 people. It was about The yield and was really interesting because of the long genesis of this book.
Anyhow, thanks very much for commenting.
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Defense Attorney Brian Whitelaw on The Relationship Between Physician, Defense Counsel, and Insurance Carrier
Despite the likelihood of being sued, most physicians are inadequately prepared to understand the dynamics affecting the relationship between physician, defense attorney and insurance company.
Shortly after your lawsuit is served, a meeting or telephone conference will typically be scheduled with your insurance claim representative. The malpractice carrier will also send a letter acknowledging receipt of the claim. That letter will typically include a reference to your policy limits, the fact that you have a right to retain personal counsel to cover your risk in excess of limits, and other preliminary matters. As a general rule, your insurance company has two primary obligations to you: (1) a duty to defend you, and (2) a duty to indemnify you up to your policy limits.
In order to defend you, your insurance company will retain counsel. It may or may not ask for your input with respect to the selection of your lawyer. Most insurance companies have a panel of lawyers who are approved to represent their insured physicians. You should ask your carrier which attorneys are on the panel and ask to be assigned highly-experienced counsel, with a successful record of trying cases to a physician victory.
On this topic, the world of medical malpractice defense attorneys can be split roughly into two groups: 1) attorneys who primarily represent physicians; and (2) attorneys who primarily represent hospitals. I recommend you advocate for an attorney who primarily represents doctors. In almost every jurisdiction, there are successful attorneys who regularly represent physicians, take many cases to trial and have a successful record. By the same token, many attorneys with decades of "experience" have tried few if any cases. In general, hospitals tend to settle more cases than companies insuring physicians. If your attorney does not have a reputation as a successful trial lawyer, would you be comfortable having him try your case? Would you be happy with his recommendation that you settle the case, even if you think you did nothing wrong? Would you expect him to be able to negotiate the best settlement, where appropriate, when the opposition knows he or she is unlikely to try the case? When the claims person tells you whom they intend to assign, try to find out as much as you can about the lawyer before a final decision is made.
(This post was written by Brian Whitelaw, a Grand Rapids, Michigan attorney who, since 1983, has focused on the defense of medical malpractice litigation).
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