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Introduction to Computer Storage
Computer Storage Systems have seen a massive evolution and transformation over the last 100 years or so. These changes have been dramatic relative to size of storage, price of storage and the access speed of storage. These changes were only possible due to rapid advances in technology which took years to evolve initially but in the last decade haveaccelerated due to rapid innovations and concerted/ collaborative efforts of industry giants. These technology advances have revolutionized the way companies, businesses and consumers use storage technologies today. From the most ubiquitous smart phone device, personal computers all the way to businesses who now have come to rely more and more on cloud storage services.
In this article we try to capture the evolution of storage technologies over the years and examine the fundamental technical reason that has accelerated storage evolution over the last decade
Storage evolution over the last 70 years relative to size, capacity and price
The table below highlights the trends in storage. Initially, the advances in technology were slow but mostly led by IBM in the 60s and 70s in the Megabyte revolution. In the 80s and 90s other companies jumped onto the storage bandwagon and started the Gigabyte revolution soon to be followed by the Terabyte revolution. Today there are many physical form factors of storage devices from the traditional mechanical Hard Disk Drives (HDD)to Non-Volatile Memoryor Solid-State Devices (SSD). However, the fastest and most dynamic revolution is occurring in the Cloud.
Storage Technology Evolution over the last 100 years (Another View)
The diagram below is a pictorial representation of how storage technologies have evolved over the last 100 years. It is a complementary diagram to the earlier diagram of this article
The fastest growing storage technology today
Most storage systems today use some form or the other of a mechanical device. These devices, otherwise known as Hard Disk Drives (HDD), are most prevalent in almost all storage systems today. HDDs are the dominant technology for several reasons: (1) Very high recording density per platter (2) More than one platter per HDD (3) Higher rotational speeds up to 15000 RPM for enterprise class drives and (4) Reduced costs due to economies of scale. However, they do have inherent disadvantages due to the following reasons (1) Further recording density increase has hit the limits of physical space (2) Increasing the rotational speed of the platter increases the cost exponentially and (3) Being a mechanical device it is bound to physically fail due to all the moving parts. A single HDD with a single platter at 15000 RPM can at most deliver a transfer speed of 100MB/s for sequential block reads. Random reads for the same configuration, the transfer speed drops down to as low as 10MB/s
Given the inherent limitations of mechanical storage devices and the rapid drop in prices of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM), NVM is the next revolution in storage. It is found in almost all mobile devices and now continues to replace mechanical devices across the board. There are several reasons for this (1) They are now cost competitive with HDDs per terabyte of storage capacity. This price parity will continue to erode in favor of NVM in the coming years (2) NVM technology is far more reliable in the longer term because it has no moving parts 3) NVM is over 100 times faster than HDD and has similar transfer speeds for both sequential and random reads/writes unlike HDDs and 4) Micro-second read/ write latency compared to milli-second latency for HDDs.
Companies like Intel and Samsung have now developed NVM technologies that are 3 dimensional which means increased storage density per cubic measure of volume without any performance degradation.
The first system implementations of NVM were found to be Solid State Drives that use the Serial ATA Protocol or SATA. The reason behind this was very simple. Immediately achieve a 100-fold increase in transfer speeds relative to HDD without changing the upper level Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) protocol. The SCSI protocol is over 4 decades old and is used by all I/O protocols such as Fiber Channel etc. All major operating systems also support the SCSI protocol, so for the industry to gain quick gains, it was easy to replace the HDD with an NVM based SSD.
The next disruption was soon born because the SCSI protocol and its associated software stack was very heavy as far as execution time was concerned. This SCSI protocol overhead directly impacts latency of reads and writes which is detrimental to high performance applications such as High Frequency Trading, Small transactions in Banking and numerous database applications for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Thus, an industry working group was formed to address the latency problem associated with the SCSI protocol. The industry came up with a new protocol which takes advantage of the native speed of Non-Volatile Memory. They completely eliminated the SCSI protocol to define a new protocol called NVMe (Non-Volatile-Memory Express) protocol. In this protocol, the NVM device is directly attached to the I/O PCI express bus hence the extension "e" in NVM. This eliminates the need to have the traditional hardware and firmware that resides in a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) along with the HBA itself. The following diagram illustrates this concept
Latest Non-Volatile Memory Highlights
PCIe Gen1 is 2.5 gbps per lane per direction. Today's SSDs pack Gen3 x2 or Gen3 x4 (8 Gbps x 2 or 4 lanes = upto 32 Gbps) bandwidth in a very tiny M.2 gumstick form-factor
3-D NAND and 3D-Xpoint NAND - DRAM-bandwidth at Flash-economies - very low-latency flash (20us IO read/Write latency compared to 200us latency for enterprise flash
New form-factor coming to pack TB of capacity - "ruler" form factor from Intel
NVMe enables performance scaling with increase in capacity - traditionally denser HDD did not bring any performance improvement.
NVMe over TCP enables low-cost SAN deployment compared to Infiniband, RoCE, iWarp or FC
NVMe allows dual-ported drives - provides High-availability (same PCIe connector for either gen3/gen4 x4 or 2 separate gen3/gen4 x2 links) - and same connector can connect a native-SATA drive as well.
Further evolutions in NVMe – Non-Volatile Memory Express Over Fabric (NVMe-o-F)
Restricting NVMe inside the box, server chassis, has implications for scaling a storage system. Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Networks (SAN) do not have scaling issues. These are field proven technologies for large enterprises with each having advantages and disadvantages in certain type of applications. NVMe-o-F is now about to change the dominance of NAS and SAN storage networks. Several competing technologies are now defining new protocols to replace FC and NAS in enterprise and cloud environments. These are iWarp, FC and RoCE. These technologies intend to use existing ethernet and fiber channel networks to deploy NVMe outside the server chassis. TCP/IP is also a very old protocol that runs over existing ethernet infrastructure and they too are in the process of extending NVMe outside the server chassis. It is only a matter of time when all storage (green field projects) adopt NVMe-o-F as the preferred storage technology. The following diagram illustrates NVMe-o-F in a CCTV surveillance application
Data Security and Data Protection
Data Security has to do with unauthorized access to data whereas Data Protection has to do with computer component failure. Both these need to be considered as important and must live together "components" with interrelated recovery policies. As this subject is too vast for discussion, we highlight the main points here:
Data growth: Sufficient policies must be in place to handle future growth
Cyberattack growth: This phenomenon is bound to increase so this also needs to be considered in an overall security policy
Cost of data breaches: Must act as a powerful incentive to have a strong security policy and mechanism in place as these breaches can become very expensive
Increasing data value: All the more reason to prevent data breaches by having a solid security policy
Storage vulnerabilities are inherent in storage systems. They include the following
Lack of encryption
Cloud storage: Understand the security offerings by cloud storage providers. All these features come at a cost
Incomplete data destruction: All efforts and methods must be implemented to insure the total destruction of data when it is no longer needed
Lack of physical security: This is one of the most common causes of data breaches and is often overlooked. Policies and procedures must be put in place to address this issue as critical data breaches are done by human beings
Following are some of the best data security practices
Data storage security policies: These vary between organizations as well as departments. Based on access priority the relevant data must be sufficiently secured for unauthorized access
Encryption and access control: Data must be encrypted both in transit and at rest with appropriate access control
Strong network security: As several devices will have access to data including smart phones, these endpoints can be weak endpoints for cyber breaches
Backup and recovery: These are the fundamental requirements for any organization to implement. Without this any data breach, loss or destruction of data can be catastrophic
Eight Data Security Best Practices
1 Write and enforce data security policies that include data security models.
2 Implement role-based access control and use multi-factor authentication where appropriate.
3 Encrypt data in transit and at rest.
4 Deploy a data loss prevention solution.
5 Surround your storage devices with strong network security measures.
6 Protect user devices with appropriate endpoint security.
7 Provide storage redundancy with RAID and other technologies.
8 Use a secure backup and recovery solution.
The following points become clear and must be considered in storage adoption, data security and data protection
The rate at which data sets continue to grow across all market segments must be seriously approached in developing a broad implementation strategy
Corresponding technologies will continue to drop in price, increase in performance and increase in storage volume density
Develop a consistent data security policy that is applied across all branches of the tree
Develop and implement a corresponding data protection policy
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This is a wonderful documentary on the full history of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's a great, and informative, watch. You can't beat the rental price of $2.99 either. I was on-board the TMNT train back in 84, when I discovered the 2nd printing of issue number one at my favorite comic book shop, Comics & Comix, in Citrus Heights, California.
It was the Summer of 1984, the LA Olympics were almost upon us, Miss America was exposed in the pages of Penthouse, and I was recovering from the passing of my Granny while preparing for my freshman year in High-school. Being 14, and a Ninja devote', I fell in instant love with the four brothers and their master. Being an open minded nerd, the move to a more kid friendly style in the cartoon didn't bother me, and I am a HUGE fan of the 2012 CGI turtles on Nickelodeon. Heck, I have quite a few episodes of the new, and the 2003 version. We even had a Turtle Marathon on Sunday between the two. This documentary doesn't cover, or mention the new incarnation since it came out a few years ago.
Disney's New DuckTales Quacks Me Up!


Lion House Dinner Rolls: Baking Partners challenge #4: Part 2.
As I have mentioned in the earlier post, I have made a couple of dinner rolls for this Baking Partner's challenge. First time when I saw the Lion house dinner rolls was in Studio 5 show, where Brenda Hopkin, the Lion House Head Baker was showing how to make these dinner rolls with their mixes, I was curious and decide to try it.
Lion house bakeries are a famous bakery in Salt Lake city, Utah. I have lot of memories connected to Utah, after marriage I lived for about 11 month. My hubby stayed there for about 6 years he worked at Bingham University and then for a company in Orem, Utah. We used to take long walks after dinner and weekends around the city as everything was closed there in Sunday. I too worked at Utah Valley State University for two semesters, before moving to Texas. It is a beautiful place with snow covered mountains in the winter and running waters stream in summer. My hubby and I took long drives during weekend to see national parks, Grand Canyon etc. I miss all that now. However, right now getting any personal time is out of question. Even taking a nap is not easy; one kid will be wake while the other one is taking a nap.
I wanted to try lion house bakeries rolls exactly the way Brenda showed in that video, the only change I made is that I used both All-purpose and bread flour. I like that combo to prevent the chewiness. I also added a combo of shortening and butter instead of butter alone. I made rose shaped and clover leaf rolls with it. It turned out the delicious and soft.
Here is the recipe, these are really good for your dinner table; I am 100% sure about that.
In a small bowl mix warm water and milk powder and combine well and set aside.
In a bowl of kitchen aid stand mixer mix the flours, salt, sugar, yeast, shortening and butter along with wet ingredients to form a sticky dough.
Knead well to form smooth dough and transfer to a greased bowl for doubling. It took about 90 minutes.
Once it doubled transfer the dough to well floured area and spread it into rectangle and then cut out clover leaf and rose shape.
In a small bowl combine the water and the milk powder and stir so the milk dissolves and combine well.
In the large bowl of an electric mixer, add flour, yeast , sugar, salt, shortening, egg . Gradually add water and milk mixture and mix on low speed of mixer until ingredients are wet, then turn to medium speed and mix for 2 minutes. The dough will be getting stiff and you may need to remove the bowl from the mixer. The dough should be soft, not overly sticky, and not stiff.
Scrape the dough off the sides of the bowl and pour approximately one tablespoon of vegetable oil all around the sides of the bowl. Turn the dough over in the bowl so it is covered with the oil. (This helps prevent the dough from drying out.) Cover with plastic and allow to rise in a warm place until double in size it takes about 90 minutes.
Sprinkle a cutting board or counter with flour and put the dough on the flour. It is now ready to roll out and cut into desired shape and size of rolls. Place on greased (or parchment lined) baking pans. Let rise in a warm place until the rolls are double in size (approx. 30 to 45 minutes) .At end of second rise heat the pre-heat oven to 375F. When you are ready for baking brush with egg wash.
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until they are browned to your satisfaction.
Remove from the oven and cool it in wire rack. Enjoy with warm butter.
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Wow Superb !! you made them perfectly !!
I cant taste those rolls but its perfect looking and I bet it taste so great…..love ur clicks….
Awesome.. Dinner rolls look perfect..
wow wow and wow…awesome rolls dear..
Super!!They are so divine and looks so nice and want to grab them.
Perfectly baked rolls! Looks fantastic.
The rolls look just perfect Swathi….
Swathi, you know how much I love these artistic buns! Lovely!
Awesome job Swathi, loved that you have made all the shapes, i'll be making some rose shaped dinner rolls soon with wheat flour.
yours came out just perfect…gorgeous!!!
Wow looks so good and perfectly done!!! love the rose shape!!
Swathi! I LOVE the rose shape! Thanks so much for sharing your recipe and the folding technique!
Felicitaciones por el paso a paso gran receta hugs,hugs.
What a treat these beautiful rolls are Swathi! They're perfect. I always wondered where the name came from. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!
Mouthwatering rolls! Lovely! 🙂 Came here from HBG and I am a big rolls fan so ever ready to try another recipe 🙂 Tks for sharing!
One question. Does the omission of shortening affect the rolls? Have not used it before. Have used butter instead in all the recipes so far. Thanks in advance!


Each new year, millions of resolutions are made. From eating healthier to finding love and getting organized, January is the perfect time to set personal goals for the coming year. If your resolution has to do with becoming a homeowner, these homes by Austin Portfolio Real Estate agents might be just what you're looking for.
5625 Sacco Street | Listed at $253,950 | Ana Swanson This beautiful home's open and inviting floor plan make it one-of-a-kind. It showcases custom interior finishes, designer cabinetry and high quality ceramic tile flooring in wet areas, along with double bowl cultured marble vanities in master bathroom. Your one-of-a-kind kitchen has granite counter tops with upgraded ceramic tile backsplash and Frigidaire® black appliances to include dishwasher, microwave and gas range.
8400 Siskin Cove | Listed at $310,000 | Desmond Milvenan Located in charming hip South Austin, this home boasts a spacious living area with natural light, high ceilings, fireplace and an open floor plan. The custom built-in buffet really brings the wow-factor! The inviting master suite has a private balcony and ensuite bathroom. Lounge on the covered back patio and enjoy the large fenced and private backyard. Conveniently located on a quiet cul-de-sac with green areas, it offers easy access to downtown and Austin's hot spots. Walk to the neighborhood park with basketball court, playscape and walking trails.
900 Old Mill Road | Starting at the $320,000's | Ana Swanson Enjoy life at your peaceful new home in Cedar Mill Place and feel miles away from the city, while still having quick access to major highways and shopping areas. Kick back at the nearby pool, enjoy a stroll around one of many nearby parks or take a short drive and enjoy one of the many great restaurants in the area. With a plethora of events happening almost daily, be as active as you want to be!
11708 Running Fox Trail | Listed at $365,000 | Jeannette Spinelli The noteworthy features of this three bedroom and two bathroom home include hardwood floors, granite kitchen countertops, an open floor plan, and heated pool with expansive patio. It's the perfect space for those who enjoy entertaining family and friends. Located between The Domain and Arboretum, endless amenities are just minutes away.
3108 E 51st Street | Listed at $369,000 | David McCall Less than one year old and barely lived in, this private end unit with windows on three sides is gorgeous. It features 10 foot ceilings both upstairs and downstairs, custom wood shutters, and quartz counters in the kitchen and bathrooms. The bedrooms are spacious with ensuite bathrooms and huge closets. A laundry space and study alcove are located on the second floor. Enjoy a privacy fenced yard and garage, along with being 10 minutes to downtown, two minutes to Mueller and 12 minutes to ABIA.
8521 Alophia Drive | Listed at $448,000 | Julie Gualandri Located in Meridian, southwest Austin, sits a gorgeous family home that is perfect for a large or growing family. The master is located down while the four additional bedrooms and two full bathrooms are upstairs. There is also a family room and bonus room that could be utilized as an office or play room on the second floor. Do you need a craft room? One of the upstairs bedrooms has white tile floors – it's just waiting for your creative projects. Children and pets alike will adore the large backyard, and it's just a short walk to Baldwin Elementary School. Built in 2009, this home offers 3,190 square feet. Come see, you won't want to leave!
703 Bouldin Avenue | Listed at $1,350,000 | Eric Copper This ultra modern home raises the bar with superior construction and features cutting-edge German "Passivhaus" energy standards. Located in the heart of Bouldin in Austin's hottest and trendiest zip code, 78704, this estate showcases clean lines and sophisticated simplicity. Serene, light-filled ambiance is created with oversized German Zola windows. It is surrounded by mature trees on a private lot with pool, custom-designed mosaic waterfall, and pool bath. Features include solar panels, rainwater collection and seasonal downtown Austin views.


In the fall of 2018, Deepwater Wind was acquired by Ørsted. Our two companies have since merged, creating the leading offshore wind platform in the U.S. We've combined Deepwater Wind's longstanding expertise in originating, developing and permitting offshore wind projects in the U.S. with Ørsted's unparalleled global track-record in engineering, constructing, and operating large-scale offshore wind farms and are excited to deliver clean energy along the Eastern Seaboard.
Jumpstarting a brand new clean energy industry, putting hundreds to work on leading edge projects.
Powering America's coastlines with an abundant, clean source of domestic energy.
Improving air quality by displacing harmful carbon emissions from fossil fuel power plants.
America's first offshore wind farm. The 30-megawatt, 5 turbine Block Island Wind Farm began commercial operations in 2016.
Deepwater Wind's new South Fork Wind Farm will make Long Island a national leader in renewable energy. It will defer the need to build costly new fossil-fired power generators or controversial transmission lines, which will save money for ratepayers. It will help both the Town of East Hampton and New York State achieve their clean energy goals. It will be designed, built and operated with extensive federal, state, and local oversight to ensure the highest levels of safety and environmental stewardship.
Deepwater ONE is an offshore wind energy area located roughly halfway between Montauk, N.Y., and Martha's Vineyard, Mass., with the potential for more than 1,000 MW of offshore wind development. Deepwater Wind plans to build multiple phases in this wind energy area to serve Long Island, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Our 90 MW South Fork Wind Farm will be the first project constructed in the Deepwater ONE wind energy area. Deepwater Wind won the nation's first competitive lease auction in 2013 for exclusive rights to develop this 256-square mile site.
Deepwater Wind is a leading U.S. offshore wind and transmission developer. Led by a veteran team with extensive experience in developing renewable-energy projects, Deepwater Wind is making offshore wind in the U.S. a reality. Our Block Island Wind Farm is America's first offshore wind farm.
Headquartered in Providence, RI, we are actively planning offshore wind projects to serve multiple East Coast markets located 15 or more miles offshore, including New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, and New Jersey.


Jason Statham plays his part well. Let's face it; we all know what we are getting into with most of his films. I like them. It's a guy's movie with guns, girls and artificial hearts. No complaints from me. Don't expect it to rock your world, just enjoy the mayhem.


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Rails is kinda like that friend you have who's really into foreign films. It knows what it likes and is very picky about what it will accept. Especially with params. If you build your param hashes out correctly in rails, life is swell. Submitting forms is a breeze. You can instantiate a new object, feed it params, and let rails sort out the rest. But if you don't build out the data for params correctly, submitting forms and updating objects in you db is a royal pain.
Let's look at a pattern that we have come up with here at Littlelines to build out params hashes that play nice with rails using the Vue framework's computed property functionality.
Computed Properties are basically a way to compose reactive data and update all the linked data in your UI automatically. That was a lot of buzz words at once, so let's dive in a bit and unpack that.
We have found computed properties to be very useful here when combining other reactive Vue properties (such as 'data' or 'props') to make other reactive properties. The major benefit of this approach is when one of these combined pieces of data is changed, your computed property is updated automatically to reflect this.
Say you are selling tickets to a concert. You have an API endpoint that creates a purchase for a user and a performance. You might have a few pieces of data that you want to piece together to build out your UI.
The 'params' computed property is the secret sauce of this pattern. It composes references to a prop (this.performance), a data property (this.numberOfTickets), a v-model on a input (this.zipCode), and three other computed properties (tax, subtotal, and total). We can even convert the camelCased js properties to snake_cased keys in the object for ruby, so each languages' standards are appeased.
I hope you have found this powerful little pattern interesting and see a use for it in your next project! Thanks for reading.


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Home > Case News > Governor Schwarzenegger Veto's SB 201 – The Raw Milk Bill is Dead
Governor Schwarzenegger Veto's SB 201 – The Raw Milk Bill is Dead
By Food Poisoning Lawyer on September 30, 2008
On August 21, 2008 I urged Governor Schwarzenegger to Veto SB 201. I learned a few moments ago that the Governor did just that. Makes a life long Democrat think about switching to the other team. Hopefully, the Senators will reconsider the bill and review some of the ideas I had outlined in a letter to them that I posted here on August 27, 2008.
Sometimes politicians do the right thing. Here is the "Governator's" veto letter:
To the Members of the California State Senate:
I am returning Senate Bill 201 without my signature.
This bill weakens food safety standards in California, something I cannot support.
Last year I signed AB 1735, which passed the Legislature unanimously and put into law food safety standards for raw milk. Those standards are now in question by the proponents of this bill. Looking past the lobbying techniques, public relations campaign, and legal maneuvering in the courts, one conclusion is inescapably clear: the standard in place has kept harmful products off the shelves and California's raw milk dairies have been operating successfully under it for the entirety of 2008.
Based on fears with no basis in fact, the proponents of SB 201 seek to replace California's unambiguous food safety standards for raw milk. Instead they have created a convoluted and undefined regulatory process with no enforcement authority or clear standards to protect public health.
For these reasons, I cannot support this measure.
See Senator Florez's response:
The Governor's veto of SB 201 is disappointing but certainly not
unexpected. The Administration's concerted efforts to defeat SB 201
are nothing more than an attempt to cover up the fraud committed on
the legislature through CDFA's sponsorship of AB 1735, which placed
the wrong standards for raw milk into law. There is no question that
AB 1735 was flawed. The legislature carried multiple pieces of
legislation this year, including SB 201, to correct some of those
flaws. The Governor signed another urgency measure that specifically
fixed deficiencies in AB 1735 related to market milk (AB 2284 – Galgiani).
There is no question that raw milk and pasteurized milk are two
distint products. This Administration's attempt to use the same
standard for both products defies logic and can be taken as an attempt
to regulate California's two raw milk dairies out of business. The
philosophy and science behind SB 201 is supported by food safety
researchers from one of California's most respected Universities.
These researchers agree that the regulatory structure of SB 201 would
make raw milk in California safer than existing law.
It is unfortunate that the Governor continues to play politics with
the issue of food safety. This merely serves to lower the food safety
standards that Californians rely upon for their protection.
As Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Foodborne Illness, I am
committed to pushing forward on the issue of food safety and look
forward to putting forth legislation next year to move the ball
forward on this important issue.


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Challenge to "Choose Life" License Plates Continues in Louisiana
Case Challenges Overall Policy for Issuing Specialty Plates
Yesterday, the Center for Reproductive Rights filed an amended complaint challenging Louisiana's policy of issuing specialty license plates. The Center charges that Louisiana's specialty plates infringe on first amendment rights because they only express one viewpoint on an issue. In Louisiana, no pro-choice license plate exists, yet "Choose Life" plates are sold and distributed throughout the state. While anti-abortion proponents are given the opportunity to express their viewpoint on a government-sponsored license plate, efforts to create pro-choice plates have been defeated by the Louisiana legislature. The Center also argues that the license plate policy violates the separation of Church and State because it requires that the "Choose Life Council" responsible for distributing funds include fundamentalist Christian groups. In addition, plaintiffs allege that the policy's fund distribution function discriminates based on viewpoint because organizations that offer comprehensive reproductive healthcare, which includes counseling on all pregnancy-related options, are ineligible to receive the funds.
"Louisiana is ignoring the free-speech rights of its pro-choice citizens," said Simon Heller, Of Counsel with the Center for Reproductive Rights and lead counsel on the case. "This unconstitutional policy silences some groups and propagates the beliefs of others," added Heller.
The "Choose Life" challenge in Louisiana was revived after the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an unusual order in January allowing the plaintiffs to amend their complaint in the trial court. The new order revises a previous order requiring the trial court to dismiss the case in its entirety. In August 2000, Judge Duval of the Eastern District of Louisiana issued a preliminary injunction preventing distribution of the license plates. On March 29, 2002, the Fifth Circuit reversed the district court's order. In August 2002, the Fifth Circuit also denied a request for the full 15-member court to rehear the case and denied the Center's petition to block the dismissal of the case until the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on whether to review the case. The petition to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied in December 2002.
Motorists who purchase the plates pay a fee above the cost of a standard license plate. The revenue generated from the sale is then funneled to non-profit, anti-abortion organizations, including so-called "crisis pregnancy centers" that often promise comprehensive medical advice and services but deliver anti-abortion propaganda. Any organization that mentions abortion as a neutral option - including counseling, referrals or advertising - is prohibited from receiving any of the funds.
Six states have enacted legislation to create "Choose Life" license plates and are using the proceeds to help fund the distribution of biased medical and anti-choice information.
Plaintiffs in Henderson v. Stalder include Russell J. Henderson, Doreen Keeler, Rabbi Robert H. Loewy and the Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women. Simon Heller and Priscilla Smith of the Center for Reproductive Rights represent the plaintiffs along with attorney William Rittenberg, of the firm Rittenberg & Samuel in New Orleans.
"Choose-Life" License Plate Scheme Halted in Louisiana
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UCF receives NSF RAPID Award to develop cough drops to help control COVID-19
A team of University of Central Florida researchers is looking at changing people's saliva to help manage the spread of COVID-19 as the nation gets ready to go back to work and school.
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ORLANDO, May 12, 2020 – A team of University of Central Florida researchers is looking at changing people's saliva to help manage the spread of COVID-19 as the nation gets ready to go back to work and school.
The team is doing this through a recently awarded National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research Award for $200,000 to explore reducing COVID-19 transmission by making saliva heavier and stickier using candy or corn starch to help sneeze and cough particles fall rather than float.
The approach could lead to creating something as simple as a cough drop or lozenge that people would pop in their mouths before going into the grocery store, work or school.
"One way to kind of think about it is, for example, clouds are just little, tiny droplets that are suspended in the air for hours, and they just flow with the atmosphere," says Mike Kinzel, an assistant professor in UCF's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering who is the project's principal investigator.
"However, these droplets collide to form larger droplets that just fall out of the air," he says. "That's kind of the process we're trying to promote. We don't want the droplets to blow around with the wind like a cloud, we want them to fall out of the sky like rain."
A way to reduce transmission distance will be especially important as people return to work and school, where maintaining six feet of social distance may be difficult, says Kareem Ahmed, an assistant professor in the department and co-principal investigator.
"The six feet is great as a general guide, but then in a confined environment like our offices, grocery stores, public transit or hospitals, these droplets are going to interact with surfaces, HVAC systems or ventilations," Ahmed says.
"So if we change the properties from the source, which is essentially our respiratory functions, whether it's coughing, sneezing, speaking or breathing, then you're simply going to reduce the amount that you're producing, and hopefully bring the six feet to something shorter, where we can interact more," Ahmed says.
"Based on our early data, coupling a face mask with saliva mixed with corn starch will potentially have us go from six feet to two feet for social distancing," he says.
Leading the analyses of the effort are postdoctoral researchers Douglas Hector Fontes in Kinzel's lab and Jonathan Reyes in Ahmed's lab.
Fontes is running numerical simulations to study how differences in viscosity, density and surface tension impact droplet dispersal.
"Our preliminary results have shown a significant reduction in the duration of droplet suspension in the air by changing the properties of the saliva," Fontes says.
Reyes is using high-speed cameras to characterize the patterns and distance traveled of droplets emitted from sneezing and coughing, including those that have been altered by candy or starch. He's finding similar reductions.
"Our data have shown that altering the physical properties of the saliva shows great promise in reducing the exposure of a sneeze," Reyes says. "Particulates travel shorter distances and fall faster."
As part of the research, Reyes is also supplying the sneezing.
"If you know anyone who can sneeze on command, send them my way," Reyes says.
The team is working closely with Jelena Catania, a doctor and expert in infectious diseases at UCF's College of Medicine and the Orlando Veteran's Administration Medical Center, for the implementation challenges, and Brent Craven, a researcher at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, for the potential implementation.
Kinzel received his doctorate in aerospace engineering from The Pennsylvania State University and joined UCF in 2018. In addition to being a member of UCF's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering, a part of UCF's College of Engineering and Computer Science, he also works with UCF's Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research.
Ahmed earned his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He worked at Pratt & Whitney Military Engines and Old Dominion University prior to joining UCF's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2015. He is the director of UCF's Propulsion and Energy Research Laboratory, a faculty member of UCF's Center for Advanced Turbomachinery and Energy Research, an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellow, and a member of UCF's Renewable Energy and Chemical Transformation Cluster.
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What It Means To Be A Stay At Home Mother
Stay at home motherhood is the talk of every mommy blog these days. Whether a woman chooses to stay home and raise her kids or go back to work after maternity leave, everyone has an opinion on it and is happy to use the internet to vocalize their views.
STAY AT HOME MOTHERS
There's no shortage of articles discussing the daily snide comments both working mothers and stay at home mothers (SAHMs) endure for pursuing life choices that make them happy and benefit their family best. Every topic of motherhood seems to divide what should be a unified group: vaccinations, potty training, using formula, TV time. But none is so debated as the working mother conundrum. Both sides express guilt over their choices; working moms don't feel they're home enough and are missing out on growth milestones or the ability to take off for sick days. Meanwhile, stay at home moms feel they should be on top of every chore and worry that others and even their children view them as unambitious, less intelligent and anti-feminist. A woman shouldn't be criticized for doing what's best for her individual situation, and this catch-22 leaves many mothers wishing there was a better way to have balance.
"Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man." – Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
In a time when sharing any detail about your choice in motherhood opens you up to judgement, many women are seeking a middle ground on the overly stigmatized "stay at home or return to work" topic.
Workforce Overview
Returning to the workforce with young children has its downsides, but is often necessary for a family's income as well as for the mother's personal fulfillment and career goals. Of the 74.6 million women in the workforce, more than 70% are mothers with children under 18 years of age. Many women state that money aside, they continued working because they love what they do. Other women also feel the need to work in response to the innocuous observation their kids make that they are "just" a mom or "not working like daddy." Then there are the judgemental implications of spending a partner's money, rather than the reality of being a team that shares a joint bank account to give their children quality time and material things as they see fit.
For some women, returning to work doesn't make financial sense. The cost of child care is extremely expensive, especially for multiple kids, not to mention many women state they have trouble finding reliable child care. It's no secret that many women also face challenges in the workplace once they have children: more sick days and a flexible schedule are needed, breastfeeding and pumping at work is often not accommodated, plus what the New York Times refers to as the "mom penalty and fatherhood bonus" – a study showed that women with kids had a harder time advancing their careers while men with kids received more bonuses to provide for their families.
"The idea that one has to strive for professional success in order to be a feminist is so myopic and ridiculous. Women from all walks of life, not just those climbing the corporate ladder, are capable of effecting and fighting for positive social change." – Jamie Kenny, Romper
Being a SAHM is simply a matter of preference. Many women who choose this path feel it is an honor to womanhood to do the child rearing that men can't or typically don't. It is largely felt in the mom community that women who say their career is the most meaningful work are insulting those who do dedicate their lives to being a homemaker. Enlightenment and empowerment disguised as sexism, say SAHMs as the gap agreement gap on lifestyle choices continues to widen.
A noticeable shift is happening with women who have to choose between careers and children. A 2007 Pew Research Center survey shows that 48% of SAHMs today consider being home full time the ideal situation, compared to 10 years ago when only 39% did. For working moms, just 21% say working full time is ideal, compared to 32% in 1997. Susan Shapiro Barash, a women's issues expert and author, says, "In my research, there seems to be a backlash among the millennial generation; in a sense, they're modeling themselves after their grandmothers, not their mothers." Many of these young women look at their baby boomer moms and question their life choices that led to struggling marriages and an imbalance of work and family, she says. Today's women are more concerned about living a balanced life than proving they're Superwoman.
Digital Employment
It's 2018. In such digital centric age, there are more and more options for women to have the best of both worlds. Call it what you will, telecommuting, digital nomad, working remotely, there are increasingly more options in every career field for women who wish to work from home.
The best part is the options: freelance writers and graphic designers can get paid per article or project, allowing them to budget their time around when the kids are occupied or sleeping. Other popular occupation options include social media manager, crafting entrepreneur, accountant, remote customer service, blogging influencer, virtual assistant, web developer and tutor. When loss of sleep is in full force, flexible work from home schedules can be a saving grace. Such options are also ideal for women who have a husband whose health plan they can benefit from but still wish to have financial independence and make contributions to the savings. The majority of the downsides of this career are high self discipline to work when exhausted, kids being distractions and unforeseen wifi or tech issues. WAHMs also need a support system to be able to meet deadlines when the kids are running around, which could be a husband or a grandparent or a neighbor.
Women looking for different options of employment also seek to eliminate a resume gap that could deter companies from hiring them in the future. Two companies have devised solutions for this: Apres and The Mom Project. Apres comes from the French word "after" and is designed specifically for women returning to the workforce after taking time off. Many companies seek mid-senior level candidates who could add more diversity to the company, such as women. A study by Vanderbilt University found that being honest that a resume gap was for taking time off to raise kids is more likely to get them the job than not offering any explanation. The Mom Project was created for companies who want educated and experienced women for temporary projects, permanent posts or to fill in when an employee goes on maternity leave (a "maternityship"). This allows women to keep a foot in the working world while still focusing on their children.
With digital options and the ability to connect women with temporary positions through opportunities on the internet, the worry of SAHMs that they are seen as less intelligent than working moms is easier to dispel. Stay at home mothers no longer have to choose between work and family, income and quality time, career goals and child relationships. The internet has brought many things, both good and bad, but none have helped the "perfect mother debate" as much as digital and remote employment, which finally gives women a third option to get the best of both worlds.
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As memories of a glorious final Six Nations weekend are locked away for another year, let's not forget that we're privileged to be watching games for free...but for how long?
Granted, he was being mischievous, as is his right as financial custodian of the RBS 6 Nations, but CEO John Feehan blasted open a hornet's nest with a double-barrel shotgun when he intimated he'd be open to subscription TV offers when the championship's existing deal with the BBC comes to an end, in 2017.
Now call me a traditionalist but in my book there is a certain moral duty to keep the Six Nations on terrestrial television for the betterment of the game. Elite-level rugby should be available to inspire all.
If we are to truly push the game beyond its traditional heartlands, youngsters from all social backgrounds should be able to watch superstars like Leigh Halfpenny, Chris Robshaw, Stuart Hogg, Paul O'Connell and Thierry Dusautoir cutting a dash on the field, with packed-out crowds providing a colourful backdrop. Free-to-air allows folk of all ages to marvel at the jewel in the northern hemisphere rugby crown over seven weeks, immersing themselves in the tribal, visceral drama that unfolds before them.
Last month, the television audience for England vs France peaked at a record 9.63m on the final glorious weekend of the tournament. Compare that to the 0.9m Sky Sports audience for the game between England and New Zealand in November and you have a clear indication of the gulf in the number of 'eyeballs' watching the action. Terrestrial coverage puts the game on the front and back pages – note how much attention George North's concussion garnered and the positive progress that followed it.
There's also the money aspect; while the organisation would arguably earn more if Sky Sports and BT Sport entered the bidding, they're not exactly scrabbling behind the sofa for coppers, with almost £1.3bn in revenues taken over a World Cup cycle. The olive branch is that, as a Category B sporting event, games would have to be shown on terrestrial TV on a time delay but seriously, who could resist peeking on social media, badgering a friend or heading for the pub for a live Six Nations fix? Let's not bow to temptation.


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CHUCK PALAHNIUK, American writer, born; an American satirical novelist and freelance journalist of Ukrainian ancestry born in Pasco, Washington. The press release for his book, Rant, states he is now living in Vancouver, Washington. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher. He has one of the largest centralized followings of any author on the Internet, based around his official website. By his account, he started writing while attending writer's workshops, hosted by Tom Spanbauer (The Man Who Fell in Love With The Moon), which he attended to meet new friends. Spanbauer largely inspired Palahniuk's minimalistic writing style.
His first book, Insomnia: If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home Already, was never published due to his disappointment with the story (though a small part of it would be salvaged for use in Fight Club). When he attempted to publish his next novel, Invisible Monsters, publishers rejected it for being too disturbing. This led him to work on his most famous novel, Fight Club, which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him. Palahniuk wrote this story in his spare time while working for Freightliner. After initially publishing it as a short story (which would become chapter 6 of the novel) in the 1995 compilation Pursuit of Happiness, Palahniuk expanded it into a full novel, which – contrary to his expectations – the publisher was willing to publish.
In September 2003, Palahniuk was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly's Karen Valby. During the interview, Palahniuk in confidence mentioned information pertaining to his partner. While it had been previously believed by many that he was married to a woman (some members of the press had claimed he had a wife), Palahniuk had in fact been living with his boyfriend. Some time later, Palahniuk believed that Valby was going to print this information in her article, without his consent. In response, he put an angry audio recording of himself on his web site, not only revealing that he is gay, but also making negative comments about Valby and a member of her family.
However, Palahniuk's fears turned out to be ungrounded, and Valby's article did not reveal anything about his personal life outside of the fact that he is unmarried. The recording was later removed from the website, making some fans believe that Palahniuk is embarrassed by his homosexuality. According to Dennis Widmyer, the site's webmaster, the recording was not removed because of the statements regarding his sexuality, but because of the statements about Valby. Palahniuk would later post a new recording to his site, asking his fans not to overreact to these events. He also apologized for his behavior, claiming that he wished he had not recorded the message.


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Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel of Grandbrothers have won plaudits from the likes of Dixon and Gilles Peterson, and drawn comparison to Steve Reich. They create all of their sounds with a grand piano, everything from melody to percussion. On this, their first ever remix, Erol and Lukas re-imagine the soulful progression of 'Blue', accentuating the ruminative piano score of the original.
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SMS V6 was a V1-class torpedo boat of the Imperial German Navy. The ship was built by AG Vulcan, completing in 1913. She served in the First World War with the German High Seas Fleet, taking part in the Battle of Jutland. After the war, she served with the Weimar Republic's Reichsmarine until stricken in 1929 and was subsequently broken up.

Construction and design
In 1911, the Imperial German Navy placed orders for a flotilla of 12 torpedo boats as part of its shipbuilding programme for that year, with one half flotilla of six ordered from AG Vulcan, and six from Germaniawerft. The 1911 torpedo boats were smaller than those ordered in recent years in order to be more manoeuvrable and so work better with the fleet, which resulted in the numbering series for torpedo boats being restarted. The reduction in size resulted in the ships' seaworthiness being adversely affected, with the 1911 torpedo boats and the similar craft of the 1912 programme acquiring the disparaging nickname "Admiral Lans' cripples".

In July 1912, shortly before the outbreak of the First Balkan War, two of the under-construction 1911 Vulcan torpedo boats, V5 and V6 were sold to Greece as part of an urgent programme to build up the strength of the Greek Navy, becoming  and . Two replacement ships were ordered for the German navy, sharing the same names as the two sold ships. The new V6, yard number 320, was launched from Vulcan's Stettin, Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland) shipyard on 28 February 1913 and commissioned on 17 May that year.

The ship was  long overall and  at the waterline, with a beam of  and a draught of . Displacement was  normal and  deep load. Three coal-fired and one oil-fired water-tube boilers fed steam to two direct-drive steam turbines rated at , giving a design speed of .  of coal and  of oil were carried, giving a range of  at  or  at .

Armament consisted of two  SK L/30 naval guns in single mounts fore and aft, together with four 50 cm (19.7 in) torpedo tubes with one reload torpedo carried. Up to 18 mines could be carried. In 1916 the L/30 guns were replaced by more powerful  SK L/45 guns. In 1921 she was rearmed with two 10.5 cm SK L/45 naval guns and two 50 cm torpedo tubes, and was fitted with new boilers. The ship had a crew of 74 officers and other ranks.

Service
On commissioning, V6 joined the 9th Half-flotilla of the 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla, serving as the leader of the half-flotilla.

First World War
On the outbreak of the First World War, V6 was part of the 9th Half-Flotilla of the 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla. On 28 August 1914, a British force of destroyers and cruisers supported by battlecruisers made a sortie into the Heligoland Bight in order to ambush German torpedo boats on patrol, which caused the Battle of Heligoland Bight. The 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla, including V6, were sent out from Heligoland to investigate sightings of British submarines (which were deployed as bait to draw out German ships), and ran into several British destroyers. The Flotilla then turned away to try and escape the trap, but the torpedo boat , which along with  could not make full speed and lagged behind the rest of the flotilla, was hit by British shells before the arrival of the German cruiser  allowed the 5th Flotilla to escape. In total, however, three German light cruisers (,  and ) and one torpedo boat of the German outer screen () had been sunk. On 2 November 1914, German battlecruisers and light cruisers, with an escort of torpedo boats of the 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Torpedo Boat Flotillas left port to shell Great Yarmouth and lay mines off the British East Coast, with V6 part if the 5th Flotilla. Yarmouth was attacked on 3 November, with little damage being done.

On 7–8 September 1915, the 5th and 9th Torpedo Boat Flotillas carried out a reconnaissance sweep in the German Bight, with V6 leading the 9th Half-Flotilla. On the morning of 8 September 1915, when about  south of the Horns Reef lightvessel, the torpedo boats V1 and  collided, sinking G12 and badly damaging V1. V6 and  assisted when the torpedo boat  took V1 under tow.

At the Battle of Jutland on 31 May–1 June 1916, V6 was part of the 9th Half-Flotilla, 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla, operating in support of the main German battle fleet. From about 20:15 CET (19:15 GMT), the German torpedo boat flotillas launched a series of torpedo attacks against the British battle line in order to cover the German fleet's turn away from the British. First to attack were the 6th and 9th Flotillas, followed by the 3rd Flotilla. At 20:38, the 5th Flotilla started an attack run, but it was unable to find the British battle-line due to poor visibility caused by fog and smoke, and the attack was aborted. During the night action, the 5th Flotilla was ordered to search for and attack the British fleet, but failed to encounter the British battleships. At about 03:15 hr CET (i.e. 02:15 hr GMT)  V6 and sister ships  and  were accompanying the German Fleet on its journey back to base when a large underwater explosion, probably due to a floating mine, blew the bows off V4. After V6 and V2 rescued the survivors from V4, V6 scuttled V4 with shellfire and a torpedo.

By late April 1917, the torpedo boats of the 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla had been fitted for minesweeping and their crews trained in that task, and became increasingly dedicated to minesweeping. V6 remained part of the 9th Half-Flotilla of the 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla at the end of the War in November 1918.

Postwar operations
V6 survived the war, and was one of the twelve destroyers that the Reichsmarine was allowed to retain under the Treaty of Versailles.  In early 1923 V6 was serving in the North Sea. By 1929, the Reichsmarine had taken delivery of twelve Type 24 and Type 25 torpedo boats, and therefore disposed of the least useful of its old torpedo boats in order to keep within Treaty limits. She was stricken on 27 March 1929 and was broken up at Wilhelmshaven.

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Torpedo boats of the Imperial German Navy
Ships built in Stettin
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World War I torpedo boats of Germany
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Taipei, Taiwan—April 21, 2016 — Thermaltake is proud to announce the design collaboration with Mathieu Heredia, the co-owner of Watermod France and the winner of 2nd place in the 2015 Thermaltake CaseMOD Invitational Season 2, on the project The Tower. Through the competition, Mathieu was one of most promising design talents. His unique way of thought and skills in modding was showcased for all to see when he turned the Thermaltake Core X9 E-ATX cube case into his own stunning creation, which he duly called The Tower. To him, The Tower not only represents a new way to look into Casemod, but also his passion for innovation and his courage to take challenge. After five months of discussion, Thermaltake and Mathieu officially signed the agreement for this design collaboration in early April.
At Thermaltake, we have established ourselves globally as a key player and partner in the Casemod market. We are active, and always on the lookout for modding enthusiasts whose spirit is consistent with our own company values. Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce our strategic cooperation with Mathieu by turning his "Tower" creation from a concept, a casemod, to mass production. We complement each other. We share the same values and we believe in Excellent Quality, Unique Design, Diverse Combinations and Boundless Creativity to provide a high performance PC product for every enthusiast.


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Connacht v Benetton preview: Robust defence key says Wilkins
Connacht will need a "robust" defence in order to win against Benetton Rugby this Friday as they head into the final stretch of the Guinness PRO14.
While the Italian side are so far without a single win this season, Connacht defensive coach Pete Wilkins believes that Connacht needs to be wary of their kicking game, and how quickly they can shift from defence to offence.
"For me, I think Benetton's biggest threat is coming out of their own half," the former Queensland Reds' defensive coach said of the Treviso-based team's best tactical attribute.
"They kick long and effectively, in terms of the distances they get when they are exiting. But they are also very dangerous running out from that bit of the field.
"They are not afraid to take risks and offload out of tackles when they are coming out of their what we call C zone, coming out of that area between the 22-metre line and halfway."
"They will take risks and they will play to width. How we control them getting access to the ball will be really important in that regard," Pete Wilkins said.
"The quality of our kicking game, not conceding attacking turnovers in their half of the field, that will be important in terms of denying them access to the game."
Connacht are coming in strong on the back of two successive wins. Last Friday's 32-17 victory over the Cardiff Blues at the Sportsground also marked the end of a rough string of defeats on the Eagles home turf.
This Friday's trip to Italy is the first of four successive games that Connacht Rugby will be playing in the coming weeks, with Wilkins saying their only goal is to qualify for the final.
Connacht have won their last two Guinness PRO14 matches against Cardiff and the Dragons, and will be hoping to maintain that momentum in Italy this Friday.
There's certainly a positive atmosphere among all involved in the club at the moment, with new lock Oisín Dowling saying that the positive environment among staff and players was a big part of helping him settle after joining from Leinster.
"Obviously there's a difference between coaches and players, but everyone gets on really well, like friends. There's always good craic between each other and I think that helps the team and the bond with the players and the coaches."
Connacht v Benetton will take place this Friday, February 26, with kick-off at 5:30pm Irish Time.
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