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On his show, Comedian Rodney Perry covers arts and entertainment, everything from comedy and politics to music and acting, with his signature comedic slant.

MashUp Radio is a 30-minute podcast that discusses the fusion of technology, life, culture and science. Host Peter Biddle, engineer and executive for Intel?s Atom Software, dishes up a thought-provoking discussion.

Deepak Chopra Radio provides an online forum for compelling and thought provoking conversations on success, love, sexuality and relationships, well-being and spirituality.

The Bottom Line Sports Show is hosted by former NBA stars Penny Hardaway, Charles Oakley, Mateen Cleaves. Tune in to get the inside scoop on what's happening in sports today.

Joy Keys provides her listeners with insight to improve their lives mentally, physically, monetarily and emotionally. Past guests on the show have included Meshell Nedegeocello, Blair Underwood, in addition to an impressive list of CEOs, humanitarians and authors.

Hits Radio covers basketball, sports culture and entertainment with past guests including Jason Kidd, Robin Lundberg and Chris Herren.

Listeners get an earful on The Halli Casser-Jayne Show, Talk Radio for Fine Minds. Whether it?s the current political cocktail or the latest must-read award-winning book, Halli tackles all topics and likes to stir ? and sometimes shakes ? things up.

Award-winning World Footprints is a leading voice in socially responsible travel and lifestyle. Hosts Ian & Tonya celebrate culture and heritage and bring a unique voice to the world of travel.

Football Reporters Online is a group of veteran football experts in the fields of coaching, scouting, talent evaluation, and writing/broadcasting/media placement. Combined, the group brings well over 100 years of expertise in sports.

Host John Martin interviews the nation's leading entrepreneurs and small biz experts to educate small business owners on how to be successful. Past guests have included Emeril Lagasse and Guy Kawasaki.

The Movie Geeks share their passion for the art through interviews with the stars of and creative minds behind your favorite flicks and pay tribute to big-screen legends. From James Cameron and Francis Ford Coppola to Ellen Burstyn and Robert Duvall, The Geeks have got'em all.

Sylvia Global presents global conversations pertaining to women, wealth, business, faith and philanthropy. Sylvia has interviewed an eclectic mix from CEOs and musicians to fashion designers and philanthropists including Randolph Duke and Ne-Yo.

Seasoned entertainment reporter Robin Milling gets up close and personal with the world's most compelling celebs. From Michael Douglas to Katie Holmes to Kevin Kline to Ashley Judd to America Ferrera, she sits down in person each week with each and every A-lister.

Mr. Media host Bob Andelman goes one-on-one with the hottest, most influential minds from the worlds of film, TV, music, comedy, journalism and literature. That means A-listers like Kirk Douglas, Christian Slater, Kathy Ireland, Rick Fox, Chris Hansen and Jackie Collins.

Paula Begoun, best-selling author of Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter Without Me, separates fact from fiction on achieving a radiant, youthful complexion at any age. She?s regularly joined by health and beauty experts who offer the latest on keeping your skin in tip-top shape.

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'People want independence' | Bankrate.com

You often read about people whose retirement planning includes a move to some place exotic --?or at least warm. But for most people, that move never happens, says John McIlwain, senior resident fellow for the Urban Land Institute, who recently researched this and related issues.

McIlwain points out that 70 percent of people older than 67 -- members of the great and silent Generations -- are living in the same place where they lived when they celebrated their 65th birthday. He says baby boomers are likely to be even less inclined to move.

He writes, "The housing bust has trapped many Leading-Edge Boomers in large suburban homes whose values have fallen, often below the amount of debt they secure. Even those willing and able to sell their homes are likely to be more conservative, more risk averse, and so less willing to head off to new horizons in the face of an uncertain economy."

So if we are all going to age in place, who is going to mow the lawn and how are we going to pay to replace the roof?

"There are no silver bullets for solving these problems," McIlwain says. "Where is the Lone Ranger when you need him?"

If the Lone Ranger isn't going to mow, McIlwain thinks that both boomers and municipalities should start planning now to figure out who will do the job. Recent Housing and Urban Development studies point out that houses in neighborhoods with large aging populations appreciated in value 1 percent to 3 percent less than comparable neighborhoods with younger residents.

One thing's for sure, none of the boomer and older generations are very inclined toward leaving their homes and moving into institutions. That includes retirement homes, which are having growing difficulties wooing residents, and over-55 age-restricted communities, which McIlwain says are begging municipalities to allow them to eliminate their age limits.

He advises suburban municipalities with aging populations to consider these options.

• Foster the creation of small group homes and multigenerational living by allowing large single-family homes to be reconfigured.
• Organize "virtual villages" where residents pay a fee to participate in home-repair cooperatives and get discounts and assistance with other personal services.
• Allow age-restricted communities to change their rules so younger people can move in.
• Encourage retrofits of existing buildings and municipal facilities so they better meet the needs of seniors.
• Rethink the rules that restrict placement of manufactured homes.
• Allow for the construction of housing units that are 200 square feet to 300 square feet, offering low-cost living for singles.
• Provide flexible transportation services for everybody.

As McIlwain says, "People want independence."

Source: http://www.bankrate.com/financing/retirement/people-want-independence/

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Behind the scenes of VP debate with moderator Raddatz

Political Punch

State troopers escort moderators of vice presidential debates -- who knew? That was just one of the moments ABC's Martha Raddatz experienced as moderator of Thursday night's vice presidential debate.

"I am nervous," said Raddatz, just hours before the debate.?"Going through my mind right now is everything that I'm trying to cram into my mind, and that's not all that easy when you have about an hour and a half's worth of stuff and things are happening all the time."

Psychologically some people work out before a big event, others rest all day, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney goes to the movies sometimes. Raddatz kept it simple -- she imported her family, and brought along a lucky charm -- a First Cavalry Division coin given to her by someone in Afghanistan.

The best advice Raddatz received before the debate came from her mom.

"Be yourself," she recalls her mom saying. "I have to be me and I'll do the best I can."

Many colleagues were rooting for the first time moderator, especially fellow female journalists.

"Look she's my friend, she is great, and there is a very big women's thing going on here," said NBC's Andrea Mitchell.

Before the bout, Raddatz walked out on stage to warn the audience about cell phones by sharing a personal story.

"I was once in a white house briefing, and my phone went off. And my son -- who is here somewhere -- had put in Chamillionaires 'Ridin' Dirty' " she said. "And I have never had my cell phone go off anywhere ever again."

Rapper Chamillionaire tweeted,?"Can't lie. That just made my night. Appreciate it. @martharaddatz Keep it gangsta."

Minutes into the debate, Raddatz' moderating prompted an explosion of effusive praise on the internet, which continued after it ended. Though some conservatives were not as enthusiastic.

But for colleagues at ABC there was only pride, and for Raddatz herself?relief that it was all over.

For more behind-the-scenes moments and a look at that 2007 White House briefing when Chamillionaire's 'Ridin Dirty' filled the air, check out this week's Political Punch.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/behind-scenes-vp-debate-moderator-martha-raddatz-120042175.html

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Business Continuity Tool Protects Critical Applications

A business continuity solution gives Seattle Goodwill an enterprise-wide, business-centric view of its critical applications and IT services.

By Ray Osburn

Seattle Goodwill, which was established in 1923, currently operates 23 locations throughout five counties in northwestern Washington state. Of those locations, 22 are retail sites.

Proceeds from the retail sites support our organization?s job training and education programs that help disadvantaged people achieve economic independence. The typical retail location is about 20,000 square feet, and operates five cash registers and several bar-coding devices. Overall, we have 850 computers dispersed throughout our locations.

In late 2006, Seattle experienced severe rainstorms that were uncharacteristic even for this rainy region. Twelve rivers hit all-time highs in water levels.

Our Seattle headquarters abuts a hillside, and in December when a storm drain got plugged up, rainwater flooded 160,000 square feet of the building and spread throughout two floors. The water flooded the server room with 2 inches of water, and we had to take 20 of our servers offline to protect them. The flood took the servers down for two days, and the recovery cost the organization $1.5 million, which amounted to more than 2 percent of our $65 million annual revenue.

Following this disaster, we began looking for a disaster recovery and business continuity solution to prevent this kind of event from happening again. We purchased the cheapest option available, but the deployment didn?t go as smoothly as expected.

We used this solution to protect our Microsoft Exchange and SQL servers. For our file servers, the company promised to have a solution available during the next quarter. Unfortunately, it didn?t come through with the promised file server protection.

With 600GB of file server data and other applications that run our business, it was critical for us to have these applications fully protected. Without that protection, we knew we had a big gap in our business continuity processes?and potentially in our budget.

At Goodwill, we have always believed in the belt-and-suspenders approach, and we tend to be cautious and overprotective when it comes to guarding against any unplanned downtime. We needed a business continuity plan that would keep our office team connected to the business-critical applications that let them monitor sales transactions, manage inventory, and meet our payroll and accounts payable obligations. We also needed to keep the cash registers online so our retail staff could keep working even if our central site or WAN went down.

Based on these criteria, we purchased a Neverfail solution to protect our business applications by allowing us to aggregate multiple servers into a business application, and then monitor and manage availability for the application as a single unit.

In the past, we had taken a server-based approach to data protection and disaster recovery, adding significant complexity to the designs. This silo-based methodology was insufficient for protecting our critical business systems, including Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics GP and our Microsoft Dynamics RMS point-of-sale system.

The Neverfail Continuous Availability Director gives us an enterprisewide, business-centric view of our critical applications and IT services. It has a flexible approach, which allows logical grouping of application, database, messaging and other servers together. This grouping gives us a way to visualize interdependencies across servers and provides a central console at which we can view events, alerts and the overall health of each business application.

We are currently replicating our data to a secondary site in the Cascade Mountains, about 45 miles away. Twelve Neverfail servers house our mission-critical applications.

Following the 2006 flood, we divided our headquarters staff into two separate locations to try to prevent another disaster from shutting down the organization. Because of our co-located staff, we are considering virtualizing our infrastructure in the near future. If virtualization is the right next step for us, I am confident that all our business applications will be fully protected.

Ray Osburn is the IT director of Seattle Goodwill.

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NASA and IHMC building X1 exoskeleton to give us a lift, keep us fit in space and on Earth

It's hard to deny the appeal of a space-bound robot like NASA's Robonaut 2, fears of subversion notwithstanding. The space agency and Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition know it, and they want to put that technology into an exoskeleton with a nobler purpose than performing chores on space stations. The in-development X1 (not yet pictured) adapts the Robonaut's skills to a body-hugging frame with 10 points of movement that might give humans an assist when they need it the most. In space, the X1 could automate and add challenge to exercise for astronauts in low gravity, or provide the extra muscle for that fabled day we return to manned surface exploration. NASA envisions its exoskeleton having more grounded uses as well, such as rehabilitation for leg injuries or walking for those who never had the chance. Although we're not expecting a rapid turnaround knowing NASA's lengthy schedules, we might see the X1 in use sooner than most such products in the wake of a purposefully quick development cycle -- and, no doubt, a few interested customers here on Earth.

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