The truth about backup systems

It's a wonder I was able to get this edition out to you at all, this month.. Having battled my way through two mechanical breakdowns with my car, one total breakdown of my computer and a massive virus attack on my two spare computers, topped off with some ill health for good measure, I was ready to quit.

The car breakdowns couldn't be regarded as severe despite having to order a tow truck, buy new parts and ending up with a sizeable hole in my wallet.

It was the computer breakdowns that caused the major upset of the month. This all happened despite having the latest software designed to stop viruses. I seriously recommend having a minimum of three computers because if one or two are busted, you can usually survive if one is still able to connect to the internet. The internet is your lifeline to get help and download cures that can be lifesaving, or as useless as sprinkling fairy dust on your cornflakes. (if you need some, it's called "wishful thinking")

In earlier days when I only had one PC and it was broken I was literally stranded like a beached whale. That's when you need to have friends with computers close by who can let you find solutions to your problem on the web, otherwise you're fair game for the closest computer "repair" shop.

Without backups of all that valuable data, the repair man is about as attractive as the head axeman at the gallows. Your data is about as precious to him as an empty beer can.

So you take your "baby" to the local Vet. You just know that he's going to offer you a choice of total euthanasia or a new hard drive .

"You're not using this old 200 MHz clunker ..?
geez they went out in the dark ages man . well the best I can do for you is a new hard drive ..!"

What choice do you have? There's not even a mention of your priceless data!  And don't mention a so called "data retrieval firm" unless you're prepared to allow the mafia to come to your house and remove anything they fancy in return for a promise to find your data (which seems to have got caught in a blender before your computer stopped working)

20 years into computing and I still haven't achieved a foolproof backup system. Whenever I'm at the computer store, there always seems to be an item on the shelf that's more attractive than a boring (and expensive) tape drive. Actually, to tell you the truth, I've never even seen a tape drive backup unit at my computer store. I wonder why?

Hmm..that video package looks interesting .. comes with PC card and  mini-cam .. complete with software .. hmm ..excuse me sir!  what does that cost .?

Talking about troubles and survival, this month's country is Israel. To those of our readers from that part of the world, we sincerely hope and pray that peace will come to you soon. Shalom

Dr John K. Flynn B.D.Sc.

The Xerostar Times Editor

Caring for Creative People.

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Religion, politics, passion, history, social injustice and a standing army are not the ideal ingredients for a 'get away from it all' holiday. But these are the things that draw thousands of visitors & thousands of emigrants to Israel every year. This is 'where it happened,' a land that grips at the imagination of every Christian, Jew and Muslim in the world, and inflames a fair few of them to hatred and violence as well. It's the intangibles of Israel - standing in the footsteps of gods, breathing the air of the Messiah - that bring people here, and it's the very intangibility of them that leaves so many visitors disappointed. Anyone expecting profound moments of epiphany brought on by immersion in the refined air of the holy land is in for a shock. Israel is a bustling, smelly, noisy, modern country, just as capable of squeezing a tacky tourist buck out of the sacred as any US bible-belt town.

If you come to Israel without preconceptions, you are far more likely to leave with happy memories. Sure, Israel's history and religious links are vital parts of its appeal, but they are not the be-all and end-all; Israel is more than a powder-keg or a promised land. Take time to visit the new, cosmopolitan city of Tel Aviv, dive the Red Sea at Eilat, explore some of the country's thriving national parks and float for hours in the salty stillness of the Dead Sea. If you want to understand Israel, take the time to look beyond the larger-than-life figures of the past and have a chat to your bus driver or hostel owner.

Whatever you call this part of the world, you're bound to offend someone. We decided to go with Israel & the Palestinian Territories, By that, we mean the area which includes the state of Israel as well as the disputed areas of the West Bank, Golan Heights and Gaza Strip.

Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Area: 26,990 sq km/16,734 sq mi (20,770 sq km/12,887 sq mi in Israel; 6220 sq km/3856 sq mi in Gaza and the West Bank)
Population: 8.5 million (5.8 million in Israel; 2.7 million in Gaza and the West Bank)
Capital city: Jerusalem (contested); pop 623,000
People: Jewish (80%), Muslim (15%), Christians (1.7%) and Druze (1.3%) 
Language: Hebrew, Arab & English
Religion: Jewish, Muslim, Christian
Government: Republic 
President: Moshe Katzav 
Prime Minister: Ariel Sharon

GDP: US$73 billion
GDP per head: US$12,7536 (US$18,300 in Israel; US$1600 in Gaza and the West Bank)
Annual growth: 5%
Inflation: 4.5%
Major industries: Metal, defence, machinery, technology, diamonds, chemicals
Major trading partners: USA, UK, Belgium/Luxembourg, Germany

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Rest, recovery, and the body's natural variable rythms are more important to fitness conditioning than previously considered; so concluded a joint study at Harvard and Columbia Universities that was announced during the Exercise Physiology Conference in Finland, in June of 2001. 

The Cyclic Exercise Protocol Study seems to 
suggest that training in short bouts of intense 
activity (60 seconds or less to target heart rate), 
combined with complete rest (back to resting heart rate), works both the active and passive phases of exercise, and achieves many of the cardiovascular health benefits once associated, exclusively, with much longer, and more vigorous workouts. This is great news for busy firefighters, and anybody who wants to stay fit and healthy, but at the same time is bogged down by the day to day chores of living. 

Our need for cardiovascular fitness is very clear, 
not only as a means to burn fat, but to protect
against the ravages of heart disease. As a firefighter, I've become keenly aware of how important heart 
health can be to a long and healthy life. Specifically, the need for a high level of heart rate variability (as described below) that can be tested on a daily basis fighting fires. When the alarm rings, firefighters go from zero to sixty at a moments notice, and so do their heart rates. 

The more flexibility your heart rate exhibits between beats, known as heart rate variability (HRV), the healthier you are. HRV is the measure of change in the heart's beat-to-beat rate. 
The more monotonous, or constant the heart rate, 
the lower the HRV. The well-known 1994 Framingham Heart Study, has previously identified HRV as the only common factor associated with all healthy individuals. Maintaining a certain degree of HRV is obviously vital to overall health. 

Study Details
 Location: Harvard University, Columbia University
 Title: Implementation of a Novel Cyclic Exercise Protocol
 Participants: 11 women ages 32 to 58
 Exercise: Short bursts of intense effort followed by 
 complete recovery
 Schedule: Cycles (1 active, 1 recovery) of 4 to 7 sets,  3 times per week for 8 weeks 

Findings
Short burst (60 seconds or less) off intense 
aerobic activity, followed by complete recovery 
has a positive impact on health. This is the first evidence that an exercise program designed 
to train activity and recovery phases of exercise 
may improve health and fitness. 

So how should you handle this new information? 
By no means abandoned your long standing exercise program. But it's nice to know that when life gets away from us, and there are days, or yes... even weeks, when we can't get in 30 minutes a day 
of the proper exercise, a few intense sets done with 
the right amount of rest can make a big difference 
in our overall health and appearance. 

Improvements can be seen in:
Cardiovascular Fitness 
Strength and Tone 
Fat Loss 
Heart Rate Variability 
Mood 
Immune System Function 
Blood Pressure 
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The Six Minute Morning Workout
Target Heart Rate 

The cyclic exercise regimen used in the study is based on a program developed by Irving Dardik, MD, who says, "Heart rate variability is the key measurement of the body's rythms. The body's rythms control the body's chemistry, which determines one's degree of overall health." 

Source: 
Aerobics and Fitness Association of America
American Fitness/September 2001
"Time to Completely Rethink Rest and Rythm"
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Tom Hanks played the role of a FedEx delivery man. His job was to fly all over the world making sure that the packages were delivered on time. 

One fateful trip found his cargo plane flying through a nasty storm somewhere in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. The plane crashed near a tiny, deserted island. The only survivor was Hanks. 

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The Pacific Ocean was the obstacle. His opponent 
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Hanks set sail aboard a make shift, rinky dink raft of logs tied together with tree bark and video tape. 

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The movie portrayed a very intense drama. An 
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Thousands of folks every day feel trapped in a no- where life. They feel like their life is being wasted, like they are going nowhere, on a nowhere island with little hope of escape. 

Every day these people trudge off to a boring and hopeless job that offers only an existence but no real sense of satisfaction in life as accomplishing anything. 

These people know there is a better life out there, a life they so desire, yet it seems so far away. They are trapped on their own island of despair. 

Held there, not by the island itself, but by their own fears of not being able to overcome the adversity and opposition that lies between them and their dreams. 

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They start out from their island, not really knowing if they will make it or not. But they look that sea of difficulties square in the eye and say, in the unforgettable words of Admiral David Farragut, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead." 

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