How often do you test your Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity ...

Business ContinuityAny plan that is not tested is just a pile of paper.

Many businesses across the region have yet to implement a business continuity and disaster recovery plan as part of their company planning. Some have a business plan, less have a marketing and sales plan and even fewer have a fully tested and proven business continuity and disaster recovery strategy.

Over the past few months there have been many examples of why having a plan is important for businesses of all sizes. Small business, mid-market and corporations across the country need to have a business continuity and disaster recovery plan in place and just as importantly, to have it regularly tested.

Some companies who have tested their plan even test their employees to ensure they know exactly what to do in case of an emergency. Testing them to understand where they are to meet in case of a fire, who gets called when an emergency arises and, from the Information Technology side of the business, what applications and data are to be recovered first.

There are many factors to consider when deploying and testing your business continuity plan and disaster recovery strategies. Our business specializes in helping you with the information technology parts. Our team ensures that data backups are happening daily or even at shorter intervals if required. We make sure backups are moved offsite if required and stored at a secured data center and finally we will ensure that your data and information can be recovered when a disaster or even a simple file deletion occurs.

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Vigils, services honor Conn. school shooting victims

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Mourners gather inside the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn., on Friday night at a vigil service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Click this image for more pictures.

By M. Alex Johnson, NBC News

Updated at 9:35 p.m. ET: Residents from around the region streamed Friday into Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn., to mourn the 20 children and six adults who were killed when a gunman opened fire in an elementary school.

A memorial Mass got under way at 7 p.m. ET at the church, whose pastor, Msgr. Robert Weiss, spent much of the day at a firehouse that had been turned into a gathering place for families affected by the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The church was packed, and hundreds of people who couldn't get in stood silently outside, where 26 candles were set up by a tree wth a cross. Some held hands, praying as a group. Others reverently touched a statue of Saint Rose,?the first person native to the Americas to be canonized by the Catholic Church, before crossing themselves.


Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was among the speakers at the service inside the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic church, The Associated Press reported.

"Many of us today and in the coming days will rely on what we have been taught and what we believe, that there is faith for a reason," Malloy said.

The service was just one of many prayer services and vigils planned across Connecticut through the weekend,?NBC Connecticut reported.?A statewide moment of silence was observed at 9 p.m. ET.

Elementary school massacre: 27 killed, including 20 kids, at Connecticut school

"We offer our prayers and our collective sense of grief, shock and loss," Msgr. Jerald A. Doyle, administrator of the Diocese of Bridgeport, said in a statement.

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People file in to St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn., to pay their respects to the victims of the shooting Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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"Msgr. Robert Weiss, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Parish in Newtown, and the parish priests were on the scene ministering to children and families immediately after the shootings. Other priests and chaplains have since joined them in ministering to the families at the school, hospitals and other settings," Doyle said.?

The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed more than two dozen, 20 of them children, left the quiet community of Newtown, Conn., desperately trying to understand what happened. NBC's Kate Snow reports.

"The children who witnessed this are terribly traumatized,"?Weiss said earlier in the afternoon.

Tracy Hoekenga told the AP at the vigil that after receiving word of the shooting,?she was paralyzed with fear for her two boys, fourth-grader C.J. and second grader Matthew.

"I couldn't breathe. It's indescribable. For a half an hour, 45 minutes, I had no idea if my kids were OK," she said.

She said she was wrestling with many emotions as she attended the vigil.?

Alex Moe of NBC News contributed to this report from Newtown, Conn.

For up-to-the-minute coverage of the shootings at Sandy Creek Elementary School, stay with NBCNews.com and tune in to your local NBC station to watch tonight's special report on Dateline NBC at 10 p.m. ET.

Michelle Mcloughlin / Reuters

The second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history sent crying children spilling into the school parking lot as frightened parents waited for word on their loved ones.

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Today we are living in the age of science and the internet is one of the best invent6ions of science. What we cannot do today through the internet? We can talk, we can send files and we can even buy online. Cause of that, there are a lot of websites and thousands are being created daily. If you haven?t created one then you should obviously get one if you need. We may need to make a website for our business or for our personal use. Many people are creating their personal blog and sharing what is inside of their mind. In the way of making a website, you need to register a domain name first. After that you need to buy a good hosting package. Domain name registration must be done with the good company.

Not only the domain name and cheap price, you should also check other services offered by the company. Check for email function and the supported name server. Some of the domain name companies do not allow other name server except theirs. If you do the domain name registration with this kind of company then you cannot use the other hosting packages from other companies. So it is better to be careful before you buy domain name from your web hosting company. It is fine to change the hosting, but if you have to change your domain with that it will be quite a mess.

Buying a hosting package is more complicated than registering a domain name. You need to be an expert to do this task. If you do not know enough then you should ask your website developer to help you on buying the best hosting package. If you are searching for the best website hosting in Australia then you should only make a single search through any search engines. There are a lot of companies who are offering different types of packages. All of the packages have the different kinds of features. Depending on your need you must buy the most appropriate package for your website at the cheapest price.

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Snapchat Now Automatically Sets Your Sexy Video Messages to Self-Destruct in 10 Seconds or Less Too

The safe sexting app that automatically deletes pictures you send to friends a few seconds after they view it has added something that could get a lot raunchier: videos. Yep, Snapchat does video now. You can record a video up to 10 seconds long and send it to your Snapchat friends. They can only watch it once before it self-destructs into porny oblivion after a few seconds (1 to 10). More »

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Vizio M3D651SV

What a difference a year makes. When we tested Vizio's XVT3D650SV last year, we thought its $3,699.99 list price was reasonable for a full-featured 65-inch LED backlit HDTV with 3D capabilities. The company's latest 65-inch set, the M3D651SV ($1,749.99 list), rings up at less than half the price of last year's model, and it too offers LED backlighting and a boatload of features, including integrated Wi-Fi, passive 3D along with glasses, and plenty of Web apps. More importantly, it delivers a bright picture with solid blacks in both 2D and 3D mode. Its green levels are a tad high and its cabinet design is nothing to write home about, but neither gripe prevents it from becoming our latest Editors' Choice for midrange LCD HDTVs.

Design and Features
Like the aforementioned XVT3D650SV and the more recent Vizio M3D550KD, this set's plain-jane design won't win any style awards, but at 2.3 inches thick the cabinet is relatively slim. Wide (2-inch) rounded glossy black bezels frame the screen on all sides, and there's a black grilled speaker bar mounted below the bottom bezel. A bezel-free design such as the one featured on Toshiba's 55L7200U would look more elegant, but would likely also command a steeper price.

The huge, shiny, black oval stand does a fine job of supporting the 92.8-pound cabinet but does not provide swivel. There's a silver multifunction dial on the lower left side of the cabinet that controls power, volume, channel changes, and input source; you won't find any other function buttons on the set.

The unique double-sided remote is 6.3 inches long, 2 inches wide, and 0.6 inches thick. One side holds a typical set of buttons including a direction pad, number pad, four color keys, player controls, and dedicated 3D, Amazon, Netflix, and M-Go buttons. The buttons are smaller than what you'll find on most remotes, which can be problematic if you have big hands. The flip side is matte gray and contains a QWERTY keypad and four directional arrow keys. These keys are also small but come in handy when using the many Web apps that come with this set.

At the rear of the cabinet, two USB ports, four HDMI ports, and two audio outputs (optical and analog) face left, and LAN, VGA (PC video-in), PC audio-in, component audio and video jacks, and a cable/antenna coaxial connector face down. In addition to wired Ethernet, the M3D651SV offers built-in Wi-Fi networking via the single-band 802.11n radio.

The set comes with a full roster of Vizio Internet Apps (VIA) including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, Rhapsody, Vudu, and the soon-to-be-released M-Go entertainment app. You also get Yahoo Weather, News, Sports, and Finance, as well as the Yahoo Connected TV Store which offers scores of free and paid apps.

Picture settings are plentiful. You get nine presets including Standard, Movie, Game, Vivid, Custom, and four Sports modes. With the exception of the Standard and Movie modes, I found the presets to be too bright and plagued by oversaturated colors.

Basic settings include Brightness, Contrast, Backlight, Color, Tint, and Sharpness. The Advanced Settings menu offers Smooth Motion and Real Cinema settings that can be used to smooth out jaggies and reduce judder, three Noise Reduction modes, Color Temperature with user adjustable RGB gain and offset levels, Backlight Control, and Adaptive Luma (dynamic brightness control). There's also an Ambient Light Sensor control that works with a built-in sensor to adjust backlighting according to room lighting conditions.

The M3D651SV uses passive technology to bring 3D to the big screen. Vizio bundles four pairs of lightweight, Roy Orbison-style glasses with this model, but if you need more you can always purchase an additional four-pack for $24.99.

Performance
Using images from the DisplayMate HDTV diagnostic tests and a Konica-Minolta chromameter, the M3D651SV produced a peak brightness measurement of 224.57 cd/m2 (candelas per square meter) and a nice deep black level of 0.02 cd/m2, resulting in an impressive contrast ratio of 11,228:1.

Color accuracy was generally good out of the box. Reds and blues were pretty much in line with the CIE 1931 chromaticity standards (see the chart below). Green levels were slightly warm but not to the point where they caused tinting or color tracking errors.

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In my tests, the benefits of a generous contrast ratio became apparent while watching scenes from The Bourne Legacy on Blu-ray. Aerial flyover scenes of the snow-covered mountains really showed off the M3D651SV's ability to deliver very good shadow and highlight detail, and flesh tones were natural looking throughout the movie. Colors remained bold and the picture stayed bright when viewed from an extreme side angle.

The M3D651SV's passive 3D technology delivered good depth and a very bright picture while playing Sharks 3D. Watching 3D on a screen of this size really puts you on the center of the action. The picture was crisp and artifact-free for the most part, but there was a trace of crosstalk (image ghosting) when viewed from an extreme side angle, which is a common characteristic of passive 3D technology.

As with the Vizio E601I-A3, Vizio's non-3D 60-inch LED HDTV, the M3D651SV lacks the dedicated power-saving features that are standard issue on most HDTVs. The set averaged 145 watts of power during testing. That's a bit more than what we saw with the E601I-A3 (118 watts), but still not what you would call a power hog for its size.

Conclusions
With the Vizio M3D651SV you get your money's worth and then some. Its huge 65-inch LED illuminated screen, sharp imagery, and generous interactive Web app catalog are enough to recommend it to anyone looking for a big-screen HDTV for under $2,000. Throw in passive 3D with four sets of glasses, Wi-Fi, and a neat little remote with a QWERTY keypad, and you've got our latest Editors' Choice for midrange LCD HDTVs.

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South Africa's Mandela had gall stones removed, recovering: government

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An entire classroom of students is unaccounted for following a shooting at an elementary school in suburban Connecticut on Friday, a local newspaper reported. The Hartford Courant, citing unnamed sources, said at least 20 people were shot and that many of the shootings took place in a kindergarten classroom at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. CBS News, citing unnamed officials, reported at least 27 people, including possibly 18 children, were killed when at least one shooter opened fire at the school in Newtown, Connecticut. (Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst)

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Obama remains committed to assault weapons ban, White House ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) ? The White House said President Barack Obama supports reinstatement of a federal ban on assault weapons ? a position he took in the 2008 campaign but failed to press during his first term.

?It does remain a commitment of his,? presidential spokesman Jay Carney told reporters as the nation reeled from a mass shooting in Connecticut that mainly killed school children.

An emotional Obama did not address that issue directly in a televised statement from the White House on the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown that killed 26 people but said something had to be done.

?We?re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics,? said Obama, the father of two girls.

He wiped away tears when he spoke of the ?beautiful little kids? killed in the massacre.

Police recovered three weapons from the scene: a semi-automatic .223 Bushmaster rifle, a Glock and a Sig Sauer, both handguns, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.

Others also spoke out for a strong federal response.

?We cannot simply accept this as a routine product of modern American life. If now is not the time to have a serious discussion about gun control and the epidemic of gun violence plaguing our society, I don?t know when is,? Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, said in a statement.

Congress approved a ban on assault weapons in 1994. The prohibition, which expired in 2004, did not eliminate them, but restricted their features, limiting magazine capacity to 10 rounds and regulating pistol grips, bayonet attachments and flash suppressors.

Gun rights generally divide Americans.

A Pew poll conducted after the 2011 assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, that killed six other people, found that 49% of Americans said it was ?more important to protect the rights of Americans to own guns,? while 46% said it was ?more important to control gun ownership.?

But a survey conducted by CNN/ORC International in August shortly after the deadly theater mass shooting earlier this year in Aurora, Colorado, found that 76% of those surveyed believe ?there should be some restrictions on owning guns.?

Obama supported a platform while running for president in 2008 that included reinstating the assault weapons ban, but has largely avoided the issue of gun control during his first term.

He wrote an opinion piece two months after the Giffords shooting acknowledging the importance of the Second Amendment right to bear arms and called for a ?focus? on ?effective steps that will actually keep those irresponsible, law-breaking few from getting their hands on a gun in the first place.?

Obama said at a presidential debate in October that he wanted a ?broader conversation? in general about reducing gun violence.

?Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced,? he said.

The National Rifle Association, which advocates for gun rights, said in a statement it would not have anny comment on the Connecticut shooting ?until the facts are thoroughly known.?

Kristin Goss, an associate professor of public policy and political science at Duke University and author of ?Disarmed: The Missing Movement for Gun Control in America? earlier this year that the pro gun control side of the issue ?has struggled to come up with a compelling narrative? to convince more people to support stricter gun laws.

?For a long time, these gun violence rates and massacres speak for themselves. They relied on that to make the case but were up against a very powerful but very well disciplined and skillful army that was good at taking those arguments apart,? Goss said.

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A View from the Flip Side

Could you handle a world that looked upside down? Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of The Annals of Improbable Research, shares a case study in which the subject was made to wear vision-flipping goggles. Ten days later, the man was riding a bicycle and playing catch in the park?his only impairment the strange headgear itself.

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AirAsia orders 100 more A320s from Airbus

PARIS (AP) ? Airbus says AirAsia, southeast Asia's top budget carrier, is ordering 100 additional A320 single-aisle jets in a deal that greatly increases the Malaysian-based carrier's orders for the European aircraft.

In a statement Thursday Airbus says the deal brings the total number of A320 aircraft ordered or already delivered to AirAsia to 475.

AirAsia currently flies a fleet of 100 A320s out of bases in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Manila and Tokyo.

The new jets will allow AirAsia to open new routes and increase frequencies on flights to the Philippines and Japan, AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes said in a statement.

The deal includes orders for 64 of the A320neo, a revamped model which Airbus advertises as more fuel efficient version of the A320.

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Russia says Syrian opposition could defeat government: agencies

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Rebel forces are gaining ground against the Syrian government and could win the war against President Bashar al-Assad, the Kremlin's envoy for Middle East affairs said on Thursday.

Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov also said Russia was working on plans to evacuate its citizens from Syria if necessary,.

"One must look the facts in the face. The regime and government in Syria is losing control of more and more territory," Russian state-run RIA quoted Bogdanov as saying.

"Unfortunately, the victory of the Syrian opposition cannot be ruled out."

His remarks were the clearest sign yet that Russia is preparing for the possible defeat of Assad's government at the hands of opponents in a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people since March 2011.

"We are dealing with issues of preparations for an evacuation. We have mobilization plans and are clarifying where our citizens are located," Bogdanov said.

Russia, which has shielded Assad's government from censure by the U.N. Security Council and resisted Western pressure to join efforts to push him from power, will continue to insist upon a peaceful resolution, he said.

(Writing by Steve Gutterman; Editing by Thomas Grove and Angus MacSwan)

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