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It's the end of the week and a possitive one for the equity markets in Europe and the US. On Thursday stocks rallied for a third consecutive day with the Stoxx Europe 600 reaching its highest level since July 2010. The FTSE 100 closed down 0.2%. In the US data from the jobs market and manufacturing added to optimism that the worlds largest economy is starting to gain some momentum. This morning Goldman Sachs O'Neill said that"..the US housing market is bottoming out,&…Continue Reading →
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Overnight equity market's in Asia slid following the moves seen in Europe and the US. Markets were spooked as Greece raced to sign a deal enforcing haircuts on private bond holders to receive critical bail funds and avoid a disorderly default. The FTSE 100 suffered its biggest one day fall this year at 1.9%, and the DAX and CAC 40 falling over 3%. Brazil's economy has overtaken the UK for the first time, making it the second emerging economy to enter the top tier of economi…Continue Reading →
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-Relatively little macro data has been released today, with equity markets coming off slightly. -Concerns over the legitimacy of the Russian elections have been raised, with widespread allegations of vote rigging. -Gold broke through the 1700 level on stops being triggered. -US campaigns hear up as Romney advance and Obama gains –WSJ -Banks deposit €821bn at ECB –FT -Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs lost money last year for the first time in thre…Continue Reading →
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En artikkel av John Bunzl, Simpols grunnlegger, om Simpols tenkning og verdier.
With the world in the grip of an economic slump, those who've been concerned about global warming, looming energy shortages and other global issues will no doubt be feeling even more despondent than before. To ordinary citizens all over the world, the ability to gain any traction on these issues seems inadequate and our efforts to get politicians to do anything substantive likewise seem futile. And yet the power to reverse this is, I contend, already in our hands if only we realise it.
We - at least those of us in democratic countries already have the necessary power to drive our politicians to implement substantive global solutions.
To fully realise our power, however, first requires that we take stock of the various misconceptions that prevent us from seeing it. We are limited not so much by corrupt or blind politicians, nor by greedy corporations, nor by the "money masters" – the private banks. We are limited only by the false walls of misconception we've constructed in our own hearts and minds.
The first of these is our assumption that politicians have the power to make the substantive changes needed to put the world on a just and sustainable path. There can be no doubt we believe politicians have this power because if we didn't, we'd hardly spend so much time lobbying them or taking direct action to persuade them to change their policies. We lobby them and protest because we think they have power – but they don't, at least not as much as we think, and certainly far less than they'd need if they were to solve global problems.
How can this be? Their lack of power stems from the fact that, today, capital and corporations move fairly easily across national borders, so determining which country gains investment and employment and which loses it. Since politicians have no choice but to implement policies designed to attract or retain capital so as to maintain employment and competitiveness, it's not hard to see why they're constrained to implementing only market- and business-friendly policies; policies which favour the rich, corporations and bankers and thus disfavour greater social justice and the environment. So, to lobby politicians in the way we do now is rather illogical. Because for any nation, implementing our demands unilaterally would risk making its economy uncompetitive, leading to capital flight, unemployment and so on.
Implementing our demands, in short, wouldn't be in the national interest. So, why do we persist in demanding substantive change from people – in this case our politicians – when they don't have the power to deliver? Clearly there must be something wrong with our thinking; with our conception.
Our second major misconception is that the above problem must be the fault of the rich or the corporations who move their capital around. While no one should condone unethical or greedy corporate behaviour, we have to realise that on the whole corporations do what they do because not doing it would mean losing out to others.
For corporations, acting ethically or refraining from taking advantage of countries with lower regulations and taxes would by and large mean losing out to their less scrupulous competitors, so it's not difficult to see why they often fail to behave as we'd like.
So it's right we should highlight poor corporate behaviour, but why do we persist in blaming corporations when it's clear that their behaviour is only the natural consequence of the lack of a level playing field of globally binding regulations? Again, there must be something wrong with our conception.
What's more, these misconceptions only lead us into contradictory thinking, such as identifying free trade as our enemy. At a recent Trade Justice event, for example, delegates were disappointed that a survey carried out during the Make Poverty History campaign showed that supporters could not say what trade justice actually meant. Following that, a delegate from one major NGO gave his own answer, proclaiming that "We are against free trade and we're for protectionism, but only in certain circumstances". But he failed to see the inherent contradiction that if you are for protectionism only in certain exceptional circumstances, you must logically be for free trade in all other circumstances! What that delegate and most of his colleagues are missing, then, is that their real enemy is not free trade itself but the fact that free trade occurs without adequate global social and environmental regulations, without any redistribution of wealth across national borders, and without any adequate transnational enforcement.
In short, it's not free trade that is our enemy; it's the lack of effective global regulations and governance. And if the leaders of our movement cannot accurately identify the real enemy, surely we shouldn't be surprised if the public cannot define trade justice.
But lying deep beneath these misconceptions are the false walls we build in our hearts. We build them on the above misconceptions and hold to them dearly because they allow us to blame, shame and complain about others and that makes us feel self-righteous; it makes us feel good - like campaigning warriors, boldly speaking out for the good of the world! But while raising public awareness of global abuses is necessary, how can blaming people who are not really responsible possibly be good for the world?
How can it be right to blame politicians or businessmen when change is not in their power? How can it be right to blame them when, if we were in their shoes, global economic forces would demand that we behaved pretty much the same?
This, perhaps, is why Gandhi asserted that "It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist or attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. For we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being is to slight those divine powers, and thus to harm not only that being but with him the whole world. [1]"
If we want to help heal the world, it is the largely unregulated global market system we must recognise as our real enemy – that we must resist and attack - and not any person or corporation or mode of trade that operates within it. We must realise that we are all caught, at one level or another, in that system and are thus all "tarred with the same brush". And from that it follows that while none of us is really to blame, all of us must hold ourselves jointly responsible for changing the system itself – for doing something about it. When we stop blaming each other, then, we realise that we are all prisoners of the system and all in the same planetary boat. If we take down the false walls of misconception in our hearts, we open them to the truth that those who we fondly believed to be at fault are not, and so our hearts open to each other without discrimination or reserve and so to the whole world. For how else could we be permitted to do good for the world? How else could we possibly build a non-judgemental space that is open to all; the vital open and forgiving space that is needed to begin our joint search for a genuine global solution?
None of this means we should stop our present campaigns, of course; it means only that we recognise their limitations, and so realise that an additional, more global, thoroughly non-judgemental, more truthful, more inclusive approach is also needed.
Let's now go further to see what such an approach might actually look like. What might its design criteria be?
|If the free movement of capital and corporations is a global phenomenon,
|our first deduction must be that only a truly global solution could possibly fit the bill.
|And since the nature of governments' failure to act is their fear of losing jobs and investment to other countries,
|it follows, secondly, that any solution must be implemented simultaneously by nations to avoid that fear.
|If all or sufficient nations act simultaneously, no nation, corporation or citizens need lose out to any other: global and simultaneous – everybody wins.
|But since dominant nations may not see global cooperation as in their interests and would seek to free-ride and undermine global cooperation,
|our solution must give citizens the power to compel their governments to cooperate.
|So our solution must not just be global and simultaneous but also be driven by citizens.
|And if citizens are to drive the process and be capable of compelling their politicians to cooperate globally,
|the solution must enable them to operate on politicians in a way that is democratic, legal and binding.
|It must, in short, operate through existing electoral systems but do so in a way that is completely new, has trans-national coverage and yet transcends party-politics.
Utopia or reality?
For a few years, now, a relatively small number of citizens, primarily in the UK, have been test-running a global solution which meets all the above design criteria. Over the course of three general elections, in 2001, 2005 and 2010, they succeeded in getting up to 27 Members of the UK parliament and hundreds of electoral candidates from all the main political parties to pledge to implement the campaign's global policy package simultaneously alongside other governments. In some UK electoral constituencies, more than one candidate signed the pledge, meaning the campaign gained a seat in parliament regardless which of those candidates won the seat. This showed the campaign was capable of transcending party-political divides and was global in scope, leading one supporting MP, Lembit Opik, to recognise that,
"We live together at once, on the same small planet. There are some things we should do together, at once, on this same small planet."
How come it's so effective?
But how could a relatively small number of citizens achieve such big results in such a short time? The answer lies in their discovery of a new and powerful way to use their votes.
They do this by making it clear to all politicians that they'll be voting in all future national elections for ANY politician or party – within reason – that pledges to implement the campaign's policy package simultaneously alongside other governments.
Or, if they have a party preference, they encourage their favourite politician or party to sign that pledge.
In that way, campaign supporters still retain the ultimate right to vote as they please but they also make it clear to all politicians that they'll be giving very strong preference to candidates that have signed the Pledge, to the exclusion of those who haven't. So politicians who sign the Pledge attract those votes and yet they risk nothing because the policy package only gets implemented if and when sufficient governments around the world have signed up to it too. But if politicians fail to sign the Pledge they risk losing votes to their political competitors who do, and so could risk losing their seats. With many parliamentary seats and even entire elections around the world often hanging on a relatively small number of votes, it's not difficult to see that only relatively few campaign supporters will be needed to make it in the vital survival interests of all politicians to sign up. And therein lies the power that citizens already have, even in dominant countries such as the USA, to ensure that their governments sign up and cooperate.
Thanks to this novel way of voting, not only have many UK MPs signed up, some Members of the European, Australian and other parliaments have too. The campaign has supporters in over 100 countries and they are self-organising to take the project forward internationally. Once sufficient support from politicians is available, citizen-supporters of the campaign will be invited to participate in a global process by which they can - potentially with the help of chosen independent experts - gradually develop the global policies to be included in the campaign's overall policy package. This will ensure that the policies to be implemented will be democratically developed, globally inclusive, tailored to the needs of each country and yet that the process still remains open and flexible over time.
Many non-governmental and campaigning organisations already have well thought out global policies to deal with climate change, oil depletion and other problems but what they don't have is a viable political means for getting them implemented in a globalised world. That's why they're increasingly seeing this novel campaign as a vehicle for driving politicians and nations towards cooperatively implementing them. They're increasingly recognising that if politicians don't have the unilateral power to deal substantively with global problems, then citizens must logically take the lead both in designing the necessary policies, and in using their collective voting power to drive politicians to implement them simultaneously.
So, the power to create a better world is already in our hands – we only have to use it; we only have to realise it.
The campaign we're talking about is called the Simultaneous Policy (or Simpol, for short). As Lembit Opik went on to say, "The compelling logic of Simultaneous Policy is really collective common sense – it's a campaign to find out how common sense really is!"
With global problems now mounting steeply around us, isn't it time more of us found out and played our part? Isn't it time you let go your misconceptions and opened your heart to all the world? Isn't it time we all jointly discovered, as Gandhi said, that the "divine powers within us are infinite"?
Best greetings.
John Bunzl
Founder, International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)
December, 2008 (Updated, April 2012).
[1] M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography, Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, 1927, 1929.


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I almost have the 2000 tokens for a Rodent Crate from domination point. I plan on dropping it this Sunday (12/16) at 8 PM server (5 PM PST). If you don't know, it drops level 25 battle pet rats in two colors for 20 minutes. I am happy to help people cross realm to capture this, I just need to make sure I stay on Area 52 (not too fimilar with CRZ). I'll try and keep an eye on this forum for any questions or such.


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NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" has set a record for highest-grossing R-rated Christmas release in the United States, its producers said.
The The Weinstein Co. release grossed $15 million when it opened on 3,010 screens in North America Tuesday. It has earned $34 million in its first three days in theaters.
Starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz and Samuel L. Jackson, the film is set in the 19th-century American South.
It is about a German bounty hunter, who frees a slave in exchange for his help in tracking and killing his enemies. He then works to reunite the man with his wife, who was bought by a wealthy plantation owner.


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Women take future of coding in own hands
TECH EDUCATION Girl Develop It creates learning environment for women to get more of them into a programming industry dominated by men
"I'm impressed by how many of you made it four nights in a row," Liz Howard tells the class of 17 women she's teaching on a recent night in San Francisco.
They are sitting in front of laptops at a shared work space in SOMA, their screens displaying lines and lines of computer code. At the front of the room, a big screen projects slides on concepts like loops, arrays and states.
Howard's class is on JavaScript, one of the most common computer languages used by startup tech companies, and is put on by Girl Develop It, an organization dedicated to getting women involved with programming. The invite for the event advertises Girl Develop It's 850-plus "nerdettes" and noted the evening comes complete "with childcare."
Howard acknowledges that there are plenty of coding classes out there, but in approaching a predominantly male profession, many women prefer to learn without the typical "bravado," as she termed the hyper-competitive nature of coding groups or hackathons.
Girl Develop It works to create an environment where women can not only feel comfortable asking questions, but also build a stronger network for female coders.
Bright future
It's no secret the future bodes well for programmers. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics expects software development jobs in the United States to total 1.2 million by 2020, up 30 percent from 2010, a rate of growth much faster than the average for all other occupations. Predictably, much of that engineering growth is expected in California. As of 2011, BLS statistics show, California engineers earned the profession's highest mean salary in the country ($128,300 in the San Jose and Sunnyvale area).
Yet, data from the National Science Foundation shows those taking up the profession are male by a ratio of almost 3 to 1. Even so, one would be hard-pressed to find a Silicon Valley tech firm where the ratio of male to female engineers is close to that.
Classes spring up
In addition to San Francisco, Girl Develop It holds classes in less tech-centric cities like Detroit and Philadelphia, and it certainly isn't the only organization of its type. RailsBridge teaches the Ruby on Rails programming language to women around San Francisco. The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology partners with organizations like Google, IBM and National Security Agency to increase women's participation in technology-related fields.
Online, independent of gender, there are no shortages of tools to learn computer code. MIT and Stanford University post videos of their programming classes. Startups like Codecademy offer interactive courses. Blogs like DailyJS and other forums offer free tips and guidance on troubleshooting. The website repl.it offers free online software that lets you build code.
Empowered by coding
Why should learning to code be important to more women? Ask Leslie Fishlock, founder of GeekGirl.
Her organization, which teaches classes and holds conferences around the country, got started in 2008 after Fishlock became "so frustrated hearing stories of woe from bright, articulate women who did not know the basics of computers and the Internet (and) had a penchant for being taken advantage of by computer gimmicks and overly anxious sales clerks."
Software is rarely shipped with all the tools one may want. Being able to code - provided the software allows it - empowers users to build the features they want, like a specific tool to block ads on a website.
And as more businesses move operations online, knowing basic coding concepts gives job applicants a leg up - even if their position doesn't require writing software. Not to mention that being able to code provides tools to sort through the reams of data that companies are collecting to learn about their customers.
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Looking back, women have a quiet but important history in coding. In the 1840s, Ada Lovelace worked on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine - a mechanical precursor to the modern computer - and is often called "the first programmer."
While a U.S. Naval officer, Grace Hopper developed the COBOL computing language in 1959 and is credited with creating the first compiler, the device that converts the words of a programming language into the 1s and 0s a computer reads.
That gives them a leg up here, because while programming languages may use different words and actions, the overarching concepts are usually similar. Just as a guitarist might learn the banjo faster than someone with no music experience, programmers pick up a second language much faster.
That doesn't necessarily translate into classroom perfection, though.
The students had been assigned the coding of a rudimentary word-guessing game. Some completed the task with beautiful lines of code, but others just didn't get the homework done.
Luckily for them, Howard and Girl Develop It are focused on bigger-picture goals.
Not to worry, Howard assures them: "You don't get a grade at the end of class."
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This weekend, we headed for the hills... well, actually the mountains. We drove up to Vermont for some fresh air, hiking, swimming, s'mores, homemade ice cream and maple syrup. The entire state was covered in rolling green covered mountains and scented with an overwhelming (in a good way...) aroma of pine. It was a great escape.
Our first stop was the Simon Pearce restaurant in Quechee for brunch. It was located right on this river near a waterfall.
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The tables were, of course, set with Simon Pearce glasses and a glass sculpture. Mike was checking out the view from our table...
Pretty spectacular.
Mike directing the Mr. to look at the camera while on one of the several covered bridges we saw. He was a natural mountain man- had the time of his life.
On our hikes we kept calling him "Darcy Goat Gruff." He was so agile on the rocks - just like a goat. He was the lead hiker - showing me the easiest way to the top. Or to the water...
This was an awesome gorge that we looked at from a bridge above.
I took a picture of the swirling waters from above... do you see what I see?
We headed on a hike up a mountain - it was a steep 1.2 mile trek up a trail with natural rock 'stairs'.
Amazing roots that also make great 'stairs.'
Almost to the top...
I thought these moss covered trees were so pretty - a really vibrant green. The misty fog added a really mysterious element to the hike - almost magical... or like a scene from a scary movie...
Some of the views on the way up.
At the top of the climb was this vast freshwater pond.
We were planning to take a dip - but I could only get in up to my ankles.
Darcy thought the water felt just fine.
We stayed at the Stowe Mountain Lodge - a pet-friendly hotel.
The view from our room - I think I would really enjoy skiing these runs. They look more like my style than the steep Rocky Mountains we've skied in the past.
The guys relaxing after the hike.
What mountain trip isn't complete without a gourmet dinner? We went to Norma's at The Topnotch Resort in Stowe. The steamer clams in white wine were great with some crusty bread.
Mike had a steak with a verde sauce and some unusual pork belly 'tots'.
For dessert, we ordered the Make-Your-Own S'mores around the firepit outside.
This was my favorite part of the trip.
Mr. was tempted to try to get the marshmallows...
On the drive home, we took the scenic route and stopped at some great mountain views. This was at The Trapp Family Lodge - yes, the same von Trapp family from the Sound of Music. They opened this lodge in the 70's (I think). The views were really something. This is the field where the von Trapp family still preforms for hotel guests.
A berry crop.
Vermont cows grazing.
The entire state of Vermont is dotted with little towns you can see from the distance thanks from the Church steeples peeking out of the trees - all so quaint.
We stopped at this sugar house to pick up some Vermont Maple Syrup. I was disappointed to learn that they no longer harvest the sap in buckets that hang off of trees, instead the have sophisticated tube and piping systems.
The retail area of the sugar house - many different grades and sizes.
We stopped in Woodstock on the way home for some ice cream in fresh made waffle cones.
The bakery featured this mile high apple pie - I was almost tempted, but stuck with my waffle cone.
The town of Woodstock is lovely - almost all of the houses on the main town green are white painted Victorian houses with lovely front and side gardens.
A very idyllic town.
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Rick Ross is great, not just because he has an awesome beard and likes to eat honey-buns with cheese melted on top, but also because he isn't afraid to express his opinions about sports. Ross recently stopped by Power99, a Philadelphia radio station, to give some #HotSportsTakes to the people of Philadelphia.
The interview is about six minutes long, and Ross talks about everything from the Dream Team to Mike Vick to the Penn State scandal. Be sure to give it a listen, if only to hear Ross say, "Tear da statues down!" in regards to Penn State.
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Deftly playing on the worst fears of apartment-dwellers everywhere, this nasty little Spanish thriller explores just how bad things could really get as creepy building concierge César (Luis Tosar) stalks perky resident Clara (Marta Etura), aiming to drive her over the edge.
"The only thing that helps me is that others are unhappy, too," narrates César, who lurks patiently under Clara's bed to chloroform her nightly before infesting her cupboards with roaches, poisoning her body lotion and curling up next to her in bed. Clara, who only knows she feels oddly groggy in the mornings, insistently shrugs off what she sees as simply a run of bad luck. The game is on.
Horror director Jaume Balagueró takes a page or two from Hitchcock in this shudder-inducing narrative — especially in César's devotion to his (suspiciously) comatose mom, and a pivotal bathtub scene. Ultimately, "Sleep Tight" makes a sounder case for nocturnal Webcams than the "Paranormal Activity" franchise ever could.


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Beautiful and overwhelming! Anomalisa is a rare take on human insouciance towards things that one becomes accustomed to.
I have rarely seen a movie so eloquently shot to capture human emotions in the most vivid way possible. It is unafraid to scale horizons of the bold, yet humble enough to revisit tattered fronts of human nature. The cast is just, well, three people – David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tom Noonan who weave the character voices to perfection. Jennifer's voice will make you fall in love with Lisa instantly. Her character is the most relatable one. She is something when she breaks into a candid conversation. It is hard not to feel sorry for her when things go south on her.
The stop-motion animation that Anomalisa bides by is just magnificent. You can almost read the efforts put in by the director Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman to create continuous shots of pizzazz. Ice all that up with brilliant expressions that its characters pack in and we end up with a spectacular flick in our baggage. Screenplay steers to create wonders as we feast on some beautiful words at a haywire juncture.
The plot of Anomalisa takes us unto a frontage where we come to realize, that's how it is. That's how the world works! People are going to feel incomplete. Love is ephemeral. The moment it meets time, it becomes chaotic. Fills up with indifference and then we start searching for that spark again.
The most unique thing about Anomalisa is the way it carries the voice-over for women. It tries to portray the indifference the protagonist carries for every woman on the planet through a male cacophonous voice. He is on the prowl for that melodious voice once again, here spark, which let him feel something once. The scavenge ends up taking us to the Anomaly, Lisa. She seems perfect until indifference slays her too.
This movie makes you ponder hard. If you really look at Anomalisa's story, you cannot possibly take sides. You cannot just feel sorry for Lisa here, and ignore Michael Stone. There's an Anomalisa in everyone's life which seems harmonious at first, and then suddenly disintegrates to ruins because of some abomination. You cannot simply ignore the horrific dream he has either. It reeks of Stone's crude life that is trying to devour him. A stunning representation. Well thought of!
You can relate to the character in the movie – Aloof from the world, but then a chord just sounds right enough to make you interested again. Then boom! out of the blue something makes it dissonant once again. Well, that's life for you.
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Tea Review 78 - American Classic Tea
Our last tea review covered Tregothnan's teas, which are made from the only tea plants grown in England for commercial use. With that in mind it seemed logical that the next review should be of American Classic Tea, which is the currently the only tea being grown for commercial use in the United States.
It all takes place in South Carolina, at Bigelow Tea's Charleston Tea Plantation. The Plantation's Web site is located here. There have been a flurry of articles in various newspapers about the Plantation over the last few months. Here's a recent one by the Associated Press. Here's a good article, from TeaMuse, about tea production in the United States. It's kind of a limited topic and the article is about five years old, but it's still worth a look.
American Classic Tea, as far as I can tell, is only available in tea bag form. It's a black tea and my understanding is, that because there's not a whopping amount of tea produced at the Plantation, it's blended with other black teas. While it would be interesting to taste the Plantation's tea on it's own, in loose tea form, apparently that's not possible right now.
As for the tea itself, well, I have to say that I wasn't exactly bowled over by the taste. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it was bad, but I found it to be a little bit on the harsh side. Of course, I typically drink everything straight up - no additives. If you're keen on milk, sugar, lemon and whatnot, you might find American Classic to be much more agreeable.
You can order American Classic Tea directly from Bigelow, but you'll have to buy a minimum of six boxes (144 bags total). I haven't done any research into where to buy it in smaller quantities, but I'm sure Bigelow could answer that one, if you'd like to know.
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- BeadHappy said...
Loose American Classic Tea is available now at http://www.bigelowtea.com/act/ They have four different blends, a Breakfast, Gray, Raspberry and Peach. I've never had tea grownin America, it should be an interesting experamint.
- Clara said...
American Classic Tea is not harsh if made as sun tea, but there is no need to put it in the sun. Place the tea bags in a glass or good quality plastic container, use filtered water, and leave about six hours. It is light, but the tastiest and most refreshing tea.
Thanks to Southern Living magazine, which featured the plantation, I have been drinking American Classic Tea about twenty years--long before Bigelow bought it.
I still find it to be the best tea for iced tea, with Luzianne following in second place. Both are good with or without lemon, and of course they must be sweetened! (I'm a Deep South Gulf Coaster.)


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Archaeologists exploring Russia's "Atlantis" have discovered a gem-adorned 2,137-year-old "iPhone case" buried in the grave of a young fashionista who scientists have nicknamed Natasha. The unusual rectangular object is made from the black gemstone jet and is inlaid with an array of contrasting precious gemstones, including turquoise, carnelian and mother-of-pearl. It is also decorated with ancient Chinese wuzhu coins, which helped the dating process. Natasha's remains and her blinged-out accessory were excavated from the Ala-Tey Necropolis in the so-called Sayan Sea. Located in the Russian Republic of Tuva, the man-made reservoir is usually 56-feet-deep, but was drained over the summer, giving archaeologists rare access to the site. Although the seven-inch by three-inch object discovered with Nastasha looks very much like an iPhone case, scientists believe it's a very ornate belt buckle. "Natasha's' burial with a Hunnu-era 'iPhone' remains one of the most interesting at this site," noted archaeologist Dr. Pavel Leus. Nastasha lived during a time when a nation of nomads ruled ancient Mongolia from the 3rd century BC to the late 1st century AD. "This site is a scientific sensation," Dr. Marina Kilunovskaya of the St Petersburg Institute of Material History Culture told labible.com. "We are incredibly lucky to… Read More
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In transcribing the letters my grandparents left behind I've come across a couple of "What ifs."
1. What if my grandparents had moved to Minnesota after their marriage? My grandfather was considering this while stationed in France during World War I. If he had done so, would my parents have met? Not likely. They only met because Grandpa P took a job in Detroit.
2. What if my grandmother had not died at the age of 45? Would my grandfather's attitude towards my mom and dad's marriage have been different?
3. What if my grandmother hadn't died at the age of 45? Would my parents have met? Possibly, but since they met because my mom and aunt were living in the same boarding house as my dad's father, who was a widower, probably not. That means I wouldn't be here either.
I think this What If game is giving me a headache.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
The "What If" Game
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I play this "what if" game all the time. It's never a good thing. It always drives me crazy, but I can't help it. Glad I'm not alone!ReplyDelete
Yeah, it makes me nuts and I certainly don't need any help in that department!ReplyDelete
- Your Michigan cousinApril 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM
This actually brought tears to my eyes.....what if our grandmother had never died at 45, would our dads have been closer, would our families have been closer? We should talk sometime. We were distant in miles, but it was more than that and I never quite understood it.ReplyDelete
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A new study confirms that a huge asteroid will pass harmlessly by Earth in 28 years.
New observations of the asteroid 2011 AG5 now give astronomers complete confidence that the 460–foot-wide (140-meter-wide) space rock won't hit Earth in the year 2040. When it was discovered last year, scientists said that 2011 AG5 had a 1-in-500 chance of impact with our planet.
Astronomers solidified the asteroid's harmless status during an observation campaign in October, using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. The finding added more support to a NASA study that came to a similar conclusion in June based on months of observations of asteroid 2011 AG5.
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The researchers behind the latest study say the asteroid shouldn't get any closer than 550,000 miles (890,000 kilometers) — about twice the distance between Earth and the moon.
"These were extremely difficult observations of a very faint object," the University of Hawaii's Richard Wainscoat, a member of the team of researchers monitoring 2011 AG5, said in a statement. "We were surprised by how easily the Gemini telescope was able to recover such a faint asteroid so low in the sky."
Just because it is a large asteroid doesn't mean it's easy to see, scientists said. Researchers used the Gemini North to photograph the asteroid three times in October.
NASA astronomers and other scientists regularly monitor the sky for asteroids that could pose a potential impact threat to Earth. About 9,000 such near-Earth asteroids have been discovered to date, though up to a million or more could exist, NASA scientists say.
Nearly 95 percent of the largest near-Earth asteroids, those larger than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) in size, have been identified, NASA scientists say. The space agency's Asteroid Watch program to monitor nearby space rocks is based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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Christian couples are unanimous that children are to be raised in the "fear and wisdom of the Lord." But principles for how best to do that has divided evangelicals, who lack a central authority on spanking, attachment parenting, and entertainment choices, to name but a few hot-button issues. In the post–James Dobson era, when writer-gurus, religious and otherwise, offer quick-fix guidelines on raising kids amid technology saturation and divided families, Christians are learning to extend grace to fellow believers who parent differently.
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Students considering becoming an environmental studies major or minor should become familiar with what the UW Oshkosh ES program is – and is not. All interdisciplinary programs, from African American studies to women's studies, draw from various disciplines, which makes the design of interdisciplinary programs more complex than a traditional discipline such as biology or political science. The design of environmental programs is made more complex because it includes the natural sciences as well as the social sciences and humanities, and it can be tied to a pre-professional program such as natural resource management. The result is that there is probably more variety in environmental programs than in any other academic program. Each type of program has its own basic philosophy and goal, and its strengths and limitations.
There are three common ways to shape an undergraduate environmental program. Our fully interdisciplinary program is the third type, but you should know about all three.
- Pre-professional program.
Examples: UW Stevens Point natural resources, UW Oshkosh nursing and education programs.
A pre-professional program focuses on vocational training. It comes after the completion of a liberal arts education in the first two years of college. Emphasis is in-depth disciplinary knowledge and what is called "instrumental rationality": the ability to use reason to work effectively within an accepted social system. Such programs are usually and gain entry-level jobs.
- Specialized interdisciplinary programs.
Examples: environmental science and environmental policy majors at UW Green Bay and the conservation and environmental science program at UW Milwaukee.
A specialized interdisciplinary program focuses on from several disciplines within a division. For instance, an environmental science program integrates knowledge from biology, geology, chemistry, and geography. An environmental policy program focuses on political science, economics, and sociology. Such programs develop extensive and deep expertise within that branch of knowledge and prepares students for graduate school or entry-level jobs.
- Fully interdisciplinary, liberal art programs
Examples: environmental studies at UW Oshkosh and UW Madison.
A fully interdisciplinary program considers environmental issues within the framework of a broad, interdisciplinary education . It draws on and integrates knowledge from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Such a program develops the student's ability to recognize and deal effectively with the full complexity of environmental issues: scientific facts, political theories, economic principles, ethical issues, aesthetic values, etc. In doing so, it develops the student's
- ability to recognize how ideas, values, and practical problems require knowledge of various disciplines
- ability to integrate knowledge from various disciplines in understanding ideas and values and in solving practical problems
- ability to evaluate differing positions and arguments in a rational and open-minded way
- ability to "think out of the box."
The UW Oshkosh program is also firmly based in the liberal arts. What is "liberal arts"? The UWO College of Letters and Science puts it this way:
"A liberal arts education transcends preparation for specific careers. A liberal arts education prepares students to be responsible citizens who understand and contribute to the changing world in which they live. It exposes students to a broad spectrum of knowledge about the human experience and the natural world, from contemporary science to literature, music and art. It enhances the skills of communication and critical thinking. It challenges students to appreciate their cultural heritage, to be sensitive to diverse traditions and opinions and to value truth. It encourages students to develop a lifelong commitment to inquiry. In sum, a liberal arts education develops the whole person who values knowledge for its own sake as well as for the achievement of specific objectives." < http://www.uwosh.edu/colleges/cols/home.htm>
Placed within the framework and goals of the liberal arts, an environmental studies program
- challenges students with a variety of approaches, genres, and sensitivities to nature, from science to poetry, in order to develop a more rounded perspective on nature and society
- challenges students by studying the way various cultures and historical periods have thought about and interacted with nature and society
- challenges students by exposing them to a variety of environmental and political perspectives, some of which are very different from the dominant ideologies of our time.
These challenges develop what is called "substantive rationality": the use of reason to critically analyze and assess fundamental ideas, values, and worldviews, including those that are accepted in our society. Such a program enables students to think critically and creatively about complex environmental issues. We feel that such ability is essential to the student's future career and to the student becoming an informed and responsible citizen able to engage in the complex and ever-changing issues faced by members of a democracy.
With this emphasis on critical thinking, career preparation in such a program is not limited to vocational training. It also aims at developing the ability of students to become creative in their fields, and to become leaders in their fields. In addition, the interdisciplinary nature of the program gives students a greater ability to change fields during their career. Changing field, and even careers, is not uncommon, and environmental careers are rapidly expanding and diversifying. Thus it has been argued that "environmental studies should educate students for careers that don't yet exist." We believe a fully interdisciplinary program is the best way to do that.
The environmental studies at UWO is a challenging program in various ways.
- The courses themselves are rigorous, demanding substantial study time and high-level intellectual engagement.
- Students must be able to do well in a broad range of courses, including the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
- Students are challenged to consider a wide diversity of political, philosophical, and cultural perspectives and various approaches to environmental problems.
- Students engage in "substantial rationality," using critical thinking to questions basic assumptions and values as well as employing creative thinking to form their own worldview.
- Students must be able to integrate knowledge from various disciplines, particularly in the interdisciplinary seminars ES 370: Environmental Science, Policy, and Problem Solving and ES 490: Senior Seminar
- In the capstone senior seminar, students are required to complete an honors-type senior thesis.
- Students must take the initiative to follow through with the ES career preparation program, which encourages students to gain practical experience and gives guidance on learning about ES careers and jobs.
We are dedicated to preparing students for a career in which students will be able to have a positive impact on their world.
We have a "Career Preparation Program" that gives students the skills to land the job they want. Essential skills include resume-writing and interviewing.
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This might work on piston guns too, I wouldn't know, I never got my piston to actuate, but I know that it works on my sprinkler valve. Holding down the blowgun trigger causes the gun to make a F# tone. I can adjust the pitch by putting my finger over the outlet on the blowgun. I have only got this to work once, but holding it down while filling it up and waving my hand at different distances from the outlet on the barrel, I can make it harmonic, where it gets very high pitched and much louder. I get different pitches with different barrels. Anyone else ever notice this?
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Anyone else having troubles with CompanionLink sync crashing?
I'm using Local WiFi Sync. Everything was working fine, but then recently I updated to the latest version (Build 6030), and at the same time added a new profile for a new phone I got (Sony Z3 Compact).
I set the new profile to erase all data on phone, reread outlook and android, and synced one way, Outlook -> New Phone.
It hangs/crashes every time at "Closing Outlook".
I checked what happens with my old phone, and the same thing is happening there.
SOMETIMES it hasn't crashed if I didn't select "Rearead outlook/android", but most of the time - even if I unselect those - it is still now crashing.
I'm not sure if it has to do with the new build of CompanionLink, or the fact that I added a new profile to sync with (now have 2 profiles, one for old phone one for new), or what.
I've contacted CompanionLink support and they had several suggestions, none of which worked, so I mailed them the sync logs as directed.
This is really frustrating - I can no longer sync with any sense of security, so I'm not doing a 2-way sync anymore, which makes it hard to keep things in sync.
Anyone else having problems like this?
- Tim


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Gordon Bruner, owner and founder of VMC Facilities, has launched a free app for both the Apple and Android markets. "Minutes to Save Thousands," will provide users with information to help minimize repair costs to businesses of all types. The apps are available via links on the new website, www.minutestosavethousands.com, and will provide an array of checklists and video segments with step-by-step instructions covering everything from maintaining heating and air conditioning units to some simple practices to reduce utility expenses each month. The videos and checklists will also be made available at the same website above.
"I have done a considerable amount of repairs to restaurants and other types of businesses over the last 10 years," said Bruner. "Many of the damages I have been called in to repair could have minimized, or eliminated all together with some simple preventative measures. The app will provide step-by-step directions for reviewing the different aspects of a business property, as well as educate the user on the potential damages that can result from problems they might find."
When asked why he chose to launch his new app, Bruner simply stated, "No one would wish a huge expense for repairs on a business owner. This looked to me to be an excellent way to pass on some of the valuable information I have gained through my experiences, and give business owners some very real and useful tools to better protect one of their most valuable assets."


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Yes I am still here
Wow it is funny how life changes get in the way of life it seems like. I was sitting here this morning going I haven't posted anything in a long while as I have been tied up with work and not got a lot done on this for a while. A lot has changed since I posted last, my old company sold to someone new (as I said they would) and we just went through a merger at the company I am with. MS has dropped SBS from it's line up which is very sad they had a great product and a lot of loyal SBSers and that I can say I did get to help try and make the migrations from SBS 2003 to SBS 2008 as easy as could be which was fun and meet a lot of new people in the process. And don't tell me they still have it as the excuse of the product they have now is not SBS just a wanna be. Not all people see going to the cloud for some of the parts as not a option. What happens when it rains in the cloud.
Til later just Roger
Microsoft Licensing Fun or is this Hell
You ever get off the phone with Microsoft and feel like you have been sitting there poking yourself in your eye just for the fun of it or banging your head on the wall or that you need to go take a shower? We had a License Agreement that had expired and for whatever reason no one had caught it or it was mentioned or not who knows at this point it is irrelevant got missed some how and since I have taken over the IT Manager role here I was going over everything and found this. Of course this had our SA for the Office and Servers and Exchange and RDP and all the licenses that goes with that on it. So I called and after a while of bouncing back and forth and all around they said we could update our licensing and continue with the existing agreement. Ok that was cool I liked that answer and life was good.
Well they called back sometime later and said because the agreement expired in 2010, but right on the MS Licensing Website it says you can renew it by 2013 and be ok nothing about yaBut's. That was one of the questions that I had asked was can we continue with that and the answer was yes you can…… BUT yes here comes the BUT now after everything was all agreed on and PO's given out and things was ordered they called back and said oh yea BTW for you to be able to do this you have to catch up the 2 years you missed and then redo it again next year when this expires. Pregnant pause here while a short flash back of a car salesmen doing the same thing to me when I was getting my first new car or thought I was. Guess I have stupid written on my head or something but I said what? After being reviewed by the MS Sales guy and by 2 different people at MS Licensing while we was doing this no one had caught or knew this? Come on that is just crazy talk.
First thing is they really want the sale BUT ok too me that says they don't want it that bad I guess as I won't go for that in anyway shape and form or it might have been the statement they made that this is the only Option I have…….. well maybe in there mind it is but can we say Google Apps or Linux and Open Office. I seemed to recall there is a price difference here between the MS License and Free plus then you have me telling 10 of my friends who tell 10 of there's and it just blossoms from there when you have a cranky customer.
Or I suggested lets move forward with what was agreed on and I will stay on top of things going forward and life will be good, well they didn't like that answer as if they did it for one they will have to do for all. Guess if there is this kind of problem everyday they would find other options to help and not and try to limit you to there "One Option" As my wife would say they was trying to put me in a box and I don't play in boxes very well or at all.
I like MS Products but I don't have a problem moving to something that does not have this insane crazy licensing system they have there especially when I am told I only have one option. I have more than one option to move forward with all of this and it don't have to include them in this. I have no problem learning new things but I like the second option better they step up and we move forward. Oh yea and I walked away from getting the new car those kind of tricks are not my style.
Long story short I walked away from that discussion and did something different and also went and took a shower.
Til later just Roger
Sharepoint 2010 and opening PDF Files
I ran into a problem with our Sharepoint 2010 site not allowing pdf files directly it would only prompt you to save it. I found the fix was pretty simple and that was to do the following. Just be aware you are opening up the security on the sites with the files.
1.Verified Adobe Reader option "Display PDF in browser" was selected (it was by default) by opening Adobe Reader and going to Edit -> Options -> Internet -> Web Browser Options
2.Set SharePoint Web Application Browser File Handling to Permissive by opening Central Administration and going to -> Manage Web Applications –> select my web application –> General Settings –> Scroll down and set "Browser File Handling" to "Permissive".
Till later just Roger
HP Wireless and Wireless Support Part 2
Ok I have to update this as HP finally came through and they have been working with me on these APs and we are getting them replaced. What a good way to end the week before some holiday time off. Don't know what the problem with them is for sure but the replacement ones we have been rolling out are working and doing what they are supposed to and hopefully I will learn what the problem was with them for sure at some point with this.
Til Later Just Roger
Adara Networks
Has anyone had a chance to check out the offerings of Adara Networks? We are about to look over the solution and from first glance if it does what they say it will do then that would benefit anyone with remote locations. There claim is they can take our MPLs lines and double the speed. Seems to be a outrageous statement but we will see they have some trial/demo equipment that is coming out and we are going to give it a whirl but I just wondered if anyone else has used the product and what your experience was with it. I will let you know how our testing comes out with the product so more later.
Til Later Just Roger
HP Wireless and Wireless Support Part 1
That is my opinion anyways, I Love their servers and their desktops and laptops and their switches but I work for a company that put a lot of money into a HP Wireless Solution that sucks to say the least. The problem started after they had the antennas for a few months the AP's started to drop off and or the range went down and the people who sold the solution looked into it and said it was because there was not enough APs out that was the problem. You could setup 2 of the antennas 10 feet apart and the meshing still would not work and you still could not connect your laptop to them or if you could get a connection to the AP your traffic was not passed. So how can adding more antennas help when you couldn't connect to the AP 10 feet away.
Well this was fought for about 6 months and finally we called HP after not getting anywhere with the reseller other than you didn't buy enough AP's and sent them a couple of the problem units. They tested them and got them to fail but they came back with you don't have static guards on your APs so your warranty is voided. Plus because this had taken so long the APs started to go out of warranty which now in their eyes was voided because of no static guard on them and we had them grounded but guess in their minds you needed to buy a item that went on the antennas to protect against static. But if you talked to another part of HP they said that you did not need to have the antennas static guards. Someone make up there mind please and It was also strange that you could take the indoor APs and put them outside in a protective case and they out performed the Outside Antennas. Then we find out there was another location that had problems with their APs and that HP said it was a bad build on those and they was replacing them for that group. We have over 25 of the Units that we sent on to be tested and nothing is coming from that also they virtually just dropped into a black hole and that was it. No one wants to step up and take responsibility for the bad units either from a bad build or by not being sold everything you should have had to protect the Units in certain parts of HP's eyes.
Another problem that is had is that we have the wireless controller that goes in our HP 5406zl Core switch and this was supposed to make the management so much easier on these Units. Well we have a problem with the APs that the working ones will start slowing down that we have to reboot the AP Controller to get things flowing again. This is not the only location that I have run into this with and when I asked about it all's I got was it is not supposed to do that or load the next build of Firmware it will be better.
This is the classic example of buying a product that was endorsed by your trusted reseller and then when the solution goes south no one wants to step up and cover the problem. From not enough APs to you don't have the Static Guard on them to your now out of warranty because of all the screwing around on everyones part and no one wanting to take responsibility of a bad product.
So moral of the story is don't trust anyone trying to sell a HP Wireless Solution because if it goes south you are not going to have anyone backing you up anyway and HP not standing behind there product that is not working like was sold. Sure we are at fault for letting it go so long but we tried no one would listen but there are others that are just as at fault as we are. So if you are looking for a Wireless Solution in my opinion do not look at HP because they do not stand by what they have out there even though it is flawed and maybe rushed to market after they bought out Colubris and does not do as promised from reseller to HP. So we spent a lot of money on a solution that is slowly dying and no one wanting to step up and say hey that is not right and making it right. What is the old saying you will tell 1 person when you have been treated right and will tell 10 when you are not. Guess this is my way of telling the 10.
Til later just Roger
Why Companies Die or fade away
I was reading an article about Steve Jobs and why Big companies die and really it is any company that can do this big or small. Bottom line is if you forget the ones who really got you where you are in the end that will bite you in the butt. You can read the article I was reading Here but some of the points that stuck out to me from this article are and this one is from Steve Jobs He has a theory about "why decline happens" at great companies:
"The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The company starts valuing the great salesman, because they're the ones who can move the needle on revenues." So salesmen are put in charge, and product engineers and designers feel demoted: Their efforts are no longer at the white-hot center of the company's daily life. They "turn off." IBM [IBM] and Xerox [XRX], Jobs said, faltered in precisely this way. The salesmen who led the companies were smart and eloquent, but "they didn't know anything about the product." In the end this can doom a great company, because what consumers want is good products.
Another snippet from the article was this one here "This isn't quite the whole story. It's not just the salesmen. It's also the accountants and the money men who search the firm high and low to find new and ingenious ways to cut costs or even eliminate paying taxes. The activities of these people further dispirit the creators, the product engineers and designers, and also crimp the firm's ability to add value to its customers. But because the accountants appear to be adding to the firm's short-term profitability, as a class they are also celebrated and well-rewarded, even as their activities systematically kill the firm's future."
You can see that this can be translated to whatever situation you are in and have been through but the idea or framework is the same to fit whatever situation you was or are in. What it says to me is you forget the ones who made your company great and turn the company over to ones who make the bottom line look great and forget the ones who got you there in the first place your just hanging out and waiting for something to happen and not pushing the envelope like you use to then your treading water and looking for a place to sink. That's my opinion anyways.
Til later just Roger
Defragging a Exchange 2010 SP1 Database Part 3
Ok now that I have moved the Hidden System Mailboxes and I did this because I did not want to have any issue with the existing Exchange Users having any problems so I moved everything to a live Database while I didthe defrag of the default database.
What I did to defrag my default database was and because my Exchange Server runs on a Microsoft HyperV Shared Storage Cluster I added a temp drive to my exchange server for the temp database to reside in while the server defraged. I opened the Exchange Power Shell and got to drive location of the database that I was going to defrag and in this case it was
Once I was there I opened the Exchange Management and dismounted the database I was going to defrag and once that completed I went back to the powershell and ran this command.
E:\Database\eseutil /d "databaseName.edb" /t "F:\Temp.edb"
You then see the Utility do the defrag on the database and then once that completes you see the temp database moved into the one you was defragging. And you now have shrunk your database and cleaned up the whitespace. Once this is completed you mount your database and do a backup of the server. I had read where it would do the defrag at about 4 Gig per hour and that was way off I was suprised that it only took the whole process 15 minutes to do this on a 200 Gig Database Start to finish.
Til later Just Roger
Defragging a Exchange 2010 SP1 Database Part 2
I first ran this command from the Exchange Power Shell to see where the Arbitration Hidden mailboxes resided Get-Mailbox -Arbitration | fl -wrap -auto and that will allow you to see the full name of the Arbitration mailboxes. If you have more than one Database you will need to be a little more specific and break it down to this command Get-Mailbox -Arbitration -Database "DataBaseName" I then moved them to another one of the Databases that I had created. This procedure will also work if you are wanting to remove the default database on your Exchange 2010 SP1 Server. But the command to move them has to be done through the Exchange Power Shell command. That command is Get-Mailbox -Arbitration -Database "Source DataBaseName" | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase "Move to Database Name" This should move all 3 of the Arbitration Mailboxes if you want to do this one at a time the command is New-MoveRequest -Identity "SystemMailbox{and a bunch of numbers}" These are the 3 that displayed when you ran the Get-Mailbox -Arbitration | fl -wrap -auto command 2 of them will say SystemMailbox and 1 of them will start with federation you move those 3. You should see some output that the move request has been Queued and once you have all 3 moved run this command Get-MoveRequest -SourceDatabase "DatabaseName" this will display if the move requests have been completed and once you show that they are you want to remove those Move Requests and that is done by running this command. Remove-MoveRequest "SystemMailbox{bunch of numbers} and you do this 3 times one for each of the ones you did the move request on. Once this is done you have now completed the move and can continue with what you are doing or removing the default database.
Til Later Just Roger
Defragging a Exchange 2010 SP1 Database Part 1
We had our email users basically out of control with the email they stored in the mailboxes on our Exchange 2010 SP1 Server and they was from 100M to 10 Gig in mailbox sizes. So we made the decision to implement some changes and add some Retention Policies for the Sent Items and Deleted items folders and mailbox sizes. We have the sent and deleted items deleting every 7 days and we limited the users to a 1.5 Gig Mailbox size. That is still a pretty big mailbox but we let the COO clean up his mailbox and then we seen what it was and then we added a but for fudge factor and went with that. I know very scientific but if anyone wanted to know how we found that magic number we pointed out how we did it and went from there. Basically it was buy another HP MSA or do the limits and we went with these limits and we can live with that.
I then created 3 databases and moved the users into the departments Exchange Databases and left the users who got the Double Secert Allowances to have a larger mailbox on the default database. But that left me with a Database that was 200 Gig and full of whitespace. So this is what I did to correct that and to shrink that database down to the size it should be.
Til Later Just Roger


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5 things you need to know Thursday
1. U.S. faces Germany in final 'Group of Death' game
World Cup fever continues tomorrow as the U.S. soccer team goes against Germany for a spot in the next round. It will be do or die for the American team, as the results of their game will determine who will make it past the "Group of Death."
2. First anniversary of DOMA defeat
One year ago today, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act that prevented married same-sex couples from receiving the same federal benefits as married opposite-sex couples. The ruling, in a case brought to the court by lesbian widow Edie Windsor, is considered a major advance for LGBT rights.
3. NBA draft tonight
Basketball fans will be glued to their televisions tonight as NBA teams from across the country gather to announce their latest recruits. The Cleveland Cavaliers will have their pick of the young hopefuls. Many predict Andrew Wiggins will be their first choice.
4.GoPro IPO prices at $24, set to trade this morning
GoPro, the maker of portable video cameras popular with extreme-sports fans, sold its shares to initial investors late Wednesday, clearing the way for trading to start Thursday morning under the symbol GPRO. Shares of GoPro were sold to initial investors at $24 a share, Renaissance Capital says. That is at the high end of the expected price range of $21 to $24 a share.
5. Tiger Woods returns to the green
Woods, who has not played competitively since undergoing back surgery on March 31, will tee it up later today in the Quicken Loans National at Congressional Country Club to benefit the Tiger Woods Foundation.
And the essentials:
Weather: Scattered thunderstorms will dampen large swaths of the country Thursday, with the heaviest rain likely in the South, Northeast and the Plains.
Stocks: Stock futures mixed ahead of the bell.
TV Tonight: Find out what's worth watching, and what might not be, in prime time.
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Puppet Tutorial for Linux: Powering up with PuppetSubmitted by John on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 20:16
This tutorial is rather out of date, and I'm afraid I haven't had time to update it, because I've been working on a whole book that'll teach you Puppet!
The Puppet 3 Beginners Guide is available now. I recommend you check it out, but I'll keep the tutorial content here for historical interest, if nothing else.
If you're a more advanced Puppet user, you might prefer to go straight to The Puppet Cookbook.
Puppet tutorial series
- Part 1: Powering up with Puppet 2.6
- Part 2: Client and Server
Puppet tutorial part 1: Powering up with Puppet 2.6
This Linux Puppet tutorial will help you install Puppet for the first time and start managing your servers. Server configuration management (CM) is big news in the IT world these days. Rightly so, because Linux automation, devops and CM tools like Puppet and Chef can save you an enormous amount of time and money and help you build a really reliable and automated Linux infrastructure. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to set up Puppet on Linux.
If you're a sysadmin, or anyone else who manages a bunch of servers, CM tools can help you create patterns or recipes which you can use to build lots of identical servers, or cloud instances, or re-use in different places and for different applications. Automating Linux servers is a snap with Puppet. Puppet can manage thousands of servers as easily as just one or two - but let's start with one or two!
If you're a developer, Linux configuration management lets you write code which describes how servers should be set up - saving you the time and effort of doing it manually, and letting you create large, load-balanced groups of interchangeable servers which are guaranteed to be identically configured.
Installing Puppet
So much for the sales pitch. Let's take a look at the steps required to get up and running with your first Puppet install (we'll come to Chef in a later article). Read more »