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Graduate Student Workshop with Middle Eastern Studies Librarian
Workshop | February 15 | 12-2 p.m. | 340 Stephens Hall
Mohamed Hamed, Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian, UC Berkeley
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Are you a graduate student at UC Berkeley with an interest in the Middle East and North Africa? Join the new Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Librarian for a workshop on the library's collections on the region. RSVP required. The workshop will include:
- Intro to UC Berkeley Library catalogs & discovery tools
- How to use the transliteration system & vernacular script for finding resources
- Intro to Library databases related to the region
- Hands-on intro to rare and special collections at Bancroft Library
- Tour of main stacks, microfilm collections, and current journals at Doe Library
The workshop will begin with a lunch and presentation at 12:00 pm at 340 Stephens Hall, followed by a 1:00 pm tour of Bancroft Library & Doe Library.
Mohamed Hamed is the Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Studies Librarian for the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a BA, MA, and PhD in Library and Information Science from Cairo University in Egypt. Previous professional affiliations include the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, American University in Cairo, Middle East Librarians Association, the Africana Librarians Council, and the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information.
Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Libraries, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Near Eastern Studies Department.
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When originally released in April of 2010, many applauded the iPad for its ease of use while others criticized it for being quite limited. In 2011 when the iPad 2 rolled around many of those woes were put to rest as the new device featured a camera; one of the most highly sought after additions that didn't make it into the first iteration. However, while the iPad 2 added a camera into the mix (making it easy to video chat via Skype) the thought of holding the monstrous device up to snag a picture seemed – and remains- quite ridiculous. Regardless, if you're someone who uses their iPad as a camera and wants to beef up the quality considerably, the Padcaster may be for you.
Much like most other tablets, smartphones or camera-equipped-mobile-devices, the iPad does not come with the ability to swap out lenses. Again, why exactly you would want to swap out a lens on a tablet, we aren't sure, but we're going to remain open minded about this one. Padcaster looks to bring just that feature to the iPad with their DSLR lens mount/case combo, pictured above. Not only will you be able to attach a lens to the tablet but you'll also be able to attach a wide array of other accessories including lighting, microphones and more.
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The Guangdong Electronic Commerce Association (GDECA) and the Hong Kong Federation or E-Commerce (HKFEC) announced a simplified Chinese version of our Safe.Shop trust mark.
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The Chinese version must serve as a guide for both Chinese and foreign consumers when purchasing products in Chinese webshops. After several food scandals from the past, of which polluted milk powder is the most well-known, consumer confidence in the country dropped significantly. According to the Chinese government, twenty percent of China's exports now consist of cross-border e-commerce and grows by 30 percent annually. 'The introduction of a worldwide quality mark in China helps to internationalize the Chinese market', according to GDECA chairman Wu Muzhen. 'We believe that increasing consumer confidence is the way to grow China's cross-border e-commerce worldwide.'
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LACKAWANNA COUNTY -- With more cold, winter weather on the way, PennDOT is getting ready.
Before the end of the day Lackawanna county salt sheds will be filled with almost 800 tons of extra rock salt, just in time for the storm expected Sunday night.
PennDOT officials say they were owed all that salt from a salt mine in upstate New York.
Since the winter's been tough on us all, it's been tough for PennDOT to get salt on time. On Friday, workers took matters into their own hands.
If you drove past the Fleetville/Tompkinsville exit on Interstate 81 you may have seen a blur of yellow, as one by one, more than two dozen PennDOT trucks got in line. The trucks have a capacity for 400 tons of rock salt, and probably an unimaginable amount of miles from this long winter.
Drivers left in a convoy, starting a four-hour trip to upstate New York to claim rock salt PennDOT has been owed since December.
"About four hours, it's 192 miles, I've been up there before. But not with PennDOT, it was with a private company," said PennDOT highway supervisor George Yontas.
Twice in 24 hours, the trucks made the trek from Fleetville all the way to the Rochester area and then they have a quick turnaround. The goal is to be unloading at salt sheds back in Lackawanna County at the end of a 12-hour shift.
"It's something different, it's a break from the normal driving around patching potholes and plowing roads. It's been a long winter," said driver Andrew Mroczka.
It's been a long winter for PennDOT, officials say, because many of their rock salt orders have been back-ordered. So crews decided to hit the road themselves and take what's theirs. Looking more like Humvees on I-81 the big yellow plow trucks traveled in a line, headed for the Empire State.
"Like a big convoy, like those old 70s movies you used to see. Smokey and the Bandit!"
PennDOT officials say this is the first time they've done a trip like this. They say the nearly 800 tons of salt they'll collect in upstate New York is just a reserve for the rest of the winter that, hopefully, is almost over but,
"Who knows, who knows what the weather's going to bring."
If you think that the trip those drivers took seems like a long day at work, the drivers say tomorrow won't be easy either. After they return, the drivers will have to put the plows back on those 26 trucks in time for the storm expected later Sunday into Monday.


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Patti Sajdak says cooking is her passion so she was happy to represent Sweetwater in a "comfort soup" cook-off competition in Billings, Montana, in February.
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In classic DC fashion, the report on the authors of the "torture memos" was released Friday night, buried under headlines about Tiger Woods. While the Department of Justice sent the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) report to Congress, it was the House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers (D-MI) who publicly released not only the final OPR report, but also the first and second drafts of the report and the responses from Yoo and Bybee.
In contrast to most peoples' perception of Washington, Congress can move quickly when it wants to: by 6pm, less than an hour after the report's release, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced that his panel will hold a hearing on the report next Friday morning. Leahy also called for Judge Bybee's resignation.
"I have said before that if the Judiciary Committee, and the Senate, knew of
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would be for him to resign from this lifetime appointment."
The long-awaited report is the product of a five-year investigation by OPR, and the materials released by Conyers number more than 500 pages. We will be reading and analyzing the different drafts of the report and providing more in-depth analysis as we know more.
You can read the released documents here:
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WordPress Menus – More Powerful Than You Might Think!
Creating WordPress menus or sub menus to external pages without utilizing WordPress pages or a plugin is not a secret but many people don't realize that you can do this so I hope this demonstration will succeed in showing you how easy it is.
The Main Points
The great thing with WordPress menus is that they are flexible enough that you can have your cake and eat it!
To Create a sub menu of external links without using WordPress pages:
- Go to Posts -> Categories from your WordPress dashboard.
- Create a category with a suitable name for your menu.
- Go to Appearance -> Menus
- Choose the menu category you created and add to menu
- Now you can create external link items:
- Line them up appropriately and save the menu. It should look similar to this:
I recommend you use a WordPress page instead of a category for the main menu item and add the same menu options within it as I think it looks tidier and offers another option.


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When the light disappeared from behind the curtains it didn't matter whether our parents were next door or not, it was only Ranyo that made me feel safe. He hugged me goodnight and afterwards he lay on the top bunk with his head dangling down the side of the bed. Every night he watched over me until I fell asleep and only then my brother went to sleep himself.
I don't have many memories from my early childhood – I mean the ages 3 to 6 – but most of them are memories of Ranyo. He showed me how to make paper airplanes, he taught me to count from one to ten, and he was the one that told me about the treasure chests filled with toys in our garage.
I could not have imagined a better brother than Ranyo. He shared everything with me, even the secrets that I was not supposed to know. Once he showed me how to open the gummi bear drawer and afterwards we sat on the top bunk and ate little cola bottles and sweet green and red cherries until I felt sick.
Ranyo went to a different school than I did. He had to leave earlier than me and so I rarely saw him in the morning. But in turn he also finished earlier and nearly every day he stood on our front porch when mom and I arrived home. Only when it rained he hid inside the house, usually on his bunk with a teddy bear or two in his arms. Continue reading


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As part of the new sustainability initiative, The AAS plans to build an ecologically sustainable campus at its headquarters...
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We've shared lots of pretty product photos with you of the Moments Like These collection – designed by Liz Tamanaha – and have even shared a video filled with tips for taking everyday photos. The simplicity and minimalist style of this collection makes it perfect for recording those easy-to-look-past details of the routine bits of life, and who better to inspire you in getting those photos and stories into albums than a few of our creative team members? All of the pages you see here were created using the Moments Like These Card Collection, Accessory Pack, Stamp Set, and Photo Pocket Pages from Stampin' Up! All of these products are available for purchase now through a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator or through their online shop.
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There is no doubt that we all love a 4 day long weekend! These long breaks are a perfect time for people to spend time with loved ones, or just to take a mini-holiday. Running your own business you may feel that you don't have the time to do this, but we are here to help to make sure you have the time to live the life that you deserve!
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I can approve the employee time-sheets and process payroll from my favourite holiday destination
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I can happily say that I am able to view my cash flow at hand to see how my business is performing based on expenses and incoming cash
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Volume 02 Issue 04 2015
Flávio Gomes Borges Tiago, João Pedro de Almeida Couto, Maria Teresa Pinheiro Melo Borges Tiago, Sandra Micaela Costa Dias Faria
Abstract: As entrepreneurship research has matured, the enablers and inhibitors of entrepreneurship intention have been widespread. However, the implementation of innovative ideas, or development of new ventures, encompasses more than intention; it requires action. Although there are numerous studies on entrepreneurship research, few researchers have revealed the factors that can push an entrepreneur to propose a new idea or project. Thus, we enunciate what is known about entrepreneurship intention, and highlight some important issues that can help both entrepreneurs and policy makers developing a broader understanding of why some countries tend to present more entrepreneurship evidences than others. This work uses the existing theories and tests the relationships between the fundamental variables, unveiling some changes occurred in the past years. The main variables' direct relationships have been tested using a probit model, applied to a sample of 10,267 entrepreneurs from 27 countries. The paper's findings provide a perspective on our understanding of entrepreneurship beyond entrepreneurial intention that differs from past research. Therefore, the paper provides insights into the decisive factors of new venture creation, or even career orientation.
Marcela Göttlichová
Abstract: This is the over-saturation of the consumer market and the increasing customers' resistance towards growing attack of diverse marketing tools forms is a typical attribute of today. It is not only the commercial sphere which is affected by the condition, but there is a still more significant need to "fight" for customers, however, also for the non-commercial entities, and thus earn their position in the market. In relation to this fact, the increasing need to be able to efficiently address the existing as well as potential customers becomes more prominent. And it is here where innovative marketing plays a significant role in the form of identifying new ways and introducing new methods in promotion and medialization of products and services, i.e. in the communication policy. The study points to the current changes in the legal system of non-governmental organizations in the Czech Republic and outlines a possible path based on collaboration between the academic sphere and
non-governmental organizations.
Lambros Tsourgiannis, Efstratios Loizou, Anastasios Karasavoglou, Christos Antonios Tsourgiannis, Stavros Valsamidis
Abstract: This paper aims to identify the factors affecting consumers' purchasing behaviour towards local food amid the economic depression period in Greece. Field interviews were conducted in a randomly selected sample consisted of 549 consumers. Multivariate statistical analysis was performed to identify consumers' behaviour towards local products. Results indicated that the factors influencing people in Greece to buy local food products are: (a) marketing issues (b) topicality, (c) hedonism issues, (d) health safety issues and (e) psychological issues. Consumers with similar buying behaviour towards local food are classified into two groups: (a) those influenced by product features and (b) those influenced by marketing issues.
Tomáš Šula, Milan Banyár
Abstract: This paper examines the issue of ambient media in the framework of marketing communication on the level of perception by general public. The article states detailed results of broadband research on the topic of Perception of ambient media by general public in the context of communicate efficiency, which has been done by mobile platform in over 80 countries all over the world. The results seem to be the reflection of current situation in the field of individual marketing communication tools and the media which are dealing with still growing "blindness" of the recipients. Commercial and non-commercial subjects are forced to seek new opportunities to communicate with their target group and therefore the right solution could be the usage of ambient media. Authors base their results on the replies of recipients and he demonstrates the value of usage ambient media, and also they show the opportunity to increase the competitiveness of a company, a brand or a product right by means of ambient media use.
Tziogas Charalampos, Georgiadis Patroklos, Tsolakis Naoum, Yakinthos Charalampos
Abstract: Electricity is an undisputed factor supporting human development, while further promoting social wellbeing and fostering economic growth in modern societies. Therefore, the electricity market provides a vivid policy-making arena for the European Union (EU) regulators, where on-going structural reforms are fostered with the aim to encapsulate and accommodate sustainability aspects. Notably, the EU Member States have adopted the strategic roadmap "Europe 2020" towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption by 20%, and generating 20% of energy from renewable sources. However, our research highlights that strategies trying to balance sustainable electricity supply with demand often neglect the societal pricing acceptability of the electricity provided to consumers. Thus far, existing literature focuses on electricity pricing policies that fail to capture the dynamics that are not realistic and do not receive consumers' acceptance. To that end, marketing could have a key role in fostering the market penetration of green electricity. This study elaborates the System Dynamics (SD) methodological approach to embrace the marketing dominant factors and assess related interventions that could shape a sustainable electricity market. The proposed SD framework could assist public and private stakeholders in determining a rational electricity pricing policy within a sustainability context. Finally, policy-making interventions are discussed in order to provide managerial in-sights for the decision-makers.


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US: Insitu has announced the successful 24-hour flight of its Integrator unmanned aircraft. The flight demonstrated Integrator's expanded endurance at an increased gross take-off weight with payload on board. The event is the first of several planned milestones for the platform aimed toward continuously increasing payload capacity and endurance for future missions.
"Today's flight is just the beginning," said Insitu Chief Engineer Peter Kunz. "We designed Integrator with growth in mind; high fuel capacity, large dedicated payload volumes and an aerodynamically and structurally efficient airframe have all been carefully implemented to allow the platform to change and adjust to our customers' priorities."
A modular and flexible solution for both land and maritime operations, Integrator consists of six payload spaces that can be customised with cameras, communication capabilities and a broad array of other payloads. The platform is also the basis for RQ-21A Blackjack, developed by Insitu under the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps program of record.
"Our customers require a flexible, long-endurance system," said Senior Vice President Insitu Programs Ryan Hartman. "Taking this first step to increase the gross take-off weight opens up more opportunities for us to integrate heavier payloads while maintaining long endurance for a multi-mission platform."
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A Country Style Rustic Christmas
Tablescape Idea
Using Red English Transferware
Table of Contents
On today's post, we are going to create a country-style rustic Christmas tablescape using red transferware as the table setting. I saw this photo of a rustic tablescape created by Nancy from Nancy's Daily Dish Blog for the fall apple season and thought it is a great idea for a rustic Christmas tablescape.
Country style is trendy and the down-to-earth, rustic country feel that comes from the use of a burlap tablecloth, red gingham fabric, and especially when using red and white stripe kitchen towels for placemats or napkins. So, on this post, we are taking Nancy's autumn tablescape idea and turning it into a rustic country style Christmas tablescape.
Nancy used a set of antique Royal Dalton red transferware. I have found several different china patterns with which we can substitute for a fabulous red and white transferware country style Christmas table setting.
I just happen to have an old set of Johnson Brothers Old British Castle transferware which I have used often over the years. I love layering it with white or blue fine china sets for many special occasions. Since we have downsized from a large house to a small apartment, I have handed down many of my china and transferware pottery to my daughters, including my red Old British Castle set. I did keep 4 place settings for myself but I shipped everything else to one of my daughters in Hawaii.
By the way, red and white transferware is called pink transferware, even though it comes in a variety of shades of red, from very light almost pink to a very deep carmine red or maroon. If the transferware is actually pink, it is very rare and is usually a washed out red, called English pink. Are we all as clear as mud on the subject? Grin.
Large Country Style Dining Tables
Nancy started her tablescape with a burlap table cloth similar to the one I featured one on my previous post, but a tablecloth isn't a necessity, especially if you own a gorgeous farmhouse plank style dining table like the farm house style dining tables I am featuring below.
Amish Barstow Rustic Plank Trestle
Solid Red Oak Dining Table
Amish Barstow Rustic Plank Trestle Solid Red Oak Dining TableClick Here for Details
I was pretty excited when I saw this gorgeous handmade Amish barn wood style dining table. This gorgeous rustic country style dining table was handcrafted from North American wood by skilled Amish woodworkers. The table is made from red oak but they are also made from brown maple, white oak, and rustic cherry. It is finished in a natural finish that lets the beauty and natural color of the wood shine through.
Each piece is enhanced with the character that comes together in a piece of furniture which will add depth and endurance to your home. It is an ideal combination of both style and value. The Amish tables will last for years and years because of the expert craftsmanship that goes into each piece.
French Country Style Wood Farmhouse
Dining Tables
French Country Rustic Farmhouse Dining TableClick Here for DetailsRustic Baluster Column Pine Farmhouse Dining TableClick Here for DetailsFrench Country Trestle Base Farmhouse Dining TableClick Here for Details
Rustic Farmhouse Solid Pine Trestle Bench
Rustic Farmhouse Solid Pine Trestle BenchClick Here for Details
Use a pair of country style dining table benches with your dining room table to really add a rustic country feel to your country dining room. If you want a more formal atmosphere, take the benches outside or push them up against the wall. Then replace them with regular dining chairs at the table.
Rustic Wood Farmhouse Dining Tables
Elise Trestle Hickory Veneer Oak Dining TableClick Here for DetailsDistressed Reclaimed Elm Farmhouse Dining TableClick Here for DetailsVintage 1960s Mexican Pine Farmhouse Dining TableClick Here for Details
Creating a Rustic Christmas Tablescape
Nancy begins her table setting using a large piece of burlap fabric. Burlap gives a wonderful rustic look to the table, but it is a difficult fabric to launder and reuse. Instead, I have selected several burlap look-a-like tablecloths for you to look at. We do want to keep with a neutral tone as the base color for our tablescape setting to keep the table from looking too busy, especially if you have a dark dining room like Nancy's.
Washable Burlap-style Tablecloths
Natural Burlap Look Cotton TableclothClick Here for DetailsGranny's Cotton Burlap Lace Trimmed TableclothClick Here for DetailsNatural Tan Handmade Fringed Burlap TableclothClick Here for Details
I have seen tablescapes using red transferware placed on a red and white toile tablecloth and it is too busy on the eyes. Your eyes don't know where to rest. Using toile fabric to accent the table is the way to go.
On the other hand, if you have a very light, bright dining room consider using a darker solid burgundy or maroon colored tablecloth as your base color.
Nancy started her tablescape design using a red and white gingham tablecloth that she bunched and scrunched decoratively along the center of the table.
Christmas Holiday Red and White Toile Print Cotton TableclothClick Here for DetailsSince we are doing a Christmas tablescape, I like the idea of using a red and white Christmas holiday toile fabric tablecloth, instead of the checkered gingham, for a little more of an upscale Christmas rustic country look. Besides, the toile print coordinates so beautifully with the red transferware china pattern. I think it is so much nicer accent for this Christmas look.
If you have a red toile sheet it would work nicely too. When I go to garage sales and thrift stores during summer months I keep my eyes out for old sheets I can upcycle into a new home décor use.
First, bunch and scrunch the toile tablecloth fabric along the center, and down the length, of the dining table. Next, you will build your tablescape with similar items to the ones Nancy chose for her tablescape. Remember the photo above?
I have chosen items you might like as replacement pieces to use as the tablescape decorations. These items will be placed on top of the fabric, starting in the center and working them down from the center towards each end. Place anchor pieces at each end of the table to mirror each other. I want each end of the table to balance and each side of the table to be the same view for our guest.
Nancy used extra-large natural fiber woven orbs for her autumn tablescape design. She started with 3 large orbs centered upon the toile tablecloth.
Large Grape Vine Orbs
Woven Grape Vine 8-Inch BallClick Here for DetailsWoven Grape Vine 10-Inch BallClick Here for Details
Instead, I think red is more appropriate for our Christmas design. Below are several red spheres made of a variety of materials which can be mixed and matched on the table.
Decorative Red Orb Tabletop Décor
Red Metal Decorative Sphere Design DecorClick Here for DetailsRed Marbleized Decorative Ball Accents Set of 3Click Here for DetailsFancy Red Metal Decorative Tabletop SphereClick Here for Details
Red White Brown Rattan Wicker Twig Orbs Set of 20Click Here for DetailsRed Beige Vines Porcelain Decorative Balls Set of 4Click Here for DetailsRed Flowers Black Porcelain Decorative Balls Set of 6Click Here for Details
Weave fresh or faux evergreen garlands around the larger orbs and nestle smaller orbs and Christmas decorations into the evergreens around the larger ones.
Rustic Red Metal Christmas Star Jingle Bells Ornament
Rustic Red Metal Christmas Star Jingle Bells OrnamentClick Here for Details
Burgundy Red Pip Berries and Rusty Stars Garland
Burgundy Red Pip Berries and Rusty Stars GarlandClick Here for Details
Ivory pip berries with rusty stars are also available, along with 11 more color combinations.
Red Christmas Candelabrum
Three Glass Hurricane Candle Holders
with Hydrangea, Holly, Pine Cone, Berry & Evergreens
Red Christmas Candelabrum Hurricane Candle HoldersClick Here for Details
An alternative to the red tabletop orb décor is to use fresh or faux evergreen candelabrum centerpieces. If the dining table is long, the candle centerpieces can be doubled or tripled to fit the length of the table.
Included with this candelabrum centerpiece are 3 hurricane candle holders (candles are not included) nestled within the foliage of the tabletop piece. It is a fabulous starter piece for our rustic Christmas tablescape which we can layer out from the center and down the table. One of these centerpieces will suffice for a small table seating, however, for a longer table serving 8 or more you may want to line two or three of the centerpieces down the center of the table, depending of course on the table's length.
The red orbs can still be used with a candelabrum by placing several different sizes on each side of the faux evergreens and berries. I think a 6″ ball is large enough. I want to add interest to the table without overpowering the table with giant orbs like Nancy used in her autumn tablescape.
The faux boughs and berries are hard wired so they can be bent any way necessary to accommodate any smaller decorative Christmas pieces you feel like adding.
Red Themed Christmas Holiday Tabletop Décor Centerpieces
Christmas Evergreens Single Hurricane Candle Holder CenterpieceClick Here for DetailsCrestwood Spruce Pinecone Candle Holder CenterpieceClick Here for Details
Another idea is to use a pair of centerpieces, such as the ones featured here, by placing one on each side of the red sphere design. The red spheres would be the focal point of the table design, while the foliage pieces would act as the table anchor end pieces. Again, be sure you are not using items too large for your size table. If your table is smaller you may want to switch to shorter candle holders or switch to taper candles instead of pillar candles. Perhaps just one red Christmas pillar candle on a low stand.
Once all of the pieces selected for this tablescape have been placed on the fabric, fill in with fresh evergreens if you have access to them.
Take a Nature Walk to Collect Decorating ElementsTake nature walks with your family all year long and collect natural elements such as pinecones, pussy willows, feathers, and vines to use in tablescape decorations.
During fall and winter months my saner half cuts fresh evergreen boughs for me to decorate with and I have been known to create vignettes using dead tree branches and making votive candle holders out of twigs.
If you live in a place where this isn't possible, fresh can always be bought at the Christmas tree stands that sell fresh trees. Often the guys running the stands will give them to you for free. Local grocery stores and nurseries will also sell them to you, but I always try to get free first.
Use seasonal greenery such as evergreens, holly, mistletoe, rosemary, and sage. I think it is also a good idea to use natural elements indigenous to your local area.
Fill in the greenery with pine cones painted red and scented with cinnamon, smaller red spheres, faux red cardinals and red Christmas ornaments. Don't over clutter but do make it pleasing to the eye with bursts of red colored objects.
Christmas Pine Embossed Pillar Candle
by Chesapeake Bay Candle
Christmas Pine Embossed Pillar CandleClick Here for Details
I like to use lots of candles in my tablescapes to furnish sparkle and glimmer with a magical warm welcoming feel for my guest at our Christmas dinner. I believe that you can never have too much candlelight on a Christmas tablescape! So once I have my tablescape laid out, I like to fill in the gaps around the tablescape with candles.
Red Rustic Table Linens
Starting with the placemats we have several options. Nancy used red and white stripe kitchen dish towels to coordinate with the gingham fabric tablecloth she used for her autumn apple tablescape.
Because I chose to use a red toile fabric tablecloth for our country Christmas tablescape design, at first I thought I wanted to use red toile placemats to coordinate. However, after looking at it, I realized the red toile as the background for red transferware is still much too busy so I looked for other solutions.
I decided on using either a set of French bistro red striped placemats or to follow Nancy's lead and use the white with red stripe kitchen towels folded under the dinner plates. You decide what you like the best.
Red French Stripe Cotton Placemats
Set of 6
Red French Stripe Cotton Placemats – Set of 6Click Here for Details
White with Red Stripe Cotton Kitchen Towels
Vintage White & Red Striped Dish Towels – Set of 4Click Here for DetailsRed French Stripe Flour Sack Dish Towels – Set of 3Click Here for DetailsRed & White Scandia Stripe Kitchen Towels – Set of 12Click Here for Details
Any one of these kitchen dish towel sets are fabulous finds to use with the red transferware table setting! They are the best quality to dry dishes and they make great placemats or dinner napkins for a rustic country tablescapes.
All of these kitchen towels are durable and quite functional, especially if you are a DIYer who is adept at sewing. They can be sewn together for country table runners, kitchen curtains, and pillow covers. I love them for the use of placemats on our Country Style Rustic Christmas Tablescape.
Natural Cotton Christmas Wonderland
Red & White Toile Kitchen Towel
Natural Cotton Christmas Wonderland Red & White Toile Kitchen TowelClick Here for Details
I originally wanted to use this coordinating red Christmas toile kitchen towel as the placemat on our tablescape, but it was too busy with the red transferware setting on it. Instead, I love it to use as a rustic homespun Christmas dinner napkin!
The red toile print is a delightful winter Christmas scene, perfect as a rustic Christmas table setting accent piece. It matches the tablecloth used as the base for the tablescape perfectly. Kitchen towels are so much larger than a regular cloth napkin they give the extra coverage that makes people really enjoy using them. On the downside; it does not come as a set, and on a brighter note; you can purchase exactly what you need.
On the other hand, I found 3 different sets of French bistro style dinner napkin sets that will look lovely with this table setting. The stripes coordinate perfectly with the striped bistro cotton placemats.
White with Red Stripe Fabric Dinner Napkins
Tango Red French Stripe Bistro Style Cotton Everyday Napkins – Set of 6Click Here for DetailsRed Striped Ticking Reverse to Red Christmas Evergreen Toile Cloth Napkins – Set of 4Click Here for DetailsRed Stripe Restaurant Quality Polyester Bistro Dinner Napkins – Set of 12Click Here for Details
Pay attention to the set in the center. They are reversible! On the one side is the red and white stripe ticking fabric which is perfect for a rustic country style table setting, and on the other side is a red Christmas evergreen toile print! Perfect to accent the table's centerpiece toile fabric. Either side will look fabulous with this country Christmas table setting!
Personally, I am a big fan of natural cotton, bamboo, and hemp fabrics as sustainable eco-friendly fabrics. The napkins featured on the above left are 100% natural cotton. Unfortunately with cotton, if the cotton fabric has not been pre-shrunk before cutting and sewing, they will shrink in the wash and they will also require some ironing.
Man-made polyesters are hard on the environment to produce and they are not decomposable. Polyester fabric clothing is among the sins of thrown away products clogging up the landfills, right up there with disposable baby diapers. Anyway, enough about environmental issues. Let me climb down from my soapbox and continue about on about the napkins I am featuring above.
Many of you out there prefer polyester because they are easy-care and require little to no ironing. They are not as absorbent as cotton, but they will do the job a napkin is suppose to do. For those of you looking for this type of easy-care napkin, the napkins featured above right are the napkins perfect for your table settings.
Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles Red/Pink Transferware
Nancy used a mixture of Royal Dalton Butterfly pattern red transferware for her autumn apple table setting. Instead, for our country style rustic Christmas table setting I have chosen to use Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles pattern of red transferware.
I have picked up beautiful antique pieces of this set from antique shops, garage sales, thrift stores, and online from places like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon. However, it is a pattern which is still being produced by the Johnson Brothers family business, so it can still be purchased new. I do mix old and new pieces. I often go to Replacements.com when I need a replacement for a broken piece or for a piece I need but cannot find on Amazon, or anywhere else for that matter.
Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles
20-Piece Pink/Red Dinnerware Starter Set
Service for 4
Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles 20-Piece Pink Dinnerware Starter SetClick Here for Details
The perfect set to start you on the fast track to building your collection of Old British Castles transferware china. These newer sets are produced in China instead of England and that is how you can tell the differance between vintage and new pieces. Don't let the "Made in China" disappoint you, as that is where porcelain "china" was first produced. That was way before the Chinese taught the English their artisan pottery skills.
The quality of the transferware has not been diminished. I have found this set (yes I did buy a couple of these sets on Amazon for my daughters to add to their collections) to be heavier than the vintage pieces, but the color and pattern in the transferware is the same, if not a bit brighter. After all, they are new and have not faded with time like the vintage pieces.
The newer pieces can be washed and dried in the dishwasher, but I would wash vintage pieces by hand. The force of the water and heat, along with the strong abrasive dishwashing chemicals can both break and damage vintage pieces.
Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles 5-Piece Pink/Red Dinnerware Set
Service for 1
Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles 5-Piece Pink/Red Dinnerware Set Service for 1Click Here for Details
A fabulous service for 1 set to add to your starter set of Old British Castles transferware china. Included with this set is a dinner plate, a salad plate, a cereal bowl, a cup, and a saucer.
Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles Serveware
Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles ServewareClick Here for Details
Click the red button above and it will take you to additional Johnson Brothers Old English Castles red/pink transferware serving pieces you can add to the sets you have at home.
Vintage Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles
Christmas Tree Edition Transferware
Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles 12-Piece Christmas Tree Dinnerware SetClick Here for Details
This Christmas tree set is a servive for 4 with 3-pieces for each serving. More serving pieces may be purchased separately.
The Johnson Brothers Old English Castle special Christmas edition features a Victorian English Christmas tree, rather than an English castle. It is a classic, timeless pattern that is highly collectible. The Christmas tree is decorated with pink/red plaid bows, complete with toys placed underneath the tree.
The border is an intricate, elaborate blend of Victorian scrollwork in a lacey scalloped design and edged at the rim with small delicate geometric patterns. Lush rose floral bouquets are placed intermittently between the scrollwork around the rim of the plates.
Vintage Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles Christmas Tree Edition Pink/Red Dinner PlateClick Here for DetailsVintage Johnson Brothers Old Britain Castles Christmas Tree Edition Pink/Red Salad PlateClick Here for Details
The Christmas tree edition looks especially festive layered in a table setting with other red and white transferware china pieces. Use them on a table set with Christmas greenery and decorations.
Johnson Brothers Twas the Night
20-Piece Pink/Red Christmas Collection
Service for 4
Johnson Brothers Twas the Night 20-Piece Pink/Red Christmas Collection
Service for 4Click Here for Details
This Johnson Brothers Pink Christmas collection is the nostalgic Twas the Night Collection. It features scenes and text from the classic Christmas story "Twas the Night Before Christmas". I would layer this set with ivory creamy white dishes to offset the red for a really pretty red and ivory layered Christmas display.
Red & Green Festive Crystal Glass Stemware
Clear cut crystal stemware are always gorgeous on any table setting, but for Christmas, why not liven up the table setting with the festive Christmas colors of either red or green stemware?
It is perfectly O.K. to mix and match the red and green colored glasses with the clear crystal too. Use a clear wine glass to hold water, a red glass for red wine, and a green glass for white wine. Use any combination of beautiful stemware you happen to love to serve your beverages of choice.
Vintage Inspired Festive Red Stemware
Boston Claret Red Wine Hobnob Glasses
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Vintage Inspired Festive Green Stemware
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Festive Red Stemware
Red Waterford Lismore Essence Wine Goblet Set of 2Click Here for DetailsRed Wine Goblet Glass Pedestal Glasses Set 4Click Here for DetailsVibrant Red Nuance Wine Glass Stemware Set of 6Click Here for Details
Festive Green Stemware
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Festive Christmas Holiday Design Stemware
Hand Painted Winterberry Wine Glasses Set of 4Click Here for DetailsChristmas Tree Gold Rim Wine Goblets Set of 4Click Here for DetailsLenox Winter Greetings Cardinal Stemware Set of 4Click Here for Details
Bamboo Flatware Sets
Nancy chose to use a set of bamboo flatware for her rustic country autumn table setting.
Natural Bamboo Flatware 5-Piece Place SettingClick Here for DetailsI think it is a great idea for a casual rustic dinner setting and I found a similar set that is the perfect for a casual affair.
With that being said, we are setting a Christmas table, so I think we should take it up a notch by using silver or gold flatware for a more refined country setting. I found a few awesome gold and stainless steel bamboo flatware sets that will look beautious on our Christmas tablescape.
If you already own a set of gorgeous silverware, then by all means use it instead, but if you are in the market for something new and different you might want to consider one of the metal bamboo sets I am featuring below.
Gold Plated Bamboo Doro 20-Piece Flatware SetClick Here for DetailsGold-Plated 20-Pc Bamboo Flatware Set Service for 4Click Here for DetailsSilver 20-Pc Bamboo Flatware Set Service of 4Click Here for Details


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Making sense of terror attacks anthropologically
On the evening of November 13, 2015, Paris suffered the worst terrorist attack in modern European history, killing over 120 people. The scale and sheer barbarity of the attacks is unprecedented. The French society is in trauma. The world is in shock.
Paris, still reeling from the aftermath of the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack earlier this year, will no longer be the same city. From holding vigils to changing Facebook display pictures in French flag colours, the attacks have prompted an exceptional display of solidarity with the victims by the global community.
The western leaders have been quick in showing support for Paris, calling it an attack on western values and their way of life. Some saw it as a specific reaction to French involvement against ISIS in the Syrian conflict.
Whatever the motivations for the attack were, what happens now?
What do these attacks mean for Europe?
Will it be a game-changer for European foreign policies? What would be a wise response?
In order to effectively address the threat of terrorism, it is vital to pause, rethink and reengage with the issue. I believe nothing can help us understand the phenomena of terror attacks better than an anthropological approach, grounded in human-centred ideas. For it tells us to understand events in a holistic manner, for it underscores the root cause over symptom.
Using this insight, it is crucial to engage with the root factors that drive radicalisation and extremism. Terror attacks, like physical pain, are symptoms of an underlying, deeper problem which remains largely invisible. A painkiller may help suppress the pain but the cause remains untreated and so the pain may recur.
We need an anti-biotic that will eliminate the germs completely.
Terrorism is a violent protest against years of oppression and brutal imperialism. It is a reaction to western dominance and supremacy, articulated by the idea of 'whiteman's burden' and fuelled by forces of deprivation and isolation. Unless we understand and acknowledge these real underlying causes, we will never be able to effectively defeat the haunting reality of terrorism.
The root causes of alienation and deprivation in the non-western world can be traced back to colonial history. Many of the issues and challenges we face today have their roots in imperial conquest. From the Americas to the Asian and African continents, colonial expansion brought Europeans and their institutions around the world. Pre-existing systems and societies were reorganised and sometimes destroyed. The institutions established during colonialism exhibited over-time effects and continue to influence development outcomes.
For instance, European colonisers made extensive use of slave labour to gain from the lucrative production of sugar plantations in Cuba, Barbados and Jamaica. While these economies enjoyed high per capita income, the distribution of wealth and human capital was extremely unequal. The greater inequality in wealth (resulting from sugar profits and human capital disparity between black slaves and whites) contributed to institutions that protected the privileges of elites and restricted opportunities for the vast majority of population. That inequality persists to date, exacerbated by present-day neoliberal policies.
Neoliberalism which emerged as a western ideology in the 80s was in many ways an extension of colonial legacies referred to as neo-colonialism. Neoliberal policies were aggressively and often violently forced on the postcolonial world by the western powers such as the United States and Britain.
These have had profound implications not just for development of local economies but more indicatively in driving events such as the current European refugee crisis.
A key reason why people want to go to the north to Europe and America is to escape poverty. Here, the western powers have a very visible hand in the catastrophe. For many years, international financial institutions like the IMF and the World Bank have forced African and Latin American economies to accept neoliberal economic and political reform. The infamous Structural Adjustment Programs as part of neoliberal reform slashed growth rates in non-western parts of the world particularly Africa, Latin America and South Asia. Not only do neoliberal policies have an inconsistent record on growth but more importantly they have worsened income inequality.
Inequality in the advanced, capitalist countries is perhaps the greatest economic challenge at present, unequivocally attributed to the capitalist ideology.
The rising inequality driven by neoliberal policies has contributed to increasing polarisation in society. The great financial crisis of 2008, seen as a failure of neoliberalism, further widened the divide in the wake of fewer economic opportunities. Fears of immigration increased as competition over scarce opportunities intensified. Ethnic minorities and immigrants suffered disproportionately from the recession and rising income inequality, completely excluded from the fortunes of capitalism. In this context of heightened discrimination and exclusion, young people from marginalised minority groups are desperate for alternatives. The ever-increasing sense of alienation and deprivation make them exceedingly vulnerable to more compelling narratives offered by jihadist groups. This breeds radicalisation which ultimately increases the risk of terrorist activity.
Who is to blame for all of this? Radical fundamentalists or the process which produces them?
The process of exclusion has been exacerbated by religious and cultural racism against Muslims. The terror attacks of 9/11 sparked an outburst of anti-Muslim prejudice in the western world. The attack on Charlie Hebdo reinforced stereotypes against Muslims across Europe, fuelling further alienation. The latest terror attacks will significantly contribute to stigmatisation of Muslim communities in Europe and polarisation in western societies. With growing Islamophobia, the resounding issues of deprivation, disillusionment and inequality gain resonance, the very causes of radicalisation.
Many of the present-day problems in the western world are fruits of their own labour.
Who started the Iraq war?
How did neoliberalism become a hegemonic discourse that has come to dominate the world?
Did the terrorist monsters descend out of nowhere to destroy western values and civilisation?
Or are certain groups driven prone to radical forces through exclusionary policies?
The problems of terrorism and extremism are unintended consequences of ill-thought out and exploitative foreign and domestic policies; years of violent intervention and exclusion. They are manifestations of protest against imposition of a certain way of life and disregard of indigenous lifestyles.
In order to tackle them, we are going to need to abandon the very forces which feed them. Blaming exposure to extremist ideology as the main cause of young people's involvement in terrorism will not work. The governments' anti-extremist strategies will undermine trust and alienate pupils and hence, will be counterproductive.
In order to mitigate the threat of terrorism, the governments will need to address the root causes of radicalisation such as income inequality and social exclusion. They will need to manage the pervasive issue of Islamophobia and violent discrimination. The fight against terrorism must be pursued in an inclusive manner that reflects national and cultural solidarity across all ethnic and religious groups. Stepping up the air strikes or leading a 'merciless' military fight against assailants will not help. It is time to rethink, reimagine and redefine the counter strategy!
The views expressed by the writer and the reader comments do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of The Express Tribune.


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|Miata Exhaust System: This exhaust will not work on SM (2.5″) or bolted to stock system
We have tested many headers and have settled on these stainless headers from Racing Beat. They have a nice cast flange that mates up with the ports in the head very nice. We add a flex joint to further reduce the chances of stress cracking and straight out the kink at the end. Then finish if off with a convenient 3/8″ flange. $645 We can modify your header with a flex and flange to fit our rear tailpipe for $100.
We use a 2-1/2″ Straight thru muffler that has been located in the proper place in the exhaust by many hours of dyno time. $75.00
Made of 2-1/2″ Aluminized steel with mandrel bends, we spent a lot of time fine tuning the bends to provide maximum clearance for the inboard axle flange. $75.00
We made this a separate piece for several reasons. Number one was so we could easily ship the exhaust system. Number two is so we could offer an additional muffler in its place for those who need to meet more strict noise regulations. $34.00
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Although we can't run our evening sessions at the moment there are some local events coming up you may be interested in:
The Chesterfield 'Cycle in Style' ride on Saturday 29th September. The ride will be about 4 miles starting at the Vintage Tea Rooms (free tea & coffee) on Beetwell St at around 10.30am and finishing at the Urban Cafe at Olympia House on Brimington Road, all welcome. Prizes for the best dressed male & female! Facebook page Cycle in Style website and let the organisers know you are going by booking a free place here - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cycle-in-style-chesterfield-tickets-47172884367
Chesterfield Friday Night Ride on Friday 5th October. Leave from the town hall steps at 6.30pm for a social ride of about 8 miles with the theme D for Drinks, finishing in a pub around 8.30pm. www.facebook.com/ChesterfieldFNR/
Dr Bike workshop Saturday October 6th in Queen's Park north car park 9.30am till 1.00pm. Get your bike checked & adjusted free of charge, repairs just pay for any new parts. Dr Bike workshop website
Sunday October 14th, Big Bike Revival ride. Leaving from Tapton Lock Visitor Centre at 1.00pm for a 10 mile ride around the Trans Pennine Trail loop, out via Inkersall and Staveley and back along the canal path with a stop at Katey's cafe at Hollingwood Hub. Ride is free but let the organisers know you are planning to join in - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-bike-revival-ride-tickets-47173100012


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Muscle twitching
Alternative names
Muscle fasciculation; Fasciculations of muscle
Muscle twitches are fine movements of a small area of muscle.
Muscle twitching is the result of minor local muscle contractions or the uncontrollable twitching of a single muscle group served by a single motor nerve fiber or filament.
Muscle twitches are minor and often go unnoticed. Some are common and normal, while others indicate a neurologic disorder.
Common Causes
- Benign twitches (not caused by disease or disorders) o Often affect the eyelids, calf, or thumb o Normal and quite common, often triggered by stress or anxiety
- A diet deficiency
- Drug overdose
- Drug side effect (such as diuretics, corticosteroids and estrogens)
- Exercise
Symptoms suggestive of a neurological cause of fasciculations include:
- Wasting of muscle
- Weakness
- Other findings of nerve dysfunction
Neurological illnesses where fasciculations are seen include:
- Chronic denervation of muscle due to disc compression of nerve exiting the spinal cord
- ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Muscular dystrophy
- Myopathy
Home Care
There is usually no treatment necessary.
Call your health care provider if
Call your health care provider if you have prolonged or persistent muscle twitches.
What to expect at your health care provider's office
The medical history will be obtained and a physical examination performed.
Medical history questions documenting your fasciculations in detail may include:
- When did you first notice the twitching?
- How long does it last?
- How often do you experience twitching?
- What muscles are affected?
- Is it always the same location?
- Are you pregnant?
- What other symptoms are also present?
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS vary depending on the suspected cause. There is often no need to treat this symptom.
If a condition was diagnosed related to muscle twitches, you may want to note this in your personal medical record.
by Mamikon Bozoyan, M.D.
Medical Encyclopedia
All ArmMed Media material is provided for information only and is neither advice nor a substitute for proper medical care. Consult a qualified healthcare professional who understands your particular history for individual concerns.


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Yesterday in Roppongi's Midtown, this well-dressed lady was promoting the countdown to the decision on the 2016 Olympic Games location. Tokyo is competing against Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Chicago. The lady's digital sign, uniform, floral arrangement, and presence did not attract much attention in the busy shopping mall, and provided the uneasy spectacle of corporate boosterism without much popular interest.
The big decision day is October 2, 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Given the ecological theme to Tokyo's Olympic bid, what will happen to green city initiatives if another city is chosen? How can Tokyo and the Olympic promoters gain more interest from local residents? Is Olympic pride more or less difficult to instill in this megalopolis than passion for urban ecology?


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Collected baseball cards from 1986-1995, and again from 2014 to Present. A simple blog to discuss the hobby.
Sunday, October 4, 2015
A PWE from Mark!
Here's a Gary Peters 1969 Milton Bradley card. Great shape!
Thanks very much Mark! These were great.
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- Repairs, replacement, and improvements to the most vulnerable components of the Emergency Firefighting Water System underground pipe network.
- The addition of approximately 30 cisterns that provide an emergency source of water for firefighting.
The First Phase of Construction will begin with the installation of 16 new cisterns for fire protection and is anticipated to begin by summer 2013 in the following neighborhoods: Bayview, Excelsior, Merced Manor, Outer Sunset, Portola, St. Francis Wood, Richmond and Westwood Highlands. Installation of all 16 cisterns will not occur simultaneously and it is anticipated that construction will last approximately 4 months per cistern location. More detailed information will be provided to nearby residents and local businesses prior to construction.
What to Expect
The SFPUC will communicate with all nearby residents and businesses prior to and during construction. You may see crews performing survey work in your neighborhood in preparation for construction.


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"Tape Sucks, Move On" (Data Domain)
"Don't Backup. Go Forward." (Rubrik)
"Don't even mention backup in our slogan" (Every other company)
Everybody hates backup — executives, users, and administrators. Even backup companies hate it (at least their slogan writers do). Organizations run backup only because they have to protect the business. I've met hundreds of frustrated backup customers who have tried snapshots, backup appliances, cloud, backup as a service, and scores of other "fixes". They all ask one question –
"Why is backup so painful?!?"
Performance: "I'm Givin' Her All She's Got, Captain!"
Backup is painful because it is slow and there is so much data.
Companies expect the backup team to:
- Back up PBs of data for thousands of applications every day
- Not affect application performance (compute, network, and storage)
- Spend less on the backup infrastructure (and team)
- Rinse and Repeat next year with twice as much data
Everybody underestimates the cost of backups. While at EMC, a federal agency (no way I'm naming this one) complained about their backup performance. In their words, "The data trickles like an old man's piss." They were using less than 1% of the Data Domain's performance. Their production environment, however, was running harder than Tom Cruise (and just as slow). When they set up their application environment, they hadn't thought about backup. To meet their application and backup SLAs, they had to buy 4x the equipment and run backups 24 hours a day. NOTE: Unless you can pay for IT gear with tax dollars, I would not depend on that approach.
Backups run for a long time and they use a lot of resources. Teams have to balance application performance with backup SLAs across vast oceans of data. It's an impossible balancing act. That's why backup schedules are so complex.
Backup will be painful until we solve the performance problem. Imagine that you could make backup in an instant. You could make a simple schedule (e.g. hourly) and not worry. Users could create extra copies whenever they wanted. Backup would be painless!
That was the promise of snapshots. Of course, they ran into the next problem.
Multiple Offsite Copies: "Scotty, Beam Us Up"
Backup is painful because you need to keep many offsite copies.
Companies expect their backup teams to:
- Store daily backups, so they can restore data from any day from the past months or years
- Restore the applications if something happens to the hardware, the data center, or the region.
- Spend less on the backup infrastructure (and team)
That's why snapshots were never enough. Customers who lost their production system lost their snapshots. Replicating snapshots to a second array didn't solve the problem, either…
At NetApp, a sales representative asked me to calm Bear Stearns. The director of IT complained that the backup solution (SnapVault to another NetApp system) cost more than the production environment. "You're lucky that we don't have to worry about money at Bear Stearns." (Good times!) Then, he peppered me with questions about exotic failures— e.g. hash collisions, solar flares, and quantum bit flips. Our salesman had asked me to "distract him" from these phantasms, so I did. "I wouldn't worry about those issues. We're way more likely to corrupt data with a software bug. And that would corrupt your production and backup copies." The blood drained from the customer's face and he stopped asking questions (Mission accomplished!). As we left, the salesman snarled, "Next time, try to distract the customer by saying something good about our product."
Companies store backups on alternate media (tape, dedupe disk, cloud) for reliability at a reasonable cost. That's why backup software translates data into proprietary formats tuned for that media. The side effect is that only your backup software can read those copies. Result: Backup vendor lock-in!
Backup will be painful until we can solve the problems of performance and storing offsite copies. Imagine that you could make a resilient, secure offsite backup in an instant. You could make a simple schedule and recover from anything. Backup would be painless!
Until, of course, you met an application owner.
Silos: "Resistance is Futile"
Backup is painful because you have to connect the backup process to the application teams.
Companies expect their backup teams to:
- Work across all applications in the environment
- Respond quickly to application requests
- Spend less on the backup infrastructure (and team)
As difficult as technology is, connecting people is even more challenging. Application owners don't trust what they can't see or control.
One EMCWorld, I hosted a session for backup administrators and DBAs. At first, it was a productive discussion. One DBA explained, "If you can't recover the database, it's still my application that's down. That scares me." The group started brainstorming ways to give DBAs more visibility into the backups. Then a DBA blurted out, "I just can't trust you guys with my database backups. You became backup admins because you weren't smart enough to be DBAs. I'm going to keep making my own local database dumps." After that, we decided try to solve the wrestling feud between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels instead. It seemed more productive.
Companies need to manage complex backup schedules and create offsite copies. That's why we have backup software. Backup software and schedules are so complex that companies hired backup teams to manage them. That extra layer is why business application owners don't trust the backups.
Backup will be painful until application teams can trust and verify the backups of their applications.
Moving On? "I canna' change the laws of physics"
Why is backup so painful?
It's slow and expensive. It locks you into a backup vendor. It creates a backup silo that slows the business down. Other than that, backup is great.
Why have 25 years of innovative companies not eliminated the pain of backup?
Because we couldn't change the laws of physics in the data center. Too much data. Too expensive to get data offsite. Too hard to connect backup teams and application teams.
Why am I optimistic for the future?
Because the cloud changes the laws of physics for backup. We can stop tweaking backup and finally fix it. We'll save that mystery for next time.


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I started using Facebook as a kind of experiment at the end of last August, about one week after my wedding, as a means of updating my parents, my sister and her husband, and my wife's mother at the same time about our new married life. Since then I posted to Facebook almost daily, sometimes even several times a day, until I decided to quit it forever this week (unfortunately, it will take another week or so until my page is completely deleted automatically). And the more I used Facebook, the more I drifted away from my initial purpose of using it, showing a clear sign of addiction.
I had my first doubt about Facebook when the number of my "friends" approached 150 after a few months of using it. From my experience with email I already knew that this number called "Dunbar's Number" is the maximum number of people with whom I can maintain personal relationships. Every time my email address book exceeded this number, I checked it and cleaned up the addresses of those with whom I had no contact at least for the last few years. And this is what I also did with my Facebook "friends". I unfriended those with whom I had never had any interaction at all, reducing the number to a little less than 100, but on the other hand, I read all the posts of all the Facebook "friends" I had kept.
My second doubt about Facebook arose when I had my relationship with some of those whom I considered friends even offline seriously damaged as a result of a series of my objections to their political (and religious) views. I myself had decided from the very beginning never to post my own political (and religous) views though I have my own even very strong opinions about politics (and religion), but I couldn't ignore other people's views that didn't look fair enough purely logically. This way I lost some Facebook friends.
But the main reason why I've decided to quit Facebook forever in spite of its few benefits is that I've seen so clearly beyond any doubt that Facebook is first and foremost for those who are interested in shallow posts, whether as writers or as readers. The shallower the posts are, including my own, the more "liked" they are. As such posts constitute the majority and I'm not interested in them, I've come to a conclusion that Facebook isn't simply for me. I was too naive as to believe that it could also serve as a place for intellectual dialogs.
I've also seen that the more I wrote on Facebook, the less ready I became to write blog entries, which are by nature much longer and require more thinking. I even forgot that I have my own blog and didn't realize that I hadn't updated it for more than four months! I started blogging in September 2000 (the archive here is only from 2010) as an opportunity to reflect every Friday morning on what happened on that week externally and internally in preparation for Sabbath. Now that I've quit Facebook, I'm resuming this old weekly "ritual", hoping that I can still express myself verbally.
It's true that blogging is a dialog with oneself, at least in the way I blog. But blogging has at least one big advantage over posting to Facebook - the former is a collection of stocks that can be reread, while the latter is a collection of flows that are seldom or never reread and are consumed and discarded instantly instead.
In saying farewell to Facebook I have to thank it at least for one thing. It has helped me find several long lost old friends and get acquainted with a couple of interesting new people I couldn't have met except on Facebook. I'll definitely remain in touch with them by email and offline. And no less importantly, I can reappreciate life without Facebook now.


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We're thinking of maybe doing this, it's not until May 31st. Anyone else interested in doing it?
because the internet needs more Cowbel, baby…
We're thinking of maybe doing this, it's not until May 31st. Anyone else interested in doing it?
David hates it when I say that I'm a bad cook. I guess I'm not really that bad, but I'm not confident in the kitchen. I like the idea of cooking, and when I'm actually doing it, I usually have a good time, but I find it difficult to get started and I loathe doing the dishes and cleaning up afterward. There are certain things that excite me and inspire me to do some cooking, but my motivation usually flags by the time I manage to get to a place where I can start cooking. It's even more difficult now that Nadia is here, because I'm never sure how long she'll be asleep.
And it's SO easy to just buy something that's mostly pre-made.
Here are some of the things that inspire me to start cooking.
With so many inspirations, you'd think that I'd be better at getting my butt into the kitchen and actually doing something there beyond making a bowl of cereal…maybe that will be my goal. Ok, I'm putting it out there. I'm going to actually cook at least one meal a week. I'll let you know how it goes.
Just wondering if there's anyone we know who has some experience with Baby Signs or Baby Signing. It seems as though there's a few different options out there, and perhaps a few schools of thought.
The original book that started it all seems to indicate that you should see what signs your baby is already making when they are trying to communicate and to largely adopt those as the language you use (this is a gross simplification). We probably all at times growing up either had secret languages, or fantasized about having them. That said, secret languages are most useful not in communicating but in keeping secrets, and that's counter to our goal here.
Other advocates seem to use primarily ASL (American Sign Language which is the official sign language for English speaking Canada), which makes sense to me since it would be a larger life skill for both the baby and us, if we started to become fluent in it we could actually use it for something else, whereas the secret language wouldn't provide this benefit.
One thing that I found especially odd is that as far as I can tell none of the programs are endorsed or provided by Deaf organizations. It seems at least on the face of it that would be a natural fit, good outreach and a valuable revenue stream. Also the fact that those organizations don't seem to be involved at all triggers some cynicism for me at least. Regardless, at this point we're still planning on going forward with it.
So I guess the questions that we'd like answers to are:
Nothing much to report other than the fact that we're both still fighting off colds. Probably be a couple more days until we're up to doing much of anything, but hopefully not longer than that.
Finally an actual cooking show, probably the best one since Good Eats! There's several great things about the show, first off is Michael Smith who's just awesome. The second is that the show is about teaching techniques or frameworks in which you can channel your creativity and be successful. In essence taking most of the risk out of experimentation and a lot of the fear too.
In the second episode Cooking with allergies: Lasagna, Muffins & Cookies (which you can watch online) he does some gluten free stuff, but probably the most interesting thing is that he makes his own gluten free flour mix.
Anyway, it's only two episodes in, but we're already hooked on Chef Michael's Kitchen.
Stumbled across this the other day, and there's at least one member of the audience who will find it interesting. It's the SFU: Local Food Project, and one of the things they talk about is Community Supported Agriculture.
C.S.A. stands for Community Supported Agriculture. CSA's are a commitment between a farm and a community of supporters. Supports pay up for their share of the harvest at the beginning of the season, so farmers have a source of income at their time of highest expenses. The farm provides the supporters with fresh high quality produce throughout the season, usually in a weekly box.
They have a nice list of different CSA related organizations: http://sfulocalfood.ca/resources/where-to-get-local/community-supported-agriculture
Who knows you might even find the rest of the site interesting too.
This was one of those hazing rituals that I never went through myself, until now. I don't really see what the deal is. If I understand it correctly, most people don't even get teeth removed before hand. Sure a teabag in your mouth isn't perhaps the best flavour, but there are worse options.
I think I've now gone through 8 tea bags after the wisdom tooth extraction, which they recommend you use instead of gauze to aid in the formation of blood clots and healing in general. At except for the one that I apparently chewed on too much, or was otherwise defective it went well. Unfortunately that one kind of exploded in my mouth, very unpleasant, much spitting ensued. Unfortunately it happened while I was still forbidden from actually rinsing my mouth out.
I suppose your milage may vary, but really I don't see what the big deal is.
Was at Save-on the other day and saw something a little unexpected: MADD Beer and Wine. Both are non-alcoholic, which of course you knew because otherwise they wouldn't have been in the grocery store… but still it's interesting.
So they have a white and a red wine; bubbly, mulled wine and sangria specialty wines; margarita and mojito cocktails; Brut (Champagne) coming soon. That and if I remember correctly it was a lime beer which I saw on the shelf (but not on the website).
It's interesting in concept and execution, also 10% of the net sales go to MADD Canada. Nice to see a charity doing something other than a run/walk to raise money, and in something that aligns so well with their mission.
My guess is that since these are all virgin beverages, but which are supposed to mimic the alcoholic version that I myself would not actually be interested in them. That said, they seem like a good idea, and could work for people trying to cut back, or be designated drivers, or I suppose perhaps even pregnant women (I assume it's only the alcohol that they are supposed to be worried about, but I don't know that).
Anyway, if anyone does try them out, let us know if they are any good.
p.s. they were on sale at Save-0n while I was there…
Turns out I was a little premature in announcing the removal of my 3 wisdoms, today was merely a consultation. So I get to stay all wisdom-y until next Tuesday (June 5th).
The consultation was interesting, perhaps not worth the $90 fee, but interesting still. I get three options for the surgery:
Apparently it's a personal choice, which is interesting, and I suppose it should be, but it's hard to know what is the best decision for yourself. I suspect most of us aren't able to make this through some previous personal experience (at least I assume that it's pretty rare that wisdom teeth respawn like Orcs in a dungeon), so really how equipped are we to make the call?
Being awake seems to have the most advantages generally, no pre-eating restrictions, no driving restrictions, etc… with the downside that you need to actual be awake while it's happening.
Twilight is sort of a middle ground where you're sedated but not put out.
Being put to sleep requires that someone drive you to and from the appointment, and there's various eating and drinking restrictions before hand.
So anyone out there who would care to offer an opinion from their personal experience? Anyone who stayed awake and didn't regret it?
Went to the dentist yesterday, and everything was good. So instead of resting on their laurels they decided that it was time to send me to get my wisdom teeth removed. I've got 3 left, so first thing Monday morning they'll be yanking my brain out through my mouth because it's all connected to my teeth, or something like that.


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Enjoying a comfortable location in the heart of Patong, the hotel offers modern boutique accommodation coming with a range of facilities ensuring a high-standard convenience to guests staying here. Facilities include, among other, free Wi-Fi Internet, an outdoor pool with 2 sun decks and an on-site coffee shop.nnLocationnThe hotel is only a 15 minutes walk away from the well-known Patong Beach, a 5 minutes walk from Patong's Night Market and a 5 minutes drive from Karon Beach, what makes it a great base to explore the area. There are also many restaurants and shops surrounding the hotel, which allow guests to enjoy shopping and nightlife in Patong.nnRoomsnThe hotel offers boutique, modern style accommodations, decorated in cream and pastel colours. The well-designed rooms are fully air conditioned and have a flat-screen TVs, private balconies, mini bars and seating areas. Bathrooms come with hot-water showers. Some of the guestrooms enjoy mountain views.nnSportnWhile enjoying the stunning views of Patong Gulf, guests can sunbath at one of the two sun decks and sip chilled drinks from the pool-side bar.nnMealsnThe hotel's coffee shop serves a selection of international a
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