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Sun Met takes place at Kenilworth Race Course on Saturday - January 26, 2018
The Warriors prepare for Momentum One Day Cup semi-final - January 26, 2018
#BizPulse | Trump: When America grows, world grows - January 26, 2018
Mapisa-Nqakula's visit to South Sudan – Sarah Kimani - January 26, 2018
Tackling corruption in Africa tops the agenda at AU summit - January 26, 2018
Prime discussion: PIC and PSA aim to recoup R17billion lost - January 26, 2018
Prime discussion: Is there a right time for president Jacob Zuma's exit? - January 26, 2018
Memorial service of Hugh Masekela - January 26, 2018
Memorial service of Hugh Masekela - January 26, 2018
Talking literature, fiction with Sifiso Mzobe
Durban Born and raised writer Sifiso Mzobe, gained popularity for his award winning debut fiction book 'Young Blood', that saw him blow up and become one of the sought after crime fiction authors in the country. The read takes us back to 90's township life were fast cars, booze and drugs were fashionable. Sifiso joins me now to talk to us about his contribution to the black literary space.
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EGR Direct Replacement
Reviewed By Ken M (BINGHAMTON, NY) —10/16/2017 8:13 PM
This valve is a direct replacement for the original valve. Easy to install and comes with the gasket. Doesn't come with the bolts as shown because this valve is held on with nuts, which you can use the originals on the engine.

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Choose the best search option
Try WorldCat for searching all U.S. libraries, or CLICsearch for searching Bethel and CLIC libraries.
Searches Bethel, Concordia-SP, Hamline, Northwestern, St. Thomas, and St. Kate's.
Requests take 1 business day.
Good for searching for books you need for a project or paper.
Searches books in all U.S. libraries, including Bethel and CLIC
Requests take 5-7 business days.
Good for searching for textbooks or when you know what particular book you want.


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Get on M2, follow M2 and M1 to ferntree Gully Road in Mulgrave. Take the Ferntree Gully road exit from M1
Use the M2 from the airport and then change to Monash Freeway and exit at Ferntree Gully Road.
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Airport Bus Dandenong provides a regular and cheap route bus service from Melbourne's south eastern suburbs to and from Melbourne Airport.Airport Bus Dandenong specialises in providing airport transfers for families and a wide range of businesses and groups.
The GLEN INN and GLEN APARTMENTS MELBOURNE provide a traditional setting with highly comfortable but competitively priced accommodation of all sizes. All units are equipped with ensuite bathrooms, air-conditioning, large flatscreen TV's incl. 24hr movie satellite channels, free WIFI, free parking and state of the art amenities. (e.g. Microwave can be provided free of charge on request) In the STANDARD ROOM section the traditional atmosphere of the warm brick walls delivers a beautiful backdrop for attractive themes which featured in the rooms. The themes range from Impressionists, the "Monet", "Renoir" and "Van Gogh" rooms to floral subjects or the sea. Or enjoy original Australian handpainted landscapes and more modern themes. EXECUTIVE and CORPORATE rooms present state of the art features and amenities for the experienced traveler. The 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS "ROSE" and "SUNFLOWER" are very spacious with very large dining and living areas. "DAFFODIL", also 3 bedroom, is a corner apartment with a bar table connecting to the kitchen in addition to the dining and living areas. All apartments are fully self contained with fully equipped kitchen. The rooms and apartments are conveniently located inbetween Melbourne's Monash eastern suburbs Glen Waverley, Notting Hill, Mulgrave, Clayton, Wheelers Hill near the corner Springvale Road / Ferntree Gully Road. Immediate access to the M1 Monash Freeway exit. From the premises, an immediate access to the M1 provides fast connection to the City of Melbourne, Federation Square, the Opera and Southbank. A just 5-minute drive also connects to the M3 Eastlink in the North. For all immediate shopping needs the rooms and apartments are situated right across from the Brandon Park Shopping Centre. However, exquisite shopping is available at its best either at the massive, very well known "Chadstone Shopping Centre" or "The Glen", or "Knox City". All centres are only a few km's away. Monash University Clayton campus is 2-3 bus-stops away and the motel is a 5 minute walk to the Victorian Rehabilitation centre, near the Police Academy, the Great Monash Aquatic Centre and other sporting locations and golf venues in the area. The rooms and apartments are equipped with modern facilities and well furnished. Superior and Standard Queen rooms are generous in size and equipped with large flatscreen TV's, fridge, tea/coffee making facilities, a work desk and a sofa couch or second bed. Larger Family rooms are provided, a Superior Wheelchair Access Room and Superior SPA room. FREE PARKING & FREE WIFI is available for all guests! An affordable, mouth watering all you can eat lunch and dinner smorgasbord buffet is offered consisting of an Asian section, Hot roast carvery, Mediteranean options, with all your favourite chicken, fish, pizza & seafood dishes, salad bar, a kids section and hot and cold desserts and fantastic shows and sensations are offered by the Village Green Hotel entertainment complex, just opposite! Faxing, photocopying and mailing facilities are available at reception. Small meeting rooms, up to 20 persons, can be made available. No Pets are allowed on the premises. For check-in before 2:00pm or after 10pm please contact reception at +61 (0)3 9561 5611. Discover Victoria from this great spot. Tour the Dandenong Ranges, Philip Island, the Mornington Peninsula or the Great Ocean Road from here. Ask us for advice! Should you not find the required availabilities or wish to discuss further, please call us at +61 (0)3 9561 5611 or E-mail us at: . firstname.lastname@example.com
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The Digital IXUS (IXY Digital in Japan and PowerShot Digital ELPH in US and Canada) is a series of ultra-compact digital cameras released by Canon. The first Digital IXUS released in June 2000 fitted the technology of the PowerShot S10 into a body similar to the APS IXUS II. Between 2003 and 2004, starting with the Digital IXUS II, Canon moved from the use of CF cards to SD cards to create thinner cameras.
Canon's PowerShot A and S line of the time were being made as small as contemporary technology allowed. Canon used its experience with small film cameras, particularly the APS IXUS, to mass-produce good digital cameras smaller than anyone else had managed up to the time.


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Mikkel Jensen stars in the 'La Forma Dello Spazio' GQ Italia editorial. The model is captured by photographer Adriano Russo's lens while posing in an illuminated retro space station backdrop.
Mikkel is outfitted by wardrobe stylist Elisa Anastasino who dresses him in a number of astronaut-inspired staples that include utilitarian jumpsuits, tailored trench coats and winter-ready outerwear looks. The model sports designer pieces from the likes of Hugo Boss, Burberry Prorsum and CK Cavin Klein among others.
Gracing the European publication's February 2013 issue, the 'La Forma Dello Spazio' GQ Italia fashion story embraces athletic silhouettes and utilitarian design details. This sporty photo series highlights the season's hottest color hues and references a 60s vision of retro futurism.
The La Forma Dello Spazio GQ Italia Fashion Story is Sci-Fi Chic
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You're probably aware of my love for Anatomicals and their brilliant product names, but I'm yet to take much of a foray into their twin Tanatomicals brand. I've actually got two of their reportedly wonderful sunless tanning products sitting shamefully unused in a drawer, simply because I am too scared and have never had a tan real or otherwise in my life. This leads me to believe that I would look an utter knob with a tan. Besides, I like being pale!
Being so pale though, I do have to be especially careful with sun protection. My dad calls me Day Walker (South Park fans will get it), even though I'm no ginge I instantly fry in the sun. Never cool. I've got some real horror stories I could tell you about the miscellaneous sunburn incidents I've had over the years, but that's something for another day – preferably one that isn't pissing with rain.
Rambling aside, Tanatomicals kindly sent me this hardcore SPF30 lip balm. I need SPF50 for my body, but 30 is excellent for the lips. I know the weather's crappy at the moment but we all know that the sun's harmful UVA and UVB rays can sneak-attack even on a cloudy day.
SPF for the lips is something that most of us tend to forget about. I don't tend to bother with it in bad weather but the sun can REALLY burn my lips – even if I'm not wearing a lip balm with added SPF I will actually put sun lotion on my lips even though it tastes disgusting. I do it because one year, my lips got sunburnt to the extent that I couldn't eat or even close my mouth around a straw to drink without searing pain for a few days. REALLY not cool.
Now I've got this though, I've been sticking it on my lips in case the Sun Does Shine and I absolutely love it. Whilst its not had a chance to flex its superhero SPF muscles yet (what is this rain in June crap all about anyway?!), but I have to say it's actually become my new favourite lip balm. It's tasteless, scentless, flavourless and colourless – but it's actually softened my lips more than ever before. LOVE it. Right now, I'm loving it even more than my Burt's Bees ones – and you KNOW that's saying something! The Stick It Where The Sun Does Shine stick is available for just £3 from Asos. A serious summer essential, trust me you need this one.
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Hello, dear all.
Are there a way to to find the direct links to catch the photos on the link below using Google Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer ( inspecting the Source code or other elements on that page ) ?
---> https://br.blastingnews.com/tv-famosos/2017/04/9-famosos-que-possuem-problemas-mentais...001654701.html
For example, if I choose to save Selena Gomez photo I can go to Twitter link:
---> https://twitter.com/WebCuriosos/status/857390610071920642/photo/1
But if I want to save such photos WITHOUT going to twitter directly, how to proceed? I mean: saving the photo on that page, without being redirect to other sites.
In my company Twitter and many other sites are blocked. So, if I want to save pictures from there, I must do it in a way to find the link to take me directly to such picture, avoiding me to be redirected to Twitter.
Is that possible?
Best regards.
devil (johner)
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can you not right click on the picture and click save as or copy image ??
@ october262
can you not right click on the picture and click save as or copy image ??
---> https://br.blastingnews.com/tv-famosos/2017/04/9-famosos-que-possuem-problemas-mentais...001654701.html
No Save option enabled. I want to save such picture on thet site directly. Not going to Twitter site. Nor using Print Screen also. I want to get the "pure" picture itself.
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Best regards.
devil (johner)
Firefox should give you the option "View Page Info -> 'Media' tab".
I myself do not use Firefox, but I do use Seamonkey.
@ El Heggunte
Firefox should give you the option "View Page Info -> 'Media' tab".
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I could see some pictures in such way using Firefox.
But none of them were from Twitter itself.
Maybe I did something wrong? Or the pictures can't be saved directly on that site mentioned, but only when we access Twitter site? And only from that place we can do it properly?
Thanks for your time.
Best regards.
devil (johner)
In Firefox you can use Developer Tolls (F12), Network tab, (reload the page if it's already loaded when you press F12) to view links to the images. You can right click on the link and save.
Hi,l dear all.
@ october262
might try this add on for firefox - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-all-images-webextension/
I could test similar extensions for Chrome. Without results also.
@ jagabo
In Firefox you can use Developer Tolls (F12), Network tab, (reload the page if it's already loaded when you press F12) to view links to the images. You can right click on the link and save.
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Wich line should I seek to find the pictures from Twitter in Network tab?
Thanks everybody for your help!
Best regards.
devil (johner)
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Hover over the image urls. Firefox will show the images. You can filter the results to reduce the number of urls.
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During 2014 and 2015 Sponge has organized meet-up''s between tech and non-tech professionals, focused on journalism and transparency, following a format problem-sollution.
Journalists, activists and legal experts have presented ongoing projects in search of a tech solutions and coders participated with ideas to solve their problems. Techies show cased various tools and projects they work on and some where adopted by journalists or activists. Out of these interractions spined-off tools for information and advocacy campaigns.
Our tools are centralized under the Projects page of this site. The tools listed there are under various phases of development and some are already in use, but all are Free Software Open Source licensed and awaiting for contributions.
Sponge tools cover three major needs:
- communication and organization needs for any interdisciplinary group with little or no tech skills
- gathering and analyzing information
- direct electronic interaction between citizens and authorities.
Sponge tools serve to make the interdisciplinary collaboration easier. Second, we build tools that can gather information by way of automatic monitoring of public administration. By way of building tools and platforms we aim at solving a major problem: investigative media is approaching global knowledge and problems almost exclusively through major LEAKS.
Such LEAKS are usually major databases build by governments and companies. Even if such LEAKS are very useful and instructive, they represent just a very narrow view on the world, usually that of a government or a company. Such LEAKS end up in the public sphere mediated by journalists or activists, usually by the same actors.
By creating tools such as those listed under Projects, Sponge wants to solve the lack of access to relevant and verifiable information in the public domain and shape a model to identify needs that are not observed by corporate and government or the news industry.
A summary of tools including description, demo and source code you will under the Projects page.


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Just because you are in the brink of bankruptcy does not mean that you no longer have the right to purchase whatever it is that you need.
Despite the bad credit record you may have incurred, you still have the right to live decently by having the basic needs and domestic devices.
In the United Kingdom, this right is respected and promoted by weekly payment stores. These stores have given relief to many people who cannot pay lump sum for big items that they need for their house or to those who are also restricted to loan money or purchase goods with credit.
An increasing number of consumers are falling into unmanageable debts. Either this reality is brought about by an unstable employment or business as the UK is still reeling from the effects of the global economic crisis.
Without any Individual Voluntary Agreement or IVA's to protect themselves, many have been declared bankrupt by virtue of county court judgments or CCJs. In deed of trust definition, a person who is declared bankrupt can no longer loan cash from any financial and commercial institution.
He cannot also purchase anything with credit. The CCJs for most people in the UK is, therefore, do not just shame but also paralyzes someone's buying power.
In weekly payment stores, however, you can still get the necessary furniture and other appliances you may need without much worry. These require no credit check on its patrons so anyone troubled with a history of bad debts can still make purchases.
Any credit that has tainted your financial standing does not have an effect on your being a customer of a weekly payment store. While other stores may just give you a scornful stare, a weekly payment store will still give you the respect you are entitled to as a customer.
Weekly payment stores, as the name implies, offer easy installment plans for its clients. Instead of paying for an item once, no matter how costly it is, you can just pay it on a weekly basis.
This scheme is obviously lighter on the budget since it could stretch your income beyond the usual limits. You do not have to face the dilemma of buying a much-needed bed or spending the money instead for food. It will just take you, at most, three months to complete the installment.
You do not have to bring with you volumes of documents just to convince a weekly payment store on your credit history.
All that is needed is enough facts that confirm your ability to pay the weekly installments. This assures you that you can immediately take your purchase with you and take pleasure from it.
Benefits of Weekly Payment Stores
UK consumers realize many benefits when they use weekly payment stores.
These stores allow people to get what they need, while requiring affordable installment payments in return.
Here are the main reasons that consumers use weekly payment stores for their big-ticket item shopping needs:
- Weekly, biweekly, or monthly cash payments rather than a single lump sum payment
- Early repayment accepted
- No deposit requirement
- No credit check
- Free delivery offered by some
- Direct debit, in-store, and telephone payment options
- Wide range of electronics, appliances, furniture, and gaming and computing equipment featuring popular brand names
- Low price guarantees
- Optional service agreement and lifetime return guarantee (for an additional cost)
- Customer service assistance during account establishment
Drawbacks of Weekly Payment Stores
With the good, comes the bad and weekly payment stores are not free of drawbacks.
These stores are designed for consumers who cannot get credit elsewhere.
Weekly payment retailers are able to charge this captive audience a 29 percent or higher representative APR for purchases.
The high financing cost helps them to offset situations when consumers do not pay or default on their payments. The drawbacks to dealing with weekly payment stores include:
- Financing is not guaranteed
- Interest rate rivals that of a credit card
- Total payment greatly exceeds typical selling price for the product
- Missed payments can add to credit issues
- Some weekly payment store staff have been known to harass customers for payment
How to Use Weekly Payment Stores
Most weekly payment stores allow consumers to apply for an account online, via the telephone, or at a store location. Completing the process usually requires a visit to the store.
Documentation that must be provided includes:
- Proof of identity (government ID, passport, driver license, or birth certificate)
- Proof of address (mortgage, tenancy, or rent card agreement)
- Proof of income (bank, post office, or benefit statement or wage slip)
- Contact information for one or more personal references
Approval is usually granted on the day that this information is provided at the local store.
Consumers sign an agreement and arrange for delivery of their purchases.
Delivery usually occurs within seven days unless a special order is involved.
Delivery drivers may be trained in product installation and demonstration, streamlining things for the consumer.
Ensuring a Pleasant Interaction with Weekly Payment Stores
Consumers should do their part to ensure a pleasant transaction with a weekly payment store.
Before signing a credit agreement, they should read the document carefully and ask questions about anything that is unclear or not mentioned.
Asking about the consequences of a late or missed payment helps consumers understand the worst that could happen.
These retailers can be very persistent when attempting to recoup their money.
Harassing phone calls, threatening letters, and calls to family and friends are not unheard of in this industry.
If consumers doubt that they will be able to pay for their purchase within the outlined period, they should look for an alternative way to get the item.


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3 Air conditioned/heated Gites sleeping 2-6.
L'Hibiscus sleeps 2-4
Part of an 18th century FORMER CONVENT, the lovely attached gites, are set in beautiful lush Mediterranean gardens with sheltered swimming pool.
This pretty ivy-clad STONE MAS is within 2 mins walking distance to Spar mini market, boulangerie, bar/cafe, restaurant, pharmacy, tabac, Post Office and church.
The gites, L'Hibiscus (1 bedroom sleeps 2+2) A first floor open plan studio apartment.Full kitchen. Washing machine. Suitable for a couple and 2 small children sharing a double sofa bed
La Petite Maison (1 double mezzanine bedroom sleeps 2) has private terrace with barbeque.
La Bougainvillea (1 ground floor bedroon plus 1 double bedroom 1st floor - sleeps 2-6 total, Sky TV). Full kitchen. Washing machine + Dishwasher.
La Bougainvillea plus L'Hibiscus share a large but private terrace with individual BBQs.
Cots and high chairs available.
The perfect location for visiting the historic town of Perpignan (20 mins - excellent restaurants, designer shops, bustling market); CATHAR CASTLES, Pyrénées mountains - Pic de Canigou, wonderful coastline, endless beaches and Mediterranean sea - 15mins - seaside towns, tourist hotspots and host of historical sights - Spain 30 mins. The owners live on the premises and provide a mine of information and a friendly atmosphere.
See website for more details and photos. Long lets available. Prices Negotiable.
Pets considered except July/ Aug
This property has been listed with Chez Nous for 17 years
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C7 Attorney General
The Honorable Maura Healey
One Ashburton Place, 18th Floor
Boston, MA 02108-1698
Main number connecting all bureaus and divisions 617-727-2200
Attorney General Hotlines:
Consumer Advocacy Á Response: 617-727-8400
Elder Hotline Toll Free: 1-888-AG ELDER (243-5337)
Fair Labor: 617-727-3465
Foreclosure Hotline: 617-573-5333
Insurance Fraud Tipline: 617-573-5330
Please note the Attorney General's Office will offer helpful resources to individuals wherever possible but is not allowed to provide legal assistance to individual citizens of Massachusetts
The Executive Bureau of the Attorney General's Office provides administration, public information, and policy development support for the Office, as well as operational, information technology, human resources, and fiscal management services for the Office. Executive Bureau leadership includes the First Assistant Attorney General, Deputy Attorneys General, and the Chief of Staff. Divisions within the Executive Bureau include: Office of the State Solicitor, Policy and Government; Community Engagement and Community Programs. The Criminal Bureau works to protect the public by investigating and prosecuting a wide range of criminal cases. These include public corruption, financial fraud, and other violations of the public trust, organized crime, major narcotic offenses, appellate issues, insurance and unemployment fraud, environmental crimes, internet and online crimes, and more. The Criminal Bureau's investigations are supported by a team of State Police detectives.
The Energy and Environment Bureau works to protect utility ratepayers and our environment, and to reduce the threat of climate change for the people and families of the Commonwealth. As the state's Ratepayer Advocate, the Bureau's Energy and Telecommunications Division represents consumers in matters involving the price and delivery of natural gas, electricity and telecommunication services before state and federal regulators. The Bureau's Environmental Protection Division and Environmental Crimes Strike Force enforce the laws that protect our air and water, preserve our lands and open space, require the clean-up of contaminated sites, and govern the use of pesticides and the handling and disposal of hazardous waste.
The Government Bureau represents the Commonwealth, its agencies, and officials in many types of civil litigation, as well as defending Commonwealth employees from civil claims made against them resulting from the performance of their duties. The Bureau develops and maintains close working relationships with the agencies it represents, often providing them guidance and advice where advance legal consultation may prevent unnecessary litigation and costly lawsuits. The Government Bureau initiates affirmative litigation in the public interest, on behalf of the Commonwealth and its residents. The Bureau also enforces the state's Open Meeting Law through its Division of Open Government, and reviews and approves town bylaws through its Municipal Law Unit as well as oversight of the Administrative Law Division.
The Health Care and Fair Competition Bureau aligns those divisions within the Attorney General's Office that routinely touch upon the Massachusetts health care sector in fundamental ways. The work of the bureau includes overseeing public charities, preventing anticompetitive or fraudulent practices by providers of health care products and services within the Commonwealth, safeguarding rights of health care consumers, and combating fraud and abuse in the MassHealth system. The divisions within the Health Care Fair Competition Bureau bring affirmative litigation on behalf of Massachusetts consumers and taxpayers, maintain a health care help line and mediation service, and engage in advocacy and policy initiatives to ensure access to quality, affordable health care in our state. In addition, many of the divisions work on cases and issues beyond the health care arena, such as overseeing a wide variety of charitable organizations, combatting fraud across the spectrum of government contracting, and investigating anticompetitive behavior in all manner of businesses.
The Public Protection and Advocacy Bureau uses investigation, litigation, and other advocacy to enforce laws protecting the Commonwealth. The Bureau works towards meaningful economic recovery for Massachusetts by tackling the economic and mortgage foreclosure crisis with a multifaceted and aggressive strategy. The Bureau works to protect consumers from unfair and deception activity, enforces state and federal civil rights laws, ensuring access and equal opportunity for all residents, advocates for protection of our environmental resources, pursues complex insurance and finance cases on behalf of residents or government entities, works towards affordable, high-quality health care for all, and enforces antitrust laws. The Bureau oversees the following divisions: Consumer Advocacy & Response; Consumer protection; Civil Rights; Fair Labor and the Insurance & Financial Services Division.
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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_gallery type="nivo" interval="5″ images="606,591,588,587″ img_size="full" title="Vibration and Sound Monitoring Locations"][vc_column_text]DRW Associates is providing sound and vibration monitoring for the Akron OCIT project. More than a dozen monitoring locations are recording noise levels as well as construction ground vibration. These locations utilize Instantel's latest technology to provide email alerts to stakeholders as soon a threshold has been reached.
DRW Associates is using their latest solar powered security enclosures with online remote monitoring capability which includes email and text alerts. This functionality is combined with the latest Instantel Micromate paired with a Sound Level Microphone and Geophone.
If you have any questions about this project, feel free to reach out to us using our website contact form.


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Cruickshank, P., Hall, H. & Taylor-Smith, E. (2011). Enhancing the impact of LIS research projects. Edinburgh: Research Information Network
This report covers extent to which funded research projects in the domain of library and information science (LIS) influence practice in the UK. It focuses particularly on ide...
Cruickshank, P., Hall, H. & Taylor-Smith, E. (2012, May). Realising the value of RiLIES: the research in librarianship impact evaluation study. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Limerick, Republic of Ireland
In 2011 researchers at Edinburgh Napier University, supported by the UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition, investigated the extent to which funded research pr...
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Enhancing the impact of LIS Research Projects.
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Staff and research students from the Centre for Social Informatics made a number of contributions at iDocQ 2016 in Glasgow on 23rd June 2016.
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text: Getting NAnt 0.85 to get along with NUnit 2.2 December 28, '05 Comments [3] Posted in NUnit | Nant | XML Sponsored By This wasn't obvious to Patrick and I, but it is in retrospect. When you're using NAnt's NUnit2 tasks to run NUnit tests, all the assembly versions need to line up. However, sometimes the version of your test framework might not match up with the version that NAnt was built with. For example, you might have tests that were compiled (and, as such, reference) NUnit 2.0.6 or 2.1.4. However, you're using NAnt 0.85 which runs tests with NUnit 22.214.171.124. Not only that, but the NUnit test runner creates a new AppDomain for each test. That means you can't do a binding (version) redirect with a NAnt.exe.config, because the AppDomain gets a funky name of its own and has its own binding redirect rules that the loader follows. So, you have to create a test.config file. You can name it anything you want, like mydefaulttest.config, and it'll look something like this:<configuration> ... <runtime> <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="nunit.framework" publicKeyToken="96d09a1eb7f44a77" culture="Neutral" /> <bindingRedirect oldVersion="220.127.116.11" newVersion="188.8.131.52" /> <bindingRedirect oldVersion="188.8.131.52" newVersion="184.108.40.206" /> </dependentAssembly> </assemblyBinding> </runtime> ... </configuration> Then you need to TELL the NUnit2 NAnt task that you want to use this specific config file:<nunit2> <formatter type="Plain" /> <test assemblyname="MyProject.Tests.dll" appconfig="mydefaulttest.config" /> </nunit2> Then the NUnit2 task will make sure the newly created AppDomain uses (or promotes) the correct version and your tests won't fail to load. « My stark realization that I may be an ea... | Blog Home | My Top Ten Albums for Chris Brooks » About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author. About Newsletter Sponsored By Hosting By Comments [3] Share on: Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or use the Permalink


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Schumer Wants To Stop Rental of Recalled Vehicles
New York Senator wants car rental agencies to be held to the same standards as car dealers when it comes to auto manufacturer recalls.
If you rented a car recently, you could have been driving a lemon. Currently, car rental agencies are allowed to rent vehicles that have been recalled by their manufacturers.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer wants to stop car rental agencies from renting those defective vehices. Schumer said the current policy puts consumers in harm's way, "the way the car rental regulations currently exist, it could well be a less safe option than taking your own car."
Schumer added that the law is needed because of serious crashes in recent years involving rental cars under recall. In a press release, Schumer mentioned the Houck sisters, California residents who rented a Chrysler PT Cruiser from Enterprise. The statement said the car had been recalled by Chrysler a month before because "a possible leakage of power steering fluid could result in a fire under the hood of the car". Enterprise did not address the safety recall, and the Houks were killed when their rental car caught fire and crashed into an oncoming semi-tractor trailer.
Schumer's legislation aims to subject the two billion dollar industry to the same standards as auto manufacturers, who are barred from selling cars under recall. Schumer said "if the car is unsafe enought to be recalled, it should not be rented to an unsuspecting consumer".
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Must-see video here for ice junkies, background here: "Arctic Ocean is full of rotten ice."
"Anomalies for each day are calculated relative to the average over the 1979 -2009 period for that day to remove the annual cycle." [And yes, "anomaly" is a poor word choice for a long-term trend driven by human emissions.]
Back in mid-May, I argued the Arctic is poised to see record low sea ice volume this year. Since then, volume has plummeted some 3000 km3 (relative to its recent historical average) to "19,000 km3, the lowest May volume over the 1979–2010 period, 42% below the 1979 maximum and 32% below the 1979–2009 May average," according to the Polar Science Center, which has the best Arctic ice volume model around.
If I'm reading their historical average right, we're probably below 10,000 km3 now. The September minimum record was set 9 months ago, at 5,800 km3.
Most attention gets focused on the more visible but less important metric of sea ice extent, which collapsed last month faster than any May in the satellite record. As a result, at least one group in the highly touted suite of forecasts is looking to sharply lower their September sea ice extent estimate.
Here is where we are now on extent, via the National Snow and Ice Data Center:
NSIDC notes: "In May, Arctic air temperatures remained above average, and sea ice extent declined at a rapid pace. At the end of the month, extent fell near the level recorded in 2006, the lowest in the satellite record for the end of May."
And here's the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, click to enlarge):
So will we hit a record low extent, which is what the media will focus on?
I asked NSIDC's Julienne Stroeve, and she emailed me:
The thing to look for right now is persistence of the Arctic Dipole we've seen this June. If that continues all summer like it did in 2007 then I think we'll be close to 2007 values by September. There are strong meridional winds pushing ice away from the coast of Siberia at the moment (like what happened in 2007). Also Nares Strait is open like it was in 2007 which can help to remove more of the old ice in that location.
It seems clear that the band of old ice that was advected into the Beaufort/Chukchi seas this winter will be key to what we see in September. If that old ice survives the melt season then I don't think we'll see a new record low, but if that ice melts out given it's southerly location, then I do think we'll be close to 2007.
The NSIDC says of ice volume and the PSC's PIOMAS model:
Ice extent measurements provide a long-term view of the state of Arctic sea ice, but they only show the ice surface. Total ice volume is critical to the complete picture of sea ice decline. Numerous studies indicate that sea ice thickness and volume have declined along with ice extent; unfortunately, there are no continuous, Arctic-wide measurements of sea ice volume. To fill that gap, scientists at the University of Washington have developed regularly updated estimates of ice volume, using a model called the Pan Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS)….
PIOMAS blends satellite-observed sea ice concentrations into model calculations to estimate sea ice thickness and volume. Comparison with submarine, mooring, and satellite observations help increase the confidence of the model results. More information on the validation methods and results is available on the PIOMAS ice volume Web site.
If PIOMAS is right, then we are almost certainly headed toward record low ice volume this September.
The ice is simply getting thinner and more rotten. Climate Central has a nice figure:
As Andrew Freedman wrote recently:
A NASA study published last year found that Arctic sea ice thinned about 0.17 meters (seven inches) per year between 2004 and 2008, for a total of 0.68 meters (2.2 feet) over four winters. Also, the total area covered by thicker "multi-year" ice shrank by 42 percent. Other studies have documented longer-term declines in sea ice thickness, due to warming temperatures as well as winds and ocean currents that have transported thicker ice out of the Arctic and into the North Atlantic.
As I discussed May 24 — As Arctic sea ice shrinks faster than 2007, NSIDC director Serreze says, "I think it's quite possible" we could "break another record this year" — "one of Canada's top sea-ice experts suggests things might even be worse than Dr. Serreze thinks" (see The Arctic Ocean is full of rotten ice: New study by Barber et al. supports finding that "the amount of [multi-year] sea ice in the northern hemisphere was the lowest on record in 2009"³).
"What we think is thick multiyear ice late in the summer is in fact not," he said. "It's heavily decayed first-year ice. When that stuff starts to reform in the fall, we think it's multiyear ice, but it's not."
… He pointed out the Arctic continued to lose multiyear ice even in 2008 and 2009, when total ice coverage rebounded somewhat.
Barber gave a plenary talk at the International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference, that is a must-see for ice junkies (video here, summary here). He said
"What really matters is the condition and thickness of the multiyear ice."
"Last summer we studied sea ice recovery in the Southern Beaufort Sea aboard the research vessel Amundsen. We expected to be stopped at some point by thick multiyear ice, but the Amundsen, only ice classed to break ice 1.2 metres thick, was able to continue at full speed. We realised that the ice was rotten."
Dr Barber and his team saw swells penetrating far into the Beaufort Gyre and breaking up huge ice sheets. Normally, the ice should be too strong for this to happen.
"We also observed that melt pond formation on the multiyear ice had continued all the way through the ice, leaving separate chunks of multiyear ice. When the freeze started, a thin layer — only about 5 cm — of first-year ice formed across the surface, and the combination was mistaken by the radar for multiyear ice." This means that some of the data on the extent of multiyear ice are misleading.
On a streetcar named denial, aka WattsUpWithThat, two people scour the world for databases that they can misinterpret and mislead their readers with (see Arctic death spiral: Naval Postgrad School's Maslowski "projects ice-free* fall by 2016 (+/- 3 yrs)"). In the last month they've written:
"The death spiral continues, with Arctic ice extent and thickness nearly identical to what it was 10 years ago." (5/31)
"Over the last three years, Arctic Ice has gained significantly in thickness…. Conclusion : Should we expect a nice recovery this summer due to the thicker ice? You bet ya." (6/2)
"Arctic Basin ice generally looks healthier than 20 years ago." (6/23)
Arctic Basin ice generally looks healthier than 20 years ago the same way that my hair generally looks healthier than 20 years ago, what's left of it, that is.
To paraphrase Tennessee Williams, WattsUpWithThat has always relied on the blindness of strangers.


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The Phillies re-signed free agent utility player Michael Martinez on Friday. Or they didn't. If there is one thing that we are certain of, it's that the utility player may or may not currently be under a contract with the organization. The confusion unfolded on Friday morning, when conflicting reports emerged regarding the apparent first move of the organization following the 2013 season.
Initially, MLB Daily Dish reported on Thursday evening that the 31-year-old was re-signed to a minor league deal with the Phillies, only a few days after electing free agency. The reaction from the fans was one of anger and disgust, and for good reason, as Martinez has been a waste of a roster spot since he was acquired in the Rule V draft from the Washington Nationals prior to the 2010 season.
In three seasons and exactly 162 games with the Phillies, the switch-hitting Martinez has a line of .187/.234/.261, with five homers in 396 at-bats. His OPS+, which measures a player's offensive value relative to the other players in the game (100 is league average), is 35. In 29 games with the Phillies in 2013, he had an OPS of -3 - that's negative three. He was somehow less valuable on offense than a player who never once stepped into the batter's box, which is nothing if not impressive, in a terrible sort of way.
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But Martinez wasn't really brought on board because of his bat (at least, I certainly hope the front office didn't look at his minor league stat line prior to 2010 and decide that they must have this bat in the lineup), but ostensibly because of his versatility on defense. Martinez, for his shortcomings with the bat, can play just about every position on the field. In his tenure with the big club, he's played every position but catcher, first base, and pitcher. There is some value in having a super utility guy on your roster, because defense - as it turns out - is actually pretty important. Even if Martinez wasn't a great defender, at least he gives the Phillies some options late in the game.
Defensive utility aside, he's just not a good player, so there wasn't much reason to have him around, even if it was just on a minor league deal. Especially when there are players in the system who are more deserving of a roster spot. Like Jermaine Mitchell, for instance. The 28-year-old outfielder, who was drafted in the 5th round by the Oakland Athletics in 2006, has never played an inning above AAA. That, despite having a solid OBP in the minors (.376), a bit of power, and good speed. His skill set provides infinitely more value to the Phillies than Martinez's, who wasn't half the player Mitchell was in the minors.
Fast forward to Friday morning, when Phillies beat writer Kevin Cooney tweeted that the Phillies did not re-sign Martinez, and that the earlier report is false, effectively pulling many a fan back from the proverbial ledge. Good thing, too, because if the Phillies really are evolving into an organization that is going to take a more analytical approach to their roster, then they really shouldn't even considering signing someone like Martinez.
So, for now, it appears that Martinez is not back with the Phillies. Or maybe he is. Ruben Amaro has not commented on the matter, but given his history of misdirection, this might just be the world's worst attempt to drive up the value of a player who, by rights, should never see another inning above AAA. You can never really tell with Ruben. At any rate, the Michael Martinez watch is in full effect, which is pretty much exactly how you'd expect this off-season to go for the Phillies.


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Creason Wood beside the river Tavy near Mary Tavy is in a hidden spot and suits those looking for a moorland adventure in a small and secluded wild woodland.
Walking and cycling in the extensive Fingle Woods may lead to a face to face meeting with a herd of charcoal grey fallow deer, before they disappear into the depths of the woods.
You are welcome in all Woodland Trust sites. Look out for special events and volunteering opportunities, particularly at Pullabrook Wood in the Bovey Valley and Fingle Woods near Moretonhampstead.
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
Spanish Rice Casserole-Secret Recipe Club
I hope that everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day, and now it is time for this month's Secret Recipe Club post. I cannot even begin to express how thrilled I was when I received this month's assignment. Miz Helen's Country Cottage is one of my favorite blogs, and she is one of my blogging heroes. I have subscribed to her blog for a number of years. When I saw she was a blogger of a "certain age", I thought maybe, me at my age, could be a blogger, too. She also cooks "down home" comfort food, just the kind I like. Two great features of her blog are her weekly "What's for Dinner Next Week" post and her "Full Plate Thursday" link-up.
I have used many of her recipes such as Spicy Cranberry Coffeecake and Slow Cooker Bar B Que Pork Roast. My printed-out pile of "to try" recipes from her site is at least a half inch high. It was very difficult to choose a recipe for this post as there were so many I wanted to do.
I finally settled on Spanish Rice Casserole for several reasons. I like rice a lot, hubby not so much. He was going to be out of town so I thought that was a chance to make something that only I liked. We were gifted with a beef quarter for Christmas so I have a lot of good ground beef on hand. The recipe made a lot so I could stick some of the casserole in the freezer for future use.
I made three slight changes to the recipe. My ground beef is put up in 1 1/2 lb. packages, so I used that amount instead to the 2 lbs. Miz Helen used. I don't care for green peppers so used red peppers instead. I always have Mexican Blend grated cheese on hand so I used that instead of the cheddar cheese, pepper jack cheese called for in the recipe. I like to put a dollop of sour cream on top of my rice and serve it with corn chips. Next time I make this, I think I will add a small can of green chilies to replace the green color I lost when omitting the green pepper. Boy, was this ever good. I am so glad that I am going to have some of this available in the freezer to take care of my Spanish Rice cravings. This makes lots so would be a great dish to take to a party or potluck. Thanks, Miz Helen for sharing one of your great recipes.
Spanish Rice Casserole
Miz Helen's Country Cottage
2 lbs. ground chunk (I used 1 1/2 lbs.)
1 T. olive oil
1 yellow onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 green pepper, chopped (I used a red one)
1 1/2 t. cumin
1 1/2 t. chili powder
1 t. salt
1 t. pepper
4 c. rice
1 (10 oz.) can tomatoes and green chilies (such as Rotel)
1 (14.5 oz.) can diced tomatoes
1 (15 oz.) can tomato sauce
4 c. chicken broth
1 c. sharp cheddar, shredded
1 c. pepper jack, shredded (I used shredded Mexican Blend cheese for the two cheeses)
Brown ground beef in a heavy, oven-proof Dutch oven. Remove ground beef and drain if necessary. Add olive oil to Dutch oven, heat and add the onion, garlic, and green or red pepper. Cook until the onion is clear. Add the cumin, chili powder, salt and pepper. Stir and cook for about a minute. Add the rice and cook and stir until the rice is just beginning to turn brown. Add the tomatoes, tomatoes and green chilies and tomato sauce. Add the chicken broth, pouring a little of the chicken broth into the tomato sauce can to clean it out before adding to the rice mixture. Return the ground beef to the Dutch oven. Bring the mixture to a boil, lower heat, cover and simmer 15 minutes, stirring several times to keep mixture from sticking to the bottom of the pan. Remove cover and add the cheese to the top of the mixture. Bake in a 350-degree oven for 20 minutes until the cheese is melted and the rice is fully cooked. (Note: because I was going to freeze the Spanish Rice, I did not add the cheese before baking. I covered the mixture and will add cheese to the individual servings as I heat them.) There wasn't an amount of servings listed, but I am guessing this will serve at least 10-12.
To freeze individual servings of this recipe I put 1 1/2 cups of the casserole into zip-top sandwich bags and flattened them out. I placed them flat on a jelly-roll pan to freeze so I could stack the bags inside a gallon freezer bag and stack them in the freezer to save space.
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Hi Loy,ReplyDelete
Wow, I was so excited to see that you got my blog this month and so happy that you like the Spanish Rice Casserole, it looks good, I could eat some right now. I certainly consider you among my long time blogging friends and thanks so much for your kind words. It is fun cooking with you in the SRC!
Miz Helen
What a delicious looking dish! Sounds perfect and I like knowing that it will freeze well.ReplyDelete
It sounds lovely. My husband isn't keen on ground beef so this is also the type of recipe I'd also make when he's not around and then freeze someReplyDelete
This looks absolutely delicious, Loy!ReplyDelete
This looks like comfort food! YUM! I love all of Miz Helen's dishes...I'd say you made a wonderful choice. How nice you got to enjoy it all yourself too. =) Take good care...ReplyDelete
Oh my. this looks amazing! I need to try this immediately if not sooner.ReplyDelete
This looks so good. I am a big fan of casseroles and this has the makings of a fabulous one.ReplyDelete
This looks great! I like that it freezes well so even if not everyone in the family eats the recipe, it can still be enjoyed by those who do!ReplyDelete
This looks SO delicious. Can't wait to try it! Thanks for sharing with the SRC.ReplyDelete
I love to read your comments and suggestions. Hope that you enjoyed your visit to Grandma Loy"s Kitchen.


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Graphics developers like Nvidia face a conundrum with mobile graphics capabilities; on one hand, they have technology from their PC businesses to put major computing and graphic processing capabilities into a wide range of devices; on the other hand, the power and heat-dissipation requirements for mobile devices impose some severe constraints: nobody is going to want to use a tablet device with fabulous graphics that's too hot to hold and burns through is battery in half an hour. For now, graphics developers are focussing on spreading graphics duties across a number of lower-power processing cores, hoping to get more work done in each clock cycle while retaining lower power requirements.
Nvidia hasn't announced when Kal-El chips will be available for device manufacturers—emphasizing the demo was produced using a pre-production device—although industry reports have Kal-El devices hitting the market in time for the end-of-year holiday buying season. Nvidia also promises production versions of Kal-El will be significantly faster than the current demo.
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1. Reaper DAW. DAW = Digital Audio Workstation. ($60.00)
2. Shure SM57 or 58. Dynamic Microphone. 5 star rating with 65 reviews. ($99.00)
3. Focusrite Scarlett Solo USB Audio Interface/Preamp. 4.5 star rating will 11 reviews. ($99.00) OR Alesis Multimix USB Fx Mixer. 4 star rating with 12 reviews. ($87.00)
4. On-Stage Stands MS7201B Round Base Microphone Stand. 4 star rating with 16 reviews. ($23.95)
5. AKG K92 Closed-back Monitor Headphones. 5 star rating with 6 reviews. ($59.99)
6. Tascam DR-40 Digital Recorder. 4.5 star rating with 46 reviews. Optional. ($179.99)
This is my latest audio book. Realism in the Caribbean: Studies in World Art, Book 66.


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When I moved into my Brooklyn Brownstone 10 years ago, the Tappan stove was 7 years old and in decent working order. Now that I've tested recipes for 18 cookbooks on it (that would be over a thousand recipes), the poor thing is a wreck. The knobs are all melted, the electric igniters have burnt out, and let's not talk about the patina of burnt-on food that will no go away no matter how much noxious Easy-Off I douse it with.
Although I've gotten pretty well used to using a butane lighter every time I want a cup of tea, it was my cousin who finally set me straight. She whispered, horrified, to my husband the last time she visited "how can Melissa work out of a kitchen like that?"
So it's time to invest in some new equipment, the first of which will be the stove. So I'm asking you, my foodie community, for some help. We want to buy a nice, spiffy new stove with at least one high-out output burner. We can't afford a fantastic semi-professional model (like the $7,000 Blue Star) with our moderate budget, but was hoping for at least something nifty looking aside from being powerful. So who out there loves their stoves? And why? I'd be ever so grateful for some personal recommendations.
I'll be posting about the renovation as we go, including the cabinets (Ikea?), a new countertop (marble?), and then we've got to do something about the sagging floor.
I thank you. And my poor kitchen does too.


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The Condusiv blog shares insight into the issues surrounding system and application
performance—and how I/O optimization software is breaking new ground in solving
those issues.
Need to get back to a previous version of a Microsoft Office file before the changes you just made? Undelete has you covered with its Versioning feature.
Have you or your users ever made some changes to a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or a PowerPoint presentation, saved it and then realized later that what was saved did not contain the previous work? For example, and a true story, a CEO was working on a PowerPoint file he needed for a Board of Directors presentation that afternoon. He had worked about 4 hours that morning making changes and he was careful to periodically save the changes as he worked. The trouble was the last changes he saved had a large part of his previous changes accidentally overwritten. The CEO then panicked as he just lost a majority of the 4 hours of work he just put in and was not sure he could redo it in time for his presentation deadline. He immediately called up his IT Manager who indicated the nightly backups would not help as they would not contain any of the changes he made that morning. The IT Manager then remembered he had Undelete installed on this file server. This was mainly to recover accidentally deleted files, but he recalled a Versioning feature that would allow recovery of previous versions of Microsoft Office files. He was then able use Undelete to retrieve the previous version of the CEO's PowerPoint presentation and recover the work he did that morning. The CEO was extremely happy, and the IT Manager was a 'hero' to the CEO!
Another very common scenario is users making edits to original files and then selecting "Save" instead of "Save As" and then the original files are now gone. As an example, a customer had a budget file in Excel and several people had accessed it throughout the day. At some point, someone had inadvertently made multiple changes to it for his department, including deleting sections that were not relevant to his department all the while thinking he was working in his own Save-As copy. Boy, were the other department heads upset! The way our IT Admin customer tells the story it sounded like a riot was about to erupt! Well, he swoops in just in time and recovers the earlier version in minutes and saves the day. We hear stories daily about Word document overwrites that IT Admins are able to recover the previous versions of in just a few minutes, saving users hours of having to recreate their work.
While the most popular functionality of Undelete is the ability to recover accidentally deleted files instantly with the click of a mouse, the Undelete Versioning feature is certainly the runner up, so we wanted to remind users, or prospective users, that it's also here to save the day for you, too.
The Undelete Versioning feature will automatically save the previous versions of specific file types, including Microsoft Office files. The default is to save the last 5 versions, but this is settable. Undelete then allows you to see what and when versions were saved and are then easily recoverable. A vital data protection feature to have.
If you already have Undelete Server installed on your file servers, check out the Versioning feature. If you have any of your own "hero" stories you would like to share, email email@example.com
If you don't have Undelete Server or Undelete Pro yet, you can purchase them from your favorite online reseller or you can buy online from our store http://www.condusiv.com/purchase/Undelete/
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You might be responsible for a busy SQL server, for example, or a Web Server; perhaps a busy file and print server, the Finance Department's systems, documentation management, CRM, BI, or something else entirely.
Were YOU responsible for installing the application running the workload for your company? Is the workload being run business critical, or considered TOO BIG TO FAIL?
If the last question made you wince, because you know that YOU are responsible for some of the workloads running in your organisation that would benefit from additional performance, please read on. This article is just for you, even if you don't consider yourself a "Techie".
Before we get started, you should know that there are many variables that can affect the performance of the applications that you care about the most. The slowest, most restrictive of these is referred to as the "Bottleneck". Think of water being poured from a bottle. The water can only flow as fast as the neck of the bottle, the 'slowest' part of the bottle.
Don't worry though, in a computer the bottleneck will pretty much always fit into one of the following categories:
The good news is that if you're running Windows, it is usually very easy to find out which one the bottleneck is in, and here is how to do it (like an IT Engineer):
• Open Resource Monitor by clicking the Start menu, typing "resource monitor", and pressing Enter. Microsoft includes this as part of the Windows operating system and it is already installed.
• Do you see the graphs in the right-hand pane? When your computer is running at peak load, or users are complaining about performance, which of the graphs are 'maxing out'?
This is a great indicator of where your workload's bottleneck is to be found.
SO, now you have identified the slowest part of your 'compute environment' (continue reading for more details), what can you do to improve it?
The traditional approach to solving computer performance issues has been to throw hardware at the solution. This could be treating yourself to a new laptop, or putting more RAM into your workstation, or on the more extreme end, buying new servers or expensive storage solutions.
BUT, how do you know when it is appropriate to spend money on new or additional hardware, and when it isn't. Well the answer is; 'when you can get the performance that you need', with the existing hardware infrastructure that you have already bought and paid for. You wouldn't replace your car, just because it needed a service, would you?
Let's take disk speed as an example. Let's take a look at the response time column in Resource Monitor. Make sure you open the monitor to full screen or large enough to see the data. Then open the Disk Activity section so you can see the Response Time column. Do it now on the computer you're using to read this. (You didn't close Resource Monitor yet, did you?) This is showing the Disk Response Time, or put another way, how long is the storage taking to read and write data? Of course, slower disk speed = slower performance, but what is considered good disk speed and bad?
To answer that question, I will refer to a great blog post by Scott Lowe, that you can read here...
In it, the author perfectly describes what to expect from faster and slower Disk Response Times:
"Response Time (ms). Disk response time in milliseconds. For this metric, a lower number is definitely better; in general, anything less than 10 ms is considered good performance. If you occasionally go beyond 10 ms, you should be okay, but if the system is consistently waiting more than 20 ms for response from the storage, then you may have a problem that needs attention, and it's likely that users will notice performance degradation. At 50 ms and greater, the problem is serious."
Hopefully when you checked on your computer, the Disk Response Time is below 20 milliseconds. BUT, what about those other workloads that you were thinking about earlier. What's the Disk Response Times on that busy SQL server, the CRM or BI platform, or those Windows servers that the users complain about?
If the Disk Response Times are often higher than 20 milliseconds, and you need to improve the performance, then it's choice time and there are basically two options:
• In my opinion as an IT Engineer, the most sensible option is to use storage workload reduction software like Diskeeper for physical Windows computers, or V-locity for virtualised Windows computers. These will reduce Disk Storage Times by allowing a good percentage of the data that your applications need to read, to come from a RAM cache, rather than slower disk storage. This works because RAM is much faster than the media in your disk storage. Best of all, the only thing you need to do to try it, is download a free copy of the 30 day trial. You don't even have to reboot the computer; just check and see if it is able to bring the Disk Response Times down for the workloads that you care about the most.
• If you have tried the Diskeeper or V-locity software, and you STILL need faster disk access, then, I'm afraid, it's time to start getting quotations for new hardware. It does make sense though, to take a couple of minutes to install Diskeeper or V-locity first, to see if this step can be avoided. The software solution to remove storage inefficiencies is typically a much more cost-effective solution than having to buy hardware!
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Let me start by stating two facts – facts that I will substantiate if you continue to the end.
Fact #1 - Windows suffers from severe write inefficiencies that dampen overall performance. The holy grail question as to how severe is answered below.
Fact #2, Windows is still Windows whether running in the cloud, on hyperconverged systems, all-flash storage, or all three. Before you jump to the real-world examples below, let me first explain why.
No matter where you run Windows and no matter what kind of storage environment you run Windows on, Windows still penalizes optimal performance due to severe write inefficiencies in the hand-off of data to storage. Files are always broken down to be excessively smaller than they need to be. Since each piece means a dedicated I/O operation to process as a write or read, this means an enormous amount of noisy, unnecessary I/O traffic is chewing up precious IOPS, eroding throughput, and causing everything to run slower despite how many IOPS are at your disposal.
How much slower?
Now that the latest version of our I/O reduction software is being run across tens of thousands of servers and hundreds of thousands of PCs, we can empirically point out that no matter what kind of environment Windows is running on, there is always 30-40% of I/O traffic that is nothing but mere noise stealing resources and robbing optimal performance.
Yes, there are edge cases in which the inefficiency is as little as 10% but also other edge cases where the inefficiency is upwards of 70%. That being said, the median range is solidly in the 30-40% range and it has absolutely nothing to do with the backend media whether spindle, flash, hybrid, hyperconverged, cloud, or local storage.
Even if running Windows on an all-flash hyperconverged system, SAN or cloud environment with low latency and high IOPS, if the I/O profile isn't addressed by our I/O reduction software to ensure large, clean, contiguous writes and reads, then 30-40% more IOPS will always be required for any given workload, which adds up to unnecessarily giving away 30-40% of the IOPS you paid for while slowing the completion of every job and query by the same amount.
So what's going on here? Why is this happening and how?
First of all, the behavior of Windows when it comes to processing write and read input/output (I/O) operations is identical despite the storage backend whether local or network or media despite spindles or flash. This is because Windows only ever sees a virtual disk - the logical disk within the file system itself. The OS is abstracted from the physical layer entirely. Windows doesn't know and doesn't care if the underlying storage is a local disk or SSD, an array full of SSDs, hyperconverged, or cloud. In the mind of the OS, the logical disk IS the physical disk when, in fact, it's just a reference architecture. In the case of enterprise storage, the underlying storage controllers manage where the data physically lives. However, no storage device can dictate to Windows how to write (and subsequently read) in the most efficient manner possible.
This is why many enterprise storage controllers have their own proprietary algorithms to "clean up" the mess Windows gives it by either buffering or coalescing files on a dedicated SSD or NVRAM tier or physically move pieces of the same file to line up sequentially, which does nothing for the first penalized write nor several penalized reads after as the algorithm first needs to identify a continued pattern before moving blocks. As much as storage controller optimization helps, it's a far cry from an actual solution because it doesn't solve the source of the larger root cause problem - even with backend storage controller optimizations, Windows will still make the underlying server to storage architecture execute many more I/O operations than are required to write and subsequently read a file, and every extra I/O required takes a measure of time in the same way that four partially loaded dump trucks will take longer to deliver the full load versus one fully loaded dump truck. It bears repeating - no storage device can dictate to Windows how to best write and read files for the healthiest I/O profile that delivers optimum performance because only Windows controls how files are written to the logical disk. And that singular action is what determines the I/O density (or lack of) from server to storage.
The reason this is occurring is because there are no APIs that exist between the Windows OS and underlying storage system whereby free space at the logical layer can be intelligently synced and consolidated with the physical layer without change block movement that would otherwise wear out SSDs and trigger copy-on-write activity that would blow up storage services like replication, thin provisioning, and more.
This means Windows has no choice but to choose the next available allocation at the logical disk layer within the file systems itself instead of choosing the BEST allocation to write and subsequently read a file.
The problem is that the next available allocation is only ever the right size on day 1 on a freshly formatted NTFS volume. But as time goes on and files are written and erased and re-written and extended and many temporary files are quickly created and erased, that means the next available space is never the right size. So, when Windows is trying to write a 1MB file but the next available allocation at the logical disk layer is 4K, it will fill that 4K, split the file, generate another I/O operation, look for the next available allocation, fill, split, and rinse and repeat until the file is fully written, and your I/O profile is cluttered with split I/Os. The result is an I/O degradation of excessively small writes and reads that penalizes performance with a "death by a thousand cuts" scenario.
It's for this reason, over 2,500 small, midsized, and large enterprises have deployed our I/O reduction software to eliminate all that noisy I/O robbing performance by addressing the root cause problem. Since Condusiv software sits at the storage driver level, our purview is able to supply patented intelligence to the Windows OS, enabling it to choose the BEST allocation for any file instead of the next available, which is never the right size. This ensures the healthiest I/O profile possible for maximum storage performance on every write and read. Above and beyond that benefit, our DRAM read caching engine (the same engine OEM'd by 9 of the top 10 PC manufacturers), eliminates hot reads from traversing the full stack from storage by serving it straight from idle, available DRAM. Customers who add anywhere to 4GB-16GB of memory to key systems with a read bias to get more from that engine, will offload 50-80% of all reads from storage, saving even more precious storage IOPS while serving from DRAM which is 15X faster than SSD. Those who need the most performance possible or simply need to free up more storage IOPS will max our 128GB threshold and offload 90-99% of reads from storage.
Let's look at some real-world examples from customers.
Here is VDI in AWS shared by Curt Hapner (CIO, Altenloh Brinck & Co.). 63% of read traffic is being offloaded from underlying storage and 33% of write I/O operations. He was getting sluggish VDI performance, so he bumped up memory slightly on all instances to get more power from our software and the sluggishness disappeared.
Here is an Epicor ERP with SQL backend in AWS from Altenloh Brinck & Co. 39% of reads are being eliminated along with 44% of writes to boost the performance and efficiency of their most mission critical system.
Here's from one of the largest federal branches in Washington running Windows servers on an all-flash Nutanix. 45% of reads are being offloaded and 38% of write traffic.
Here is a spreadsheet compilation of different systems from one of the largest hospitality and event companies in Europe who run their workloads in Azure. The extraction of the dashboard data into the CSV shows not just the percentage of read and write traffic offloaded from storage but how much I/O capacity our software is handing back to their Azure instances.
To illustrate we use the software here at Condusiv on our own systems, this dashboard screenshot is from our own Chief Architect (Rick Cadruvi), who uses Diskeeper on his SSD-powered PC. You can see him share his own production data in the recent "live demo" webinar on V-locity 7.0 - https://youtu.be/Zn2QGxBHUzs
As you can see, 50% of reads are offloaded from his local SSD while 42% of writes operations have been saved by displacing small, fractured files with large, clean contiguous files. Not only is that extending the life of his SSD by reducing write amplification, but he has saved over 6 days of I/O time in the last month.
Finally, regarding all-flash SAN storage systems, the full data is in this case study with the University of Illinois who used Condusiv I/O reduction software to more than double the performance of SQL and Oracle sitting on their all-flash arrays: http://learn.condusiv.com/rs/246-QKS-770/images/CS_University-Illinois.pdf?utm_campaign=CS_UnivIll_Case_Study
For a free trial, visit http://learn.condusiv.com/Try-V-locity.html. For best results, bump up memory on key systems if you can and make sure to install the software on all the VMs on the same host. If you have more than 10 VMs, you may want to Contact Us for SE assistance in spinning up our centralized management console to push everything at once – a 20-min exercise and no reboot required.
Please visit www.condusiv.com/v-locity for more than 20 case studies on how our I/O reduction software doubled the performance of mission critical applications like MS-SQL for customers of various environments.
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Image courtesy of David Tanner, MSSI and Philip Watson, IComp
The 3D image above shows individual 'splats' of aluminium coating applied to an epoxy/carbon fibre composite surface by plasma spraying. The composite was preheated before spraying but received no other pre-treatment. When viewed with anaglyph 3D glasses, it can be seen from the image that the splats do not wet the surface well, which would result in poor bonding and low wear resistance for a continuous coating. Here, aluminium was used as a 'model' coating because its behaviour in plasma deposition processes is well understood.
A collaborative project between the Irish Centre for Composites Research and Materials & Surface Science Institute at the University of Limerick and the CNRS Ceramics Processing and Surface Treatment Laboratory (based at the University of Limoges is to develop a method of applying wear-resistant ceramic-metallic ('cermet') coatings to an aerospace-grade epoxy/carbon fibre polymer composite material has won the ANORAA 2013 trophy.
Awarded by the National Association of Reserve Officers of the French Air Force, the trophy recognises a specific research project associated with a French engineering school that develops innovative applications which will be of benefit to the aerospace sector.
The aerospace industry is rapidly moving towards composite materials for manufacture of structural components to save weight in next generation aircraft - such as the Airbus A350, Boeing 787 and Bombardier C-Series – to reduce fuel consumption, operating costs and environmental impact. However, composites are not durable enough be used on components subject to severe wear, such as the leading edges of aircraft wings, engine nacelles or fan blades.
The key challenge in this project is to develop a coating method that achieves good adhesion between the cermet and composite. Otherwise the coating will not bond sufficiently when applied to composite parts and will not resist wear and abrasion. Cermets and polymer composite surfaces are not inherently chemically compatible, as shown in the accompanying 3D image.
In addition to the potential to apply the project's outcomes both for prevention of erosion and for resistance to high temperatures, the project also received a very positive assessment from the ANORRA jury for its international collaborative aspects and the concern for environmental issues.
The project was funded under the Ulysses 2012 programme, managed by the Irish Research Council and the French embassy in Ireland and Campus France, the French exchange agency.
The project team are:
University of Limerick
Gordon Armstrong, Research Fellow (Principal Investigator)
David Tanner, Lecturer
Philip Watson, Research Assistant
Anne Le Fahler, Undergraduate Internship (ENSIL Limoges)
Charlotte Parotin, Undergraduate Internship (ENSIL Limoges)
Benoit Noel, Undergraduate Internship (Polytech Montpellier)
Trevor Young, Senior Lecturer
University of Limoges
Armelle Vardelle, Professor (Principal Investigator)
Jeremie Diboine, Masters student
Christelle Dublanche-Tixier, Professor
Simon Goutier, Associate Professor
Sandrine Lafont, Associate Professor
Michel Vardelle, Professor
Axelle Elrikh, PhD student (from 1st October


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See video review of McClamp at ephotozine
Ferrell's book HDR Photography
The McClamp is capable of holding items for photography in the laboratory or in the field. Table top photography is made easy with the flexible arm and firm jaws. Two McClamps can be used for holding two related objects at the correct distance and angle for the optimum lighting.
The weight that the McClamp is able to support is dependent on the length and position of the flexible arm. As a matter of physics, the McClamp will want to flex mostly within the first few segments of the mount clamp. To achieve optimal performance use gradual bends with distribution of weight along many joints. Orienting the weight over the mount clamp, spiraling the flexible arm and "touching" the table is also helpful.
Scissors weighing 13oz are held behind a magnifying glass for photographing the fingerprint.
McClamps holding ALS (alternative light source) and card with fingerprint.
When photographing fingerprints, position of item and lighting is critical. Second clamp can be used to hold a reflector or mirror.
Photos by Alex Jason, SCSA, CFPH, demonstrating the use of the McClamp. His website is www.alexanderjason.com
Todd Thorne, Criminalist, City Of Kenosha Police Dept. sent us this image. It shows a bloody fingerprint on the spray can. The spray can is balanced on the handles of the micro clamp.
Image courtesy of FujiFilm, copyright, 2006.
FujiFilm helps fight crime with new Finepix S3 Pro UVIR digital SLR. New specialized camera, photographs in the Ultraviolet and Infrared light spectrums, helps forensic photographers uncover evidence. FujiFilm uses the McClamps in their advertising photo.
Lipstick on the Parliament cigarette matches lipstick from the dispenser labeled: 843 Toasted Almond.
Hard plastic outside jaws for holding firm subjects.
Soft neoprene interior jaws hold delicate subjects and provide a non-slip surface.
A clamp can be used to prop up and position larger, heavier objects for the best photographic angle.
Broken bottle shows fragment matching bottle.
Coaxial Lighting Setup
Used for photographing into cylinders. Two clamps, one to hold glass and other to hold subject, caulk tube.
View into bottom of illuminated caulk tube. Depth into tube 7", Shooting data: F22, 3 seconds, focal length 180mm, +1 exposure.
Two clamps work well together holding heavier objects. This allows for greater stability and makes it easier to move the item into several positions. Item #3301 and Item #3303 shown.
Please note that the 1" holding clamp (item #3303) is gripping the stock of the gun. Although we needed a larger clamp for this, we still used 2 clamps together to hold the heavy gun.We recommend using item #3303 to hold Bigger, Not Heavier Objects!
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