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And so this started today with a Twitter post. If you know it or not I am a big enthusiast of trying to install ESX on all kinds of hardware - especially Whiteboxes that are not on the HCL. I have tested it on a number of HP, Dell and IBM desktops. The great thing about this is - it mostly works, it is completely not supported, but a lot of fun to do. But to lug around with a desktop to present demos, is not always the most convenient thing in the world - to put it mildly.
What-if (or as you would say it in Powershell -whatif) you could create a system, that has a full demonstration environment of multiple VM's - and all of this on your LAPTOP!
So I looked around on the Web and found a few mentions of people who have done this. What kind of problems they ran into and what was possible or not. The consensus is to Install a Base OS, Workstation on top of that, ESX as a VM, and then VM's onto that ESX VM. The consensus about this as well was "IT IS AS SLOW AS A TORTISE!". ESX on bare metal should be much much faster,
So my adventure started with this:
The laptop:
Started out in the BIOS, enabled Intel VT
SATA was set as AHCI
And off we go
Install Screen
Recognizes the Disk
And 4 minutes later
All hardware detected out of the box - Network card included
Next was to connect to the laptop with the VI client.
Now all I have to do is find out why I cannot power on a machine. Every time I started a VM the laptop froze - completely! Hard reboot and the machine came back up OK but the VM was no longer registered.
Have to look into that furtherHope you enjoyed the ride.
Yes disconnected environments do exist! I mean completely and totally disconnected.
Well I had one of those today. My customer has a network which is completely and physically disconnected from the corporate LAN and therefore also not connected to the internet. This because of the nature of the information that is on this secluded network, that no option for anything to go in or out over the wire.
All fine an Dandy! Installed an new ESX4i machine there today. I then wanted to install the new VI client on the users PC. Pretty straight forward - or so you would think..
Opened up the web browser and pointed it to https://ESX-HOST/client/VMware-viclient.exe and ran the exe file.
Next -> Next -> Next -> skipped the host Update utility, Waited, waited, waited
and then ………… BOINK!!!!
Installation failed …….. returned error code 1603. And of course no Vi client.
Hmmm. Maybe something was wrong with the .net Framework on the machine - checked it and all seemed to be kosher.
Tried the installation again, and guess what? Same story! Tried it on another machine - you guessed right - Same story!
I love a challenge and solving puzzles - so this was one for me :)
I unpacked the VMware-viclient.exe and received this
So you would think that the package has all the goodies it needs in order to install. Nope..
Looking into the netfx.log which was located in the %TEMP% directory i noticed that during the installation of the .Net Framework - the Installation was looking for some file on the internet and in a local path. Internet of course would not work here - remember? Disconnected network! - and local path did not have the file either.
Looked again at the folder sizes - 2.4MB seems a bit small don't you think? Microsoft offers Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 available here - but again 2.4MB in size. So I gathered I need the redistributable package (which should include all that I need) - again Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package here (this time a 50MB file). Got both files, moved them to my USB key, and tried the installation of .Net Framework - and guess what?
Exactly the same story!!! failed installation - looking in the logs I still see that it still wanted something from the internet.
Got fed up with this and downloaded the redistributable package of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 from here (this time a full package of 230MB), and moved it also onto my USB key.
Fired up the installer - click click - next next, and went to get my self a cup of water (sorry don't like coffee)
5 minutes (or so) later .Net was installed.
Started the VMware-viclient.exe.
Next -> Next -> Next -> skipped the host Update utility, waited, and then ………… it went onto the next stage of installing the Visual J# 2.0 and then waited, waited, waited and it completed the installation!!(which makes me very happy :) )
Lessons learned from this episode:
Hope you enjoyed the ride!
Well ok.. This could be taken the wrong way (and all of your with the dirty minds should be ashamed of yourselves - ha ha). On one of my previous posts - How Much Ram per Host - a.k.a Lego - I gave a hypothetical scenario of 40 1 vCPU VM's on a single host as opposed to 80 VM's on one host. There was one thing I neglected to mention, and because of a issue with a client this week, I feel it is important to point out.
CPU Contention. For those of you who do not know what the issue is about, a brief explanation. If you have too many VM's competing for CPU resources to work, then your VM's will stop behaving and start to crawl.
So here was the story - a client called me with an issue, all his VM's had started to crawl - EVERYTHING was running slowly!
Troubleshooting walkthrough:
14:21:34 up 2 days, 20:57, 1 user, load average: 1.06, 0.92, 0.75
286 processes: 284 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 0.9% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 45.8% 94.1%
Mem: 268548k av, 256560k used, 11988k free, 0k shrd, 21432k buff
189028k actv, 29240k in_d, 3232k in_c
Swap: 1638620k av, 251022k used, 1541988k free 74068k cached
If you notice on the last line
Swap: 1638620k av, 251022k used, 1541988k free 74068k cached
Why was it swapping - that is not normal. Quick check on the Vi Client how much RAM was allocated,
So there was only 272 (default) allocated, someone had done the proper work of creating the SWAP of 1600MB (double the max. of 800) - well done! - but had not restarted the host! So effectively the host was still set for 272. Now of course the load on the machine high enough causing the host to run out of RAM. anything that was done on the host was working slowly
Vmotioned the VM's off and restarted the host which cam back with the full amount this time
Swap: 1638588k av, 0k used, 1638588k free 155924k cached
Ahh much better - no more swapping. Vmotioned the machines back, and at a certain stage all VM's started to crawl again.
Looked into top again
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 0.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.9% 38.9% 59.6%
Whoa! that is also extremely high!
There were something like 10 VM's with $RDY times of over 10% constantly.
Here you have a perfect case of CPU contention. The host is a Dual Quad x5320. Machine was running 44 VM's
Ratio of vm's per core is high - but achievable. I then looked to to see what the amount of vCPU's there were on the host, approximately 10 vm's had 2 or more vCPU's.
This brought the ratio of vCPU's per core to 6.75 vCPU's per core. And this is what was killing the host.
Even though the ratio of vm:core was 5.5:1 the vCPU:core ratio was much higher and therefore causing the contention throughout the server.
Of course the client did not understand why all of these VM's should not be configured with anything less than 2 vCPU's - "because that is what you get with any desktop computer.."
It took an incident like this for the client to understand that there is no reason to configure the machine with more than 1 vCPU unless it really needs (and knows how) to use it.
We bought all the machines back down to 1 vCPU and
128 128 RPM_Tester_Arie 5 4.70 4.70 0.03 487.45 7.35
108 108 STBinteg3 5 1.68 1.70 0.00 495.00 2.78
112 112 STBinteg2 5 11.20 11.25 0.00 485.50 2.74
And all was back to normal!
Lessons learned from this episode:
Invaluable resources for troubleshooting performance:
Checking for resource starvation of the ESX Server service console
CPU Performance Analysis and Monitoring
Hope you enjoyed the ride..
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One of the little known features but, at least I think so, the coolest gems in the last few versions of VMware Workstation is Unity Mode.
Access applications within virtual machines as if they were part of the host operating system desktop with "Unity" view
Two perfect use cases:
A short demo about Unity
And yeah yeah, I know. Time to change the Messenger client, I hear ya!
I was invited (amongst a good number of others that were in the Beta) to sit the Beta Exam. I have decided not to take the opportunity. Only two days left by the way.
Why you should?
Why you should not?
Personally none of the cons mentioned above were the reason for my decision. I will not be taking it because the only VUE testing center in Israel that I could schedule the exam was, available only on one date, three hours drive away from where I live/work, and the slot was at 08.30 in the morning. So I will pass. Pity, but when the exam becomes available, I will definitely book a more suitable slot.
Thank you VMware anyway, for giving me the opportunity though.
I was waiting for these to come in they have arrived, and I think that you all could benefit from these presentations.
vSphere, What's New? - Technical Overview - Ofir Zamir (Team Leader SEs, VMware Israel)
vSphere Upgrade and Best Practices - Ben Hagai (VMUG Leader) and Yaniv Weinberg (
Senior Consultant at VMware)
Good presentation from all three of them. Enjoy!
I started to read the sample chapters that Scott Lowe released from his upcoming book, and one of the parts were about the subject of scaling up vs. scaling out.
A slight bit more of an explanation as to what I mean by this. Should I buy bigger more monstrous servers, or a greater number of smaller servers?
Let us take a sample case study. We have an environment that has sized the following:
On this hardware an organization has sized their server's capacity as:
The estimate of 40 Virtual Machines per host is pretty conservative, but for arguments sake let's say that is the requirements that came from the client. The projected amount of VM's - up to 200.
Which hardware should be used to to host these virtual machines? I am not talking about if it should be a Blade or a Rack mount, and also not which Vendor, IBM,HP,Dell or other.I am talking about more about what should go into the hardware for each server. And in particular for this post what would be the best amount of RAM per server.
From my experience of my current environment that I manage, the bottleneck we hit first is always RAM. Our servers are performing at 60%-70% utilization of RAM, but only 30%-40% CPU utilization per server. And from what I have been hearing from the virtualization community - the feeling is generally the same. I wanted to compare what would be the optimal configuration for a server. Each server was a 2U IBM x3650 with 2 72GB Hard disks (for ESX OS), 2 Power supply's, 2 Intel PRO/1000T Dual NIC adapters. Shared Storage is the same for both Servers, so that is not something that I take into the equation here.The only difference between them was the amount of RAM in the servers.All the prices and part numbers are up to date from IBM, done with a tool called the
IBM Standalone Solutions Configuration Tool (SSCT). The tool is updated once/twice a month and is extremely useful in configuring and pricing my servers.
Now the first thing that hit me was - the sheer amount of difference in Server price. I mean I added 100% more RAM to the server, but the price of the server went up by almost 300%. That is because the 8GB chips are so expensive. Now I took building blocks of 40 VM's. To each block I added an ESX Ent. Plus License - an additional cost of $7,000. I assumed that vCenter was already in place, so this was not a factor in my calculations.The table below compares the two servers in blocks of 40 VM's.
Now you can always claim that a server with 80 VM's use a lot more CPU than a server with only 40. But you were paying attention the beginning of the post, the load on a server with 40 VM's was going to be 30-40%, and therefore doubling it would bring the load up to 60-80%. which was well in acceptable limits. As you can see from the table above - the 128GB server came out cheaper on every level that could be compared to the 64GB server. Now of course I am not mentioning the savings in the reduction of the Physical Hardware, rack space, electricity, cooling - we all know the benefits.
So what did I learn from this exercise?
Now of course you can project this kind of calculation on any kind of configuration be it difference in RAM, HBA's, NIC's etc.
Your thoughts and comments are always welcome.
In the current series of posts I am writing on running a vSphere lab on ESX 1 2 and 3, I wanted to set up an NFS shared storage between my 2 ESX hosts to test vMotion.
I ran into an interesting issue which I could hardly find any mention of on the web.
We all know that there are countless amount of posts about vMotion failing at 10% or failing at 90% but not anything about 78%. Well I hate to be picky, but this one was baffling me a bit. I found only only mention of this on the communities, but nothing else.
A bit more detail. I had connected two ESX hosts to an NFS share from Openfiler. There was no problem at all. Both hosts saw the storage. Created machines without any issues on both hosts. Only vMotion would fail – with a very ambiguous error.
Every single time at 78%. At first I though it was because Promiscuous mode was not enabled on the NIC and on the vSwitch, so I changed that to enabled
Did not help.
I tried to get information of of the VMware.log file of the VM, but the only things I could see were these:
Jun 30 13:34:04.615: vmx| Running VMware ESX in a virtual machine or with some other virtualization products is not supported and may result in unpredictable behavior. Do you want to continue?---------------------------------------
So maybe that was the issue? I asked hany_michael and the_crooked_toe if they had any issues with vMotion like this but they did not, even though running a similar environment to mine. This line above was because I was running ESX as a VM, I would get it as well when powering on a VM but it would succeed.
I tried to go through the logs of the VM's and was not getting more information from it either besides that it could not find the file on the new host.
Turned on verbose logging on the vCenter
Did not get much either.
[2009-06-30 13:56:47.886 03756 error 'App'] [MIGRATE] (1246359385573990) error while tracking VMotion progress (RuntimeFault)
Since this was NFS I started to dive into the vmkernel logs of the ESX hosts at /var/log/vmkernel and found this:
Jun 30 12:24:40 esx4-2 vmkernel: 0:12:18:19.207 cpu1:4396)WARNING: Swap: vm 4396: 2457: Failed to open swap file '/volumes/c31eba3f-9dca625f/win2k3/win2k3-4aed76bf.vswp': Not found
Jun 30 13:34:05 esx4-2 vmkernel: 0:13:27:43.732 cpu1:4433)WARNING: VMotion: 3414: 1246358033497547 D: Failed to reopen swap on destination: Not found
Jun 30 13:14:55 esx4-1 vmkernel: 0:14:45:00.526 cpu1:4462)WARNING: Swap: vm 4462: 2457: Failed to open swap file '/volumes/c861a58d-45816333/win2k3_b/win2k3_b-65841149.vswp': Not found
Jun 30 13:14:55 esx4-1 vmkernel: 0:14:45:00.526 cpu1:4462)WARNING: VMotion: 3414: 1246356880465431 D: Failed to reopen swap on destination: Not found
Jun 30 13:14:55 esx4-1 vmkernel: 0:14:45:00.526 cpu1:4462)WARNING: Migrate: 295: 1246356880465431 D: Failed: Not found (0xbad0003)@0x41800da0e0d5
Now why would it not find the swap file? I mean both of the hosts are connected to the same storage.
Or were they??
Look at the log again
ESX4-1 - Failed to open swap file '/volumes/c861a58d-45816333/win2k3/win2k3-4aed76bf.vswp'
ESX4-2 - Failed to open swap file '/volumes/c31eba3f-9dca625f/win2k3/win2k3-4aed76bf.vswp'
See the difference? But how could that be? I remembered that I had run into this issue once before. Let me explain what was happening here. During vMotion the memory state of the VM is transferred from one ESX to the other. In the vmx file of the VM there is a configuration setting as to where the swap is located
sched.swap.derivedName = "/vmfs/volumes/c31eba3f-9dca625f/win2k3/win2k3-4aed76bf.vswp"
When the receiving host is ready to finalize the transfer, it has to take this file to read the swap memory of the VM. This is the only hard-coded path in a VM configuration file, and since the hosts were not seeing the same path, the machine would not migrate.
How did this happen?
When creating the datastores I did one from the GUI,
and one from the command line.
Subtle difference of a / but that is what made all the difference.
I removed the volume from one ESX server, created it again and now the output from both hosts
[root@esx4-1 ~]# ls -la /vmfs/volumes/
total 1028
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Jul 1 16:27 .
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 512 Jun 30 14:16 ..
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1120 Jun 21 12:16 4a3dfa4c-17137398-672b-000c299e8aed
drwxrwsrwx 1 96 96 4096 Jul 1 00:16 c31eba3f-9dca625f
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Jul 1 16:27 Local-ESX4-1 -> 4a3dfa4c-17137398-672b-000c299e8aed
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Jul 1 16:27 nfs_fs1 -> c31eba3f-9dca625f
[root@esx4-2 win2k3]# ls -la /vmfs/volumes/
total 1028
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 512 Jul 1 16:27 .
drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 512 Jun 30 00:07 ..
drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 1120 Jun 21 14:05 4a3e1408-450c30b1-ab94-000c293f26d7
drwxrwsrwx 1 96 96 4096 Jul 1 00:16 c31eba3f-9dca625f
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Jul 1 16:27 Local-ESX4-2 -> 4a3e1408-450c30b1-ab94-000c293f26d7
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17 Jul 1 16:27 nfs_fs1 -> c31eba3f-9dca625f
2 lessons I learned from this.
Hope you enjoyed the ride!


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Newlywed bliss! Liam Hemsworth is enjoying married life. The Isn't It Romantic star phoned into On Air With Ryan Seacrest on Friday, February 8, and dished on tying the knot to fiancée Miley Cyrus just 46 days ago, not that we're counting or anything 😉
"It's going great," Liam gushed to Ryan. "Its a wonderful thing to go through. I'm very fortunate to be with her … and I'm really enjoying all of it and our time together and it's a very special thing to go through with someone."
The couple tied the knot around Christmas this past December in an intimate wedding at home with family and friends in Nashville after dating on and off for almost 10 years. The couple confirmed the news via Instagram , sharing sweet black-and-white photos from their surprise nuptials.
Fast-forward to today and Hemsworth's busy promoting new film Isn't It Romantic , a romantic comedy parody hitting theaters just in time for Valentine's Day. In the film, Hemsworth plays opposite Rebel Wilson , who stars as a woman who hits her head and wakes up only able to see the world through rom-com-colored glasses. The hilarious film also features Adam Devine and Priyanka Chopra .
While Hemsworth is 6'3" and all muscle, he's still a fan of rom-coms. A few of his faves he dished to Ryan include 10 Things I Hate About You, Something About Mary and 50 First Dates !
Listen back to the full interview in the audio above for more and catch Isn't It Romantic out in theaters February 13.

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- Message from the Principal: Brother Eric Ali-- When guiding our children toward proper Islamic character, we must remember that part of being a wise teacher or parent is being kind and gentle with our children. During the time of the Prophet (saw), a Bedouin urinated in the masjid. Immediately the Prophet's companions rushed toward the man to beat him. But the Prophet (saw) told them to leave him alone. After the man finished urinating, the Prophet (saw) told him, "Verily, filth and urine are not permitted in these masjids. Indeed, it is for the remembrance of Allah." The Messenger said to his companions, "I was sent to make things easy, and I was not sent to make things difficult." And he poured a bucket of water over the urine. Even though our children were raised in Islam, eventually they will have to choose to be Muslims. Let's help make the proper decision easy for them.-- Al-Madinah School: 1635 South Saint Andrews Place, Los Angeles, California 90019-- email@example.com (1-323) 296-5961
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A car bomb has gone off in a commercial area of a restive northern Iraqi city, killing at least 10 people, while a separate bombing killed 6 people, officials say.
The explosives-laden parked car targeted a joint Iraqi army and police patrol while it passed through a busy commercial area in Mosul on Sunday, killing five civilians and five security personnel, a police officer said. He added that at least 12 other people were wounded in that blast.
A medical official confirmed the figures. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorised to release information.
Mosul is located about 360km northwest of Baghdad.
Hours earlier, a suicide car bomber drove his vehicle into a security checkpoint in the northern town of Dibis, killing six people and wounding 15 others, police chief Colonel Bestoon Rasheed said. He added that 15 other people were wounded in the attack.
Civilians were among the victims, but a breakdown of the casualties was not immediately available. The town is located near the city of Kirkuk, 290km north of Baghdad.
Violence has escalated in Iraq over the past year, with 2013 seeing the highest death toll since the worst sectarian bloodletting in 2007, according to the United Nations figures. More than 8800 people were killed in violence last year.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suicide bombings and well-coordinated attacks are a hallmark of an al-Qaeda's breakaway branch that operates in Iraq, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Sunni Insurgent groups have escalated attacks across the country since last year in bid to undermine the Shi'ite-led government.
The attacks happened just weeks before parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held on April 30. There will be no voting in parts of the western Anbar province, where security forces are clashing with Islamic militants and fighters who control the provincial capital, Ramadi, and nearly all of the nearby city of Fallujah.


text: Thermoelasticity represents the fusion of the fields of heat conduction and elasticity in solids and is usually characterized by a twofold coupling. Thermally induced stresses can be determined as well as temperature changes caused by deformations. Studying the mutual influence is subject of thermoelasticity. Usually, heat conduction in solids is based on Fourier's law which describes a diffusive process. It predicts unnatural infinite transmission speed for parts of local heat pulses. At room temperature, for example, these parts are strongly damped. Thus, in these cases most engineering applications are described satisfactorily by the classical theory. However, in some situations the predictions according to Fourier's law fail miserable. One of these situations occurs at temperatures near absolute zero, where the phenomenon of second sound1 was discovered in the 20th century. Consequently, non-classical theories experienced great research interest during the recent decades. Throughout this thesis, the expression "non-classical" refers to the fact that the constitutive equation of the heat flux is not based on Fourier's law. Fourier's classical theory hypothesizes that the heat flux is proportional to the temperature gradient. A new thermoelastic theory, on the one hand, needs to be consistent with classical thermoelastodynamics and, on the other hand, needs to describe second sound accurately. Hence, during the second half of the last century the traditional parabolic heat equation was replaced by a hyperbolic one. Its coupling with elasticity leads to non-classical thermomechanics which allows the modeling of second sound, provides a passage to the classical theory and additionally overcomes the paradox of infinite wave speed. Although much effort is put into non-classical theories, the thermoelastodynamic community has not yet agreed on one approach and a systematic research is going on worldwide.Computational methods play an important role for solving thermoelastic problems in engineering sciences. Usually this is due to the complex structure of the equations at hand. This thesis aims at establishing a basic theory and numerical treatment of non-classical thermoelasticity (rather than dealing with special cases). The finite element method is already widely accepted in the field of structural solid mechanics and enjoys a growing significance in thermal analyses. This approach resorts to a finite element method in space as well as in time.


text: While many children are clamoring to hear more from Justin Bieber's Christmas album, one high school used his music to torment older kids into participating in a fundraiser. At Evanston Township High School in Illinois, administrators agreed to blare the song "Baby" over the loudspeaker between classes until the school raised $1,000 for Boocoo, a nearby café-art studio/student hangout. The school was prepared to keep the Bieb's voice ringing through the halls all week, but the students reached their goal by Wednesday.


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A small boy says to his father "Dad, what's the difference between 'theoretically' and 'realistically'?"
His dad thinks and then says "Right son, go and ask your mother if she'd sleep with Lewis Hamilton for a million quid."
The boy toddles off and comes back saying "Dad, dad, she said she would! She would sleep with Lewis Hamilton for a million pounds."
"OK son," says his dad. "Now go and ask your sister the same question."
The boy toddles off, and comes back saying "Dad, dad, she said she would too!"
So then his dad says "Right, son, now go and ask your brother if he'd sleep with Lewis Hamilton for a million pounds."
The son comes back excitedly saying "Dad! Dad! He said he would too!"
"Well there you have it, son," said his dad. "Theoretically we could be sitting on three million quid. Realistically we're living with two tarts and a puff"
F1 Jokes
A look at the less serious side of Formula 1 and the people that make it happen
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A short book probably...
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yeah, short maybe...but it's going to be his year...
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Woah, that takes me back.
The cover photo for his book with the helmet on the floor seems to represent something, but I can't quite decide what. It is something like a bar chart between what DC has achieved as a man, versus what he achieved as a racing driver. He did make a better job of being a racing driver than most ever achieve, but it seems a bit forgotten now and I don't think he would, or should, see that as a bad thing.
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Realistic isn't it
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Warli Art
Warli paintings have gained global recognition for its simplicity and beauty. This is the simplest form of art that uses geometric shapes like circles, triangles and lines.
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Origin: It is said that Warli Art was first discovered in early 70s. While there are no records of the exact origin of this art, its roots may be traced to as early as the 10th century AD. Warli folk paintings are from Maharashtra. Warli is a name of the largest tribe in the northern outskirts of Mumbai, in Western India. The word " Warli" means a piece of land or a field. Art is inspired by nature and depict social life of Warli tribes.
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Style: This art form unlike other Indian art forms do not depict mythological characters or images of deities, but depict social life of the Warli tribe. Warli tribes decorate their hut with Warli painting on walls. The ritual paintings are usually done inside the huts. The circle and triangle are inspiration from nature, the circle representing the sun and the moon, the triangle derived from mountains and pointed trees. Only square seems to be a human invention, indicating a sacred enclosure or a piece of land. Central motive in each ritual Warli painting is the square, known as the "chauk" or "chaukat", mostly of two types: Devchauk and Lagnachauk. Inside a Devchauk, you will find Palaghata, the mother goddess, that symbolizes fertility. Significantly, male gods are not usual among the Warli.
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Process: All the objects in the art are in a geometric shape of triangle, square or circle. Paintings use a very basic graphic vocabulary: a circle, a triangle and a square. Representation of human and animal bodies are done by two triangles joined at the tip; the upper triangle depicts the trunk and the lower triangle the pelvis. The walls are painted with a mixture of branches, earth and cow dung, making a red ocher background for the wall paintings. Warli tribes use only white for their paintings. Their white pigment is basically a mixture of rice paste and water with gum as a binding agent. Bamboo stick chewed at one end is used as a paintbrush.
The image below is a work of the tribal community in Maharashtra and shared by Dokka Srinivasu who blogs over at Heritage Of India.
Now sharing here is an image of wonderful transformation of a place from stark to fabulous. A very beautifully done Warli art that my friend has done on her terrace wall. You can read a complete story about this transformation and can find more images on her wonderful & lovely Facebook page 'Love and Care'. Do let her know your love and care by comments and likes. Don't forget to like her page.
The image below is a work of the tribal community in Maharashtra and shared by Dokka Srinivasu who blogs over at Heritage Of India.
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This is the simplest form of art and can be done by anyone after a little practice. I also tried my hand at this art. I did Warli art on this pot that I used for Karwachauth. Painting on this pot is depicting a happy couple and the moon on the night of Karwachauth.
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Hope you enjoyed reading through this post. Let me know your views in the comment section below.
In case if you have missed my earlier posts on Indian Art find them below:


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Do I sack this teacher?
Posted: 18 Mar 2004, 20:08
I've recently been given a managerial position in a school in Jakarta and it's my first such position. I'm really enjoying the work ... until now. We have a teacher who's been working here for quite a while but I really think he is just going through the motions at this stage. I'm trying to help him and he says all the right things in our discussions, but when I monitored his class yesterday it was basically the same as before ... much too much TTT and much too little STT. So I've decided to let him go, but he's not a young man any more and I'm concerned for his welfare if he loses this job. I'm sure you can see my dilemma here. Any suugestions would be most welcome!
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Obama, 'I go shooting all the time'
From The Telegraph by Jon Swaine, Barack Obama: 'I go shooting all the time'
President Barack Obama has claimed that he goes shooting "all the time", while attempting to reassure American gun-owners that he respects their rights to use firearms.
Oh Yeah Mr. President, we want to believe you but!
What difference does it make?
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Essential medicines
Essential medicines are those that satisfy the priority health care needs of the population. They are selected with due regard to public health relevance, evidence on efficacy and safety, and comparative cost-effectiveness.
Essential medicines are intended to be available within the context of functioning health systems at all times in adequate amounts, in the appropriate dosage forms, with assured quality and adequate information, and at a price the individual and the community can afford.


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Building management
Building management makes sure that the lights are on, the elevators work, the air conditioning and heat are working and that the buildings are always kept clean. Energy, security, custodial, HVAC, UCOP parking lots and special construction projects are our specialty. Our responsibilities include:
- Building maintenance & operations
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Lobby: Two security guards minimum 24/7, Monday through Friday, and one security guard 24/7 on the weekends.
UCOP Garage: The garage is under camera surveillance 24/7 with occasional guard service.For emergencies, there are Panic Buttons clearly identified on each floor if you need help.
Janitorial Services
Daily Activities: Empty all wastebaskets and place in dumpsters (keeping recycling, compost, and regular garbage requirements in mind); clean tables and desktops; vacuum all carpeted areas, spot clean carpet and upholstered furniture.
Weekly Activities: Dust/clean all low areas; spot clean finger prints, white boards, and built-in shelving; and wet mop hard floor surfaces.
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Two Spalding County firefighters have been arrested by the FBI and sources report the two were tipping drug dealers to pending narcotics raids.
UPDATE: Those arrested have been identified.
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Too many holidays, too little time!
ESPECIALLY after the advent of Pinterest, my planner is absolutely chock-full of dozens and dozens of fun, beautiful, and educational project that the girls and I would absolutely love to do for every single holiday that you can think of. Now the problem is that there just isn't enough time to do them all!
In October, we did autumn projects and Halloween projects. We colored and cut out paper garlands with jack-o-lanterns and skulls on them, carved pumpkins, made garlands of autumn leaves using paint chips and crayon boxes, baked pumpkin bread and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, sewed Halloween costumes, did leaf rubbings and pressed leaves and coated them in beeswax, baked mummy dogs, and assembled giant laminated paper skeletons and hung them on the porch. We did NOT make haunted candy houses, or carve turnips, or assemble a bone garland or a gourd garland or a candy corn garland, or play with dry ice, or bake jack-o-lantern pizza, or paint pumpkins, or make eggshell ghosts, or even half of the other billion wonderful projects in my Halloween Craftacular pinboard.
And even though Dia de los Muertos was practically my favorite holiday back when I was living in Texas--dancing skeletons, sugar skulls, tissue paper flowers, Mexican beer!--it's going to have to be celebrated next year, because this year it just passed us by in our post-Halloween candy coma.
Of course, that doesn't mean that we can't do any of the awesome projects that I'd had planned--they're just regular old projects now, not festive thematically-appropriate seasonal projects.
And that's how this big old ice skull, made from a mold that I bought a few weeks ago from Joann's at 65% off, is in our regular rotation these days not as a Dia de los Muertos or Halloween science project, but just as a regular old fun science project:
You also need liquid coloring--we use liquid watercolors, because I'm a sucker for those bright, saturated colors!--and plenty of cheap salt.
Liquid watercolors alone, simply because they, themselves, are above the freezing point, will assist in melting the ice mold in interesting ways as you dribble, drop, and spoon them on, but the best fun comes from adding salt into the play. Salt lowers the freezing point of water--for instance, a particular salt solution might lower the freezing point of the water that it's mixed in from 32 degrees to, say, 20 degrees. When you add it straight to ice, then it hastens the ice's melting, because room temperature is now even farther above the ice's freezing point than it used to be.
This is all fun because the ice melts the fastest right where you add these things:
See? Gruesome!
Of course, it's also fun just to scoop and pour and mix and generally make a big mess:
Besides, who wouldn't appreciate some crayon skulls and x-ray viewing and plaster of Paris skeleton making mixed in with the handprint turkeys and pumpkin pie baking and walnut shell Mayflowers this season?
It's turning out to be such an interesting autumn!
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Homeschool Science: Ice Skull versus Salt
2 comments:
- The Glamorous Housewife said...
I seriously love your blog. When I do these projects with my boys I feel like the best mom evah!
Thanks doll,
The Glamorous Housewife
- November 9, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Stephanie said...
Love ice and colors!
Maddie asked me yesterday if the next time it snows we can paint snow and ice again. :). Of course!!
Hooray for vibrant gruesomeness!
And colored towels on the kitchen table! :)
- November 10, 2011 at 9:04 AM
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|2 - 60 mm
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|Quick Erase
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|7 GB per minute duplication speed
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|5 Gbps
|Port Multiplier
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|Host Connectors
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|1 - USB Type-B (9 pin) USB 3.0 Female
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|LED Indicators
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Before You Buy
Some old hard drives (often low capacity as well) may not work because they use an old IDE standard not supported by the duplicator. Use a newer drive to determine if the duplicator works or if the drive is not compatible.
StarTech.com hard drive and flash drive duplicators perform a sector by sector copy, which means that the target drive must be the exact same size (down to the sector) or larger than the hard drive or flash drive that is being copied. During a sector by sector copy, each individual sector is copied over to the target drive, regardless of whether or not any data is present. A 500 GB hard drive with 50 GB of data on it will take the same amount of time to copy as a 500 GB hard drive with 450 GB of data on it.
If you have two hard drives or flash drives that are listed as the same size but are different makes or models, you need to check how large both drives are down to the sector to ensure that the target drive is the exact same size or larger.
Solid-state drives (SSDs) use SATA connectors to access power and transfer data. Any duplicator that can copy to or from SATA hard drives will work with a StarTech.com duplicator.
Note: If you use a dock to duplicate SSDs, keep in mind that the StarTech.com disk duplicators execute a sector by sector read and write. SSDs are rated by a number of reads and writes. Repeated duplication and sector by sector reads and writes of SSDs can reduce the life cycle of the drive.
Software-level encryption on the drive poses no issue to StarTech.com duplicators, as the duplicators copy encrypted data sector by sector over to the new drive.
Hardware-level encryption or BIOS level hard drive locks cause the duplication to halt and fail, as the drive is unable to read or write the sectors that are encrypted.
Duplication of Hidden Protected Area (HPA) Partitions or Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) cause the duplicator to halt and fail, as the drive cannot read and write the protected partitions on the drive.
Note: Our UNIDUPDOCK, SATDOCK22RE and SATDOCK4U3RE do include the ability to copy HPA partitions, but the duplication is still dependent on how the HPA partition is written to the hard drive, whether or not it is encrypted and how it is encrypted.
StarTech.com duplicators were not designed to recover failing or damaged drives. If the duplicator encounters a corrupt or unreadable sector, the duplication halts and fails. If the source drive has bad sectors, use the Read Error Skip feature if your model of duplicator has it; however, if there are too many errors, it may still halt and fail even with this feature. If this happens, you will need third-party recovery software or custom-built recovery hardware to copy from a failing or damaged drive.
To determine if your hard drive will work in this device, on the product page, click the Technical Specifications tab, and do the following:
- Make sure that the device supports the storage size of your hard drive. If the storage size of your hard drive is larger than what the device was tested with, the hard drive will likely still work with the enclosure.
- Confirm that your hard drive uses the same interface type as the device. For example, IDE, SATA, or M.2.
- Make sure that the device supports the physical size of your hard drive, such as 2.5 inches or 3.5 inches.
- Verify that the power consumption of your hard drive doesn't exceed the power output of the device. If you're using multiple hard drives, make sure that the combined power consumption of all of the hard drives doesn't exceed the power output of the docking station.
How to
It is not possible to duplicate from a larger drive to a smaller one. The capacity of the target drive must be equal to or greater than that of the source drive.
Ensure there is no USB cable connecting the duplicator to a computer.
- The drive may be damaged. Test with a known-working drive, or test the drive directly to a PC.
- The operating system on the computer may not support reading and writing to the file system on the docked hard drive or SSD. Remember, Windows cannot read Mac or Linux file systems. Also, macOS can read but not write to NTFS drives.
- If the drives came from a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), they would not be accessible in our docking stations.
- If the drive uses 4Kn sectors, check the technical specifications of the docking station, and ensure it can read 4Kn drives.
When you troubleshoot issues with a hard drive dock or duplicator, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:
- IDE, SATA, and eSATA cables
- Hard drives
- Hard drive dock or duplicator
To test your setup components, try the following:
- Use the cables, hard drives, and hard drive dock or duplicator in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.
- Use a different cable, hard drive, and hard drive dock or duplicator in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.
When you test the hard drive and hard drive dock or duplicator, it is recommended that you do the following:
Note: For a hard drive duplicator you may need to switch the device to PC mode (if available).
- To check Disk Management, press the Windows key + R, type diskmgmt.msc, and press Enter. Check to see if your hard drive is listed.
- Do one of the following:
- If the hard drive is listed with unallocated space, the hard drive needs to be reformatted. Right-click unallocated and click New Simple Volume. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the reformatting.
Note: Formatting a hard drive erases all of the data on it. Make sure that you back up all of your data before you reformat the hard drive.
- If the hard drive is listed as healthy but does not have a drive letter, for example, C:, right-click healthy and click Change Drive Letter and Paths. Click Add, assign a drive letter, and click OK.
Note: A formatted hard drive will not show up in Computer or My Computer until it has a drive letter assigned to it.
This docking station allows the hard drive to enforce its own power state, as opposed to enforcing a power state that keeps the hard drive active at all times. Since most newer hard drives have low-power energy conservation modes, this will cause the hard drive to enter an idle state if it is not used for a certain amount of time.
You do not need to format your target hard drive before you begin to duplicate it, because the target hard drive is automatically overwritten during the duplication process.
The hard drive duplicator copies the exact partition from the source drive to the target drive. Since it is required that you use a target drive that is equal or larger in size than the source drive a portion of the target drive appears as free space. You can append free space to the live partition on the target drive so that the full size of the drive can be utilized.
Note: A partition cannot be extended on an operating system drive that is in use. You must extend the partition when it not being used by the operating system, and ideally when it is still connected to the duplicator.
Extend a partition on a computer running Windows
Note: Do not extend a System Reserved partition. Only extend the primary partition, which is typically the largest in size and formatted with NTFS or FAT32.
After you have successfully duplicated a drive and the target drive is still connected to your computer system (for example, through the duplicator), complete the following:
- Press the Windows key + R.
- Type compmgmt.msc and click Ok.
- In Computer Management, on the left side of the screen, click Disk Management.
- Find the target drive. It will most likely be at the bottom of the list, have a partition that is the same size as the source drive, and have an unallocated area on the drive.
- On the target drive, right-click the last partition on the right side of the screen and click Extend Volume.
- In the Extend Volume wizard, click Next. By default, the remaining drive area is the amount of space used.
- Click Next > Finish.
The primary partition on the drive now uses the entire drive area.
StarTech.com hard drive duplicators only read from the source drive and only write to the target drives while in standalone duplication mode . A duplication that fails or halts will not cause a problem with the source drive.
You can use this device to duplicate an internal hard drive with the stand alone duplicator function if you remove the hard drive from the computer and connect it directly to this device.
Hard Drives
Windows 10
Before you can access a new or formatted drive in your operating system, you need to initialize it first and then create a partition on the drive. A partition defines an area of the drive to use for storing data. The partition uses a file system (for example, ex-FAT, NTFS, and so on).
Initialize a drive
Note: You typically only need to initialize a drive if the drive is new. If you cannot find an uninitialized drive in Disk Management, skip the following steps and try to partition your device.
Press the Windows key + R, type compmgmt.msc, and click Run to open Computer Management.
Navigate to Disk Management.
When prompted to, initialize your disk(s). If you are running Windows® 7 or later and are using a drive larger than 2TB, initialize the disk(s) with GPT. If you are running an earlier version of Windows, initialize the disk(s) with MBR. For more information, visit the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/support/faqs/technical-support?topic=hard-drives#mbr-vs-gpt.
Click OK.
Create a partition in a drive
Note: The following steps create an NTFS partition that uses the entire drive space. To use a different file system, select a different option in step 6.
Right-click Unallocated or RAW volume, and select New Simple Volume.
In the New Partition Wizard, click Next.
Select Primary partition.
Leave the partition size set to default, and click Next.
Assign a drive letter or leave it set to the default, and click Next.
Enter the following settings to format the partition:
- In the File System field, enter NTFS.
- Set the Allocation unit size to Default.
- In the Volume label field, enter <your name/reference>.
- Select the Perform a quick format check box.
- Clear the Enable file and folder compression check box.
- Click Next > Finish.
The new drive should appear in Windows Explorer.
Mac OS
Before you can access a new or formatted drive in your operating system, you need to initialize it first and then create a partition on the drive. A partition defines an area of the drive to use for storing data. The partition uses a file system (for example, HFS+, ex-FAT, NTFS, and so on).
Initialize a drive
Mac OSX detects a drive that needs to be initialized and automatically prompts you to initialize the drive. If you are prompted to initialize the drive, click Initialize. If you are not prompted to initialize the drive and you cannot find the drive in Finder, you will need to create a partition on the drive.
Create a partition on a drive
Note: The following steps create an HFS+ (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) partition that uses the entire drive space.
To create a partition on a new drive, complete the following:
Open Finder.
Navigate to Applications and click Utilities.
Open Disk Utility.
Select the new drive and click the Partition tab.
Click Options and verify that it is set to GUID Partition Table.
Enter a name for the partition.
Click Partition.
The drive should now be accessible in Finder.
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Ok i want to know who is the biggest traitor of them all. I have narrowed it down to Liu Bei and Lu Bu. I chose Lu Bu for obvious reasons, though i don't get why he was so hated. And i chose Liu Bei for many reasons. First off he betrayed many more people than Lu Bu did. He betrayed Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, Liu Zhang, and a few others. He never took it as far as killing them, except for killing Lu Bu, who might i add only betrayed Bei because Zhang Fei got drunk and beat a relative of his. Lu Bu also killed Dong Zhuo which makes him alot better than Liu Bei. Liu Bei was parading around "trying to restore the Han" with numerous failed campaigns against Wei. I never once heard anything about Liu Bei searching out the deposed emperor and tryin to restore his position as emperor. And some of you might say the emperor died, which isn't true, he actually out live Liu Bei by two years. Liu Bei was a traitor to all those i mentioned and to the Han. I despise him and his attempts at trying to be the virtuous hero that he really wasn't.
Also i dont want to hear that Liu Bei wasn't a traitor and he was a great general and emperor who was kind to his people. Truth be told he was kind to his people because Shu was had a poor economy, and its the least he could do. If he didn't have Zhuge he and Sun Quan would have been flushed down the toilet and Chi Bi


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Summer chicken one-pot
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal701
- fat35g
- saturates16g
- carbs38g
- sugars5g
- fibre6g
- protein61g
- salt2.44g
- 8 chicken thighs
- 2 tbsp plain flour
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 8 rashers streaky bacon, chopped
- 400ml stock
- 500g bag baby new potatoes, halved
New potatoesn-ew po-tate-oes
New potatoes have thin, wispy skins and a crisp, waxy texture. They are young potatoes and…
- 200g pack full fat soft cheese
- 200g broad beans, podded
Broad beanbraw-d be-en
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- 200g sweetcorn (frozen, fresh or from a can)
Sweetcornsw-eet corn
Also known as corn on the cob, sweetcorn is composed of rows of tightly packed golden yellow…
- 200g cherry tomatoes, halved
Dust the chicken in the flour and some seasoning. Heat the oil in a lidded pan and brown the chicken, in batches if needed, then transfer to a plate. Throw in the bacon and fry for 5 mins, until crisp.
Return the chicken to the pan. Add the stock, cover and simmer for 30 mins, adding the potatoes after 10 mins, until the chicken is cooked and the potatoes are tender.
Stir in cheese, then the rest of the vegetables and some seasoning. Simmer for 5 mins more, uncovered, then serve.
Recipe Tip
TipChicken thighs make a good-value alternative to breasts, however, if you prefer the white breast meat, then swap for 4 skinless breasts, and simmer for just 20 mins with the potatoes.


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Sputnik was a small
sphere with a big impact.
Click on the image to
relive the start of the
space age in pictures.
Now I know how post-Apollo kids feel. Just as some folks were born a little too late to remember what the moon landings were like as they happened, I was too young (3 years old, if you must know) to remember the initial impact of the Sputnik launch – an event that kicked off the space age 50 years ago this week.
A fresh batch of books and a couple of new movies can give you a sense of what it was like. But the best way to get that sense of Sputnik is to hear from those of you who remember those Cold War chills and thrills. And even if you're too young to remember Sputnik – or Apollo, for that matter – you can still share your thoughts on the past and future of space exploration.
My first space memory is of peering up into the night sky with my brothers from the backyard on our Iowa farm. We watched for the Echo 1 satellite to pass overhead, and looked forward to that futuristic day when telephone calls and TV signals could be sent routinely via space links.
Even by that time, we looked upon satellite technology as more of an opportunity than a threat – so the initial shock over Sputnik, such as it was, must have passed by that time. Instead, there was a strong push to beef up America's math and science training, and we definitely felt the benefit of that. Every one of the kids in our farm-raised family went on to science-related careers: a physicist, a biologist, a chemist, a physician and a black-sheep science journalist.
In a strange way, we were all the children of Sputnik.
As I said, I don't really remember 1957 all that well. But to get a sense of the shock and awe that people felt back then, you should look for the documentary film "Sputnik Mania," which presents footage of the launch and its aftereffects, as well as contemporary reminiscences.
It's a kick just watching the clips on the project's Web site – including the commentary for the launch footage, read with a Russian accent that would give Cold Warriors nightmares (and spark peals of laughter from Gen-Xers): "The great beast rises slowly from the earth. We are about to create a new planet that we will call Sputnik. It is small, this first satellite – but after it, we will launch others...."
Plenty of publications have come out with online packages about the space age, and I've been linking to some of them over the past few weeks. Here's a sampling:
You could fill a shelf with all the books that have been written about Sputnik and its impact, but several have come out just recently to mark the anniversary: "Red Moon Rising" by Matthew Brzezinski casts the story as a political thriller. "A Ball, a Dog and a Monkey" by Michael D'Antonio retells the tale with lively vignettes. "Epic Rivalry" by Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman recaps the space race as seen from both sides of the Iron Curtain (and features a foreword by Sergei Khrushchev, the son of Russia's Cold War leader).
George Hales / Hulton Archive / Getty Images
|Five-year-old Linda Chapman stands in
a costume with a Sputnik theme beside
her toy rocket during a 1958 New Year's
Eve celebration.
"In the Shadow of the Moon" and "The Wonder of It All" are two recently released documentaries that pick up the story of the early space effort just after Sputnik. If you're looking for books that trace the post-Sputnik part of the story, you can't do better than the newly published "Live From Cape Canaveral," by NBC News' Jay Barbree (who got into the space journalism game with Sputnik) and Andrew Chaikin's classic work on the Apollo space effort, "A Man on the Moon" (with a new afterword written to mark the Sputnik anniversary).
Lots of coffee-table books trace the space age in pictures, but there are several recent additions worthy of note: "After Sputnik" serves as a virtual tour of highlights from the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, guided by curator Martin Collins. "Space 50," by Piers Bizony, is also published by Smithsonian Books but takes a more thematic approach to the milestones of the past 50 years and the road ahead. "America in Space" (with a foreword by alpha moonwalker Neil Armstrong) is NASA's review of its own half-century, which will be officially celebrated next year.
If you need still more suggestions for your reading list, or viewing list, check out my Apollo recommendations from July.
Now it's your turn: If you remember Sputnik, I'd love to hear your tale – maybe it will jog my memory as a 3-year-old. If you've been touched by Sputnik's legacy, I want to hear about that, too. And if you're wondering what all the fuss is about, that's a good perspective to have as well.
Do you have additional suggestions for space-age reading or watching? Send 'em along! Feel free also to reflect on the future of space exploration as well as the past. We'll have more on that part of the story tomorrow.


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Working at Mozilla, I get to see a lot of great things. One of them is collaborating with my team (as we are almost all remoties) and I have been doing that for almost 6 years. Sometime around 3 years ago we switch to using Vidyo as a way to communicate in meetings. This is great, we can see and hear each other. Unfortunately heartbleed came out and affects Mozilla's Vidyo servers. So yesterday and today we have been without Vidyo.
Now I am getting meeting cancellation notices, why are we cancelling meetings? Did meetings not happen 3 years ago? Mozilla actually creates an operating system for a … phone. In fact our old teleconferencing system is still in place. I thought about this earlier today and wondered why we are cancelling meetings. Personally I always put Vidyo in the background during meetings and keep IRC in the foreground. Am I a minority?
I am not advocating for scrapping Vidyo, instead I would like to attend meetings, and if we find they cannot be held without Vidyo, we should cancel them (and not reschedule them).
Meetings existed before Vidyo and Open Source existed before GitHub, we don't need the latest and greatest things to function in life. Pick up a phone and discuss what needs to be discussed.


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years, it's a long time. Aspirations of what you'll be doing in ten years could be absolutely anything. I personally look to the things which I'd like to have achieved in ten years time and a few of these are; authoring a book, speaking more frequently and having multiple businesses. In ten years time I'll be 36 and while I think it is a long way off there will be one day when I think it has gone way too fast, so by the time I am forty I want to achieve as much as I can. I wanted to know about other 10 year plans and asked some awesome people from the web community about what thoughts they had for the future.
Ashley Baxter – www.iamashley.co.uk
Where do you see yourself in 10 years time, what would you like to achieve?
I consider myself to be an ambitious person, which makes answering this all the more difficult. In 10 years I'll be 32, and I see myself having taken my current business to new heights, as well as having started up another business more in line with my personality. But variety truly is the spice of life, and I'd like to dabble in many things alongside that. In the future I'd love to get involved with presenting in a video game niche, as well as keep myself busy with various web projects as I continue to learn Ruby. Basically, I see myself doing quite a few things. Life will never be boring.
On a personal note, I definitely see myself happily settled with Daniel Craig and our beautiful babies, which we very much enjoyed making. Ahem.
Tim Van Damme – www.maxvoltar.com
That's a question to which I don't want to know the answer. What I love so much about this business is you don't know what you'll be doing next.
Also: I'm not much of a 10-year plan guy. I don't plan, I wait and see. If there's one thing I want to do some day, it must be teaching. Teaching people the right way to make a website is very satisfying, and I'd love to teach the next generation everything I was lucky enough to learn myself.
Aaron Irizarry – www.thisisaaronslife.com
In ten years time I would want to be doing what I love on my own terms. I love talking, and writing about design, the design process, and the practical aspects of working in the design industry, so it would be awesome to be speaking on these topics and or contributing to books on them. To sum it "doing what I love on my own terms, and spending more time with the people I love (family, and friends).
John Chow – www.johnchow.com
I really have no idea where I'll be in 10 years. I don't see that far into the future. However, I would hope by then I will be able start my foundation to help fund causes that I believe in. I always said the worth of a man is not how much he makes, it's how much he gives. I hope in 10 years, I will be able to give more than I've ever dreamed possible.
Gabriel Segura – www.cssmania.com
I see myself working at home full time dedicated to web design and other design trends (industry design), together with my wife doing some illustrations i normally use in my webdesigns. I would love to start up my own design studio, and have a less stressed life.
Paul Boag – www.boagworld.com
In 10 years time I would hope that Headscape will still be going strong. However, I would like to see its daily operation less reliant on myself and the other directors. This would free up my time to develop personal projects and maybe even have a life beyond the web. I have been working with the web since 1994 and although it has been an incredibly exciting ride I am not sure I see myself developing websites forever.
Andy Rutledge – www.andyrutledge.com
Thanks for your note. I appreciate your request, but I'm afraid I'll not be able to provide very good fare. I'm already doing what I've wanted to work toward. I own a nice design agency and work with great people who do excellent work. So, I'm good; mission accomplished. I see perhaps adding one or two more agency partners over the next few years, but as far as plans …I'm not looking for much in the way of change. I certainly want to be doing better work in 10 years, but I've already achieved what I set out to achieve.
Elliott Kember – www.elliottkember.com
I have no idea where I'll be in 10 years. Every time I try and answer this question, I end up being wrong, so my answers get more and more vague.
I'd like to be in charge of something – most probably a startup. I've been setting myself up to run a startup for some time now – I just haven't figured out what to do. Ideally I'll be working with a small team, and having a lot of fun. I certainly hope I'm not working in a cubicle somewhere, for somebody else, developing Death March software and hating it. I don't know where I'll have to be to make this happen – possibly San Fransisco or London.
In my opinion, it's a very difficult question to answer – as soon as you start deciding, you begin to limit your options. Ten years ago, I'd never have expected to be living in the UK, or even working in this industry. So far I've played it by ear, and it seems to have worked out fine. As long as I can be flexible enough to jump at opportunities, things should be okay!
David Leggett – www.tutorial9.net
In 10 years, I'd like to be making annual trips around the world working as a volunteer for understaffed schools and orphanages. I really admire the people who are able to organize projects that allow the world as a community to help each other (a kind of organization I'll never be able to achieve), and it's something I think would be very interesting to be more involved in. Of course, I'd like to still be working on the side with various blog projects like UX Booth, Tutorial9, and Better Blogger.
Marc Perel – www.obox-design.com
Ten years time, that's a far way away, that's about half my life!
I would say there are a few things that spring to mind, career wise; the mose basic goal would certainly be to have a stable, scalable business; be it in themes, site development or anything else which Obox ventures into in the coming years. I don't need a sport scar or a mansion, if I have a house with a garden and a business which gives me enough time to ride/run/chill in the day, work in the mornings and evenings, then I'll be happy.
Paul Randall – www.prandall.com
In 10 years time I would still like to see myself primarily designing websites, but working more on logo and print work running a small design agency or online business.
I hope to have my work featured in a publication such as .net or a book at some point, and for it to be well received within the web community.
Gary Vaynerchuk – www.crushitbook.com
No idea, my goal is to enjoy the process of gettin there but I am a reActionary businessman and don't make predicitions or have jar thoughts where I will be.
Jon Phillips – www.spyrestudios.com
In ten years I hope I'll be traveling around the world and answering emails from my laptop on some airport wireless internet access. Though I see no reason for not doing this now, I'm not sure I want to wait 10 years to be where I want to be and go where I want to go. I will surely still be designing websites but probably work more on personal projects rather than client projects.
Amy Mahon – www.amymahon.com
In 10 years time, if all goes to plan, I hope to be primarily focusing on raising a family. It's a tad old-fashioned, I know, but I was fortunate to have had a stay-at-home mom and I've always wanted to be as involved with my children. This doesn't mean I'd abandon web design altogether – just schedule projects in a way that will allow me to maintain a nice balance between work and family. That's if all goes to plan.
My Plan B is to really focus on my career, get a few big name clients under my belt after which I would speak in peer conferences, teach college classes and/or write a book.
Chris Wallace – www.walmedia.com
In ten years I'd like to be at a point where I am able to do some traveling, see parts of the world that I've never seen before and spend time with my family. Running my own business is fun and I'd like to continue doing that as well, creating and defining user experience on the web and beyond. I'm positive in 10 years the "Internet" will have evolved to the point where it's rarely just a mouse and keyboard, but rather a window into other parts of the world. I want to be heavily involved in that.
Chris Spooner – blog.spoongraphics.co.uk
It's pretty hard to imagine where I will be in ten years time, or even to imagine what I'd like to be doing. A career in web design ten years ago would be a completely different scenario than what it is now, so who knows what the industry will be like in another ten into the future?!
With that said, I've recently moved myself into a position where I'm supporting myself working as a self employed person doing something I love, so I can only hope this will continue into the future. It would be awesome to be able to lead a fulfilling life from a mix of blogging and design projects that offers plenty of exciting work while also allowing for personal time to head off and do whatever I like!
Matthew Smith – www.squaredeye.com
In ten years. Well, let me think about where I was on this day ten years ago first. Okay, I got it, I was in my third semester at Colorado State University, a year before I left for England, and I was totally dissatisfied with my art education. I thought then, that commercial art was a form of selling out to the man. I like beer and raising a family, so I'm a little more open minded now.
So, ten years? Sheesh! I have no idea where I'll be in ten years, but I can say a few things I dream about. I dream about starting a school/agency that builds young people up into powerful thinkers, designers, citizens, and provides quality services and products to the design industry and the world at large. I dream about having opportunities to work on projects that change people, change institutions, and help people grow. I'd like to be a fun dad, and a kick ass husband. I'd like have written a book or two.
All the stuff I wanted to do ten years ago, now seems wimpy though. I've done and seen so much more than I thought I would, and the smallest things ended up being the most important. It's not easy for me to answer a question like this with a simple "I'd like to have made my first million", though that'd be nice too 🙂
Adii Pienaar – www.adii.co.za
When I look back on my life in 10 years' time, I'd love to see that I had been slowly improving myself on a daily basis during those 10 years. Fact is, I'm an entrepreneur and I'll most probably (touch wood) be involved in a few businesses in the next 10 years; so my only goal relating to my "career" is to be successful enough not to ever have to go back to back to full-time employment.
Beyond that, improving & challenging myself is much more important, as I know that those two things will mean that I'll be happy with my life in 10 years' time.
Grace Smith – www.gracesmith.co.uk
Without a doubt I would still be working in the creative industry, but focused on writing while perhaps pursuing photography on a more professional level. While I love web design and development I am becoming extremely passionate about developing my knowledge and skills as a writer and blogger and I've recently become obsessed with photography (having bought my first DSLR this year).
Ideally in the future I would like to be a published author within the design sector as well as exhibiting my work as a photographer. I would also hope in 10 years to still be publishing online and be heavily involved within the web community.
My thoughts on where I will be in 10 years are diverse as I hope I will have several creative outlets that constantly challenge and inspire me. If that's the case then I know i will be both happy and fulfilled.
Martin Bean – www.mcbwebdesign.co.uk
It's no secret that us humans are creatures of learning and I'm know different. I love expanding my knowledge on every subject possible (yet still fare badly in pub quizzes and IT-Boxes). As a result of this, I hope that in ten years time I've managed to expand upon my knowledge of the web and related technologies and practices. And a pay rise or two.
At the moment, I work as a web developer, mainly developing websites in HTML/CSS and building applications with PHP and MySQL. In ten years time, I would like to be proficient in at least two more server-side/programming languages. Ruby on Rails strikes me as one of those that's good to know. Java and .NET are also alluring to me, but I feel those are a definitely a step up from my good ol' trusty PHP.
Sarah Whinnem – www.maysondesigns.com
Right now I seem to be at a bit of a crossroads, where in ten years I can see myself following two different paths. My original goal was always to make a career of being an in-house graphic designer, whether through a private company (like my current position) or with an agency. Following that path, in ten years I would like to be in an art/creative director position, being part of a team of like-minded creative people all working together to produce an exceptional and beautiful product, whether it be literature or software or art. Recently, however, I've also been able to see myself accomplishing a different, but similar, goal, that of the successful freelancer. The freedom, variety, and independence that it offers are very alluring to me. Communicating as often as I do with people who are making it work being their own boss and calling the shots makes me believe that it's a great opportunity. And in the end, if the freelance path is successful, I may end up with a team to work with and rely on. What this means to me is that it's not so much specifically where I am that is an important goal for me, but that creativity, collaboration, excellence, and teamwork are abstract goals that no matter where I end up in ten years, I want to make happen.
Emma Taylor – www.twigglegraphics.com
I never thought it would be such a tricky question…it's definitely got my brain ticking!! I LOVE the freelance world and feel quite content with being a one (wo)man band. I've never been one to plan so far in advance and i'm still learning a lot about who i am and about our industry. I love designing for the web and hope to continue doing what i love for many years to come. I plan to start working with more freelancers and design agencies and focus on what i know best, setup a few personal projects helping others and reflecting on my experiences, travel more, continue to work along side my husbands business and most of all, enjoy myself in the process!
Adelle Charles – fuelbrandnetwork.com
In ten years I see myself still running FUEL and not working for anyone else but myself. I know that's a long time from now, however there are so many possibilities and growth to be had that I won't be able to stop until I have achieved all of my personal goals as well as company goals. (Currently finishing up a solid year one). We have many more additions to the publishing (Fuel Brand Network) side of Fuel Brand Inc. as well as some non-profit goals and teaching through conferences & workshops. Maybe catch up with me in ten years?
Thanks to all who were involved in this post, if you'd like to be featured in future posts, drop me an email with a little bit about yourself.


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Tom Morello, best known for his work as the founding member and guitar player for RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, AUDIOSLAVE, and Nightwatchman is interviewed by iNPLACENEWS' Paul Stewart. In this interview, they discuss Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, the war in Iraq, and the Presidential Elections. Also, he talks about his most recent tour with Nightwatchman, social responsibility of rockstars and other artists, as well his nonprofit organization Axis of Justice.
Here is what was found in Wikipedia about Tom:
Tom Morello was born in New York, New York. His mother, Mary Morello, who is part Irish and part Italian, is a founder of Parents for Rock and Rap, an anti-censorship group. She was also a teacher at Libertyville High School. His father, Ngethe Njoroge, a Kenyan, was the country's first ambassador to the United Kingdom. Morello's great-uncle, Jomo Kenyatta, was the first president of Kenya.
Morello grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, at the time a virtually all-white suburb of Chicago. There he attended Libertyville High School. He sang in the school chorus and was active in speech and drama club – a prominent role was Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
He showed his political leanings early. Morello has described himself as having been "the only anarchist in a conservative high school", but has since identified as a nonsectarian socialist. In the 1980 mock elections at LHS, he campaigned for a fictitious "candidate" named Hubie Maxwell, who came in fourth place after Jimmy Carter at the overwhelmingly Republican school. Ronald Reagan won the mock election. He also wrote a piece headlined "South Africa: Racist Fascism That We Support" for the school's alternative paper, The Student Pulse.
At age 13, Morello joined Nebula, a Led Zeppelin cover band as lead singer. At this same age, Morello purchased his first guitar at Rigoni Music in Libertyville. He wanted a solid-body Ovation guitar, but he didn't have the money to buy one. Instead, he purchased a Kay guitar. Wanting to learn how to play "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin, he took two guitar lessons, but instead was taught the C-major scale. He decided that playing the guitar was a waste of his time, so he placed it in his closet for the next three years.
Around 1984, Morello first started studying the guitar seriously. He had formed a band in the same year called the which featured future Tool guitarist Adam Jones on bass.
Few if any of the Sheep could really play an instrument at first, but the band was an impetus for Morello to start honing his skills. Instead of performing cover songs, the Sheep wrote original material that included politically charged lyrics. None of the songs composed by the Sheep contained solos; soloing was a skill that Morello began learning in college.
At the time, Morello's musical tastes lay in the direction of heavy metal, particularly Kiss, Alice Cooper, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. Morello developed his own unique sound through the electric guitar. Later, his music—and musical politics—were greatly influenced by punk rock bands like The Clash, the Sex Pistols, and Devo.
Morello graduated in 1982 and began attending Harvard University. There, he made a point of practicing every day for up to eight hours without fail, no matter how much studying he had to do. He graduated in 1986 with an honors degree in political science. He moved to L.A., where he briefly worked as an aide to Senator Alan Cranston as he set about trying to join or start a band. Adam Jones moved to L.A. as well; Morello introduced Jones and Maynard James Keenan to Danny Carey, who would come to form the band Tool.