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Long Island City is one of the fastest growing neighborhoods in New York City. Located in the southwest corner of Queens on Long Island, this mixed-use central business district boasts one of the highest concentrations of art galleries of any neighborhood. Long Island City is easy to access from most of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and The Bronx, and is home to more than 6,600 businesses that have more than 106,000 employees.
Long Island City is home to the JetBlue corporate headquarters, the largest fortune cookie factory in the United States, and numerous other legal, advertising, internet, financial, and technology firms. Some of the most notable employers in the area include Citibank, NYC Department of Health, MetLife, Publicis, Silvercup Studios, and Kaufman Astoria Studio.
What Our Brokers Say About Long Island City Office Space for Lease
Long Island City, which locals sometimes call "LIC," offers affordable office space rental rates and plenty of options, such as locations with waterfront views, offices featuring open warehouse lofts, and smaller spaces with flexible lease terms. Long Island City's 2001 rezoning project brought significant residential and commercial real estate investments in Long Island City and Hunters Point, with a range of office space options for companies of all shapes and sizes.
Long Island City is in the midst of significant development. In particular, healthcare companies have played a major role in office market growth here. For example, Catholic Health Services of Long Island rented 40,000 square feet at 4 Ohio Drive in New Hyde Park. In addition, EmblemHealth lease at 1055 Stewart Avenue in Bethpage for 75,000 square feet. This trend is expected to continue through the end of the year. American daily newspaper Newsday recently leased 6-8 Corporate Drive in Melville.
Lots of buildings in Long Island City—especially former factory buildings—have been repurposed and are now used for something wildly different. In particular, Long Island City used to be full of factories and bakeries. One of the last major factories in the area was Eagle Electric, which eventually moved to China. The former site of Silvercup bakery now houses the similarly named Silvercup Studios. The studio produced NBC's 30 Rock and HBO's Sex and the City. LaGuardia Community College now uses buildings formerly occupied by the Ford Instrument Company, as well as a building where the Sunshine Bakery used to operate. Another example is the Standard Motor Products headquarters, which was originally a manufacturing site; in 2014, the property changed hands and is now the site of the Jim Henson Company, Society Awards, and a commercial rooftop farm operated by Brooklyn Grange.
Long Island City office space provides businesses and employees a range of work/life balance amenities. There are more than 20 local art galleries, a vibrant mix of Michelin Star restaurants and cheap eats, and dozens of bars and coffee shops. Looking for lunch? Don't miss Mexican restaurant Casa Enrique, Indian restaurant Adda, BBQ stop John Brown Smokehouse, and Japanese restaurant Mu Ramen. For coffee, be sure to visit Partners Coffee, Brookside Market, Baruir's Coffee Store, and Etto Espresso Bar. Employees can sit outside at John F Murray Playground, take in scenic views of Manhattan from Gantry Plaza State Park or Hunters Point South Park, or check out an exhibit at MoMA PS1, The Museum of the Moving Image, or the Noguchi Museum.
Long Island City Commercial Space For Lease | By the numbers
|Office Space for Rent
|Price per square foot
|Class A
|Class B
Long Island City Office Space | Lease Data and Trends
Long Island City is one of NYC's eight Central Business Districts. Its convenient location, excellent transportation, and reputation for Class A office towers make the real estate here very valuable. Despite these attractive features, the average Long Island City office space leases for much less than most of Manhattan and trendy Brooklyn areas such as DUMBO, Downtown Brooklyn, or Williamsburg.
On average, Long Island City office space costs just under $29 per square foot to rent. In Suffolk, some spaces rent for $25 per square foot. Long Island City has slightly more Class B space than Class A. Class A office spaces rent for an average of just under $33 per square foot. Class B space in Long Island City rents for an average of just under $24 per square foot.
Office space is relatively easy to find in Long Island City. Currently, the neighborhood houses more than 40.6 million square feet of office space. The vacancy rate is around 12 percent, but demand should continue to grow with new, high-quality inventory hitting the market in the next few years.
Getting Around: Transportation in Long Island City
Long Island City rests at the western edge of Long Island. Astoria borders it to the north; Newtown Creek to the south; Hazen Street, 49th Street, and New Calvary Cemetery to the east; and the East River to the west. Long Island City residents have access to convenient public transportation and bike paths. Notably, the neighborhood is more easily accessible by car than most areas of NYC.
The New York City Subway stations located in or near Long Island City are Queensboro Plaza, 39th Avenue, Vernon Boulevard—Jackson Avenue, Hunters Point Avenue, and Court Square. Passengers can use trains 7, E, F, G, M, N, R, and W. Long Island Rail Road stations bring in workers along the Babylon, Far Rockaway, Montauk, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, and Ronkonkoma lines. Commuters can also take the 7 train directly to and from Grand Central Station, making Long Island City an accommodating office location for many urban and suburbanites. Thirteen different bus routes also run through the area.
As with most of NYC, Long Island City is extremely walkable, and boasts a WalkScore rating of 95. With more than 150 restaurants, bars, and coffee shops in the neighborhood, companies and employees have plenty of options for meals, meetings, and happy hours within a 5-10 minute walk radius.
Employees who commute by bike should welcome a move into a Long Island City office. Both the Pulaski Bridge and 59th Street Bridge have protected bike lanes, and Long Island City has several streets with bike lanes. The neighborhood also has more than 25 CitiBike docs, with more under construction.
Commuters can also catch East River Ferry rides to Long Island City from Astoria, Roosevelt Island, East 34th Street, or Pier 11 off Wall Street, a short walk away from the Staten Island Ferry. While we don't recommend driving if it can be avoided, compared with other neighborhoods in New York City, Long Island City is quite accessible by car. Drivers can take the 59th Street Bridge (no toll) or Queens Midtown Tunnel (toll) from Manhattan, the Joseph Pulaski Bridge from Greenpoint, or highways 278 or 495. The neighborhood even has more than a dozen parking garages and some street parking.
Those who need to fly can use LaGuardia Airport, the John F. Kennedy International Airport, or the Newark Liberty International Airport.
Top Commercial Properties For Lease In Long Island City
Businesses considering renting some of the most cost-effective office spaces in New York City will want to explore options in Long Island City. Begin by evaluating 31-00 47th Avenue, 4301 22nd Street, and 10-27 46th Road, three SquareFoot-recommended office buildings:
31-00 47th Avenue: 31-00 47th Avenue, known as the Falchi Building, is an enormous industrial-style office building that spans a full block of Long Island City. Built in 1922, the Falchi Building has five stories and 711,194 square feet of space. This Class B office building currently has a wide range of rental options. Eleven units ranging from 2,047 to 94,010 square feet in size are available to rent.
Contact us for pricing, details, or a tour. Notable tenants working in the Falchi Building include Uber Greenlight, Swiss Post Solutions, TLC Oath, and Doughnut Plant. The 33rd Street—Rawson Street station is less than a five-minute walk away for those who want to use public transportation to get here. 31-00 47th Avenue also has more than 200 parking spaces for tenants. Get coffee at the nearby Doughnut Plant or lunch at Pizzeria Prezzemo.
4301 22nd Street: 4301 22nd Street is a renovated office building located in the heart of Long Island City. It primarily attracts small and medium-sized companies. The building has high ceilings, long windows, and wonderful views of Manhattan. Originally built in 1925, this 222,000 square foot building has a lot of vacant space right now. Twenty-one units ranging from 903 to 15,916 in size are currently available to rent.
Ask us about pricing and tours. Tenants at 4301 22nd Street can walk to Court Square in four minutes or to Queensboro Plaza in seven minutes. The building has a Walk Score of 97. The closest food options are Gordo's Cantina, Triple Short World Atlas, and LIC Market.
10-27 46th Road: Building 10-27 is a 60,000 square foot industrial building located at 10-27 46th Road between Vernon Boulevard and 11th Street. It features tons of natural light, high ceilings, wood floors, 24/7 building access, and a recently renovated workspace. This Class B building currently has 45 units available for leasing, so now is the time to get a wide range of choices. The units range from 1,356 to 16,001 square feet in size. Use trains E, G, M, or 7 to get here.
Long Island City Neighborhood History
As the name suggests, Long Island City used to be its own city. In 1870, the Town of Newtown merged the Village of Astoria and the hamlets of Ravenswood, Hunters Point, Blissville, Sunnyside, Dutch Kills, Steinway, Bowery Bay, and Middleton to incorporate Long Island City. During that time, around 13,000 people lived in Long Island City.
When New York City annexed Queens in 1898, Long Island City became part of the City of Greater New York. Even today, some sources call it a "city within a city." Long Island City became more connected to the rest of NYC with the establishment of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, the Queensboro Bridge, and three subway tunnels.
Gentrification and rezoning in the early 2000s helped Long Island City transform from a mostly industrial neighborhood to a residential and commercial district. Between 2010 and 2017, developers added 41 residential apartment buildings to Long Island City. In addition, it gained a reputation as a haven for artists and millennials.
Today, many of its old factory buildings have been repurposed for other uses. However, Long Island City does have a few historic landmarks and areas, including the Hunters Point Historic District, the 45th Road—Court House Square Station, Long Island City Courthouse Complex, and the Pepsi-Cola sign next to the East River. The sign commemorates the last vestiges of the Pepsi-Cola site that used to be there. Developers have converted most of the site into space for high-rise housing.


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What happened...
City didn't just race out of the blocks, they set a pace Usain Bolt would have been proud of. The intensity that has long been the hallmark of any Pep Guardiola side was evident from the first minute with sky blue shirts swarming around West Ham players every time the ball was with the opposition – in fact the Hammers just couldn't live with the Blues' pace and work-rate.
Sergio Aguero and David Silva went within a foot or so of opening the scoring before Nolito who picked out Sterling in the middle and the England winger made no mistake from eight yards out.
So dominant were the Blues that a second goal was inevitable and the only surprise was it took another 12 minutes to arrive.
Sterling won a free-kick on the right flank through sheer determination and Kevin De Bruyne's superb whipped ball was powerfully headed home by Fernandinho to double City's lead.
It was thrilling, high-octane stuff with every player having a part to play – and this against one of last season's best Premier League sides who had been made to look pretty ordinary.
Before the break, De Bruyne came within a whisker of adding a third twice, first with a free-kick that struck the top of the bar and then when he side-footed a low shot that was deflected inches wide.
City began the second period in a similar vein with Nolito seeing a goal wiped off for offside and the Aguero wrongly flagged offside when clean through on goal - but moments after the latter decision, West Ham found a lifeline when Michail Antonio headed home at the far post - much to the chagrin of Guardiola on the touchline.
It hadn't been coming, but it was an example of how marginal decisions can change the momentum of a game.
City continued to see the majority of the ball, but perhaps the first-half exertions had taken their toll and the pace wasn't quite as intense and the movement a little less fluid. But anything other than a home win would have been a travesty and the Blues kept going with Samir Nasri twice going close, Silva cracking a shot against the post before Sterling finished the job in added time with a clever shot from an acute angle.
Key moment
You'd have to say the assistant referee's raised flag with Aguero timing his run to perfection on to Nolito's through pass - Sergio had already rounded Hammers' keeper Adrian when he noticed the flag which TV replays proved had been incorrect - it could have and should have been 3-0, instead it was 2-1 within minutes and the Blues suddenly were facing a nervy finish.
Photo of the match
Man of the match: Raheem Sterling
Two goals and non-stop running, it's fair to say that Raheem Sterling is loving life under Guardiola as well as silencing his critics. The boos from opposing fans will soon be replaced by respect as the City winger shows what he can do when full of confidence and belief..
What it means
City go back to the top of the Premier League with the 100% record still intact. The Blues reclaim top spot from Chelsea and Manchester United on goal difference and are one of just three teams in the top flight to have claimed maximum points. City head into the international break firing on all cylinders with the prospect of Ilkay Gundogan, Leroy Sane and Claudio Bravo all still to make their debuts,
Stats and milestones
- The omens are good – the last time City and United both won their first three games was in 2011/12, with the Blues edging the title on the final day (you may recall!).
- Nolito and Silva pushed Sterling hard for star man honours – Nolito has scored three and assisted two goals in his first five matches for City.
- A year today….Fernandinho's last Premier League strike was on August 29 last year versus Watford – 365 days to be precise!
- This was City's ninth win at home in the last 11 meetings with the Hammers.
- Only Lionel Messi has provided more assists that Kevin De Bruyne since the start of 2014/15 – his assist today takes him to 31 and he trails Messi's 35 by four

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Human Rights interns in Argentina help homeless couple obtain disability benefits
Efforts by the Projects Abroad Human Rights Office in Argentina came to fruition on Tuesday, May 3rd, when a formerly homeless man named Gabriel received his first pension check from the Argentine government.
Human Rights interns in Córdoba have been working for several months with Gabriel and his partner, Viviana, to receive their disability pensions from the Argentine government. They came to know the couple through weekly outreaches with the local homeless population in Córdoba, where our interns offer free individual legal counselling to those who want it. After working with the couple, the Human Rights office was able to help Gabriel and Viviana to collect and submit the appropriate paperwork so that they could apply for disability pensions from the government.
"They usually came to eat at the Ganas Foundation," states Human Rights Project Supervisor, Victoria Marton, referring to a soup kitchen that Human Rights interns attend weekly. "Several times we saw the two of them walking with their cart with all of their things. They didn't have anywhere to live, and they were sleeping in the plaza."
Suffering from an unspecified psychiatric condition, Gabriel, who is 38, has lived on the streets for several years. His partner Viviana, at 49, has mothered seven children, who are no longer in contact with her. These conditions make them each eligible to receive a disability pension from the Argentine government. However, neither was aware of the steps that needed to be taken to withdraw their pensions.
This is where Projects Abroad Human Rights interns were able to intervene. In order to attain their disability pensions, Gabriel and Viviana first had to acquire government-issued identification. They then had to justify their disability by proving their inability to work. In the case of Gabriel, that meant proving his psychiatric condition which required a certificate signed by a licensed psychiatrist from a public medical facility confirming his condition. In the case of Viviana, that meant providing medical records for the seven times that she has given birth. After soliciting the pension request and submitting the necessary documentation, as well as completing an interview with a state social worker, Gabriel and Viviana were subject to a 10-month waiting period in which their forms were revised and their pension was approved.
Viviana began to receive her pension four months ago while Gabriel received his first check on May 3rd. For the first time in both of their lives, they have a regular income, and the pensions are guaranteed for life. With their newly acquired steady income, the couple is now able to rent a room from a family member, and they are no longer forced to live on the streets.
"You can imagine what it means for a person who has had nothing his or her entire life to begin to have a fixed amount of money every month and for the rest of his or her life," Marton adds. "It's an educational process to learn to handle money and to live in better conditions than before."
The Human Rights team will follow up with Gabriel and Viviana to ensure that everything continues running smoothly and that they are administering the money appropriately. Gabriel and Viviana's story falls among a number of similar cases being taken on by the Projects Abroad Human Rights Office. The first step in a retirement or disability case is helping beneficiaries to realize what it is that they are entitled to financially. Secondly, they provide support to carry out the necessary steps in the legal process, from the beginning until they finally receive payment. Finally, they follow up with the individuals in each case, to ensure that things continue to run smoothly.
The application process to begin receiving government pensions can be complicated for any individual. For those living on the streets without the support of family, an education, and potentially suffering from a debilitating psychological condition, navigating the pension system alone can be nearly impossible. The aim of the Projects Abroad Human Rights Office is to help the very individuals that the system was intended to protect, but who all too easily slip through the cracks.
Find out more about volunteering on a Human Rights internship abroad.


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Writing macros, a series of lessons (4 of…)
Today, we're going to run in a slightly different fashion. And, in fact, I'm going to tell you the big things we're going to do. We're going to learn the basics to figuring out why our macro isn't working. We're going to learn a bit about a couple of potential frustrations – spellsequence and target. And while we build a pretty good panic button we'll pick up a few other odds and ends.
Back in the comments of lesson 2, Kestrel posted a nonfunctional macro asking for help. While I gave the basic solution, I asked for and received permission to humiliate him with his failure (grin). More seriously, I asked to use it as the basis of a lesson. What we're going to do is start here with the non-functional macro, figure out where it's broken, and then improve it a bit. To begin, then, we need the macro he posted.
#showtooltip Fade
/stopcasting (in case I'm in the middle of a GH or similar)
/castsequence reset=30 Fade, [target=player] Power Word: Shield
/targetlasttarget (I still want to cast that GH, POM, or whatever
/p *** WARNING *** PRIEST HAS AGGRO. *** WARNING ***
And Kestrel's complaint is that when he uses the macro, it always casts PW:S, never Fade. As it happens he has more problems but hasn't yet discovered them. (In fairness, yes he has, but not at the time he posted this.)
The first thing in troubleshooting is to remember that – with the exception of the #show/#showtooltip lines – every line of a macro is independent. Which means every line AFTER the trouble point can be ignored. The second thing to remember is that since preceding lines can trigger events outside the macro which make it impossible to run other events (for example, trigger the GCD), we have to check every line BEFORE the problem line. So, let's begin.
#showtooltip Fade.
Inherently there is nothing wrong with this – it'll do what it's supposed to do. Now thanks to the previous lesson we know that it will show fade regardless of whether our spellsequence is pointing to fade or PW:S, because the first parameter it finds to which an icon is keyed is an unconditional fade – the one in this line. Let's go ahead and tweak that to improve by removing fade. This doesn't solve our problem, but it's an opportune improvement. So the next line is:
A command with no parameters, spelled right. Yes, spelling matters to the computer. And while the line does have an impact on the UI, the impact will not deny what's coming. In fact… as Kestrel's comment says, it makes it possible. Let's discuss this for a moment, ok?
Stopcasting means, "If I'm in the middle of casting a spell (channel or casting time), stop." Up till 2.3 it was pretty much common in every spell macro used by "serious" casters as it made it possible to work around lag. 2.3 allegedly fixed it, and blizzard IMPLIED that continuing to use stopcasting in that fashion would actually make spellcasting LESS efficient. At this time the jury is still out on both those elements. Neither of those issues is applicable in this case, however, as this is EXACTLY the sort of thing for which the command exists. For the 'speedcast' people… we'll have to wait and see. It's a digression I'm not going to take here. (gasp)
It's now obvious that our first intuition was right – the problem is in the castsequence (edited to correct) line. This is not surprising – stopcasting is not completely intuitive. First, of course, the line:
/castsequence reset=30 Fade, [target=player] Power Word: Shield
Now, castsequence needs explained before we go further. It is saying, "Cast the following list of spells, in order, on a loop." OK, there are a pair of gotchas here, one of which is obvious, one of which is implied by what I just wrote.
First, there's the loop. When your button-push reaches the last spell, then the next time you push the button you get the first spell in the list. It will not back up, it will not sit forever on the last spell, it loops.
Second… castsequence has a memory. It remembers the last spell it cast in this macro, whether that was 5 seconds ago or 5 DAYS ago. To make this little problem more obvious, let's assume a typical shadowpriest sequence: Shadow word: pain, mindblast, mindblast, mindblast. You do your little battle and press the button six times – sw:p, mb, mb, mb, sw:p, mb. You run to the next battle and start pressing, and you get – mb, mb, sw:p… waitaminute – you need SW:P FIRST. Yep, but the sequence has the second MB up, so…
This is where the conditional of 'reset' comes into play. Now back when I was discussing conditionals, I said there was one exception to the rule that conditionals are in square brackets. You have just met it – no brackets. But having met it, let's look at it, and at what it's doing.
Reset is a conditional that tells castsequence, "If any of the following are true, start over from the beginning of the list." Our shadowpriest is happy – provided he can get something that works. Fortunately for him, he can. We can choose any (or all, or some) of the following for resets: If we're pressing Alt, Shift, or Ctrl keys; if we choose a new target; if we get into combat; and if a certain number of seconds has passed. Actually, while all the others are clear, that last is what causes most problems. See, the description is incomplete even though that's what's written and assumed. The full phrase needs to be: If a certain number of seconds has passed since the last time the macro was triggered.
What this means is that if Kestrel's code was "working" he might have a rude surprise waiting. He casts fade, runs to tank, tank kills mob, battle gets finished. And as the new battle starts a mob targets him. Fade is up – has been for 10 seconds, he 'panics' – and poof, PW:S instead of fade. He's only 25 seconds since the last use. We'll be fixing – no, IMPROVING this in a bit. It's not the problem, though.
What all this discussion should have done, though, is cued you to the problem. Remember the macro sequence: command, all conditionals, all parameters. Look at this line, and what do you see? command, conditional, parameter, conditional, parameter. The macro interpreter assumes that everything between known conditionals are just miswritten conditionals, which are inherently false for tests. In this case, there's no effect other than "fade" doesn't happen.
So obviously, fade needs moved. Not obviously, there's a further bit of syntax issue. Specifically, for castsequence the reset is always the last conditional. Putting other conditionals after may give you problems. With this knowledge, we can fix the line. And with our other changes, we now have:
/castsequence [target=player] reset=30 Fade, Power Word: Shield
/p *** WARNING *** PRIEST HAS AGGRO. *** WARNING ***
That's lots better – at first. Unfortunately, as I said before, there's another problem. Targetlasttarget won't do what Kestrel wants it to do. Instead, here' s what's going to happen at some point.
Kestrel has been healing the tank, and once in a while healing the rogue in the party. He's got the tank targeted when suddenly he has to hit the panic button. He gets out of trouble with the fade, starts a greater heal as the tank is hurting, and the rogue gets a massive overheal.
The rogue? wtf?
Remember, except where the line changes the situation outside the macro, each line is independent. That bit about target=player in the castsequence ONLY APPLIES to the castsequence – it doesn't change the "real" target. Targetlasttarget, however, did. And the last target prior to the current tank was… the rogue. Which means the fix to THIS particular problem is to delete the line. And we have a working panic button:
/castsequence [target=player] reset=30 Fade, Power Word: Shield
/p *** WARNING *** PRIEST HAS AGGRO. *** WARNING ***
Now, I'm going to do some more improvements, but first I need to back up and digress. I've casually written that word "target" and not said a word about the fact it's popping up in a couple of places that aren't the same. Didn't I say that for the computer a word means what it means and nothing else? Well, meet a place where we taught our computer "context".
We can put "target" in command, conditional, and parameter. It's a peculiar thing in conditional – in its own way as bad as reset, but worse because it can show up in so many other places. Let's get the command and parameter parts over first.
Target (or targetfriend or targetlasttarget or…) means, "Make {option} my new target." If I put something in the parameter and it doesn't match what's in range, the macro interpreter will make a 'best guess' using the first letters as match."
Target in parameters is always just a text string. It does NOT mean "my current target." If I use, for example:
/target target
and there is a mob in range named Tarheel… my macro is going to try and act against Tarheel instead of my current target. Which, if I'm using an attack and tarheel is the pet of my group's hunter, is going to be just a little bit embarrassing.
Instead, we're back to the parameter. And here's where target gets annoying. It resembles marklar, only with a German twist. Let's dig a bit.
When target is in a conditional, it is always followed by an equals sign (=). It is NOT a true-false test, which would technically mean it's not a conditional, but since it's within brackets and it's got to sit in with the rest of the conditionals, that's what I'm calling it. Seriously, however, it's a limiter. It is saying, "the command will be executed against THIS target." And THIS target is what is on the right side of the equal sign (=) . It can be a specifically named target (though this might cause a couple of problems) or it can be player – meaning The player, YOU – or a few other things. One of those things can be target, or (here comes that German twist) targettargettargettarget… Yes, you can go on and on, and now I need to explain what I mean by 'German twist'. German is one of the languages where words exist that are basically a bunch of smaller words strung together – and the final word can be huuuuuge. There are restrictions and rules, of course, in both German and in this case. I'm not teaching German, however. So… Every "target" to the right of the equals sign is actually "Target of the preceding <noun>" If it's the first noun, the preceding (and assumed) noun is the player. So what I've said in that string is, "my target's target's target's target's…" It is very rare you're going out that far, but you can. There is a limit, of course. If not on the number of "targets" (I honestly do not know), there's ALWAYS the 255 character limit to macros.
One last thing about "target" for now (yes, there's more, but not now). There is a shorthand that can be used in some circumstances that always means 'my target' – or rather, when the line is executed it will be replaced with the name of your current target. If your use can't use the name of the current target, this won't work. Typically you find it in parameters of things, or where the only option for the command is <target>. The shorthand is %t.
And with that, we're off to improving the existing macro – with a couple of additional lessons along the way. The first thing is… this is a panic button. I have one more thing I personally like if I'm panicing – my last-ditch "Oh, pretty please, go ANYWHERE else" attempt – Psychic Scream. I'm going to add it to the end of the castsequence chain.
But I've also mentioned I don't like the renew timer. And with psychic scream it's potentially even worse. To be specific consider if I toss my fade, 25 seconds later I toss the shield as already mentioned. And 25 seconds after that, or 50 seconds after I faded, I cause the mob that's attacking me – and up to four other mobs we're in the midst of fighting – to go running around picking up MORE adds. Ummm…. oops?
Picking the right renew time is something of an art, especially when there are several items in the chain. In this particular situation, though, I'm going to use the cooldown of the first spell in the chain. Sure, it could still get me into trouble. On the other hand, between the faster cooldown and the fact my icon shows what spell's ready, I should be a little better off. So my first change makes the macro:
/castsequence [target=player] reset=15 \
Fade, Power Word: Shield, Psychic Scream
/p *** WARNING *** PRIEST HAS AGGRO. *** WARNING ***
(remember, the backslash (\) means 'continued on next line')
But wait, there's more. See, as Kestrel noted in a later comment, this is only good in groups. What if we're solo? We've just wasted mana and cooldown – in a panic situation no less – on fade. Well, we can do two fixes.
First, we can fix this so it's ONLY happening when we're in groups. Which means we're adding the conditional [group] to the line. Except not quite like that. See, if we put it in its own brackets, that gets an independent test. Castsequence is weird, and target is weird, so it may behave exactly as we intend. But to be certain, we're going to put it in the same bracket set as the target statement, and separate them with a comma. So we're going to have [group,target=player] in there.
By the way, group can be a further conditional – we can say "only when party" and "only when raid" by following group with a conditional AND either party or raid. Anyway…
That makes our panic button work do fade only when we're in a group. But when we're solo the ONLY thing that happens is our party (what party?) gets the "help me" message. Let's make this panic button useful for solo, too, shall we?
In solo, I would normally cast shield, then renew, and then psychic scream. That's just me, adjust to your flavor. The point is I have a solo version of my castsequence, and the line goes:
/castsequence [nogroup,target=player] reset=15 \
Power word: shield, renew, psychic scream
And I'm going to stick that right after the other castsequence. But… I'm beginning to get worried about the total length of 255 characters. (Actually I'm not, but I've got another lesson coming.) Remember way back in an earlier lesson, I told you that the semicolon (;) is a shorthand? Technically it's a boolean 'OR' for the command. In practical terms it is a replacement for "{newline}same command". In other words, exactly our situation. Our new line is (this is all ONE LINE, reader):
/castsequence [group,target=player] reset=15 \
Fade, Power word: shield, psychic scream; \
[nogroup,target=player] reset=15 \
Power word: shield, renew, psychic scream
Isn't that nice? Saved a bunch of characters…
But there's that bit at the end – the bit that tells the party (that's what /p does, sends the rest of the line into party chat) that you're in trouble. If you're in a raid this is still sorta ok – after all, you'll still be part of a party. Just hope it's not all the healers grouped together… ummmm.
We have a bunch of options. Now before I start listing them, I want to raise a human condition. Remember first that this message is going out every time you tap the button. So if you panic three times (that is, fade/shield/scream), the message goes out three time — and in a short handful of seconds. "So?" you ask? OK, put the shoe on the other foot.
What's your feeling about the "Heal Me" macros other players use?
Yeah, thought so. This is possibly a little different – possibly – but let's be aware of the issue, ok? Assuming these are OK, let's look at covering all the bases.
Now the first thing we could do is repeat the same message, but repeat it for /s (or say) and /ra (or raid channel). Three lines total. hmmm.
OR… we can use /rw. This slaps our "help me" message right up in front of group, WITH a sound, regardless of whether we're in party or raid. remember the human problem, of course. And that still leaves us with the need to "say" when we're not in party. Which leads me to my preferred solution.
/v help
Use this in replacement of the existing /p message. Yes, you aren't able to modify it so it says who needs help and why, but it DOES do two things. First, it "says" in chat – which even your party and raid sees. Second, there's a corresponding sound – pretty plain, at that. "Help Me."
Which means MY version of this panic button ends up being:
/castsequence [group,target=player] reset=15 \
Fade, Power word: shield, psychic scream; \
[nogroup,target=player] reset=15 \
Power word: shield, renew, psychic scream
/v help
And with that, we'll stop for this lesson. Oh, don't worry, there's plenty more to come. In the meantime,
Have fun.
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Hi Kirk, this is my first post here. I love the blog, and these macro posts are really solid. Two things:
First, you wrote:
"It's now obvious that our first intuition was right – the problem is in the stopcasting line. This is not surprising – stopcasting is >not completely intuitive. First, of course, the line:"
I'm confused – did you mean to refer the castsequence line? I'm exhausted after a long work week, so please forgive me if I'm just not reading this correctly.
Secondly, is it possible to attach different /s or /p text to different conditions? For example, take the Fade/Res macro you put together in part 3. Could we work the macro so that is attached to the [nocombat] Resurrection and is attached to the [combat] Fade? Or does the 'no conditionals for insecure commands' rule make this impossible?
Cool, I'll look forward to your scripting lesson. The scripting samples I've seen left me dazed and confused -.-
And, ugh, I really should take a look at my posts BEFORE I send them. The third sentence in my last paragraph should have read as follows:
"Could we work the macro so that '/s Priest resing T%' is attached to the [nocombat] Resurrection and '/s ZOMG, Priest is George!' is attached to the [combat] Fade?"
Clearly, you (somehow) understood what I was saying enough to answer my question, but I wanted to post the correction anyway.
Kirk, great job. Your post explained more about macro syntax to me than 3 billion forum posts. I have to admit though, at one point while reading, I fully expected some Perl or C code to come into play! Would have been interesting..
Keep up the good work
Hi Kirk,
thx a laot for doing this fine piece of work (and publishing).
i think, Your approach is really fine, to explain some basics and then take an almost^^ working little piece of code and do some improvements and bug fixing along with decent explanations on WHYs and WHY_NOTs.
I'm learning quite a bit going through your lessons. Thanks for putting the effort forth to create them.
I love the panic button macro! However, the /v help line does not work for me..
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Fans of "Judge Dredd" - the dystopian supercop created by writer Jack Wagner and artist Carlos Ezquerra in the pages of UK's anthology comic "2000 A.D." during the late 70s - have spent the past 16 years telling people, "No, no, seriously, he's a LOT cooler than that Stallone movie would lead you to believe. Really."
Then word came that director Pete Travis ("Vantage Point") was all set to erase the memory of Sly's 1995 debacle with a gritty new take starring "Lord of the Rings" vet Karl Urban in the lead role and "28 Days Later" scribe Alex Garland on script duty. First order of business: Reassuring fans that this Dredd would never, ever remove his helmet, just like his comic counterpart. Not only was Urban - who admitted to be a huge fan of the comic - cool with this, he would claim to "Empire" magazine that it was one of the main reasons he said yes to the part.
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Slow down.
Word started to perk up yesterday that Travis had been booted from the editing room by the producers over that oh-so-caustic phrase "creative differences." Although principle photography was completed, Travis was reportedly shown the door and the reigns were given to Garland to shape the finished film.
Today, Travis and Garland issued a joint statement which features the press release version of Pee Wee Herman's "I meant to do that."
In short, Travis and Garland claim that there are no creative differences - they are, in fact, practicing an "unorthodox collaboration." Exactly. Because a director calling it a day and giving the keys to the screenwriter just as he's about to dig in and edit the footage he spent a year preparing and shooting is the textbook definition of "unorthodox." We could think of other words that could fit, too.
The complete release:
"During all stages of the filmmaking, 'Dredd' has been a collaboration between a number of dedicated creative parties. From the outset we decided on an unorthodox collaboration to make the film. This situation has been misinterpreted. To set the record straight, Pete was not fired and remains a central part of the collaboration, and Alex is not seeking a co-director credit. We are all extremely proud of the film we have made, and respectfully suggest that it is judged on viewing when its released next year."
So there you have it. Travis is still "involved," but probably not editing. Also? "Dredd" will be coming to a theater near you, but probably won't be any good. Remember when Jerry Bruckheimer locked director Mike Newell out of the editing room on "Prince of Persia" and how well that turned out?
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Despite the Internet and other diversions, 73% of Americans read at least one book in the past year. Most of what they read were printed books, not e-books or Web-books. (I read both, but not audio books.) That's about the same as in 2012. Of course the survey says nothing about the kind of books we read...
This article has a title that contradicts what it says, so I've deleted it. Some surprising numbers here. And by the way, Donald Trump, who says he doesn't read books, is an exception to his class; the well-off read more than any other category of Americans.
By Robert J. Samuelson
September 8 at 11:08 AM
If you're like me, you regard the decline in book reading as another sign of the cultural rot that is eating away at the American character. Why read something as demanding as a book when you can spend all your time on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram? They're easier and provide a quicker fix of entertainment, gossip and information. Book reading, especially of old-fashioned physical books, simply isn't competitive.
Well, get used to it: This is all wrong.
In a new report, the Pew Research Center finds that book reading, while not exactly booming, seems to be holding its own against the onslaught of new time-consuming digital technologies. There's been a slow slide of book reading, but it is hardly a rout and may now be stabilizing. What's even more surprising is that the affection for reading extends to traditional books. Although e-books are becoming more popular, they still significantly lag behind paper books.
Here are the highlights of the Pew survey:
● In 2016, nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of adult Americans age 18 and over report reading a book in the past year. That's down from 79 percent in 2011 — the first year Pew conducted its survey — but virtually the same as 2012, when the share was 74 percent.
● Print books are still the overwhelming favorite of most Americans. In 2016, 65 percent report reading a printed book, down from 71 percent in 2011 but equal with 2012's 65 percent.
● E-books have achieved spectacular growth — in 2016, 28 percent of Americans reported reading one, up from 17 percent in 2011. By contrast, the rising trajectory of audio books has been slower; some 14 percent of Americans listened to one in the past year, up from 11 percent in 2011 but essentially unchanged from 2012's 13 percent.
● Only a small proportion of Americans — 6 percent — exclusively read digital books. Meanwhile, 28 percent read both digital and print, and 38 percent read only print books. All the e-book totals include tablets and mobile phones as well as dedicated readers (Kindle, Nook and the like).
Naturally, book reading is not spread uniformly throughout the adult population. The median American — meaning the American precisely in the middle of the distribution of book readers — reads four books a year. Meanwhile, the average for all Americans is 12 books a year, the average being all books divided by the population. Some people read more (or less) than others.
Women read more than men, with 77 percent finishing at least one book compared with men's 68 percent. Non-Hispanic whites (76 percent) read more than blacks (69 percent) or Hispanics (58 percent). Young people 18 to 29 read more (80 percent) than those 65 and over (67 percent). The well-off with incomes exceeding $75,000 read more (81 percent) than the poor (65 percent) with incomes less than $30,000.
So we pessimists about cultural rot must revise our scorecards to conform with reality. Maybe almost everything is going to the dogs, but if so, book reading seems to be a conspicuous and welcome exception.
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Is Ryan Gosling the Aggro Jealous Boyfriend with the fake Brooklyn accent who takes you to Disneyland?
Or will you find a way to blame her for his behaviour?
The night before, at the premiere of The Place Beyond The Pines, the two kept their distance at the afterparty, probably trying to avoid making their relationship the focus of gossips, the way they were the focus for us gossips at TIFF in September -- click here for a refresher. I'm not sure that's so much a sign of their end as it is another sign of how weird and determined they are not to be a discussion topic when there's not much they can do to not be a discussion topic.
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The reason for this is simple. Insurers typically use lots of historical claims data to create a collective risk profile. This means that, even if Joe is the best young driver around, the quote is going to reflect his peer group and this will generally mean a much higher than average premium.
By 2016, this picture will have changed dramatically with the introduction of new E-call (emergency call) legislation across the European Union. Designed to significantly reduce the time it takes for the emergency services to be dispatched to an incident, all new cars from that date must be wirelessly connected, automatically transmitting location data to a central control number in the event of an incident, ensuring that the emergency services are better informed to respond more effectively.
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The Institute of Physics – a not-for-profit scientific society that aims to develop widespread awareness and understanding of physics – will introduce the Perimeter resources to schools through teachers in its Physics Teacher Network.
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The partnership between Perimeter Institute and the Institute of Physics was forged because both organizations have a mandate to spark passion in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) among young people.
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As the Washington, DC establishment continues to wrestle with political issues related to deficits, budget cuts and sequestration, the U.S. military has taken some initial steps toward cost-cutting and identified possible additional steps that it will take if Congress and the President do not reach an agreement that prevents mandatory, draconian budget cuts from being implemented on March 1.
In this memo from Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force Jamie Morin and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General Larry Spencer to Air Force senior leadership on Monday, the current budgetary uncertainties are explained, and Morin and Spencer direct the Air Force to immediately implement tactics to reduce the rate of spending and mitigate the impact of the budgetary cuts that would become mandatory in the event that a political agreement is not reached. Importantly, the memo also says, Our intent with these initial actions is to pursue reversible or recoverable steps and avoid impacts to core readiness. Though the memo also directs the Air Force to curtail flying not directed to readiness, including air shows, there is some consensus that this does not mean that the Air Force is directing Air Force personnel to end their air show-related preparation for the 2013 season. In any case, those who feel that they are being directed to take permanent, irreversible and/or unrecoverable steps should get additional guidance before taking those steps.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Budget, Rear Admiral J.P. Mulloy, issued this, similarly-worded memo providing direction to Navy personnel on budgetary concerns. The Navy memo dictates a more general reduction to flying hours, without specifically referencing air shows or air show flying.
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:47 am
Post subject: Deep Fry flours
I reduced the liquid content in the recipe by at least 20% without much difference. What I think is required is a batter with a large degree of internal air bubbles. I am considering adding various combinations of baking powder, baking soda and finally even yeast. Any thoughts on this?
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I'd suggest a first step of posting the complete recipe - that will give folks some specifics to consider.
baking soda leavens by creating CO2 from mixed with an acidic component. buttermilk would be a good one for fritters.
baking powder - double acting - does the same thing but additionally releases CO2 when heated. (single acting exists, but is not too commonly used)
note on baking powder: it does have a shelf life - how fresh is your batch?
when using either baking soda or baking powder, the batter should be used right away - it should not be made "the night before" for example.
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Post subject: whole wheat vs. all purpose flour, which is healthier?
Could someone please help me find the answer to this question? I am in a never-ending argument w/ my brother about this.
I am under the impression that whole wheat/ whole grain flour is a flour that is not ground to such a fine texture as all purpose flour. For this reason it is a healthier flour since on the molecular level the sugar molecules are encased w/ fiber molecules and do not get absorbed by our bodies but instead pass on through our digestive system. But, all purpose flour is ground so finely that the fiber casings are destroyed and all the sugars now get absorbed by our digestive system.
Is there any science to back up ths theory I've been told?
My Kingdom for an answer that makes sense. Actually, I rent, hehehe.
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lotta research needed to form your own opinion.
"wheat" is the seed of a plant. as such there are various "parts" to the seed.
milling "white flour" from the grain "as harvested" is not a one step process.
one grind separates the husk, another the endosperm, another the germ, another the pericarp, etc.
"white flour" is typically just the ground bits of the seed endosperm.
there are many grades of "how fine" a flour is ground.
additionally, "whole wheat" grind include parts other than the endosperm.
"all purpose" flour is not a good consideration here. the all purpose, bread, pastry, etc, type classifications refer to the gluten/protein level. that is not related to "how much of the wheat seed" is included except that protein levels are measured by weight percentages - so if you add (or do not remove) anything that affects weight and not protein, the classification will change.
so far as sugar molecules being encased in x or y or z, and being destroyed/preserved by some particular grind, that sounds a lot like some bit of snake oil. no flour grind is so fine that it destroys / preserves anything at the molecular level.
whether the part of the wheat grain that contains sugar(s) x,y,z is included in a particular whole/white/[insert marketing hype word here] four type is an entirely different question.
whole/partial grain type flours certainly add to 'dietary' fiber.
grinding a whole grain to the point the sugar is destroyed on a molecular level is a bit of a stretch.
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Helen S. Fletcher
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:04 am
Post subject: Wheat Flour
While I very much enjoyed your article on wheat flour and in the main found it to be useful, I feel that you mislead your readers when it comes to the weight of a cup of flour. As a professional baker with a business of 23 years as well as a food writer who develops recipes, the advice that the recipe assumes sifted flour is incorrect. As you correctly noted, most writers, magazines, books and professionals use 140 grams or 5 ounces as a cup of unsifted flour. No one sifts flour anymore which is why this measurement is used and professionally you cannot sift 20 or more pounds of flour on a routine basis as nothing would get done in the bakery for all the time spent sifting. You can aerate to some degree but not sift it. If you use recipes from a book, the reader should see if the writer explains how the flour is measured. Also, cake flour weighs 100 grams or 3 1/2 ounces sifted, while it weighs 115 grams unsifted. So all flours do not weigh alike. For all purpose or bread flour if the flour is stirred with a spoon, spooned into a measuring cup to overflowing and swept off, the measurement is a consistent 140 grams. If your readers use the 125 gram measurement they will be off by 1/2 ounce per cup which maybe does not matter in some recipes or can make a big difference in others. All of the recipes on my website, gooeychocolate.com use a non sifted weight (140 grams) by necessity. You can see the results, I wish you could have tasted them.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:45 pm
Post subject: flour
I want to know more about high protein flour. Thanks for the start. I am off to experiment with my bread recipes. I have been making our bread for 4 years and want to get my bread healthier and better and better.... This will get me started. Seems that no one has an answer about good nutrition values and better than the super market values. Even then, I love making the bread and just want to be able to continue. How can I use whole wheat white flour and make it high gluten and still get a faulous loaf of challah bread. That is my benchmark.
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 9:09 pm
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within generalizations, higher protein also entails higher gluten.
whole wheat flour has less gluten; lots of other good things - but on a percentage basis less gluten. not because whole wheat is missing something "different" - but because every part of the "whole" wheat kernel is retained - but gluten doesn't occur in the bran.... so although all the gluten is still there, by weigh percentages the gluten is "less" than white flours where bran/germ, etc have been sifted out.
there is a product called "vital wheat gluten" I use to increase the gluten percentage when I make whole wheat loaves.
you will also notice in many many many "whole wheat" recipes, it is not 100% whole wheat.
100% whole wheat makes for very pretty bricks; very dense.
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Joined: 09 Oct 2008
Posts: 377
Location: Seattle
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:52 pm
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Dilbert, you got me thinking about the different kinds of ground wheat available in India and I found a good reference
. I use atta (from the Indian grocery) to make chappatti and rotis, and the single time I tried to make naan I used All-Purpose, which explains the disasterous results!
What it doesn't explain is the difference between hard and soft wheats; or whether these varieties are available as non-specialty flours in the US.
Anyway, if you need a cheap source of pure whole-wheat flour, you might check with an Indian grocery if you live near one. Give it a try, at least.
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:37 pm
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the classification of hard or soft methinks relates to the protein/gluten content of the specific wheat variety - it's an inherent trait of that specific wheat strain.
there are specialty growers / millers that can supply 100% of the type they grow or have access to - but it's uncommon to find that "on the shelf" other than "Durum"
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:22 am
Post subject: Whole wheat
"Whole wheat flour contains the germ (the embryo of the wheat kernel)..."
Whole-wheat flour also contains bran. I believe it turns out to be about 85% endosperm, 12% bran, 2% germ. Whole-wheat flour is made by milling the entire groat. White flour is made by milling the groat after removing the bran and germ (it should look something like a grain of rice).
Graham flour is white flour with the proportions of wheat bran and wheat germ mixed back in. And so it is the same as whole-wheat flour in composition. The difference is that the bran and germ are much coarser in this recombined form, whereas with regular whole-wheat flour it is all milled, so you should have a finer mill. I regularly remake wheat flour by adding a handful of bran and about a tablespoon of germ to my white flour. It makes a delicious bread, and the only thing I need to keep below room temperature is the germ (which I keep in the freezer).
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Released: October 2015
Platform: Apple iPhone 4 / iOS 4.3 +
Jonathan Hunt is a young journalist from New York who has Hungarian ancestry. His first trip to Hungary begins as innocently as a vacation, but soon turns into a treasure hunt for a mysterious ring and hidden messages from the past…
The first Jonathan Hunt Adventure is the remake of the critically acclaimed, award-winning PC interactive movie Yoomurjak's Ring whose deep storyline has been extended into a thick novel recently. The new iPhone and iPad versions give you the opportunity to enjoy the full Yoomurjak-experience in your hands. The completely redesigned interface, real-life locations, panoramic photos, puzzles, dialogues and easy controls make it a true genre defining game for iPhone and iPad.
In the role of Jonathan, be challenged by cryptic inscriptions and secrets of old wine cellars, decode messages and documents, understand the key of Schubert's unfinished symphony or fabricate a 16th century bomb. Let a romance develop, get the information you need and avoid trouble at any cost!


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Question No: 141 – (Topic 8)
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
You install the servers shown in the following table.
The company#39;s compliance department identifies the following tasks that must be performed:
->Back up individual files from VM1.
->Back up the configuration settings of VM1.
->Restore the configuration settings of VM1.
->Restore individual files from VM1 to an alternate location.
The compliance department administrators recommend installing the DPM agent on Server1, and then performing a full backup.
You need to identify which task is NOT met by the recommended solution. Which task should you identify?
Restore individual files from VM1 to an alternate location.
Restore the configuration settings of VM1.
Back up the configuration settings of VM1.
Back up individual files from VM1.
Answer: B Explanation:
In the event of disaster recovery, System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010 allows you to recover virtual machines as files to a network folder.
You can then copy those files to an alternate Hyper-V host server.
However, to start a virtual machine on an alternate Hyper-V host server, you have to manually create and configure the virtual machine using the recovered files.
DPM 2010 supports alternate location recovery (ALR), which allows you to recover a Hyper-V virtual machine to an alternate stand-alone Hyper-V host or to a cluster.
The recovered virtual machine is already registered and configured on an alternate Hyper- V host server.
In a virtualized environment the issue is whether to backup from inside the guest or from the host.
The latter provides quot;bare metal restorequot; of an entire VM where something#39;s gone catastrophically wrong with a VM (or the host) but in general it doesn#39;t provide granular restore of files / folders.
DPM 2010 added Item Level Restore (ILR), allowing you to restore individual files or folders within a VM even though it had only been backed up from the host.
But this capability was only available when DPM 2010 ran on physical hardware, if the DPM server itself was in a VM this capability was not available.
DPM 2012 fixes this glitch and can now do ILR even when the DPM server is a VM. http://4sysops.com/archives/dpm-2012-part-3-other-improvements/
Question No: 142 – (Topic 8)
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company#39;s private cloud.
The company has a System Center 2012 infrastructure that includes System Center 2012 – Service Manager (SCSM).
You use Service Manager for Service Level Management.
You need to create a service level objective (SLO) in Service Manager for incidents that meet the following criteria:
Priority = 1 Incident Category = Email Problem
Assigned User = Empty
What should be your first step?
You should first create a Service Template.
You should first create a Connector.
You should first create a Queue.
You should first create a Query.
Answer: C Explanation: C.
SLO needs queue first (queue creates the relationship between incident type, priority and metric/escalation path) here is additional information to support the answer C (queue). The first paragraph under quot;Queue:quot; seems to reference this question directly. http://blogs.technet.com/b/servicemanager/archive/2012/01/25/scsm-2012-service-level- management.aspx
With queues you can group different work items in Service Manager (SCSM 2010 and SCSM 2012) by criteria.
For instance: All Incidents with Priority 2 AND Incident Category 鈥濵ail Problem" AND Assigned User is empty.
Queues are used in SCSM 2012 SLA Management to apply the SLA to a group of work items.
SCSM 2012 console -gt; Library -gt; Queuesquot;
Question No: 143 – (Topic 8)
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
You deploy an application visualization solution.
You deploy a server named Server1, and then you install the Remote Desktop Services server role.
Server1 is monitored by using Operations Manager.
You deploy a virtualized application named App1 to Server1.
You need to set the state of Server1 to critical if CPU utilization by App1 exceeds 80 percent for five minutes.
What should you create?
a rule
a monitor
a service level objective (SLO)
an event subscription
a synthetic transaction
Answer: B Explanation:
quot;You need to set the state of Server1 to critical if CPU utilization by App1 exceeds 80 percent for five minutes.quot;
SLOs don#39;t change the state of an object, monitors do: Create a monitor if…
You want to affect the health of an object. In addition to generating an alert, a monitor will affect the health state of its target object. This is displayed in state views and availability reports.
Reference: Monitors and Rules http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh457603.aspx
Question No: 144 – (Topic 8)
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
The network contains an Operations Manager infrastructure and a Service Manager infrastructure.
You need to configure Service Manager to create incidents automatically based on Operations Manager alerts.
Which object should you create from the Service Manager Console?
A subscription
A queue
An incident event workflow
A connector
Answer: D
Question No: 145 – (Topic 8)
Your role of Systems Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the company#39;s private cloud.
The private cloud is hosted on an internal System Center 2012 infrastructure.
The network includes servers that run Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and are managed by servers running System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM).
You are configuring a hardware profile in VMM.
The hardware profile will be used to create virtual machines configured for Windows Network Load Balancing.
In the Network Adapter Properties, you configure the network adapter to be connected to a logical network and to use a Static IP address from the Static IP Pool.
You now need to configure the MAC address options.
Which two of the following options should you configure? (Choose two).
You should select the option for a Dynamic MAC Address.
You should select the option for a Static MAC Address.
You should tick the Enable Spoofing of MAC Addresses checkbox.
You should clear the Enable Spoofing of MAC Addresses checkbox.
Answer: B,C Explanation:
In order for NLB service to function properly, it will assign all clustered NIC the same MAC address. It cannot do this if spoofing is disabled, so answer C is valid. Additionally, we want to make sure that once the MAC addresses are set by NLB, they don#39;t change, this means answer B is valid.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742455.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/jhoward/archive/2009/05/21/new-in-hyper-v-windows-server- 2008-r2-part-2-macspoofing.aspx
(Since VMM is an abstraction to hyperv, we can assume hyperV NLB requirements are the same as VMM NLB requirements.)
Question No: 146 HOTSPOT – (Topic 8)
Select what update method to use with VMM. (select either VMM Baseline update or Configuration Manager): make you vmm update method as much as possible
Question No: 147 – (Topic 8)
Your company has a private cloud that is managed by using a System Center 2012 infrastructure.
The network contains a Service Manager infrastructure.
The company implements a service level agreement (SLA) for the private cloud.
You need to recommend an escalation notification solution for when an SLA warning threshold is exceeded.
What should you include in the recommendation?
A subscription
A Desired Configuration Management Event Workflow Configuration
An incident event workflow
A monitor
A rule
Answer: C Explanation:
You can use the following procedure to create a workflow rule that will change the support tier to Tier 2 whenever the Urgency property of an incident that is related to printing problems is changed to High.
This procedure assumes that you already created an incident template to change the support tier to Tier 2, and it assumes that you already created the priority calculation table.
For more information, see How to Set Incident Priority and quot;To create a new printer-related incident templatequot; in How to Create Incident Templates.
Question No: 148 – (Topic 8)
Our company has a main office and 10 branch offices.
The network contains an Active Directory forest named contoso.com. Each office contains domain controllers.
You have a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure that has Operations Manager and Service Manager installed.
Each office has multiple VLANs. All switches are managed switches.
Users in the branch offices occasionally call the help desk to report that they cannot access some of the network resources in the main office.
You need to ensure that all of the ports on the switches can be monitored by using Operations Manager.
What is the best configuration to achieve the goal? More than one answer choice may achieve the goal. Select the BEST answer.
A recursive discovery for the network devices by using ICMP
An explicit discovery for the network devices by using ICMP
A recursive discovery for the network devices by using SNMP
An explicit discovery for the network devices by using SNMP
Answer: D
Question No: 149 – (Topic 8)
You have a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure that has Orchestrator and Service Manager installed.
Integration between Orchestrator and Service Manager is configured.
You need to ensure that when a change request is made in Service Manager, the following requirements are met:
->The ticket number is logged to a file.
->The file contains the ticket numbers for every change request.
->Each time a ticket number is logged to the file, an email message is sent to an administrator.
Which activities should you use in a runbook?
Monitor Object, Insert Line, and Send Email
Get Activity, Append Line, and Send Email
Monitor State, Insert Line, and Send Email
Monitor Object, Append Line, and Send Email
Answer: D Explanation:
You do not know when the action should take place. So you need the monitor to trigger your action (not the other way around). The get activity is used when a runbook is already running.
Above states to use the Append Line command for logging purposes (which is not described as such for the Insert Line command).
quot;Use the Append Line activity to append lines to a log file to create audits trails of runbooks.quot;
Question No: 150 HOTSPOT – (Topic 8)
Your company has a private cloud that contains a System Center 2012 Service Manager infrastructure.
The help desk uses Service Manager to manage and track incidents.
Service desk analysts report that they receive many Windows 7-related incidents. You need to create a classification for the Windows 7-related incidents.
What should you configure to create the classification? To answer, select the appropriate configuration in the answer area.
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Back from another cocking adventure...
I was in Kentucky early this month for a wedding actually. I actually HAD to go to Kentucky. Lucky me right? So I took advantage of my one day off from wedding preparations and festivities to do some chicken touring.
Well, my friend and Partner John, who lives in Kentucky prepared a day for me that was really great!
It so happened that Dink Fair had recently moved to the Bluegrass State as well... Does it get any better?
So we planned a day to visit Dink and his new farm and I'll keep this short and let the pictures speak for themselves...
Paradise! Kentucky is so beautiful and this farm is an example of it.
Just teepees and farm land as far as the eye can see. And no high fences as there are no thieves in this part of the world.
John and Dink
Me and Dink.
Dink's range area. A whole jungle.
True "Free Range." This really gives the birds the edge in health and vigor


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I've penned 168 articles since EFW found its sorry way onto the interweb a couple of seasons ago. You might find it a bit Ken Dodd that none of these have featured a Brighton home match at the Withdean Stadium because for 30 years - man and boy - they were the love of my life. So what happened I hear you drone before rolling your eyes into your collective sockets.
Withdean & I have had a love-hate relationship. I loved the club returning to Brighton after a couple of seasons of travelling to Gillingham for home matches. I loved beating Manners 6-0 on our first game back. I loved back to back promotions. I loved Micky Adams (first time round) and the Bobby (Zamora) years. I loved Paul Watson's free kicks and Daddy Cullip. Moreover, I loved meeting up with 15-20 mates before each home game for three hours of pre-match tomfoolery.
So what went wrong? Well, silly old me, I fell out of love with paying £450 for a season ticket. I could go on about the lack of atmosphere, the running track around the pitch, no roof, poor facilities, lack of beer, mediocre football and the like but the bottom line was the money. Three seasons ago I waved my little white flag, as did almost all of my other mates and we went our separate ways. I discovered European Football Weekends and became a Non-League football bore.
Wives to the shops + lads to the football + meeting up again in the evening to celebrate our good work = (the last time I checked the EFW manual) a winning formula. So with the ladies happily spending our cash in town; Ju, Greeno, Binsy and a cast of tens got gooey eyed talking about our favourite subject - the old days - over a couple of bevingtons whilst watching our "friends" along the coast - Southampton v Portsmouth - do battle in the FA Cup Filth Round on the tellybox.
Only 894 Canaries were allowed to swoop down to Sussex due to space restrictions. I doff my cap to Norwich fans who travel in huge numbers and not just when they're top of the league either. I'm not sure how much of the game they actually saw because the away stand at Withdean is famously a country mile from the pitch.
The Albion fans were fairly mute throughout save for a few renditions of Sussex by the Sea and the dreadful 'Alllllllbion, Allllllllbion' chant. Brighton are one of those teams that has tremendous vociferous backing away from home - where fans often travel in their thousands - as opposed to home games, where the 'Withdean experience' seems to have drained them of their vocal chords.
The Albion actually had the better of the first half against table topping Norwich. To my untrained eye, midfielders Bennett and Navarro looked the pick of the home side. It was Bennett who opened the scoring with a free kick which found its merry way through a whole host of players into the net. Minutes later Glenn Murray had two (two!) shots cleared off the line. It was all going swimmingly for the Seagulls. What could possibly go wrong?
At half time we chatted away to Delia Smith and Fat Boy Slim - as you do. Turns out Delia is as nice as (Smoked Haddock and Quail Egg) pie. Five FIFA stars to the pair of them for being celebrity fans that actually go to games.
After an iffy substitution in which Holroyd was hauled off in favour of Seb Carole the game started to turn in favour of the away side. Albion gaffer Gus Poyet - the man they call the "radio" because you can't switch him off - is a likable and relentlessly positive manager in terms of his personality but he probably got this one wrong.
McNamee, Martin, Johnson starting pouring forward for Norwich. Hoolahan began pulling a few strings and Grant Holt, well he is superman. Holt it was who equalised with deflected shot before Gary Doherty - who must have playing for Norwich for 150 years - popped up late doors to notch the winner with his noggin. On the ball City - at last. Harsh on the Albion but that's life.
As it is Valentines Day, I better put and end to this report and let you get on with your romantic plans for the day. I'm pretty excited because I've booked the wife a table today. Excited because we haven't played snooker for years. Boom, boom, tish. You've been watching....


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What do geeks do when confronted with the hottest game console at the moment, one that is going on eBay for many times its list price? Why, they try to install Linux on it of course. It just happens that we managed to get our grubby hands on a piano-black Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) and after the initial hoo-ha had died down, we realized the dire lack of things that we could actually do with that expensive machine. Faced with a choice between an atrocious Mobile Suit Gundam: CrossFire or yet another iteration of a racing game like Ridge Racer 7, we turned to the much touted high definition entertainment route instead. However, we had a seriously unimpressive House of Flying Daggers Blu-ray disc that didn't look any much better than the DVD version (not to mention that we have watched the movie before and the Blu-ray version was poor on the extra features).
In short, we had this expensive shiny console coveted by many but there wasn't really any 'killer app' that made us want to turn it on (besides listening to the symphonic music it plays on boot-up). But then saying the PS3 is just a console is like saying football is just a game. We know it's much more than that. For beneath that black hood lies the powerful Cell processor, jointly developed by IBM, Toshiba and Sony. This PowerPC compatible processor is aided by up to 6 RISC processors though eight were originally planned. A thorough technical overview can be found here if you're interested in the engineering involved. Since there wasn't any compelling games or movies at the moment, we decided to do something off the beaten track - install Linux of course!
Actually, what we're going to try is not exactly unorthodox. In fact, it comes with the blessings of Sony. The folks there probably recognize that its new console is a supercomputer compared to previous consoles and it is actively wooing the open source crowd by advocating an open platform and basically allowing other operating systems, like Linux to be installed on the PS3. It is also a continuation of the Linux community that Sony has encouraged for its older PS2 console. While the cynics in us may not be completely sold on the whole open platform idea propagated by Sony (witness the cat and mouse game for the PSP homebrew scene or Sony Music's DRM root kit fiasco), there is already a website with some useful tools and guides on how to get Linux working on your PS3. A lesser known distribution, Yellow Dog Linux has also worked closely with Sony to get a custom distribution out for the PS3.
Of course, we couldn't wait for the official public release of Yellow Dog Linux (on Christmas ) nor did we feel like paying to get it earlier. Hence, we scourged the Internet for information on how others before us have done it. Yes, people have gotten the popular Fedora Core working on their PS3s and today, it's our turn.
Pre-Installation Checklist
Before embarking on our Linux journey, these are some steps that you need to take and files that you should download beforehand. We found a pretty handy 1-page guide to the whole installation process and all credit to the guy who compiled it. In any case, you should check that you have the following items:
- A Sony PS3 (Duh! Update the firmware to 1.10 via System Settings >> System Update)
- Fedora Core 5 (the DVD ISO can be found on many websites. Google is your friend. Remember, you'll need the Power PC version.)
- Sony's official installer (Other OS Installer, reading the manual there is helpful too.)
- PS3 Linux Addon CD (ISO image, about 45MBs)
- Storage media (You'll need free space of around 10MB so a USB thumb drive and any sort of flash memory card is fine)
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Youda Fisherman
Can you help rebuilding the fishing company? People have written about you, fighting pirates and helping people. Do you have it in you to help out people who are in need of help once again? Are you ready to prove that you are the helpful, fearless person praised in adventure books? It didn't take long before some of them reached out to you for help. The fishing company of the Mad Scientist is destroyed, can you manage to rebuild it? Help the Scientist face his fears! Work together and earn more fame! Learn trading techniques, discover new markets around the world and become the ruler of the open seas!


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