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Mon - Fri: 8am - 5pm, Sat: 9am - 4pm, Sun: Closed
If you have a home appliance that is in need of repair, like an oven, refrigerator, dishwasher or laundry machine, then schedule an appointment online with one of Dave Smith Appliance's expert repair technicians today.Schedule Now
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Great service! Our technician was professional, knowledgeable & friendly! – Kristi Brown (5 Stars)
Dave Appliance were great, washer wouldn't drain out, replace parts order parts and the tech John F. Was awesome young man, did a awesome job, every friendly, knew his job well and John was very polite entering our home until he exit our home. We'll use Dave's when we need service. Ask for Tech Mr John F. he has excellent work manners. Thank u for your excellent job fast and finish yet very nice young man. – Toni Soto (5 Stars)
I can't remember names well but both the operator who called and the service tech were very professional and helpful.
-Jim Noveskey (Manitou Beach, MI)
Excellent service, would highly recommend Dave Smith's They truly want their customer satisfied.
– Laura Pylypuik (Sylvania, OH)
Very Knowledge able, great doing business with you!
– Dave Slack (Adrian, MI)
Thank you so much you had the right parts. The tech had our dryer fixed/repaired in a timely manner. Excellent Service!!! Thanks Again.
– Dilbert Hommerson
Consumers Energy just sent them out. They did a good job and I have no complaints. My fridge is operation smoothly again. Thank you.
-Shirley Churchill (Lambertville, MI)
Nick was very kind and courteous. You will have a repeat customer if the occasion arises. He took the time to show me how to keep the coils clean in my refrigerator. Thank you Again.
– Jan Webben (Adrian, MI)
Thank you so much for your speedy and efficient service. I will recommend you to all friends and family.
– Staci Fadden (Monroe, MI)
Mike clearly explained the problem with my ice maker and described my options. He went into my crawlspace to check and fix the water line and now my filtered water runs and the ice maker works well
– Pamela Wawrzyniak (Toledo, OH)
Your work is done promptly, efficiently and at a fair price. I would recommend you to anyone who needs repair don on their appliances.
– Greg Tyson (Perrysburg, OH)
We have used Dave Smith's services for years including Dave's solo business. We are always pleased with the prompt response including the friendly staff, the professionalism of the technicians and the reasonable prices. Most recently mike worked on our washer and diagnosed the problem to save the cost of buying a new washer. Thanks Dave Smith Appliance!
– Pat Boudouris (Perrysburg, OH)
Always get great service! Thank you
– Debbie Lark (Tecumseh, MI)
The technician was very polite and explained everything. I was very satisfied and would definitely have you again to service my appliance.
– Judy Emery (Temperance, MI)
Mike was good as having Dave do the repair.
– Bob Besgrove (Perrysburg, OH)
Very friendly and professional technician, he knew his products and he taught me a few tips.
– Robert Memering (Britton, MI)
I will recommend Dave Smith Appliance Services. I got to meet this guy, Dave. I am impressed with every person I encountered with his business these last two days. I highly value good service and all of you delivered.
– MaryJo Downing (Toledo, OH)
I was very satisfied with your technician's knowledge and personality. I will recommend our company to anyone that needs services on any appliances.
-William McCally (Toledo OH)
I felt that he was excellent in repairing, friendly, and especially on time!
-Jessica Embury (Toledo, OH)
From the office person who answers the phone to both Dave and Mike, we have been very satisfied with your service.
-Bill DeSana (Sylvania, OH)
Was very satisfied with everything!!
-Donna Stretch (Tecumseh, MI)
We could not have had any better service! Thank You So Much!
-Carrie Handy (Brittan, MI)
Our services man was great! Didn't catch his name, but tell him to keep up the good work!
-Bud Bazzana (Onsted, MI)
5 stars on everything! Would not hesitate to recommend your services. Dave was very friendly and knowledgeable.
– Annette & Albert (Toledo, OH)
Nick was awesome. Very Friendly and professional. Clean and efficient. The rep who answered the phone was helpful in scheduling a repair prior to a family reunion.
-Beck Meldoy (Onstead, MI)
Very Friendly. Was here twice in a week as my washer and dryer shut down a week apart. I appreciate time bracketing your do so I did not need to wait at home all day. The technician who installed the part in the dryer hooked up the vent, better that I did, and it wasn't – Nice Added Touch.
– Donald Jagow (LaSalle, MI)
Called in and got immediate response and schedule, Thank Heavens. Can't say enough for Jim's pleasant manner.
-Joe Houser (Hudson, MI)
Every aspect of our experience with Dave Smith Appliance Services was very satisfying.
– Chuck Chaney (Tipton, MI)
Your company was prompt about scheduling an appointment and informative as to when we could expect someone to be here. Mike was our service technician, was prompt and on time and provided excellent care in servicing our refrigerator. While here and working he was very cordial, provided helpful information regarding the care and maintenance of other appliances as well as the refrigerator, and the result couldn't be more satisfactory. We would definitely recommend your company and appreciate the fact that we can rely on a locally owned business that we feel we can trust.
Sharon McLauglin (Toledo, OH)
The window of time needed to stay home is very lengthy while waiting for service… an actual appt. time would be helpful since people are so busy. Other than that, the service is GREAT, which is why I am a repeat customer.
-Christina Marsh (Tecumseh, MI)
I want to thank you for acting fast on my call to you and for the technician that came. He has been very helpful on all the questions I had I would recommend him again. Thank You
-Jeremy Bennet (Adrian, MI)
Jim was friendly informative and answered all question knowledgably and efficiently. He made sure everything was fixed to my satisfaction.
-Patricia Baldwin (Lambertville, MI)
Thank you. The service out to our house was very efficient. The job was completed in a timely manner and we're very satisfied with Mike's work and knowledge of the appliances.
– Beth Slattman (Lukey, OH)
Appreciate your honesty and efficiency.
– Christine Buehur (Palmyra, MI)
Very professional. I explained the problem and within minutes he diagnosed the problem with my washer. Sorry to say I need a new washer but Mike is the reason I will call back in the future.
We had Jim as our technician, he was professional and fast.
Dave Smith Appliance Services were able to diagnose the problem fast and professionally. Our technician, Jim, did a great job of explaining his process and checked to see if we needed any other appliances fixed or repaired.
Very satisfied with everything!! Nick did a wonderful job.
Nick was very helpful, he was able to solve the problem and get it fixed very quickly. He was also very professional and friendly. I had a great experience with Dave Smith Appliances and would recommend them to others.
They were able to answer all my questions, set up an appointment convenient for me, and found a solution to my problem very quickly. I would recommend them to anyone.
I will not hesitate to recommend your company. Very Pleased! Five Stars on Everything!!
Dave Smith Appliance Services has recently completed the repair of my eighteen year old GE refrigerator. I am impressed with the display of concern for clients by all members of the staff that I dealt with. For me, it has been a very satisfactory experience. They responded immediately to my call and followed up with a detailed, well explained plan to deal with my problem. The technician arrived at the exact time of the appointment and within a short time completed his inspection and presented an estimate of the cost to repair my appliance. The estimate was fair and reasonable and proceeded to complete the repair. The area under the refrigerator had not been cleaned for quite some time because its heavy and I haven't been able to move it. He patiently waited while I cleaned it before he put it back place. From the beginning to end, every action on the part of this company has been the utmost in cooperation and professionalism. I do not hesitate to recommend them. It has been a pleasure to deal with such trustworthy and capable professionals
Thank you for the fast, professional service we received as first time clients on our dryer repair. I'm so appreciative of your efforts of timeliness and efficiency.
Customer Review by Ronn Koester from Angie's List about his appliance repair services reported on May 3, 2012.
Overall: A
Price: A
Quality: A
Responsiveness: A
Punctuality: A
Professionalism: A
Category: Appliance Repair – Large:
Work Completed Date: May 2, 2012
Approximate Cost: $340
Description of Work: Worked on front-loading washer. Stated that if the repair did not fix the problem would return and fix it for the difference in cost of a more expensive part only.
Member comments: No problems. Work completed on time.
They came out yesterday and the tech's name was Mike and he arrived on time and promptly found the problem with my ice maker. I had bought a new water fill valve and that wasn't the problem,
Mike found my line froze up and took everything apart and thawed it out, He even instructed me on how to do it. The cost was very reasonable and i wouldn't hesitate to use them in the future.
Thanks TW.
Mike has come to our house twice in the last couple of months, once to fix the dishwasher and the second time to fix my dryer. Both times he was efficient, friendly, and helpful. They both work like new! I am always so happy to find dependable businesses for home repair. We also had same day service both times we called. Thanks!
Dave came out to fix my refrigerator/freezer. This was after I had had another company out to supposedly fix the problem. Dave was very knowledgeable and thoroughly explained the problem and solution with me. My refrigerator is now operating better than it has in a long time. I have their number on speed dial now. I highly recommend David Smith Appliance Service and will definitely use them again in the future. Thank you.
I am new in the area and after searching online for a repair service for my refrigerator, I chose Dave Smith Appliance Services because of it's great standing from the Better Business Bureau. I was NOT disappointed. From my first phone contact with Ruth and then the prompt and professional service from Mike it has been a very good experience. I would have thought both of these employees were the owners of this business just from the professionalism they showed. It's obvious they love where they work and what they're doing. Four stars and two thumbs up to Dave Smith Appliance Services. You're doing a fantastic job, Dave!
Wonderful Company….I didn't have any idea who to call to fix my refrigerator. Called " Dave Smith Appliance Services" and one other place.. The lady who answered the phone at Dave Smith's was very kind, answered all my questions, and was very confident about the company… so I chose them… they were out within a half hour, fixed the appliance, cleaned up after themselves and were out the door… the service tech's were very professional. I am very particular about who I let in my home. I talked to them in the driveway before letting them in…they put me at ease immediately…"Dave Smith Appliance Services" will be doing all of my repairs and all of my friend repairs…OUTSTANDING!!
Dave Smith is very honest and very helpful because he came right out when I needed him; he always does. I have had him out a dozen times.
We had the unfortunate experience of our refrigerator completely stop working… I contemplated going out and purchasing a new one when a friend of mine referred me to Dave Smith Appliance. They were very kind and courteous and professional. The one thing I found to be most helpful is they actually showed up when they said they were going to… both visits! I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a dependable and fair company for appliance repair. Thanks Dave for saving me money with the repair (rather than going out and purchasing a new refrigerator). We will definitely be contacting you the next time we need your services.
He found the problem within minutes and had my refrigerator fixed. The parts were on the truck so I didn't have to wait. He also educated me on a possible recall on my stove and told me how to check it out. Will definitely call them again.


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Bit-patterned disk media moving closer
Tiny, insulated bits may be next big thing
Intevac, a maker of disk drive media manufacturing machines, has revealed that it has received an order for two bit-patterned media production systems from an unnamed client, possibly signalling a recovery in HDD markets and an industry swing towards bit-patterned technology.
Current hard disk drives use a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology in which magnetised bits are created with a vertical axis and are packed together in tracks running around the disk's surface. There has to be a degree of separation between bits and between tracks, so that the magnetism of a bit can be picked up by the read head reliably and written properly without interfering with neighbouring bits.
Increasing areal density with PMR becomes harder as the bits shrink and are placed closer together. Bit-patterning involves keeping the vertical orientation of the bits, shrinking them, and surrounding them with insulating material to isolate their magnetism and prevent leakage to or from surrounding bits. As such it can be used to increase areal density without compromising each bit's magnetism and readability.
Intevac, which says it is the leading supplier of magnetic media processing systems to the hard disk industry, supplies a 200 Lean Gen II magnetic media deposition system. This hard disk sputtering machine is in use today to create PMR media. The Lean 200 can have from four to 24 process stations and is extendable, so that it can be used for successive generations of media processing.
The company has just received an order for two of these from an unnamed client. This would presumably be either Hitachi GST, Samsung, Seagate, Toshiba, or Western Digital. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Aaron Rakers says: "The deposition systems are designed for Bit Patterned Media."
Intevac saw increased sales of its systems as HDD suppliers geared up for PMR media production from mid-2005 to the end of 2006, with sales generally declining after that. We might be seeing signs of an uptick here, both in terms of HDD demand generally and in the transition to bit-patterned media.
Intevac president and CEO, Kevin Fairburn, said this was a capacity-driven order and: "The upswing in demand for hard drives has led to heightened levels of media capacity utilisation." Delivery is expected before the end of the year. ®
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Railfuture Conferences
Railfuture holds two national conferences each year, usually in the summer and autumn (in addition to its AGM for members). We aim only to cover our costs. The conferences are competitively priced, to be within rail users' price range, and are open to everyone. Railfuture members are usually offered a chance to attend at a discounted rate.
Speakers come from a variety of backgrounds. Some of the organisations who have spoken at conferences include Anglia Railways, Arriva Cross Country, Arriva Trains Wales, Association of Train Operating Companies, Cardiff International Airport, Centro, Chester-le-Track, Chiltern Railways, Delta Rail, East Coast, East Midlands Trains, East West Rail Consortium, Eurostar, First Capital Connect, First Great Western, First Transpennine Express, Furrer + Frey GB, Grand Central, Great Western Railway, Greater Anglia, Heathrow Southern Railway, Hitachi Rail Europe, HS2, London Midland, London Overground Railway Operations, Merseytravel, MyTestTrack.com, Network Rail, Northern Rail, Northern (Arriva Rail North), Nottingham Express Transit, Parry People Movers, Port Of Sunderland, ScotRail Alliance, SLC Rail, South West Trains, Thameslink and Great Northern, Transpennine Express, TramPower, Transport Salaried Staffs' Association, UK Rail Leasing, Virgin Trains, Virgin Trains East Coast and Vivarail.
Click HERE to see a list events and speakers for each organisation.
To follow Railfuture's conferences on Twitter use the hash-tag shown against the conference.
Note: this hash-tag is not exclusive to Railfuture.
Future Events
Click HERE For a list of rail-related events including free-to-attend Railfuture branch meetings
2019/Cardiff (AGM) [link]
- Sat 18/05/2019 15th Railfuture Ltd AGM
- Hosted by Railfuture Cymru/Wales branch
- Social media hashtag (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) for this event: #rfconference
- Registration from 10:00, AGM from 11:00, presentation of Railfuture Campaigner of the Year Award followed by lunch. Afternoon session TBC. Close at 15:00
- Venue: The Sport Wales National Centre [map] [bus information] [useful info]
- Room: Bute Suite
- Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
- Postcode: CF11 9SW
- Phone: 0300 300 3111
- Email: nationalcentre at sport.wales
- Route: It is located on the edge of Cardiff city centre, 15 to 20 minutes' level walk from Cardiff Central Station. Cardiff Bus services 25 and 63 operate from a city centre stop in Westgate street, 5 mins walk from the exit of Cardiff Central to a stop in Cathedral Road, 2 mins walk from the Sports Wales building. Both operate at a 20 mins frequency so a combined service of 6 buses per hour.
- Additional info: The venue offers B&B, which is currently £36 per person per night but will be reviewed also on 01/04/2019. Bookings will need to be made directly with Denise Nicholas - Assistant Customer Services Manager on firstname.lastname@example.com
- For further details about the AGM please email conferences at railfuture.org.uk.
- The AGM is open to all current members or their proxy - there is no fee to attend.
- All paperwork was completed on Thu 28/02/2019. It is now too late to include anything for the AGM in the standard mailing with Railwatch.
- Proxy voting is now open (click HERE to vote online) and must be received by the Company Secretary by Thu 16/05/2019
- Motions must be received by the Company Secretary by Sat 04/05/2019
- Information about how Railfuture is run, including a copy of the Articles of Association, can be found at Railfuture+organisation.
- Refreshments are complimentary. Lunch, if required, must be purchased in advance [book].
- The venue does not allow people to eat their own food on the premises.
- Lunch Prices for Cardiff AGM: [book]
- £10.00 - Standard Lunch
2019/Darlington [link]
- Sat 22/06/2019 Rebirth of the Railway [Why Attend?]
- Ian Walker, secretary of Railfuture North East branch says:
"The emphasis at this conference will be on new developments occurring in the industry - and what better place to locate the event than Darlington where railway history truly began?
"As shown below, key inputs will come from representatives of Hitachi Rail Europe, Tyne and Wear Metro, the Port of Sunderland, Esk Valley Rail Development Company and from the elected Mayor of Tees Valley, Ben Houchen.
"The venue is centrally located in Darlington less than 10 minutes' walk from the Railway Station.
"Darlington itself is easily accessible being on the ECML and is served by regular services from Scotland, London Birmingham & Manchester and all points in between.
"We look forward to your attendance at this event. Let's make it another great Railfuture Summer Conference!"
- Hosted by Railfuture North East branch
- Social media hashtag (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) for this event: #RfDarlington2019
- Registration from 10:30, starts at 11:00. Close at 16:30
- Speakers:
- Philip Meikle, Transport Strategy Director, Nexus
- Matthew Hunt, Port Director, Port Of Sunderland
- Tim Rutter, Head of Technical Services, Hitachi Rail Europe
- Ben Houchen, Elected Mayor, Tees Valley
- Alan Williams, Chairman, Esk Valley Railway Development Company
- The above is the full list of speakers. The name of Hitachi Rail Europe speaker is not confirmed yet
- Venue: Dolphin Centre
- Room: Central Hall (2nd floor)
- Horsemarket, Darlington
- Postcode: DL1 5RP
- Phone: 01325 406000
- The room is accessible via both stairs amd lift from the enterance foyer. There are accessible toilets on the 2nd floor as well as toilets on 1st and ground floors
- Route: Exit the station on to Victoria Road, at the roundabout turn right onto Feethams. You will see signs to the Town Hall. The Dolphin Centre is opposite. (Approx. 10-15 minute walk)
- For further details about the conference please email darlington2019 at railfuture.org.uk.
- Places are still free to book - but bookings for this conference will close on Thu 20/06/2019
- The 'Early Bird' discount offer for members only is still open but will end on Tue 30/04/2019.
- Prices for Darlington: [book]
- £12.50 - Early bird (members only)
- £15.00 - Members after 30th April
- £15.00 - Non-members
- £10.00 - 16-25 Railcard Holder
- Includes: Complimentary refreshments available throughout the day and a buffet lunch
- Click [HERE] to download a booking form (PDF format). Note: online bookings are preferred.
- Click [DOWNLOAD] or [DISPLAY] for the poster (one-page) if you are to able to display it on a notice board in the local area (PDF format)
Photo above shows: Images of railways in the north east (by Dave Shaw). Click image to see in full size
2019/Bristol [link]
- Sat 21/09/2019 Every Passenger Matters
- Social media hashtag (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) for this event: #rfconference
- Railfuture is grateful for sponsorship from Cross Country Trains
- Venue: St Michael's Church Centre
- Room: Large Meeting Room
- The Green, Stoke Gifford, Bristol
- Postcode: BS34 8PD
- Phone: 0117 969 2486
- Route: It is just three minutes' walk from Bristol Parkway Station
- For further details about the conference please email conferences at railfuture.org.uk.
- Sorry but bookings are not being taken yet - please re-visit this web-site later.
- The 'Early Bird' discount offer for members only will end on Wed 31/07/2019.
Book Your Conference Place/AGM Lunch Now
A conference fee discount is available for group attendance (5+ people) - please contact by e-mail for price:
You do not have to be a member to attend a conference, but you can save money if you are. To become a member click
[HERE] to book the next conference and join Railfuture at the same time - you'll get a special discount
If bookings for the next conference have closed this will be for the conference after that.
(MEDIA: For a free 'press pass' please contact Bruce Williamson by e-mailing media at railfuture.org.uk or phone on 07759 557389).
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Before booking please make sure that you have read the Railfuture conference terms and conditions (PDF format).
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Hostess Brands Inc. introduces Frosted Devil's Food Cake Donettes
Granted, the powdered sugar is a little messy, maybe not the best thing for your upholstery, but for millions of Americans, it's all part of the irresistible charm of Hostess Donettes, made by Hostess Brands Inc., Irving, Texas. Since being introduced in the 1930s, the little gems have attracted fans in many circles — from hungry commuters to lunchbox-toting tikes. And while Hostess didn't create the world's first donut, Donettes, are among the most popular donuts in the world.
Hostess introduces one of its newest food products: Frosted Devil's Food Cake Donettes, moist devil's food cake mini donuts dipped in a chocolate-flavored coating. It is an indulgent and heavenly addition to the line.
"Donettes continue to be one of our most popular sweet baked goods. In fact, Hostess produces more than two billion per year -- enough to wrap around the Earth three times,"says Mike Touhey, vice president of snack marketing. "We are excited to give Hostess consumers another delicious indulgence to share with their friends and families."
Suggested price is $2.99 for dunkie bags and $1.49 for single-serve sleeves.


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I have a leaning for planting anything that promises to feed me. Blueberry Plants seem like an easy option, easy to maintain and gourmet quality blueberries, says the label, how could I resist?
As you'll see from the photos, just like everything in my garden, they have to hold their own with the weeds which you can see in all the backgrounds. Because I actually live in England they can go untended for months at a time.
I just dont have much luck with this plant, 4 plants and none of them are doing very well at all.
Not really up to much but I did plant two new ones on the other side of the house.
Looks like one of these plants has died but the other two are hanging in there even though they dont look too excited.
I planted these in December 2010 im pretty sure. I also think I got them on sale from Home Depot? I cant remember. The Home Depot card says they are Vaccinium 'Blueberry' that require little maintenance and fruits in April/May which is about now!!! Wel, maybe the first year is a bit much to expect a good crop from but you can definatly see some fruit activity in the photos.
They seem to be doing OK but its hard to tell after only 4 months. At least they survived the frost OK.
After 4 months they are still there, but they hardly florished through the growth season, swmaped by weeds no doubt, BUT they are now cleared and have water, in fact today there was rain!!! wow, thats a blessing. Took three photos which are below, somewhere. One thing I will say, if you look at the two chimney shots (red chimney to right) the plant has not done much BUT has started a new shoot. This is a common factor across the whole garden with many plants killing all their original foilage and starting again!!!! Its not the growth I was expecting but at least they are still alive.


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For almost a century the Middle East has been a fault-line threatening international peace and stability. With the debris of successive empires strewn around it, this theater of big power rivalries has produced many of the convulsions the world has witnessed since World War II.
The United States developed an interest in the region in the 1940s as President Roosevelt began thinking about the post-war international order. Since then, under American leadership, a political architecture was shaped guaranteeing the region's stability.
For six decades, under administrations from both parties, American power acted as the pole that kept the tent up. Over the past four years, however, President Barack Obama has pulled that pole away, allowing the tent to sag and, in parts, fold.
The American abdication under Obama has led to a transition from a problematic status quo to an uncertain future. It has also created a vacuum that various opportunist powers are trying to fill.
Under Obama, Russia has gained a veto over aspects of American foreign policy, ranging from the building of a missile shield in Central Europe to halting Iran's nuclear program, to humanitarian intervention in Syria. After two decades of virtual absence from the Middle East, Russia is trying to regain at least some of the influence that the Soviet Empire once enjoyed.
For its part, Turkey, acting as an opportunist power under its neo-Ottoman leadership, is trying to cast itself as the leader of a new Middle East dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood behind a political facade. Four years ago, Turkey was the region's only nation that had no problems with its neighbors.
Today, it has problems with almost all of them. Because it is a member of NATO, Turkey could drag the alliance into uncertain waters in the service of its own ill-defined ambitions.
Meanwhile, Iran is gripped by unprecedented fear and hubris — fear that it might be the next target for regime change and hubris about exporting its anti-West ideology of hate to the rest of the region. As in Russia's case, Iran is both encouraged and frightened by the American retreat. It is encouraged because it sees new opportunities to project power in Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf and Iraq. But it is also frightened because it might end up facing a new bloc of Arab-Sunni powers determined to push it back into its Shi'ite box.
Obama's worldview was shaped by two factors.
The first was his desire to be the opposite of what he thought George W Bush was. He saw his predecessor as a "my way or the highway" cowboy who had dictated to others and hit them on the head when they got out of line. The first half of the Obama presidency was spent on an apology tour of the region during which he blamed the US for much of the region's troubles and spun the cobweb of new contradictions.
For example, in 2009 when Iranians rose against their despot, Obama refused to back them because that would have looked like endorsing Bush's "Freedom Agenda." Hatred for Bush also led Obama into backing Tunisian, Egyptian and Yemeni despots until the 11th hour. Even then, he preferred an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood rather than democratic oppositions that Bush had tried to help, albeit with little success.
Not being Bush was also a motive in Obama's decision to downgrade ties with Iraq which, thanks to American blood and treasure, has emerged as a beacon of light in a dark region.
Having established that he was not Bush, he still had to show who he was. The answer was the second factor in his policy: an exaggerated belief in the potency of his own political sex appeal.
Obama thinks that things would happen simply by wanting them to.
He promised to create a Palestinian state in one year, appointing Sen. George Mitchell as special envoy. But then he forgot about Mitchell — who found out that he had been taken for a ride and resigned.
Wishful thinking also shaped Obama's policy, or simulacrum of policy, vis-a-vis Iran. He stretched his "hand of friendship" to President Ahmadinejad and was roundly rebuffed.
Foreign policy is the ultimate preserve of the president. Thus the political persona of the president, in fact his character, plays a crucial role in determining foreign policy success or failure. A prisoner of fantasies about the world and his own prowess, Obama has proved incapable of developing a realistic policy capable of dealing with a complex and dangerous region. In the process he has sown the seeds of storms that he or his successors might face, at a high cost to the United States.


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So I am using Visual Studio Team System for prototyping some new Orcas features and am just loving it. What I would to do today is share some code I used to generate a 'Summary results file'. When a VSTS Generic Test has completed, VS looks for an optional XML file to display a test…
Year: 2005
Where are the Bootstrapper packages installed?
QuestionHow can I programatically determine where the Bootstrapper packages are located? Answer If you would like to know how to programatically locate the Bootstrapper package location (if you were developing an installer for your custom package for example). Check the following registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NetFramework\sdkInstallRootv2.0 Then append the string: "Bootstrapper\Packages\"
Programatically determining where the Bootstrapper packages are
If you would like to know how to programatically locate the Bootstrapper package location (if you were developing an installer for your custom package for example). Check the following registry key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NetFramework\sdkInstallRootv2.0 Then append the string: "Bootstrapper\Packages\"
LINQ project reactions
Paul Vick, VB technical lead, gave a talk today about some of the new language features for VB .NET 9.0. I would describe the experience as jaw dropping. XML, Data, SQL just working together seamlessly. Wow. As the LINQ project solidifies I'll let you know. Until then let me give Paul's blog a shameless plug http://www.panopticoncentral.net/.
Post vacation update
I have updated the Bootstrapper FAQ: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/articles/category/10628.aspx
Can the Bootstrapper do complex logic for install conditions?
QuestionCan the Bootstrapper do complex logic on the install conditions? Such as FailIf (X = true AND Y = false) AnswerNo. The Bootstrapper only executes a single install condition at a time. If you need more complicated logic then you will need to expand it out into multiple Command statements and use BypassIfs. For example,…
VS Tricks: How to load test files from within a Unit Test
It is a little-known secret that I moonlight as a computer-Go programmer. (What is the game of 'Go' you ask?) Anyways, I am writing my Go-bot using Visual Studio Team System to take advantage of all the great Unit Testing tools it offers. What I would like to share here is a trick that I use…
Orcas, The Bootstrapper, and Beyond
Well we shipped Visual Studio 2005, I took a little breather, and now I am back in my office thinking "what's next". As much as us here at Microsoft wish we could just go back to working on the next version and making it even better, we are stuck in a waiting game. What's next? …
Changing package deployment method post build
QuestionIs there a way I can change the Bootstrapper after setup.exe has been built? AnswerYes, you can. Although you can't change the packages or logic of the Bootstrapper you can change the way packages are deployed. You can use the command line to either turn HomeSite on/off or set the Components and Prerequisites URLs. For…
Updated Bootstrapper FAQ
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Poll: Visual Effects of Vsync on Gaming Animation
Subject: Graphics Cards | April 16, 2013 - 03:01 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: vsync, stutter, smoothness, microstutter, frame rating, animation
We are running a poll in conjunction with our Frame Rating: Visual Effects of Vsync on Gaming Animation story that compares animation smoothness between fixed 30 FPS and 60 FPS captures and Vsync enabled versions.
If you haven't read the story linked above, these questions won't make any sense to you so please go read it and then stop back here to answer the polls!
Not a simple answer
After publishing the Frame Rating Part 3 story, I started to see quite a bit of feedback from readers and other enthusiasts with many requests for information about Vsync and how it might affect the results we are seeing here. Vertical Sync is the fix for screen tearing, a common artifact seen in gaming (and other mediums) when the frame rendering rate doesn't match the display's refresh rate. Enabling Vsync will force the rendering engine to only display and switch frames in the buffer to match the vertical refresh rate of the monitor or a divisor of it. So a 60 Hz monitor could only display frames at 16ms (60 FPS), 33ms (30 FPS), 50ms (20 FPS), and so on.
Many early readers hypothesized that simply enabling Vsync would fix the stutter and runt issues that Frame Rating was bringing to light. In fact, AMD was a proponent of this fix, as many conversations we have had with the GPU giant trailed into the direction of Vsync as answer to their multi-GPU issues.
In our continuing research on graphics performance, part of our Frame Rating story line, I recently spent many hours playing games on different hardware configurations and different levels of Vertical Sync. After this time testing, I am comfortable in saying that I do not think that simply enabling Vsync on platforms that exhibit a large number of runt frames fixes the issue. It may prevent runts, but it does not actually produce a completely smooth animation.
To be 100% clear - the issues with Vsync and animation smoothness are not limited to AMD graphics cards or even multi-GPU configurations. The situations we are demonstrating here present themselves equally on AMD and NVIDIA platforms and with single or dual card configurations, as long as all other parameters are met. Our goal today is only to compare a typical Vsync situation from either vendor to a reference result at 60 FPS and at 30 FPS; not to compare AMD against NVIDIA!!
In our initial research with Frame Rating, I presented this graph on the page discussing Vsync. At the time, I left this note with the image:
The single card and SLI configurations without Vsync disabled look just like they did on previous pages but the graph for GTX 680 SLI with Vsync on is very different. Frame times are only switching back and forth between 16 ms and 33 ms, 60 and 30 instantaneous FPS due to the restrictions of Vsync. What might not be obvious at first is that the constant shifting back and forth between these two rates (two refresh cycles with one frame, one refresh cycle with one frame) can actually cause more stuttering and animation inconsistencies than would otherwise appear.
Even though I had tested this out and could literally SEE that animation inconsistency I didn't yet have a way to try and demonstrate it to our readers, but today I think we do.
The plan for today's article is going to be simple. I am going to present a set of three videos to you that show side by side runs from different configuration options and tell you what I think we are seeing in each result. Then on another page, I'm going to show you three more videos and see if you can pinpoint the problems on your own.
Continue reading our article on the effects of Vsync on gaming animation smoothness!!


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Bryant Walker Smith is an assistant professor in the School of Law and (by courtesy) in the School of Engineering at the University of South Carolina.
The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
Robots are already in widespread use in manufacturing and warfare. You see them increasingly in hospitals, warehouses, even homes. The mainstreaming of robotics presents a number of interesting puzzles for administrative, tort, and other areas of the law.
CIS has emerged as a national leader in exploring the intersection of law and robotics. Our staff has published on a variety of topics, including autonomous driving, the domestic use of drones, robotics and privacy, and liability for personal robots. We have held several events around artificial intelligence and robotics, including the annual Robot Block Party for National Robotics Week that draws thousands of visitors.
Bryant Walker Smith is an assistant professor in the School of Law and (by courtesy) in the School of Engineering at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Asaro is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York City. He is the co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and has written on lethal robotics from the perspective of just war theory and human rights. Dr. Asaro's research also examines agency and autonomy, liability and punishment, and privacy and surveillance as it applies to consumer robots, industrial automation, smart buildings, aerial drones and autonomous vehicles.
Ryan Calo is an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and a former research director at CIS. A nationally recognized expert in law and emerging technology, Ryan's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Wired Magazine, and other news outlets. Ryan serves on several advisory committees, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum.
Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he is also a philosophy professor. He has published several books and papers in the field of technology ethics, especially with respect to robotics—including Robot Ethics (MIT Press, 2012) and Robot Ethics 2.0 (Oxford University Press, 2017)—human enhancement, cyberwarfare, space exploration, nanotechnology, and other areas.
By Chuck Cosson on September 3, 2018 at 5:29 pm
"Tool Without A Handle": Tools and the Search for Meaning
In a New York Times review of Edward Tenner's book The Efficiency Paradox, Gal Beckerman observes that a key point is not simply to watch how much time we spend using technology, but to remember that "the tools we've invented to improve our lives are just that, tools, to be picked up and put down. We wield them."
Which pretty succinctly states the main point of this entire series of blog posts: that human agency matters. Or, perhaps more directly, that while we all know human agency matters, we all too frequently overlook that point. This post (on Labor Day, 2018) thus asks what is the real value of human agency? By identifying value in it, I hope to set the stage for future posts on the urgency of fostering greater awareness of it.
By Ryan E. Long on May 9, 2018 at 2:42 pm
If your pet dog Hans takes a selfie, does he own the copyright? A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ("Ninth Circuit") is instructive. It says that a monkey can't own the copyright to his selfie. The reason? Only humans can own a copyright under U.S. law. But who owns artificial intelligence ("AI") created artwork? This entry addresses that issue.
By Bryant Walker Smith on April 18, 2018 at 12:40 pm
Tesla can do better than its current public response to the recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles. I would like to see more introspection, credibility, and nuance.
By Bryant Walker Smith on March 27, 2018 at 10:45 am
Following Uber's fatal crash in Arizona, Governor Doug Ducey is attracting attention for what he did and did not do. This is not surprising; as I noted in 2016, Arizona's governor decided to embrace Uber's vision, for better or for worse. This discussion, however, tends to elide the important question of his actual legal authority.
Last week, MIT Media Lab researchers published results from its global survey on autonomous driving ethics.
Like it or not, sex robots are already here, and someday they might hurt you, if you ask nicely. As they cater to an ever-increasing range of tastes, some folks predict BDSM types (bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism) in the future bedroom.
Should Google, a global company with intimate access to the lives of billions, use its technology to bolster one country's military dominance? Should it use its state of the art artificial intelligence technologies, its best engineers, its cloud computing services, and the vast personal data that it collects to contribute to programs that advance the development of autonomous weapons?
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN has just concluded a second round of meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems in Geneva, under the auspices of what is known as a Group of Governmental Experts. Both the urgency and significance of the discussions in that forum have been heightened by the rising concerns over artificial intelligence (AI) arms races and the increasing use of digital technologies to subvert democratic processes.
"It's generally difficult to hold companies criminally liable, according to Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies autonomous vehicles. The circumstances would have to be egregious and reckless: for example, a company that paid bonuses to test drivers whose vehicles had the most close calls with pedestrians. A company that falsified information on the quality of its cars, misleading the government, would also have a higher chance of being criminally liable."
"Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor whose research focuses on automated driving systems, suggests not reading too much into the prosecutor's letter.
"It's not necessarily exculpatory — it doesn't exonerate Uber or put the company's conduct then or now beyond criticism," he writes in an email to NPR. "And I'm not sure it tells us much about the criminal, much less civil, liability of automated driving developers in future incidents."
"However, speaking to BBC Three, Professor Peter Asaro, vice chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, shared his concerns about battlefield AI and wonders if it could ever be used against civilians.
"The issue is that computers aren't capable of determining when it's legally or morally acceptable to take human life, and can't be held morally or legally responsible for doing so.
"OpenAI's decision to keep the AI to itself makes sense to Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington and co-director of the school's Tech Policy Lab, especially in light of a fake face-generating website that began circulating in mid-February.
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In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hour. It would be weatherproof, energy-efficient, relatively inexpensive, have autonomous controls. Its impact on urban and inter-city transport could reshape economies and families.
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In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hour. It would be weatherproof, energy-
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FLI's Ariel Conn recently spoke with Heather Roff and Peter Asaro about autonomous weapons. Roff, a research scientist at The Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University and a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, recently compiled an international database of weapons systems that exhibit some level of autonomous capabilities. Asaro is a philosopher of science, technology, and media at The New School in New York City.
November 2, 2016
Peter Asaro (assistant professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School) and S. Matthew Liao (director of the Center for Bioethics at New York University) talk to Live Science's Denise Chow and Space.com's Tariq Malik about the ethics of AI.


text: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 04:53:27AM +0100, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > Please note MPI is probably what i'll use, though i keep finding > online information about 'gamma'. Is that faster latency than MPI > implementations? http://www.disi.unige.it/project/gamma/ Gamma is a non-TCP/IP Linux 2.6.x network driver for Intel Pro/1000 gigabit ethernet cards, for use with MPI. It offers much better latency (11 us or so) than TCP/IP over ethernet (maybe 60 or 100 us), but worse than the specialized HPC interconnects (maybe 3 us). The attraction of GAMMA, is that Intel Pro/1000 cards can be had for $11 to $60 or so each (depending on exact model, etc.), and gigabit switches are also pretty cheap, while SCI or Myrinet is somewhere in the $500 to $1500 per node range (I don't keep track). So if your application can benefit from lower latency, but you want something really cheap, GAMMA should be well worth trying. -- Andrew Piskorski <atp at piskorski.com> http://www.piskorski.com/


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The Ravens announced that left tackle Eugene Monroe passed his physical in Baltimore on Thursday, allowing them to put the finishing touches on the deal with the Jaguars that sent Monroe north.
According to the team's website, the draft picks heading back to Jacksonville are a fourth- and a fifth-round choice in next year's draft. That's what Ryan O'Halloran of the Florida Times Union reported on Wednesday as well and it's a price that the Ravens shouldn't have much trouble affording given the compensatory picks they're likely to get next year after losing Paul Kruger, Dannell Ellerbe and Ed Reed as free agents during the offseason.
The Ravens weren't sure on Wednesday whether Monroe will make his debut this weekend.
"I don't know. He's not here yet, so once we get him here we'll figure that out," coach John Harbaugh said. "Obviously we're bringing Eugene in to play. How soon that can happen remains to be seen."
Whenever Monroe does debut, he'll be wearing a new uniform number. Monroe will have to change his number from 75 to 60 because Jonathan Ogden wore No. 75 with the Ravens and no left tackles (or any other players) will be wearing those digits again for the Ravens. Tight end Billy Bajema was released to make room for Monroe on the roster.


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Jb2011 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 138 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
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We are a marketing company that hires college students for summer work through campus recruiting and campus job fairs.
After our intense training our employees on average make $12k-$35k in 4 months through direct marketing.
College age students (both male..mostly men & female 18-25 year old) who are usually athletes up to date on the latest fashion trends.
1. Have integrity
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3. Love to talk to people and posses good verbal communication skills
4. Don't take rejection personally
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6. Have personality and a high level of confidence.
7. Are trend setters and natural leaders in their circle of influence
8. Possess a willingness to take critique, instruction, and advice in order to implement shortest learning curve
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-Appeal to college students with using todays trendy looks and integrate them into the logo.
- The logo will be something that you would see on a college student or teenager's hat or t-shirt.
- The 'e' in ecotek needs to be it's own sub logo so that if it was on a hat or shirt you could recognize the whole logo. This same concept can be seen in other logos of popular clothing lines such as: Hurley, DC, KR3W, ELEMENT, VELCOM, O'neil, ETNIES, Osiris, Oakley, DAKINE, Rip curl, or Burton
-We had a designer start with a tribal flame with the e inside but didn't catch our eye on the type of font she used.
-The colors need to be orange and grey (perhaps a little black and white)
-please take what is on the attachment and add your own artistic abilities.
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Show List of Speakers
- Constantin Bachas
- Gerard Besson (Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier))
- Klaus Ecker
- Joel Fine (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Weiyong He
- Dan Knopf (University of Texas, Austin)
- Jiayu Li
- John Lott (University of California, Berkeley)
- Peng Lu (University of Oregon)
- Jan Metzger
- Reto Mueller
- Andre Neves (Imperial College, London)
- Todd Oliynyk (Monash University)
- Felix Schulze (University College)
- Carlo Sinestrari
- Cumrun Vafa
- Yuan-Long Xin
Geometric flows have been applied to a variety of geometric, topological, analytical and physical problems. Such flows include the mean, inverse mean, Gauss curvature and Willmore flows of submanifolds, Ricci/Kähler-Ricci and Calabi flows of manifolds, Yang-Mills and Hermitian-Einstein flows of connections and metrics on vector bundles, and Yamabe and other conformal flows of metrics. Applications include the Geometrization Conjecture (in the process of verification), Penrose inequality, uniformization theorems in Kähler geometry, existence of canonical metrics, connections and maps such as Einstein, Hermitian-Einstein, constant scalar curvature, and extremal metrics, Yang-Mills connections, and harmonic maps. Techniques include the geometric theory of a priori estimates, singularity analysis, surgery techniques, weak solutions, global existence and convergence. SCHEDULE: Monday March 12 9:30 am -- 10:30 am Burkhard Wilking Manifolds with positive curvature operators are space forms 11:00 am -- 12:00 pm Natasa Sesum Title TBA 2:00 pm -- 3:00 pm Felix Schulze Nonlinear evolution by mean curvature and isoperimetric inequalities 4:10 pm -- 5:00 pm MSRI/Evans Talk 60 Evans Hall; University of California, Berkeley Robert Bryant Finsler surfaces of constant curvature Tuesday March 13 9:30 am -- 10:30 am Klaus Ecker Title TBA 11:00 am -- 12:00 pm Rafe Mazzeo CMC foliations and area-minimizing submanifolds in asymptotically hyperbolic spaces 2:00 pm -- 3:00 pm Weiyong He Title TBA 3:30 pm -- 4:30 pm Simon Brendle Title TBA Wednesday March 14 9:30 am -- 10:30 am John Lott On type-III Ricci flow solutions 11:00 am -- 12:00 pm Yuanlong Xin Convexity, Rigidity and Mean Curvature Flow 2:00 pm -- 3:00 pm Dan Knopf Title TBA 3:30 pm -- 4:30 pm Qi Zhang A Li-Yau type inequality for the conjugate heat equation under Ricci flow Thursday March 15 9:30 am -- 10:30 am Todd Oliynyk Title TBA 11:00 am -- 12:00 pm Jiayu Li Title TBA 2:00 pm -- 3:00 pm Xiuxiong Chen Title TBA 3:30 pm -- 4:30 pm Reto Mueller Differential Harnack Inequalities and Monotone Quantities Friday March 16 9:30 am -- 10:30 am Jan Metzger Title TBA 11:00 am -- 12:00 pm Andre Neves Convergence of inverse mean curvature flow in asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds Talks from Recent Developments in Numerical Methods and Algorithms for Geometric Evolution Equations will be scheduled in the afternoon and the next day (Saturday). _______________________________________________________________ Abstracts: Felix Schulze Abstract: Evolving smooth, compact hypersurfaces in R^{n+1} with normal speed equal to a positive power k of the mean curvature improves a certain 'isoperimetric difference' for k >= n-1. As singularities may develop before the volume goes to zero, we develop a weak level-set formulation for such flows and show that the above monotonicity is still valid. This proves the isoperimetric inequality for n <= 7. Extending this to complete, simply connected 3-dimensional manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature, we give a new proof for the Euclidean isoperimetric inequality on such manifolds. Andre Neves Abstract: I will show that inverse mean curvature flow does not have the asymptotic convergence needed to prove a Penrose-type inequality for asymptotically hyperbolic 3-manifolds.
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Dmitri Nabokov, the only child of acclaimed novelist Vladimir Nabokov who helped protect and translate his father's work while pursuing careers as an opera singer and race car driver, has died. He was 77.
The younger Nabokov died Wednesday at a hospital in Vevey, Switzerland, after a long illness, said literary agent Andrew Wylie.
Dmitri spent much of his life trying to carve a life away from the shadow of his father, considered one of the premier writers of the 20th century for such books as "Lolita" and "Pale Fire."
The tall, broad-shouldered son bore a striking resemblance to his father. Harvard-educated Dmitri was a playboy who began to race cars competitively in 1962 and maintained an active professional operatic career as a basso profundo until 1982.
But Dmitri always returned to protecting his father's literary legacy, translating and editing his father's plays, poems, stories, the novella "The Enchanter" and "Selected Letters."
"My father is gradually marching -- with his two favorite writers, Pushkin and Joyce -- arm in arm into the pantheon to join the greatest of all, Shakespeare, who is waiting for them," Dmitri told the Associated Press in 2009. "I like to think that I did my bit to keep things on track."
After the success of "Lolita," he translated his father's "Invitation to a Beheading" from Russian and wrote the memoir "On Revisiting Father's Room" after his father died in 1977. After his mother died in 1991, he sold the remainder of his father's archive to the New York Public Library and attended conferences dedicated to him.
In 2009, Dmitri decided to publish his father's final, fragmentary novel, "The Origin of Laura," written on index cards during the last years of Vladimir's life. It was a controversial act that his son said went against the wishes of his father, who had asked that "Laura" be burned.
Dmitri Nabokov was born in 1934 in Berlin and as a child lived "a real drifter's life," he later said. He was living in Paris with his father and Jewish mother, Vera, when the family fled the Nazis in 1940 and came to the U.S.
Vladimir borrowed money to send his son to Harvard in 1951. He reported that Dmitri's interests there were "mountaineering, girls, music, track, tennis and his studies, in that order."
After graduating from college, Dmitri served in the U.S. Army, resuming his voice studies after his discharge in 1957.
The elder Nabokov became an American citizen in 1945 but returned to Europe in 1961, settling in Switzerland to be near his son, who was living in Italy.
Dmitri never married but believed he would have made a great father, much like his own was, he told The Times in 1989: "It was a very rich relationship. We were very good friends.... He made my life infinitely richer, more entertaining, and equipped me for creative endeavors of my own."


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WESTFORD -- One of the things that community relations director Kim Trainor of Habitat for Humanity of Lowell likes most about her job is that she gets to help people to help themselves.
"This is not a handout program. It's a hand up. I absolutely love my job," said Trainor.
The local Habitat office is building two new duplex style homes at 49-55 Rock St., off Fletcher Street in Lowell's Acre neighborhood. When they are finished, the houses will go to two local families, the Medeiroses and the Polls.
Neither of the families would have been able to afford a house without the Habitat program; the Medeiros family includes a single mother of five boys who lost two partners to tragedies, one health-related and another from an accident.
"These circumstances could happen to any of us. Her son gave her the courage to apply for one of our loans," Trainor said.
The Poll family includes a single mother with four children.
"One duplex is being built by Greater Lowell Tech students. There are 22 kids in the program and they're doing all the construction," Trainor said.
Two teams of students, under the direction of Habitat construction manager Scott Carpenter, alternate weeks in the classroom and on the job site and the partner families are working with them on the construction. The other duplex is under construction with assistance from corporate teams, which each donate a day for the cause.
"We are so fortunate; we have so many volunteers for community team building days.
The crews broke ground in October for the Rock Street project.
"We raised our first wall in February with help from one of our families," Trainor said.
Next month, leading up to Mother's Day, Trainor is getting a whole new set of volunteers, as a part of Women Build, a national event sponsored by Lowe's that serves to recruit, educate and nurture women who build and advocate for simple, decent affordable housing. About 7,500 women participated nationally in the event last year, including volunteers at the local Habitat's most recent project at Carter Way in Bedford, which housed eight families and incorporated an old farmhouse that was equipped with green energy updates. That project was finished in November and the neighborhood held its first Easter egg hunt this yea, Trainor said.
"I have close to 90 women who will come out and build with us this year. It's amazing what women can accomplish," Trainor said.
The two families who were selected to receive the Rock Street homes had to attend an informational meeting and also had to have an income of between 25 and 50 percent of the area median to qualify. In addition to taking financial literacy classes, the families each have to put in up to 400 hours of sweat equity; the requirement is 225 hours for single parent families, Trainor said.
When the new homes are finished, the Medeiros and Poll families will each take on a zero percent interest mortgage.
A resident of Westford, Trainor, 51 and married with three children in the local public schools, worked in international sales before taking her current position.
The local Habitat office, which is housed at the Hicks Farm in Westford, serves Billerica, Bedford, Burlington, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Reading, Tewksbury, Tyngsboro, Wakefield and Westford.
The office is also keeping busy running its Billerica used furnishings shop, ReStore, and serving clients of the new Critical Repair Program, which covers repairs to everything from kitchens to roofs and porches for the elderly and military veterans so they can stay in their homes.
"We've impacted five families and have about 25 on a waiting list for that program. It's a great way to reach out to all our communities," Trainor said.
Recently, a Dracut parcel was donated for another project, but one of the biggest needs is for other land donations so the office can keep serving families in need, Trainor said.
"We've had some very generous people in this area, but we still need property," she said.
For information, or to donate or volunteer, go to www.LowellHabitat.org.


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Skyway held off fast-closing Henry's Holiday by a length Sunday in the $300,000 Best Pal Stakes for 2-year-olds at Del Mar.
Ridden by Stewart Elliott, Skyway ran six furlongs on Polytrack in 1:16.67 and paid $6.20, $3.60 and $2.80 as the 2-1 favorite.
Henry's Holiday, ridden by Tyler Baze, returned $4.40 and $3.20, while Bad Read Sanchez was another length back in third and paid $3 to show. Baze, who became a father for the first time Saturday, finished second in three races, leaving him one win short of 2,000 in his career.
"He broke well, we were in a good spot and he was comfortable," Elliott said of Skyway. "When I asked him, he responded well. He was a little green there. He was wanting to lean in changing his leads. Part of maturing. He'll learn and go on from here."
Elliott earned his first stakes win at the seaside track, while trainer Mark Casse won for the first time here. Both are in their first summers at Del Mar.
The victory, worth $120,000, increased Skyway's career earnings to $157,390, with two wins in three starts. Owned by John Oxley, Skyway shipped in from the East Coast for the race.
Cat's Claw wins
Cat's Claw came from off the pace to win the $100,000 Fasig-Tipton Waya by 1 1/4 lengths at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
The 4-year-old Dynaformer filly, who only drew into the race after a pair of early scratches, ran 1 1/2 miles in 2:27.08 over a firm inner turf course and paid $28.40, $12.20 and $7 in her stakes debut.
It was the fifth win for Hall of Fame trainer Jonathan Sheppard in the Waya, which debuted in 1993 and was reinstated in 2003 after a five-year absence.
A Group 1 winner in Brazil in 2012, Viva Rafaela held on for second, returning $8.60 and $6.90, and English Class paid $5.90 to show.


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How skilled are refugees in Ethiopia?
Ethiopia has been suffering from multiple refugee crises – some more protracted, some more recent – that put a strain on coping capacity of national and local authorities. A new World Bank survey and report inform policies on durable solutions for the displaced populations through an evidence-based approach.
Displacement situations in Ethiopia resulted from a combination of protracted conflicts in neighboring countries (Somalia, Eritrea, and Sudan), more recent crises (South Sudan, Yemen), and endemic internal ethnic unrest in some peripheral regions (Oromia, Somali/Ogaden, Afar). As a result of these regional and domestic conflicts, Ethiopia has been one of the most important refugee hosting countries for decades.
There are four main Ethiopian regions that host refugees, each of whom hosts a specific group and has a unique ethnic composition: Tigray and Afar (hosting Eritreans), Gambella (hosting South Sudanese), Benishangul Gumuz (hosting mostly Sudanese, but also South Sudanese), and Somali (Somalis). Thus, the displacement contexts are remarkably diverse: the regions hosting refugees are all peripheral and relatively underserved. Eritreans, Somalis, South Sudanese and Sudanese were displaced due to different drivers related to conflict and fragility, and each group is integrated to different degrees within Ethiopian economy and host communities.


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The Scream by Edvard Munch is undoubtedly the most famous Norwegian painting. The image of a man with his mouth wide open, eyes filled with terror, and hands over his ears is known all over the world. This painting served as the overture to Expressionism, the art style dominated by emotions (instead of reality). Munch made 4 versions of The Scream.
"The sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature." Munch found inspiration for his probing masterpiece while walking on the Ekeberg Hill above Oslo. Follow in the footsteps of Edvard Munch around the Oslo Fjord, along painting locations, museums and studios.
In 2012, an American multimillionaire paid 90 million euros for a version of The Scream in pastels on cardboard – a record for the most expensive privately owned painting. The other 3 versions are all still on display in Oslo. The original (oil on linen) hangs in the Munch room of the Nasjonalgalleriet. The painting was stolen on the opening day of the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer in 1994. The thieves left behind a note: 'Thanks for the poor security.' The painting was retrieved months later.
Nasjonalgalleriet, Universitetsgata 13, Sentrum, Oslo
2 other versions of The Scream, an oil painting and a pastel, are on display at the Munch Museum in Tøyen. The museum contains another 20,000 works of art, representing half of Munch's complete oeuvre. Art thieves also hit this museum. In 2004, 2 masked and armed men took The Scream and the Madonna from the wall in broad daylight. The paintings resurfaced 2 years later.
Munchmuseet, Tøyengata 53, Tøyen, Oslo
Edvard Munch found the inspiration for The Scream while walking on Ekeberg Hill, which can be reached by tram 18 or 19. Every day, he met his friend Henrik Ibsen, the famous playwright and poet, in the trendy café of the Grand Hotel. He spent his youth at 5 different addresses in Grünerløkka, a neighbourhood that was stately back then and trendy today. This is also close to where he is buried, along with a lot of other famous Norwegians: the Vår Frelsers Gravlund cemetery.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta joined their defense and foreign minister colleagues for a joint ministerial meeting of NATO in Brussels, Belgium on April 18, 2012. Following their meeting, Secretary Clinton said:
"The main focus of our conversations today was Afghanistan, which I will focus on tomorrow at the meeting of our ISAF partners. But let me say how grateful the United States is for the solidarity and steadfastness of our NATO allies and ISAF partners.
"As difficult a week as this has been in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan, the big picture is clear. The transition is on track, the Afghans are increasingly standing up for their own security and future, and NATO remains united in our support for the Lisbon timetable, and an enduring commitment to Afghanistan. The attacks in Kabul this week show us that while the threat remains real, the transition can work. The response by the Afghan National Security forces were fast and effective, and the attacks failed. Not long ago, this kind of response by Afghans themselves would not have been possible. So the Afghans are proving themselves increasingly ready to take control of their own future.
"Now by their nature, transitions of any kind are challenging. There will be setbacks and hard days. But clear progress is happening, and today, NATO reaffirmed our commitment to stand with the Afghans to defend stability and security, to protect the gains of the last decade, and to prevent there ever being a return of al-Qaida or other extremists operating out of the Afghan territory.
"Both Secretary Panetta and I were impressed by how united the NATO allies are in supporting the Lisbon timetable. We are on track to meet the December 2014 deadline for completing the security transition. Already 50 percent of the Afghan people are secured primarily by Afghan forces, and by this spring, it will be 75 percent. Today, we worked on the three initiatives for the Chicago summit next month.
"First, we will agree on the next phase of transition to support our 2014 goals. Second, we want to be ready to define NATO's enduring relationship with Afghanistan after 2014. And third, we are prepared to work with the Afghans to ensure that the Afghan National Security force is fully funded. NATO is united behind all these goals, so we are looking forward to a very productive summit in Chicago.
"But let's keep in mind that the transition and NATO's mission are part of a larger enterprise, one that also has political and economic dimensions. Afghanistan's neighbors have a central role to play in that larger enterprise along with the international community. Our common approach was sharpened when the international community met in Istanbul and Bonn last year, and will be carried forward when we meet again in Chicago, Kabul, and Tokyo this year.
"So beyond NATO, many nations are invested in Afghanistan's future and are providing support for the Afghans to attain self reliance, stability, and further their democratic future. They have to protect, however, as they go through this transition, their hard-fought political and economic and human rights progress. Incidents like the one we heard of yesterday when 150 Afghan girls became sick after the water at their school was poisoned, reminds us that there are people who would destroy Afghanistan's long-term future in order to restrict the rights of women and girls. Human rights protections for religious and ethnic minorities are also still fragile. Universal human rights are critical to Afghanistan's security and prosperity, and we will continue to make them a priority.
"While NATO has worked very hard to assist the people of Afghanistan, NATO has also been changed by this experience. The alliance is now a leading force for security, not just in the Atlantic region, but globally. We are steadily deepening and broadening the partnerships NATO has with dozens of countries around the world, and our partners are adding valuable capability, legitimacy, and political support to NATO's operations and missions from the Mediterranean and Libya to Kosovo and Afghanistan.
"So we believe we are building a stronger, more flexible, more dynamic alliance enriched by partners from every continent and prepared to meet the security challenges of our time."
You can view video of and read the Secretary's full remarks with Defense Secretary Panetta here.
Lara in Washington, D.C. writes:
I am delighted to see such progress in NATO and Afghanistan. Being a 21 year old, the US has been in Afghanistan for half of my life, and I have never fully understood the reasons and rarely hear about real progress. I appreciate reading Secretary Clinton's remarks as they are helping me realize the good America is doing overseas. Secretary Clinton is realistic, and the continuous reminders that there is still progress to be made is reassuring to me that the US is going to contiue to do good in the world while balancing power roles and partnerships. I have struggled for most of my life to accept our involvment in Afghanistan. However, her remarks ground me in my faith of America's foreign relations and help me begin to understand the other side.


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Denali Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Denali Wilderness (map) in 1980 and it now has a total of 2,124,783 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Alaska and is managed by the National Park Service.
DescriptionNative Athabascans have always referred to Mount McKinley as Denali, or "The High One." The mammoth mountain is the centerpiece of Denali National Park Wilderness, which comprises about one-third of Denali National Park and Preserve. Formerly known as Mount McKinley National Park, the name changed with its Wilderness designation and tripled in size. The entire unit is now bigger than the state of Massachusetts.
The Wilderness encompasses the high heart of the Alaska Range, including Mount Denali. At 20,320 feet, Denali is the highest point in North America and the tallest mountain on Earth when measured from base to summit. Mountaineers have long been irresistibly drawn to this fabulous land of perpetual snow and danger. The upthrust of the range creates its own weather, usually frigid and windy, with clouds that hide the mountains as much as 75 percent of the time. On the northern slopes of the Alaska Range, the Wilderness drops to tundra, a world of dwarf shrubs and miniature wildflowers adapted to the short growing season. Tundra gives way to taiga, a Russian word for "land of little sticks," and here scant tree growth lines many miles of river.
Tundra and taiga provide homes for 37 recorded species of mammals, including Dall sheep, caribou, grizzly bears, and moose. Smaller mammals include foxes, weasels, lynx, martens, marmots, pikas, voles, and lemmings. Flowering plants number more than 430 species, and 159 species of birds have been sighted, including the ptarmigan, which changes from brown to snow-white. Denali remains a subarctic Wilderness of unparalleled proportions.
Planning to Visit the Denali Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the National Park Service
- Other recommended websites
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Denali Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
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By Alicia H. Munnell
In this year's presidential campaign, the Republican candidates have made it very clear that increased revenue should play no part in the effort to restore fiscal balance. As a result, all the balancing is accomplished through cuts to programs, including those that many retirees rely on, such as Medicare. Moreover, a recent analysis of Governor Romney's tax proposals by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center concludes that his revenue-neutral changes would provide large cuts to high-income households and raise taxes on middle- and lower-income households.
(For more on the implications of the two campaigns' tax plans, see: Romney vs. Obama on Taxes.)
As described on Romney's website, his tax plan would extend the 2001-03 tax cuts, reduce individual income tax rates by 20 percent, eliminate taxation of investment income for most taxpayers, eliminate the estate tax, reduce the corporate income tax rate, and repeal the alternative minimum tax and the high-income taxes enacted in the 2010 health-reform legislation. These changes would reduce revenue by about $450 billion in 2015. Governor Romney and his advisers say that the ultimate plan would include proposals to broaden the base by eliminating tax breaks and incentives so that his overall tax proposals would be revenue neutral.
Paul Ryan's plan is quite similar. He calls for collapsing the income tax rates into brackets, 10 and 25 percent, which represents a cut in the highest marginal rate that's even larger than is called for by the Romney plan. He also proposes making up the lost revenue by eliminating unspecified tax breaks.
Because the tax incentives to be eliminated are unspecified, the Tax Policy Center analysts needed to make some assumptions. First, consistent with statements by Romney and supporters, they assume that provisions to encourage saving — such as preferential rates on capital gains; tax preferences for retirement, health and educational savings accounts; exemption of interest on state and local bonds; the exclusion of capital gains in home sales; and the saver's credit — would not be eliminated. Second, they eliminate tax breaks by "starting at the top." That is, they first eliminate tax benefits for the highest-income group (deductions for charitable contributions, mortgage interest and state and local taxes, and exclusions of health insurance and other fringe benefits from income) and then work their way down the income distribution until they have recouped all the revenue lost so that the tax cuts are revenue-neutral.
The key finding is that (once tax breaks to encourage saving are off the table) the total value of the tax breaks that these taxpayers are now enjoying (i.e., the amount that could potentially be eliminated under the proposed tax changes) is smaller than their gain from the rate cuts. As a result, the arithmetic requires that part of the burden for the high-income rate cuts shift onto middle- and low-income taxpayers. That is, once savings incentives are off the table, it is not possible to design a revenue-neutral plan that does not reduce tax burdens paid by high-income taxpayers, even if the reductions are implemented in the most progressive way possible.
As shown in the table, the after-tax income of those earning more than $1,000,000 would increase by 4 percent in this revenue-neutral exercise, while that of those with $75,000 to $100,000 would decline by 1.2 percent.
The fact that the existing tax system becomes more regressive under Romney's tax proposals is interesting, but somewhat small potatoes compared with the fact that he and Paul Ryan envision no role for increased revenue in closing the fiscal gap. As a result, the entire burden falls on program cuts, which fundamentally affects the lives of low- and middle-income families. Now, that is something to have a debate about!


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band, in music, a group of musicians playing principally on wind and percussion instruments, usually outdoors. Prior to the 18th cent., the term band was frequently applied in a generic sense to cover the combinations of instruments employed by kings and nobles. The term is also used for an ensemble of any one type of instrument, as brass band, wind band, marimba band. As town bands once provided music for social dancing, so do modern jazz and rock bands of numerous descriptions (see jazz, rock music).
Modern bands usually include the piccolo , flute , clarinet , oboe , English horn , bassoon , saxophone , cornet , trumpet , French horn , trombone , tuba , flügelhorn , euphonium, and various percussion instruments . Concert bands may add the cello, bass viol, and harp. The band repertory has traditionally included flourishes, marches, and music transcribed from other mediums.
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Sean Payton's future hangs over the entire New Orleans Saints franchise, especially with this week's game against the Dallas Cowboys approaching. A Saints win could help push Cowboys coach Jason Garrett out the door and potentially open a door for Payton.
Payton, who's serving a season-long suspension for his role in the Saints' bounty saga, has smartly stayed quiet over the last few weeks, and that won't change Sunday. NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported that Payton hasn't requested permission from the NFL to attend his team's game Sunday. Payton lives in the Dallas area and did watch one Saints game in person this year when Drew Brees broke Johnny Unitas' NFL record for most consecutive games with a touchdown pass.
Payton's presence at the game Sunday only would be a distraction after a week's worth of comments by players on both sides trying to avoid the issue. That said, we wouldn't be surprised to hear a well-sourced report or two about Payton's status before the game. Fox Sports insider and NFL Network contributor Jay Glazer reported last Sunday that Payton would "keep all his options open" if he can't reach a new contract agreement with the Saints.
The intense race for the playoffs is in full gear. Check out the latest situation in the postseason chase. More ...
I've done local radio in New Orleans this month, and Payton's future is the only topic the Saints' fan base is concerned about. It's also dominating the local newspapers this week. With jobs becoming available in a couple of weeks, it won't be long before Payton will have to make his intentions more clear.Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


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Retail-friendly Exact Weight Cheese Introduced Just in Time to Celebrate Henry Hudsons 400th Anniversary
Norseland Inc. Stamford, Conn., exclusive U.S. importer of Old Amsterdam, Holland's award-winning brand of Gouda cheese, introduces a retail-friendly exact weight 5.2-oz wedge package. Old Amsterdam, made from pasteurized cow's milk and crafted using a unique recipe and ripening process from Holland's Westland family, is cut to exact 5.2-oz wedges and wrapped in distinctive parchment paper. Master cheese makers supervise every phase of Old Amsterdam production, ensuring consistent superior milk quality, proper seasonality, temperature and the ripening process that results in fine crystal formulations, giving this cheese a uniquely rich, flavorful profile: hints of butterscotch/whiskey at finish and wonderfully smooth texture.
During September, Old Amsterdam will participate in New York/Netherlands Henry Hudson 400th anniversary celebration, sponsoring a Dutch flat-bottom boat—similar to Henry Hudson's Half Moon ship that brought him to the Northeast coast in 1609—to sail in a grand naval parade in New York's harbor. A working New Amsterdam Village will also be set up in lower Manhattan's Bowling Green Park, with interactive demos, consumer coupon give-aways and product samplings.
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A letter in the Feb. 21 Tomahawk Leader:
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All would-be Big Mountain Rider of the Year candidates should hurry up and get busy hurrying up, because Xavier De Le Rue, like Jones before him, got his start as a snowboard racer. That's right—XDLR is a speed freak. With several World Championship and X Games boardercross titles under his belt, and a top seed on the current FIS World Cup rankings list, Xavier is right on course for Vancouver Olympics BX glory.
"For the first time in years Jeremy has someone on his heels." – David Benedek
Of all the exaggerated peaks that he ascended and descended in 2009, perhaps none cast a greater shadow over Xavier De Le Rue than eight-time SNOWBOARDER Magazine Big Mountain Rider of the Year Jeremy Jones. While many are content to just provide the incumbent with a token vote, to those who actually paid attention, there is no denying De Le Rue deserves the award. Both on film in Black Winter and on the score sheets of the Freeride World Tour, Xavier didn't hold back and showed that he was willing to ride terrain that was steeper and sketchier than the next guy.
To JP Walker, dealing with exposure means hitting a handrail with his shirt off. Nonetheless, he still appreciates how "beastie" De Le Rue's riding really is. Xavier gets the nod from The Don, who declared, "I started to sweat the first time I watched that part. Seriously heavy lines, man." Even Eddie Wall, a pro whose video repertoire is usually described in stairs and kinks rather than vertical feet and degrees, agrees, explaining, "He rides huge shit, and does sketchy lines—everything a big-mountain rider of the year should be doing. His ending line shows that he obviously is a few French fries short of a happy meal." Of note is the fact that no one has even seen De Le Rue's Deeper shit yet!
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Microsoft announces Exchange Support for Azure VM as a Witness Server
Today at Teched in Barcelona Microsoft announced in a Exchange session by Scott Schnoll that Exchange will soon support for Azure VM as a Witness Server:
As of January 1, 2015, Microsoft will support using an Azure laaS file server VM as a witness server for an on-premises DAG .
- Testing and validation has been completed (by Tim McMichael)
- Documentation is in progress
- DAG should be extended to multiple sites to benefit (no benefit to single site DAGs)
This is not the same as the 'Cloud Witness' in Windows Threshold (aka Windows Server Technical Preview)
I did suggest that scenario in a previous post on Cloud Witness, sorry for that, but the Exchange Engineering team has not yet decided if they will do the work required to support this.
Below you can see an architectural overview of Exchange with Azure VM as a Witness Server:
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High level steps that need to be taken:
- Prepare Azure Networking
a. Create Network Services
b. Connect On-Premises VPN Gateways to Windows Azure
- Configure Virtual Machines in Azure
a. Configure Directory Server
b. Configure File Server
- Configure Exchange 2013 to use Azure Witness
- Validate and Test