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Konkola Copper Mines has launched a new $100 million concentrator and plans an additional $500 million investment in the next few years to expand its asset base and raise production to its 400,000 tonnes per year target.
The inauguration of the East Mill II Concentrator, which was graced by Mines and Natural Resources Minister Wylbur Simuusa on Wednesday, marked another milestone in expansions and upgrades at KCM, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc.
Chief Executive Officer Jeyakumar Janakaraj said the new East Mill II Concentrator for grinding and milling, located at the Nchanga Integrated Business Unit (NIBU) in Chingola, would improve plant availability and metal recoveries by about 15 percent and also help cut operational costs.
Mr Janakaraj said the new concentrator was part of expansions being implemented by the company which has already invested close to $2.5 billion since Vedanta Resources took over its assets in 2004.
Mr Janakaraj said KCM would focus on long-term investments in Zambia's mining sector to achieve the 400,000 tonnes per year copper output.
"This new facility will enable KCM to reduce waste, recycle and dispose of all waste products. KCM will always seek new methods to balance the constant need for development with a commitment to continuously protecting the environment," Mr Janakaraj said.
KCM is Zambia's largest private sector employer with more than 22,800 permanent and contractor workers.
Mr Janakaraj said a $200 million investment would be put in the Chingola Refractory Ore project and an additional $300 million in other projects, including the Upper Ore Body, which is an expansion for the existing Nchanga underground mine, to extend the lifespan of the mine. KCM is expected to process copper from stockpiles of the Chingola Refractory Ores (CRO).
Mr Simuusa described KCM as a valuable partner in the development of Zambia.
Mr Simuusa said the massive investments in projects like the Konkola Deep Mining Project (KDMP), currently under development, expansions to the open pits, the construction of a state-of-the-art smelter at Nchanga and concentrators at Konkola, showed KCM was a valuable long-term partner.
"There is no doubt that this project has added value to the assets of Konkola Copper Mines and also that the investment will benefit this country in many ways such as safeguarding jobs and enhancing economic activity, which in itself has multiple benefits," Mr Simuusa said referring to the East Mill II Concentrator.
Mr Simuusa urged KCM employees to guard against vandalism and theft of company property to ensure they continued to enjoy the benefits accruing from mining activities while the government continued to receive revenue in taxes to develop the country.
Mr Simuusa, who led a delegation comprising his deputy Richard Musukwa and senior KCM officials and other senior government officials on a tour of the KDMP, the Nchanga Smelter and other facilities, expressed satisfaction at the investments.


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The Patriots intern who was the cameraman for their infamous SpyGate scandal is selling his Super Bowl ring at auction.
Matt Estrella, former Patriots intern, is auctioning off his ring from Super Bowl XXXIX when the Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles.
So far, the auction at Goldin Auctions has received 13 bids, and is up to $5,704.
The ring isn't the same exact one that the players receive, and includes cubic zirconia instead of real diamonds.
Still, it's a fascinating piece of NFL history, and it should be interesting to see where this auction ends.
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Broadly speaking Depression can be divided in two sub types Tamasic and Rajasic. In Tamasic depression there will be dominance of Tamas, the guna associated with inertia. These people will have a hard time getting out of bed and may feel lethargic and hopeless. These fellows will have slumped shoulders, collapsed chests, and sunken eyes. It looks as if they are barely breathing.
A more common type of depression is marked by a predominance of rajas, the guna associated with activity and restlessness. These fellows are often angry, have stiff bodies and racing minds, and appear agitated, with hardness around their eyes. Even when practicing Savasana, their eyes will be moving constantly and their fingers won't stay still. These fellows frequently report difficulty in exhaling fully, which is sign of anxiety.
Beneficial Yoga Asanas for Depression: Fellows with tamasic depression lack interest in any activity; they are too much lethargic clearly saying they are lacking the life force or prana. They should practice vigorous Yoga for depression such asrepeated Surya Namaskar, Sarvangasana, Setu Bandhasana, Ustrasana, Dhanurasana and other challenging poses. These will generate a sense of calmness and enthusiasm. The body and mind are so occupied with the practice that it will be too hard to worry. No doubt you should practice all the Yoga Asanas for depression under supervision of a Yoga expert even than you should not worry too much about proper alignment while practicing Yoga Asanas for depression. As long as you aren't doing anything that might cause an injury, it's better to have just doing the practice and focus on the movement of the breath. Backward bending Asanas for depression will be particularly stimulating and help fight Tamas. These range from restorative poses such as Savasana, Setu Bandhasana and Sarvangasana to more active poses such as Ustrasana, Bhujangasana, Sarpasana and Dhanurasana.
When there is dominance of the Rajas Guna slow and conscious Surya Namaskar and backward bending exercises likeBhujangasana, Dhanurasana, and Sarpasana will be more fruitful. Conscious practice of Asanas for depression will create a sense of calmness and will make the mind still and silent. Though the slow movements will be beneficial in a fellow dominated by the Rajas; in certain cases vigorous practices are also found to have the advantage of helping in burning off some nervous energy, and also of being demanding enough to keep their attention from drifting.
If you are feeling that closing the eyes in Savasana, during Pranayama or meditation is increasing the anxiety and restless and it is hard to remain focused; you can practice these with open eyes. So Savasana and other relaxing Asanas for depression should be practiced as guided relaxation practice under supervision on a Yoga expert.
Other useful Asanas for Depression are Simhasana, Balasana, Matsyasana, Virabhadrasana, Padahastasana, Viprit Karni, Halasana, Paschimottanasana and Baddha Konasana.
Pranayama for depression: Along with practicing the above said Yoga Asanas for depression Sitali Pranayama, Ujjayiand Nadi Shodhana Pranayama should also be practiced regularly and religiously. The combined effect of above said Yoga Asanas for depression and these Pranayama will be much more profound and you will find that in few days there will be lesser episodes of agitation, negative thoughts and feeling down.


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Easy Recipe: Spaghetti Sauce
Posted By Charissa Talbot On June 21, 2013 @ 10:49 AM In 21-Day Sugar Detox,Easy Recipes,Featured,make-ahead recipes,paleo recipe | 6 Comments
This recipe is a great choice to enjoy while on The 21-Day Sugar Detox.
grain-free • gluten-free • dairy-free • nut-free • sugar-free • sweetener-free • 21DSD
PREP TIME: 5 minutes
COOKING TIME: 30-35 minutes
YIELD: 3-4 servings
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Yes, you can enjoy this recipe while on The 21-Day Sugar Detox.
If you like this, you may also enjoy my Spaghetti Squash Bolognese recipe.
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Clay Buchholz has been the best starting pitcher in baseball this season, and some think he is cheating to gain an unfair advantage. After the Red Sox pitcher improved to 6-0 on the season following Boston's 10-1 win in Toronto on Wednesday night, accusations came from Blue Jays broadcaster Dirk Hayhurst that Buchholz was doctoring the baseball with a substance he kept on his forearm (seen above). Forget the hair, I just saw video of Buchholz loading the ball with some Eddie Harris worthy slick'em painted up his left forearm. Wow. — Dirk Hayhurst (@TheGarfoose) May 2, 2013 "This was substantial. You could see it slathered on there," Hayhurst wrote in another tweet. Hayhurst is a former MLB pitcher and seems to be an expert on the subject. Hayhurst wrote a column for Yahoo! Sports last year in which he said the art of doctoring the baseball is alive and well. Buchholz has gone at least seven innings in each of his starts this year. He has allowed just 27 hits, five runs, and 16 w...
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SUPER EGO So, there is a hipster church called Reality SF. (Not to be confused with the pretty great, all-singing, some-dancing hipster synagogue, the Kitchen — www.thekitchensf.com. "Slow down, Jew up.") I'm not sure what all goes on there because Jesus is kind of mainstream. But I do know that every Sunday morning when I'm crawling home from whosever's house, there's this amazingly fly and fashion-forwardy crowd of young people on the sidewalk outside Swedish American Music Hall. The hot hair alone had me praising the Holy Spirit. I needed to know more.
Turns out the Reality church dealie — www.realitysf.com, founded in 2010 — comes with indie-flavored music (plus set lists and free downloads), slick videos and podcasts, roving locations, and a charismatic leader named Dave. And, for the month of January, the glamorous congregation is meeting at Everett High School for "slow church" Sundays, including food trucks and a climactic re-baptism using a giant kiddie pool. Paging Portlandia: our SF reality is basically writing your next season. In any case: yes, it's gay-friendly, but it's still a bit conservative, so you probably won't get laid there. However, you may get some great tips for your 2k13 look.
Faith, now with food trucks. Can a super-twee mobile artisan church-truck, possibly called Holy Rollin', be far behind? I'm still waiting for my mobile leather bar/sex club truck, Glory Holellujah.
The effervescent Housepitality weekly pairs two of SF's international techno heavyweights, the now-Berlin-based Byallo and the globe-hopping Aju, for some juicy tag-team table collab. It'll be a little bit wiggy, a lot dancey. With Craig Kuna, Joel Conway, and JP Soul.
Wed/9, $5 before 11pm, $10 after. Icon, 1192 Folsom, SF. www.housepitalitysf.com
Classic Cali house DJs Hipp-e and Halo, aka H-Foundation, are flying in fresh from Mexico's heated BPM Festival with some major comeback tailwind. They're appearing with premium Glaswegian techno duo Slam, bringing some great '90s energy.
Fri/11, 9:30-3:30am, $15–$20. Public Works, 161 erie, SF. www.publicsf.com
Is minimal techno retro yet? Of course, the scintillatingly clean sound (once dubbed "Windex music" by our own Greg Bird of the Kontrol crew) never really went away. But essential minimal label Poker Flat was launched in 1999 (the same year Richie Hawtin dropped seminal Decks, EFX, & 909) — next in line, after a forthcoming drum and bass revival, on our retro creep up the '90s. Poker Flat founder Steve Bug's appearance should be a treat for those who want to revisit the sound -- and see what tech-house-y things Bug's been doing with it.
Fri/11, 10pm-4am, $12-$15. Mighty, 119 Utah, SF. www.blasthaus.com
One of my musical high points of 2010 was seeing dreamy glitch-hop pioneer Prefuse 73 at Slim's, engaging in a ear-blowing impromptu jam session with a live guitarist and gonzo future bass guru Gas Lamp Killer on drums. As the live opener for beloved Philly trippy-hopper RJD2 (also live), I'm sure more sparks will fly high.
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The reason Markowski is so different from the other soldiers is because of a programming error. Markowski's real personality was accidentally programmed into one of the scientists character and vice versa, meaning the Markowski shown in the movie is just a mild-mannered researcher in a big muscular body.
He's told several other soldiers about his backstory flashbacks depicting him in the lab working on creating the first batch of cybugs but no one believes him.


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Alternate headline: "This is why we're screwed." The Obama administration and Senate Democrats have proposed $60.4 billion in spending, some of which may not have anything to do with helping people recover from the superstorm that hit the Northeast this fall. But the entire lot is being rushed through as part of the "emergency" spending package that has to be passed RIGHT NOW according to Democrats — even though, according to the Congressional Budget Office, only about one-third of the money will be spent in the next 21 months.
What else is the dough going for, if not for immediate relief? Jamie Dupree has the full list of items on his AJC.com blog. ABC News reports that millions of dollars are for federal agency spending that is unrelated, or only tangentially related, to Hurricane Sandy. Another $13 billion of it is tabbed to help mitigate future disasters. Those particular mitigation measures may or may not make sense, and it's hard to know which are worthwhile and which aren't when Congress is being asked to allocate the money in such a rushed fashion. For the non-immediate needs, it would be very helpful for Congress to have more time to study them before spending almost three times as much as President Obama's cherished "Buffett Rule" would generate in new revenue.
And that's the proper way to look at the bulk of this spending. As ABC News notes, that $60 billion represents almost all the new revenue the federal government would take in next year if Congress also were to pass Obama's "deficit reduction" bill. We are perhaps days away from going over the so-called fiscal cliff because Obama and congressional Republicans can't agree about cutting existing spending. So it seems absolutely crazy to rush through a new appropriations bill in the name of "emergency" disaster relief when two-thirds of the money — as much as the annual amount of spending Obama is talking about possibly, maybe, potentially, perhaps being willing to cut in negotiations that just might take place next year if the GOP gives him everything he wants on taxes now — is not going to be spent until sometime in 2014 or after.
Yes, folks, this kind of attitude is exactly why our fiscal condition is so dire. The GOP should insist on funding only what is absolutely necessary now, and discuss the rest next year when said discussion can be more rational.
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December 14th, 2012
1:39 pm
Glad to bring a smile, Kyle!
December 14th, 2012
1:43 pm
Well, it will be a cold day in you know where when the people up there – whose lives have been ruined by this storm – will get a thin dime from any of these compassionate conservatives that blog here.
Unless you run a Jesus for money organization, you ain't gonna get squat from them.
But when the you know what hits THEIR fan, these mooches and takers will be screaming at the front of Uncle Sam's handout line for him to give them somebody elses money.
It's how they roll…
December 14th, 2012
1:44 pm
I swim those shores off jersey occasionally and they have my sympathy but 60 billion when we can't rub two nickels together? No, let them start off with emergency aid to stablilize the situation, then proceed. Nothing wrong with being practical.
December 14th, 2012
1:44 pm
The GOP history on spending is nothing to brag about at all, but you overlook that. The GOP has 0 credibility.
December 14th, 2012
1:47 pm
I guess this is what Rahm meant when he said "Never let a good crisis go to waste"….
just the money that's needed to assist victims of Sandy.
I've watched residents in the area complaining about slow to no response from the federal government. Sandy came and went…so did the MSM. No lingering like they did during Katrina. If they don't see it, they can't report it.
December 14th, 2012
1:49 pm
People, put your guns away! jeez
December 14th, 2012
1:55 pm
"Well, it will be a cold day in you know where when the people up there – whose lives have been ruined by this storm – will get a thin dime from any of these compassionate conservatives that blog here."
The traitor has spoken . . .
December 14th, 2012
1:57 pm
@Kyle…"Funny, JDW, but "this crop of Republicans" also doubts that the president and Senate Democrats "act in good faith" when it comes to spending."
Yet it is the Republicans clinging to tax policy that American's reject by a 69-28 margin. It is Republicans threatening another "political war" over the debt ceiling, boy that worked out great last time didn't it!
Sorry Kyle, but you sound awful sour grape-ish there…
December 14th, 2012
2:00 pm
We need to get a grip on allowing the mentally ill to purchase guns. This is crazy.
Oh, wait, the Cons did vote to allow an idiot to have the keys to our nukes for 8 years. They saw he wasn't stable or lucid and they ended up voting for him twice.
December 14th, 2012
2:01 pm
Rush bills through and hide in them what you can. Isn't that pretty much the way Congress and the various state Legislatures do business? No wonder the world's a damn mess.
December 14th, 2012
2:01 pm
aaaaaaaaand, here come the gun control posts…..
December 14th, 2012
2:02 pm
This latest shooting is particularly sad so close to chrismas. Elementary school children! It's beyond the pale and a very sad day for mankind in america, is this ever going stop?
December 14th, 2012
2:06 pm
18 children killed at Conn. elementary school
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."
Who will explain to the parents of those kids that the 20 year old perpetrator is part of a "well regulated militia"?
December 14th, 2012
2:07 pm
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Yes, the world is quite messy but I still am very glad to be in this day and age; I mean you could've been born into a life of serfdom or had to be a roman legionaire? I'll take this messy soup and carve out my own world or lagoon as the case may be.
December 14th, 2012
2:07 pm
Democratic Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi likewise rejected the idea today in her strongest terms yet. "As I have said, don't even think about raising Medicare age," she said. "We are not throwing America's seniors over the cliff to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in America."
Get em, Nancy! Tear em a new one.
December 14th, 2012
2:08 pm
JDW: Yet it is the Republicans clinging to tax policy that American's reject by a 69-28 margin.
Republicans have put $800 billion in new revenue on the table. Of course, it's never enough for the wastrel Democrats.
And higher rates on small business are the Viagra of the left, so not getting them would deprive them of the satisfaction they're so desperate for.
December 14th, 2012
2:10 pm
JDW: 18 children killed at Conn. elementary school
Another blue-state mass killing. To go along with Colorado and Virginia.
December 14th, 2012
2:11 pm
Borrowed from another blog:
"Knee jerk reactions don't ever result in justice. Justice in the USA does not include punishing the family members of the guilty. I hate to be the guy to bring it up but the post-Columbine blame game was ridiculous and accomplished nothing. Who is to blame? The shooter, and nobody else. If he shot himself justice is abrogated, and none of us can do anything about it.
This is unthinkably horrible. Beware anyone thats in a rush to use it to further a political agenda. They are soulless creeps."
December 14th, 2012
2:13 pm
**Another blue-state mass killing**
Last time I checked, we were the UNITED STATES of america, crazy, mentally ill shooters know no bounds…
December 14th, 2012
2:13 pm
We may need knife control too
Knife-wielding man injures 22 children in China
December 14th, 2012
2:16 pm
crazy, mentally ill shooters know no bounds…
This is true. The mistake people always make when these things happen is to look for a rational explanation for an irrational act. When a person is hell bent on evil and destruction, there's no a whole lot you can do to stop them, other than kill them.
December 14th, 2012
2:17 pm
*not a whole lot
December 14th, 2012
2:22 pm
@Hillybilly…"When a person is hell bent on evil and destruction, there's no a whole lot you can do to stop them, other than kill them."
While there are certainly no rational explanations for irrational acts, a prudent course of action would be to make it as hard as possible for those bent on evil and destruction to carry out thier desires.
December 14th, 2012
2:27 pm
Emergency spending such as this is just another kind of bailout. Spending to rebuild federal facilities, etc. of course is a perfectly justifiable thing to spend federal money on. Responsible homeowners already have their own insurance, and should not receive taxpayer money. Nor should states, who should make their own provisions for covering their own expenses.
December 14th, 2012
2:35 pm
A 20 yr old with a elementary age child, says a great deal about the upbringing of the perp. Sad, that his irrational mind came up with this slaughter, as the answer to something worming around in his sick head.
December 14th, 2012
2:35 pm
None of these fights will go well for a party doing their best to be responsible, in a country that has a majority of greedy, grasping, dependent, short-sighted voters.
Santa Claus never loses.
December 14th, 2012
2:37 pm
cc, how much did you donate to the relief fund?
And this? Another blue-state mass killing.
Children are dead and he writes filth like that.
The man often writes disgusting, repulsive things, but this is proof of his shameless depravity, is it not?
December 14th, 2012
2:38 pm
"Santa Claus never loses."
True for a fictional person, but in reality a certain party has plenty of sore losers.
December 14th, 2012
2:40 pm
"We are not throwing America's seniors over the cliff to give a tax cut to the wealthiest people in America."
Yeah right, 80B saved from eliminating the Obama Tax Cuts for the Wealthy would not fill a crack, much less the hole in the funding for Medicare. But, if your goal is to punish the achievers, rather than help Medicare patrons, maybe it works. Working at cross purposes are the Dems always. It is not what they say, it is what they really mean that counts.
December 14th, 2012
2:40 pm
JamVet: Amazing.
Just responding to an earlier comment, which by definition means that I wasn't the first. Take your hatemongering elsewhere.
December 14th, 2012
2:41 pm
For years it was illegal to own a gun in Chicagobozo but, amazingly, it was the murder capital of the world.
libs have a hard time following logic, don't they?
Now, on the other hand, if the teachers would have been armed and the janitor would have been toting and the principle would have been carrying around a hand cannon, the punk would have never even thought about it. And 27 children would be alive.
How many car jackings you hear about nowadays, something that used to be an epidemic? So what happened? People were allowed to carry in their vehicles and punk lib didn't want to play the hole in his chest lottery.
Get a grip, America haters.
December 14th, 2012
2:43 pm
Talking about charities, I see where Obama is fighting with the charities over his desire to reduce charitable donations for the wealthy. Guess, he wants to be the only Santa Claus.
December 14th, 2012
2:44 pm
"punish the achievers"
Hogwash and pure propaganda. As if 4 percentage points more in tax for people making over 250k is a big deal. I make a little over a third of that and I'm doing quite fine.
Stop whining for them, they can handle it and you have to start somewhere to start attacking our debt.
December 14th, 2012
2:45 pm
Children are dead and he writes filth like that.
Can't find a way to pin this on the Tea Party, eh?
December 14th, 2012
2:46 pm
Stop whining for them, they can handle it
Whatever you call it, and whatever effects it has on small business, it doesn't fix ten percent of Obozo's $1 trillion deficit problem.
December 14th, 2012
2:47 pm
Nope, Aesop just one depraved individual.
And those like you who haven't the morality to condemn his written filth…
December 14th, 2012
2:51 pm
I make a little over a third of that and I'm doing quite fine.
Maybe, I want more than you do, what is wrong with that. Are you appointing yourself as the one to determine what other people deserve to keep of the money they worked for? What is the max that the government should take? What should the max salary be?
December 14th, 2012
2:51 pm
I wouldn't call JDW "depraved" JamVet.
December 14th, 2012
2:52 pm
60% of Obozo voters think the top tax rate should be 25%.
December 14th, 2012
2:54 pm
Small business? What exactly is a small business? Does a real life american small business make 250k? I think not, because then it wouldn't actually be a small business.
Let's say for the sake of argument it does, 4 percent more taxes in addition to more profits, where's the downside here?
You could only wish in your best year you are going to knock down 250K, right? Why do you feel the need to protect them? You should be figuring out ways to make more than the 50k or less you do make! Now that would make sense.
December 14th, 2012
2:54 pm
Barry, try not busting a gut by laughing too hard that those dead children lived in Connecticut, OK?
December 14th, 2012
2:57 pm
If I make 100k or 200k, I expect my taxes to slide upward with it. So are you suggesting that I shun making more money just because I have to pay more taxes? Sorry, I'll take the more money with more taxes.
December 14th, 2012
2:59 pm
sailfish: Small business? What exactly is a small business?
I would expect that sort of question from an Obozo supporter.
And 4% of $250K is enough to make the payments on a new company car, perhaps a Chevy Volt, which would help create a real job somewhere. Would you prefer that 4% go to the government, or to create or save real jobs?
December 14th, 2012
3:01 pm
And those like you who haven't the morality to condemn his written filth…
I remember when a congresswomen from Arizona was laying on the ground wounded, with a bunch of dead people all around her, and before the blood even quit running, it was being blamed on the Tea Party instead of the total lunatic who did it, by people like you, Jamvet.
December 14th, 2012
3:03 pm
Nice dodge…do you really think any of the small businesses at strip malls or even big malls are knocking down 250k? No, only in your conned fantasy world do they exist.
December 14th, 2012
3:08 pm
What point is it that you're so lamely attempting to make, sailfish? Do you doubt that there are businesses that make $250K? Do you doubt that there are individuals filing tax returns with more than $250K that are including small business income? Do you have some twisted vision of the world where a business is either a hot dog stand or Walmart, with nothing in between?
December 14th, 2012
3:13 pm
JamVet@2:54 pm:
"Barry, try not busting a gut by laughing too hard that those dead children lived in Connecticut, OK?"
It may be within the rules, but this is way out of line . . .
December 14th, 2012
3:16 pm
"But the entire lot is being rushed through as part of the "emergency" spending package that has to be passed RIGHT NOW…"
$58 million for forest restoration? Really, does a forest require immediate restoration? I wouldn't have guessed it but apparently the Dems are smarter than the rest of us.


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"Our New Bookstore is the Library"
Published on - October 18th, 2008 (by J.D. Roth)
On our vacation last week, Kris and I stayed at a nice bed & breakfast on San Juan Island. One morning, we spoke with Debbie, our hostess, and the conversation turned to books. I mentioned that I liked the used bookstore in town. I also mentioned that I have too many books.
Debbie laughed and told us that she and her husband have too many books, too. "When we lived in Arizona, we had a ton of books. We even built an addition to our house — a library/office with bookshelves lining the walls."
"But when we moved here, we didn't have room. This bed and breakfast is big, but the cottage we live in next door only has 750 square feet. We just don't have room for the books. We got rid of most of them before we moved."
"Our new bookstore is the library," Debbie said. "It's great. They have almost anything I want. And if they don't have it, all I have to do is ask, and they'll order it for me."
I love the public library, but the conversation with our hostess made me realize that I've done a poor job of using it since I started working from home. It's only about a 30-minute walk from our house (and a five-minute drive), but for some reason, I used it more when I was driving to work. I've become lazy. I should go visit it next week and remind myself that I, too, have access to a "bookstore" where everything is free.
This article is about Frugality
We consider the library (also within walking distance) as an extension of our home.
The best part is having a paid staff to store, organize, and maintain our inventory!
I am not a massive fan of libraries. Good yes, but for some reason I love owning books and having my own library.
One day it is my dream to have a room completely dedicate to reading and storing books. I want to be able to teach my children and their children to read and love to read in this library.
I want to be a writer which is why I started my entrepreurs blog and you can understand my passion for words
I wholeheartedly agree! I'm someone who loves to read but generally doesnt read the same text twice (barring my favs and how to books.) I hated the thought of books just sitting dusty and lonely on a shelf so I stopped buying and began borrowing. Patronize your local library everyone! When consumption goes up, more funds are funneled to the library system allowing it to bring in more reading/music and DVD/ and language learning materials. Most systems offer free events for kids as well as free computer training classes. I love libraries
With the economic downturn, the library is a great way to save money and spend your time.
I am a huge fan of my public library. I have to walk past it almost every day to get to work. Besides books they have an excellent DVD collection. I used to spend a ton of money on books.
Amen to that. Our library in town is tiny, but it is linked to dozens of other libraries in an interlibrary loan system. If I want practically any book, I can order it online through the system website, and have it delivered to the little library in my town. I regularly receive calls from the librarians notifying me that my book has arrived. I used to be one of those people who quoted Erasmus saying that if I have any money I buy books, and use what's left over to buy food and clothing. But now I've gone for a long time without buying books, and I'm still reading everything that I want to, all for free.
Mr Chiot's and I are HUGE library fans. We most of our DVD's and books from them. Mr Chiot's listens to books on CD while he works. We always say we're getting good money from our tax dollars this way.
I still buy an occational books, especially one that I've checked out and renewed multiple times from the library. It provides a great way to try before you buy though. Sometimes I think I want to buy a book, but when I get it from the library I realize it's not all that great.
It's not quite within walking distance for us (8 miles each way), so we maximize our trips by heading in to town for the bank, post office and library runs all at once.
I love the library. In PA we have the access card so you don't just have to go to your local library. I only have a $30 a month budget for books (which for me is tough) and I spend it all on downloading books for my Sony Reader. I still read more than that though, and the library makes it guilt-free for me to read books I wouldn't have purchased.
I use the heck out of my local library.I can order any book in the Phoenix library system via the Internet. I'm a book hound. It saves me a bunch of money; that and avoiding the book aisle at Costco…the most dangerous place there for me. The downside to the library is that I live in a very "interesting" neighborhood and the people who gather on the walkway can be scary. I've only been accosted a couple of times, but it still limits the times that I'm willing to go to the library. Even though I could walk or ride my bike there, I take my car for safety reasons.
I love reading books, and I love collecting them as well. A bad habit I have acquired is that I can never read a book borrowed from a library. In order to read a book, I must own it first. Here is an interesting piece I wrote about this … you may want it to read – Forever Young Books, Freakonomics, and a Paperback Version in Europe – http://adawnjournal.com/2008/07/27/forever-young-books-freakonomics-and-a-paperback-version-in-europe/
A Dawn Journal
I have to say I've had some difficult thoughts about you, J.D., since you admitted the other day that you give very little to charity. (Though I do appreciate your honesty.) After all, what has been one of the great traditions of wealth in our country if not philanthropy? May I suggest, since you do not have a religious commitment, that you consider the local library a good place to start? Andrew Carnegie thought it was.
I too have discovered the library. They have every magazine that I used to subscribe to as well as DVD's and audio books and audio courses. Who needs to buy any of this stuff?
Oh, I love my library! Because it's right next to my son's school I have to go by it every weekday and can walk there. We often go over after school. (They know me and I know most of them by name.)
My library now offers free audiobook downloads. I can now listen to books as well as read them for free.
I am my friends' (boyfriend's, mum's…) library and they are mine. Sometimes I lend and sometimes I give them books. It's much more fun.
But then, I work in publishing and I find it important to support publishers, especially the small ones.
Book Rental Fail?
lol. This post reminded me of that.
My family also loves the library.
In our town, the "Friends of the Library" accept donated books, which are sold in enormous book sales held twice a year. Books sell for $1 (50 cents for paperback). We load up on books at the sales, and donate them back to the FOTL when we are through. The book sale proceeds fund special events like storytellers for the kids and museum passes. What a win/win situation!
I've become a huge fan of the library lately. I love that I can find what I want online, have it sent to a specific library in Portland, and be informed when it's ready to be picked up. I've read more books lately because of it. I especially like that I can pick up my books, and then go to the food carts across the street in Sellwood and grab lunch at the same time.
I grew up going to the library weekly with my Dad, and yet as a young professional I felt a compulsion to "own" and "collect" all my books. Finally this year when I hired an organizer, and realized I live in a NYC apartment with four six-foot tall bookshelves overflowing (including many books I hadn't yet read!!), I had to put a stop to it and become a library user again!
This year I have also gotten serious about my finances, and I cannot tell you how great its been when I take a hardcover book from the library, realize I don't like it, and don't have to feel guilty about what I spent on it!!! I can take out as many murder mysteries as I want and not feel bad that I will never read them again!
I have a library reserve list, and when things become free they e-mail me and I pick them up – its like shopping, only free!
And I have compromised with myself that when I take something out, read it, and really love it, I buy myself a copy (used if possible).
Its been great for clutter, great for my budget, and the weekly trip on Saturdays (or Tuesday nights after work) has brought back many memories of my weekly trips with Dad.
Yay Brooklyn library!
I love the library! Without it, I could not read the 6 – 7 books per week that I do read. All my magazine subscriptions are there on the shelves. And the CD and DVD collection is amazing. Since our libraries draw from a regional area, the supply is endless. The free internet use, and computers were wonderful until we got our own. If I really want to aquire a book, after reading it at the library, I will go out and purchase it.
It always makes me wonder why people pay taxes to support the library, but most of them do not utilize the facilities. Get your moneys worth!
I love the library! I have donated books, but the volunteers grab all the good ones before the sales and sell them themselves. I've seen it repeatedly over the years. So, it's not so good to donate in my neighborhood- a real shame…..
Interlibrary loan is a real blessing, they get anything I want. And it's a safe place to go.
PS I also donate books I no longer want, and admit (don't tell my home organizer) I pick up a few obscure titles from the free box from time to time!
I've found that a good way to get into the library habit is to use their website to order books that you're interested in. Often when I see an interview with an author or read a review, I'll put it on hold. Sometimes new/popular books take a while to come in, but then when I get the notice, it's almost like a surprise gift to myself from the past. And when you go in to pick up your hold(s), you get a bunch of other stuff that looks interesting that you wouldn't have thought of. Or at least that's what happens to me.
I used to be addicted to Borders/Barnes & Noble, but after discovering a great library in my town & the ease of the whole catalog being on their website, I started to get buyer's guilt! Now I just go in and browse the stores, finding titles and writing them down to look for in the library.
I rarely buy books from the store anymore, unless it is one of my favorite authors' new releases which I collect, or a book the library doesn't carry (which, fortunately, is rare!). Usually I wait for library book sales and end up with a ton more books for the price of a paperback or two! Those books I end up sharing with friends/family, and then donate to a local animal rescue's annual fund-raising book sale (my two passions helped by one act!). Of course, then I buy another stack -or four- of books there and do the same thing again the following year.
The other nice thing about libraries is they are like the grandparent "philosophy" about grandkids…you get to keep them and enjoy them while you have them, but then you can send them back where they came from and save yourself from clutter!
Unfortunately I live far away from the library. But I compensate with e-books, many can be downloaded for free or peanuts and, on my phone, they are convenient to read to.
This post reminded me of a clip by Colbert recently.
I'm a professional librarian, and it's a joy to read so many positive comments about libraries. It's been demonstrated that public library use goes up during economic downturns.
Beyond professional pride, I always encourage people to use your libraries–your taxes pay for them, they're there for you.
(Btw, Lily, do you have any idea how much libraries buy? Mine spends a million dollars a year on books, and we're SMALL.)
you're lucky coz you live in a rich country i live in the Philippines, a 3rd world country and we don't have public libraries
The library isn't free! Everything in there was paid for by someone, whether by you or your fellow taxpayers. Even books that are donated by authors or manufacturers had SOME cost along the line that was paid by someone.
Maybe we should say, "we have access to a bookstore that we've already paid for."
Order your books online, and then you're more likely to pick them up once you have a notice it is waiting for you.
I also use Amazon WishList to hold the books I'm interested in reading, then order books from the library from my list. Works great. I work at a university, so they even deliver the books to my office!
I agree with some previous comments. I have this vision of owning a wood-floored, tall-walled library with a fire place. This image has lead me to purchasing books that I enjoy and wouldn't mind reading again. My collection is no where near where I would like it to be, but it's getting there. I don't, however, purchase magazines. I haven't really fallen for that niche, but I'm sure that all publications are available for free at the library.
My local library is small and does not have some of the books I have wanted to read. I have started using swaptree and love it! I can get rid of books I am finished reading in exchange for one I'd like to read. All I pay is to ship the items of mine I am trading (which is usually around 2 dollars or less) I have already traded 7 items!
I also have a public library within about a 30-minute walk or 5-minute drive, but I save the time and get the exercise by making it about a 12-minute bike ride. Considering a hip that sometimes give me trouble, this is a fine alternative for me.
Debbie makes a great point, but if you absolutely, positively need to keep the book consider half.com. You can't get new releases, but you can get older books in new condition for a couple bucks.
Another way to possibly get rich slowly is to own your own business.
A few years ago I sat down to track my spending and realized I was going crazy with the books. Plus I'm still in an apartment and it is getting nuts to move 20 boxes of books every few years! Plus I'm a five minute block from a great local library. I love the library.
If I read something I must own, I post a wish request on PaperbackSwap.com — not only do I get credits when someone requests a book I don't have, but books come free in the mail (the only cost is postage). I can't recommend it enough!!
I call the library my offsite storage
I enjoy using our local public library to access a wide variety of books for my young boys; we have quite a collection of books at home as well however the majority of books come from the public library – I might as well see where my taxes go! I don't feel guilty about bringing twenty books home and reading them at night to the boys. The ones that visually enticed us with their cover art but turned out to be flops are easily returned the next day . . . the ones with great story lines stick around for a few more days and then we check for other books by the same author!
On a separate note, San Juan Island is absolutely beautiful! I included a link (http://www.mayaswhalewatch.biz/) for the whale-watching boat tour I took a couple of years ago with my dentist and some other acquaintances; I have some phenomenal photographs and memories of this trip. I'm curious if you took a boat tour to see the Orca pods while you were in the area?
I love the library too. Since I utilize it so much, I try to donate to the library once or twice a year an amount equal to two or three books. It isn't much, but it's part of 'pay it forward' while paying it back at the same time. Sure, it's funded by taxes, but not nearly enough.
I use the bookburro firefox extension. When you're viewing books to buy on Amazon.com etc. it places a drop down menu for you to click on, then a list of which libraries in your area have the book. Totally awesome.
I love the library! I get the same thrill coming home with a giant stack of books that one gets from retail therapy, without accumulating MORE stuff or denting my budget. I have a lot of books already, and I used to like to collect them, now I think I could use less than I already have. I'm actually planning on donating a lot of them to the library, keeping my favorites. I will only purchase books that are useful, that I really love and so on, "test-driven" from the library of course.
As a side note, whenever we end up with some late fees, I don't feel too badly about it, and rather think of it as a donation to the library.
I visit my two local libraries almost weekly. I get all of my books from one or the other. I use an amazing little application for the Mac called "Library Books" to keep track of which books I have out and when they are due. I use another Mac app called "Delicious Library" to keep track of books I have read and books I want to pick up. I have donated almost all of my personal books to one of the libraries, which they sell in their little bookstore.
I just got back from the library where I checked out a movie and an audiobook. We have a small independent library in our county, so it doesn't always have what I want and our library has a charge for getting items via interlibrary loan. I used to go weekly when my son was small. We went through a lot of books then, even though we purchased a fair amount, too. I haven't gone very much the last several years because I was buying more books. I don't want to buy a ton of books that I will I eventually get rid of, so I am back in the library.
My friends and I have an audiobook "library" that we share and have for a couple of years. Started by my sister, we've all added to it from time and time. We also bring new folks in to the fold from time to time. It's been wonderful listening to this wide variety of books, even for my 10-mile trip to work or running errands, but I am on the last book in our library at the moment … hence, the trip to the real library.
One nice thing about the real library is having a time limit. Even though you can renew, it makes you focus more on what you checked out and finish the items. I have a bad habit of buying books and only reading a few pages or never getting to read them. I think we've discussed the whole library at your house thing before in the posts on decluttering … often we just want the appearance/image of being well read, having the library. Most of us really have few books that we will read again or reference.
I have an Amazon wish list and friends have used it to purchase my birthday gifts, which has been nice. And, like someone else said, it does provide a good reference list for obtaining books elsewhere. In general, I've been bugged by Amazon lately, too. If you go for the free shipping, which I usually do, it takes sooooo long to get your books.
I used to spend an inordinate amount of time at the library. I've cut back on my "surf the library" time, but not my library checking out. Our library system allows you to reserve any book/dvd/cd in the system and have it held for you at your local branch. So what I do when surfing or reading my RSS feeds is keep a page open to my library handy, and search for and reserve any book I come across that sounds interesting. Every week or so I go pick up the handful of books I've reserved, and once I have them home I skim them at my leisure to see if I really want to read them.
This has saved me a fair bit of money in not buying books for research/writing projects that would've otherwise not had enough information. To be sure if I'm going to be using a book extensively in a project I'll still go buy it, but this has kept me from buying half a dozen books that seemed good on first glance, but didn't cut it. My order is generally Library first, then if time/gas will permit a trip up to my local used book store I purchase from there (inventory permitting), and if I can't find it there I then turn to my former employer Amazon.com.
The main thing this has saved me from spending money on is novels and graphic novels. If I find a book I'd like to re-read I try and hunt it down at the used book store, or a paperback from Amazon, but for the plethora of books I enjoy, but don't need to own, my library is my friend. It's also a great resource for audiobooks. I love the TWiT podcasts, and keep wanting to support them and get an audible account, but 80% of the time if I want an audiobook I can get it from my library and until I start really bumping up against their inventory ceiling I just can't justify spending the cash each month.
Credentials 1st. I'm President (3rd year) of local Friends of Libraries (FOL) & have been Treasurer (3 yrs). Yes, Volunteers get 1st grab @ all donations (paying book sale price), but anyone can volunteer. Financially, most FOL's are non-profit & donations are tax deductable. Like Goodwill donations, you could write your own receipts & set value (if the FOL don't issue receipts). You can clean out your shelves, make a tax deduction & ease your conscious by volunteering, all at the same place. Downside? It's takes a little time & physical effort (them books don't move themselves); and it's like quicksand, the more you do, the more they expect (How do you think I got to be President?). You get lots of practice saying NO.
I've also had an addiction to buying books. I love finding a bargain at the used book store and the thrift stores. I enjoy reading and having the books available at home, but I've come to re-discover the library and am using that as a way to cut some of my expenses and also am slowly selling some of my books to clear some clutter. You can check out movies and we've been able to watch a few classics without costing any money. I think what I appreciate most is reading up on some of the personal finance books and not spending any money if I don't happen to value one book over the other. So far, the only book I've purchased is Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover.
No only are the books in the library free to use, but so are the videos, dvds, audio books, and music! We always use the library in the summer but then stop once school starts… We have been using it in a limited capacity and started using the school library to the max!!
@ Kimberly- I agree, Paperbackswap is great- I have been able to get obscure books that would be $20 or more from a book dealer for the price of postage
My local library charges $1 for ILL books- not bad when I figure if I don't like it just saved myself $20, and it goes to offset the fees the library itself pays for the ILL service. Also, some of the books I have been able to get in through ILL are items I would never have been able to afford or have been able to persuade my employer to purchase- my favorite was a reprint of a medical supply catalog from the mid 1800s, it had a cost of over $200 and I ended up needing access to it for less than an hour- not a bad return on a $1 investment
I live in rural Colorado but have a Denver Public Library card- all Colorado residents can get one- with my card I download e books and audio books and have access to Ebsco and other specialty sites without having to pay individual membership fees
I absolutely agree with Rachel. I re-discovered the library this summer while there with kids I was nannying for. I get the same benefit as retail therapy, and buying something for my closet really doesn't open my mind the way reading does:)
Little by little I've whittled down my books and am down to a very few DIY books and a couple that were cherished gifts. I always donate them to the library. Whenever I find it hard to give up a few bags or boxes of books, this thought comforts me; I'll be able to check out anything I want to read again-until then they have to organize, store and dust my books.


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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
COFFEE AND DONUTS: Utilizing this former Mission Police Station as a set, Chris Sollars will activate the former station through actions and video. Southern Machine Exposure Project is a project developed by Southern Exposure (San Francisco) and Machine Project (Los Angeles), involving 20 combinations of artists and performers from LA and SF, presented off-site in 20 homes in the Bay Area over 20 consecutive days from June 11 - 30.
source: Southern Exposure (SoEx)
COFFEE AND DONUTS promo (02:28)
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Ciprian Muresan's 'Communism never happened' describes the facets of a complex anachronism, a rapport between time and history where they accelerate and decelerate past each other, where the former hemorrhages and the latter is overabundant. It is the definitive answer to Winston Churchill's observation that Eastern Europe has produced more history than it could consume, and it simultaneously states that Eastern Europe will never cease to aspire to a place in what it projects to be the grander, subtler map of things geopolitical. Its relationship to facts, statistics and painful recollections, replicates the relationship between communism, liberalism and the idea of historical catastrophe in the Eastern political imaginary. Bound up with the certainty that communism certainly happened, it mirrors the way in which post-communism and globalization endlessly complicate each other.
source: monumenttotransformation
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Given that The Sucklord is a man of the people, what is his message to the masses?
Buy this shit, motherfuckers! You need this stuff! You need to have this because it is going to compel you whatever it is you're going to do in the world. The Sucklord's just a loser from New York with a few talents and a little support, and if you've got a good idea and discipline and are willing to suffer for it, you can do your thing. But until you get your thing together, buy his thing.
source: Cyriaque Lamar - Evil toy mastermind The Sucklord and his "ghetto Star Wars" empire (2011)
TOY LORDS of CHINATOWN: Episode 1 (07:53)
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Episode 2 (11:56)
Episode 3 (19:43)
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world.
source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Hemispheric Institute of Performance: Given Over to Want (hemi)
artinfo: Jaclyn Loraso - The "Work of Art" Exit Interview
Nao's short Bio-Pic (09:47)
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Drei Männer, drei Autos, drei Obsessionen: mysteriöse Andeutungen reifen zu konkreten Handlungen, im geschützten Raum aus Glas, Chrom und Blech wird gezeichnet, meditiert und fotografiert. Eine in der ländlichen Garage angesiedelte Studie über die Getriebenheit, ein staubiges Road-Movie in Schwarz-Weiss, ohne Asphalt und ohne heulende Motoren. Skurril-witziger Bodensatz zwischen Reifenstapel, Ledersitzen und Alu-Felgen: abseits von narrativer Schlüssigkeit, werden in "automatic" Genres wie Film Noire oder Nouvelle Vague zitiert.
Josef Dabernig/G.R.A.M.
Josef Dabernig, G.R.A.M.: automatic (06:54)
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
No doubt, Paule Hammer is a painter. Yet often, the two dimensions of a sheet of paper or canvas are insufficient to express his idiosyncratically enigmatic designs of the world.
If that is the case, he makes use of space: a wooden shack is packed with portraits of Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Cash, Hannelore Kohl, the protagonists from Planet of The Apes. It is covered with the jackets and trousers awarded to honour glam-rockers and with mutant hub cap shields. Conceived as a gigantic 3-dimensional painting, Hammer called this installation Walhalla (2002). Although lacking gold leaf, it radiated with the power of religious icon painting.
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Dozens of uniformed animal control officers braved the 41-degree temperatures Saturday to pay their respects to Roy Marcum, who died in the line on duty on Nov. 28 in Galt while retrieving pets believed abandoned in an eviction.
The 43-year-old Elk Grove resident was married to his wife, Tina, and had four children between them.
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EMC rival NetApp has its own bundled offering called FlexPod, a reference architecture that combines NetApp's FAS storage platform with Cisco's server and networking gear and VMware software. HP has its VirtualSystem, Dell, its vStart bundles.
OmniCube is different from other offerings in that it was built from the ground up and can be deployed as only storage, or as an all-in-on IT stack that includes a virtual server instance with primary and backup storage and block-level primary deduplication.
"SimpliVity started with a clean sheet of paper, and is attempting to architect a purpose-built set of infrastructure specifically designed for the new world order of virtualization -- with all its mobility, mixed workloads and variable performance requirements," said Steve Duplessie, founder and lead analyst for market research firm ESG.
Because data centers are built on a single-stack architecture, where separate pieces of hardware are aimed at specific applications, silos of data have been created.
When server virtualization took over, IT managers had to "retrofit 50 years of hardware architecture" to support the mixed bag of applications. "And stunningly, we have problems," Duplessie said, with a note of sarcasm.
Scale Computing, located in Indianapolis, Ind., is currently beta testing a scale-out product that converges x86 compute nodes with RedHat's KVM hypervisor and disk storage arrays.
"You can start with three nodes and add more, as needed, to increase compute or storage performance/capacity," Taneja said.
Relative to SimpliVity, Scale Computing will be targeting smaller IT shops that may or may not have server virtualization. "Hence KVM does the job very effectively for that market (lower cost, more than enough features and simplicity). Otherwise, the concepts are similar to SimpliVity," Taneja added.
OmniCube's block-level primary dedupe
OmniCube also separates itself from rivals, Kempel said, by deduplicating data at the 4K and 8K block level before it's even placed into a file format and written to the internal storage. That way, no further deduplication, compression or data rehydration is ever needed, he said. Data rehydration is the process by which deduplicated data is restored from backup appliances.
By deduplicating and compressing data up front, OmniCube also becomes a type of WAN optimization appliance, Kempel said, though it does not optimize the TCP/IP stack as other appliances from Riverbed or Silver Peak do.
VMware's VMotion data migration tool allows data and virtual machines to move between OmniCube arrays, which allows a VMware admin to increase application performance by porting VMs to OmniCubes with more SSD, Kempel said. Data on existing, third-party servers and array can also be migrated onto the OmniCubes using the same VMware tools.
The OmniCube also adds storage tiering, which takes frequently accessed data off hard drives and places it on the internal SSDs to speed up I/O performance. Additionally, the array migrates data to another OmniCube for high availability or replicates asynchronously to a remote disaster recovery site or a cloud service provider for resiliency.
The OmniCube is based on standard x86 server hardware, but the software allows data to both be served up to applications as well as held on internal capacity as primary storage.
Data replication is tied to the native backup engine in OmniCube. The policy you set for the VMs dictates when and how often you send backup copies offsite. The replication is then acting on a static backup copy, while the live VM continues in production.


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Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Westcor Aviation has been certified a Turbomeca-approved maintenance center.
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WestWind Technologies has opened its new Huntsville Aircraft Modification & Integration Center. According to the company, it is the first time the Huntsville International Airport (Alabama) has partnered with a small business. The 62,000-sq-ft facility provides engineering, manufacturing, electronics integration and structural modifications. The MRO, which is located near the U.S.
Major Chinese, Japanese and Korean airports, members of the newly formed East Asia Airports Alliance, have signed a "Green Airport Declaration" committing to adopt a number of measures to accelerate voluntary environmental improvements in all areas of airport operations, including maintenance and line service. A spokesman for the group told AIN it has three primary areas of focus.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has accused General Electric Aviation of failing to seriously consider viable proposals that would have preserved the GE Aviation facility in Albuquerque, N.M. "Despite a legal obligation to weigh alternatives, it is clear the decision by GE to close this plant was made long ago," said Ernest "Red" Dow, Local 794 president and directing business representative.
In an August 19 AINmxReports news item titled "FAA Issues SAIB For Western Aircraft Propeller Service," it was reported that the Troutdale, Ore.-based company was the subject of an FAA Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin regarding "propellers, or propeller component parts, repaired, inspected or overhauled" by
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Big Earl, the owner of a Christmas tree lot in Compton, and a man with a big heart and a big vision, demands success from everyone around him. All kinds of trouble erupts the week before Christmas when his son, Derrick, part-time music producer and part-time Christmas tree lot employee, crosses the line to prove to Big Earl that he is a success.
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Singapore businesses are seeking greater assistance and cash payouts to raise productivity, according to a recent survey by the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI).
About six out of 10 of those surveyed said that would like greater financial assistance and an extended list of equipment and machinery to qualify under the Productivity Innovation Credit Scheme.
Other requests that followed closely behind included a reduction in transport costs e.g. road tax, COE, ERP rates (55.6%), more transparency in the work pass renewal criteria (46.9%), flexibility of managing work pass renewals (38.9%), and providing wage subsidies (37.7%).
Some 176 companies participated in SCCCI's Pre-Budget 2013 Survey, which aimed to find out what companies wished to see in the upcoming Budget and gain an overview of the current general business sentiment in Singapore.
In the previous year, companies surveyed had asked for a reduction in corporate tax and a review of foreign manpower policy. The 2013 survey comes right after a recent call by businesses to review the national productivity target.
According to the SCCCI survey, companies are also more cautious and less optimistic about the business environment in Singapore this year compared to 2012. "With the irreversible manpower policy in place, companies continue to embark on the restructuring process to improve productivity and reduce reliance on foreign manpower," said the SCCCI in the report.
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Recently I've been having an issue with my laptop. It seems that now whenever I start it up for the first time in a day, it runs extremely slow. A lot of movements on the screen are super slow. For example, the preview windows that pop-up when I put my mouse on a program that's open on my task bar are popping up in what seems like slow motion. When I open tabs in browsers, the simple motion of the new task popping up on the top of my screen seems also to be in slow motion. Even typing this, the letters are slightly lagging behind how fast I am typing it.
The fix I have is just restarting my laptop, that is all. After I do that, everything goes back to normal. I've checked my processes when it's slow and when it's normal and there's nothing out of the ordinary. I defrag and clean up my system regularly and all that good stuff.
When it's running slow (which is right now) all I have open is Google Chrome. My CPU usage is less than 10%, RAM is 40-50% and SWAP usage is around 30%.
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Outerspace Sneaker Expo Exhibition – Part 2
July 13th, 2009 by Aaron Kr. | 8 comments
Last week, we gave you a peek at some of the classic heat that was on display at the Outerspace Sneaker Expo exhibition in Barcelona, and now we have some more pics from the event, including some pretty rare gems. There were plenty of vintage Nikes to drool over including some OG Air Mariahs and Cortez's, as well as some super-rare forgotten jewels like the Hawaii, Attack McEnroe and Finland. The picks of the litter though have to be the Air Jordan II prototype and the Air Python which actually looks more like the Air Jordan II than the aforementioned prototype. Also on display in this batch of photos are some classic Vans and Converse models and the crew that helped put all this together. Keep reading after the jump for a look at a ton of seldom seen vintage kicks. Via Hypebeast.


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I am originally from Elmira, NY where I attended Elmira's Notre Dame High School. I am volunteer firefighter with Upper Mountain Fire Company in Lewiston, NY, and on the board of directors at Center City Neighborhood Development Corporation in Niagara Falls, NY. I have a wonderful wife, and a beautiful daughter. As an alum of Niagara University I was elated to have an opportunity to work for my alma mater.
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Niagara University is a place to call home. When students visit Niagara for the first time, I often hear "this feels like home" or "I could see myself here in the Fall." Niagara also offers students great major choices, Division I sports, many clubs & activities, and a family like atmosphere. The opportunities at Niagara University are limitless!
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After watching last week's No.1 movie at the Box Office, Lindelof took to his Twitter page to praise the movie and some of the performances, "Dug FIRST CLASS though, especially Fassbender, McAvoy and the best deployment of the PG-13 single-use eff-bomb I have ever seen."
However, he was less than kind to Jones' acting skills.
In the movie, Jones plays the character of 'Emma Frost', and Lindelof talked about Frost's powers in the movie, or lack thereof.
Lindelof tweeted this message, "Emma Frost's THREE mutant powers: Telepathy, Transformation to Solid Diamond and last but not least, Sucking at Acting."
Lindelof appeared to regret the Tweet the next morning, writing: "I need to stop saying mean things on Twitter."
He continued: "Yoda was not bullshitting about the dark side. Now that I've tasted its black nectar, I can't imagine ever going back. "
He cappedhis regret-fest with: "I am only slightly less disgusted with the amount of play my X-Men comment got than I am with myself for making it in the first place."
Despite the backtracking, we probably won't be seeing Jones acting in any of Lindelof's shows anytime soon.
Recently, 'The Hangover Part II' star Zach Galifianakis also dissed the pregnant 'Mad Men' actress.
In an interview, Galifianakis was made aware that Jones named him as the funniest man she'd ever met, he was quick to call out the actress on what sounded, to us, like a compliment.
But Galifianakis remembered a more than "rude" mama-to-be when he was summoned to her table at an event.
"I sit at her table and talk for 10 minutes, and she goes, 'I think it's time for you to leave now,'" Galifianakis recalls. "So I say, 'January, you are an actress in a show and everybody's going to forget about you in a few years, so f**king be nice,' and I got up and left."
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