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Both the federal Liberals and Conservatives circled July 18 in their calendars to celebrate key moments in tax policy.
For the Conservatives, it was the second anniversary of Justin Trudeau's Attack on Small Business. Finance critic Pierre Poilievre held court in a family-run Italian deli and warned of Liberal tax hikes to come.
Not to be outdone, for the Liberals it was a day to publish a new analysis showing that new investment in Canada faces the lowest corporate tax burden in the G7. Not quite as colourful as the deli, but they had five charts and 17 footnotes to make their case.
My, how the conversation has changed.
When Trudeau came to power in 2015, tax policy was all about making sure the rich paid their fair share, eliminating tax loopholes and making sure the right incentives were in place to diminish the gap between rich and poor.
To those ends, he promised to find and eliminate an annual $3 billion in tax loopholes. And according to the last federal budget, the Liberals have done so. But unlike most kept election promises that are trumpeted from the rooftops, that information and its accounting were pushed into "Annex 5" of the budget, way back on page 341.
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"There was no cake or champagne," quipped University of British Columbia economist Kevin Milligan, who was probably one of the few people outside the Department of Finance to read the annex.
Priorities in tax policy are now focused on easing the burden on business and investment — partly because of a competitive challenge from the United States that was not foreseen and that eventually pushed Finance Minister Bill Morneau to introduce tax incentives for Canadian business in 2018, and partly because the Conservatives have grabbed a megaphone in the country's discourse over the purpose of taxation.
There's no doubt that four years later, the tax system is more progressive. That happened by definition when the Liberals cut taxes on middle income brackets and raised taxes on the rich by putting a 33 per cent tax on income over $210,000, which is now on track to raise about $2.4 billion this fiscal year.
The $3-billion list of now-closed loopholes bolstered the progressive effects of that rejigging. The federal government, according to Annex 5, eliminated an array of deductions, special treatments for various financial market instruments, and boutique measures introduced over the years.
Most of them are small, but the list includes high-profile moves such as ending Stephen Harper's tax credits for public transit and for children's fitness and arts. It also includes ending "income sprinkling" and special treatment for passive investment income — two measures that affect how small business owners, among others, book their savings.
Plus, new rules for a more equitable tax treatment of stock options are in the works, although they're not expected to change the $3-billion calculation by much and won't come into effect until 2020 — if they survive the election.
But while the revenue has been booked, the entire tax exercise has come at a great political cost to Morneau. His attempts to reform the tax system were pilloried on a daily basis by the Conservatives and by the powerful small-business lobby, prompting him to water down his initial ideas, cut the small business tax rate overall, and also sell off his own personal holdings as his reputation got swept up in the political onslaught.
He has not fully recovered — which explains why last week's duelling celebrations were all about business taxes rather than tax fairness. Any mention of more elimination of tax incentives would surely prompt Poilievre to pop up at the deli again with warnings.
The Conservatives are framing their election campaign around the need to improve affordability for Canadian families, and taxation is central. They have already proposed nixing the federal carbon tax imposed on four provinces, as well as getting rid of the tax on home heating. It's unclear whether they could afford to cut taxes across the board and still meet their goal of eradicating the deficit within five years, but it has to be tempting.
That makes it hard, politically, for the Liberals to go further down the road of tax fairness, a road not easily taken in any case. Morneau learned the hard way that raising taxes (or closing loopholes), unless in a manner that targets only a small number of extremely rich people, is a tricky business. However unfair or ineffective the loopholes, there will always be vociferous opposition to their closing, not least when those who have benefited most can well afford the best lobbyists.
Still, there's a good argument that the Liberals should continue to push for a fairer tax system, especially now that they have largely dealt with the competitiveness problems with the United States.
Capital gains are the elephant in the room. They are taxed at a much lower level than income gleaned from regular work, or from dividends. And it's mainly the wealthy that benefit from the special treatment, although not exclusively.
Milligan, one of the country's top tax experts, has proposed treating capital gains just like dividends. So has Toby Sanger at the left-leaning Canadians for Tax Fairness. So has the federal NDP. So has tax expert Jack Mintz, although he points out that anyone who owns equities would feel the sting, and the political backlash could be large.
Will the federal Liberals go there? Only if the wounds inflicted during the last round of tax reform have healed.


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Diary of a Guerilla Filmmaker: Part One
"The battleground was set."
July 13, 2014, Rio de Janeiro.
The Argentine and German football squads are preparing to face off in the FIFA World Cup finals. Mostly international tourists will be attending today's match while the majority of Brazilians will watch from television screens outside. But some Brazilians won't be watching the game at all; instead they're taking to the streets to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed right to protest. It is not mere opportunism that brings them to the streets, seeking to capitalise on all the attention garnered by the Cup. Their grievances are very much tied to the international spectacle and the social legacy it will leave in this country. When the circus leaves town, it is Brazilians who will bear the brunt of the hangover, sifting through the trash to recover all the discarded beer cans after the party.
Donning a Canadian military gas mask and bright yellow Activist helmet from Mountain Equipment Co-op, I am in the eye of the storm, the Saens Peña square, one mile from the iconic Maracanã Stadium and ground zero for today's protest. I am in Rio continuing production on my first feature-length documentary about forced evictions in advance of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
Police have quarantined activists and media alike, using the same kettling tactic we saw police using in Toronto during the G20, when I was in the streets shooting my first short documentary, Demur. No one is permitted to enter the square and no one may leave. The memory card in my camera fills up and I press myself against a wall to change it. A line of military police are running by and one swings his baton my way, an indication to all successive police in line that I must be one of the terrorists they have been looking for and I am soon taking blows from all sides. I drop to the floor, batons continuing to crash down on me. One of the officers rips off the GoPro camera affixed to my helmet, and another swoops in for the final blow, a swift boot to the chops. As I am whisked away to the hospital in an ambulance, I cannot help but ask myself: How on earth did I end up here?
The answer to that is a long story.
It is 2010, and I'm returning to Brazil, a country I fell in love with after living in the cities of Recife and Belo Horizonte between 2006 and 2008. I am in Rio to co-present a film I co-directed with Canadian documentary filmmaker Tom Radford, Cities Crossing Borders. Rio is hosting the 5th UN Habitat World Urban Forum. We have been invited to present our feature-length film, and show a 20-minute version at the opening ceremonies on nine large screens before 8,000 guests gathered from around the globe, including Brazil's President Lula and several other heads of state. We have a captive audience and are pleased for the opportunity to set the tone for the week's prestigious event with our hard-hitting film about the crises facing megacities, the supposed focus of the event.
As the room fills up and the film's opening sequence rolls, the cheery samba music that has been serenading the arrival of delegates all morning never fades, and our film plays start-to-finish as a silent slideshow. This was no technical glitch: it is evident that the "tone" of our piece was not in keeping with the festive atmosphere event organisers were trying to construct in a bombastic fashion. Our silenced film was a mere prelude to the extensive song-and-dance that would follow, a full-on "Carnaval" procession mounted to welcome all the international delegates to the so-called "marvellous city" of Rio. This was my first experience with censorship in Brazil but it would not be my last.
Angry and disappointed, we exited the Lula event and walked across the street to the parallel gathering being organised by Brazilian civil society, the World Social Forum. It was a revelation to be there. While not much of a sports fan, I must admit my affinity for the World Cup and Olympics, perhaps duped by all the rhetoric of FIFA's (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) "beautiful game" and the values of the Olympic charter. My naïve appreciation for these events was quickly undermined by everything I heard at the forum. Despite the stereotype that all Brazilians are crazy about football, the ones I met were deeply concerned about the potential social impacts of these events, particularly in Rio, where the two mega-spectacles would be hosted back to back in 2014 and 2016.
The Brazilians told me that when FIFA and the IOC (International Olympic Committee) come to town, a "state of exception" is imposed: a legal framework that temporarily suspends the rule of law and strangles civil liberties such as the right to free movement and protest. Since 2010, thousands of families have been forcefully displaced, despite unambiguous international laws prohibiting such displacement. The "state of exception" is justified by the expediency needed to prepare for the World Cup and the Olympics, time-sensitive events that cannot be jeopardized by the potential delays of due legal process.
I returned to Canada tremendously concerned for the fate of Brazil. I started researching past Olympics and World Cups and what I discovered was appalling. I learned about the role hosting the 2004 Olympics played in precipitating Greece's successive debt crises, the thousands of poor displaced and relocated to in Canada, where the epic 1976 games, bid at a total price of $120 million, ended up costing $1.5 billion, leaving Montreal indebted for 30 years. (All this after the Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau famously declared, "The Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.")
Wide-eyed idealism is not uncommon in the mega-events' bid processes. Since 1976, the average cost overrun for the Olympics has exceeded 200 per cent. As event critic Helen Lenskyj so aptly summarizes: "These projects, massive in their scope and scale, cost many billions of public dollars and leave behind ambiguous legacies. Nearly every global mega-event has resulted in financial losses for the host, temporary cessation of democratic process, the production of militarized and exclusionary spaces, residential displacement and environmental degradation."
Having lived in Brazil twice before and knowing what I did of the socio-political context in that country—a new democracy emerging from a totalitarian dictatorship with high levels of corruption in both the private and public sphere—I realised that the country was heading into a crisis. But I also knew that the pending social catastrophe was hardly a fait accompli; on the contrary, Brazilian civil society boasted some of the world's most effective political organizers.
It is no coincidence the World Social Forum was born in Brazil, in Porto Alegre in 2001 under the guiding principle that "another world is possible." Social movements from all corners of the globe gathered for the first time at what would become an annual international gathering. There were no leaders nor unifying ideology; in their place was vehement disagreement as to what that "possible other world" might look like. It was pure democracy in all of its messiness. Brazil is also home to the Landless Workers' Movement (MST), one of the world's most successful and widely studied social movements, and to Paulo Freire, whose Pedagogy of the Oppressed asserted the democratic power of the world's marginalized classes.
In Rio, many of Brazil's marginalized people live in the favelas. Historically, the favelas emerged in marginal unliveable hillsides, public lands that were settled by rural migrants flooding to the city to provide the labour for Brazil's industrial boom throughout the 20th century. Brazilian usucapio laws formalized squatters' rights and allowed acquisition of land through unchallenged possession for a specified number of years (usually 10). After the decline of the dictatorship, which had lasted from the 1960s to the mid '80s, in acknowledgement of the tremendous sacrifice made by the labouring class, favela residents' right to housing was strengthened even further. A constitutional clause was passed that guaranteed land ownership as a fundamental right, and required that all land serve a social function. It's this very same clause utilized by the MST that has been used to successfully reclaim lands from Brazil's plutocracy. The clause is perhaps the world's most progressive example of formal squatters' rights guaranteed by a nation's constitution.
Since the dictatorship lost power in the mid '80s, populist elements in Brazilian civil society had been readying themselves for a showdown with the neo-liberals and oligarchies that ruled the nation. Under Lula, who started his political career with radical rhetoric but quickly became "establishment," Brazil's economy was booming with global capital flooding into the country, The push to cleanse Rio predated the World Cup, with the growing bourgeoisie desiring to take over the favelas, places for the poor, which were suddenly fancied by the wealthy as real estate speculation in surrounding neighbourhoods boomed.
With the mega-spectacles of the World Cup and the Olympics providing the opportunity that the opportunists had been waiting for, land was being seized and civil rights oppressed. The battleground was set for a series of confrontations. I knew that I needed to tell this story.
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As someone who has read quite a great many of the author's books [1], I was moderately puzzled by receiving a .pdf with a short seven-page book that was marked as essential reading for rivet counters. Of course, the book was the author's mildly droll version of an April Fool's Joke, and should best be read as a short work of comedy. The author can be praised for not having taken the joke too far and made it too long. It is enjoyable to read a seven page joke volume promoting the author's upcoming work, and hopefully the others who received this book and read it had the same indulgent smile that I did when viewing the book. It would have been a vastly less enjoyable volume had it gone on for hundreds of pages or if it had been written in Cyrillic script or something like that. As it was, the joke book was executed in good taste and thus has considerable value not only as a humorous text but also as an advertisement of the author's reading (more on that below) as well as a possible collector's item for those who are fans of the author's work and want to see his more humorous side as a historian of military equipment.
The contents of the book are brief and somewhat random in nature. As noted above, the book begins with a title page that recommends this book as essential reading for rivet counters. After this there is a rather straightforward and sparse title page, which could have easily included an ISBN number or something relating to it to make the joke even more serious. After this is a discussion of the rivet patterns of the SSh-40 helmet with the face of a soldier fuzzed out in the accompanying photograph, and then a discussion with photo of the Mi-2 transport helicopter with its riveted design. Another riveted vehicle, the ZSU-23-4 Shilka, follows, by which point the reader should be clued in on the fact that this book is even more random and scattered than the author's works usually are. It is at this point, mercifully, that the author then explains that this short .pdf book was a joke book, advertises his mailing list, and gives a plug for an upcoming book on the artillery of the Warsaw Pact that he is working on, followed by the image credits used for the joke.
Although in general I do not tend to be greatly fond of April Fool's Jokes, I thought this one was used for a good purpose. It combines a good deal of whimsy with a bit of actual research, albeit of a random and somewhat unconnected kind (aside from the frame joke of rivets). The work as a whole combines topical/seasonal humor along with references to the author's interest in military technology and the author's skill at advertising and marketing his works. Although short, this book is essential reading for those who like to combine April Fool's humor with reading on military history, and is the sort of work that might bring a smile even if it is read later. If you are fortunate enough to have received this e-mail and its accompanying joke e-book, it is a book with saving and worth savoring as well, for military history is often far too serious a matter for people to joke about. This book, in taking a humorous approach to such matters, is well worth enjoying and appreciating not only now but in the future as well.
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Craftsmanship and attention to detail define excellence in any discipline. The third issues of the Mohawk Maker Quarterly and the Mohawk Craft Cooperative focus on the importance of the details, one of Mohawk's core business beliefs.
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Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
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More than Friends With Benefits But Not a Relationship: FWB Meaning & FWB Definition vs Committed Relationship
Here's our 5 Exclusive Secrets to find out, if you're just Friends With Benefits, or something more with your FWB Partner.
So, you have been hanging out with this guy/lady and you both seem to be having mind-blowing great sex every now and then. You are both getting along fine with one another but oddly, your FWB relationship still hasn't come to a point sufficient for him/her to feel motivated enough to ask you out officially as his beau or to meet his/her family.
On the other hand, you are also confused as to why you would pass off such a catch, and yet wondering how he/she feels towards you. Well, if you're treading into the territories of FWB-evolved relationships, you know for sure things can get complicated.
Listed below are 5 Key Ways to uncover if he/she is just treating you as an FWB or if there is a chance to take your Friends With Benefits relationship to the next level …
Have you both been seen hanging out at your all-time favorite pizza joint in your neighborhood holding hands while you both decide on what to order?
Has he/she put his arms around you, held you close and walked you home? Did he/she ever give you a passionate kiss or a full-fledged hug in public?
These may be some signs that he/she does not mind being seen in your company which could correlate to him/her seeing you more than a Friends With Benefits.
He/She could be showing you off that you are his/hers, and that he/she does not mind being seen as yours too. Subtly, these intimate gestures and body language may indicate that he/she has developed a liking (more than that of an FWB) towards you.
Conversely, if he/she suddenly pushes you away when he/she bumps into his/her buddy or he/she is extremely discreet about what he/she does with you; like only kissing when the lights are out in the movies, alarm bells should start going off that he/she only treats you as a Friends With Benefits.
Do you talk about heavy topics such as your job, family, future plans, death, religion, political views, and finances? Or do your conversation topics only circulate on how good the sex was that day and when you are ready to hang out next?
Although there are some FWBs who may also tread into these topics, the likelihood that you are able to open your heart and spill your verbal vomit onto another person (without him wanting to run away) is quite slim.
Unless the sex is THAAAAT GOOD (so much so that he doesn't mind the boring talk) or he/she is just a very good listener. Bottom line is, the deeper your conversations, the more likely it is that he/she might consider you something more than just a Friends With Benefits.
When he/she texts you, is it always something suggestive, perhaps a covert invitation for a sexy time?
Or do you both exchange a dozen of random text messages in a day, just like what people do when they date in a relationship?
That makes a whole lot of a difference because texting frequently throughout the day actually takes real effort and one would not be investing too much time in someone whom they do not have a serious liking towards.
If you find him/her trying hard to keep the conversation going while texting, it could well mean that he/she treats you more than a FWB.
But then again, it could mean he's/she's keeping the moods up until he meets you tonight (you could see it as some sort of an extended foreplay).
Oh well, you need to exercise discretion with your Friends With Benefits lover!
An old adage says 'food brings people together', and there probably is a huge pun in this saying.
Does he/she bring you out for dinners? Or when he/she discovers a new café that serves eggs-celent eggs benedict, does he/she pry you out of your beauty sleep (even though you are not a morning person) just so you could try it out together?
There is a fine line though; drinks at bars do not count as that could just be a prequel or convenient excuse to your next sexcapade.
Have you both had conversations to try to draw a line or to seek clarity on the stance towards this FWB Relationship?
If you have both been hanging out for some time, chances are he/she may also be wondering if you both have a chance.
The fact that you both have been getting along as a couple for months, may mean that there is some chemistry which could be developed into something more!
If you're not ready for your Friends With Benefits Relationship to evolve into something more, don't rush into it! Take it slow and enjoy the benefits without any strings attached.
It's common for people to fall into the trap of getting back into a real romantic relationship again, and in more than half of these instances, it's due to the rebound effect.
If you ever find yourself trying to "accelerate" your FWB dating relationship, you would need to stop and make sure that you are not allowing the heartache from your previous dating relationships be seeping into your current possible relationship (and spoiling your fun).
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space program worker deliberately damaged a computer that is supposed to be taken to the International Space Station on the shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, a NASA official alleged Thursday.
The suspected act of sabotage was caught before the equipment was loaded onto the spaceship, NASA said.
The computer is designed for use aboard the space station, not the shuttle, and the damage would have posed no danger to either shuttle or station astronauts, said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's space operations chief.
The unidentified employee, who works for a NASA subcontractor, allegedly cut wires inside the computer that is supposed to be delivered to the international space station by Endeavour, said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's space operations chief.
The worker also allegedly damaged a similar computer that was not meant to go into space.
Gerstenmaier did not identify the subcontractor or where the damage took place. NASA's inspector general office is investigating.
NASA hopes to fix the computer and bring it as planned aboard Endeavour on Aug. 7.
Sabotaged wires inside a computer box bound for the International Space Station (ISS) won't delay the planned Aug. 7 launch of NASA's shuttle Endeavour, the agency said Thursday.
NASA's Inspector General Office has launched an investigation into intentionally cut wires in a data relay box slated to launch aboard Endeavour next month and be installed inside the space station's U.S.-built Destiny laboratory, NASA's associate administrator Bill Gerstenmaier told reporters Thursday.
"It will be repaired and it will fly on this flight," Gerstenmaier said of the damaged ISS hardware, which if flown as-is would have prevented the collection of structural performance data on the space station's backbone-like main truss. If left in place, the damage would have posed no risk to astronauts aboard the space station, he added.
The subcontractor responsible for building the damaged computer box reported the apparent wire sabotage about a week ago, said Gerstenmaier, though he would not disclose the name of the subcontractor while an investigation is underway. The damage found on the ISS box was apparently caused during its preparations at the subcontractor's premises, which are not located in Florida, he added.
Gerstenmaier spoke at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida after shuttle program managers, engineers and contractors concluded a two-day Flight Readiness Review to set an official Aug. 7 launch target for Endeavour and its astronaut crew.
The officials did not discuss the details of an independent health panel which found, according to a report by the weekly trade journal Aviation Week & Space Technology, "heavy use of alcohol" by NASA astronauts before launch.
The report, posted to the journal's Web site, cites findings from one of two astronaut health panel committees which found that, on at least two occasions, astronauts were allowed to launch even after fellow spaceflyers and flight surgeons deemed them unfit from intoxication and possible flight safety risks.
"There has not been a disciplinary action or anything I've been involved with regarding this kind of issue," said Gerstenmaier, adding that it was inappropriate to delve deeper into the details of the report, as well as those of a separate astronaut health panel, which NASA will release Friday.
NASA plans to hold a press conference at 1:00 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) Friday to discuss to two reports. Both studies were instigated earlier this year by the arrest of former astronaut Lisa Nowak, who is accused of attacking a woman she perceived to be a romantic rival for the affections of a fellow spaceflyer. Nowak has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted kidnapping and battery.
Distractions aside, NASA remains committed to launching Endeavour on Aug. 7 at about 7:02 p.m. EDT (2302 GMT). The planned 11-day mission may be extended three additional days to deliver fresh cargo, spare parts and a new starboard side piece of the space station.
The only major obstacle currently standing between Endeavour and orbit is an unmanned rocket slated to launch NASA's Phoenix mission to Mars on Aug. 3 from a launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station near NASA's Florida spaceport. That mission currently has about two liftoff attempts before Endeavour steps up to the launch plate, but the shuttle flight could be delayed a day or so to allow Phoenix more flight opportunities, Gerstenmaier said.
"Phoenix has essentially a month to get launched," Gerstenmaier said, adding that after that the red planet lander would have to wait two years until Mars and the Earth were in the correct orbital position for another attempt. "So clearly, in the overall sense, to get to Mars is pretty important and they have a pretty constrained launch window."
Commanded by veteran astronaut Scott Kelly, Endeavour's STS-118 mission will mark NASA's second shuttle flight of the year and follows last month's successful STS-17 spaceflight to the ISS aboard Atlantis. Included among Endeavour's seven-astronaut crew is former Idaho schoolteacher Barbara Morgan, NASA's first official educator astronaut to fly.


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Section 5 – Performance-tuning and Optimizing a VMware vSphere Solution
Objective 5.1 – Determine effective snapshot use cases
Many companies use the term snapshot. There are numerous definitions for snapshots that vary on the company. We should first define what VMware does with snapshots.
VMware preserves a Point in Time or PIT for a VM. This process freezes the original virtual disk and creates a new Delta disk. All I/O is now routed to the Delta disk. If data is needed that still exists on the original disk it will need to go back to that to retrieve data. So now you are accessing two disks. Over time you can potentially double the size of the original disk as you make changes and new I/O. The original 10 GB disk becomes 20 GB over 2 disks. If you create more snapshots, you create new Delta disks and it continues.
Now that we understand a bit more about them, we see the limitations inherent. This tool was never meant to be a backup. It was designed to be used for reverting back to the original (if needed) after small changes. Most backup tools DO use snapshots as part of their process, but it is only used for the amount of time needed to copy the data off and then the snapshot is consolidated back again. Here are a few Best Practices from VMware on how to use them.
- Don't use snapshots as backups – major performance degradation can occur and I have seen people lose months of data or more when the chain got too long.
- 32 snapshots are supported, but it's better not to test this.
- Don't use a snapshot longer than 72 hrs.
- Ensure if you are using a 3rd Party backup that utilizes the snapshot mechanism, they are getting consolidated and removed after the backup is done. This may need to be checked via CLI
- Don't attempt to increase disk size if the machine has a snapshot. You risk corrupting your snapshot and possible data loss.
Most use cases involve you changing the VM or upgrading and once you find out it does or doesn't work, you remove the snapshot. A good example of this is Microsoft Windows Updates. Create a snapshot, install the updates and test. If the updates haven't broken anything, consolidate. Another use case might be installation or upgrade of an important program. Or a Dev use case of changing code and executing to determine if it works. The common thread between all the use cases is temporariness. These use cases are for snapshots running a very short period of time.
Storytime. I had a company that called in once that was creating snapshots for their Microsoft Exchange Server. They were taking one every day and using it as a backup. When I was called, they were at about a year of snapshots. Their server wasn't turning on and trying to remove the snapshots wasn't working. Consolidation takes time and a bit more space. We tried to consolidate but you can only merge 32 snapshots at a time. They got impatient about 25% through the process and tried to turn it on again. When that didn't work, they had to restore from tape backup and lost a decent amount of data.
Objective 5.2 – Monitor resources of VCSA in a vSphere environment
Monitoring resources can be done from more than one place. The first place is in the vCenter appliance management page at :5480. After you log into it, you have the option on the navigation pane called Monitor. This is what it looks like:
Notice the subheadings. You can monitor CPU and Memory, Disks, Networking, and the database. You can change the time period to include metrics up to the last year. Since the VCSA is also a VM, you can view this from inside the vSphere HTML5 client. This view allows you to get a bit more granular. You are looking at it from the hosts perspective whereas the Appliance Management page is from within the VM. Both are important places to give you a full look at how the vCenter is performing. Here is a screenshot of inside the HTML5 client of my vCenter Appliance.
You can attach to the vCenter via SSH or console and run TOP for a per process view of the appliance. Here is what that looks like
These are the most common ways you would monitor resources of your VCSA.
Objective 5.3 – Identify impacts of VM configurations
There much to unpack with this objective. I will work through best practices and try to stay brief.
- While you want to allocate the resources that your VM needs to perform, you don't want to over-allocate as this can actually perform worse. Make sure there are still enough resources for ESXi itself as well.
- Unused or unnecessary hardware on VM can affect performance of both the host and all VMs on it.
- As mentioned above, over allocation of vCPU and memory resources will not necessarily increase performance and it might lower it.
- For most workloads, hyperthreading will increase performance. Hyperthreading is like a person trying to eat food. You have one mouth to consume the food, but if you are only using one arm to put the food in, it isn't as fast as it could be. If you use both arms (enabling hyperthreading) you still only have one mouth (one core) but you aren't waiting for more food and just keep constantly chewing. Certain workloads that keep CPU utilization high, benefit less from hyperthreading.
- Be aware of NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access). Memory is "owned" by sockets. If you use more memory than that socket owns, you need to use memory from the other socket (if available). This causes a small delay because it has to move across the bus vs right next to the processor. This can add up. (Oversimplified but the idea is there). There are policies that can be set that could help if needed. Not in the scope of this certification though.
- Not having enough physical memory can cause VMs to use slower methods of memory reclamation all the way to disk caching. This causes performance degradation.
- Creating shares and limits on your machine may not have the result you believe. Weigh those options carefully before you apply them.
- Make sure you use VM Tools in your VMs as they add a number of useful and performance increasing solutions.
- The hardware you use in the configuration can also change performance. For example, using PVSCSI vs LSI SAS or using VMXNET vs E1000 NICs can make a decent performance jump.
- Make sure you use VMware snapshots how they were intended and not for long periods of time.
- There are different types of VMDKS you can create. They include thin provisioned, thick (lazy zeroed), and thick (eager zeroed). There are reasons you might utilize them. Thin disks are the best in a scenario where you may not have all the space yet. You may need to buy more disks or they may be already on their way. Eventually you will have this space. It is important that you monitor your space to make sure you don't consume it before you have it. If you do, the VM will be suspended best case, worst case you can lose data. Thick (lazy zero) is when you fence all that space off for that disk up front. You can't over-provision this, you have to already have the disk space. The "lazy zero" comes in play when you go to use the space. VMware will need to format the disk block before using it. This can potentially be a slow down if there are a high number of writes to the disk. If the VM is more read heavy, you are just fine. Thick (eager zero) will take more time to create, because it formats the whole disk up front before use. This type if best for a VM with heavy writes and reads such as a DB server etc.
Keep these in mind when creating VMs and also take a look at the VMware Performance Best Practices guide here.


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Choosing the difficulty level Pillars Of Eternity 2 Guide and Walkthrough
Before starting the Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire, you can select the difficulty level that determines the number of challenges in the game. Below, you can find each difficulty level together with an overview and the description of additional options:
Difficulty levels
In the game, there are five difficulty levels:
- Story - when selecting this level, there is nearly no challenge in the game. This option is perfect for players, who simply want to learn the story and explore the in-game world.
- Relaxed - The battles are a bit more difficult, nonetheless they are still relatively easy. This is a good choice for players, who begin their adventure with RPGs or just want to focus on other aspects of the game.
- Classic - Maintains a good balance between combat, exploration, and story. Battles can prove challenging and require players to assume tactical approach. This is our recommended difficulty level for those who play Pillars of Eternity 2 Deadfire for the first time.
- Veteran - When choosing this difficulty level, players are bound to encounter more enemies, who in turn are more efficient in combat. This is a perfect option for players looking for challenges and want to engage in difficult battles.
- Path of the Damned - this hardcore mode offers much more enemies, who utilize advanced tactics. It is very difficult and you cannot change this level after you start the game, so consider well whether you are ready for such an adventure.
Additional note - If you haven't selected the highest difficulty level, Path of the Damned, the game will then allow you to change your difficulty level during your playthrough - check the options. After changing a difficulty, the game adjusts enemies automatically in the same location you are currently in. More changes can be experienced after visiting other parts of the world. These changes are, e.g. number of enemies - higher levels can spawn more enemies in locations.
Gameplay modifiers
Additionally, you can choose several more options:
- Trial of Iron - you only get one save game slot. Moreover, upon your character's death, this slot is deleted and you need to start over.
- Expert Mode - this is quite an advanced option. By choosing it, you turn off many additional facilitations in the game. These concern things such as selecting the area on which you cast a spell, detailed journal entries regarding the quests, tutorials, etc. Should you desire a more "raw" gameplay and prefer to discover the mechanics on your own - select this option.
- Level Scaling - this option allows you to adjust levels of your enemies, that is to change them accordingly to your party's level. This option is great when you are constantly looking for a challenge. You can choose whether you want enemies' levels to always be scaled or you want to limit this option only to the main quests.
Other settings for the difficulty level
The aforementioned expert mode turns off most of the options that can make the game easier. If you don't play on this particular mode then these changes can be done at any point of the game by opening the pause menu (see the picture above). Some of these options are worth turning on, especially:
- Area of Effect Highlighting.
- Detailed Quest Updates.
- Show Personality/Reputation (e.g. changes to your reputation in a given village).
- Combat Tooltips.
- Show In-Game Tutorials (especially if you play PoE 2 Deadfire for the first time; the game not only informs you about the elements known from the first game but also about its new features).
- Show Qualifiers (e.g. a requirement of having a particular skill at a certain level to unlock a dialog line).


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Monthly maintenance and cleanup is very essential to make sure that your Android tablet offers you optimum performance. This is something that almost all Android users tend to forget. However, timely maintenance and clean up is very essential for the proper working of any electronic device, and not just tablets.
Android tablets can become clogged with old data, just as computers do, and this buildup of data can negatively affect the performance of the device. Unlike computers though, the internal storage space of Android devices is low, so the upsurge of data can affect these devices pretty fast. If you have noticed that your Android tablet is acting a bit sluggish lately, the buildup of temporary files and data might be the reason for that.
Freeing up some space on your Android tablet to get things back on track is not a difficult task, if you know the steps to be followed. Read on to know the monthly maintenance steps that you need to perform on your tablet to ensure optimum performance of the device.
If you love texting, then you will need to concentrate in this part. If your tablet is still powered by Android 1.5 or 1.6 versions, then you will need to be much careful in this area. Android 2.0 and later versions provide the users with an option to set a maximum value for the messages in a thread, but still, you may not need all the messages in a thread, or the thread itself. So, it is important to get rid of the unnecessary and unwanted messages occasionally.
Most of the apps in your tablet, which can access the internet on the device, will have a cache memory somewhere in the device. Some of the third party applications store these cache files on the SD card (external memory), but the standard apps store the cache files in the internal memory of the device.
Caches are used to save bandwidth and to speed up loading of web pages, but only those web pages or internet content that you use frequently will benefit from this. Therefore, it will be beneficial to get rid of the cache files stored in your Android device. This will speed up both the device and the internet connection.
We use the SD card installed in our tablet to store everything that does not fit anywhere else. You can make use of the File Explorer app to see the contents of the SD card. If the SD card is full with junk, it can slow down the scanning process. Eventually, you will find that it takes much time to open music player, or images.
When this happens, you should understand that it is time to free up some space on the SD card. You need to get rid of the cache files, delete unnecessary temp files, and download folders.


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With our upcoming "Selling a Dental Practice: What You Need to Know" seminar coming up next Tuesday, February 28th, this seems like a perfect time to shed a little light on this topic.
When considering selling their practices, most dentists consider the tax consequences. What they don't always consider are the tax opportunities. This article addresses both.
Common Practice Sales
In the most common sale structure, a dentist sells her practice for a lump sum of money. Though we say the dentist is selling "the practice," she is actually selling the assets of the business. These generally include equipment, dental and office supplies, and patient records. Often there is also a non-compete covenant as well.
For tax purposes, the sale price must be allocated among the various assets sold. If there's money left over after allocating the price to the assets mentioned here, the remainder is considered goodwill and can be thought of as the value the seller has added to the practice over time. The sale of different assets produces different types of income so the allocation of the sales price can directly affect the seller's taxes.
The sale of supplies generally generates ordinary income, which, depending on the seller's tax bracket can be taxed as high as 50% when federal and state taxes are combined. The sale of patient records, the non-complete covenant, and the goodwill are all taxed at long-term capital gains rates which currently max out at about 30% when federal and state tax rates are combined. The sale of equipment has the potential to generate some capital gain income but often generates primarily ordinary income from the recapture of depreciation taken in prior years.
The seller's preference, therefore, is to allocate as much of the purchase price as possible to patient records, the non-compete covenant, and goodwill, and as little as possible to equipment and supplies. Unfortunately, the buyer's tax preferences will be in exact opposition to those of the seller. The buyer's tax benefit comes from allocating more to equipment and supplies and less to the intangible assets. Even more unfortunate, the buyer and seller must both agree on the allocation of the purchase/sale price and report the results to the IRS.
Creative Thinking
In most sales, a compromise on the allocation of the purchase/sale price is reached somewhere in the middle, but that doesn't have to be the case. When there are conflicting interests, there is hidden opportunity. Creative allocation of the price can be a great negotiation tool. The allocation could be altered, for example, in exchange for a higher or lower purchase price.
Seller Finance
Creative thinking also exposes other tax opportunities when selling a practice. After paying taxes on the sale, most sellers will invest the remaining proceeds in hopes of getting that steady stream of income needed in retirement. Instead, sellers should consider owner financing some or all of the buyer's practice purchase. In this scenario, the seller serves as the bank and allows the buyer to make payments over a number of years. Since the income from the sale is not received all at once, the seller usually stays in a lower tax bracket than she would be in if she took in hundreds of thousands of dollars all at once. She receives a steady stream of payments, plus interest, over a number of years, stays in lower tax brackets, defers most of the taxes in to future years, will likely pay fewer taxes overall, and, in the case of default, can take the practice back and sell it again.
Bankers love to make loans to dentists because their average default rate is about 1%. They are low risk customers. In a seller finance situation, the seller takes on the same risk a bank would. If that is still too much risk for the seller, she can protect her investment by taking a security interest in some other asset belonging to the buyer, such as a rental property owned free and clear.
Keeping the Building
Another important opportunity that should not be overlooked is available to sellers who own the building in which they practice. Selling the practice and keeping the building as a rental again provides the steady stream of income most retirees need, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Over the years, the seller has been depreciating the building and claiming a deduction for this on her tax return. If she sells the building, taxes will be paid on any gain recognized. Part of the gain will likely be due to appreciation of the building over time. This gain will be taxed at the lower long-term capital gains rates. Any gain associated with depreciation taken in the past, will be taxed at higher ordinary income rates. A seller in this situation will likely feel penniless after paying her taxes from the year of sale.
But there is an alternative, and it reduces the taxable gain on the sale of the building to zero. If the seller keeps the building until her death, and then passes it to her heirs, all the depreciation she has taken over the years gets cleared, and they inherit the building at the fair market value at the date of her death. This means that they can sell the building the next day for its market value and pay no taxes at all, or they can rent it out for many more years, taking advantage of the depreciation deduction all over again. Amazing.
While I can't think of a better tenant than a dental practice, if for some reason the selling dentist just doesn't want to continue to own that particular building, she can also take advantage of the IRS Section 1031 like-kind exchange rules. These will allow her to trade this building for another income producing building while deferring the taxes down the road.
Just because most dentists sell their practice all at once for a lump sum of money, doesn't mean it's the best way. It's certainly the easiest way, but with a little education and support from appropriate professionals, a creatively structured sale can reduce your taxes, give you a steady cash flow in retirement, increase your wealth, and provide a legacy to your children.
Ben Anders, CPA


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Topic: "WHY YOU NEED TO REINVENT YOUR COMPANY EVERY 3.5 YEARS"
Lecturer Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva
➤ Co-founder and chief reinvention officer, We Exist reinvention agency
➤ Advisor to fortune 500 and private companies
➤ Award-winning author and TEDx speaker
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➤ scientist and entrepreneur
On the webinar you will find out:
Why you need to reinvent yourself and your company every 3.5 years?
What are the key trends driving the speed and scale of change and how to address them?
What are the best practices across industries and geographies that help companies not only survive the speed of change, but use it to build new unmatched competitive advantage?
How to combat resistance to change and develop a continuous reinvention mindset?
How business systems should be redesigned – including budgeting, operations, R&D and much more – to address the speed of change and increase your company's agility and preparedness?
About Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva:
Ventures magazine calls her 'The Reinvention Guru.'
TEDx Navasink calls her 'The Queen of Reinvention.'
As a consultant, Nadya helped such companies as Coca-Cola, IBM, CISCO, L'Oreal Group, Danone, Kohler, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation, and Vienna Insurance Group reinvent their products, leadership practices and business models to meet new market demands and prepare for incoming disruptions.
As a speaker, she delivered keynotes to more than 100,000 executives
As a business educator, she runs hundreds of Executive Education workshops for nearly 10,000 leaders
Nadya is the author of two books, including "Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World", which was named Best Book of 2014 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. Her new book, "The Titanic Syndrome: Why Companies Sink and How to Reinvent Your Way Out of Any Business Disaster" is forthcoming in 2019.
Hurry up to register, because the webinar will be held on March 11 at 19.00.
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At Stourhead the treetops will glisten, and the gardens will shimmer and sparkle. Its the most wonderful time of the year to wander beneath unique tree canopies drenched in seasonal colour and dripping with shards of light, frosty snowflakes, stars and baubles. Youll also discover the magic of Bath at Christmas, with over 150 twinkling chalets spread out across picturesque Georgian streets, its the perfect place to do a last-minute spot of Christmas shopping.
Day 1
Travel to Guildford for time at leisure and to purchase an early lunch. Afterwards, travel to Stourhead in Wiltshire. Time to relax with a drink in the pub or restaurant, or to look around the shop before experiencing the magical, illuminated trail. As we walk through a Tunnel of Light festooned by over 100,000 pea-lights, the mesmerising voices of the Singing Trees can be heard in the distance. Glowing blossom rises high into the night sky and twinkling hedgerows lead us on a path towards thousands of illuminated lights on Fibre Optic Lawn. Stroll towards the lake and pause at the waterside reflections on the shimmering surface. There are hidden surprises too - immerse yourself within playful ribbons of colour changing light, step into a Laser Garden and stop at the scented Fire Garden for a moment of reflection. Afterwards, travel to our hotel in Bath where we have our evening meal.D
Day 2
After breakfast enjoy time at leisure in Bath to explore the Christmas Market. From unique homeware to personalised presents, Christmas decorations, handcrafted jewellery and more, we're guaranteed to find something special for our loved ones. Throughout the Market, we'll find tasty food to satisfy any appetite; grab a delicious burger or hog roast, caramelised nuts and aromatic mulled wine to keep us toasty while we browse. Time to purchase lunch in the city before our return journey home.B
*Please be aware your ticket does not include entrance to the Stourhead property and gardens before the illuminated trail experience.
B=Breakfast Included, D=Dinner Included
In the heart of the historic city of Bath, this Regency style townhouse hotel features individually designed bedrooms, some with views over the city. The stylish bar and lounge offer a haven of tranquillity after a day exploring the many attractions of this world heritage city. Enjoy dining in Brasserie Blanc which adjoins the hotel.
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1 night dinner, bed & breakfast
Tea/coffee after dinner
Ticket to Stourhead Christmas Event
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Turquoise eyes darted toward the entry, shifted back.
Bedamned, he should take her blood and be done with it, but Aedan could not risk scaring her. With his body so weakened, if she broke free and ran, he'd not have the strength to will her back or give chase.
After a long moment, Rowan withdrew her dagger. "But a few drops."
Precious seconds passed. On an exhale, she slid the honed blade against the pad of her thumb.
A drop of blood beaded upon the sharp metal, and the rich scent filled the air, infused Aedan's every breath. His body demanded he take. He waited, preserved the last of his meager energy in case she decided to bolt.
Rowan's eyes locked upon his, she held her thumb a hand's breadth above his mouth. The beads of red grew, wobbled upon the honed tip, fell.
The warm salty drops landed upon his tongue. Aedan savored sweetness unlike anything he'd ever tasted. He swallowed. Strength flooded his body, and his senses heightened to a dangerous edge. As deep keening ignited within his soul. A completeness he'd never experienced filled him.
He stilled. By the sword's blade, this woman was his mate!
Posted by Janet Lane Walters at 7:25 AM
Labels: Born To Bite, Diana Cosby, Saturday's Excerpt
1 comment:
Oh good excerpt Diana. Good luck on your writing and witht he food drive. I have some things bought for me that I won't use and I plan to donate them to help. In partial repayment for the help I've had this past year.
- November 12, 2012 at 12:13 AM
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