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I was given a free copy of the "Eat Right For Your Sight" Cookbook to write this review, but all opinions are my own!
I hadn't planned posting two cookbook reviews in one week, but my lack of organization kinda made it that way, so I hope that is ok with you! I'm thinking that I'm not the only one out there whose organizational skills are less than steller, right…?!
Today we are going to talk about something that I think most people would agree is pretty important to them, your eye sight! May is healthy vision month and if you are anything like me, eye health is something you might push to the side a little bit, eye health and teeth health. It is one of those things that most people don't really pay much attention to until things start going downhill. I got my first pair of glasses three years ago and when I went in for my eye exam the eye doctor told me that he was scared that I was out there driving around without glasses for so long! Oooops! Needless to say, it is definitely something I try to keep up with more these days.
Eat Right For Your Sight is an awesome cookbook written by Jennifer Trainer Thompson, a James Beard nominee, and is filled with tons of colorful, delicious, and creative recipes! It is right up my alley! It also includes recipes from a few other amazing chefs, one of them being Ina Garten, one of my all time favorites!
Not only is the book filled with tons of amazing recipes, it is also a wealth of knowledge about macular degeneration. Age related macular degeneration is the leading cause of central vision loss in adults over the age of fifty and there is currently no cure for it. However, there are lots of delicious ways you can keep your eyes healthy and even slow the progression of the disease down if you are already effected by it. The two most important ways to eat your way to better vision are by consuming lots of fruits and vegetables that contain either Vitamin A or carotenoids. Your parents really weren't joking when they told you to eat your carrots if you wanted to have good vision!
While there are plenty of other ways besides carrots (this book has lots of great lists on foods to eat including a few my of favorites; avocados, chickpeas, and sweet potatoes!) I decided to share this awesome mac and cheese with shredded carrots with you today! This is also a perfect way to hide some extra vegetables in the food if you are cooking for vegetable haters! While the recipe in the book was not gluten free, I easily adapted it to be gluten free and it is so delicious! I hadn't made homemade mac and cheese in so long and it hands down beats any box mix you can find and doesn't require much more work!
I hope you all enjoy this recipe and don't forget to go get your eyes checked soon 🙂
Macaroni and Cheese with Shredded Carrots + Cookbook Review
- Category: Entree, Gluten Free
- 8 ounces elbow macaroni, I used gluten free
- 2 1/2 cup coarsely grated carrots
- 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, divided
- 3 tablespoons flour, I used gluten free all purpose
- 1 3/4 cup milk, heated, I used plain almond milk
- 3 cups grated sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon powdered mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup bread crumbs, I used gluten free
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Chopped parsley for garnish, if desired
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly coat an 8×8-inch baking pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Cook the macaroni according to the package directions until al dente (just firm). Add the carrots 3 to 4 minutes before the pasta is finished. Using a slotted spoon, skim off any foam that rises to the surface. Drain and set aside.
- Meanwhile, in a saucepan over medium heat, melt 3 tablespoons of butter. Whisk in the flour until it's completely incorporated, about 1 minute, whisking constantly. Add the milk and cook until thickened, whisking constantly. Reduce the heat and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, whisking often.
- Remove from the heat and add the cheddar cheese, salt, mustard, and pepper. Stir until the cheese has melted. Add the pasta mixture and stir well to combine. Transfer to the baking pan.
- Melt the remaining tablespoon of butter. In a small bowl, mix the bread crumbs with the melted butter. Stir in the Parmesan. Sprinkle on top of the macaroni mixture. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the top is golden brown. Remove from the oven and let cool just slightly before serving.
Recipe from Eat Right For Your Sight: Simple Tasty Recipes That Help Reduce the Risk of Vision Loss from Macular Degeneration, By Jennifer Trainer Thompson and Johanna M. Seddon, copyright © American Macular Degeneration Foundation, 2014. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, The Experiment. Available wherever books are sold.


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Things are looking very exciting for newly signed band Asylums!
The band have just been added to the bill for Trondheim festival in Norway, sharing the bill with bigger hitters Kiss, Def Leppard and Iggy Pop.
The band also continue to release a steady stream of releases from their new album "Alien Human Emotions", including reflective track "The Company You Keep" (Released 7th November) and "Graveyard Tourism" (30th October, see video below!).
You can check out Asylums at the Camden Assembly on Friday 9th November, where the Wardlaw team will be in attendance!

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Happy Friday morning friends! Today, the 27th of August, is a day that my kids have been waiting for all summer long...tonight we are going to the Mariner's Baseball game-and it is Ichiro Bobble-head night! My kids are thrilled beyond belief to get to go to the game on such a great and exciting night...now here is hoping we get there early enough to get our own Ichiro Bobble-heads!
I wanted to share a little birthday card I made to accompany Princess Mary's birthday name block. The image for this card is from the September Monthly Mix, "Treasured Trinkets." Isn't that a great image!? My daughters think it is one of the best stamps I have to date.
I stamped the horse across the page and then colored them in with my copics. I added a bit of bling, in the form of glitter and rhinestones! The Happy Birthday was punched out with my word window punch and mounted on a fancy label punch. The patterned paper I used is from Making Memories.
Hope you have a great weekend! I'm hoping to get a few projects finished up so I'll be back to the daily posting next week...here's to hoping!:)
Make it great friends!!
Friday, August 27, 2010
Happy Birthday
2 comments:
- Regina Easter said...
oh that is adorable....have fun tonight...hugs
- August 27, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Tiffany Ervin said...
This is so lovely - great details on the colors on each horse, love it!
- August 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM
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HERON's second conference, 'current and future directions in health equity research and action,' took place on 31 October 2018.
The 2018 conference took a future-orientated perspective to explore how we can learn from present research and tackle inequalities through future research and action. The day included oral/poster presentations and workshop sessions from both academic and non-academic work.
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District court properly "looked through" an arbitration agreement between two groups competing over rights to the name to determine that it had subject matter jurisdiction under federal trademark law to adjudicate the dispute.
A federal district court did not err in confirming an arbitration award pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. §9, in favor of a group of individuals from the Bobov Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn who claimed exclusive trademark rights to the mark BOBOV, the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City has held. Pursuant to an arbitration agreement, the parties—two groups with competing claims to the "Bobov" name—had agreed to arbitrate the dispute before a rabbinical tribunal, which ruled in favor of the petitioning group. According to the appellate court, the district court properly "looked through" the arbitration petition to the underlying controversy to determine whether subject matter jurisdiction would have existed over the dispute in the absence of an arbitration agreement. The underlying dispute involved questions of federal trademark law, over which district courts had subject matter jurisdiction. Therefore, the district court had jurisdiction to confirm the arbitration award. The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's finding that there was no indication that the award was procured through fraud or dishonesty, or that any other basis for overturning the award existed (Landau v. Eisenberg, May 1, 2019, per curiam).
The petitioners-appellees asserted that "Bobov" was a federally protected trademark because for decades the word "Bobov" had been used in commerce to distinguish the goods and services of the Bobov community. Central to the dispute was whether the respondents had the right to use the name and mark BOBOV for its new Hasidic community. The arbitration agreement provided that a panel of five rabbis would decide, among other things, who would have the right to be referred to as Bobov and to publish and distribute books and merchandise under that name. In August 2014, the panel ruled that the petitioners owned the mark and were entitled to register it, and that any party could confirm the award in secular court. The petitioners sought confirmation of the arbitration award in the federal district court in Brooklyn under the FAA.
Of 613 respondents who were served, only Baruch Eisenberg filed an opposition, raising subject matter jurisdiction, venue, and merit-based arguments. The district court held that it had subject matter jurisdiction over the petition, rejected his other arguments, and confirmed the award. Eisenberg appealed.
Subject matter jurisdiction. Eisenberg argued that the district court did not properly exercise subject matter jurisdiction over the case. Although Section 9 of the FAA provides that parties to an arbitration agreement may apply for confirmation of an arbitration agreement in federal court in the district in which the award was made, jurisdiction does not exist simply because a party wishes to confirm an award, the appellate court noted. The court had not previously decided whether subject matter jurisdiction existed over a motion to confirm an arbitration award under Section 9. However, the Supreme Court in Vaden v. Discover Bank, 556 U.S. 49 (2009), addressing whether federal subject matter jurisdiction existed over petitions to compel arbitration pursuant to 9 U.S.C. §4, stated that Section 4 of the FAA did not bestow federal jurisdiction but instead required "an independent jurisdictional basis over the parties' dispute" and held that district courts should "look through" the petition to the underlying substantive controversy to determine whether the claims arose under federal law. District courts should determine whether they would have jurisdiction under Title 28 over the dispute without the arbitration agreement, the Court explained.
In Doscher v. Sea Port Group Securities, LLC, 832 F.3d 372 (2d Cir. 2016), the Second Circuit held that courts should apply Vaden's look-through approach to petitions to vacate and modify arbitration awards under 9 U.S.C. §10. The court held that it was not "logically possible" for courts to have subject matter jurisdiction over a dispute under Section 4 but not any of the FAA's other remedies, and that applying the look-through approach to Section 10 was consistent with the FAA's pro-arbitration purpose. In the current case, the court said that the logic of Doscher applied equally to Section 9, which contained substantially identical language to Section 10.
Applying the "look through" approach here, the district court properly determined that it had subject matter jurisdiction to confirm the arbitration award, according to the Second Circuit. "The substantive controversy underlying the petition involved questions of federal trademark law, over which district courts unquestionably possess subject matter jurisdiction," said the court. "Because the district court would have had jurisdiction over the underlying substantive controversy, it had jurisdiction to confirm the arbitration award pursuant to FAA §9."
Confirmation of award. The appellate court noted that arbitration awards were subject to very limited review and that the FAA created a strong presumption in favor of enforcing awards. "Given this extremely deferential standard of review, the district court did not err in confirming the arbitration award as to the 613 respondents who had been served," the court said. The rabbinical tribunal had assessed the evidence and heard arguments over a nine-year period. The district court found no indication that the award was procured "through fraud or dishonesty, or that any other basis for overturning the award existed. The appellate court said that an independent review of the record revealed no basis for questioning the award. Therefore, the judgment of the district court was affirmed.
This case is No. 17-3963.
Attorneys: David Z. Pinsky (Covington & Burling LLP) for Asher Baruch Landau. Baruch Eisenberg, pro se.
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A web-based mental rehabilitation program may reduce the fogginess that some cancer patients experience, a new study finds.
"Chemo brain," is a form of mild cognitive impairment experienced by cancer patients. Symptoms often include forgetfulness, lack of focus, and a feeling of 'fogginess,' researchers say.
Since there is no treatment, a team of Australian researchers wanted to find out if brain training using a web based program called Insight (now sold as Brain H.Q.) would help.
InSight/ BrainHQ is a set of adaptive exercises that is marketed for general enhancement of mental function, not as a treatment for recognized illnesses or mental deficiencies.
They randomized 242 patients with newly diagnosed solid cancers. The participants were mostly female (95 percent) and ranged in age from 23 to 74 years old with a median age of 53. Most of the patients were females with breast cancer (89 percent) and 13 percent had colorectal cancer.
All had completed first-line therapy, which included chemotherapy, which had been completed, on average, 27 months ago.
The patients were divided randomly into two groups; one group received the brain training intervention plus a companion program, and the other group got standard care.
Those patients receiving the brain training program improved by about 25-to-30 percent on a test of perceived cognitive impairment and their improvement was maintained at a six-month follow-up assessment, the findings show.
Their levels of anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue, and other outcomes also tended to improve with the intervention as well, the researchers say.
This is the first such large study to look at the impact of such programs in a condition such as chemo brain, say the researchers of their study, which appears in Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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Let's Get Started: DR's Baby Steps
Happy Wednesday evening, Friends. This is the moment I've been waiting for. I have been wanting to share with you something that may just change your life forever. Let me just ask you: Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired? Are you ready to take control of your finances? If you are ready to make changes to your spending and saving habits that will not only impact you for the rest of your life, but will also have a lasting impact on your children, I want to invite you to join the millions around the world who are following Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps to financial freedom.
I am sooooooo excited to share the plan with you that is making a HUGE impact on so many and which has made such a huge impact on my mindset and our finances. Each week for the next month or so I will be taking an in-depth look at each of seven baby steps and breaking them down to the best of my knowledge for those living in the UK.
Why the UK? Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps is written for a US audience, and so far, isn't written for those living in the UK. "But Lauren, I'm sure there are some big differences between the UK and the US in terms of taxes, savings and retirement." There are some differences, but there are also similarities, especially when thinking of mindset. No matter which country you live in, you must have a money-saving mindset. You must want to make a change. You have to be committed. But most importantly, this plan works... no matter which country you're in... as long as you do the work.
As I've said many times before, I am not a qualified professional. I am simply a friend who wants to help you, no matter who you are and no matter where you are in your financial adventure. I want to give you hope that you can get out of debt (if you have any), build wealth and reach your goals. I truly, truly believe that by combining Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps, advice and guidance from Martin Lewis, Pete Matthew, Ken Okoroafor (and many others) and penny-sized mindset changes that I share with you, you will be able to accomplish big things with your money.
It's tough love time. If you have been spending money like there's no tomorrow, it's time to stop doing that. If you don't have a fully-funded emergency fund saved, it's time to save for one. If you haven't been saving for retirement and believe the money will simply be there when you retire or that you can rely on the government to support you - ha! - it's time to get your head out of the sand. It is up to you - no one else - to get your finances in order.
I am here to share with you what I know to the best of my ability. I invite you to message me with any questions you have or guidance you need, and I will do my best to guide you in the right direction. If you don't feel you want to make a change, that's fine by me. If you don't think this is worth your time and energy, that's fine, too. But if you have that desire deep down that now is the right time and now you are ready to make a change or even just make sure you're going in the right direction, please keep reading.
Let's get started: Dave Ramsey has created these 7 Baby Steps as a guide to financial freedom. What does financial freedom mean? To most it means to live your best life without debt and finance-related stress and worry. You can find Dave's Baby Steps on daveramsey.com by clicking here and as follows:
Baby Step 1: Save £1,000 for a beginner emergency fund
Baby Step 2: Pay off all debt, except your mortgage, using the debt snowball
Baby Step 3: Build a fully-funded emergency fund of 3 to 6 months of expenses
Baby Step 4: Invest 15% of household income into retirement
Baby Step 5: Start saving for your children's university/college
Baby Step 6: Pay off your home early
Baby Step 7: Build wealth and give generously
Oh yeah, and there's Baby Step 0: Commit
I will be breaking these baby steps down into smaller penny-sized sub-steps every Monday over the next few weeks, again, combining information from various UK-based sources.
Below is an animated, yet informative, overview of the Baby Steps on YouTube.
Until next time, take care. Lx
P.S. If you're a woman who wants to join a community of other women who are seeking to honor God with their finances, check out the Upward! community on Facebook.
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Money is a huge factor into my decisions. Ever since I was a kid, I have always been responsible for with money. Well, my family was not really the best financially, but that does not mean that I cannot handle money. In the past, I used to save so much, but that is because I always wanted to have money whenever I need something. Even today, I still have a great judgement when it comes to saving and using money.
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U.S. Border patrol agent Jim Rhodes is a tough divorcee mourning the loss of his murdered partner while struggling to raise his rebellious daughter in the mountains of Montana. But when a crew of trigger-happy fugitives takes Rhodes and the girl hostage a rugged wilderness will explode in all-terrain vengeance….a bone-snapping, bullet-blasting, ass-kicking action /thriller where the only rule of survival is HUNT TO KILL.
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Pro wrestling legend Steve Austin stars as a man with no name, no memory and absolutely nothing left to lose. But when he finds himself hunted by both the FBI and the Russian mob, this amnesiac decides to fight back. Pursuit cannot stop him. Torture will not break him. And with every beating, bullet and betrayal, he'll remember another piece of the horror that took his career, his family and his identity. Now the puzzle is nearly complete and one man is about to take back his past…by ending a whole lot of futures…an explosive action-thriller about collateral damage, stone cold vengeance and a double-crossed killing machine known only as The Stranger.
Damage unleashes a world of two-fisted action in this adrenaline-fueled knockout of a film set in the illegal world of underground fighting. Exploding with heart-stopping thrills, brutal fight sequences and nonstop suspense, Damage will leave you aching for more. Recently released from prison, John Brickner (Austin) is ready to leave violence behind him. But when he learns that the young daughter of the man he killed can't afford the heart transplant she needs to save her life, he knows he must fight again. An underground fighting community promises enough prize money to pay for the girl's procedure, but in a fight with no rules, can Brickner survive long enough to claim it?
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A John Wayne remake – the story of a notorious gunfighter, Quirt Evans, who is wounded and seeks shelter with a Quaker family. Attracted to the family's beautiful, loving, and widowed daughter, Temperance, the hard-bitten gunfighter is transformed from a man with a history of violence into a man of peace. Unfortunately, however, the leader of the outlaws, Loredo, won't let his past die.
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Single mom and FBI agent Laura Martin is about to take on the toughest case of her career! She must negotiate with a desperate woman stricken with cancer who has taken over a hospital in order to get her hands on an experimental drug. Every second counts and one wrong move could cost many lives.
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An FBI couple falls out of love and into an extraordinarily violent divorce that leads to hostages, bombs, and mayhem.
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66 AC Shelby Cobra
First off; this was my dream car and I've had fun with it. It's time to let someone else enjoy it as well.
It is a 66' Shelby Cobra (professionally built) replica. It is titled as a 66 and will never require smog. I am pretty certain that this is a B&B/LA Exotics Cobra but I am not 100%. I recently had a new carb put on at JBA Speed Shop in San Diego and it is super reliable and runs very strong. I'm 6'2" and I can drive it although it's a tight fit. If you are taller than me it may be a challenge; unless you want to modify the foot pedals; which is possible. I purchased this one because it is an automatic and I could actually drive it based on the clearance in the foot box area (and my height). Trust me, the fact that it's an automatic (and not stick) will not limit your fun in any way; this car is a head turner. Prepare to spend 30 minutes at the gas station when filling up to talk to people and show them a car they may never have seen up close before. I have also had it in car shows and it has always received praise. It is a lot of fun and will produce many "thumbs ups" and discussions along your travels.
- 429 Big Block - Ford Cobra Engine (very rare for these cars) (sounds fantastic) (this ain't your granny's wimpy fuel injected daily driver; this is beastly old school muscle)
- Edelbrock 460 Intake
- Brand new Holley 750 Carb with dual fuel feeds / Tuned and Dyno'd at JBA Auto in San Diego (Paperwork included)
- C6 Automatic (Ford) / shifts very smoothly
- 3000 CFM electric fan / Runs cool all the time
- Power steering
- Power brakes
- Chrome knock off wheels (throw back to the original AC Bristol cars)
- Tires in good condition
Overall a great Cobra replica that is super fun to drive and also very easy to drive since it's an automatic. Tons of power available for this light of a car. Buy it for yourself or buy it for your wife to drive around.
$500 non refundable deposit due at close of auction.
No joy rides, no test drives without the cash, no trades, no low ball offers over the phone and no hagling on the price over the phone.
Call or text. Show up and we can discuss.


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The kings of porn want a bailout. Hey, why not? Hank Paulson is the Naked Emperor. I'm sure he'll sympathize:
Is the porn industry up next for a bailout? If porn titans Joe Francis and Larry Flynt have anything to do with it, it will.
Yes, ladies and gentleman, the titans of pornography are begging for a bailout.
Joe Francis, creator of the "Girl's Gone Wild" video series, and Larry Flynt, founder of Hustler, will ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout, according to TMZ.
Why does the porn industry need a bailout? Because apparently even porn is getting smacked by the recession.
XXX DVD sales have taken a hit – about a 22% hit, according the TMZ.
"With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind," Flynt is quoted as saying on TMZ. "It's time for Congress to rejuvenate the sexual appetite of America."
Francis thinks that the porn industry deserves a bailout just like the auto and financial industries got, and he said he'll go to DC to get it, according to TMZ.
Looks like it's just a cheeky dig at bailout-mania. But who knows? Far-fetched attempts at grabbing TARP money have succeeded before…
Hat tip: QG
I'm besieged with porn puns gone wild!
It's the ultimate stimulus. The spending orgy to end all spending orgies. A dose of fiscal Viagra.
#dontgo says: Name that porn bailout!
Culture of corruption update:Dirty Dem Laura Richardson gets House ethics wrist-slap for law-breaking, obstruction
August 1, 2012 12:29 PM by Michelle Malkin
Your guide to sleazy Democratic Party-backed banks
July 18, 2012 09:05 AM by Michelle Malkin
Fannie Mae: Brother Can You Spare $4.6 Billion?
February 29, 2012 01:58 PM by Doug Powers
Obama's new campaign candy: More mortgage aid, homeowner "bill of rights"
February 1, 2012 11:39 AM by Michelle Malkin
The Bank of (Democratic Party) America
January 18, 2012 09:12 AM by Michelle Malkin
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HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - Hattiesburg Immediate Care Medical Director Samuel Crosby said the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure's new regulations on opioids for pain and benzodiazepines for anxiety are not to make patients feel judged, but for protection.
"They [patients] come in mad as a hornet," Crosby said. "They think their doctor's think they are an addict. We have to jump through these hoops, which we think are correct, for safety reasons."
Crosby said as of Oct. 22, if you are a chronic non-cancer pain sufferer, your pain medication prescription will be limited.
"So, if a patient comes in with an acute injury, acute surgery, any problem like that they're recommending that we keep that to a three day prescription," Crosby said. "They are allowing us to go to 10 days worth of medication and you can even do one extra prescription for an extra 10 days if needed, but that really is the limit."
Crosby said if a patient is on chronic opioid therapy for more than 30 or 90 days, doctors have to do a risk assessment and check your history of taking pain medication through the state's prescription monitoring website.
"So that we can see if there is doctor shopping going on, see if there are multiple pharmacies being used, see if there is an issue," Crosby said.
Other changes are urine drug screenings every three months. If doctors feel everything is going well, patients will be allowed up to three months worth of medication for pain.
"If your dose that you are requiring is very high, by that they are defining as the equivalent of 100 milligrams of morphine a day, which is a pretty good dose, if you are on that much or higher you'll have to actually be getting these prescriptions from a pain specialist," Crosby said.
Crosby said the board also recommended if you are taking both an opioid and benzodiazopines for anxiety your doctor should make both doses as low as possible. Crosby said the licensure board made these changes to cut back on patient's need for acute opioid therapy. He said to better understand how this affects you, talk to your doctor.
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Have fun and help older people in your community have healthier, happier lives with this unique UAE experience: a dance class for the elderly.
Throughout Dubai, there are elderly people in danger of developing Dementia. There's no cure for this terrible disease, but keeping active and social promotes good brain health and can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's. This is your chance to help make that happen and give back to the UAE community.
At this customised dance class and movement session, you and your team will work with a professional instructor to help people with limited mobility get moving. Attendees can perform all routines – from yoga to Rhumba, tap to Bollywood sequences – without leaving their chair, which means everyone can enjoy themselves regardless of health and fitness level.
The session lasts just two hours but, by taking part you can help ease people's pain and keep Alzheimer's at bay long-term.
"What the mind can't remember, the heart never forgets."
— Rita Bolivar – Writer
|James & Alex Dance Studios, Dubai Media City
|September to April
[weekdays from 6pm to 8pm]
|Participants and prices
1 - 15 People (starting from 10,000Dhs)
|* Prices include venue booking, event coordination, support staff and a contribution to the charity partner when applicable, as well as pictures from the activity for use in your own communications (e.g. internal, social, website), an activity impact report. Prices exclude Companies for Good management fee. Prices exclude VAT.


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Author Archives: Agent V
#OpIntruder grimoire seal.
I decided to experiment with creating a Solomonic style seal for Operation Intruder. The intention is to create a set of seals with all of the OpIntruder sigils. I would like to create one of each not only for the original abduction and ontological shock sigils but also all the other ones that various agents came up with since the beginning of the operation. The idea came from my chat with Dana Varahi. She made a set of wax seals as part of her Abramelin Operation and shared with me the method used. Dana followed instructions she found on solomonicmagic blog.
Making my OpIntruder seal took around 1 hour in total. It was fun and fairly easy. I suspect that to create more complex shapes it will be easier to carve hard wax. I followed Dana's method of carving the sigil with a toothpick when wax was still soft. It seems a good method for simple shapes but it would be very messy and impractical for complex designs. The seal is fairly fragile and tiny bits of the foil occasionally flake off when handled. It looks great and I will enjoy using it but it needs gentle handling and keeping away from heat so it doesn't melt!
I am going to describe my own adaptation of the method.
You will need:
- double boiler (small pan inside of a bigger pan)
- small plate with a rim
- baking paper
- cocktail stick
- ufo cookie cutter (available on ebay)
- small knife
- chunk of beeswax
- some pine resin
- gold or silver leaf sheets (available in nail art shops)
- Prepare your double boiler by placing the larger pan on the hob, half filling it with water and putting the smaller pan inside. Place your wax in the smaller pan so it can melt. Meanwhile grate your resin into powder and add to the wax. It should slowly dissolve. I added quite a lot of resin (around 30% of the wax volume). It helps to make the wax sticky, which is useful when applying the gold leaf.
- Cut out a circle from the baking paper and line your plate. Pour the melted wax and leave until it sets a little before proceeding. You want the surface of the wax to turn solid but the inside still be a little soft. It took just over 5 minutes in my case.
- Place the ufo cookie cutter on top of the wax and draw the shape with cocktail stick. you want to make a deep line so it will be easy to separate the ufo from the remaining wax. Once this is done draw the sigil within the ufo, leaving some space away from the deep line. Leave to set completely.
- To remove the wax from the plate place it on a hot surface for short time. I put mine on an electric hob on the lowest setting for few seconds. The wax will melt and the disk will come out easily. (Watch out for the plate, it might be hot!) Remove the baking paper from underneath the wax disk. Now you can gently pull the wax away from the ufo shape. Carefully observe the ufo shape to make sure you do not stretch it accidentally. You can use a knife. Tidy up the edges by gently cutting bits off to even them up.
- You have a small wax ufo ready to be covered with silver or gold leaf. Make sure your hands are not sticky. The foil is very delicate and stick to everything. Place the ufo sigil face on the gold leaf, press gently, turn both over and gently massage the sigil surface. You will be able to see how the film sticks to it. You can bend the leaf around the edges to cover them. It helps to use the paper your gold leaf came with to gently rub around the edges until smooth. Turn your ufo and stick the foil to the other side. At the end you can trace over the sigil with the cocktail stick to remove the foil. It helps the shape to stand out.
Operation Intruder Update
Operation Intruder, launched earlier this summer, seems to be gathering momentum. We received confirmations from other Agents as to its success and have had the pleasure to experience it ourselves. We have nothing to offer skeptics and debunkers. We may not promise anything to the believer. We seem to be receiving interesting results that can be comprehended by the illuminated agents adept at deciphering the language of the universe. I feel we are just warming up.
Operation Intruder Launch
This video is charging the launched sigil so by watching it you participate in OpIntruder.
Operation Intruder targeting Reptilian Illuminati
OpIntruder Meta Sigils
Operation Intruder aims to bring High Strangeness events such as alien abduction upon those in our society who seem to need it the most. Our targets include politicians, corporate leaders, media barons, military intelligence, heads of state and others who run things badly and sustain suffering of others by acts of mindless greed. One of the most profound results from experience such as alien abduction comes in a form of ontological shock. We want to bring it on to our targets. We have asked politely and warned them many times and yet they try to ignore us. Lets bring it home so they no longer can. Our targets seem to be largely unwilling to question the status quo and their material wealth allows them to stay ignorant. Giving them a wake up call in the privacy of their homes might open their ears.
You can get involved by using the following sigils:
This sigil signifies Operation Intruder Abductee,
while this one the ontological shock we give them.
Place them on your targets photograph, create memes using them, combine them with other symbols to create meta sigils, graffiti them onto relevant spaces, share them, visualise them, charge them, use them in your magicks, spread them… do whatever your intuition tells you to do.
Operation Intruder
Recent sociopolitical events bring both hope and despair. It seems like the consciousness of people around the globe rises higher than before and at the same time the tyranny and oppression carries on catching up. We think we need to up the game. If the people who make decisions do not stop thinking selfishly and acting motivated by greed we might run out of time for change.
Our research into extraterrestrial and alien experiences lead us to conclude that regardless of its nature and origins this phenomena has a transformative effect on the human undergoing them. They become more open minded, less egoistic, more caring for others and the environment and politically more egalitarian. The qualities brought up by the alien encounters match what we need to see increasing in those who make decisions for us. Although facing up to the experience can be a lengthy process and some never go through with it choosing instead a life of denial, it seems worth a try.
Lets call on otherworldly beings and ask them to help us by abducting and visiting those in power. Choose your own candidate for abduction and do your own magick for it to happen. We begin with corporate and political leaders, military intelligence etc. If you do not know their names then specify the role and position they hold. Adapt this to the paradigm you work with and use whatever methods suit you.
When indulging in this bare in mind the objective. As fun as vision of alien anal probing Prince Charlie might seem, we only want to help him…
You can read full Operation Intruder release: OpI.pdf
and share it using hashtag #OpIntruder
Space Warp anyone?
Professor David Pares and his friends at Space Warp Dynamics LLC work on developing a technology which will not only make travel much faster and smoother here on Earth but will also enable us to travel in space! I am not an expert in physics and engineering so the science behind it seems too far out to comprehend. The experiments these guys do seem to have results that defy current scientific theories. Intriguing…. What they want to do is to get their craft off the ground. The inspiration for all this comes from a UFO sighting that David had as a sixteen year old and also from the case study of pilot Bruce Gernon who experienced a misplacement of his aircraft when flying through a thunderstorm. His plane was found hundred miles from his original location.
I am not sure if David's project will be successful or not but I am sure this guy does what he loves and in my opinion that's worth something too. He definitely believes in his project and the implication of space warp technology will surely captivate the imagination:
If this seems like worth knowing more about you can go to his website, or listen to him on podcastufo.com, or openminds.tv amongs other palces. He also has an IndieGoGo campaign. Admittedly the percs are not that great but if you like supporting independent science, then you might like it anyway.
A documentary looking at life of people with alien experiences and work of John E. Mack, Harvard psychiatrist who decided to work with them. It's an interesting insight into a reality of people touched by something out of ordinary. The documentary presents opinions of different people and explores areas of academic and scientific freedom, demonology and meaning of 'reality'. I find it fascinating how the work John Mack did with alien abductees changed him into open minded explorer of the unknown and how this ruined his career in the world where we think of ourselves as free. It's a poignant reminder that scientific materialism became a new dogma in the establishment. Position of so called sceptics become identical to that of Catholic Church in their zeal to destroy anyone not happy with their orthodoxy. We should all have right to live our life the way we want without fear of ridicule. I sometimes wonder if greys represent our subconscious selves we became disconnected from through rejection of the notion of spirit or soul. They come and knock on our doors when least expected to remind us that we do not know everything and that life still remains an unsolved mystery waiting to be explored.
Happy Xmass everyone!
Nice Little Xmass story to cheer you up:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-aQbsibkvM


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Mampong community installs Development Chief
Anomabo-Mampong (C/R)- The Chiefs and people of Anomabo-Mampong in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region have installed a 45-year-old Financial Consultant and a philanthropist, Mr Emmanuel Mensah, as Development Chief.
He was installed under the stool name Nana Kwame Buesiwa, due to his consistent commitment to the development of Mampong and its surrounding communities.
At a colourful durbar to swear in and outdoor the new development chief, Nana Ekow Afful III, the Chief of Mampong, praised the newly installed Development Chief for his immense contributions towards the development of the area.
He said Nana Buesiwa had been part of the Mampong community for many years and had shown the greatest desire to help ameliorate the sanitation, water, health and educational challenges facing the community.
Nana Afful III explained that because more development was needed to make life comfortable for the people of Manpong, it was expedient that an illustrious son was installed development chief to join the traditional council to initiate more developments.
He called on the Mfantsiman Municipal Assembly to support the Mampong community and explained that for several years, development had eluded the town thus reducing the standard of living of the people.
Subsequently, new strategies had been adopted to get basic necessities as a community.
He also appealed to the Municipal Chief Executive to endeavour to build teachers quarters in order to encourage teachers to stay in the community to help address the falling standard of education.
For his part, Nana Buesiwa thanked the people of Mampong for the honour done him, and pledged his continued commitment to the development of the area.
He noted that the community lacked many development projects some of which included portable water, library, teachers' accommodation and good roads.
He lamented that the borehole which served the whole community was in a deplorable state and the nearest clinic serving the community was several kilometres away, which made it difficult for people in the community to access quality healthcare.
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Usually on a Thursday I just tend to grab some random, and may be comical video from the internet – or which I've been sent.
However, following the release of the video of Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F) – Katy Perry I decided to share that with you all, yes, some of you may have already seen the video, that's not the reason I'm sharing it. The reason I'm sharing this video is because it stars Rebecca Black who instantly became one of the most "hated" people for her song "Friday", which has also been embedded into posts on this site. Now I'm thankful for Katy Perry here, because unlike most people she has not "followed the crowd" and hated on Rebecca Black, she has actually given her a break, and given her a chance, not just by featuring her in the video below, but she also did her own cover of the song "Friday", which you may remember viewing here too. Just because you didn't agree with, or like her song does not mean you should hate on them.
Anyway, the video is below and one of the comments I read said "I hope her haters will have a change of heart". Which I completely agree with here.


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Took an overnight IRT Deadliest Roads trip from Luang Prabang to Houayxai/Chiang Kong on the Laos/Thai border. An experience to say the least. Obviously we had no Laos kip left to pay to get across the water into Thailand. The Mekong River is the natural border between Laos and Thailand…and most other places around Asia to be honest! We had to get some breakfast from a street-vendor and paid him in US dollars to get Laos kip (they'll take anything you've got! Didn't quite want to give up the rolex). He had to go to another shop to get his laughing cow cheese supplies for our rolls. I fell, of course, getting off the boat on the Thai side. Good times. I don't know why they even bothered putting a border official on the Thai side – it was super quick. We took a bus to Chiang Rai on a public bus (complete with some old-lady admirers for John and the back door wide open – in the RAIN) from here to see if there was anything to see there. There wasn't…so on we continued to Chiang Mai.
We found a lovely guesthouse in Chiang Mai, no idea of the name though as it was only in Thai. It was more like an apartment really (except with zero amenities) with a lovely lady owner. We may have been the only ones staying here actually. Plenty to see in Chiang Mai, lots of temples, a great night bazaar and lots to do in the surrounding area. I bought a few bits and pieces here. You could literally spend weeks just wandering around the place. We found the most amazing Italian restaurant, 'Pizza e Vino', in the world/outside of Italy. It's just off Tha Pae Gate, and actually run by an Italian. We ate there five nights in a row. No joke. And oh my God the wine. Our first night in Chiang Mai consisted of the Italian restaurant, the night bazaar…and a lady boy/cabaret show. Great laugh though. One guy did a Whitney Houston impression with fluorescent blue lips. Indescribable. Most of the other nights went the same way.
We actually went zip-lining with this crowd called 'Flight of the Gibbons'. Saw a few gibbons alright but I'm pretty sure that was a bit of a scam. Staged-gibbons I tell you!! The zip-lining was crazy though. You're harnessed and you basically jump/are pushed off tree-top platforms and you 'zip' down a metal line. They have thirty-something lines strewn hundreds of feet up in the air around the rainforest. Pretty great day out. One of the lines was pretty scary alright. You have to jump off like Superman (woman in my case). The girl in front of me was freaking out. I was thinking 'this is no bother, would she come on'…then the Skyranger AND her boyfriend pushed her off. Still I was fine. Then I looked over the edge. Couldn't do it. Managed it the second time then though!! Thanks for the helping hand there John. We found the coolest little bar (the size of a poker table on the side of the street) called Ben's Bar where we whiled out a mega-rainshower and then some. Spent the night/early hours chatting with a lovely Norwegian and a crazy ex-pat psycho who loved himself. Found a fantastic book shop run by a guy from Fermanagh. I was only allowed to buy five books though. Stupid AirAsia.
Attempted to book a first class railway sleeper cabin to get to Bangkok but all booked out. Three days beforehand. (First class because of other train experiences + my serious dislike of bugs). Hampered.com. Booked a seat on a 'sprinter' twelve hour train instead. It was actually grand, you could even recline. Thanks again Mr. Valium 🙂


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Hike #3 of the #52hikechallenge. Raven Rock State Park. The famed rock is 1 mile long and 150 feet tall.
The weather was perfect and I knew it would be crowed, lots of cars, but plenty of trails, so still plenty of solitude.
Northington Lock and Dam remains ripple the water on the Cape Fear River.
"A road that stretched from Raleigh to Fayetteville crossed the Cape Fear River via the Northington Ferry and served as the area's major transportation route. Locks and dams were built along the river to facilitate navigation by boat, and Raven Rock became an important landmark for river pilots. After a hurricane destroyed the locks and dams in 1859, the structures were not replaced." From Wikipedia.


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Different Drug to be Used in Franklin Execution
COLUMBIA - White supremacist serial killer Joseph Franklin is scheduled to be executed early Wednesday morning using the drug pentobarbital. It is the first time the drug will be used for an execution in Missouri. The state had previous plans to use propofol, but the Missouri Department of Corrections announced in October it would begin to use pentobarbital in future executions.
Pentobarbital is a one-shot anesthetic. Doctor Bill Morrissey is head pharmacist at Kilgore's Pharmacy in Columbia. He said there may be controversy about the use of propofol because the people who make it tend to be against capital punishment.
"Propofol is used in a very, very high percentage in well over 90 percent of the surgical procedures that take place, I think not only in the United States, but around the world," said Morrissey. "The primary source from that comes from somewhere in Europe and the sources of that are very anti-capital punishment, and so they do not want their drug being used in that instance."
The Department of Corrections also announced in October it plans to obtain the pentobarbital from a compound pharmacy. KOMU 8 News contacted the department Tuesday morning, but it said it had no further information to provide about the drug and referred KOMU to its website.
Morrissey said pentobarbital is a very old drug and can no longer be obtained by commercial pharmacies, which is why the state has to obtain the drug from a compound pharmacy.
"[Pentobarbital] was what I believe was used previously for a lot of executions," said Morrissey. "The problem is there's newer drugs that have replaced pentobarbital so there's not a lot of practical use for it in standard human practice, in medicine that is, and so there wasn't a huge demand for it. I believe, at least I know we can no longer get it, the commercially available sources of it just kind of evaporated and you can't really get it commercially anymore."
While there are risks with drugs made by pharmacies, he said using them for executions isn't a big concern.
"The worry that you might have in a compounding situation with something that's injectable is basically, is it sterile?" Morrissey said. "You worry about injectable medicines being sterile if there's some kind of contaminant, especially bacterial contaminant, it could cause an infection. When we're talking capital punishment, that's not really an issue at all."
Morrissey said pentobarbital is hard to obtain because propofol replaced the drug for medical uses.
"[Propofol is] just a better drug, it has less risk, It works quicker and gets out of your body quicker, whereas pentobarbital is a very long acting drug that stays in the body a long time, and if you're doing a surgical procedure you don't necessarily want that."
Franklin was sentenced to death for the murder of Gerald Gordon in a sniper attack outside of a St. Louis synagogue in October of 1977. While he has been convicted of seven other murders, he will be executed for his crimes committed in Missouri. Franklin was found guilty of other murders in Utah and Wisconsin, as well as a bombing in Tennessee.
Missouri last executed Martin Link in February of 2011 and there have only been two executions performed since 2005. Governor Jay Nixon said Monday he refuses to halt Franklin's execution.
Missourians for Alternatives to Death Penalty will hold vigils Tuesday evening to protest Franklin's execution. The group will be in front of the Boone County Courthouse from 5 to 6 p.m., and the Missouri Supreme Court from 11 p.m. to midnight in Jefferson City.


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60 kilometres of 610mm GPS HDPE liner was supplied for water injection project in the republic of Congo.
M'Boundi field, discovered in May 2001, is one of the largest oilfields to be found onshore Africa in recent years. Located some 55 km from the coast, it utilises seawater to pump into its wells to increase oil production, a practice well recognised throughout the industry. To achieve this goal, in 2008, its current operator and the client of this project ENI of Milan initiated construction of a new 600mm diameter steel pipeline to bring seawater from the coast to the oil field.
After assessing the situation, GPS PE Pipe Systems offered to supply the pipe in 18m lengths to reduce the number of fusion joints on site. It also offered broad logistical support, which included loading supervision of three cargo vessels following carefully planned port delivery logistics from three separate locations in order to avoid any timescale disruptions. On time delivery was crucial to the overall success of this project and so the manufacture of the liner pipes was carried out simultaneously on two dedicated extrusion lines over a Christmas and New Year period, which ensured the order was completed, independently inspected and certified prior to shipment to the Congo in record times.
The installation of the plastic liner was carried out on the site by specialist Swagelining contractor Pipe Equipment Specialists Ltd. Once safely delivered, the PE pipe was laid out in standard lengths along the pipeline route and these were then welded into sections (or stalks) above ground before being pulled through a reduction die to temporarily reduce their diameter. The swagelined stalks were then pulled into the carbon steel strings under tension. Once the liner was in place, the tension was released, allowing the PE pipe to recover some of its original diameter and create a close-fitting and robust lining for the steel pipe.
At 55,440.6m, the M'Boundi Project is believed to be the longest ever Swagelining project. It also involves the longest single swagelined section, which reached 872.86m, and the largest angle of pipe swagelined with 610mm diameter PE at 1150. And amongst all those impressive accolades, GPS PE Pipe Systems achieved its own firsts: manufacturing all 60km of HDPE liner pipe and shipping it to Congo in record time.
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What is Persian Rug Weaving?
By Rassin R. | December 22, 2018 | BehnamRugs.com
What is Persian Rug Weaving? Persian rug weaving is an ancient art of textile making that uses a loom and different fibers. The loom is usually made from wood. It usually comes in a rectangle shape and the fibers or threads are spun tightly vertically from one side to the other in a loop shape. These vertical threads are called "Warp". The wool or silk that is used to make the knots are called "Weft". These looms are mostly standing upright, yet, they can be placed flat on the ground.
The fibers or yarn as we know are sheered from sheep or goat coat, then washed and spun into wool yarn. Natural colors are made of various leaves, seeds, roots, that create beautiful and durable natural dyes that the yarn is essentially soaked and cooked into those dyes. Subsequently, left outside to dry. Once this process is done, colored yarn is selected to be hand knotted into the loom. There are three different knots that can be used to make hand-knotted rugs. Senneh or Persian Knot; Ghiordes or Turkish Knot; and the Jufti Knot. Each knot is unique and creates the thickness that is known as the "pile" of rug.
It is a gender neutral art that has employed many people throughout the centuries. In early years a rug was used as a media to tell a tale. Museum rug pieces tell a tale of wars, hunting scenes, games, architectural buildings, and nature scenes; which usually are knotted in a double-knot with silk-on-silk-loom. This means the warp is silk and the weft is silk. These particular rugs are very expensive and hard to come by. They are considered a national pride and exhibited at museums or special galleries worldwide.
In recent years, when production of handmade Persian rugs have been extended to countries such as India, Pakistan, and China; Persian handmade rugs have become more affordable and less detained. The handmade rugs are distinctly different than the machine made rugs. The backside of each rug is a mere image of the front and feels smooth. Whereas machine made rugs are tufted and have a rough back-side and are dull.
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Behnam Rugs has over thousand unique handmade rug in its inventory. We can help you find your special rug for your special area or home. We specialize in unique services such as hand washing rug, rug appraisals, enzyme wash, rug reweaving, rug restoration includes fringe repair, finge recoloring, rug binding, rug delivery, pick-up rug, and rug repair. General questions & concerns. Please visit us at our showroom on 18000 Preston Road, Dallas, TX 75252, or simply give us a call at (972) 733-0400.


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Meanwhile House Cardiff end of summer party
We had a party at Meanwhile House on Wednesday 12th Sept and everyone was welcome! It was an opportunity for creatives working in and around Cardiff to have some fun over beers and pizza.
Cardiff has an incredibly rich ecosystem of individual creatives and innovative start-ups, but we all hear so many stories of people working in isolation and not having enough opportunity to meet others, share knowledge and connect.
So we a hosted a Meanwhile House Cardiff end of Summer Party, a party that was open to all creatives living and working in Cardiff.
It was totally free and was a great excuse for makers, musicians and entrepreneurs from across the city to get together and have some fun.
Take a look at more photos from the night in this Facebook album
We served up beer from revolutionary Cardiff brewers Pipes. straight from the tap.
Local talented artist Harri Davies treated to a couple of live sets. Harri is a Cardiff based singer-songwriter who plays a mix of soul, folk/pop and jazz. Check out his Sofar Session performance here
We created a mini exhibition in one of our Cardiff Containers, showcasing some of what goes on behind closed doors in Meanwhile House Cardiff. Our Cardiff manager and curator Jack Skivens and Meanwhiler Prith Biant were just two of the artists featured.
We enjoyed delicious wood-fired pizza from the guys at Ffwrnes Pizza, cooked fresh onsite in their van and served up on platters for all to enjoy.
Plus ping pong. Plus pin-balling, courtesy of Meanwhilers JOR Games
Thank you for coming everyone! We hope to organise another get together very soon.
Meanwhile Creative
At Meanwhile Creative we take a creative approach to 'meanwhile' space. We can find flexible, affordable and practical workspace for your project whether this be office space, studio space or even desk space. We have something for everyone!


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Design a table and index compression strategy.
This objective may include but is not limited to: row vs. page, update frequency, page compression implementation, compressing individual partitions
My Take
In this section we'll take a look at the enterprise only data compression feature. We will be taking a look at some of the differences between Row and Page level compression, how different update patterns lead themselves to choosing one level of compression over the other, how it is that page compression is actually enacted and some of the bonuses of using partitions on your tables and the ability to use different compression levels for different partitions.
- MCM video on New Database Structures in SQL Server 2008.
- The first 15 minutes or so of the presentation explain this very effectively
- Data Compression: Strategy, Capacity Planning and Best Practices white paper
- In depth look at when to apply compression and some of the costs associated with both the use of compression and the effects for taking an existing table or index and applying compression
- SQL Server 2008 Internals – Chapter 07 Special Storage
- Looks closely at the format of the record for the compression as well as going into many of the other details of compression in detail.
Row vs Page
Row Compression essentially takes all fixed length data types and converts them into variable length columns. It is able to do so by using a different record structure, the column descriptor (CD) format. In this format the information necessary to point to a variable length column is reduced from two bytes in the standard format to four bits (1/2 byte). Row compression cannot be used with sparse columns and only works with the information which is stored in the regular portion of the record. This means that any information stored in the overflow or lob allocations will not be compressed. An interesting note is that zeroes or empty strings are not stored since the column metadata already contains information that the column is null or not. For more information about how the row-compressed records are actually stored (ex. short data region vs long data region) see the sql server internals book.
Page compression uses row compression as it's first step when saving data. When a page of data is first filled, or when a page that was full hits the internal threshold for updates, the page will be evaluated for page compression. I'll leave the bulk of this explanation for the page compression implementation below.
Page compression is best used when a table is often scanned and is not updated frequently. Row compression is best used when a table will be updated frequently enough that page compression does not make sense. Furthermore, row compression only really makes sense if the record contains fixed length columns that often do not contain a value which would use the full allotment of bytes. You can use the sp_estimate_data_compression_savings stored procedure to see what the estimated savings of using the specified compression would be.
Both row compression and page compression trade off the cost of I/O and memory saved by the compression with additional CPU costs to perform the compression and to retrieve the values. Compressed data is never stored in an uncompressed state, not even in memory, so it will incur the cost of retrieving the values each time that the data is needed. This cost is higher for page compression, although the benefits in memory and I/O are higher as well.
The article on Creating Compressed Tables and Indexes has some more good information on considerations for when to use row and page compression.
Update Frequency
For non-heap structures, updates will cause the page level compression to be re-evaluated (after either 25 updates or when # updates / # records is >= 25%) causing a fairly high amount of overhead when the compression information is rebuilt and the page is reorganized. Thus, the update frequency, along with the frequency of scans, the estimated space savings of the row compression and the estimated space savings of page compression, should be used to help determine when to use row level compression versus page level compression. However, if a table is append only – or has a high percentage of appends vs. actual updates, the number of updates might be disregarded when considering page compression.
See the Application Workload section of the Data Compression white paper listed above.
Page Compression Implementation
It should be noted that all data stored with page compression uses row compression as above. This can be thought of as the first step of page compression. The next steps of page compression are only applied once the page is full, or once the page which already has page compression applied reaches the threshold of updates to be re-evaluated.
The second step of page compression uses column value prefix compression. With column value compression the compression information associated with the column stores the longest value that uses the common prefix, then uses a value to show how much of that value is appropriate for the current column + any additional values in that column.
The third step of page compression uses column value dictionary compression. With dictionary compression the compression information looks at binary data for all data types (so it is data type agnostic) to store repeating values in the dictionary of symbols. This dictionary compression looks at the repeating values in all columns, not just in the one like the prefix compression.
Not every page compression table has both information for the prefixes and the dictionary in the compress information (hidden) record ; if only one is applicable that is all that it stores. The data engine will only go to page compression when it crosses a cost threshold, otherwise it is stored as row-compressed. Also, only the leaf level pages of an index are compressed. The non-leaf level are, however, row-compressed. New pages allocated for a heap will not be paged compressed until the heap is rebuilt. Rebuilding a heap will force all non-clustered indexes to be rebuilt.
Compressing Individual Partitions
The compression level of a partitioned table, or partitioned index, can be set at the partition level independent of all other partitions. Thus, one partition might be set to no compression while another is set to page compression.
Recall that when switching between partitions the indexes must be the same, so the empty partition will need to be set with the same level. Also, when merging a partition, the partition will maintain the compression associated with the partition into which the data is being merged. For splitting a partition, the new partition will maintain the same compression associated with the partition from which it was split.