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Alan Hanbury
There are many reasons to use a certain pricing system - some convenient, some safe, some capitalistic and some lazy. Some contractors make money with time-and-materials, or cost-plus, or whatever name you choose. Their companies invariably have lots of full-time office people, copying machines, higher-than-average volume and untested estimating or specifying skills.
Of course, fixed-price contractors use T&M when there are walls to tear open, rotten sills to contend with, or a large change order that needs to be expedited without a full-blown feasibility study, pricing and mini-contract.
Nevertheless, I don't understand how or why you run an entire company on T&M. I am driven by profitability, and only one system allows you to maximize profit with the least amount of administrative time, paperwork, volume and staffing - all while giving the customer the peace of mind of a fixed price for the project.
Very bad things
- T&M doesn't force a client to make good decisions early. Loose ends always cost more later. It doesn't allow for factory orders or looking for sale prices and deals by the client or the contractor, and the project always ends up taking longer.
- When you have no project "price" to put on an application, there is no way to budget with the bank, your savings or any other money source.
- T&M does eliminate some risk, and it doesn't have a "cost" that your clients can compare with other bids. That doesn't mean you don't have price competition. On the contrary, hanging out your "pricing model" (markup and dollars/hour) for everyone to see, receipt by receipt, places all of the emphasis on price.
- Clients demand better timecards, materials sheets and documentation of meetings, scheduling and other off-site time added to contracts. Companies must radically change paperwork administration or boost staffing (in a tight market!).
- T&M does not allow for job-cost variance reporting, so you might never know which employee is the best framer, trimmer, lead carpenter, etc., because there are no performance benchmarks.
- In fixed-price, you could push aggressively for and/or price fixed-price change orders at higher margins to get a job back on financial track. Fixed-price change orders can become a job-saving (i.e., lifesaving) profit center.
- With no final price, payment can be a problem. Fixing punchlist or aesthetic items is more likely to be used as a bargaining chip, and clients might refuse to pay. It's hard to sue or even arbitrate with no agreed-upon price. Homeowners can bring in their own materials or subcontractors. You can do little about this, especially for work outside the original scope.
Where's the profit?
With T&M jobs, I have heard of a few hardy souls who ask for as much as 30% markup on subs and materials. Most ask for 10% overhead and 10% profit or just 15%. Even a 30% markup amounts to a gross profit of only a little more than 23%. At 10% net profit for the company and 10% for owner's salary, this leaves only 3% for all other costs, a painful thought.
So how can you find extra margin to make up for that lower gross profit on subs and materials? I contend that you cannot without doing much larger volumes with greatly restrained overhead dollars and owner's compensation.
Labor markup provides virtually the only way to boost margin using the T&M system. Some of our T&M brethren charge upward of $50 per hour for field staff. Many T&M firms use even lower rates for work done by apprentices, laborers and sometimes designers and other office staff. When we estimate, we use $80/hour, regardless of the staffer performing that work. This amounts to a markup on labor of more than 115%. We can do this because we do not tell clients how much we marked up their costs or estimated for labor.
Getting close to the same margin dollars on the labor side for T&M as for fixed-price would require you to charge all of your office staff's time to work related to a specific job. I don't know many clients who would fall for that one.
You also would have to use mostly in-house labor because with T&M you cannot add enough markup to the subs' labor invoices. If you have 7,000 annual field-billable hours and the work is completed at $50 an hour, you would leave $210,000 [7,000 x ($80-$50)] on the table compared with my fixed pricing. If you have no or few field staffers to let labor markup boost margin, the T&M system virtually guarantees failure by industry standards.
When to use T&M
There are times for a mix of systems. When circumstances do not allow perfect knowledge of a situation, such as pulling out a wall, you could price using square footage or lineal footage calculated from previous jobs (profitable or not), with a T&M up-charge if something outside the spec'ed scope is discovered.
If you're doing a particular installation for the first time, you might let the client share the responsibility for the learning curve. It can take an hour to read the instructions for an hour-long job, so if clients choose an unfamiliar product, they should pay for its complete and correct installation.
We often use T&M for change orders when it is not worth the time, or the field crew does not have the expertise, to get a fixed-price estimate to the client and still keep the job moving smoothly. A signature holds the ability to charge for the different work scope, but the price comes after more information is determined. It might end up a lump sum, or you can have a predetermined formula of T&M charges. This information should be in your contract or addendum so it does not surprise your clients.
How to beat T&M remodelers
We can eat T&M contractors for breakfast by telling future clients the following about T&M:
- You give the contractor the signature stamp to your checking account.
- You give the contractor no incentive to finish expeditiously, efficiently or error-free. You pay by the hour, not by the job.
- You pay for all of the mistakes, trips to the store and paperwork generated by the contractor's lack of organization and planning.
- Your contractor allows you to pay for long lunches, coffee and cigarette breaks, and probably his junior carpenters at journeyman rates. Heck, you even get to pay by the hour for the time he takes to bill you. Clients also are asked to pay for scheduling and production activities not even broken out on time sheets.
- You pay for the contractor's on-the-job training or education.


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By FARES AKRAM and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Thousands of Palestinians, some burning Israeli flags and torching tires, staged a mass protest on Gaza's sealed border with Israel for a third consecutive Friday, as part of a pressure campaign to break a decade-old blockade of their territory.
Israeli live fire from across the border fence killed a 28-year-old Palestinian man and wounded at least 223, Gaza health officials said.
The death brought to 28 the number of protesters killed in two weeks, with more than 1,500 wounded by Israeli fire since March 30, they said.
The marches have been organized by Gaza's Hamas rulers, but large turnouts on two preceding Fridays were also driven by desperation among the territory's 2 million residents who have been enduring a crippling border closure by Israel and Egypt since 2007.
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On the Presidential campaign trail, Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrived in Atlanta on October 23, 1932, speaking to 10,000, and continued on to his "second home" at Warm Springs, Georgia.
FDR campaigning in Atlanta and Georgia in 1932.
When he arrived at Warm Springs, FDR gave a short speech:
"Two more weeks to go. . . . First, let me say this: this old hat, a lot of you people have seen it before. It's the same hat. But I don't think it is going to last much longer after the 8th of November. I have a superstition about hats in campaigns, and I am going to wear it until midnight of the 8th of November. . . . Well, it's fine to see, and I'm looking forward to coming down here for the usual Thanksgiving party at Warm Springs, and having a real old-fashioned Thanksgiving with my neighbors again. I thank you!"
On October 23, 1971, the Coca-Cola Company launched the advertising campaign "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing."
Georgia-born Clarence Thomas was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court on October 23, 1991.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist , playing goalie for the Columbus Cottonmouths. will take the ice as the first female player in the Southern Professional Hockey League
Georgia Politics, Campaigns, and Elections
It's candidate forum time in cities across Georgia. Brookhaven had a forum for Mayoral and City Council candidates earlier this week. It got interesting about 36 minutes in.
Smyrna also hosted a local candidates forum.
Congratulations to the first class to graduate from Cobb County Superior Court's Mental Health Court.
The program launched under the direction of Cobb Superior Court Judge Mary Staley in 2012.
It is a 24-month treatment-based program for defendants with a documented mental illness that brings together the resources of the mental health and the criminal justice systems. According to the Cobb County Sheriff's Office, 33 percent of the current inmate population is diagnosed with a mental illness, and an estimated $300,000 is spent annually on medications to treat these illnesses. The mental health court seeks to stop the revolving door of people diagnosed with a mental illness, and address the problem instead of the symptom. The court strives to improve mental health, promote self-sufficiency, reduce recidivism and offer cost-effective alternatives to incarceration and hospitalization, according to Staley.
Standing before the audience, Tim said he once believed success was not final and failure was not fatal.
"But for many of us, failure can be fatal," he said. "I've known a lot of people that died from this horrible addiction whether it be heroin, alcoholism, mental health, suicides and yet, I'm very thankful for this program because I don't know where I'd be — probably not alive. I definitely wouldn't have my family back."
Gwinnett County commissioners approved nearly $8 million dollars to purchase 13.98 acres to expand
Gwinnett Center Infinite Energy Center.
Georgia DOT has placed a hold on federally-funded projects due to be bid out in December because of uncertainty over federal transportation funding.
Tybee Island continues to consider banning public consumption of alcohol.
In Henry County, former Senior Assistant Solicitor General Chaundra Lewis will run for State Court Judge.
The Georgia State House Democratic Caucus is taking their calls for Medicaid Expansion on the road, and made a stop in Columbus.
More than 65 people joined state Rep. Debbie Buckner in Columbus Council Chambers Wednesday for a Medicaid Expansion Town Hall meeting as part of the House Democratic Caucus.
Stacey Abrams of House District 89 said legislation will be introduced in the General Assembly next year for Medicaid expansion just as lawmakers passed a transportation tax this year.
"Georgia can't afford not to expand," said Abrams of Atlanta. "We have 15 rural hospitals that are in jeopardy in north and south Georgia that are facing ruin if we don't step up. We have millions of dollars we can generate for this state and thousands of jobs. Democrats and Republicans have to stand up."
State Rep. Calvin Smyre, leader of the local delegation, said the task of getting Medicaid expanded is more difficult after the Gov. Nathan Deal gave that authority to the General Assembly.
"The General Assembly would have to institute a Medicaid expansion, which would make it very difficult," Smyre said of the Republican controlled General Assembly. "They are throwing the ball into another court."
Corruption Everywhere
In Kennesaw, City Council member Leonard Church faces a trial in which obscene photos of children that were in his possession will be among the evidence presented after an evidentiary hearing.
DeKalb County Sanitation Director Billy Malone was suspended after admitting on camera to a number of accidents in county vehicles and then filing the accident reports himself, a violation of the usual process.
DeKalb County paid a $7500 invoice by a "Candace Sunshine," who does not appear to exist and lived at an address that also doesn't appear to exist.
Investigators' notes from the Bowers-Hyde report suggest that some DeKalb County sanitation workers were accepting cash to provide extra pickups from some businesses, and when the "tips" stopped, so did all trash service.
Epic craziness in Savannah.
Bell and Savannah-Chatham police officers had been trying to track [Savannah Mayor Edna Jackson] down to relay an urgent message from school board President Jolene Byrne about a disturbing student-produced video that was being circulated on social media.
The video showed a night sky. Six smiling, giggling Savannah Arts Academy students — four girls and two boys — illuminated by the light of a fire. Their hands were raised as if taking a pledge, and there was a strange chanting sound in the background. A caption at the bottom of the screen read, "Greetings from the cult."
The camera then panned past each of the students as a distorted voice shouted, "Sacrifice it," followed by "Burn in hell, Edna! Burn."
The camera paused on a boy holding a lighter fluid container then zoomed in on an "Edna Jackson for Mayor" campaign sign that was fully engulfed. The caption beneath it read, "RIP to Edna Jackson."


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Top 10 Reasons Why VMware vSphere 5 is Years Ahead of the Competition
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Top 10 Reasons Why VMware vSphere 5 is Years Ahead of the Competition w h ite PA P E R Top 10 Reasons Why VMware vSphere 5 is Years Ahead of the Competition The Most Trusted Virtualization Platform for Building Cloud Infrastructures VMware virtualization solutions are built on a robust foundation proven in production environments and chosen by over 250,000 customers, including 100% of the Fortune 100. VMware pioneered x86 server virtualization over ten years ago and our continuous innovation has brought capabilities to our latest vSphere 5 release that are years ahead of competitors such as Microsoft, Citrix and Red Hat. This paper highlights some of those unique innovations that make VMware vSphere 5 the clear platform choice for datacenter virtualization and cloud computing. "VMware has the best, most feature-rich solution on the market. It's years ahead of the competition in many ways and will likely continue to lead the field for many years to come." —— InfoWorld, April 2011 1. The Most Trusted Hypervisor in the Industry Just Got Better – VMware ESXi 5 VMware® ESXi™ 5 extends the VMware legacy of highly reliable, highly scalable virtualization by delivering even better robustness, security and performance. Already, over 94 percent of ESX and ESXi deployments are in production environments—an example of how both large and small companies trust VMware for their business-critical workloads. ESXi 5 has an exclusive thin virtualization form factor with no dependence on a general-purpose server operating system in the virtualization layer. With a 144MB disk footprint, ESXi 5 dramatically shrinks the code base that needs to be maintained and secured, ultimately resulting in a more secure environment. In contrast, all versions of Microsoft Hyper-V R2 rely on Windows Server 2008 running inside the parent partition. Therefore, the smallest version of Hyper-V R2 (Windows Server 2008 R2 with Server Core installation) still has a disk footprint of approximately 3.6GB— representing millions more lines of code to maintain and secure. Hyper-V R2's dependence on Windows means it faces performance and scalability limitations, especially when running many concurrent virtual machines on the same host. With Hyper-V, the security and stability of your datacenter will always be dependent on the security and stability of Windows. 2. Virtualize 100 Percent of Your Applications – Support for 32 Virtual CPUs and 1TB per Virtual Machine Per-virtual-machine CPU and memory maximums four times greater than previous versions allow companies to virtualize the most resource-intensive Tier 1 applications in their datacenters on vSphere 5. vSphere 5 enables a single virtual machine to simultaneously use up to 32 logical processors (32-way virtual SMP) and 1TB of RAM. With 32-way virtual SMP, even the most processor-intensive applications, such as databases and messaging servers, can be virtualized with no impact on performance. With 1TB per virtual machine, companies can run the most memory-intensive workloads in virtual machines. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 SP1 is limited to 64GB of RAM per virtual machine. It only supports up to 4-way virtual SMP on Windows Server 2008 virtual machines, and all other guest operating systems are limited to 2-way virtual SMP. Citrix XenServer 5.6 is limited to 8-way virtual SMP and 32GB. These limitations mean that users can virtualize only a subset of their applications. 3. Get Reliable, Cost-Effective Solutions for Small Offices – vSphere Essentials Editions The robust, proven capabilities of VMware vSphere are also available in two cost-effective packages designed for small offices, starting at just $83 per processor. vSphere Essentials Edition enables server consolidation and centralized provisioning, management, and patching for immediate savings on hardware and operational costs. It also includes integrated physical-to-virtual conversion. vSphere Essentials Plus Edition is an easy-to-deploy "Always on IT" package that includes everything from Essentials and adds vMotion™ live migration, High Availability to dramatically improve application uptime, and Data Recovery for fast backup and recovery of virtual-machine data with built-in data deduplication to save on storage costs. With vSphere Essentials and WHITE P A P E R / 2 Top 10 Reasons Why VMware vSphere 5 is Years Ahead of the Competition Essentials Plus, small offices get the industry's most proven, complete virtualization platform in an integrated package that solves their most pressing needs—application uptime and data protection. The "free" Hyper-V R2 offering from Microsoft is just a hypervisor missing key management features, and small businesses must add the cost and complexity of Microsoft System Center to make it manageable. 4. Use a Better Way to Enforce Security in a Virtual Environment – VMware vShield 5 Virtualization offers new and better ways to secure applications and networks. Rather than inheriting legacy approaches based on costly physical appliances, brittle network settings and performance-sapping agents, VMware vShield applies security policies at the virtualization layer, where every aspect of virtualized applications can be inspected and protected using a single vShield Manager interface. The vShield approach makes security simpler, more adaptive and more virtualization-aware. vShield Zones (included with certain vSphere editions) makes security-zone settings a logical construct so you can safely mix virtual machines from different trust zones on common hosts and keep those settings intact, even as virtual machines are migrated. The rest of the vShield product family (available separately) applies unique hypervisor-level introspection to protect virtual machines and networks with no need for hardware appliances or in-guest agents. The new vShield App Sensitive Data Discovery feature automates regulatory-compliance scans with more than 80 templates that identify protected data. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 and Citrix XenServer support only legacy physical-machine approaches to security and have nothing comparable to VMware vShield. Users deploying those products can only enforce security zones by setting up wasteful silos of physical hosts. Hyper-V and XenServer network security is dependent on VLANs—an approach that cannot scale to meet the needs of even midsize clouds, and their users are also dependent on in-guest agents that can trigger "antivirus storms." 5. Enable Automated Private Clouds in the Datacenter – Logical Resource Pools and Storage DRS VMware vSphere 5 cluster-level management capabilities (e.g., vSphere Distributed Switch, vShield Zones, and Distributed Power Management)—and the automation provided by vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and the new Storage DRS—all improve the effectiveness and flexibility of VMware Logical Resource Pools. These resource pools aggregate and share resources across many servers—the essence of cloud computing. Companies can create a logical, shared pool of resources for a specific business group and guarantee resource availability while maintaining isolation from other pools. vSphere DRS enables intelligent, automated load balancing so applications get the right level of resources at the right time. New Storage DRS extends that load balancing to dynamically automate placement of virtual disks on available datastores to balance disk use and prevent storage bottlenecks. DRS and Storage DRS are essential to enabling logical resource pools that comply with SLAs. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 SP1 and Citrix XenServer have nothing comparable. Hyper-V and XenServer deployments require dedicated silos of hosts or clusters for each business group—a rigid infrastructure that is time-consuming and costly to maintain. The Microsoft and Citrix products also lack the virtual-machine and virtual-disk affinity and antiaffinity rules found in vSphere, so they cannot guarantee datacenter policies and licensing compliance when load balancing is automated. 6. Achieve Higher Consolidation Ratios at Lower Cost – Virtual-Machine Density Optimizations Better performance and utilization lead to higher virtual-machine consolidation ratios, which lead to lower capital expenditures. vSphere 5 employs unique performance and resource management features to let customers reliably run production workloads at the highest virtual-machine densities. vSphere 5 uses four levels of memory management technology—in-guest ballooning, memory compression, transparent page sharing and fast host paging—to accommodate the highest densities with any supported guest operating systems. The "Dynamic Memory" features in Microsoft Hyper-V R2 and Citrix XenServer use only a simple ballooning method that works with a select few guests and can't deliver comparable virtual-machine densities, as shown by independent testing. vSphere further adds a more efficient direct driver I/O model, true logical resource pools with Dynamic Resource Scheduler for dynamic load balancing and a high-performance "gang" CPU scheduler to extend its cost advantage over even "free" versions of Hyper-V, Xen and Red Hat KVM. WHITE P A P E R / 3 Top 10 Reasons Why VMware vSphere 5 is Years Ahead of the Competition 7. Match Applications to Appropriate Storage Tiers – Profile-Driven Storage Operating multiple tiers of storage lets enterprises reduce costs by matching applications to storage hardware, providing just the right service levels. But assigning virtual machines to the correct storage tiers as they are provisioned is a manual operation prone to misconfiguration. vSphere 5 Profile-Driven Storage streamlines and automates storage provisioning by letting administrators classify their datastores into Storage Profiles based on the service levels they provide. Virtual machines are assigned a Storage Profile when provisioned, and vSphere then ensures that they are initially placed on a matching datastore and that any Storage DRS migrations are limited to eligible storage tiers. vSphere Storage Profiles can even use Storage vMotion to move virtual disks on noncompliant datastores to the correct storage tiers. Microsoft and Citrix have nothing equivalent for the critical task of managing storage. In fact, Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 have no storage-management features at all. 8. Reduce OpEx Costs During Planned Maintenance – High-Performance Live Migrations with vMotion and Storage vMotion The need to perform planned maintenance during nonpeak hours is a significant contributor to higher operational costs. Overtime pay for nights and weekends is compounded with time spent coordinating among business owners to schedule a maintenance window. vSphere 5 improves on the market-proven vMotion and Storage vMotion capabilities that allow IT administrators to perform planned maintenance during normal business hours without a maintenance window. vMotion supports up to eight concurrent live migrations per host, greatly reducing time to evacuate virtual machines prior to maintenance. Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and Red Hat KVM are limited to a single live migration per host. vMotion also distributes migration traffic across multiple 1Gb or 10Gb links to further shorten maintenance windows, and it now supports high-latency links. Only vSphere Storage vMotion allows virtualmachine storage to be live-migrated between datastores—even across different types of storage (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, DAS)—with no downtime to accommodate storage maintenance and upgrades during production hours. Storage vMotion now even supports virtual machines with snapshots and linked clones. For storage migration, Hyper-V R2 has an inferior capability called "Quick Storage Migration" that requires application downtime, and Citrix and Red Hat have no storage-migration solution at all. 9. Ensure Service Levels for Business-Critical Applications – Network and Storage I/O Control Enterprises running critical applications in private or public clouds need assurance that those workloads are protected from "noisy neighbors"—badly behaved virtual machines sharing the same hosts or clusters that indiscriminately consume resources. Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer offer only basic CPU and memory controls for virtual machines that are insufficient to protect critical applications. Only vSphere 5 provides control for all key resources—CPU, memory, network and storage—needed to guarantee that service levels are met at the virtual-machine, virtual switch, datastore and resource pool levels. vSphere 5 Network I/O Control lets you prioritize vSphere Distributed Switch traffic, and new per-virtual-machine settings ensure that I/O-intensive workloads get the network bandwidth they need. vSphere 5 Storage I/O Control enforces virtual-machine storage I/O shares and limits on any type of datastore, including new NFS support, to ensure the storage performance of important applications even in times of congestion. 10. Centrally Manage Provisioning of Diskless Hosts – New vSphere Auto Deploy Easily and quickly add capacity to a vSphere 5 cluster by simply booting a diskless server. vSphere Auto Deploy uses Host Profiles, vSphere host images and your custom provisioning rules centrally managed by vCenter to bring a new host online in minutes. Auto Deploy also lets you rapidly upgrade hosts to the latest vSphere release. Microsoft makes it much more difficult to provision Hyper-V hosts with requirements to purchase and install System Center Configuration Manager and apply complex configuration settings. Citrix XenServer can do basic PXE boot of hosts, but —unlike vSphere Auto Deploy—it has no features to automate selection and customization of fully configured host images. WHITE P A P E R / 4 Top 10 Reasons Why VMware vSphere 5 is Years Ahead of the Competition Ten More Reasons Why VMware vSphere is the Best Choice… 11. Enable Shared Storage for Everyone – vSphere Storage Appliance Until now, the cost of shared storage arrays has kept the high-availability and virtual-machine mobility benefits of virtualization out of reach for small businesses. The new vSphere Storage Appliance changes that by enabling virtual shared storage volumes spanning low-cost internal disks on up to three vSphere hosts. Advanced vSphere features including vMotion, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, DRS and Storage vMotion are supported after just a five-click configuration and without the need for dedicated shared storage hardware. The vSphere Storage Appliance is implemented entirely in software and can be added to any vSphere host or acquired in an attractively priced vSphere Enterprise Plus bundle. Using live migration and high availability with Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer requires expensive Fibre Channel or iSCSI arrays, making vSphere a lower-cost and more capable solution for small businesses that want the best protection and automation for their applications. 12. Manage Virtual Networking for Private Clouds – vSphere Distributed Switch With vSphere Distributed Switch, IT can manage one virtual switch that spans an entire cluster instead of managing a separate virtual switch for each host—a time-saving way to manage virtual networks. It creates a single distributed switch that spans a cluster of vSphere hosts and retains network runtime state when virtual machines move between hosts. This capability is a critical enabler for building private clouds, because it allows cluster-level network settings to be managed and policies to be enforced centrally. Networking vendors have built third-party virtual switches, such as the Cisco Nexus 1000V, based on vSphere Distributed Switch to make it easier to integrate virtualized environments and manage physical and virtual networks with a common set of tools. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 has nothing comparable to vSphere Distributed Switch. Those who deploy Hyper-V R2 must manually manage virtual networks on a host-by-host basis. Each time a Hyper-V virtual machine migrates from one host to another, the administrator will need to manually reconfigure network settings for the virtual machine. Citrix offers a vSwitch, but it is not fully integrated with XenServer and lacks third-party support from networking vendors. 13. Configure Virtualization Hosts the Easiest Way – VMware Host Profiles VMware Host Profiles greatly simplify vSphere host configuration management, thereby reducing operational costs because IT administrators spend less time manually configuring and compliance-checking each individual host. Host Profiles automatically apply a "gold" host configuration profile (includes networking, storage and security settings) to multiple vSphere hosts. They also monitor compliance to "gold" host configuration profiles and can remediate noncompliant hosts with the push of a button. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 has no automated, outof-box host- profiling capability. Host configuration and remediation requires a manual installation and complex configuration of System Center Configuration Manager. 14. Ensure Zero Downtime, Zero Data Loss for Applications – vSphere Fault Tolerance With VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) ensuring that protected applications are always available, even in the event of hardware failure, your applications may never go down again. FT creates a shadow copy of a protected virtual machine and automatically triggers a seamless stateful failover if the virtual machine stops responding because of hardware failure. After the failover, FT automatically creates a new shadow copy on another host to ensure continuous protection. FT works with all types of shared storage (Fibre Channel, NAS or iSCSI) and with all operating systems supported by VMware vSphere. No complex setup is required, and applications do not need to be cluster-aware. Microsoft, Oracle and Red Hat have no equivalent functionality. Microsoft claims that activeactive clustering can address the same need, but active-active clustering is complex to set up and only works with a small set of cluster-aware guest operating systems and applications. Citrix offers only a poorly integrated and much more expensive fault-tolerance solution from Marathon Technologies. WHITE P A P E R / 5 Top 10 Reasons Why VMware vSphere 5 is Years Ahead of the Competition 15. Add Virtual Machine Resources with No Downtime – Hot-Add CPU/Memory, Hot-Extend Disks Even with the best planning, applications sometimes require more resources than originally expected. VMware vSphere 5 delivers hot-add virtual CPU and memory and hot-add/extend virtual disks to dynamically add virtual machine resources. The ability to hot-add and hot-extend allows IT to increase the resources available to an application by provisioning additional CPU, memory and disk to the virtual machine without disrupting the application or the end users. Hot-add/extend of virtual disk is supported on all virtual machines. Hot-add of virtual CPU/memory is supported on any guest operating system that natively supports hot-add CPU/ memory on a physical server. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 SP1 supports hot-add memory only with certain guests. Neither Microsoft nor Citrix supports hot-add virtual CPU or hot-extend disks. 16. Reduce Storage Costs – vSphere Storage Thin Provisioning with Comprehensive Alerts VMware vSphere Storage Thin Provisioning lowers capital and operating expenditures by reducing storage needs and cutting the power and cooling costs of excess storage. Thin provisioning enables IT administrators to create virtual machines without needing to dedicate all the storage up front. When a virtual machine is created, the thin-provisioned disk only consumes what's needed. Then, the virtual disk grows over time when more storage space is required. Now with vSphere 5, thin provisioning (and other storage tasks) can be offloaded to arrays having their own integrated thin storage features that support the vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration. vSphere Storage Thin Provisioning comes with comprehensive consumption-based monitoring and alerting. IT administrators can set alerts to trigger when they need to procure more storage or rebalance virtual machines across the available storage with Storage vMotion or Storage DRS. These monitoring and alerting capabilities prevent systems from accidentally running out of storage space. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 has thin provisioning of disks but lacks the built-in monitoring and alerting capabilities that make it safe to use. 17. Save Even More Energy – vSphere Distributed Power Management vSphere Distributed Power Management (DPM) reduces datacenter energy consumption during nonpeak hours by consolidating workloads within a cluster and turning off unneeded servers. Think of it as cluster-wide power management. Whereas other offerings only focus on power savings for individual servers, DPM provides a holistic, cluster-wide approach to power savings that is built into vSphere. To conserve energy during periods of low utilization, such as evenings and weekends, DPM consolidates workloads and powers off unused host servers. When utilization is expected to increase before the next work day, DPM brings servers back online to ensure that service levels are met. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 has nothing comparable. The Core Parking feature in Hyper-V R2 achieves only minimal power savings, and the PRO Tips approach that requires complex integration with System Center Operations Manager does not work at the host cluster level and has been dropped from Microsoft's product roadmap. Power management with Citrix XenServer requires additional servers and lacks the affinity rules needed to control virtual-machine placement. 18. Run the Operating Systems You Want – Broadest Guest OS Support, New vSphere Web Client and vCenter Server Appliance VMware has always supported the broadest set of guest operating systems in the industry—including new and old versions of Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS, NetWare, FreeBSD, OS/2 and more—so companies can virtualize their existing applications and maintain flexibility for future applications. In all, vSphere supports more than 80 guest operating systems or versions—more versions of Windows than even Microsoft Hyper-V R2 supports and more versions of Linux than Citrix XenServer supports. Unlike other hypervisors, vSphere 5 achieves full performance with unmodified guest operating systems without the need for paravirtualized guests that limit support options. vSphere 5 also gives more choice in platforms for management servers and clients with the new option of a Linux-based vCenter Server Appliance and the vSphere Web Client. which can run in any browser. Microsoft and Citrix support only thick Windows clients with their hypervisors and management servers, and even Red Hat KVM requires a Windows management server. WHITE P A P E R / 6 Top 10 Reasons Why VMware vSphere 5 is Years Ahead of the Competition 19. Leverage Built-In Network Adapter Failover and Load Balancing – Integrated NIC Teaming vSphere provides built-in network-adapter failover and load balancing to each networked virtual machine, enabling greater hardware availability and fault tolerance in case of network-adapter failure. It works with any network adapter that vSphere supports. NIC teaming policies allow users to configure multiple active and standby adapters, and teaming configurations can vary per port groups on the same virtual switch and uplinks. Microsoft Hyper-V R2 still does not have integrated NIC teaming and relies instead on third-party networkadapter drivers for this functionality. The third-party approach is unsatisfactory because the drivers only work with network adapters from that same third party; it requires a separate installation; and it is unclear whether Microsoft or the third-party provides support should an issue arise. 20. Use the Latest Hardware and Software with Your Virtual Machines – New vSphere 5 Virtual Device Support Sometimes you need virtual machines that support the latest computing features, such as: 3D graphics for Windows Aero on virtual desktops; USB 3.0 devices for hardware testing and USB devices connected through the vSphere Client; smart-card readers for virtual desktop infrastructure in secure environments; or Mac OS X support for virtualizing on Apple server platforms. vSphere 5 adds those capabilities so enterprises can now virtualize even those more specialized cases that once required dedicated hardware. 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Apple discontinued the 256GB Apple iPhone 7 in a bid to spur iPhone 8 sales
Apple did this to spur sales of the Apple iPhone 8 and Apple iPhone 8 Plus, both of which have a 256GB model. The upcoming Apple iPhone X also will feature a model with 256GB of native storage inside. Currently, sales of the iPhone 8 are said to be lagging behind sales of previously "just-launched" new iPhone models. Some are putting the blame for weak iPhone 8 sales on the premium iPhone X as many want to wait and check out the tenth anniversary model before making their purchasing decision.
Interestingly, consumers have started to Google "iPhone 7" more than "iPhone 8." And last Monday, we told you that a survey conducted by KeyBanc Capital Markets revealed that the 2016 iPhone 7 is outselling the 2017 iPhone 8 models. The iPhone 8 features the more powerful A11 Bionic chipset, and the iPhone 8 Plus includes the Portrait Lighting feature that allows users to snap selfies with more dramatic backgrounds. In addition, the 2017 models support wireless charging.
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I don't know if it's a bug or if there is an hidden option somewhere :lol:
Each time I paste something in my RWPaint project, all my tools reset to the first one... I always use Pencil or Pencil eraser after I paste an image, but RWPaint auto-select Brush each time I paste something... If someone can help me to prevent this happening, it would be awesome!!
Same problem here.
When you paste something, it becomes a "floating selection" and that is what the Transform tool handles. This allows you to move, resize and rotate it.
Yes you understand the Transform tool, but so, why day the pen, geometric forms, and some others are also reseted??? That's so sad, this program was so close to be perfect.. xD
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Why Sasquatch Loves B.C.
Sasquatch - the wildest of woolly creatures – loves BC, and calls the Canadian Pacific home for good reason. British Columbia is noted for epic landscapes, the great outdoors, spectacular native art, tremendous cuisine, unique craft beer and spirits, laid-back, welcoming folk, and mythological icons like the fabled Sasquatch. Sasquatch lore is integrated into the fabric of British Columbia, which means a first-hand encounter should be high on your BC bucket list (we know you will love it too).


text: The first day of the "next 4 years" is starting in a very auspicious fashion. First, the market crashes. Then, a major blue chip company, Boeing, just announced it would cut 30% of management jobs from 2010 levels. And finally, the US Treasury just added $24 billion in debt, or enough to fund Greece for over one year, sending the total debt load (the US is now at 103% debt/GDP) ever closer to the debt ceiling breaching $16.4 trillion. But don't worry: over the next 4 years, the US government will add another $6-8 trillion in debt, so those who didn't get their allocation in this auction will have more than enough opportunity. As for this one, the yield was 1.68%, the lowest since August (but, but, what happened to the great rotation out of bonds and into stocks?), the Bid to Cover was 2.59, the lowest since last November and only higher compared to August' 2.49. And finally, the take down breakdown was uneventful: 46.2% for Dealers (to be promptly flipped back to the Fed - keep track of CUSIP 912828TY6), 39.7% for Indirects, or below the 12 TTM average of 41.28%, and Directs got 14.1%, also below the average, and lower than last month's 22.9%. As noted: uneventful. As also noted: there will be many, many more such auctions in the future, so those who wish to convert one paper into another will have ample opportunity to do so.


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Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor (left) was showing how idiotic he was when he said that women should "dress shabbily" to avoid sexual harassment.
He had responded to a Puteri UMNO member who expressed concern over public safety during a Transformasi Nasional 2050 dialogue session in Bandar Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur on May 17, 2017.
News portal Malaysiakini quoted him: "It's because you're so beautiful. The next time you go out, wear more comot (shabby) clothes".
His remarks reportedly drew cheers and applause from the audience. The woman who posed the question also laughed at Tengku Adnan's remarks.
Malaysians are not very bright, as you can see. And of course, you also can't blame the UMNO member because this party attracts people who suffer from a serious disability called stupidity.
PKR Wanita chief Zuraida Kamaruddin was quick to retort: "This is what we call a shabby minister".
Zuraida also challenged the UMNO young women's wing to "stand up" to Tengku Adnan (also known as Ku Nan).
"Don't they feel embarrassed?" she asked.
Of course, not. FT UMNO Youth even sprung to the defense of Tengku Adnan. Their chief Razlan Rafii said PKR's Wanita wing needed to learn how to take a joke.
He said: "If we lived in a world with PKR as our country's leaders, we would see no more humor in Malaysia".
Now you know why UMNO are a party of jokers!
This afternoon, I was at the Sai Baba Center in Jalan SS3/33, Petaling Jaya. I was both Table Topics Evaluator and Timer at today's Sai Masters Toastmasters meeting.


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Years: 2011-2019
Synopsis: In the familiar land of Westeros of the Seven Kingdoms, off the continent of Essos, powerful families and obsessed idealists vie for the coveted Iron Throne, not long after the overthrowing of the centuries old Targaryen Dynasty.
• Easily the most epic, fleshed out, and best implemented epic fantasy story ever done.
• Was often beautiful to watch, especially in the most horrific of moments.
• The massive cast almost implausibly shine individually in their own light in the darkest of stories. Peter Dinklage's Tyrion was especially a powerful character, regularly being the self-aware, tortured, inner voice of the series (not unlike the books).
• Though likely helpful in following the storylines, the viewer did not have to read the books to become obsessed with the show.
• Perhaps the best, most dynamic intro sequence ever created. It not only provided the kind of map one would expect within fantasy novels, but also literally primed the viewer to the locations and even storylines highlighted in the following episode.
• No true heroes or villains, only monsters and those trying not to be.
• The multiple, overlapping storylines can make it hard to follow, especially for those disinterested in following the near infinite amount of details thrown at the viewer.
• Though not really glorified, the sexual violence, especially earlier in the series, never seemed all that necessary to the overarching plot.
• The final seasons were very rushed and truncated, lacking the depth and nuance of the seasons that preceded them. There really was no reason for the last two seasons to be so dramatically truncated.
• Never really written to please fans from the first and especially to the last season.
"I drink and I know things." Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage)
Thanks to The Lord of the Rings (books and films), high fantasy often had a whimsical impression about it, suggesting an almost family affair. The more earthbound Harry Potter often provided the same sense. Yes, there were epic battles filled with literal magic and idealistically driven "dark lords," but the characters were often depicted as more than human in some ways, giving the viewer a means to connect yet separate at the same time. Their actions were grounded in their world. A Song of Ice and Fire, the basis of Game of Thrones (if you did not already know), was built to be different, while seducing the follower through those familiar fantastical themes of magic and dragons and swords and thrones. George R.R. Martin meant to break that wheel of whimsy, bringing us to something that was much more a reflection of ourselves than fantasy had provided prior.
Everyone in Game of Thrones became ourselves in a way. We cheered at what we all agreed were liberations even if they weren't truly bloodless; we cringed incessantly when our chosen hero liberated through fire. What was right or wrong was not always clear, no matter how much we desperately pretended it was. We saw ourselves and always screamed when we saw our reflections loose their head. We cringed most of all when we tried and failed to forget that our real world might not be much better: #MeToo, mad leaders, shame, shame, shame. Game of thrones was all about the monsters we all are, and that we are forced to choose how we live with that reality.
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Chrysler Team LLC released pictures of the new 2011 Auto Patriot, the cost-effective compact suv (SUV) that offers customers segment-leading functionality and unrivaled 4x4 gas mileage, along with vintage, durable Auto design.
Jeep Patriot's vintage outside design and functionality are enhanced for 2011 with new front side and back fascias, a body-color grill, and an improved 4x4 trip level. Ride-and-handling is enhanced pleasantness of retuned guiding and revocation techniques. Internal improvements round out the new-for-2011 functions, and involve significantly improved touching points.
"Patriot presents class-leading 4x4 functionality and unrivaled gas mileage, and a host of safety measures in a fun and cost-effective package - a combination that only Auto can offer," said Robert Jackson, President and CEO - Auto Brand, Chrysler Team LLC. "For 2011, Auto Patriot is even more appealing to customers, thanks to durable new outside design, interior improvements and unique features to the revocation and guiding techniques."
New-for-2011 Auto Patriot outside illustrates involve an competitive new front side structures with conventional fog lights located inside the headlamps; a new back structures that expands lower than on previous models; a body-color grille; new available 17-inch wheels; four new colors and 4x4 trip level that has been improved by 1 in..
Interior improvements for this year's Auto Patriot involve new soft touching front-door decrease panels with a cushioned upper surface; new center armrest; a new Auto rim with incorporated handles that allow the driver to operate the radio, cruise management, hands-free phone and other vehicle functions while keeping their palms on the wheel; new towel interior, with premium towel container chairs in the front; conventional speed management on all models; new backlighting of entrance changes, entrance hair, windows and power reflection handles and conventional automatic temperature management on the Permission X model.
Available as a stand-alone option on all designs for 2011 is the Uconnect® Voice Control with Wireless for hands-free calling and music/radio/SIRIUS satellite r / c management.
The 2011 Vehicle Patriot offers customers more features than any other vehicle in the compact SUV category. Capability functions include low-range method which produces a best-in-class 19:1 examine rate, braking system extender management, 19-inch water fording features, Slope Lineage Control, 4x4 Lock shift-on-the-fly which delivers 50 percent of twisting to front side and back tires, and a maximum tow score of 2,000 lbs. The Vehicle Patriot also presents a retuned revocation for 2011, with higher spring and damping rates, added recovery rises, and an increased size of the back swing bar. Despite these numerous features functions, this year's Vehicle Patriot presents unrivaled 4x4 gas mileage in its section.
A 2010 Insurance Initiate for Freeway Protection (IIHS) Top Protection Pick, the Vehicle Patriot for 2011 is loaded with more than 30 standard safety measures, careful features and best-in-class off-road features with Independence Travel II, offering incredible value for customers that desire an SUV to provide their active lifestyle cheaply.
Offered with front-wheel- or four-wheel-drive, Vehicle Patriot is available in three options - Sport, Permission and Permission X.
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...that also means that Lent is officially over and in theory, I could go drink a soda in celebration of going without processed foods for 40 days.
But I'm not going to do that. Because I honestly don't want to.
This was a pretty interesting experiment. If you recall, I vowed to "give up processed foods" as my Lenten sacrifice. Admittedly, this was pretty vague and I didn't even know what that meant in the beginning of this, but I think I have a handle on it now.
1.) Chemical-free. My main goal was to try to eliminate as many chemicals, additives and preservatives from my food as possible. Someone asked if I gave up flour and things like that, and the answer is no--it really was the chemical-y fake stuff I was to avoid. (I only buy whole wheat or unbleached flour.)
2.) This meant a lot of label reading. I was absolutely shocked at some of things I've been mindlessly shoving in my mouth that after a scan of the label was nothing more than a freakish science experiment. Case in point: maple syrup. I dare you to read the back of a bottle of anything other than pure maple syrup. You will be horrified.
3.) Label-reading leads to better choices. If I was staring at two brands of the same product, I chose the one with the least amount of ingredients. No-brainer, right? Wrong. Some things labeled as "natural" have nothing natural about them. (I'm looking at you, certain brands of yogurt.) If there was an option to buy it fresh, I bought it. If there was an organic choice, I chose it. I continually sought out better labels rather than better packages.
4.) A return to whole foods. This again sounds easy, but it is surprisingly not. In addition to shopping a lot more frequently, I shopped in different places as well. I discovered my town's weekly Farmer's Market, and a fruit stand on the corner that sells tomatoes that actually taste like a tomato. I cooked and prepared a lot more myself than I ever dreamed. And it was good.
5.) People complain all of the time about the higher costs of organic foods. I disagree. Sure, organic eggs cost more than regular. That bottle of maple syrup was almost $8 as compared to the Aunt Jemima high-fructose sugar water. But all of the farmer's market produce was hands-down cheaper than my grocery store. I saved a boat load of money buying a box of long-leaf black tea that I brewed myself as opposed to a case of Coke. Yogurt and granola costs less than a dozen donuts or a bagels.
An amazing thing happens when you're not filling your body up with junky empty calories--you tend to eat less. And when you are putting more thought and to consideration into what you're eating, you also tend to have more respect for it and don't waste nearly as much. Not that I thought I did that before, but an end of day old bread became croutons (no need to buy a box) and leftovers are repurposed in new and creative ways.
6.) Everyone has to make the choices that make sense to them. I really tried to focus on avoiding all things with the high fructose corn syrup--I'll take raw sugar any old day, and partially-hydrogenated anything. That meant no soda, no margarine, fried foods and most anything that came out of a can. I still ate meat--looked for the grass-fed beef and organic chicken whenever possible--and I certainly indulged my sweet tooth--I just made sure I made the sweets myself and knew exactly what I put into it.
Did it work?
I think it did. I definitely feel de-toxed and really have no desire to go back to the old ways. I think I've lost weight, my skin and hair feel healthier, and mentally, I feel better, too. Like I've let something go on my terms and I can't imagine going back.
In fact, I think it's time to take it further. While meals have unbeknownst to the family gotten healthier, I will now incorporate these habits into their other eating routines as well. Lunches and snacks will get an overhaul as well and we'll find a way to make it as non-traumatic as mine was.
I also still need to work on the meat aspect--I wasn't happy with my grocery store's option of "all-vegetarian" diet for their beef as opposed to "grass-fed." There's a difference and I want the latter. I also plan to get a lot more creative with the foods I've discovered like quinoa and farro and the fresh vegetables. I planted my garden, and hope to really make better use of that as well.
But at the end of the day--or forty of them--I think this has translated over from experiment to lifestyle change.
And it is a delicious one.
Monday, April 05, 2010
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I think my general squeamishness coupled with a well-developed distrust of anything mass-produced has led me to the same place! I like your intentional approach better...
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Since its inception, SIOC-cdt has been offering bursaries to deserving young people from its beneficiary communities to study at various higher education institutions across the country. The Bursary Scheme provides a full value bursary that is paid directly to the academic institution and service providers of accommodation, books, and assistive devices. The students are given ongoing support by the bursary administrators to ensure their welfare and quality academic performance. This legacy project has seen 223 of these tertiary beneficiaries graduating since its inception with an additional 42 expected to graduate during 2017.
To contribute to the overall development and upliftment of the communities through the acquisition of higher level education outcomes as well as the development of higher level knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes amongst community members.
The bursary projects have changed the lives of many underprivileged students. Many of them had to leave their homes in deep rural
areas to go and live and study in unfamiliar environments in the big cities where most universities are located. Some of the graduates
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Thank you for your generous and financial support towards my higher education. Growing up in a low-income background family and being raised by a single parent has not only provided me with a financial and academic problems, but has made me realise the value of higher education. This bursary has made a positive impact on my life in pursuing my career goal. My dream is to become a mechanical engineer, the financial support that am receiving has allowed me to be one step closer to my goal. I would not have made it this far without generous support from a sponsor like you. I appreciate all the things you have done for me. I hope you will continue in helping students that are less fortunate in achieving their goals. You do make a huge difference in one's lifeand am grateful for that. Thank you.
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The Bursary Scheme has benefited me a lot as my mother is a single parent and she is unemployed. The Trust is paying for everything that covers my studies, without the bursary I would not be studying, I am now studying towards my honours degree. I can see that now I am close to reaching my dreams, therefore am very grateful and I thank you as my sponsors. Thank you.
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My father passed away in the year 2003 and my mother is unemployed. As I grew up nothing was promising and I was slightly falling astray until I passed my matric. JTG Developmental Trust came to my rescue and at least I feel restored. I was awarded a bursary by JTG Developmental Trust in 2014, which covered my admission fee, tuition fees and accommodation, including a monthly allowance. I started appreciating conditions at home and made a promise to bring about a positive impact in my family and as well as my society. It is very vibrant and inspiring to see my dream come true. Every time I feel exhausted I think about the opportunity that I have of which someone out there is really looking for. I have learnt that tenacity, endurance, and perseverance are the major principles of victory. With great support from JTG Developmental Trust, I am positive about my future and I am willing to use this opportunity wisely. Sincerely,
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I'm currently on my first year of studies of Metallurgical Engineering at Vaal University of Technology. I am more than grateful to have been awarded the GDF bursary and the opportunities it presented. I will continue to work hard and make sure that I pass all my modules exceptionally well, because I don't want to disappoint GDF after all their efforts in ensuring that I was happy and comfortable. My dream is to plough back to the community of Gamagara Local Municipality (GLM) by working for one of the mines in the GLM, and maybe one day work Kumba Iron Ore because it has always been my dream. Thank you.


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What happens when the dormancy period is neglected?
Well, actually not quite much. The plants go on with growing and flowering, and it seems to be okay for them.
But in fact it isn't!
The plants which are dormant during a period of time in the wild, should get such a 'time-out' in cultivation too. They use this time to regenerate, and the grower can use this time for repotting and for removing of old substrate or dead roots etc..
See what happens first, when You miss the right time to give Your plants colder and drier conditions.:
Not only does it look harmless, it looks quite beautiful too. But when the actual growing season starts, the plants show the first signs for inanition – and this doesn't neighter look harmless nor beautiful then. 😦


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Year: 2006
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Who knew Justin Timberlake was funny? This video cemented the singer as Andy Samberg's go-to guy for SNL's Digital Shorts, and let him co-star in "Mother Lover" and pop up in "Jizz in My Pants" shortly thereafter. And come on, who didn't attempt this as a gag gift that holiday season? Hahahaha, "gag gift."
In 2007, the song won a Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics.
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Buddhist Sajja Vow for People in Recovery
by Paul Garrigan
Buddhist recovery – The Promise Never to Drink or Use Drugs
During my two decades of suicidal alcohol enthusiasm, I regularly made promises to myself, my loved ones, my therapists, and all the gods in the sky that I would change my ways. These pledges were always short-lived. It wasn't that I was deliberately being deceitful while making these vows, it was just that I didn't have the ability to keep them.
Eventually I was able to make a promise to stop drinking that I could keep. This happened at Thamkrabok temple over nine years ago when I took the sajja vow never touch alcohol again. The difference between this promise and all the other promises I had made in my life before this is it included the means to achieve it – that is why it worked.
What is the Sajja Vow in Buddhist recovery?
The Thai word 'sajja' can be translated as 'genuineness', 'virtuousness', or 'truthfulness'. It also refers to the act of keeping our word. The sajja vow is a formal commitment to live an honest life. It is a serious undertaking that must be backed up by action in order for it to have any value.
The further we separate ourselves from reality, the more we tend to suffer. It is no real mystery why this happens – if we are out-of-sync with the way things are, we are going to keep up slamming up against life. The sajja vow is all about bringing our life into accord with reality. By living life on life's terms, we not only suffer a lot less, but we also begin to discover true happiness and deep serenity.
Alcohol and drug abuse makes it impossible for us to develop an accurate picture of reality. These chemicals distort our thinking, and the process of addiction turns us into hungry ghosts. If we want to have any chance of a better life, we need to break free of intoxication.
Difference between a Sajja Vow and a Promise
When we commit to fitting ourselves in with reality, rather than trying to bend reality to fit our will, life automatically becomes much easier. For one thing, we are no longer swimming against the stream. Now that life is more manageable, the need to use alcohol or drugs disappears. Reality is better than any drug high, and once we clearly see this, there is no effort required in remaining sober and clean.
The monks at Thamkrabok promised me that if I maintained the sajja, my life would keep on improving. This has been confirmed by my own experience. By living as best I can in accord with reality, I am regularly delighted by what the universe serves up to me – this is so much better than being repeatedly disappointed because things didn't go my way.
When I took the sajja vow, I just wanted the pain to stop, but this path has led me to a place of deep serenity and a secure feeling of being at home in the world.
How to Take a Sajja Vow
If you would like to formally make a sajja vow during your time at Hope, we may be able to arrange this for you at a local temple. It is important to first understand that the sajja is a serious commitment – it is not a promise you keep making and breaking. The power of the sajja is that it is one commitment you refuse to ever break – once you do break it, this power is gone, and you can't get it back. Therefore it is not recommended you make this type of vow unless you feel confident you can keep it.
Here is a documentary about the use of the sajja vow at Thamkrabok temple. I share my own experience of the sajja at the 20:00 minute mark in the video


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Cleaning Laminate Floors
Laminate floors usually contain four layers and because of this, laminate floor cleaning is a challenge for many businesses. Fortunately, Four Star General Cleaning Services commercial cleaners can help! Starting from the bottom of the floor and working to the top, the 4 layers of laminate flooring are:
The 4 Layers of Laminate Flooring
- the wear layer (this is the most durable part of the floor; this layer provides protection against "wear and tear" and is stain resistant)
- the image layer (this is the image of the wood or stone that you see in the finished product)
- the core layer (this is the thickest part of the floor)
- the moisture-resistant layer
How to Cleaning Laminate Floors
If laminate floors are cleaned with the wrong materials (like soap and abrasive cleaners) ugly streak marks can be visibly seen "as a result of cleaning". This is why it is best to hire a professional cleaning company in New York who specializes in laminate floor cleaning.
Because laminate floors have a thick core layer and thin wear layer, certain types of cleaning items are can ruin the floor. A wet mop, polish or wax, any kind of tough cleaner, soap-based cleaners, and standing water should not be used when laminate floors are washed. Instead it is best to clean laminate floors by sweeping with a soft brush or broom used only for indoors, by vacuuming dirt, using a dry mop, and a (very wrung out) damp mop.


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Finally finished An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, and it was a grind. I never intended to write a review of each book I read (on or off the list), so let's just say that I found myself skimming paragraphs of onerous detail by the time Dreiser got to the trial. It was an interesting plot (inspired by a true story), and Dreiser has a lyrical style at the best of times, but the book could be just as powerful and 100 pages shorter. A major factor in it's notoriety is the shocking topics (crass materialism, sex, pregnancy and finally murder) dealt with so frankly. It was shocking stuff in the 20's, and Dreiser's vivid portrayal of the social gulf between rich and poor was reinforced 4 years later by the stock market crash and the depression that followed.
Next up, Hero, Michael Korda's biography of T. E. Lawrence [of Arabia].


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True Devotion11/04/2010
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Our Real Nature28/03/2010
The following parable of Sri Ramakrishna conveys beautifully man's real nature. Once a pregnant tigress attacked a flock of sheep. In…Read More
Sri Ramakrishna often used to emphasize that total and complete faith is absolutely essential for progress in spiritual life. To highlight…Read More
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True Self-surrender07/03/2010
Sri Ramakrishna in his own inimitable style brings out the concept of true self-surrender through the following parable. Sri Rama, just…Read More
True Renunciation28/02/2010
Sri Ramakrishna used to explain what is true renunciation through the following story. There lived a couple in a village. One…Read More
The Homa Bird21/02/2010
Sri Ramakrishna used the analogy of the mythical Homa Bird to explain the intense renunciation of certain special class of people. …Read More
Good and Evil14/02/2010
Sri Ramakrishna gives a wonderful solution to the riddle of good and evil through the following story. There lived a poisonous…Read More
Practical Vedanta07/02/2010
Sri Ramakrishna had a unique way of imparting spiritual instructions. The following story told by him shows a very practical approach…Read More
Ramakrishna and the Harmony of Religions31/01/2010
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LaDonna Boyd Leads the Way for Christian Books
LaDonna Boyd continues her family's legacy at R.H. Boyd Publishing Corporation.
LaDonna Boyd is unprecedented in more ways than one. She's the fifth-generation president and CEO of Christian literary giant R.H. Boyd Publishing Corp. Boyd is also the first woman to lead the company.
"My great-great-grandfather founded the company in 1896 because he wanted to give black people, especially those who were newly freed, the opportunity to have their own voice reflected in their literature," Boyd says.
Her great-great-grandfather R.H. Boyd was born a slave in Mississippi. Once freed, he pastored several churches, attended college, helped organize the Texas Negro Baptist Convention and became a well-known leader in the Baptist denomination. He established publishing company R.H. Boyd and the Baptist Training Union Congress, now known as the National Baptist Congress. When Boyd died in 1922, his son assumed leadership of the company, and the mantle of leadership has been passed down continually. LaDonna was voted as CEO in 2017.
Building Leaders
R.H. Boyd Corp. publishes curriculum, training guides and other materials to equip church leaders. The National Baptist Congress, an annual five-day Christian training gathering, is another arm of the company. The event has programming for all ages and includes inspirational sessions, a comedy show, an oratorical scholarship contest and ancillary group meetings. An average of 2,000 people convene for the congress each year.
"Senior pastors, church administrative leaders, choir members and instructors all come—it's open to many groups," Boyd says. "Our youth constituency is usually the largest." The 2019 event was held at Sheraton Charlotte Hotel, and the 2020 event is scheduled for Dallas.
Loretta Champion Johnson, CMP, director of global accounts at HelmsBriscoe, serves as a consultant for the annual congress. Johnson says the caliber of speakers is what sets the event apart.
"LaDonna's speakers are phenomenal, and her general sessions are always quite the production," Johnson says. "It's the best programming out of any of the large events I do."
Speakers and worship leaders at previous National Baptist Congress gatherings include leaders from NAACP, gospel singer Tamela Mann and Grammy winner Erica Campbell.
Smart Decisions
In addition to her role at R.H. Boyd, Boyd serves on the board of director at Citizens Savings Bank and Trust, which her great-great-grandfather also founded, and she sits on the boards of multiple nonprofit organizations. She has been recognized as a standout millennial leader in several publications and is a former Miss Tennessee USA.
The Nashville native received a bachelor's degree in economics and minor in French from Spelman College in Atlanta. She received her MBA from Tennessee State University, where she concentrated on finance. She is now a candidate for the doctor of education in organizational leadership at Pepperdine University.
Though Boyd is young, her list of credentials is lengthy. She credits her business education as essential to leading the company well. "We are a business, so business acumen is important," she says. "You have to understand metrics and data to gauge where you want to go."
A New Era
Boyd wants to go to new places. Under her leadership, R.H. Boyd is expanding its publication offerings beyond church resources and training materials. The company is now publishing Christian lifestyle content as well as resources for individuals wanting to learn more information about Christianity. "We also want to create channels for those who want to self-publish," she says.


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Welcome to The Modern Alchemist where we merge strategy with human consciousness to help you live your definition of Abundance and Success.
I'm your host, Loren Trlin – the Modern Alchemist.
Joining me on today's episode is Heidi Stevens. She is the founder of The Feminine Collective as well as The Mindfulness Business Accelerator and has been working with soulful women entrepreneurs, to inspire, activate, and support them to build purposeful businesses and aligned lives that are better than they think is possible.
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- Heidi's podcast is called The Soul of Business
- Mentored more than 200 women through her programs
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- Collaborated with many organizations including Hey Mama and Alliance of Moms
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- The benefits of allowing yourself to break open;
- The empowered feminine; and
- The purpose and benefits of meditation
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- "What are your hacks for getting back into feminine when you're masculine?"
- "What does abundance mean to you in one word?"
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LAGRANGE — Avon Lake took the first step to another Southwestern Conference title Tuesday.
Along the way the Shoregals crushed the competition.
Led by senior Paighton Masterson, a University of Cincinnati commit who took medalist honors with a 3-over 75, Avon Lake recorded a 324 in the 18-hole SWC Preview at Grey Hawk Golf Club,
The Preview is one of three elements, along with dual-meet record and the results of the season-ending conference tournament to determine the league champion.
Four of the six best scores of the day came from the Shoregals — Emma Davies shot an 8-over 80, while Liz Thieken and Maggie Owen carded 84 and 85.
"I am quite pleased with these scores. I know the girls aren't as familiar with this course as they are with some of the other ones in the area," Avon Lake coach Krystine Frisch said. "These girls take their skills with them wherever they go. We want to go further in the postseason this year but we always have to be focused on the matter at hand and take it match by match."
Westlake (349) and Olmsted Falls (383) were the only teams to come within 80 strokes of the Shoregals.
All season Davies has been one of Avon Lake's most consistent golfers but nothing came easy for her on Tuesday despite the fact she was still able to put up a low number.
"I had a lot of double bogeys but I made them up with a lot of birdies," Davies said. "My putting was either really good and sharp or it was really off. The greens are really fast and hard to read but it's a nice course and it's really pretty."
Davies finished with five double bogeys and six birdies.
This was the first year the SWC held the Preview at Grey Hawk and Masterson feels like the experience of playing the course will help the team in some of the tougher tournaments later in the year.
"It's a lot drier here and the ball will roll out more off of your driver. It's really windy and the greens were insanely fast. You really had to take your time and focus on every shot," Masterson said. "We play some other tough course so this is probably good prep for Canterbury (Golf Club), which is a super tough golf course, and we're playing Medina Country Club and at the Independence (Blue Devil) Classic."
Masterson was happy with both her individual performance and the efforts of the team.
"I kinda had a couple unnecessary bogeys but I finished strong with two birdies," she said. "I'm so excited and very proud of my team. We've been doing so well, all the way back since freshman year to now."
Avon (405) and Amherst (410) finished fourth and fifth. The Eagles were led by Michaela O'Hara and the Comets were led by Rosalyn Friend, each of whom shot 94.
Midview didn't have the best day on the scoreboard, finishing ninth, but it was still a big day for the Middies, a first-year program competing in their first SWC tournament.
"It's exciting to have the first team and to be able to come out on a course like this. You just don't want to see the girls get discouraged," Middies coach Troy DiFranco said. "A lot of our girls are beginning golfers. The girls are excited to be a part of the first Midview team but these girls are also competitive and I see them getting frustrated at times. All six of our girls have the ability to hit some good shots. Now we're just working on consistency."
Team results: Avon Lake 324, Westlake 349, Olmsted Falls 383, Avon 405, Amherst 410, North Olmsted 441, North Ridgeville 451, Berea-Midpark 489, Midview 502
Medalist: Paighton Masterson, Avon Lake, 75.
Top individuals: Emily Fankhauser, Westlake, 79; Emma Davies, Avon Lake, 80, Liz Thieken, Avon Lake 84, Sam Torres, Olmsted Falls, 85; Maggie Owen, Avon Lake, 85; Lauren Akers, Westlake, 88; Charlotte Button, Westlake, 89.
Individual results:
Amherst (410): Rosalyn Friend 94, Ayalis Vicens 104 , Melissa Wright 114, Cece Iliff 98, Addisyn Spakes 127.
Avon (405): Michaela O'Hara 94,Julia Parchetta 109, Kavita Nanda 99, Makayla Lawrence 103, Amanda Hohzman 111, Emma Wagner 120.
Avon Lake (324): Paighton Masterson 75, Emma Davies 80, Maggie Owen 85, Liz Thieken 84, Maggie Masterson 96, Marissa Hall 97, Keely McGinty 95, Lauren Hawkinson 112.
Berea-Midpark (489): Samantha Parker 117, Mackenzie Haneberg 120, Kailee Carlson 127, Kaitlyn Carlson 125.
Midview (502): Bailey Chatham 126, Emilee Cruz 131, Riley McCaffery 124, Lauren Difranco 126, Callie Bradley 126.
North Olmsted (441): Alyssa Kell 98, Savannah Porter 113, Natalie Ellis 105, Layla Ruben 128, Lauren Willis 125, Natalie Delaney 135.
North Ridgeville (451): Heather Gerome 108, Sam Simko 111, Kayleigh Shafer 114, Zoe Monyak 118.
Olmsted Falls (383): Sam Torres 85, Alyson Veverka 98 , Kayla Kippes 93, Alyssa Veverka 120, Braelyn Gerchak 118, Becca Abbott 106, Claudia Schuh 120.
Westlake (349): Emily Fankhauser 79, Charlotte Button 89, Lauren Akers 88, Kayla Schuemann 93, Sophia Peck 105, Alexa Prexta 105.


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FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls offer flexible deployments from the network edge to the core, data center, internal segments, and to multiple clouds, leveraging purpose-built security processors (SPUs) that deliver high performance of advanced security services like threat protection, SSL inspection, IPS without fearing degradation for mission-critical environments. FortiGate NGFW provide seamless integration with multiple clouds and allow secure delivery of business applications and services.
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Learn how to set up your computer to print to UB public computing sites printers.
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Last Updated: March 17, 2020
Run FortiClient VPN (Windows or Macintosh) or AnyConnect (Linux only) to connect to UBVPN, and then follow the directions below.
A Release station is not available in 2210 Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; use the Web form (see above) to release documents.
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It amazes me the fuss that is being made of the fact that certain Lib Dems in Government don't like certain Conservative Ministers. Shall I let you into a secret? There are some Conservatives in Government who also don't like certain Conservative Ministers. It is the nature of politics, healthy debates happens when there is a conflict of ideology, different interpretations of events and different perspectives; the debate and disagreement that comes from this is a healthy part of the system. Within a Cabinet, accepting that these disagreements and dislikes happen and accepting that, as long as you have had your say and have contributed to the debate, means that you should abide by the principles of collective decision-making and collective responsibility. It is an integral part of being effective in a position of political power. This is as true of Cabinet systems at local level as as it is Nationally. There is not a single Cabinet worth its salt that does not have strong debate at its heart.
What is at issue with the latest revelations from Lib Dem Ministers is the damage caused by the total lack of respect for collective responsibility. The indiscretions which are, in part, about securing personal standings at a time when Ministers are faced with tough decisions because of the failings of the previous Government, actually does those individuals more damage in the long term IMHO.
What fascinates me even more is is these indiscretions come from senior members of a political party that has tried to further its own ends by claiming that our system would be better if it was largely led by coalition Governments (because that IS the only outcome of election through proportional representation) and yet seems to be hell bent on proving that they do not have the will or the ability to work within a coalition.
The Lib Dems need to grow up fast.