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Can quads and denim mix?
Leads for finding sexy fitting jeans for a short lady with massive thighs and some booty? [more inside]
A Gay is Looking for Fashion Advice
What are the best agressive, alternative, out, fun, political, pro-gay shirts? I'm looking to update my wardrobe with some more queer clothing and am looking for suggestions. [more inside]
I need a clothing organization system that isn't a dresser and also isn't my floor.
I need a clothing organization system that isn't a dresser and also isn't my floor. Help! [more inside]
Help me find the perfect shirt!
I love Julie Deply's shirt in Before Sunset. Where can I get a shirt exactly (or almost exactly) like that? [more inside]
Lesbian overthinks her gender expression. News at 11.
I'm a 22-year-old lesbian. I have never made any effort to look hot, but suddenly I want to, and it's raising some serious identity issues for me. [more inside]
Where to consign in Chicago?
I'm looking for recommendations for consignment stores in or around Chicago where I can sell my collection of vintage clothes. [more inside]
Help Support My Boobs! Um, With Your Advice, That Is.
I need the Uma-Thurman-in-"Kill-Bill" of bras: pretty yet nigh-unto indestructable. [more inside]
Substitute for Jeans?
Clothing for Japan / substitute for jeans? [more inside]
Need help finding a specific lapel pin
I lost the very cool little lapel pin that came with my blazer made by Scotch and Soda. Where can I find a replacement? [more inside]
Job interview outift
Is this outfit appropriate for a job interview at a nice restaurant? [more inside]
Who wears short shorts? Seriously? Who?
Help A Girl Out: High-waisted Undies Edition [more inside]
Dress for the rest
Looking for clothing lines/companies geared towards women ages 18-35 that cater to non-average sizes (including petite, tall, plus size, etc.) Particularly interested in smaller companies. Bonus points for stuff like sustainability, fair labor practices, natural fibers.
Good Quality Everyday Clothing Online
Where can I find reasonably-priced basic pieces for women online? [more inside]
How can I get dry-erase (Expo) marker out of my white dress shirt?
How can I get dry-erase (Expo) marker out of my white dress shirt? I threw rubbing alcohol, Shout, and a bleach pen at it. No visible difference from any of them immediately or after a wash, but it faded slightly in the dryer. I am tempted to do it all over again, but I'm worried about the impact those chemicals and washing over and over again is going to have on my new shirt! [more inside]
Going for the artsy, pseudo-vintage look.
Where might one find t-shirts that depart from the mass-produced style? Online, I have only come across this and this; I like their 1) hemless collars/bottoms/sleeves and 2) light/thin fabric. [more inside]
Help me remix my wedding dress
I have a wedding dress. I have a black tie event in August. I want to wear a modified version of my perfect-for-me wedding dress to said black tie event. What are some things I can do to remix it? [more inside]
Which brands carry decent non iron slim fit dress shirts for Men (size -14.5 - 32/33)?
Which brands carry decent non iron slim fit dress shirts for Men (size -14.5 - 32/33)? I have almost bought every single one I like at Brooks Brothers. Their fit is good but I am looking to shop from another brand so that I have more choice. Also I would prefer to go with a brand that has a good online store (hate going to the mall). Please note it has to be non iron. I am okay with BB prices but wouldn't mind learning about more reasonable options - Thanks!
What kind of elastic will do the job?
AskMe sewers! That's as in ("sewing," not as in sewage). I found a piece of fabric I'd like to make a simple tube-style dress out of, sewing in a back seam to join the fabric and then sewing in elastic above the bust. I have two kinds of elastic on hand. Should I use the flat 3/4 inch specifically "non-roll" kind, which seems kind of wide and bulky, or the flat 3/8" braided one? [more inside]
Forever buying blue jeans
Am I supposed to buy jeans that fit me perfectly in the store, or jeans that are too tight but will stretch to be perfect? If the latter, how do I know how much they will stretch out (or, how tight is too tight)? [more inside]
Help. I have forgotten how to shop for clothes for myself and don't know where to start.
I am job hunting and need to learn to buy clothes that compliment me and that do not convey the obvious discomfort that wearing a suit would convey. Also, I am so out of the loop for clothes shopping that I feel overwhelmed when I try to even think about shopping for clothes. (This question gets long.) [more inside]
Where can I sell a leather jacket in LA right now?
Where can I sell a leather jacket in LA right now? Is online or in store best? [more inside]
multifunctional clothing
What are the best multi-functional clothing? Like the Le Sac dress or Circle Scarf? [more inside]
When "belt it" isn't enough...
Help me find a not-outrageous tailor for casual women's clothing in Seattle. [more inside]
menswear for the tropics
Looking for menswear suitable for the office. Problem: relocated to a hot and humid tropical country, and my current wardrobe just isn't working here. And it's not even July/August. [more inside]
Where can I buy black, thin, cotton tights?
Where can I buy black, thin, cotton tights? [more inside]
23 going on 60.
Help me dress myself, 23-year-old-going-on-little-old-lady edition. [more inside]
Light, fast-drying, hand-washable travel clothes?
Where can I get light clothing that can be hand-washed, dry quickly, and look like normal clothes? [more inside]
Help me dress like a grown-up, without blowing a grown-up's salary.
I have way, way, WAY too many clothes. I want to clear out my closet and replace most of this junk with a few tasteful, expensive staples that I rely on more often. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of money right now and will soon have even less upon entering grad school, so what should I be spending my money on? [more inside]
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I am just terrible at being a lady. All the usual Beauty Stuff, stuff that it seems like everyone else was either born knowing or learned as teenagers, is a giant mystery to me. I need, like, a checklist or something for being a presentable-looking grownup. [more inside]
Where can I rent a tux near Winter Park, Colorado?
My fiance and I have set a date and location! May 25, 2013 in Winter Park, Colorado! I need help finding and pricing places to rent a tux for the big day. The event is outdoors in the beautiful rocky mountains. I want a black tux with my groomsmen in Gray. We're looking for a place either in Denver or Winter Park because after the big wedding, her and I are flying out the next day for the honeymoon! Who rents Tuxes near Denver or Winter park? How much should I expect to pay for a rental? When should I start looking at rentals?
Help me locate a dress from Boden
Sartorial emergency! I accidentally put my wife's new summer dress in the dryer, and it shrunk. (D'oh!) I would like to buy her a replacement, but the online store says that her size/color is out of stock ... [more inside]
Extreme sensitivity
Anyone else extremely annoyed by anything touching their neck? Can this be overcome? [more inside]
I want to get both of them in there
Help me work out how to alter this dress pattern for a big bust. A friend walked me through doing one with a bust dart, but I want to avoid frustration with this and hopefully get it right myself. [more inside]
Please dress me!
"Informal" dress code. "But you still should... you know, dress up." What do I wear?! [more inside]
Generic full length clothing for a tall dude
I'm a 6'4 dude, medium build, long arms. I wear 38/36 pants and a medium tall shirt. I am a non affiliated humanist. I would like ankle to knee length clothing, loose fitting and of plain style. Complication: cultural overloads. [more inside]
Narrow, tall or shallow washing machine to fit in a bathroom?
I am looking for a clothes washing machine to fit into a relatively small apartment's bathroom. The bathroom was not originally intended for the installation of a washing machine, though there is just barely sufficient space, so I'm looking for something that is sort of tall and narrow, or shallower than normal in dimensions, not cube shaped like the typical front loading machine. [more inside]
Wearable landscapes and scenery
I really like clothing (specifically shirts, dresses, skirts and tights/leggings) with all-over scenery or landscape prints. Where can I find more of it, and what search terms would help me zero in on it? [more inside]
Best clothing brands for men in their 20's
What are some good clothing brands for young men in their 20's? [more inside]
How to jazz up a solid silk necktie?
Boyfriend has a solid-colored teal silk necktie he was forced to buy for a wedding. He says he'll never wear it again in it's current state as it is too "prom-y". Anything I can do to either a) make the tie more interesting (ex. a pattern) and thus wearable or b) put it to some other crafty use? [more inside]
The dress must be out there.
Mefi Sewers! I am a beginning sewer and just found a fabulous vintage patterned length of fabric (two yards x 58 inches) at a thrift shop for two bucks. I want to make a very simple a-line shift dress that is made from two cuts of fabric, front and back, that sew together on the sides of the body. A zipper in the back is ok. I cannot seem to find a pattern, vintage or otherwise, that fulfills these criteria. [more inside]
What does my dryer's rotary iron mode do?
What is this dryer mode? I have a Samsung dyer (DV4006) with various modes, two are "Iron" and "Rotary Iron". What is the difference? [more inside]
Machine-washable fashionable clothing -- a pipe dream?
Which clothing brands out there make stylish, machine-washable clothing? [more inside]
Help me smooth out these hat wrinkles
Is there a way to restore this hats' brim to it's original smoothness? It's a Dorfman Pacific cotton canvas hat that I really like. I had to wash it and now the brim is all wrinkly. [more inside]
drawing on fabric & stylish blanks?
What materials are good for drawing on fabric and clothing in a non-hokey way? And where is a good place to get stylish blanks? [more inside]
Let's play dress-up!
They say to dress to highlight your best attribute...what if you have nothing you want to highlight? What do you wear then, especially if you want to look more feminine? [more inside]
What's like a Brooks Brothers shirt, only cheaper?
Is there anything comparable in quality to, but cheaper than, Brooks Brothers shirts? I usually buy the no-iron, slim-fit BB shirts, but I'm trying not to drop too much cash, as I need to replace all my shirts (WTF deodorant stains?!). I don't like the ginormous blousey shirts that typically pass for men's dress shirts, so recommendations for something along the lines of BB's slim-line shirts, qualitatively comparable but cheap enough that I'd switch brands would be appreciated.
cold weather clothing?
I'm trying to plan a trip to Fairbanks, Alaska next March in the hopes of seeing the northern lights. I'd be happy for any tips you might have in general for trips to alaska/northern lights viewing. However, my first concern (as I do more research) is clothing - I'm in Georgia, and doubt I have anything that is suitable for March in Fairbanks. (-20 to 50 degrees?) [more inside]
Where can I find this Kawa-kawa bag?
Where can I buy this Kawa-kawa bag? [more inside]
Do the clothes make the library man?
How should a mid-30s, male public library director dress? [more inside]
It would be nice to have my sweater back.
How do (or should I) ask for an item of clothing back that was a childhood gift to me and has been out on extended loan? [more inside]


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Definitely a unique experience. Without giving away too much info .. I can say this experience is pretty dark and alone. Just make sure to watch your step and have your eyes open at all times to not miss anything.
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'Transformers 4' Stars Wish Chinese Students Luck for College Entrance Exam (Video)
In an alternative marketing approach, castmembers of Transformers: Age of Extinction, including Mark Wahlberg, have posted videos in China wishing nearly 10 million high-school students good luck with their college entrance exams.
It is hard to overstate the importance of these tests in China, which take place this weekend. In a country where education is one of the most highly prized assets, getting into one of China's top universities is a national obsession.
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The whole country goes respectfully silent during the exams. Flights are re-routed, and people are banned from honking car horns near the exam rooms nationwide. Outside the exam halls, anxious parents wait, many having spent weeks attending temples to make offerings to ensure success. Exam hall monitors are not allowed to wear high heels or perfume for fear of distracting the students.
Transformers: Age of Extinction will open in China day-and-date with its June 27 U.S. release, a week after its world bow in Hong Kong. That will be after an estimated 9.39 million high-school students take the university entrance exam this year, an increase of 3 percent over last year.
"Hey, everyone, I'm Mark Wahlberg, star of the new movie Transformers 4: The Age of Extinction," the actor says in his video. "The annual college entrance exam is coming, so I'd like to wish all of you students out there lots of luck, and don't forget to catch Transformers 4 -- after the exam!"
Nicola Peltz and Jack Reynor also wished the students luck in achieving high scores in a joint video.
The casting of local actress Li Bingbing is also expected to give Transformers: Age of Extinction a boost in China, but the video postings on nearly all online video sites may do more to generate goodwill for the movie than any trailer.
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An undisputed National Treasure, with a comedy writing career that stretches back more than 50 years, Barry Cryer is the third recipient of the Aardman Slapstick Comedy Legend Award©.
On 20th March, Barry's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue sparring partner, Graeme Garden, quizzes Barry about his celebrated work in a one-off event at the Old Vic.
We are delighted to announce our fourth annual fundraiser - Stand Up 4 Slapstick 2015!
Once again at Colston Hall on Thursday 11th June 2015, the stella line-up includes;
Al Murray who is once again taking on hosting duties and he will be joined by festival supporters Omid Djalili and Harry Hill plus Holly Walsh. With more performers to join us too this is one comedy event not to be missed!
Well, the festival has been and gone for another year, but you can relive some of the highlights from Slapstick 2015 from just a few of the fantastic reviews and snippets below:
Slapstick festival goes down a storm after "best year yet" - Bristol Post
Slapstick Duo Vic and Bob win visual comedy award for 2015 - Bristol Post
Slapstick Festival: Gala, Gloria Swanson - Bristol 24/7
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer win Bristol slapstick award - BBC News


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old english accent was closer to American southern accent
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When I was working in primary schools in North Somerset and Devon I used to love seeing the wee ones teaching themselves to spell. Two of the most common spelling variations I witnessed were "sor" for "saw" and "warter" for "water", because that's what the children heard coming out of their own mouths when they sounded those words out.
Reminds me of that early Beatles recording of Meredith Willson's "Till There Was You," with Paul McCartney singing:
There were birds in the sky
But I never sore them winging
No, I never sore them a-tall
Till there was you.
Funny thing is, we don't usually associate that pronunciation with a scouse accent.
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unknown roses + know nothing about roses
I moved to a new house about a year ago. There are several roses that I don't know what to do with. All need to be pruned if it's not already too late (I don't know).
I didn't do much to them last year.
Rose Group 1 (three roses all appear to be the same type)
Look too big for the space- the biggest is 4ft tall
The smaller two aren't as healthy appearing
They're in front of some Holly that is also not looking well.
If I remember right, pink flowers but I can't find the picture I took and the details escape me.
Rose 2
Last year had mostly top growth, white flowers.
Rose 3
Appears to be a climber but not supported by anything.
There was no life in the old canes last year but new growth from the base. I cut off all the canes last spring and it looks the same this spring. Is it normal to cut everything off every year?
I couldn't figure out how to post more than one picture so here's a link to a shutterfly site with my pics.
Any help I can get with at least knowing the general type of rose it is would be greatly appreciated. Do I prune now? How much? I plan to cross post on the general rose forum too.


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Do you need to copy files from your local workstation to Azure Virtual Machines? No need to use FTP, or send files on cloud drives or blobs. The only thing you need to do is to access your local drives from your cloud VM and pull the files over. You can also use the same approach to pull files from your cloud VM locally. Here is how it's done.
First, logon to Microsoft Azure and browse to your Virtual Machine from the portal. From there, select your Virtual Machine and click on the Connect button at the bottom (make sure you select your VM first by clicking on the status field for example so that the VM clearly shows with a darker blue background).
After clicking on Connect, you will be prompted to Open or Save the RDP file for the remote session to your VM. Click on Save, and click on Open folder once the save operation is complete. This will open the directory where the RDP file was saved and automatically select the file for you.
Right-click on your RDP file, and choose Edit from the dropdown menu. You will see the Remote Desktop Connection configuration window. Click on the Local Resources tab, and in the Local devices and resources section, click on the More… button.
Expand the Drives and click on the local drives you want to share from within your Virtual Machine (I selected my C drive), then click OK.
Finally, click on the Connect button to logon to your Virtual Machine. Once logged on, you will see your local drive available from within Explorer as a mapped drives as shown below. You can now copy and move files from your Virtual Machines in and out of your Workstation easily. Because you can change any RDP file in the same way, you can do the same with virtual machines hosted on other cloud platforms or from your own network.
Herve Roggero, Microsoft Azure MVP, @hroggero, is the founder of Blue Syntax Consulting (http://www.bluesyntaxconsulting.com). Herve's experience includes software development, architecture, database administration and senior management with both global corporations and startup companies. Herve holds multiple certifications, including an MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD. He also holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Indiana University. Herve is the co-author of "PRO SQL Azure" and "PRO SQL Server 2012 Practices" from Apress, a PluralSight author, and runs the Azure Florida Association.
In this post I will show you how easy it is to create a PowerShell script using Visual Studio that can backup your Azure Blobs. The same concept can be applied to backup Azure Tables and SQL Database. To successfully follow this example, you will need a few things. First, we are coding in C# with Visual Studio 2012. The actual backup operation is rather complex, so we will be using the free API provided by Blue Syntax (http://www.bluesyntaxconsulting.com) to perform the actual backup operation. The PowerShell script will be calling the API.
As a pre-requisite, you will need to install the Enzo Cloud Backup tool, and the Enzo Cloud Backup API Version 3. Both can be found on the Blue Syntax website (http://www.bluesyntaxconsulting.com/backup30.aspx). Click on the Download button found on the product description page, and install Enzo Cloud Backup, and Enzo Cloud Backup API.
Once installed, start Enzo Cloud Backup. You will see a Login page. You will need to specify an Azure Storage Account where Enzo will store its configuration information. It is recommended to use a Storage Account that is used by Enzo only. Once you have created the Storage Account in your Azure subscription, enter the Account Name and an Account Key on this screen to proceed. For detailed information on how to create an Azure Storage Account and access the Account Key, read this blog post: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-create-storage-account/.
Once logged in, you will need to register your product in order to obtain license keys; this is a very simple step and will ensure that you obtain the necessary license keys to run this example (to register your product, start Enzo Cloud Backup, and go to Help –> Request Permanent License Keys). There is no charge for the Community Edition of Enzo Cloud Backup; the API comes at no charge as well. Once registered you will receive an email with your license keys, so make sure you enter a valid email address in the registration key.
Now that the Enzo Cloud Backup tool is installed along with the API, let's create a new project in Visual Studio 2012. The project type is a class library. I named this project PSEnzoBackup. Make sure you select a Visual C# project; the code provided further down is written in C#.
Once the project has been created, rename the Class1.cs file to BackupBlob.cs and make sure the class name is also renamed to BackupBlob. The end result should look like this in you Solution Explorer.
Once the class has been renamed, add the following references to your project:
You can find the Automation DLL on your development machine (usually under C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\WindowsPowerShell). The other two libraries can be found in the directory where you installed the Enzo Cloud Backup API (they are usually found in a subdirectory of C:\Program Files (x86)\BlueSyntax\).
At this point, the project is ready for development. Paste the following code into your BackupBlob.cs file as-is.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Management.Automation; namespace PSEnzoBackup { [Cmdlet(VerbsCommon.New, "BlobBackup")] public class BackupBlob : PSCmdlet { private string[] _blobNames; [Parameter( Mandatory=true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = true, ValueFromPipeline = true, Position = 0, HelpMessage = "The list of blobs to backup (container/blob) separated by a comma. Can use * as a wildcard." ) ] [Alias("ListBlob")] public string[] BlobNames { get { return _blobNames; } set { _blobNames = value; } } protected override void ProcessRecord() { WriteObject("Starting the backup operation..."); BSC.Backup.Helper.AzureBlobBackupHelper backup = new BSC.Backup.Helper.AzureBlobBackupHelper( "ENZO_STORAGE_ACCOUNT", "ENZO_STORAGE_KEY", false, "YOUR_API_LICENSE_KEY"); backup.Location = BSC.Backup.Helper.DeviceLocation.LocalFile; backup.DeviceURI = @"c:\tmp\backupfile.bkp"; backup.Override = true; backup.SpecificBlobs = _blobNames.ToList(); backup.UseCloudAgent = false; string operationId = backup.Backup(); } } }
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Threading.Tasks; using System.Management.Automation;
namespace PSEnzoBackup { [Cmdlet(VerbsCommon.New, "BlobBackup")] public class BackupBlob : PSCmdlet { private string[] _blobNames;
[Parameter( Mandatory=true, ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName = true, ValueFromPipeline = true, Position = 0, HelpMessage = "The list of blobs to backup (container/blob) separated by a comma. Can use * as a wildcard." ) ] [Alias("ListBlob")] public string[] BlobNames { get { return _blobNames; } set { _blobNames = value; } }
protected override void ProcessRecord() { WriteObject("Starting the backup operation...");
BSC.Backup.Helper.AzureBlobBackupHelper backup = new BSC.Backup.Helper.AzureBlobBackupHelper( "ENZO_STORAGE_ACCOUNT", "ENZO_STORAGE_KEY", false, "YOUR_API_LICENSE_KEY"); backup.Location = BSC.Backup.Helper.DeviceLocation.LocalFile; backup.DeviceURI = @"c:\tmp\backupfile.bkp"; backup.Override = true; backup.SpecificBlobs = _blobNames.ToList(); backup.UseCloudAgent = false;
string operationId = backup.Backup();
} }
The ProcessRecord() method is a protected override of the method that will be called by the PowerShell command. In this method, we simply create a reference to the AzureBlobBackupHelper class; the constructor requires the account name and keys of the Azure Storage Account used by Enzo Cloud Backup, and the API license key. Additional properties are available on the backup object; we are specifying that a local file backup device will be created, and will override any existing file. The SpecificBlobs property is set to the list of blob names provided as parameters to the PowerShell command. The Backup() method returns an OperationId which can be used by other Helper classes to check on the progress of the backup operation. We are hard-coding the account credentials and the name of the backup file, but it would be easy to provide parameters instead (as we did with the BlobNames parameter).
Before compiling this code, you will need to replace a few things: the ENZO_STORAGE_ACCOUNT and ENZO_STORAGE_KEY are those used by the Backup application when you login (see the pre-requisites above). As indicated earlier, you must run the Enzo Backup application at least once to create the necessary configuration tables that the API uses. The AccountName and AccountKey you use to login in Enzo Backup are the ones you need to specify here. The YOUR_API_LICENSE_KEY is the API License Key you received by email when registering your product with Blue Syntax. Once you have specified those values, you can compile this code. Note the path where the DLL is being created when you compile as you will need it soon.
Open a PowerShell command and type this command to load the PowerShell library we just compiled.
Import-Module "C:\YOUR_FULL_PATH_TO_PROJECT_DIRECTORY\PSEnzoBackup\bin\Debug\PSEnzoBackup.dll"
Import-Module "C:\YOUR_FULL_PATH_TO_PROJECT_DIRECTORY\PSEnzoBackup\bin\Debug\PSEnzoBackup.dll"
And finally, run the following command to backup all your blobs. The BlobNames parameter is a list of blob names (specified as ContainerName/BlobName) separated by a comma. The list of blobs supports a wildcard (*/* means all containers and all blobs). For more information about this parameter, and other properties available by this API, visit the online help here: http://www.bluesyntaxconsulting.com/EnzoCloudBackup30/APIBackupAB.aspx.
New-BlobBackup -BlobNames */*
New-BlobBackup -BlobNames */*
You can easily wrap the commands provided by the Enzo Cloud Backup API in a PowerShell module, including backup Azure Tables, SQL Databases, and even restoring them. This example shows how to backup to disk, but you can also backup to blobs. To learn more about the API visit http://www.bluesyntaxconsulting.com/Backup30API.aspx.
As customers adopt the Microsoft Azure platform, the need to backup Azure Blobs is becoming increasingly important. That's because Azure Blobs are used by both the Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) components of Microsoft Azure. In fact, Azure Blobs are also becoming more popular with local software applications that need a central location to store configuration information and application logs. Since Blobs are a form of data, there is a need to back them up.
Until now, the way to backup Azure Blobs was to copy the files on local hard drives, which many third party tools currently provide. However Azure Blobs contain additional information that files can't carry, such as custom metadata, HTTP properties, and Access Control List (ACL) details providing security information on those blobs. But Azure Blobs are not the only components that need to be backed up: Azure Blob Containers are also important. They are the equivalent of directory structures, and also carry metadata and ACL information. Existing third party tools do not provide a mechanism to save this additional information.
I created a free utility called Enzo Cloud Backup, version 3, now available for download (http://www.bluesyntaxconsulting.com/). This tool allows you to perform backup and restore operations on Azure Blobs (in addition to Azure Tables and Azure SQL Database). It is designed to handle a very large number of blobs and containers. In addition, an API is also available at no charge so that you can programmatically initiate backup and restore operations.
The free edition provides all the features of the advanced edition, but is limited in the number of backups that can be performed monthly. Give it a try; you will be surprised by how easy it is to use. And if you have some feedback, please send them to me!
As a developer you are familiar with Web Servers, and Database Servers. Both service data, in different ways. And this creates an interesting challenge. Let's face it: accessing data is hard. Data in databases, in XML documents, in PDF documents, in flat files, on FTP servers in a proprietary format, in cubes, in no-SQL… you name it. In addition to those storage formats, data is made available in a large variety of file formats, available through a multitude of protocols, and serviced through an ever increasing set of providers each with their own authentication and authorization implementation. But the storage of data and the way to access it isn't the only challenge. Who wants to access all this data? Developers, DBAs, reports writers, Systems Integrators, consultants, managers, business users, office workers, applications…
Accessing data is hard because of those three forces: storage formats, protocols, and consumers. Different consumers need the same data in different ways, because they consume data in different ways. When the data is needed by applications (such as a mobile phone), then it is best accessed using REST requests returning JSON documents; this is usually best accomplished by servicing data through a web server. But if the data is needed by a report (such as Excel, or a cube for analytical purposes), it is usually best accessed using SQL commands, which is usually best accomplished using a database server.
This creates an interesting challenge: who are the consumers for a given set of data, and in which protocol should it be accessed? This simple question is hard to answer because for a given set of data, consumers change over time, but not the data stores, nor the protocols. The challenge is usually resolved by hiring consultants (or spending a lot of time with internal resources) to build bridges that move/copy data from one storage format to the next, so it can be used by the consumers that need the data in a specific format; that's why integration tools are very popular: let's copy the data from point A to point B, and C, so it can be used by consumers (business partners, reports, executives…). All this takes time and money. Copying no-sql data to a relational database or in a cube, so it can be reported on, takes effort. Or extracting flat files from an FTP site daily, and load it in a database, so it can used by a web application requires the creation of a complex set of programs that orchestrate this work.
As a result, the difficulty in making data access ubiquitous inhibits certain companies from making timely decisions, because the necessary data is not immediately available in the right format at the right time. And as mentioned previously, the need for data in various formats is clear. How many deployments of SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services), Joomla, BizTalk, Informatica, Scheduled jobs and ETL processes that move files around are you aware of? Some are needed because complex transformations are necessary, but a vast number of those implementations are in place because the source data is simply in the wrong format. [note: I am not saying these tools are not necessary; I am naming these tools to outline the need for data movement in general]
With this challenge continuing to grow with every new platform, API, consumer, and storage type, I suggest that a new technology be built, that I will simply call a Data Server, so that data can be serviced in real-time through virtually any protocol regardless of where the data comes from. In other words, it shouldn't matter who needs the data and through which protocol; a mobile application needs data through REST/JSON? No problem. A report needs the exact same data through SQL? No problem. The same data, coming from the same source, should be accessible in real-time regardless of consumer preferences. If data were available in a ubiquitous manner, regardless of the protocol being used, a large number of integration routines would become obsolete, or would be largely simplified.
So what are the attributes of a Data Server? It should be able to hide the complexities of the underlying data sources, and present data in a uniform way, through multiple protocols. For example, a Data Server would present Tweets through a REST/JSON interface and through an SQL interface (the same data in real-time; not a copy of the data). SharePoint lists could be made available through the same REST/JSON interface, or SQL as well. An FTP server could be accessed through REST/JSON and SQL too, and so would WMI, no-sql, CICS screens, flat files, SOAP endpoints… Regardless of the origin of the data, it would be serviced through a uniform response in the desired protocol.
The Data Server could also abstract security by shielding the authentication and authorization details of the underlying source of data. This makes a lot of sense too because most sources of data use different security protocols, or variations of published standards. For example, authenticating to Microsoft Bing, Azure Blobs, Google Maps, FTP, SharePoint or Twillio is difficult because they all use different implementations. So abstracting authentication through a single REST layer or an SQL interface, and adding a layer of authorization on top of these data endpoints makes things much easier and more secure. It becomes possible to monitor data consumption across private and public sources of data as well, which can be important in certain organizations.
A Data Server would also help in implementing data cross concerns that are not usually easy to configure (or use), such as caching, asynchronous processing, scheduling, logging and more. For example, caching becomes much more interesting through a data server because it doesn't matter which interface is used to access the data; cached data sets can be made available to both REST/JSON and SQL interfaces at the same time, which means that the data needs to be cached only once and remains consistent no matter which consumer reads the data.
Asynchronous processing is also an interesting cross concern; consumers can start a request without waiting for its completion, through REST or SQL equally. For example, a REST command could initiate an asynchronous request, and a SQL command could check the completion of the request and fetch the results. Since the protocol used by consumers becomes an implementation choice, the data takes center place in a Data Server. Accessing, managing, recycling and updating data through a vast array of data sources becomes protocol agnostic.
To accelerate data-intensive projects and to help organizations consume the data they need efficiently, data should be made available in a uniform way regardless of the client protocol, no matter where it comes from, so that it doesn't matter anymore who needs to consume that data. By creating this level of abstraction, the authentication and authorization mechanism can be streamlined too, so that there is only one way to secure the information. And since a Data Server channels requests to a multitude of data endpoints, it becomes a hub where common data related concerns can be implemented, including caching, scheduling and asynchronous requests.
Many companies servicing specific industries have technology assets that could be transformed into a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. Your business may have a unique, proprietary technology that your industry could use. So packaging your intellectual property into a SaaS offering may make sense; you could essentially rent your 'savoir faire' to your industry, or even to multiple industries depending on how generic the technology is. For example, if you know how to process insurance claims effectively for your own business, could you offer an Insurance Claim SaaS platform to your industry? When done properly, offering a SaaS solution could open the doors to new revenue and a more predictable revenue model based on a subscription model for example. And of course, if you are considering a SaaS offering, it may even be possible to transform your technology offering into a more developer centric solution as a PaaS offering; so the following discussion applies equally to PaaS enabling your technology stack.
To begin answering the question of whether or not you should consider building a SaaS offering, you want to make an inventory of the high level technologies you have built over the years. It may be related to licensing, data transfer, security models, industry-specific calculations, a mathematical model and so forth. Or it could be as simple, or generic, as business card transactions that you feel is unique to your industry because of compliance requirements or other constraint.
Once you have established this list, find the technology that is likely the easiest to package. If the technology is well understood by your staff, if you own all the rights to the technology, if the technology does not need too much rework to be used by multiple customers, and if making the technology available to the competition won't put you out of business, then you may have a winner!
If you identify a technology that makes sense to package as a SaaS offering, you need to evaluate the energy involved in creating your offering. By energy I mean associated costs and servicing readiness of your company. From a cost standpoint, you may need to invest in making your technology more generic to handle a greater variety of conditions that your online customers will need; or perhaps you may need to redesign a component in your technology to handle multiple customer requests at once.
From a servicing standpoint, will you need to build a management portal for your SaaS offering? Will you need to train your staff into the new kinds of issues that your technology may face when exposed publicly? Keep in mind that building an online service may require your company to be prepared to function like a software company, with release management, higher quality control, patch management and so forth.
Although creating a SaaS offering can be lucrative, it is usually not easy to build and service over time. Some services seem to make sense, but the technology stack, or the actual customer demands are such that it may not be a viable financial option in the long run. A technology that does not scale very well to an increasing number of users could spell doom for your SaaS ideas.
Although there are many services that failed over the years, I am cherry picking the Azure Reporting Service as the prime example because it was put together by a company that now builds cloud services as part of its mainstream business: Microsoft. Of course, Microsoft has built many successful online services (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), and as such is developing a leading expertise in packaging and bringing to market remarkable solutions. And yet, the reporting service offered a couple of years ago failed from a business standpoint. The service itself was certainly in high demand; configuring an onsite Reporting Services environment is complex, and hard to maintain. So a SaaS/PaaS offering made sense for this service because of the demand for simpler configuration. However, the technology is likely very hard to scale; running reports can use a lot of resources, which makes it difficult to predict (and contain) the amount of resources used by hundreds (or thousands) of customers. Ultimately, while the offering was awesome (and so was the service itself), it did not appear to be scalable enough, which means that Microsoft probably pulled the plug on this offering due to the high operating costs (high operating costs meant a high price point for the service itself, which as a result impacted negatively customer demand).
If your business services a specific industry, transforming an existing technology you built over the years into a SaaS (or PaaS) offering could provide a new and more scalable business model to your company, and create a more predictable revenue stream over time. One way to enter this business model is to leverage your own technology stack and repurpose what you already do well into a publicly available service. However it can be challenging to transform your business into an online operation. If your company is considering entering this space, you should consider the various business impacts of running a SaaS service, including whether or not your technology needs to be upgraded and how you may need to change your business to function like a software company.
In this blog post I will introduce you to the Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool (TMT) and how it can be used specifically with the Microsoft Azure environment for application development and application deployment purposes. In order to do this, I will take a specific example, using the Enzo Cloud Backup tool my company is building, and show you how to perform a high level threat model for a specific operation: a backup request.
First things first… what is the Threat Modeling Tool (TMT)? It's a pretty cool piece of software that allows you to lay down your application architecture, with its various dependencies and protocols; it becomes a canvas for understanding and identifying potential threats. The tool itself may provide certain recommendations, and a list of checkpoints, but even if you decide to use the tool as a simple architecture diagram, it is very effective at doing so. You can use TMT to create simple, system-level diagrams, or to dive into specific operations to get into the data flow of your system. I refer to system-level diagrams as Level 0, and a data flow as Level 1. The deeper you go, the deeper the analysis. Interestingly enough, I am starting to use TMT as a troubleshooting guide as well, since it does a good job at representing inter-system connections and data flows.
As you draw your diagram, you will need to choose from a list of processes, external components, data stores, data flows and trust boundaries. Selecting the correct item in this list is usually simple; you also have Generic items that allows you specify every security property manually.
Let's start with a Level 0 system diagram of the Enzo Cloud Backup system. As we can expect, this is a very high level overview which provides context for other more detailed diagrams. The Level 0 diagram shows two primary trust domains: the corporate network where Enzo Cloud Backup is installed, and the Microsoft Azure trust domain, where the backup agent is installed. This diagram also introduces the concept that the agent and the client communicate directly, and through an Azure Storage account. As a result, two communication paths need to be secured, and both happen to take place over an HTTPS connection. The cloud agent also communicates to an Azure Storage account through HTTPS within the Microsoft Azure trust boundary, and to a data source (that is being backed up or restored). A more complex diagram would also show the fact that multiple Virtual Machines could be deployed in the cloud, all communicating to the same storage account, but for simplicity I am only showing one Virtual Machine. Also note that in my Level 0 diagram I choose not to document the sequence of events; in fact my Level 0 diagrams are not specific enough to dive into specific events or data flows.
Although the diagram below shows boxes and circles, selecting the right stencil is important for future analysis. There are no specific visual cues on the diagram itself indicating if you are dealing with a Managed or Unmanaged process for example, but the tool shows this information in the Properties window (shown later) and it will use this information to provide a set of recommendations. In addition, each item in the diagram comes with a set of properties that you can set, such as whether a data flow is secured, and if it requires authentication and/or authorization.
Now let's dive into a Level 1 diagram. To do so, let's explore the systems and components used by a specific process: a remote backup operation. Level 1 diagrams are usually more complex, and as a result need to show as many data stores as possible, and optionally identify the order of data flows. While TMT doesn't natively give you the option to document the sequence of your data flow, you can simply name each data flow by adding a number in front of it to achieve a similar result. By convention, I use 0 as initialization tasks, 1 as the starting request, and sometimes I even use decimals to document what happens within a specific step. But feel free to use any mechanism you think works for you if you need to document the sequence of your data flows.
My Level 1 diagram below shows that a human starts the backup request through Enzo Cloud Backup, which then sends a request through a Queue. The backup service then picks up the work request and starts a backup thread that performs the actual work. The thread itself is the one creating entries in the history data store that the client reads to provide a status to the user. As we can see in this diagram, the cross-boundary communications are as expected from our Level 0 diagram. Also worth noting is that the backup agent reads from a configuration file; from a security standpoint this could represent a point of failure and disrupt the backup process if it is tempered with. The client depends on the local machine registry which is also a store to properly secure as a result. Last but not least, the numbering provided in front of each data flow allows you to walk through the steps taken during the backup request.
As mentioned previously, you can configure each item in the diagram with important properties which will ultimately help TMT provide recommendations. For example, I selected an HTTPS data flow for the Monitoring Status reading from the History Data store. Since I selected an HTTPS data flow, the tool automatically set some of the security attributes; I also provided information about the payload itself (it is a REST payload for example). Other properties, not shown below, are also available. And you can create your own properties if necessary, for documentation purposes.
TMT is being used by large corporations to provide more detailed application diagrams, going as far as internal memory access. In fact the tool allows you to add notes, and have a checklist of important security verifications for your diagrams. TMT also comes with a build-in security report that gives you which steps you should consider in making you system more secure. The following diagram is a short sample output of this report for the Registry Hive access. The more information you provide, including the properties on your data stores, data flows, processes and trust boundaries, the better.
Last but not least, the tool comes with an Analysis view of your diagram, which is the basis for generating the report shown above. For example TMT identified that the History Data store could become unavailable; while this sounds like a simple problem to solve through a retry mechanism, this could be used as a Denial of Service attack against the tool. Note that TMT will highlight the component in question to make it easy to understand the area at risk.
Give it a ride! TMT is easy to use and provides a solid framework for documenting and analyzing your systems; and since most corporations have a vested interested in securing they applications in the cloud, TMT offers the framework to do so. To learn more about TMT, check out this link: http://blogs.microsoft.com/cybertrust/2014/04/15/introducing-microsoft-threat-modeling-tool-2014/.
Microsoft Azure is now offering a third storage option for developers: DocumentDB. DocumentDB is a no-sql storage service that stores JSON documents natively and provides indexing capabilities along with other interesting features. Microsoft Azure also offers Azure Tables, another no-sql storage option, and Azure SQL, which is a relational database service. This blog post provides a very high level comparison of the three storage options.
Purely from a storage perspective, the only relational storage offering is Azure SQL. This means that only Azure SQL will provide a schema and a strongly typed data store. This gives Azure SQL some interesting advantages related to search performance on complex indexes. Both Azure Table and DocumentDB are no-sql storage types, which means they do not enforce schema on their records (a record is called an Entity in Azure Table, and a Document in DocumentDB). However DocumentDB stores its data as a native JSON object, and allows attachments to a document, while Azure Table stores its data in XML (although you can retrieve Azure Table entities as JSON objects). The advantage of storing native JSON objects is that the data maps directly into JSON objects in the client application code. It is also worth noting that Azure SQL comes with storage capacity limitations; it can only store up to 500GB of data in a single database.
All three options provide a form of indexing. Azure SQL offers the most advanced indexing capability allowing you to define indexes with multiple columns and other advanced options (such as a WHERE clause as part of the index filter). DocumentDB offers automatically generated indexes allowing queries to efficiently retrieve information. Azure Tables offer only a single index on its PartitionKey; this means that querying on properties other than the PartitionKey can take a significant amount of time if you have a lot of data.
Azure SQL provides advanced server-side programming capabilities, through triggers, column-level integrity checks, views and functions (UDF). The programming language for Azure SQL is T-SQL. DocumentDB offers a similar programmability surface using JavaScript, which provides a more uniform experience for developers. Azure Tables do not offer server-side programmability.
Azure SQL pricing recently changed and is now driven by the level of service you desire, which makes it difficult to compare with other storage options. Assuming a Basic level of service and a relatively small database (up to 2GB), you can expect to pay roughly $5.00 per month starting Nov 1st 2014. Pricing of Azure SQL goes up significantly with higher levels of service, and can reach over $3,000 per month for the more demanding databases (the price point impacts the maximum size of the database and the throughput available). DocumentDB offers a starting price point at $45.00 per month per Capacity Unit, which represents a storage quantity and specific throughput objectives (note: the price for DocumentDB is estimated since it is currently in preview). Azure Tables only have a storage price point which makes this storage option very affordable. A 1GB storage requirement with Azure Tables will cost about $0.12 per month with high availability and geo-redundancy.
All the storage options incur additional charges for transactions, which is not included in this analysis to simplify the comparison.
The three storage options provided by Microsoft Azure (Azure SQL, DocumentDB and Azure Tables) provide an array of implementation options at various price points depending on the needs of your application. Azure SQL provides higher data integrity but is limited in storage capacity, DocumentDB offers a no-sql implementation with configurable consistency levels and JavaScript server-side logic, and Azure Table offers simple no-sql storage capacity.
The following table is my interpretation of the Microsoft Azure storage options used for storing objects or tables.
Server-Side Programmability
Ref. Integrity and Transaction Support
Service Cost
Up to 500GB
Yes for R.I.
Yes for Tx Support
Starts at $5 / DB / Month
(DB = Database)
Automatically created/maintained
Through JavaScript
Supports Tx
starts at $45 / CU / mo
(CU = Capacity Unit)
Primary Key only
No secondary index
(uses BATCH operation)
$0.12 per GB
NOTE 1: This blog post was updated on 9/11/14 at 9:48pm ET to correct an inaccuracy on DocumentDB indexing. NOTE 2: This blog post was updated on 9/14/14 at 6:37pm ET to correct a typo.
Last night I attended a meeting at the new MIC in Miami, run by Blain Barton (@blainbar), Sr IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft. The meeting was well attended and is meant to be run as a user group format in a casual setting. Many of the local Microsoft MVPs and group leaders were in attendance as well, which allows technical folks to connect with community leaders in the area.
If you live in South Florida, I highly recommend to look out for future meetings at the MIC; most meetings will be about the Microsoft Azure platform, either IT Pro or Dev topics.
For more information on the MIC, check out this announcement: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2014/may14/05-02miamiinnovationpr.aspx.
A few months ago Microsoft released an update to the Microsoft Azure platform allowing developers to access Azure Tables using JSON payloads. Until then, developers had no choice but to use the AtomPub model. Since this was the only data representation model available, there was no choice to be made, and as a result the use of the AtomPub model was implicit. With the introduction of JSON payloads, developers can now choose one or the other. Although the choice of using AtomPub or JSON is largely transparent (there are at this time a couple of minor exceptions), meaning that there are no functionality differences, developers should use the JSON payload going forward because the payload is significantly smaller. Take a quick look at payload examples on the MSDN documentation.
To use the JSON payload, developers can set the PayloadFormat property as such (tableClient is and instance of CloudTableClient):
tableClient.DefaultRequestOptions.PayloadFormat = TablePayloadFormat.JsonNoMetadata;
In order to see how much data was actually flowing through, Microsoft published a small test application that allows you to send a few entities into an Azure Table. The source code provided by Microsoft can be found on that page, so it's pretty easy to try it out. However I needed to see this in action, and wanted to use Fiddler to see the actual payload leaving my machine. So I used the same general idea provided by the sample code from Microsoft and modified it to create my own test harness. To do this, I created a new Console application using Visual Studio 2012, added the Windows Azure Storage 3.0 library as a Nuget package, and created a simple application. You can download my test harness here. The application saves an log data in a test table called LogTest. You can change the 'count' variable to add more records if you want.
I used Fiddler to capture the tests. The first test was to insert 100 entities in my Azure Table using JSON. The second test was to read those entities back using JSON. The third was to insert 100 entities using AtomPub and the fourth was to read them back using AtomPub. Here are the results of those tests:
In my tests, the JSON payload reduced network traffic (bytes sent) by 37% when inserting data, and about 67% when reading data (bytes received). Note that there was virtually no performance improvement in terms of execution time; the advantage of using JSON is limited to smaller network payloads. Still, this is a significant difference; considering that extracting data out of the Microsoft data centers costs money, companies that read lots of data from Azure Tables could realize cost savings as a result of using JSON payloads.
Microsoft recently published a Management API framework within Microsoft Azure. If you haven't had a chance to review this new feature, still in preview at the time of this writing, you may be surprised… So what is this new feature? Who would use it, and why?
The Management API offers interesting capabilities in at least two scenarios: transform existing web services into more modern REST APIs, and leverage an advanced API management platform.
If you want to move your older public APIs, such as web services, into the era of mobile computing, complete with monitoring, servicing and security management, you are in luck… Microsoft Azure's Management API provides a remarkably easy way to build a service proxy that hides older public APIs and allows you to define the REST methods you want to expose individually, and how they map to your older Web Services. The Management API provides a user interface to define the API verbs and the backend web service endpoint that serves it.
In addition to providing a mechanism to upgrade existing web services as REST services without writing any line of code, the Management API offers a strong management interface allowing you to specify caching options, access keys, access control and monitoring of your REST endpoints.
This Management API is designed for companies to upgrade their traditional web services as REST services without the need to change their code base. It also allows small and large organizations to obtain a management platform that a simple web service upgrade would not provide out of the box, such as caching and monitoring.
Although the Management API is still in a preview phase, I highly recommend you investigate the capabilities of this amazing new feature in Microsoft Azure. To learn more about it, please visit the Microsoft Azure website: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/api-management-get-started/
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Returning to the Betts House from January 10 through May 7, 2015
Come celebrate Cincinnati's unique beer history at The Betts House! The Betts House is pleased to announce the return its 2013 exhibit, Bricks, Barrel Vaults, & Beer: The Architectural Legacy of Cincinnati Breweries, on view from January 10 through May 7, 2015. Bricks, Barrel Vaults, & Beer is the first exhibit to explore the tunnels, breweries, buildings and people that made Cincinnati a leader in the 19th-century brewing industry. Through photos, charts and detailed narrative, the exhibit explains the technology and construction of Cincinnati's breweries. Bricks, Barrel Vaults, & Beer also highlights the social and cultural influences that made Cincinnati a brewing destination, such as immigration and labor.
Why a beer exhibit? In the late 1890s, beer consumption in Cincinnati was two-and-a-half times the national average. To satisfy such a significant beer drinking community, the Cincinnati brewery industry grew to meet the demands, resulting in one of the largest collections of pre-Prohibition brewery buildings in the United States.
This exhibit was researched, written and curated by local experts, Steve Hampton, architect and executive director of the Cincinnati Brewery District Urban Redevelopment Corporation, and Michael Morgan, historian and author, "Over-the- Rhine, When Beer was King".
Bricks, Barrel Vaults & Beer is created in partnership with The Brewery District Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation and sponsored by the Josephine Schell Russell Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee; the John Hauck Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, John W. Hauck, E. Allen Elliot, and Narley L. Haley, Co-Trustees; and the Ohio Humanities Council.
Built in 1804, Ohio's oldest brick house is located in the Betts-Longworth Historic District near downtown Cincinnati. The Betts House is a museum of the built environment, offering exhibits and programs exploring architecture, historic preservation, building trades, construction technologies, and building materials. Located two blocks west of Music Hall, at 416 Clark Street, the house is open Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. and the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, 12:30 – 5 p.m. Other days and times are available by appointment. Admission is $2 per person. Visit http://www.TheBettsHouse.org for more information.
The Betts House is owned by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Ohio (NSCDA-OH), a non-profit organization, founded in 1896, which promotes our national heritage through historic preservation and education. In 2000, the National Trust for Historic Preservation presented their prestigious Trustee Emeritus Award for Excellence in the Stewardship of Historic Sites to The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America "for acquiring, restoring, and interpreting a collection of historic properties that offer invaluable opportunities to experience the rich variety of America's heritage."
The University of Wisconsin, Madison libraries are pleased to announce the launch of a new digital project: The Dominy Craftsmen Collection.
Three generations of the Dominy family of East Hampton, New York functioned as craftsmen from ca. 1760 to ca. 1850. Working in wood and metal, they produced clocks and furniture and repaired thousands of pocket watches. Direct descendants of the Dominy craftsmen kept together the shop equipment, tools, and manuscript material on their original site until 1946, thus preserving the only complete record of craftsmen working in colonial America and the New Republic. Much of this material is now relocated to the Winterthur Museum.
UW-Madison's Digital Collections Center, in collaboration with Winterthur Museum and Libraries, the Chipstone Foundation, and Dominy scholar Charles F. Hummel, is now making these archival materials and related resources publicly available online.
Phase One of the project is now live. Currently you can find manuscript materials, images of watchpapers, a video-taped lecture by Charles Hummel about the Dominy craftsmen, articles by Carl Bopp and Charles Hummel, and more.
A future addition to the project will be an enlarged digital edition of With Hammer in Hand, the major scholarly publication on the Dominy craftsmen by Charles F. Hummel.
As usual with a newly launched project, we appreciate your feedback and notice of any glitches you might encounter. And we hope you will help pass the word about the existence of this new resource to your researchers.
Dubrovnik, Croatia, Inter University Center, September 14 - 18, 2015
Deadline: May 15, 2015
International conference on Urban Culture
Urban cultures are increasingly constituted at the crossroads of cultures, religions, and ideologies at the local, regional, national and global level. Conflicting ideas of development, conservation and urban planning bring attention to the importance of broadening the understanding of the socio-cultural, political, economic and environmental problems we are faced with today.
Different groups of interest have for a long time sought to influence the planning of city space in various directions in response to the challenges of a rapidly increasing urbanization. As an example researchers and activists have in urban habitats observed a developmental agenda shared by big city governments and corporate players alike myopically focusing on a city´s marketability, leading to a commodification of cultural representation, expressions and cultural memories.
Recognizing the danger inherent in this agenda of excluding democratic participation from below, citizenship groups and NGO´s seeking common ground have succeeded in exploring and finding alternative and creative solutions to urban challenges that have found resonance and support among city managers and meeting the aspirations of the general public. In some research environments in cities like Bangkok, Osaka, Zagreb and Dubrovnik the cultural sectors of art and music have been able to contribute to such explorations in a fruitful way.
Various media for researching as well as spheres for interventions – tangible and intangible – are conceivable. For music, e.g., what does a soundscape of a concrete city reveal about its social reality? About different dimensions of image construction? About activities of various social groups?" For arts, e.g., which artistic practices and initiatives can contribute to double reading of urban and cultural memory in urban spaces, and relate it to lived and living expressions? How can art counteract the dominant urban trend of aestheticization and the function of culture in urban contexts that has become "image-based" and commodified ?
There seems to be consensus about the way ahead: In order to address the pressing challenges of a rapidly globalizing world we need to reopen our cities as living, communicative spaces, bringing into our lives a sense of living together in shared and living spaces. We need to re-envision the urban fabric as a living, thriving and sustainable community. The UN Post-2015 Agenda calls for a new participatory and collaborative effort in studying and consequently making informed recommendations and decisions about our future course. Recognizing these pressing needs the organizer invite researchers, practicioners, politicians, students, activists and artists to collaborate in our quest for a sustainable urban future by participating in our conference. In accord with the leadership of the Inter-university Cenre Dubrovnik conferences focusing on urban culture studies are being planned as annual occurrences.
Deadline for abstract submission: May 15th, 2015. We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words (including an indicative reference list).
Presentations in the form of papers, visual presentations and panels are especially welcome but not obligatory for registration and attendance, as are also contributions to the peer reviewed Journal of Urban Culture Research.
Administration and organizational costs, working materials, and coffee breaks during conference are covered by the organizers.
Building on the core concepts of this year's ACSA theme, The Expanding Periphery and the Migrating Center, the Conference Planning Committee has been working hard to develop a suite of programs, tours, talks, and social events designed to address AASL members' interests.
In addition to hearing from local experts about the architecture of Toronto, attendees will have the opportunity to—during Lightning Rounds—share ideas with their colleagues about potential solutions to common concerns pertaining to contemporary architecture librarianship and we will experiment with a new type of unconference session entitled Venture and Vexation. Stay tuned for announcements about additional conference programming that is currently under development.
Please plan to join us at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, March 17 – 19, 2015.
We are planning to activate our conference website in November, complete with registration information.
The Festival
This April, for the first time ever, Market Street will transform into a public platform, showcasing exciting ideas for improving the famed thoroughfare and how we use it. Winning entries, as diverse and exciting as the people of San Francisco themselves, will be brought to life for three days along Market Street, where millions of pedestrians from all walks of life will have the chance to experience, explore, and interact with the prototypes.
The Goal
The goal of the Prototyping Festival is to unite diverse neighborhoods along Market Street, encouraging these vibrant communities to work together in building a more connected, beautiful San Francisco. This unique collaboration is a partnership between the San Francisco Planning Department, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Knight Foundation.
We invite you to push the limits of your creativity and submit groundbreaking ideas to the Market Street Prototyping Festival. Winning entries will be given the funding, workspace, and mentorship necessary to make their visions and reality.
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(12) Notre Dame 73
(12-4, 3-2 Big East)
(20) Louisville 87
(12-3, 3-0 Big East)
7:00 PM ET, January 12, 2009
Top Performers
Notre Dame: L. Harangody 28 Pts, 13 Reb, 2 Stl, 2 Blk
Louisville: T. Williams 24 Pts, 16 Reb, 8 Ast, 3 Stl
While Notre Dame hasn't lost on its home court in nearly three years, it has had trouble winning away from South Bend lately. It's not going to get any easier for the Irish as they visit a couple of ranked opponents this week.No. 12 Notre Dame looks to carry some of the success its had at home to the road on Monday when it opens a tough stretch of games at No. 20 Louisville in the Cardinals' Big East home opener.The Irish (12-3, 3-1) defeated Seton Hall 88-79 at the Joyce Center on Saturday for their 45th straight win at home, the longest active streak in the nation.Notre Dame is averaging 86.6 points on 44.6 percent shooting from 3-point range in eight home games this season, but 76.5 points on 37.0 percent shooting in its last four away from the Joyce Center. The Irish have just one win in their last four away from a home -- a 92-82 victory at DePaul, which is 0-4 in league play.The Irish lost 90-85 at Louisville (11-3, 2-0) last season, as the Cardinals went 8-1 against Big East opponents at Freedom Hall in 2007-08.Notre Dame, which will host the Cardinals on Feb. 12, has lost its last five trips to Louisville since a 61-53 victory on Dec. 20, 1958. After this game, the Irish visit No. 8 Syracuse on Saturday."We have two road games ahead against top teams," Notre Dame guard Kyle McAlarney said. "It's going to be a battle for us, game in and game out, but we just need to take it one game at a time."McAlarney scored 18 points on Saturday, and helped carry the Irish when Luke Harangody struggled.Harangody missed 10 straight shots while going nearly 23 minutes without a basket before scoring 16 points over the final 10 minutes, when the Irish outscored the Pirates 27-16 in that span.The reigning Big East player of the year shot a season-low 34.8 percent (8-for-23), just the third time this season he shot below 50 percent, but still finished with 30 points and 16 rebounds. It was the 10th double-double this season for Harangody, who leads the Big East in scoring (24.5 points a game) and rebounding (12.7 per game).Despite struggling to find his rhythm on Saturday, Harangody has stepped up his game since the start of conference play, averaging 28.8 points and 14.3 rebounds in league games."I hope you understand what we're seeing here. This is a really, very special guy," Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said of Harangody."The guy is a national player of the year candidate."Louisville coach Rick Pitino would probably agree with Brey's assessment after witnessing Harangody's performance in last season's win over the Irish.Harangody finished with a career-high 40 points, going 3-for-4 from 3-point range for his first career 3-pointers, and also grabbed 12 rebounds."You have to give him a lot of credit, he had a special night," Pitino said of Harangody after that game.Terrence Williams and Earl Clark each scored 14 points for the Cardinals last season versus Notre Dame.In Saturday's 61-60 win over then-No. 18 Villanova, Williams scored on a drive with 7.4 seconds remaining to put Louisville ahead. The Wildcats then missed two free throws with 4.9 seconds left and two shots under the basket in the final seconds."A typical Big East game," Pitino said.Williams finished with 12 points and 14 rebounds, while Clark had 16 points and 11 boards for the Cardinals, who won their third straight after losing two of three.Louisville's first two league games were both on the road and it now returns to Freedom Hall to play five of its next seven games, including Saturday's matchup with top-ranked Pittsburgh."I've looked forward to this year more than any other," Pitino said. "You'll never see 12, 13 teams as tough as this. It's special, I'll tell you that."
Gameday Matchup
|Avg Points
|Avg Points Allowed
|Home Record
|Road Record
|Current Streak
School Info
|Fighting Irish
Starting Lineup
|F Z. Hillesland
|F S. Samuels
|F L. Harangody
|F T. Williams
|G T. Jackson
|G-F E. Clark
|G K. McAlarney
|G E. Sosa
|G R. Ayers
|G J. Smith
|Team rosters: Notre Dame | Louisville
Team Stat Leaders
|Team Stats: Notre Dame | Louisville


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Rinse trout and pat dry.
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