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15 Places to Eat and Drink on Valentine's Day in Metro Phoenix
Ditch the box of chocolate and opt for chef Gio Osso's all-chocolate menu this Valentine's Day.
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Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and if you don't yet have a dinner reservation, you'd better act fast. Whether you're looking for the perfect place to impress your newfound crush or a hot deal for a night of Netflix and chill, here are 15 of the best places to eat and drink on Sunday, February 14 in metro Phoenix.
Nothing says "Valentine's Day" like chocolate, so to celebrate the occasion, chef Gio Osso has created an all-chocolate menu for his Virtu restaurant in Scottsdale. The three-course menu costs $100 per person and includes options such as charred octopus with spiced ceci, bittersweet chocolate brown butter, hazelnut, oro blanco, and grapefruit; dark cocoa braised short rib with sour cream and chive potatos, raspberry espresso demi, and chipotle; and white chocolate panna cotta with chamomile honey orange marmellata and cinnamon lavender biscotti. For reservations, call 480-946-3477. You can view the complete menu online.
Chef Justin Beckett will offer a menu of Southern-inspired fare for Valentine's Day this year.
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Southern Rail
Chef Justin Beckett's Southern Rail in Phoenix will serve a $39 prix-fixe menu in addition to offering half-off all Arizona wines. The three-course menu includes an all-local blood orange salad; "Grits & Sausage & Shrimp"; and "Snowball," for dessert — that's a local red wine and chocolate cake with pink coconut, marshmallow buttercream, and red wine syrup. The special menu will be available from Friday, February 12, to Sunday, February 14. Half-off Arizona wines will be available on Sunday only. For a reservation call 602-200-0085 or visit the Southern Rail website.
Chef Christopher Gross will create a four-course meal for you and yours.
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Christopher's and Crush Lounge
Go fancy this year at Christopher's at the Biltmore Fashion Park, where chef Christopher Gross will serve a tasting menu featuring four courses such as Black River caviar or cassoulet of mushrooms and confit vegetables. Entrée options will include boneless rack of lamb with herb crust and a sous vide filet cold-smoked with essence of white truffles. The menu costs $115 per person with the option to add wine pairings for an additional $35. Call 602-522-2344 for a reservation or visit the Christopher's and Crush Lounge website.
Roka Akor
Scottsdale's Roka Akor restaurant will offer a Valentine's Day menu intended to be shared, featuring dishes such as king crab sashimi with housemade truffle ponzu butter; Niman Ranch beef tataki with enoki mushroom truffle jus; yuzu miso black cod with pickled red onions, grilled asparagus with wafu dressing; and white chocolate panna cotta with champagne foam and rose macarons, among others. Couples can also upgrade to the "Aphrodisiac" option ($30), which includes premium oysters, caviar, and fresh truffles. The restaurant is offering three seating times at 5 p.m., 7 p.m., and 9 p.m. with the early seating costing $69 and the later seatings priced at $98. A limited a la carte menu also will be available. Call 480-306-8800 for reservations or visit the Roka Akor Scottsdale website.
Scottsdale's coolest wine bar will have special menu throughout Valentine's weekend.
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Kazimierz World Wine Bar
From Friday, February 12, to Sunday, February 14, Kazimierz World Wine Bar in Scottsdale has a sharable menu that includes jumbo shrimp cocktail with housemade cocktail sauce; either braised bison short ribs with sweet potato puree, orange gremolata, and maple-bourbon gastrique or pan-seared jumbo scallop with elote, cilantro, and lime; and chocolate bouchon "cork" with chocolate streusel and chocolate sauce. The menu costs $44 per couple. Reservations are available from 6 to 8 p.m. on all three nights. For more information, call 480-946-3004 or visit the Kazimierz World Wine Bar website.
Located at the Four Seasons resort, Talavera offers photo-worthy views.
Go big or go home with the Valentine's Day menu at Talavera at the Four Seasons in Scottsdale. The upscale restaurant will serve a six-course menu that starts with Osetra Caviar with white asparagus and a seven-minute egg, followed by Dungeness crab salad, sweet corn bisque, Wagyu short rib ravioli, pancetta-wrapped veal loin, and milk chocolate panna cotta. The menu costs $130 per person, including a sparkling wine toast upon arrival. Wine pairings will be available for an additional $70 per person. For a reservation, call 480-513-5085.
Why go out when you can stay in — and still have a restaurant-quality meal?
Marcellino Ristorante
Who wants to sit through dinner when we all know the best part of Valentine's Day is what goes down when you get home? That's why Marcellino Ristorante in Scottsdale is offering Baskets of Amore to go, which include a complete three-course dinner with reheating instructions. Dinners range from $85 to $105, and choices include Pasta Lovers, Fish and Fowl Lovers, and Meat Lovers baskets. For more information, call 480-990-9500 or visit the Marcellino Ristorante website.
J&G Steakhouse at The Phoenician offers great views and a three-course menu this Valentine's Day.
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J&G Steakhouse
The Phoenician resort's steakhouse has a three-course menu available from Friday, February 12 to Sunday, February 14. For $75 a person, diners can choose from options such as shrimp satay with sweet and sour sauce; warm oysters with basil cream and crispy potato crumbs; seared red snapper with baby leeks, Brussels sprouts, and chili-garlic emulsion; and raspberry and rose pavolva with crisp meringue and raspberry sorbet. For reservations, call 480-214-8000 or visit the J&G Steakhouse website.
You'll get points for choosing a restaurant at one of the Valley's most picturesque destinations.
Gertrude's at the Desert Botanical Garden will have a number of special menu items available from Friday, February 12 to Sunday, February 14. The weekend's specials will include Kushi and Beau Soleil oysters with pineapple mignonette, ginger cocktail sauce, and charred lime for $3.25/each; dry-aged rib eye for two with bordelaise sauce, béarnaise, cassoulet of vegetables, and black truffle potato purée for $90; and a candy bar dessert with blood orange, hazelnut crust, milk chocolate, and gold leaf for $15. The Valentine's Day specials will be available from 4 to 9 p.m. Call 480-719-8600 or visit the Gertrude's website.
With a Valentine's Day menu priced at $39.95 for two, Los Sombreros is a steal.
Los Sombreros
Sharing is caring, so Los Sombreros in Scottsdale will have a sharable tasting menu available for $39.95 per couple. The deal includes two cups of cream of cauliflower soup; shrimp and papaya salad; roasted pork loin with manchamanteles salsa; salmon with mole verde; chicken breast with huitlacoche, goat cheese, and tomato chipotle sauce; and one Bailey's flan or one damiana flan. For a reservation call 480-994-1799 or visit the Los Sombreros website.
We can almost guarantee she's never experienced anything like Binkley's Restaurant.
Binkley's Restaurant
Impress the pants off your food-loving date this year with dinner at James Beard Award-nominated chef Kevin Binkley's namesake restaurant in Cave Creek. The chef will craft a set menu for $150 per person with optional wine pairings for $75 or sommelier pairings for $150, as well as a chef's selection menu for $225 per person. The Valentine's Day menus will be available from Friday, February 12 to Sunday, February 14. Reservations can be made by calling 480-437-1072.
Todd Allen and the T. Cook's restaurant team will offer a three-course Valentine's Day menu.
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T. Cook's
There's hardly a more romantic spot in the Valley than the Royal Palms Resort, and T. Cook's restaurant at the iconic hotel has a three-course Valentine's Day menu available on Sunday, February 14. For $125 per person, the menu includes your choice of courses such as forest mushroom risotto, T. Cook's lobster bisque, ratatouille nicoise, grilled filet mignon, chocolate panna cotta s'mores, and more. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 602-808-0766 or visiting the T. Cook's website.
Eklectic Pie
Pizza is love. Which is why both locations of Eklectic Pie (Mesa and Chandler) will offer two 11-inch pizzas, two drinks (including beer and wine), and a dessert for $19.99 this Valentine's Day. For details, check the Eklectic Pie website.
Nothing says, "I love you," like a completely customized menu.
Chef Matt Zdeb and the SumoMaya team will create you and your boo a special omakase — as in, chef's choice — menu for two is Valentine's Day. The menus will be based on each couple's dining needs and preferences, as well as budget with pricing starting at $55 per person. Reservations for the omakase menus are available beginning at 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 14. The restaurant's regular dinner and sushi menus will also be available. For a reservation, call 480-397-9520 or visit the SumoMaya website.
You'll have choices a plenty at this North Phoenix restaurant.
Rusconi's American Kitchen
Head to Rusconi's American Kitchen, where chef Michael Rusconi will have a three-course menu available for $55 per person. Options will include wild arugula and house-smoked Scottish salmon, lobster bisque, or boneless short ribs with green chile risotto to start, followed by grilled Red Bird Farms breast of chicken with creamy white corn polenta, French beans, and baby portobello mushrooms; pan-roasted sea bass with cauliflower potato puree, small green beans, and herbed butter sauce; or pecan wood-grilled beef tenderloin filet with spaghetti squash, wilted spinach, goat cheese gnocchi, and red wine gastrique. Dessert options include grilled Anjou pear and dark chocolate beignets for two, red velvet cheesecake, and strawberry and coconut budino. For a reservation, call 480-483-0009 or visit the Rusconi's American Kitchen website.
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A few weeks ago I sent a tweet to my followers on Twitter to ask whether anyone fancied doing a guest post for me. I like to do this occasionally because I think its really good to get the experience and interests of others represented on Being a Mummy. In this blog Melissa from @StonebridgeHair imparts her experience on teaching her children to become confident about maths. Melissa has some fantastic advice and some games I'm definitely going to play with the children!
In my mind, there are two extraordinarily exciting things a toddler can announce:
1. "Mummy, I can read this."
Bus sign, on/off switch, Push to Open. You know you don't care what that first word is that they read to you, but that's the day you phone all the relatives.
The second one, in my experience, doesn't seem to catch anywhere near the attention is should.
What you should be listening out for is:
2. "Mummy, if Daddy were in the car with us there would be three people."
This, my friend, is a child who is maths ready.
Your child can not only count, she has just done her first mental maths problem.
Brain Shift
Neuroscientist Brian Butterworth of University College London, in his book The Mathematical Brain, reviewed a compelling body of research suggesting that humans – all humans – inherently have mathematical brains.
From a very early age, our brain is trying to figure out whether or not we're getting our fair share of the cookies.
Counting, of course, is the first stage all parents do with their children.
And toddlers get the message loud and clear that being able to count stairs, chickens, grapes, Lego bricks and anything else countable is important, valuable work.
But when the brain is good and ready, one day something clicks and starts to count things that aren't there, but could be.
Like Daddy, or their imaginary (sorry, invisible) friend, or the cookie you just took and ate – just like that! – from their plate.
This is a surprising discovery for the young brain, and they will share it with you to check whether this observation is right.
Depending on your reaction at this time, you can help support your child embark on a life-long love affair with, yes, maths.
My Experience: Not A Genius
My husband and I were both the "dumb" ones in the "smart" set in our respective Maths classes as we grew up, but went on to have successful careers in applied maths, my husband as an accountant and me as an equities analyst on Wall Street and, later, in London.
Having always been the one struggling in my peer group, it came as a total surprise when I started work in my 20s and found I was actually very good with numbers.
This revelation made me upset that no-one had ever challenged my fervent self-belief that I was slow at maths.
Imagine how much more I might have applied myself in school if I'd known there was a place for people at the level below all the geniuses sailing through the "pure" maths that I'd wrestled with all those years.
Lay the Foundation
I didn't want my own children to have the same wrong impression of their potential.
So from the start I told, and still tell, them that they have mathematical brains.
This doesn't mean maths will be easy to learn, but that they have all the capacity to learn maths if they choose to rise to the challenge.
This is the first component:
– Telling them you are confident in their potential, and
– Letting them know that ability comes with work and practice over time
The next important part of laying the foundation is understanding your child's learning style, if you can.
Learning Styles and Modalities
I like to think of learning styles as being the way a person's brain most likes to receive information.
We're all different in what we like to learn, and I'm sure you'd agree that we are also different in how we learn.
I'm a bit radical, I think, in that I don't believe that there are people who are "just bad at maths" or "just not arty."
I firmly believe you can teach anyone anything, as long as the lesson is geared 100% to that person's learning style.
The super cool thing about working this out for your child, is how quickly he will grasp your lesson if you've set it up precisely the way he likes to learn.
It's a miraculous thing to watch.
The child feels immediately competent which in turn fuels a desire to see what else he can achieve.
This sort of self confidence provides a life-belt when he hits a rocky patch, uncovering material he may find difficult or confusing.
It is for this reason I strongly urge you to try and work out your child's learning style, so you can guide and encourage him as he grows and goes through the school curriculum, particularly when it is delivered in a manner he finds hard to understand.
For example, my second child is very creative, kinaesthetic (physical and active) and highly interpersonal (relationships and personalities captivate her).
Language, however, is not her strong suit. She has always found it difficult putting her thoughts into spoken or written words.
Let her do an interpretive dance, though, or be a mimic and she'll communicate for hours!
Explain why something is important and she'll already be asleep.
Bah! In her mind, who cares what it's for? Let's just do it already!
Maths lessons with her when she was small involved an unbelievable amount of running around, which I talk more about below, and a bizarre process of naming and giving complex personalities to numbers.
You might think this is a peculiar and time consuming way to tackle maths, but our early work lead, as just one example, to her flawlessly memorising the number pi (3.14… etc.) to nearly 200 decimal places for a competition when she was 10 years old.
Everyone outside of our family found this feat astonishing.
To us, it was easy and a funny thing to work on together as a family.
But the point I want to make, and this is critical, is that I approached the challenge from a deep familiarity with her learning style and modalities.
5 Maths-Ready Activities You Can Do Right Now
Here are five lessons you can start using right now, adapting to your child's passions and your family's values.
- Pay attention to how receptive your child is to these ideas. If they don't enjoy it, drop the game. It may be they prefer one game played with Daddy (like Danger Maths) rather than Mummy.
- Or they may want to take it in a different direction, like allowing their invisible friends to play Bus Driver.
- Go with it, no matter how weird it may strike you. It may give you another clue about your child's learning style. Let your child set the pace.
- Once you've determined your child's learning style, you can shape these activities to suit your child even better.
- And one final, really important tip: always walk away when you're having a lot of fun.
Never keep going until a child gets tired or loses interest.
This keeps the memory of the Mummy (or Daddy) Maths game a happy one for your child, and ensures they'll ask to do more maths with you again.
Be warned! Your child may want to do these over and over… and over.. and over…
Bus Driver
Set up chairs in a row and gather a collection of cuddly toys or action figures. The front chair is for your child, the bus driver!
Where is the bus going today? Let the child decide.
Along the way, she's going to pick up some passengers.
Announce stops (with a big screech of brakes, of course, just like a real bus!) and tell your child how many passengers get on and get off, letting the child place the toys on their bus.
At each stop, ask how many people are on the bus now.
Eventually extend the question by asking theoretical questions, like if two more people get on/off, how many passengers will you have? If your baby sister and Grandma got on the bus, how many would you have?
Adapt the journey to your child's passions.
For example, they might prefer to be a Spaceship pilot, Safari Explorer, Submarine Captain or Prima Boss Ballerina. Be creative!
Stair Maths
Make cards with numbers and have the child set them in the corners going up a flight of stairs.
These cards should belong ideally to only one child. Let them decorate them, if they want. This helps them "own" the numbers.
If they don't want to make or colour the cards, that's okay too.
The ground floor will be zero.
To start, call out different numbers for the child to climb up to from the ground floor.
Moving on, ask them to start on a number and go up ("adding") or go down ("take away") and telling you the answer.
Go down the stairs to count down, with zero being Blast Off, of course!
Make the problems more complex (go up 2 and then down 1) as they master simple addition and subtraction.
This is excellent for learning at a very early age how to count up and down in twos, as well as learning even and odd numbers.
Warning! Watch out for doing Stair Maths with more than one child at a time.
It can become very competitive. It's better to give the children different problems to work out in turn.
If you have a day out anywhere, like parks or zoos, that have marvellous huge flights of stone stairs, take some chalk with you and take advantage.
If anyone complains about your writing numbers on the steps, say your children just love doing maths (with a helpless shrug) and suddenly you'll be parent of the year.
Danger Maths
My husband came up with this. Basically turn any kind of drilling (number bonds, times tables, counting by 5) into torture until the child calls out the correct answer.
Tortures we've used:
Sit the child on a swing and continue to pull back and back higher, not letting go until the child says the right answer.
Perch the child on top of a garden plastic slide, seating them as if to slide down. Daddy stands ladder-side tipping it back towards his body until the child calls out the correct answer.
Holding children upside down by their ankles.
Throwing them in the air or in a pool.
Bouncing them on a trampoline.
The main thing is to come up with something thrilling that your child thinks is the most hilarious thing ever. This will totally exhaust them.
Smartie Maths
To start, give your child a small bowl of Smarties and ask them how many they have, or how many there are of each colour.
Start creating problems based on these numbers, for example, what do you get if you add the Reds and the Pinks?
Every time they get a right answer they get to eat (and thus subtract) one or more Smarties – which becomes another problem they can solve (How many do you have left?).
You can also do early times tables work, doubling and halving groups of Smarties.
You can do this with raisins or whatever, but I like Smarties because the different colours give you an opportunity to create a wide variety sorting and pattern problems.
Pizza Maths
Everybody loves Pizza Maths!
Start by asking your child how many pieces she'd like her pizza cut into.
If she chooses a difficult number, do it anyway and let her know she picked a tough one! They like to find difficult maths problems for Mummy. Do your best.
You'll get good at weird numbers of slices with practice, trust me!
Then tell her the fraction you cut the pizza into. Name the different fractions eaten and left on the plate.
Eventually – and this is exciting when it happens – your child will spontaneously start adding and subtracting fractions and announcing equivalent fractions of various amounts.
Conversions of 3/6 to 1/2, for example, comes very early. Especially if they have to share a pizza with another child!
She might even independently discover some basic division of fractions at a very early age if you do Pizza Maths frequently.
When your child is in Year 5 or 6, this groundwork can help explain percentages, which many children have difficulty comprehending.
Melissa Hill is the founder of Stone Bridge Hair Accessories in the UK, where she spends her day counting and sorting extraordinarily beautiful French hair clips into different piles.
Disclaimer: No money has changed hands, I thought this a wonderful post and i'm grateful Melissa wrote it for me.
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Motorcycle sport has always been central to the aims of the VMCC. After all, part of the organisations "mission statement" going back to 1946 states that. With non territorial sections for Road Racing, Sprint & Grasstrack / Speedway and many geographical Sections putting on "mud plugging" Trials almost every form of classic motorcycle sport is catered for by the Club.
British Historic Racing is an integral part of the VMCC that holds Road Race meetings across the country for VMCC members and invited clubs. A wide range of historic motorcycles compete against each other in a range of events from pre 1934 solos, outfits & 3 Wheelers through to our exciting & fast growing BEARS series catering for machines from the 1980s. The Championship season runs from April though to September with each round taking place at various iconic circuits throughout the UK including Mallory Park & Cadwell Park.
For more information see British Historic Racings dedicated website www.britishhistoricracing.co.uk
The VMCC has a very active Sprint Section that organisations a number of competitive "straight line" Sprints at venues across the UK. All classes and ages of machine are catered for from lightweight singles with girder forks to twin-engine supercharged nitro-burners! Even if you have an (ex) circuit-racer or just a road-going hack, there's a category that you'll fit into!
For more information see the Sprint Sections dedicated website www.vmccsprint.co.uk
The VMCC Grasstrack & Speedway Section organise a series of Grasstrack & Grass Hill-Climb event with the occasional outing on professional speedway tracks.
For more information contact the VMCC Grasstrack Section Secretary David Abbot firstname.lastname@example.com
VMCC off-road "mud plugging" trials are held throughout the year by many of the VMCC's 86 geographical Sections around the UK. By becoming a VMCC member you have the opportunity to enter any one of these events because when you are a VMCC member you actually become a member of every Section!
The VMCC Taverners Leicester Section are great Trials exponents & you can find more details by visiting their dedicated trials website www.tavernerstrials.org.uk
The internationally known VMCC Festival of 1000 Bikes showcases pretty much all of the above interests. The event features a competitive Trial, a straight- line Sprint demonstration and more road racing motorcycles from every era than at any other event in the world!
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Urban Decay Naked Palette - $50 (From urbandecay.com, Sephora, Ulta)
I am quite late on the Naked Palette train but I recently purchased the palette last weekend. It is worth every cent! I absolutely love it. If you wear a lot of neutral eyeshadows, you must get this! I have been using this palette about every day this week. The shadows are very pigmented and last all day with their primer. Some of them are quite shimmery however, so if you don't like that finish you might want to swatch them first to see if that would be ok for you.
I now want to get the second naked palette!
Laura Geller Baked Blush in Malibu- $26 (from Ulta)
As far as blushes go, I go for more coral and light pink colored blushes. When I saw this in the store I couldn't walk past it. I loved the color and when I swatched it in the store it looked even more beautiful on the skin. This is a highly pigmented blush and with it being a hot pink color you don't need a lot. Therefore, this blush will last a long time! Well worth the money.
This blush also brightens up my cheeks and lasts all day.
Estee Lauder - Bronze Goddess 2013 Eyeshadow Palette- $48 (Esteelauder.com, Estee Lauder Counters)
I love Estee Lauder products. I discovered the brand back during my first year of college. Their products have excellent quality and are well worth the price.
I saw this advertised on many blogs and websites well before it launched. I was so excited to see it in store. I went to the Estee Lauder counter and I feel in love with it immediately. This is such a gorgeous palette. This is perfect for summer. I have been using every color shown here. I love the middle dark brown with the upper right medium bronze color for a gorgeous nude eye look. I have also gone a little bold with swiping the teal blue color across my lids with the dark brown in the crease. Beautiful!
Benefit They're Real Mascara- $25 (From- Sephora, Ulta)
I haven't tried a higher end mascara in a long time and I while at Ulta, I though what the heck I will try this one out. It's much cheaper than some of the other brands I must say. I was highly impressed with this mascara. It separates the lashes while building volume and length. I have very straight but long lashes. This mascara helps define them and boost them up. It also lasts ALL DAY. I mean from 6 AM to around 5 PM. It's still there too when I take my makeup off! Now that is an amazing mascara.
I will definitely be repurchasing!
From Top To Bottom: Mac Eye Kohl in Minted ($16), Urban Decay in Deep End ($19), Estee Lauder in Fuchsia Fever ($25), And YSL Rouge Volupte #9- Caress Pink ($34). (YSL From- YSL counters, Sephora)
It's summer time everyone and it's time to bring out those bright lipsticks and try out that aqua eye look! I have never tried the aqua eye look before but it's so easy to achieve and it looks gorgeous on brown eyes! I do a very neutral eye, line the top with a deep brown liner, line the bottom with the aqua liner and then smudge to create a smoky eye.
The lipstick from Estee Lauder will look great on all skin tones. It's a gorgeous fuchsia color and brightens up my whole face. This lipstick also lasts a long time! Lasted me all morning. :)
This is my first YSL lipstick purchase and I have to say I am in love with the YSL lipsticks right now. I think I wore this lipstick 3 times this week. Which is odd for me as I try to do a different color/brand everyday (I am a lipstick junkie). This lipstick lasts ALL MORNING. I put it on at 7 AM and it lasts till lunch time at noon. There is even a stain on afterwards! It is worth every penny girls, it will last a long time! It's so creamy and smooth you don't even need chap stick. LOVE!
So there you have it, my current beauty favorites. I have been purchasing a lot of beauty products lately. Especially higher end products. I haven't probably purchased a drug store item in the past 2 months. I have to say you do get what you pay for, you get better quality and it lasts longer! :)
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Continuing his push to highlight innovation and job creation in Ohio's 18th Congressional District through his FIGHTING TO RENEW OHIO tour, U.S. Rep. Zack Space (OH-18) today highlighted the potential for job creation through energy efficiency at JELD-WEN's window manufacturing plant in Mount Vernon.
Today's event was the fourth stop on Space's FIGHTING TO RENEW OHIO tour.
"Energy efficiency has perhaps the greatest potential for growth right here in Ohio, and we must get in front of this emerging trend," said Space. "JELD-WEN is a model for what we can -- and must -- do here in Ohio if we are to rebuild a stronger economy for the future of our region. We must continue these policies that are creating jobs, spurring manufacturing, and saving Ohio families money in the process."
Attendees of the event heard from Congressman Space and Brad Hunter, General Manager of JELD-WEN's Mount Vernon Plant. JELD-WEN has been able to benefit from federal policies -- such as tax credits and rebates -- that promote energy efficient practices and retrofits, creating jobs in the process. Such credits and rebates were included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the HomeStar Energy Retrofit Act, both of which Space supported when they came before the House.
Congressman Space has represented Ohio's 18th Congressional District since 2007. He has been working to restore integrity to the office, and to create the conditions to bring new industry and jobs to Ohio. Recently, Congressman Space launched FIGHTING TO RENEW OHIO, the second phase of his plan to provide long-term economic growth in Ohio's 18th Congressional District.
More information on FIGHTING TO RENEW OHIO is available at http://space.house.gov/RENEW.
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Over $3,600 was raised at last Saturday evening's dinner, show and auction held by the Cabool Schools music department at the community storm shelter.
The evening began with a lasagna dinner served by music department students to over 200 persons in attendance. Students then presented an Ed Sullivan-like variety show with a number of acts. This was followed by an auction of home-baked pies.
Funds raised will assist with a spring band trip planned to a competition out of state.
Auctioneer Hank Grosenbacher took bids on a pie displayed by Shelby Dobson during the pie auction held at last Saturday evening's music department dinner at the community storm shelter.
Closing out the variety show portion of the January 30 fundraiser for the music department was a lively rendition of "Men in Tights" that was an audience pleaser.
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A few months ago I couldn't think of anything but this guy I knew. I was OCD on him. Because of certain circumstances on both sides I couldn't act past the crush phase. I wrote him a letter but decided not to give it to him. 2.5 months later, I decided to read the letter again. I can't believe how different I feel from that time in my life. I no longer am crushing on him and, recently, I found out he likes me, but that ship has sailed. Those feelings are gone and I'm so glad I never sent the letter.
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I did worse in my teens, I gave her the letter. Most embarrassing thing ever.
I think people do this watching too many romantic films and reading too many stories with happy endings.
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Ian Collins is Leading Britain's Conversation.
28 November 2016, 16:37
Paul Nuttall seems determined to win Labour voters over to Ukip and he says it's made easier by Labour MPs who can't talk about the things working class people care about.
Ukip's New Leader On Where Labour Have "Failed"
Labour have lost track of the issues that really matter to working class Britain, says new Ukip leader Paul Nuttall.
"I just don't want to focus on votes in the North," he told Iain Dale. "There are working class communities up and down the country, in the South, the North, the East and the West."
"What we need to do when it comes to the Labour party is we need to speak about the things they have neglected.
"They're very comfortable talking about issues like Palestine and fair trade and climate change but they don't want to really focus on the issues that matter to people on doorsteps.
"Immigration. Crime. Aspiration. Ensuring that working class kids have the same opportunities as middle class kids. Looking after our military, looking after our veterans.
"They're the kind of things we'll be talking about and they're the kind of things that resonate in working class communities."
During the full interview, Iain asked Nuttall about whether he was a reluctant leader, as well as Diane Abbott's comments last week linking Ukip to the BNP. Watch it in full here:
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Welcome to Term 2 at Kormilda College. Already much has happened and we excitedly look forward to the many Dry season events planned for the next few weeks.
I write to you as another term draws to a close – and I reflect on what a busy and productive term it has been.
Welcome to the second half of Term One. Our staff have been very busy this week with ParentTeacher interviews early in the week and several sessions of professional learning with visiting Southern Cross University researchers, Professor David Lynch and Dr David Turner. The two Davids bring to our College an air of excitement with the sharing of an app that we can use in class to determine the range of teacher practice and how our students are learning. Using the McREL app, a 'snapshot' of. classroom practice can be produced with three minute walkthroughs.
The Kormilda College logo, the figure with uplifted arms, represents reaching forward and upwards. Kormilda, a word adapted from a Kakadu region language, meaning 'tomorrow', encourages our students to look 'Towards Tomorrow', now our College motto.
Welcome to Week 3 of Term 1, 2017. Today at the assembly I spoke of our Blessings, those events or people or things for which we are thankful. I mentioned that we are sometimes asked to consider our personal blessings but today I want consideration to be given to the blessings we have in the Northern Territory.
Welcome to Term One, 2017 at Kormilda College. I hope that everyone has enjoyed a happy and safe holiday, and taken a break from routine.
Kormilda College is a school with a long and proud tradition of excellence. 'Towards Tomorrow' is the motto of our school. The name 'Kormilda', chosen in the 1970's by students at the school, derived from a Western Arnhem Land Aboriginal language meaning 'tomorrow', embodies the whole purpose of the school, which is to provide young people with an education that can take them into a future of their choice.
Congratulations to all Middle School students who participated in the Interdisciplinary Units of work during the last two weeks of school. I was very proud to see the creative efforts when their projects were on display in the Dumabudla Centre. I do so admire all of our students who work so hard, who demonstrate our school values and who understand that access to a quality education is a privilege and not a right.
Our College has been serving the Darwin and Territory community for decades as the longest established school. In this time the College has had ups and downs as do all schools and for many reasons. What makes Kormilda College the outstanding community that it has always been, is found in the passionate and determined support of our families. Now is no different with the active and willing support of groups of parents, we will see an end result as an even greater College emerges.


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Symantec has announced changes to its disaster recovery software that will allow its customers to recover to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service.
{loadposition stephen08}Extensions to Symantec's Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows and Veritas Volume replicator disaster recovery software solution will allow applications and associated data to be recovered to Windows Azure in the event of a local failure, an arrangement the company has dubbed DRaaS (disaster recovery as a service).
The software will provide real-time data replication with end-to-end recovery coordination, Symantec officials claimed.
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Microsoft recently began previewing a new Windows Azure feature that allows customers to move virtual hard disks back and forth between on-premises servers and Azure.
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Psylocke, Where Art Thou? Olivia Munn Landed A Role In 'X-Men: Apocalypse' With The Help Of Fan Art
In the midst of the golden age of comic book movies, fan power has never been more influential. Just look at the record breaking Deadpool, a project where the fans provided the catalyst for the film being produced. Or The Punisher, who will now get his own spinoff TV series after winning legions of supporters in Daredevil.The wave of fan power continues to splash against the superhero landscape, with an important role in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse being helped in large part by a piece of fan art found online. It doesn't get much cooler than that, folks.A Late Change Of ScriptIn an interview with CinemaBlend, producer Simon Kinberg revealed that originally, there were only going to be three horseman joining the super-mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) in the quest to royally screw over planet Earth. However, it was decided later on they required an extra character. He said:
"I don't know why we made this decision, but we knew that Professor X was abducted in the middle of the movie, and we thought that almost counted as a fourth Horseman. And so that's the way we constructed the original draft of the script. There wasn't going to be a fourth one.
"The 'surprise' was that Xavier was the fourth Horseman. And then when we were working on the script, Bryan and I at one particular point — pretty late in the process — said, 'He's not really a Horseman — he's not doing anything in the third act of the movie.'"
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While on the search for a fourth horseman to fill the void, Kinberg and producer Bryan Singer delved through the back-catalog of comics, uncovering which X-Men stars had been horseman in the past. Psylocke was a standout choice, and Kinberg had an idea of who would play the role. He added:
"I had just met with Olivia Munn about 'Deadpool' — like a week or two before. And Bryan and I were up in Montreal, and I said, 'You know, Olivia Munn could be an interesting Psylocke,' so we went on the internet and Googled her images. And one of the first things that popped up was a piece of fan art of Olivia as Psylocke."
Munn has previously explained she didn't want to "play girlfriend," leading to her turning down the role in Deadpool and opting to play Psylocke instead. If that isn't fate, I don't know what is.
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This weekend is one of the most exciting of the year for sneakers, with interesting collaborations and re-imaginings of classics all launching in the span of just a few days. The headliner is Pharrell's epic collaborative collection with Adidas on some NMDs. If you miss out on them, don't worry: There's a pair from Offspring releasing the next day. Drake's back in the game with some Jordan 12s that are hitting alongside a different pair of 12s made entirely out of wool. Keep an eye out for the ASICS Gel-Lyte MT, a captivating update to the Gel Lyte III, and Livestock's surprising Reebok collaboration. There's much more coming this weekend—keep reading to find out what's in store.


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The discovery of transposable elements by Barbara McClintock is a remarkable story of careful study and insightful analysis in genetics. Mclintock began systematic studies on the mechanisms of the mosaic color patterns of maize seed and the unstable inheritance of this mosaicism.She identified two new dominant and interacting genetic loci that she named Dissociator (Ds) and Activator (Ac).she made the surprising discovery that both Dissociator and Activator could transpose, or change position, on the chromosome.She observed the effects of the transposition of Ac and Ds by the changing patterns of coloration in maize kernels over generations of controlled crosses, and described the relationship between the two loci through intricate microscopic analysis. she developed a theory by which these mobile elements regulated the genes by inhibiting or modulating their action. She referred to Dissociator and Activator as "controlling units"—later, as "controlling elements"—to distinguish them from genes. The controlling elements regulate the expression of other genes. The families of controlling elements are now recognized as members of the class of transposable elements that move through DNA intermediates. However, McClintock's proposal that the controlling elements were mobile was not widely accepted for a very long time. Despite her extensive observations published in the 1930's through the 1950's, the interpretation that genetic elements could move was perhaps too novel. Indeed, the notion that transposable elements are active in a wide range of species as not widely accepted until the 1980's, and new evidence continues to mount that transposable elements are more common than previously thought.
The relationship of Ac/Ds in the control of the elements and mosaic color of maize. The seed in 10 is colorless, there is no Ac element present and Ds inhibits the synthesis of colored pigments called anthocyanins. In 11 to 13, one copy of Ac is present. Ds can move and some anthocyanin is produced, creating a mosaic pattern. In the kernel in panel 14 there are two Ac elements and in 15 there are three.
McClintock's seminal observations relied on two complementary approaches to understanding chromosome structure and function. One was cytological, using microscopy to examine the structure of chromosomes in corn, and the other used genetics to follow the fates of the chromosomes. A full exploration of the discovery of transposable elements is the subject of excellent books.
In essence, McClintock showed that certain crosses between maize cultivars (or strains) resulted in large numbers of mutable loci, i.e. the frequency of change at those loci is much higher than observed in other crosses. Her studies of the cultivars with mutable loci revealed a genetic element termed "Dissociation", or Ds. Chromosome breaks occurred at the Ds locus; these could be seen cytologically, using a microscope to examine chromosome spreads from individual germ cells (sporocytes). The frequency and timing of these breaks is controlled by another locus, called "Activator" or Ac. In following crosses of the progeny, the position of Ds-mediated breaks changed, arguing that the Ds element had moved, or transposed. That was the basic argument for transposition.
Barbara McClintock Biographical Information ChildhoodBarbara McClintock was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 16 in 1902 the third of four children of physician Thomas Henry McClintock and Sara Handy McClintock. She was independent from a very young age, a trait McClintock described as her "capacity to be alone." From about the age of three until the time she started school, McClintock lived with an aunt and uncle in Massachusetts in order to reduce the financial burden on her parents while her father established his medical practice. The McClintocks moved to semi-rural Brooklyn, New York in 1908. She was described as a solitary and independent child, and a tomboy. She was close to her father, but had a difficult relationship with her mother.
Early youth McClintock completed her secondary education at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. She discovered science at high school, and wanted to attend Cornell University to continue her studies. Her mother resisted the idea of higher education for her daughters on the theory that it would make them unmarriageable, and the family also had financial problems. Barbara was almost prevented from starting college, but her father intervened, and she entered Cornell in 1919.
Early Adult LifeMcClintock began her studies at Cornell's College of Agriculture in 1919. She studied botany, receiving a BSc in 1923. Her interest in genetics had been sparked when she took her first course in that field in 1921. The course was the only one of its type offered to undergraduates in the United States at the time, and was taught by C. B. Hutchison, a plant breeder and geneticist. Hutchinson was impressed by McClintock's interest, and telephoned to invite her to participate in the graduate genetics course at Cornell in 1922. McClintock pointed to Hutchinson's invitation as the reason she continued in genetics: "Obviously, this telephone call cast the die for my future. I remained with genetics thereafter."
Women could not major in genetics at Cornell, and therefore her MA and PhD earned in 1925 and 1927, respectively were officially awarded in botany. During her graduate studies and her postgraduate appointment as a botany instructor, McClintock was instrumental in assembling a group that studied the new field of cytogenetics in maize. This group brought together plant breeders and cytologists, and included Rollins Emerson, Charles R. Burnham, Marcus Rhoades, and George Beadle (who became a Nobel laureate in 1958 for showing that genes control metabolism).
McClintock's workMcClintock's cytogenetic research focused on developing ways to visualize and characterize maize chromosomes. This particular part of her work influenced a generation of students, as it was included in most textbooks. She also developed a technique using carmine staining to visualize maize chromosomes, and showed for the first time that maize had 10 chromosomes. In 1930, McClintock was the first person to describe the cross-shaped interaction of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. During 1931, McClintock and a graduate student, Harriet Creighton, proved the link between chromosomal crossover during meiosis and the recombination of genetic traits. They observed how the recombination of chromosomes and the resulting phenotype formed the inheritance of a new trait. Until this point, it had only been hypothesized that genetic recombination could occur during meiosis. McClintock published the first genetic map for maize in 1931, showing the order of three genes on maize chromosome 9. In 1932, she produced a cytogenetic analysis of the centromere, describing the organization and function of the centromere. McClintock's breakthrough publications, and support from her colleagues, led to her being awarded several postdoctoral fellowships from the National Research Council. This funding allowed her to continue to study genetics at Cornell, the University of Missouri - Columbia, and the California Institute of Technology, where she worked with Thomas Hunt Morgan. During the summers of 1931 and 1932, she worked with geneticist Lewis Stadler at Missouri, who introduced her to the use of X-rays as a mutagen. (Exposure to X-rays can increase the rate of mutation above the natural background level, making it a powerful research tool for genetics.) Through her work with X-ray-mutagenized maize, she identified ring chromosomes, which form when the ends of a single chromosome fuse together after radiation damage. From this evidence, McClintock hypothesized that there must be a structure on the chromosome tip that would normally ensure stability, which she called the telomere. She showed that the loss of ring-chromosomes at meiosis caused variegation in maize foliage in generations subsequent to irradiation resulting from chromosomal deletion. During this period, she demonstrated the presence of what she called the nucleolar organizers on a region on maize chromosome 6, which is required for the assembly of the nucleolus during DNA replication.McClintock received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation that made possible six months of training in Germany during 1933 and 1934. She had planned to work with Curt Stern, who had demonstrated crossover in Drosophila just weeks after McClintock and Creighton had done so; however, in the meantime, Stern emigrated to the United States. Instead, she worked in Germany with geneticist Richard B. Goldschmidt. She left Germany early, amid mounting political tension in Europe, and returned to Cornell, remaining there until 1936, when she accepted an Assistant Professorship offered to her by Lewis Stadler in the Department of Botany at the University of Missouri ,Columbia. During her time at Missouri, McClintock expanded her research on the effect of X-rays on maize cytogenetics. McClintock observed the breakage and fusion of chromosomes in irradiated maize cells. She was also able to show that, in some plants, spontaneous chromosome breakage occurred in the cells of the endosperm. Over the course of mitosis, she observed that the ends of broken chromatids were rejoined after the chromosome replication. In the anaphase of mitosis, the broken chromosomes formed a chromatid bridge, which was broken when the chromatids moved towards the cell poles. The broken ends were rejoined in the interphase of the next mitosis, and the cycle was repeated, causing massive mutation, which she could detect as variegation in the endosperm. This cycle of breakage, fusion, and bridge, also described as the breakage–rejoining–bridge cycle, was a key cytogenetic discovery for several reasons. First it showed that the rejoining of chromosomes was not a random event, and secondly it demonstrated a source of large-scale mutation. For this reason, it remains an area of interest in cancer research today.
Although her research was progressing at Missouri, McClintock was not satisfied with her position at the University. She was excluded from faculty meetings, and was not made aware of positions available at other institutions. In 1940 she wrote to Charles Burnham, "I have decided that I must look for another job. As far as I can make out, there is nothing more for me here. I am an assistant professor at $3,000 and I feel sure that that is the limit for me." She was also aware that her position had been especially created for her by Stadler and may have depended on his presence. McClintock believed she would not gain tenure at Missouri, although according to some accounts she knew she would be offered a promotion by Missouri in the Spring of 1942 In the summer of 1941 she took a leave of absence from Missouri to visit Columbia University, where her Cornell colleague Marcus Rhoades was a professor. He offered to share his research field at Cold Spring Harbor on Long Island. In December 1941 she was offered a research position by Milislav Demerec, and she joined the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Genetics Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. McClintock accepted a full-time research position at Cold Spring Harbor. Here, she was highly productive and continued her work with the breakage-fusion-bridge cycle, using it to substitute for X-rays as a tool for mapping new genes. In 1944, in recognition of her prominence in the field of genetics during this period, McClintock was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, only the third woman to be so elected. In 1945, she became the first woman president of the Genetics Society of America. In 1944 she undertook a cytogenetic analysis of Neurospora crassa at the suggestion of George Beadle, who had used the fungus to demonstrate the one gene–one enzyme relationship. He invited her to Stanford to undertake the study. She successfully described the number of chromosomes, or karyotype, of N. crassa and described the entire life cycle of the species. N. crassa has since become a model species for classical genetic analysis.
In 1950, she reported her work on Ac/Ds and her ideas about gene regulation in a paper entitled "The origin and behavior of mutable loci in maize" published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In summer 1951, she reported on her work on gene mutability in maize at the annual symposium at Cold Spring Harbor, the paper she presented was called "Chromosome organization and genic expression.As we said before, Her work on controlling elements and gene regulation was conceptually difficult and was not immediately understood or accepted by her contemporaries; she described the reception of her research as "puzzlement, even hostility".Nevertheless, McClintock continued to develop her ideas on controlling elements. She published a paper in Genetics in 1953 where she presented all her statistical data and undertook lecture tours to universities throughout the 1950s to speak about her work. She continued to investigate the problem and identified a new element that she called Suppressor-mutator (Spm), which, although similar to Ac/Ds displays more complex behavior. Based on the reactions of other scientists to her work, McClintock felt she risked alienating the scientific mainstream, and from 1953 stopped publishing accounts of her research on controlling elements.The importance of McClintock's contributions only came to light in the 1960s, when the work of French geneticists Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod described the genetic regulation of the lac operon, a concept she had demonstrated with Ac/Ds in 1951. Following Jacob and Monod's paper 1961 Nature paper "Genetic regulatory mechanisms in the synthesis of proteins", McClintock wrote an article for American Naturalist comparing the lac operon and her work on controlling elements in maize.[ McClintock's contribution to biology is still not widely acknowledged as amounting to the discovery of genetic regulation. McClintock was widely credited for discovering transposition following the discovery of the process in bacteria and yeast in the late 1960s and early 1970s. During this period, molecular biology had developed significant new technology, and scientists were able to show the molecular basis for transposition. In the 1970s, other scientists Ac and Ds were cloned and were shown to be Class II transposons. Ac is a complete transposon that can produce a functional transposase, which is required for the element to move within the genome. Ds has a mutation in its transposase gene, which means that it cannot move without another source of transposase. Thus, as McClintock observed, Ds cannot move in the absence of Ac. Spm has also been characterized as a transposon. Subsequent research has shown that transposons typically do not move unless the cell is placed under stress, such as by irradiation or the breakage, fusion, and bridge cycle, and thus their activation during stress can serve as a source of genetic variation for evolution. McClintock understood the role of transposons in evolution and genome change well before other researchers grasped the concept. Nowadays, Ac/Ds is used as a tool in plant biology to generate mutant plants used for the characterization of gene function.
She received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1983, credited by the Nobel Foundation for discovering "mobile genetic elements", over thirty years after she initially described the phenomenon of controlling elements. McClintock was the first woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in that category and the third woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in science. Barbara McClintock died on 2 September 1992 at the age ninety in Huntington, New York.
Honors and recognition
McClintock was awarded the National Medal of Science by Richard Nixon in 1971. Cold Spring Harbor named a building in her honor in 1973. In 1981 she became the first recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Grant, and was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research, the Wolf Prize in Medicine and the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal by the Genetics Society of America. In 1982 she was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for her research in the "evolution of genetic information and the control of its expression.She was awarded 14 Honorary Doctor of Science degrees and an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. In 1986 she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. During her final years, McClintock led a more public life, especially after Evelyn Fox Keller's 1983 book A feeling for the organism brought McClintock's story to the public. She remained a regular presence in the Cold Spring Harbor community, and gave talks on mobile genetic elements and the history of genetics research for the benefit of junior scientists. An anthology of her 43 publications The discovery and characterization of transposable elements: the collected papers of Barbara McClintock was published in 1987.
LegacySince her death, McClintock has been the subject of the biographical work by science historian Nathaniel C. Comfort, in The tangled field : Barbara McClintock's search for the patterns of genetic control. Comfort's biography contests some claims about McClintock, described as the "McClintock Myth", which he claims was perpetuated by the earlier biography by Keller. Keller's thesis was that McClintock was long ignored because she was a woman working in the sciences, while Comfort notes that McClintock was well regarded by her professional peers, even in the early years of her career.[16] While Comfort argues that McClintock was not a victim of sex discrimination, she has been widely written about in the context of women's studies, and most recent biographical works on women in science feature accounts of her experience. She is held up as a role model for girls in such works of children's literature as Edith Hope Fine's Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize geneticist, Deborah Heiligman's Barbara McClintock: alone in her field and Mary Kittredge's Barbara McClintock. On May 4, 2005 the United States Postal Service issued the American Scientists commemorative postage stamp series, a set of four 37-cent self-adhesive stamps in several configurations. The scientists depicted were Barbara McClintock, John von Neumann, Josiah Willard Gibbs, and Richard Feynman. McClintock was also featured in a 1989 four stamp issue from Sweden which illustrated the work of eight Nobel Prize winning geneticists. A small building at Cornell University bears her name to this day.
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Good Afternoon,
Over the weekend apparently my virtual server crashed. It runs a website for my agency. Basically the error message was that the datastore had run out of space and the solution I found online was to free up space by removing old snapshots that had grown too large, take a new snapshot and use it instead.
I went ahead and removed several of the older snapshot files and created a new one, but now it says:
"VMWare ESX Server cannot find the virtual disk "xxxxx.vmdk." Please verify the path is valid and try again. Cannot open the disk 'vmfs/volumes/4a605cc8-c92037b4-ac68-00132057ba3c/xxxx/xxxxx.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on."
Now that was one of the files that I deleted, but from what I read it said it was safe to do that as long as a new snapshot was created, which it was.
My server has been down ever since and I need to get it online asap, is there any way to do this without rebuilding the whole machine? I have a backup but it's only of the virtual Windows 2003 Server that's on the machine.
What is my next step? Unfortunately I don't have backups of the snapshots, only of the Windows environment using NTBackup. Please help! Thank you for your time,
Apr 5, 2010 at 3:53 UTC
Unless you have a backup of the production VM - you probably will need to rebuild/restore.
My rule of thumb on snapshots - don't use for a backup - create a snapshot before making a change - just in case - when you are sure your change is working ok - delete the snapshot. We don't allow snapshots to exist longer than 3 days in most cases.
Hope your restore goes good - the silver lining is this will tell you where your failure spots are (types of backups, etc....)
Good luck!
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Apr 5, 2010 at 3:53 UTC
Unless you have a backup of the production VM - you probably will need to rebuild/restore.
My rule of thumb on snapshots - don't use for a backup - create a snapshot before making a change - just in case - when you are sure your change is working ok - delete the snapshot. We don't allow snapshots to exist longer than 3 days in most cases.
Hope your restore goes good - the silver lining is this will tell you where your failure spots are (types of backups, etc....)
Good luck!
Apr 5, 2010 at 3:54 UTC
It sounds like you deleted the ACTUAL virtual hard disk file in addition to some snapshots.
I'm not sure you can get around that unless you've implemented VCB, VDR, or something like Veeam or Vranger.
I would get busy rebuilding.
Apr 5, 2010 at 4:02 UTC
That's what I was afraid, restore it is.
How do I keep the snapshots from filling up the virtual disk, though? Apparently it took up all the space down to a mere 2 MB.
Thanks Bob, J-159, I appreciate your help.
Apr 5, 2010 at 4:05 UTC
Are you creating your snapshots manually?
Apr 5, 2010 at 4:15 UTC
Yes, I wasn't aware of a different method:)
Apr 5, 2010 at 6:03 UTC
Ok, I'm looking at the datastore and it has a file called the Virtual Disk, which is 36 GB in size. Can't I restore from this? I don't see any option but I would think that I can? There are vmx, nvram, vmsn and a vmdk files as well as the log files, it looks like I may be able to restore it from these?
Apr 6, 2010 at 9:36 UTC
Hi KaiKJ, not sure if this helps but I would right click this machine in your VM Infrasturcutre inventory and select remove from inventory. Then browse your datastore to the folder your are talking about. Right click the .vmx file and select add to inventory and follow instructions. See if this helps you boot it up.
Also VCB (Vmware Consolidated Backup) is a fantastic tool. Look in to it. If you are using the free ESXi server you could upgrade to ESX4 basic that includes VCB for about $1200.
Good luck.
Apr 6, 2010 at 9:45 UTC
Ditto what Jerome said on adding to inventory - see if that brings your server up - thought you said you had deleted it?
Apr 6, 2010 at 9:56 UTC
Been there, done that one. The only way out was to restore from a backup or snapshot, and then try to find out why it ate up all it's space. I had a simaler problem, and what had happened was out Web devlopers, in their infinite wisdom, had created a log file that generated a log every fifteen minutes. The average size of the log file was 3 MBs. Doesn't sound like a lot, but it can sure build up in a hurry. Of course the developer who generated the log refused to believe he could possibly be at fault. The log was supposed to have been used for trouble shooting despite the fact it had never been used.
I took it as, since I'm the guy who has to deal with it, I will take whatever steps I deem necessary to make sure it goes away. I ended up writing a script that will dump copies of that log file that are X numbers of days old. I also redid the IP monitor on it to really ride heard on the drives for that VM, and let me know if it hits a certain level.
Apr 6, 2010 at 10:10 UTC
@Jerome and Bob, I was actually able to restore the system by removing the virtual machine from the VMWare Infrastructure client, then create a new one and instead of the typical setup I used custom and selected the virtual disk from datastore1, then the virtual machine was back as far as the OS went, from there I used an NTBackup file of the Windows 2003 OS and restored it to last week's settings and now everything is back in order, except for it not wanting to join the domain, but at least the website is backup. The only files I deleted were the latest snapshots except for the last one I took before I removed them, but the virtual disk and other files were still present, but each time I tried to turn on the VM it was looking for a particular snapshot that I had deleted, I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't work with the latest snapshot since everything else was still there.
I will definitely follow your suggestions though and backup the VM separately, thanks guys.
@Rmuniz, yep, that's basically what I did too. You know I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same problem because my agency has a contracted firm do the web development on the server, so it seems logical that they may have a log file that fills up the HDD because each time this has happened, I haven't done any snapshots recently. What type of log file was it, and where is it located?
I'll have to do a search for these files to possibly prevent it from happening again, if that's what's causing it. On my system all the web material is done through IIS.
Apr 6, 2010 at 10:22 UTC
If you actually deleted one of the files that your newest snapshot depends on then, yeah, I think you have no choice but to rebuild. But without knowing exactly how you deleted the old snapshot files, it's possible that the VM is still configured to use an old snapshot that has since been deleted, and you just need to point it to a different virtual disk.
In the VI client when you Edit Settings and look at the Hard Disk, what is configured for the Disk File? Is it the snapshot (xxxx-####.vmdk) that you're expecting, or something else? You could try removing the Hard Disk and readding it by selecting an existing file from the datastore.
Apr 6, 2010 at 10:53 UTC
Hi Babbit,
That's the weird thing, when I looked at the snapshot manager, all it said was "You are here", there was no snapshot to refer to.
As mentioned before, I fixed it by removing the VM, re-creating it but instead of typical setup I ran custom, selected the old virtual disk from datastore1, then used an NTBackup from last week to restore the virtual OS. The website is now backup, the only problem that remains is that it's not found on the domain. I've removed and re-added it through Active Directory Users and Computers, then re-booted the PDC and ADC, as well as the VM, but it's still not showing up on the domain. After hours I'll remove the machine from the domain through the machine itself, then re-add it and see if that doesn't work.
Thanks for the help, nonetheless, I appreciate all you guys' input.
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My mother was admitted to UCH after a brain hemhorrage. The care in the acute phase was good in terms of keeping her alive. Plus we'd been to St Mary's Paddington A&E where she had been misdiagnosed and discharged at 80 years old with a bump on the head and as we later found out a pelvis fractured in three places. So UCH did better in terms of head scans, stabilising her after several seizures and so on. Where they let themselves down hugely was the nursing care apart from one notable exception who was excellent and played a huge part in keeping my mother and us sane. The rest of the nurses belittled her, talked loudly all the time, didn't speak good English, didn't respond to call button for six hour stretches at night. The noise they made all night, every night so my mother barely slept in days was shameful. She had agonising pelvic pain but it took five days for the dr to order the mri to show the fractures. In the meantime she was sent student physios to mobilise her - luckily she refused! When she suddenly lost the ability to speak due to head injury which frightened the life out of us the nursing sister was rude to me saying 'stop speaking to me and let me do my job'. We weren't able to speak to a neurologist the whole time we were there - they just kept sending her head scans to the neuro team at the royal London hospital and we were left in the care of the geriatric team who gave us very few answers - stock line 'that's not my area of specialisation'. One particular nurse kept us sane throughout this ordeal. They gave us excellent care, was quiet, diligent, did whatever they could to get us info we were not getting elsewhere, remained calm when my mother became agitated and distressed from no sleep (other nurses argued with her or ignored her). I cannot praise this nurse enough and think they should train all the other nurses. Bad English was a real problem for the nurses - they didn't understand what we were staying and were rude and defensive in their response. We managed to move her to private hospital before the weekend and I honestly think if she had to stay the weekend at UCH she might not have survived due to the stress being caused. I write this so that more training can be given to the nurses - one to stop talking and making so much noise at night, it's so awful for the patients and harms their health, two to be a lot kinder to the patients, treat them like your own parents, and three brush up on your English so that you don't harm the patient. Having said all this it was a damn sight better than St Mary's which nearly killed her through misdiagnosis.
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