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Wednesday, April 20, 2011
European Open Agility Tryouts 2011
Since we sold our caravan last year this season is all about trying to find clean, reasonable Bed and Breakfast accommodation that allows all the dogs. I have found Facebook and the Agility Forum great resources for this and we booked a B&B that was recommended to me from the Forum. We drove up Friday night so that we would be fresh for Saturday's try-outs and I was lucky to catch a ride with Nancy. It is much nicer than driving that far alone. Dennis stayed home with Zen and worked in the garden getting us ready to start planting veggies this year. God help us as we don't know what we are doing!
The B&B was an interesting place. We were slightly worried as the person that recommended it said the accommodation was in a "summer house". As we drove up the the main house we noticed a little wooden "shed" with a porch. I was so worried that that was the summerhouse! Nancy and I were already starting to think that we maybe needed to do a quick get-away and were planning our escape just in case. I knocked on the door to the main house and was greeted by a flock of young boys and I had visions of "Lord of the Flies". I was getting more worried by the second! Added to that there were screams from the many peacocks roaming around the grounds and the dogs were going crazy. Hmmmm....I was starting to miss my caravan!
Luckily the boy walked past the wooden shed and down a path to a big wooden "summer house". It was actually nice, clean and surrounded by grass so that we could exercise the dogs. The room was good although the shower room was small; overall a good find albeit a strange place at first! I need to start to keep lists of these B&Bs because it can be so difficult to find the right place to stay. Once I have been there I feels comfortable knowing what to expect for the next time.
We arrived at the Lincoln Showgrounds on Saturday morning. It is a fantastic venue for an Agility show; I wish it was not so far away for us to go to for more shows. The EO try-outs were in conjunction with the Lincoln Agility show but the ring was off to the side so it felt more private. I was really looking forward to working Zaz on some difficult courses and I was not disappointed as the courses all day were fantastic. I just love a course that you have to work hard at the entire time. I won't say Zaz and I handled every course perfectly but we gave it a good try and loved the challenges.
The first course was jumpers. It was a tight course and I felt like I was trying to control Zaz too much. We got through 3/4 of the course and the rubber band broke and I just could not get Zaz off an off course jump. If I had layered a jump and/or used a directional I think it would have worked but hindsight is easy! You will be able to find the off course; just listen to where my Zaz Zaz ZAZ get louder. LOL Not one of our best runs for sure!
The second run was agility. This run didn't go so well! The start included a tight wrap turn off a jump onto the dog walk with a tunnel under it. This trap caught many good teams and gave me a good training plan for this week. I have trained dogwalk tunnel discrimination but obviously not as well as I thought!
By the third run I was feeling desperate. Not because I was desperate to go to the EO but because I knew my little Zaz was better than this. I was at the point where I just wanted to prove to myself that I could get a clear round. I will admit I was also thinking I wish I had Zen with me as she helps me out on tough courses!
Thank God we finally got a clear on this third round! I was happy with most of the run except for the push through from 3 to 4. Something more to work on this week!
So now I was excited for the final agility round. The course was changed and the dog walk was moved for this round. In the first two agility rounds the majority of the dogs (even those who had never been on rubber contacts) handled the rubber/aluminum dog walk really well. The rubber contact equipment was a pleasure to run the dogs on; I loved the lack of noise as the dogs traversed the rubber equipment.
The final round began with the large dogs running first. This was good for us as it was the larger class and we could watch 60 dogs run the course before it was our turn. Smalls were running last.
Then disaster struck! Dog after dog balked severely on the dog walk. Confident experienced dogs were crawling up the dogwalk plank or hitting the deck expecting the dog walk to move. Some dogs fell/jumped off. This was so sad to watch and no one could understand why this was happening. We all tried to understand why. Could it be the supports were not placed properly? Could it be the vibration because the supports were not pegged? Could it be the sun shining on the up plank or aluminum supports which blinded the dog or made it appear slatless? These dogs were obviously convinced it was the see-saw.
I was getting more and more nervous for Zaz. She is a young dog with running contacts and I did not want to risk her being injured and/or having her confidence shattered. It was my job to keep her safe and confident no matter what. Sometimes we cannot help it when bad things happen but this time I knew it was happening and at least I could do something about it.The final straw was watching 3 confident experienced medium dogs (2 who had been world/eo dogs before and had run on rubber equipment many times) do the exact same thing. I did what I felt was necessary for Zaz and I; I pulled her from the last round.
I was sad to have to do this; I am competitive enough to have wanted to be chosen for the team. Yet I was happy to have made that decision; my dogs come first and I would have been devastated to have done anything to knock Zaz's confidence and trust in me when I had another option. I had no excuse as I had just watched the large and medium dogs. I could understand the large and medium handlers thinking that "their" dogs would not have any trouble. After all they had just run two rounds with the same equipment and the dogs were fine. I had the "luxury" of watching and my decision was made.
The good thing was that the course was set so that the dogwalk was towards the end of the run and I planned an exit strategy. The course was correct up until 2nd tunnel where I then took 3 jumps out of the ring. This is why you hear my video person questioning was I going to do it! LOL
So the day was over. We were staying on for the next days regular agility show at the same venue. So at least I felt like the trip was not wasted.
We started packing up all our stuff. Why is that i start out the weekend with a nice organized car and after one day my "stuff" seems to explode and double in size? When I heard the announcement that they were going to officially announce the team I wandered over to cheer for the new Team GB. I was officially gob-smacked to hear my name called as a wild card; I truly did not expect it. I cannot compete at any of these events without thinking of Hex. Sometimes I even wonder if I should continue to compete at these events as it never seems to get easier to stop missing her. I felt very emotional at that moment not because I was picked but because I was so proud of my little dog Zaz. I am strangely glad that Zaz is so different from Hex as I do not need to ever worry about comparing them.
So Zaz has now been chosen for her first International event in another country. I have no idea how we are getting to Austria and worry about the cost and the long trip but bizarrely still want to go.
The day was made even better when we heard that Zaz's big sister Zeki was chosen for the medium team. Zen is such a fantastic dog that she needed to send two of her children in her place!
Team GB medium
Team GB small
More about the Lincoln show and Itzy Bitzy later!
If you are still reading this....please send money. This agility stuff is expensive!
Oh and here is another teaser. Wonder what breed they are?
6 comments:
- Pup said...
Well done for making the team Bernadette - but even more well done for choosing Zaz and her well being & confidence over that possible place. She is lucky to have you xx
- Chica Poodle said...
Huge Congratulations to you both, she looks fantastic :0) Well done for pulling her from the dogwalk, not an easy decision but Im so glad there are still sensible people out there like you who are willing to put their dog first. It paid off anyway & you're off to have fun abroad with yet another amazing sheltie xxx
- Angela said...
Well done and great to hear that you put your dogs first, before competition (although I knew that already!) and as for 4 Bi shelties...I think not, but I could be wrong?
Are you about to go over to the "Dark Side"?
I'm SO proud of you Bernadette!
For showing the "not-so-great" runs
For putting Zaz's welfare first
For making the team!
Well done!
(And I understand how you feel about Hex, Yogi still breaks my heart at times)
- Lian said...
WooHoo! Congratulations Zaz! She will be a super star at the EO!
Love the puppies picture, so sweet together :)
- Christine said...
Congratulations and have a super time at the EOs x


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A colourful spot by the sea in a popular fishing port between Perpignan and the Spanish border. Simple apartments are as pretty as a picture
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It takes an artistic family like Carole's to transform an old anchovy factory into such sweet, colourful seaside apartments. True, the location boosts their appeal tremendously: a quiet street in buzzing Collioure, famed for its fishing port, Royal Château and winding lanes lined with artists' studios – a Fauvist legacy. The apartments stand out with their Moorish blue, terracotta and yellow walls, each with a flower-filled terrace where you can laze on loungers and soak up the sun. Inside is modern and bright: yellow walls, bold blue tiles, terracotta floors, mint-green shutters and funky furniture (great for families). Bedrooms continue the theme of colourful simplicity, with sunny shades of olive, lemon or orange, and fabric hanging space for a light, airy feel. You can whip up a meal in well-equipped kitchens and eat under the parasol in sea air tinged with citrus smells; greenery leaps joyfully up the walls. This is a place for outdoor living and summer fun: Catalan festivals, Mediterranean beaches, ancient vineyards in the hills that hug the town. Follow the coast 20 miles and you'll hit Perpignan one way, Spain the other.
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- There is a scenic walkway around the castle to the main town. Take in the harbour, and book a local boat trip. You won't be disappointed. Tourist board are located nearby and have WIFI.


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I bet you have never heard of Leonard Peltier. Given the numerous and apparently murder tolerating liberals who have come to his defense lately that would be surprising. You would most certainly know the less than truthful "film maker" Michael Moore. Then there is the seemingly mentally unstable "commentator" Lawrence O'Donnell. Finally we must not forget the Crap star known as Common, whose only claim to fame is that he honored a convicted cop killer with his very own song.
Allow me to introduce you to Leonard Peltier, a murderer that the previously mentioned liberals, as well as many other liberals, feel deserves to be set loose on an unsuspecting public. This piece of human refuse was involved in a shoot out with the FBI. During the shoot out two agents, Coler and Williams were wounded. Laying disabled on the ground they were approached by Peltier and executed by him in cold blood.
Having been denied parole in 2009 this scumbag will not be eligible again until 2024. Far to soon for any sane human to contemplate. Still, this loser has a large number of less than sane supporters.
In 2012 the "Bring Leonard Peltier Home 2012" concert featured such unstable individuals as Harry Belafonte, Jackson Browne and Pete Seegar. Apparently these so called stars do not have a problem with the execution of law enforcement officers.
The terrorist loving Southern Poverty Law Center routinely calls for Peltiers release on its website.
The intellectually vacant public television program Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman interviewed the dirtbag Peltier and asked him what he would like to ask the Kenyan Obama. "Let me loose," the cold-blooded killer demanded. Perhaps he feels he has not killed enough FBI agents lately.
This piece of filth even has a Lenord Peltier Defense Offense Committee working to gain his release. One wonders if these committee members too feel that not enough FBI agents are being executed in the line of duty.
Even the environmental whack job Robert Redford wormed his way into the cause. He narrated the semi factual 1992 film "Incident at Ogala." Despite learning the facts of the case the airhead Redford insisted in an interview that Peltier was framed by the FBI. He admitted he didn't know how the frame up occurred but he knew it must have happened. Moron.
The Kenyan little Barry has said that if enough left wing lunatics will give him the political cover, he will release the murdering Peltier. I guess he also feels that not enough FBI agents are being executed in the line of duty. Typical.
Despite all the fantastic claims of Peltiers supporters the facts speak loud and clear. The FBI Summary of the case points out the following. "Normally, a federal criminal defendant is entitled to a single court appointed attorney chosen by rotation. Peltier received five lawyers – two as trial attorneys and three as investigators. All were chosen by Peltier, rather than the normal rotation process, and all were paid for by the government. The defense received almost double the normal number of preemptory challenges during jury selection. Peltiers lawyers were allowed to personally question the jury, which is highly unusual in federal criminal cases. The trial court provided daily transcripts of testimony to the defense, a very expensive measure which is rarely allowed. After his conviction, Peltier was allowed to dismiss four of his five trial attorneys and hire new ones for his appeals. Peltiers arguments have been presented repeatedly to a U. S. Magistrate, three U. S. District Court Judges, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. The U. S. Supreme Court has twice denied requests to hear the case after reviewing defense arguments."
Somehow liberals like Redford, Moore and Common still believe the scumbag Peltier was framed and railroaded into prison. These peoples thinking skills are clearly questionable. I guess the next thing the likes of Redford and Moore will be telling us is the earth really is flat and probably hollow as well.
Frankly, there is more evidence to support that theory than there is to believe that the murdering Peltier was actually framed.


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This week, (read: most of the time) I've posted snippets of their overheard-via-the-baby-monitor conversations on Facebook, because:
a) I am FB friends with practically everyone I've ever known in my entire life and
b) I'm lazy.
But the awesome and talented Leanne from Ironic Mom AND Nickmom.com fame, has inspired me. She does a a "Whiteboard Wednesday" thing, in which she writes down the weird stuff her kids inspire her to mutter throughout the week.
"Hey!" I thought, "What a great idea! I think I shall
So now you should
a) Read the stuff that keeps [me and] the Reds up at night, long after they've been put to bed,
b) Leave your own "overheard conversational tidbit" in the comment section,
c) Come and find me on Facebook. Oh, come on....you know you wanna....
*Insert incredulous tone from Luke/shot of Baileys by me, here*
And then, he reveals his true feelings about Mummy Dearest....
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Bath pretties for the holiday season
"It's that time of year, when the world falls in love, every song you hear seems to say, merry Christmas." And, yes! It is that time of year! Thanksgiving is past and now it's time to crank up the Christmas tunes, put up a tree, and wrap ourselves in the coziest time of the year. We love Christmas, in particular, Traci LOVES Christmas. One of her main love languages is gift giving. The receiving part is pretty ok too ;) With the idea of lovingly sharing gifts this year, Megs and Traci put together some holiday specific items. We will be getting these items loaded onto our shop for purchasing but this gives you a sneak peek at what we've been working on. Cheers, everyone!
The two fizzies shown above have been topped with the sugar scrub frosting that our brains, experienced in both baking and body care making, have whipped up. As far as we can tell, this is an N&M exclusive. The frosting most closely resembles a baker's buttercream. We chose shea butter and coconut oil to provide silky moisturizing along with granulated sugar to give your skin a gentle scrub. What we love about this topping is that it gives your skin and your bath the ultimate in moisturizing possibilities.
These fizzies are designed to just plop in the top and let 'em go. Everything will dissolve away and leave you with a luxurious bath experience. They aren't as packed full of oils and butters as the other fizzies but they are still designed to soften and cleanse the skin. Baking soda is a gentle cleanser and we used both Mango and Cocoa butter in the base of these pretty treats.
These are the fizzies we have available for our Holiday gift line. We are so looking forward to them finding a new home in your home! Keep an eye out for the shop being launched early next week and be ready to order. We only have a limited number of each of these and don't want anyone to miss out.
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First introduced in 2011, the Dutch Design Chair quickly became very popular. Being both a sturdy, durable stool with simplistic, beautiful yet affordable design. The Dutch Design Chairs are made from FSC certified cardboard and can carry 200 pounds with ease. 'WOODSTACK' as featured above, won reddot design award in 2013. BEACHWOOD COW LAST CHANCE!… Read More


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So… today was the first day of my second year of medical school, and though I would have been happy to let it pass without comment, I ultimately decided that it would be nice to post about the goings-on in my life every once a while. For being the beginning of my last year of classroom-style education, it was surprisingly same-old-same-old, though I do have a few changes from last year to note:
I've moved. Luke and I moved to a new apartment about a month ago. Now, rather than taking the bus as I had done before, I'm a 15-minute walk from campus. The upside is that I'm no longer bound to the sometimes-reliable but always-inconvenient bus schedule; the downside is that I'm actually responsible for when I get to school… which means I no longer arrive 10 minutes early. This means I no longer have my pick of seating, a condition which is made worse by the fact that…
The auditorium is smaller. This new auditorium is nicer than our old one, but I liked having 2-3 seats to myself, dammit!
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Susan writes: It has been almost three years since Wildflower Church gave me my first preaching opportunity in the Austin area only a few weeks before I began seminary. Please…
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SPECIAL JOINT CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE WITH FAITH PRESBYTERIANFaith Lay Leadership, Rev. Brian Ferguson, 12/24/2019
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Mercy, Mercy Me – and YouRev. Brian Ferguson, 12/08/2019
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On this Christmas Eve, we will honor the Christian story of the birth of Jesus. Many of us feel the Christmas story is so familiar that new meaning can seem hard to find. Perhaps much of the comfort of the Christmas story is its familiarity. This joint inter-generational Christmas Eve service will explore and honor the Christian story of the birth of Jesus.
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I am often asked this question, or at least various variations of it.
First let me say that there is a difference between learning to code, learning a programming language, and learning to program.
Learning to Code
Learning to code means learning the syntax of a language such as C# or Java. It's about know the basics of code constructs. I.e. how to declare and use variables for temporary storage of data in memory. It's about the basics of how to create loops, decision trees, iterative functions and so in.
Learning to code is what most people think they mean when they ask 'How do I learn to program'. Learning to code is actually quite straight forward, there are a few basic concepts, and some rules to follow. If it were too complicated computers wouldn't understand what you're trying to tell them to do!
Learning a Language
Next is learning a language. There are many programming languages available. Common one's are C#, Swift, JavaScript and Python. There are lots of others – however on the whole the perform the same job – they provide a set of instructions to a computer. They generally do this in the same way, but each has it's own nuances in the structure of the code.
But when it comes down to it they all store take in input, temporary data in variables, do something with that data using a combination of decision trees, loops and calculations, then return a result.
So, learning a language is about learning the specific commands that are available in that set. However, learning one language gives you a grounding in any languages, and in fact some – for example C#, JavaScript and Swift – are often very similar.
As languages are often updated the list of commands and functions available to you, and sometimes how you do this, is changing constantly.
Learning to Programming
Finally, we have programming. To many they think this is a combination of the above two. However, for me, programming is about the structure and nature of how you address a particular problem using a programming language.
This last aspect is quite possible the most fluid subject. As the adoption of software development has become more accessible, and by that, I mean you are far more likely to come across someone who can program today as you would have been 20 years ago, then the available patterns, methodologies and technologies has exploded.
Over the past 50 years we've gone from relatively simple patterns where by code would literally just be one line after the next, to complex systems involving procedural, functional and object orientated paradigms.
These in turn have led to a range of available patterns and frameworks, with many languages spawning their own. It's important to understand WHY the landscape has grown so.
50 years ago, computers were not as capable as they are today. It is said that your mobile phone is considerably more powerful than the computers that took the astronauts to the moon! If we tried to write software using the same patterns as we did back then the codebase would become unusable. And in fact, many high profile failures in software projects stem from how they are managed and the way they have been written.
Monolithic is a term often used to describe these older, bug prone patterns. Today we have developers to use a range of patterns and methodologies such as Object Orientated Programming, Model-View-Controller, Model-View-ViewModel, Model-View-Presenter, Dependency Injection, Dependency Inversion, Single Responsibility…. The list goes on and on!
However, all these patterns are about achieving a set of ideals including better quality, less bugs, easier collaboration, faster coding and shorter release cycles. All this in turn results in easier working environments, better estimates, better software and ultimately happier customers.
For me THIS is what programming means, and THIS is the bit that takes time, effort and in truth should be a constant element of learning for any developer throughout their career. The first two bits – coding and language – are actually quite simple and easy. It's knowing how to program that makes the biggest difference – and unfortunately, it's developers with this skill that are in short supply (and high demand).
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Consider this scenario. It's 12 months after the 'go-live' of your new ERP system. The management team invested to cut costs, bring products to market sooner, comply with regulations, and improve core end-to-end processes, like the order-to-cash process.
So, what do you say when the CEO is asking why your company didn't reduce the "order-to-cash" cycle time by 10 percent,as planned? Even if your company has an effective, integrated ERP system, chances are you won't have a good answer. Because, even the 'best of breed' ERP systems don't give the business stakeholders sufficient visibility into what's actually happening to ensure performance improvements.
- Are employees actually using the right transactions to execute the business process?
- Are system problems and slow performance impacting productivity?
- Are the employees efficient, or are they making significant errors?
- Are the transactions effective, or are they cumbersome, requiring employee-invented workarounds?
There's a new type of software solution that can give you those answers and not leave you hanging: end-user experience and performance management(EPM). EPM solutions give organizations a global perspective on the performance an application delivers to the end-users and then go beyond that to monitor end-user adoption, utilization and performance. This complete picture of the end-user experience and behavior is catching CIO's attention because it can simultaneous improve both application and end-user performance.
ROI isn't real, until it's realized.
It's the end-users of the enterprise applications who execute the transactions that drive the processes that drive the business. The most critical factor determining your long-term business results from an ERP application is the ability of your end-users to effectively execute your business processes. This means that each of your end-users must:
- Adopt and use the application
- Be able to effectively execute the key functions for their specific role
- Reach a level of proficiency where they can execute efficiently
There's a new generation of solutions that can give you those answers and not leave your CEO hanging: end-user experience and performance management (EPM). EPM solutions give organizations a new focus on end-user adoption, utilization and performance, uniquely capturing a complete picture of the end-user experience and behavior, including:
- Comprehensive application utilization metrics: which transactions are used, in what sequence and for how long?
- Actual user-experienced response time metrics: which transactions are slow and inefficient leading to unproductive employees?
- Comprehensive system, application and end-user error metrics: What critical errors do users encounter? Where are users having specific issues, and what training is required? Which individual users need specific assistance?
To understand the impact of this insight, consider the following scenario concerning a billion-dollar heavy equipment manufacturer in Georgia. One core priority for this manufacturer was to improve the order-to-cash (OTC) process. This process comprises a number of unique business processes, from order entry to cash receipt. Because most companies are functionally managed, the order-to-cash process usually touches multiple enterprise applications and departments including sales, order entry, order fulfillment and accounting. Therefore, it is important for each department to complete its part of the overall process error free and transfer correct information across functional boundaries.
Eighteen months after this company had implemented a new ERP application to improve process efficiency, the order-to-cash cycle had not improved. And no one could really pinpoint the root cause of the performance shortfall. The company implemented an End User Experience and Performance Management solution to "take the guess work" out of managing the ERP application. Executives discovered, within weeks, that the OTC process was compromised by ineffective and inefficient transactional execution.
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One of the greatest achievements in every person life mostly owns a house. Buying a house is not simple thing there is many things to look for that and also should have some knowledge. Even if you're going to work at a city for some years you should have a house at least for rental. You can get house to own but for rental it is very tuff job to find house based on your convenience. Even though if you settle at a house if the environment and atmosphere is not suits you definitely within short period you will seek for some other house. Because of this reason most of the people in Canada opts condo. Condo is one of the home at a storey's like apartments because most of the condos within the city. So it is very convenient to access on things. To buy, sell or to get house for rent you can approach real estate agencies they will help you with the up to date information about property. But the agency you approach should be loyal .If you opt for rental service it is easy to move, agency have a set of list about rental house and they will let you know if any house is vacant. Every real estate agency should have home pricing list that should be updated periodically it is based on Canada real estate association group.
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Among many real estate websites one of the trusted and loyal one over a year is condomova.ca at King West Condo Toronto they sell Condos they have many realtor plenty of housing options with sound knowledge about his field many people personally reviewed about this real estate developer. They have complete set of virtual image about the house and they have data's about the nearby view from house. They have pictures for house on rent and the features included in that is also specified it would be so easy for people who looking to rent a house rather than asking for every details about that house with the owner through realtor people get to know the details. If you interested to sell your property they help you and let you know the value of your property based on government rule.
By studies and research done on your property experts will let you know whether your property value will raise or fall. If there is any chance to increase in value level they will let the seller to wait for correct time. If there is chance for fall in cost amount immediate they involve in the process of selling it. Before selling your property or buying a property, many experts advised to approach Canada real estate association where you can get a detail snapshot about Canadian housing market. And many have a doubt like why one should need realtor because we are not in the real estate industry the realtor people have knowledge about the property terms which common people don't have so it is most advisable to have realtor he/she helps the client to understand the actual status of property.


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|Mr. Patrick Wakhu Training and Extension Director
|Mr. Allen Chombo Internal Auditor
|Mr. Patrick Wanjala Accountant
|Mr. Stanley W. Ngugi Accounts Assistant
|Mrs. Esther Mativo Administrative Assistant
|Ms. Joan Githua Administrative Assistant
|Ms. Grace Ogola Senior Administrative Assistant
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There is such an overwhelming demand for special services (particularly baptisms and marriages) at the missions that at certain missions these events are restricted to parishioners. Here is the story at the two missions you mentioned and one other you might want to consider:
Santa Barbara limits marriage ceremonies to members of their parish. They get 10-12 requests a week and can only accommodate 1-2 weddings on a weekend.
San Buenaventura will allow marriages for those who are not members of their parish but either the bride or groom must be Catholic, and you may have to bring your own priest to perform the service. You can contact the parish office at 805-643-4318.
You might want to consider Mission Santa Ines (which is in Solvang). This is a lovely mission, with a romantic patio / courtyard behind the church. One of the couple being married must be Catholic. With advanced scheduling one of the priests may be able to officiate. Call Fr. Michael at 805-688-4815.
As part of your planning you and your fiancée should view the 4-6 minute "visual journeys" of each mission we now have posted on our website www.missionscalifornia.com


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Blogging is probably one of the most popular money making methods online. Basically blogging started more than 10 years ago in this world. When it first started, it was just a medium to share your knowledge or whatever you want to share with the world. Now the world of blogging has changed.
You could easily start blogging at any point of time. Slowly blogging become one of the most renowned ways to connect with readers around the world. Gradually, it became a way to make money as well. For a popular blog receiving thousands of visitors every single day, it is not very difficult to earn money. They can make money by showing advertisements or promoting affiliate products online.
However, there are many other ways to generate income from your blog. As time passes, blogging became more and more popular. Nowadays more than 50% of Google search results contain results from blogs only. Because, it is usually thought that blogs provide the most up-to-date information on a particular topic.
Within just around 10 years, blogging has seen huge success as a medium to share ideas and knowledge with the world. Nearly anyone can start blogging at any point of time of their life. Since, it is also a great way to generate enough money, more and more bloggers have emerged in recent years.
But in reality, a blogger can expect to earn good income only if the blog is popular enough to attract huge number of visitors. Unfortunately, most bloggers quit blogging when they realize this harsh reality. Many others continue blogging until they realize it. But, there are still lots of bloggers who passionately do it.
Today I will discuss about some of the key points you need to remember as long as you are serious about it. Hope you will not be so discouraged that you would like to quit blogging. I have been blogging for around 5 years now and I have built several blogs which were quite successful. I sold them on Flippa around 6 months back for some unavoidable reasons.
The blog you are reading right now is just around 3 months old and I am now getting more than 300 visitors every single day and more than 10,000 visitors every month. So I can realize the importance of being consistent, the power of content marketing and proving only quality contents to your readers.
Hope, the ideas I would like to share with you would help you build a popular blog as well. As a result, you should be able to earn good amount of money also.
The reason I am writing this article is just to make you understand the importance of consistent blogging and following only the right methods. In near future, you may be one of the most popular bloggers in this world. Here are some of the methods you can follow …
Write Only High Quality Contents for People
High quality content is the most important thing for the growth of your blog. It doesn't matter how many times you write or how many articles you have in your blog, if it doesn't attract readers; it's of no use.
In the world of internet marketing, the most powerful weapon you have to target qualified readers is only your content.
If you visit some of the biggest blogs in this world, you would understand how well they present their contents to the readers. It doesn't matter which topic you are writing about, if it's not helpful and useful; you will never get readers. Regular readers are the backbone of any successful blog. So the primary goal should always be the satisfaction of your readers.
It is usually said that content is king. But the truth is only great content is king. Most bloggers take it wrongly. So I think; this basic concept should always be clear. Visitors who come back to a blog don't come to see its design, beautiful theme or anything else. They basically look for a good answer to some of their questions. They find it through your blog. If your blog can provide a satisfactory answer or solve their problem, they would come again and again.
So you can understand that the primary goal should always be writing something people would like to read. Give them something they wouldn't get from someone else. Let them understand what you want them to understand. Help them find the answers to their questions. Just do it and you will be successful.
The world of internet is really big; much bigger than you can ever imagine. You are not the only one to talk about a particular topic. But there may be thousands of others who are talking about the same topic. So you should do everything you can do to give your readers the best possible experience when they come to you. To get people coming to your blog, you have to prove that you are better than everyone else in the blogosphere.
Be Active on Social media Platforms
Social media plays a very important role in the growth of your blog. Only creating high quality contents is not enough. But you have to get your contents in front of the right people so that they can know about it. It's a kind of content marketing which is very powerful.
When interested people know about your contents, they would most probably share it on social media. If you directly target these people using social media, you are doing half of your job. By giving people the power to share, you are actually helping your blog reach more people.
It has always been the key to success. Because social networking helps reach people easier and quicker. If one of your contents gets shared by thousands of people, you can imagine the kind of exposure you are getting. As long as you are serious about your blog, you can't ignore the power of social media.
I would suggest you to become a part of all popular social media sites, meet interested people and share your contents with them. Gradually you will realize how well your blog would start performing in Search engines as well.
Nowadays search engines like Google are smart enough to understand good contents. Usually when an article would be shared thousands of time, it would be considered a good content. Read How to Become a Great Content Writer?
Don't Overlook Search engine optimization
SEO or search engine optimization helps you get more potential customers to visit your blog. Great content always deserves great ranking. But along with great content, your blog requires little more optimizations to make sure it ranks well in search engines. Because, it's very important to make your blog popular.
Search engine marketing and search engines optimization are critically important for success in any online business. You can spend a lot of money to develop a blog. But it will be of no use if nobody knows about your blog.
With proper SEO, you can make sure that your blog receives new visitors continuously on a daily basis. So if you want to make your blog popular, you can't overlook the importance of SEO.
Google is obviously the most popular search engine in the world. To rank well in Google is highly important for the growth of your blog. So make sure that your blog is properly optimized for search engines. Good SEO helps to ensure that your blog is accessible to search engines. It also improves the chances that your blog will be found by the search engines and get properly indexed.
Nowadays, search engines are quite smart to understand good contents. Google follows more than 200 different signals to decide which of your pages should rank in which position for a particular search query.
They also change their algorithm a lot of times in a year. The only objective is to give the users the most satisfactory experience. So if your blog can make Google users happy, Google will be happy to give your blog a better ranking. So don't overlook SEO in your blogging journey.
Review Your Link Profile for Problems
If you are running a successful blog, you would usually get a lot of natural backlinks. Backlinks are basically links coming from other blogs or sites to your blog. In the SEO world, backlinks are taken as a kind of recommendation by other sites. The more quality backlinks you have, the higher rankings you can expect. Basically good quality backlinks help your blog reach much more people.
While it helps most of the time, sometimes it doesn't. If you are getting a lot of backlinks from low quality sites or irrelevant sites, it will actually hurt your blog. As a result, search engines rankings will fall. To fight with these problems, you need to alert. You have to be careful about the sites linking to you.
Check your Google Webmaster Tools ( WMT )account regularly to see if you have got any unnatural link warnings. Whenever the number of your backlinks gets updated in WMT, check every link to make sure nothing looks unnatural. Basically, a low quality link is links coming from irrelevant sites or sites with different language or sites with scrapped contents.
Here are Some Questions to Ask Yourself …
1, Are you getting too many links too soon without any valid reason?
2, Do you have a lot of backlinks with same anchor text?
3, Do you have links from sites with copied content or absolutely no content?
4, Do you have links from irrelevant sites?
5, Do you have links from sites with different languages.
A positive answer to any one of these questions will make sure that your blog will get penalized. When penalties occur, it becomes very difficult to get previous ranking quite easily. So before search engines raise a red flag for your blog, you should be aware of what might happen to your site in near future. This will help you take proper attempts to fight with the problem.
The solution is not as difficult as you may think it is. If you are finding any such low quality backlinks, you should immediately list all of those links and disavow them. Google provides a disavow tool for site owners. This powerful tool helps site owners disavow any bad links coming to their site. So it's a good practice to make sure your blog never gets a penality.
Increase the Number of Blog Subscribers
The success of any blog mostly depends on the number readers. So you should always target increasing your subscribers more and more. So make it easy for people to subscribe for your blog. You may not believe that having a big email list is more important than having big fan base on Facebook. Having 10,000 email subscribers is more important than having 10,000 followers.
As soon as you start your blog, you should start building your subscribers. Let me give you an example. If you have 10,000 twitter followers and you tweet a message, you would probably get around 500 clicks.
But if you send an email to the same number of email subscribers, you will get more than 9000 clicks. I must tell you that most of the time 100% of your subscribers would click to visit your site.
More people you can get to your blog, more money you can earn. So it is very important for the success of your blog. Hope you now understand the importance of building your email list. Don't wait to put an Email Sign Up Form on your blog. Depending on the number of visitors you get, your subscribers will grow.
So these are the most powerful ways to make your blog popular. Don't be lazy to update your blog after regular interval. Give the best information to your readers. Try to be the best in your field and that's enough.


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2050 grams for £220 is pretty damn heavy, no?
The Shimano RS30 is part of Shimano's Road Sport series "integrating the best technology of the race-proven DURA-ACE wheels but at economical price points. These wheels are great for training rides and / or use at the local races."
The RS30 is certainly at the top end of the "economical price point", but you do get a lot of technology for your money. Alloy rims with off centre spoke holes (the rear is asymmetric like the RS80 we reviewed last year) to which are laced bladed elbowless double butted spokes. Up front, there are 16 radial spokes while the rear 20 are 2-cross. At the heart of these wheels are a pair of Shimano hubs (8, 9 and 10 speed compatible) with angular contact bearings designed to give radial and lateral support for strength and durability.
Translating all the tech stuff: a nice and strong wheelset that should last you a very good few training miles.
My ultra scientific hub performance test (pop bike in workstand, give wheel a spin, see how long it keeps turning) had me bored before the wheels stopped: full marks. The 30mm rims give a little aerodynamic advantage over shallower rims too, really not too shabby for a training wheel!
The RS30s were both true laterally when they arrived, although the front was out by 1-2mm radially. After 250 commuting miles that evolved into a minor lateral wobble that, to be fair, I only noticed when I put it on the truing stand. The rear was still as true as day one. It's worth noting that the red anodized nipples are not your standard size, so your spoke key might not work.
The graphics don't really do it for me, but riding these wheels was a pleasure, they are really quite nippy for a training wheel. I reckon you'd have to spend quite a bit more to really notice the difference. At 2050 grams they are not the lightest, but on the flipside, they aren't scared of the odd bunnyhop, nasty pothole or curb.
Sturdy, fast rolling training/racing wheelset
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: Shimano RS30 wheelset
Size tested: n/a
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Definitely
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
About the tester
Age: 32 Height: 1.78m Weight: 76kg
I usually ride: All of them! My best bike is: Cervelo Dual
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, touring, club rides, fixed/singlespeed, Audax
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I tend to ride my best wheels most of the time, as 95% of my riding is 'training', I might as well enjoy it.
Riding light wheels is one of those little pleasures of life I think....
There are plenty of light wheels that are durable, I don't think higher weight equates to a more durable wheel.
I have usually ride all bike but Cervelo Dual is the best in all of them. Now a days i have a problem with they tires. I want to know, Can I use China Tires for my bike? China tires is very cheap for me. Suggestions are welcome
Recently got a set of these with 2012 graphics - a bit more understated than the previous version.
I also have a set of RS80's for 'best' so a light wheelset to compare them with. If you want one wheelset to do everything - commute, train, even dabble in a road race or time trial, RS30s are pretty faultless for the price.
Okay, they take a bit more to spin up, but once there, they're a pleasure to ride - the lovely smooth bearings and 30mm aero rims help. They are also a strong wheelset, look great on the bike, so for the money, you can't go wrong. Don't get too hung up on the weight - a wheels responsiveness depends more than just that one factor.
Okay, if I was facing a 20% gradient after 80 miles on a sportive I'd want my RS80's every time. But for day to day use, you could a lot worse.


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These are best made a day ahead and reheated in a 350° oven, uncovered, for about 15 minutes.
Prep: 15 minutes; Cook: 45 minutes; Total Time: 1 hour.
How to Make It
Coat a 12-cup muffin tin with cooking spray; set aside.
Heat butter in a 4- to 5-quart pot over medium heat until melted; add onion and next 5 ingredients (through pepper). Cook until softened (about 5 minutes), stirring occasionally. Add mushrooms; cook over medium-high heat until mushrooms are tender and liquid evaporates (about 5 minutes), stirring well. Add broth; simmer.
Preheat oven to 425°. Remove pot from heat; stir in remaining ingredients with a fork. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Spoon stuffing mixture into 10 cups of prepared muffin tin in mounds; bake in middle of oven until golden on top (about 25 minutes). Let cool in oven at least 15 minutes; remove from tin.


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|Animal Type(s):
|Dogs, Large Dogs (> 50 lbs / 23 kg)
|Approx. date of birth:
|July 2007
|Intake date:
|July 9, 2009
|Current location:
|Athabasca, AB
|Spayed / Neutered:
|Energy level:
|House trained:
|Good with kids:
|Good with dogs:
|Yes – I can be particular
|Good with cats:
I have been with SCARS for some time, and not because I have anything wrong with me. I'm just not as lucky as some others. I'm a large girl–not sure on my breed and SCARS thinks I'm around 8 years old. I am great on and off leash and especially love going for quad rides. My foster mom says I am so loyal and listen so well. I love playing with my buddy Randy, however I can be a little picky about what dogs I call my friends. As I get older and the weather is cold I enjoy being inside more then out. Getting kinda soft.
I have always enjoyed going for car rides and have always been a good girl when going to the vet. I think I would perfer a home with older kids since I'm not used to the little ones.
I'm a Sanctuary Animal
What's a sanctuary animal? Sanctuary animals are permanent wards of SCARS due to medical conditions or behavioural issues and we are not likely to ever find an adoptive family.
SCARS is committed to giving these animals a home and the love, care and attention they deserve! We house them at our two main intake facilities.
We look to businesses to sponsor Sactuary Animals to help us offset the cost of housing them.


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* {{App|[[Wikipedia:Clonezilla|Clonezilla]]|A disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution.
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** Boots from live CD, USB flash drive
** Boots from live CD, USB flash drive or PXE server.
** Supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ and others.
** Supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfsFAT32, NTFS, HFS+ and others.
** Uses Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition.
** Uses Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition.
** Multicasting server to restore to many machines at once.
** Multicasting server to restore to many machines at once.
Revision as of 17:37, 28 July 2018
Disk cloning is the process of making an image of a partition or of an entire hard drive. This can be useful for copying the drive to other computers and for backup and recovery purposes.
Using dd
The dd command is a simple, yet versatile and powerful tool. It can be used to copy from source to destination, block-by-block, regardless of their filesystem types or operating systems. A convenient method is to use dd from a live environment, as in a Live CD.
if=) and output file (
of=) and do not reverse them! Always ensure that the destination drive or partition (
of=) is of equal or greater size than the source (
Cloning a partition
From physical disk
/dev/sda, partition 1, to physical disk
/dev/sdb, partition 1.
# dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress
of= (
sdb1 in the example) does not exist, dd will create a file with this name and will start filling up your root file system!
Cloning an entire hard disk
From physical disk
/dev/sdX to physical disk
# dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=64K conv=noerror,sync status=progress
This will clone the entire drive, including the MBR (and therefore bootloader), all partitions, UUIDs, and data.
bs=sets the block size. Defaults to 512 bytes, which is the "classic" block size for hard drives since the early 1980s, but is not the most convenient. Use a bigger value, 64K or 128K. Also, please read the warning below, because there is more to this than just "block sizes" -it also influences how read errors propagate. See [1] and [2] for details and to figure out the best bs value for your use case.
noerrorinstructs dd to continue operation, ignoring all read errors. Default behavior for dd is to halt at any error.
syncfills input blocks with zeroes if there were any read errors, so data offsets stay in sync.
status=progressshows periodic transfer statistics which can be used to estimate when the operation may be complete.
The dd utility technically has an "input block size" (IBS) and an "output block size" (OBS). When you set
bs, you effectively set both IBS and OBS. Normally, if your block size is, say, 1 MiB, dd will read 1024*1024 bytes and write as many bytes. But if a read error occurs, things will go wrong. Many people seem to think that dd will "fill up read errors with zeroes" if you use the
noerror,sync options, but this is not what happens. dd will, according to documentation, fill up the OBS to IBS size after completing its read, which means adding zeroes at the end of the block. This means, for a disk, that effectively the whole 1 MiB would become messed up because of a single 512 byte read error in the beginning of the read: 12ERROR89 would become 128900000 instead of 120000089.
If you are positive that your disk does not contain any errors, you could proceed using a larger block size, which will increase the speed of your copying several fold. For example, changing bs from 512 to 64K changed copying speed from 35 MB/s to 120 MB/s on a simple Celeron 2.7 GHz system. But keep in mind that read errors on the source disk will end up as block errors on the destination disk, i.e. a single 512-byte read error will mess up the whole 64 KiB output block.
status=progress option. See dd for details.
- To regain unique UUIDs of an ext2/3/4 filesystem, use
tune2fs /dev/sdXY -U randomon every partition. For swap partitions, use
mkswap /dev/sdXYinstead.
- Partition table changes from dd are not registered by the kernel. To notify of changes without rebooting, use a utility like partprobe (part of GNU Parted).
Backing up the partition table
See fdisk#Backup and restore partition table.
Create disk image
1. Boot from a live media.
2. Make sure no partitions are mounted from the source hard drive.
3. Mount the external HD
4. Backup the drive.
# dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /path/to/backup.img.gz
If necessary (e.g. when the format of the external HD is FAT32) split the disk image in volumes (see also the split man pages).
# dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c | split -a3 -b2G - /path/to/backup.img.gz
If there is not enough disk space locally, you may send the image through ssh:
# dd if=/dev/sdX conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c | ssh user@local dd of=backup.img.gz
5. Save extra information about the drive geometry necessary in order to interpret the partition table stored within the image. The most important of which is the cylinder size.
# fdisk -l /dev/sdX > /path/to/list_fdisk.info
bs=) that is equal to the amount of cache on the HD you are backing up. For example,
bs=8192K works for an 8 MiB cache. The 64 KiB mentioned in this article is better than the default
bs=512 bytes, but it will run faster with a larger
Restore system
To restore your system:
# gunzip -c /path/to/backup.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdX
When the image has been split, use the following instead:
# cat /path/to/backup.img.gz* | gunzip -c | dd of=/dev/sdX
Using ddrescue
ddrescue is a tool designed for cloning and recovering data. It copies data from one file or block device (hard disc, cdrom, etc) to another, trying to rescue the good parts first in case of read errors, to maximize the recovered data.
To clone a faulty or dying drive, run ddrescue twice. First round, copy every block without read error and log the errors to rescue.log.
# ddrescue -f -n /dev/sdX /dev/sdY rescue.log
Second round, copy only the bad blocks and try 3 times to read from the source before giving up.
# ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sdX /dev/sdY rescue.log
Now you can check the file system for corruption and mount the new drive.
# fsck -f /dev/sdY
Using e2image
e2image is a tool included in e2fsprogs for debugging purposes. It can be used to copy ext2, ext3, and ext4 partitions efficiently by only copying the used blocks. Note that this only works for ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems, and the unused blocks are not copied so this may not be a useful tool if one is hoping to recover deleted files.
To clone a partition from physical disk
/dev/sda, partition 1, to physical disk
/dev/sdb, partition 1 with e2image, run
# e2image -ra -p /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
Disk cloning software
These applications allow easy backup of entire filesystems and recovery in case of failure, usually in the form of a Live CD or USB drive. They contain complete system images from one or more specific points in time and are frequently used to record known good configurations. See Wikipedia:Comparison of disk cloning software for their comparison.
See also Synchronization and backup programs for other applications that can take full system snapshots, among other functionality.
- Arch Backup — A trivial backup script with simple configuration.
- Configurable compression method.
- Multiple backup targets.
- Clonezilla — A disaster recovery, disk cloning, disk imaging and deployment solution.
- Boots from live CD, USB flash drive or PXE server.
- Supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, btrfs, FAT32, NTFS, HFS+ and others.
- Uses Partclone (default), Partimage (optional), ntfsclone (optional), or dd to image or clone a partition.
- Multicasting server to restore to many machines at once.
- Included on the Arch Linux installation media.
- Deepin Clone — Tool by Deepin to backup and restore. It supports to clone, backup and restore disk or partition.
- FSArchiver — A safe and flexible file-system backup and deployment tool
- Support for basic file attributes (permissions, owner, ...).
- Support for multiple file-systems per archive.
- Support for extended attributes (they are used by SELinux).
- Support the basic file-system attributes (label, uuid, block-size) for all linux file-systems.
- Support for ntfs filesystems (ability to create flexible clones of a Windows partitions).
- Checksumming of everything which is written in the archive (headers, data blocks, whole files).
- Ability to restore an archive which is corrupt (it will just skip the current file).
- Multi-threaded lzo, gzip, bzip2, lzma compression.
- Support for splitting large archives into several files with a fixed maximum size.
- Encryption of the archive using a password. Based on blowfish from libcrypto from OpenSSL.
- Support backup of a mounted root filesystem (-A option).
- Can be found on the System Rescue CD.
- Mondo Rescue — A disaster recovery solution to create backup media that can be used to redeploy the damaged system.
- Image-based backups, supporting Linux/Windows.
- Compression rate is adjustable.
- Can backup live systems (without having to halt it).
- Can split image over many files.
- Supports booting to a Live CD to perform a full restore.
- Can backup/restore over NFS, from CDs, tape drives and and other media.
- Can verify backups.
- Partclone — A tool that can be used to back up and restore a partition while considering only used blocks.
- Supports ext2, ext3, ext4, hfs+, reiserfs, reiser4, btrfs, vmfs3, vmfs5, xfs, jfs, ufs, ntfs, fat(12/16/32), exfat.
- Supports compression.
- Optionally, an ncurses interface can be used.
- Partimage — An ncurses disk cloning utility for Linux/UNIX environments.
- Has a Live CD.
- Supports the most popular filesystems on Linux, Windows and Mac OS.
- Compression.
- Saving to multiple CDs or DVDs or across a network using Samba/NFS.
- Development stopped in favor of FSArchiver.
- J7Z — GUI for Linux in java which attempts to simplify data compression and backup. It can create 7z, BZip2, Zip, GZip, Tar archives.
- Updates existing archives quickly.
- Backup multiple folders to a storage location.
- Create or extract protected archives.
- Lessen effort by using archiving profiles and lists.
- http://j7z.xavion.name/ || j7zAUR
- Redo Backup and Recovery — A backup and disaster recovery application that runs from a bootable Linux CD image.
- System Tar & Restore — Backup and Restore your system using tar or Transfer it with rsync
- GUI and CLI interfaces
- Creates .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz or .tar archives
- Supports openssl / gpg encryption
- Uses rsync to transfer a running system
- Supports Grub2, Syslinux, EFISTUB/efibootmgr and Systemd/bootctl
dd spin-offs
- dcfldd
- dcfldd is a dd replacement with on-the-fly hashing capability helping to ensure integrity. It accepts most of dd's parameters and includes status output. A stable version of dcfldd was last released in 2006.
- ddrescue
- GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool capable of ignoring read errors. ddrescue is not related to dd in any way except that both can be used for copying data from one device to another. The key difference is that ddrescue uses a sophisticated algorithm to copy data from failing drives causing them as little additional damage as possible. See the ddrescue manual for details.


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From The Wall Street Journal:
Chinese officials confirmed that they have re-arrested a Shanghai tycoon first jailed in 2003, making him the latest prominent figure in China's commercial capital to fall amid a corruption probe involving the city's pension system.
Zhou Zhengyi, once one of China's wealthiest people, was arrested in November "to investigate some problems of his," a spokesman for the Shanghai government said Friday. The spokesman, who declined to be named, was confirming a report from the official Xinhua news agency, although the Xinhua report said Mr. Zhou has been "in custody" since October.
The spokesman wouldn't elaborate on Mr. Zhou's case, and it isn't clear if it is related to the broader scandal now afflicting Shanghai. But his arrest came soon after the city's top official, Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Liangyu, was dismissed for alleged corruption in an investigation into misuse of the city's $1.2 billion pension fund.[Full Text]