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I just got home from a week at CHA and what a week it was! I love seeing all of my friends and co-workers from Prima...since I am not in the office everyday (I work from my home in CNY), I really look forward to spending time with all of them at the shows. I also love seeing my friends from around the world, that visit the shows-it always feels like a reunion. That makes me happy!
There were four of us from Internationally Inspired at the show-Anna, Donna and Nat plus myself....we were buzzing at how exciting it was to finally launch the video classes! And like I said before, I am humbled to be in the midst of such talented artists in this new venture. Thank you Donna for including me! The video classes were launched right when I left for CHA, so I felt that I needed to talk about it some more when I got home.
So here are the details and links regarding these video classes...
1. You get 5 video classes for one price-$65.00. Internationally Inspired Workshops here!
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3. Once you purchase the classes, you can download them to your computer to have forever! Or have access to them for 6 months online.
4. You have email access to all of the instructors incase you have questions regarding their videos and projects. Plus, Donna has posted information to help anyone with information on how you can access the classes, technical difficulties, and more--so tons of support regarding the event!! Q&A regarding the classes here
5. There are kits available! Donna has the kits for sale and the individual products if you want to create a book of your own! And right now-it's on sale: Internationally Inspired Kits here!
Here is the cover of the book that I created just for this event....and I have to say-it is one of my favorite projects to date! I loved getting messy, inky, painty and artsy....so FUN and I am so excited to share it with YOU! Plus-I have seen what the other girls did in their books--WOW! You will not be disappointed...I promise!


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Girls basketball playoffs start this week
As the march through the high school winter sports post-season continues, the next sport to kick off section playoffs is girls basketball. All three Bulletin-area high school teams are in action on Thursday.
For the second straight year, the Knights are the eighth seed in Section 5AAAA and face top-seeded Roseville in the first round. The Raiders were ranked eighth in the state last year and beat Irondale by 38. This year, Roseville is ranked No. 4.
When it came to avoiding the lowest seed, the Knights were doomed by a slow start to the season. Irondale lost its first six games, including a 26-point setback against Coon Rapids, the team that ended up as the seventh seed. A victory over the Cardinals might have given Irondale a better shot at No. 7.
Irondale put together a respectable showing following game six. The Knights went .500 after the 0-6 start and closed out the regular season with a victory over Henry Sibley last Thursday.
Irondale plays at Roseville on Thursday at 7 p.m. with the winner advancing to the semifinals on March 5 at 6 p.m. at Anoka High School against either fourth-seeded Maple Grove or fifth-seeded Champlin Park.
Mounds View
The Mustangs enter the post-season on a bit of a roll but also with a big task ahead of them. Mounds View closed out the regular season by winning three of its last four games but must find a way to stop one of the hotter teams in the state.
Awaiting the sixth-seeded Mustangs on Thursday at 7 p.m. in the first round of the Section 5AAAA playoffs is a visit to third-seeded Osseo, which has lost just twice since Jan. 8. Included in that stretch is a pair of victories over second-seeded and eighth-ranked Centennial.
The Mustangs started off the season fairly well and was sitting at four games above .500 at 6-2. Late December was unkind, however, as they dropped three in a row, including two in the Hill-Murray holiday tournament. Since the beginning of 2013, Mounds View has been up and down and a loss to White Bear Lake on Feb. 8 put the Mustangs at .500 (11-11).
That might have served as a bit of a wake-up call. Since then, Mounds View knocked off Cretin-Derham Hall, East Ridge and Stillwater and played 10th-ranked Park-Cottage Grove tough in a nine-point loss.
If Mounds View can pull off the first-round upset on Thursday, it will extend its season at least another five days. The semifinals are set for March 5 at Anoka High School and Mounds View would face either Centennial or seventh-seeded Coon Rapids.
The section final is scheduled for March 8 at 8 p.m. at Anoka.
St. Anthony Village
For the fourth consecutive season the St. Anthony Village High School girls basketball team finds itself playing in the dreaded 4/5 match-up in the quarterfinals of the Section 3AAA playoffs. The Huskies have been successful in the game the past three years but inevitably it leads to a semifinal contest against top-seeded DeLaSalle.
Those second-round games have been the ones that haven't gone well for the Huskies. DeLaSalle has ended St. Anthony's season the last three years.
St. Anthony hosts fifth-seeded Minneapolis Roosevelt on Thursday at 7 p.m. in a battle of 17-win teams. The Teddies enter the post-season having lost three of their last four games after reaching a high-water mark of 12 games above .500 on Feb. 8.
The Huskies are in a similar boat. Their high of 11 games above .500 (16-5) came on Jan. 29 but since then they've dropped four of five.
The winner faces DeLaSalle, unless something catastrophic happens and the Islanders lose to one-win Fridley in the first round, on March 5 at 6 p.m. at Maple Grove High School.
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PhonoCon is the annual national conference of the association of phonosurgeons of India (APSI). It has been held in February every year. After a grand, combined international conference this year in Gurgaon, we move all the way south.
Welcome all to the Queen of the Arabian Sea, Kochi, for PhonoCon 2018. In continuing with our pattern, there will be a host of academic topics for discussion, bringing us up to date with all the latest in laryngology. Selected hands-on workshops are also planned. Prominent international and national faculty will be sharing their expertise and experience. And, last but not the least, the location will be a tourist delight for delegates and their families.
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The next Republican presidential nominee is already planning his campaign. If it is not too early for him to think about 2016, why should it be for the rest of us?
We don't know, of course, what issues will be uppermost in the public mind that year, or what the economy will be like. Republicans can take comfort, though, in the fact that only twice in the last century has a two-term president been succeeded by someone else from the same party. They should also be encouraged that the leading Democratic contenders for 2016, at the moment, appear to be Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Only four times in American history has the public chosen a president more than five years older than his predecessor (Clinton is 14 years older than Obama, Biden 19). Since the Cold War ended, the younger candidate has won all four races that featured a contrast in age.
Conservatives who disdain the Republican establishment and want an ideological hero to topple it in the primaries should be less encouraged. Since 1984, the party nomination has always gone to someone in the center of the party or even to the left of its center, and never to someone on its right.
There are always several candidates vying to be the conservative insurgent, and they split the available vote. Sometimes that split pits social conservatives against economic conservatives, as in 1988, 1996, to a small extent 2000, and 2008. Sometimes the division is also religious, as in 1988 and 2008, when evangelical candidates tried to base their campaigns on their appeal to their coreligionists. The party establishment, meanwhile, typically picks its man early.
Some of the insurgent candidates, especially in recent seasons, have been novice politicians whom primary voters in the middle of the party — open in principle to either insurgents or the party establishment — cannot see as plausible presidents. The establishment-oriented candidates always pass that test. Those candidates are also willing to do whatever it takes to co-opt enough conservative activists to win. The establishment candidates thus win the party's presidential nominations while the activists set its direction.
Many conservatives would be excited to see Rand Paul, Ted Cruz (an old friend of mine), Rick Santorum, or Rick Perry run next time, and other conservative favorites such as former congressman Allen West have expressed interest in running. It is easier to see several such candidates getting in one another's way than it is to see any of them unifying the right end of the party and carrying the nomination. Even if they lose, however, these campaigns could have an impact on the nominee's platform and message. Rand Paul might move the party further in his anti-interventionist direction in foreign policy; Santorum might affect how it handles same-sex marriage now that public opinion has turned in its favor.
Paul Ryan might in theory have appeal throughout the party. Conservative scribblers, including this one, hold him in high regard. Yet it seems implausible that Republicans will nominate someone who has never held executive office nor won a statewide election. Nor has he shown as much visible interest in running as other potential candidates. It may be that he is looking forward to passing a conservative tax reform as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee rather than being the person to sign that reform into law.
Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, is another candidate who could have wide appeal. He has been a successful reformer in a state that badly needed one. His competence and intelligence are unquestioned, as is his conservatism. His Indian ancestry should be a plus in a party that wants to shake off a whites-only image. But a Republican legislature forced Jindal to abandon his tax-reform plan earlier this year, and his poll numbers inside his state are quite weak. He will have to recover fast to make a credible run.
If Marco Rubio is planning to seek the presidency in 2016, he is doing it in an unusual way. In office he has allied with the most conservative elements of the party on almost every issue — but has split with the base on one important issue, immigration. His boosters say that this issue will not doom his campaign, noting that John McCain won the nomination in 2008 even though conservative activists had vocally opposed him on immigration in 2006 and 2007. The difference is that McCain's overall record was well to the left of Rubio's, giving him a base of support among moderate Republicans. Rubio could — repeat: could — end up in a no-man's-land, too far right to win those voters who identify as "moderately conservative" but too heterodox to win those who consider themselves "very conservative."
#page#Another interesting question a possible Rubio candidacy raises is whether there is enough room in the primaries for both him and Jeb Bush. The answer, given their overlapping bases of support and positions, is probably no. My guess is that Rubio is the more likely to run, but Bush — given his built-in advantages in the race to become the establishment candidate — might be the more formidable contender.
Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, is being mentioned as a dark horse so frequently that he is rapidly ceasing to be one. The case for Walker bears some resemblance to the case for Tim Pawlenty, then the governor of Minnesota, four years ago. Like Pawlenty, Walker is a northern evangelical and a successful governor of a blue state in a region of the country Republicans lust after. He has a great advantage over Pawlenty, though, in that the political battles in his state attracted national attention.
Opinions differ on why Pawlenty fizzled out early, with a popular explanation being the catch-all of "lack of charisma." It may also be, though, that there was no room in the primaries for a candidate just one notch to the front-runner's right. Pawlenty couldn't compete with Mitt Romney for establishment support and couldn't compete with Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, and the rest for the hearts of conservatives. Walker may suffer a similar problem. Support for taxing Internet sales is not the type of position that would sink a front-runner, but it is the type of position that could make it harder for a would-be challenger to the front-runner.
If Walker were to become a leading contender, the man he would presumably be trying to beat is Chris Christie. By 2016, Republicans might be as desperate to win the White House as Republicans were in 2000 or Democrats in 1992, and thus be willing to put up with ideological deviations. Christie's deviations have been numerous enough to win him a reputation as a moderate. Yet neither individually nor in aggregate do they seem likely to be as troublesome in the primaries as those of the last two nominees were. McCain had tangled with conservatives on taxes, global warming, immigration, and many other issues. Romney was out of step with the party on health care, the top domestic-policy issue of the Obama years, and also had a moderate history on abortion, guns, and other issues. Nothing Christie has done seems comparable, and he has a draw those two men lacked, namely his rhetorical combativeness toward liberals. (This is also something that sets him apart from other would-be establishment candidates, such as Ohio governor John Kasich.)
He may also look like a winner. Unlike Romney, he did not just get elected in a deep-blue state; he is running for reelection, and appears very likely to win. If he racks up a convincing margin in one of the two big races of 2013 — and even more if Republicans lose the other race, that for governor of Virginia — he will seem like the answer to many Republicans' prayers. And he will end the year in a stronger position than McCain ended 2005 or Romney ended 2009.


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Meanwhile, as we've pointed out before, American taxpayers SUBSIDIZE the SOCIALIZED, GOVERNMENT-FUNDED "improvements" for Jewish religiously insane "settlements" in the West Bank and other occupied Palestinian territory.
Here we have a clear and present case, of the treasonous Washington Post editors, trying their damndest, to treat AMERICANS with the same scorn, murderous contempt, and thieving larceny that Netanyahu's murderous Likud party and military goons treats Arabs & Palestinians....
The Washington Post Wants Your Social Security to Pay for the War
By: Robert Naiman, FireDogLake.com,
Thursday September 30, 2010 7:37 am
For the Washington Post, there's no such thing as a war that America can't afford.
In an editorial Wednesday, the Washington Post takes President Obama to task for being concerned about the cost of the war in Afghanistan and the fact that it conflicts with domestic priorities. That the Washington Post, a knee-jerk supporter of war for empire, would slam President Obama for this is the opposite of surprising. Nonetheless, what the Washington Post actually said in its editorial is still breathtaking:
We have been led to believe that official Washington is seized with urgency about long-term projections of U.S. budget deficits. Yet here is the Washington Post, downplaying the cost of the war in Afghanistan on the grounds that it is "well below 1 percent" of U.S. GDP.Mr. Obama repeatedly cites the cost of the war and the need to shift resources to domestic priorities — though spending on Afghanistan is well below 1 percent of U.S. gross domestic product.
Logically, there are two possibilities.
One possibility is that the Washington Post is saying that in the future, we can ignore any government expenditure or savings that amounts to less than 1% of U.S. GDP as being too small to bother about.
The other possibility is that according to the Washington Post there are two standards for judging costs. One standard is for war, in which an expenditure of less than 1% of GDP is too small to bother about. The other standard is for domestic spending that benefits the majority of Americans, in which a reduction of government expenditure of less than 1% of GDP is something that should be seriously considered (cont'd)


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According to a Wired Magazine article by Bran Raftery, writer Dan Harmon grew up in Wisconsin as a class clown and watching re-runs of Taxi. He got his start doing stand-up comedy in Milwaukee. When Oliver Stone optioned a screenplay Harmon wrote with Rob Schrab (Scud: The Disposable Assassin), Harmon moved to L.A.
After various degrees of success he started the video website Channel 101. After taking a Spanish class at a community college in L.A. he pitched the TV show Community and the sitcom premiered on NBC in 2009.
Here is Harmon's story circle (with a hint of Joseph Campbell) that he says is "tattooed on my brain" and shapes every episode of Community. (Harmon actually writes the character arcs in a circle—like a clock— on a chalkboard in the writing room.)
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In 2009, Harmon won an Emmy for being part of the writing team that wrote "Hugh Jackman's Opening Number" for The 81st Annual Academy Awards.
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Two prisoner buses crashed Friday morning on the Stevenson expressway, injuring two and clogging the morning commute.
Three Cook County Sheriff's buses were transporting prisoners to Stateville Prison when two collided around 8 a.m. on the outbound I-55 at Pulaski. Dozens of police responded, shutting down the two left outbound lanes and one inbound lane.
Prisoners were claiming injuries, according to authorities, but only one officer and one detainee were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, suffering minor injuries.
The other 105 detainees were taken back to Cook County Jail and checked for injuries. Afterward they will head to Stateville prison.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Over Ambitious
Luckily we are leaving tonight for Kurt's parents house in Michigan, and I should have plenty of down time once we are there to get serious with my craft supplies. That's right- I'm bringing it all with me. Everything. A giant suitcase worth of stuff.
The projects I have managed to finish turned out really good, even though I was so tired I couldn't even see straight half the time. I am really proud of them. But I'm just being a tease, because I can't post pictures. My sisters check my blog regularly, and since the gifts are for them...
But I'll post pictures of them as soon as I can.
Are any of you making gifts? And are you going to be done on time? If you end up pulling some all nighters, know you aren't alone- I will be doing the same thing.
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- the girl said...
Hi! I found your blog thru ModPodgeRocks (she featured your mirror fix) and instantly started following. I am making all of my gifts this year, some I started in July, and just got that one done last tuesday. I have 2 more gifts to finish, I even brought it to work with me so I could get a jump on them! I'm crossing my fingers it'll be done by Thursday night. I'll have the pictures to post on Christmas day.
- 12/22/2009
- GroverFamily said...
this happens to the best of us! i didnt get two christmas wreaths done, and only one out of five garland done...im going to start sooner next year! i have to use our dinning room table so i have to put everything away before i go to bed or there wont be any room for the boys to have breakfast...lord knows if i leave it out i would have glue and glitter everywhere:)! have a safe trip to michigan and i cant wait to see what you have made!
- 12/22/2009
- Christy said...
I always lose my mind and make way too many Christmas projects! It's just not Christmas if you aren't pulling your hair out wondering how you are going to finish it in time. I still have some pj's for the kids to finish, but that's about it. You have seen on my craft blog (hint, hint) what I have been up to this year.
- 12/22/2009
- Liz said...
I am making two aprons, two felt mr potato heads, and Black Apple Doll. I am about 70% done and Christmas is coming up way too fast. I am thinking I will be up WAY too late on Christmas Eve...
- 12/22/2009
- Mikaela said...
I made Christmas cookies yesterday (will be blogging them later) to give to the males in the family, and am going to make a cushion cover for my mum tonight or tomorrow.
It's my first try at making things for presents so I'll probably work up to making more next year!
- 12/22/2009
- Adele said...
I was planning on 3 gifts. One for my Mom, one for Grandma and one for Dad. Got exactly one done: Grandma. It was the simplest. Got one page done on Mom's, and got the supplies bought for Dad's... after arriving in Mt! Never mind. They know I wouldn't have survived my semester if I'd been trying to get Christmas presents done!
- 12/23/2009
- Chantel said...
Congratulations for getting everything done! Not only done, but perfect!
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that Tesla's fully autonomous cars will be far safer than human drivers when they hit the market within five to six years.
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Musk's six-year timeline for a fully autonomous vehicle is pretty ambitious compared to some of his competitors. General Motors, for example, has indicated it would be ready to offer autopilot systems — not fully autonomous cars — by 2020, which controls parts of the driving, like only on the highways. Tesla's goal for autopilots is 2016.
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Since our last issue was published, we've been overwhelmed with responses to our interview with the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison. We've printed here as many as space will allow, reflecting a broad cross-section of your views...
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Thank you for the wonderful interview with the awesome Peter Davison [DWM 503]. It was great to read Peter's responses – funny, interesting, insightful, open and honest. I for one know what I'll be doing on 6 October: purchasing his new autobiography!
I echo Tom's Letter from the Editor – I was six when Tom Baker fell from the Pharos project's satellite dish and found 'the moment had been prepared for'; having watched since 1979 (and not missed an episode since) and collected DWM since the first monthly issue in 1980, my love of the show was clear – but it was cemented and enhanced by the arrival of Peter Davison's Doctor.
He was fallible, hopeful, energetic and enthusiastic, and from those first moments of Castrovalva to his heroic sacrifice at the end of The Caves of Androzani, he was the perfect hero.
I've just finished reading your brilliant interview with Peter Davison in the latest issue and I just wanted to say I loved every word. Those 17 pages were worth the price of the magazine alone, let alone all of the other fantastic content. I got through it in one sitting, and found it one of the most compelling and page-turning interviews I've ever had the pleasure to read. I'm sure he's heard it a million times before, but Peter comes across as a genuine, generous and thoroughly decent chap. I especially liked the fact that – as with your recent interviews with other Doctors – that you didn't censor or tame the more potentially controversial comments. Not many magazines have that sort of integrity and I sincerely applaud you for it. I really do hope this occasional series of in-depth interviews continues long into the future. Keep up the excellent work!
Intriguing interview with Peter Davison, but he was wrong to say that Tom Baker believed Sylvester McCoy "had only done Doctor Who". Why, only two issues ago we saw Tom describing him as "a wonderful comedian – oh, marvellous! It's easy to be generous about this little gnomish fella with a Scots accent."


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Oil prices have risen every year, as a result oil has become an expensive way to heat your home all winter long. The price of corn futures has stayed fairly consistent. As a result, mutli-fuel stoves using corn as fuel, is an efficient, cost effective, way to heat your home. With the steady price of corn, it is also easy to budget for. Multi-fuel stoves use the same amount of corn every year to keep your home warm.
Therefore, you know with consistency how much you will spend each winter on home heating. Corn is not subject to the regular and consistent price fluctuations that oil is.
Homeowners who heat their homes with corn like mulit-fuel stoves as a heat source. Not only is corn less expensive, it is also a green fuel, it is renewable energy. Multi-fuel stoves take your home off the grid and lower your dependence on foreign oil.
If you live in the Midwest, heating with corn could be very economical. Additionally, when you heat with corn fueled multi-fuel stoves, the money you spend to heat your home stays local.
Do you're your research and contact St. Croix Stoves for more information on multi fuel stoves to heat your home next winter.


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Use Cisco Nexus 1000V for virtual hosts in nested ESXi
The native VMware vSwitch and Distributed vSwitch do not use MAC-learning. This was removed because the vSwitches would be aware of the VMs attached to them and the MAC addresses in use. As a result, if you nest ESXi under a standard vSwitch and power-on VMs under the nested instance, those VMs will be unable to communicate because their MACs are masked by the virtual host and the vSwitch is not aware of them.
Workaround options:
- Enable Promiscuous mode on the vSwitch.
- This works but should never be used in production. It adds a lot of unnecessary traffic and work to the physical NICs. It makes troubleshooting difficult and is a security risk
- Attach your virtual hosts to a Cisco Nexus 1000V.
- The 1000V retains MAC-learning, so VMs on nested virtual ESXi hosts can successfully communicate because the switch learns the nested MAC addresses.
- If your physical servers support virtual interfaces, you can create additional "physical" interfaces and pass them through to the virtual instances. This allows you to place the virtual hosts on the same switch as the physical hosts if you choose. There is obviously a finite amount of virtual interfaces you can create in the service profile, but I think this is a clean, low-overhead solution for environments using Cisco UCS or HP C7000 or similar.
The Nexus 1000V brings back important functionality for nested ESXi environments, especially those environments that do not have access to features like virtual interfaces and service profiles.
Helpful links:
Standing Up The Cisco Nexus 1000v In Less Than 10 Minutes by Kendrick Coleman
Cisco VN-Link is awesome
First, many thanks to Jeremy Waldrop and his walkthrough video. This provided me with a lot of help and answers to the questions I had.
I'm so impressed with VN-Link that I'm kicking myself for not deploying it sooner. In my view, it easily is a better choice than the Nexus 1000V. Sure, it essentially uses the Nexus 1000V's Virtual Ethernet Module, but since it doesn't require the Supervisor Module (VSM) to run as a VM, you can use those processor cycles for other VMs.
In a VN-Link DVS, the relationship between vSphere and UCSM is much more apparent. Because the switch "brains" are in the Fabric Interconnect and each VM gets assigned a dymanic vNIC, UCSM is aware of which VMs reside on which host and consume which vNIC.
I especially like that I can add port groups to the VN-Link DVS without using the CLI. All of the virtual network configuration is performed via UCSM. This makes for quick and easy additions of VLANs, port profiles and port groups.
This Cisco White Paper advocates Hypervisor Bypass, (which breaks vMotion, FT and snapshots by the way), but describes a 9 percent performance improvement by using VN-Link over a hypervisor-based switch. A 9 percent improvement that doesn't break things is a big deal, if you ask me.
There are cases where the VN-Link just won't do:
- There is no Fabric Interconnect
- You must use Access Control Lists between VLANs
- You must have SNMP monitoring of the VSM.
Beyond these cases, if you have the requisite components (Fabric Interconnects, M81KR VICs, vSphere Enterprise Plus), I'd suggest taking a strong look at VN-Link.
Functional Diagram
This diagram depicts the relationship of the components involved in the running and support of the Virtual Computing Environment.
Here, you can see the role of the hypervisor on each B-series blade and on the C-series, in addition to the management and connectivity with the UCS and EMC components.
Cisco Nexus 1000V deployment
I've having lots or trouble getting the VSM and VEM to see each other. The Cisco Troubleshooting guide seems like it'll be a lot of help, but I've reconfigured the VSM about 50 times already. It has been quite the learning experience. I suspect that the control VLAN is not present on both the C-series server and the B200 I'm trying to use.
So, I'm setting up a new VLAN in the N5K and in the 6120 and in the standard vSwitch on both hosts. I've assigned that new VLAN as both the control and packet VLAN for the VSM and have my fingers crossed.
Will update as things progress…
Ok, found my problem. I'd not set the VLANs on the vNICs of the Service Profile assigned to the Host with the VEM to include the Control/Packet VLAN. Once I did that, the Host moved to the VDS without error.


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finding ways to live a more connected, healthier and sustainable way of life. Wivenhoe is a town of around 10,000 people on the River Colne in Essex, UK.
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Last year I noticed there was an increasing amount of unwanted household goods going to landfill. So I decided to start a new enterprise to tackle the challenge...
My idea was pretty simple. Use my skills to help local residents repair and recycle their household items. Preventing them going to landfill, saving everyone money while protecting our environment...
Needless to say, I jumped at the chance!
In addition to saving money and the environment, my aim is to help train local people to repair things for themselves.
I'll be running regular open cafe style workshops at the Wivenhoe Library every Thursday 5:30 - 7pm, where residents can learn to fix things properly for themselves. I also hope to run a programme of training and employment opportunities for those who want to build their confidence, develop new skills or get back themselves into work.
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Recently I was able to reunite with some of my college friends in the best way possible – four days lounging on the beach and swimming in the ocean in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We went for all-out relaxation and chose to stay at the RIU Santa Fe, an all-inclusive resort right on the beach. This was my first all-inclusive experience and I have to admit I was hesitant about it because it is so different from the way I normally travel, but it's not hard to settle in to all-you-can-eat and drink.
We had an overall amazing experience at the RIU and I highly recommend looking into it if you're planning a trip to Cabo. The staff was very friendly and welcoming and was always around to assist with anything we needed, whether that meant answering logistical questions or starting our day with a laugh and conversation at the bar. The complex is very large so I cannot imagine feeling cramped if you wanted to take advantage of the amenities in the resort for the entire duration of your stay (although Cabo is worth getting out to explore!). The pools are expansive and have in-water lounge chairs and swim-up bars. The infinity pool over the beach has the best views for people watching during the day and stargazing at night. The main hub of the resort with shops, bars, a stage, and dance club is tons of fun at night when most of the guests come down to drink and dance.
La Baja California, the main restaurant, and one of the two infinity pools
One of my favorite activities to do in Cabo is to take any sort of boat out to see the infamous El Arco and the sea lions that lounge on the rocks around it. There are a ton of different ways you can do this. In the past, I have done booze cruises, whale watching tours, kayak and paddle board rentals, and glass-bottom boats. This trip, we opted for a water taxi that dropped us off at Lover's Beach for a couple of hours and a snorkeling tour the next day.
View of El Arco from Caborey
Water taxis are a blast and the easiest way to cruise around the gulf. You can flag one down all along the beach, and it's usually pretty cheap. They can bring you out to the arc or another beach or provide a ride into town via the marina. We paid about $10 each plus tip between the four of us for a round trip. Our drivers were a ton of fun and took us to see the arc and right up close to the seals – one of the spots I look forward to every trip. They're pretty used to people so if you pick a non-motorized way to go like a kayak or paddle board you might just get lucky enough to make a new friend. I've had a particularly outgoing seal bump up against my kayak with his nose.
Approaching Playa del Amor, and the seals that lounge near it, on a water taxi
Playa del Amor (or Lover's Beach) does have vendors selling beer and food, but it's much cheaper to grab a few from the hotel and bring a bag for the day. The other side of Lover's Beach is appropriately called Divorce Beach because of the turmoil and recklessness of the Pacific waves. We swam in the calm waters on Lover's Beach for a little bit and then posted up on the other side to look out into the Pacific Ocean. The beach is clean and not too crowded and great to relax. There were some local boys surfing in the water on Divorce Beach, but I would highly advise against swimming in the water there because of the strong undertow. During high tide the waves make it up onto the beach and crash above the rocks. It used to terrify me to even be on that side of the beach when I was a kid!
Lover's Beach (left) and Divorce Beach (right)
On the way back to our resort, we met some guys on the beach who were selling activities packages. They have all levels of pricing and styles of trips and are great to book with. We bartered back and forth with them for a little bit and managed to get a round trip ride to the marina, and a half day snorkeling package with drinks and lunch included for only $35 each – half of the standard price for that package. While I'd never want to rip anyone off, it's always good to haggle the price a little bit as they will usually give you a discount if they are just trying to fill the last few spots on a tour or start trying to sell you the most expensive package right off the bat.
Early the next day, we walked down the beach a little where our taxi was waiting. It dropped us off in the marina where we boarded the Caborey and took off along the coast towards Chileno Bay with another mandatory stop by El Arco on the way. Once in the Bay, we had the chance to jump off the top deck of the boat before snorkeling which is an awesome thrill if you've never done it! It feels a lot further than it looks and once I jumped I was wondering when I was going to hit the water. I don't think I kept my body as straight as they advise you to do because I definitely felt the impact of the water on my legs – ouch! It still felt amazing to jump in after sunbathing on the hot boat deck before and the adrenaline rush was great energy for swimming around the rest of the day.
The Caborey and looking off the top deck before jumping
The snorkeling in Chileno Bay is pretty good! I'm not a very experienced snorkeler so I don't have too much to compare it to, but there's a great variety of fish and it's shallow enough that you can dive down a little and explore the reefs. The crew of the boat brought some food into the water and would float around and lure the fish over so all of the sudden you'd have a swarming school of fish all around you. Pretty freaky to me but I still had so much fun! They also have a couple of paddle boards you can use if you get sick of snorkeling. The lunch provided was fajitas and the whole package was awesome. I highly recommend it. It's also not an all day outing so you can still do something else after or get in half a day of relaxing.
In-water photos taken with an old fashioned disposable camera
When we got back to the marina and decided to walk around and do some shopping. I love the open air market, but there are a ton of different shops to explore. It's also a nice walk to get back to the hotel from the marina. You can either go back via the beach or through town, which is a little faster since you aren't walking on sand. You can also access two of the popular beach clubs through either direction. Mango Deck is the party on the beach. Think the stereotypical spring break scene. They've always got 2-for-1 happy hour and do have good food. It's a ton of fun and has people of all ages at all times. My absolute favorite restaurant on the beach is right next door. The Office was the first restaurant on Medano Beach and has amazing food, great service, and of course good margaritas. They have events every night including their Fiesta Mexicana on Thursdays which features Mexican traditions and folklore. We didn't make it to the show this trip, but it's been my favorite in years past.
2-for-1 Coconut Margaritas at Mango Deck, Entertainment at Mango Deck, and sunset at The Office
We walked back to our hotel at sunset and watched the giant moon rise over the ocean. During your stay in Cabo you have to go out to the water at sunrise and sunset – there's just nothing like it. Those times of day on the beach are so calm and surreal.
By the time we got back it was dark so we went for a little nighttime swim in the ocean and then headed back to the hotel. I wish we could have stayed longer but even a weekend in Cabo is so worth it!


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I am scheduled to give a talk about the Shroud of Turin on Wednesday, April 30, at six pm, at the CCMC on the WPUNJ campus. Details here.
I mentioned this upcoming talk on Facebook. A Lutheran friend wrote,
"Shroud? I think it's from the era – not THE McCoy. My citations are from scripture. A separate cloth was used for the face. I'm not into my faith being affirmed by objects. They are temporal."
I was shocked and offended. I hadn't even mentioned the talk to her – she lives too far away. I had certainly never implied that anyone should base her Christian faith on the Shroud of Turin.
I posted a question – do Protestants view the Shroud differently? My Facebook friend Joe responded, "The face of Jesus has been claimed to have been found in everything from sliced tomatoes, to clouds, to tree bark. There are no sketches of the way Jesus looked from antiquity, so even if this is the face of some human, how does anyone know it is Jesus? I don't claim to speak for all Protestants, but I am skeptical of all such claims."
I wrote to Barrie Schwortz, one of my personal heroes, and the Shroud spokesperson par excellence.
In spite of his pressing schedule, Barrie took the time to write back and gave me permission to quote him. Barrie wrote,
"I actually have a special introduction to my presentations for non-Catholic Christian venues which I call: 'The Top 5 Reasons Why Some Christians Are Shroud Skeptics.' It addresses the primary reasons why some Christians deny or ignore the Shroud (and I've probably heard them all over the past 20 years). Here are the issues I discuss in the form of a 20 slide PowerPoint presentation:
1.The Shroud is a "graven image."
2.The Shroud is just another Catholic relic.
3.The Gospels state that Jesus was tied with linen strips, yet the Shroud is a single large cloth. It further states there were 2 cloths in the tomb.
4.The Man of the Shroud has long hair, which is forbidden in the Gospels.
5.The Prophecies say the Man's beard was plucked, yet the Man of the Shroud has a full beard.
Properly addressing these issues has been very successful in Protestant churches (i.e. Lutheran, Methodist, Evangelical, Messianic, non-denominational, etc.). I was fortunate to have some help from my board member, Diana Fulbright, who is a Biblical scholar who reads and writes Greek, Latin and Aramaic. She helped me with the biblical references to answer the last two on the list."
I am very grateful to Barrie Schwortz for all that he does, and for this illuminating reply. I love it that Barrie is of Polish-Jewish ancestry. Barrie's mother is from Wisznice. Barrie, like me, grew up with immigrant parents.


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The European Medicines Agency database of good manufacturing practice and good distribution practice compliance continues to be populated as more sites are inspected.
GMP and GDP compliance certificates will be uploaded to the site, and will allow prospective customers or suppliers (or other interested third parties, including competitors) view them at will.
What does this mean to you as a wholesaler? Is this a good thing?
We believe it is a leap forward, and that any more clarity can only be a good thing as it puts any "dirty laundry" in plain view.
We recommend that as part of your bona fides checks you start to review the website and search your suppliers.
Any who are failing to comply should be risk assessed and if deemed a high risk to your supply chain, you should review whether you have potential alternative suppliers.
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The Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races on Long Island: The Role of Hicksville Updated: 11/22/16
Great turnout for tonight's special "Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races" presentation highlighting the role of Hicksville in the races. The program was sponsored by the Hicksville Historical Society and held in the Hicksville Public Library within walking distance of the Vanderbilt Cup Race courses for the 1904, 1909 and 1910 races.
Then & Now: The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course Through Hicksville
Richard Althaus, President, Hicksville Gregory Museum: "I am interested to know if you have any info especially photos in regards to Hicksville in your collection. Mainly the 1904 race, where they had to traverse the railroad in Hicksville, not far from the station. Any info you have would be appreciated."


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About the Book
Cat-shifter Prince Reid is always looking for a good time, and no woman is safe when he turns on the charm. When the opportunity arises to go on an ambassador's trip, he jumps at the chance–especially when that trip includes exotic destinations and available women. What more could a rogue prince want? But he never thought he'd find a woman who could bring him to his knees with just one look. He will do anything to protect her and make her his...forever.
Jasmine St. Claire appears to have it all, but looks can be deceiving. Escaping her gilded cage by joining a foreign transport, she didn't plan on leaving one man's rule for another. Yet it would seem the charming Var prince has decided he wants to claim her for his very own.
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The cat-shifter princes were raised to not believe in love, especially love for one woman, and they will do everything in their power to live up to their father's expectations. Oh, how the mighty will fall.
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The definition of scarcity that I just introduced is based on the notion of needs. To argue that there is a shift in scarcity from capital to attention thus requires an agreed upon set of needs to show that we indeed have sufficient capital. Can we make progress in defining what constitutes a set of basic human needs?
I am not proposing that this is a simple task. What follows should be considered a way of starting a dialogue. A list of basic needs is a piece of knowledge. As such it can be improved over time through the process of critical inquiry. You can critique my list by pointing out flaws, you can also propose changes to my list, or you can publish your own list altogether.
One of the benefits of my approach to writing World After Capital out in the open, and with revisions tracked, is that you can see how my thinking on needs has evolved over time. In an earlier version I tried to group needs into categories such as biological, physical, and social. But the boundaries between those seemed rather arbitrary upon further examination. So in the current version I am distinguishing only between individual and collective needs, where the former will apply to a single human wherever and the latter are the needs of humanity as a whole.
Another challenge in putting together a list of needs is that it is all too easy to confuse a need with a strategy for meeting this need. For instance, eating meat is one strategy for addressing the need for calories, but humans can acquire calories from many other sources.
These are the basic needs of the human body and mind. Without them individual survival and flourishing is impossible. A single individual has these needs even when isolated, such as traveling alone in a spaceship.
The first set of individual needs comes from keeping our bodies powered, these include:
Oxygen. Humans need on average about 550 liters (0.55 cubic meters) of oxygen per day [24]. The exact need of course varies with factors such as the size of our respective body and the degree of physical exertion. Our most common solution to this need is breathing air.
Water. We need to drink on average between 2-3 liters of water per day to stay hydrated [25]. Again various factors such as body size, exertion and temperature will affect the exact need.
Calories. To power our bodies we generally require between 1,500 and 3,000 calories per day, again depending on body size, activity level etc [26]. We solve this need by consuming food. The best way to do this, however, is surprisingly controversial and poorly understood for such a basic need. In particular, the mix between proteins, lipids and carbohydrates is subject to ongoing debate.
Nutrients. The body cannot synthesize all the materials it requires, including certain amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Therefore these must be obtained directly as part of our nutrition. This too is an area that is surprisingly poorly understood, meaning which nutrients exactly we really need to acquire externally seems unsettled. There is a wide range of food consumption strategies that seem to support the human body.
Discharge. So this may be a bit gross but we also need to get things out of our bodies again, including expelling processed food, radiating heat and exhaling carbon dioxide. A lot of human progress has come from better strategies for solving our discharge needs, such as public sanitation. For fans of science fiction, like myself, dealing with the problems of discharge is an interesting limit on our ability to cloak ourselves.
The second set of individual needs relates to the operating environment for humans. From a cosmic perspective, humans have an incredibly narrow operating range, which is provided for, without technological assistance, only in a few places even right here on Earth. Here are some of our basic operating needs:
Temperature. Our bodies can self-regulate their temperature within a limited range. We have a need to control our environment to help our bodies with temperature regulation. Common strategies to meet our temperature needs include shelter and clothing.
Pressure. Anybody who has gone diving knows that our bodies do not handle increased pressure around us very well. The same goes for decreased pressure (one of the reasons air travel is exhausting is that planes do not retain sea level pressure).
Light. Most humans would be hard pressed to do much of anything in complete darkness. The Bible introduces light right away with "Let there be light" in the third verse for the Book of Genesis. For the longest time the solution to our need for light was simply sunlight, but much of human ingenuity has gone into the creation of artificial light sources.
The third set of individual needs arises from dealing with a complex and ever changing environment. As we go through life we encounter challenges that we need to overcome. This results in three fundamental individual needs:
Healing. When we damage our body in some fashion it needs to heal. The human body comes equipped with extensive systems for self-healing including combating many foreign substances (including vomiting, diarrhea, antibodies). Beyond a certain range, the body needs external assistance to heal. Here too we have developed many solutions, and often group them under the term healthcare.
Learning. We are born quite, well, stupid. We even have to learn relatively basic skills such as walking and the use of tools. When we encounter a new situation, we need to learn how to deal with it. We group many of the strategies for solving the need for learning under the heading education, but other solutions include self study, experimenting (gaining experience) and parenting.
Meaning. As humans we have a profound psychological need for meaning in our lives. It is what keeps us going. Religion and religious beliefs have long been a key strategy for solving this need. As I have argued in the section on Humanism, there is an objective basis for human meaning rooted in knowledge. Another key strategy to solve this need comes from our interactions with other humans, including having others acknowledge our contributions to a project or simply our existence.
This last set of needs may strike you as being at a much higher level than the earlier needs. It is tempting to try and sort individual needs into a hierarchy, as Maslov did. That seems intuitively appealing but is misleading. All of these needs are essential. As a thought exercise, picture yourself in a spaceship and try to remove any of the above.
Our collective needs by contrast arise from living together in societies and sharing space and resources. Meeting these needs is what allows human societies to survive and advance.
Reproduction. Individuals can survive without sex, but reproduction is a need for societies as a whole. As humanity we have already learned how to solve the need for reproduction without sex. In the future there may be altogether different solutions for reproduction in the sense of the continuation of a human society (whether here on Earth or elsewhere).
Allocation. Despite abundance in the digital realm, access to physical objects and resources has to be allocated. Take a chair as an example. Only one person can sit in a chair (comfortably) at a time. When there are multiple people we need a solution for allocating the chair between them. That's why allocation is a collective need. If you are by yourself you can sit on a chair whenever you want to as there is nobody else to take it up.
Motivation. This may seem like an individual concept but it exists as a collective need in the following sense: Societies need to motivate their members to carry out tasks and follow rules. Even the most primitive societies have solutions for this problem often in the form of rewards and punishments.
Coordination. Whenever there is more than a single human involved in any activity, there is a need for coordination among the participating humans. Take a simple meeting among two people as an example. In order for the meeting to take place they need to show up at the same place at the same time. We have developed many different communication and governance mechanisms to address this need.
Knowledge. As I have argued in the prior sections on Optimism and Humanism, this is the central collective human need. Without increased knowledge a society will encounter problems that it cannot solve and will be decimated as a result. History is full of examples of societies not having enough knowledge, such as the Easter Islanders or the Mayans. This is not about what any one individual has learned but rather about the body of knowledge that is accessible to society as a whole. Much of the later parts of World After Capital are about solutions for generating more knowledge faster.
These collective needs may strike you as overly abstract. But this is the logical result of identifying needs, instead of solutions. Governments and laws, for instance, are examples of solutions to some of these collective needs. But so are markets and firms and more recently networks and platforms.
Now you might ask, what about energy? Don't we have a need for energy both individually and collectively? It would seem that individually we need energy to maintain the temperature of a house. Or that collectively we need energy to power our communications infrastructure. But as those two examples show, energy is not a direct human need (either individually or collectively). Instead it is an enabler of specific solutions to our needs. Some solutions will require more energy than others.
Here are four foundational enablers. I am listing them in the Needs section, as readers have at times proposed these as additional needs and I had in a prior versions included them among Collective Needs.
Energy. For the longest time humanity relied on direct sunlight as the primary source of energy. Since then we have developed many ways of generating energy, including better ways of capturing sunlight. Producing more energy and having it available in concentrated and highly regulated form via electricity has made many new solutions for human needs possible.
Resources. In early human history all resources were simply found in nature. Later we started both growing and extracting resources. Many modern solutions have been made possible by access to new kinds of resources. For instance, mobile phones give us new solutions to individual and collective needs. Building mobile phones is enabled in part by some esoteric raw materials, such as so-called rare-earth elements.
Transformation. Energy and resources alone are not enough though. To enable most solutions we need to figure out how to use energy to transform resources. This involves chemical and physical processes. Capital, as in physical capital such as machines, has been a crucial enabler for many new solutions to human needs. For instance, a knitting machine can transform yarns into clothing at high velocity. Clothing is one of our key solutions for maintaining the human operating environment.
Transportation. The final foundational enabler is the ability to move stuff (using stuff broadly to include people). This is another area in which we have made great progress over time, going from human powered transportation to animal powered to machine powered, including planes, trains and automobiles.
Again I have chosen these enablers at a high degree of abstraction on purpose. Coal-fired power plants provide energy (in the form of electricity) and so do solar panels today and nuclear fusion at some point in the future. These three examples have dramatically different characteristics but they all are fundamentally energy enablers.
This is my current working version of needs (and enablers). I have now revised this section fairly substantially for a second time. And while I fully expect further changes, I believe it now properly sets up my argument that there is sufficient productive capital in the world for meeting our individual and collective needs, including further development of the four enablers.


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