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OEM: supported way for C: on HD0 and D: on HD1
Hey folks,
Is there a supported way for me as an OEM system builder to place C: and D: on separate drives, vs. being forced to have C: be a 20gb partition on the first drive and D: being the rest?
I haven't seen a way to do this inherently, but I'm pretty sure I can make it work with a bit of magic.
If I've overlooked something, please let me know.
Ryan RogersThursday, January 24, 2008 10:02 PM
No, there is no supported way to do this.
I'll be interested to hear if you come up with a way to do it, though.Friday, January 25, 2008 3:14 AMModerator
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No, there is no supported way to do this.
I'll be interested to hear if you come up with a way to do it, though.Friday, January 25, 2008 3:14 AMModerator
Ken, you've got mail.
Once I get this working (or give up trying), I'll share with the community.
I'm fairly confident though I can make this work.
However, getting it to work and have MS support me as a System Builder who deploys installations like this remains to be seen.
RyanFriday, January 25, 2008 9:10 AM
Oh, another quick question.
If I do get this working, any thoughts on what WHS will do if HD1 (D:\) fails? ;-)
Normally, this is a use case the software doesn't need to handle, as MS avoids this unpleasantry by forcing D: onto the system physical disk, making a complete system rebuild or restore necessary in order to get back up and running. Ugh!
I'm wondering if the restoration process that gets D: tombstones back after an OS reinstall would also come into play here and handle this case as well. I would think it would, but I may need to format, partition, and drive-assign the new D: drive first before rebooting back into WHS.
RyanFriday, January 25, 2008 9:49 AM
Ryan, someone else recently tried the experiment of pulling his system drive, formatting D:, and putting it back. He had hosed his storage up too badly to be able to continue, and he was willing to risk his data to find out the results. I believe he said that WHS rebuilt all the control structures. That would make sense; loss of the D: partition is part of what happens when you replace the system drive, or when you sysprep your WHS for duplication, and the system needs a way to recover.
But as I've said elsewhere, the system drive is the least important drive in your system. It's the one least likely to contain unique real data; the only time Drive Extender will store unduplicated files, or components of the backup database, etc. on C: is when it's forced to do so by lack of space elsewhere. Everything else is metadata that can be replaced or recreated easily (though rebuilding the tombstones can take a very long time, if you've got a lot of data).Friday, January 25, 2008 1:12 PMModerator
Yeah I wouldn't expect that to work at all! With D:\ completely empty, WHS has no choice but to recreate the control stuctures from scratch, which would ignore all of the data on the secondary drives.
But if they were already in place since they had been imaged from the original D:\ partition after install... ;-)
Yep, the time to rebuild the tombstones is a big concern. Another concern is the data loss that will happen if I'm only backing up HD0 as discussed in the other thread.
I think I could address the latter with a utility to handle this. A fairly simple scanner program could find differences between the shadow threes nad the primary tree after rebuild, and fill in the missing tombstones. Not directly, but through re-copying the file through the public share.
That would leave just the first issue, which I plan on testing first hand with some real customer data and see how it performs before I make a final decision one way or the other.
RyanFriday, January 25, 2008 4:00 PM
I can understand what your doing, but why? It's not going to make data safety any more robust and I cannot imagine Microsoft accepting it for a recognised system builder.
ColinFriday, January 25, 2008 5:53 PM
Actually that's not quite true if you look at it from all aspects. Statistically speaking, there is more data safety and it is more robust. In particular, what if the rebuild takes days as Ken suggests, and then you lose another drive during that window?
If the rebulid takes minutes, or is not necessary at all, then you have just made your data more secure, as you no longer have a long, protracted window during which you have a single point of failure to data-loss.
Of course, you also have to consider that your server was available during that time, vs. down for hours or days. For whole house controllers that have a service expectation of 24/7/365, that is important. WHS is the most appropriate operating system that MS makes for this type of appliance based on price point and features.
For users who have 5 to 10 or more TB of data, a soup-to-nuts backup is not realistic. However, all secondary data drives are redundant if you have duplication turned on across the board. It's only the primary data drive that is not backed up. Ken has confirmed that WHS will not elegantly handle backing up and restoring just this single drive that has no redundancy.
Splitting the two drives allows the operating system to be backed up, restored, and managed independently. This flexibility also results in data safety.
If the system partition becomes corrupt or needs reinstalling, I can apply a previous saved image of that drive to it's replacement, and be back up and running in under an hour. I can be back up in minutes if I had the foresight to have an imaged drive standying by ready to hot-swap in. Either way, the D: primary data doesn't change one bit, and when the server comes back up it's going with no rebuild time necessary. No window of time at which you are a drive failure away from losing data.
In the "normal" case, if C: and D: are combined and I lose the system drive, I will *LOSE CHANGES* applied to any files since D: was backed up, as Ken as confirmed. You are supposed to restore everything, or nothing. If I don't restore and instead reinstall fresh, then I don't lose the changes, BUT during tombstone rebuild I'm open to single drive failure syndrome. Either way, you are absolutely open to loss that you wouldn't be if you could have managed the system partition as it's own drive. There is more data safety. It is more robust. Not by a huge margin, but it is. And if that second drive fails, that margin will make all the difference in the world.
I do not plan on oem'ing a system with just C and D split. If I do offer C and D split, it would be a RAID 1+1 configuration, and it will be a full-tower or 4U configuration. The key is mirroring the primary data partition is where you get the big ROI. So whether C/D are combined on HD0 and that is mirrored, or C/D are separated and both are mirrored, the mirroring is the key to the big boost in data security, robustness, AND availability.
- RyanFriday, January 25, 2008 7:08 PM
Did you ever have any success with this? I am trying very hard to achieve exactly that... physical disk separation between the system partition (C:) and the primary data partition (D:).
I just bought WHS a week ago (the SKU that has PP1 included), and I've been wrestling with it a bit to try to get it the way -I- want it.
I have tried a number of "tricks" to make it work, such as using offline 3rd party disk tools to copy the data partition to the second physical disk, delete the original data partition, and resizing the system partition to the entire physical disk.
Didn't work, of course. WHS booted up fine, but it wrought all kinds of havoc, declaring the system disk to have an error... but the repair option was greyed out.
Yes, I'm an IT professional, and I've been in the industry for a long time now (~15 years). Yes, I realize I am not the "target audience" of WHS and I could very easily build a Win2K3 or Win2K8 server instead. However, I really want to make WHS work, because there's just some things that are totally cool about it that the traditional corporate Windows versions don't have.
Being able to separate these two is the only hurdle left until I achieve the "happiness" I wanted from WHS. "Officially supported" or not, if I can get it working, I'll be happy!
I'd love to hear of any success stories!
EDIT: Never mind... I managed to figure it out. It involved careful and painstaking registry edits (in addition to the partition replications / resizing with an offline disk utility), but I now have exactly what I wanted, and it works. :) I wish it was a simple process that I could document, but the reality is, if you aren't REALLY comfortable mucking around in the registry (especially when it has do with disk and volume IDs), you don't want to do it, especially if there's any critical data on the server. I was more confident since I have a clean install here, no data to lose! I'm sure though that the ability to relocate the primary data partion could indeed be added to WHS (in an official capacity) if Microsoft chose to do so.
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- Edited by EdgeDC Friday, November 7, 2008 10:46 AM
Edge, it's certainly do-able. It's probably easier to do if you interrupt setup at an appropriate point (I can't tell you what that point is, I'm afraid, as I haven't actually tried this) and separate the partitions.But before you start relying on your server, consider that you're now running in an extremely unsupported state. At a minimum, you should test a server reinstallation to see what happens. You may need a server reinstallation, even if you use RAID 1 for your system drive, because there are things that can cause an OS to become corrupted and unbootable (a failed software install, a bad storage driver, etc.). RAID won't protect against that.And I don't know that you'll be able to install future updates to Windows Home Server, either. It's possible that future updates will make changes which presume the drives and partitions are laid out the way WHS normally does. I'm not saying this will happen, but nothing you did is a documented or supported configuration change for WHS, so Microsoft is unlikely to take anything you did into account.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Friday, November 7, 2008 5:19 PMModerator
Thanks for your feedback. I now have a "dumb question" to ask... how exactly do I start a reinstallation? Booting to the DVD again only gives me the "New Installation" option again. Do I really have to create my own restore DVD in some fashion? It seems pretty bad to me that the OEM DVD does not search the drive(s) to see if a previous WHS install was there, in case someone just wants to reinstall the OS and keep the data.
Interesting that you brought up RAID - I never mentioned RAID in my previous post... because I know how much of a hot button that is, having read other threads. :) RAID is not the concern here. I just want my C: drive to completely fill up one drive, and run my primary data partition (D:) on a separate drive. RAID need not be part of the discussion!
One of the other "tricks" I tried is interrupting the install during one of the reboots to resize the C: partition to the entire drive, in the hopes that the rest of the install would find the other drive and use it instead for the D:. It looked like it was going to work, until it came up to the "Creating Primary Data Partition" step, at which point it bombed out and showed me the q_setup.log file (which contained, amongst other things, errors that it couldn't find qs.ini).
Again, I recognize that this is not a "supported" configuration, but I fail to understand why Microsoft didn't give some kind of "advanced" method to achieve this, even if it required supplying an option in an INI file or something. Just as disappointing as the bootable DVD not having a "reinstall" option right then and there.Sunday, November 9, 2008 6:14 PM
In the initial graphical portion of setup, are you supplying drivers for all your storage devices at the hardware detection screen, so that all your drives are visible to setup? If you are, and you're not getting an option for reinstallation, I think you have your answer: You will be unable to complete a server reinstallation in the event of OS corruption or other problems.
As for why Microsoft doesn't give an advanced option for this, look at the target audience. Enthusiasts are important, because we're early adopters and will push the product in directions that Microsoft never through of, but if WHS is to succeed, it has to sell to people with far less technical expertise. The primary target market isn't going to install WHS on their own hardware, they're going to buy an HP MediaSmart Server or equivalent from another vendor. The only people who will be installing WHS are enthusiasts, OEMs and system builders, all of whom can be presumed to be technically knowledgeable. But WHS will be sold in (effectively) a single configuration, as far as the OS and partitions are concerned. This reduces support and development costs significantly.
As for RAID, it's the logical next step. :) And no, it's not supported.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Monday, November 10, 2008 4:03 AMModerator
I have recently gotten a copy WHS and right out of the box the install was flawless for me.. As for me this day one for WHS and so far absloutly love it.
As i have been testing and tring out all the different functions of WHS, and one thought came into my head. how can i split the C and D to differnt drives? i was thinking of haveing a SSD as the primary C: drive and then have a 1TB or raid setup of all the data. it would really be nice if there was an out-of-the-box way to do something like this. but i guess i am forced to split the drive a differnt way. but as this is not a "supported" way, anyone willing to give me a few hints as to what to watch out for?
-sMonday, November 10, 2008 4:54 AM
See the post above my last post, where EdgeDC says that he doesn't get a server reinstallation option after splitting the drives. This is not a situation you want to find yourself in; if you experience OS corruption due to e.g. a failed software install, you will be unable to recover without starting over from scratch.
I'm not on the WHS team, I just post a lot. :)Monday, November 10, 2008 1:12 PMModerator


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England?s finest has been a potential Major winner for several years but now Luke Donald has convinced himself that he is ready to turn that promise into reality.
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The question of whether or not he has the necessary length is something he finds a little irritating. Though he accepts that he is not among the longest hitters and wouldn?t say no to a few extra yards, he shares the opinion of his coach, Pat Goss, that he is long enough. All he has had to guard against is an old tendency to hit the ball too hard when the pressure is mounting ? a tendency he kept nicely in check when he won this year?s Honda Classic in Florida, pocketing $990,000 into the bargain.
Goss, the golf coach at Northwestern, did for Donald?s swing what Fannin did for his golfing mind. Donald was more of a links specialist than anything else when he arrived in Chicago and Goss adjusted his swing to one that marries perfectly with the American professional circuit.
When Chicago was covered in snow, the two would work together in Northwestern?s million-dollar Gleacher indoor centre, where the latest in video equipment allowed them to make a detailed study of Donald?s action in relation to Tiger Woods? then seemingly perfect swing.
It seems Donald has everything covered, including the way in which he paces himself. He knows how to switch off and, more than most, he has no shortage of alternative interests to turn to. As you would expect of someone who studied art and its history, he is scarcely less talented with a paintbrush in hand than he is with a wedge. Recently he finished his second poster for the Western Open, a picture of Jim Furyk lifting the trophy aloft in 2005.
As revealed in a recent US advert in which he talks about his interests away from the game, Donald can also play the piano. He might have only attained Grade 4 but can still give a cheerful rendition of Fleur de Lys.
Donald probably didn?t need a wake-up call from McEvoy because everything he is doing at the moment is calculated to make him a better player. Indeed, it is in ?plodding along as he does? ? to use a Tiger phrase which is rather more complimentary in the States than it is over here ? that he will almost certainly happen across his first Major. With a few lucky breaks it might even be under his belt before the end of the year.


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Every week I get a skeptic who tells me that they don't believe in God because He committed genocide and other atrocities.
Do they have a point?
Read this article and watch this video by Dr. Willam Lane Craig.
Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as "Agnosticism"
Every week I get a skeptic who tells me that they don't believe in God because He committed genocide and other atrocities.
Do they have a point?
Read this article and watch this video by Dr. Willam Lane Craig.
Skeptics want proof that God is real by using the scientific method.
But there are 3 mind-bending reasons why using the scientific method to detect God is an impossibility.
What makes these reasons out of this world?
Read this blog post to find out why using the scientific method to find God is like using a scale to measure the weather.
This is my story of why I stopped being an atheist and started believing in God.
It has a 4-minute video that was shot of me telling my story.
For the full version of my testimony, check the link in this post.
Some people don't believe that a loving God exists because there is so much evil and suffering the world today.
Why does God allow it?
This article is part one in a series that explains how a loving God exists who allows pain and suffering in the world today.
Sometimes we have doubts that God will come through for us because He's invisible.
Why is God invisible?
Watch this video to find out one of the best reasons.
Some atheists say that there's a lack of convincing evidence that God exists. Is that true?
In this blog post, I share with you my thoughts on that statement. I also share with you five convincing evidences why I believe God exists.
You can also download a free PDF article about five supposed contradictions in the Gospels, and their explanations.
Stephen Hawking, a world-renowned physicist, said recently in an interview that there is no God. (Source: CNET) Hawking didn't say that he doesn't believe in God, he said that there is no God. So when I read the article, naturally, I was upset. Why? Because there are so many people who are putting their trust in this man for truth, and …


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Did you manage to put down your cigarette finally after a lot of effort and self-control? Good, congratulations! But, you need to keep those cancer sticks at bay by embracing a running regimen. Running after you've kicked the butt is not only beneficial for your health, but will also make you feel that you've done something more worthy than just shunning the sin sticks. Here are five steps to help you start a running routine after you have stopped puffing away.
1. Consult Your Doctor
Have a word with your doctor before you embrace a running regimen. You may be recommended a chest therapy to lessen breathlessness after years of smoking. Listen to what your doctor says, and do accordingly.
2. Consider Little Activities
How about taking up small activities to improve your overall lung function and endurance? Get up from your couch and walk around your apartment during a TV commercial. Walk up the stairs instead of taking the elevator to get to your house. These small, but useful things will improve your stamina before you start running.
3. Take a Walk for 10 Minutes
Try walking for about 10 minutes daily for seven days. Add a couple of minutes to your walking regimen the following week. Keep doing this until you successfully complete half an hour of walking. Try this for five days a week to improve your breathing. You can either take a walk in your neighborhood park or on a treadmill.
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Once you are comfortable with walking without any shortness of breath, take up jogging. Jog at a steady and gradual pace instead of rushing into it. Start by adding five minutes to your jogging routine per day, and pursue it for five days in a week. Add two minutes to your regimen until you can successfully jog for 30 minutes without gasping for breath or coughing.
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Start by running for about five minutes daily. Keep adding a couple of minutes to this routine every week. Continue doing this until you reach 30 minutes.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Two lottery prizes together worth almost a billion dollars and sold just 150 miles apart are still waiting to be claimed.
New Jersey Man Wins Almost $194,000 Mega Jackpot On First Spin
The winning ticket for Friday's $521 million Mega Millions drawing was sold at a Lukoil station in Riverdale, New Jersey. Its estimated cash value is $324.6 million.
Two weeks earlier, the winning ticket for the March 17 Powerball jackpot worth almost $457 million was sold at a Speedway convenience store in Manheim, Pennsylvania. Its estimated cash value is $273.9 million.
The tickets were the sole winners for their respective drawings.
The sites that sold the tickets are also reaping a benefit. The owner of the Lukoil received a $30,000 bonus check Monday from the New Jersey Lottery. The Pennsylvania store earned a $100,000 bonus.
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Conceptual artist; Oakland, Calif.; b. 1947.
Donated 2004 by John Roloff as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America. As many of Roloff's pieces exist only for a month or an evening, these videotapes, digital and printed material are primary records. Additions are expected.
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ROCKTON — No need to spend thousands on a marketing and consulting firm when you have a graduating class of MBA students chomping at the bit to offer the same services for free.
ROCKTON — No need to spend thousands on a marketing and consulting firm when you have a graduating class of MBA students chomping at the bit to offer the same services for free.
Village President Dale Adams said he recently contacted Northern Illinois University in search of an intern to help in the village's planning and development efforts.
After talking to NIU's Professor of Finance, Dr. James Johnson, Adams and village residents will be receiving the services of about 40 eager MBA candidates. Their end-of-the year or capstone project will be to take the skills they have learned and develop a business plan to promote the village's downtown and maximize its economic potential.
"We'll have six groups of students," Johnson said. "They'll be competing against each other. This is the last thing they'll do before they graduate."
Adams, who is one of the area's longest serving municipal leaders and who is up for re-election on April 9, will travel to DeKalb on April 23 to meet with the students.
He will formally present the students with a problem statement and project goal.
"We want them to help us promote our village," he said. "We want them to focus primarily on downtown."
An additional challenge before the students is to enhance the village's downtown without detracting from its small-town charm.
Rockton's population is about 7,500, but balloons with visitors for sporting events, weddings, and other seasonal activities. Those visitors, however, tend to leave the village to dine, shop and find lodging elsewhere.
Once a regional destination during the heyday of the famed Wagon Wheel Resort, Adams said the riverfront bedroom community has the potential to become a regional destination again similar to "St. Charles or Galena."
Thanks to big-box stores like Walmart and Farm and Fleet and other developments sprouting on the outskirts of the village on Rockton Road, Adams anticipates Rockton topping $1 million in sales tax revenue in the very near future. That money can be used to bring to fruition plans developed by the NIU students.
In the coming weeks, the students will be given tours of the village to learn the lay of the land.
By the end of July, each group is to have developed a complete business plan with actionable goals to give Rockton's downtown a new identity or brand and help village officials nurture the businesses they have, attract new businesses, and entice visitors to extend their stay.
"We've done this about 20 times, Johnson said of capstone projects, which have been geared toward businesses and non profits. This is the first time a municipality has been chosen.
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Oakland A's infielder Marcus Semien laced a 2-0 foul ball down the third base line and ball boy makes an amazing diving play, saving fellow Oakland Athletics pitcher from getting hit. Take a look what the fans and players did for the ball boy who was willing to risk his life, in efforts of saving the players in the bullpen in left field. LOL..
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NEW YORK -- Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa Inc. will open what's expected to be a disappointing earnings season when it reports third-quarter results Tuesday after the markets close.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR: Alcoa produces aluminum for a wide range of businesses, from automobiles to appliance makers and energy companies. It is the first company in the Dow Jones industrial average to report earnings so investors often watch its results for signs of how earnings may unfold for other companies
The slower global economy is expected to weigh on quarterly results for U.S. companies across a broad range of sectors. Analysts predict a decline of 1.3 percent in third-quarter earnings from a year ago for companies in the Standard & Poor's 500, according to S&P Capital IQ.
The economies of the U.S. and China are slowing. Europe's debt crisis has forced some countries into recession. Alcoa faces challenges from a slowdown in manufacturing in all three regions. Demand has been mixed and prices have been weaker while supplies are plentiful.
Alcoa's sales to automobile manufacturers and aerospace companies likely remained solid but construction markets are still weak, analysts said.
In addition, spot aluminum prices averaged about $1,900 per metric ton during the quarter, Morningstar Inc. analyst Bridget Freas said. Alcoa's realized price was $2,689 per metric ton in the year-ago quarter.
Shares of Alcoa rose 1.3 percent in the third quarter, ending at $8.86 per share on Sept. 28.
WHY IT MATTERS: Alcoa's performance provides a picture of economic growth because aluminum is used to make so many products for businesses and consumers. About three-fourths of its sales are in the U.S. and Europe.
WHAT'S EXPECTED: Analysts surveyed by FactSet predict earnings of 1 cent per share on revenue of $5.6 billion.
Argus Research analyst Bill Selesky expects Alcoa to lower its 2012 forecast for growth in global aluminum demand to 6 percent from 7 percent. "It's highly dependent on economic growth and until that starts to pick up, you know, we're probably in a steady state right now for Alcoa," he said.
LAST YEAR'S QUARTER: Alcoa's 2011 third-quarter net income totaled $172 million, or 15 cents a share. Revenue totaled $6.42 billion.


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What do you do when the whole world thinks 'Hamilton' is trending because of a Formula One driver and not a musical? Write a musical about it of course! But this is no mere parody of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip hop hit. Original, and as witty as it's inspiration, this musical…View Post


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The Federal Reserve's liquidity announcement injected life into stocks Tuesday, and the Dow jumped more than 350 points. To give investors an edge, CNBC asked market experts for their best trades in this market.
Sizing Up Infrastructure Stocks
"The spending on infrastructure continues to grow over long periods of time. Our studies indicate spending on water [and] spending on roads has been rising at about six percent annually [over] the past 20 years. As you go through these downturns, and tax receipts are cut, there can be pauses, but there is long-term growth in this market."
- John Rogers, D.A. Davidson & Co.
Rogers recommends: Granite Construction and Sterling Construction.
Betting on Tech
"Technology -- that's where the largest overweight is in my portfolio, for the simple reason that the real cash flow yields, the valuations are as cheap as I saw in the fall of 2002, at the same time that net profit margins at 10 percent are near all-time highs … Names like Corning , Cisco , Harris Corp. , all high cashflow generators, [those are] the largest overweight in my portfolio."
- David Sowerby, Loomis Sayles & Co. Chief Market Analyst
Energizing Your Portfolio With Natural Gas
"St. Mary's is an excellent company with a very good collection of assets that has fallen on hard times the last year or so in terms of substandard reserve replacement. The company is trading at roughly 10, 11 times earnings, roughly four times cash flow, with frankly a very bulletproof balance sheet … Irrespective of whether the current commodity price trend continues, we think a strong case can be made for value in St. Mary's shares today."
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Something I've wanted to blog about for a while now is my ever growing red lipstick collection, and there's no time like the present, so here we go! Now first things first, I will admit I'm a bit of a red lipstick junkie, and the nine shades you will see before you are probably only two thirds of the collection, but there's something I love about a bold, bright lip colour that just keeps me coming back for more! I didn't intend on showing you quite as many shades, and I know that some of them look very similar (I blame the camera…) but I just couldn't whittle my favourites down any further than this, plus I wanted to show you a range of brands and price brackets to make sure there's something here for everyone!
1. Mac Amplified Creme Lipstick in Morange
2. Bella Pierre Mineral Lipstick in Mandarina
3. Lola Matte Long Lasting Lipstick in Cheeky Cherry
4. Mac Matte Finish Lipstick in Lady Danger
5. Seventeen Lasting Fix Lipstick in Showcase
6. Chanel Rouge Allure Luminous Intense Lip Colour in 98 Coromandel*
7. Mac Matte Finish Lipstick in Russian Red
8. Chanel Rouge Coco Hydrating Creme Lip Colour in 31 Cambon
9. Natural Collection Moisture Shine Lipstick in Crimson
I won't bore you with every last detail of each lipstick, but I will talk briefly about their finishes and overall colour quality, starting with the first four, what I like to call my orangey-reds! These four are probably my most reached for at the moment, or at least whilst we were experiencing the sunnier weather, as they are just so bright and scream summer to me. I will admit that I wasn't aware at how alike these four were in shade, but in finish and formula they do differ (promise!). Morange is my favourite of these, as it's super creamy and Amplified Mac lipsticks are my favourite formula from the range. It's very pigmented and long lasting, as are all the others. Mandarina is a new addition from a recent Glossybox and one that I'm really loving. It's again really creamy and very similar to Morange. Cheeky Cherry and Lady Danger are pretty much exact dupes in colour and formula. They are both matte and extremely long lasting, but aren't drying at all on the lips when worn with a balm. I turn to these when I have a busy day or a special occasion when I want my colour to stay put as long as possible.
Number 5 and 6 are what I would call my 'true' reds, as they are the perfect pillar box shades that I think would suit most skin tones. Seventeen's Lasting Fix lipstick in Showcase was my first venture into the world of bold lip colours, and it's still one of my firm favourites. The almost matte finish and staying power of this one is brilliant for such a budget buy. I also love the Chanel Rouge Allure Lip Colour in Coromandel as seen in my recent red lip tutorial, for a more luxurious, glossy finish in a similar shade.
Finally we have the deep reds, running from 7 to 9 (I promise you they look different to the rest!). These are the shades I turn to more in the Autumn/Winter months as they are fairly deep in colour, some almost berry-like. These are Mac's Russian Red, Chanel Rouge Coco in Cambon and Natural Collection's Crimson; all very different price ranges but all pack a punch when it comes to colour and finish! Russian Red, probably the darkest of the three, has a matte finish, making it stick around for a long time. Chanel's Cambon is one of my all time favourites, and is a lovely shade with a really smooth, satin finish and almost raspberry tone. Last but not least is one of my favourite bargains at just £1.99; Crimson by Natural Collection at Boots! This is super moisturising, and although you do have to layer on more than usual for a good build up of colour, the shade is lovely and it won't break the bank!
Phew! I didn't realise I had quite so much to say about red lipsticks!! What are your must have shades?


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QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — Hannaford Supermarkets is becoming the first major retail chain to back a program designed to help New England's troubled dairy farmers make more money and stay in business.
Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources Commissioner Scott Soares is set to announce Tuesday that Hannaford will stock locally produced milk and dairy products.
The program seeks to encourage New England residents to buy local products after about 150 small farmers went out of business due to rising costs to produce milk and dairy products and shrinking profits. The initiative will also provide additional money directly to area farmers.
Soares says Hannaford's 171 stores in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont will provide major exposure for the initiative.
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Roosevelt Island Residents Surveyed About Future Of Southpoint Park At Farmers Market Last Saturday - Upcoming Resident Surveys At Bike NY Helmet Giveaway, Roosevelt Island Day And Online
Mr. Bloch and Ms. Miltimore spoke with members of the Roosevelt Island community at the Farmers Market last Saturday about possible future uses at Southpoint Park
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including an East River kayak facilitity, open spaces,
special events, performances, making it pet friendly,
landscape aesthetics, the Smallpox Hospital
I spoke with Mr. Bloch about the Southpoint Open Space Survey at last Saturday's Farmers Market. Here's what he had to say.
The Southpoint Open Space Survey team reported today:
Rescheduled Pop-Up Outreach MeetingMore information on the Southpoint Open Space project at their web site and this previous post.
What do you think of Southpoint Open Space? Would you like to see it enhanced for the community?
We want to hear from you. We want to know what you think.
In light of tomorrow's forecast for a rainy Saturday, our second Pop-Up Outreach Meeting has been rescheduled. Please note the new day and time below.
Come to Bike New York's Helmet Giveaway Event on Thursday, 5/26 from 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM, located in Good Shepherd Plaza (543 Main Street).
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When: Saturday, June 11, from 11 AM to 3 PM
Where: Good Shepherd Plaza (543 Main Street) & Blackwell Plaza (500 Main Street)
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The Homework Help Club provides students with the opportunity to obtain assistance with homework and practice basic skills. Students who may not need help but simply a place to work are also welcome.
Starting September 9, 2019, the tutoring schedule is:
- Tuesday & Wednesday before school: 7:15-7:45am, Anderson E3
- Monday & Wednesday during lunch: Gunio G4 (math), Takashima X3 (math 6), Makhana J6 (7th/8th)
- Tuesday & Thursday during lunch: Roman G2 (7th/8th), Zuckerbraun X4 (6th), Zelsdorf G1 (science/math), Gunio G4 (math)
- Monday & Thursday after school: 3:10-4:15pm, Uchida M2, Vial C4 (6th-8th History/English/Science)
When possible a student will be assigned to a teacher based on grade level and the academic subject he/she needs the most assistance with. For example, 6th grade math/science students will be with one teacher while 8th grade math/science will be with another teacher.
Students seeking help during lunch must be in the help classroom within 10 minutes of the start of the lunch period and stay in that room the entire lunch time.
Students participating in the after school program are to be in their assigned classroom and signed in by 3:15 PM. Students are not required to attend every day tutoring is offered. Also, a student's first day may be any day tutoring is offered throughout the semester – just see Ms Uchida on or before the first day.
If a student will be picked up by a parent that student may leave when her/his ride arrives otherwise students must remain in the classroom until dismissal time – 4:20 PM.
All Revere students are welcome to come to Homework Help Club. The release form below must be returned on the first day of attendance.
The last LAUSD late bus day is Thursday, May 7, 2020. If you have any questions please leave a message and phone number for Ms Uchida, 310-917-4800.
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This year Revere will have late buses for students participating in an organized after school program (Homework Help Club or P.E.P.) on Mondays and Thursdays. The buses are scheduled to depart Revere at 4:30pm. The first day of late buses is Monday, September 9. The late buses are only for students that take the LAUSD school bus to and from Revere. Students will need a late bus pass (issued from the supervising teacher) in addition to their regular bus pass to board the late bus. The late buses will drop off at all regularly assigned stops.In an effort to improve and maintain student safety, any students that stay after school on Mondays and Thursdays must report to the gym and check in with the staff by 3:15 on Monday/2:15 on Thursday. Any student that arrives after 15 mintues will no longer be allowed to stay after school. Students will remain supervised in the PE area until their activity begins. Homework Help Club is from 3:15-4:20.Please note that there are no late buses on the following Professional Development Days:8/20/19, 9/17/19, 9/24/19, 10/8/19, 10/15/19, 10/29/19, 11/19/19, 1/14/20, 1/21/20, 2/4/20, 2/16/20, 3/3/20, 3/17/20.Participating in after school activities and riding the late bus is a privilege. We expect all students to behave appropriately and be respectful at all times.If you have any questions regarding the late buses, please contact Mr. Koretz in the Attendance Office -- email@example.com.


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Friday, October 23, 2009
The C Gallery
The C Gallery of Los Alamos, CA has a miniatures show opening tomorrow night. I have three pieces in the show and fourth piece in the gallery. Picture here are two of them Long-Billed Curlew 5"x5" acrylic on board and Feeding Pintail 4"x4" acrylic on board.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Back from the Dormant
This blog has been essentially dormant for the past 3 months and barely had a pulse for a couple of months before that. I plan on changing that as there is so much going on. I'll talk about what has happened for the first few posts though. My other blog - Daily Paintings by Peter Mathios - has been going strong if you would like to see recent completed works. In the meantime, stay tuned over the next couple of weeks as I share about two recent trips to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, shows, works in progress and anything related to art. Pictured is Last Light, 5"x5", acrylic on board.
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NFL Draft 2017: Packers get defensive help with Kevin King
After trading out of the first round Thursday, the Packers had all day Friday to figure out what they were going to do with the 33rd overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.
The Packers were willing to trade the pick, but instead chose Washington cornerback Kevin King to begin the second round of the draft.
King was the only one of the five players invited to Philadelphia for the draft who came back for the second day after not getting selected in the first round. He didn't have to wait long Friday, going off the board immediately.
"I came here to walk the stage and get my hat," King told NFL Network. "It was disappointing (Thursday) night. I wouldn't have come here (Thursday) night if I didn't think I was going to get picked."
"I am so excited for this opportunity."
The Packers, who have made the playoffs eight straight seasons, needed defensive help after ranking 31st in pass defense last season. King would also help the Packers overcome the loss of defensive back Micah Hyde in free agency and may even be an upgrade over Hyde.
King is a long corner at 6-3, 200 pounds who can line up on an island, slide inside over the slot as a nickel corner or even play safety if the Packer need him to. He was a three-year starter at Washington and can give the Packers some flexibility.


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Dustin Yager, a New York-based artist, received his BA in studio art from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, and his MA in visual and critical studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. He has exhibited his work most recently in the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction's juried art show in Bloomington, Indiana, and in the solo exhibition Waste Not, Want Not, The Ledge Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. His "work draws attention to the fact that we are both consumers and producers of culture. Culture exists on a variety of scales, from incredibly personal experiences to the values embodied by our material belongings, creations, displays, and actions."


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The author of Life, Inc. examines the pros and cons of today's digitally driven, real-time world, explaining how to safeguard against the vulnerabilities of instant-experience media while maximizing its benefits.
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In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'
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Excerpt: Present Shock
He is one of the most prescient hedge fund managers on Wall Street, but his trades always seem to happen after the fact. That's because as soon as he executes an order, it is observed and preempted by traders at bigger firms with faster computers. The spread changes, and his buy order goes through just a few fractions of a penny higher than it should have. He is trading in the past, longing for the software and geeks he needs to get into his competitors' present. And his clients can no longer conceive of investing in a company's future, anyway; they want to win on the trade itself, as it actually happens.
She's at a bar on Manhattan's Upper East Side, but she seems oblivious to the boys and the music. Instead of engaging with those around her, she's scrolling through text messages on her phone, from friends at other parties across town. She needs to know if the event she's at is the event to be at, or whether something better is happening at that very moment, somewhere else. Sure enough, a blip on the tiny screen catches her interest, and in seconds her posse is in a cab headed for the East Village. She arrives at a seemingly identical party and decides it's "the place to be," yet instead of enjoying it, she turns her phone around, activates the camera, and proceeds to take pictures of herself and her friends for the next hour — instantly uploading them for the world to see her in the moment.
He sees the signs all around him: the latest "natural" disaster on the evening news; the fluctuations in the prices at the gas pump; talk of a single world currency. Information overload might not have increased the rate at which disasters occur, but it has exponentially increased the rate at which they're witnessed. As a result, prophecy no longer feels like a description of the future but, rather, a guide to the present. The ideas of quantum physicists and the Mayans have been twisted to indicate that time itself will soon be coming to an end, anyway. The messianic age is no longer something to prepare for; it is a current event. What would Jesus do?
This is the new "now."
Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It's not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It's more of a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now — and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.
It's why the world's leading search engine is evolving into a live, customized, and predictive flow of data branded "Google Now"; why email is giving way to texting, and why blogs are being superseded by Twitter feeds. It's why kids in school can no longer follow linear arguments; why narrative structure collapsed into reality TV; and why we can't engage in meaningful dialogue about last month's books and music, much less long- term global issues. It's why an economy once based on long- term investment and interest bearing currency can no longer provide capital to those who plan to put it to work for future rewards. It's why so many long for a "singularity" or a 2012 apocalypse to end linear time altogether and throw us into a posthistoric eternal present — no matter the cost to human agency or civilization itself.
But it's also how we find out what's happening on the streets of Iran before CNN can assemble a camera crew. It's what enables an unsatisfied but upwardly mobile executive to quit his job and move with his family to Vermont to make kayaks — which he thought he'd get to do only once he retired. It's how millions of young people can choose to embody a new activism based in patient consensus instead of contentious debate. It's what enables companies like H& M or Zara to fabricate clothes in real time, based on the instantaneous data coming from scanned tags at checkout counters five thousand miles away. It's how a president can run for office and win by breaking from the seeming tyranny of the past and its false hope, and tell voters that "we are the ones we have been waiting for."
Well, the waiting is over. Here we are.
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
The looking forward so prevalent in the late 1990s was bound to end once the new millennium began. Like some others of that era, I predicted a new focus on the moment, on real experience, and on what things are actually worth right now. Then 9/11 magnified this sensibility, forcing America as a nation to contend with its own impermanence. People had babies in droves, and even filed for divorces, in what was at least an unconscious awareness that none of us lives forever and an accompanying reluctance to postpone things indefinitely. Add real-time technologies, from the iPhone to Twitter; a disposable consumer economy where 1-Click ordering is more important than the actual product being purchased; a multitasking brain actually incapable of storage or sustained argument; and an economy based on spending now what one may or may not earn in a lifetime, and you can't help but become temporally disoriented. It's akin to the onslaught of changing rules and circumstances that 1970s futurist Alvin Toffler dubbed "future shock."
Only, in our era it's more of a present shock. And while this phenomenon is clearly "of the moment," it's not quite as in the moment as we may have expected.
For while many of us were correct about the way all this presentism would affect investments and finance, even technology and media, we were utterly wrong about how living in the "now" would end up impacting us as people. Our focus on the present may have liberated us from the twentieth century's dangerously compelling ideological narratives. No one — well, hardly anyone — can still be convinced that brutal means are justified by mythological ends. And people are less likely to believe employers' and corporations' false promises of future rewards for years of loyalty now. But it has not actually brought us into greater awareness of what is going on around us. We are not approaching some Zen state of an infinite moment, completely at one with our surroundings, connected to others, and aware of ourselves on any fundamental level.
Rather, we tend to exist in a distracted present, where forces on the periphery are magnified and those immediately before us are ignored. Our ability to create a plan — much less follow through on it — is undermined by our need to be able to improvise our way through any number of external impacts that stand to derail us at any moment. Instead of finding a stable foothold in the here and now, we end up reacting to the ever- present assault of simultaneous impulses and commands.
From Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff. Copyright 2013 by Douglass Rushkoff. Excerpted by permission of Current/Penguin.


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With the rod-clamp with thumb screws, you can securely attach the microBalance Plus unit to 15mm standard rods of camera support systems. Using the left-right adjustment block, you can optimally adjust the position of the counterweight to balance your camera system. The cheese plate offers mounting holes for Anton Bauer or Sony v-mount battery plates.


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FINAL WEEKEND: 'Tuesdays with Morrie' touches on acceptance, love at Center Stage
"Tuesdays with Morrie," under the direction of Gary and Francesca Scarpa, will be performed through Sunday, Oct. 19 at Center Stage Theatre
The play features Stan Alpert as Morrie Schwartz and Brett Boles as Mitch Albom.
Alpert has previously appeared at Center Stage in "Twelve Angry Men" and "Harvey."
Boles is a longtime veteran of Center Stage and has appeared in such plays as "Guys and Dolls," "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "Inherit the Wind."
Well-known book and TV movie
Based on Mitch Albom's book and made-for-TV movie that starred Hank Azaria and Jack Lemmon, the autobiographical story tells of a work-consumed sports journalist who is inspired to live life more fully when he reconnects with an old college professor, who is dying of ALS.
The play teaches lessons of acceptance, love, communication, values, openness and happiness.
"Ironically, we chose Tuesdays with Morrie before the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was in full swing," Gary Scarpa said. "Center Stage plans do our part to contribute to ALS during the run of Tuesdays by taking donations from our audiences at every performance."
'Examine my own priorities and relationships'
"Playing Mitch in Tuesdays With Morrie has caused me to examine my own priorities and relationships," said Boles, a Newtown resident. "I had a relationship with a college professor that was very similar to the relationship Mitch and Morrie shared.
"I reached out to him the other day, and I'm not sure I would have had the presence of mind to do so had it not been for this play," he said.
"It's been an eye-opening and life affirming experience, and Mitch is a role that I know will always hold a special place in my heart," Boles said.
Alpert, an Ansonia resident, looks forward to playing such a meaningful role. "Because Morrie Schwartz is such a familiar and beloved character to people, due to the best-selling book, I hope to effectively present and honor Morrie's essence," Albert said.
Times and tickets
Performances will take place Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. from Oct. 3 to 18; Sunday at 2 p.m. on Oct. 5, 12 and 19; and Thursday at 7 p.m. on Oct. 16. For tickets or information, go to centerstageshelton.org or call 203-225-6079.
The nonprofit Center Stage Theatre, founded in 2005, is at 54 Grove St., Shelton (former Lafayette School).


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Ben Hogan described her swing as the best he ever saw. So did Byron Nelson. For 14 years, she dominated women's golf, winning 82 tournaments and carrying the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour on her shoulders. Mickey Wright was not burdened by potential-potential, in her words, was but a hope to be fulfilled. What made her retire, at age 34, was the burden of being Mickey Wright.
"The pressure was so great," remembers Kathy Whitworth. "Sponsors threatened to cancel their tournaments if she didn't play. And, knowing that if they canceled, the rest of us wouldn't be able to play, Mickey would always play."
The buzzword today is burnout. Wright played 33 tournaments in 1962, another 30 in 1963 and 27 in 1964. She won 10, 13 and 11 tournaments in those years, and as the LPGA's president, it was Wright's duty to promote the tour by doing every conceivable interview and attending every press conference that was scheduled. That just wasn't her. "I'm not real good as far as wanting to be in front of people, glorying in it and loving it," Wright has said. "I think you have to love that to make that kind of pressure tolerable. It finally got to where it wasn't tolerable to me."
"I feel as if I've earned my own version of a master's degree in psychology in study and experience, trial and error, on golf courses throughout the United States. For psychology...is as integral a part of good golf as an efficient swing."
It had also reached the point where there wasn't much left to accomplish. Wright won the U.S. Women's Open and the LPGA Championship four times each. She won the Vare Trophy five times, was the leading money winner four times, twice had winning streaks of four straight tournaments and held LPGA records for lowest round (62), lowest nine-hole score (30) and most birdies in a round (nine). At the peak of her career, Herbert Warren Wind described her as "a tall, good-looking girl who struck the ball with the same decisive hand action that the best men players use, she fused her hitting action smoothly with the rest of her swing, which was like Hogan's in that all the unfunctional moves had been pared away, and like Jones' in that its cohesive timing disguised the effort that went into it." Citing an adverse reaction to sunlight, an aversion to flying and foot problems, Wright cut back her schedule dramatically after the 1969 season to lead a quieter, simpler life, in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Although she came back in 1973 to win the Dinah Shore, Wright knew that she had fulfilled her potential and elected to bow out on her terms. "I maintain that she could have won 100 tournaments if she hadn't quit early," says Whitworth, who won 88. Born Feb. 14, 1935, in San Diego, Wright began to hit balls with her father at age 4. At the age of 11 she received her first lesson at La Jolla CC, and within a year had broken 100. Three years later, she posted a round of 70 in a local tournament and, in 1952, Wright won the USGA Girls' Junior championship for her first national title.
Mickey Wright's 13 wins in 1963 remain the most in a single LPGA season.
For a year, Wright studied psychology at Stanford, but she left school after her freshman year to play a fulltime schedule. In the summer of 1954, she lost in the final of the U.S. Women's Amateur, finished fourth in the Women's Open to Babe Zaharias and won the World Amateur staged by golf promoter George S. May. Those three tournaments convinced Wright to leave school and turn professional. "Golf has brought me more rewards, financially and personally, than I ever could have earned had I become the psychology teacher I set out to be," Wright said later in life. "I feel as if I've earned my own version of a master's degree in psychology in study and experience, trial and error, on golf courses throughout the United States. For psychology…is as integral a part of good golf as an efficient swing."


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Fascinating film commentary by Tony Zhou in the following film clips.
Film critic Jonathan Crow @jonccrow offers a bit of context:
"Compared to Ozu and Mizoguchi, Kurosawa's movies are noisy, masculine and vital. Unlike Ozu, he didn't challenge Hollywood film form but improved on it. Born roughly a decade after the other two filmmakers, Kurosawa spent his youth watching Western movies, absorbing the lessons of his cinematic heroes like John Ford, Howard Hawks and Frank Capra."


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Qeshm Expedition
Created on a salt dome Qeshm is the largest island in Persian Gulf and the whole Middle East. Located in the strategic strait of Hormoz it has always been center of attraction for traders and adventurers. The diversity of different landscapes and valuable natural resources has made Qeshm an outstanding target for Iranian and international tourists. The Geo-Park has several unique geological sites which together with the union culture and exemplary hospitality of the local people and a very tasty sea cuisine creates joyful and memorable time for any traveler.
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Military family health focus at Fort Campbell
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – The Child and Family Behavioral Health System officially opened at Fort Campbell Aug. 27.
The ribbon-cutting was performed by Maj. Gen. Gary Volesky, senior commander of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and Fort Campbell, community supporters Staff Sgt. Aaron Fast and his spouse Melissa, as well as the commander of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital and community partners.
The CAFBHS is the Army's model to provide behavioral health services to military children and their families.
Blanchfield Army Community Hospital will serve as the Southern Regional Medical Command's prototype for the system of care.
The CAFBHS building is located 2436 21st Street and Indiana Avenue at Fort Campbell, Ky. and is approximately 5,000 square feet. It will house School Behavioral Health, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics.
It is located next door to the second CAFBHS site, which houses Child Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy.
Blanchfield Army Community Hospital commander Col. George N. Appenzeller said that the building is not really what was being recognized.
"This is a symbol of the Army's continuing commitment to soldiers and families," said Appenzeller. "Over the last 13 years of persistent conflict, the one thing that has been true is the strength of our Army is our soldiers and the foundation and bedrock is the strength of our families."
The CAFBHS team will promote prevention, active collaboration, consultation, and partnering between behavioral health specialty providers who see Family members and their primary care managers inside the Patient Centered Medical Homes.
Coordinated family services
CAFBHS Director Dr. Quentin Humberd said, "Nearly 60 percent of our soldiers have family responsibilities, and that has resulted in more than two million of our children being exposed to at least one parental wartime deployment over the last 11 years."
"No one believes this is an easy task. However our soldiers and their families have demonstrated remarkable courage, resilience and perseverance; they deserve our ongoing thanks and our ongoing support."
Humberd told ceremony attendees that the care should be seamless and patients should experience healthcare that recognizes that behavioral health or mental health are no different than physical health.
The opening of the CAFBHS will serve as the coordinated service point for many families who may be confused on which direction to turn for their behavioral health needs. BACH's command team and the CAFBHS personnel will strive to provide families an increase in coordination of services, helping them through difficult times.
According to Humberd, "The CAFBHS building is a symbol of the commitment we have to implement this system of care. The system will continue to grow over the next three years."


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Maria Ana Vasco Costa creates sculptural objects and site specific artworks, working primarily in the field of Ceramics.
Based in Lisbon, she has a degree in Ceramics and Fine Arts by Ar.Co Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual and a Master degree in Architecture by Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.
Maria Ana is the head of the Ceramic Department in Ar.Co Centro de Arte and Comunicação Visual.
She was shortlisted for the Mostyn Open 19, and won several Surface Design Awards from 2016-18.
Her show "´Água d´Alto" is on view at Galeria Municipal de Arte, Almada, until the 15th August 2019.
"Veículo Longo" is on view at Casa-Atelier Vieira da Silva until the 27th October 2019.
Maria Ana Vasco Costa shows her work regularly in Portugal and abroad:"The Land of the Glazed Cities", Imperial Palace, Beijing (2019); "Do presente para o futuro", Museu do Azulejo, Lisboa (2018); "Portugal Tropical", Merzbau Gallery, Miami (2016); "Primeira Escolha",Museu José Malhoa, Caldas da Rainha (2016); "Mostyn 19 Agora", Mostyn, Landudno, Wales (2015), "HD", Espaço AZ, Lisboa (2014) e "ABECEDÁRIO – 40 Anos do Ar.Co", Museu do Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal (2013).
Her work is represented in private and public collections. She is represented by Galeria Fonseca Macedo.
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What We're Reading July 10, 2015
We hope you're having a great day wherever you are and that the news we dig up for you this morning helps you navigate the day more efficiently!
It's a busy world out there, and you don't have a ton of free time to be doing Internet searches for the most important items of the day… lucky for you, we do. We drink gallons of coffee in an effort to stay awake long enough to scour the far reaches of the world wide web in an effort to bring you the most important, useful and useless information every single day.
You're welcome.
Trending: No, Hillary Did Not Win the Popular Vote…And Yes, the Electoral College Did Protect America from Corruption at the Ballot Box
So without further ado, here's what we're reading Friday, July 10, 2015.
There are many difficulties facing the USA today but perhaps the most dangerous is the way that some in our society have turned wholesale against the rule of law.
Democrats are now rushing away from sanctuary city policies – even though they've supported such policies for years! When Hillary Clinton was asked about the recent shooting in San Francisco she said, "The city made a mistake not to deport someone that the federal government strongly felt should be deported. So I have absolutely no support for a city that ignores the strong evidence that should be acted on." Yes, she supported Sanctuary City ideas for years.
Sanctuary City proponents are no less than immigration secessionists.
If the Republicans wish to win the 2016 election they have to make sure that they focus their energy and their attacks on the economy.
There is no chance that Bernie Sanders will ever be President but there is more than a small chance that he will end up toppling Hillary Clinton.
Hillary Clinton has opened the door to Joe Biden – if the Vice President wants he's got a chance to completely upend the Presidential race.
The dirty little secrets about 2016 election predictions.
Bernie Sanders and the passions of socialism are the future of the Democrat Party whether we conservatives like it or not.
There is a case to be made against encouraging polygamy – even now that same-sex marriage has been mandated in all 50 states.
The views expressed in this opinion article are solely those of their author and are not necessarily either shared or endorsed by EagleRising.com


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How to think Beyond your Brain
What a night to remember! A spectacular venue coupled with the most sought after topic of the technological evolution – Futurism. Dave took us through a look at the past into our fourth industrial revolution and then discussed the obsession we have been having with "Data" and "Validation". He highlighted that over the past 10 years … Continued


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Android is powerful operating system for smart phones. It make the user smart with the help of its Smart app which are provided by Google Play store. With the help of these app we can do many task at home without much effort and we can save a lot of time. Android Banking Apps are a live example of it. We can easily manage our account without going to bank. We can easily transfer , pay from our bank account with help of Banking Apps. Android also provide apps in many different sectors. Due to our busy schedule we forgot our daily task or special occasions like birthdays, events, parties etc. Android also provide solution for this problem. With the help of its Calendar apps for android we can easily mark them. By using calendar apps for android we can easily set our Goals and agendas and also set reminders for them. We can easily manage our tasks with the help of these apps. Today here we are going to provide you some best calendar apps for android phone which will solve your all issues to remember any event.
List Of Best Calendar Apps For Android.
1. Google Calendar.
Google Calendar is an official and most popular in all calendar Apps for android phone. It make us smart with its smart features. It can automatically pick event from the Gmail like flights, restaurant booking, concert etc. We can also set reminders for our to do list alongside. It also have a new schedule view. View our schedule with photos at a glance. It also assist us to fill our calendar with places, events, peoples etc. Approximately 200 million users downloaded this app.
2. Jorte Calendar.
Jorte Calendar is popular Alternative to Google Calendar with various features. We can easily make our schedule, appointments, events etc. Most frequent appointments are shown in Red color in this Calendar. We can easily sync across multiple devices. It also provide Jorte cloud for backup purpose. We can also integrate it with Evernote. It also provide diary to note our routine tasks. Monthly, weekly and daily views are available. It also provide count down feature in which we can see how many days are left in event to occur. Approximately 50 million users downloaded this app.
3. aClander Android Calendar.
aCalendar is another popular in all calendar apps for android with awesome features. It is a light weight App with awesome graphics. This app provide 48 different color for each calendar. Different color for different events. We can also pic birthdays of our friends and relatives from our phone contacts. We can easily switch between month views with a horizontal swipe. QR or NFC code sharing of events. It will s totally ad free. Approximately 10 million users downloaded this app.
4. Month Calendar Widgets.
It is great in an all other calendar apps for Android. We do not need open this app to view calendar or manage our events. It provide calendar a Widgets on our home screen. We can place more than one widgets on our home screen. It's calendar event extension enable us to manage our events from the widget. We can also use these Widgets on the lock screen. Approximately 5 million users downloaded this app.
5. Hindu Calendar.
Hindu Calendar is one the calendar for users who belongs Hindu religions. It provide all the festivals of Hindu religion. It provide panchang for any day of the year. This app also provides kundli for any location and date, time both in north and south Indian format. It has four beautiful Widgets which give Moon rise, Moon set, Sunrise and sun set time. It also provide planet position both in sayana and nirayana systems. Approximately 10 million users downloaded this app.
6. Period Tracker, My Calendar.
Period Tracker Calendar is specially designed for Women to track their periods. Now women do not need to track and remember the date of their periods. With the help of this App women always know when their next period, fertile and ovulation. It also help women to track the possibility of pregnancy and birth control. It also provide the period notification and pill notification. We can also backup our data on Google Account. Approximately 10 million users downloaded this app.
7. To Do Calendar Planner.
It is another Android Calendar app with awesome features. We can a powerful task list that support batch operations. It provide us a full scrollable Calendar with daily, weekly, monthly and agenda view. It also provide option to set multiple reminder for one task and events. We can also attach file and photos to our tasks. We can also use daily journey feature to track our life. This app can also sync our data across multiple devices. Approximately 10 million people use this app.
8. Solcalendar- Calendar/ To do.
Solcalendar is one of the best alternative to Google calendar with its awesome features. It can easily manage our events, special days and To Do list. It provide stickers for our special events. This app also provide Month, Week, Day views. It also provide beautiful Widgets for our home screen like to do, Calendar, Agenda etc. It also provide weather forecast based on the current location and Map integration. Approximately 5 million users downloaded this app.
9. Coletto Calendar Cute dairy.
Coletto Calendar is a very beautiful for girls in all calendar apps for android. We can easily note our tasks, to do list and special events. We can also label the colors for different kinds of appointment assigned. It provide a handwriting like style. It can manage our data, appointment s and photos taken on a particular date itself. This is a cute, easy to use app which is specially designed for girls who have very busy schedule. Approximately 5 million users downloaded this app.
10. DigiCal Calendar.
DigiCal Calendar is also an Android Calendar app which is available for free on Google play store for free. It provide six highly customizable Widgets with different themes and backgrounds. It is available in 27 different languages. We can easily share events with our friends and events. Easy navigation between day, week and month view. It provide seamless color for different events. Approximately 5 million users downloaded this app.
These are all popular and widely used calendar apps for android phone. we hope you will get any of best android calendar app according to your requirement.