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10 Events for Your Diary This April
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Calling all film buffs! Catch the tail end of HK's film festival and witness different cinematic visions from filmmakers all over the world. Giant blockbuster movies like the latest superhero tales are definitely entertaining, but festivals like these offer small budget and lovingly crafted films which immerse you in worlds of wholly original stories, tender performances and beautiful cinematography.
When: Monday, 19 March – Thursday, 5 April. Check the festival's calendar to see which films you still have the chance to catch.
Where: Different venues around HK
How much: Prices vary according to film and venue. Pricing guide here!
18+ Central
Hong Kong is going naughty this month! The Central Harbourfront will be transformed into an adults-only zone for the city's first ever adult-themed carnival. This eye-popping event aims to please men and women alike with an invitation to get a little wild in a stimulating and non-judgmental environment. There will be unique experiences, performances and workshops on offer with a programme that includes pole-dancing workshops, fancy dress competitions, sexy photo shoot sessions and revealing (wink!) dance shows.
When: Thursday, 5 April – Sunday, 8 April
Where: Central Harbourfront, 9 Lung Wo Road, Central, Hong Kong
How much: Different ticket options are available. Thursday's premiere night is $560; from Friday to Sunday, day sessions are $380 while night sessions are $460; VIP day passes from Thursday to Sunday are $760. Get your tickets here!
Hong Kong Rugby Sevens
Yes, it's that glorious time again! The Sevens are in town and the world's top rugby teams are coming back to Hong Kong to participate in the super exciting tournament. Attending the Sevens is a rite of passage for Hong Kongers so don't miss the chance to join in on the fun. Goofy costumes and a steady flow of alcohol create a party atmosphere, so even if you know absolutely nothing about rugby, you will be cheering with deep conviction for a team you know nothing about it in no time!
When: Friday, 6 April – Sunday, 8 April
Where: Hong Kong Stadium, 55 Eastern Hospital Road, So Kon Po, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
How much: Ticket prices vary, with weekend package deals to get you in all three days or single day options. Get your tickets here.
Sassy tip: Tickets can be tricky to get so if you're having trouble finding some or you're simply trying to save some dough, check this option out!
Songkran HK
Hong Kong is home to a mish mash of cultures and expats, which is why the city is so dynamic – and it also gives us plenty of activities to get involved in! In April, we'll have the chance to celebrate Thai New Year by attending Songkran HK. There will be different events that showcase the country's culture like Thai fashion shows, children's costume competitions and cultural performances. There will also be a Thai market set up with delicious snacks, handicrafts and even massages on offer! The highlight of the weekend manifests in the Splash Party (Sunday, 8 April; 2:30pm– 5:30pm); buckets and water guns are whipped out as a wild water fight ensues!
When: Friday, 6 April – Sunday, 8 April. Check here for details on each day's events. Where: D2 Place, 9 Cheung Yee Street, Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong
How much: Entry is free!
Five Day Detox to Nourish and Grow at Pure Yoga
Living in an electric city like Hong Kong is fabulous, but there are times when the stress, pollution, dim sum feasts and partying can wreak havoc on our wellbeing. Lisa Mak, at Pure Yoga, has designed a five day detox programme (non-Pure members are welcome, too) to help us refresh our systems. Complimented by an optional juice cleanse, each day will commence with hot yoga to sweat out nasty toxins followed by a more restorative practice to calm the mind and get us in touch with the present. Feeling good on the inside does translate to looking good on the outside too – be prepared for people to comment on your glow!
When: Monday, 9 April – Friday, 13 April; 6am to 8:30am daily
Where: The Centrium, 16/F, 60 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong
How much: $2,407 for full workshop; $3,200 for full workshop and 3-day juice cleanse; $3,950 for full workshop and 5-day juice cleanse. To register, call 2971 0055 or reserve your spot here!
If you love pushing yourself and testing your mental and physical strength then Spartan Race HK was made for you! This ain't no ordinary 5km+ race; running is just the beginning because you'll need to climb, crawl, pull, push and throw in order to make it through the 20 plus obstacles in your way. Trees, water, mud and barbed wire will be just a few of the things challenging your pursuit of that finish line. Don't be intimidated though! Everyone is welcome and there will be various races including open sprints and sprints according to age group. Feel like the epic beast you are and sign up here! No matter the outcome, you'll feel like a champion afterwards.
When: Saturday, 14 April
Where: Ha Pak Lai, Yuen Long, Hong Kong
How much: Registration prices vary from $860 to $1,190 depending on sprint type. Spectators can enjoy the messy action for $50. Details on the sprint types, what essentials to bring to conquer the race and participant/spectator registration can be found here!
Peak24
Gather four team members and get ready to race for an excellent cause! Peak 24 is a relay-style marathon where each team member takes turns running laps around a course on the Peak. The mission of the race is to join the fight in ending modern slavery and funds raised will go towards Operation24. It's a lovely time for the whole family that attracts a high-spirited and caring crowd. Nibbles, drinks, live performances and other enjoyable activities add to the jovial atmosphere.
When: Saturday, 14 April – race begins at 8 am.
Where: Lugard Road, The Peak, Hong Kong. Precise course map TBA.
How much: $5,000 per team entry. There is also a warrior option for individuals to race ten laps on their own ($500/entry). Register here!
Hong Kong's music festival scene is on the constant rise and The Week HK is a great way to rock out this April. It's all about shining a much-deserved spotlight on indie artists who may not have big labels backing them but ooze passion and talent. There will be seven days of music across seven different venues in HK and each day is split into themes and genres like World Music, Hip Hop and Soul Funk. Who cares if you're unfamiliar with the lineup? You'll be supporting hard working artists (many of whom are local!) and maybe someday, if one of them hits the big time, you'll have the chance to brag that you saw them live way before anyone else was in the know!
When: Sunday, 15 April – Saturday, 21 April
Where: Different venues which will be confirmed
How much: Each day will cost $170 for adults and $100 for students (in advance) / $200 per adult and $130 per student (on the door). Weeklong passes are also available for $888 for adults and $500 for students – Get yours here!
Cirque du Soleil is back in Hong Kong to present KOOZA, an intoxicating performance that will have you gasping. Opening in April, this performance pays tribute to a more traditional circus experience by combining exhilarating acrobatic high jinx with the complex art of clowning. Cirque Du Soleil is always more than a simple thrill for the eyes as poignant messages and themes are often expressed. The performers will thrill the audience with the double high wire and 'wheel of death', while threading humour and emotion into the spectacle.
When: Thursday, 19 April – Sunday, 3 June
How much: Tickets range from $488 to $1,888 per person. Get your tickets here!
Women's Five
Women's Five is a wonderful event that gets you active and creates a feeling of sisterhood. The main component is a 5km run but there is also an option of a five-week programme leading up to the run where you'll meet other like-minded ladies, train together, do some yoga, attend wellness talks and participate in more awesome activities. The beauty is that you can join the five-week programme even after it has begun and there's no pressure to attend everything scheduled; it's up to you to choose what you want to do! Women's Five also gives back to important charities so 10% of entry fees will go to RainLily, an anti-sexual assault and survivor support foundation. Take the opportunity to join this truly wholesome and empowering event.
When: Saturday, 28 April 2018 (5km race). With the five-week programme beginning on Monday, 26 March. Take a look at the schedule here!
Where: Aberdeen Country Park, Aberdeen, Hong Kong (Race location). Check out the course map.
How much: You can join as an individual or as a team of two. Joining only the race costs $390 per individual and $780 per team. Full programme costs $800 per individual and $1,600 per team
Read more: SassySupports: RainLily Foundation
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The best concerts, shows and parties happening in Hong Kong
This month, the city has a top-notch assortment of events to keep you busy. Among the offerings, the iconic Rugby Sevens promises to be a ball of a time, festivals should please film and music lovers, and a 5km run will keep the sporty lot satisfied…
Featured image courtesy of Hong Kong Sevens via Facebook, image #1 courtesy of Kilyan Sockalingum via Unsplash, image #2 courtesy of Daniel Garcia via Unsplash, image #3 courtesy of Hong Kong Sevens via Instagram, image #4 courtesy of Barbie Szeman via Instagram, image #5 courtesy of Francesca Hotchin via Unsplash, image #6 courtesy of Spartan Race via Facebook, image #7 courtesy of Peak24 via Facebook, image #8 courtesy of The Week via Facebook, image #9 courtesy of Kooza by Cirque du Soleil via Facebook, image #10 courtesy of Women's Five via Facebook
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The new BML30 (1938 Cadillac Imperial Sedan Limousine) is getting there. Sarah has been doing a lot of work reshaping the pieces to make sure that they fit perfectly before heading to mould making.
Andy is casting up an old favourite (and a best seller!) the BRK195, a 1954 Henney-Packard 8-passenger Limo. One of our largest models with a weight to match.
Top work, Andy. Only a little fettling to be done around the windows and wheel arches.
These are now heading to Rich to have all of that excess metal cut away.
As usual, we are working on some Riva Aquarama boats. Mark is cleaning up the dashboards that he cast the day before.
We have mastered the art of pouring the white metal…now we just need to figure out how to turn it into gold.
Those BRK195 bodies will have to wait, Rich is busy cleaning up some window cages.
These are secondary castings for the BML31 (1940 Nash Ambassador Eight Convertible). We use pewter for this stage as it allows for a higher quality mould cavity with a better surface for production.
The last few 1970 Buick GS 455 bodies (BRK226) are just about ready for painting.
These hubs for the BRK226 Buick have deep recesses in the wheel hubs that need painting.
Hello, dear reader and welcome to the first February Diary. February…already.
We are so busy here that we blinked and January was gone! We have been working on new masters, casting old favourites and trying a little alchemy.


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They were originally part of my gallery at y!Gallery although they're so old they're no longer up there.
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CHARLESTON, SC (WCSC) - Mosquito control will be conducting aerial spraying in Charleston and Berkeley Counties starting this week.
Crews with Berkeley County Mosquito Abatement will be spraying, by aircraft, in the southern region of Berkeley County on Wednesday, June 20, between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.
"The aerial application will be made to Thomas Island, Daniel Island, the dredge disposal sites along Clouter Creek, and areas adjacent to Clements Ferry Road up to and including the Jack Primus Community," Berkeley County government officials said.
If unfavorable weather conditions exist, the applications will be made on the next suitable day.
"If residents have any questions or concerns, they are asked to contact Berkeley County Mosquito Abatement directly at (843) 719-4646," officials said.
Charleston County Mosquito Control are expected to be aerially inspecting and treating standing water for aquatic stage mosquitoes throughout the county on June 19, 2018 through June 25, 2018.
These operations will be conducted between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.
"These operations target sites with standing water in open spaces but will require flight over populated areas," officials said. In addition, Charleston County Mosquito Control may be conducting ground adulticide operations using ultra low volume (ULV) spray trucks throughout the county on June 19, 2018 through June 25, 2018.
"These operations will be conducted based on comprehensive surveillance results," official said.


We've talked about using page controllers before on the show, but typically I've used an external library. Today I'll show a way to get started with page controllers with no external dependency.
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The lithium industry continues to be a particularly vibrant market segment and this is expected to continue well into the next decade as the clean energy revolution establishes itself globally. It is lithium's unique properties which make it a crucial element in high-performance rechargeable batteries that is creating such strong future demand growth projections from industry commentators, which in turn is supporting an attractive market outlook for future suppliers.
Lithium is a chemical element with the symbol Li, and atomic number 3 in the Periodic Table of Elements. It is the lightest solid element at ambient temperature, indeed the lightest metal.
Lithium has numerous uses including in medical applications, ceramics, glass, lubricants and nuclear technology. Most importantly it is the key component of long life, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, used to power mobile devices (phones, laptops and other consumer electronics). However, in more recent times battery manufacture has been accelerating due to the burgeoning demand in automotive applications (electric vehicles – EVs), and also energy storage systems (ESS) to better utilise renewable energy supply (solar and wind generated power).
Lithium-ion batteries are lighter and can store three times more energy than nickel-hydride and lead-acid batteries. Their unit cost continues to fall with technological improvements, adding further to demand and improving competitiveness.
Nearly all the world's lithium is produced from two sources, brine deposits (mostly in South America) and spodumene (hard rock) mines. Brine production has the advantage of comparatively low operating costs, but long development and ramp-up lead times and comparatively high capital costs to establish a project.
Hard rock spodumene projects can generally be developed in a shorter timeframe than brine projects and tend to have a more competitive capital cost to produce a spodumene concentrate. However, the concentrate requires downstream processing including roasting and as a result, attracts a relative high operating cost.
Lepidico aims to introduce a new third major supply source, from previously ignored mica deposits, thanks to its proprietary L-Max® technology.
L-Max® is a clean-tech process with competitive capital intensity and low operating costs after eco-friendly by-product credits.
Global lithium carbonate consumption in 2016 was 197,000 tonnes per annum (Roskill, August 2017). Of this more than 56,000 tonnes was consumed in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and a further 18,000 tonnes was converted into lithium hydroxide, mainly for use in LIBs.
~700kg LCE is required per GWh of LIB.
Roskill foresee possible 1,000GWh of batteries being required in the next 10 years just for EVs, up from an estimated ~90GWh in 2016.
Hence 1Mtpa of LCE would be required by 2026, a mighty 25% compound annual growth rate.
Lepidico sees the opportunity for it to enter the lithium market as a new low cost producer with attractive margins throughout the commodity price cycle.
The lithium market is relatively opaque when compared to those for many other metals. This however, is likely to change as demand increases, with for example the London Metals Exchange considering its involvement (Mining Journal 31 August 2017), via the introduction of contract arrangements to better manage the market and provide greater price transparency.
The move towards EV adoption and thereby lithium-ion battery manufacture is accelerating as testified by recent announcements from major conventional car manufacturers.
France's Ecology Minister Nicolas Hulot announced that France will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040.
It is not just the political necessity of dealing with climate change that has led to the clean technology revolution but the requirement to better address public health and air pollution concerns in many heavily populated parts of the world such as China. EVs and ESS linked to renewable energy will reduce particulate emissions and noxious gases in the atmosphere, leading to a cleaner, greener world for all. Lithium has a vital role to play in this regard.


We're excited to be getting to work on designing cladding and window replacement at the Sargent School elderly and disabled housing building in Westford, MA.
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Jill Craigie
Jill Craigie (born Noreen Jean Craigie; 7 March 1911[1] – 13 December 1999)[2] was one of Britain's earliest women's documentary makers.[3] Her early films demonstrate Craigie's interest in socialist and feminist politics, but her career as a film-maker has been "somewhat eclipsed" by her marriage to the Labour Party leader Michael Foot (1913–2010), whom she met during the making of her film The Way We Live (1946). She was a British documentary filmmaker, screenwriter and feminist.
Noreen Jean Craigie
(1911-03-07)7 March 1911
13 December 1999(1999-12-13) (aged 88)
Documentary film director, screenwriter and feminist
Claude Begbie-Clench
(m. 1933; div. 1933)
Jeffrey Dell
2 Critical reception
Born Noreen Jean Craigie[1][4] to a Russian mother and a Scottish father in Fulham, London, Craigie began her career in film as an actress.
Craigie's engagement in feminist issues came from reading Sylvia Pankhurst's The Suffragette Movement in the early 1940s.[5] After this she attended a gathering of suffragettes to lay flowers on the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst.[5] She was struck by suffragettes' story and began interviewing them and starting to lay the groundwork for a documentary of the movement. This never materialized due to the complicated internal politics of the suffrage movement post-campaign.[5] Much of this correspondence can be found in her archives.[6] In latter years, Craigie became an authority on the suffragette movement, holding a large collection of feminist literature in Britain, with pamphlets dating back to John Stuart Mill. In 1979, she also wrote an introduction to a reprint of Emmeline Pankhurst's My Own Story, first published 1914.[7]
Her subsequent films depicted her socialist and feminist leanings and dealt with left-wing topics such as child refugees, working conditions for miners, and gender equality. After directing five films and writing two others, Craigie retired from the film business for almost forty years, returning to make a single film for BBC television.[8]
Craigie was one of the scriptwriters of Trouble in Store, Norman Wisdom's film debut, which screened in December 1953. The film broke box-office records at 51 out of the 67 London cinemas in which it played.[9] After writing the first draft of the script, Craigie reportedly asked that her name be removed from the credits after learning of Wisdom's participation.[10]
Craigie had a daughter, Julie, from her first marriage.[1] She and Michael Foot had no children together, but enjoyed family life with Julie and, later, her four children.[citation needed] They lived in a flat in Hampstead, north London, and in a cottage in Ebbw Vale, Wales.[citation needed] While living in Hampstead, Craigie worked as an Air Raid Precaution Warden during World War II.[1]
In 1998, a biography of the late Hungarian-born writer Arthur Koestler by David Cesarani alleged that Koestler had been a serial rapist and that Craigie had been one of his victims in 1951. Craigie confirmed the allegations.[11] In a 2009 biography, Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual, Michael Scammell countered that Craigie was the only woman to go on record that she had been raped by Koestler, and had done so at a dinner party more than fifty years after the event. Claims that Koestler had been violent were added by Craigie later, although Scammell concedes that Koestler could be rough and sexually aggressive.[citation needed]
Craigie died aged 88 in 1999 of heart failure at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London.[12]
Critical receptionEdit
Craigie's films were recognised for their "ability to bring out the best in 'ordinary people'" and the "political commitment".[13] Philip Kemp commented more directly on the political content of Craigie's films, noting that her films were an "example of filmmaking as activism, the creative and political processes intertwining and advancing each other that even the Soviet filmmakers of the 1920s had only rarely achieved."[13]
ArchivesEdit
The archives of Jill Craigie are held at The Women's Library at the Library of the London School of Economics, ref 7JCC
FilmographyEdit
Make-Up (1937), actress
Looking Through Glass (1943), script
The Flemish Farm (1943), screenwriter (credited as "Jill Dell")
Out of Chaos (1944), writer and director
London Terminus (1944), script
The Way We Live (1946), writer and director
Children of the Ruins (1948), director
Blue Scar (1949), writer and director
To Be a Woman (1951), writer, director and producer
The Million Pound Note (1953), screenwriter
Trouble in Store (1953), uncredited screenwriter
Windom's Way (1957), screenwriter
Who Are the Vandals? (1967), director
Two Hours from London (1995)
Craigie, Jill (1997). "Political Blood Sport". In Goodman, Geoffrey (ed.). The State of the Nation: The Political Legacy of Aneurin Bevan. London: Gollancz. pp. 88–105. ISBN 0-575-06308-4.
Craigie, Jill (1955). "I Call This a National Calamity". Tribune. 28 October 1955.
Craigie, Jill (1962). "Pilkington: A Second Chance for Television". Tribune. 6 July 1962.
Macnab, Geoffrey (1993). J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-07272-7.
^ a b c d Rollyson, Carl (2005). To Be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie. Aurum Press. p. 31. ISBN 1-85410-935-9.
^ "BFI Screenonline: Craigie, Jill (1911–1999) Biography". www.screenonline.org.uk. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
^ "JILL CRAIGIE 1911–1999". Jill Craigie. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 7 March 2010.
^ a b c Murphy, Gillian E. (8 July 2019). "Jill Craigie and her suffragette film". The International Association for Media and History. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
^ "Craigie, Jill (1914–1999), director". The National Archives. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
^ Owen, Ursula (March 2000). "An appreciation: Jill Craigie, 1914–99". Women's History Review. 9 (1): 9–11. doi:10.1080/09612020000200237. ISSN 0961-2025.
^ Easen, Sarah. "Craigie, Jill". British Film Institute.
^ Kynaston, David (2009), Family Britain 1951–1957, Bloomsbury, p. 353, ISBN 978-1-4088-0083-6.
^ Vallance, Tom (15 December 1999), "Obituary:Jill Craigie", The Independent.
^ "Women force removal of Koestler bust". BBC. 29 December 1998. Retrieved 19 July 2009.
^ Garner, Clare (15 December 1999). "Jill Craigie - Britain's pioneering female film-maker - dies at 85". The Independent. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
^ a b Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund) (2005). To be a woman : the life of Jill Craigie. London: Aurum. pp. 78–79. ISBN 1854109359. OCLC 52785451.
Enticknap, Leo (1999). The Non-Fiction Film in Britain, 1945–51 (unpublished PhD thesis). University of Exeter.
Jill Craigie at IMDb
Jill Craigie biography and credits at the BFI's Screenonline
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Welsh News. Welsh Perspective.
Sir Benfro considers increasing council tax premium on second homes
Second home (Image: Gwalia)
Cyngor Sir Benfro is considering an increase in the council tax premium charged on second homes in the county.
Second homes in the local authority are currently subject to a 50% premium.
Four options will be under consideration as part of the review.
Option one would see a reduction in the premium to 25%. Option two would see the continuation of the 50% premium currently charged. Option three would see the premium increased to 75%, and option four would see it increased to 100%.
Cyngor Sir Benfro say that "reducing the number of second and long-term empty homes in the county is seen as desirable".
Compulsory purchase of second homes
Recently, Cllr Michael Williams a councillor for Gogledd Dinbych-y-pysgod in Sir Benfro,
called for the compulsory purchase of second homes.
Cllr Williams said that while he applauded a report carried out by Dr Simon Brooks on the second homes crisis he believes that its recommendations don't go "anywhere near far enough" and that they will "not reverse the current situation."
Williams also said that the lack of affordable housing in the area was "chronic" and that as a result young people had been priced out of their communities.
He said that without "what might be perceived as quite drastic action" the community will "become unrecognizable"— if it continues to exist at all.
Williams also said that the "social, cultural and economic life" of the county was being eroded by an "influx of individuals who know nothing of our history, who move here because they say they love the area and within very few years campaign to change our basic values."
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Key takeaways from the Fed's December meeting minutes
On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Chief Investment Strategist Erik Ristuben and Sophie Antal-Gilbert, Head of AIS Portfolio & Business Consulting, reviewed market performance from the final weeks of 2022 and discussed key takeaways from the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed)'s December meeting minutes.
2022 in review: A look back at an awful year for markets
Antal-Gilbert and Ristuben kicked off the inaugural episode of 2023 with a look at how markets fared during the closing weeks of 2022. In general, equity markets were effectively flat during this time period, with little in the way of volatility, Ristuben said, with bond yields and credit spreads also remaining pretty stable in the back half of December.
The relative dullness at the end of 2022 was a far cry from how the rest of the year played out, he noted, characterizing 2022 as a pretty awful year for capital markets. In the U.S., the benchmark S&P 500® Index finished the year down by approximately 19.5%, Ristuben said, with the Russell 2000® Index of small cap stocks off by about 20.5%. Interestingly enough, several key non-U.S. equity indexes fared better than their American counterparts last year, he observed, despite a strong year for the U.S. dollar.
"For U.S. investors, years with a strong dollar usually mean weaker non-U.S. equity returns—but that wasn't the case in 2022," Ristuben stated. As proof, he pointed to both the MSCI EAFE Index, which was down approximately 14.4% last year, and the MSCI World ex-USA Index, which declined by roughly 13.8% during the same time period. Overall, the better stock-market performance outside the U.S. was probably a recognition of the expensive valuation of the U.S. market coming into 2022, he said. "It's important to remember that at the beginning of last year, many parts of the U.S. market were priced close to perfection," Ristuben remarked.
He noted that yields on U.S. government debt also rose a bit during December, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note topping 3.8% near the end of the month. "I think this was indicative of the market realizing—particularly in the wake of several mid-December rate hikes by global central banks—that the inflation dragon isn't dead yet," Ristuben stated, adding that the problem of high inflation appears far from over.
Fed meeting minutes show rates likely to stay high for some time
Antal-Gilbert and Ristuben shifted the conversation to recent headlines from Washington, D.C., including the saga over the selection of a speaker for the U.S. House of Representatives and the Jan. 4 release of the Fed's December meeting minutes.
On the speaker saga, Ristuben said that because markets are already anticipating gridlock in Congress this year due to a divided government, the Republican Party's difficulty in selecting a House speaker is probably a non-event from a market perspective. "I don't think it's worth it for investors to spend a lot of time on the House speaker drama. If anything, the impasse is only reinforcing the market's expectations for gridlock this year," he said.
The release of the Fed's meeting minutes from mid-December is probably a little more impactful for markets, Ristuben said, but ultimately the minutes feed into investor expectations for higher rates. "Markets now see the federal funds rate getting north of 5%, which I think is probably a reasonable expectation," he said, noting that the current rate sits in a range of 4.25%-4.5% after the Fed's latest rate increase.
The Fed meeting minutes also reinforced investor concerns over the strength of the overheated U.S. labor market, Ristuben said, noting that 263,000 jobs were added during November and consensus expectations are for 200,000 new job additions in December. "Markets are in this situation where good news for Main Street is bad news for Wall Street. An addition of 200,000 new jobs would be fantastic news on a human level, but not on a macroeconomic level. This is because the biggest form of inflation the Fed is concerned about right now is wage inflation—and 200,000 additional jobs isn't going to relieve any pressure on wages," he explained. Because of this, if U.S. job gains during December come in around 200,000 or higher, markets will probably react negatively, Ristuben said.
"Ultimately, as the most recent minutes show, the Fed's main concern remains taming inflation—and that may mean it has to become even more restrictive in its policies in order for the jobs market to weaken," he concluded.
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The Killers Announce Massive Vinyl Box Set
Written By Maggie Serota
| April 20, 2018 - 10:49 am
Home » News » The Killers Announce Massive Vinyl Box Set
On June 15, The Killers will be releasing all five of their studio albums as part of a career-spanning boxed set. In addition to albums like 2004's breakthrough Hot Fuss and last year's Wonderful, Wonderful, The Killers Career Vinyl Box features 2009's Live From The Royal Albert Hall pressed to vinyl for the first time.
The collection also contains Sawdust, the 2007 assortment of b-sides and rarities, including their cover of Joy Division's "Shadowplay."
Although the Las Vegas post-punk outfit is releasing a comprehensive collection, the band wants fans to know that this is far from the end of the road.
Watch Brandon Flowers Duet With Sharon Van Etten in Melbourne
"Have all the songs been written? Given the overall breadth found in the grooves of this fine, fine compendium alongside the promise of what's to come," read a statement from the press release, "the answer can only be, 'Not if The Killers have anything to say about it.'"
Check out Spin's September, 2017 cover story on The Killers here.
Maggie Serota


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The Sarasota Housing Authority operates two different types of voucher assistance. The tenant-based Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, also known as Section 8, assists families with their rent while they reside in privately owned properties in the community. The project-based voucher (PBV) program assists clients with their rent while they reside in a specific unit that is covered by a long-term housing assistance payment contract. The rules for both programs are similar in nature and all participants report changes in household composition and income to our HCV offices at the address stated below.
The Section 8 Waiting List is now closed to the public.
Below is the list of staff that work directly with the Housing Choice Voucher Program. Please be advised that you must contact your caseworker and set up an appointment if you need to discuss your case with them. You do NOT need an appointment to report changes at the front desk.
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Abstract: Alzheimer�s Disease (AD) is the number one cause of dementia. As the baby boomer generation ages, the number of cases will increase and health care costs will continue to rise. Current treatments that exist for AD are only moderately successful at slowing disease progression, therefore; it is important to learn more about the etiology and pathology of AD. Immune up-regulation is thought to contribute to AD etiology and progression via interactions with senile plaques. Inflammatory substances such as a-chymotrypsin, C-reactive protein, and complement fragments surround plaques. Complement fragments, such as C1b, have been shown to bind to and increase the formation of AB42. Yet, blocking complement and cytokine production has been shown to increase plaque formation. These results have given rise to a new theory, the immune dysfunction theory, which states that AD results not from immune up-regulation, but rather from the functional inability of the immune system to effectively prevent disease. Activated microglia and astrocytes, the CNS immune cells, have also been linked to neurodegeneration. They have been observed surrounding neuronal plaques. When activated by AB42, they release inflammatory cytokines and neurotoxins, which may contribute to neurodegeneration. Yet they are also necessary for the removal of AB42 from neuronal plaques, a process that is inhibited in vivo. Ineffective microglial phagocytosis has been linked to AB-induced physical changes. Recent studies have shown that blood-derived microglia may be necessary for the effective removal of AB from neuronal plaques.


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Justia Patents With Heater Or RefrigeratorUS Patent for See through refrigerator door construction Patent (Patent # 6,059,420)
See through refrigerator door construction
A see through refrigerator door construction 10 for use on both the freezer section 102 and the refrigerator section 103 of a refrigerator 100. The door construction 10 includes a framework member 20 having an outer transparent pane 22 and an inner two way mirror pane 24 which is surrounded by an illumination unit 12 for projecting light into the interior of the refrigerator 100 to render the two way mirror pane 24 transparent in response to the actuation of a pressure switch 40.
The present invention relates to the field of specialized housings in general, and in particular to a see through refrigerator door construction which normally presents a mirrored reflection from the refrigerator door.
2. Description of Related Art
As can be seen by reference to the following U.S. Pat. Nos. 2,279,558; 4,072,486; 4,475,031; and 5,589,958, the prior art is replete with viewing windows having varying degrees of transparency for observing the contents of cupboards, room, refrigerators and ranges.
While all of the aforementioned prior art constructions are more than adequate for the basic purpose and function for which they have been specifically designed, they are almost uniformly deficient with respect to their failure to provide a simple, efficient, and practical selective see through viewing panel on a refrigerator to observe the contents of the refrigerator.
Furthermore, while U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,072,486, and 5,589,486 employ various degrees of opacity to obscure the contents of the refrigerator, these schemes do not produce the aesthetically pleasing and functional features that are to be found in the present invention.
In most modern kitchens, aesthetic considerations are of a primary concern as is the conservation of energy. Furthermore, given today's lifestyles, one of the last places that a person occupies for any appreciable amount of time before leaving a residence is the kitchen. Since most kitchens are not provided with mirrors, many people will make a last second detour to a room equipped with a mirror to check their appearance before departing. In the alternative, those same individuals will rely on a shiny or slightly reflective surface in the kitchen to save time; however, they can only rely on a distorted and/or weak reflected image to check their appearance.
As a consequence of the foregoing situation, there has existed a longstanding need for a new and improved type of see through refrigerator door construction which employs a one-way mirror panel such that the user can selectively employ the normal mirror image, except for those times when they wish to inspect the contents of the refrigerator before opening the refrigerator door, and the provision of such a construction is a stated objective of the present invention.
Briefly stated, the see through refrigerator door construction that forms the basis of the present invention comprises in general, a door panel unit, an illumination unit, and an illumination control unit. The illumination unit completely contained within the door panel unit and adapted to convert the door panel unit from a mirrored finish to a virtually transparent finish.
As will be explained in greater detail further on in the specification, the door panel unit includes an outer framework member provided with an outer transparent pane and an inner two way mirror pane. The inner two way mirror pane is surrounded by a peripheral groove.
In addition, the illumination unit comprises a light source including a plurality of high intensity lights which are disposed within the peripheral groove in the framework member and controlled by the illumination control unit which comprises a pressure sensitive switch mounted between the transparent pane and the two way mirror pane and a kill switch member which is disposed in an overriding relationship relative to the pressure switch member.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
These and other attributes of the invention will become more clear upon a thorough study of the following description of the best mode for carrying out the invention, particularly when reviewed in conjunction with the drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a refrigerator equipped with the see through refrigerator door construction of this invention;
FIG. 2 is a front plan view of the refrigerator door construction in the mirrored surface mode;
FIG. 3 is a front plan view of the refrigerator door construction in the transparent mode;
FIG. 4 is a cross sectional detail view of the various components that comprise the see through refrigerator door construction; and
FIG. 5 is an exploded perspective view of the construction as seen from the interior of the refrigerator.
As can be seen by reference to the drawings, and in particular to FIG. 1, the see through refrigerator door construction that forms the basis of the present invention is designated generally by the reference number 10. As shown in FIG. 4, the construction 10 comprises a door panel unit 11, an illumination unit 12, and a control unit 13. These units will now be described in seriatim fashion.
As shown in FIGS. 1 and 4, the door panel unit 11 comprises a generally open rectangular door framework member 20 having an outer internal peripheral recess 21 dimensioned to receive a transparent panel 22, an inner internal peripheral recess 23 dimensioned to receive a two-way mirror panel 24 and an internal peripheral groove 25 disposed in a surrounding relationship with the two way mirror panel, and dimensioned to receive the illumination unit 12.
In addition, the door framework member 20 is further operatively attached in a conventional manner to the main body of the refrigerator 100 by hinge elements 101 disposed on the upper and lower ends of one side of the door framework member.
As can best be seen by reference to FIG. 4, the illumination unit 12 comprises a light source including a plurality of high intensity lights 30 which are disposed around the interior periphery of the framework member 20 and dimensioned to be received in the internal peripheral groove 25 in the door framework member 20 in a surrounding relationship to the two way mirror panel 24 to project light into the interior of the refrigerator 100.
Turning now to FIGS. 1, 2, and 4, it can be seen that the illumination control unit 13 comprises one or more pressure sensitive switch members 40 disposed at a location proximate the corners of the outer transparent panel 22. The location of the pressure switch member 40 may be generally designated by a small hand shaped imprint 41 formed on or applied to the outer surface of the transparent panel 22 so that the user will be given a visual indication of where to press on the transparent panel 22 to activate the illumination unit 12 to render the two way mirror panel transparent as depicted in FIG. 3.
Furthermore, as depicted in FIG. 2, the illumination control unit 13 may also include a kill switch member 42 which is electronically connected to the pressure switches 40 to render the illumination unit 12 inoperative until its actuation as desired by an adult. This feature is provided for those instances where small children may be tempted to repeatedly actuate the pressure sensitive switch 40 due to the novelty of the contents of the refrigerator "magically" becoming visible through the two way mirror panel 24.
The adult users of this construction will however appreciate the convenience of having a mirror in the kitchen which may selectively be rendered transparent so that the adult can view the contents of the interior of the refrigerator without the necessity of opening up the refrigerator door.
As can also be appreciated by reference to FIG. 2, the door construction 10 can be employed for both the freezer section 102 and the refrigerator section 103 of the refrigerator 100.
Although only an exemplary embodiment of the invention has been described in detail above, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that many modifications are possible without materially departing from the novel teachings and advantages of this invention. Accordingly, all such modifications are intended to be included within the scope of this invention as defined in the following claims.
Having thereby described the subject matter of the present invention, it should be apparent that many substitutions, modifications, and variations of the invention are possible in light of the above teachings. It is therefore to be understood that the invention as taught and described herein is only to be limited to the extent of the breadth and scope of the appended claims.
1. A see through refrigerator door construction comprising:
a door panel unit including an opera rectangular shaped door framework member having an outer internal peripheral recess dimensioned to receive a transparent panel, an inner internal peripheral recess dimensioned to receive a two-way mirror panel and an internal peripheral groove disposed in a surrounding relationship with said inner internal peripheral recess;
an illumination unit dimensioned to be received in said internal peripheral groove; and
an illumination control unit including a first switch member disposed in a controlling fashion relative to said illumination unit.
2. The door construction as in claim 1 wherein said illumination unit comprises a light source dimensioned to be received in said internal peripheral groove.
3. The door construction as in claim 2 wherein said light source comprises a plurality of high intensity lights disposed in said peripheral groove.
4. The door construction as in claim 3 wherein said first switch member comprises a pressure sensitive switch.
5. The door construction as in claim 4 wherein said pressure sensitive switch is disposed intermediate the transparent panel and the two way mirror panel.
6. The door construction as in claim 5 wherein said illumination control unit further includes a second switch member disposed in a controlling relationship relative to said first switch member.
2279558 April 1942 Clerc
4072486 February 7, 1978 Joseph
4475031 October 2, 1984 Mockovciak, Jr.
5016146 May 14, 1991 Kaspar
5287252 February 15, 1994 Caruso
5471372 November 28, 1995 Mamelson et al.
5589958 December 31, 1996 Lieb
5909950 June 8, 1999 Seok et al.
Filed: Feb 17, 1999
Inventor: Thomas Rogers (Drexel Hill, PA)
Primary Examiner: Laura K. Tso
Law Firm: Henderson & Sturm LLP
Application Number: 9/251,677
Current U.S. Class: With Heater Or Refrigerator (362/92); With Door-controlled Switch (362/94); With Or Including Transparent Or Translucent Member (362/223); 362/251; Position Or Condition Responsive Switch (362/802)
International Classification: F21W131305;


is the latest to announce his intention to return to Alabama's football team next season.
The Crimson Tide's starting left guard explored making an early jump to the NFL.
"I talked to my parents about it, and we discussed it," Warmack said. "I'm pretty much gonna be here for another year. I like teammates, I love them to death. I love the program. I still feel I have a lot of stuff to do as far as developing as an offensive lineman. I want to help the team one more year."
Warmack has started 25 of 30 games in his Alabama career. The 6-foot-3, 320 pound left guard has been a staple of the offensive line starting every game the past two seasons.
is weighing his NFL options. Alabama potentially could return four starters on the offensive line for the 2012 season.
"We're good now, and there's always good players coming up," Warmack said. "I'm willing to take a leadership role, and I know D.J. has already taken a role. We're gonna work together to get it back up the way it is."
* Izzy Gould covers Alabama football for the Mobile Press-Register, The Birmingham News, The Huntsville Times and al.com.


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8 Figure Settlement | Product Liability | Massachusetts
This case involves the wrongful death of an employee, who was fatally injured while operating an industrial lathe machine. Approximately twenty-three years earlier, the manufacturer was sued by another family for the same hazard. Nothing was done to remedy this known hazardous design defect and predictably, the next generation model lathe had the same design defect. The plaintiff here loaded a steel bar into the lathe machine. Approximately 2-feet of the bar extended beyond the confines of the machine. There were no fail safes designed into the machine to protect end users from the known hazards when using the machine with unprotected extended bars. Once the pre-calculated program was initiated on the machine, the bar spun at 2500RPM in 1.7 seconds causing it to bend, warp, and whip, ultimately striking the employee in the left shoulder and head. The whipping steel bar partially severed the employee's left arm who later succumbed to his injuries
Attorney Richard Sullivan retained TTS to conduct a number of Focus Groups to test liability and gather any negative attribution towards his client, a Settlement Presentation, consisting of filmed interviews of friends and family, and an Animation of how the incident took place, allowing for jurors to better understand the complexities of the machine and usage. Lastly, Attorney Sullivan hired TTS to organize and manage a Shadow Jury during trial.
Incident Location
Total Trial Solutions worked one-on-one with Attorney Sullivan for more than two years on the case. Here is a quick summary of the work we performed.
Through Focus Groups, we were able to pinpoint the most important issues in the case and help shape how the case would ultimately be presented at trial. During these focus groups, we were able to test how the animation would come across to jurors, and if it was helpful in their understanding of what happened. Due to the complexity of what did happen, the animation was able to clearly portray what occurred which eliminated many questions previous groups had about the events of the incident.
Settlement Presentation
Journalists and Videographers worked together to create a Settlement Presentation compiled of videos, photos, and filmed interviews of friends and family members of the deceased party. The presentation showcased a loving husband and proud father, a supportive son, a dedicated brother, and a hard worker, among other things. The Settlement Presentation laid the foundation for settlement negotiations. It showed defense counsel the evidence they were up against.
The plaintiff, in this case, was injured while using a lathe, a large computer-controlled piece of machinery. Attorney Sullivan knew it would be difficult to explain the complexities of the equipment to a jury, therefore he consulted with TTS Visual Strategy Specialist and decided to have an animation created to show the incident unfolded. Attorney Sullivan showed the animation to jurors during the trial, which allowed them to see and understand just what happened to cause the plaintiff's injuries.
Once trial commenced, Total Trial Solutions utilized a Shadow Jury. We invited individuals to attend the trial and give us feedback after each day of trial. This information helped shape our understanding of what the real jury may also be hearing/thinking about the case. After four days of trial testimony, the parties agreed to a settlement. According to the attorneys on file, the information obtained through the efforts of Total Trial Solutions, was instrumental in how the case was pursued and ultimately tried.
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Winebow, founded in 1980, is led by founder and Chairman, Leonardo LoCascio, and President and CEO, Jon Moramarco. Winebow's highly attractive, defensible business model has driven organic revenue growth every year since the Company's inception. Brazos has significant experience investing in distribution businesses and assisting those companies with the development and implementation of strategies to drive significant revenue and EBITDA growth. In addition, Brazos has invested extensively in the consumer sector with a specific focus on branded consumer goods. Brazos Operating Partner Jim Harris participated in the transaction and currently serves on the Company's Board of Directors. Jim brings valuable insight in the premium wine space through his prior role as President of Hunneus Vintners, a Napa-based wine holding company, with such well-known brands as Quintessa, Flowers and the Prisoner. Brazos invested in the Company in 2011 to support Winebow's continued growth and provide liquidity for shareholders.


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In the 1980s, Eugene elementary school students got physical education (PE) four to five days a week year-round. Today, after years of budget cuts, most elementary schools have a PE teacher on-site just nine weeks a year, with some students getting PE just once a week. Last year, nine elementary schools had no PE teacher.
There's less PE in middle and high schools, too.
In many schools, the reductions in PE mean that numerous programs have disappeared. Gone are the before- and after-school physical activities, dance competitions, skating, jogathons, visits to adventure courses and outside lessons — for example, 30 years ago, 4J offered swimming lessons to all third graders.
Since 2004, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education has recommended that schools provide 150 minutes of PE a week for elementary schoolers and 225 minutes a week for middle and high schoolers for the entire school year. No states meet all these requirements; Eugene students don't even come close.
Leslie Jaeger, an adapted PE specialist in 4J with more than 30 years of experience, remembers when her elementary students had PE four days a week. "With budget woes, [PE] is the first to go," she explains.
"With all we know about the rising rates of overweight, obese and unfit children and teens, along with the rising rates of lifestyle diseases such as cardiovascular disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, and the correlation of personal health-related fitness status and higher levels of learning and GPA, it is a travesty that we can't offer more physical education," says Nanci McChesney-Henry, a PE teacher at Sheldon High School.
In 2007, 4J established minimum standards for student participation in PE activity and provided some program staffing of PE teachers, according to Kerry Delf, the district's communications coordinator. In 2007-08, the minimum standard for elementary schools was 60 minutes a week, to be provided on at least two different days a week. In 2008-09, that minimum rose to 75 minutes a week. In 2009-10, it climbed to 90 minutes a week.
In 2009-10, the minimum standards for elementary school dropped to 60 minutes a week, according to Delf. And in 2010-11 and 2011-12, "minimum standards for student participation in physical education activity [were] temporarily set aside due to budget limitations," Delf says.
Subsequently, decisions about PE staffing were made by each school rather than the district. 4J gave schools a certain amount of staff based on enrollment and student needs. "Schools were left with a 'Sophie's choice' between investing more of their staffing resources in classroom staff to reduce class size or investing more in specialist teachers to retain physical education and the arts, as well as prep and collaboration time for classroom teachers," Delf says.
The rest of the year, classroom teachers teach PE. But some schools raise funds to pay for more PE teacher time; at those schools, students get more classes taught by a PE teacher.
One such school is Awbrey Park. Juxtaposed with Edison's $85,000 annual fundraising, "our building is lucky to raise $10,000," Principal Joel Lavin says. Awbrey Park is a Title I school with almost 60 percent of students on free- and reduced-price lunches (compared with Edison's 27 percent). So students at Awbrey Park are making do with nine weeks of a PE specialist this year — still an improvement over last year, when the school was one of nine with no PE teacher.
At schools like Lavin's, the rest of the year, students are taught PE by their classroom teachers. "Usually, the students get to do this once a week," Lavin says.
The drawbacks to this arrangement include less preparation time for classroom teachers (who used to use the time their students were in PE to prepare and collaborate), less time for the actual PE class (because it can take longer for classroom teachers to set things up), less coordination of what's offered (because there are eight different classroom teachers teaching PE), and less opportunity for students to get in-depth instruction from trained specialists (according to some teachers, there's definitely activity, but it's usually not a planned-out program). In some schools, to get through academic material, the visit to the gym is passed over entirely.
In the middle and high schools, PE is still offered in all Eugene schools, but for less time than it was in decades past.
Jaeger says when she was a student at Roosevelt Middle School in the 1970s, she had four PE teachers — as did every middle school in Eugene. "Now, you're lucky if you have one." Roosevelt currently has one PE teacher who teaches three-quarters of the time and another who teaches half time.
John J. Ratey, clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and coauthor of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, would agree. He notes that while only 6 percent of U.S. high schools offer a daily PE class, kids spend an average of 5.5 hours a day in front of a screen of some sort.
Without regular PE taught by specialists, kids have lost the chance to move around in a structured environment. Physical activity can go a long way toward helping kids stay healthy. "It's a huge equity issue," according to Farkas, who notes that it's in the lower-income schools that have fewer PE classes where you see more kids who are overweight and obese and at risk of diabetes. These kids are also less likely to participate in extracurricular sports, which can be too expensive for low-income families.
Fewer PE classes can also mean less academic learning, lower performance and more behavior problems. John Medina, a developmental molecular biologist and author of Brain Rules, cites studies showing that exercise helps children concentrate better, reduces disruptive behavior, boosts self-esteem and decreases depression and anxiety, all of which can improve academic performance.
For kids with ADHD, "it's so hard to be in a place where your learning style is not taught to," she says. Behavior issues arise, attention span goes down, and grades plummet — and larger class sizes compound the issue. "Sometimes the only time these students feel good about themselves in a school setting is when they're moving," says Jaeger, who adds that she's seen a correlation between having such students participate in track and swimming and increases in their grades.
Cutting PE teachers, especially at the elementary level, also makes it harder for teachers to make valuable connections with their kids. Along with the cuts goes trust, says Farkas, who is teaching 1,300 elementary school students this year. Teachers who are on-site at one school for a full year, year to year, build relationships with their students. Under the current set-up, "you don't ever have a chance to learn all the kids' names," says Jaeger, who teaches at nine elementary schools.


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Business Continuity Planning Basics with VMware Cloud on AWS
Michael Kolos
VMware Cloud on AWS is a scalable, managed cloud solution based on VMware's SDDC stack, running on AWS hardware that provides a flexible, self-repairing availability model. However, as with all business systems, it's important to understand the potential failure scenarios of the platform and identify the corresponding risks to business applications and operations so that they can be appropriately mitigated. Let's review some of the considerations when developing a successful business continuity plan including VMware Cloud on AWS.
To ensure that business operations can continue to function in case of a major disruption, organizations need to develop a plan to identify what services are required for their business to run, what RPO and RTO for each service is required, and then identify and implement technical solutions and develop operational procedures to ensure the availability and recovery targets of the services are met. A key component of the business continuity is testing the plan, to ensure the systems and procedures work as expected.
Shared responsibility model
VMware Cloud on AWS works on a shared responsibility model, much like other cloud-based solutions. This means that VMware and the customer both assume certain responsibilities for protecting, securing, and recovering various components of the SDDC.
VMware is responsible for the infrastructure and underlying software and configuration of the SDDC. This means that VMware will provide, maintain, recover and secure the infrastructure components – ESXi hosts, vCenter, and any other management components that are part of the SDDC. This is outlined in the Service Description document.
The customer is responsible for all workloads run in the SDDC – this covers providing, maintaining, recovering and securing any VM that they migrate or create.
When it comes to business continuity, one of the most critical components of the customer's responsibility is protecting the data they place in the SDDC. While VMware does provide the underlying storage as an infrastructure, and this storage is highly available, there are still scenarios that can result in partial or total data loss. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure they mitigate these scenarios to a level that meets their business requirements. Note that VMware does NOT maintain backup or redundant copies of customer data in the SDDC beyond what is configured in the customer-managed vSAN Storage Policy.
Availability and disaster recovery planning
While the SDDC is designed to be redundant and provide a high level of availability, there are some scenarios that may cause some, or all of the services, to become unavailable. In these circumstances, VMware will do their best to recover the SDDC and management components as quickly as possible. The contractual time allowed before financial penalties are incurred is defined in the SLA.
Every customer has different business requirements, and in fact may have multiple sets of different requirements for different applications or components. There are options in the SDDC to adjust policies to provide tolerance for these different failure scenarios. Since additional protection comes at the cost of higher resource consumption, these options allow for customizing the cost/availability ratio.
Planning for the right level of availability isn't always simple. It can be helpful to map out different failure scenarios and look at what options are available for mitigating that loss. Mitigations are generally classified by 2 properties: Recovery Point Objective, or RPO, which defines how much data loss can be tolerated, and Recovery Time Objective, or RTO, which defines how long the system can be unavailable. The scenarios can also be classified by 2 factors: Likelihood, which is how likely the event will occur, and Impact, or how severe a problem the scenario would cause.
Sample scenario planning and mitigation
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Failure Scenario
Likelihood/impact
Mitigation(s) / Recovery
RTO/RPO
Application data corruption Low / Very High Point-in-time backups / Data restore & application roll-back Application-dependent
Single storage device failure Likely / Low vSAN FTT > 0 maintains multiple copies of data. 0 / 0
Single node failure Likely / Low vSAN FTT > 0 maintains multiple copies of data. 0 / 0
Multiple node failure Low / Moderate vSAN FTT > number of failures will tolerate the failures without impact. 0 / 0
VM Backup / Recovery As per backup frequency. Typical 24 hours / typically within a few hours, depending on VM size.
VM Replication / SRMaaS As low as 5 minutes / within a few minutes
Total site failure Very Low / High VM Backup / Recovery As per backup frequency. Typical 24 hours / typically within a few hours, depending on VM size.
These are examples of some of the most common failure scenarios, and mitigations used for each. However, there are other scenarios that can result in a failure, as well as solutions to mitigate those scenarios, and they are dependent upon individual business needs. When planning requirements, it's usually best to start with a Business Impact Analysis, or BIA, to determine the internal requirements for each service or application. This will allow for the appropriate protection levels and mitigations to be put in place.
Note that Backup & Restore – where backups are stored off-site – is often considered a bare minimum. Although it has a higher RPO and RTO than many other solutions, its primary advantages are its reliability and the wide range of scenarios it can protect against. Once a backup is taken and shipped off-site (or replicated to different sites with cloud-based backups), the data can be restored back to the exact state it was in at the time of the backup. In addition, it's possible to keep multiple backups, allowing for restoration of data back to different points in time, which is important in the case of data corruption or accidental deletion that may not be noticed immediately.
Storage availability options
There are other mitigations described that affect the environment's resiliency to infrastructure failures, which are some of the most common infrastructure failures. The SDDC provides the option to set the number of failures to tolerate (FTT) in the storage policy. Storage policies can be applied to a group of VMs that share the same requirements. As the FTT level increases, the available capacity decreases, but the resiliency goes up. While it's possible to change these values to suit your business requirements, to support the SLA in the SDDC, VMware requires the FTT to be set to 1 for clusters of 4 or 5 hosts, and 2 for clusters of 6 or more hosts. Note that the storage policy is customer-managed, and therefore the customer is responsible for ensuring the policy is adjusted for any host number changes.
General best practices
In summary, to ensure basic recoverability and protection of workloads in the SDDC, the following steps should be observed:
Ensure a supported backup solution is installed on the SDDC, and all VMs are being backed up at least once per day.
Ensure the vSAN Storage policy is configured appropriately for the number of hosts in the cluster (FTT=1 for 4 or 5 hosts, and FTT=2 for 6 or more hosts)
Document a recovery plan and regularly perform a test recovery of the environment to ensure the procedure in place will work in the event it is required, and that staff are familiar with the processes to avoid extending the recovery time.
Monitor the backup and recovery processes that are in place to ensure a failure to protect the data is caught and addressed immediately.
If the time it takes to recover the environment based on testing does not meet business requirements, consider additional availability solutions to supplement backups:
VMware Cloud on AWS Site Recovery to replicate the entire site to a remote AWS AZ or Region
(coming soon) VMware Cloud on AWS Multi-AZ SDDC with stretched vSAN clusters to extend your SDDC to multiple AZs within the same AWS region.
Business continuity planning is a critical component of IT operations, whether workloads are running in the cloud or on-premises. VMware cloud on AWS supports a number of configurations to help protect your workloads and applications, and we've provided a few recommendations in this document to help ensure you are prepared for the unexpected.
Michael Kolos has been at VMware since 2015, starting with NSX, then moving to the VMC product area in 2017 as a Customer Success Architect. In 2020, he joined VMC…
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