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HOWTO: Monitor a Process in Linux using vRealize Operations – Endpoint Operation Management – Part 1

This is Part One of a series on Monitoring Processes in Linux using VMware vRealize Operations Endpoint Operations Management.

Part 1 – Creating the MultiProcess Object for a single Linux Machine
Part 2 – Creating a MultiProcess Object for a Linux Machine (via Inventory Explorer)
Part 3 – Creating Object Relationships
Part 4 – Identifying the correct process.query string

I have been working with a customer recently around migrating their Linux based monitoring form their incumbent monitoring tool into vRealize Operations End Point Operations Management. For those who don’t know, from VMware vRealize Operations 6.1, VMware have started to migrate some of the functionality of the (seemingly deprecated) VMware vRealize Hyperic Monitoring tool into the native functionality of VMware vRealize Operations.

Whilst the general monitoring of the operating system is included Out of the Box, the monitoring of processes in Linux is slightly more complicated.

Firstly, coming from a predominantly Windows background, what I knew about Linux I could have written on the back of a fag packet – which, dare I be so bold, is more information than some of the designs I have reviewed in my career.

However, the requirement was to monitoring the Availability and Utilisation of (amongst others) cron and sshd.

I am currently using a bare bones CentOS 7 image with the vRealize Endpoint Operations Agent 6.2.x (vRealize-Endpoint-Operations-Management-Agent-x86-64-linux-6.2.0-3404388.rpm) installed with integrated Java.

The Objective

The following picture depicts the target we’re looking for and can be viewed from within the vRealize Operations Console.

Creating the MultiProcess Object for a single Linux Machine

Log into vRealize Operations using an appropriate account

Select Environment

Select Operating Systems

Click the > to expand the selection under Operating Systems World

Click the > to expand the selection under Linux and click on the target machine (cx-cent-01)

The click Actions, select Monitor OS Object and then select Monitor Processes.

At the Monitor Processes dialog, enter the Display Name and process.query for the process you want to monitor, in this instance I’m using State.Name.eq=crond

Then Click OK.

You can rinse and repeat for as many processes as you need to.
(Note: You can also choose to change the default collection interval by selecting Advanced Settings and changing the value of Collection Interval (Minutes).)

Click the Troubleshooting Tab and select All Metrics to display your creation(s)

That’s great for one machine, but how can i do that on multiple machines? Everything will come clearer when you follow the next few posts!

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Epic Adventures to Have in Moab for the Ultimate Outdoor Stoke-cation

Five and a half hours due west of Denver, Moab is a popular weekend road trip right over the Colorado border. Perfect for a last-minute getaway, it’s home to two national parks (just 30 minutes from each other, quite the rarity), one state park, and the roaring Colorado River, making it one of the undisputed adventure capitals of the country.

And while Colorado has plenty of snowy tundra and green spaces to play, there’s something about those magical red rocks that offer a whole different kind of landscape to explore (and a treasure trove of dinosaur remains buried beneath the sediment). Home to epic hiking, mountain biking, climbing, and rafting, Moab is a year-round outdoor mecca. So, pack up the car, grab your crew, and prepare to get dirty because we have all the not-to-miss things to do in Moab, Utah.

Explore Arches National Park

The world’s largest concentration of natural sandstone arches, over 2,000 arches and other geological features can be seen within the park’s expansive 75,000 acres. Keep your eyes peeled for soaring pinnacles and twisty spires that seem to be hand carved, precariously balanced in the sandstone.

There are many ways to explore from hiking and biking to horseback riding, ATVing, and rock climbing. If you’re short on time or just want a quick overview of the area, you can actually drive to a majority of the highlights in under 1.5-hours. The Windows section has some of the park’s largest arches, while the Delicate Arch viewpoint will bring you face to face with the most famous arch, which you may recognize from the Utah license plate. Arches is also a majorly popular spot for nighttime photography so pack your tripod and head out for a night under the stars or better yet, prepare to camp in the area.

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One of the most popular hikes is Devil’s Garden, which ranges from 1.6 miles to 7.2 miles depending on how many arches you want to see. But if you’re really up for a challenge, Fiery Furnace is a naturally formed labyrinth that requires going with a ranger guide or watching a video and securing a permit to learn how to navigate your way out of the narrow passages. It’s like Mother Nature’s own diabolical escape room.

Adventure through Canyonlands National Park

Another dramatic desertscape, Canyonlands is the largest of Utah’s five national parks, ringing in at a whopping 337,000 acres. Home to many diverse features formed by the Colorado River, the Island in the Sky is the most popular and most accessible area to explore. A huge, flat-topped mesa with panoramic views, you can drive to the various lookouts, rip it on one of the mountain bike trails, or go for a day hike.

The towering rock pinnacles of the Needles and the remote canyons of the Maze are deep in the rugged backcountry and a bit more of a time commitment. But for history buffs and intrepid explorers, the Native American rock paintings in Horseshoe Canyon can also be seen in a day.

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Cool Off on the Colorado River

Known as Fisher Towers, this wild stretch of the Colorado River boasts some of the most exciting whitewater in the region with class IV rapids. Raft trips can vary from half-day adventures to multi-day expeditions. And depending on your level of adrenaline-stoke, Moab Adventure Center also has jet boat tours if you’re looking for even more of a thrill. If that doesn’t sound like your idea of fun, many outfitters rent canoes, kayaks, or paddleboards as a way to beat the heat…calmly.

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Visit Dead Horse Point State Park

What looks like Horseshoe Bend’s long-lost cousin, Dead Horse Point overlooks Canyonland’s crazy pinnacles, making it one of the most picturesque vistas in the world. Another place perfect for experiencing Moab’s hiking, mountain biking, and off-roading, it’s also an accredited dark sky park for stargazers and mecca for photographers. An epic place to sleep under the Milky Way, there are luxury yurts for rent for those who aren’t into tent camping.

What Goes Up, Must Come Down

Moab’s towering sandstone was formed back in the Jurassic period and worn down by erosion over the years, and making it accessible to anyone with a willingness to get hands on. You can go at it on your own on the appropriately named Wall Street (pun intended), but it’s also an ideal place to try rock climbing or canyoneering if you’re new to the sport. Essentially the opposite of each other, rock climbing is scaling a rock face, while canyoneering is descending down it. They require different levels of physicality and each has their own technical skills, but local guides will teach the basic instruction of belaying, scrambling, and knot tying.

Take to the Skies

You’ve already explored by land and water, so the only thing left is from the sky. Get a bird’s eye view of the topography on a scenic flight, hot air balloon (one of the coolest places to do it outside of Albuquerque), or skydiving. You’ll ascend over 10,000 feet on an epic adventure as you take in every divot and crevice of the incredible landscape.

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    1. Not at all, there’s really stuff for all levels. Both of the national parks are very driveable so you can get the signature views without too much exertion.

  1. Wow, I didn’t know they did hot air balloon rides here. Must be incredible!

    We loved this area and can’t wait to go back! It had such a intense but chill vibe with all the extreme sports types. We feel like we are pretty fit and adventurous, but not compared to the people in this area.

    1. That’s how I felt when I first moved to Colorado from the Midwest, but they’re less judgy than you’d imagine. Just do your own thing and you’ll be good.

  2. I LOVE MOAB. I think all your tips are spot on. In fact, got a few new ideas for my next trip there in April 😉 thanks for the awesome post!

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He comes in every Wednesday afternoon and sits in front of the counter for about an hour. He’s an artist. I can tell by the way his dark eyes take in everything around him, including me. I wonder, has he memorised every line of my face, every freckle of my skin as I have of his?

He leaves his sketchbook behind one day. I can’t resist, I wait for him to leave and seize it; but, inside, I don’t find a masterful portrait of myself, just a bundle of incomplete Tuesday crossword puzzles. He was not an artist after all.

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It’s a random coffee shop moment, but the soft intensity of the old woman’s gaze is anything but random. Her smile bears the warmth of sweet memories. I remind her of someone. A son? A lover? A departed husband? She knows me, it seems, yet I have no idea who she is. I cringe with the sensation of being studied by a stranger. I don’t like it. It brings back memories.

So I sit next to her. Break the ice. Later today her life will ebb away under my fingers, and the memories will retreat, hers and mine.

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I’m hungover and tired and eating brunch outside a café.

A family are at the next table; an older guy, his daughter and a woman in her twenties. He orders for all of them and I instantly dislike him. She’s telling the young girl about wherever she’s from; Sweden, perhaps. I can’t understand why she’s telling her about snow: It’s already one of the warmest days of the year.

He says that he doesn’t like America. He says he doesn’t like Paris because it’s “too French.” I don’t know what this means.

I know that nothing will make sense today.

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Huge photos of her wedding day still hung on her wall, she was now divorced. The brilliant white of her dress the same white of her cat, now her only companion. The poor creature was overly pampered, overly loved and only allowed out on a lead. So we saw her, for hours every day, wondering the streets, walking the cat. Occasionally she talked on the telephone, sometimes smoked a cigarette, as the cat meandered around her feet. And then it died, as cats do, so her parents came to take her away, she couldn’t cope anymore.

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Ice cream vans remind me of childhood. 99 Flakes, Screwballs with forbidden bubble gum lurking in the bottom, ice cream dribbling down cones and making my hands sticky. Now I’m too old for these fascinations I peer into the vans, intrigued by who might be manning them. And there he was: surprisingly young, tousled blonde hair, open necked polo shirt. He had no customers and filled this void by strumming his guitar. Was it an alternative Pied Piper tune to attract sugar-hungry punters? As I passed, he flashed a toothy grin; no, he was just happy.


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Paris Diaries: Favourite Hotel Hangouts

When in Paris, I love nothing more than spending my days immersed in the avant garde art scene or rifling through the rails of offbeat French boutiques.

Come evening though, you’ll almost always find me resting on my laurels in one or the other of the city’s grandiose hotels. As enchanting as they are dramatically-opulent, there’s nothing lovelier than an immaculate cocktail (or a few) or a bout of gluttony in these bastions of old-world charm…

The Ritz

If I were forced into playing favourites, then like many before me (Coco Chanel, Rudolph Valentino, Churchill, Chopin, Proust, F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway to name a few), I’d always lay my hat at the Ritz.

The dazzling cornerstone of Place Vendôme was recently rejuvenated by a major refurbishment, embracing the nostalgia of its gloried past. Most of the original period artworks and Empire furniture still maintain pride of place, right down to the regal armchairs and the gilded side tables lining the long hall…

… But there’s a strikingly new degree of freshness emanating from the buffed brocades and voluptuous velvets. Or perhaps, it’s just the spotlight shining through the gleaming glass windows, now that those heavy curtains have been finally pulled back!

The hotel’s Hemingway Bar remains an ode to the vaunted novelist who famously set out to liberate the original bar from the Nazis back in 1944 (allegedly running up a tab for 51 dry Martinis right after).

And across the hall, you’ll find the new Ritz Bar. It’s an all-day affair involving a bistro-style menu and an experimental take on cocktails by Aurelie Pezet. The 26-year old is the hotel’s first female chief bartender!

Although the lair-like setting has all the trappings of a cosy ensconcement, where you really want to be during the summer months is basking in Grand Jardin, a hidden garden recreating a bit Versailles in the heart of Paris.

It’s a dream destination for an idyl evening, complete with an ice cream cart, mood-elevating cocktails and generous supplies of nuts, crisps and olives. Service is simply stellar too – winningly-friendly but never obtrusive. Don’t forget to ask for Samy at the bar, or Didem, the bar’s impressionably-charming waitress. If our recent experience was anything to go by, they’ll make sure your evening is nothing short of perfect.

The Ritz, 5 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris, France

Hôtel Costes

Unsurprisingly, it’s not the service which will draw you back to this seductively-hedonistic hotel a few streets away.

The size zero models gliding about are really doing guests a favour when they pause to take orders or unceremoniously prop your drinks down. Speaking of which. The cocktails here are good – but at €25 a pop, definitely not memorable enough to merit a revisit.

So why are you back for the nth time then mon cherie? To run with the cool kids bien sûr.

Both the bar and courtyard cafe are a mecca for people-watching and let’s state the obvious, this  activity is definitely a high-level attraction in Paris.

The wildly extravagant surrounds more than make up for what the cocktails lack too, providing plenty of outrageously OTT (over the top) details to drink in – from the ornate chandeliers to the raspberry-red fringes. The hint is in the mandate given to the hotel’s designer Jacques Garcia… All things in excess.

Hôtel Costes, 239-241 Rue Saint Honoré, 75001 Paris, France

Le Meurice

And then of course, there’s Le Meurice – a Parisian jewel in the Dorchester Collection, standing majestically opposite the famous Tuileries Garden.

The hotel boasts a two-Michelin restaurant by Alain Ducasse, and another inspired by the iconic artist Salvador Dalí who faithfully spent around a month each year – for over thirty years – in the old Royal Suite.

Leading right off from the main entrance, Le Dali is where afternoon tea is served every day. Of course having come in from London, I’m almost always here for the à la carte pastries, which are the creation of the much lauded Cédric Grolet – the remarkably young head pâtissier at the hotel who was recently awarded Best Pastry Chef 2016 by Relais Desserts.

His retelling of traditional French pastries is simply exquisite in its complex artistry. Take the silver lemon for instance, a delicate take on a classic lemon meringue in which you can detect just the faintest hint of tequila! If you can’t decide on what to choose from the inviting selection, do as we did – opting for a mini trio of Chef Cédric’s signature creations.

Hotel Le Meurice 228 Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris,

Hôtel Bachaumont

Heeding the advice of a local Parisian friend in-the-know, my travel buddy, AB and I stayed in the terrifically-trendy 2nd Arrondissement on this most recent visit.

Our address: Hôtel Bachaumont.

It’s situated on the leafy Rue de Bachaumont, an area which was outed by New York Times as the latest open secret of the smart set who flock here for artisanal perfumery, made-to-measure glasses, fashionable éclairs and the shiniest locks in town (courtesy celebrated colourist, Christophe Robin).

They also come for the Pisco Sours at Night Flight, a buzzworthy bar in Hôtel Bachaumont run by The Experimental Group, who essentially created a cocktail culture in a city which had traditionally thrived on wine bistros (these are also the same kind folks behind the Experimental Cocktail Club, Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels, Henrietta Hotel and the Chess Club, on our side of the Channel).

I don’t think I ever walked by this drinking den post-noon to find it empty! If I were to ever live in Paris, I’m certain that this is the sort of place I’d regularly wash up at too.

Night Flight, 18 Rue Bachaumont, 75002 Paris, France

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A thinktank called the 'Club of Rome' has long been recommending a Europe-wide HVDC supergrid, mainly taking power from solar thermal installations in North Africa. You can read about the 'blue sky' project here:

They estimate that a high voltage DC line running from Morocco would have lost about 10% of power on the journey to Northern European countries like Germany and the UK. That is a long way, and considering how cheaply solar thermal (and according to this thesis, wind) could be generated in northern Africa and southern Europe. They also suggest adding in northern European wind farms into the network.

On a smaller scale (the first phase of the system if you are an optimist!) the European Wind Energy Association's 'trade wind' project:

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which is studying the possibility of linking a deeply offshore wind farm in the North Sea via HVDC to mainland Europe and the UK.

As you say, the main problem is political. However, this is something the U.S. should find much easier to push through politically (perhaps with involvement from Canada and Mexico?) - three countries much easier than the 30 or so that these two projects would have to co-ordinate.

I think there would be vulnerability of supply concerns. The EU has seen Russia play hardball with NG deliveries, and may well fear similar stunts might be pulled on electrical supply. Also the possibility of sabotage has to be considered. I hope something like this can occur, but the challenges are large. Fortunately small pieces could be constructed for regional needs first.

So long as the scheme was just within the EU, security of supply should not be a problem, because a member state who turned off the tap would (a) suffer loss of power themselves and (b) fall foul of the wrath of the other member states, which would presumably be nasty for their economies.

Russia may be more of a problem, but again, if this were a truly integrated grid, it would be hard for Russia to take away supplies from others' without also disrupting its own supply (its own wind farms would not amount to a stable generator), and it would also lose money. While Russia is flexing its muscles over Gas supplies, the current arrangement, as it knows, is symbiotic. Europe gives it lots of money, it gives them gas. Both would be set to lose if it is not available as a secure supplier.

HVDC lines are three times as efficient, making them cost effective over distances above 50 miles.

I really doubt the part about cost effectiveness at distances as short as 50 miles. If this were so, there would be many more HVDC lines in use. The high voltage, high power electronics needed to convert between AC and DC are quite expensive, making the use of HVDC lines economical only for long distances or for moderate distances under water.

I really do like the idea, though I see the the HVDC line and the AC/DC converter stations as being highly inviting targets for terrorists.

At what distance do they become cost effective? Do you have a source?

"If this were so, there would be many more HVDC lines in use."

You mean it's not possible that new technology has made them cost effective?

"I really do like the idea, though I see the the HVDC line and the AC/DC converter stations as being highly inviting targets for terrorists."

Hmmm. What about existing transformer stations and power lines?

Why don't they join this supergrid to the hdr enhanced geothermal power generation sources in Iceland

I agree with the problems one would have with Russia if involved in this plan

Some of this may already be underway:

ALGIERS - An Algerian company is planning to build a power cable to Germany to export solar-generated electricity from the Sahara, a state-owned newspaper reported on Wednesday.

I think Europe is going to treat this subject a lot more seriously than we are in the U.S. They don't have coal or gas reserves to fall back on, and nuclear is out of favor at the moment. Plus they tend to take global climate change a whole lot more seriously than we do in the U.S.

In terms of solar, the approach is more along the lines of CSP - concentrating solar power. A plant has been built outside of Seville Spain that illustrates the concept. Cheaper than PV, but evidently only practical on a large scale and not something suitable for individual homeowners.

The TREK-UK site has a Google Earth that shows the locations of a number of solar installations around the world. Some of the locations used to be only tentative - I had a few days off last summer, and I nosed around in Google Earth and found a number of them. These plants are large enough that they easily show up if you get in close enough (the pictures in Google Earth aren't always current, so plants that have been built might not always show up).

Regular HVDC (not HVDC Light or HVDC Plus) is, everything else being equal, supposed to be competitive at distances of around 600 km. They are working on bringing the costs down of the converter technology. HVDC has large advantages with distributed resources as they do not need to be synchronized as they would with an AC grid.

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I just don't think tying 20% of your energy production to a single source that swings up and down so greatly is an efficient way to go. If we do go with such a high wind portfolio, utilities are going to need more peaker plants.

The PM,

It is called pumped hydro. France could be the `70-80% nuclear they are without it.

As the article also mentions going from the Sahara to Iceland to Siberia does even out the wind resources.

The whole idea behind having a large scale network, is that the sources are substantially decorelated. There are three ways to deal with intermittent sources:
(1) Vary consumption. Perhaps you only charge plugins when power is plentiful.
(2) Use some form of power storage.
(3) Have the network cover enough climate zones that variability is reduced.
An optimized solution would use each of these methods to some degree.

This is the old-world half of Buckminster Fuller's proposal for a world power grid.
Building it in pieces is clever, and probably politically necessary.
If extended across the Bering Strait, solar power could power the world with no storage.

I like it except for that I think they are overlooking a few small details. This project is to replace their current energy production capabilities, but by the time it is built (if that is) the demand will be far higher by all estimates.

Secondly, what happens when the Moroccans and other African nations decide they want the electricity generated by THEIR wind? ...unless they are included from the get go in the consumption estimates. On that note then, watch out--the developing nations' electrical demand will grow a lot faster and unpredictably.

I also think its rather an article of faith that "the wind always blows somewhere", but does it blow intensely enough in the grid area to meet the demand of the whole grid? It's not just dead still air that hurts productions--high winds, especially storms hurt it too. What about the energy cost of manufacturing and building these turbines...of maintaining them?

In a lot of markets such as Japan and California, energy consumption has been essentially de-coupled from economic growth, so the assumption that energy use will increase hugely in Europe may not be valid - energy has been cheap, so essentially we don't use it very efficiently, there is lots of room for improvement.
As for Morocco and North Africa needing all the energy they can produce, the wind resource is absolutely vast and you can allow almost any growth you like in their own consumption without affecting their ability to export capacity.
It should not be forgotten either that North Africa is also excellently placed to harvest sunshine either through thermal or photovoltaic power.
The potential there is many orders of magnitude greater than any conceivable use.

There is a new world wide web emerging right before our eyes. It is a global energy network and, like the internet, it will change our culture, society and how we do business. More importantly, it will alter how we use, transform and exchange energy.

For more information, see http://www.terrawatts.com

In a way this supergrid is already being built: There are already a number of HVDC connections between Scandinavian countries. Germany is connected to Sweden with two HVDC cables, a cable between the Netherlands and Norway has just been completed, a cable between the Netherlands and the UK is in planning. A connection between the UK and France already exists.

Just wanted to share this interesting energy calculation workbook I found online It is cool. It actually shows you how to measure the amount of energy that your car really needs!! (as opposed to how much gas it eats). It also shows you how to measure the difference of energy used at low speeds and high speeds, lets you calculate the engine’s energy efficiency, and how your car’s energy compares to other things like energy in your home. It also discusses wind and solar energy, vehicle to grid technology (V2G) as well as electric and hybrid cars.

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Chocolate Almond Sesame Halva

Raw Chocolate Sesame Almond Halva BallsSince seeing how popular my first Raw Sesame Halva recipe has become I have been intending to make a chocolate version. But there's nothing like a food craving to actually propel me into action. I didn't have enough sesame seeds on hand to make a worthwhile batch, so I used almonds to make up the difference.

I also added maca powder for even more superfood goodness and a bit of finely ground coffee beans for an extra kick which sent the taste over the top into the heavenly realm. The base of this recipe is quite simple – sesame seeds, almonds and honey. Around that you can be a bit flexible with the ingredients. If you don't have raw cacao powder (raw chocolate) you can use unsweetened cocoa powder instead. The coffee and maca, or other superfood powder can be left out and it's still delicious. I'd also like to try this using spirulina as the superfood powder ingredient, though I might start with only a teaspoon to make sure the taste won't overpower the rest.

The result was delicious, and I think I actually prefer this half almond, half sesame variant over the original. Try it and let me know what you think.

3 Tablespoons sesame seeds
3 Tablespoons almonds
1 Tablespoon raw cacao powder
1 Tablespoon superfood powder (e.g. maca, mesquite, lucuma, optional)
1 Tablespoon honey
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon finely ground coffee (optional)
pinch of Himalayan sea salt
pinch of allspice (optional)

Grind the sesame seeds and almonds to a fine meal. I used a coffee grinder on the fine/espresso setting and it did a beautiful job. But you could also use a high-speed blender or food processor instead.

Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl with fingers, fork, or wooden spatula/spoon. The honey will bind everything together. So keep mixing until all the dry ingredients have been blended into the honey making a stiff dough. Break off small pieces of this ‘dough' and roll into balls between the palms of your hands. Rolling into balls will bring out the oil in the sesame seeds, and that's why these are so shiny in the photos. No oil was added, it's all from what the sesame seeds naturally contain.

Eat immediately or refrigerate to make them a bit firmer.

Raw Chocolate Balls Ready To Eat

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  1. The Food Fairies says:

    What a brilliant recipe!
    I have tried it already and everybody loves it. As a nutritional therapist, I am always on the lookout for healthy alternatives to suggest to clients during a Nutrition Consultation. Thanks for the inspiration! xxx

  2. Idrinkh2o says:

    Wow!! That looks yummy…

  3. Sue says:

    Thank goodness I found you!
    I have just recently started to eat raw foods and love halva,
    but when I looked for a recipe to make it I didn’t like the fact that you had to heat the honey
    and sesame seeds…….but then, hooray, I found your recipe!
    Thank you.


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The Partnership for Working Families and the Action Center on Race and the Economy, the two groups that released the report, said they found an ample amount of Confederate, Nazi and anti-black products on Amazon’s e-commerce platform, despite the company's policy that prohibits the sale of such products on the site.

In the analysis, first reported by The Washington Post, the groups accuse Amazon of becoming a “platform for openly racist writers, musicians, and activists including some who advocate for violence against Black people, Muslims, Jewish people, and LGBTQ people.”

“These uses of Amazon’s platforms are made possible by what appear to be inadequate and poorly enforced policies,” the report says, adding that Amazon has responded slowly to the presence of racist products on its platform instead of working to quickly remove such content.

Nazi, white supremacist and racist content and products violate Amazon’s rules, which prohibit the sale of items that promote hatred.

The two groups, which say they are focused on advocating for racial and economic justice, expressed concern over the wide availability of Nazi and other hate products for children, warning that those items could help cultivate lifelong racist beliefs.

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Reversing a Soul Binding

I have a difficult situation.  My ex who is Wiccan was showing me various types of rituals and spells throughout our relationship.  One of which was a “soul binding” spell which was intermixed with a handfasting.  He explained it in brief to me and I was open to learning more about his religion, but after our relationship ended on what he would consider a rocky note, odd things have been occuring.  Now I was raised Catholic and identify Christian but also have a strong base in spirituality, so I am not sure if I am just paranoid about the odd things happening or if it is real.  From what I understand, what he performed is not “breakable” and tied his and my soul together possibly for eternity.  Anyways, on to the weird things.  I thought that I was completely over him, but of recent I have been thinking about him frequently as well has having dreams about him and a strong desire to be with him (even though he supposedly moved across the country from me and has since disconnected his phone so there is no way that I or even his family (from what I know) can get a hold of him).  I talked to him just before he left nearly two months ago, he was wishy washy about wanting to stop by and say goodbye, which he didn’t do and left the last conversation saying “I have too much to do” and hung up.  He did say that he can never be around me again because he “doesn’t trust himself” around me (as to not wanting more physically or emotionally) and had said that he was going to come back in a few years after he got done with this education program he apparently enrolled in and wanted me and my children to uproot and move with him where ever he was (NOT going to happen).  I’ve known him since we were young kids and am close to his family, so this is especially hard to have him completely shut me out of his life, but up until recently I was just fine with it and had moved on.

 A friend of mine who is Wiccian confirmed everything he had told me in reguards to this soul binding, but explained further that you cannot undo it and that you will forever be tied to that person, feel what they feel, have a part of them tied into you forever.  This frightens me because as I later found out he has some serious problems mentally/emotionally.  I just want this to go away.  Is there anything I can do?

Something to keep in mind – if the two of you have known each other for most of your lives, and were close for a good bit of that time, as friends and then later romantically, it is very natural (and normal) for you to think about him – even if it seems random or out of the blue. When we have known someone for such a long period of time, odds are you will continue to “love” them in a way, even if you are no longer “in love with them” , or even want to have any type of relationship with them. The fact is that they have been there through a large part of your life, and that doesn’t just go away just because you split up and one party has since moved far away, or lost contact. You will likely continue to think about him off and on for many years to come – regardless of any ritual that was performed.

As to said ritual… I’ll be honest, the person who came up with the idea of a “soul binding” ritual should be beat with a stick (at the very least). It sounds perfectly romantic when you are reveling in the joys of new lover bliss – the idea of being with the one you love for all eternity. But the actual fact of the matter, is that keeping any sort of committed relationship (marriage or otherwise) together for the long-term, even within one lifetime, is difficult at best and takes a lot of hard work. So the idea of binding oneself on an energetic level to someone else through multiple lifetimes, when the odds aren’t even in favor of you sticking it out in this one, is folly. Inevitably the bliss wears off, and you are stuck (in a manner of speaking) with this person that – even when you part from them for perfectly good reasons, in theory you are now potentially going to be miserable for the rest of this life, and into the next when you aren’t with them. So even if you meet someone else who is perfectly wonderful and compatible with you, because of this ritual you may always find yourself feeling as if a part of you is missing – when in reality (if you hadn’t done the ritual), you might have been truly happy. It’s worth noting too, that for him to do this sort of ritual with you, without properly explaining the consequences of doing such a thing, is pretty reprehensible.

I’m not even sure I’d consider a “soul binding” on my deathbed, even if I’d been deliriously happily married to the same person for 50+ years. While the idea is nice, it seems that if someone was truly meant to be my soulmate, then we would already be bound – so there is no need to manually force the issue. Even if we aren’t together in every lifetime, odds are we will meet up again and again throughout our incarnations. Besides the alternative is much worse – being stuck with someone who you have later determined is not “the one”. Potentially as well, just because we are happy in this life, doesn’t mean that there aren’t other happy opportunities to come in future ones with other people, and doing such a ritual, would change those coming experiences.

Having said all that, your best bet would be a parting ritual of sorts. It may not completely sever the ties, especially since you have no way for him to participate with you, but it should help to minimize some of the effects of the original ritual.

The following is a really simple and to the point “Parting Ways” ritual that you can do. Ideally you would want him to do the ritual with you, but as that’s not possible, if you have an item that represents him that should be fine. Also if you have a picture of the two of you together (that you don’t mind cutting up), that would be good as well – or any other symbol of the two of you together (that can be cut in half).

  •  Normally you would do an “ending” spell with the waning moon, however as this one is focused more on starting fresh, you could do it with either. Other than that it’s fairly simple – just say it like you mean it.

our paths diverged
new lives to start
what once was merged
here now must part
with blessings bright
we’ll start anew
the time is right
we know it’s true

  • While chanting the words, focus on the image or item that symbolizes the two of you being bound together – visualize each of you going your separate ways, and then physically cut the image/item in half – literally cutting the ties that bind you together. Chanting is a good way to raise energy, so if you want to you, can say the chant several times as you cut (helps to reinforce and gives added focus). Three times is always been a sort of magical number, or you can correspond it to the number of years the two of you were together (since you did the original ritual), whatever feels right. Once you are finished you can either bury the leftover pieces of the picture/item, or burn them – again whatever works best for you.

I also would suggest checking out this previous post on Dissolving a Handfasting, which while not quite the same situation, there are some correlations, and the information and example rituals there might be useful to you.

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  1. I am wondering if you actually did the ritual with him, or he just told you about it. You did not say you did, just that he “told” you about it, along with other rituals and spell work. If you did NOT do it with him, I agree that this Parting Ways ritual should work well for you. If he did the ritual (or actually, spell) without you and without your knowledge, then he broke the Wiccan Rede by casting without your permission.

    You seem to think this is more of a “hex” he placed on you. I tell people all the time that you cannot be hexed unless you BELIEVE you have been hexed. It’s your belief in it that gives it power over you, like a “self-fulfilling prophesy”.

    As the answer above states, it is normal for you to still have feelings for someone that has been significant in your life. I have been in 2 long-term relationships that were abusive, and yet I do find myself thinking about them occasionally, and wondering if things could have been different. That does NOT mean I want them back, but they were a part of my life, and I cannot totally erase that from my memory.

    Do the spell stated in the initial answer, and move on, regardless of where your thoughts take you. Don’t let the “negative press” we Witches have been given for eons go to your head, and believe you have been bound to ANYONE. “Harm None” is our most important Law, and if he was a true Wiccan, he never would have done the spell without your knowledge and permission. If you did participate in it, the spell given to you should be most adequate in reversing it. Otherwise, don’t give it momentum by believing in it at all.

    • ‘Harm None’ is not the Rede. The complete and proper phrase is ‘An’ It Harm None, Do As Ye Will’, which is essentially saying ‘if it harms no one, do it freely’. That’s not the same as ‘Harm None’. There are Wiccan traditions who believe and teach that it is important to know how to harm, when it is necessary.

      Also, Rede means ‘advice’. It’s not a law – and in fact it isn’t even properly Wiccan, having first appeared in 1964 – a decade after Gardner founded Wicca proper. There are any number of covens whose establishment predate the Rede, and the Rede does not appear in the Ardanes, which are properly the laws of Wicca.

      So you can take the Rede, or you can leave it – it isn’t a measuring stick of who is or isn’t Wiccan, let alone a ‘true’ Wiccan.

  2. Just trying to ease the mind of someone that isn’t Wiccan and obviously frightened.. Semantics aside, what I said was to help, not confuse. She doesn’t seem to be inclined to study the Path, and I did my best to help ease her fear. Leave the semantics for another discussion among practitioners.

  3. I’m going through a very similar situation and I am very concerned with the things that have been going on mentally and physically. Its been enlightening and also traumatizing. My husband and father of my children died May 4, 2013 unexpectedly but we were seperated and there were a lot of factors i won’t put online that were working against us. No matter what i feel like we have always been connected. he was amazing and what we had together was amazing. i learned so much from him. i was the one who did the soul binding. I’ve always considered myself a pagan or universal believer. I haven’t done hardly any spells and ritual but I’m into energy work and sending and recieving it, good or bad, intentional or just by your emotions unintentionally. We were handfastened in 2011 and i bound our souls in the vows i wrote for the ceremony. In my mind I felt like and still feel that we were truly connected. He felt it immediately, for years, before i even realized he had an interest in me period. I’ve known him most of my life. he taught me more. than any teacher could ever have. Not just hindsight, but about life in general, hell even with maintaining as an adult but a mother and wife. I need help figuring out what i call thr bigger picture, or connections I’ve been going through pretty intensely this last year but some that i started going through close to 10 yrs ago that have grown more intense and dr. does not grasp but also i haven’t told him anything I’ve felt since jd died for fear of being crazy. anyway if anyone could help me or listen to these without thinking I’m a total loon i would be always grateful.

    • I would start a journal, to keep track of the things that you are feeling/experiencing. When you can go back and read over it, patterns may emerge, and if nothing else, when a bit of time has passed, you may be able to get a better sense of that bigger picture when you can see more of it laid out in front of you.

      I would caution you not to necessarily read too much into it all at this point though. With your husband’s death still so recent, and the fact that there were a lot of unresolved issues/emotions between the two of you – that is more than enough for the brain to sort of amplify things that may or may not be as major as they might seem right now.

      By writing it all out, you can give yourself the time you need to get through the grieving process, and then once you have a bit of distance from it all, you can start sorting it out.

      On a mundane level if you are seeing counselor, I would simply talk to him/her about your residual feelings, you don’t have to mention any of the magical stuff. But they should still be able to help you work through some of that, so that you can move on with your life.

      I’m very sorry for your loss.

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The POWER To THINK: Hero’s Powers

The Powers You Really Have: Power to Think
“A man was sitting in coffee shop, drinking coffee looking outside as rain drops fell gently on the glass windows. All the while, thinking at the enormous rate of thoughts, about people in his life, his family, friends, suddenly jumping to the past, remembering old friends, playing cricket, suddenly to the current matches happening, suddenly thinking how he wanted to be a cricketer and now is doing something else, thinking to himself that’s how life is, maybe i should go abroad, now thinking about his future, how would life be? then thinking about his friends how are they, maybe i should call, suddenly, the waiter comes and asks “Sir, anything else?”.

The sudden question brings him back to the coffee shop, the present. This was just 30 seconds long thinking, there are 57600 seconds in the 16 hrs that you are awake, ofcourse if you are sleeping for 8 hrs a day.” We do automatic thinking for much of our time, same job, same past, same thoughts about the same people, things, desires and problems, same feelings, as if the same movie is running all the time in a theatre called mind.

Thoughts are the products of this power or ability called thinking. We create many thoughts we don’t act on and the ones we act on, we create many thoughts which we don’t believe are true and the ones we believe to be true, we create many thoughts which we believe with utter conviction and ones with utter disbelief, we create thoughts which create happiness and ones that create pain, we create thoughts which create a variety of emotions from sad to happy, from calm to rage, from confidence to anxiety.

What is true? which ones are true? Its a product of your power to think, you can make it true or false no matter what the world says, because its always a personal thing, your power. Just do this exercise: Can you imagine a pink elephant, remember your favourite song? the feeling you had when you had a major victory in life? can you tell how much you love your beloved, family? how do you feel now? if you did the exercise, you just used your power well, you would have felt good atleast if not great.

This brings us to our other powers, power to emote, that is to create feelings, feelings change all the time right? what is true then? maybe what you have just read has created some doubts, but if you think about many of the things you believed utterly as a child were false. Challenge your thoughts that create pain, sadness, fear, hopelessness, doubts, worries, knowing that it’s a product of your power, it’s not you. Practice your power everyday

Ask yourself these questions:
1. What do i really want?
2. Who am I?
3. What would i do if i practice my power to think and create something i want?
4. How can i view my life story differently, so that i am empowered instead of being dis-empowered.
Everyone’s on a hero’s journey.
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Ten superstars you probably never knew performed in Livingston County

Mandy Moore performed at the Fowlerville Fair in 2000. It did not go well.

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Even though we’re a sleepy little commuter county, Livingston County has had some brushes with fame through the years.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur rode in a parade in Howell in 1952. Henry Ford and William Jennings Bryan spoke at the Howell Opera House more than a century ago. Three Oscar winners (Robert De Niro, Adrien Brody and Hillary Swank) filmed scenes from movies here.

And we’ve also had some really famous people perform here – usually at the beginning or toward the end of their careers.

Here’s a list of 10 people you probably didn’t know performed in Livingston County:

Loretta Lynn

The Fowlerville Fair has had dozens of famous acts take the stage through the years, and the Coal Miner’s Daughter is probably at the top of that list. The legendary country western singer performed at the fair in 1999.

Dion and the Belmonts were the top American vocal group in the 1950s, cranking out hits like “A Teenager in Love.” When Dion went solo, the hits kept coming, including “Runaround Sue” and “The Wanderer.” He performed at the Howell Holiday Inn in 1978, back when they were bringing in lots of supergroups from that era. Among the other hit-makers that appeared at the Howell Holiday Inn in the 1970s were the Association and the Platters.

Tim Allen

Playing everything from Tim the Tool Man to Buzz Lightyear, he became one of the biggest TV and film stars of all time, but he got his start as a stand-up comedian in Michigan. He played comedy clubs and bars around the state in the late 1970s and early 1980s – including Cardona’s Pizza in Brighton, which hosted comedy nights in the early ‘80s.

Chubby Checker

Let’s do the twist! The legendary star from rock ’n roll’s early years performed at the Howell Holiday Inn in 1978.

Rich Little

The most famous impressionist of all time – and a regular on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” for decades – performed at the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts in 2012.

Weird Al Yankovic

He’s become world famous for changing the lyrics to well-known songs (i.e., Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” becomes “Eat It”), and he performed at the Fowlerville Fair in 1997.

Mandy Moore

This was probably the most controversial concert in Livingston County history. Mandy Moore performed at the Fowlerville Fair when she was a budding 16-year-old superstar in 2000, but she left fans furious when the left the stage after just four songs. Her entire “concert” was only 18 minutes long, prompting hundreds of fans to demand their money back.

Clint Black

The country superstar played at the Fowlerville Fair in 1998, and still ranks as one of the biggest stars ever to appear at the fair.

Mickey Rooney

One of the biggest film legends of all time, Mickey Rooney and his wife, Jan, performed at the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts in 2004. Rooney was gracious and appreciative of all the love he experienced here, and spent a lot of time before and after the show meeting with fans in Brighton.

Chuck Berry

Perhaps the most famous rocker of all time, Johnny B. Goode performed at the Brighton Balloon Festival in 1988, a short-lived event that took place in a field near U.S. 23.

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Longtime Livingston County journalist Buddy Moorehouse is director of communications at the Michigan Association of Public School Academies.

  1. Also, Leeann Rimes, Grandpa Jones, Alabama, Oak Ridge Boys, Brooks & Dunn & many more! But that is all history with reconstruction ; many changes!

  2. What about all the acts that played in the spot where Hartland Lumber once was? Ice rink I believe?

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7 Wonders Duel: WONDERing whether to play?

Pairs well with: Coffee and aspirin.

Brutus scale: 8/10. This is because it’s a two player game that pitches you against an opponent. As with 7 Wonders, someone may be more placid or war-y than the average.

Sunday morning has been a rather slow start for Briony. She and her punk boyfriend Pat were screamingly hungover after celebrating Gord’s (from team Misery during Essen) birthday the night before. Logically they decided that now was probably the most opportune moment to re-play through the games Briony had bought at Essen*. It had to be done. Enough time had elapsed since returning to forget what board gaming was like at a convention**, and be able to put the new purchases into a living room setting. A living room now filled with blankets, coffee, painkillers, cheese toasties, and the occasional ‘Oh god my head, why is it so fucking bright?’ became the domain of Call of Chthulu’s lesser known Ancient one: The seething mass of fleece blankets whose singular goal was to play some games.

The seething fleece mass: Evade roll (-1). If approached without coffee loose 2 sanity.
The seething fleece mass: Evade roll (-1). If approached without coffee loose 2 sanity.

The first game of the morning was 7 Wonders: Duel***. This was the first game that Briony bought during Essen. In fact she bought it probably about 23 minutes after the gates first opened. In hindsight she was utterly right, and around 66% of team Misery also ended up buying the game before the end of the convention. Bob, it should be said, is not included in this number. Bob thought it was a bit unnecessary and not particularly rewarding. She’s generally considered to be wrong, though. Shush Bob!

7 Wonders: Duel is simply a two player version of 7 Wonders. It does what it says on the tin. The game is so good is because it actually looked at some feedback from 7 Wonders, such as ‘how the fuck does one score science without an app’, and actually addressed the problems. Consequently there is now a ‘research system’ in place for science, which means that if a player builds two science cards with the same symbol at the top they unlock a piece of research, i.e. picking a token. Tokens have a whole range of perks that span from straight up victory points, to making your wonders significantly cheaper to construct. Obtaining all 6 different symbols of the science cards straight up wins the game there and then, meaning that no other points are counted at the end. This gives science an edge that it previously didn’t have in 7 Wonders, even though it was a useful mechanic for generating a tonne of points at the end of the game.

‘This is the third research token you’ve got… are you researching how to be an asshole opponent?’

‘My major is how to be a dick, minoring in winning this game. You should turn up to class more often. Burrrrrrn.’

DSC_0496Moreover on the topic of addressing the weaknesses of 7 Wonders there is now no longer a war at the end of each era. Instead, there is a war meter which rises or falls when a player plays a military card. The meter is split into several stages which rack up victory points for the player pushing it up and negative consequences for the opponent. In a similar way to science, military domination now has the ability to straight up win the game if the marker is pushed to the end of your opponent’s side of the meter.

DSC_0493The special Essen edition of this game came with a pewter war meter marker which Briony lost while wandering around the convention centre in a haze of excitement. Fortunately the lovely people at Repos Games gave her another free of charge without even correcting her terrible broken German.

As the game is now two player the trading mechanic has had to change a little bit. Instead of being able to pay adjacent players for their resources, you instead pay the bank (which stocks everything apparently). If your opponent already has the resource you need you must pay the bank even more to be able to use that resource. It’s sort of reminiscent of the current European banking crisis. It turns out that the banker’s ridiculous money bonuses may have roots in hoarding all of the brown resource cards…

The final big change that Duel has compared to vanilla 7 Wonders is that each player has the ability to build up to four wonders each. Four whole wonders! That’s a lot of wonders. In reality most civilisations thought ‘eh, that’s probably enough wonder’ after one or two, but in this game you don’t have to let reality hold back your dreams.

The answer is always 'more wonders'.
The answer is always ‘more wonders’.

The great thing about this is you get to choose which wonders you’d like the opportunity to build at the very beginning of the game. Obviously you select in turn order so that one player doesn’t get all of the wonders they really want, but does offer a lot more flexibility from the original selection of races/civilisations in 7 Wonders. In addition to the pewter war marker, the special edition version of Duel from Essen also came with an extra playable card: the Messe****. The modern building has been painted as if it were 100BC making it a lovely addition to the selection.

As ever all of the artwork is stunning – this is one of the best things about 7 Wonders, and we’re all exceptionally happy that they decided to continue with it. Team Misery played a couple of drawing games while in Essen*****, and it’s safe to say that we absolutely could not be trusted to design anything as lovely as the 7 Wonders and Duel artwork.

Finally, there are three eras to the game, as in 7 Wonders. Each era has a different card layout where each player takes turns in selecting unlocked (face up) cards. Once a card is taken it may unlock a card underneath it and it is turned face up. This brings some new Brutus mechanics to the game where you could discard something in your turn that you know your opponent wants or needs. Pat inflicted this on Briony several times during their Sunday morning play-through as she came close to winning with science twice. Briony preferred to imagine this as a disappointing part of history where the feared and trade-incompetent Pat the Lesser was forced to burn all of the books in the empire.

DSC_0498If you liked 7 Wonders then give this game a go. It’s extremely close to the original game, sticking to all of the bits that you know and love, while being much faster to play. It irons out the (admittedly minor) kinks from the original game, and brings some subtle but novel expansion to the theme and mechanics. Even Briony and Pat, hungover and annoyed at being dicked over by one another, still really enjoyed the second play-through.

*And sneakily on Amazon while in Essen. Always compare prices.

**Hot, sweaty, and always in a rush to find the next game.

*** Yes, we know Shut Up and Sit Down JUST reviewed this. They’re always one step ahead of us, the sneaky bastards. What can we say, they have a much higher budget. http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/review-7-wonders-duel/

****This is the name of the convention centre that Essen Spiel is held in.

*****We highly recommend ‘A Fake Artist Goes to New York’, winner of the Misery Farm’s distinguished ‘Why the hell did anyone pay £20 for what is essentially a pad of paper and some tiny pens…. Oh wait that’s why, this is hilarious’ award 2015. Play it in the pub.

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