Paragon Backup & Recovery 12 Home

Paragon Software's disk management tools routinely outclass the competition and run away with our Editor's Choice?for example Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 2011. I expected Paragon Backup & Recovery 12 to perform equally well, but I wasn't nearly as impressed by it as I am by Paragon's disk tools. Paragon Backup & Recovery 12 Home ($39.95, direct) gets basic backup jobs done, and offers a far cleaner interface than its more-powerful rival Acronis Backup & Recovery, but its interface prevents non-experts from using some essential features. Worse, in my tests under Windows 7 64-bit, Paragon's app was the only backup program that crashed in the middle of routine operations. It didn't crash predictably, but it crashed more than once?and even one crash is one too many for a backup program.

Getting Started
When Paragon Backup & Recovery starts up, it offers a simple menu with "Smart Backup" and "Restore" as the most prominent options. Smaller icons lead to other tools, including Paragon's reliable tools for copying drives and partitions and extracting multiple files from disks or backups for storage elsewhere. An unobtrusive link at the foot of the screen opens Paragon's advanced interface, which lets expert users access the enormous range of features that Paragon builds into its products. I'll get back to the advanced interface later, after surveying the app's consumer-level features.

The Smart Backup option on the main menu leads to a wizard that lets you choose among a full range of backup types, from backups of full disks and partitions through backups of Outlook or Windows Mail messages, media files, documents, or any arbitrary set of files and folders. Clear menus let you specify whether to perform the backup once or on a recurring schedule, whether to password-protect a backup, and an option to create a script file in Paragon's proprietary scripting language that can be saved and reused?but only from the Windows command line or via the optional advanced interface.

The consumer-level interface lets you create backup jobs that can run on a schedule, but it gives the non-expert user no way to save a backup job that can be run once but also reused later. This is an essential consumer-level feature that backup apps from Acronis, NTI, and Genius all provide, but which Paragon makes available only to experts.

Performance
When I tested the app's ability to save an 800 MB folder to a USB3 drive, it took a whopping five minutes to do the job, compared to Acronis's 84 seconds. Worse, it twice crashed with an error message without completing the operation, though in each case it performed successfully when I ran the backup a second time. This simply shouldn't happen with software that's designed to safeguard your data.

Other tools available on the consumer-level interface include a feature that builds bootable recovery media on either optical or USB flash disks. The disk-building interface is blissfully simple, and the resulting recovery media is the essentially the same easy-to-use, powerful recovery disk created by Paragon's hard disk management apps. It's the one recovery disk that I've always got available, and it's never failed me yet.

Options
Another tool on the consumer-level interface creates and manages "Backup Capsules," which are optionally-bootable secure partitions like the "Acronis Secure Zone" that is one of rival Acronis's features. I didn't test this feature for two reasons. First, I think it's a mistake to save your data on the same physical hard disk with the data itself, because any damage to the hard disk is likely to wipe out the backup. Second, I know from hard experience that it's potentially dangerous to alter your disk structure with a proprietary bootloading code that only one vendor's applications can manage or understand. Fortunately, as with Acronis's Secure Zone, you don't need to use Paragon's Backup Capsules.

To return to the app itself, the optional advanced interface offers a genuinely dazzling range of features, entirely unlike the deliberately-hobbled consumer-level interface of the main menu. You get Paragon's spacious, detail-rich display of disk information and lucid wizards for building backup jobs and disk management tasks. The advanced features include the ability to combine two or more existing backup archives, each from a different partition or folder, into a single archive. You can also create and reuse the full range of simple, differential, or incremental backups that are standard in all advanced backup programs. Unfortunately, I experienced the same program crash when I ran a folder backup from the advanced interface that I did when I ran it from the consumer-level interface.

Paragon Backup & Recovery 12 Home, like Acronis Backup and Recovery, is an enormously powerful program with a less-than-ideal interface. Paragon's consumer-level interface is too limited. Acronis' interface is more complex than I'd like it to be but at least it makes all major features relatively easy to find and manage. Acronis also has a major advantage in its greater reliability?at least in my testing?and also in its optional online storage feature. Acronis edges out Paragon for Editors' Choice in local backup software.

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Therapists Spill: My New Year's Resolution | World of Psychology

The end of the year is a time for self-reflection, while the beginning brings a clean slate, hope and new-found motivation, said Deborah Serani, Psy.D, a clinical psychologist and author of the book Living with Depression.

That?s why so many people use this time to create resolutions. In our monthly series, ?Therapists Spill,? we wanted to know what goals clinicians are setting for their fresh starts.

For instance, Serani is setting both personal and professional goals ? with an emphasis on realistic resolutions.

I like to set realistic goals for myself each year. Some are personal, like exercising more and eating better. Others are professional, such as researching a new subject or presenting at a conference. Of course, I don?t always achieve all these goals. But for me, I know that thinking about change leads me toward change. And that?s a good way to start the year.

Joyce Marter, a psychotherapist and owner of Urban Balance, has three resolutions for the new year, which focus on gratitude, mindfulness and self-care.

I very much believe in the power of gratitude as a way to encourage positive thinking and good energy that will attract blessings, such as positive people, experiences and opportunities in the New Year.

I love the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn and Eckhart Tolle and am committed to continue developing my practices of meditation, deep breathing exercises, yoga and other mindfulness techniques to anchor myself in the present. Mindfulness practices keep me from obsessing from the past or worrying about the future and also help me be more aware of my emotional and physical state. I find that when I am rooted in the present, I am more conscious and better able to detach from my ego and live my life authentically.

As a mother in a care-taking profession, I have a bad habit of putting my needs last, to a fault.? Therefore, I am committed to a lifelong journey of practicing healthy self-love. To help myself with this goal in 2013, I put a small, framed picture of myself as a baby on my nightstand.? Each morning, I look at it and set intentions for self-care for the day (healthy diet, exercise, rest, fun, etc.).

Somehow, it is easier for me to validate my self-care if I take a moment to reflect that I am that precious child in the photo ? and that as an adult, I have the responsibility to take the very best care of myself so that I can live a healthy life personally and professionally.

Gratitude also is a goal for John Duffy, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and author of the book The Available Parent: Radical Optimism for Raising Teens and Tweens.

In 2013, my plan is to be present, in each moment, and to be grateful. There are many, many things I intend to accomplish in the coming year, but if I can achieve presence and gratitude, I am confident that all else will fall into place beautifully.

Ryan Howes, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist in Pasadena, California, takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to setting resolutions.

I hate to be contrarian, but resolutions sort of drive me crazy. Part of me loves to target areas to improve, while another part strives for self-acceptance. New Year?s resolutions force me to pit these competing drives against each other. For this reason, I usually avoid making resolutions, but this year I?ll make an exception:

1. Run a 40 minute 10K

2. Measure happiness qualitatively, not quantitatively

3. Get a book deal

4. Be less goal oriented; enjoy the journey

5. Increase Facebook fans

6. Increase humility

7. Change bad habits

8. Accept self as-is

Jeffrey Sumber, M.A., a psychotherapist, author and teacher, resolves to focus on the people in his life for 2013.

Something I intend for the new year is to give more attention and care to my relationships rather than acquiring things, doing things or being someone I think I should be. I want to honor the people in my life and remember that they are the most important part of my life.

Christina G. Hibbert, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and postpartum mental health expert, doesn?t set goals. Instead, she sets a theme for each new year.

I do have a main ?goal? for 2013 ? to see the publishing of my book, This is How We Grow. But really, I don?t set ?goals? or ?resolutions? for the New Year. It?s actually something I share in my book ? several years ago, in an attempt to get away from the too-easily forgotten New Year?s ?resolutions,? I developed instead a yearly theme.

This theme would serve as my one ?resolution? for the entire year and give me focused, extended practice in mastering it. A few of my past year?s themes include: humility, charity, patience, gratitude, love, and joy.

At the end of each year I spend time reading through my past year?s journal (I?m an avid journal-keeper), allowing myself to reflect on what I?ve learned, where I am, and where I need to be headed. This helps me determine what my theme for the next year will be. Sometimes I know my theme a couple months before; often, I don?t know it until January 1!

So, what will my theme be for 2013? Right now I?m leaning toward ?Optimism,? but, since I haven?t done my ?year in review,? if you really want to know my 2013 theme, you?ll have to tune in to my blog in January and find out!

These resolutions have one thing in common: They focus on each person?s values. Whether you?re setting resolutions this year or not, consider striving for a life that honors what?s important to you and isn?t shaped by shoulds. Consider creating a life that respects your needs and wishes.

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Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. is an Associate Editor at Psych Central and blogs regularly about eating and self-image issues on her own blog, Weightless.

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Winter Dining Round the Family Dining Table is back | ArticleBro ...

With the winter approaching and the BBQ covered for the season there is a growing trend to return to family dining around a large dining table. Be it a lovely large formal dining table like Downton Abbey ?upstairs? .. or more like the antique farmhouse table ?below stairs? at Downton Abbey tastes vary but the principle is the same. Collective eating around a large dining table is back! With grandparents living longer there is an even greater need for dining tables to comfortably accommodate 4 to 6 people and yet be able to extend to a larger size when the generations gather.

Elisabeth James Antiques are the UK?s largest stockiest of original dining tables from Early Period, Georgian, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian periods. Under one roof we always have at least 100 tables in oak, mahogany and walnut. The range includes formal round tables to seat 6, 8 or 10 people, formal extending tables to seat 6 to 30 people and refectory or farmhouse tables to seat up to 16 people.

All of our stock is original and we select the best quality tables from estates and clearance to ensure that the restoration process produces the most stunning example from any period. Our in house team of restorers have specialised in finishing large dining tables for a combined 160 and use traditional techniques rather than the modern spray finishes most companies adopt today. Quite simply, whether a classic French polish, traditional wax finish or a hardy heat resistant lacquer, our team produce the most perfect finish of your choice. We supply the fine antiques trade and customers around the World with the very best quality at the lowest prices possible.

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The Wing Fort House is located at 69 Spring Hill Road, East Sandwich, Massachusetts. Open Tuesday through Saturday from June 15 to September 30 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. There is a small admission fee. For off-season visits please call the Caretakers at (508) 833-1540. Cousins, if you ever have the opportunity, this is a "must do" visit. It is something you will never forget and something you will never tire of talking about.

The oldest house in New England owned and occupied continuously by the same family for over three centuries. Built in 1641.? In 1646 it became the home of Stephen Wing, one of the early settlers of Sandwich, son of the Reverend John Wing and Deborah Bachelor. Stephen?and his descendants occupied the house from then on, adding on as families grew and changing tastes dictated. Now restored, it is furnished almost entirely with Wing family antiques showing the different periods of its long history. The house is maintained by the Wing Family of America and open to the public.

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Google Apps makes gains on Microsoft Office

Google Apps was long seen as too lightweight to be a competitor to Microsoft Office. But Google Apps has added features and maintained a low price over the years, and now the cloud software suite is starting to tempt companies away from Microsoft Office.

By Jeff Ward-Bailey,?Contributor / December 26, 2012

More and more companies are considering the cloud-based Google Apps suite as a serious competitor to Microsoft Office. Here, a city bus in Los Angeles shows an advertisement for the Microsoft Surface tablet.

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For years, Microsoft Office was widely considered to be the way for businesses to get "serious" work done. Google Apps, the cloud-based office suite, wasn't generally thought of as being stable or full-featured enough for company use. But as Google Apps has matured, more and more companies have noticed -- and in 2012 Microsoft found its core business base eroding as offices jumped ship to Google.

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Google has been promoting its software for business use since 2006, focusing mainly on small businesses that didn't need all the features of Microsoft Office. Now, The New York Times' Quentin Hardy reports, big companies are starting to notice Google as well. New Google Apps clients in 2012 included Hoffman-La Roche, a Swiss drug company with over 80,000 workers, and the U.S. Interior Department, where 90,000 employees use Google Apps.

Google's pricing is a big mark in its favor with businesses. The Google Apps suite, which includes word-processing, data-entry, spreadsheet, and presentation programs, has added features at a steady pace for several years, but the price of the software -- $50 a year for each business user -- has stayed the same. By contrast, Microsoft Office will cost $400 a year for each business user in 2013, although the Times notes that many companies pay half that with bulk discounts.

Microsoft hasn't ignored the cloud-software trend, though. Last year it released Office 365, an online version of its venerable software suite, which costs between $72 and $240 per year for each user, depending on how many features are needed. Julia White, a manager in Microsoft's business division, says Office 365 is "on track to be [Microsoft's] fastest-growing business," according to the Times, although the company hasn't released figures on usage. In late 2011 and early 2012 Microsoft's business divison made almost $24 billion -- but that revenue came almost entirely from conventional Office software that runs on computers located on companies' premises.

Google announced this summer that more than five million businesses were using its Apps suite, although nearly all of those companies have ten or fewer employees. So big companies like Hoffman-La Roche aren't jumping to Google Apps en masse, although the Times notes that Google won 23 of the 42 large government contracts for which it competed with Microsoft in 2012, compared with 10 for Microsoft.

Neither company is boasting about its total number of enterprise users, and it would be inaccurate to suggest that Microsoft is hemorrhaging business customers. But as companies put more stock in online collaboration, Microsoft will have to find ways to make Office 365 more attractive -- or come up with another strategy to tempt businesses away from Google.

For more tech news, follow Jeff on Twitter: @jeffwardbailey.

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Gulf Arabs decry Iran "interference" in region

MANAMA (Reuters) - Six U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states demanded on Tuesday that Iran end what they called interference in the region, reiterating a long-held mistrust of their main rival.

The Islamic Republic denies trying to subvert Saudi Arabia and its wealthy Gulf neighbors.

A communique issued at the end of a two-day summit of the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) also urged action to halt mass killings and violations of international law in Syria.

The oil-producing GCC states wield influence out of proportion to their sparse populations due in part to global energy and investment links, generous international aid and Saudi Arabia's role as home to Islam's two holiest sites.

"The council expressed its rejection and condemnation of the continuing Iranian interference in the affairs of the Gulf Cooperation Council's states and called on Iran to stop these policies," the communique said.

On the conflict in Syria, the statement, read out by GCC Secretary-General Abdulatif al-Zayani, added: "We ask the international community for serious and swift moves to stop these massacres and these severe attacks".

Kuwait said it would host an international humanitarian donor conference for Syria in late January, amid concern for millions of Syrians suffering war, homelessness and winter cold.

"LOTS OF MEDDLING"

Gulf Arab leaders have long called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, and in November the GCC recognized a newly-formed opposition coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people.

The communique did not elaborate on Iran, but the most common Gulf Arab complaint about alleged Iranian meddling in the region relates to Bahrain, which has repeatedly accused Tehran of interference in its internal politics.

Iran sees the Gulf as its own backyard and believes it has a legitimate interest in expanding its influence there.

Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al Khalifa told reporters Iran posed a "very serious threat".

"Politically, (there is) lots of meddling in the affairs of GCC states; an environmental threat to our region from the technology used inside nuclear facilities; and there is of course the looming nuclear program," he said, referring to Iran's disputed atomic work.

"So the threat level is quite high, but we are ready if faced with circumstances that require action."

While not racked by disturbances on the scale of Syria or Egypt, Bahrain has been volatile since pro-democracy protests led by its Shi'ite Muslim majority erupted last year.

Scattered smoke plumes rose from Bahrain's Sitra and Sanabis districts on Tuesday, apparently caused by youths burning tires, but no major demonstrations were reported by activists.

Bahrain's Sunni Muslim rulers brought in Saudi and United Arab Emirates forces last year to help quell the protests, and Shi'ite power Iran condemned the move, saying it could lead to regional instability. Bahrain has accused Iran of being behind the unrest. Tehran denies this.

GCC FORCE LONG SEEN AS INEFFECTIVE

Bahrain's Shi'ites say they are marginalized politically and economically, a charge the government denies. It has rejected the protesters' main demand for an elected government.

The summit statement said the GCC would set up a unified military command to tighten defense cooperation but offered few details of a project long prey to sensitivities about sovereignty. Security in the waterway, through which 40 percent of the world's seaborne oil exports passes, has been dominated for decades by the United States.

But uprisings against long-standing governments across the Middle East and rivalry with Iran over the conflict in Syria have stirred calls among Gulf Arabs to speed up long-stymied efforts to integrate their own foreign and security policies.

The GCC said it had "supported the creation of a unified military command that organizes and plans and leads the ground, naval and air forces."

The communique did not elaborate. But Mustafa Alani, a security analyst, told Reuters that he understood the idea was to have a standing command rather than a functioning one, and that it would only operate in times of crisis.

The GCC already has a pan-GCC military force -- the 9,000-strong Peninsula Shield, created in 1986 and based in Saudi Arabia. It took part in the 1991 Gulf war and was deployed in Kuwait during the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

But the Saudi-based force is widely seen as ineffective. Gulf Arab states have faced a host of obstacles to military integration, including a lack of common equipment, their own reliance on their U.S. ally and concern among some states about potential Saudi dominance of any joint military effort.

(Reporting by Asma Alsharif; Writing by William Maclean; Editing by Alistair Lyon)

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From the Editor's Desk: Who's naughty, who's nice

Ah, Christmas Eve. The day we remind our kids that they still have to be good for at least one more day, and remind ourselves that a little extra patience probably wouldn't hurt anyone. Easier said than done, for sure. But it's more important than ever to take a step back, take a breath, and keep some perspective. 

In keeping with the spirit of things, here's my naughty and nice list. 

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