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Mineral Light is a hybrid Light that is formed when Light is passed through Mineral Crystals. Mineral Crystal Light that possesses the energy signature of the mineral crystal enrich the environment. Mineral Light is light that becomes reconditioned geometrically through Mineral Crystals and enriched with over 250 millions years worth of Geo-Chemical information, thereby increasing it's overall informational content.
Each type of Mineral Crystal has a unique geometric structure and energy pattern, possessing stored information from eons ago. Consequently, mineral crystals store a high-value of information.
The atoms (or strings) in a mineral crystal are not just regularly stacked, static "billiard balls", they are electrically charged. A ray of light that enters a crystal enters a regular, repeating geometric grid of vibrating electric charges and complex electric fields. Consequently, Light's own electric and magnetic fields interact with the fields already present in the crystal and Light is effectively slowed down and its wavelength shortened.
What emerges after Light has interacted with minerals crystals is a hybrid form of light - Mineral Crystal Light - that possesses the energy signature of the mineral crystal it has passed through. Crystallized Light Energy possesses a higher informational content that can be used to enrich the body, mind and soul as well as the environmental space that contains it.
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Date: 1702
But if ideas "remain in the Soul when I was only thinking of a Horse, whereever they are bestow'd, it may be presum'd, there is room for that one idea more without thrusting out another to give it place: and when that one is among them, I see no more reason why they must be all new imprest, than ...
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"Female youth, left to weak woman's care" are "Strangers to reason and reflection made, / Left to their passions, and by them betrayed; / Untaught the noble end of glorious truth, / Bred to deceive even from earliest youth; / Unused to books, nor virtue taught to prize; / Whose mind, a savage was...
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"Hail to pleasure's frolic train; / Hail to fancy's golden reign; / Festive mirth, and laughter wild, / Free and sportful as the child; / Hope with eager sparkling eyes, / And easy faith, and fond surprise: / Let these, in fairy colours drest, / Forever share my careless breast; / Then, tho' wise...
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"Such rapture filled Lactilla's vacant soul, / When the bright Moralist, in softness dressed, / Opes all the glories of the mental world, / Deigns to direct the infant thought, to prune / The budding sentiment, uprear the stalk / Of feeble fancy, bid idea live, / Woo the abstracted spirit form i...
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Reconnect To Something Bigger Presents the Film There is a growing movement of people who draw on values, creativity, and the power of human consciousness to clarify and guide their financial choices. People want their money life (where they earn, spend and invest their money) to better reflect the values espoused in their personal and spiritual lives. They want their money life to have impact. Join us for a screening of the 20 minute version of the powerful and inspirational feature documentary film PLANETARY. PLANETARY is a cross-continental cinematic journey that challenges viewers to reconsider our relationship with our home and asks us to rethink our relationship with ourselves, each other and the world around us - to remember that we are a Planetary community made … [Read more...]
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The fiber reinforced shape memory polymer composite (SMPC) is naturally considered to be manufactured with the characteristics of low density, low cost, high reversible strain, high strength, high modulus, high stiffness, good resistance against creeping and relatively high recovery stress. So the SMPC has a good control of deployment of the space structure, reduce the complexity of the space structure, and improved the stable of the deployment.
(a) A solar panel was deployed actuated by the SMPC hinge under the simulated ground-based weightlessness conditions. Compared to traditional metal twist spring type hinge drives and motors type mechanical control type launch device, fiber reinforced polymer composites shape memory on the main hinge driving device advantages are: simple structure, light, easy supervision and control, facilitate repeat process, design flexibility.
(b) The local post-buckling theory is required for the unidirectional fiber reinforced composite materials, at the conditions of its large geometrical deflection. On this basis, the analysis of buckling deformation for SMPC was proposed.
Fig.1 The in-plane deformation of SMP composite
Fig.2 The snap-shot images during the deployment of hingeFig.3 A deployment process of a prototype of solar arrays which is actuated by a SMPChinge
Fig.2 The snap-shot images during the deployment of hinge
Fig.3 A deployment process of a prototype of solar arrays which is actuated by a SMPChinge
Morphing technologies will enable aircraft to be more efficient and operate under a wide range of varying flight conditions. It will be used to improve aircraft performance, expand its flight envelope, replace conventional control surfaces, and reduce drag to improve range, which provide the ability to maximize the performance of each mission envelope. The morphing concept changes shape dramatically via a morphing wing, such as a folding wing or a sliding wing or a variable camber wing.
Now, our group focuses on the three aspects in morphing structures:
(a) Morphing skins, which not only enable transformable, but also support aerodynamic loads;
(b) Smart actuators, which show good performances in lightweight and high-output;
(c) Adaptive structures, which could change the parameters of wing area, backswept, aspect ratio, twisting, wing camber, etc. with the different flight conditions.
Fig.4 Variable camber wing based on Shape Memory Polymer skinFig.5 The active morphing skin based on Pneumatic Muscle Fibers actuate the variable camber wing at different actuation pressures
Fig.4 Variable camber wing based on Shape Memory Polymer skin
Fig.5 The active morphing skin based on Pneumatic Muscle Fibers actuate the variable camber wing at different actuation pressures
Fig.6 Honeycomb structures experimental setup: (a) flatwise compression tests; (b) three-point bending tests; (c) and (d) tensile tests.
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The main purpose of cataract surgery is to remove the cloudy lens and put man made lens in its place . This man made lens is known as intraocular lens. The surgery is done when vision deterioration has led to the conditions where the patient cannot function properly in the day. The aim of the surgery is to help person to get the vision and return to normal working life.
Persons who have cataract in both the eyes can get surgery only in one eye and second surgery can only be performed after gaps of few weeks . The surgeon can select one of the two main surgeries for the patient . The selection of surgery depends on the condition of the cataract and general health of the patient .
In small incision surgery ,an incision is made at the side of the eye to pass the sound waves to break the cloudy glass into smaller pieces . The broken smaller parts are then sucked out of the eye .
In extra capsular extraction method the lens is removed in one piece and manmade lens is inserted. In this surgery , the lens and front portion of the lens capsule wrapping around the lens is opened to remove lens .
After the surgery, Cataract Surgery in Delhi the patient has to stick to the medications prescribed by the surgeon. The patient is prohibited from certain activities and exercises. Persons even after surgery may need reading glasses due to age factor. After cataract surgery , the lens may get cloudy after five years . But this is a normal problem and gets treated with laser surgery without any complication
Lasik surgery is done to cure the short sightedness, long sightedness and astigmatism. The use of laser is involved in all surgeries to reshape the cornea . But in Lasik surgery , the laser cuts the flap of the cornea and also treats the area below the cornea after keeping flap aside . The manual blade is not used to cut the flap of cornea. The use of Lasik laser in Delhi laser improves accuracy and also the rate of success involving Lasik is above 90 %.. The need for stitches is totally eliminated and recovery time also comes down . It is also reported that after the use of Lasik, the need for glass and contact lens comes down drastically and some patients may not need them at all . The use of Lasik depends on the facilities available in the hospital and experience of the surgeons .


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He's known for his skills when it comes to emphasizing sexiness and his new designs for spring 2013 demonstrate that Tom Ford is a name that shouldn't be overlooked when we talk about style. Check out the designer's newest fashion collection and pick your new style favorites!
This spring 2013 season every fashion designer put his own spin
on the most popular theme of the fashion scene, clean chicness, and
it seems that the different visions designers had helped create
various head-turning results. One of the designers that always
keeps attention focused when it comes to style is Tom Ford, as his
talent for infusing sexiness in everything he creates is
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Tom Ford has always channeled his energy into bringing the seductress out of women through his designs, however without loosing that high dose of refinement that is necessary for the modern power-woman. The brand's spring 2013 collection displayed an array of clashing elements that fused perfectly to deliver the right dose of hotness to the designs. Prude meets promiscuous seemed to be the inspiration behind the collection as the clean, chic lines displayed were given a certain dominatrix-like allure, making it perfect for the modern divas.
It's amazing how a simple slit strategically placed can
transform the look of an outfit, giving it a totally new meaning,
and Tom Ford demonstrated the power of the slit by incorporating it
in several designs. The bold, all sexy elements that were
introduced by Tom Ford in the collection, such as patent leather
and body hugging garments, helped the collection receive an
oh-so-modern look that is perfect for the ladies that want to be
However, the collection couldn't have missed out on the classics as these timeless elements can be considered an investment and definite must haves in a true fashionista's wardrobe. Apart from the stylish pencil skirts, the designer unveiled several trendy garments such as asymmetrical midi skirts, stylish sweaters, cool shorts, fabulous jackets and skinny-fit trousers. The little black dress is a must and the designer made sure you've got several designs to choose from. Elegant maxi dresses were also featured in the new collection and the glam factor reached a whole new level as the stylish dresses were marked with elements capable of making heads turn.
The designs were accessorized using hot, hot, hot ankle strap sandals, gold embellished sandals and stylish boot-sandal hybrid shoes that will surely make their way to the red carpet.
Perfect for the modern day fashionistas, Tom Ford's collection is definitely worth your attention, so browse through the complete collection and pick your new season faves!
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NASA takes off with an open government and cloud infrastructure plan
Don't be surprised if NASA's Nebula cloud becomes the model — and maybe the mother — of cloud infrastructure in the U.S. NASA is embarking on an ambitious plan to overhaul its existing data center infrastructure to standardize on open source technologies and ideas.
At the forefront of the Obama administration's efforts to consolidate data centers and adopt cloud services, Washington, D.C.-based NASA has "aggressively consolidated" 32% of its data centers in the past 12 months, according to Deborah Diaz, the agency's deputy CIO. That had been a goal to be reached by 2015, but now NASA expects to consolidate 66% percent of its data centers by then.
"We're looking at this holistically," said Diaz, who is heading up a transformation that involves virtualization and such new technologies as geothermal power. The goal is not simply a reduction in the number of data centers, but also the "better utilization of computing resources," she said. The result will be a hybrid cloud infrastructure that standardizes on open source technologies to save the American public money and further the agency's lauded Open Government plan.
Diaz is leading an initiative as part of NASA's IT Infrastructure Integration Program that's called the computing services platform. Next month on SearchCIO.com, I'll look at how she's bringing together virtualized data centers that combine cloud infrastructure with high-performance computing and energy efficiency. She was in the private sector before she launched USA.gov and became CIO of Homeland Security.
NASA was founded in 1958 to "provide for the widest practicable and appropriate dissemination of information," and its principles of open government are deeply embedded in its culture. Yet new initiatives are designed to take that to the next level by giving the public a voice in future endeavors. NASA's Citizen Engagement Tool, for example, deployed through its Participatory Exploration Office, netted 420 ideas from 280 individuals in February and March.
NASA also co-founded (with Rackspace Hosting) the OpenStack initiative to foster open source development in the private sector. I'm looking forward to the upcoming Red Hat and JBossWorld conference in Boston in two weeks, where I'll learn about the latest in open source cloud computing. Are you going? Email me at email@example.com.
What does it mean that Wal-Mart is buying social media company Kosmix?
When I read the news that Wal-Mart is buying a small software company specializing in social networking, thoughts swirled. How they swirled! Kosmix upsets the Wal-Mart cosmos. All that stuff about social media and networking ushering in a third wave of capitalism that I reported on last year was so not over the top, my editor's skepticism notwithstanding.
I thought about how quickly a capitalist giant can transmute, if it wants to. Wasn't it just yesterday that Wal-Mart was called out for promoting fake blogs — or to put the company's fine point on it, paying real folks handsomely for generating positive PR? Kosmix has developed a concierge platform that filters information for people from social networking sites. Never mind brainwashing customers with mercenary social media — Wal-Mart wants to know you by your online social networking habits. So, the Kosmix acquisition has implications for retailing and for social networking, or what's being called social shopping.
But mostly I was thinking when I read this news, what a heady mix! Kosmix's founders are Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman. Silicon Valley royalty, they operate in an entrepreneurial world apart from the one that spawned the entrepreneurial genius behind Wal-Mart. The pair's previous venture, Junglee, was bought by Amazon.com for a reported $250 million.
Part of the business folklore about Wal-Mart is its policy of bringing store managers to rural Bentonville, Ark., its headquarters, to be steeped in the Sam Walton ethos. Not so here. Not so now. According to reports, Wal-Mart will come to Kosmix, setting up a new group called @WalmartLabs, which will be based in Silicon Valley. What does it mean? "Upsetting the cosmos," as my editor would say, is probably overstating it, but IT really is making the world flat.
Cloud service providers urge lawmakers to postpone legislation
Only a science fiction writer might have imagined that consumer technologies like smartphones — coupled with a cloud computing service like Facebook — would be dissidents' weapons of choice in toppling regimes, as we have seen these last few months in the Middle East.
Facebook, the social network credited with the collaborative oomph needed to galvanize dissent, is one of the most popular cloud computing services, with more than a half billion users worldwide. Will it someday become the engine for a smarter planet, used to distribute food, water and other vital resources equitably?
As Facebook has shown, cloud computing makes the world an even smaller place. Yet global cooperation could be hamstrung by unnecessary regulations regarding data location, according to the cloud computing vendors who flocked to Washington, D.C., this week for a meeting of the Congressional Internet Caucus. In Canada, for example, the government has already forbidden Canadian citizens' personal information to be taken out of the country.
Dan Burton, executive vice president of global public policy for Salesforce.com, a provider of cloud services for customer relationship management, urged lawmakers not to enact such hurdles to cloud adoption by U.S. companies, saying that if they do, they will forestall momentum in the cloud computing market, which is led by such U.S.-based companies as Amazon.com, Google, IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Burton said the existing Safe Harbor certification program for data security seems to be doing the trick for vendors, as well as for users of cloud computing services, by following data protection principles established by the European Union. At the very least, the Obama administration is backing a new Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights, which would give consumers more control over their personal data and how it is collected and shared among third parties.
Perhaps today's science fiction writers can take it from here, and craft stories about how various governments came together by 2015 to establish common laws surrounding cloud commerce, and how that eventually led to a single global government with the United Nations as its council. These stories would go on to describe a consolidated and green global data center infrastructure; better resource allocation; development of solar, wind and geothermal energy; space exploration — and peace.
Back on Earth, cloud computing is moving at such a rapid pace that everyone in the enterprise is being forced to catch up with the mobile technologies that are transforming the workweek into a more flexible, integrated, 24/7 lifestyle.
Stamford, Conn., consultancy Gartner Inc. expects the market for cloud-based infrastructure services alone to nearly triple in the next three years, from the current $3.7 billion to $10.5 billion in 2014. That doesn't count the Software as a Service market, which is becoming a mainstream part of enterprise IT architecture, according to Julie Smith David, a professor at Arizona State University and a co-author of a report about integrating SaaS with legacy systems that was commissioned by the Society for Information Management's Advanced Practices Council.
Look for a SaaS reality check on SearchCIO.com next week.
In the cloud, even custom apps will be a commodity
I'll make this short because God knows you've read enough about cloud computing and its software variation, SaaS. This concerns the cloud and custom apps, in particular the proprietary apps and IT systems for specific industry verticals. These are the technology-driven unique solutions that give a business its competitive edge and that IT departments have hung their hats on for a long time.
Cloud computing, a delivery mode well-suited to commodity services, will change the delivery of those custom apps too. Or at least, that was the observation of Dave Hansen, a former CIO who now works for CA Technologies, in a recent discussion about the impact of the cloud on the role of the CIO.
"These are the things your industries all have very unique solutions for, that you say … no way anybody else can do," Hansen said.
Right now, Hansen ventured, there is no such thing as a poultry IT management system — as far as he knows. But there will be one. There will be a poultry IT management system because even though the market for it is small, the cost of entry to develop software and deliver it as a service is soooo low that somebody will do it.
"CA would never ever, ever spend a dime looking at a $10 million market. It wouldn't be worth it, given the infrastructure that we have," Hansen said. "But two monkeys and a zebra with a couple of cases of beer would, right?"
As the cloud market matures more, those two monkeys and a zebra will be bundling software into vertical solutions and selling them as services.
Multi-tenancy leads to risky development on cloud platforms
Why buy when you can rent?
It's the new credo among savvy spenders everywhere — IT shops included. More and more companies are renting space on a cloud (Infrastructure as a Service) or paying for what they use of applications hosted on one (Software as a Service). In either situation, one provider serves multiple customers simultaneously, a concept known as multi-tenancy.
I recently read an article about how people in cities are using the cloud to share goods, from tools to tripods. There's a movement toward owning less and sharing more, the article said, that's spurred no doubt by the unemployment that 20% of college graduates are facing. The surprise is that this act of sharing — or perhaps its inherent thrift — produces a shot of happy chemicals in the brain.
The world is mad about multi-tenancy, not just because it's less expensive — or at least appears to be more equitable in the pay-as-you-go model; and not because it's better for the Earth — one consumes only what one needs; but because it feels good.
Ever see an unhappy Zipcar driver? Not likely. The Cambridge, Mass., company has spawned a passion worldwide for sharing cars to save the environment. It accomplishes this through the use of innovative technology that gives members 24×7 access to thousands of cars around the globe. It's a jolt for the green economy, almost as good as walking to the train.
In the IT world, the concept of multi-tenancy is transforming data centers, saving both money and emissions through the consolidation of virtualized servers. A cloud, whether public, private or hybrid, is similar to a hotel, with each customer inhabiting a room that uses the same electricity and plumbing infrastructure. The bigger the hotel, the more service providers there are to supply such things as linens and food.
Salesforce.com, for example, one of the first SaaS providers, is surrounded by an ecosphere of developers adding value in vertical industries. Microsoft, likewise, is luring a bevy of developers to its Windows Azure platform.
The security risk, to extend the hotel analogy, is whether your company's data goes out with the sheets.
"I wonder whether customers understand those risks," said Julie Smith David, director at the Center for Advancing Business through IT, and associate professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. "If Platform as a Service ends up the winner, it may provide a single-source comfort to the customer, but there is still this world of developers innovating."
Within the platforms, developer apps are housed on the developer's hardware, David explained. "I may trust Salesforce.com and set up an app exchange, but if I don't recognize that a piece of my data ends up at the third-party developer," there could be a shot of unhappy chemicals in the brain. "I don't want my trusted data too many hands away in the cloud," she said. Even though Salesforce.com uses stars, reviews and other assurances that third-party developers are dependable, "my guess is those risks are being underestimated."
Stay tuned to SearchCIO.com next week to hear more from David about a report she co-authored for the Society of Information Management's Advanced Practices Council on integrating SaaS with legacy systems.
Have a SaaS best practice to share? Email me at Laura Smith, Features Writer.
Are CIO leadership skills moot if the business has you pigeonholed?
Are you lacking in CIO leadership skills, or do you lack CIO leadership qualities because the business has boxed you in, pigeonholed you as the IT guy? The question came up at a private dinner for CIOs, where I was the proverbial insect on the wall. Not in so many words, but it was out there, definitely out there, attended by the kind of anxiety a conundrum like this provokes.
"Let's say, hypothetically that you're a CIO in a $5 billion business," said one of the dinner guests. "Good on the left side, been there for three or four years, and typecast. The business sees you as the IT guy who keeps the infrastructure running. How do I break out of that so I can start moving to the right side?"
"Don't get in the box in the first place," someone at an adjacent table retorted. "Once you get in, it is hard because you have already told them what your comfort level is."
The left side vs. right side discussion was in reference to the evening's presentation — a discussion of The CIO Edge: Seven Leadership Skills You Need to Drive Results.
The authors tapped into the mammoth databases of executive search firm Korn/Ferry to come up with seven skills typical of really successful CIOs. The gist is that those technical, left-brain smarts might be table stakes for running a data center, but they won't get you a seat at the table. The latter requires the right-brain skills that allow you to manage, manipulate and mesmerize people. (This press release will save you the trouble of buying the book.)
An elder-statesman CIO from a large utility company softened the blow: "Depending on the situation, it might not be worth your time and energy to make them see you in a different light."
"So quit," he said.
With unemployment at 9.2%?
You could feel the air getting sucked out of the room, as table by table the guests pondered whether CIO leadership might be out of one's grasp, due to one's own half-brain nature or a pack of unnurturing business partners.
"Say that you are going to make a change," a guy piped up. "Say, 'I have spent the last three years on delivery and getting things in shape. And now that things are in pretty good shape, I am going to focus on other things.'"
"Whereas," this guy continued, "If you just try to change without telling people why you are changing, then it is just this odd behavior."
Now there's a CIO with right-brain skills, I thought, joining in the relieved laughter that filled the room.
Cloudsourcing and lean methodology tap customer input
Whether your IT organization is thinking about becoming lean or using cloudsourcing techniques, it all boils down to customer input. After all, they're the ones on the front line, with the best information about your company's product strategy.
Unlike old-fashioned focus groups, cloudsourcing and the lean methodology ensure that businesses stay focused on customers' needs while continuously improving business processes to eliminate waste, save money and ensure customer loyalty.
My story on Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.'s lean initiative on SearchCIO.com this week demonstrated how an organization can bring employees from various departments together to identify redundancies in business processes. Putting lean concepts to work, in 2010 Nationwide was able to trim $2 million in excess costs, according to Mimi Chizever, vice president for claims technology at the Columbus, Ohio-based insurance company.
According to Chizever, the lean methodology is all about understanding interdependencies between departments; reusing code and other resources as much as possible; and above all, staying focused on customer requirements. The lean process works backwards: Instead of finding a market for a product, companies find out what customers need, then focus on solutions and deliver them just in time.
One way to find out what customers need is to use cloudsourcing. This is a technique in which companies poll their customers to drive development. The idea comes out of the concept called crowdsourcing (where businesses look for feedback, ideas and talent in a crowd of users), but the cloud aspect enables the interaction to take place anywhere, through a Web browser.
For example, Vision Critical Communications Inc., an interactive market research company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, uses its Sparq cloud platform to manage research data from thousands of respondents to its polls quickly and conveniently. Sparq also is available to Vision Critical clients so they can deploy surveys, review results and communicate with their customers.
Auto racing organization NASCAR, for example, uses the Sparq platform to ask race attendees their opinions about various issues and generate buzz. Other Sparq users include the National Football League, Major League Baseball, ESPN, Taco Bell, Nordstrom, Frito Lay — about a quarter of the companies in the Fortune 500, according to Andrew Reid, Vision Critical founder.
Vendors including Oracle Corp. are jumping on the cloudsourcing bandwagon. Oracle announced last month that it would integrate Accept Corp.'s Accept360 crowdsourcing software with its Oracle CRM On Demand. The integration will enable users to create internal and external social communities where customers and partners can collaborate and vote on, and prioritize product, campaign, services and opportunity innovation ideas.
Even New York City is getting into cloudsourcing, launching an online program called Simplicity, which is based "on the idea that government should be organized around the needs of its customers, who are taxpayers, businesses and service users," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg in his January State of the City address. "In the year ahead, we'll launch online forums where every city employee can post ideas that he or she thinks will improve services or save the city money. Others will be able to comment on those proposals, and then we'll implement the best ones."
'Understanding the customer is the wrong unit of measurement'
CIOs often are advised to think of their users (a sleazy term if there ever was one) as customers. Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has news for you: "Understanding the customer is the wrong unit of measurement," he informed CIOs at the recent Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., on disruptive innovation.
Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma, offered the following story to show why he feels that way: He and a colleague were hired by a well-known fast food chain to find a way to boost its sales of milk shakes. The chain asked the people who purchased its milk shakes — aka focus groups — for suggestions on how it could improve the shakes so that customers like them would buy more.
"They got clear feedback," Christensen said. The chain duly improved the product per the customers' suggestions, but this turned out to have no effect on sales or profits. Understanding the customer was getting them nowhere.
Companies, and by proxy, CIOs, explained Christensen, typically define the markets they serve by customer category or product category: low-, middle- and high-income households, for example; or compact, midsize, full-size and luxury cars. They can win a product category by making a better thingy than everybody else. Based on market research, they develop products for their average customer (and hope the outliers will buy it too.) If you are a customer, Christensen postulates, you don't think of yourself as a category: "Stuff just happens to you, and you hire products and services to do jobs for you." Understanding the customer (in the traditional sense) is the wrong unit of measurement.
"My colleague and I decided the fundamental question was, 'What job are customers trying to do when they come here to hire a milk shake?'" Christensen said.
To answer this question, Christensen et al. manned the fast-food restaurant for 18 hours, taking data on everyone who bought a milk shake: what time they came in, what they were wearing, whether they were alone, whether they bought the milk shake with food, and so on.
They discovered that about half the milk shakes sold were bought before 8 a.m. The milk shake was the only thing these customers bought. They were always alone, and they always got back into a car with the milk shake and drove off. So, what job were these early birds hiring the milk shake to do? As it turned out, they all had the same job: a long, boring drive to work. They needed something to do while they were driving to keep them interested, Christensen relayed.
The chain's viscous milk shake took 20 minutes to suck up through a straw. The customers were not particularly hungry when they bought the shake, but knew they would be by 10 a.m. "'Who cares what the ingredients are?' they said. 'All I know is that I am full all morning, and it fits right into my cupholder,'" Christensen said.
Peter Drucker was right when he said that the customer rarely buys what the company thinks it is selling, Christensen told the CIOs. He suggested that CIOs try the following: Rather than think about their IT products and services in terms of product or customer segments, or customer reports, they should figure out the job their customers are trying to get done, figure out how to get the job done perfectly, and design and buy accordingly.
It's not products that make a company [read: internal IT shop] very hard to compete against. After all, those are easily copied, Christensen said. Instead, it is providing experiences that customers can use.
I thought that was useful advice, and so did many of the CIOs in the audience, as today's story on the CIO's dilemma shows.
And the fast food chain's dilemma? Why I should care, I don't know; but it occurred to me that it could expand its customer base for milk shakes to people on long trips by increasing the size and narrowing the straw.
Courion's user identity management gives the Red Cross an infusion
Suzanne Hall is "really excited" about the pilot the American National Red Cross will launch next month, thanks to the largesse of Courion Corp., an identity management provider that's given away $100,000 to charities over the last nine years.
As the first winner of the new CourionCares Program for Non-Profits contest, the Red Cross received an enterprise license for identity and access management (IAM) and compliance software from Courion to manage user access, demonstrate access policy compliance and improve IT security.
"We have significant issues around identity management," said Hall, chief information security officer at the venerable organization founded by Clara Barton. "The gift is very much appreciated."
The Red Cross has about 75,000 users who work with a variety of applications and have varying types of network access, she said. Currently its help desk spends 30% to 40% of its time on resetting passwords manually, a laborious task for IT that involves a lot of downtime for the organization.
"Being able to deploy a self-service identity management solution is a huge work saving for us, and an enabling empowerment for the organization," Hall said.
The pilot will take place in the IT department, and a rapid rollout across the organization is planned. Hall said she expects high adoption rates because of users' familiarity with self-service passwords on the commercial Web.
Nonprofits come under the same privacy and access control regulations as the commercial world, whether those involve protecting donors' credit card information or clients' personal health care information, according to Chris Zannetos, president and CEO at Courion in Westborough, Mass.
I'll be following the Red Cross rollout of the self-service user identity management software on SearchCIO.com, to see what benefits — financial and otherwise — the organization reaps.
"We're expecting that we'll have a labor or soft savings that's pretty dramatic," Hall said. "It's true that you often have to spend money to save money, and Courion helped us get over that hump."
The semi-annual call for entries for the next CourionCares award is now open, and the winner will be announced in July. To enter, organizations must submit a 250-word descriptive overview of the IT security and regulatory challenges they face, as well as the reasons they believe Courion's software will help them with these challenges. All entries must be received by 5 p.m. EST on April 29.
Perfecting the elevator sales pitch by channeling your inner Hollywood
Why don't a CIO's ideas stick? Your ideas are too complex. They're not spoken in the language of the business. They solve the wrong problem. Customers don't see what's in it for them. Your boss doesn't believe they will work. You come off as a buttinsky. Your timing is off, sometimes by years.
That was the CIO feedback in a workshop titled "How to sell internally without ROI" at the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., this week.
The session no doubt began with a trenchant analysis of why CIOs often find themselves in the position of having to sell ideas that don't have an ROI. By the time I walked in, however, attendees were engaged in that staple of CIO conferences —
self-flagellation self-examination. This was followed by an exercise aimed at developing the perfect elevator sales pitch for executive peers and other business customers.
What? You're not a salesperson, and all your constituents take the stairs? Irrelevant.
Developing an elevator sales pitch for your proposals, whether recited in an elevator to the people you're trying to convince, or never delivered at all, is a useful exercise for CIOs, explained Leigh McMullen, the Gartner analyst leading the workshop and author of "Creating Proactive Proposals That Stick." For starters, the process helps crystallize your ideas. The cost of sales is an important metric when you're selling an idea or proposal, he said. CIOs have enough to do without wasting their time pitching ideas that don't go anywhere. A good elevator pitch also forces you to think in terms of two things that don't come naturally to many CIOs: affinity (as in, what you and your ideas have in common with the people you're trying to sell to) and messaging (more on that in a moment).
So, how do you develop an elevator sales pitch that might actually get you somewhere — aside from couching it in the language of business (for example, "What if I can shorten the cash-to-close cycle to 15 days from 90 days?"), establishing trust and improving your "opportunity management" skills?
McMullen's advice to CIOs is basically to channel your inner novelist — or better yet, your inner Hollywood scriptwriter. Turn your proposal into a story that will resonate with the people you're trying to convince.
Without further ado, here are Leigh McMullen's step-by-step instructions for developing proposals that stick, as well as a sample elevator pitch in which a hypothetical CIO of a major hotel chain tries to sell the idea of putting in check-in kiosks:
1. Good characters drive a compelling story.
Decide who the "main characters" in the story are. These aren't necessarily the stakeholders or influencers who are being sold to. They usually are constituents of these stakeholders.
The main characters in the hypothetical automated-kiosk caper are the hotel's frequent (aka high-margin) travelers.
2. Reveal the problem.
Determine the problems the main characters face. What keeps them awake at night, and what is the basic problem the proposed solution is trying to solve?
"Frequent travelers are always standing in line — at the airline check-in, at security, when boarding the plane. And finally, when they get to their hotel, there's another long line."
3. Allude to, but do not reveal the solution.
This is often called the compelling question, because it causes the stakeholder to focus on the answer that the seller is about to provide.
"What if, when they got to our hotel, there were never any lines?"
4. Pitch the solution, then anticipate objections.
In one or two short, simple sentences, describe your idea and how it solves the problem of the main characters.
"If we deployed automated check-in kiosks, we could virtually eliminate customers having to wait."
"Now, I know that sounds expensive, but we can more than make up for the investment by reducing front-desk staff. Additionally, we'll actually improve customer service and perception of value, because the front-desk staff will be more available to help serve the customer rather than be occupied with mundane tasks."
Or you could just download "Get Shorty." Not that I'm saying you or your customers have anything in common with loan sharks and petty mobsters.


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From time to time, Grammar Glitch Central takes time out to recognize companies and publications that make a point of Getting the Grammar Right. Past recipients include Publix Grocery Stores, The Associated Press, and the Blondie cartoon.
Today we'd like to recognize Hallmark Cards, Inc. for a 2011 graduation card (used with permission from Hallmark Licensing, Inc.) that makes a clever point about the proper use of GOOD and WELL. The front of the card, which I purchased recently, looks like this:
As used here, WELL is an adverb that describes how the graduate DID (verb). Here are some other examples of WELL used correctly to describe the action of a verb:
Luke has served his country well in the National Guard.
Anne ran extremely well in the final lap of the race.
The inside of the Hallmark graduation card uses GOOD correctly to describe, not how the graduate did, but what the graduate should do with his life –GOOD in the world.
In this sense, GOOD is used as a noun. It can also be used as an adjective (describing a noun) in the sense of NOW GO AND DO GOOD (THINGS) or as in the examples below. GOOD should not be used as an adverb, as in the incorrect but often heard "I did good (should be WELL) on the test." Here are some other examples of GOOD used correctly in sentences:
Our committee had a good session today.
Do good (things) with your life.
We saw a really good movie last night.
My thanks to Hallmark for the wonderful message of this card (which I sent to a graduating grandson) and also for Getting the Grammar Right! You can visit them online at www.hallmark.com.


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As exciting as electronic music can be, it can also get repetitive as shit.
However, Dirtyphonics, the bass-heavy, Dim Mak-signed trio from Paris, embraces the unpredictable side of the genre. And it was pretty apparent when we interviewed crew member Charly that he and his mates are not about it for the kind of drug-frenzied, glittery mega-spectacles. They're not trend surfing. They're definitely committed for the long haul.
The rest of this article was published in the Broward New Times online and can be found here:


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A Play In Four Acts
Book Excerpt
is laughingly protesting, while Tommy's is gleefully insistent.) (Margaret and Tommy appear and pause just outside door, holding each other's hands, facing each other, too immersed in each other to be aware of the presence of those inside the room. Margaret and Tommy are in street costume.)
{Tommy} (Laughing.)
But mama.
(Herself laughing, but shaking her head.) No. Tommy First--
No; you must run along to Linda, now, mother's boy. And we'll talk about that some other time.
(Tommy notices for the first time that there are persons in the room. He peeps in around the door and espies Mrs. Starkweather. At the same moment, impulsively, he withdraws his hands and runs in to Mrs. Starkweather.)
(Who is evidently fond of his grandmother.) Grandma!
(They embrace and make much of each other.)
(Margaret enters, appropriately greeting the others--a kiss


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Travel Canada: Winter vacations for people who hate skiing,,,
Posted By: Shopprice Australia
Who says skiers and snowboarders should have all the fun? There are plenty of ways to enjoy winter, even if you aren't hitting the slopes. Here are six vacations in Canada that will make blizzard season a blast.
Niagara Parks, Ont.
Perfect for: Family time
Everyone is familiar with the falls, but Niagara Parks offers a full lineup of adventures and activities for the entire family all year long. Escape to the tropics with a visit to the Butterfly Conservatory, where more than 2,000 butterflies can be found among the rainforest setting. Discover a stunning spectacle on the Journey Behind the Falls with reduced winter rates. And through to January 29, check outAura: Let It Glow, the 33rd annual Winter Festival of Lights event that features a weekly fireworks series, seasonal blooms at the Floral Showhouse and a five-kilometre outdoor display of millions of dazzling lights.
Perfect for: A pick-me-up
The grey winter months can leave you feeling less than inspired, but a trip to Jellybean Row in St. John's, N.L., will brighten things up faster than you can say "eh." The brightly coloured Victorian row houses aren't the only thing making people smile in St. John's. Canada's oldest city is home to unique boutiques, vibrant galleries and a whole host of local cuisine. You can watch icebergs drift past from atop Signal Hill or get closer with a boat tour through Iceberg Alley, where you'll spot 12,000-year-old chunks of Greenland glaciers and the occasional underbelly of a humpback whale.
Halifax, N.S.
Perfect for: Extreme adventure
Most people think of surfing as a summer sport, but the Eastern Shore region of Nova Scotia is gaining an international reputation as one of the best cold-water surf spots in the world. Don a wetsuit, gloves and booties, then take the plunge into the near-perfect swells at Lawrencetown Beach, 25 kilometres south of Halifax. There are plenty of surf schools and rental shops that will help you hang 10. When you've had enough of the waves (or you can't feel your fingers and toes), warm up with hot chocolate or a pint of locally brewed beer in one of the Halifax's lively pubs.
Perfect for: A girls' weekend
The bustling town of Collingwood might be the best of all worlds for a winter vacation. Located on the shores of Georgian Bay, the area offers a plethora of shops, restaurants and cultural events, plus easy access to several ski resorts, if your friends just have to get in a day on the slopes. Start the weekend with amoonlit sleigh ride and campfire under the stars, then schedule a day atScandinave, the outdoor Nordic spa, where you can hop from the sauna to the steam room to the cold plunge and back again, all with Blue Mountain as your backdrop.
Perfect for: A romantic getaway
What could be more romantic than taking off with your sweetheart to an oasis of eco-luxury on the edge of the Arctic? Head to Yellowknife and visit Blachford Lake Lodge, where you can skate on frozen lakes, dogsled through the snow and gaze at the breathtaking lights of the aurora borealis, a cosmic phenomenon that can be seen from a steamy hot tub. Pick up a reminder of the journey in the form of an Inuit stone carving or, better still, a locally mined diamond, complete with its official Canadian polar bear insignia. After all, diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Whistler, B.C.
Perfect for: Ski-bunny fun
f your travel partners insist on hitting the slopes, head to Whistler Blackcomb; a full calendar of winter events will keep you occupied while everyone else is freezing their buns off on the hills. Check out the weekly Fire and Ice Show, where the resort's best skiers and riders put on a free show involving big air jumps and a blazing ring of fire. Next, satisfy your tastebuds with local wines and gourmet cuisine at 6,000 feet, or soak up good vibes and good tunes at Mostly Marley, a birthday tribute to the legend himself.


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On the road to Barcelona, the city of Gaudi, one should visit this studio located in the heart of the city. Studio Mosaiccos is a place where you can make your own souvenirs if you want. It's a place where you can learn to shape mosaics and how Gaudi had a quick mind about mosaics. Studio Mosaiccos is a workshop that you can attend the events when you are in Barcelona city. Some visitors may think this workshop is a little pricey but when you think that you create an object of art in Gaudi's city by taking example of him can be motivating for you to participate this workshop.
There are seminars and workshops for young learners, kids or adults. As soon as you finish your workshop you will able to have an idea about the various mosaic techniques. In Studio Mosaiccos, you will be much closer to be master in mosaics and also you will feel the motivation and communication in the studio.
Studio Mosaiccos is located in El Born district and is close to Picasso Museum. So if you are an art lover and would like to try your own mosaic piece of art then it's a good choice to attend Studio Mosaiccos activities. Here is the map for a quick check where the shop is. For more things to do in Barcelona you can read Barcelona city travel guide's post. I hope we can make your Barcelona holiday more enjoyable and colorful with our suggestions.


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Index talk:Games by language
Surprised LOTRO wasn't on here! The second largest MMO in the world. Currently servers in America, Germany, UK, Fance, Russia and China. There is works on getting a translation of the game into Japanese and Korean. --Pinkkeith 18:16, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
- Although not being my area of editing on TG, I believe Amroth, whom mostly have been doing the work on this are, has focused on the old Tolkien games and haven't arrived at contemporary games yet. --Morgan 18:20, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
- I'm referencing the older games at the moment and everytime when I've done a game I add it in the lists.
- Never know that their were servers in Russia. Do you know with company published LOTRO in Russia and China? --Amroth


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Do you remember what new vegetable garden varieties you were growing in 1988? The most popular variety from our trial was 'Sweet Treat' yellow supersweet corn. It's still available. Of the approximately 150 varieties we've tested in 10 years, 85 percent are still available to home gardeners. They include 'Rosalita' red romaine, a showy, productive, and widely adapted lettuce that scored highest in our 1990 test; 'Viva Italia' tomato, a great-tasting (fresh or cooked) paste tomato that was the second most popular vegetable in 1992; 'Senorita' pepper, one of the mildest and largest jalapenos, a 1996 winner; and All-America Selections winners such as 'Big Beef' tomato, which gained our highest rating ever: 93 percent of the 1994 testers said they'd buy it.
The New and Delicious
This year's new test varieties are no slouches, either. Colorful and flavorful greens are three of the top five picks for 1998. Also, the trend toward compact varieties continues with a short pea, a dwarf tomato, and a compact vine pumpkin in our top 10 varieties.
Our grading system for evaluating a test variety is based on three scores. The Test score" is the rating, on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high), that testers gave to each variety. "Testers who would plant it again" is the percentage of testers who would buy the variety in 1998. "NG score" is those two numbers multiplied together to give a score that we feel reflects the variety's overall performance.
Charlie Nardozzi is a senior horticulturist at National Gardening.


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Are you happy? Sure you are… that's what you tell me (you're happy and free except for a few things you're working on… which you're in the process of solving… okay. ) Are you remorseless? Of course you are… what have you ever done to feel remorseful about! (Well, maybe a little… a few things.) Your life is going good then… and except for stuff like Obama or the Republicans or your favorite sports team or your weight problem or your sassy kid or your boss or that nagging pain somewhere or the divorce or the fact that you're really tired or the side effects of your medication are getting to you or the incessant talk about financial collapse is really starting to piss you off… you're happy and it's all good.
Let's try again… slowly: In the center of your being, in your heart where joy resides, where love flows forth, where truth is enthroned, where everything you have ever done is remembered… are you happy there? When you reach the end of your time here will you be, as Jimi Hendrix would say, experienced?
Check out the words: "I know, I know you probably scream and cry that your little world won't let you go, but who in your measly little world are you trying to prove that you're made out of gold and, eh, can't be sold? So, are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced? Well I have. Trumpets and violins I can hear in the distance… I think they're calling our names. Maybe now you can't hear them, but you will if you just take hold of my hand. Oh, but are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful…" Geeze – I can't read that without smiling!
Allright, first we're going to talk about stirring the milk of life. Then we're going to talk about what keeps you locked in. And then we're going to talk about stirring the milk of life again. Experience has to start somewhere, so here we go.
Stirring the milk of life refers to a Hindu creation myth. Many years ago I was reading about Angkor Wat, and I was taken with the idea of "Churning the Ocean of Milk." It made sense to me in a very down to earth way. Stir up life, get out of routine, do things differently, when a critical voice says you can't achieve a dream try it anyway, open your heart, go for experience, search for answers to "why" and then ask the "what is" question. That's the way I interpreted stirring the milk back in the day. According to the myth the gods and the demons cooperated in this act of creation in order to recover precious objects lost within and produce the elixir of eternity. Sounds as good now as it did then.
So what holds us in a humdrum, routine, obligation, mortgage, taxes and death excuse for life? I'm sure you remember the movie Matrix – we'll we're not exactly in that matrix but we are exactly in a matrix. The most basic definition of a matrix is that it's an environment in which something develops. The world in which we live is a controlled environment, and it's pretty severe about keeping us in place – inside a programmed mindset and a system of laws, rules and expectations. The matrix feeds off us – sorry folks – true. In fact, most of us have never had an original thought in our lives – we get everything from the matrix. For now it's enough to know that we are not in a matrix that favors liberation and a heart that's free.
I didn't mean to bum you out. It's not hopeless. Jimi asked if you are experienced and you might wonder… experienced at what? Are you experienced at liberating your heart… to where it's "not necessarily stoned, but beautiful?"
You can start to break the binds of habit, routine, obligation, expectation in a small way. Take a different street route to work every day for a week and look around. When you pick up your kids from school go to the park instead of home. When they squawk tell them you're stirring the milk of life and you're going to do it randomly – when they least expect it. Drive somewhere, don't pay attention to where you're going, get lost, and then find your way home. Park at the far end of the mall parking lot and make yourself walk the entire way across the lot. Listen to yourself bitch about it and get a good laugh. In fact, do a dance-walk across the parking lot!
I'm not asking you to sell your house and move to Ecuador and buy a farm and raise some sheep… although that sounds pretty sweet. Just disobey the routine and the expectations and feel happy about it. Take note of that happy feeling. You want that to increase and increase and increase, so the next time I ask "are you happy" you'll answer from your heart and not your head – yes, I'm feeling happy.
~ Ida Lawrence


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Published at Friday, April 19th, 2019 - 02:01:42 AM. Worksheet. By Madalene Perrin.
Appropriate worksheets: For example, children experimenting with objects to discover if they sink or float can record their observations on paper divided into a float column and a sink column. This shows that they are doing actual scientific experimentation and recording the data. Parent Newsletters: Teachers can send home periodic parent newsletters which explain the activities children are doing at school and the teacher's goals and objectives. When parents understand the value of developmentally appropriate activities they will feel confident that their children are learning and growing, not "just playing.". Center Labels: Signs in the classroom describing what children learn in the various learning centers help adults understand the value of children's work in that area. In the block corner, for example, children learn about weight, length, balance, volume, and shape, as well as problem solving, social role playing, and cooperation. At the art center children learn to express themselves on paper and with other media, to solve problems, and to communicate with others. Signs help skeptics see what is really happening as children work at play. Photographs: Photographs of daily activities in the classroom can be displayed around the room and in hallways. They provide graphic evidence to parents, administrators, and other teachers of children working and learning in a rich, exciting atmosphere.
School should be a welcoming, peaceful place for children – an environment to which children come eager to see what challenging, stimulating, and fun activities are in store. Children know they may not succeed at everything they try, but also know they will be valued for who they are. Children's efforts should be rewarded, so that they will persevere and they will see themselves as learners (Kostelnik, Stein, Whiren, & Soderman, 1993). Physical Development, Children are born with a need to move (Kostelnik, Soderman, & Whiren, 1993). They wiggle, toddle, run, and climb as naturally as they breathe. When we insist that children sit still and do what for them may be a meaningless task, such as completing a workbook page, we force children into a situation incompatible with their developmental needs and abilities. When children cannot or will not do such a task, we may label them "immature" or "hyperactive." We may complain about their short attention span, or as in Jamaica's case, criticize her efforts. On the other hand, if we allow children to choose their own task from among appropriate offerings, we may see children as young as three and four years old spend 30 to 45 minutes completely engrossed in building with unit blocks, painting at the easel, or listening to stories. When we plan developmentally appropriate activities for children, they will attend to them, work hard, and learn (Bredekamp & Rosegrant, 1992).
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I could not have been more excited yesterday. MrsL and I discussed ordering a new plug several weeks back and with everything going on it had slipped my mind. Monday morning while the house was quiet I ordered this and an Aneros. They actually both arrived yesterday. I am saving the Aneros as a gift to MrsL when she finally decides she wants me back in her Steelheart. Who knows…she may set a new endurance record with me having a comprehensive way of milking and ruining orgasms while I am in her Steelheart.
We had a pretty intense session last night that didn't involve this little gem (more on that later); however she did tell me to put it in this morning as soon as I got up. I dutifully complied.
I must admit putting it in myself is a little more difficult than the other plug I have. I was getting a bit frustrated but didn't want to wake up MrsL so I slowed down, took a couple of calming breaths, was able to get it to slide in. It wasn't the size of the head. It was very slick with Lube and I am not very "stretchy!"
Once it was in, with the bulbous head pressing against my prostate, I began to understand why they are called "njoy."
I was able to wear it for two hours comfortably. When I went in to wake up MrsL to get ready to go to the nail salon she reached around to see if I followed her orders. She asked how it felt and when I told her I felt like I was on the edge of an orgasm she smiled. The next thing I know, she was stroking me through my shorts insisting that I was NOT to have an orgasm.
Between her alternating rhythm of stroking the penis and me flexing my anal muscles I was a moaning dripping mess!
Hearing 20 bounding up the stairs brought the fun to an end quickly. I scurried off to the bathroom while she rolled over and hurriedly covered up. Having him home is going to be a challenge because he is not afraid to walk in our room door open or shut…!
I took the plug out about 30 minutes later after a full 3 hours wearing it today. First impression: it is great for prostate massaging and easy to wear. However, I really did miss the feeling of "fullness" that comes with the larger silicone plug. Next up, as soon as MrsL locks me in her Steelheart again, the Aneros Helix!
Stay tuned for the playtime session that found me trussed up nicely so MrsL could peg me with the large dildo….


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Hey Ladies,
I used to go through a hair dryer a year when i was younger, without fail mine would pack up just in time for my birthday & my dad would always replace it as an extra present. Then one year he did good the Captain (my dad's mokier at work) purchased a hair dryer that lasted and lasted ... 8 years to be precise until disaster struck and it exploded in my hands a few weeks ago, I swear you will have never seen someone throw something so quickly and far as I did I could have challenged for the javelin gold medal.
All I can say is hair dryers have come on in leaps & bounds in the past 8 years (you'd have never guessed) so I thought I would review it's replacement.
"Nicky Clarke's DesiRED range is all about creating fabulous salon styles faster than ever before. This next generation dryer uses the latest in ionic and tourmaline technology to help leave your hair shiny, frizz free and easier to style."
I cannot believe how quickly this dries my hair, it takes 3 minutes total. Root to tip. Back to front. The lot. The last one took 5 minutes just to do the roots!
The hair dryer has a few useful features apart from the drying the hair thing, the cord is super long which is great if your mirror isn't right next to a plug or like me you like to walk about whilst drying your hair with your head upside down. There is also a 'Cool Shot' button (their words not mine) which you should apparently 'seal in' styles in your hair ... personally I use my 'Cool shot' button when I get in from work having walked up the giant hill home & am boiling my clothes get thrown on the floor & I just cool myself down with it. (sorry for the mental image you have in your head right now).
It is also a nice weight, not too light so it feels cheap but not too heavy if you have super thick hair your arm will die whilst blow drying your hair. The price is also pretty good the rrp is around £35 but if you shop around you can find it at great prices, Amazon have it at the moment for £15.99 so a bargain too!
All in all I really recommend this hair dryer it ticks all the boxes, looks good, dries my hair quickly & without frizzing it up, great price and a long cord!
Hope you're having a lovely week!! Aren't 4 day weeks amazing, it's nearly Friday yet feels like a Tuesday!
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In April 1967, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy took a fateful trip to the Mississippi Delta to investigate hunger and poverty among unemployed farm workers and their families. What he found was shocking — young children living in decrepit conditions who were on the verge of starvation.
Kennedy, who had been working on poverty issues since he was elected to the Senate in 1964, told aides he had never seen such horrific conditions even in developing nations, much less in the United States. The senator said he believed the nation had been woefully ignorant of hunger and demanded the country no longer turn a blind eye to the nation's neediest. "I think it's a terrible reflection on our society," Kennedy said. "We are not doing what we should be doing in the country to deal with this problem."
The trip would prove transformative to Kennedy, who devoted more of his Senate agenda to helping the Mississippi Delta and other communities in need. He would make the eradication of poverty a central plank of his 1968 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination — the one and only time a major candidate would focus on poverty in a campaign for the White House. But Kennedy would not live to fulfill his promise to help the residents of Mississippi. On June 5, 1968, he was shot and killed by an assassin in Los Angeles. (Holly Bailey/Yahoo News)
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It was really lovely to see Sarah and Jack's yurt wedding published recently in Devon's wonderful Wed Magazine. It also reminded me that it is one of the many beautiful weddings that I haven't blogged in full, so I thought it was about time I did! The effort put into setting up the field and decorating the spaces within the yurts was quite incredible - the images hardly do it all justice. However, it is lovely to share it here on the blog and I hope you enjoy seeing how they celebrated.
Sarah and Jack's wedding was actually long, long ago - well, in August 2012 - so it was particularly lovely going back through their images and remembering what a wonderful day it was. Sarah made her own wedding dress and matched the colours to an heirloom veil first worn by her great-great-grandmother, then her grandmother, then mother. When I arrived to photograph the wedding preparations at Sarah's parents' house in Totnes, it was all about the sewing, with final alterations taking place up until the very last minute, and the hem being finished while Jack was waiting at the church.
The whole wedding was an enormous homemade effort, with everything from the invites and table names, to the handmade decorations and gradually collected vintage china, and the incredible array of homemade cakes and jams. It was really wonderful to see how much effort everyone had put into the wedding, with the preparations having stretched out for many months prior to the day itself. I'd have loved to have photographed events before the wedding, with everyone transforming the field near Totnes into an incredible reception setting. With three custom yurts, all beautifully decorated, a campsite, fairy lights and garden games ready for the guests to enjoy, it must have been quite a remarkable undertaking. What was then so lovely about the wedding day, was how relaxed everything was - after all that work, it must have been so incredibly special to sit back, marvel at everything and celebrate the day at last.
All that effort was to celebrate something really very special. Sarah and Jack are the loveliest couple and it was amazing to be there to photograph their day for them. One of my strongest memories is from after the wedding ceremony, just after walking out of the church. Before celebrating with their family and friends, Sarah and Jack just stood together for a long time, completely lost in each other and taking in the moment of being married to each other. It really touched me at the time and made me well up all over again looking back through the images. It is an amazing privilege to capture moments like this.
It was a wonderful day and I am really delighted to share some of the images here on the blog - I hope you enjoy them!


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Bitty Bug is 25 months old
I don't have much of a commentary for Toddler Tuesday because I just wrote it all on my Montessori Monday blog post.
But, I do need some help from the techy people out there… To get the link-up posted, I use the Inlinkz website. They have two different formats–one for self-hosted blogs and one for wordpress hosted blogs…mine is a self-hosted blog, *but* the format for that doesn't seem to be working. I can't get the linkup to show up directly in the blog post. I have to end up using the wordpress hosted format, and I don't really like that. So, does anyone know how to get it to show up? It has something to do with the JavaScript settings, but as far as I can tell, those are working correctly?
Now, back to Toddler Tuesday…
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If you did any Toddler learning activities with your tot this week, feel free to link up here! 🙂


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FC: Scott & Stacy
2: "Believe in happily ever after, and it will come true." | Best of friends
3: Now husband and wife.
4: I'm so happy I can finally call this man my husband. It's really a dream come true
5: "And when my lips meet thine, thy very soul is wedded into mine."
6: "This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, and love."
7: "When you touched my hand, I wanted nothing more than to hold it forever."
8: For hearing my thoughts, understanding my dreams, and being my best friend...
9: For filling my life with music, and loving me without end... "I do."
10: The Bridal Party | Maid of Honor Affinity | Brides Maid Stephanie | Brides Maid Dyane | Flower Girl Austynn | Brides Maid Karlie
11: If ever there is a tomorrow, when were not together there is something you must remember, even if were apart your always in my heart.
12: Best Man Kenny | Groomsmen Jimmy | Groomsmen Jeff | Groomsmen Seth | Jr Groomsmen Alec, Andrew, Aiden & Karlos | The Grooms Party
14: I love you not only for what you are, but for who I am when I am with you.
15: I love you for that part of me that you bring out.
16: Dad and Mom
18: "What he gives, He gives in part, For a father's daughter never leaves his heart."
19: "Strive to make all of your dream's come true There's nothing my son, that you can't do."
21: Two families joined together now as one.
22: Two people, two hearts, two lives, become one heart, one mind, one new life together.
28: Can I have this dance for the rest of my life?
32: We are gathered here in the presence of the Lord and these witnesses for the purpose of uniting in holy matrimony Scott Brodhagen and Stacy Martinson. | "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. Love is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. Love always protects, Love always trusts, Love always hopes, Love always perseveres. Love never fails." (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) | As you both know 'every heart needs one special person to love'. You have found that 'special person' in each other.
33: Let me remind you both to remember that love, loyalty and trust in God are the foundations of a happy and enduring home. No other human ties are more tender. No other vows more important than those you now assume. If you both keep these vows your home will be happy, full of joy, and kept by trust. | The vows, which you are about to exchange, serve as a verbal representation of the love, respect and commitment you promise to each other. It is not only the words which you will speak today that will bond you together as one, but it is the inward love and devotion that you value and treasure within your heart for each other. | The wedding rings are beautiful and fitting symbols of the marriage bond. They symbolize a continuous circle of unity and love and are an outward and visible sign of an inward commitment. May these rings always be a symbol of your constant faithfulness and abiding love for each other. | I promise to love and comfort you, to value and treasure you, to honor you, to keep you in sickness and in health, for richer-for poorer, as I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my heart to keep, and forsaking all others, I promise to be faithful to you now and forever. | Scott & Stacy, now that you have pledged your vows to each other, never take each other for granted so that in the years to come you will still be walking side by side – hand in hand – and still be thankful for each other and very much in love. | By virtue of the authority vested in me by the state of California, I pronounce you husband and wife!


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An Overview of the Romanian Legion
Claudia Miclaus
Mar 2, 2019
Romania was under communism after the Second World War, and was really close to embracing the Romanian form of fascism called the Legionary Movement. What was their doctrine, and what were they promoting?
The world today looks back with terrified eyes towards the totalitarian movements in history. During the second half of the last century, Europe was divided between fascism and communism.
Being part of the Eastern Europe, Romania fell under communism; but before that, the country was really close to embrace fascism. The Legionary movement was a particular form of fascism founded on 24th of June 1927, by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.
Many historians say that the Legionary movement was not pure and original, and was only a trend borrowed from the Italian fascism. On the contrary, there are many other specialists who claim that the Romanian fascism had its own doctrines and objectives that substantially differed from the other two forms.
The surprising fact is that over the past years the legionnaires interviewed were not ashamed of having been part of the movement and moreover they were talked about their achievements and about their "captain", Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.
The movement was especially about fighting against the spread of the communism in Romania. They were also against the U.S.S.R. influence and expansion, and were also anti-semitic.
The differentiation factor came from their mystique orientation. They were profoundly religious and fought to keep traditions intact. Therefore, they would fight against any other religion.
Like any other social movements, they had some accomplishments and some faults. Many would say that the accomplishments were not enough to cover the gravity of the many faults.
A positive aspect of their doctrine was the fact that they promoted high values such as love and compassion for the poor and ill. They also promoted higher education. They used to select the members of the Legion from a scholar environment. The brightest students from schools and universities were selected to be part of fraternities.
The fraternities were smaller groups spread all over the country in which the members were instructed to be religious and to respect the high society values. Another positive aspect was that they were not only theoreticians, but they also applied the teachings in real life. They built shelters for the poor, and helped widows and orphans.
The contrast comes from the selectivity regarding the application of these values. They were filled with hatred for the Jews, gypsies, and communists. They used physical violence against them. In order to do this, they had meetings during the night when they intensely prepared.
Also, they were taken to camps where they were military instructed to know how to use their weapons. The historical sources show that they caused many murders, and many people died only because they were born Jews or gypsies.
The attacks decreased in frequency when the members of the Legion movement began to be prosecuted for their political orientation. This happened before and after the Second World War. They were imprisoned and their leaders were executed.
It is interesting that many high and illuminated minds were taking their sides, such as the writer Mircea Eliade or the two great philosophers, Constantin Noica and Emil Cioran.
Many explained that this phenomenon was the only viable alternative at the time. High values were trampled on the ground. Communism was knocking at the Eastern border, and people began to forget their God and corruption was ruling the political world.
The Legionary movement offered the only different alternative and hence, people were attracted to it. As Codreanu said, the country was not lacking political programs, they were lacking people. And that is what the legion promised - to make virtuous men and women. The problem is they wanted to do it at any expense and to somebody's detriment.
In conclusion, the Legionary Movement was a social, political, and cultural movement. The members of this party were characterized by their anti communism and anti-semitic sentiments, and mystique orientation.
A great majority condemns them even today, but they still have certain admirers who justify and even praise them. It is however horrifying what they did. It is horrible how people can deceive others thinking they do the work of God while they act like Satan. May God give us all discernment and sound mind.
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