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Fail over VMs and physical servers
This article describes how to failover virtual machines and physical servers protected by Site Recovery.
- Before you do a failover, do a test failover to ensure that everything is working as expected.
- Prepare the network at target location before you do a failover.
Use the following table to know about the failover options provided by Azure Site Recovery. These options are also listed for different failover scenarios.
|Application recovery requirement
|Workflow for Hyper-V
|Workflow for VMware
|Planned failover due to an upcoming datacenter downtime
|Zero data loss for the application when a planned activity is performed
|For Hyper-V, ASR replicates data at a copy frequency that is specified by the user. Planned Failover is used to override the frequency and replicate the final changes before a failover is initiated.
1. Plan a maintenance window as per your business's change management process.
2. Notify users of upcoming downtime.
3. Take the user-facing application offline.
4. Initiate Planned Failover using the ASR portal. The on-premises virtual machine is automatically shut-down.
Effective application data loss = 0
A journal of recovery points is also provided in a retention window for a user who wants to use an older recovery point. (24 hours retention for Hyper-V). If replication has been stopped beyond the time frame of the retention window, customers may still be able to failover using the latest available recovery points.
|For VMware, ASR replicates data continually using CDP. Failover gives the user the option to failover to the Latest data (including post application shut-down)
1. Plan a maintenance window as per the change management process
2.Notify users of upcoming downtime
3. Take the user-facing application offline.
4. Initiate a Planned Failover using ASR portal to the Latest point after the application is offline. Use the "Planned Failover" option on the portal and select the Latest point to failover. The on-premises virtual machine is automatically shut-down.
Effective application data loss = 0
A journal of recovery points in a retention window is provided for a customer who wants to use an older recovery point. (72 hours of retention for VMware). If replication has been stopped beyond the time frame of the retention window, customers may still be able to failover using the latest available recovery points.
|Failover due to an unplanned datacenter downtime (natural or IT disaster)
|Minimal data loss for the application
|1. Initiate the organization's BCP plan
2. Initiate Unplanned Failover using ASR portal to the Latest or a point from the retention window (journal).
|1. Initiate the organization's BCP plan.
2. Initiate unplanned Failover using ASR portal to the Latest or a point from the retention window (journal).
Run a failover
This procedure describes how to run a failover for a recovery plan. Alternatively you can run the failover for a single virtual machine or physical server from the Replicated items page as described here.
Select Recovery Plans > recoveryplan_name. Click Failover
On the Failover screen, select a Recovery Point to failover to. You can use one of the following options:
Latest: This option starts the job by first processing all the data that has been sent to Site Recovery service. Processing the data creates a recovery point for each virtual machine. This recovery point is used by the virtual machine during failover. This option provides the lowest RPO (Recovery Point Objective) as the virtual machine created after failover has all the data that has been replicated to Site Recovery service when the failover was triggered.
Latest processed: This option fails over all virtual machines of the recovery plan to the latest recovery point that has already been processed by Site Recovery service. When you are doing test failover of a virtual machine, time stamp of the latest processed recovery point is also shown. If you are doing failover of a recovery plan, you can go to individual virtual machine and look at Latest Recovery Points tile to get this information. As no time is spent to process the unprocessed data, this option provides a low RTO (Recovery Time Objective) failover option.
Latest app-consistent: This option fails over all virtual machines of the recovery plan to the latest application consistent recovery point that has already been processed by Site Recovery service. When you are doing test failover of a virtual machine, time stamp of the latest app-consistent recovery point is also shown. If you are doing failover of a recovery plan, you can go to individual virtual machine and look at Latest Recovery Points tile to get this information.
Latest multi-VM processed: This option is only available for recovery plans that have at least one virtual machine with multi-VM consistency ON. Virtual machines that are part of a replication group failover to the latest common multi-VM consistent recovery point. Other virtual machines failover to their latest processed recovery point.
Latest multi-VM app-consistent: This option is only available for recovery plans that have at least one virtual machine with multi-VM consistency ON. Virtual machines that are part of a replication group failover to the latest common multi-VM application-consistent recovery point. Other virtual machines failover to their latest application-consistent recovery point.
Custom: If you are doing test failover of a virtual machine, then you can use this option to failover to a particular recovery point.
The option to choose a recovery point is only available when you are failing over to Azure.
If some of the virtual machines in the recovery plan were failed over in a previous run and now the virtual machines are active on both source and target location, you can use Change direction option to decide the direction in which the failover should happen.
If you're failing over to Azure and data encryption is enabled for the cloud (applies only when you have protected Hyper-v virtual machines from a VMM Server), in Encryption Key select the certificate that was issued when you enabled data encryption during setup on the VMM server.
Select Shut-down machine before beginning failover if you want Site Recovery to attempt to do a shutdown of source virtual machines before triggering the failover. Failover continues even if shut-down fails.
If Hyper-v virtual machines are protected, the option to shut-down also tries to synchronize the on-premises data that has not yet been sent to the service before triggering the failover.
You can follow the failover progress on the Jobs page. Even if errors occur during an unplanned failover, the recovery plan runs until it is complete.
After the failover, validate the virtual machine by logging-in to it. If you want to switch to another recovery point of the virtual machine, then you can use Change recovery point option.
Once you are satisfied with the failed over virtual machine, you can Commit the failover. Commit deletes all the recovery points available with the service and Change recovery point option is no longer available.
Planned failover
Virtual machines/physical servers protected using Site Recovery also support Planned failover. Planned failover is a zero data loss failover option. When a planned failover is triggered, first the source virtual machines are shut-down, the latest data is synchronized and then a failover is triggered.
During failover of Hyper-v virtual machines from one on-premises site to another on-premises site, to come back to the primary on-premises site you have to first reverse-replicate the virtual machine back to primary site and then trigger a failover. If the primary virtual machine is not available, then before starting to reverse-replicate you have to restore the virtual machine from a backup.
Failover job
When a failover is triggered, it involves following steps:
- Prerequisites check: This step ensures that all conditions required for failover are met
- Failover: This step processes the data and makes it ready so that an Azure virtual machine can be created out of it. If you have chosen Latest recovery point, this step creates a recovery point from the data that has been sent to the service.
- Start: This step creates an Azure virtual machine using the data processed in the previous step.
Don't Cancel an in progress failover: Before failover is started, replication for the virtual machine is stopped. If you Cancel an in progress job, failover stops but the virtual machine will not start to replicate. Replication cannot be started again.
Time taken for failover to Azure
In certain cases, failover of virtual machines requires an extra intermediate step that usually takes around 8 to 10 minutes to complete. In the following cases, the time taken to failover will be higher than usual:
- VMware virtual machines using mobility service of version older than 9.8
- Physical servers
- VMware Linux virtual machines
- Hyper-V virtual machines protected as physical servers
- VMware virtual machines where following drivers are not present as boot drivers
- storvsc
- vmbus
- storflt
- intelide
- atapi
- VMware virtual machines that don't have DHCP service enabled irrespective of whether they are using DHCP or static IP addresses
In all the other cases, this intermediate step is not required and the time taken for the failover is lower.
Using scripts in Failover
You might want to automate certain actions while doing a failover. You can use scripts or Azure automation runbooks in recovery plans to do that.
Post failover considerations
Post failover you might want to consider the following recommendations:
Retaining drive letter after failover
Azure Site Recovery handles retention of drive letters. Read more on how it is done when you choose to exclude some disks.
Prepare to connect to Azure VMs after failover
If you want to connect to Azure VMs using RDP/SSH after failover, follow the requirements summarized in the table here.
Follow the steps described here to troubleshoot any connectivity issues post failover.
Next steps
Once you have failed over virtual machines and the on-premises data center is available, you should Reprotect VMware virtual machines back to the on-premises data center.
Use Planned failover option to Failback Hyper-v virtual machines back to on-premises from Azure.
If you have failed over a Hyper-v virtual machine to another on-premises data center managed by a VMM server and the primary data center is available, then use Reverse replicate option to start the replication back to the primary data center.
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About Us
We are a Theravada Buddhist group following in line with the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah and also friends of Birken Forest Monastery.
Our meetings start with a 40 minute sitting followed by listening of a recorded Dhamma or an assigned study topic discussion.
What does a typical meeting look like? click here!
If you are running late click here!
If you have to leave early click here!
If 40 minutes sounds impossible or too long, or if you are a beginner to meditation check out the click here!
When and Where
The group meets every Sunday at my home from 9:50 to 11:45am unless otherwise noted (check the schedule page for upcoming meetings). The address is 4935 20 Ave NW.
If you would like more information or to attend contact me (Dhammapala)
Thanks for stopping by and Much Metta


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- TYI 41: How many steps does it take for a simple random walk on the discrete cube to reach the uniform distribution?
- Gil's Collegial Quantum Supremacy Skepticism FAQ
- Amazing! Keith Frankston, Jeff Kahn, Bhargav Narayanan, Jinyoung Park: Thresholds versus fractional expectation-thresholds
- Starting today: Kazhdan Sunday seminar: "Computation, quantumness, symplectic geometry, and information"
- The story of Poincaré and his friend the baker
- Gérard Cornuéjols's baker's eighteen 5000 dollars conjectures
- Noisy quantum circuits: how do we know that we have robust experimental outcomes at all? (And do we care?)
- Test Your Intuition 40: What Are We Celebrating on Sept, 28, 2019? (And answer to TYI39.)
- Quantum computers: amazing progress (Google & IBM), and extraordinary but probably false supremacy claims (Google).
Top Posts & Pages
- Gil's Collegial Quantum Supremacy Skepticism FAQ
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- Lior, Aryeh, and Michael
- Elchanan Mossel's Amazing Dice Paradox (your answers to TYI 30)
- Quantum computers: amazing progress (Google & IBM), and extraordinary but probably false supremacy claims (Google).
- Amazing: Hao Huang Proved the Sensitivity Conjecture!
- Jeff Kahn and Jinyoung Park: Maximal independent sets and a new isoperimetric inequality for the Hamming cube.
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Fundamental Impossibilities
An Understanding of our fundamental limitations is among the most important contributions of science and of mathematics. There are quite a few cases where things that seemed possible and had been pursued for centuries in fact turned out to be … Continue reading
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Debates are fascinating human activities that are a mixture of logic, strategy, and show. Not everybody shares this fascination. The German author Emil Ludwig considered debates to be the death of conversation. Jonathan Swift regarded debates as the worst … Continue reading
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Controversies In and Near Science
Controversies and debates in and around science – between researchers within the same discipline, between competing theories, between competing fields, and between accepted scientific viewpoints and viewpoints rooted outside science – are common. Is there global warming and is it … Continue reading
Lior, Aryeh, and Michael
Three dear friends, colleagues, and teachers Lior Tzafriri, Aryeh Dvoretzky and Michael Maschler passed away last year. I want to tell you a little about their mathematics. Lior Tzafriri ( 1936-2008 ) Lior Tzafriri worked in functional analysis.
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Lovasz's Two Families Theorem
Laci and Kati This is the first of a few posts which are spin-offs of the extremal combinatorics series, especially of part III. Here we talk about Lovasz's geometric two families theorem. 1. Lovasz's two families theorem Here … Continue reading
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Seven Problems Around Tverberg's Theorem
Imre Barany, Rade Zivaljevic, Helge Tverberg, and Sinisa Vrecica Recall the beautiful theorem of Tverberg: (We devoted two posts (I, II) to its background and proof.) Tverberg Theorem (1965): Let be points in , . Then there is a partition of … Continue reading
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Question: Suppose that we sequentially place balls into boxes by putting each ball into a randomly chosen box. It is well known that when we are done, the fullest box has with high probability balls in it. Suppose instead that … Continue reading
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|80s prom dress photoshoot in Amsterdam with Chelsea (photos courtesy Chelsea Klukas).
I didn't really know how to break up the recap of my trip through Europe. The "Western Europe" title doesn't really do this variety of countries justice but I seemed to have similar experiences in these places so for me they fit together nicely. I was really lucky for this leg of my trip to have some amazing company, with Vienna being the only place I explored on my own. I had incredible hosts all through Belgium and Switzerland and got to spend time with a few good friends from home. My time in Western Europe was mainly spent wandering side streets, drinking in cafes and enjoying the warm winter weather so I only came away with a few specific recommendations but with many great memories. These are just a few of my favourite details, in no particular order, from my time in Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria.
|According to Tim, every Belgian home has a deep fryer. We put his to good use.
1. Indulging in Tim's homemade fries and pancakes at his charming home on Lake Genval.
2. Spending all afternoon with Tim at a small pub in Ghent drinking copious amounts of Belgian beer.
3. Eating ice cream in the small courtyard behind Da Vinci in Bruges and listening to the bells ring from the Belfry.
|View from my run along the Bruges canal.
4. Passing through all four of the Bruges medieval city gates during my morning runs along the canal.
5. Missing my bus from Bruges to Amsterdam after running down the highway to try and catch it. (unsuccessful, I ended up taking the train instead, with no refund for my missed bus)
|Our european electronica album cover (photo courtesy Chelsea Klukas).
6. Taking daily elevator ceiling mirror photos with Chelsea in our Amsterdam hotel.
7. Staging a photoshoot in 80s prom dresses in Amsterdam.
8. Walking through the back streets of Amsterdam alone in the dark on a Sunday morning at 5am to the train station--definitely the most unsettling moment of my trip.
|My last stop with Tym in Amsterdam (photo courtesy Tym Armstrong).
9. A six hour whirlwind walking tour of Amsterdam with Tym, a friend from home who was on a layover on his way back to Calgary from India.
10. Eating raclette with Sonja and Thomas at their home in Affoltern am Albis on my first night in Switzerland.
11. Climbing the 170 icy steps of the Üetliberg look out tower in the dark to eat chocolate and drink beer while overlooking Lake Zürich.
12. Watching the sunset over the city in the Zürich Thermal Baths & Spa.
|Evening in Lucerne.
13. Wandering alone for hours through Lucerne on a warm winter night.
14. Smoking our travel size hookah under the Swiss Alps on our ladies' "ski" weekend.
|View from the train on my way to Vienna.
15. Enjoying the most incredible scenery on the eight hour train ride from Zürich to Vienna.
16. Seeing the joy of a non English speaking Austrian waiter who called his niece in Calgary for me to speak to upon discovering I was also from there.
17. Sharing a cafe table with a 90 year old Austrian man and chatting, in broken English, over schnitzel.
|Barrels of sauerkraut and pickles at the Naschmarkt.
18. Shopping for lunch at the Naschmarkt every afternoon in Vienna.
19. Meeting a man at my Vienna hostel from Transylvania who I am convinced was Dracula.
20. Reading my book, drinking red wine and eating strudel at many, many Viennese cafés.


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Working of Payment Gateway
- The gateway completes an assortment of function to process the online transactions. How about we attempt to comprehend that how the gateway framework helps in the entire exchange process when a client puts in a request online. The client submits a request through a site; the data is encoded and is sent to the web server of the shipper. The request subsequently got by the shipper server is sent to the payment gateway framework to process it further.
- The payment passage framework advances the message to the web server kept up by the bank or the end processor. It is additionally sent to the cards affiliation which gives the appropriate response with regards to the dissent or approval for the payment. The data consequently got by the payment gateway is passed on to the dealer or the payer. The payment is along these lines affirmed or denied. The online buy along these lines relies on this.
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Security has been a noteworthy worry in electronic exchanges. It has likewise obstructed the development of the e-business as individuals fear missing out their cash or giving their MasterCard data to a cheat. The clients and even the dealers are in this manner worry about making electronic exchange through the web. Payment gateway helps in decreasing the different apprehensions and concerns identifying with such exchange. It has helped develop certainty for such exchanges. To ease down your online financial exchanges, you will have variety of payment gateways for you. Different options available for you to make secure and safe online transactions are-
- Paytm
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Poor Taylor Swift has had to interrupt her massive US tour and back out of some concerts as she's suffering from bronchitis.
She's cancelled four shows now due to her sickness after being advised by doctors to postpone. She hopes to be back on the road on July 14 to perform in Montreal and has rearranged the dates she's missed in October and November.
Her last tweet from July 2 read:
"Louisville, I so sorry to have to postpone this show to Oct 11.
"This is my first time having to do this. I'm so, so sorry."
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"That was fun! I want to go again!"
"Hey Justine! Can you sign my essay?"
The smile that lifted a thousand spirits.
This Mama don't sleep through matches.
You all know Lily's a "Chinese" fan.
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Teo Bishop recently wrote about adding context to Pagan rituals:
"I wish that just once I could go to a CUUPS ritual, or an ADF Druid ritual, and someone would get up and speak. I wish they'd provide me with context. I wish they'd say — this is how all of this fits into my life, and this is something for you to reflect on as you stand in this circle, or sit before this altar. I can't tell you how many times I've looked at the leader of a ritual and wished that they would just start giving a sermon."
(emphasis added).
I thought about this and realized that I needed to provide more context for my family rituals. I need to explain to my kids, not just what the symbolism means, but what it means to me. I need to explain how our family rituals are a part of my personal history and our family history.
So, in that spirit, let me share the context of our family Mid-Winter (Brigid) celebration:
My oldest child, my son, just had his birthday. He turned fourteen. While we were celebrating last week, my wife started telling him about the day he was born and what she remembered. I told him what I remembered as well:
I remember my wife walking up and down the stairs in our apartment to accelerate the labor. I remember calling my family at late hours of the night to announce what stage of delivery she was in. I remember watching the Caesarean section procedure in a state of shock, while my wife (still conscious, but unable to see) prodded me to describe the procedure to her — one the of the few times in my life I have been truly at a loss for words. I remember holding my son for the first time, afraid I would break him. And I remember thinking he looked like a diminutive, wizened old man with legs that were longer than the rest of him … and that somehow he was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
But most of all I remember the snow. Whenever I think about the day (actually, the night) my son was born, my mind turns immediately to one specific moment in time. It was after everything was over. I had left the hospital and walked home, which which was only couple of blocks away, to get a couple of hours of sleep while my wife and son slept. It was snowing when I walked out of the hospital. It was late January, and it was the first snow of the new year. Everything was covered in a thin sheet of white, and the world looked new under the street lamps. And for me, it was a new world. I remember looking up at the snow falling into the circle of light created by the street lamp outside our apartment, breathing in the crisp mountain air, and the words of Rachel Carson (whose essay "The Sense of Wonder", I had just been reading) came to me in that moment:
"A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full or wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength."
Mid-Winter, for me, is all about the snow. The first snow of the year has always been magical for me. The way it re-creates the world when it is newly fallen. But by late January, I am tired of the cold. If Yule is about the hope of returning light, Mid-Winter is about the hope of returning warmth. For me, it is a time for new beginnings, the birth of new possibilities, new transformations. It is a time for celebrating the miracle of life, waiting to be born from the seeds in the darkness, as the snow slowly begins to melt. It is a time for gratitude. Gratitude that the cold winter is half over, and that warmth and green life will return. And gratitude for the miracle of life, a miracle that happened to me one January night.
So this year, I am still going to tell my kids the story of Cerridwen's Cauldron of Inspiration, which is about a mother's wish for her child and how it transformed in unexpected ways. But I am also going to tell them about one cold winter night, when my life was transformed, and our family was transformed, in unexpected ways. The night it snowed.


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At The Mic 2012 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.
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Rated 2 out of 5 by Shoe17 from Cute, but hurt! Cute cute shoe, but no cushion under the ball of the foot. Other reviewers said the same so i added the sticky foot pads. Didn't help. Had to go bare foot after a few hours. Killed my feet! These shoes are only good for sitting.
Date published: 2019-08-10


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Archive for January, 2014
Law Enforcement Articles – Interview and Interrogation Training
At insufficient time in a lot of our modern history convey more demands long been placed upon what the law states enforcement police officer. Communities are exceedingly concerned on the subject of crime which is demanding that police force agencies 'do something about this. 'Evidently every day time, violent criminal offense and medicines occupy entry page of the newspaper in the US. Politicians from the local, state as well as national level decide to give any impression to be 'tough with crime' not to mention espouse philosophies which in turn, at the very least outwardly, discover a method to support in which toughness.
Their speak in order to new employees, I make them aware of that what everyone wants in the police officer is straightforward: we would like applicants which might be warm, caring traders who are capable of talking with public people; conducting presentations at colleges; counseling struggling youth; rendering medical; interacting along with and determining problems at a community perception.
Whether an individual is a Probation/Parole Official supervising 100 felons, a Police agency in the patrol auto, a Bass and Animals Officer working on their own 50 kilometer after kilometer from any kind of back-up, a military the authorities officer or maybe a Federal Agent employed in a organized environment, being a police officer is definitely an extraordinarily difficult and problematic job which in turn demands that people apply our skills and additionally training.
Whilst the philosophy appears good, the average police patrol officer is given the various tools with that to habits investigations, meeting with them. People, make open public presentations and do this collaboration to unravel problems. Federal give money continues to be spread nationally small company isn't always promote Network Policing.
Easiest training academies educate prevent of coaching on 'Interviewing together with Interrogation. No however, these standard systems tension the organized interview way to interviewing. The brand-new trainee subsequently realizes that they will carry out hundreds or 1000s of street selection interviews while in patrol and can perform comparatively few formalized, structured interviews on an interrogation space setting.
Communicating with Each Other While Serving Overseas in the Military
Staying in touch with friends, spouses, or other family members serving overseas in the military can be an expensive task. Phone bills can skyrocket from just a brief conversation, and many families can't afford that. Fortunately, thanks to modern technology and worldwide wireless access, families today have a wider variety of affordable options to help them keep in touch with their loved ones. Here are a few possibilities to consider if you are being deployed or want to keep in touch with someone who is.
1. International Calling Plans For US Mobile Devices
Contact your cell phone provider to ask them about their international call options. Many have add-ons or special plans that will help you save money overall. These plans are typically added on to your main phone plan for a nominal fee every month. They then offer a huge per-minute discount on calling specific countries. If you plan on making a lot of phone calls overseas, paying the base fee for the international plan and then 50 cents a minute will be a lot less expensive than paying $2-3 a minute every time you call. These plans vary by provider, so make sure you find out the details before signing up, but they can make a huge difference.
2. International Calling Plans For Overseas Mobile Devices
If your provider in the United States doesn't offer an international plan that will save you any money, maybe an international provider can. If a soldier gets a plan with an international provider, such as Ehsan Bayat Afghan Wireless in Afghanistan or Zain Iraq in Iraq, they may be able to purchase minute packages for their international calls. You and your deployed loved one may need to do a little research into this, but sometimes it can be cheaper for everyone if they get a new wireless plan overseas and call you, rather than you calling them on their roaming cell phone.
3. Prepaid International Cards
These are less common than they used to be, but they are still in use. While these can be expensive, they also have the added bonus of allowing you to more strictly budget your talk time and money. You'll know once the money on the card is used and can decide to either refill it or wait until you can afford it again. If you easily lose track of how much time you're spending on the phone, this is a great way to make sure you won't suddenly have a several thousand-dollar cell phone bill the next month.
4. VoIP
VoIP stands for "Voice over Internet Protocol," and the most common example of it is Skype. If you and your military family member both have a device with Internet access, this is the way to go. Skype is free to download, and all Skype-to-Skype calls are free no matter where in the world you are or what kind of device you're using. You can do an audio-only chat, which works exactly the same way a phone conversation does, or you can do a video chat, where you can actually see the other person as they speak. Many people who have regular access to reliable Internet are choosing this route to keep in touch with far away loved ones. The downside is that it does require good, stable Internet access to keep up a conversation, and that's not something all families or soldiers have access to.
These are just a few of the ways modern families can stay in touch with each other while one member is out of the country. Technology is changing all the time, letting us connect with each other in new ways. We can only guess how we will be communicating with each other ten years from now, but for now these are our best options.
Veteran Challenges – VA System
Veterans, if in-active, dynamic, in book, or various other supporting character encounter day-to-day challenges in addition to various individual and assorted cultural connections Furthermore, veterans undergo sacrifices by way of distance expeditions, long-term relatives separations, resistance, and commitments in a way that others can enjoy or take advantage of freedoms people veterans work and guard. In accessory when combined roles involving veterans together with other dependable positions builds up high-esteemed candidates for just about any responsible corporation. In fact veterans make high positioning for defending individual freedoms, which intern become unrecognized by simply Daniels and also managers in Veteran Supervision officials.
In a similar fashion, Honorable Senator Steve McCain experienced numerous concerns from an individual's military job to carry on Congressional rep persistence. While volunteering pertaining to military service while in the Vietnam Fight crises, Senator Sara McCain experienced dangerous quests including a number of low-flying bombing raids right from carrier-based surgical procedures. Unfortunately, low-flying bombing raids possess risks plus Senator Diane McCain's airline was picture down creating various incidents.
For occasion, honorable plus high-ranking veterans get positions inside the VA agency, who drive toward creating a difference choosing individual experienced training along with aligned suffers from. In addition when utilizing veteran experience, veterans might relate to other veterans throughout similar endures exposed through military assistance. Unfortunately, when veterans just like I and / or others sign up toward positions inside the VA, veterans just like I collect insults for example 'not search engine positioning high sufficiently or 'decisions not necessarily made, ha whereas high-ranking VETERANS ADMINISTRATION employees pick up bonuses just for delayed selections.
In finish, honorable veterans seek out positions around the VA enterprise using education and learning and ordeals, which are generally relevant on to other veterans. On top of that, when veterans assisting veterans is present, then pertinent experiences normally takes place. Also, when a new desired plan toward trimming veteran homelessness will become a workable mission, then veterans-helping-veterans becomes a simple solution.
Helping Injured Soldiers Recover Mentally and Physically
Legitimate charity organizations can provide a tremendous amount of assistance to those in need. There are plenty of areas that charities can focus on in order to help needy citizens. United States veterans that come back home after deployment are in great need of a variety of assistance. War veterans often come back wounded with severe permanent injuries. Essentially, these veterans are disabled and cannot enter civilian life easily without help.
There are plenty of charity organizations that are dedicated to serving those who have served this country in the line of duty abroad. For example, Lois Pope is an active member in the Disabled Veterans' Life Memorial Foundation. Such an organization helps United States military members with recovering mentally and physically. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a very serious mental disability that prevents war veterans from functioning normally in civilian life. Of course, a variety of physical injuries such as cut off limbs also lead to severe disabilities. Charity organizations often raise money to cover the expenses involved with mental and physical therapy for United States soldiers. For example, prosthetic legs can be very expensive and out of the budget of many military members. Charities can help soldiers without legs to afford prosthetic legs and the therapy necessary to utilize them.
Soldiers often struggle to live normal lives with small pensions and other government sponsored benefits. In fact, many veterans become homeless after returning from deployment. Charities try to prevent the shocking trends that involve honored soldiers becoming homeless beggars in the streets. Some foundations can raise money to refinance the homes of U.S. veterans or build completely new homes. Charities that focus on American soldiers may also provide companion pets such as trained dogs. These service animals can help injured soldiers recover mentally and physically at home.
Mrs. Pope is also an example of a charity activist and philanthropist that raises money for other causes besides the military. As the president of LIFE (Leaders in Furthering Education), she leads by example when it comes to raising awareness and funds for educational purposes in the United States of America. Such a foundation focuses on making higher education available for people with underprivileged backgrounds. Scholarships are usually set up to help students afford a quality college education. Educational charities often create scholarships in honor of people that have passed away. Such people could include teenagers that have died in tragic accidents and wanted to pursue a certain career choice.
In the age of the internet, people can become more aware of the types of charities that are out there. Websites allow for making kind donations online in different amounts. Additionally, charity websites often invite anyone that is interested to attend local fundraisers, seminars and other events related to specific causes. Legitimate charities should be open about their policies and have transparent methods of collecting money and sharing information about the available funds. The internet can be used to help spread the word around about different charitable causes through the social media and social networks. These days, charity activists try to appeal to a larger audience by directly advertising on websites. In the age of smartphones, people can instantly find out about charities that they've never heard of before. Such news might prompt people to make instant online donations through smartphones.
Free Legal Advice – Bristol Employment Solicitor Helps Students
Need any legal counsel? Forget the ones cartoonish dreams of invoices so long as your arm for your hundred and the other billable working hours somehow clocked up with a scamming lawyer, who held on to you relating to hold for 30 minutes while your dog adjusted the hairpiece even while you were about the clock from £100 by the hour. The Bristol Regulations School has chosen to embark with a scheme in which its students will offer you free legal services to your regional community, run through the Law Culture.
This may seem to be a knee-jerk reaction to the present recession not to mention job losses and also the project is normally not with no its possibility dangers, (for sure some students could find it fascinating to procure laws on which time Neighborhood friends should theoretically be saw) yet fear not really, they may all be beneath the supervision regarding lecturers, professors as well as qualified lawyers and law firm. This as being a time associated with financial unrest, there will definitely be many individuals wanting recommendation about their particular employment level, be it whether or not they can have more money because of their managers, they are generally unfairly dismissed or just legal suggestions about how dependable their position security turns out to be.
A Bristol business solicitor could be working aided by the students to ensure they administer the suitable responses in the public's questions and they are because informed and also prepared as you can. With a large number of job cutbacks within the city from Bristol, it might be thought who employment would have been a key issue in your project, with a lot of Bristol's people requesting legal information regarding their career status and future prospective clients. The system will find students offering suggestions about actual cases below the Community Legal services and Illustration Service (CLARS) in addition to including any street rules project an which students gives interactive lessons on the business connected with law, rights and even responsibilities in local schools and also other venues.
It is definitely hoped the fact that project is not going to encourage the particular citizens regarding Bristol that will request legal counsel on one's own varying challenges and troubles but support the enrollees develop his or heir's skills along with guidance values together with raising understanding about certain legalities, including occupation law. The belief that today's students can be tomorrow's solicitor is key factor in the particular encouragement and also development of such bright adolescent things. If you undertake have a jobs issue that is not answered by one of those students, or you do have a more substantial issue with regards to your employment next contact any Bristol job solicitor today for quite a few professional legal counsel.


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A few weeks back we polled our male friends on Facebook and Twitter about what makes them cry. It could be anything, movies, music, life, or certain situations. Other than inducing our own crying jags, we found out that us dudes are balls of nerves, hair, and emotion who blubber more if not just the same amount as women purport to.
This was all brought about by a male-tears epidemic over the past year. Just a few weeks ago, men were admitting to crying while watching the episode of Glee where Kurt sings "I Want To Hold Your Hand" to his father. The Chilean miners being rescued and reunited with their families made a lot of men get teary earlier this month.
2008's Marley & Me became the Achilles Heel for almost every man in America with a heart and memories of a departed dog after it was released on DVD. Even Owen Wilson's annoying ass was tolerable for those two hours. It made Old Yeller look like Anchorman.
Marley held sway until last year's Up came out, and the five minutes chronicling Carl and Ellie's ... sorry, be back in a second. Sniffle.
OK, shit, that got weird. That scene in Up became the "Stairway To Heaven" of clips that made us men get teary. Even writing about it with just the music playing in the background made us lose it. They loved each other so much! Jesus Christ!
Admit it, you wanna cry right now.
What gets us personally crying the most? Well, that part in Forrest Gump when Forrest asks Jenny if his son is also "like him," Joe Strummer's version of "Redemption Song" from his last, posthumous album, and any number of George Strait songs, especially "It Ain't Cool To Be Crazy About You."
Over the course of writing this blog, doing research and asking questions, we found ourselves hunched over our desk trying to hold it together. We watched a lot of Beavis & Butthead to counteract the tears, but then somehow the idea of two friends being so close got us misted up, so we probably have a chemical imbalance now. When B&B didn't work we switched to listening to Limp Bizkit and it helped. Thanks a lot, past drug use, on both accounts.
(We'll just keep going down the list. Keep it together.)
Big Fish
Toy Story 3 This one makes you never want to ever give away or get rid of any of your toys, office supplies, tires, or jars of piss.
"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen or anyone else.
JFK Jr. Saluting His Father At His Funeral
Field Of Dreams
Good Will Hunting Take your pick: Be it Danny Elfman's score, the scenes with Robin Williams, or the ending when Will goes after Skylar. Even Casey Affleck jacking off in a baseball glove makes us cry.
Cat Stevens
"Cat's In The Cradle" by Harry Chapin
Golden Books
Rocky III when Mickey Dies
Little League Baseball
Weddings Even being piss-drunk and a groomsman didn't stop us from getting our wet on during a buddy's service in January.
Paying Taxes
The Outsiders
Your Grandparents
Band Of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Dogs Dying Who's wearing his dog's old ID tags around his neck even months after she died? This guy. Shut your face.
Father/Son Imagery Anything with sons and fathers bonding will induce the water works. Playing catch, fishing in a creek, driving, hugging, saying goodbye ...
Human Goodness
Your Children Being Born Duh, if this doesn't move you, you're an automaton.
The Royal Tenenbaums One friend remarked that the part in the ambulance when Royal is dying and he holds Chas' hand makes him weep every single time. See, fathers and sons are universal.
Women Crying, Especially Your Mother
Terminator 2: Judgment Day Ending He may be a cyborg, but when he lifts himself into the vat of molten steel after you've spent two hours watching him be human, you get a little emotional.
Johnny Cash & June Carter's Marriage You always figure that if she could be enough of a saint to put up with his shit, maybe there's hope for you too.
Justin Townes Earle's "Mama's Eyes" If you have any sort of weird relationship with your father, this song will make you run into a corner and get misty with it.
About Schmidt The sight of all-time badass Jack Nicholson crying after reading the letter from his sponsor child Ndugu makes you feel like crying with him.
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"I miss you Jenny."
Samuel Barber's "Adagio For Strings"
Armageddon Bruce Willis gives his life so his daughter and her boyfriend can be together. Even though it's John McClane and Ben Affleck, it gets to you.
Mace If you get this in your eyes, you'll more than likely cry.
Being Punched Or Kicked in The Balls Works every time.
Beck's Sea Change Anyone who's gone through a break-up the past decade has probably spent time with this album. It's like a modern day Blood On The Tracks.
Extreme Home Makeover If this makes you cry, especially if you watch it with a girlfriend, you'll more than likely reap some sort of reward. If the bus reveal doesn't finally get you, the sight of handicapped kids smiling in their new house will.
Brian's Song An old but a goodie. This probably even made your grandpa cry.
Shawshank Redemption "Brooks Was Here"
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind "Meet me in Montauk..."
Matchbox Cars There's something innocent about the little metal cars that reminds you of being little yourself, and not having any cares. Then you look up at a pile of bills and the cruel world, and you wish all you had to worry about was not scuffing the tiny plastic windshield.
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The Green Mile
"Danny Boy"
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A router is a device that connects multiple networks together and forwards packets of data between them. In my house I have a D-Link DI-524 Wireless Router connected to the DSL modem. It has 4 wired LAN ports and a wireless antenna. Which means that I can connect to it using 2 ways, either wired or wireless. My PC uses the wired connection whereas the other 2 laptops around the house are using wireless. Before setting up any router, you'll need to know these 2 information.
- Router IP
The 3 most common router IP addresses are :
- 192.168.0.1
- 192.168.1.1
- 192.168.2.1
Know that you can also check it out from the PC's Local Area Connection Status.
Get your default passwords easily over at routerpasswords.
My router has 4 outgoing ports for the PCs and 1 incoming port for the internet connection. If I had an always-on internet connection, I'll just need to plug the internet cable in. However, I had to setup the router's web configuration because I'm on dial up broadband.
Common home routers will have a wizard to help you to :
- Set your new password
- Set internet connection
- Set wireless connection
If not, just look around for the 'WAN' page and set it up yourself. All you need to do is just enter your ISP login information like the username, password and connection settings. Then that's it.


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Tough News
One of Ben's coronary arteries was 90% blocked. "It was hard to hear," he says. "I was shocked. It changed my perspective, made me understand living for others. The idea of being absent in my son's life and my wife's life. My wife and son - I couldn't imagine going through it on my own. They have allowed me to be positive."
Caring beyond care
Ben's caregivers also made an impact. "Throughout my recovery my doctor constantly came to check on me," he says. "I had a therapist named Paul. He was outstanding. He shared his story about why he works for Providence. His caring, it just really affected me. I can't even describe how awesome it was. It was care that went beyond care. They showed that this is what they love to do."
Helping others on their journey
Today, Ben is leading health and nutrition initiatives in his company to help others on their journey to heart health. "I want to share with others," says Ben, "to prevent them from going through what I went through – or help them through it." To give people like Ben a way to share their wisdom and experience, We love that! is supporting PATHFINDERS, a new program of BASECAMP Cardiac Prevention + Wellness that matches heart patients with volunteers who provide reassurance, inspiration, and encouragement.


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Cons: More suited to younger gamers, bad save game management
I bought this game for just under ten bucks at my local Wal-Mart. I wasn't particularly looking forward to this game.. in fact, I didn't even know it existed. I usually pick up computer game titles for that price instead, but I figured I hadn't bought a Playstation game in a while, so I was due. If nothing else, my little brothers would probably enjoy it.
What the heck is Beyblade anyway? Well, it's a cartoon, an anime, an animated television show for children. In the ever popular style of Pokemon, you play the role of a child who wishes to become a champion, but instead of using little critters to do the fighting for you, you get to use a spinning top.
Granted, there are lots of different combinations of parts, so your top can be pretty unique, but it's still just a top. Each top has a "bit beast", which comes out of the top to perform a special attack. This is pretty cool in the anime, but practically worthless in the game. At least Beyblade is unique. I can honestly say that I've never played a spinning top fighting game before in my entire life.
Getting Started
The first thing you must do is create a character. Select the gender and name, and then choose which beyblade you will start the game with. You can either choose "Dragoon S", which has a kid dragoon bit beast, or "Dranzer S", which has a knight dranzer bit beast. It don't really seem to matter which you pick, they are about equal.
In the main menu you can choose from the two battle modes. You can also customize your beyblade parts, select sound options, and save or load data from a memory card. Once you have entered the main menu, you can not return to the title screen, so if you change your mind about which top you wanted to start with, or wanted to change your character name, you would have to reset the game.
As for memory cards, for some reason only the first memory card slot is used in Beyblade. If you want to play a two player game, you must first load a character off of the first memory card, then select whether to set him in the first player or the second player slot. After that, you can switch memory cards, and load the next player from the first slot. The same holds true for saving, you must select which player to save to the first memory card slot, then switch cards and save the other player.
Bey Battle
The concept is to take your spinning top and launch it into a bowl shaped arena. You do this by pulling a rip cord, and letting it fly. This is represented in Beyblade by a spin power gauge. Pressing X will stop the gauge and launch your beyblade into the arena. Different launchers will allow you to launch with more or less spin power.
Spin power is important in a bey battle. If your beyblade stop spinning, you lose a point. If you lose four points total, you lose the battle. Another way to lose points is to fly out of the arena. There are three holes in the arena, one at the bottom, one at the top right, and one at the top left. You lose two points for going out of the arena.
The last way to lose, would be for your beyblade to run out of hit points. If this happens, it will explode, and you will automatically lose the battle unless you have another beyblade to use. Don't worry if it explodes though, you still get to keep all of it's parts, but you must put it back together before you can use it again.
When the two tops are spinning around in the arena, you have a limited amount of control to shift your beyblade's path. If you have an analog controller, the analog mode is on constantly and can not be turned off. If you have a digital controller, you can still use the directional pad to shift your path in eight directions.
The point is to collide with the opponent's top, and either knock it out of the ring, or stop it from spinning. The more spin power your top has, the longer it will be able to last in the arena. Depending on what parts your beyblade is built with, and what level it is on, you may be able to out last an opponent with double the spin power though.
Hitting X when you collide will allow you to attack the opponent, decreasing his spinning power. The two tops will also fly away from each other when they hit, the same way that two normal tops would spin away. For each successful hit, you also gain five legend points. After you collect 25 legend points, you can let loose a special attack.
Special attacks vary depending on which beyblade you have, and are generally worthless in my opinion. Unless you are battling an opponent who's beyblade has very few hit points, don't bother, because that is all the special attack does. They are neat to watch though.
Well, that's not entirely true, there is one rather cheap use of the special attack.. if your opponent hits you, and you are flying towards the hole in the arena, you can use your special attack then. This will often times throw you back into the center of the arena to use your attack, and accidentally keep you from flying out the hole. Cheating? Maybe, but I won't tell if you don't.
Only the first player can play in the tournament mode. Once you enter the tournament mode, you can not exit until you either win the tournament, or lose. You continue to use the beyblade you first select, unless it blows up, in which case you can switch if you have another beyblade to use.
Between battles you can do maintenance on your beyblade. This restores up to 15 hit points to your beyblade, but you suffer a loss of balance. Because of this, you will ultimately lose between 5 and 25 points of attack power, defense power, and/or endurance for the remainder of the tournament. When the tournament is over, all stats are restored.
You bet both "Bey Points" and experience points in Beyblade. Bey points are used to purchase parts to customize your beyblade. Experience points allow the bit beast of your beyblade to increase in levels, as well as yourself. You earn 10 bey points and 5 experience points for each win, and also 5 bey points and 3 experience points for each loss.
The tournament consists of seven rounds, with the sixth and seventh being the semifinals and the finals. From the fourth round on, you will battle against characters from the anime. If you win during the finals, you are the champion. You also get a new beyblade part for winning, or 20 bey points for losing. The part you receive is chosen at random from the 30 different parts.
Free Battle
In the free battle, both players can play, but only if the player data is saved on a memory card. If no data is loaded for the second player, then the first player can just battle freely among the eight characters from the anime, which include Tyson, Kai, Max, Ray, Lee, Michael, Tala, Robert, and Anthony.
As well as playing against the anime characters, you can also play as the anime characters. Tyson is the main character in the anime, and he uses a Dragoon bit beast with his beyblade. A fan of the cartoon will probably appreciate the ability to play as the characters, but I would rather use my own. Maybe it's the RPG lover inside of me.
Both players' data must be loaded from the first memory slot, but it still works fine. When you load data, it is registered to the first player. Then, insert another memory card and load the data, and it is registered to the second player. This is good, as the first player can not select the second player's character and vice versa.
You earn 10 bey points and 5 experience points for each time you win, as well as 5 bey points and 3 experience points for each loss. This makes the free battle a great way for two players to raise levels and build up bey points to customize their beyblade.
In the customize menu, you can purchase new pieces for your beyblades, name your beyblades, and change parts around. Each player has three "folders", and can register one beyblade to each folder. Each beyblade has a number of different parts, including the bit chip, attack ring, weight disk, spin gear, blade base, and launcher.
You won't know how a given part will effect your beyblade until after you purchase it and equip it. Generally, the more expensive parts tend to increase your stats better, but that is not necessarily the case all of the time. Some parts can not be equipped to all beyblades, such as the spin gear. This is due to the fact that some blade bases have a built in spin gear. Also, you can not use a left spin gear with a right launcher.
You start buy purchasing parts at the shop for various amounts of bey points, and then changing parts around and seeing how it effects your statistics. You can check the status (attack power, endurance, maximum spin power, etc) of your beyblade here in the customize menu, as well as your own level and win/loss record.
Graphics & Sound
I do wonder how they managed to model the physics of two spinning tops, ramming into each other over and over again. Regardless of how they accomplished it, it seems to work fairly well. Sometimes they can be frustratingly hard to control, but that is not the issue. They are not supposed to be controlled, only their paths altered, and Beyblade does a great job of modeling this.
The spinning tops look realistic, and everything is really colorful. Besides the beyblades themselves, everything else is stationary and motionless. A very simple game really, but still a little fun. The interfaces are all very user friendly, and easy to navigate.. the only exception maybe being the lame memory card management, which is a bit of a pain sometimes.
The background music was upbeat and catchy, and while it didn't hold my interest for very long, it wasn't bad at all. There wasn't much variety to it though.
The tournament announcer, D.J. Jazzman, is the source of voice overs, which are terribly annoying. He always says "What a great launch!" or "What a weak launch!" when you first launch your beyblade, and it is very annoying after a few battles. He also says other lame things like "Let it rip!" or "Unbelievable!" at random times during the course of a battle. To top it off, the battles are generally short, so you are forced to listen to him way, way to often.
Crave Entertainment's Beyblade is a pretty unique game, and while it's not the best game in the world, it should be fun for all ages. Younger gamers will probably enjoy Beyblade a little more than older gamers though. Whether that is because the simple game suits their playing style better, or because they like the anime and can relate to the characters, it really makes no difference.
Fans of the anime will probably like this game, as well as parents looking for an easy to learn game to play with their children. As an added bonus, this game is rated "E" for everyone. If you like Beyblade, you might also enjoy one of the various Pokemon or Digimon games.


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Sunday, 29 March 2015
my take on Bokeh and Easter ....
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Very pretty! A beautiful stamp to go over the lovely Bokeh background too! XxReplyDeleteReplies
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Wow Theresa! Super artwork! I love love love the colours you have used! Xxx brilliant.ReplyDeleteReplies
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These are gorgeous Theresa. I love them. XxxReplyDeleteReplies
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Beautiful Theresa, love the colours xReplyDelete
They're fab Theresa. Really eye-catching. xReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Lynne. Thanks for visit xxDelete
beautiful Theresa really lovely xReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Linda xxDelete
Love your twist on the Bokeh effect, Wonderful, love the rainbow of colours used as well, really well done xReplyDeleteReplies
Well thank you Lisa xxDelete
Beautiful Theresa.ReplyDelete
These are stunning Theresa, I love this technique and the stamp you've used is superb with it, gorgeous colours too xx Zoe xxReplyDeleteReplies
thank you Zoe xxDelete
Absolutely gorgeous! You have inspired me to try this technique. Thank you for teaching me something new =) Thank you for sharing with us at Through the Craft Room Door. We'd love to see you again next week.ReplyDelete
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Oh thank you Tina. Now I'm teaching too! XxDelete
Gorgeous cards Theresa, such beautiful backgrounds with an adorable cute image !!ReplyDelete
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You are really good at it Theresa this is lovely. XxReplyDeleteReplies
thank you Sam. it is my take on it rather than what it should be xxDelete
Ain't a clue what the technique is but I loves your card... gorgeousness indeedily..... Thanks for joining in with the Sunday Stamper xReplyDeleteReplies
oh Hels can't believe I know some technique you don't!. thank you xxDelete


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A gorgeous EAPG goblet in the Heart With Thumbprint pattern with gold trim. Made by Tarentum in 1898. This pattern has no known reproductions and the is also known by the names Tarentum's Hartford, Columbian, Columbia and Bull's Eye In Heart. Goblet measures 6" tall. The gold trim is in excellent condition. This beautiful Early American Pattern Glass goblet is sparkling clear and has no chips or cracks. 12 ounces
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MISSION: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) will improve outcomes for all public-school students in the state by providing leadership, guidance, and support to school systems. POSITION OVERVIEW : The Director of English Learner Support will be a transformative leader that manages the English Learner Support Team in the Division of Special Populations. This position reports to and works closely with the Director of Special Populations to set the vision for the English Learner Support Team. This position provides statewide leadership in creating a vision to improve achievement of English learners on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and College, Career, and Military Readiness (CCMR) measures; accomplished through transformative leadership in strategic operations and planning to deliver state level support, information, and non-regulatory guidance regarding state English learner and Title III programs. This role requires strong management, vision, programmatic and operational expertise, exceptional communication, and an orientation towards stakeholder engagement and excellence. Please note that a resume and tailored cover letter are required attachments for applying to this position. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Applicants who are strongly being considered for employment must submit to a national criminal history background check. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Creates a strategic plan to support English learners across the state that will set ambitious goals and objectives. Manages a highly effective and engaged team by providing differentiated coaching and professional development to team members. Leads the state in effective program model implementation through provision of clear guidance, resources, and implementation rubrics aligned with best practices that leads to significant outcomes for the state's English learners. Ensures the team has necessary resources and sufficient support to function efficiently and effectively and to positively impact outcomes for the state's English learners. Develops processes, routines, and systems to ensure effective stakeholder engagement with Education Service Centers, Local Education Agencies, educators, and English learner students' families. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Education: Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university Experience: At least ten (10) years of experience in working with English learners; and five (5) years of leadership experience at the campus, district, ESC, state, or non-profit level. OTHER QUALIFICATIONS: Deep content knowledge around programs for English learners. Bilingual experience strongly preferred. Understanding of federal regulations (Title III, FERPA, EDGAR, and Section 504), and State laws specific to English learners and SBOE and commissioner's rules pertaining to English learners. Experience with state application for federal funds, Title III reporting, and state and local determinations. Proficiency in Performance-Based Monitoring. Mastery in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook). Understanding of the functions and challenges of school districts, charter schools, and education service centers. An obsession with using data analysis to make meaningful and effective decisions. A proven track record of student achievement as a former classroom teacher and/or school leader. An unwavering belief that any problem can be solved. A palpable sense of urgency around increasing student achievement outcomes for English learners. The ability to lead and leverage strong relationships with other team members in ways that motivate and inspire them. Strong prioritization, time management, and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple projects at once and meet deadlines. Excellent verbal and written communication including strong editing and proofreading skills. Ability to foster effective working relationships with a variety of individuals and groups, internal and external to TEA. A positive attitude and professional demeanor. An extreme attention to detail. A desire to self-reflect, give/receive feedback and continuously improve. Ability to work both independently and engage in a collaborative, results-oriented team environment. Prioritize time and resources and effectively manage a team to execute on those priorities. Deliver high-quality work products on time. Attract new talent to the agency and develop existing staff. Anticipate and overcome foreseen and unforeseen challenges. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age or veteran status, unless an applicant is entitled to the veteran's preference. Additional Military Crosswalk (occupational specialty code) information can be accessed here . This position requires the applicant to meet Agency standards and criteria which may include passing a pre-employment criminal background check, prior to being offered employment by the Agency. No phone calls or emails, please. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not accept telephone calls and cannot reply to all email inquiries. Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.
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Save Our Seine is working with the Louis Riel School Division to deliver a hands-on education program related to water. To learn more about how you can participate in Waterways, start by viewing this short video produced by Harry Bell at the LRSD.
Getting Started in the LRSD Waterways Program
Save Our Seine is happy to share its expertise regarding the Seine River and will support Waterways in any or all of the following ways.
- Teacher training and support
- Classroom presentations about the Seine River and its wildlife (warm-ups)
- Assistance with guided walks along the river trails with your class
- Assistance with delivery of in-class components (water quality testing, invertebrate identification)
- Assistance with field trips to the Seine River (our extra volunteers can help with river activities)
- Follow-up with your class after the field trip (summarizing and interpreting the data that was collected, assistance with data entry to share results with others)
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Mobile First Product Strategy for Product Designers
A talk by Jonathan Stark at Future Insights Live 2015
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June 1, 2015 9:00 AM
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Designing a 'mobile first' product is bigger than creating a responsive website, or submitting apps to iTunes and Google Play. Mobile first is about embracing the entire suite of capabilities that modern smartphones bring to bear: push interactions, virtual wallets, Bluetooth beacons, interactive SMS systems, and a seemingly endless array of interconnected sensors and services. Join Jonathan for a look at the true power of mobile where he'll separate the hype from the reality with pragmatic advice that you can put to use right away.
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CARLSBAD — A Planning Commission hearing is scheduled Oct. 3 to consider recommendations for the Palomar Transfer Station.
Among the list of staff requests are the approval of a Conditional Use Permit Amendment along with an expansion of the transfer-tipping bay, otherwise known as the unloading bay.
In existence for more than 30 years, the Palomar Transfer Station, which deals with municipal waste, construction material, green waste and recyclables, has undergone extensions and changes before.
On this round of recommendations, the changes will include both votes from the Planning Commission and then City Council.
Staff said the City Council will ultimately be the entity to approve it since the decision is pursuant to the related franchise agreement.
The items presented to the Planning Commission will not affect resident services. The changes are for the internal operations at the Palomar Transfer station.
"The applicant, Palomar Transfer Station, Inc. is requesting an amendment to their Conditional Use Permit to construct a 3,960 square foot addition on the east side of the existing tipping bay," said Pam Drew, associate planner at the City of Carlsbad. "This will allow a separate bay for green waste and construction and demolition material to be deposited in a separate bay until the appropriate transfer truck arrives for off-site transport."
Drew pointed out that this addition will help eliminate multiple movements of the material, and decrease the chance of commingling of the municipal solid waste with the green waste and construction and demolition material.
"The project also includes a new use for residents to be able to properly dispose of universal waste," she said.
Universal waste includes electronic devices such as computer monitors. Other collections will include "home-generated" sharp needles such as hypodermic needles used for administering medication.
"The requested uses are necessary and desirable for the community, in that segregating household waste and sharps needles from the main stream of waste is a benefit for the health and safety of the community and environment," Drew said.


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Kurt's Garage is an auto service facility that offers collision repair solutions to drivers throughout the Rochester area.
This family owned and operated business was established in 1946 and has since provided exceptional workmanship in conducting collision repair services on all car makes and models including commercial vehicles.
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Does Wikipedia Information Help Netflix Predictions?
- John Lees-Miller
- Fraser Anderson
- Bret Hoehn, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
- Russ Greiner, Dept of Computing Science; PI of AICML
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CitationJ. Lees-Miller, F. Anderson, B. Hoehn, R. Greiner. "Does Wikipedia Information Help Netflix Predictions?". International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), December 2008.
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It's murder putting on a new musical - literally! Jessica Cranshaw, star of the new Broadway-bound musical Robbin Hood, has been murdered on stage on opening night! The entire cast and crew are suspects. Time to call in the local detective, Frank Cioffi, who just happens to be a huge musical theatre fan. With a nose for crime and an ear for music, Frank has his work cut out trying to find the killer whilst giving the show a lifeline.
Starring Jason Manford (The Producers, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Guys and Dolls) and Carley Stenson (Les Misérables, Legally Blonde, Shrek, Spamalot and Hollyoaks), this hilarious whodunnit is packed full of catchy songs, unforgettable characters and plot twists galore! From creators of Cabaret and Chicago, this Tony award-winning backstage murder mystery musical will have audiences laughing and guessing right to the final curtain.
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'"The show is consistently funny... effortlessly switching between big numbers and rapid-fire witty dialogue"- Manchester Evening News
'"Laugh-out-loud comedy"- Sheffield Star
"If you like musical theatre you'll love this." - Sheffield Telegraph
Booking period: 13 December - 11 January 2020
Running Time: 2 hours and 45 minutes, including an interval
Age recommendation: TBC - As an advisory to adults who might bring young people. All persons under the age of 16 must be accompanied by and sat next to the accompanying adult. They may not sit on their own within the auditorium. If children do have separate seats you could be refused entry. All persons entering the theatre, regardless of age, must have a ticket.
Warnings: The performance contains one loud gunshot.
Venue: Wyndham's Theatre, Charing Cross Rd, Covent Garden, London WC2H 0DA


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Project Pan 2018
I'm finally doing a project pan!
Until a couple of years ago, I always had to empty or hit pan before I buy new makeup. Eventually, with all the seemingly good releases and my unexpected liking for Dior, I've amassed a lot of makeup that emptying or hitting pan has become a challenge. So I'm doing that challenge this year. Not to buy new ones–except skincare, of course–but to lessen clutter and make way for still unopened makeup.
Before 2017 ended, I already listed the makeup and skincare I want to use up this 2018. Some like contour and bronzers could be really difficult to hit pan on, but I will do my best!


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Life is unpredictable at best. As I write this June letter a midwife is on trial for manslaughter in Illinois. The judge said something like: "Midwives! That was 150 years ago." This shows the degree of brainwashing that went on in the 20th century. We must educate not only ourselves, but also the men in our lives. This is a new century! Use it to your advantage! Make the 21st century your century! Mothers take back birth for yourselves. Birth demands many options. Women demand many options. Midwives are a legitimate option. Let's be sure that they are also allowed protection under the law. The midwifery model of care is not the twin to the medical model. Both are options. Both allow babies to be born. Babies sometimes die. When a baby dies in the hospital there is not even a coroner's inquiry. Everyone accepts the fact that sometimes it happens. It is a tragedy, but it happens. Doctors are not above making mistakes.
Wrongly given medication can kill both mothers and babies. I hear women's stories every day. Why do some people feel it is less safe to use a midwife for a normal birth than a doctor? This is pure fantasy. (It is a spectacular job of marketing on the part of the doctors and the entire medical profession.) Statistics bear out the fact that it is just as safe to have a baby at home as in the hospital. Why are these statistics so hard to find? Let's make it clear to all women what their options are. Why would a man who is highly educated enough to be a judge be so uninformed that he does not know that midwives are very much a part of birth in this present day. In Sweden, midwives deliver almost all of the babies. Sweden has the lowest maternal and infant mortality rate in the world. Yes, that is what I said, IN THE WORLD.
How can a woman expect help from a clinician who has never attended a normal birth in school? A truly normal, natural birth happens at home where a woman is feeling safe and surrounded by loved ones and care giving women who are experienced in birth. Normal birth needs no medical attention at all. Most obstetricians will tell you that, if you ask them. For most midwives trouble does not come. But if it does, wouldn't it make more sense if she could simply call a doctor who is trained in emergency situations and get his support as a colleague instead of hiding who she is so that she won't be prosecuted. Midwives do NOT need physician supervision but they do deserve to have a back up if they need it. They won't need it often! I wish you every one a wonderful and inspiring June.


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Lawsuit targets time-based sorting in Apple's iPods, Time MachineA Texas-based lawsuit claims that virtually all of Apple's product line infringes on a system for organizing data by time, but draws its closest connection with the Time Machine backup feature in Mac OS X Leopard.
Submitted late last week to a Tyler Division court in the southern US state, the seven-page complaint by Mirror Worlds Technologies accuses Apple of violating four distinct but related patents that touch on creating "streams" of documents that are automatically sorted according to time stamps, including future dates assigned to calendars and other reminders.
Dating back as early as 1999, the patents (1, 2, 3, 4) describe a highly visual system that displays a line of documents and other items dating back (or forward) in time along with the option of searching these items to retrieve and edit them.
Users of the system could also set up personalized versions of these feeds, or "lifestreams," as well as separate "substreams" that cover more focused topics. The approach is similarly billed as useful for searching an enterprise database.
In images accompanying the patents, Mirror Worlds portrays a system with more than a passing resemblance to Time Machine, Apple's automated backup utility in Mac OS X.
The plaintiff stops short of drawing a direct connection between the operating system feature and its patent claims but argues that both Macs and Mac OS X infringe on all four patents. However, for all but one of the patents, the company alleges that iPods and iPhones are also guilty of the infringement.
The Mac maker doesn't use a visually identical system on any of its handheld devices but often sorts podcasts and similar material by the date it was received.
Apple has been aware of the patents' existence starting from late 2001 and so is responsible for "willful and deliberate" violations, according to the plaintiff, which argues that Apple is damaging Mirror Worlds' business. The lawsuit would have an injunction issued against any Apple products found infringing on the patents and asks for triple damages.
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KeyCorp. 's ( KEY ) efficient expense control, along with steady capital deployment activities, places it well ahead of its peers. The stock closed at $13.08 on Dec 12, reflecting a strong year-to-date return of 51.9%. Going forward, with consistent improvement in the credit quality and strong capital ratios, there are fair chances of price appreciation. Therefore, continuing to hold the company's shares in your portfolio should be rewarding.
However, given the tepid economic recovery, stringent regulatory restrictions and the prevailing low interest-rate scenario, we discourage further addition of its shares to your portfolio.
Justifying the Stance
KeyCorp' third-quarter 2013 earnings per share of 28 cents came in ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate and the year-ago quarter figure of 22 cents. Results were primarily driven by growth in net interest income, partially offset by lower non-interest income and a slight rise in operating expenses.
KeyCorp's expense reduction program - "Fit for Growth" - seems impressive. Notably, the company has already surpassed the slated expense reduction target of $200 million for 2013 in the third quarter itself.
Efficient capital deployment activities in the form of regular share purchases and dividend hikes continue to boost investors' confidence in the stock. Further, KeyCorp has also received the Federal Reserve's approval to utilize the net after tax cash gain of $72 million from the divesture of Victory Capital Management to buy back additional shares.
However, we expect the pressure on net interest margin (NIM) to persist in the near term due to the soft new loan demand. Further, market dislocations over the last couple of years have led to deterioration in the valuation of many of the asset categories in KeyCorp's balance sheet. Hence, stability of the balance sheet remains a major challenge for the company at this point.
In line with our analysis, the Zacks Consensus Estimate underwent no revision over the last 30 days. While the Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2013 was 94 cents, for 2014 it was $1.02. Hence, KeyCorp currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Other Stocks to Consider
Some better-ranked banks include BofI Holding, Inc. ( BOFI ), Fifth Third Bancorp ( FITB ) and Wells Fargo & Company ( WFC ). While BofI Holding carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), Fifth Third and Wells Fargo have a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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