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My journal quilt for August. Having made a self portrait in red for April, I just had to make this one of my hubby in mellow yellow for August! I used silk/acrylic paint for the cotton, free motion stitch and black knitting wool couched down with a zig zag stitch for the outline. It was all highlighted with watercolour crayons.
Low Tide
These two pieces are hand stitched on rusted cotton fabric. I soaked them in a mixture of white vinegar and water before sprinkling them with some rusty nails and tacks, rolling them up, and leaving them for 48 hours in the garden under a bush! This is where the narrative in my head then took over. I didn't have any plans of where I was going to stitch, or what colours I was going to use, but straight away, I found myself imagining the beach and the sea. I allowed the rusty marks to dictate where I should start to make further marks with my needle and thread, so it was more of an instinctive thing really, and I was visualising sand, shingle, pools, sea water, groins and everything seaside! These two small squares are the result of a few hours of extremely enjoyable creative stitching, made mainly while watching the first few days of the Olympics. I'm not a sports fan at all really, but my mellow yellow hubby is on holiday this fortnight, because he just loves all sport, so I've been trying to at least keep him company for a few hours each day, but with a needle and thread to keep me from going completely insane!!
Incoming Tide
I have actually been quite busy for the last couple of months on a project that I can't show on here as yet. It's my daughter and son in laws 30th birthdays this autumn, and my daughter has asked for an 8 place setting of table mats, (all different!), and her partner has a large picture frame just waiting for a piece of textile art that he has designed, consisiting of some celtic knot designs. Once they have been safely delivered, (half way around the world to New Zealand,) opened, and hopefully approved, I will show them on here.
If you are watching the Olympics, enjoy, and if you are stitching at the same time, even better!


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Halloween can be tough for vegan kiddies and grown-ups alike since much of the trick-or-treating candy given out at homes and schools is not vegan. Here are some quick tips to help make Halloween healthy and fun for all!
Peanut Butter Cups
2 cups non-dairy, grain sweetened chocolate chips
1 1/2 cups creamy, unsweetened peanut butter
3-4 tablespoons brown rice syrup
Pinch sea salt
Lightly oil a standard mini muffin tin or line the cups with foil candy papers. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler (place the chocolate chips in a glass bowl over a pan of boiling water and stir until chocolate melts.
Spoon melted chocolate to fill to one-third into each cup. Place tray in freezer while preparing peanut butter. Combine peanut butter, sweetener and salt in a sauce pan and cook over low heat until the mixture is soft and smooth.
Spoon peanut butter on top of each chocolate cup, filling nearly to the top. Top each cup with chocolate, filling the remainder of the cups. Place tray in the freezer until set.
Makes about 24 peanut butter cups.
recipe via award winning author and chef Christina Pirello
Whatever you decide to do, be safe and have fun! And if you can't be good, be careful!
Via Guest Blogger Kathryn Hostettler; a social worker and dog rescue volunteer with Rogers' Rescues. Her favorite Halloween treat is anything chocolate.
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Adorable! Love all the ideas
Great ideas. I also highly recommend Alicia Silverstone's The Kind Diet peanut butter cups. They are so amazing you never miss Reeses. As for candy, Endangered Species Dark Chocolate Bug Bites are kind of expensive but get me through this time of the year.
Awesome! I love that peanut butter cup recipe – Christina Pirello is a kitchen goddess.
And I love the puppy parade idea!
This article has such great resources! Thank you for your-as always- helpful articles. And, can't wait to try to make the peanut butter cups- yum!
Anyway, this sounds like an awesome recipe and I can't wait to make it! Thanks!

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Dantewada is a town in the state of Chhattisgarh. It is a town in the nagar panchayat of the Dantewada district. The town is the administrative headquarters of Dantewada district. The tehsil is divided into 31 gram panchayats. Dantewada is one among the worst hit towns of the naxal movement. This battle between the Government and naxalites had displaced thousands of people to camps.
Places to Stay
Dantewada is not left with many hotels and lodging places since the maoist movement. Few of the hotels still functioning are the Madhuban Hotel (Tariff - Rs.400 to 900) and Regal Lodge (Tariff - Rs. 700).
The languages spoken in Dantewada are Hindi and Chhattisgarhi.
Dantewada is a town with many temples. The natives celebrate events such as Navaratri and Deepawali with great fervour and passion.
Places of Interest
Tourists have always flocked the town because of its many religious and scenic attractions. The most famous of all is the Goddess Danteshwari Temple, representing feminine divinity. Bailadila Mountains is known for its rich iron deposits. Bodhghat Sath Dhar is the waterfall formed when the Indravati River forks into 7. It is also famous for Barsur village, which has 147 temples.
How to Get There
The closest airport to Dantewada is the Rajahmundry airport, 273 km away
Dantewada has a railway station, however not very active. The train from Vishakhapatnam to Bailadila stops for a while in Dantewada.
Dantewada has its own bus station which is well connected by SH9 to major cities of Chhattisgarh and Hyderabad. Few of the operators of the area are Kanker Roadways and Mahendra Travels. When you opt for Ticketgoose.com's online bus ticket booking facility ensure that you check out for discount coupons.


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Date of Award
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Campus Access Dissertation
First Advisor
Vladimir Temlyakov
Sixth Committee Member
Robert Sharpley
Sparse representations of a function is a very powerful tool to analyze and approximate the function. It has been utilized in many applications such as signal/image processing and numerical computation. One of the fundamental questions in this consideration is how to construct good methods (algorithms) of approximation, and how to measure the performance of these methods. One of the most successful approaches in this area is the greedy method, which belongs to the theory of nonlinear approximation. This dissertation answers the question for some greedy type methods. We approach the problem from two aspects, Nonlinear Approximation Theory and Compressed Sensing. In the setting of Nonlinear Approximation Theory, we mainly study the direction (Jackson) and inverse (Bernstein) theorems with bases that are tensor products of univariate greedy bases, as well as Lebesgue type inequalities for quasi-greedy bases. In the area of Compressed Sensing, we study a modified Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm, Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm with Thresholding. We investigate its performance with regard to a redundant system of generators (dictionary), in both theoretical and numerical aspects.
Recommended Citation
Yang, M.(2011). Greedy Algorithms In Approximation Theory and Compressed Sensing. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/1623


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Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman 'did a little baby CPR' while filming with Corden
Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis has told how he saved a baby's life while filming Carpool Karaoke with James Corden.
The band were recently featured as Corden's guest in the popular segment for his American TV show, The Late Late Show, which sees celebrities singing along with him in a car as he drives to work in Los Angeles.
The YouTube video of the Chili Peppers and Corden, which shows them singing topless and wrestling on a lawn, has already notched up more than nine million views.
Kiedis told The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X about an "unscripted moment" during filming that saw him help a woman whose baby was in distress.
Explaining how they filmed a dance-off segment, which was not shown in the final edit, he told how a woman came running towards them.
He said: "We danced off, we tied and then we were going to celebrate with some Mexican food on the corner. And a woman came out of her house, holding a child saying "My baby, my baby, my baby can't breathe!
"We all ran across the street, the woman thrust the baby into my arms, the baby was not breathing and I thought 'I'm gonna try and do a little baby CPR real quick, see if I can get some air in this kid'.
"Tried to open the mouth, (it was) like locked shut. So I started rubbing the belly, bubbles came out of the mouth, the eyes rolled back into place, the ambulance showed up and I handed the baby over, who was now breathing and fine, and we went back to Carpool Karaoke.
"It was kind of a beautiful thing that we stopped for the dance-off, (as) the baby needed help and we were there.
"The little baby looked at me the entire time until the ambulance came, little baby Nina."
Corden's Carpool Karaoke videos have been an internet sensation and have featured the likes of Justin Bieber, Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder and Adele, whose video has amassed more than 100 million views.
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Everyone is asking the same question, what are the 2015 business trends? Most business are looking to increase sales, and make their place of business a better place to work. For the ones that follow these trends, they have a good chance of making it happen.
According to Forbes, this is the list of the top 10 trends of 2015:
The Role of Salespeople Will Evolve: times are changing, and the old fashion pushy role that salespeople use to have is quickly fading away. Today, customers are looking for a more friendly face, someone they might call a friend.
Tightly Integrated Sales and Marketing: for business that are willing to integrate their sales and marketing, they will see a 24% faster revenue growth, and a 27% faster profit growth.
Increases in Weekly Business Role Play: the old way of training is over. Businesses that are successful in this area will begin new ways of training on a weekly basis.
Divergent Customers Price vs. Value: competition will be viewed in a whole new light.
Customers Will Pay a Premium for Verified Results: the days of "you get what you pay for" will be the new truth unlike ever before.
Simplicity and Portability Will Drive CRM: successful companies will create a balance in this area.
New Marketing Strategies to Repel the Wrong Clients: not only are businesses looking for clients, but now they are looking for the right clients. This year businesses will be making sure the client is the right fit for their business.
Recruiting With Work/Life Balance: top companies will be looking for ways to make their employees happy. Businesses are beginning to realize that if their employees are happy then their business will do better.
Content Marketing Trends/Impact: the most successful companies will be giving away items. Not just any items, but something that their customer will really enjoy.
Interdisciplinary Workshops: workshops will be done for the whole company. Businesses are learning that training the whole team together works better.
For more information on the top business trends of 2015, please contact us.


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Large structures
The main advantages of this product as compared with alternative solutions such as steel and reinforced concrete are:
high resistance to loads,
nearly endless shaping possibilities,
high fire resistance and resistance to aggressive environmental factors.
Each year we process 12,000 m3 of Polish timber
Up to date we have participated in the realization of several hundred projects: sports halls, roofed swimming pools, tennis courts, riding halls, entertainment halls, churches, industrial halls, footbridges and many others.
Our company possesses a modern and well-equipped machine park owing to which resources are used optimally – it is an expression of our care for protection of the natural environment. The ANDREWEX research laboratory and design office provide constant development in scope of technology and analysis of solutions aiming at creating innovative products. Our company, as the only one in Poland, has been granted a gluing certificate "A" by the Otto Graff Institute (Stuttgart).
We provide comprehensive order handling: consulting, structure design, production, specialized transport and assembly.


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|Venue: Massachusetts College of Art, Pozen Center
|Categories: public art, music, conversation
The "Get Together" is the Together Festival's signature daytime event. Combining a vinyl record fair, installations and performances by local artists, a fashion presentation and music software and hardware developers demonstrating their products, this event paints a holistic portrait of electronic music culture outside the club. In a lively market atmosphere, visitors are encouraged to mingle with new acquaintances made during the week of the festival and explore this multi-room event. Screenings are running nonstop during the event showing films related to electronic music and lifestyle. For the fashion presentation, incumbent designer-stylists Deconize and Lady Charlie Lamb are joined by Tess Aquarium, presenting collections that combine original and reworked vintage garments and accessories responding to stylistic niches plucked from the course of electronic music's vibrant history.
Photo: Model PonPon Yeh in a fashion presentation by Deconize, FLASHFLOOD® Studios - www.flashfloodphoto.com © 2011
Sat, Apr 23 | 12-6pm
Pozen Center and adjoining spaces at Mass Art
(Entrance at the corner of Tetlow St and Evans Way in Boston)
Public Transportation | Longwood (MBTA Green Line: E train)


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Personal Training
Serious athletes have long used personal trainers to increase their performance in competition. Movie stars are known to hire personal trainers to keep them fitting into their Oscar gowns. But the people who benefit most from personal training are ordinary men and women seeking to function better in their everyday lives.
Working with a trainer, anyone can achieve their fitness goals-goals as modest as touching your toes again or as ambitious as preparing for an event in the Olympics. Whether you want to lose weight, regain flexibility, develop speed or simply feel good again, personal training is an activity that will continue to offer benefits in the years to come.
Our personal trainers are nationally certified, and degreed professionals whose main interest is to assist, guide and educate others who wish to experience a greater physical functionality in their lives.
Reasons for Hiring a Personal Trainer
- Improve Your Overall Fitness - Improve strength, flexibility, endurance, posture, balance, coordination, and cardiovascular health while monitoring your progress and fine-tuning your program as you continue.
- Reach Or Maintain A Healthy Weight - Body fat reduction, weight management, body shaping, and toning can all be achieved with the aid of a qualified trainer, who can help you set realistic goals and determine safe strategies, all while providing the encouragement you need.
- Stick To It - Qualified personal trainers will help you stay motivated and enthused about working out. Your program will include activities that you enjoy, whether in the water, out for a run, or in the weight room.
- Focus On Your Unique Health Concerns - Many of us will face physical changes as we age, such as arthritis, diabetes, or obesity. Exercise can help manage these and other issues, including low-back pain, injury rehabilitation, and pre/post-natal training. Together with your physician, physical therapist, or other health care provider, a personal trainer can ensure a safe, efficient program.
- Find The Right Way To Work Out - Learn the correct way to use equipment and appropriate form and technique for cardiovascular work, free weight work, strength training, and flexibility.
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- Benefit From The Buddy System - By making a commitment to meet regularly with a trainer, you'll benefit from individual attention and support.
How Do You Select The Right Trainer?
The Longmont Athletic Club has assembled a team of personal trainers with varied backgrounds and experience. Depending on your specific needs and goals, you can select a personal trainer who possess the skills needed to assist you in being successful.
Biographies on all of our personal training staff are posted to help you select the trainer who's right for you. If you would like assistance in finding the right trainer to assist you in reaching your specific goals, our Fitness Director will be happy to help you. We can get you started today on reaching your fitness goals!
LAC's Certified Personal Trainers
To schedule a training appointment please call Laura at 303-772-4700.


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Over the past twenty-five years, when someone asked me what I did for living, I would say, I'm just a piano teacher. It's been a fact of my life that every weekday afternoon and most Saturday mornings, young children between the ages of five and eighteen (and the occasional adult) show up at my house with a stack of music (sometimes practiced, sometimes not) and proceed to sit down at my Steinway concert grand piano and play for thirty to sixty minutes at a time. They listen (or sometimes don't) while I correct them, praise them, and encourage them to become better pianists and musicians.
I've always thought of myself as just a piano teacher because I seem to say the same things at every single lesson: Sit up tall with your feet flat on the floor; curve your fingers, relax your shoulders, play softer; play louder; play faster; play slower; count out loud; pay attention to the fingering; make your staccatos crisper, your legato smoother; LISTEN to your tone quality; pay attention to the dynamic markings; shape the phrase like a vocalist would sing a melody; and for God sake, please stop banging on the keys—you're hurting my ears! Most importantly: Practice, practice, practice, and then, PRACTICE MORE!
I've always thought of myself as just a piano teacher when I tell my students how important it is to be consistent—that good practice habits will spill over into their everyday lives; that studies show that learning a musical instrument will make them smarter; that doing weekly music theory homework will allow them to understand the complexity of music; that performing in recitals will teach them how to be confident in front of an audience, and that above all—to be able to sit down at a piano, pull out some music and play for the sheer pleasure of it is one of the greatest gifts they can carry through their lives.
I can say with all honesty that my career as just a piano teacher has been rewarding as well as fulfilling, but lately I've been thinking that perhaps my job is so much more than that.
The truth is, I'm more than just a piano teacher when my interactions with my students don't involve music at all—like when their eyes light up when I tell them how much I like their new red tennis shoes or how cute their new haircut is, or that I notice they're missing a tooth and I'm as excited about it as they are.
I'm more than just a piano teacher when I listen to my students talk about how much they loved reading the Harry Potter or Hunger Games books (as I did) or how cool the new Disney/PIXAR movie was, or how the most recent video game they just got for their birthday is totally sick. I'm more than just a piano teacher when I allow them to chatter on about it for a moment before I gently redirect them back to the lesson.
I'm more than just a piano teacher when a student walks into the lesson looking upset and tells me that so-and-so was mean to them at school and now they feel like they don't have any friends. I'm more than just a piano teacher when I tell them that I know exactly how they feel—and that the same thing happened to me in junior high, but it got better when I started high school. I'm more than just a piano teacher when I hand them a tissue to wipe their eyes, give them a hug and tell them it's going to be all right, I promise.
I'm more than just a piano teacher when they reveal to me that they have a crush on someone; or about who asked them to the dance; or how they got (or didn't get) that big part in the school play; or how much homework there is in their AP World History class; or how they're terrified of blowing the SAT. I'm more than just a piano teacher when they run into my studio giddy with joy because they just passed their driver's test and actually drove to their piano lesson by themselves for the first time.
I'm more than just a piano teacher when they let me in on where they've applied to college and what do I think about that particular university? I'm more than just a piano teacher when they come to their final lesson to say goodbye and I always cry (and sometimes they do, too) because our time together has come to an end.
Yes, I've loved being just a piano teacher, but it's the more than parts that have made my job such a joy.
My job has allowed me the privilege of spending consecutive years with a student, getting to know who they are while never giving up hope that they will mature into a gifted musician. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't—it doesn't really matter. The important part is that I'm there when they perform in recitals and festivals and I get to watch their parents beam with pride after they've had a successful performance and know that I had something to do with that. I get to tell the story about how I never give up on any student—EVER—and how for years I would dread the lesson of one particular boy because he just wouldn't practice; how one day a light went on in his head and before I knew it, that boy was playing Bach Preludes and Schubert Impromptus with the musical maturity of a concert pianist.
By being just a piano teacher, I have been able to earn an income by sharing my love of music with children; more importantly, through the process of teaching them over the years, I've had the privilege of becoming their friend. By being just a piano teacher I have been given the gift of loving them as if they were one of my own children.
So I guess the next time someone asks me what I do for a living, I'll say the same thing I always say: I'm just a piano teacher, but this time, I'll understand what that really means.


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How awards are won with superior customer service and innovation
NewVoiceMedia is a leading global provider of cloud contact centre and inside sales technology that helps businesses have more successful conversations. The company's hard work and innovation is not going unnoticed. Just recently its premier solution, ContactWorld, received:
- TMC's 2017 Communications Solutions Products of the Year Award
- Finalist for Best Customer Service Product in 2017 SaaS awards
- Double win in Corporate Vision's 2017 Technology Innovator Awards
NewVoiceMedia is no stranger to industry accolades, having been ranked among the London Stock Exchange Group's '1,000 Companies to Inspire Britain' for the third consecutive year, and recently named by Forbes as one of the world's top 100 cloud companies (and in excellent company ;).
What's the secret?
In this blog we take a look at the lessons that can be learned from their business model and philosophy, strategies behind their success, and reasons why they are outperforming the competition.
Founded in 2000, with a clear vision to innovate ahead of the competition in order to become the global leader in the provision of enterprise-class cloud communications technology, the company cites technology leadership, global infrastructure and superior sales and marketing as their weapons in sustaining growth ahead of the market. They were also one of the first contact centres to establish and operate a cloud based technology model.
Over the last two years, NewVoiceMedia has been revolutionising customer communications on a global scale, with international expansion into new offices in North America, EMEA and APAC. Their continued growth has been further enhanced with investment in a global infrastructure to meet the increased demand from customers around the world. Investment in global relationships with Telco providers, allowing customers to deliver calls via their existing telephone infrastructure while maintaining high line quality, has also been key to their success.
In addition, they use the customer data within a customer's Salesforce® org to highlight activity and interest to their agent via a "screen-pop", meaning the experience they have is the best it can be, from both perspectives.
That focus on customer experience and the subscription based nature of their business means customers can be up and running quickly with the ability to cope with fluctuating demand and has helped them accumulate a customer base of over 650 customers in a relatively short space of time.
Jonathan Gale, CEO, has his own thoughts on why NewVoiceMedia has seized the opportunity to be at the forefront of the customer service revolution.
"Our global pure cloud contact centre and inside sales platform with its market-leading CRM integration capabilities is transforming the customer service experience and sales performance of organisations worldwide. Together with our market position, momentum, and a multi-billion dollar market opportunity, we are extremely well positioned as we look forward to continuing our growth trajectory while helping our global customer base grow their businesses with improved efficiency".
This scalability and agility, as well as adapting to the changing needs of consumers as they become more and more digital, and with a customer service culture at the heart of their business, NewVoiceMedia's success looks set to continue, and we wish them well.
NewVoiceMedia is a FinancialForce customer.


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Saturday, May 13, 2006
Another Tea Game
Here at TGS we've reported on several tea-themed online games, gizmos and assorted and sundry other ways to kill time. The latest comes to us from English tea merchant PG Tips.
Head on over to their Web site and give their online game, Super Virtual Mug Shot, a go. It's basic stuff - trying to sink a tea bag into a mug - but it's good for at least a little bit of time-wasting. Or you can download one of six games to play offline. Looks like it all has a soccer theme or, as they say over in that part of the world - football.
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The International Making Cities Livable Conferences, initiated in Venice in 1985, are the longest continuing Conferences on urban livability and well-being. They have been called "wonderful conferences, the best conferences on cities" by Charleston's Mayor, Joseph P. Riley Jr.
IMCL Conferences have taken place in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria; Venice and Siena, Italy; London, UK; Freiburg, Germany; Portland, OR, San Francisco, Santa Fe, St. Augustine and Charleston SC in the US; and other cities in Europe and the US with more than 8,000 representatives from cities around the world.
The IMCL Conferences bring together city officials, practitioners and scholars in architecture, urban design, planning and urban affairs, health and social sciences and the arts, from around the world to share experience and ideas.
These unique Conferences recognize the interdependence of the human and built environment of the city. They show how all city-making decisions affect quality of life, and recommend policies (in planning, land use, urban design, architecture, urban space design and transportation planning) that promote well-being.
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… that the results of the bone marrow biopsy I had last week have come back clear – I don't have Multiple Myeloma but will have to still have some radiation treatment around the area of the rib resection. Then they will keep monitoring me to make sure that the Plasmacytoma hasn't progressed to Multiple Myeloma but even it it does, that could be a few years down the track.
I also had a CT scan last week in another attempt to find out where the fallopian/ovarian cancer has returned as my CA125 levels are still steadily rising. The results of this came back clear too leaving the doctors more puzzled than ever. The only area they haven't scanned is the head/brain so I am now down to have one of these and only hope they don't find anything there either. On a lighter note, they probably won't find anything anyway!!! Think my brain ran away a long time ago!
All these tests and hospital visits lately are the main reason I haven't been blogging. Actually, I was feeling rather down and depressed at the thought of trying to cope with two cancers as I am finding it hard enough with one so now that at least one worry is lifted from me I am feeling a lot more positive.
I do have some cards and other news to share with you, but just wanted to let you know how relieved and thankful I am with my clear prognosis. I will post again in the next couple of days.


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Some of my faithful readers will remember earlier photos of the volunteer flower garden that has brightened the beginning of the Dale Ball here for months.
Well, it's gone.
The torrential rains of the past few days that broke our dreadful heat caused water from the adjacent parking lot to rush across the garden and carry away most of the plants an unnamed benefactress planted there a year ago.
Rains, so sorely needed in this parched desert, came too late and too roughly, eroding trails, washing out dirt roads, rolling huge boulders down the mountain sides and devastating croplands and gardens.
The garden will probably be planted again, if our benefactress, and the rest of us, have the courage and energy to start all over. But torrential rains are likely to wipe it out again.
Torrential rains are pouring across our political landscape these days, and sometimes seem about to erode all vision. I must admit that I, like many others, have a secret attraction to downpours, to displays of rage, even to the tantrums that are now appearing, regularly in the Tantrum Personified we see on television.
This is a dangerous attraction. It means I may discount serenity and call it too considered, too rational, and, inevitably, not dramatic, while the Tantrum Personified continues to claim my horrified attention.
I have to admit that I have always been attracted to the displays of temper I have seldom permitted myself to indulge in. The impulse, though, is always there, no matter how deeply buried, popping up now and then when I hear myself cursing at a driver for honking because I haven't accelerated fast enough through a green light, or when I look with fascination and compassion at an ancient snapshot of my little brother, at seven or so, a whirlwind of shrieking rage.
I also remember the odd fascination of my three infant sons' raging, so hard to soothe, at times, because what they wanted was not immediately available or, even worse, I didn't know what they wanted, since I had not taught them to communicate, pre-verbally, with sign language, as one of my grandsons learned to do. There was something so ruthless, so truthful, in those screams—perhaps echoing long suppressed screams of my own.
Tantrums, though, like the rough tearing surges of violent rain storms, destroy the terrain of the human soul. Water, the most essential of elements, can't nourish when it is delivered with such force. And the energy that propels displays of temper, and the failure of the dikes built to contain it, can only erode and wash away human consciousness and connection. In a country tormented by nearly daily displays of lethal violence, I must learn—we all must learn—to value and admire the discipline that comes only after, and through, long years of service, through learning, painfully, to deal with frustrations calmly and to accept compromise as an absolutely essential tool of good government. Faced with working with an intemperate Congress, only a nearly superhuman calm can prevail.
But I, and perhaps many others, are not much attracted by calm. Perhaps having never achieved it myself, I don't really know what it is—not passivity, not neutrality, but an imagination developed enough to understand, and accept, all the terrifying shades of human behavior, and to find ways to work with them. For they won't go away. We are in an intemperate time and, like the world-wide drought, floods and pestilence that also assail us, this intemperance may not go away any time soon, and may even find fuel in the desperate conditions we are going to have to learn to survive: "Apres moi, le deluge."
To cultivate my appreciation of temperance, I study the beautiful photo my sister Eleanor sent me recently of a manicurist taking care of her nails. This is a woman, we may be sure, who can't afford to engage in tantrums; she is dependent for her income on pleasing her customers, some of whom may be rude, off-hand or patronizing. Eleanor apologized for not remembering this manicurist's name, a problem we all share when dealing with those we may assume to be different. After all, the photo was taken some years ago,
I am also cultivating my appreciation of the hard work in extreme heat of the Flying X team that is working at Apache Mesa—my wild; this entails driving more than an hour every morning from Santa Fe and working for ten hour days in extreme heat on a high mesa where there is little shade, cutting trails, building a jeep road, continuing to rehabilitate the little house and its bathhouse, and now laying the floor of the 10′ x 12′ rock hut that will be our combined studio and tack room.
What if Bernie, who built my rough work table, threw his tools down in a fit of rebellion against the heat, the labor, the sweat?
Probably he would not do that, not because he doesn't feel the frustration, the fatigue and the endlessness of hard hand labor, but because he has learned control, and because he is devoted to El Jefe, his boss.
Our next leader—our El Jefe—has learned control by navigating the rough terrain of a complicated and difficult life devoted to service. This has always required calm, balance, detachment, the virtues of an arduously claimed adulthood, not the virtues of the wild man, or the wild woman, who commands our attention.
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Stephen was widely known for his expertise, dynamism, creative intellect, wisdom, leadership, sense of fun and commitment to good causes, and his friends and admirers have established the Stephen Lloyd Awards to preserve and perpetuate the memory, ideals and legacy of such an extraordinary man.
You can read Stephen's obituary in the Guardian here. You can read Stephen's obituary in the Independent here.
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Stephen was a passionate developer of new ideas, the Community Interest Company perhaps being his most enduring legacy and a typical example of him identifying a need, thinking around the problem, finding an innovative solution and driving through the required change.
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Japanese herbal medicines have been declared as effective against gastrointestinal symptoms based on a new study about the herbal effect on diseases like dyspepsia, constipation and post-operative ileus. There has been a gradual positive shift in people's outlook towards herbal and natural medicines and therapies in recent times. It has become a cliche that a disease which was previously declared incurable by a particular medical system shall be easily treated by another system. Now the Japanese researchers have tasted success in treating GI problems. Rikkunshi-to is a combination of 8 crude herbs that is proved effective against functional dyspepsia. A mixture named Dai-Kenchu-to is advocated for constipation and post-operative ileus. Consumption of hangeshasin-to can rescue persons suffering from diarrhea. Plant extracts form the backbone of several traditional and highly successful Indian medicinal systems like Siddha, Ayurveda and Unani. Many of these medical practices are devoid of any side-effect for the patient unlike the conventional drugs used in English medicine. So it is high time the western world takes notice of the Asian herbal values and work together towards the well-being of mankind. Herbal medicine may still not be potent enough to replace the fast action drugs but they can certainly augment English medicines and also cure many chemically incurable diseases.
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When Configuration Settings from Development Wreak Havoc in Production
As applications are promoted from the development environment to the CI or the QA environment and then into the production environment, it is very common for the configuration settings to be changed as the code is promoted. For example, the settings for the database connection pools are typically lower in development environment than the QA/Load Testing environment. The primary reason for the existence of the configuration setting differences is to enhance application performance. However, occasionally there are instances where the application code is mistakenly promoted into production without changing these settings. In such cases, such promotion of code can cause performance havoc in the production environment. This blog describes one such scenario.
During their proof of concept, a prospect requested we identify and resolve an issue that they were observing in the production environment. They had just promoted a newer version of their critical application to production and soon after the promotion of the code they stared to see significant increase in the response time when the end users tried to login to their web application. To diagnose the issue the prospect injected our agents into their production JVMs that were exhibiting the issue to the end user. With Dynatrace agents injected, we observed both high response time for login and that most of the time for the login request was spent in class loading.
Additionally, breakdown of the response time showed that most of the time for login web request was spent in synchronization (92%).
The response time breakdown of the login request clearly shows that 92% of the time is spent in synchronization.
With the response time breakdown showing the highest amount of time in synchronization we took a thread dump on the JVM where the login request was being processed to get insight into thread locking issue. The thread dump showed 67 threads that were blocked in the JVM.
67 Threads were blocked on the JVM.
Locking Hotspots view shows the breakdown of the blocked threads
Further analysis of the content of the thread dump showed that most of the blocked threads were waiting for the resource (CompoundClassLoader) held by one running thread (Thread Id 5570678).
Thread Id 5570678 owned the monitor on which the other threads were blocked.
CompoundClassLoader is held by Thread 5570678.
All blocked threads are waiting on CompoundClassLoader.
The thread stack trace for the running thread showed that it is trying to load the class from the file system. Examining the full trace of the thread dump shows that the threads on this JVM are creating a new facelet every time a web request is received.
getFacelet being called every time a request is processed by the thread.
While it is very normal for a JVM to spend some time to load classes when the JVM is initially started, it is NOT normal (or good for performance) for the class loading to continue even after the JVM has warmed up and most of the classes are already loaded.
The thread stack showed call to getFacelet(java.util.URL) method in the com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory class. Review of the source of this class showed that the method tries to load the class if the method needsToBeRefreshed() returns true.
Code snippet of com.sun.facelets.impl.DefaultFaceletFactory class.
And finally the code for needsToBeRefreshed() clearly shows that it returns true if the refreshPeriod is set to 0.
needsToBeRefreshed() method shows that if the refresh period is set to 0, the class is refreshed every time.
The Facelets are capable of precompiling if you set javax.faces.FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD to -1. However, once set to -1, the JSF never re-compile/re-parses the Facelets files and holds the entire SAX-compiled/parsed XML tree.
In the development process the REFRESH_PERIOD is typically set to 0 because it allows the developers to keep editing the Facelets file without the need to restart the server. What happened at this prospect is that the application code was promoted into production with the REFRESH_PERIOD is to 0 value and hence every time the user tried to login, the Facelets were forced to recompile and that in turn resulted in high response time.
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Day 70: CORFU Discovering the mysterious dog 'sanctuary'
Nov 14th
I stood on the bed of our Greek apartment in my boxer shorts, held my iphone against my chest with one hand and with the other attempted to put on a long sleeved shirt. Ann, who was eating a very large necatarine at the time, looked at me with bemusement
'What are you doing?' she asked.
'Trying to see myself in the mirror'
'You look weird'
' I look perfectly normal'. This wasn't entirely true. I put a bit of tape against the iphone and put the rest of the shirt on. 'Can you see it?' I asked
'The iphone that lights up your chest?'
'You knew it was there already!'
My undercover camera trick wasn't working. I could read the time on the lit up screen projecting through my shirt. I looked like a cross between E.T. and a weird Mac commercial.
'Try holding it in your hand, down by your side' she said.
I walked around the bed and took the iphone in my hand and put the camera on record. I played back the video. I watched a thigh shaking up and down.
'Oh crap'
Meeting my source
I met my man by the side of the road in the bright afternoon. He sat waiting for me in a small Golf parked under an overhanging parched tree. He was a contact through a contact through a contact, originally from Sweden but had lived in Corfu many years and about ten years ago he had broken into the dog sanctuary that resides ominously in the centre of Corfu and has a reputation for keeping dogs in poor conditions. He took away some dogs and gave them a good life. He was calm, elegant, smart and probably possessed a fine collection of – not what you'd think from someone that climbs over fences.
'I don't know exactly where it is anymore but I can try and recount my route' he said as we drove down a dusty track through shrubland .'In those days it was easy to break in,' he continued, ' just a ladder at night over the fence. Now they have guards at night. But the place was awful – rats everywhere, sick puppies, poor drinking water'
The dust billowed up either side of the car.
'Look out for bones, that can be a clue, bones of dead dogs'
Mad barking
After about 30 minutes of driving he stopped. 'Do you hear that?' he said. In the distance a cacophony of barking and howling. A few minutes more and we were there, the sound was violent
'Keep driving' I said, 'go past it so I can get a view'. We drove alongside a huge rambling construction of old fencing and wire with dogs of all sizes barking and running up against the fences. It resembled some sort of refugee camp. Inside I could see some makeshift huts with metal bowls outside them. Then I caught sight of the stooped figure of an old woman dressed in black with her back turned to me. It was like a hot dusty fairy tale scene.
'OK, let me get out of the car'
I took my iphone in my hand, pressed record and approached the old woman who was on the other side of the fence. She was so bent it was hard for her to look up. I tried to not film my thigh.
'I'm wondering if I can buy a dog' I said above the clamour and howling. She looked at me confused. 'I'm from England…I'D… LIKE…TO… BUY… A… DOG'
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I love what you are doing and the way you are doing it. I am dep editor of Hotshoe mag and run the Hotshoe Blog. I just posted on your dog series and mentioned the book signing.
If there is anything that I can do to help with your Mission (im)Possible – do let me know. I thought that you may like to know that cats in Rome have a special status – see Gatti di Roma (Cats of Rome) http://www.romecentral.com/article_list_singleeventpage.php?id=89&title=Gatti%20di%20Roma%20%28Cats%20of%20Rome%29
and there's an adopt a stray dog in Pompeii (C)ave Canine Project http://www.icanidipompei.it.
Hi Miranda
thanks for the support. It does feel a bit like mission impossible! I never quite know what I am doing….Although I am just off to India to work for three weeks with stray dogs so hope I can make some difference there. Thanks also for mentioning the dogs in cars on the blog. Let me know if you woudl like a review copy.
Stay in touch, both via animals and art!!


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The UK's workforce is rapidly becoming greyer as more than one million employees are aged 65 or older, according to Saga.
The over-50s specialist group, which commissioned the Centre for Economics and Business Research to analyse official data, found that the number of those aged 65 and over rose from 800,000 in the three months from May 2010 to 1.091 million over April– June 2014.
The company said that the 36.4% rise (or 291,000 employee increase) was a "very pronounced rise".
"Thanks in part to the abolition of the default retirement age, many more older people are able to continue in work for as long as they choose to do so, rather than at the whim of their employer," said Paul Green, Saga's director of communications.
"This has led to a pronounced rise of more than 36% in the number of over 65s in work."
The research also revealed that the number of workers who are 50 or older has been rising steadily.
At the start of the current Parliament in May 2010 some 8.089 million UK workers were 50 or older.
But, contrary to some commentators' claims, Saga stressed that employment is not a zero-sum game and its research found that the over 50s have not been squeezing young people out of the job market.
The number of employed over 50s is far lower than the number of employed 16-49-year-olds.
For example, over April– June 2014, there were 7.943 million employed 50-64-year-olds, against 7.689 million one year earlier.
This compares to 21.563 million employed 16-49-year-olds over April– June 2014, compared to 21.078 million over the same period in 2013.
In addition, the study found that the economic activity rate amongst 50-64-year-olds is now similar to that of 18-24-year-olds.
More than seven-in-ten (71.4%) of 50-64-year-olds were economically active over the three months to June 2014.
This was just above the 71.0% economic activity rate of people aged 18-24, according to the report.


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Content is King – Bill Gates 1996
Dealing with business online changes the rules of marketing. When marketing offline you are taking the business and brand to the client. Telling them how wonderful your product of service is. Telling them how much more fulfilled their life will be when they have it or use it.
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