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Coast to Coast for Kids
Organized by: Aprylle Gilbert
Aprylle Gilbert via Crowdrise
September 13, 2015
My name is Aprylle Gilbert. I am an endurance runner and author of three albums of music and an autobiography entitled Good Enough for Myself (2013), about the crazy mishaps which led me to where I am today. I am also the mother of two beautiful and successful young ladies ages 19 & 22. Because I was a teenage run-away, I want to help kids develop self esteem and get a better start in life than I did. I experienced many difficult challenges throughout my life which have taught me that life-building skills need to be developed in early childhood in order for kids to become confident, successful adults.
"Coast to Coast for Kids" is a transcontinental fund raising campaign dedicated to benefiting low income kids. All funds raised are tax deductible and go directly to Washington United Youth Center, a program providing support, mentoring and programming for disadvantaged kids in San Jose. The Center is located in one of San Jose's highest crime neighborhoods. Funding will help youth have a safe space. The wish list of the center includes funding to open longer hours to neighborhood kids on a daily basis. They would also like to add academic support, a music studio, and health and fitness activities such as a running club. It is my goal to provide funding for these activities along with training, athletic gear for the kids, and group outings to the many beautiful bay area trails, parks and open spaces. These motivating and inspiring activities will get the kids away from the city, off the streets, and give them a fresh perspective".
Beginning May 11, 2015, I intend to begin a transcontinental journey running from town to town across the United States along US Route 6. My goal is to run 30-50 miles per day to raise money for disadvantaged kids. As a reward for sponsoring my run, donors will receive gifts of my CD's and my book which I will donate 100% to the campaign. I also plan to raise awareness for the campaign by reaching out to communities along the way and inviting them to join the movement and run with me.
By raising money and awareness for Washington United Youth Center, I will be contributing to youth advocacy in my own community while helping to build confidence, self esteem, and leadership skills in our youth. At the same time I will be fulfilling a goal of my own: a dream of running from coast to coast. I am hoping my run will develop connections and build a network for community activism. I want to encourage young people to make health and fitness a priority and inspire them to dream big.
Fundraise for this Campaign
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Donor Comments
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Paul Ostrowski
You can do it. One step at a time... thank you for doing this for the kids. 4 years ago
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Dance Training and Career
무용 교육의 배경 / 일본에서의 무용 경력과 활동
Sunhee Park began training in Korean traditional dance at age 7, becoming a member of The Little Angels, touring throughout Asia. She progressed to join the Universal Ballet Company studying at Sunwha Art School, and graduated from ChungAng University majoring in ballet.
In 1991 she moved to Tokyo and completed an MA in Dance and Movement in 1993 at Ochanomizu University. For the next seven years she taught traditional Korean and contemporary dance for 7 years at a wide range of schools in the region of Tokyo as a freelance dance instructor.
During this period she performed at a wide range of Asian dance and cultural festivals in and around Tokyo, including: the Performance for friendship between Japan and Korea (Nakano Zero Hall in Tokyo Japan) in 1994; the Asian Dance Festival ( Kanakawaken music Hall) 1995; the Traditional Culture Exchange between Japan and Korea (Shinzuku Asahi Semei Hall in Japan) 1996; the Assembly of Asia Cultural Exchange (Nakano Zero Hall in Japan ) 1997; the International Culture Exchange (International Forum big Hall in Japan) 1998; and The Northeast Asia Music Festival (Kan Hall of Mountain Park in Japan) 1998.
Research Training in Shamanism
샤머니즘 연구
Sunhee Park's interest in the dance practice of the Korean Shaman began with a clinical study of Shamanistic Trance Dance for her MA dissertation, and was followed by a Ph.D in Anthropology focused on The Psychology of Shamanistic Trance States, completed in 1998.
She has since lectured internationally on a variety of topics pertaining to the psychology of shamanistic practice, and has published a wide range of acclaimed research papers on the psychology of shamanistic trance, including: The Holistic Spirit and Treatment of Korean Shamans, Ethnic Art, Vol.17, 2001; and Trance States and Physical Expression of the Korean Shaman. "Dance and Physical Expression"; Japan Academic Congress library (series 10), Foundation of Japan Academic Cooperation, 2005.
At present in the UK
영국에서의 활동
Sunhee Park's interest in the psychological healing potential through the medium of dance has brought her to London to pursue a Masters in Dance Movement Therapy at Roehampton University. She is beginning to establish a traditional Korean dance performance and teaching practice in the UK, and is currently working on a contemporary choreography integrating shamanistic dance techniques with traditional Korean dance practices.

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When it comes time to sell, buy, or renovate your heritage home, you need the right information to make wise decisions. For over 10 years Halyna Tataryn has helped heritage home owners find the right new owner and caretaker for their treasured properties. Dedicated to homes, she holds a Masters in Vernacular Architecture, with a minor in conservation from Oxford Brookes University.
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Some dog owners like to give their pet snacks and treats to help in training, and some just to show their love for their dog. Too many treats of the wrong kind can upset a dog's natural dietary inclination towards high protein foods like neat and direct them increasingly towards an unhealthy diet that's high in carbohydrate.
An unhealthy diet and lack of sufficient exercise conspire to make a dog overweight with the same kind of health risk that overweight humans run. These risks include furring up of arteries leading to heart trouble, diabetes, joint and ligament problems, and premature death. If you over feed your dog with the wrong kind of food you will certainly shorten its life span and make its latter years miserable.
Dogs, like humans need a balanced diet with plenty of protein for growth and maintaining muscle mass, and also vitamins and fibre. They get energy from both fat and carbohydrate in their diet, although can even convert protein into energy if required. A healthy dog, like a healthy human, should have a diet as natural as possible with a minimum of processed food.
For the sake of convenience and practicability, it may not be possible to feed your dog on 100% home cooked food of course, but there are plenty of good quality dried foods that are available that can be mixed with meat to provide the right diet. Relying on canned dog foods is not a good idea because they often bulked out with too much carbohydrate, or are made from the lowest quality meat sources including animal organs.
If your dog is all ready overweight then you need to instigate a plan to gradually alter its diet to make it less reliant on carbohydrate and more protein rich, coupled with a gradual increase in the amount of daily exercise. Special weight reduction dried foods are a little more expensive than the ordinary but are higher in nutrition and lower in calories, so are worth the investment. A good idea is to cover kibble for ten minutes with hot water before serving, as this causes the food to swell and makes the dog feel fuller and be less likely to overeat.
In -between meal snacks should be curtailed as much as possible, and should be protein, not carbohydrate based. Do not allow your dog scraps from the table or any human junk foods like biscuits or cakes, as these are a sure way to put weight on your dog. It is a good idea to feed your dog first before sitting down to dinner yourself, as that will help minimise begging at the table.
Exercising your dog more can be fun and shouldn't be seen as a chore, although as a pet owner from choice, you do have the responsibility to see that your dog gets enough exercise. Provided you have a nearby open space, a medium or large dog can run up and down to fetch a ball or stick, a pastime that most dogs love. Some owners will jog with their dog, reaping the benefits of exercise for themselves as well. Unfortunately many people, when thinking of getting a dog, underestimate the amount of exercise that they need. If you doubt that you can walk or run a couple of miles a day, it is better to go for a smaller breed of dog that you can cope with.
It is all too easy to "kill with kindness" if you are a dog owner, but by sticking to a sensible healthy diet, and giving your dog the daily exercise it needs you will be rewarded with a fit animal that you can be proud to be seen with, and you will be giving it the quality of life that it deserves.
The author is a dog owner who wants to improve the lot of dogs generally. There is much more information about weight loss and nutrition for dogs at http://weightlossfordogs.blogspot.com


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Nokia 7070 Prism
This cell phone features a diamond pattern design all over its body, which looks very elegant. The keypad of the phone is quite stylish featuring triangle shaped keys - pretty intriguing for a Valentine's Day present. Probably the most important feature of the Nokia 7900 Prism (especially during tough economic period the world is currently facing) is its price - the model only costs .95. Nokia 7900 Prism is available in black/pink or black/blue. There's no doubt that it would be uneasy to find a fashionable cell phone with such a price.
Playboy camera phone represents a slim unlocked GSM phone that features a somewhat standard feature set. The most important aspect of this device is its metal finishing. The phone is available in metallic pink, gold, or platinum featuring etched-in Playboy design. The Playboy cell phone comes with a stereo headset with remote control, small leather bag, as well as a Playboy bunny charm. This fashionable Valentine's Day present will cost you 9.
Samsung F480 Rockstar and La Fleur
Samsung recently presented its two makeovers of the F480: one of them being the P!nk-inspired Rockstar model and the other one the flora-inspired La Fleur, the price of which is yet unknown. The Rockstar cell phone comes with a 1GB memory card and its price is 0 - it is certainly not cheap and you would probably be thinking about purchasing two iPhones, one for you and the other for your significant other, and save the rest of the money for one model to one of your kids, but remember that the external chic is what catches a woman's eye.
Nokia 5630 XpressMusic
This model is really slim, which is very good. In fact the Nokia 5630 is 12mm thin. The gadget can hold up to 3,000 songs with the help of a 4GB microSD memory card, which comes with the box. Among the features of the cell phone there is a stereo Bluetooth, FM stereo and Internet radio. All these features make this Nokia 5630 a great Valentine's Day present for your lady. The phone represents a complete S60 gadget that has fast HSDPA connectivity, which means that it has the ability to load apps and exploit a lot of Internet services, including widgets Ovi Share and Nokia Messaging. Nokia 5630 also includes a 3.2 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash as well as a 4x zoom. It can even record video that can be shared online through Flickr.
Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot
This beautiful model features a 5 megapixel autofocus camera, which includes a sliding lens cover. The camera on this cell phone has a face detection technology along with Smile Shutter, which automatically snaps the shutter after it identifies a happy face. Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot has a 2.4-inch display and a slot for Memory Stick Micro (M2) and don't forget that it is also a fashionable cell phone.


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Turns out my first post didn't post! Take two!
I've been crafting little nick nacks and things because I'm interested in selling at a market! I've made bottled nebulas and the aforementioned candle cups!
The nebulas are pretty cool and easy to make. The candles took a bit more work 😅


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Megawebsales is a digital marketing agency founded in 2005. We are passionate about Social Media, SEO, PPC Management.
We have the best creative & analytical talent in the world, incredible connections with social media influencers, and more. In pursuance of customer satisfaction to our numerous clients; we are currently hiring candidates for the following positions:
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As a Content Writer you will be writing Online Content, writing actionable, client-facing content websites. The writer manages the content review process and ensures Compliance approval for assigned projects. The writer reports to the Manager, Online Content Editor.
- Write and edit client-facing copy for clarity, accuracy, consistency, grammar, style and tone, while simultaneously meeting web usability standards, corporate guidelines, and brand image.
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Sam was born with microtia — a deformation of the external ear — and a unilateral hearing loss.
He uses a bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) that vibrates sound through his skull and cochlea to his inner ear.
Sam could have started kindergarten this year — he turns five next month — but the Koschels decided to give him an extra year of preschool to develop his speech, language and social skills.
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FINA has been doing its thing again, and has issued a new set of rules.
The only significant thing (probably) is that in back stroke, the swimmer cannot duck entirely under water to finish – some part of he body must be above water. I have already heard informal discussions of this suggesting that race judges may be looking to penalise anyone dipping on eh finish. Of course what will happen remains to be seen, but that is not what the rule says or requires.
There are two kinds of finish which might be considered. First is the dip on the finish. This can be just a long reach for the wall with the leading hand. The hand goes under and the head goes under. The second is a much exaggerated dip which seeks to take advantage of the fact that you can be faster if completely underwater swimming with a dolphin kick. Backstrokers do not the same breathing issues as suffered by other swimmers during their standard stroke, and it may therefore be a greater temptation to make the most of not being in significant oxygen debt by dipping early and fully.
The first should be fine, the second has been outlawed.
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Citrix acquires Cloud.com- will it be enough?
Citrix will acquire platform startup Cloud.com to bolster its private cloud product line.
Cloud.com is a three year old software startup that makes a cloud computing platform: management and messaging software to turn a commodity hardware stack of servers and virtualization into a cloud platform, like Amazon Web Services. Citrix will be integrating Cloud.com into its cloud product lineup, which is basically VDI, GoToWhatever and unicorn snot at the moment.
The Cupertino-based ex-startup is one of the more mature cloud platform gambits, like Eucalyptus. It was already a Citrix partner and has a string of decent names in its badge collection; online game giant Zygna is a customer, currently in the process of building out it's own personal cloud after living on AWS for some time; it's using Cloud.com's CloudStack in both cases, a telling example of the software's versatility.
The deal is a nice exit for Cloud.com, founded by virtualization veteran Sheng Liang; it was rapidly able to collect and deliver on big customers and apparently the platform is solid, technologically. But it's a bigger deal for Citrix, which has been, if not exactly sinking under the waves, not making a great deal of progress.
Now it has a valid, honest to goodness cloud stack to offer users that's compatible to a T with Citrix's Xen hypervisor and the crowd-pleasing OpenStack project. Cloud.com has said it is merging its code base for CloudStack with OpenStack, so Cirtix gets a double whammy with this buy. This won't rock the cloud boat all that much; mostly it means Citrix isn't doomed to being adonut spare fifth wheel on the HP, IBM, Microsoft and EMC/Cisco/VMware cloud wagon.
vFabric Hyperic plugin surfaces for Cloud Foundry
A new plugin has been developed that connects part of VMware's vFabric middleware to its Cloud Foundry Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering, according to a post last week on the SpringSource Hyperic blog.
vFabric Hyperic, which monitors performance in custom Web applications, can now be integrated through the plugin into Cloud Foundry's VMC command-line interface to monitor applications running on the PaaS platform. Features include auto-discovery, event tracking and metrics collection on Cloud Foundry system and account usage, as well as Cloud Foundry provisioned services. The new integration will also allow for starting, stopping and restarting Cloud Foundry applications, updating reserved memory, and scaling up or down by one application instance to meet performance demands.
Meanwhile, Hyperic is just one part of vFabric; other components include the Apache Tomcat-based tc Server; RabbitMQ messaging; GemFire distributed data management; and the vFabric Enterprise Ready Server for Web server load balancing. There have been hints from VMware that RabbitMQ will also make its way onto the Cloud Foundry platform — the Hyperic blog post refers to RabbitMQ, "once available," as a provisioned service the Hyperic plugin will be able to manage.
But there have been hints about RabbitMQ since the launch of Cloud Foundry, and actual integration has yet to see the light of day. GemFire is another application that could lend itself to cloud-based deployment and development, and broadly, VMware says it would be the 'natural evolution' for such offerings to become services offered on the Cloud Foundry platform. But the devil's in the details, and a detailed strategy for integration between the overall vFabric and Cloud Foundry platforms has yet to be publicly voiced by VMware.
Instead, with the latest release of vFabric, version 5, VMware deepened integration between vFabric and the vSphere hypervisor, rather than with Cloud Foundry — users can now change the 'identity' of VMs running different components of vFabric within a given block of vSphere licenses according to demand, and vSphere's dynamic memory feature has been added to tc Server.
In the spirit of true open source, which Cloud Foundry aims to be, it would be helpful if VMware published a roadmap for integration plans, which would give confidence to developers interested in using the platform. Instead, as it stands today, Cloud Foundry has an experimental air –- in Paul Maritz's words at the Structure conference last month, it's a "calculated risk" at this point — and VMware could at least theoretically pull the plug on it at any time.
OpSource exit shows the power of the platform
OpSource has been bought by ICT and IT services giant Dimension Data. This tells us several important things about the cloud computing market when we look at some of the details. It's mostly positive unless you're a private cloud cultist or one of the vendor giants enabling private cloud cargo cults in various areas of IT.
OpSource likely made out here, too; Informa analyst Camille Mendler said NTT, which now owns Dimension Data and was a 5% equity investor in OpSource, is well known for piling up money to get what it wants. "NTT was an early investor in OpSource years ago. They always pay top dollar (see DiData price, which turned off other suitors)" Mendler said in a message.
Mendler also pointed out the real significance of the buy: the largest providers are moving to consildate their delivery arms and their channel around cloud products, becuase that's where the action is right now. Amazon Web Services is an outlier; private cloud in the enterprise is in its infancy; but service providers in every area are in a wholesale migration into and delivering cloud computing environments. OpSource already runs in some NTT data center floor space; DiData has a massive SP/MSP customer base and it's OpSource's true strength as well.
DiData is already actively engaged with customers that are doing cloudy stuff, said Mendler, and they basically threw up their hands and bought out the best provider focused cloud platform and service provider they could find. "There's a white label angle, not just enterprise" she said.
And it's not the only deal for cloud for providers, by NTT either: It bought controlling interest in an Australian MSP with a cloud platform in May. gathering in OpSource means NTT have a stake in most of the world in a fairly serious fashion when it comes to the next wave of public and hosted cloud providers.
What else?
Well, DiData is a huge firm in IT services. They have all the expertise and software they'd ever need, but instead of developing a platform or an IaaS to sell to customers, they bought one outright and are starting up a cloud services business unit to sell it pretty much as is. That means, as has been pointed out so many times before, building a cloud is hard work, and quite distinct from well understood data center architectures around virtualization and automation as we used to know them.
It also means there was a pressing need for a functioning cloud business today, or more likely yesterday. "Essentially, what Dimension has said is 'nothing changes with OpSource'" said OpSouce CTO John Rowell.
Rowell's a bit giddy; he said with access to DiData's partnerships and customers, OpSource gets a fast track to global infrastructure growth in a way it couldn't before. "We believe we can go head to head with Amazon and we'll be better than them," he said. He might not be far off, at least in the MSP sector; OpSource does have a few pieces of the puzzle AWS doesn't, like a working support system, mature networking (mature networking features in the cloud=hosting circa 1999) and a very slick interface that is pig easy to use or extend.
Overall though, it tells us the real action is behind the scenes for enterprise IT- cloud computing is on fire in the service world; it's still mostly smoke in the enterprise world.
What the heck is Office 365?
Office 365 is live. Read the fluff here, or watch videos all day of Microsoft SMB customers. But what exactly is Office 365? Let us hove to established tradition for "WTF is this thing" stories and start with what it is NOT:
Office 365 is not Microsoft Office software. Not Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook. If you do not have those things, signing up for Office 365 will not get them for you (you can buy them at the same time you sign up, however).
It is not compatible with Microsoft Office 2003. You need to be on Office 2007 or better, because Office 365 needs Office "Open" XML (OOXML) to do most of the neato-burrito online stuff. The Microsoft how-to's (LGT to the guide for enterprise) say it will pretty much work with MSO07 or MSO10, but you will need MSO10 Professional Plus to use all the Office 365 features.
It is not an Exchange Server, a Communications (now Lync) Server or SharePoint server. It is also not like anything you would consider a hosted Exchange server, nor is it an online email/app suite like Gmail or Zoho. It is not an browser-based online service.
It is not cross platform. This is for Windows and Internet Explorer. It lives on ActiveX and Silverlight.
It is not anything whatsoever to do with mobile devices or mobile apps, except for delivering Exchange mail and using SharePoint Mobile (one of those things is very useful, the other one is SharePoint Mobile)
It is not Google Docs.
It is definitely not iCloud.
What it is:
Office 365 is a replacement for your Exchange and Sharepoint servers that comes as a monthly subscription service from Microsoft, and it is an add-on software pack to your Office installation. It also runs Communications Server (now Lync) as a service, but I'm not sure anyone's ever actually used Lync. It's not like hosted versions of these products, nor is it like running them yourself- Microsoft does 100% of the admin and you get zero access except to an identity and management layer for adding and managing users and mailboxes to some extent. This is the cloud computing part of Office 365. It is better known as BPOS.
Inboxes are 25 GB and message size limits are 25 MB, the signal benefit here is that you will only intensely annoy the recipients of your 25 MB emails and no longer your IT admin as well. Admins everywhere are chuckling in anticipated schadenfreude at the thought of Microsoft operators trying to unstick Exchange queues full of 25 MB attachments going to 25 GB mailboxes instead of them.
Office 365 lets you send email from yourdomain.com and not you.microsoft.com; it supposedly will do single sign-on if you let it sync with your AD. It requires Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, so Windows 2003 Server support is out the window for that feature.
It DOES NOT integrate any further than syncing users, addresses and the Global Address List. You CANNOT UNSYNC your AD, and it is in no way shape or form a tool for managing ADs. You'll still do all user management from your domain server and you'll manage Office 365 users on Office 365, unless you migrate completely to Office 365 and stop using local directory services (because all you use your ADs for is email, RIGHT?) Microsoft says you can do a standard cut-over or partial migration if you want to stick your entire email infrastructure in the Microsoft cloud.
The add-on part is a download called the "Office desktop setup." Run it on each machine that will use Office 365 after installing Office 2007 or 2010. Once you've done that and set up your users, they can use Office WebApps to edit and share .doc files from their PC in a browser. Apparently it's not too hot on mobile devices, though.
That's what Office 365 is, in sum. Is it a Gmail/Google Apps killer? Not at any entry point that is not equal to "free," it's not. Its also clearly not set up to be used the same way. Where's SkyDrive, by the way? Where's the cross-browser support?
Is it pretty cool and does neat stuff, like real-time collabo on documents and websites with multiple editors (no more email chains of these: "pls rvw chnges and snd back asap thx attached" hooray!) Sure. and like it or lump it, the world pretty much runs on Office.
But will it upheave the Office desktop landscape? Not even a little bit.
The FBI is coming to get your cloud (or not)
Hooray! Another "public cloud is ridiculously dangerous and will eat your babies" news item. Or not. Maybe both. Don't worry but lock up your babies, is more or less what I'm saying. Lets break it out.
In conjunction with the LulzSec raids on the Web farms of the body politic, the FBI seized servers in Virginia. This, of course, knocked out a number of perfectly innocent websites and services that were on the same servers as whatever the FBI was after.
This has happened before. In 2009, minor hoster Core IP was raided by the FBI and dozens of the company's customers were suddenly high and dry. The FBI took servers willy-nilly, not caring who or what was hosted on them.
The end of the story is this: Core IP was, among others, implicated in widespread telecom fraud and probably dirty. All the innocent customers who hosted in good faith? SOL, according to the FBI. Whether they knew about it or not, if they partook of a service that was used in conjunction with criminal activities, they were on the hook.
That's a bit bizarre to anyone even slightly familiar with technology who understands how multitenancy works and does not believe in guilt by association, but it has real world parallels — a distribution center being used for smuggling gets shut down even if legitimate goods are going through and everyone suffers.
But it does seem particularly awful in the virtual world, since incriminating data can so easily be identified and passed to authorities without burning the entire operation to the ground. It's just so stupidly, pointlessly destructive that it makes the nerd in us grind our teeth in frustration.
Anyway, it's either spite, pre-trial collective punishment or willful ignorance by the FBI, but two's enough for a trend. The implications for cloud computing are clear, since they are almost by definition multitenant environments; host in public and you are at terrible risk from naughty neighbors. The whole thing can blow up in your face overnight, and then the FBI has all your junk. Therefore, private cloud is way to go, right?
Wrong. "Do not host with small-time operators" is the lesson here. Until the day the FBI marches out of Equinix trundling a rack or two or Amazon's gear, I will not believe that this risk will ever touch service providers over a certain scale. The limit on that scale is an in-house legal department (or a law firm on retainer), if I'm not very much mistaken.
Much for the same reason they don't sent SWAT teams to rich people's houses, the FBI does not flash into Google or Microsoft or Amazon data centers and start kicking things over. They engage in protracted, legally sanctioned and highly specific co-operation with those providers, because the FBI does not want to dragged into court and possibly curtailed in its ability to abuse those without the legal resources.
When the feds need data or user information or evidence from MS/Google/etc, you can be sure that it is an employee of one of those providers handing it over to them. Hey, it's plainly stated in most web services and cloud providers SLAs — "We fully co-operate with legal investigations" or something.
So don't worry about this happening to you if you use Amazon Web Services or Rackspace Cloud. Worry about encrypting your data. And this certainly doesn't do a thing to change the current calculus on on enterprise data security and the cloud (which is "MONGO SAY CLOUD BAAAAD!!!").
Or instead, worry about what your lemur-brained development crew is doing on Amazon's cloud. There we find a rich source of security delights, from crappy apps running in public to this little gem: The pool of publicly available, user created Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) is riddled with highly insecure, vulnerable virtual machine images, according to new research from Darmstadt Research Center for Advanced Security (CASED) in Germany.
Out of 1100 user created AMIs they tested, 30% were vulnerable to compromise right from launch. Don't you feel better now?
LexisNexis throws hat in big data ring
Premier data analysis and records search firm LexisNexis has dropped a large rock into the next generation database pond: it's releasing the core of its own data management and search technology as an open source software (dual license: free/community edition and paid-for pro edition).
HPCC Systems is three major components, according to Armondo Escalante, CTO at LexisNexis. The data processing engine ("Thor") that organizes and stores the data is a massively multiparallel batch processing server written in C++ that runs on Linux and commodity x86 servers.
"That gives it a big advantage at run time," said Escalante, over Hadoop, the open source offshoot of Google's MapReduce platform written in Java. Escalante claims Thor is four times faster than Hadoop when running certain queries. It functions much as Hadoop does; it's a distributed file system that requires several nodes and runs inquiries in as many parallel jobs as possible.
"Roxie" is the data delivery engine; Escalante says it, like Thor, is a clustered architecture running on Linux, for delivering transactions. Point your front end at it and connect with SOAP or JSON to interact. The third element is the interface language used to control these engines, call ECL.
Escalante says that there is no practical limit to how many nodes or how much data these tools can scale to, which makes sense; this kind of architecture is familiar territory for grid and HPC users doing massive data processing jobs. This is not for processing math problems and crunching datasets, however- it is for long term storage and access to a dynamic pool of unstructured data in very large amounts; amounts that would seem utterly ludicrous when LexisNexis began building out this platform a decade ago.
"Ten years ago we were doing big data. 18 terabytes online serving to our customers," said Escalante. "Ten years ago that was big data. Not so much now." Today firms like Google, LexisNexis and Microsoft casually talk about storing petabytes of data and the need to sort through it all. Large enterprises are also sitting on exponentially expanding stores of business data even if they aren't in the Information game or the online ad business.
Escalante says LexisNexis' motivation for this was twofold: one, was the desire to get free innovation from the scientific and database communities that have a need for operations on this scale and the other was to tap into the trend for data management at very large scale and with unstructured data stores. "Three years ago we started going to the Hadoop conferences and said finally someone's talking about this, and we've seen the growth [and] we believe our software is superior," he said.
That's not an absurd claim; While not the household word that Google is, LexisNexis is the leading research and data location service in the world, and stores and searches truly vast empires of publications and data, including sources deliberately not able to be searched by Google and data stores that Google doesn't bother to make available. LexisNexis is a serious research tool with serious performance and charges a pretty penny for the privilege too. Google makes its search results available for free because it sells ads around them, although both firms derive their value from correctly linking disparate kinds of data together.
Google is also famously secretive; whatever it's using for MapReduce is years ahead of Hadoop. LexisNexis, also justly famous for tight lips, claims that the open source HPCC will be developed just as its internal platform develops. The pro edition gets you LexisNexis' other managment tools it has developed around HPCC and support. Escalante said the original driver of HPCC was to get out from under the thumb of Oracle and other "shrink-wrap" software vendors, since the amount of money LexisNexis would have to pay to run their business on Oracle would probably buy Larry Ellison another couple of yachts. He said traditional relational databases could certainly get the job done for big data but the back pocket pain was extreme.
"You can buy 100, 200 big Oracle systems and maybe do it but it'll cost you a fortune," he said. Now LexisNexis thinks enterprises will look seriously at HPCC as an alternative to more Oracle in their data center, although Escalante admits it's going to be a tough sell, since enterprise are always interested in stuff that works and never interested in being someone's science project.
Maybe having a legitimate information management firm backing HPCC Systems will make it easier to get in the door; maybe not. MySQL, another free database got some entry to the enterprise when backed by a commercial firm, but MySQL mostly took off on the web where there was a hole to be filled. IBM and Oracle didn't exactly go down in flames because another free database showed up; they're probably not quaking in their boots now, either.
This also means LexisNexis has decided that their infrastructure technology has minimal value to them as a trade secret (and they aren't shy when it comes to revenue grabs, believe me) and more value to them as a service business, which is in its own way an interesting reflection on the cloud computing trends of today. It will also, of course, run on Amazon Web Services, and Escalante said there are plans to run HPCC as an online, pay-as-you-go data processing service at some point.
Will it be a "Hadoop killer"? Probably not, open source doesn't work that way. Will it turn you into Google over night? Probably not, but it's nice to see another legit contender join the fray and the possibilities are only positive for anyone dealing with large amounts of data and a bent towards experimenting.
A DNA sequencer can generate a terabyte of raw data a day. Currently there's no good way to deal with that data except to crunch it, look at the results and put it away. What if you could keep that data alive and do as many searches in as many ways as you like on it, on the same server hardware you've already got?
Cloud outage roundup!
It's been a rough patch for cloud computing in the "perceptions of reliability" department. Gremlins working overtime caused EBS to fail at Amazon, taking down a bunch of social media sites, among others. Naturally, that got a lot of attention, much as throwing an alarm clock down a wind tunnel will make a disproportionate amount of noise.
As the dust was settling and the IT media echo chamber was polishing off the federally mandated outrage/contrarian outrage quota for all kerfuffles involving Anything 2.0, more outages struck, including a Blogger outage that no one in IT really cared about, although this reporter was outraged that it temporarily spiked a favorite blog.
While nobody was caring about Blogger, Microsoft's hosted (cloud) Exchange and collaboration platform, Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS, now a part of Office 365) went down, which people in IT most assuredly did care about. Especially, as many of the forum posters said, if they had recently either been sold or sold their organization on "Microsoft cloud" as a preferable option to in-house Exchange.
"I've been with Microsoft online for two weeks now, two outages in that time and the boss looks at me like I'm a dolt. I was THIS close to signing with Intermedia," said one poster. That's the money quote for me; Intermedia is a very large hosted Exchange provider and this (probably) guy was torn between hosted Exchange and BPOS. Now he feels like he might have picked wrong: notice he didn't discuss the possibility of installing on-prem Exchange, just two service options.
Microsoft posted a fairly good postmortem on the outage in record time, apparently taking heed from the vicious pillorying AWS got for its lack of communication (AWS' postmortem was also very good, just many days after the fact):
"Exchange service experienced an issue with one of the hub components due to malformed email traffic on the service. Exchange has the built-in capability to handle such traffic, but encountered an obscure case where that capability did not work correctly."
Anyone who's had to administer Exchange feels that pain, let me tell you. It also tells us BPOS-S is using Exchange 2000 (That is a JOKE, people).
What ties all these outages together is not their dire effect on the victims. That's inconsequential in the long term, and won't stop people from getting into cloud services (there are good reasons to call BPOS cloud instead of hosted application services but that's another blog entirely). It's not the revelation that even experts make mistakes in their own domain, or that Amazon and Microsoft and Google are largely still feeling their way around on exactly what running a cloud means.
It's the communication. If anything could more clearly delineate "cloud service" from "hosted service," it's the lack of transparency, lack of customer touch, and the unshakeable, completely relative perception of users across the board, that when outages occur, they are on their own.
Ever been in a subway car and the power dies? I grew up in Boston, so that must have happened hundreds of times to me. People's fear and unease grow directly proportional to the time it takes the conductor to yell out something to show they've got the situation in hand. Everything is always fine, the outage is temporary, no real harm done, but people only start to freak when they get no assurance from the operator.
Working in IT and having a service provider fall over is the same thing, only you're going to get fired, not just have a loud sweaty person flop all over you in the dark (OK, that may happen in
somea lot of IT shops). Your boss doesn't care you aren't running Microsoft's data center; you're still responsible. Hosters have learned from long experience that they need to be, or at least provide the appearance of, being engaged when things go wrong, so their users can have something to tell their bosses. I used to call up vendors just to be able to tell my boss I'd been able to yell at "Justin our engineer" or "Amber in support" and relay the message.
Cloud hasn't figured out how to address that yet; either we're all going to get used to faceless, nerve-wracking outages or providers are going to need to find a way to hit that gap between easy, anonymous, economical and enterprise ready.
Did cloud computing help catch Osama bin Laden?
Now that we've gotten the link bait headline out of the way, let me say first that cloud computing is in no way to be considered anywhere near as important to the death of Osama bin Laden as the actual people with guns and helicopters. Credit where credit is due.
However, foundational shifts in technology come across all fronts, and not every story is about business success or advances in personal conveniences; many of them are far more consequential (and sometimes gruesome) than we normally consider. Now, how can one make the case that cloud computing (in its entire manifold "as a Service" glories) was instrumental in the final push to find and put an end to America's most visible modern enemy?
First, let's be charitable and assume we were actually looking for him for the last ten years as opposed to the last two, and that the search wasn't impossibly tangled up in international politics. Now, let's assume he was, in fact, well hidden, "off the grid" informationally speaking, and surrounded by trusted confidantes, and we only had scraps of information and analysis to go on.
Of course, we always had a rough idea where he was: Afghan intelligence knew he was near Islamabad in 2007, Christiane Amanpour said sources put him in a "comfortable villa" in 2008, and it was only logical that he'd be located in a place like Abbotobad. Rich old men who have done terrible things do not live in caves or with sheepherders in the boonies; they live comfortably near metropolitan areas, like Donald Trump does.
But all that aside, tying together the intelligence and the operations could have come from new ways that the Armed Forces are learning to use technology, including cloud computing. The AP wrote about a brand-new, high-tech "military targeting centre" that the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) had opened in Virginia, specifically to assist in this kind of spook operation.
"The centre is similar to several other so-called military intelligence 'fusion' centres already operating in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those installations were designed to put special operations officials in the same room with intelligence professionals and analysts, allowing U.S. forces to shave the time between finding and tracking a target, and deciding how to respond.
At the heart of the new centre's analysis is a cloud computing network tied into all elements of U.S. national security, from the eavesdropping capabilities of the National Security Agency to Homeland Security's border-monitoring databases. The computer is designed to sift through masses of information to track militant suspects across the globe, said two U.S. officials familiar with the system."
Well, there you have it. A "cloud computing network" took down the original Big Bad. Wrap up the season and let's get on to a new story arc. But wait, you cry. WTH is a "cloud-computing network"? That sounds like bad marketing-speak, it's meaningless babble. Do we know anything more about what exactly was "cloud" about this new intelligence-sifting and operational assistance center?
A spokesman for the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which is where JSOC gets its authority and marching orders, said there was nothing they could release at this time about the technology being used here.
However, a few months ago, I had a fascinating interview with Johan Goossens, director of IT for NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT), headquartered in VA (probably not too far from JSOC's high-tech spook base), about how NATO, driven in large part by the U.S. military, was putting into to play the lessons of cloud computing. He said, among other things, the heart of the new efforts he was leading were two-fold; a new way of looking at infrastructure as a fluid, highly standardized and interoperable resource built out in modular form and automated to run virtual machines and application stacks on command — cloud computing, in a word — and ways to marry vast networks of information and assets (human and otherwise) into a cohesive, useful structure.
Goossens' project involved consolidating existing NATO data centers into three facilities; each one is federated using IBM technology and services. He started with software development as the obvious test case and said the new infrastructure will be operational sometime this year, which is "light speed by NATO standards."
Some of this is simple stuff, like making it possible for, oh, say, the CIA to transfer a file to an Army intelligence officer without three weeks of paperwork and saluting everyone in sight (that is not an exaggeration in how government IT functions, and in spades for the military) or having a directory of appropriate contacts and command structure to look at as opposed to having to do original research to find out who someone's commanding officer was. Some of it is doubtless more complex, like analyzing masses of data and delivering meaningful results.
What evidence is there that the U.S. military was already down this road? Well, Lady Gaga fan PFC Bradley Manning was able to sit at a desk in Afghanistan and copy out files from halfway around the world and any number of sources, so we know the communication was there. We know the U.S. deploys militarized container data centers that run virtualization and sync up with remote infrastructure via satellite. We know this new "targeting centre" in Virginia was up and running well before they let a reporter in on it, and it almost by definition, had to involve the same technology that Goossens is involved in. There's only so many vendors capable of selling this kind of IT to the military. IBM is at the top of that list.
The Navy SEALs that carried out the raid were staged from one of these modular high tech remote bases; the raid itself was reportedly streamed via audio and partly in video in real time. Photos and information also went from Abbotobad to Washington in real time. That data didn't bunny hop over the Amazon CloudFront CDN to get there, but the principle is the same.
So it's possible to pin part of the killing of Osama bin Laden on the strength of new ways the world is using technology, including cloud. I sincerely doubt Navy SEALs were firing up Salesforce.com to check their bin Laden leads or using EC2 to crunch a simulation, but I'd bet my back teeth (dear CIA, please do not actually remove my back teeth) that they were doing things in a way that would make perfect sense to anyone familiar with cloud and modern IT operations.
We'll probably never know exact details about the infrastructure that runs the JSOC spook show, since they don't have anything to say on the subject and I'm not about to go looking on my own (wouldn't turn down a tour, though). But it's a sobering reminder that technology advances across the board, not just in the mild and sunny climes of science and business, but also in the dead of night, under fire, on gunships you can't hear, and the result is death.
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword." Mat. 10:34
Why HP wants the whole cloud stack
HP's clumsy cloud leak this week sheds a little bit more light on the printer giant's cloud computing plans, but the details signal a much bigger trend. The major IT players feel they must own the whole cloud stack. Why?
According to The Reg story HP's Scott McCllelan posted the following information on his public LinkedIn profile about HP's planned offerings:
– HP "object storage" service: built from scratch, distributed sytem, designed to solve for cost, scale, and reliability without compromise.
– HP "compute", "networking", and "block storage": an innovative and highly differentiated approach to "cloud computing" – a declarative/model-based approach where users provide a specification and the system automates deployment and management.
– Common/shared services: user management, key management, identity management & federation, authentication (inclu. multi-factor), authorization, and auditing (AAA), billing/metering, alerting/logging, analysis.
– Website and User/Developer Experience. Future HP "cloud" website including the public content and authenticated user content. APIs and language bindings for Java, Ruby, and other open source languages. Fully functional GUI and CLI (both Linux/Unix and Windows).
– Quality assurance, code/design inspection processes, security and penetration testing.
The "object storage" service would be akin to Amazon S3 and the "block storage" service smells like Amazon's EBS; the automatic deployment piece sounds like Amazon CloudFormation which provides templates of AWS resources to make it easier to deploy an application. And metering, billing, alerting, authorization etc. are all part of a standard cloud compute service. How you make a commodity service "highly differentiated" is a mystery to me and if you do, who's going to want that? But that's another story.
The Platform as a Service part for developers is interesting, although not a surprise since HP already said it would support a variety of languages including open source ones. And the security elements tick the box for enterprise IT customers rightly worried about the whole concept of sharing resources.
These details are enough to confirm that HP is genuinely building out an Amazon Web Services-like cloud for the enterprise. So why does it need to own every part of the stack? HP has traditionally been the "arms dealer" to everyone, selling the software, the hardware and the integration services to pull it all together, so why not do the same with cloud? Sell the technology to anyone and everyone that wants to build a cloud? They're would be no conflict of interest with service providers to whom it is also selling gear, and no commodity price wars for Infrastructure as a Service. (Believe me they are coming!)
Apparently HP believes it has no choice and other IT vendors seem to believe the same thing. The reason is integration. Cloud services, thanks to AWS's example, are so easy to consume because all the parts are so tightly integrated together. But to offer that, the provider has to have control of the whole stack — the hardware, the networking and the full software stack — to ensure a smooth experience for the user.
If you don't, as others have proven, your cloud might never materialize. VMware began its cloud strategy by partnering, first with Salesforce.com to create VMforce, then with Google, creating Google App Engine (GAE) for Business which runs VMware's SpringSource apps. Then Salesforce.com acquired Heroku and started doing its own thing no doubt leaving VMware with a deep loss of control. Both the arrangement with Salesforce and GAE have gone nowhere in over a year and VMware has since launched its own PaaS called CloudFoundry.
Similarly, IBM built its own test and dev service and now public cloud compute service from scratch. It's also working on a PaaS offering although there's still no word on this. Microsoft sells Azure as a service and is also supposedly packaging it up to resell through partners (Dell, HP, and Fujitsu) for companies that want to build private clouds. The latter is over a year late, while Azure has been up and running for a year.
In other words, whenever these companies bring a partner into the mix and try to jointly sell cloud, it goes nowhere fast and they revert to doing it on their own.
The benefit of being late to the game, as HP certainly is, means it gets to learn from everyone else's mistakes. Cloud-based block storage needs better redundancy, for example! Or, don't waste your time partnering with Google or Salesforce.
There's also a theory that to be able to sell a cloud offering, you have to have run a cloud yourself, which makes some sense. So if the past is any help, and there isn't much of it in cloud yet, HP is on the right path building the whole cloud stack.
HP exec leaks cloud plans; VMware in, Microsoft out?
HP will most likely base its cloud Platform as a Service offering on VMware's CloudFoundry, according to plans leaked by an HP exec. Surprisingly, there was no mention of support for Microsoft Azure, possibly because Microsoft is still working out the spec for reselling this software.
The Register reported that Scott McClellan, the chief technologist and interim vice president of engineering for HP's new cloud services business spilled the plans on his public LinkedIn profile. [Doh!]
According to The Reg story, HP will reveal the details of its cloud strategy at VMware's conference, VMWorld in August.


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Title 41 → Subtitle C → Chapter 109 → Subchapter H → Part 109-42
Title 41: Public Contracts and Property Management
Subpart 109-42.11—Special Types of Hazardous Material and Certain Categories of Property§109-42.1100.50 Scope of subpart.
§109-42.1100.51 Policy.
§109-42.1102-8 United States Munitions List items which require demilitarization.
§109-42.1102-51 Suspect personal property.
§109-42.1102-52 Low level contaminated personal property.
Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121.
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Subpart 109-42.11—Special Types of Hazardous Material and Certain Categories of Property
§109-42.1100.50 Scope of subpart.
This subpart sets forth policies and procedures for the utilization and disposal outside of DOE of excess and surplus personal property which has been radioactively or chemically contaminated.
§109-42.1100.51 Policy.
When the holding organization determines it is appropriate to dispose of contaminated personal property, it shall be disposed of by DOE in accordance with appropriate Federal regulations governing radiation/chemical exposure and environmental contamination. In special cases where Federal regulations do not exist or apply, appropriate state and local regulations shall be followed.
§109-42.1102-8 United States Munitions List items which require demilitarization.
Program Secretarial Officer (PSO) shall determine demilitarization requirements regarding combat material and military personal property using DoD 4160.21-M-1, Defense Demilitarization Manual as a guide.
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(a) Excess personal property (including scrap) having a history of use in an area where radioactive or chemical contamination may occur shall be considered suspect and shall be monitored using appropriate instruments and techniques by qualified personnel of the DOE office or contractor generating the excess.
(b) With due consideration to the economic factors involved, every effort shall be made to reduce the level of contamination of excess or surplus personal property to the lowest practicable level. Contaminated personal property that exceeds applicable contamination standards shall not be utilized or disposed outside DOE.
(c) If contamination is suspected and the property is of such size, construction, or location as to make testing for contamination impossible, the property shall not be utilized or disposed outside of DOE.
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If monitoring of suspect personal property indicates that contamination does not exceed applicable standards, it may be utilized and disposed of in the same manner as uncontaminated personal property, provided the guidance in §109-45.5005-1(a) of this chapter has been considered. However, recipients shall be advised where levels of radioactive contamination require specific controls for shipment as provided in Department of Transportation Regulations (49 CFR parts 171-179) for shipment of radioactive personal property. In addition, when any contaminated personal property is screened within DOE, reported to GSA, or otherwise disposed of, the kind and degree of contamination must be plainly indicated on all pertinent documents.


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Italian: from a nickname or personal name from the month of May, maggio, from Latin Maius (mensis), from Maia, a rather obscure goddess of fertility, whose name is derived from the same root as maius 'larger' and maiestas 'greatness'. This may have been bestowed on someone born or baptized in the month of May, or it may have been used to refer to someone of a sunny disposition, or who had some anecdotal connection with the month of May, such as owing a feudal obligation then. In Roman Catholicism, May is specially associated with the Virgin Mary, so the name may well have had a religious significance.
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When it comes to the websites which completely dedicated to providing movies in as different then putlocker is the best option and most popular website on the internet. put lockers use database of movies and providing movie streaming online for uses for free. but the best part of our website is using can request for a movie which they did not find or putlocker website and the admin panel will provide that movie as soon as possible. and also the navigation system of the website is completely easy to understand this is the reason that putlocker has become the most popular movie streaming website. and we can say if you are looking for movie streaming sites then put locker is the best alternative of Couchtuner.
The Series Online
The series online website is also known as the best sites like Couchtuner. this website has use a database of TV shows and movie. this is one of the loudest site like Couchtuner. there are lots of different ideas and sections for you just to find their favorite TV show and movies from the website. the process and the navigation axis of the website is really easy. and also you will find navigate your favorite TV show or movie because all the TV shows and movies available in complain images. this is the reason that we can see the series online its best Couchtuner alternative
Movie Watcher
another great movie website which has use movie database and comes on the top in terms of sites like Couchtuner. you can find 1000 soap movies for free all movie watcher website. the best part about the website is it is no user-friendly than any other Couchtuner alternatives. and also they Hume feedback system where they get feedback about the movie from the users so using can give a rating to the movie They have watched. so we can say that this is the best movie service website which can be considered as the best Couchtuner alternative.
Select TV
When it comes to a website which is a complete package of entertainment then slept TV come on the top. can be the best site like Couchtuner in terms of providing entertainment stuff. the database of this website is really amazing and you can find your favorite movie radio channel TV shows events games and many other things which would love to get from the internet. the navigation of the website is great and it's completely easy to use.
but then the thing which collapses this website down in the list is this is not a free website. if you want to get access to the unlimited database of select TV you have to pay $2 per month who use this website. and the sign of registration on this website is compulsory for the uses.
but in terms of service and providing entertainment Easter, this is the best website. so we can say that this is the best Couchtuner alternative.
Popcorn Flix
Popcornflix website also a great collection of movies and TV shows. the website is providing this entertainment stuff since a long and now become one of the popular platforms for the uses. so this website becomes the best Couchtuner alternative in no time. the navigation system and their access a website is completely user-friendly.
the roast part about the website is the updation of new Tv shows and movies is not good this is the reason that this website collapse in down in a list of sites like Couchtuner.
Cafe Movie
As we know that Couchtuner is a great collection of movies and TV shows both. where we best sites like Couchtuner then we have to find a website which has the same cleanser of movies and TV shows both. cafe movie is one of that website. this website is one of the most creative websites in terms of entertainment. the navigation and excise of the website is completely user-friendly and you will not get any unnecessary information on the website.
there are use database of movies and TV shows in different languages. if you are fond of old classic movies then cafe movie is the best Couchtuner alternative for you, because this site has huge collection of old and new movies.
Employee Couchtuner primewire also has used movie database. user able to find every single movie on this website. primewire is also perfect SMS Couchtuner website, this website also has lots of choices with easy to use navigation for users. so we can say that where is one of the best Couchtuner alternative.
Every user who visit this website they always say that the website which is providing non stop entertainment for the users. I personally use this website and I can see that this website should be in the top in the list of sites like Couchtuner. if you are looking on the internet for every single movie then you have to check down this website every time.
this website has a used movie library with the ultimate collection of classic and latest movies. and is used and updated collection of your favourite TV shows. you have to register on this website for find all the movies and TV shows par resistance is completely free. this website has its own application also so if you are Android user then you can download the application from Google Play Store on your Android and IOS device.
because of the election of this website and easy access we can send that this is one of the best Couchtuner alternatives.
Another amazing website when it comes to side smile comes two sites like Couchtuner. this website is a user Clicks on for the users as well as they have their API system for the developers also. the best part of this website is they do not have much and which help us user to find their favorite movie or TV show without any hesitation.
the only thing which can annoy a user is this website is not completely free you have to register and pay and minor amount to access this website and access the use database of movies and TV shows.
When you are looking for the website which provides TV shows in HD then project free TV is the best option for you. this website is completely dedicated to that TV shows and you will get the tickets old TV shows as well as the episode of the TV show aired on the TV just a day before. this is one of the most updated websites which is providing TV shows.
this website do not provide any thumbnail for any TV show that user have to find the link of their favorite show on the website. the only annoying thing about this website is the look of this website is not updated and they are running with the old classic design. still, when it comes to a database of TV shows project free TV is best Couchtuner alternative.
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Not all gardeners have rolling acres to indulge their passion, and most of us will spend at least part of our lives trapped in small spaces. But all is not lost. Even the tiniest plot can provide ingredients for the cunning cook.
"Growing food is different in the city. Life is faster and space is tight. We're spoilt for choice, with lots to juggle. So we garden to bring balance and natural joy to our lives, raising plants that offer us terrific ingredients to eat."
This is Tom Moggach's introduction to his new book, The Urban Kitchen Gardener, where he shares his advice for successful growing in typical city plots: on window sills, patios, balconies and yards, where warm urban microclimate counterbalances the effects of low light levels and constricted space.
Tom imparts knowledge and enthusiasm with ease. He feels gardening and cooking provide the extra bits of magic that can enrich all our lives, no matter how hard pressed we are for time. A horticultural evangelist, he spreads the word through his journalism and teaching (he is a trained teacher), and through his company, City Leaf, as a trainer for hire to schools and councils. Recently, he has designed a certified course for special needs students in Islington, helping them qualify for placements in the trade.
The Moggachs are a family of writers. His mother is the novelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach, whose latest hit is The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, adapted from her book These Foolish Things. She is also a passionate gardener (the premiere's post-party goody bag included a tube of anti-ageing cream, some Hobnob biscuits, and a packet of marigold seeds). Tom says she plants a bed or cooks a meal with equal panache, an invaluable blessing to pass on to any son or daughter.
Like most of us, Tom loved growing stuff when he was tiny, but remembers the "uncool" stigma during his early teens. Later, though, like many young people, it was his love of cooking that encouraged him to grow ingredients; he wanted to have the freshest food at his fingertips, despite a busy city lifestyle. The constraints of space, light and free time meant that difficult choices had to be made, but the lack of acreage concentrated his mind.
In his book, Tom presents recipes that are light, modern and inventive, using home-grown ingredients augmented with edible flowers, home-laid eggs, and his own city garden honey. Ingredients are fashionable but appropriate: beetroot, chillies, squash, mouse melons, radishes and peas, as well as herbs (shiso, sorrel and lemon verbena) and fruit (currants and gooseberries).
The recipes include a delicious basil and lime ice cream. 25g sweet basil leaves and 150g caster sugar are blitzed in a blender, then mixed with 200g mascarpone and 400g full-fat yogurt, as well as the zest of half a lime.
Each ingredient is introduced with recommended varieties and inherent pest warnings. This is followed by growing, harvesting and preserving instructions, then ingenious suggestions for use, such as six ways to use mustard seeds, five ways to use currants, and six ways to use verbena – why not add the leaves to a chocolate ganache, or to a finger bowl of warm water when scoffing messy food?
Sections on how to be green in a small space are indispensable. Tom has ideas for how to make a pond in a salvaged bath tub, how to vermicompost and save water, and how to make use of inventive containers. His blue tray system for a steady supply of herbs and microgreens is feasible in the tiniest of back yards. Pot culture is exploited to the full, and advice on the suitability for container growing is included with each ingredient, plus information on which bit to eat and how much sunlight each plant needs.
The benefits of edible growing for the city gardener come in spadefuls. Urban veg prices are high while true freshness is rare, and relaxation in the open air is the perfect antidote to city life. Much of the advice, however, can be adapted to container culture in any garden, and makes my large plot seem under-productive and wasteful by comparison.
PS: For those with absolutely no space, may I recommend the delightful latex seedlings by artist Clare Tindall (questionersgardentime.com).
- Understand your growing space – its sunny spots, dark corners and draughty bits.
- Work out which bits get the most sun – use these areas for sun-loving crops.
- Expand growing space with extra levels and shelves, grow vertically as well.
- Windowsills offer warmth and protection for seedlings and tender plants.
- Don't worry about pollution if you are more than 3m (10ft) away from a main road.
- If wind is an issue, create windbreaks using screening and trellises.
- Patrol daily: weeding, checking water and harvesting. I do mine every morning with a cup of tea, and I use my mobile to remind me of chores.
Buy 'The Urban Kitchen Gardener' at £14.99 + £1.25 p&p. (0844 871 1516 or books.telegraph.co.uk)


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Industrial Mold Manufacturing in Sherbrooke
Les Moules Samco has been working in the field of industrial mold manufacturing in the Eastern Townships since 1965. We are committed to meeting the needs of our clients on the strength of our skills and experience. This client-focussed approach, combined with state-of-the-art facilities, has ensured the company's steady growth and helped build our reputation for excellence. We always establish a relationship of trust and collaboration with our clients, some of whom are internationally recognized companies.
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Compositions are proprietary, water-based coating dispersions containing metal oxides, metallic zinc, and aluminum flakes. The zinc and aluminum platelets align in multiple layers forming a metallic silver gray coating. Applied as a liquid material, the coating becomes totally inorganic after curing at 610F (321C). Dacromet coatings provide corrosion resistance to protect against road salt, humidity, solvents, and other sources of corrosion.
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Influenced by Far Eastern design, this series features square tube metal work finished in Roasted Chestnut. The soft square Wilshire glass blends well with the roving curves of the body design.
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Continuing Education Credits
Participants who attend the full workshop earn 18.00 CNEs awarded by AWHONN and will be available via AWHONN's online CE/CME system. No partial credit will be awarded.
No partial credit will be awarded.
AWHONN hold California BRN Provider #CEP 00580 and Alabama #ABNP 0058.
Physicians attending this course will receive 15.25 CME credit for full participation. CME credit is managed by Professional Educations Services Group and will be available via AWHONN's online CE/CME system.
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The course builds on the knowledge and skills of experienced nurses. It is designed for registered nurses with a minimum of six months clinical nursing experience using fetal heart rate monitoring technology in an intrapartum setting.
LPNs and LVNs may attend this course for educational development purposes. LPNs receive contact hours and may elect to participate in the skills stations as a learning experience.
Successful completion of this course is a prerequisite for participation in the Advanced Course.
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Due to program format, space is limited. Preregistration and payment must be received 10 days prior to date of the course. Registration deadline is January 25, 2020.
Includes continental breakfast and lunch both days, nursing contact hours, participant packet and a copy of the "Fetal Heart Monitoring Principles and Practices" (FIFTH Edition) textbook. Participants must read the text prior to the course and bring the text to the workshop. The text will be mailed to participants upon receipt of payment.
No additional materials are necessary to purchase for this course.
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Sad as it is, the Summer vacation period is pretty much over...but you could be thinking of planning a trip for the Spring, Summer....or even a bit of Winter sun if you live in a snow-filled state. With that in mind, you might be thinking of visiting somewhere a little closer to the border. Perhaps a vacation to Texas has piqued your interest? Despite what has been going on recently, weather-wise, there are still many reasons to visit, especially if you are seeking a warmer climate. So, if you're planning a trip, there are many reasons why you should come to Texas.
Texas is the second largest state in the USA, second only to Alaska, and with its size, comes a great amount of things to see and do. There are different climates in the state, with warmer climates being very close to the Mexican border, as you can imagine. Texas also has a vast and varied landscape, from beaches along the Gulf to swamps, busy cities, bustling metros, chic yet fun suburbs, and beautiful pine tree woods. If you're looking for a little bit of everything, then Texas certainly has that for you -- there is most definitely something for everyone.
There are many ways to visit the area pretty cheaply; with many airports in the state, there's bound to be several that offer good deals. You could also consider driving, depending on where you're coming from. You could also use city transportation or use a ride service so that you don't have to deal with driving once you're here. Hotel prices are varied, as you might imagine, so there is something that will fit whatever budget you are working to. Even if you chose to stay somewhere like the Comfort Suites San Antonio North - Stone Oak, you are basically staying in a home away from home. With a separate living area, you could even work remotely if you need to do business for some of the time that you're away. There is absolutely no reason your vacation has to cost you a lot of money.
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American women and men in astronomy are generally safe against personal violence. However, sexual harassment, assault and other forms of misconduct are a continuing problem for men and women, especially against women. Moreover, our sisters elsewhere are subject to state-sponsored, gender-based violence and discrimination that must not be forgotten. It is fitting that April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Universities are not immune to allegations of sexual abuse, including but not restricted to recent high profile cases involving sports coaches and teams. Is this a taboo subject in the astronomical community? I hope not, and was pleased to see that the Yale Women's Faculty Forum, currently led by astronomer Priya Natarajan, was able to increase awareness of and effect change in policies concerning sexual misconduct at Yale. Other universities would benefit from the example of institutional change accomplished by the Yale women described at Change Magazine.
Gender-based assault and violence takes a different and more sinister form in countries whose laws and policies do not give women equal rights. In Iranian courts women are counted as half the worth of men: if a man and a woman receive equal injuries in an automobile accident, the woman receives half the compensation of the man. The testimony of two women in court equals that of one man. Yet women are the majority of law students in Iran. I learned these facts yesterday from Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Shirin Ebadi, who gave a lecture at my university on "Women's Rights in Iran and the Islamic World." She promotes democracy and nonviolence as the necessary force for social change. Dictatorships do not last long, but cultures do.
The U.S. academic culture does not tolerate sexual abuse but there are still victims. The culture promotes equality but there is still inequality. How should we respond? With courage and perseverance, like the examples cited above.


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Naka Karuizawa - Sengataki Yamanote
National Route 146 is one of Karuizawa town's major traffic road, connecting Naka Karuizawa to Kusatsu Onsen through Kita (North) Karuizawa. It is designated as a part of Japan Romantic Road which originates in Ueda, Nagano and ends in Nikko, Tochigi for the distance of roughly 320 km.
Driving northbound on the R146 from Naka Karuizawa station, you will see an entrance to Sengataki Yamanote district before you get in a series of winding roads toward Kita Karuizawa. Sengataki Yamanote district is located at the northernmost among four Sengataki villa districts developed by Seibu group. While Karuizawa is commonly known as a highland resort at approximately altitude 1,000 meters, Sentgaki Yamanote district is located at approximately altitude 1,200 meters highland. It is usually told that you will feel 1 degree Celsius less in outside temperature when you climb by 100 meters in altitude. Since this district is located 200 meters higher in altitude than the town center, it should be one of the most reasonable choices for people who desire cooler and more refreshing places to have their villa or cottages.
This land property is located in northeast of Sengataki Yamanote district. It has easy access from R146 by all wide and paved roads, and has road facing at two directions. There are two old structures on slightly sloped land terrain. This property goes on sale as "land with old structures", being assumed you scrap them and build a new house. You will be able to capture how your new house should look like by seeing these two old houses.
Please come and see the property.
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One of our brightest ideas, this intriguing mix of slotted wooden triangles, circles, and squares painted in six fun colors and glimmering with matching crisp, clean linear designs and shapes lights the way to a totally exciting new dimension in creative construction. These pieces practically vibrate with energy, inspiring the most fun, free-form, eye-boggling constructions—and that's even before the lights are turned out and the designs glow greenly. The set includes 150 pieces (discs are 1¾") whose enchantment will never glow old.
- Intriguing mix of slotted wooden triangles, circles, and squares
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Oct. 30, 2001
SUWANEE, Ga., - Former Santa Clara guard Brian Jones is among the more than 150 players from around the globe invited by the The National Basketball Development League to its Central Training Camp in suburban Atlanta. The players will compete for one of 88 roster spots with the league's eight teams.
The NBDL's Central Training Camp is being held at the Suwanee Sports Academy in Suwanee, Ga. through Saturday, Nov. 3. Players who have been signed by the league will be attend four days of practice and tryouts (Oct. 27-30), which will be followed by the NBDL's Inaugural Central Training Camp Draft on Wednesday, Oct. 31.
Each team's 12 draft selections will be announced on Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Sports Academy. Teams of 16 (12 draft selections and four allocation players) will then practice for two days (Nov. 1-2) before coaches must cut rosters down to 11 players for individual team training camps beginning Nov. 6.
On Nov. 3 the league will conduct a Supplemental Draft which will include "last cuts" from NBA training camps. Players selected in this draft will join team training camps on Nov. 6 to compete for final roster spots.
NBDL teams will open individual training camps in their respective cities on Tuesday, Nov. 6, and must submit their final 11-player roster requests to the NBDL Office by 5 p.m. ET on Nov. 14. Final rosters will consist of at least one "allocation player" and two "first-year professional players."
The National Basketball Development League will tip off its inaugural season on Nov. 16, 2001. The Fayetteville Patriots (N.C.), North Charleston Lowgators (S.C.), Huntsville Flight (Ala.), Mobile Revelers (Ala.), Roanoke Dazzle (Va.), Columbus Riverdragons (Ga.), Greenville Groove (S.C.), and Asheville Altitude (N.C.) will compete in a 56-game regular season schedule that runs from mid-November through March, followed by playoffs. A total of 24 games will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2 and ESPN, and 19 games will be broadcast regionally on FOX Sports Net South.
The NBA and ESPN have reached a three-year agreement to bring coverage of the NBDL to a global audience beginning November 2001. NBDL television and Internet game production will feature ground-breaking access to players and coaches including live-microphones on players and cameras in the huddles and locker rooms.
A total of 24 games will be broadcast live on ESPN2 and ESPN starting on opening night. Regular weekly coverage will begin in December 2001 and continue throughout the regular season and playoffs. Additionally, both NBA.com and ESPN.com plan to cybercast a select number of games each week via broadband Internet while offering real-time audio and video highlights and statistics.
Designed to help grow the sport of basketball both domestically and internationally, the NBDL offers players the opportunity to develop their talent in a highly competitive atmosphere under the NBA's umbrella. In addition to being a source of on-court talent for the NBA's 29 teams, the NBDL will also serve as a diverse human resources pool for the NBA and its teams by training employees in management, operations, public relations, sales and marketing positions in each NBDL city.