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RSA Conference - February 24, 2014
Webroot, the leader in cloud based internet security as a service, today announced the release of BrightCloud® Security Services and BreachLogic™ Endpoint Agent. These two revolutionary cloud-based security offerings are designed to help enterprises address the explosive growth and increasing sophistication of online threats, particularly targeted attacks such as "spearphishing" and advanced persistent threats (APTs).
When combating targeted attacks, one of the primary issues businesses face is an inability to correlate anomalous events in their IT environment with current, accurate, and actionable security intelligence, making it difficult to determine if and where a threat exists. Because malware is typically a component of these advanced attacks, it is also critical that businesses understand the behavior of applications running on their endpoints, and the reputation of files entering their environment. Webroot BrightCloud® Security Services and the BreachLogic™ Endpoint Agent address these crucial needs.
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"At Webroot, we reject the prevailing notion that organizations cannot be protected from attacks on their endpoint devices. We believe that most internet security problems can be addressed if the business can apply comprehensive security knowledge at that moment of truth when they are faced with a threat," said Mike Malloy, executive vice president of products and strategy at Webroot. "Both BrightCloud Security Services and the BreachLogic Endpoint Agent are designed to enable businesses to take action more quickly by combining our vast threat intelligence and continuous monitoring of events in their environment."
Actionable Internet, File, and Mobile Threat Intelligence
BrightCloud Security Services redefine online threat intelligence. The suite of cloud-based services, powered by an advanced, self-learning threat analysis platform that continuously scans the internet, is designed to help enterprises and OEM technology partners strengthen their security technology with up-to-date, accurate and actionable threat intelligence. The enhanced suite includes a new File Reputation Service and an enriched contextual database that correlates previously disparate security data points.
Traditional, reactive, list-based security that works by recognizing known threats is powerless to stop modern malware that is purpose-built to attack a single target. Brightcloud Security Services use a new three-dimensional approach threat intelligence to identify and stop these sophisticated threats. This approach includes:
- Breadth of services to cover all critical threat sources – internet, file, and mobile
- Cloud-based big data architecture with real-time threat intelligence
- Greater depth of analysis by correlating disparate data
Brightcloud® Security Services include Web Reputation, Web Classification, IP Reputation, File Reputation, Real-Time Anti-Phishing, Mobile App Reputation, Mobile Security SDK, and the SecureWeb™ Browser SDK. BrightCloud Security Services are delivered through Webroot's OEM partners – including many leading network security providers – via a single API, enabling them to protect their customers at the moment of truth when advanced cyber-attacks appear both inside and outside of their networks.
All of these services leverage the vast security intelligence of the cloud-based Webroot® Intelligence Network. The most powerful threat analysis platforms in the world, the Webroot Intelligence Network continually captures, analyzes, classifies, and publishes intelligence on URLs, IPs, mobile apps and files. The Webroot Intelligence Network analyzes not only behavior, but also correlates relationships to reputable and malicious websites, IPs, files, and mobile apps through a proprietary correlation engine. The result is up-to-date, highly accurate, contextual next-generation threat intelligence.
BrightCloud Security Services are available to Webroot OEM partners beginning February 24.
Advanced Breach Protection for Clients, Servers and Mobile Devices
The BreachLogic™ Endpoint Agent, delivers the same powerful, cloud-based threat analysis in a next-generation endpoint security solution for clients, servers and mobile devices. It provides early detection and blocking of advanced malware attacks and enables rapid investigation and remediation in the event of a breach. By monitoring endpoint applications, processes and events against Webroot threat intelligence, it recognizes and stops never-before-seen threats that can pass unchecked by existing network and endpoint security technology.
The BreachLogic Endpoint Agent provides businesses with a complete set of endpoint security capabilities including advanced threat detection, remediation, forensic investigation, and proactive blocking. Designed to integrate into the existing IT environment, the BreachLogic Endpoint Agent complements network security technologies and endpoint antivirus, providing an additional layer of protection against attacks that infiltrate or bypass the network perimeter.
The BreachLogic Endpoint Agent's continuous monitoring provides visibility into endpoint applications, events, and processes and applies real-time behavioral and contextual analysis from the Webroot Intelligence Network to identify existing breaches and prevent future attacks. Security teams can easily manage endpoint alerts with the web-based Webroot console or integrate Webroot endpoint data into their existing management environment. The BreachLogic Endpoint Agent also provides detailed forensic data to assist security teams investigating the source and scope of a breach to identify vulnerabilities and prevent future infiltration.
The BreachLogic Endpoint Agent will be available to enterprises directly from Webroot and through OEM partners. It is expected to launch in Q3 2014.
Webroot will be presenting additional detail on BrightCloud Security Services and the BreachLogic Endpoint Agent at the 2014 RSA Conference on February 24-28, 2014 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California, booth 832.


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NextGenAviator needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 26 freelance designers.
Logo needed for "LetsMakeA.com" (actual name of business), a new Web design & development business. Either a graphic element, or a treatment of the words in "LetsMakeA.com". Though the name might be "cute", business is aimed at small-business customer who don't have Web sites, so it should be "serious", but with something of an edge.
Desired Color Scheme:
Whatever you think - slight preference for
Desired Style:
More or less serious. A slight edge is OK. Certainly professional.
Accepted File Formats:
vector format for stationery, PNG for web site
I need a logo for a new Web site design/development business, whose name is "Let's Make A Dot Com" (LetsMakeA.com). (Yeah, I know, it's a little too "cute", but one has to differentiate, and it's better than OrangeOctopusStudios or some such sillyness.)
Ideally, the logo should fit in an area no wider than 165 pixels (the width of the site's banner where the logo will appear). Height is not a big constraint. You could either do something fun with the words (or letters in the words) themselves, or just create a graphic logo, and the full name will appear alongside the graphic.
Note: the name of the business is LetsMakeA.com, so if you do something with the words, it should be dealing with "letsmakea.com", not the full spelled-out version.
While the name might be cute, the business is serious. But with a slight edge. The business's focus is on the customer, not the owner's prowess, and that message will be reinforced by the site's messaging and service orientation. So, the logo shouldn't be cute or avant-garde or otherwise weird, but it can have a bit of an edge to it.
I wouldn't mind seeing a B&W version of it as well as a colored one, just to make sure that the colors don't mask any potential issues. And i have three other logos that I need designed after this one (and this is my first posting to this site).
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Botanical watercolor course at the Madison County Historical Society March 23
Oneida >> Those interested in learning the art of watercolor are invited to the second Heritage Handicraft Workshop, Introduction to Botanical Watercolor, on March 23 from 1:30-4 p.m. at the Madison County Historical Society.
Pamela Vogan Lynch, a professional artist and retired director of art for the Oneida City School District, will instruct students in basic drawing tips and beginning watercolor techniques as they relate to painting flowers. Participants will be able to select from a variety of flowers to paint.
Painting flowers in watercolor is as popular in the 21st century as it was back in the 1800s. Victorians were fascinated by the natural world and the study of botany. Men, women, and children would collect a variety of plant species to later sketch and paint the natural world around them.
Reservations for the workshop are required as space is limited to 12 participants. The cost of the workshop is $15 for members and $20 for nonmembers.
For more information, contact the society at 315-363-4136, 315-361-9735, or email@example.com, or "like" Madison County Historical Society on Facebook. T
he Madison County Historical Society is a nonprofit organization that operates both a museum and the Mary King Research Library located at 435 Main St. in Oneida. The society continues to preserve, collect, promote, and exhibit the history of Madison County and its fifteen towns and one city through the development of programs that enhance Madison County's heritage. The historical society's headquarters are housed in an 1849 Gothic Revival Villa that is listed on the State and National Registry of Historic Places.


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Trip Report: NaS Coffee @ Rincon Center
Posted by TheShot on 28 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
Deep inside Rincon Center One (now how apocalyptic does that sound?), this espresso counter serves coffee among the food court seating. It's right next to the indoor, five-story "Rain Column" waterfall — so if you can find the insides of building, you won't miss it. NaS uses a portable boom box of sorts to play cheesy pop music while you sip. Their baristas always seem extra-friendly, and they serve espresso at a somewhat high brewing temperature at times.
From their three-group Nuova Simonelli machine, they produce an espresso with a crema that can vary from a deep, dark brown, and thin to something that barely forms a ring around a paper cup. It has a dark body and a slightly ashy, bitter flavor. The staff here are a bit secretive about their bean suppliers, though Adam's Organic is clearly one of them. They do exclusively focus on Fair Trade and organic beans, however — which limits their suppliers.
This is the last remains of the NaS Coffee chain that has since folded every other location around town. In fact, their corporate Web site has even skipped town. Chances are this location kept the NaS name out of convenience, despite the chain's failure at corporate expansion. But tasting the coffee, you can't say that their failure is suprising. Newer chains like The Organic Coffee Company are trying to succeed where NaS failed, but good luck to them — they're going to need it.
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Annual Walmart FLW Outdoors Tour begins
Rain, cold, snow and high winds: This year's FLW outdoors tournament out on Beaver Lake could be tough this year because of the conditions.
With big money and bragging rights on the line, anglers and bass pros are going to try their luck despite the conditions outside.
"The weather will affect the anglers and fans more than it will the fish," said Bill Taylor, director of tournament operations. "We don't see any issues at this point and time."
If the conditions outside are too cool, fans can enjoy live streams of the events.
Fans who can brave the elements can attend the events, including a weigh-in at Prairie Creek Park, Thursday and Friday afternoons.
There is also a free expo at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers, Saturday and Sunday from noon until 4 p.m.


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President Obama is no longer pressing to raise income tax rates on the rich. But that doesn't mean he thinks the wealthy are paying enough in taxes.
Outlining his budget proposals to Congress on Wednesday, Mr. Obama pushed to raise more than $600 billion in new revenue, mainly by curbing deductions for the most affluent taxpayers and forcing million-dollar earners to pay a minimum rate of 30 percent. Under the White House plan, deductions for tax breaks like mortgage interest and contributions to charities would be capped at a maximum rate of 28 percent. The caps would limit the value of the breaks to the top 3 percent of taxpayers who face higher marginal tax rates and generate about $529 billion in additional revenue over 10 years.
Many of the budget proposals, including the limit on deductions, have been made before by the Obama administration. Analysts said Congress was unlikely to adopt them in isolation, but that some Republicans might be open to a broader deal that included measures to close various loopholes in the tax code.
Chuck Marr, director of federal tax policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said the main part of the tax proposal — curbing tax deductions for high earners — could form part of a future deal because they were close to what Republicans have themselves proposed in the past. "In any agreement that finally comes together this will be the core revenue piece of it," he said.
At the same time, the administration formally proposed the so-called Buffett Rule, which would impose a new minimum 30 percent tax rate on households earning incomes above $1 million. It said this could generate an additional $53 billion in revenue over a decade. It is named after Warren E. Buffett, the billionaire investor, who said in an Op-Ed article in The New York Times that he was paying a lower tax percentage than members of his office.
"This proposal will prevent high-income households from using tax preferences, including low tax rates on capital gains and dividends, to reduce their total tax bills to less than what many middle class families pay," according to the White House.
Roberton Williams, senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center in Washington, said the rule's inclusion in the budget proposal was an indication that the Obama administration was determined "to make sure that the rich people pay something."
Tax rates for high-earners were increased this year for the first time in two decades as part of the postelection deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff and to help pay for the cost of expanded health care coverage.
Despite those increases, the effective tax burden for the very wealthy remained considerably lower than in past decades, according to Emmanuel Saez, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He estimated the recent tax increases could take the total average federal tax rate of the top 0.1 percent of earners to about 40 percent, compared with about 51 percent in 1981. The total tax take from that group had fallen to about 33 percent after the Bush tax cuts.
In its proposal, the Obama administration also proposed a $3 million limit on tax-deferred individual retirement accounts — another tax measure aimed at wealthy individuals who have been accused of using the accounts to shelter large amounts of money rather than for simple savings.
The White House also proposed, as it has in the past, ending the preferential treatment of private equity and hedge fund profits, known as carried interest. These profits are currently taxed as a long-term capital gain.
The treatment of carried interest has for years been strongly defended by elements of the financial industry, and the White House proposal was quickly attacked on Wednesday by the leading private equity industry trade group. Even supporters of the proposal conceded that it faced stiff political opposition.
"Republicans are never going to sign off on this," said Andrew Fieldhouse, an analyst at the Economic Policy Institute.
While most of the proposed tax increases were aimed at higher earners, there were important proposals that would affect all individuals.
The administration proposed higher taxes on tobacco products to pay for early childhood education, raising about $78 billion over a decade.
Its plan for a new cost-of-living formula to reduce future Social Security benefits would also involve indexing income tax brackets to the different measure of inflation. This would effectively increase the money raised by the income tax across the board over the next decade, affecting "people throughout the income distribution," said Donald Marron, director of the Tax Policy Center.
President Obama said he was still committed to lowering the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent. But he also wanted to close tax loopholes that allow many companies to pay a much lower effective corporate tax rate.
In the budget, he proposed eliminating special tax privileges for the oil, gas and coal industries to save a further $44 billion over 10 years, increased taxation of foreign earnings, and special rules for corporate jets.
The Business Roundtable, a lobbying group that represents major corporations, said it welcomed any cut in corporate taxes, but wanted the reductions to be part of broader reform, and objected to measures that aimed at particular industries.
"Singling out certain industries for taxation is bad tax policy," the group said in a statement.


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Unique menu, fantastic patio, great bar with live jazz on Saturdays and Sundays, excellent beer selection, caring staff... unique to Tucson - a must try!
This is a great place to hear very good jazz. The performers are students and you will be stunned to find out how young they are when you hear their music. They are very polished and really know how to swing. The performances are in the outdoor patio by the pool which contains a fire pit. It's a great way to spend an evening.
J-Bar is one of the standards that out-of-town visitors to my business are taken. It's a Tucson original. The food is consistently good and inventive. I'm not sure what another reviewer is talking about, regarding spiciness. Yes, many plates are spicier than the average member of the retirement set might like, but that's honestly why we go there. One gets tired of the bland food that the snowbirds have caused restaurants to serve. But also, there are plenty of dishes that are not hot. They might be spicy, but that's not the same as hot.
For the record, though, the jalapeno chocolate ice cream is reason enough to go there.
This was our first time in Hifalutin. My husband and I went on recommendations from some of our friends. We went on a Thursday night and the place was packed. There was a 20 minute wait. We were surprised that they took reservations. We will know for next time. There was some room at the bar so we decided to have a drink. We were quickly greeted by the bartender. She said that they had the best margaritas. So we gave them a shot. They were refreshing, delicious and packed a punch. No lemonade flavored margaritas here. We sat about 15 minutes later at a small table in the patio warmed with heaters. Glad we were sat outside because the noise level inside was a bit too loud for our likes. We started with the cheese crisp, half beef and half chicken on the servers recommendation. It was a good one. The server also dropped off some delectable little muffins. My husband ordered a filet med-rare and I opted for the tomato basil pasta. His steak was cooked to perfection and was very tender. My tomato basil pasta was flavorful and the perfect size. I would highly recommend this to everyone. Comfortable atmosphere, friendly and knowledgeable staff and fair prices. We can't wait to return.
This place is a must! Exceptional food, great value, wonderful atmosphere and the staff does and excellant job!
Truely a fabulous experience.
Always enjoy this restaurant! You can't go wrong here. There is something for everyone on their menu
Let me start where I am coming from. When HiFalutin first opened my wife and I went and had the most horrible experience: slow, bad service, cold food, sending it back twice, and horrible wait times, in a very noisy crowded atmosphere. Even talking to the owner about the issues seem to elicit a "Meh!" attitude. So bad we walked out after 2 hours and not paying.
Fast forward maybe 8 years and for some reason my wife got spammed on their email list. Communications ensued and we were offered a gift card in an effort to try them again. OK, so we thought as they were still around after 8+ years they must have some sort of following.
We decided to go there 5:30pm Monday, the 22nd of August with friends and it was like night and day. We had a couple of happy hour $3 appetisers and then I had the $17 top sirloin steak with the wife lashing out on the $25 filet, both were cooked exactly as we asked them to be and were very tasty. The sides were good and hot, as hot food should be. Our friends both had enjoyable chicken dishes.
The service was somewhat inattentive but absolutely nothing like the abysmal service just after opening.
Would we recommend them now? Certainly and I'll stop bitching to friends about how bad they were 8 years ago :-)
OK. Now the building is sold and becoming an office. Nothing there. Remove it you lazy people.
How do you review a place that hasnt opened?
In April, The last time I was at Janos J-Bar and I do mean the last, there were no entrees or appetizers on the menu that were not laden with blazing hot chili peppers. I asked the waitress if she noticed this and she said she did and so did many diners and they complained. I asked her why Janos put peppers in everything and she replied, "He has just gone crazy with peppers." I asked if he grew them and that made them profitable to use instead of herbs and spices and she chuckled. She said the only solution she knew was to order a plain vegetarian plate and request no peppers as the other items already had hot pepper in the dishes including the crusts and batters. The plain veggie plate was twenty something dollars she thought. I politely told her I can steam veggies at home and I gave her back the menus and we left. Don't dine at J-Bar unless you really like food so hot with pepper it will burn your mouth.
Still closed. Building for sale. Please remove from listings
Worst steak I have ever had in a restaurant. Supposedly prime meat? You can do better at Costco. Don't know where they get their meat. At least they took the 36$ price off the tab. Service was actually good. Decor is a bit gauche, especially for Tucson, which isn't impressed by ostentation.
This is a placeholder, for stories that we've run already. Not that complicated.
The Flying V is in a super great location, with fantastic views and a very cool interior, with a top-flite outside patio...But...the food is very hotel-like, mostly inconsistant, and a bit over-priced. Remember who their clientele is here; out-of-town snowbirds, convention people, & those who are on a corporate expense account. If an outside restauranteur ran the Flying V, it would be so much better. Someone like Janos Wilder, Albert Hall, or even the Fox Restaurant Group, or the Zona 78 guys.
The Flying V is directly across the parking lot from Lowes's Ventana Canyon resort, and that says it all...it is just another hotel restauarant with one of the most premier locations in our valley. I say go for a margarita, and maybe the guacamole & chips (made to order at table-side), and skip the expensive dinner deal.


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Hey everyone, I am looking at Binary Search Complexity and am stuck on the final result. For binary search, the array is split into half and a check is made to see if the quantity we want is on the left hand or right hand side. So say we had an array of 2^10 elements; that would mean the array would be split 10 times until we can no longer split it further.
So my question is how does the complexity become O(log(n)) using the Big O notation?


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New fares strike better balance between user pays and rates
New bus fares approved today by Environment Waikato's council are aimed at ensuring users pay a fair share of the direct costs of expanding passenger transport in Hamilton.
New bus fares approved today by Environment Waikato's council are aimed at ensuring users pay a fair share of the direct costs of expanding passenger transport in Hamilton.
He recycles. He plants trees. He wants to make the world a better place for his tamariki.
Environment Waikato has secured a $324,000 grant from the government's Sustainable Farming Fund for a trial into how effluent can be used to boost maize growth.
Hamilton City Council has been granted a 20-year resource consent allowing it to continue to discharge wastewater from its existing Pukete treatment facility into the Waikato River.
A total of 25 candidates have put their names forward to contest Environment Waikato's 12 seats at the local government elections in October.
Seven Hamilton garden centres are helping local people get behind Environment Waikato's Hamilton Halo project.
An Environment Waikato hearing committee has granted Taupo District Council resource consent to discharge up to 350 cubic metres of treated domestic effluent per day into the ground from its Waitahanui wastewater treatment plant.
A finding by the Environment Court that the cumulative effect of low level unpleasant odour can be considered objectionable is being labeled a "landmark" case by Environment Waikato.
Environment Waikato is prosecuting Te Kuiti Meat Processors Limited (TKMP) over a high profile effluent spill that affected Te Kuiti's town water supply earlier this year.
Joint media release: Environment Waikato and Department of Conservation
Environment Waikato is committed to working closely with other local councils on regional transport, whatever the outcome of the government's Next Steps in the Land Transport Sector review.
By Environment Waikato sustainable agriculture coordinator Gabriele Kaufler
Waikato farmers should be able to introduce nutrient management plans at little or no cost, not the $2500-$5000 indicated in a recent newspaper article.
Environment Waikato's Rivers and Us education programme is a growing success story, the council's Environment Committee heard at its meeting in Hamilton recently.
Environment Waikato is urging candidates who wish to stand for this year's triennial elections not to leave it until the last minute to get their nominations in.
Environment Waikato's draft annual accounts record a surplus of $5.2 million for the 2006/07 financial year.
The growth rate for bus use is accelerating even further in Hamilton this financial year, according to latest figures from Environment Waikato.
Joint media release: Environment Waikato and Department of Conservation
Environment Waikato says it now wants to be allowed to get on with the job of using 1080 to protect regional biodiversity and control bovine Tb, following the decision of the Environmental Risk Management Agency to allow the poison's continued use against possums and other pests.
A river improvement project Environment Waikato has just completed on Aria's Mokauiti River has resulted in a marked improvement, according to a local farmer.
Trout numbers in the Waipa River have bounced back thanks to an Environment Waikato work programme to repair damage caused by the Tunawaea slip near Otorohanga.


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python3-cephfs 12.2.2-0ubuntu2 (arm64 binary) in ubuntu bionic
Ceph is a massively scalable, open-source, distributed
storage system that runs on commodity hardware and delivers object,
block and file system storage.
This package contains Python 3 libraries for interacting with Ceph's
CephFS file system client library.
- Package version:
- 12.2.2-0ubuntu2
- Status:
- Superseded
- Component:
- universe
- Priority:
- Optional
Downloadable files
arm64 build of ceph 12.2.2-0ubuntu2 in ubuntu bionic PROPOSED produced these files:
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Gardening, Containers, Planning, Garden Coaching, Perennials, Annuals, Shrubs, Evergreens, Bulbs
Monday, January 17, 2011
Plant Of The Year
30 comments:
- Darla said...
They certainly make a big statement. I started my phlox addiction last year. I have a ways to go though..Beautiful. Actually trying to germinate some phlox seeds that were sent to me. I have read that they don't always come true to the parent plant, so, IF they germinate and grow, it will be interesting to see what happens.
- Mon Jan 17, 06:29:00 AM 2011
- BernieH said...
An beautiful collection ... the colours are wonderful! I can see how they would have been a great addition to your garden, especially given the long blooming time.
- Mon Jan 17, 06:47:00 AM 2011
- allanbecker-gardenguru said...
Phlox paniculata is one of my favorite perennials. When I was a neophyte gardener, it always made me look good.
- Mon Jan 17, 08:21:00 AM 2011
- Larry said...
As you know Eileen, I'm not totally into perennials unless they serve a specific purpose in my gardens... I'm very much a mixed border type of fellow I guess. Phlox, however is to my way of thinking absolutely marvelous and I'd like more. I don't like the ones that get too tall generally, and I don't want mildew... Franz Schubert had huge mildew problems here. I have been considering the Volcano series but am waiting for the jury to come in... are they all they're cracked up to be? Your pictures are wonderful! Larry
- Mon Jan 17, 09:51:00 AM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Darla,
I will be waiting to see the results of germinate the phlox seed. I was never a big fan of phlox until last year when I saw how they performed in adverse conditions.
- Mon Jan 17, 10:35:00 AM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Thanks Bernie,
The Blue Paradise was the longest blooming with deadheading.
- Mon Jan 17, 10:36:00 AM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Allan,
I think last year was the best I have had with Phlox, looking forward to adding some more this year.
- Mon Jan 17, 10:37:00 AM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Larry,
I have not had a mildew problem with Franz Schubert but I have with David (it doesn't have enough room where it is). Blue Paradise has some problems, but it is planted behind other perennials where it peeks out.
- Mon Jan 17, 10:39:00 AM 2011
- Lona said...
Now you are talking my kind of flower. I just adore them as you may have guessed from my blog. I am always adding more every year.After seeing your Franz Schubert last summer I had to get a couple this fall to plant with my purple Nicky Phlox. Your Volcano is another beauty. Does it have a great fragrance? You will just have to get a Starfire one to add to your Bubblegum. LOL! It is suppose to be advertised as red but it is a very very deep pink.
- Mon Jan 17, 10:48:00 AM 2011
- CanadianGardenJoy said...
Eileen girl would you believe I am a "phlox virgin" !! I think I have avoided them because of the powdery mildew thing .. but maybe if I can find a cultivar that is resistant I might just try it out: ) Yours are gorgeous !! You have so many plants even if you think your garden is small it is amazing girl !
Joy : )
- Mon Jan 17, 01:32:00 PM 2011
- Catherine@AGardenerinProgress said...
You have such a nice collection of phlox. I have several although I've lost track of which is which, except for David. I have several which have self seeded, that makes them even better!
- Mon Jan 17, 04:56:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
This is great Catherine that you have phlox reseeding. It must be our temperatures, but I have never had any reseeding.
- Mon Jan 17, 05:12:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi LONA,
Supposedly the Volcano Phlox is more mildew resistant, Bubblegum very floriforus. I found Volcano at Home Depot.
- Mon Jan 17, 07:56:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Joy, I have had a little problem with David and Blue Paradise but if planted behind other perennials you won't notice it. Blue Paradise is planted behind other perennials so I have been able to hide the mildew.
Franz Schubert, Laura and the other have had very little mildew in my garden.
- Mon Jan 17, 07:59:00 PM 2011
- Randy Emmitt said...
Really nice assortment of phlox's you have there. I'm a big fan of phlox but can not keep up with the names, we have at least 6 kinds, they do very well with little care.
- Mon Jan 17, 08:48:00 PM 2011
- Mary Anne said...
More Phlox for my garden Eileen! Missed you today at garden club...A package left at your door today................
Beautiful photographs and inspiration.
- Mon Jan 17, 10:40:00 PM 2011
- Jennifer@threedogsinagarden said...
I keep adding new varieties of Phlox every year. They are such good late summer bloomers aren't they? I like the Volcano variety- I don't have that one yet. I must try to remember to look for it in the nursery this spring.
- Tue Jan 18, 07:01:00 PM 2011
- Karen said...
Oh, Eileen, your phlox are so beautiful. What a wonderful addition to the garden, and one I will have to look into more. I am also leery of powdery mildew, but I bet some of the newer varieties would be much better.
- Tue Jan 18, 09:00:00 PM 2011
- Reading Tea Leaves said...
They are beautiful Eileen. I especially love Eva Cullum. Their fragrance must be amazing!
- Wed Jan 19, 03:54:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Thanks Randy, I never knew the names until I began collecting several different varieties. Now, the trick will be to remember them!
- Wed Jan 19, 04:40:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Mary Anne,
Phlox would look lovely in your woodland setting.
- Wed Jan 19, 04:44:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Jennifer, I have not grown the volcano variety before so I am looking forward to seeing how they do as far as mildew.
- Wed Jan 19, 04:46:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Karen, some of the newer varieties are supposed to be more mildew resistant, like volcano - we'll see.
- Wed Jan 19, 04:47:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Hi Jeanne,
Eva Cullum did not do well at my other house but is doing great here, such a beautiful pink.
- Wed Jan 19, 04:48:00 PM 2011
- joey said...
Stunning collection, Eileen, and this color blast ... awesome on these dull winter days!
- Wed Jan 19, 11:25:00 PM 2011
- scottweberpdx said...
Just beautiful! I've been shying away from Phlox for years, due to fear of Powdery Mildew, but finally realized if I grow Monarda in spite of it, why not Phlox! I've been eyeing a neighbors gorgeous clump for a while now and will definitely get some this spring...if you could have only one (in part shade) which would it be?
- Thu Jan 20, 07:16:00 PM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Scott, if I could only have one, it would be Blue Paradise, introduced by Piet Oudolf. It is as beautiful in part shade as in the sun.
- Thu Jan 20, 07:21:00 PM 2011
- Beth said...
Your phlox are really lovely. I have lots of the old-fashioned phlox that I received from my m-i-l years ago; it gets powdery mildew and I think I need to pull it and plant the newer cultivars.
Blessings, Beth
- Fri Jan 21, 11:05:00 AM 2011
I've recently discovered garden phlox and Blue Paradise and that Bubblegum pink is calling my name. Do you mind sharing if you purchase your phlox plants from a specific supplier or mail order or local nursery? I have a few that a friend has given me but she doesn't know the names of them. I have one that I got from a plant swap back in 2009 or 2010 and it hasn't done well so I plan to move it to another location and see if that will help.
- Sat Jul 30, 06:35:00 AM 2011
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
I purchase most of my perennials from local nurseries some online if I can't find them, all daylilies online from Oakes and R. Seawright and others if they have the ones I am looking for.
- Sat Jul 30, 10:58:00 AM 2011


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Scotiabank has about 20 million customer accounts across its different business lines. To gain more wallet share through effective marketing to its existing client base, Scotiabank's challenge is making sure customers get the right product or service offer at the right time, over the right channel.
In the past, Scotiabank ran one-off customer campaigns for a total of five or six campaigns a year. Now, with SAS® Marketing Optimization, the bank has increased exponentially the number of campaigns it runs per year, which is helping generate more sales.
"We're now running between 30 and 60 campaigns per year; these go out to half a million customers every month and help us generate about six million leads over the course of a year," said Vic Moschitto, Director and Head of Decision Support and Management for Canadian Banking at Scotiabank. "Finding those customers would have been a major hurdle under our old methodology, where every campaign was its own little island."
Moschitto's analytics team is responsible for helping the bank's business lines identify where they can improve customer retention. They use predictive modeling and optimization methodologies to provide campaign execution and decision support. The business line managers develop goals for the year related to account growth and analysts help them allocate leads on any given month – while balancing the needs of the different business lines so customers are not bombarded with marketing messages.
Using SAS Marketing Optimization, the analytics team is able to mine through the bank's seven million customers – and up to 18 months of data – to derive insights for more targeted customer campaigns. The SAS solution helps maximize campaign outcomes by helping refine individual customer communications; it increases marketing return on investment by determining the best offers for individual customers, while delivering analytic insight into the value of business constraints (such as channel capacity and contact policies).
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"A customer's business is an opportunity for all our business lines and we have to decide which offers we should be putting in front of that specific customer," said Moschitto. "SAS Marketing Optimization allows us to see which offer is most relevant for a particular customer at a particular time. It also helps with customer service because we're able to take relevant offers and bundle them together into one campaign so we aren't inundating customers with offers."
By using SAS, we're getting an ROI in excess of 100 percent – a significant return for the cost of the solution. The way we're able to integrate the software within our overall campaign and customer contact strategy is giving us a significant edge over our competitors.
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Moschitto added, "A customer might only be contacted three times a year, with three products that are highly relevant to them at that time; if we approached customers all the time, they'd shut us out. We want to make sure that when we do approach a customer, we have a high rate of return."
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Harbor Baptist Church
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African American men and women who are interested in learning about Christianity from a Black perspective. We feel that the American Christian Church has largely been Eurocentric and has not understood the Black Diaspora.
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Nastya, from Belarus was only three years old when she was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus and lungs. According to local doctors the region has seen a huge increase in childhood cancer cases since the Chernobyl disaster.
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Despite what the nuclear industry tells us, building enough nuclear power stations to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of lethal high-level radioactive waste, contribute to further proliferation of nuclear weapons materials, and result in a Chernobyl-scale accident once every decade. Perhaps most significantly, it will squander the resources necessary to implement meaningful climate change solutions. (Briefing: Climate change - Nuclear not the answer.)
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Obama Administration Asks Americans to Bless the Dissolution of the Rule of Law
I woke up this morning emotionally exhausted. I had been dreaming of living in a post-apocalyptic world, surrounded by zombies. Unlike those in TV shows, these looked and spoke like real humans. They were smart and blended in with the rest of us, but they could kill/turn us. It's fussy now as to how. There were blastings from afar, but I think those were against people thought to be zombies. It was confusing.
A few people from real life popped into the dream. A close friend was not a zombie. Her 10-yo daughter had been taken, impregnated and had given birth to something inhuman; the girl was gone now, her mother, distraught. For the first time in my dream I noticed I was alone, my husband and daughters gone. I decided I couldn't dwell on that. I was not one of those heroic mothers that does everything to go and try to save her children My only thoughts were to try to escape. In my dream I could deny my daughters' existence.
A colleague from the Alameda County Democratic Party appeared in a part of the dream when I was in a building with a lot of people. It wasn't clear who was a zombie, if I was pretending to be one. Should I seek my colleague's help or would he turn me in? Somehow we got rounded into a room and made to watch videos from Nazi Germany – but they were in German (or gibberish).
Later, after eating a raw hamburger (and wondering why we couldn't have fire in this apocalyptic world), there was a shower scene with a much younger and thinner me. It as a deja vu from an earlier part of the dream, zombies had discovered me then by watching me through the window from another building. I'd be safer now, it was during the day. Zombies, now, were only awake at night.
I woke up tired, emotionally exhausted, aching for my kids and in fear of my life. I turned on my tablet for distraction. And I read this headline: "Administration weighs drone strike against American citizen." The zombies aren't zombies after all, are they?
Indeed, this is the moment when we make the decision to turn into zombies. Or rather, to use the precise term, collaborators. I won't make a Nazi analogy – even if it crept into my dream -, I don't have to. I grew up in Argentina during the Dirty War, I don't need to go any further than that to find analogies. Indeed, the "doctrine of national security" which set out the ideological base for the repression in my home country, is not different from the one used in America today.
I will tell you, because it's my own story, that when I became an adult and found out what had happened in my country while I was growing up – the forced disappearances, the torture, the executions, the taking of babies from their families -, the first thing I did was to turn to my parents and ask "why didn't you stop it?". They couldn't answer.
Twenty-plus years later, as I read that headline, I understand much better. The fear they felt from the "terrorist" actions they'd experienced, the shootings, the bombings, including the one on the building across the street which shattered our windows and traumatized my 5-yo-self. We know now that the bomb was likely put by the Triple-A, a para-military group who was fighting the left with terror techniques themselves, while waging a propaganda campaign of having their violent actions attributed to the left. But back then, it was from the "terrorists", all the violence came from them.
As with zombies, you couldn't always tell who is a terrorist. That girl at my mom's work, there were rumors that she was a Montonera. My mom and her work colleagues searched her purse and found a file with instructions on how to make toys – bombs. My mom was afraid their boss/her mentor would be targeted next. I had friends in school who wouldn't share their phone numbers, their parents had received threats. My mother had her ID stolen, – what if one of these terrorists was caught with it and she was arrested? In the end, I don't think they turned her in.
Now, in my forties, I understand my parents' fear – the fear of millions of other middle-class families and their hesitancy to get involved in a situation they didn't fully understand. The military government made it easier for them than Obama is making it for us, their killings and disappearances were done quietly. There were no headlines – as far as I can remember – screaming "government considers whether it's lawful to kill its citizens without a trial". It would have been ridiculous. In a country with as established a legal tradition as Argentina, the question of the legality of extra-judicial executions was not one anyone would take seriously. And Argentina was a Catholic country. Sure, there were plenty of priests and bishops willing to condone the torture and murder of people – "we must separate the wheat from the chaff" – but the Vatican wouldn't accept that publicly. The Bible is pretty clear: you don't murder.
My parents could and do plead ignorance. Dozens of workers were rounded up at the factory where my father worked as an engineer. There was a detention camp on site for them. He didn't know. My aunt couldn't hear the screams coming from the torture sessions at the police station a couple of blocks from her house. Those young people who kept disappearing or getting killed, well, por algo será. There must be a reason for that. Por algo será became the ever present excuse for all the abuses of the military government. They know best, we are safe to look away.
Unlike my parents, we don't have the choice to plead ignorance. The Obama Administration has leaked these news to make us complicit with their decision to kill Americans. To tell them "no, you must not" is hard. We are afraid. We don't know. Killing those people may make us safer. Giving up the rule of law and our human rights may be worth feeling slightly better.
But also unlike my parents, when our children become of age and ask us "why didn't you stop it?", we won't be able to say "I didn't know". The blood of the people killed by the Obama administration – an unnamed terrorist suspect now, perhaps their college sweetheart one day – will be on our hands. We are being made part of the decision. Without our public outrage, the administration will feel free to proceed.
In Argentina, it turned out that por algo será wasn't a particularly good justification. The people kidnapped from their homes, their jobs, the street, then taken to secret detention camps, tortured and killed, might occasionally have been guilty of committing a terror act – but that was the exception. Among those that did belong to political organizations that had decided to become armed, the majority had done nothing more criminal than pasted fliers to walls or attended political meetings . Many of them, however, had worked in the slums around the major cities, teaching and helping the people who lived there, but also making them politically conscious.
The vast majority of the disappeared were actually union activists, kidnapped and disposed of so that the military government could impose its industrial policies without interference. Other victims included human rights lawyers, journalists and leftist members of the clergy. One group that achieved a sad notoriety consisted of High School students who were working to have a discounted "student ticket" for buses. The night in which they were all taken from their homes, in my own city of La Plata, is known as the "Night of the Pencils". Another night, when lawyers in the beach town of Mar del Plata were kidnapped is known as the "Night of the Neckties".
You think – rightly, fairly – that there is a long way from killing an American citizen suspected of planning yet-to-be-committed terrorist acts in a foreign land, to rounding up students and lawyers. Alas, there isn't. Once the government decides that in their struggle for the greater good, they need not feel constrained by the law (and let me be clear: extrajudicial executions are unlawful under international human rights law), we lose all the protections that the rule of law give us. There is no longer an "innocent until proven guilty", no longer a "no deprivation of life, liberty of property without due process of law" – due process of law, itself, becomes moot. And there is no longer "no cruel and unusual punishments", right to free speech, assembly or petition. Without the law to protect us from our government, we rely on the good will of our officials. We have five thousand years of human history to show us how well that works.
I can't tell you what to do. Sign petitions, call your Congressmember, call the White House, stand in a corner with a sign that says "No to Extrajudicial Executions". Whatever it is, do it. Do it because you know it's the right thing and do it because your children and their children will not only hold you responsible for your actions or inactions, but will have to live with the consequences.


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beedle necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 83 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
We are completely redesigning our brand and want to START with a new logo! We are a beautiful facility, located in a small town in northern California. We are looking for a bold logo to define who we are to our clients. Get creative! We are looking for fresh ideas and have no color specifications excep no teal or "look & feel" specs. Have fun with this.
Sonora Sports & Fitness Center
We are seeking a new logo design to be used online and for printed materials. You may go to http://www.sonorasportsandfitness.com to reference information about the business but please DO NOT USE THIS AS INSPIRATION FOR YOUR DESIGN. We are going to do a complete website redesign around the new logo. Feel free to read our newsletter or to view photos of our fitness center to get an idea of who we are. Our mission is to provide an educational, nurturing, safe, and healthy environment for our members. We would like to be portrayed as a community-minded, small town gym where we treat our members like family while maintaining a high quality, big-city feel, facility. We are very committed to our members and have the biggest (and best) gym in the area. We proudly offer services for all ages from the very young to senior citizens and pride ourselves on knowing our members as individuals. We do not have a color preference except that we do not want the current color (teal) used anywhere in the logo. Please be sure to review the comments as the contest goes along as we may decide on a color scheme based on your submissions. Because we will be using this logo in a variety of ways we will need the art in a vector format.
Note: I will NOT begin giving feedback until Tuesday April 22nd to allow time for submissions. Rest assured I will be diligent about daily feedback from Tuesday on so check back frequently. Good luck everyone. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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vre_developer needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 6 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
It's Vegas Baby!
Go wild and create a logo and brand image in the form of a web site home page mock-up that reflects Vegas and it's wild party scene.
The site allows anyone to post their "tale" from Vegas anonymously and the design should encourage that call to action.
A site logo/design/layout that accounts for those functions you see at the domain and reflects the crazy, fun side of Vegas.
- Here are a few sites that speak to the demographic market that we are targeting.
(Young, Rich, Traveler, Adventurous, Web User)
crobar.com – this one is sweet
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The guideline covers diagnosing, treating and managing epilepsy and seizures in children, young people and adults in primary and secondary care. It offers best practice advice on managing epilepsy to improve health outcomes so that people with epilepsy can fully participate in daily life.
MHRA advice on pregabalin and gabapentin: In October 2019, we updated footnotes in this guideline to reflect a change in the law relating to pregabalin and gabapentin. As of 1 April 2019, because of a risk of abuse and dependence pregabalin and gabapentin are controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as class C substances and scheduled under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 as schedule 3.
MHRA advice on valproate: In April 2018, we added warnings that valproate must not be used in pregnancy, and only used in girls and women when there is no alternative and a pregnancy prevention plan is in place. This is because of the risk of malformations and developmental abnormalities in the baby. See update information for details. In March 2019, we produced a summary of NICE guidance to support the safe use of valproate.
This guideline includes recommendations on:
- diagnosis of epilepsy and investigations to support a diagnosis
- pharmacological treatment with anti-epileptic drugs, including advice for different types of seizures
- referral to tertiary services for people with complex epilepsy or epilepsy that is not controlled by pharmacological treatment
- psychological interventions and other adjunctive therapies
- treatment of prolonged or repeated seizures and convulsive status epilepticus
- advice for specific groups of people with epilepsy, such as women and girls
- regular structured medical review of people with epilepsy
Who is it for?
- Healthcare professionals
- People who work in occupational health services, social services, educational services and the voluntary sector
- Children, young people and adults with epilepsy and their families and carers
Is this guideline up to date?
We checked this guideline in April 2018 and we are updating it. See the guideline in development page for progress on the update.
Guideline development process
How we develop NICE guidelines
This guideline updates and replaces NICE guideline CG20 (October 2004).
Your responsibility
The recommendations in this guideline represent the view of NICE, arrived at after careful consideration of the evidence available. When exercising their judgement, professionals and practitioners are expected to take this guideline fully into account, alongside the individual needs, preferences and values of their patients or the people using their service. It is not mandatory to apply the recommendations, and the guideline does not override the responsibility to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual, in consultation with them and their families and carers or guardian.
All problems (adverse events) related to a medicine or medical device used for treatment or in a procedure should be reported to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency using the Yellow Card Scheme.
Local commissioners and providers of healthcare have a responsibility to enable the guideline to be applied when individual professionals and people using services wish to use it. They should do so in the context of local and national priorities for funding and developing services, and in light of their duties to have due regard to the need to eliminate unlawful discrimination, to advance equality of opportunity and to reduce health inequalities. Nothing in this guideline should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with complying with those duties.
Commissioners and providers have a responsibility to promote an environmentally sustainable health and care system and should assess and reduce the environmental impact of implementing NICE recommendations wherever possible.


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Large Quartz cluster, grade AA - origin Bulgaria
Stone sizes:
3.9 x 5.1 x 3.1 inch / 10 x 13 x 8 cm
Weight: 644 grams
Glass display stand available to purchase during checkout - price is USD 14.99, size is 3.1 x 3.1 inch / 8 x 8 cm
Ways to use your crystals:
• Meditate with your crystals
• Relax your vibes and let it resonate with your energy.
• Carry it with you.
• Hold it or slip it into your pocket/purse.
• Feng Shui in your home.
• Crystals are ideal for home/office decorating.
Crystal characteristics and metaphysical properties:
Quartz: (Mountain Crystal)
It is known as the protecting crystal. It helps to enhance the personal energy of the wearer. It helps to protect the wearer from the negative energy around them and protects them from energies that could cause them illness or harm. It increases the desire for life and enjoying life. It has the ability to boost the internal life power, harmonizing the emotions. It can be used to mediate with, as this is one of the most powerful crystals known.
Please note each crystal is one of a kind! Each one will display its own unique personality, and it will vary slightly in color and shape.
You will receive the specimen on the photos.
If you need a special handmade jewelry - something unique or just have a question/comment just contact me via Etsy message.
1 business day
I'll do my best to meet these shipping estimates, but can't guarantee them. Actual delivery time will depend on the shipping method you choose.
Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 7 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 14 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 0 hours of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
All the standard sizing details are listed in each item's details section, for any additional questions or inquire please contact us.
Jewelry, Crystals and Minerals
Avoid contact with chemical and perfumes.
Remove while sleeping, exercising and showering.
Gently clean with a soft cloth.
Every item is placed in a small gift box with cushion. Invoices-receipts are not included in the packages.
Each crystal is unique, and will be slightly different in shape, color and quality to other of the same kind.
Since natural gemstones are used in creating the jewelry - there might be small variations in the colors of each stone, as no stone is the same as the other one.
I will create and ship your item/s in 1 business day
Production business days are Monday - Friday
If you are buying from the UK, your country does charge a customs fee on any purchase. I have no control over this and the fee is determined by your country's customs which you'll have to pay to receive your package.
The buyer's country's customs fees, taxes and duties are the responsibility of the buyer.
Not every country charges fees and taxes but please be informed if your country does. Typically countries in the EU, Canada and Australia ship quickly and efficiently. Because of some country's customs practices, packages could take up to 45 days after I ship. These packages that take longer are rare and are often held up in the receiving country's customs which I have no control over.
Please note that the photos do not always show true colors, and colors might differ due to your monitor settings.
Please make sure that your addresses are correct. All of my ready to ship items will be securely packed and shipped within 1 business day from payment received.
Shipping Options:
All orders are sent with Air Mail (Bulpost),
Standard Shipping does not include tracking number.
Shipping upgrades and adding tracking number is available during checkout.
The buyer can upgrade the postage at his/her own cost during the ordering process for upgraded delivery.


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Buy glasses, designer frames and contact lenses atBoots Opticians. Book an eye test online. Browse a wide range of glasses and frames.
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Fort Kinnaird Edinburgh Store opening times may vary. Food, cinema and leisure will be open later – please check retailer websites for further details.
Satnav postcode: EH15 3RD
From the South - A1 Motorway Northbound. Exit at the Newcraighall Junction. Fort Kinnaird is visible to the front off the ramp.
From the South - A7/A68. Join A750 City Bypass at the Sherrifhall Roundabout. Head East following the signs for Edinburgh East and North, Leith. Join A1(M) at the Old Craighall junction Northbound still following signs for Edinburgh East and North. Exit A1 at the next junction - Newcraighall.
There are regular train services from Edinburgh Haymarket and Waverley stations to nearby Newcraighall station. Check Scotrail for full timetable and ticketing information.
Fort Kinnaird is well served by local bus services: Prentice Coaches 108 and 118 and Lothian 30, 400 (previously 18), 106 and 49.
For full timetables visit the Traveline Scotland website.
Find out more and plan your journey with Lothian here or with Prentice Coaches here.
If you're looking to travel to Fort Kinnaird by bike, you can plan your journey here.
Cycle parking locations are on our centre map.
ATMs are available outside Argos, Boots, WHSmith and within Wilko.
There is a baby changing room for both mums and dads in Mothercare and Boots, as well as at Customer Services.
We have a number of bike parking locations around Fort Kinnaird. You can find these in the following locations:
We have over 2,600 parking spaces at Fort Kinniard, all of which are absolutely free. The great news is we have recently been awarded the safer parking Park Mark award.
We are proud that our car park has been issued the Park Mark, an award given by the Police to car parks that have achieved the standards of the Safer Parking Scheme, designed to reduce crime in car parks.
We have also been awarded a Disabled Parking Award by Disabled Motoring UK due to meeting a list of criteria for our onsite disabled parking facilities including maintaining our disabled parking bays, having clear signage, good lighting and easy entry to our car park. There are over 120 disabled parking bays available at Fort Kinnaird.
There are toilet facilities available for use at Customer Services, towards the back of the retail area. Various retailers also provide customer toilet facilities within their stores.
Some stores have a Click & Collect service available. Check our Click & Collect page for more information.
If you have lost something while visiting Fort Kinnaird, please contact our Security team on 0131 669 6630. Please note that we will ask for proof of ownership to make sure we give property back to its rightful owner.
Fort Kinnaird offers a free Wi-Fi service so you can surf while you shop.
Shopmobility hire is available at Fort Kinnaird where we have 2 manual wheelchairs and 2 electric scooters available for our customers who require a little help around the centre. If you would like to book the manual chairs please call 0131 669 9090. For the electric scooters you have to be registered with Shopmobility and book through them direct on 0131 557 4123.
Find out more about Shopmobility electric scooters here.


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"Love is a witness."
Tom Hardy's "the double project" Legend rams into the average door. So what takes it down the gnawing jaws of mediocrity? The plot! Yes the plot! Wish they had thought it through before helming it.
The drama isn't engaging at all. There is a constant upbeat score that keeps going in the background that makes sure of it. You almost know you are in for some humour and constant light-hearted melodrama. So things work until you see some serious business going on.
The biopic had a lot of potential if the story building was given a proper look-see. But unfortunately the direction takes a weird sluggish pit stop as it proceeds with the Frances-Reggie sub-plot to bring the tale to fruition. A lot of real facts in the Kray dictionary go down the toilet as John Pearson's story tries to concentrate more on Frances and Reggie than the twin story itself.
Screenplay is good at times, however not enough to drop the anvil. You also wish the direction to be a little more engaging. You feel this sudden need for more humour, more drama and more colours into the "not so kray-onic" world of gangsters. When the movie gets over, you instantly feel the void all the aforementioned absent elements leave you with.
The only reason you should watch this movie for is Tom Hardy. Watch him turn into something else yet again. This time he gets to play two of 'em in a single flick. Both his personalities are very different from each other. He wears two different voices (one's a monotone where he chews on his words mostly) quite gorgeously. You will marvel at his walk, the way he talks and reacts to a situation. It is both ballsy and reckless at the same time.
In the movie Legend, the chemistry between Frances and Reggie was terribly missing. Wished Tom Hardy's Reggie to be a more feeling kind. His acting at other junctures is simply outstanding though. Like when we get a glimpse of his rad provoked anger at a badass moment when he stabs the hell out of Jack McVitie. It was probably the most memorable thing in the entire movie. That and the fight between the twins which was quite hilarious and emotional at the same time.
Go watch Legend if you wish to have a little glimpse into the history of the Krays and the London mafia scene back then. That and if you are a Hardy boy!


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HTC could well be on the road to recovery after a rocky year, as sales jumped more than 20 per cent in November.
The Taiwanese firm managed to rake in $730 million (around £453 million/AU$698 million) in November, which is 23.3 per cent more than it managed to coin in October.
The firm has launched several new handsets at the back end of 2012, with the HTC One X+, 8X and 8S all helping to boost sales, revenue and popularity of the brand which has been suffering a little of late.
Not all good
A strong November aside, HTC is still dramatically down on revenue in 2012 compared to 2011.
The latest figures show that total revenue for the year is still down a whopping 39 per cent compared to the same time last year, which shows HTC still has some way to go to regain a strong position in the market.
At least these latest figures are strong for HTC and we hope they signal the start of an upwards trend for a firm which makes some beautiful handsets, but has struggled to compete with Apple and Samsung in 2012.
From Digitimes


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Update: I've made the executive decision that we've narrowed it down to two choices: Shapelings and Proselytes. Go vote for one of those here.
All right, Shapelies/Shapelers/Prosies/Shapelings/Other, it's time to decide for real which name we're going with. I made a poll and everything. WordPress won't let me actually post it here, which sucks, but still, there's a poll, and you should take it.
Then come back here and discuss. We're gonna settle this thing today.


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