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You can now start selling your hashrate or alternatively buying such for the X11-Gost algorithm used by SIBCoin (SIB) on NiceHash. SIBCoin is mostly supported by the Russian community, but in the last couple of months it has been growing steadily and the addition from NiceHash may help in the coin getting more interest from the international crypto community. The coin has a CPU miner, though not much useful nowadays with the availability of GPU miners. You can download the latest release ccMiner by tpruvot for Nvidia CUDA support of SIB and NiceHash or the latest NiceHash sgminer fork for AMD OpenCL GPUs. The latest release of the NiceHash Miner v126.96.36.199 software also comes with built-in support for the new X11-Gost algorithm used by SIB.
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Avira mentioned it as a Trojan.
Sorry guys, please be carefull with advices about any miner-software! THX!
how to mine it without a pool?


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Blowout planning
What: A new committee to plan the Wiggins 4th of July Blowout.
When: Wednesday, July 16, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Wiggins Town Hall.
Some Wiggins residents fear the problems encountered at the Wiggins 4th of July Blowout last week has scared off those who attended.
It was more of a "blow-up" than a "Blowout," noted Wiggins Board of Trustees members and those who attended the board meeting on Wednesday night.
Residents said they were surprised that there was no beer garden this year, few booths, no car show and the musical presentation was poor.
There were a few carnival booths, and three large jumping house-type games the kids enjoyed, but overall there was little for kids and families to do.
"It was a disgrace for the town," one resident said.
Some said they worried that people would not come back after experiencing the event, noting that people often come to the event after the parades in Brush and Greeley, but they were disappointed this year.
The organizers of the event said they were sorry it went the way it did, but noted that there were not many people who helped organize the Blowout, and an injury to her spouse meant that Town Clerk Jessica Warden-Leon could not be there to help.
Organizers said that they asked for volunteers to help out earlier this year, but no one responded. They admitted the Independence Day event was a "disaster." They also said this was the first time that they had worked on the event, which made it harder, because they did not have the knowledge they needed.
In general, those at the meeting agreed that more people need to be involved so that the loss of one or two people on the committee does not derail the event.
Mayor Margarito "Mac" Leon Jr., who was out of town that day, said it would make it easier if the committee had 10 or more people doing the planning.
Several people volunteered to join the organizing committee, and stressed starting planning much earlier.
"This should start now," said one resident.
A committee meeting to begin planning for next year is scheduled for next Wednesday at Wiggins Town Hall, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
One critic did say that the problems were really the fault of everyone who did not help out, not just the few organizers.
Some people have said that they did not appreciate that the band played Mexican music on the U.S. Independence Day, too.
Not everything was bad. Some people said that the new jumping house-type games — which included a soft boxing ring and a game with a person in the middle dodging bags — were a big hit.
The parade went well, with a number of very nice floats, many classic cars, antique tractors and horses.
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There is a green hill far away,
Without a city wall,
Where the dear Lord was crucified,
Who died to save us all.
We may not know, we cannot tell,
What pains he had to bear;
But we believe it was for us
He hung and suffered there.
He died that we might be forgiv'n,
He died to make us good,
That we might go at last to heav'n,
Saved by his precious blood.
There was no other good enough
To pay the price of sin;
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Of heav'n, and let us in.
O dearly, dearly has he loved,
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And trust in his redeeming blood,
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THOUGH ACCEPTING there were Contacts Between the Ancient Civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean and Iberia, Dan Stanislawski rejected the idea of any Aegean presence in the peninsula, and remained faithful to the mainstream scholarly favouritism towards Phoenicians.(a) Commenting on the "claims that there was contact" between Iberia and Crete, he conceded that it is "a seductive idea" and "a reasonable hypothesis", but "as yet there is no convincing evidence that the Mediterranean island route to the west was used" by the Minoans.
Such 'tangible', "convincing evidence" in the archaeologists' hands, i.e. a number of Egyptian trade items found in Spain, is of "a somewhat later period", after the fall of the Minoans, ca 1400-1200 BCE. Although the possibility of "Phoenician intermediaries" cannot be ruled out, one needs to have in mind that exactly in this "somewhat later period" (late Bronze Age), especially in the western Mediterranean, sea trade was in the hands of those who brought about the fall of the Minoans, that is, the Mycenaeans – who, strangely enough, are not even mentioned by the American professor! Therefore, his assertion that the Egyptian trade items found in Spain "almost surely may be associated with Phoenician intermediaries" is anything but scientific.
Besides, the Aegean presence in Egypt, the country of origin of these trade items, dates back to at least Mycenaean times and more likely even further back into the Minoan age, when a trade settlement was founded in the Nile Delta under the aegis of the Pharaohs, namely Naucratis (Ναύκρατις). It was the first and, for much of its early history, the only permanent Hellenic colony in Egypt, acting as a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Egyptian and Greek trade items, art and culture.(b) When a historian "forgets" the Mycenaeans and Naucratis, it means he wears "Phoenician myopic glasses"! Under the circumstances, Stanislawski, an expert on Portugal, cannot be suspected of pro-Hellenic bias in his narrative about the same fateful events in Iberia related in the previous Chronicles 6, 7, and 8. At the same time, we can test the accuracy of our own testimony:
The earliest passage of Phoenician ships through the Straits of Gibraltar was probably made during the general period of time when the Central European farmers and pastoralists were first entering the Cantabrian region. These events preceded the 1st millennium BC. Later, Greek exploration and trade grew, following the example given by neighboring Phoenicia, perhaps as early as the 9th century and certainly by the end of the 7th century BC. Such contacts can be equated in time with the acceleration of the East-West movement of peoples and cultures which took place in the North with the advent of the Celts, who may have appeared in Iberia as early as 900 BC, and the main force of which was felt by the 6th century. Between the 6th and the 3rd centuries BC, while the lands of the western Mediterranean were developing under the influence of active and aggressive Greeks and Carthaginians, northern Iberia was changing under the influence of Celts of later arrival from beyond the Pyrenees. There was a difference, however, between the early contacts along the Mediterranean coasts and those of the Central Europeans with northern Iberia. It was not opportunity for settlement that drew men along the southern coasts, but trade… It was the attraction of metals that drew the early Greeks beyond the straits of Gibraltar and along the western coasts of Spain.
It is possible that the early merchant wayfarers sailed up the west coast to trade directly with Galicia. But if they did, the coast of present Portugal represented a gap in their interest, for there is almost no record of them there.(c) It would seem that Portugal was then, as through so many periods of time before and after, apart from the main stream of events. It possessed no great source of silver such as the mines of Andalusia, nor of copper or tin (with slight exceptions in both cases).(d) With her metals, Spain was a magnet for the early traders, whereas Portugal attracted casual traders at most…
At the time of their first contacts with the west, the earliest Phoenicians and Greeks encountered a culture area with fundamentally similar characteristics throughout. It extended along the Mediterranean coasts, slopes, and adjacent interior valleys, from the Pyrenees to the Guadiana River… With their usual perspicacity, the Greeks recognized this area as being essentially homogeneous and sharply different in culture from the Celtic territories of the interior and of the north and west peripheries…
Indisputably, one of the important Iberian groups was that of the Tartessians, wealthy farmers and traders in metals. It was their knowledge of the sources of metals that first brought them in touch with the Phoenicians and Greeks. They knew the coasts to the west and northwest of their home, for the tin and gold that they traded came from Galicia. They were also able to furnish silver, copper, and lead, which came to them from the Guadalquivir River basin. It appears that tin was the product of greatest importance at the time. The early centuries of the pre-Christian millennium were times of great opulence along the coast of Galicia. That this wealth was due to tin may be inferred from the fact that the Greeks used the term Cassiterides to identify the area. However, the question as to the ultimate source of tin is moot. In spite of the lack of archaeological evidence it seems likely that, in the earliest years of trading, it came from alluvial deposits along the river banks of Galicia. There is a possibility, however, that Bronze Age connections with French Brittany and with the British Isles had continued and that the Galicians were merely purveyors of tin from those places. This basic necessity of bronze-users was scarce in the other parts of the Phoenician and Greek world. There was no tin in all of North Africa, Asia Minor, Caucasia, Cyprus, mainland Greece, and the Greek islands. The mines of Tuscany were small. It is no wonder that both Galicia and the Tartessians were prosperous and that the Phoenicians and Greeks were attracted to the area.
"Tin was the product of greatest importance at the time. This basic necessity of bronze-users was scarce in the other parts of the Phoenician and Greek world." (Dan Stanislawski)
The earliest Greek ventures may perhaps be dated as of the 9th or the 8th century BC. Possibly Rhodian and Chalcidian sailors were in the western Mediterranean at this time… The line of Ionian names stretching along the islands and coasts of the western Mediterranean and to the Atlantic coast of Portugal – the names with the -oussa termination – can probably be ascribed to this early period. These names are important in dating the arrival of the Greeks in western waters. They mark the island route of the early Greek navigators. Starting from Syrakoussai [Syracuse] in eastern Sicily, they may be followed through Ichnoussa (Sardinia), Meloussa (Menorca), Rornyoussa (Mallorca) and Pityoussa (Ibiza). The latter three, even now, are identified on maps as the Balearics or Pityusas.(e) The -oussa names extend westward to the straits of Gibraltar and up the Atlantic coast of Portugal to Ophioussa, in the region of Lisbon, and the general area of Portugal plus Galicia may have been vaguely termed Ophioussa.
Herodotus said that it was Greeks from the city of Phocaea in Asia Minor who were first to navigate in the western Mediterranean waters. It may seem temerous to question the facts of the father of history, but Antonio García does so convincingly.(f) The Phocaeans, says he, arrived late upon the scene, profiting by earlier maritime contacts. Nor does he accept the statement that the important voyage of Colaeus, the Samian, was a voyage of discovery of Tartessos for the Greeks. This widely heralded 7th century journey was, to him, merely one – although perhaps the most profitable and spectacular up to that time – of many such voyages that had been made by Rhodians, Chalcidians, Samians, and others.(g)
Whatever the dating may be – and the archaeological inquiry has far to go – the Phocaeans certainly became the most active and effective Greeks in the area. Their colonization had energy and breadth and was the only one in the western Mediterranean with lasting results… There is no specific evidence that this activity was connected with the decay of Tyre, but there is such a coincidence in time. Tyrian decline had begun by the end of the 8th century BC and was notable during the following century. This was the time of the voyage of Colaeus the Samian (650 BC), the founding of the Phocaean colony of Massalia, present Marseille (600 BC, or approximately then), and the founding of Alalia in Corsica (640 BC, or approximately 40 years prior to Massalia). Some time before the end of the century, Mainake, the most westerly of Phocaean colonies, was founded near Málaga.(h)
This century was one of intimacy between Phocaeans and Tartessians. The reign of Arganthonios of Tartessos began in the 7th century BC. The ancient sources spoke of his 80-year reign but probably, in typical Greek fashion, they dramatized a dynasty or a period by creating a mythical longevity for a single ruler. Whether this represented one ruler or several does not alter the fact that there was frequent and close contact between Tartessos and Phocaea. This was the period of the Phocaean maritime dominance during which the Tartessian king lent money to the Phocaeans to build their fortifications against the threat of the Persians.
The period of the decline of Tyre was not only important for the Ionian Greeks, but also for the Tyrian colony of Carthage. During the time of Phocaean colonization, Carthage too was expanding. As early as 653 BC it had established the colony on Ibiza of the Balearics, which lay athwart the Greek island route to the west. After 573 BC, when Tyre fell to the Babylonians, Carthage showed increasing independence. Competition for western metals was growing between the two great rivals, Carthage and Greece. It is reasonable to assume that the friendship of Arganthonios (or that of his dynasty), through almost a century of time, was more than mere affection and amiability. It probably represented a form of alliance in which the Tartessians aided the Phocaeans in their struggle against the threat to their mother city. In return, Greeks supported the Westerners against the growing aggressiveness of Carthage and the Punic colony of Gadir, which threatened the area of Tartessos. Almost from the time of their founding of Gadir the Phoenicians showed their expansionist tendencies. It was not long before they were using the island as a base of attack against the mainland and the Tartessians.
"The [Greco-Tartessian] friendship represented a form of alliance… against the growing aggressiveness of Carthage and Gadir, which threatened the area of Tartessos. Almost from the time of their founding of Gadir the Phoenicians showed their expansionist tendencies. It was not long before they were using the island as a base of attack against the Tartessians."
(Dan Stanislawski)
The Greeks were usually neither pacific nor friendly neighbors when the prospect of gain was apparent. In this they differed little from the Phoenicians. However, in their relations with the Tartessians they had no desire, it would seem, for control of land or people, but merely wanted to trade their products, especially olive oil and wine, for Tartessian metals.(i) In fact, the history of Greek contacts with Iberians is one of amity, and the hospitality of the Iberians toward Greeks was proverbial. The purposes of both peoples were served by friendly intercourse and mutual support against the common enemy, especially after the increased importance and the expanded ambition of Carthage. A major clash for complete dominance of the area was inevitable. This was speeded by events in the eastern Mediterranean area…
"The history of Greek contacts with Iberians is one of amity, and the hospitality of the Iberians toward Greeks was proverbial. The purposes of both peoples were served by friendly intercourse and mutual support against the common enemy, especially after the increased importance and the expanded ambition of Carthage. A major clash for complete dominance of the area was inevitable." (Dan Stanislawski)
In this part of his narrative, Dan Stanislawski turns his attention to the historic developments in Asia Minor: in 546 BCE Cyrus captured Lydia, causing "a mass migration of perhaps half of the population of Phocaea to their Corsican colony of Alalia". When the Persians took Phocaea, "all the men in this city of probably 5,000 to 7,000 people had gone. This population figure suggests the large number of available vessels, and points to the commercial importance of the city at that time". There follows the Battle of Alalia "sometime between 540 and 535 BC" with its disastrous results for the Hellenes and also the Tartessians.
Carthage may then have sealed the straits of Gibraltar, as Carpenter suggests. More likely, the straits had been largely sealed for a long time, but after the battle the land route between Mainake and Tartessos was also blocked. Mainake itself was destroyed by the Carthaginians toward the end of the century, to end its traffic and its competition with the Carthaginian settlement in the location of present Málaga…
As Carthage had inherited the western empire of Tyre, so did Massalia fall heir to that of her mother city, Phocaea. Greek trade became centered here, with the end of Phocaean maritime enterprise in the West of the Mediterranean. Trade through France to Brittany and beyond had been undoubtedly important to the Massaliotes previous to this time, but the record had been obscured by the greater drama of the struggle on the Mediterranean. During the last half of the 6th century BC, during which time Carthaginians grasped complete power in the West, the prosperity of Galicia – presumably based upon tin – declined. This decline may have been due to the change from the sea route, by way of the Straits, to that from Massalia, via the French rivers, to the northwest and ultimately to Britain…
"Galicia's decline may have been due to the change from the sea route, by way of the Straits, to that from Massalia, via the French rivers, to Britain. The direct land route from Massalia skirted the Carthaginian barrier and eliminated Galician middlemen." (Dan Stanislawski)
Stanislawski offers four possible explanations for the Galician decline; the second one is probably the most important:
More likely, the Galicians had for some time been not producers, but purveyors, of tin from French Armorica or the British Isles. If this were true, the direct land route from Massalia would have skirted the Carthaginian barrier and eliminated Galician middlemen… At approximately the same period of time there was an increased interest in silver… by the avidity with which the Greeks of Asia Minor sought it for coinage… Perhaps the richest of ancient silver mines was that of Mastia (or Massia), a region second only to Tartessos in commercial importance. The ancient prosperity of the region and of its most important city, also named Mastia (or Massia), the later Cartago Nova, and probably the site of the present Cartagena, was based upon silver mining through several centuries. Great amounts were mined under the direction of Hannibal in the 3rd century BC, and it was still a large operation at the time of Polybius in the succeeding century.
[After the battle of Alalia] Greek commercial activity in Iberia was ended and Carthage was less inhibited in the spread of its control. Tartessos, which had feared the Carthaginians and had allied itself with the Greeks, was left without support and was destroyed.(j) In the following century, probably 20,000 Iberian mercenaries were fighting in Sicily for the Carthaginians… Celts were also serving as mercenaries in the Carthaginian forces.
There was an increasing reliance upon mercenaries from the peninsula, not only from the fringes but from deep within the interior as well. In the late 3rd century BC, Hannibal's army included Celtiberians from the northern interior, Galicians from the extreme northwest, Lusitanians from Middle Portugal, Vettones from the middle Tagus drainage – and these do not complete the list. Such troops, however, were something other than pure mercenaries; many had been forcibly impressed into service… During earlier centuries no general antagonism in Iberia seems to have been engendered by the Carthaginians. Locally there may have been antagonism, such as probably existed between the Carthaginians and the Tartessians, but for the tribes of the interior the Carthaginians may have had a friendly appeal. They offered an opportunity to fight with pay. It was later, when the Carthaginians had expanded their power and increased their need for troops that their tactics changed with regard to these tribes of the interior, which had long served as a source of manpower. When Hannibal, in desperate need for troops and under economic pressure, forcibly impressed some of them into his armies, the others reacted in bitter opposition. The tribes of the interior were a bellicose lot. An opportunity to fight for pay was not distasteful to them but a demand that they submit to enslavement was another matter. According to Strabo they resisted Hannibal as they later did the Romans for somewhat the same reasons.
Nevertheless, tens of thousands of mercenaries were introduced to new lands and cultures of the middle and eastern Mediterranean. Since this process had been going on from as early as the 6th century BC and many men had returned to the peninsula, the effect upon attitudes of the peoples of the Meseta ['Plateau', in the heart of Iberia] and even some of the remote western coasts may have been considerable.
Dan Stanislawski's impartial view of Iberia is almost identical with the historical panorama of the last three Chronicles: Ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι, as Euclid would say, or quod erat demonstrandum (Q.E.D), or 'what had to be demonstrated'! There is still one Periplus left, dropping anchor at several emporia in the Mediterranean, to come full circle back to our starting point – a voyage full of surprises with several itinerant artisans, artists, and masters we meet on the way, "members of the Architects' and Painters' Guilds", whose Linear A writing, however, puzzles the famous archaeologist Leonard Woolley…


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What lies ahead in the next decade? According to one British newspaper, our next ten years will be filled with medical advances, the collapse of culture and post-internet politics. We're not even sure what that last one means...
The Independent turned to its experts to predict what the world will look like in 2020, and the results are somewhat worrying for those of us still to experience 2010-2019, especially when it comes to air travel:
Hand luggage is a thing of the past, and every passenger has to undergo an interview before boarding. Nervous flyers are reassured by the presence of an armed guard, now a compulsory member of the cabin crew.
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It is January 2020: the leaders of the main parties have set themselves an exhausting schedule of public meetings where, in a throwback to the early 1980s, they will make speeches, in person, in front of live audiences. The forthcoming 2020 general election is being billed the "back to the future" election... Excessive concentration on digital campaigning is thought to have been a factor in the surprise defeat of David Cameron's government in 2015, which brought the Labour Party, under its veteran leader Peter Mandelson, back to power.
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After cleaning and cutting the blue crab,I plan to cook Chilli Crab but due to time restrain I just coated with flour and seasoning to make Salt and Pepper Crab.To my surprised hubby loves it!! Usually he don't eat any seafood with shell or hard shell but after he tried one pieces,he keep going for more!!
1 dozen blue crab,clean and cut to 1/2 each
1/2 cup self raising flour
1/4 cup corn flour
1 tbsp salt
1 tbsp ground white pepper
*combine all dry ingredients together in a large container*
1 tbsp sugar+1 tbsp seasalt+1 tbsp ground white pepper
1 stalk scallion,washed and cut 2 inch each
1 red whole red pepper,washed and sliced
2 cups cooking oil
1:Heat fryer or large skillet or wok with oil at medium high heat..Coat cut clean crab with flour mixture,shake the excess flour,then place in hot oil to fry till lightly brown or 1 minutes each side.Repeat to cook all the crabs till done.Dish cooked crabs out and set aside.
2:Remove oil from skillet ,reduced heat to medium ,use the same skillet,pour back the cooked crab into the skillet,then immediately sprinkle salt and pepper mixture all over the crabs,toss crabs in the skillet and keep tossing crabs for 3 minutes till all the seasoning well combine wt cooked crabs to form a crunchy and tasty coating.Check the seasoning.
3:Add in cut scallion and sliced whole red pepper into the crabs,toss few times before dish out and serve warm and snack or meal.
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Tdol, this is British English only right? I have never heard that in American English. Thanks
English Teacher
Click here for the definition of this idiom.
Tdol, this is British English only right? I have never heard that in American English. Thanks
It's British English.
we have a similar one in my mother tongue.
(something like) "It only thunders but never rains"...
The "trousers" part gives away its British roots immediately. (I learned the hard way to stop referring to my trousers as "pants" when I was in the UK.)
"All talk and no action" would seem to be the American equivalent of this idiom.
Another American speaker suggested this : https://www.usingenglish.com/referen...no+cattle.html
We've got this idiom in our language I mean similar to it
I've heard a possibly related idiom - 'all mouth and trousers', meaning vociferous and blustering in a particularly male way (brimming with testosterone )
PS oops - just read Tdol's original link.
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It seems that it started life in the north as 'all mouth and trousers' and picked up a negative on its way south.


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Ragic: Switching to Google Compute Engine eliminates DDoS service disruption
About Ragic
Founded in 2008, Ragic develops and sells software that enables businesses to build web database applications. Partners of these businesses may also use Ragic to develop or customise database applications for them.
By switching to Google Compute Engine overnight, Ragic protected itself against DDoS attacks that had previously rendered its service inaccessible.
Google Cloud Results
- Eliminated system downtime caused by DDoS attacks that compromised its ability to provide services to customers, and improved stability
- Delivered a better customer experience by cutting response times from up to 400 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds
- Met data sovereignty requirements for customers in different markets
Zero downtime since moving to Google Compute Engine
Ragic software provides online database management, collaboration, report generation, query building, and file storage integration capabilities. According to Jeff Kuo, Founder, Ragic software presents an easy to use, flexible option for businesses that want an alternative to packaged software systems that may not meet all their needs. "Vendors in the enterprise resource planning or customer relationship management system markets typically market large software packages designed to meet the needs of all the customers they want to do business with," he says. "However, these packages can require considerable time and resources to maintain, while not actually meeting all the specific needs of a business without additional customisation work."
According to Kuo, Ragic can easily be adapted to customers' individual requirements and is simple enough to enable team members outside IT departments to create web-based database systems. The company's message is clearly resonating in international markets: Ragic customers include globally recognised United States universities and technology companies.
Ragic, Inc. started marketing Ragic software in 2010 and elected to do so from a multi-tenant hosted platform. However, as the platform's profile increased, so did the volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks by individuals or groups. By late 2015, Ragic started to experience some network instability that affected the service provided to customers.
On Christmas Day that year, disruption caused by the DDoS attacks escalated and by 2 January, 2016, customers and the Ragic support team reported they were unable to connect to the company's servers. By the afternoon, the platform provider had effectively shut down traffic to its primary data centre, which meant none of the Ragicservers were visible to the company or its customers. "In the end, there was nothing we could do but wait until the provider resolved the issue," says Kuo.
"The interface for Google Compute Engine within Google Cloud Platform was considerably more modern and intuitive than the interface of the equivalent product on the other service. In fact, the entire cloud platform was more modern and clearly designed with much less baggage than the alternative."—Jeff Kuo, Founder, Ragic
While waiting for service to be restored, Kuo decided Ragic should at least understand the implications of moving its servers to another environment. Having previously used a cloud service offered by a multinational company, he elected to quickly review Google Compute Engine.
"The interface for Google Compute Engine within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was considerably more modern and intuitive than the interface of the equivalent product on the other service," says Kuo. "In fact, the entire cloud platform was more modern and clearly designed with much less baggage than the alternative."
Furthermore, Google operated a data centre in Taiwan where nearly one third (30%) of Ragic customers are based. "This means the connections for those customers in particular will be a lot better and for a variety of reasons, including data sovereignty and support, they prefer to have a data centre in their own country," says Kuo.
Finally, Ragic welcomed the ease of accessing Google Compute Engine functionality that encrypted data at rest, which the company viewed as extremely important in protecting the enterprise-grade data used on its service.
The ease of use of Google Compute Engine enabled Ragic to migrate from its existing platform to a stable and highly secure environment in just one night. "We found it extremely easy to set up virtual compute instances in Google Compute Engine," says Kuo. "On the night of 2 January, 2016, I was able to use the brief moments that our connection to our incumbent provider was available to set up all of our servers in Google Compute Engine and move our data across to Google."
"We have had no service disruptions or degradation due to DDoS attacks–either to our underlying platform or the application itself–since we moved to Google Compute Engine. We do have alert tools that notify us when we are under attack and we have not received any of these since we moved to Google about 18 months ago."—Jeff Kuo, Founder, Ragic
Ragic is now operating a hybrid architecture based on Google Compute Engine and incorporating storage, mail, content delivery, and domain name system web services from different providers. Because the business accesses most of these services through application programming interfaces, using multiple providers has not proved to be any impediment to operating efficiently, flexibly, and cost-effectively.
In May 2017, Ragic was running five Google Compute Engine standard virtual machine instances across Taiwan, the United States, and Europe to meet the compute requirements of the Ragic software
Greater stability to improve performance and availability
The migration to Google Compute Engine has delivered a range of benefits to Ragic, including stabilising the service to improve performance and availability, and blocking the threat posed by DDoS attacks. "We have had no service disruptions or degradation due to DDoS attacks – either to our underlying platform or the application itself – since we moved to Google Compute Engine," Kuo points out. "We do have alert tools that notify us when we are under attack and we have not received any of these since we moved to Google about 18 months ago. We have been continuously improving our availability and for the most recent month, we've reached nearly 100%."
This robust performance is also due to the fact that Ragic can add extra disk space to its virtual machine instances without scheduling downtime to complete the required work.
Faster response times
Running virtual machine instances close to large contingents of users in Taiwan, the United States, and Europe has enabled users to connect to a local server to help ensure faster response times. "The machines themselves are quite a bit quicker than those we were using previously, and we've improved response times from countries accessing our instances in the United States from up to 400 milliseconds to about 200 milliseconds," Kuo says.
By deploying instances in Europe, Ragic has been able to help ensure that its European customers can comply with data sovereignty and governance requirements.
Ragic is extremely pleased with the stability of its architecture and, particularly, Google Compute Engine since the start of 2016. The business is evaluating whether other Google Cloud services such as Google Natural Language API can deliver further efficiencies to its operations. "We don't really have many issues that Google should address and it is extremely quick at providing status updates and information as we need them," says Kuo.
About Ragic
Founded in 2008, Ragic develops and sells software that enables businesses to build web database applications. Partners of these businesses may also use Ragic to develop or customise database applications for them.


text: It might not be the November 7th promised by Luke's pre-order, but the official release date for the Xbox 360 version of Rock Band 2 in Europe is definitely falling on this side of Christmas. As if summoned by Plunkett's scorn, MTV, Harmonix, and EA have announced the official release date for the sequel to the all-too-recently released rhythm game. November 14th is the date that Europeans and United Kingdominians will be able to get their hands on the disc-only version of the game, priced at €69.99 and £49.99 respectively, with the instruments going on sale by themselves sometime in December. Still no word on the PlayStation 3, PS2, and Wii versions, but considering they only saw release across the pond last month, I suppose they can wait a little bit longer. They've barely even had time for their instruments to break.MTV GAMES, HARMONIX AND EA ANNOUNCE ROCK BAND®2 FOR XBOX 360® COMING TO EUROPE Award-Winning Rock Band 2 Shipping in November to the UK and Europe Guildford, UK – October 29, 2008 – Harmonix, the world's premier music video game development company, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom's MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), along with distribution partner Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS), today announced that its critically acclaimed music videogame Rock Band® 2 will begin shipping in Europe for the Xbox 360® video game entertainment system from Microsoft beginning this November 14th. With an exclusive launch window in Europe, the award-winning Rock Band 2 software will make its debut on Xbox 360® in the UK on November 21st. Pricing for Rock Band software for Xbox 360 in continental Europe is €69.99 and £49.99 for UK. In addition, Rock Band 2 standalone hardware will be available at retail beginning in December. Rock Band 2 revolutionizes music gaming with the ability to export most of the songs from the original Rock Band disc , Online World Tour, daily Battle-Of-The Band Tournaments, Auto-Calibration to eliminate TV lag, wireless drums, quieter, velocity sensitive drum heads, support for up to three drum cymbals (sold separately), No Fail Mode, and a real Drum Trainer. Rock Band 2's massive list of innovations also includes the ability to export your in-game band avatar to the internet and order custom Rock Band merchandise including apparel and figures. Rock Band 2 features the largest music catalogue of any music-based videogame to date including over 100 songs on the Rock Band 2 soundtrack with an unrivaled blend of classic and new artists including AC/DC, Guns 'N Roses, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, Motorhead and more! With the addition of complete and immediate backwards compatibility for songs purchased from Rock Band's ever-expanding online music store and the ability to export most songs from the original Rock Band disc, the Rock Band music library will feature more than 500 songs by year's end. The Rock Band online music store has surpassed 25 million paid downloads since the game's launch in late November 2007. With more than 400 tracks available to date via disc and download purchase (complete list of tracks at www.rockband.com/music), the massive Rock Band Music Store allows players to preview and purchase downloadable individual music tracks, packs and albums from the vast selection of offerings available as they build their own custom Rock Band library. Rock Band 2 is rated 12+ by PEGI. For more information on Rock Band 2 and Harmonix Music Systems please visit www.rockband2.com and www.harmonixmusic.com. Developed by Harmonix, MTV Games is the publisher of Rock Band. EA is the exclusive distribution partner for Rock Band.


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|Sarah Albee
|Maggie Swanson
|Golden Press
|A Little Golden Book
Elmo Loves You! is a 1997 Sesame Street storybook told in rhyme. Bert loves pigeons, penguins love snow, kids love toys -- and Elmo loves you. At the end of the book, Elmo asks the reader to be his Valentine.
This book is one of three Little Golden Books published in 1997, tying in with the previous year's Tickle Me Elmo craze. The others are Tickle Me: My Name is Elmo and Big Bird's Ticklish Christmas. It has become a perennial favorite, and has been reprinted four times by three publishers over the last decade.
The book was reissued as "A Sesame Street Big Book" by Candlewick Press in 2009.
In 2010, Moving Picture Books narrated the story and animated the illustrations. They released it for digital download with Bob asking reading comprehension questions at the end of the story.
The book was also collected in Elmo's Ultimate Edition Storybook in 2007.


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.I have 2 red males and 1 red female have had 2 rounds of shots and.wormed.mother is blue father red . .will be on small side $250. each
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Beautiful athletic blue heeler stud available. Cash is smart, friendly, loves kids and has a great temperament.
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Visit Vocations Toronto at www.vocationstoronto.ca, a resourceful site in answering these questions.
The story of the two sons in the Gospel should not be a surprise. Each of
them has difficulties, rebellions, rejections and struggles. This is true
of any serious human and Christian life. We are not just born and
automatically become wonderful human beings. Instead, we are born and life
begins. Life is a serious of difficulties, rebellions, rejections and
struggles. There are also wonderful joys, graces and delights.
Lent is a time for us to recognize our own sinfulness and to ask that we
may become more alive in God's grace. We need both of these aspects in our
lives: a recognition of our own rebellion against God and a deep desire
for God's grace. We see this dynamic at work both in the Book of Joshua
and in the parable that the Gospel of Luke gives to us today. In both of
these, literary works, inspired Scriptures for us, there is awareness that
we humans do not easily admit our brokenness and sinfulness. We try to get
by without God and without admitting to ourselves our inability to do what
is right. Only when we find ourselves in difficulty do we begin to admit
our brokenness and our need for God.
The Second Letter to the Corinthians tells us that whoever is in Christ is
a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold new things have
come. In order for those new things to come, we must let the old pass
away. We let the old pass away when we finally admit that we are powerless
to control our lives or even to manage our lives and finally allow God to
possess us. God makes us in His own image only when we allow Him to do
May this Sunday in Lent help us see our need of God and come back to the
Father. The Father is always waiting for us and will to run out to meet
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Mike Fullerton necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 32 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
I'm the founder of small startup, GreenTongue Software (http://www.greentongue.com). I'm a software developer with a couple decades of experience. I'm starting a technical blog about developing software (iPhone/iPad/Android) at http://www.nerdglee.com. I'll be blogging about technical issue, tools, small business startup stuff, gadgets, and what ever else I feel like that causes nerdglee. This blog will be informative, but also fun to read, ironic, decidedly non-corporate, and maybe even edgy if I can manage it.
Definition of nerdglee: http://www.nerdglee.com/nerdglee-definition/
The blog will be for technical folks from programmers to uber-geeks and people starting bootstrapped startups. Someone who frequents stackoverflow.com would probably read this blog. Maybe someone who read gizmodo or lifehacker as well, though this will be more technically oriented than those blogs.
I want the logo to be whimsical, colorful, and not boringly corporate. I want the blog to look clean and that it's not been designed by a typical programmer, e.g. crammed with all kinds of widgets and boxes and stuff that is of questionable value, and so the logo should fit with that minimalist design. I want people to think that the blog (and logo) looks nice and modern (e.g. web 2.0), though I know that the many or most may just use a rss reader to consume the content. The logo will also be used on twitter of course. Also, the blog will be kept with very simple colors, e.g. white background, because it will be geared toward readability.
For the logo, I have in mind a cartoon style. I think having a propeller hat as part of it would be humorous and basically what I have in mind, though I'm not married to the idea. Maybe the hat could be on something that represents the internet, or technology, or something. Something like a globe. Or not. Maybe it shouldn't be on anything. I think you get what I'm driving at. Nerdglee is a funny word. Nerdglee is what powers the propeller hat. Hence, what I'm thinking for the logo.
I'm looking forward to your designs.
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| 8.8°C Belfast
David Wilson will anchor England's scrum for as long as possible against Ireland on Saturday but admits he is unsure of what he can deliver at Twickenham.
A duel with British and Irish Lion Cian Healy, one of the game's most accomplished looseheads, awaits a player who has been limited to just 47 minutes of club rugby in the last two months by a calf injury.
Wilson is being pressed into action after Dan Cole was ruled out of the remainder of the RBS 6 Nations because of a bulging disc in his neck that could yet end his season.
With Henry Thomas deemed unready to start a fixture of such magnitude, it falls to Wilson to complete as lengthy a shift as possible until being relieved by the untested rookie.
Head coach Stuart Lancaster admitted on Monday that England are "not in an ideal situation" and will be delighted if the Bath tighthead survives intact until the final quarter.
Wilson's own outlook on what he can produce is shrouded in uncertainty and he promises only that he will empty the tank in what is a pivotal fixture in the Six Nations title race.
"I think I'm ready to play on Saturday. I would have liked one more game to get my match fitness up, but that's the way it goes," Wilson said.
"I've got no idea how long I can play for. As long as possible I guess - that's what I'm aiming for. I want to do as well as I can for as long as I can.
"Maybe 50 or 60 minutes. If I get through that and perform well, I'll be reasonably happy. I'm obviously eager to make a big impact."
Wilson damaged his calf in a training game before Christmas but having overcome that injury, his return was delayed by a further two weeks because of a tight back.
The 28-year-old finally made his comeback in Bath's 27-23 Aviva Premiership victory at Exeter last Saturday and his lack of match fitness was evident.
"When I initially got the calf injury I thought it would be a few weeks, but I guess I'm not a medic. Maybe that's why I'm not a medic!" he said.
"I was disappointed it took so long. It's frustrating when you're injured and I couldn't do a lot with it being my calf.
"It feels good now and I was well tested in the scrum by Exeter. It was a fast game and the pitch was heavy.
"It was a good workover and I am happy about that. It was a tough test. It might have looked hard and it was.
"I worked pretty hard last week so feel I will be 20 to 30 per cent better this week.
"I'm aiming to do the basics well - scrum well, line-out well, get through that, go for as long as I can and not let anyone down."
The lack of depth at tighthead was exposed as soon as Wilson entered the treatment room, leaving first-choice Cole as the only option in the position amid a clear reluctance from England to field Thomas.
Cole was forced to play longer than Lancaster would have liked against France, finishing the match while Thomas sat unused on the bench, and completed all but five minutes against Scotland.
While Lancaster stressed Cole's workload was not to blame for the bulging disc that has trapped a nerve, the situation has reinforced the need to develop more options in what is a critical position.
"Dan's injury comes with the territory. I've had those problems before, a similar disc bulge but not quite as serious," Wilson said.
"There is pressure on your neck at the scrum and breakdown and even during tackles if you get your head on the wrong side.
"It's an important part of the body. You have to look after your neck and do as much rehab as possible."