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Despite everything going to hell in a handbasket in 2020 alt rock has had a banner year so far, which has perhaps even been spurned on to some degree by the tumultuous time and place that we all occupy. IDLES came out with an emphatic, high-testosterone, adrenaline packed LP that gave even the most timid people the energy of the Ultimate Warrior, with their album Ultra Mono. Meanwhile, Code Orange released Underneath which had enough atmosphere and intensity to score an experimental horror film. Most notably though, The Strokes came back sounding as fresh as they ever could with The New Abnormal. The album incorporated synth instrumentation, melodic influences from Pink Floyd to The Bee Gees, and enough lyrical strength to go up against almost any of Radiohead's best albums. 2020 sucks, but it has a killer soundtrack.
Keeping that trend going is the debut EP, Documentaries, by British prog-rock quintet, The Long Faces. Despite having a scant few tracks leading up to the release of their EP, they have gathered and maintained a strong fanbase, with nearly 70,000 monthly Spotify listeners and more than two million total streams on their listed tracks. Finally, in this trying time, The Long Faces drop their first collection of songs with a 3 track EP. Honestly though, calling them tracks is too passive; this is a 3-banger EP.
Banger number one was originally teased to hype up the project, "Sail Away," which is a track that sounds like The Smiths if Santana took over for Johnny Marr. The Smiths similarities only get stronger with the relatable lyrics and mopey singing from lead vocalist Tom Lane, whose morose baritone makes him a dead ringer for Morrisey. And hey, anyone that can have the same sound as Morrisey without the moral baggage of actually being Morrisey is always welcome in my book. The song ends perfectly as Lane wails out the song's title, almost as if he's drifting further from the listener, while the siren-like tones of bassist Kristina Rhodes join in as the song descends into a beautifully chaotic euphony, straight out of a Pink Floyd joint, leaving the listener wonderfully disoriented.
As seamlessly as "Sail Away" ends, so begins the EP's title song, "Documentaries." The track uses unnerving droning sounds before kicking into a relaxing bossa nova style bass line, like the listener had sailed away on a stormy night only to wash up ashore on Costa Del Sol from Final Fantasy VII. Those same guitar riffs that elevated the first banger sneak in between the verses to elevate this track as well. Lane shows some fun wordplay with the bridge cooing, "You shoot me. I'll shoot you. And we can make documentaries too." The shooting in this case referencing a camera and fixation, rather than a gun. He also goes on to adlib over the second chorus, drunkenly rambling while still attempting to honor the rhyme scheme, before giving up and going straight into scat. This playfulness fits perfectly with the song as it has much more of a jazz aesthetic. One could easily imagine a song like this going over well in the KGB bar's Red Room, or getting under Adorno's skin as he writes his next theory book.
The EP rounds itself out, with its final banger, "And Where Have You Gone, Mr. Wolf?" going in a shoegaze direction with its heavy reverb and distorted guitars that can put the listener into an introspective trance. Its final two minutes stand out in particular as Lane and Rhodes echo each other while the My Bloody Valentine-esque instrumentation backs them up, with enough feeback and distortion where you know exactly where their gaze is fixated.
While the EP is quick at three songs and thirteen minutes, you can't help but feel excited to hear where they are headed next. Should The Long Faces be able to get more studio time in the post-pandemic world, fans of Morrisey, reverb, and cheekily written lyrics will have plenty to look forward to. The prospect of this quintet releasing a full length album is too tantalizing for the world to pass up, hopefully this EP is just catnip for more material on the way.
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Mengs' "Salvator Mundi" Gets a Make-Over
|Anton Raphael Mengs, Salvator Mundi (1778), after conservation
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If it sounds fishy, it probably is – Prince Frederic von Anhalt claims that the house he shares with ailing actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was broken into over the weekend by two mystery men who may or may not have taken things, and who may or may not have destroyed some property.
In a report that many think is just the Prince trying to keep himself on the media radar, von Anhalt sais that two men entered his house in the middle of the night, and that he chased them away with a baseball bat. Â He also says he fell while chasing them, and so they got away. Â Interestingly convenient.


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A Long-Awaited Improvement
We now have a timeframe for when one of the most anticipated events in the world of cryptocurrencies is going to occur.
Last week, the Ethereum team announced that their Metropolis hard fork will take place toward the end of September 2017. The announcement comes roughly six months after the company revealed their 2017 Road Map and less than a month following bitcoin's split into bitcoin and bitcoin cash.
This fork will implement a number of changes and improvements, including higher levels of anonymous transactions, easier programming and smart contracts, and additional security in the form of masking, which will help protect users against hacking.
The upgrade was expected to include a "Difficulty-Bomb" that would make ether token mining harder to perform, but according to the Ethereum team update, that will now be added as part of a second hard fork at a later date.
Unpredictable Reaction
The news of a implementation date for Ethereum's hard fork is drawing a great deal of attention and speculation from industry experts, who aren't certain how the market will react to the change.
In the announcement post, the Ethereum team addresses this uncertainty, noting that prices could increase or decrease. Previous upgrades and forks have lead to the former, which, in turn, led to surges in ether mining. A similar chain reaction could come as a result of this fork, they explain.
Metropolis isn't the final planned update for Ethereum. The next upgrade, known as Serenity, is expected to "bring the breakthrough to the mainstream," but Ethereum has yet to share a release date for that upgrade.
When it was first announced in February, a release date for Metropolis was set for three to six months. The actual September release will arrive just a bit later, so the Ethereum team may need some time before they're ready to shake things up again with Serenity.
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The tail end of Marvel's Phase 3 may seem like worlds away, and in many ways it is. Between now and then, there are no less than a handful of movies until we start to reach the second half, and around 13 films that will make up Phase 3 in its entirety. The beginning of that second half, it seems, will be marked by the third AVENGERS film, which has been titled AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR, as we REPORTED ON LAST WEEK.
As far away as that seems, however, the current Marvel schedule puts us less than two years away from what will undoubtedly be the most epic crossover to date. Given how quickly that film is coming up, one would think that the screenwriters are at least neck-deep in the writing process. Yes, Marvel has done pretty fast turnarounds on their films in the past (ANT-MAN and THOR: THE DARK WORLD come to mind), but with a movie that brings so many characters together, that's the last thing you want to do.
So how far along are they? In a recent interview with screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (the men behind the amazing CAPTAIN AMERICA movies), and they had the following to say about their status.
One thing to note: while it's been made clear by Marvel that the previously-titled AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR PARTS 1 & 2 will be two completely two-part different films (and not "parts" of a bigger story), the screenwriters appear to be working on the drafts simultaneously, which is interesting.
"We're many drafts in. We're on the third draft of movie one and the second draft of movie two. [We're writing them in tandem] as much as we can. On any given day, you're only working on one but that doesn't mean that next week, you aren't working on the other one. And certainly, notes are coming in and all sorts of production stuff is coming in, like for instance, 'that thing over there is now a window not a door so adjust that.' Or, 'we're not going to this town now, we're going to this town.' That kind of stuff happens constantly and will continue to happen for the next few months.
It wasn't entirely clear how many characters would come back for part one, and whether the massive team-up will be saved for the fourth AVENGERS film, but what was clear was that at some point, we will see pretty much everyone in these films.
"When we lock ourselves in a room with the Russo brothers and a couple of execs from Marvel, one wall has cards for movie one and the other wall has cards for movie two and another wall has little baseball cards of every character still alive in the Marvel universe – down to Darcy's boyfriend in Thor 2 – literally, anybody who did not die and has been established as alive. And then we looked at that began to shuffle the cards around. So basically, the big scene is when Darcy's boyfriend and Galactus get together and….[laughs]."
It's important to keep in mind that the last part regarding Galactus was a joke, so don't get too excited or appalled just yet at the direction the story is headed. Either way, it sounds like an epic time, to be sure. It was pretty much assumed that these two AVENGERS flicks would be movies where many of our favorite characters reunite, so this confirmation isn't a huge surprise, but hearing it aloud does seem to help solidify the general idea in my mind. In other words, if we thought CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR was a crowded epic, then just wait.
What are your thoughts? Which characters are you excited to see more of in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR? Let us know in the comments down below!
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It is a question writers hear a lot: "Where do you get your stories?" Well, in at least one case, a story came to me in a hypnagogic state.
Hypnagogic — Of or relating to the partially conscious state that precedes sleep; the drowsy period between wakefulness and sleep, during which fantasies and hallucinations often occur.
It was the weekend of Marcon, in Columbus, Ohio, back in (was it actually that long ago?) 1979. Katherine Kurtz was the Guest of Honor that year.
At the time, I was immersed with the creation of Morgana Black, my stage hypnotist vampire character for the White Wolf World of Darkness RPG. Since I knew Katherine was a trained Ericksonian hypnotist, and part of Morgana's backstory was her training under Erickson, so I quickly wondered how Katherine would react to meeting Morgana. I never did mention anything about it to her, but the idea did live on in the back of my mind, with unexpected results.
I was staying with a friend that weekend who lived on the outskirts of Columbus, and I commuted every day to the convention. By Sunday evening, I was very tired and in fact, too tired to sleep, which led to a prolonged hypnagogic state. As I tried to sleep, my mind flashed back to Morgana and the last game session, where she wound up in cyberspace in front of a Celestial Chorus datastore. Because of that, I imagined that she would receive a visit from a prominent Celestial Chorus Mage to investigate her, and she wound up charming him into becoming a friend and possible ally. I don't know how long I persisted throughout this state, but it was enough to engender a story. The names here were changed to protect the innocent, the guilty and everyone else involved.
It all began with a visit by Morgana to an unnamed science fiction convention, where the Guest of Honor, Caroline Knight, was an author of a fantasy series about a mystical race of humanity and their struggles to keep their existence secret from the rest of the world. Morgana found the idea comparable to the way vampires (and other supernatural creatures) kept themselves away and apart from the world at large. When they met, and because of encounters afterward, she would recognize Caroline as a potential Celestial Chorus initiate. Of course, there had to be conflict, and a Marauder (chaotic to the max) Mage came to try to recruit her for his cause. That led to a final confrontation between the Marauder and Morgana and the Celestial Chorus Mage, with Caroline in between. It ended with Caroline being rescued and formally inducted into the Celestial Chorus, and, as a bonus for helping, Morgana's own Avatar, which died when she was "turned" as a vampire, was re-awakened by a powerful Oracle of the Celestial Chorus. In between there were a couple of examples of Morgana using her hypnotic skills and talents, as she often would, on unsuspecting or eager subjects.
What happened to that story? Well, I did finish it but I never published it anywhere. Now I'm taking the bones of it and rewriting it into something independent: not just filing off the "serial numbers" but inventing an entirely different world and world system to support it.


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It didn't rain during lunch, at least not inside the chow hall! I think it slowed down after lunch for just long enough to coax people back out on the water. I started for home instead, and ran into heavy rain before I got to route 2.
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There has been speculation in the past that the Flames are ahead of the curve in the NHL when it comes to the use of Advanced Stats. An article in the Globe and Mail identified the Flames along with the Penguins, Bruins, Sabres and Lightning as being at the forefront in hockey.
Jay Feaster hired a mysterious man in the background in 2011, Chris Snow.
A lot of speculation circulated around his job title of "Director of Video and Statistical Analysis" which had some wondering exactly what Chris does in the background. Mathematical wizard, Internet guy, video editor, Billy Bean's hockey version of Paul DePodesta?
This Flames video sheds some light on what is going on, although a lot of detail is not there nor would it be expected to be. Snow does not appear to be a DePodesta but rather a guy who is building a extensive video database for the Flames for use by hockey eyes throughout the organization whether it be players, coaches or management such as Weisbrod and Feaster.
Even the Moses on the mountains of Advanced Stats who come down from on high to deliver the Commandments of Hockey Analysis will all defer to direct observation from a trained eye. In short the trained eye who actually watches the game and player, has the advantage over the guy just looking at numbers.
High end stats gurus will acknowledge that even the numbers defer to a trained eye's evaluation. As Snow goes on to explain, the PUCKS system is a Video Database system that logs video of events. Originally designed as a coaching tool in baseball, the Flames are making use of it in a much broader way.
Drafting, trades, analysis and so forth and this is going to continue.
In Snow's own words after the jump...
At the Draft
Not surprisingly the Flames do not tip their hand on any of the details of formulas and various data sets that they may build personally from the PUCKS system.
Snow identifies 15 teams that use the PUCKS system currently and about 5 that are delving into deeper areas of using the data in more advanced ways.
The Flames are also a team that uses it from top to bottom. For M&G readers this will likely be taken as a positive sign that they are taking this tool and using it in more creative or "advanced" ways. The details remain unknown but they are building their own databases on players.
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During World War I President Woodrow Wilson asked Americans to plant vegetable gardens "to ward off the possible threat of food shortages." By 1943, victory gardens supplied an amazing 40 percent of the produce in America. You can see the proof in this photo showing hundreds of public gardens in New York. Growing vegetables united the country.
One hundred years later…
Michelle Obama courageously dug up part of the White House lawn. Why? To unite us against a real threat: A childhood obesity epidemic. When I downloaded the Audible version of her book Becoming (which she reads, by the way), I was interested mostly in her stories about gardening. I finished it with a greater appreciation for this First Lady. And I also came away with greater concern for the physical health of Americans.
You'll see what I mean…
Dear readers: This article first appeared as my weekly garden column in the Kodiak Daily Mirror
Every solution starts as a seed
In 2009, when Barack Obama took office as the 44th President, nearly one-third of American children were overweight or obese. Kids were being diagnosed at record rates with high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, a disease that was unheard of when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s.
Over the previous 30 years, rates of childhood obesity had tripled. Now obesity shows up in all walks of American life. Even military leaders, she says, were reporting that obesity was one of the most common disqualifiers for service.
You might wonder why Michelle Obama took on gardening as her first real effort as First Lady, especially since she had never sowed a radish seed in her life…
Cauliflower mac and cheese: Yum!
"I didn't want to be some sort of well-dressed ornament who showed up at parties and ribbon cuttings," she said. "I wanted to do things that were purposeful and lasting."
Her family learned how to eat better at home and later at the White House. "I now knew that strawberries were their most succulent in June, that darker-leafed lettuces had the most nutrients, and that it wasn't so hard to make kale chips in the oven."
Personal note: When my husband had a mini-stroke in 2016, we shifted, lock, stock, and barrel to a plant-based diet. I had to learn how to cook all over again. But we've never turned back…
Michelle was pleased to see their two daughters eating things like spring pea salad and cauliflower mac and cheese.
But outside their home…
"…Most of what we knew about food," she said, "had come through food industry advertising on everything boxed, frozen or otherwise processed for convenience, whether it was in snap-crackle TV jingles or clever packaging aimed at the harried parent dashing through the grocery store.
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"Nobody, really, was out there advertising fresh, healthy stuff–the gratifying crunch of a fresh carrot or the unparalleled sweetness of a tomato plucked right off the vine."
Oh, hey! Let's start a revolution: Advertise homegrown tomatoes during Saturday morning cartoons!
The garden as a poster child
By planting a garden at the White House, Michelle hoped it would signal the start of something bigger as her husband focused on improving access to affordable health care. The garden represented a way to offer a parallel message about healthy living.
Eating a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables is a big priority for my family. We would rather maintain health rather than chase health. That is why we garden, well that and it tastes amazing too.
— Heather Johnson, Kodiak, Alaska gardener
In speaking on these topics from the White House, Michelle sent a clear challenge to the giant corporations in the food and beverage industry. You can send clear messages, too by voting with your dollars and writing to your Congressmen.
You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
— Michelle Obama
A garden for everyone to see
It had been decades since a White House Victory Garden had been planted, on Eleanor Roosevelt's watch. So it took some convincing on Michell's part. Eventually, she and her staff secured an L-shaped, 1,100 square foot plot on the South Lawn. In plain view of tourists. Elementary students were often seen digging in the dirt and playing with plants.
Like every beginner gardener, Michelle was a little anxious. "Because with a garden you never know for sure what will or won't happen–whether anything, in fact, will grow."
On the first day of planting, Michelle knelt with a bunch of fifth graders as they carefully transplanted seedlings into the ground, patting the dirt into place around the fragile stalks.
Kids made me feel like myself again
"I loved being with children. It was and would be throughout the entirety of my time in the White House, a balm for my spirit, a way to momentarily escape my First Lady worries, my self-consciousness about constantly being judged. Kids made me feel like myself again."
They planted lettuce, spinach, fennel, and broccoli; carrot seeds and collard greens; onions and peas. "I didn't know, the same way I didn't know what lay ahead for us in the White House, nor what lay ahead for the country or for any of these sweet children surrounding me.
"All we could do then was put our faith into the effort, trusting that with sure and rain and time, something half-decent would push up through the dirt."
Like Michelle says, "You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."
If she was sitting in my motorhome in Arizona, where I'm sitting right now, I'd give her a big, gardener to gardener, hug.
Thanks for being here, dear readers.
P.S. Please share this blog post with your friends and family. It might be the best gift ever!
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Providing students a high-quality education
Published 10:47 pm Friday, February 22, 2013
By Gov. Bob McDonnell
Across the country, education reform efforts are calling for bold changes that put students first in all decisions about policies and practices in classrooms, schools and school divisions. In Virginia, we are part of that effort. We are enacting, on a bipartisan basis, commonsense, results-oriented and student-focused reforms that are positive for our students, teachers and parents. We know that in order to get a 21st-century job and a good college education, students must be prepared for the rigors of postsecondary education coursework, and they must be ready to achieve the good-paying jobs of tomorrow, particularly in the fields of science, technology, engineering, math and healthcare.
Over the past few months, we have outlined our 2013 "All Students" education agenda, focused on expanding educational opportunity, ensuring excellence in the classroom and increasing innovation and accountability.
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With bipartisan support from the General Assembly, we have proposed legislation that would enhance and streamline the teacher contract and grievance process, afford local school divisions grants for strategic compensation for their teachers, and provide state assistance to our failing schools.
Additionally, our other top legislation initiatives will ensure sustainability of algebra and reading interventions and include these initiatives in the Commonwealth's Standards of Quality, provide staffing flexibility to localities, ensure a more transparent and easy-to-understand grading system for our schools, and allow for Teach for America to partner with Virginia school divisions to bring in high-quality educators to our hardest-to-staff schools. This agenda puts students, teachers and families first.
Great teachers in great schools make great students and citizens. A great teacher makes all the difference in the life of a young person. We are working to recruit, incentivize, retain and reward excellent teachers and treat them like the professionals that they are.
This year, we introduced The Educator Fairness Act, sponsored by Delegate Dickie Bell and Sen. Tommy Norment. This legislation extends the probationary period for new teachers to between three to five years and requires a satisfactory performance rating as demonstrated through a new performance evaluation system that includes student academic progress as a significant component in performance evaluation. Finally, this legislation streamlines the often drawn-out and burdensome grievance procedure to allow for an expedited decision to inform the teacher of their employment status.
This legislation primarily focuses on putting the best possible teachers in the classroom, and giving them the support they need to be successful. Last week, this proposal passed both the House of Delegates and the Senate with strong bipartisan support.
We want to provide incentives for our very best teachers to excel in the classroom. That's why we have proposed $15 million for school districts to reward well-performing educators by establishing the Strategic Compensation Grant Fund in legislation sponsored by House Majority Leader and retired teacher Kirk Cox.
This strategic compensation plan, based on a model developed by the Salem City school system, will be implemented through local guidelines that best fit each school division's unique characteristics and mission. We want to reward the teachers who mentor others, work in hard-to-staff schools and subjects, and show significant academic progress with their students. This will allow for additional compensation for many of our great teachers who go above and beyond every day.
In the Commonwealth, we equip low performing schools with turnaround specialists and additional resources from the state and private sector. But, unfortunately, despite these efforts a small segment of our schools are still struggling. That's unacceptable. Therefore, we have proposed a bold initiative to establish a statewide Opportunity Educational Institution to provide a high quality education alternative for children attending any chronically underperforming public elementary or secondary school.
The Opportunity Educational Institution will create a new statewide school division to turn around our failing schools. If a school is consistently failing, the Opportunity Educational Institution will step in to manage it. If the school has failed for three years, the institution can take it over and provide a brand new approach to a broken system.
This model is proven nationally. Louisiana and Tennessee have created Recovery and Achievement Districts, and their results are positive. Every child deserves the opportunity to attend a great school. We owe it to them, and we cannot allow a single school to fail a single child anywhere in Virginia.
Across party lines, we are coming together in Richmond to pass important reforms that will positively impact every Virginia student. In order for our students to have the skills necessary to compete in the 21st Century global economy, they need the best available teachers, and our educators must have every useful option available to help them improve student achievement, including innovative approaches.
Together, we have taken significant steps toward achieving these goals. Our All Students agenda expands educational opportunity, ensures excellence in the classroom, and increases innovation and accountability. We are instituting education policies that put students first and are basing our actions on what is needed to best prepare our students to succeed in a global economy.
This is an education agenda that is good for students, teachers and parents, and that is why it is receiving such broad bipartisan support. Together, we are improving education in the Commonwealth and ensuring a brighter future for our young people.
Bob McDonnell is the 71st Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. This column first appeared in the Roanoke Times on Feb. 18.


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Halloween season is upon us, and there's already a clear "Costume of the Year." Celebrities and their kids seem to be inspired by all things "Tiger King." Jason Aldean and his family went deep into "Tiger King" mode for Halloween. How deep? He actually recreated Joe Exotic's "I Saw a Tiger" song in costume. (Do yourself a favor and watch it here.) Who else got into the Halloween spirit by getting their "Tiger King" on? Keep reading for more…
Kelly Ripa went as "Tiger King" star Joe Exotic while hosting "Live With Kelly and Ryan."
Like his "Live With Kelly and Ryan" co-host, Ryan Seacrest honed his inner Joe Exotic. "Business in the front, party in the back," Ryan wrote on Instagram.
Ryan Seacrest also dressed like a tiger to fully encompass the "Tiger King."
Kim Kardashian West and her friends and family went deep into the "Tiger King." Kim donned her best Carole Baskin outfit, while her kids — North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm — went as tigers. Kim's BFF Jonathan Cheban, who she often dresses up with for Halloween, went as Joe Exotic. "Carole Baskin, Joe Exotic and our tigers," Kim said on Instagram. Jonathan referenced a previous Halloween costume they did while speaking about this year's outfit. "I don't think anything will beat Sonny and Cher," he said, "BUT this comes Close!!"
Gabrielle Union's 2-year-old daughter, Kaavia James Union Wade, roared with this lion costume (And yes, "Lion King" did feature lions.) "I really do hope the lion sleeps tonight," Gabrielle said on Instagram. "I cant take the cuteness."
Jerry Ferrara's 17-month-old, Jacob Michael Ferrara, wasn't feeling his lion costume. "All kids love Halloween right???" Jerry captioned the Instagram snap. "Asking for a friend…" Gabrielle Union laughed at Jerry's picture, commenting, "Our lions hate us!! Lmaooooo"
Ashley Roberts, a former Pussycat Dolls member, knows all about cats! She's pictured in London in a tiger outfit on October 30, 2020.


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Dog's nails are very much important thing which helps them to walk, run, play and explore. That's why it is so necessary for us to take care of them. Without taking care of their nails, they will have to face some serious damages. Such as, it will cause mild discomfort to punctures or bone problems. There are many dogs will be found that have broken nails by their excessive length. It is really very painful for them when their nails get broken.
But you can easily prevent this problem by cutting or trimming your dog's nails. But it is not an easy task to do. Dogs will get scared when you are going to cut their nails. Two important things can affect your dog's nails cutting time. One is where the nails are and the other is breed of your dog. You need to be very watchful and careful when you are cutting your dog's nails. Here, we will discuss about how often should we cut dog' nails…..
Many dogs can be found which walk regularly on pavement. It is not also good for their health but also it can naturally warm down their nails. So, you don't need to trim their nails as often.
Dogs which are getting older will be walking less often. It means that, they need more frequent clippings than the other dogs which have naturally worm nails by walking.
If you see that your dog is very active and going to lots of walks on dirt or grass then it can't be worm down their nails naturally. But it will work if they walk on asphalt, sidewalks or any other rough surfaces.
Some dog's breeds help their nails to grow more quickly than the other breeds. If you see something like that then you need to require more frequent nails trimmings. But some small dogs like "Chihuahuas" which are spending more time on their indoors need to have short nails cut.
Length of the Nails:
If your dog's nails are getting longer quickly then you need to cut it. If a dog's nails are getting too long, you can hear their clack when they walk. Generally, they take time to 3-4 weeks to get longer. So, you will need to watchful about it.
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There are many types of nails trimmer you can get on the market. But it is really hard to know which will be the perfect one to use. That's why we will tell about some best nails clipper here so that you can get your suitable one. Here are the following nails clippers are…..
1. Safari 770045 Professional Nail Trimmer:
This nail trimmer has more than 4500 reviews. So, it will be clear to all that this nails trimmer is loved by most the pet parents. It is one of the top rated items and has the first rank. It has the number one spot for having excellent reviews, affordable price tag and easy to use.
This item is made with high quality stainless steel. The clippers blades of this trimmer are very strong. It is sharp and durable and can cut through nails quality. It is really a suitable one for squirmy dogs and some other dogs who don't like have nails trimming. It has a quick stop that helps to prevent causing painful damage to the quick of the dogs nails. The handle of this trimmer is also padded with cushy rubber grips to get comfort when you take it to your hand.
You can get this nail trimmer in both small and large sizes. It will be available on the market. So, you just need to choose which size will be perfect for your dog. If you have any cats then you use it also. Most of the customers told that they purchased the small size for their feline friends because it is more useful for them.
2. Millers Forge Quality Nail Clipper:
# Very durable spring loaded cutting mechanism
# Has comfortable grip
# Made with quality stainless steel
# Easy to use and maintenance
# Quality stainless steel offers easy trimming so that your hand does not get tired
# Not useful to use on small dogs
# Not have ergonomic design
# Not ideal for the beginners
This nails trimmer is the best choice for them who has large log. The Millers Forge Quality Nail Clippers are coming out from Italy and these are very heavy duty. This no frills nail clipper from Millers Forge has a great sharpness. It is very strong and easy to use. This trimmer is produced by a surgical tool. It is a high quality product. You can get this clipper with an affordable price.
This nail clipper is equipped with ultra sharp and stainless steel blades. The handle of this clipper is covered with non slip rubber. It helps for easy maintenance, use and comfort. The springs of this trimmer is loaded with heavy duty springs and that's why you don't need to have apply much force to the trim on tougher or thicker nails. It has also a quick stop guard and locking system for safe storage. This clipper comes with lifetime satisfaction guarantee. Overall, this nail trimmer is very useful to use.
No mixture, this dog nail clipper is one of the top ones with its brilliant high-quality stainless-steel blades that offer most secure approaches to trim the paws, guarantees a well put together every time and allows you to complete the section procedure without being stressed over damage chance.
3. GoPets Professional Pet Nail Clipper:
# Quick safety stop is very useful to prevent you from cutting your dog's nails too short.
# Beautiful design
# Easy to use
# Easily trim down even the toughest nails
# Made with high quality materials
# Gives lifetime guarantee
# Blades will need to replace on any occasion
# Tools make this item noisy that's why dogs get little scared about it
The GoPets Professional Pet Nail Clipper is a useful one for both dogs and cats. It comes with the professional high quality that makes it one of the best for large or medium dogs and cats. It is suggested by veterinarians, creature mentors, and expert groomers.
To give the neat and tidy each time it is made with high caliber 3.5mm thick treated steel that will remain sharp for a considerable length of time. It is uniquely intended for the calm, smooth, brisk, and sharp cuts and not tried against genuine samurais.
The quick sensor security guard prevents over-cutting and significantly lessen the danger of damage to your pets. Simple to bolt cutting edges allows the sheltered and advantageous stockpiling. Vast non-slip covered handles offer simple hold and give incredible use to un problematic cuts.
Its Unconditional Satisfaction Guarantee makes you allowed to purchase this item with certainty. Also, on the off chance that you are despondent or need to restore this item, they offer a substitution device or discount approach.
It propels your pets mental states, conduct and wellbeing, so you can state that its advantages go past simply making them look beautiful. The new model structure brings the most current developments and wellbeing for you and your puppy.
Dogs are really an awesome animal which we everyone love. So, it is been our responsibility to take care of them. Here, we describe how often we cut dog's nails and some of the best nails trimmer. Hope, it will give a fulfill satisfaction to know the whole details about it.


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The Wonderful Stone Lithographs of Michael Parkes
Parkes studied graphic art and painting at the University of Kansas. As a student, Parkes was fascinated by various graphic processes, and he later became proficient in the difficult medium of the colour stone lithograph. Many of his recent works have been produced as Aurographics, limited edition giclée prints.
His unique style evolved in isolation, after a period in which he gave up the practice of art altogether and went to India in search of philosophical illumination,[2] a location that he and his wife continue to visit annually.[3]
Early on, he painted in the generally abstract expressionist style common among his teachers. However, he later began to draw and paint in a meticulous style of detailed representation. This style is realistic in principle, but often uses magical subject matter, with imagery drawn from a range of traditions including the cabalistic and the tantric. Strange beasts encounter mysterious winged women, good and evil fight out their eternal conflict.


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Introduction: Belt Sander Aluminium Polishing
There are several Instructables showing how to make a stand for a woodworking hand held belt sanders but I haven't seen any using them on metal.
I like to make motorcycle parts 'shiny', it looks better and also makes thing's easier to keep clean
I'll show you how to polish small parts to mirror finish using far less work than files, emery cloth, etc. I had been doing these parts by hand but it took quite a long time to get good results, this method gets a better finish in about 20 minutes
Things you need :-
1. hand held belt sander - mine is a real cheap one from Harbor Freight Tools, made in China and available pretty much everywhere although the name may be changed in different countries - I know it is in Canada and Australia
2. Vice or some method to mount sander 'upside down', could always search for Instructable on mount
3. Dust mask - very very important, aluminium dust is believed to cause long term health issues, Alzheimer disease, etc
4. Heavy gloves, two reasons, you are quite likely to accidentally touch belt and the parts will get quite warm through friction
5. Face shield or goggles, this is pretty dirty, I used a micro fiber cloth to clean it up
Final pic is sander 'mounted' in vice using the front handle
I messed up a bit and put this into introduction instead of first step, I'll get better at it eventually
Step 1: The Component to 'shine Up'
Carburettor mounting bracket for 1974 Honda CB360, mould line and sharp edges
start with an 80 grit sanding belt. when the seam has been ground off, switch to 120 grit belt to remove scratches from 80 grit
Step 2: Repeat Step 1 Using 320 and 400 Grit Belts
Continue to use finer grit belts, I normally go to 600 but couldn't find it so stopped at 400 grit, then used 'secret' method to reduce cutting action
Red rouge (or brown 'compo') polishing compound is easily available at most home centers and online auctions
Used engine oil is 'free' if you do your own oil change and saves a trip to recycling center, a gallon will probably last for years
Apply a layer of brown compo to 400 grit sanding belt, just run sander and press compound down onto belt. When you have an even layer, dip brush in engine oil and paint on a coating of oil (while sander is still running)
Push part your polishing into the mix and smooth everything off, use a rag to check scratches are coming out
If belt starts to look 'dry' apply some more oil (but not so much it throws off everywhere)
Finish with a soft cloth and ordinary aluminium polish, I use old 'T' shirts
What was taking about one and a half hours is now finished in about 20 minutes


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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
An Italian Escape with Mimosa Lane
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Makes me want to go to Italy! Love the shoes and bag!ReplyDelete
I could use a vacation right about now. This would be the perfect wardrobe for it. Great choices, Albertina. Safe travels, Sam.ReplyDelete
Love albertina!! And really love that swimsuit!ReplyDelete
Those earrings are perfection! I just got home from Rome. It was amazing but COLD! Think the hubs would take me to Portofino next!?ReplyDelete
Beautiful! My friend got married there, so beautiful!ReplyDelete
Oh wow...I adore this post...Albertina, Portofino is someplace I have always wanted to go and I would like nothing better than to pack every one of those items in my bag!ReplyDelete
Sam, I am happy I discovered you through Albertina! Have fun in Australia - I look forward to reading about it when you return.
That packing list just has me suffering wanderlust like *CRAZY*!!! It's vacation time, without a doubt!ReplyDelete
that bikini really is perfection. love it. i've been to italy before, but never portofino - looks gorgeous!ReplyDelete
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That bikini made me swoon! I adore Italy.ReplyDelete
Planning a trip to Italy this Fall and plan to take it south this go around. Will have to add this to my list of must see cities.ReplyDelete
This post might be my favorite of all time. Dreaming of the Amalfi Coast...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Albertina!!! OK now I want to go to Italy! add it to my never ending list!ReplyDelete
P.S. GIVEAWAY ALERT: GOLD AND GRAY tassel bracelets GIVEAWAY ends at midnight!!
Love the tunic!!!ReplyDelete
And yes Italy is a great destination!
My favorite place in Italy is Sardinia island, just stunning, amazing water and wonderful beaches ...!
Albertina, this pic of you is stunning!!! And, yes, let's go here now - it's so charming how it sits on the hillside!ReplyDelete
AHHHH I was here on my honeymoon and most def deserves a trip back. Lately I've had London and Paris on the mind....ReplyDelete
Italy sounds amazing right about now and that bikini is SO cute! Thanks for including my necklace!!ReplyDelete
XO Lily
- AnonymousMarch 28, 2013 at 2:35 AM
I would love to go there once!ReplyDelete
That is a wishful packing list! I love the tunic-I could totally relax in Italy in that tunic :)ReplyDelete


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above). Since the sad or otherwise. demise of the Apollo and the conversion ofTiffanys into a discotheque. their places have been taken by:
0 The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Box office 552 5961. There are three halls here. which will cater for smaller groups right through to the mega-draws. At the time ofgoing to press. this was. as yet. virgin territory. It remains to see ifit is superior to the appalling Ingleston Exhibition Hall which served much the same purpose.
0 Barrowland Ballroom 244 Gallowgate 552 4601. Once Tiffanys closed down. there was a definite gap in this corner ofthe market — an unsealed. mid-sized venue for bands who did not want to. or could not. fill
Glasgow is, as tar as pop music goes, very much the city at The Next Big Thing. From Orange Juice to Lloyd Cole to the Jesus and Mary Chain act alter act in the city has created a good deal ol talk, national media coverage and major record company interest (one at the biggest local cliches at '85) and all with a monumental amount ol luss. Flavour ol the month became llavour oi the week and Glasgow's music scene like a goldllsh bowl ol aspiring pop stars looking out and big business cheque books looking in. One band, in tact the only band I can think at, who have managed to avoid all the hype have been The Big Dish, a rather shy and retiring band, snapped up by Virgin Records last year.
Their debut single 'Big New Beginning' which was released mid-summer, disappeared without a trace - and that was a shame, because it was easily one at the least pretentious, most natural sounding singles to come lrom a Glaswegian band in a long time. The Big Dish play guitar based music suitable to swathe a soundtrack in the giorous browns and golds oi the dry and dusty roads at middle America; music lor the big
the Apollo. It was Simple Minds. starved of their regular and much-loved Tiffanys who had the bright idea ofopening up the long since closed, former haunt of Bible John. especially to shoot a video. It was such a success, it was spruced up and has remained open ever since.
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0 The future of La Sorbonne, one of Edinburgh's most regular venues for the city's young hopefuls. is in jeopardy. The pub is set to close on 27 October, when their current licence runs out, and few hold out any hope for a successful appeal. No firm dates for October were available when this issue went to
screen in the big country. In other words, that curious blend at country, rock melody that delies the macho attitude at other lonns (don't mention Bruce Springsteen) without becoming too obsessively American as in, lor Instance, the occasional track lrom Lloyd Cole And The Commotions' 'Battiesnakes'.
'I don't get annoyed about compartsons' says lead singer Steven. 'Maybe it we were very successlul I would. I think that we are just that wee bit ditterent irom other bands doing this style oi music. We're not blatantly trying to sound American. The sort at things I listen to are . . . well Talking Heads, Neil Young, Wire, Nana Mouskourl . . .' Wacky taste in music aside, I do expect that The Big Dlsh, although they may not be the future at rock and roll, will consistently produce quality singles. 14 October sees their next release 'Prospect Street' hitting the shops. See the Edinburgh listing lor where to catch them in the coming iortnight, or hold out to see them supporting Lloyd Cole And The Commotions later this year. (Andrea Miller).
press. As the pub was losing money on the old policy of featuring free bands every night, a function that The Jailhouse has taken over anyway. manager Daniel Pratt's plan was to cut live acts down to Thursday and Friday nights. hoping to attract bigger names and sell tickets — Wilko Johnson and The 3 Johns having been approached. At press-time. though. still no firm dates had been confirmed. apart from Desolation Angel on Monday 7 and Skeletal Family on Thursday 17. Even that date might be worth checking on the day. Hope to have more information next time — watch this space.
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On 28 May 2013, the new legislation on competition came partly into force. The Code on economic law, which is
a long-term project, contains book IV on the protection of competition and book V on competition and price evolution.
As from now, the government can appoint the new members of the Competition Authority, which is necessary in order to accomplish the necessary changes.
Book IV and V, of which you will find below a brief explanation, will most probably enter into force soon.
Next to a complete reform of the Belgian Competition Authority, the new legislation will provide new procedures and contains new provisions on the pricing of goods.
1. Reform of the Belgian competition authority.
According to the new law, an independent body is brought to life, which will preserve fair and free competition. The Belgian Competition Authority is composed out of the President and its office, the Competition College, the Execution Committee and the College of Competition Prosecutors managed by the Prosecutor-general.
As a result, the Competition Authority should be a streamlined structure and should be able to perform its duties more adequately. Hence, this body should now be able to apply articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) in an efficient and transparent manner.
The law assigns a representation function to the President and its office, such as the representation of Belgium in European or International competition bodies and he has to partake in European or International discussions and negotiations concerning competition legislation and policy.
The Competition College on the other hand has the power to take the decisions on competition issues, while the Execution Committee is competent to organize and compose the office of the President and the College of Competition Prosecutors, and to determine guidelines on the implementation and the application of competition rules.
Finally, the College of Competition Prosecutors is charged with the investigations concerning concentrations. Under the new legislation, the investigation power of the College of Competition Prosecutors is more extensive than before and the independence of the investigation should be guaranteed.
2. Reform of certain procedures
A new element is the injunction right of the Minister of Economic Affairs, which gives the Minister the power to order an investigation.
Another important innovation is the implementation of provisional measures. The College of Competition Prosecutors, the plaintiff or the Minister will be able to request for provisional measures during the investigation of a case. Subsequently, the Competition College will be able to order said provisional measures in order to suspend the unfair competition practices, which are subject of the investigation. It must be noted that the procedural deadlines in this respect are quite short.
Nonetheless, it will be possible to lodge appeal against the decisions of the Competition Competition College before the Court of Appeal of Brussels. Although the appeal as such will not suspend the immediate execution of the decision of the College, it is possible to request suspension of the decision in question.
In addition, the College of Competition Prosecutors is competent to engage in settlement discussions with the undertaking, which is subject of the investigation. The law provides for a specific procedure, based on which these settlement discussions can take place. In order to be eligible to agree to a settlement proposition, the law requires that the undertaking in question acknowledges its involvement and responsibility of the violations.
Furthermore, it is important to mention that individuals may be subjected to the sanctions provided by the law. This should refrain any individual, whether or not he or she is part of the management, to cooperate or participate to unfair competition.
3. Competition and price evolutions
The Code on economic law also implemented Book V on competition and price evolutions. The basic principle by which the prices of goods are determined by the free market is still fundamental. However, the price observatory will be able to consult professional and consumer organizations or the interested parties, if it would determine a problem concerning prices or margins, abnormal price evolutions, or a structural market problem.
Additionally, the price observatory will notify the Minister of its report and will transfer said report to the Competition College. Based on this report, the Competition College will be competent to take provisional measures in order to end these wrongful practices and which cannot last longer than 6 months.
4. Conclusion
It is fair to say that implementation of a new Competition Authority is a positive evolution and will support the enforcement of competition. However, question can be raised concerning some of the procedural matters, given that the powers of the Competition Authority have been substantially broadened. Time will tell whether the Competition Authority will function as an independent and balanced body and if the new legislation will safeguard competition rather than burden the free market.


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PET Radiochemistry laboratories houses 3 hot cells where PET radiotracers are produced.
The Hot cells have 4" of lead shielding and 9" (4" lead equivalent) lead glass windows for viewing the operations within. Each hot cell is fitted with one remote manipulator to assist in non-automated operations.
This area also has 4 fume hoods and sufficient bench space to house the quality control apparatus for testing the radiopharmaceuticals. The exhaust of these laboratories are monitored continuously for release of radioactivity.
We have a separate laboratory for labeling with Iodine-124 and Zirconium-89 isotopes. These isotopes are used for long biological half-life compounds.
At the moment antibodies and photodynamic therapy compounds are labeled. These labeled compounds are used in animal studies and these animals are imaged using our Focus 120 microPET.
The Cyclotron is shut down but we buy the isotopes from IBA. We can buy F-18 from a commercial vendor and can produce the labeled ligands of choice for animal studies.
We have a thin layer chromatography scanner and three HPLC systems with UV and radioactive detectors. These HPLC systems are used for purification of the labeled drug and for their quality control.
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- 1 3 – 4 – pound fresh beef brisket
- 2 medium onions, thinly sliced and separated into rings
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 12 – ounce can beer
- 1/4 cup chili sauce
- 2 tablespoons no-calorie, heat-stable granular sugar substitute
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 10 Italian bread rolls
- Trim fat from meat. If necessary, cut brisket to fit into a 3 1/2- to 6-quart slow cooker. Place the onions, bay leaf, and brisket in the cooker.
- In a medium bowl combine beer, chili sauce, sugar substitute, thyme, salt, pepper, and garlic; pour over meat.
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AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
Control AWS resources available to your users using AWS Service Catalog
The grant least privilege best practice advises you to grant only the permissions that are required to perform a task. To follow this best practice you should determine what your users need to do and then design IAM policies that let users perform only those tasks. AWS Service Catalog extends the very same best practice. If you are an administrator, it lets you specify the AWS CloudFormation template that your users can launch, while restricting the permissions required to create individual services. If you are an end user of the AWS Service Catalog, you don't need to worry whether you have enough permissions to launch the stack or whether you are following your organization's tagging strategy correctly.
In the first part of this two-part series of blog posts, I explain how you can manage the AWS resources your users can create using AWS Service Catalog. In the second blog post, I show how you can use AWS Lambda to decommission all of the resources that have been provisioned from an AWS Service Catalog portfolio.
Before I get into how it works, let's first review a few key AWS Service Catalog concepts:
- A product is an IT service that you want to make available for deployment on AWS. You create a product by importing a CloudFormation template.
- A provisioned product is a CloudFormation stack. When an end user launches a product, the AWS Service Catalog provisions the product in form of a CloudFormation stack.
- A portfolio is a collection of products, together with the configuration information. You can use portfolios to manage the user access to specific products.
- Constraints control the way users can deploy a product. With launch constraints, you can specify a role that the AWS Service Catalog can assume to launch a product from the portfolio.
Now I'll walk you through a use case to show you how you can control the AWS resources your users can create. In this use case, you want to conduct a training of a web-based product, say WordPress, using your training AWS account. (WordPress is an open-source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.) On the day of the training, attendees sign into your training AWS account using IAM user credentials that you created, and create their own AWS CloudFormation stack using a WordPress CloudFormation template. The stack outputs a WordPress endpoint that they use during the training. Here are two of the many things that could go wrong due to a single malicious attendee:
- The user might tweak the CloudFormation template to do unauthorized actions like:
- Launching a high-end EC2 instance.
- Launching an EC2 instance with a wide-open security group.
- Something else!
- The user might never tag any of the resources they created leaving you a number of unknown resources to manually discover and clean-up after the training.
A simple solution to mitigate these problems is not to give CloudFormation template creation access to the IAM users. Instead, you will use AWS Service Catalog to manage the resource provisioning.
Here are the steps you need to go through to let attendees launch a stack using your predefined CloudFormation template:
- First, create a portfolio.
- Then, upload WordPress product to the portfolio created. The product contains the WordPress CloudFormation template and configuration information.
- Next, create an AWS Service Catalog IAM role (role) and associate it with the WordPress product, as a launch constraint. Later, when users provision the product, AWS Service Catalog will assume the role created.
- Next, grant the training attendees access to the portfolio that you created.
- Then verify whether training users can provision the product. During the training, users can use the AWS Service Catalog to provision the WordPress product.
- After the training is over, you terminate all provisioned products from the portfolio.
The following solution diagram illustrates how you can set up a training using AWS Service Catalog.
Before you begin, you need to do the following:
- Create an IAM user group for the training attendees. To do so, create one or more IAM users (for distributing to training attendees) in your AWS account and assign no permissions to them. Next, create an IAM User Group with a group name as
Training-Usersand then add IAM users created to the
- Verify that AWS Service Catalog is supported in the AWS Region.
- Verify that you have:
- AWS Service Catalog Administrator access.
- IAM Permissions to create a new IAM role.
Then, you need to create an AWS Service Catalog portfolio. You will use the portfolio to provide training attendees an access to the WordPress product.
Step 1. Create a portfolio
For this use case, you can create a single portfolio with a Training Portfolio name. You will later grant training attendees access to this portfolio. To create a portfolio:
- Sign in to the AWS Management Console and then open https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.
- If you are using the AWS Service Catalog administrator console for the first time, choose Get started to start the wizard for configuring a portfolio. Otherwise, choose Create portfolio.
- Enter the following values:
- Portfolio name –
Training Portfolio
- Description –
Portfolio for conducting a WordPress training.
- Owner –
Training Team
- Portfolio name –
- Choose Create.
Next, associate the
Portfolio-Name tagOption with the portfolio. This will cause AWS Service Catalog to attach
Portfolio-Name tag to all resources created during provisioning of the product from the portfolio. If you are a first-time user, ensure that you have migrated to the TagOption Library. To associate a tag:
- Open https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.
- From the Service Catalog drop-down menu, choose TagOption library.
- Choose Create new TagOption.
- Specify key as
Portfolio-Name, value as
Training Portfolio, choose Save.
- From the Service Catalog drop-down menu, choose Portfolios list.
- Select
Training Portfolio, expand TagOptions, choose Add TagOption.
- Select the entry with the key as
Portfolio-Name, value as
Training Portfolio, choose Save.
Next, you need to upload the WordPress product to the portfolio created.
Step 2. Upload the WordPress product in the portfolio
In this step, you upload the CloudFormation Template you want your users to launch, in the form of a product. To upload a product:
- Open https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.
- Click on
Training Portfolioto open the portfolio details page, and then choose Upload new product.
- On the Enter product details page, type the following and then choose Next:
- Product name –
- Description –
This product launches WordPress CloudFormation Stack.
- Provided by –
Training Team
- Product name –
- On the Enter support details page, choose Next.
- On the Version details page, choose Specify a URL location for an Amazon CloudFormation template, type https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-west-2/WordPress_Single_Instance.template in the text box. Specify:
- Version title –
- Description –
Base Version
- Version title –
- Choose Next.
- On the Review page, choose Create.
Next, you'll create an IAM role that AWS Service Catalog can assume to allow training attendees to launch a product.
Step 3. Create a Service Catalog IAM role and associate it with the WordPress product as a launch constraint
Create a role that will have permissions to create a CloudFormation stack as well as to create all resources created by the WordPress CloudFormation template. To create the IAM role:
- Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
- In the navigation pane, choose Policies. Choose Create policy and do the following:
- Choose JSON Tab.
- Paste the following policy in the editor:
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "LaunchWordPressRole", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupEgress", "ec2:AuthorizeSecurityGroupIngress", "ec2:DeleteSecurityGroup", "ec2:TerminateInstances", "ec2:CreateSecurityGroup", "ec2:RunInstances", "ec2:createTags", "catalog-user:*", "cloudformation:CreateStack", "cloudformation:DeleteStack", "cloudformation:DescribeStackEvents", "cloudformation:DescribeStacks", "cloudformation:GetTemplateSummary", "cloudformation:SetStackPolicy", "cloudformation:ValidateTemplate", "cloudformation:UpdateStack", "ec2:describe*", "ec2:get*", "s3:GetObject", "sns:*" ], "Resource": [ "*" ] } ] }
- Choose Review Policy.
- Provide a name, such as
WordPressPolicy, choose Create Policy.
- In the navigation pane, choose Roles. Choose Create role and do the following:
- Choose AWS service and then choose Service Catalog. Next, choose Next: Permissions.
- In Filter panel, type
- Select the check box for the
WordPressPolicypolicy, and then choose Next: Review.
- For Role name, type
- Choose Create role.
- In the filter panel, type
- Click on the result with
WordPressServiceCatalogLaunchRoleas the role name.
- Note the Role ARN displayed on the summary page.
Next, you need to associate the IAM role with the product. This allows AWS Service Catalog to assume the role to launch the product. To associate the IAM role with the product:
- Open the AWS Service Catalog console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.
- Choose the
Training Portfolio.
- On the portfolio details page, expand the Constraints section, and then choose Add constraints.
- For Product, choose WordPress, and for Constraint type, choose Launch. Next, choose Continue.
- On the Launch constraint page, for Enter role arn, type the role ARN your noted earlier, and then choose Submit.
Next, you need to allow the
Training-Users IAM Group to provision a product.
Step 4. Grant the training attendees permission to provision a product from the portfolio
Since users will be using AWS Service Catalog to provision a CloudFormation Stack, all they need is access to the AWS Service Catalog and the Cloudformation:ListStackResources access. In this step, you give users access:
- Open the IAM console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/iam/.
- In the navigation pane, choose Groups.
- In the filter panel, type
Training-Users, the search result will display a single result, Choose the result.
- In the summary page, choose permissions tab.
- Expand inline policies. Console will display a message stating there are no inline policies associated. Choose click here.
- Choose Custom Policy, then Select.
- For Policy Name, type
- Paste the following example policy in Policy Document:
{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": ["cloudformation:ListStackResources", "servicecatalog:ProvisionProduct"], "Resource": "*" } ] }
- For Policy Name, type
- Choose Apply Policy.
- On the Summary page, Permissions tab, Managed Policies section, choose Attach Policy.
- In the Filter panel, type ServiceCatalogEndUserAccess, the search result will display a single result, choose the result.
- Choose Attach Policy.
Finally, you need to allow
Training-Users IAM Group to access the
Training Portfolio. To do so:
- Open https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/ and choose the
Training Portfolio.
- On the portfolio details page, expand the Users, groups and roles section.
- Choose Add user, group or role.
- On the Groups tab, select the check box for
- Choose Add Access.
Step 5. Verification
Before you give the account credentials to training attendees, verify whether training users can provision the product.
The WordPress template requires you to have at least one EC2 key pair present in your selected AWS Region. For more information about how to create a key pair, see Creating a Key Pair Using Amazon EC2.
To verify that the training attendees can launch the
WordPress product:
- Sign in to the AWS Management Console with the credentials of any IAM user you added to the
Training-UsersIAM group. Next, open the AWS Service Catalog console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/servicecatalog/.
- In the Products section of the console, choose
WordPressand then choose Launch product.
- On the Product version page, for Name, type
- In the Version table, choose
- Choose Next.
- On the Parameters page, type the following and choose Next:
- KeyName – Select the KeyName you have access to.
- SSHlocation – Type a valid CIDR range for the IP address from which you will connect to the instance. This can be the default value (0.0.0.0/0) to allow access from any IP address, your IP address followed by /32 to restrict access to your IP address only, or something in between.
- DBPassword, DBUser, DBRootPassword – Provide alphanumeric characters of your choice.
- InstanceType –
- On the TagOptions page, choose Next.
- On the Notifications page, choose Next.
- On the Review page, review the information that you typed, and then choose Launch to launch the stack. The initial status of the product is shown as Under Change. After the product is launched, the status becomes Available.
Your environment is ready. You can now distribute the user credentials that you created in step 1 to all training attendees.
Training starts
Attendees will be able to provision the WordPress website using the AWS Service Catalog console, but they will not be able launch an EC2 instance or execute any other CloudFormation template from the AWS Management Console. After the training is over, you can easily clean up all resources created by attendees. To see how you can clean up all products attendees provisioned during the training, see Part 2 of this series of blog posts.
This blog-post is Part one of a two-part series of blog posts. In Part one I show you how you can use AWS Service Catalog to allow users to launch CloudFormation stacks in your environment, in a controlled manner. AWS Service Catalog also allows you to define template constraints if you have a requirement of allowing users to specify only certain CloudFormation input parameters.
To see how you can clean up all products provisioned during the training, using AWS Lambda, see Part two of this two-part series of blog posts.
If you have questions about implementing the solution described in this post, start a new thread on the AWS Service Catalog Forum or contact AWS Support.
About the Author
Kanchan Waikar is an AWS Marketplace Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. She enjoys helping customers build architectures using AWS, AWS Marketplace products, and AWS Service Catalog.


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With hectic schedules, long work days and busy social lives, the last thing you want to do at the end of your day is work on organizing your home. What you may not realize though, is that spending time on home organization can reduce stress, boost productivity and increase happiness. Which is why there is an increased focus on home organization especially as we move into a new year, and new resolutions.
Like any industry, there are trending projects and organization styles that can both help you manage your stuff and keep your home looking neat, tidy and stylish.
Here are five home organization trends to watch in 2017.
1. His-and-Hers Closets
One of the biggest trends is a his-and-hers closet where all of his things are exactly as he (and she) likes them, and all of her things are as she likes. Since a his-and-hers closet provides features that work for each person's needs, the best way to create a closet storage area for two unique people in one space is to get a custom solution.
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2. Dedicated Storage
Obviously, clutter is out, but this doesn't mean you have to throw out, or donate everything. It simply means that if it's worth keeping, you should find a place for it.
Without dedicated storage for your stuff, you (or your spouse, or your kids) will get home from work, school or practice, and put their work bag, backpacks, shoes, coats and whatever else they're hauling wherever they please. But if everything has a home in a convenient area, it's much easier to put things away.
Of course, you can DIY this with pre-made organizers. However, you have to learn to live within the constraints based on the dimensions of those pre-made containers and your needs. That might mean you fall a cubby short or you just don't have enough hooks for your family's needs. But when you approach it from the opposite direction, the system is designed for your things and the way that you live. That makes a lot more sense.
3. Open Storage
Many traditional storage solutions conceal what's being stored. And in some parts of your home, that's probably still important. But open storage is becoming more and more popular. If you're planning to reorganize parts of your home in 2017, you might want to consider open storage.
Open storage in a closet can show off your handbags and your favorite outfits. Open storage in a craft room or garage can also make it easy to grab things and go.
And if what you're storing needs some sort of protection or you'd like to keep the dust away, you can design your storage solution with glass doors with clear, patterned or textured inserts, which can give you a more stylish look.
Open shelves, pull-out baskets and other storage accessories make finding your things much easier.
4. Closet Islands
Closet islands are an excellent addition to further organize your walk-in closet because they provide added storage solutions both above and below the counter top.
Maximizing this compact space with drawers below to organize pieces such as blouses, pajamas and bottoms and countertop storage for accessories, perfumes and cologne make this space truly functional and very luxurious. The counter space in your walk-in closet can also help you put together outfits and accessories, and even fold laundry.
An island in your closet is an opportunity to create a truly high-end feature. You can design the closet island with flat panel cabinets and a quartz countertop for a very contemporary look, or choose something more ornate such as hand carved cabinets and marble tops.
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It's a common problem: You've got family visiting from out-of-town, or you want your friends to stay at your house when they visit you. But many people don't have the extra space they can dedicate for a guest room. Instead of investing in a home remodel or creating a guest room that will get used just a few times each year, you can maximize your space and give guests a place to rest their heads with a Murphy bed.
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Most importantly, they can help you to use the space you already have more efficiently and at a fraction of the cost.
When it comes to home organization and design, many trends come and go, but some eventually turn into design classics. This doesn't happen by accident—when an organization technique works, it sticks. Most of us are struggling to keep everything organized in our busy lives while also trying to make our homes as attractive as possible.
Accomplishing both seems like a virtual impossibility, but it doesn't have to be that way. All it takes is a willingness to step back from the situation, assess what your organizational needs truly are, and working with someone to come up with a solution that works for your life.