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"Cloud" is a popular buzzword that generally makes people wonder, what is it? Where does it happen? Is it actually a cloud? Where is my data stored? Is it safe? It's totally normal to have these questions when researching potential technology partners! Let's explore the cloud, and how storing data in the cloud may impact your business.
The Cloud
The "cloud" can seem new and futuristic, but the truth is that the "cloud" has been around for a lot longer than you think. It is hardly a floating mist of files and data hovering high above; it's a physical infrastructure that encompasses many computer servers in large, secure data centers around the globe. In most cases, data actually "lives" on a physical server located in an isolated cage with secure access; this is a private "cloud." Private "clouds" are contained within one secure area that houses only one company's data. If it were on a public "cloud," then the data would be in a server where it "lives" with data from multiple sources.
But where did the "cloud" even come from? You may be surprised to find out that the "cloud" has been around since the 1950s! However, it hasn't always been called the "cloud." In the 1950s, mainframe computers were so large and costly that companies could not afford one for each user so, they developed a system of "time-sharing" methods with each other so each user could access the same data. Today, the premise of the "cloud" is based on this original process of "time-sharing."
So in fact, the "cloud" is just a metaphor for data living on servers that the internet pulls from when a search is made. When you have a "cloud" you also have "cloud computing," which, yes, is just more jargon for using the internet to access your data instead of a local hard drive on your computer. Cloud computing is just a process of securely storing and accessing data on, yes, you guessed it: the "cloud." Cloud computing does not involve your hard drive; when you use your hard drive to store and access data it's called local storage.
Using the "cloud" offers efficiency, reliability, speed, and security to the business world as well as everyday life. The "cloud" also offers a cost-efficient option for companies who want to eliminate the need for maintaining a large data center themselves. Outsourcing to a data center expert allows a company to focus on growing their business and leading strides in their field instead of wasting valuable resources on services that can be taken care of for a lower cost. Switching to the "cloud" creates direct and indirect savings for businesses looking to increase productivity as well as scalability.
What does this mean to me?
Many technology companies that service the finance industry leverage private "clouds" for code development and client information storage. A solid infrastructure partnered with reliable data center facilities and security providers allow technology companies to offer a secure, speedy, and reliable solution to its lenders. But, the advantages doesn't end with speed and reliability! Programming in "cloud" environments offers a host of benefits, including scalability and agility. When coding for a cloud environment, the "cloud's" ability to expand and retract when there is more data traffic is a huge advantage.
When deciding to migrate data to the "cloud," a technology company must comb through a myriad of qualifications for a potential data center provider. A few of the top priorities to look for are security, audit records, and geographic fencing.
Security is among the tip-top of these priorities. Typically, to get into a secure data center where the "clouds" reside, a technology company usually has to submit a ticket for entry into the building, along with a government issued ID, a hand-scan, and an security access-card for entry into the cage area. If the "cloud" is private, the servers containing the data are located in a isolated cage that is secured with biometric access.
Technology companies are also going to want to seek a provider who complete yearly routine audits and can present audit results from previous years. The results reflect the controls used in the data center facility. Data center facilities should be assessed and vetted by industry standards.
Lastly, most U.S. based finance companies are required to keep customer data within U.S. borders. Therefore, technology companies dealing within the financial sector must select a data center provider who can ensure that the data will be securely stored within the United States. The process of storing data within a specific geographical border is often referred to as "geo-fencing" and should carefully considered when selecting a data center provider.
The "cloud" can seem confusing but with guidance and research it turns out that it is the cutting edge of data storage for technology companies all over the world.3 - Readers Like This Post


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Alison Hardy is the founder of Headstrong Thinking, a strategic planning agency that helps clients design marketing and communication strategies for projects that contribute to the social good. Her long and varied career also includes a stint at Dr Foster Intelligence, England's leading supplier of healthcare informatics, to create a social marketing unit, applying commercial sector skills and expertise to health problems. Alison teaches the communications module of the MSc in Health Policy at Imperial College London. She is a fellow of the Royal Society for the promotion of the arts, manufacturing and commerce (RSA).
The Right Honourable Alan Milburn was a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party from 1992 to 2010. He served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1998 to 1999, Secretary of State for Health from 1999 to 2003, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 2004 to 2005. Alan also chaired the Panel on Fair Access to the Professions from 2008 to 2009. He is Chancellor of Lancaster University and is a member of a number of global corporate boards and runs his own consultancy business.
Sir Muir has worked for the National Health Service in England since 1972, occupying a variety of senior positions during that time, including first establishing and then being Director of the UK National Screening Committee. Sir Muir founded the National Library for Health, and was the first person to hold the post of Chief Knowledge Officer of the NHS (England). He is an internationally renowned authority on healthcare systems and has advised governments of several countries outside the UK including Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and Germany.
Sir Muir is also a Professor in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at the University of Oxford. He received the CBE in 2000 and was knighted in 2005 for services to the National Health Service.
Fundamental VR is a consultancy and creative agency helping brands and businesses to harness the opportunities of virtual, mixed and augmented reality. The company creates world-class 360˚ VR experiences in film, live stream and CGI animation to help organisations bring their stories to life. Fundamental VR brings unrivalled experience from technology and commercial backgrounds to offer a unique understanding of how the 'next platform' could, should and will benefit businesses. Read more about Fundamental VR here.
Glitchers is an entertainment company that creates gaming products that have real purpose. In 2016, the company was celebrated for Sea Hero Quest, a game developed to further dementia research by tracking players' navigation ability. Read more about Glitchers here.
The University of Bedfordshire's School of Sport Science and Physical Activity trains students in the application of scientific principles in the areas of Physical Activity, Sport and Health Promotion. Dr Angel Chater, a Live:Lab collaborator, is leading the Centre for Health, Wellbeing and Behaviour Change within the Institute for Sport and Physical Activity Research (ISPAR) at the university. Angel is a Chartered Psychologist, and a Reader in Health Psychology and Behaviour Change at the University of Bedfordshire. In addition, Angel is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine at UCL School of Pharmacy. She is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a Registered Health Psychologist and Sport and Exercise Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Angel endeavours to promote the discipline of Health Psychology in a number of ways to help to understand behaviour in relation to health and wellbeing. She the UK National Delegate for the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) representing work on a national level to Europe and is the Chair for the Health Psychology Public Health Network, where she is working closely with colleagues in Public Health to facilitate the use of Behavioural Science within this setting. Read more about the Institute for Sport and Physical Activity Research here.
Satalia pushes the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the most difficult problems in industry. The organisation provides new economic models to allow academics to commercialise their algorithmic innovations and get access to critical data to improve their research, and gives producers of software tools a new revenue mechanism to support the development and exposure of their software. Satalia's founder and CEO, Daniel Hulme, holds a Masters in Computer Science with Machine Learning and Doctorate in Computational Complexity from UCL and is one of the founding members of the UCL Computer Science IMPACT team, responsible for helping pioneer impact initiatives across the Faculty of Engineering. Read more about Satalia here.
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2020health is an independent, social enterprise think tank whose mission is to 'make health personal' by giving people the information, understanding and confidence to take a meaningful role in their health and wellbeing, creating the conditions for a healthy society. 2020health works with patients, clinicians, managers, politicians, industry, economists and academia to develop realistic policy plans that will improve healthcare and wellbeing. Read more about 2020health here.
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The Open Data Institute (ODI) is a non-profit company. Founded by Sirs Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt in 2012, the ODI's mission is to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innovate with data. The ODI's global network includes individuals, businesses, startups, franchises, collaborators and governments who help to achieve this mission. Read more about the ODI here.
Christine Wellington is Head of Participation for parkrun and was instrumental in developing the junior parkrun series of events across the UK. She is an active patron for a number of charities in the UK and overseas, and is a passionate advocate of issues related to physical activity and health. Prior to working for parkrun, Christine was a British professional triathlete and four-time Ironman Triathlon World Champion. She is the first British athlete to hold the Ironman World Championship title and was undefeated in all thirteen of her Ironman races. Christine retired from professional sport in 2012 and now devotes her life to development work, and specifically interventions to increase participation in physical activity. Read more about parkrun here.
Dr Zoe Williams is clinical champion for the RCGP's clinical priority 'Physical Activity and Lifestyle'. As a GP in South London, she is passionate about increasing the knowledge of patients and colleagues regarding the benefits of physical activity and lifestyle, for both disease prevention, and treatment. Her clinical champion (physical activity) role with Public Health England has involved developing training materials for doctors and building, training and mentoring a team of 21 GP clinical champions to deliver this training across England. She is a clinical associate, leading on obesity, in her local CCG. Zoe is the founder and director of Fit4Life, an organisation that delivers educational workshops to school children to 'Inspire, Educate and Motivate' them to lead healthier lives. She also works internationally with 'MEND' to train and support communities to deliver family weight management programmes, in the USA and Canada. Zoe enjoys being active herself and during her junior doctor years she featured as 'Amazon' in the Sky 1 TV show 'Gladiators'. She has now hung up the lycra, but continues to work in media and broadcast, recently featuring on ITV's This Morning, BBC Horizons and "Trust Me I'm A Doctor".
The Patients Association works to ensure that opinions of patients are gathered on a wide variety of health and social care issues, to support their vision for health services that provide high quality and safe care, and in which patients are valued as expert partners and recognised as individuals. The association is the leading non-condition specific patient-led charity in the UK; and has since then worked to monitor trends in patient satisfaction and NHS targets, to investigate many different health and care concerns through independent research, to promote good practice amongst healthcare professionals, and to lead two UK parliamentary committees.
The Patients Association strives for a health system that is compassionate, accessible and inclusive for everyone that seeks to improve and innovate; and actively promote a culture where transparency thrives and patients are empowered to contribute to a better and safer healthcare system.
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Add an elegant touch to your lecture hall, banquet area or any room with the National Public Seating 9300 Stack Chair. The sleek chair back features front and back fabric panels that create a thicker and more formal-looking chair. Sit comfortably on the padded seat. The sturdy steel frame is available in three colors and holds up nicely to daily wear and tear. Bumpers protect your chairs from scratches while stacked. Choose from a selection of vinyl and fabric colors.
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The weight capacity on this chair is 300 pounds.
Date published: 2018-04-17
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Cigarette Price Watch(CPW) is a blog that tracks cigarette prices in the United States, both locally and nationally.
American Austerity and Cigarette Taxes
There's a lot of things going on in the world today, economy wise. Some European countries like Greece are having austerity programs. Austerity means cutting programs and raising taxes to get more money for a government as a result of a bad economy. This has only sort of started in America. One of the main reasons for demonizing tobacco smoking is so that the government can tax it so much. They've been exorbitantly taxing cigarette smokers in America for the last couple of decades, but with the economy being bad, there is good reason to believe that the already sky-high taxes on cigarettes may go higher. Watch out for austerity measures, and higher tobacco taxes.


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Following on from yesterday's message, here is how the new Savvy Cook cake service works:
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Every Thursday, Savvy Cook decides what is baking that week….You can find out what tempting treats we have in store for you right here in Savvy Cook's blog: www.savvycook.wordpress.com .
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2. Hello cupcake….
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Sorry for my absence this week, I have been super busy! There has also been some serious magic going on in the craft room! (Not that kind of Magic!!!) My friend is having her first baby and her baby shower is comming up in about a week. Here is a sneak peak at what I have been working on. I can't show the finished products until after the shower so a peak is all you get for now :)
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The Department of Mechanical Engineering has been awarded a $1,860,000, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to provide the resources to revolutionize Seattle University's mechanical engineering curriculum for undergraduates. Seattle University was one of only two private schools, and ours is one of only two mechanical engineering programs in the nation, to receive this prestigious award from the NSF's RED grant program (Revolutionizing Engineering and Computer Science Departments.)
"Seattle U mechanical engineering students and faculty will be immersed in a cutting-edge program focused on doing engineering with engineers," said Teodora Rutar Shuman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and department chair. "These program changes are motivated by national concerns about student persistence and engineering workplace readiness."
Among other things, the grant will allow:
- Revamping of the curriculum so that students will be doing real engineering from freshman year through to graduation.
- Hiring of a new Engineer in Residence (from industry) who will engage with students and help them build relationships with practicing engineers.
- Hosting professional engineers on campus on a regular basis, getting to know students (and vice versa), socializing, sharing what's important to industry, etc.
- Sponsoring "Makeathon Days" during which professional engineers will come to campus, give students a project to design, build (prototype) and test in one day.
- Supporting faculty development in terms of curriculum and culture.
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The goal is to implement a new approach to teaching mechanical engineering, said Shuman, PhD. "We will bring engineering practice to students and students to engineering practice. We believe that it will have a positive impact on all students, including women and underrepresented minorities."


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I Second That Emotion
Over the past month, I have written several posts dealing with the subject of how voters choose the candidate for whom they will vote. I have argued that, for all the talk about the importance of issue positions, the choice is primarily driven by a gut-level decision that voters make about which candidate seems the most presidential. They do so by constantly updating their personal assessment of candidate traits like moral character, leadership ability, personal experience, and even physical appearance, as these characteristics gradually come into focus over the course of the campaign season. The decision is, in essence, an intuitive and emotional voter response to the manner in which the candidates portray themselves, during endless months on the campaign trail, rather than the outcome of a rational comparison of voter and candidate preferences on various policy issues.
Now, Time has just released the first installment in its How America Decides election-year survey. The results suggest that this voter calculus is at work in Hillary Clinton's decline in Iowa, despite her continued strength in the polls nationally. Mark Halperin and Amy Sullivan write:
Strikingly, the very advantages that Clinton enjoys elsewhere — being seen as a strong leader with the most electability — dissipate in Iowa. And she trails far behind Obama and John Edwards in perceptions that she has strong moral character, is inspiring and says what she believes. Voters also express emotional reactions to candidates, and on that front, Clinton's numbers in Iowa look different as well. She generates less hope and pride in Iowa than in New Hampshire — or the nation as a whole — and those Iowans who say she makes them feel afraid are far less likely to support her than are their counterparts at the national level.
Most importantly, the Time piece adds an interesting layer to my analysis, which is the idea that the retail politics experience in places like Iowa and New Hampshire exerts a profound influence on how voters update their assessment of candidate traits, in ways that do not necessarily percolate up to the national level. You can see this dynamic clearly at work in the data, using Time's nifty interactive feature, which allows you to compare survey results across a range of candidate traits and voter emotions in Iowa, New Hampshire, and nationally. Since the results of these early contests will no doubt influence how voters in subsequent primary and caucus states update their own candidate assessments, these gaps in voter reaction should be of genuine concern to the frontrunners in both parties.
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When visiting any of our bars, you will find out why we are often referred to as one of the friendliest racecourses in the country. The wide range of bars at Fontwell Park makes it easy to get a drink in time to watch the races and experience the atmosphere of national hunt racing!
A little piece of St James's Gate at Fontwell.
Just one of our lovely bars, located in the Grandstand..
In the heart of the Paddock Enclosure.
A more premium day at the races.
Pommery champagne trailer, Pimms Tent and the huge Frontier Bar.
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Multiple pop-up outlets on selected racedays in the paddock enclosure and the centre course.


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"Humility is such an elusive virtue. Once you think you have it, you don't, or you wouldn't think you did."
Quoted from Max Lucado's book Traveling Light
Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended To Bear.
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Along summer many of us are excited to bring our dogs to the beach! Whether your favorite beach is around east or west coast or by a lake, read on these tips before taking your dog to the beach.
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A new culture of experimentationAmigo enabled Hertz to adopt an agile approach to marketing, redesigning key user journeys with incredible results.
Making promotions more effective
Amigo built and tested new user experiences for the Hertz online booking journey during sales periods. An initial experiment in the UK drove an increase in transaction rate of 4.5%.
Amigo's flexible platform enabled Hertz to scale out the new user journey to 6 more European territories. This saw a further rise of 11.6% in transaction rate, representing a 12X ROI.
We have been able to test new ideas in order to improve the online customer journey with a lot of flexibility and agility. Something that would usually take a lot of IT effort has been set up within weeks and within a short period of time we have results which we can trust and act on. The Amigo team are great to work with and have provided many creative ideas to push our hypothesis even further.Charlotte Aldred
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Taking pics everywhere I go often helps to jog the memory of exactly what we have been doing as a family. It's so crazy busy this time of year, the mind races a million miles an hour, it becomes harder to remember all the wonderful things we have done and exactly where the time has gone.
These past few weeks have been special, catching up with some other small people who also mean a lot to us. There's nothing quite like having a baby along side an old school friend to bring you back closer again. Happy first birthday Tex!
We celebrated Sonny's first birthday right after the gastro bug invaded our house and just prior to us ALL getting conjunctivitis. Sonny was teething too at this point so it was pretty tricky trying to keep the little man happy.
The rangers united out at Doodlakine. It will be so nice spending more time with Corben over Summer.
I bought a film camera, took part in amazing film workshop ran by Jonathan Canlas & then began shooting film. I'm currently waiting on scans from a lab in America and I am so nervous. I will be shocked if anything comes back that is half decent. I am looking forward to blogging & sharing my film journey with you all as it unfolds. I'm learning so much & I feel completely out of my depth. Sonny's new favourite things to play with are film canisters and he had a ball pulling a busted roll of film to bits recently. Jonathan also photographed my family when he visited Perth. I can't wait to see exactly what he managed to capture for us.
Christmas concerts, dance concerts, rides on Harleys, school break – ups and end of year drinks are consuming us at the moment. How lucky are we – life is great!!! We are however thinking of all those enduring hardships at the moment, especially those caught up in the recent traumatic events in Sydney. WTF is wrong with some people?


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There's no doubt that in 2018, the beauty industry has made some great progress towards becoming more inclusive. Brands like Fenty Beauty and Jouer have gotten it right, with expansive shade ranges featured in their lines. Because of this, it's arguably even more frustrating when a brand misses the mark.
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This is Mo'o, a respected member of Lijia village, he works hard and feels certain he deserves a few beers when he's done. He cooked up a delicious barbecue using the traditional Tsou method whereby the grill is suspended over fire and spun in circles to cook the meat evenly. The rice was also cooked over the fire, steamed inside bamboo. Once chargrilled to perfection, the meal was all served up on a giant banana leaf.
Later, the mountain spirits spoke to Mo'o and told him to give Tsou names all the non-Tsou at the barbecue. I was honoured to be told I was called "Pasuya" (pronounced Ba-Su-Ya), which is the name of a legendary strong, brave hero, who could pull down a mountain with his bare hands. A good name for a chief I was told.
I had to wonder how I'd earned such an illustrious name. After all, I'd been lazing around drinking beer and eating barbecue, whilst elder village members were busy climbing tall trees, chopping logs for the fire, cooking and providing for everybody. Mo'o explained that as the smoke from the fire had been blowing into my eyes, I had just sat there and taken it instead of moving away. In Tsou culture, it is said if you can't withstand the smoke from the bonfire, you can't be the chief. Though in my case I'm afraid, my not moving away was just another sign of my laziness.. and desire to drink another beer. Still, I'm glad the spirits were impressed.
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|Some member of the Klan from the Deep South on a well respected forum laughed his head off when I asked for advice on growing Arils in the southern UK. So I used my skill and judgment instead. I think you'll agree I made a decent stab...
Very, very regrettably, the garden on the roof, where arilbred Irises stunned, yellow AND pink Lilium lophophorum set a puzzle solved only when the other bloomed (sort of) and where I learned that most bulbs, especially Gladioli species - the fragile, almost grass-like ones with flowers so dainty yet tough: you have to be when you live among the skeletons of Namibia or cling precariously to a ravine on the slopes of Table Mountain, germinate like cress, looks to be coming to an end. I got too greedy, the headmistress at the school next door doesn't appreciate Clematis towers and so, while the neighbours love it, the cafe owners are distraught at the thought of it going and I heard two old ladies the other night saying: "It looks just like a painting! The colours are so vibrant!". I hope she didn't means Sunflowers by old One Ear.
|Gladiolus brevifolius. It's maybe 10in tall and look like a bit of grass but once a year…
I have had an absolute blast researching (I love you internet!), sowing, planting and planning - to the best of my ability - and, one again, creating and, were it not for its power over the levels of cortisol, norepipherine, adrenaline, serotonin, noradrenaline, dopamine and many other pituitary treats and killers, who knows where I'd be.
|Also from the "Nanus" series of miniature (and therefore only a little bit vulgar) Gladioli hybrids is "Nathalie" here. The daubing on the lower petals is very common in the group, coming straight from parent G. cardinalis.
According to expert and enthusiast Irina Antipina Nanus Hybrids were introduced in 1855 from Gladiolus cardinalis and venustus (both relatively robust and easy species from seed (I have one-year-olds of both and they do look just like blades of grass). Nanus hybrids are decorative and early-flowering but for some reason the red and daubing of G. cardinalis (below, top) is evident but there is little sign of the magenta, yellow and grey of G. venustus (below, middle). At the very bottom is "Nymph", where the markings from cardinalis parentage are obvious, albeit in a different colour, but any resemblance to venustus must make itself known in the foliage or structure and as my seedlings are about 5cm tall at the moment, I don't feel qualified to comment on its mature structure!
They come in white, pink, salmon and some varieties are nearly red, have narrow leaves, and have two to four flower stalks with many side shoots. They also seem to like things on my roof because the ivory G. albus has been blooming for six weeks and still doesn't look tired or messy (the old petals seem to disappear into a green hole). Others, however, such as "Nathalie" and "Nymph" produce such an abundance of flowers that the lightest breeze or alien object thrown at it by a schoolboy will cause flowering stems to not break but sag, meaning you still get the display but it points at the ground. Although the exact parentage of these hybrids is mostly lost, we know that they are the result of crossing the summer and winter blooming species together. In fact, virtually all of them are actually first generation hybrids.
|This is of course an Aquilegia, or "Grannies bonnet" as my late mum called them. I wouldn't normally bother with a run of the mill perennial but the flourescent red and yellow with a hint of green of "Tequila Sunrise" raced out of it's seed coat.
To return home from work and get out the window (there is no door, as you all know, and when I was alone, tasting that mix of anticipation, excitement and fear of what shite had been thrown at the vintage pot with the South African bulb nurtured for eight years) would be better than any horribly addictive benzodiazepine (although I never found them very effective anyway. Not when you compare it to finding something that had been hidden under Tropaeolum majus (OK, Nasturtium, I'm taking one of my last chances to show off) such as Hippeastrum sonatini "Viridi Rascal"):
is in fact cf "Alaska". I ordered "Orange Rascal" and the above from Bloms (that's a photo from their catalogue because what I got is below (the big one). (I'm showing off again, cf. before the name means "a bit like", something they didn't see fit to teach me in Latin, although I still remember Canis est in horto latrat. Fortunately I don't have a canis, smelly things, and if the law is an ass, I won't have a horto either. I also, having forgotten what I'd done, ordered the same from someone else, possibly even Bloms again. Only two of the four were given the chance to flower, the other two, including "Orange Rascal" (below) also from this series, were perfectly healthy but were attacked as the buds formed. They are just hardy so they might get another chance and they will be fully protected next time instead of being so irresponsibly placed on the windowsill. But calm down, Chris! Sub judice is Latin I am very familiar with, being a hack.
|Was I disappointed? Did I fire off a furious email to the nursery? No. It's beautiful and will even fit in my cardboard box when I'm evicted.
|I know the double white is sexy but I really do want what I ordered too. Which would mean buying two new ones and if the garden is being wound down, what's the point? Just more disappointment.
|Quite a few Iris douglasiana hybrid seedlings! (Someone else made the crosses; that's my next ambition).
The big pull recently had been my Lilies. A lot of the more obscure are shot with viruses but I've also managed to germinate clean seedlings of L. humboldtii, kelloggii, washingtonianum and several others (it's dark, I cannae see!) but a few more of that group of North American species. Iris-wise I've got a pot of Pacific Coast hybrids and a huge bucket of douglasiana hybrids which I've left too long to prick out, they're getting very yellow (the leaves, not the flowers, which will be subtly different combinations of blue, white and purple. Also I've nowhere to put more than 100 7cm pots of Iris. Oh, and Iris prismatica. Basically, YOU can germinate any Iris species. Or Lily...
Here are some pointless but beautiful shots of Lilium Mackliniae, taken indoors not because I think that's where they live but it was very windy that day. I didn't raise them from seed, I bought them from that superb purveyor of all things Himalayan, Glendoick nursery in Perthshire. They grow tens of thousands of Rhododendrons, mostly in open fields, and pick out your one and put a little label on it with your name etc, sending them out bare root when the time is just right. I used to work there for about 6 weeks. They have an utterly stunning dell with a burn (brook) running down it, where native Beeches and the like shelter Cardiocrinums, every Rhody ever found, almost, Kalmias, Meconopsis, Primulas, particularly candelabras which have hybridised over the years into a big bag of rainbow coloured sweets (that's candy, to our American friends).
|The first Lily! And surprisingly it's the relatively obscure and tricky Lilium Mackliniae. The pics are a bit grey as it was blowin' a gale outside!
Next up was Lilium pumilum (syn tenuifolium). It's hard to describe the waxy texture of the petals but they are almost like plastic. A classic, get rid of those awful things with dinner-plate flowers and get some of the following naturally perfect bulbs (well, stolons actually in this case!).
|It's not a plant, but I could eat it anyway, and it wouldn't kill me. For 20 years.
The premises, hilariously called "Lily Vanilli" after quite a few things, all of which work, (and they do make their own wares) are run by three lovely young kids (patronising dad mode): Lily (not real name) who seems to do the cakes/flapjacks/delicious chocolatey stuff; David, not sure what his speciality is – being very tall is one – but he creates the loveliest smells to waft up through our floorboards and Martin, the master baker. Very different from the bacon butties of a few months ago, especially for a vegetarian.
Right, more Lilies:
|L. flore pleno, captured in a remarkable moment of not swinging about everywhere in the wind.
I'm afraid this one's a victim of the pigeons and their label tricks. But I think It's L. medeoloides (SINCE CONFIRMED), a Japanese species that translates (roughly) as "Wheel Lily". The slightly recurved petals have that almost plastic texture of pumilum (which is very red and rarely spotted so I'm not suggesting it's that, I'm just trying to give those of you unlucky enough not to have felt the texture I'm struggling to put into words an idea of what it's like). But without a DNA testing kit...
And here we have the aforementioned L. tsingtauense.
I'm not going to waste keystrokes telling you where it's from but it's a petite little thing with leaves held in whorls around the stem, which ends in a single, almost flat, orange bloom that looks like it has been seasoned with a grinding of black pepper. It won't take your breath away but at least it bothered to flower, unlike superbum, pardalinumx3, wallichianum (although there is finally action and fresh green shoots in the two pots of that, one all the way from China. I thought I was going to overwhelmed by pardalinums, they just kept arriving, but all but two have gone. The good news is that, so far, is that speciosum "Rubrum" (the organic version of "Stargazer") has come to no harm, despite being right under the window, and sports 5 fat flower buds. I don't know what happened to auratum, the Rubrum's only rival for the "Fuck me that's gorgeous!" award. One day it had a nice healthy ... of course. It went sub judice, giving it no chance to build up energy for next year and, I don't have the receipt to hand and the bedroom's 10 ft away, but sending about £15 down the plughole. Gosh, it's all adding up!
|Lilium davidii. One of many orange, spotty species. Let's just leave it there.
We'll just clear up another possible area of confusion (why didn't I take notes?) by getting the rest of the yellows out of the way, except the dinner-plate hybrid which just clogs up the drain with its massive petals. First, the aforementioned Lilium leitchtlinii (goes to look up spelling), from which there were a few to choose (after a quick L. citronella):
I could understand a viola or Pulsatilla even that might have drifted in on the wind. But a plant from as far away as it's possible to be and that I almost obsessively wanted, turns up as a tuber at the bottom of an otherwise empty pot (I was reading last night that they like to manoeuvre their tubers to their favoured, considerable, depth, probably to regulate the temperature in the Andean/Patagonian wonderland from where they come, where the air temperature must fluctuate from sun-baked to snow-covered. There are a great many bulbous (we'll use that as a catch-all term for plants with underground storage means) genera that use their roots to pull themselves up or down to the desired depth.
If I ever visit a Republican state, remind me to take a Wollemi pine!
|Lilium hansonii. I love the texture of the petals, like Clematis tangutica.
Right, I think that's all the yellows and hopefully oranges because I'm happily snapping away before the sun goes down or the single bloom wilts and the notion of writing down its name fails to occur. I'm just so arrogant I assume I'll be able to identify it later. I'm dreading the pinks because my martagon efforts have been a disgrace. The only one that even bloomed was a yellow (don't worry, it's sort of coral). I also had a great performance from L.cernuum and cernuum album, which is actually peachy). But first, the winner by a mile this year: Sold as a yellow form of L.martagon, it is a gorgeous pale orange, the structure of the flowers and plant leaving me in no doubt that there's a lot of martagon blood in there. It has a varietal name but to get to that would involve hacking through a jungle of leichtliniis and various subtle Dahlias, intended to provide colour once the yellow rain finally ends. I'll try to remember to tell you if roof remains green after the school holidays.
|Lilium cernuum, a real success, same sort of form, vigour and no-nonsense approach as pumilum.
|Lilium lankongense, an easy, generous species that will reward an annual feed after flowering (as with all Lilies, chop off the spent flower heads but leave the leaves to die down naturally, allowing them to recharge the bulbs).
|And the similar but darker and slightly smaller flowered L. duchartrei
STOP PRESS! I found Lilium henryi, struggling to push a stem of nascent blooms through a tangle of Nasturtiums, the never-ending L. leichtlinii, Bomarea caldasii (or possibly salsilla, both of which I have along with a third, hirtella, I reckon.) This one had retained its plastic wraparound label so I did read it but I was more interested in getting to the Lily, checking its flower head and reading its label without damaging anything. At the moment it's a poor specimen with rusty leaves and weak flowers. I thought there were only four petals on the only fully open one but it's just that two are hiding behind others. But at least it solves the question of where the sodding thing went!
Oh, and my Lilium speciosum rubrum, actually labelled auratum, took advantage of the downpour that was the weekend to open: as L. speciosum rubrum. I don't mind, it's a fantastic deep red, almost a pleasant (use your imagination) magenta with the requisite white edging. I don't know how any of these things survive in the wild: these flowers are eye-catching but of modest proportions compared to the blousy hybrids, yet were quite happy growing at an angle of 10 degrees above horizontal! Have rectified the situation by cunningly propping them up with a piece of steel wire I've installed to prevent anything falling on anyone in the lovely weather. So God knows what happened to auratum...
And, finally, L. sargentiae, which has two flowers, a virus or some pathogen (and a backbone, fortunately) has opened overnight, which is a bit unusual, unless it's pollinated by bats or moths, although the bat population in East London is sadly not what it could be, unlike the incredibly isolated family home in Scotland where you are guaranteed to see, or at least hear, dozens just as dusk is ending and the moths come out to look for lights to hang around, smoking, drinking cheap cider and taking the piss out of old people. I think the bats sleep in an old air-raid shelter and one-time shed, there's certainly enough crap in there for them to hang from although I might suggest my dad hangs an old bit of cloth, like a curtain, with folds for extra warmth and security to encourage them. Although that said, it was only a few miles, literally 2 or 3, away that a man running a sanctuary got rabies from one and sadly died. Rabies? In Angus? Fortunately it was when mum was still alive so at least five years ago so the chances of a real-life repeat of "The Mad Death", the terrifying (if you're 10) 1980s drama about a rabid cat or fox (or some furry quadruped, it was a wee while ago) sparking a hydrophobic epidemic. "Threads" was scarier anyway, especially when the woman wet herself as the mushroom cloud formed on the horizon. Anyway, this is the ramblingest stop press ever written so bye, have a nice Monday!


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I find genuine enjoyment in writing.
My prayer journal is often in use early in the morning as my heart gets transferred to paper in a very vulnerable and scary fashion. Thoughts make more sense, my confusion is at least understandable and my thankfulness takes on an expanding cloak when the words are written down.
Mid morning generally finds me sitting at my computer, pondering over what subject to blog about. I glance at my recent posts, making sure I'm not being too redundant since often I have the same thoughts swirling in my head from day to day.
It's not uncommon for me to pull out my phone and write myself a little note or jot down an email as I'm walking, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry or any other activity that makes up my normal day-to-day existence.
There are some days when I look forward to the evening because I know I can pull out my stationary and fill it with the thoughts that are running around in my head and connect with special friends at the same time. I don't send nearly as much snail-mail as I would like to, but when I do, it's a significant little piece of my life traveling through the postal system.
A lot of my nights are spent staying up way later than necessary because the story line I've been working is finally coming together and I'm finding way too much enjoyment in my writing to stop for a trivial little thing like sleep.
Words hold special meaning to me. I've been told before that asking questions is my hobby. I use words to get to know someone and to let other people get to know me. I use words to understand myself better. I use words to share my ideas with the world. I use words as tools.
Proverbs 18:21 tells us that death and life are in the power of the tongue. I want to make sure I use my words to give life, to build people up and not tear people down. I love the thought of being able to change the way someone views themselves by speaking words of encouragement and truth to them.
Words are a gift and I treasure them.


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We all have it: that scene the plot is going to demand, or the one that history requires, or the one that really will push your hero to a new place. Sometimes, it's fun and exciting, the scene we've been waiting to get to, that's been simmering in our brains all along as we work our way toward it.
And, sometimes, it's not so fun. Sometimes, it's stressful.
Maybe it's a romance scene, and you're not so comfortable putting that stuff on the page. Maybe it's an anger scene, and it pushed the buttons on your own emotions and self-control. Maybe it targets something from your childhood, maybe even something that's the reason you're writing this book–but that doesn't make it easy. And maybe it's a matter of putting your character in a place she needs to be, but a place that you, yourself, would never go.
What do you do?
I'm facing one of those scenes this week. For me, it's one of the ones that history–the history I'm writing about–is making me write. I've known all along that I would probably be writing this scene, but I've pushed it away. I didn't touch it during the first draft. It's actually an okay situation for my hero, who she is, to be in; it is not a situation I would ever choose for myself. It's a situation different people in my life have told me I perhaps SHOULD have chosen, or be choosing, so there's a bit of resentment and resistance to add to the complication. The scene has been in the back of my mind, not ever letting itself be completely ignored, pretty much waiting till I got to the point to say, "Fine. Okay. You're in."
Or to the point where the story said…"Here."
I've written up to the point where the scene needs to be included. It's the right time, I think, for my hero to participate. Does that make it easier? Well, actually, yes. Because now the scene has a plot and character purpose; it's going to do more than just layer in an element of history. And waiting until I got to this point, until the story caught up with the idea, has given me (I think!) a way in. I can see what the scene will do for my character, and how it will complicate her life, instead of mine. I can see her attitude about things, which–yes, has a piece of my attitude, but is most importantly going to be true to her. I think. Waiting…and writing until I was ready, has given me time to get to know my hero and to at least find a point where I can understand and empathize with what she'll be feeling. And how she'll be acting.
A point where it won't be all about me. 🙂
So if you've got one of those scenes looming, even in the distance, try not to fret too much. Don't force yourself to drop it in somewhere just because you know it's necessary, and don't spend too much time arguing with yourself about whether to include it at all. Let it sit out there for a while. At some point, I believe, your scene and your story will intersect.
And that's the time to write it.


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Dance Recital Postpone
Dear Parents and all our little dance superstars!
We're sorry to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances, unfortunately, we will need to postpone our dance recital, previously scheduled for this coming Sunday.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Having said that, we will be rescheduling the DANCE RECITAL for SUNDAY JUNE 17th along with our TALENT SHOWCASE from 10AM to 2PM!
Please be so kind to update yor calendars and be ready to dance and have a lot of fun!
Don't forget to invite all your friends, relatives and neighbors to support and to see our VERY VERY VERY Talented Dance Superstars on SUNDAY JUNE 17th!
Our normal schedule of GROUP & PRIVATE classes will resume on this coming Sunday 04/15/2018 as previously scheduled.
Hope to see you there!
Sergei and Olga
Ballroom Dance of NJ