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Taste Buds
I was having a conversation the other day with a dear friend when it occurred to me that perhaps our priorities change like our taste buds. Every seven years our focus shifts. The things that once seemed like such a big deal no longer hold the same kind of power. Then later on or a day later (time meshes together these days) we started talking about how we're still piecing together our paths. I had a realization this week because I often reflect on the steps that have brought me to this seat and the steps I want to take to keep pushing me forward. I recalled a blog I wrote about this life is really in its mostly simple form just ranch. I started to analyze all these things that seemed to get me upset, that got me riled up, that made me clench my jaw and squeeze these aging hands into fists. And I started to laugh. Because why do these trivial things irritate me so? There's always a bigger picture but what I understood that the focus of my bigger picture changed hues. I realized that it wasn't that a million people ask me for ranch they don't need a day. It was the way these people went about asking for that ranch. I realized that the drive I once had to be the best *insert whatever here* had very little to do with anyone else. It has always been this game to prove that I was better than I was until recently. I wanted to look in that mirror and know that whatever I did whether it was waiting tables or writing a poem or drawing a picture or being someone's friend, wife, mother that I was the absolute best at it. It was these small trivial annoyances that I thought I had to fight to become not just everyone else's best but mine as well. The bigger picture cares very little about how many orders I mess up. My bigger picture could care less if that table leaves me fifteen or twenty percent or even a hundred percent because it's just money, not my true talent. It pays my bills and those paid bills take care of my family and, for them, I do my best because that's the kind of person I want to be. I don't go out of my way for my tables or for my readers even to get a better tip or reaction. I treat people how I would want to be treated even if I get treated like gum on the bottom of their shoe. Sometimes you have to let go of what you want to get back. I do everything because my actions dictate what kind of person I am, not how quickly I turn a table.
Working in this service industry that I do there are many things about myself I have learned. And there are many small stupid things that I allow myself to get wrapped up in. I've worked in a lot of different fields and most of them feel like we get stuck in this high school mentality. Maybe that's just life. Maybe that's how we learned to find a common ground with the people around us. We point out each other's weaknesses to cover our own up. We allow ourselves to get swept up in this rage because a complete stranger thought they could determine our worth. You know what? It's stupid. I know. That's not the most eloquent way to put it but it's just that. These dumb ideas that we wrap us like a blanket are just stupid because really our bigger picture has no place for them. There are dumb things at work I let myself fall into a rabbit hole too often. Someone's not getting ice. Someone's not bringing up cups. Someone's on their phone when there are dirty tables to clean. I've tried so much in my life to be everything because I thought if I was then people couldn't live without me. So, these little things became a swarm of bees that I could never quite shake. If the place was falling apart, then it was my fault and that's just stupid. That kind of mentality has been a part of my life for much too long. There are things about this life that are all on you. Those things you have to take responsibility for. For instance, my kid's upbringing. Yeah, that's on me. What kind of beginning I gave her is on me. So, when she's an adult and she doesn't have a firm landing field, that's on me for not putting those bricks down as sturdy as I should have. But a thing like a job that I work at with many others? It's foolish to give myself that much credit. And you know what? It doesn't matter. Not because I don't care about what I do but because after many years of my own self planted self doubt I get putting all my eggs in a basket that will wear itself out is silly.
I know this blog is sounding like I just don't care anymore. Reality is I care as much as I ever did, too much, but the difference is I understand that my taste buds have changed. Listen my goal in life has never been to be the best Server in the world. I've never wanted to be the most famous Author or Artist. I've only ever just wanted to be the best I can be. I understand as a grown adult that my best doesn't always mean that I am the greater than in a lot of equations. When I struggled with this concept that I was less then, that's when I would find myself getting stuck in these ditches that would only amplify my already shaky ego. I would start to believe that someone else's faults were because of something I did. I trained that guy so if he sucks that means I suck. Simply that is not the case. It's just stupid to put someone else's hangs up on you. You can only control your actions. I can't fight a battle I have no right to be a part of but I can offer you a hand to help you move past yours. I don't have to take a bullet for every wrong thing that happens in this life anymore. When I was talking to my very dear friend, we laughed about this shift in ourselves. There was a point where we know that we tried too hard. There was a point when we realized that a lot of that hard work would never go noticed while someone else's lack of work would be what is praised. It's a stupid part of life that somehow we all have to learn to live above. We may not like it but I can't control the choices someone else makes. We looked at each other and agreed that these little irritates that once drove us crazy were no longer allowed to make us feel so enraged. Our bigger picture looked out on a much prettier horizon and that's what we would remember when we have to put three buckets of ice in that machine. We do our best. We let go of all that other stupid. And in seven years, we'll look back at our time and laugh about all this. It's still just ranch.
Book Ends
I saw this picture the other day of a 16 year old girl sitting on top of a Corvette. The picture looked like it was taken back in the '50s. The caption read "My mom was way cooler than I ever was." It made me smile. Then, of course, it sent my mind wandering on how much cooler my own mother probably was back in the day. You go through the pictures of your parents when you're a kid. You hear your grandparents joke back and forth with each other about the good ole days, how they met, what they used to do but as a kid? As a kid you didn't really listen to them. All you can understand in that moment that the only job your parents, your grandparents, your great grandparents if you were lucky enough to know them had was all about you. To you when you're young, that's all your tiny mind will let you accept about them. Then you get older. You grow up. Maybe you meet someone and you start your own family. Or you don't and you live a life with only yourself. You start to understand that your parents are actual people but they are the people you see in front of you... not that cool 16 year old sitting on a Corvette in a bikini. You still see your father as that big, strong man that protected you. You still just see your mother as the one that kissed your boo-boos away, that will always be there to help you how to figure out how to make it better. You are still sitting at that kitchen table waiting to lick the left over frosting out of the bowl. It's nice to let yourself be in those memories, to truly surround yourself with that comfort whatever your memory is. Those memories are our foundations, the strings that taught our hearts how to beat.
But then you go back to look at those photographs as adults with all your life experiences now compiled in your head. You remember the first boy you kissed, the first girl who held your hand. You remember the first car you bought, how proud you were to have those keys in your hands. You can remember the smell of your kids when they were babies, the first family pet you had to let go. You have all this life inside of you now and you go back to those pictures. You see how goofy your father looks in his aviator glasses, how skinny he was. You never realized how beautiful your mother was when she was younger, how much life stared back at you from that old, tattered photograph that you've probably looked at a million times. For some reason, when you get older, it is like you are seeing these photographs for the first time. You never realized that your parents looked at each other like that or that they had other loves before they found each other, that they maybe will have new loves, too. You forget that once upon a time your father was a small boy who just liked to laugh. It is easy to forget that your mother once had a much harder struggle navigating through her male time era, that her mother before that had it harder than her. We tend to believe that the only life our parents ever lived was the life that we were a part of but that couldn't have been further from the truth. I find it beautiful, simply beautiful.
We get so wrapped up in our own lives. We get so side tracked by the right now that we lose track that someday we'll be those people in the pictures, those old and tattered pictures. Our kids will tell their kids our stories but we'll just be stories at that point. Our kids will have their memories of us, of all the good times that we spent together and all the bad times we just needed to get away from the other. My daughter will pull out a picture of me and smile, thinking to herself this is my mom. She'll find an older picture of me as a young girl or in high school before she was a twinkle in my eye. The older she gets, the more she'll understand that I lived an entire life before she ever existed. She'll start to have an appreciation for that part of my life that she could not be a part of. And that's what I think when I see these old pictures of my parents. I start to wonder what were they really like before life started to creep up on them. Was my mother as nervous as I sometimes find myself? Did my father laugh more? What was their life like? Did they find joy? What sadness did they overcome? Were they successful? What secrets do they keep beyond these pictures? What a beautiful mystery. I'd like to think that the girl in the bikini on the Corvette got off that car after that picture was taken. I'd like to believe that she sat in that driver's seat and took off, letting the wind blow through her hair. I'd like to picture her driving off into the sunset and having the most glorious adventure. One day we'll be that girl in that picture.. The moments we live now we'll be what stares back at us years from now. How beautiful we will then realize we've always been.
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How does it feel being a supreme human being Thank you for being phenomenal While you steal my flames and watch me stall True friends are like gold dust Sprinkling shimmering light through the darkness While I sit alone soaked in acid rain You act like this is a game Impractical joker I'd like to … Continue reading Phantom Friend
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Too much time has passed I held a place in my heart for you Picked away at the scab to keep it open Time and tears prove strong It's beginning to scar over The ache transforming to anger Too much time has passed The connection that held us together is stretched thin Beginning to fray … Continue reading Ending
No matter how hard I try, there is not a day that goes by that I don't think about you. My heart is forever broken because you left. Somedays it's all tears and sorrow. Others are full of anger and resentment. I simply cannot grasp how you could treat me this way, after all of … Continue reading Mountains
Rainbow Cake
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger And lonely Open your heart and your friends disappear I wanted to make you a rainbow cake You pushed me in front of a bus On my road to recovery Addicted to the adrenaline rush That was illegal but it's okay It's the right thing to do Not … Continue reading Rainbow Cake
Collateral Damage
We lose friends. We are hurt by those meant to love us. We struggle to find answers. We will likely never have resolution. We might find comfort simply by accepting the reality We are just collateral damage.
Come With Me
Days of the innocent Children go outside, get lost in make-believe Carrying secrets not knowing the weight Believing the same of their playmates As they grew with invisible cracks Fractures in a vulnerable infrastructure Building blocks of brain damage Recognized when I left Remembered when you howled Catastrophic collapse Razor sharp relics resurface Regurgitated into … Continue reading Come With Me
Proceed with Caution
One of the great challenges for those who have survived abusive and neglectful parents is that there is often a part of us that is still waiting for them to love us, even if there is very little chance of that happening. Locked in an archaic mindset, we continue to go back for more, looking … Continue reading Proceed with Caution

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text: The Vestibular sense puts balance into our lives. It provides information about movement, gravity, and changing head positions. It tells whether we're moving or we're still, as well as the direction and speed of our movement. We can even tell if we are vertical or horizontal—even with our eyes closed.


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Novelty christmas design 'I Did Too!!'.
A cheeky novelty bandana to accompany one of the 'I Ate!' christmas bandanas.
Handmade in the UK with 100% cotton fabric.
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"Remembering Even More"
Sadly after recently posting about the passing of two notable people related to the comic book industry (Dr. Jerry Bails and Dave Cockrum), we have now lost yet another, and this time, one of the pioneers whose work began in The Golden Age of Comics.,br>
On Dec. 9th., Mart Nodell, co-creator of the original "Green Lantern" passed away at age 91.
Mr. Nodell attended many various comicons well up into his years, and although I never met him personally, those who did always remarked on his kind personality and openess to all to spoke with him. He was also known for many other artistic creations, one of which was "The Pillsbury Doughboy" character used in advertising. The link will tell you much more about his many accomplishments.
This week is one of rememberance, with Dec. 8th. marking the 26th. anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, and December 7th.: "Pearl Harbor Day" (which was 65 years ago).
On the former, there's no need for me to elaborate on "why" anyone would miss John Lennon's work. He left a legacy of music that will be cherished probably forever, and in such, he will always be with us.
On the latter, when I was a kid there was still a LOT of people living who fought in World War II. But that was 40 years ago, and the number of WWII vets decrease by the day. (If you have a relative still living that fought in that war, you might want to call them up and say "Thank you" for your bravery and helping to keep all of the freedoms we enjoy in this country.)
On a happier note I'd like to say that my father-in-law is recovering very nicely from his broken leg and is back at his home now. He's one tough old goat and something like that just isn't going to get him down. Good for him!
Here as well I'd like to remember a friend and neighbor named Donnie McCubbin. I went to school with Donnie from the 6th. to 12th. grades. He lived just a few doors down from me, and every day or two I'd see him pushing his grocery basket over to the next door store, cane in his other hand where he had difficulty walking due to a stroke a few years ago. Nothing ever seemed to upset Donnie, even living several years on his own after both of his parents passed away.
His brother found him dead last Sunday when he came over for a visit. We who live in this town will miss seeing Donnie's constant smile and constant good attitude.
And finally, there's a New Adventure of "Mike Stripe" over on My Unpublished Work I hope all enjoy.


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Sbarc - Afternoon Tea at Twr Y Felin
Join us for the next event with a difference. We will be hosting afternoon tea and glass of Prosecco on Friday 27 April at 3pm at Twr Y Felin, for just £20 per person. We are absolutely delighted that we will be joined by Mrs Janice Richards, ex-private secretary to Margaret Thatcher. Janice will be giving a talk titled 'My career at No 10'.
On behalf of LHP Accountants, Swansea Building Society and JCP Solicitors, we are very excited about what 2018 will bring for Sbarc and we look forward to seeing you at an event soon.
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Date: July 25, 2014
Author(s): Greg King
Finding a "great" keyboard for an HTPC is tough. It seems that most models do a lot of things right, but then miss the boat on the others. With its Illuminated Living Room K830, Logitech is hoping to deliver an option that hits all of the marks, and on paper, the chances look good. Let's see if it manages to pull it off.
I have long been fascinated with media consumption. When I had access to my first computer with an optical drive, I spent hours ripping my CD collection to MP3 and spent even more time organizing it with the detail of a casualty of OCD. As technology and my personal tastes have evolved over the years, so have my approaches to organization. Now, many years later, I utilize NAS for a centralized repository of media. This NAS serves quite a few different devices around my home, but the most important, and most frequently used, is my living room's HTPC running XBMC.
Interfacing with the HTPC has been an evolution in and of itself. From a mobile app to conventional keyboards and mice, they have all been functionally sound, but clunky nonetheless. For day-to-day use, it's been difficult to find something both functional and less cumbersome. I've been hesitant to employ a remote, as the box still requires a keyboard for many of its features. Up until recently, a Logitech diNovo Edge has filled this necessary role. Its design is still, years after release, fashionable, but the built-in track pad is almost completely useless. It's approximately the size of a US half-dollar coin, and while functional, it's just barely.
Wireless keyboards have been the subject of many late night discussions with my old roommate and good friend Matt. We both agreed, years ago, that a keyboard with a built-in trackpad would be the ideal wireless keyboard for interfacing with a PC that's connected to a television. Because of these many discussions, my interest was piqued when Logitech released its K830 keyboard. With many features that make it appealing, such as backlit keys, multimedia keys, and a built-in trackpad, the K830 seems like it could be an ideal solution for those of us looking for just such a device.
Measuring 14.4 inches in length, 4.9 inches in depth, and .65 inches in height, the K830 is significantly smaller than most keyboards used on a daily basis. Even with a trackpad that measures 3.1 x 2.0 inches in size sitting to the right of the keys where most expect a number pad to be found, the K830 is smaller than the diNovo Edge it's replacing.
Rounded on both ends, the K830 has a reflective silver piece that runs along both the bottom and top of its diminutive frame. From left to right as we face the keyboard in its normal orientation, there are three notable features to point out. First is a left mouse click button to be used if the keyboard is being held like a tablet and the right thumb is operating the trackpad. Next is a micro-USB port, used for charging the keyboard. The final is a somewhat difficult to use on/off switch that is color-coded for easy identification. Green means that the K830 is on, and orange means it's off. More on this in a bit.
The keys are of the Chiclet variety. MacBook users might be familiar with this type of key, as might others as this type of key has been widely adopted by keyboard manufacturers over the past few years. All keys are large enough for quick typing, yet close enough to keep down the overall size of the K830 considerably. Function of the keys is soft and pleasant, and my overall ability to type quickly was no different from the diNovo I used every day after a day or so of getting used to the layout.
Coming back to the top of the K830, we take a closer look at the power button and the micro-USB port. We also see the audio control keys that sit on top of the trackpad. Also situated above the trackpad is a light sensor that will brighten or dim the backlit keys, depending upon the ambient light in the room. Once lit, they will remain on for five seconds after last use.
Unable to get a respectable picture of the keys when lit, I present to you a stock photo from the Logitech K830 product page. While the red media functions are brighter than they actually appear on the keyboard itself, the backlighting is accurate.
Once connected using the popular unifying RF receiver (max range of approximately 33 feet), the included software can be installed to allow better control of the keyboard. The function keys can be toggled between standard PC functions and media functions by ticking a check box at the bottom of the first screen after the software is opened. Another notable feature of this program is that it provides a very quick graphical representation of the battery state of the K830.
The point and scroll capabilities of the K830 are controlled by the second tab in the controller program. This allows a few features of the trackpad to be changed. As a Mac user for the past few years, I appreciate the trickling-down of gestures into the PC world.
Speaking of gestures, the last tab of the companion software allows the behavior of certain gestures to be changed or disabled. This makes using the K830 a truly customizable affair.
Logitech has long been one of the go-to manufacturers of quality PC peripherals over the past decade. Longer than that, actually. While some products take the user into new and exciting areas, others simply improve on a current design. The K830 does the latter of the two. It builds on the stellar K400 by adding more multi-media options, as well as improving all-around on the styling. The K830 deserves to be considered by anyone looking for a good living room keyboard.
In my use of the K830, I have not once had to charge it after the initial setup. Logitech states that the average charge should last 10 days when the keyboard is used for 2 hours per day. In my household, the K830 was only used for HTPC manipulations and XBMC control. It was tested in more traditional use case scenarios for the first couple of days, but after that, it was strictly used as a keyboard for my HTPC. In both scenarios, it performed admirably.
With an MSRP of $99, the K830 will likely be overlooked by many. While we feel that it is worth the suggested price, there are cheaper options out there. That being said, I have no qualm with recommending the K830 to anyone on the hunt for a media center keyboard of their own, and like the styling and design of this one. Its light and concise design makes it perfect for use in one's living room, and its range extends its use out to a distance likely longer than most of our living rooms.
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On Babushkino
St. Petersburg,
st. Babushkino, d.17
Family restaurants of authentic Russian cuisine
Nevsky Prospekt, 88
Tasty russian dishes
Affordable prices
Children's room, family restaurant
We had a good rest with our husband, we sat in a cafe, talked, discussed a very important decision in our life, I'll tell you about this a little later 😌
Country house and the aroma of mom's food. Everything is simple and somehow at home 🤗 Meet the cozy restaurant with such a warm summer atmosphere - @mamanadache. For lovers of Russian cuisine and grilled dishes - a must-see place🙂 Everywhere there are flowers, the absence of boring city bustle and insanely delicious designer cocktails
Today, all guests enter the restaurant on Elizarovskaya in pairs. All because of the action "any two cocktails for the price of one." We are waiting for you too🍸 ⠀ Table reservation: 677-50-13. ⠀ Look for us at the colored cow! 📌Mom in the country - a place where it's good! Nevsky, 88 | Grandmother, 17
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It's important for prospective franchisees to fully understand the personal guarantee section in the franchise agreement. The reasons why franchisors require this covenant and what the implications are in the event the franchisee has problems.
With few exceptions all franchisors require its franchisees to personally guarantee all contractual commitments in their franchise agreement, especially the financial obligations, of the corporate entity owning and operating the franchise.
Obtaining personal guarantees from individuals is a common practice for lenders, creditors and landlords. Banks that lend money to a franchisee will require the owner to personally guarantee repayment of the loan. Landlords leasing space to franchises, usually require the personal guarantee of the franchise owner.
A personal guarantee provides the franchisor, with additional security in the form of the personal assets of the guarantor rather than relying upon a corporate entity with limited or few assets.
Since franchises are typically granted to individuals, who then establish a corporation, a franchisor views the operation of the franchise resting with an individual rather than a corporation. The franchisor uses the personal guarantee to protect its trade secrets, enforce non-competes and recover monies owed by the franchisee. Without this tool the franchisor would most likely pursue a shell corporation with few assets.
Personal guarantee provisions in the franchise agreement enable the franchisor to proceed against the individual guarantor (franchisee) in addition to the corporation operating the franchise. This is because the individual franchisee is usually required to waive the rights to require the franchisor to proceed first against the franchisee's corporate entity. The personal guarantee provision is contained in the Franchise Agreement and will include an exhibit of the guaranty agreement the individual must sign.
Most franchisors require the spouse of the individual franchisee execute the guarantee obligation. This allows the franchisor to pursue those assets held jointly in the marriage, such as bank accounts, investments, personal property and real estate.
Most franchisors will refuse to waive the requirement of a personal guarantee. However, a franchisor may be agreeable to negotiating some changes which can make the guaranty less onerous. Your franchise attorney can provide suggested language to the franchisor to include as an addendum to the franchise agreement.
Suggested modifications to "soften" the personal guarantee:
A personal guarantee provision in the franchise agreement is used by franchisors to protect its financial interests. This provision is rarely waived. Prospective franchisees should understand the implications of a personal guaranty when evaluating a franchise opportunity and when performing due diligence. Be confident in your decision to be a part of the franchise network because you'll be required to guarantee your obligations.


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After the success of my previous releases on Pure Energy with Gina King, "Keeping Freestyle Fabulous" and the "Step To The Future" Series, Richard Lee asked me to compile a track list for a "thumpin' Hi-NRG" release. Given my selection of tracks from my previous releases had all been fun, uplifting, energetic (some may even say camp!!), Richard thought I would be the ideal presenter to come up with such a track list for this release.
I was honoured he had asked me and I excitedly got to work straight away as the Hi-NRG genre is one of my favourites!!
I instantly had the idea of doing a concept album. CD 1 would be an "Originals" mix – 20 original classic Hi-NRG tracks at a slower bpm of 130-140 to be able to be used for step, kettle bells and body conditioning classes. On the flip side, CD 2 would be "Remixes" – 20 remixed tracks, some from CD 1 with others from additional cover artists and DJs for a fantastic re-energised hour of Hi-NRG mayhem pitched at a higher bpm of 135-145 for more intense classes such as hi/lo, combat, HiiT, circuits and spinning.
I had such a great time compiling this album as while I love the original classic tracks from the 70's, 80's and 90's, some of the remixes are just as good (if not better in some cases!) To be able to compile these all onto one album and share my favourite tracks from this fabulous, fun and flamboyant genre has been so much fun!!
My personal favourites from CD 1 are "Do You Wanna Funk", "The Locomotion" and "Never Can Say Goodbye" with favourites from CD 2 being "I Am What I Am", "I Feel Love" and "You Spin Me Round".
I have already received brilliant, positive feedback from instructors and participants alike for this release and would love to know what your favourite tracks are too.
Feel free to drop me a message at email@example.com or connect with me on Facebook at "Ali and Gina Presents".
You can also check out my shop and events page on my website at www.aliandginapresents.com where you can book on to my 4 date tour with Gina King "KEEPING FREESTYLE FABULOUS TOUR 2018" where I'll be using "Hi-NRG Xplosion" as the soundtrack to my sessions too!!
I hope you enjoy the release as much as I have had making it and I look forward to seeing you on a dance/studio floor soon!!


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What Else Are Friends For? Part II
As long as I'm on the topic of oeuvres issued under the name Chial, let me point out the paintings of the talented Katherine Drake Chial, who, coincidentally, is married to my friend Eric.
Here is one of her paintings from 2001, titled Ice Mirror:
Here are a few words and an image from her latest show, which just closed recently at the Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago.
Truly a talented household.


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J.D. FergussonSketchbooks and Studies 7 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 A selling exhibition of conté drawings by J.D. Fergusson, including a portrait of Meg, a self-portrait, café studies and nudes drawn in Paris before the First World War. Read more
A.W.N. PuginObjects and Designs 7 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 A selling exhibition in association with Haslam & Whiteway of furniture, objects and designs by A.W.N.Pugin, including a spectacular Corona from the Bishop's House, Birmingham (1840), a Candlestick bearing the arms of William George Ward (c.1845), hinges and door grilles designed for the Palace of Westminster c.1845, and a pair of exceptional glazed bookcases made by Gillow c.1860. Read more
The EdwardiansThe Golden Years Before the War 7 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 The Fine Art Society's December exhibition features work by artists working from the turn of the century and into the first years of the First World War. Highlights include 'In the Orchard', a watercolour of c.1908 by Dame Laura Knight, a clear expression of the "joie de vivre" which the artist confessed on moving to Newlyn, a magnificent scene of 'Piccadilly Circus at Night' by William Burn Murdoch, and a group of paintings by the rarely seen Mabel Pryde, James Pryde's sister and William Nicholson's first wife, of her children at the dressing up box. James Pryde's dramatic 'Red Ruin' is a symbol of the change marked to country and nation with the outbreak of War.
This exhibition also features work by artists including Henry Scott Tuke, Sir William Nicholson, Sir William Orpen and Paul Nash. There is a fully illustrated accompanying catalogue written by Professor Kenneth McConkey. Works are for sale and prices are available on request. Read more
Katie PrattDoglegs, Chicanes and Beelines 1 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 This exhibition presented new works by British abstract painter Katie Pratt. This was Pratt's first solo exhibition at The Fine Art Society's Bond Street gallery, which displayed large-scale and smaller works made since 2009.
From the late 1990s, Pratt had been making richly inventive works which merge abstract painting with material physicality and the mere possibility of allusion to reality. Read more
Gerald BrockhurstPaintings, Prints and Drawings 6 Nov - 30 Dec 2011 It is exactly twenty-five years since the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of Gerald Brockhurst, A Dream of Fair Women, was shown in Sheffield, Birmingham and the National Portrait Gallery in London. As a painter, draughtsman and etcher, Brockhurst achieved an extraordinary finish. He was prodigiously skilled in representing texture, in particular skin, flesh, hair, lace, silk and embroidery. The limitations of paint or copper plate and printer's ink were simply challenges to be overcome. His models are alluring, and exude an air of flawless serenity. Read more
Alex Katzand the Japanese Print 26 Oct - 26 Nov 2011 In 2011 The Fine Art SOciety Contemporary presented an exhibition of prints featuring the work of internationally acclaimed American artist, Alex Katz alongside nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese prints of portraits, figures and waterscapes. This exhibition offered an insight into Katz's printmaking output, examining the influence of Japanese prints that he has often cited as a source of inspiration. The exhibition premiered a new iconic print of 'Ada', his long-term muse and wife, using the 'full-colour' Japanese woodblock technique. Read more
The Strawberry ThiefSelected by Jeremy Deller 7 - 28 Oct 2011 Selected by Jeremy Deller, The Strawberry Thief brought together works from eight contemporary artists with modern British forebears who have inspired or fascinated them. Deller's chosen title for the show, The Strawberry Thief, from a design by William Morris, reflects the idea that each artist – to continue the fruit metaphor – has been cherry-picked specifically and, in turn, 'stolen' a motif or idea to produce the dedication.
The work of Chris Ofili, Peter Doig, Paul Noble, Steven Claydon, Stephen Fowler, Tasha Amini, Ed Hall and Nick Pankhurst was shown with works by Edward Bawden, Edward Burra, Richard Dadd, Morris & Co, Eduardo Paolozzi, John Piper, Eric Ravilious, Walter Sickert and Christopher Wood. Read more
Wit, Fear and SarcasmRowena Hughes, Ann-Marie James, Dodda Maggy, Mariana Mauricio and Robert Nicol 10 Aug - 15 Sep 2011 Rowena Hughes, Ann-Marie James, Dodda Maggy, Mariana Mauricio and Robert Nicol. Read more
The Twentieth CenturyTwenty Four Selected Works 20 Jul - 31 Aug 2011 The Fine Art Society took a selection of twentieth century British art to Masterpiece 2011. The exhibition returned to the gallery until the end of August. Works by the following artists were on show:
Robert Anning Bell, Henry Scott Tuke, William Nicholson, CRW Nevinson, Joseph Southall, George Leslie Hunter, Cyril Arthur Farey, Christopher Wood, Cyril Power, Anne Redpath, Eric Ravilious, John Piper, Edgar Hubert, John Piper, John Craxton, Peter Lanyon, John Tunnard, William Scott and Keith Coventry. Read more
Five Centuries of Scottish Portraiture20 Jul - 31 Aug 2011 The exhibition includes work by Adam de Colone, David Allan, Sir Henry Raeburn, Allan Ramsay, Sir William Oliphant Hutchison and John Byrne.
We are proud to announce that Sir William Oliphant Hutchison's 'Reading Aloud' has been purchased by The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, and that David Martin's magnificent Portrait of James Hunter Blair and his Family, sold to a private collector, is now on loan to the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. Read more
Emily YoungThe Maremma Heads 8 - 28 Jul 2011 In the early part of 2011, Emily Young moved her studio from London to an empty semi-ruined monastery in Italy, a few miles from Rome. The Maremma Heads was the first body of work produced by the sculptor working with the local stone, a kind of brecchiated quartz. The heads were carved from her own pantheon of human characteristics; warrior, poets, lost angels, the silent and the silenced.
This exhibition, Emily Young's first solo show at The Fine Art Society for three years, sold out. She is now working on a series of very large heads for exhibition in Berkeley Square in 2012. Read more
The Camden Town GroupCentenary Exhibition 15 Jun - 21 Jul 2011 A centenary exhibition of The Camden Town Group which opened exactly 100 years to the day of the groups' original exhibition in Fitzroy Street in 1911. The show consisted of around seventy pictures by Walter Sickert, Robert Bevan, Malcolm Drummond, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner, William Ratcliffe and many others. It presented a thorough survey of their output; many of the works came from the artists' descendants and had not been seen before. Read more
Dan CoombsHeaven and Earth 25 May - 23 Jun 2011 With Coombs work you would have been forgiven for thinking you had stumbled on an early Modernist primitive exhibition in this body of work from Dan Coombs. But with the awkward nude figures and bold and psychedelic palette, this is utopia with a dark edge.
Coombs work encompasses the relationships between figures, both formally on the surface of the canvas and between the depicted individuals. Initially cut-outs from a plethora of sources (life drawing manuals, magazines and catalogues), the figures first meet on the surface of a study for the painting to come. Some seem content to be there, others positively enthusiastic, bowed in introduction while others still are ambivalent, disinterested, turning away (The Searchers). Unlike the early Modern dream, these figures abjectly refuse to sit harmoniously on the canvas, a reflection off real (as opposed to ideal) human relationships and their complexities, be they isolated (Coathangers), an Edenesque couple (Echo) or a community (Village). Read more
Charles TunnicliffeOriginal Drawings and Prints for Tarka the Otter 20 May - 4 Jun 2011 A selling exhibition of Charles Tunnicliffe's original drawings and prints for Henry Williamson's Tarka the Otter. Read more
Oscar MarzaroliPhotography 1959-1968 20 May - 4 Jun 2011 Oscar Marzaroli (1933-1988) recorded Glasgow's evolution through the 1960s, from urban decay to urban regeneration. He took the street life, shipyards, steelworks, children and the study of childhood as his subject. He moved amongst his subjects as an equal and a participant, not a 'privileged tourist'. In association with Marzaroli's estate, The Fine Art Society presented a selling exhibition of vintage prints from 1959 to 1968. Read more
Raymond BoothFifty Years with The Fine Art Society 18 May - 3 Jun 2011 A selling exhibition of Raymond Booth's work, featuring recent work as well as remarkable drawings and paintings from his art school days and early career. This exhibition marks and celebrates Booth's fifty years at The Fine Art Society as one of their represented artists. Read more
Melanie ComberNo Man's Land 13 Apr - 13 May 2011 Entitled 'No Man's Land', this exhibition included a new series of paintings on paper by painter, Melanie Comber marking a new, more expressionistic departure for the artist.
The concept of place is intrinsic to Comber's work. The paintings are at once familiar but imbued with an apparent ambiguity – are they aerial photographs of a barren landscape? Or rather an image of material magnified to the point of abstraction? Comber demands a lot of the viewer as we navigate the surface, exploring the sense of depth, both illusory and real: drawn back by perspective lines but hovering on the surface where impastoed paint and dusted pigment create peaks and troughs.
The titles of the works reinforce this emphasis on place and in fact are the foundation of and inform the direction of the painting. For they are less portraits of space and more self-portraits, charting Comber's own deeply personal response to a particular place or experience. This new body of work is inspired by cartography and the process of rendering a lived and emotional journey onto a symbolic and metaphorical plane is apparent in Comber's work: they are the residual manifestation of an intensely emotional experience.
Additionally, Comber had begun to work on paper, allowing her greater freedom and experimentation, playing with the draughtsmanship of the medium to introduce a new emphasis on mark-making. The graphic strokes carved into the surface of the paintings are self-conscious and expressionistic, evoking the heavy marks of a de Kooning painting. Read more
Stephen GoddardOne God To Many Devils 11 - 31 Mar 2011 A marked development from his first show with the gallery, 'Only Headhunting' in 2009, Goddard burst the conventional constraints of sculpture, drawing on new experimental materials such as clay, plastic, horsehair and fabric. Even his wall-based work sat on the cusp between painting and sculpture. Just as the title of the exhibition 'One God to Many Devils', the angst-ridden works reflect Goddard's artistic impulses, being pulled in different more experimental directions creating these indecipherable relics of some lost culture.
Yet the works remained distinctly Goddardesque, drawing on the intensely personal: children's drawings, tribal art from his extensive library, portraits of his 'Nan' or grandmother to produce works that are innovative, raw and direct. Equally, he continues to quote from the Art Historical canon: a hint of Egon Schiele, a pinch of Jean-Michel Basquiat and a touch of Vincent Van Gogh, all resonate within the works. Read more
Rob and Nick CarterPostcards from Vegas 14 Jan - 15 Feb 2011 Drawing on their personal collection of postcards sourced throughout childhood, strikingly combined with their shared passion for raw neon, Rob and Nick Carter created fourteen new pieces marrying postcards from the 60s and 70s with neon signs of the type originally found on locations such as casinos, diners, ice cream parlours and motels. The result was a new body of work that delivers an intriguing play on place and mood.
"We've always been fascinated by the gaudy lurid neon signs of Las Vegas, and loved the idea of juxtaposing these with the 'readymade' postcards to create different and surprising connotations. The scale of neon has been reduced, while the postcards have been enlarged up to 150 times their original size. The series creates a jarring between not only the two forms of advertising, but also the flat photographic surface and the more sculptural neon form. We hope the viewer will create their own narrative and direct response to the work" comment Rob and Nick Carter.
Rob and Nick have been working with neon since 2003 and have been commissioned to undertake several large scale neon installations including 23 Savile Row for D2 Private, 200 Aldersgate for Helical Bar, and Cardinal Place for Land Securities. And in December 2008, Upper Street in Islington was illuminated by the first ever billboard neon art installation 'Read Colours Not Words' commissioned by London Art Fair and created by the Carters in association with The Fine Art Society. Read more


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Online courses, available on edX.org and The Linux Foundation training platform, provide introductory and advanced knowledge of ONAP and OPNFV
LOS ANGELES (Open Networking Summit), March 27, 2018 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the availability of four new training courses, LFS163x: Introduction to ONAP: Complete Network Automation and, LFS164x: NFV Acceleration: An Introduction to OPNFV, both available on edX.org, the leading nonprofit learning platform founded by Harvard and MIT; and LFS263: ONAP Fundamentals, and LFS264: OPNFV Fundamentals, available on The Linux Foundation training platform. All courses are available and open for enrollment today.
Open source networking projects are transforming how service providers and enterprises develop, deploy, and scale their networks and next-generation services. The 2017 Open Source Jobs Report from The Linux Foundation and Dice found nearly half of hiring managers are looking to hire individuals with networking expertise, and 55 percent report that formal training or certifications is a priority when choosing new hires.
LFS163x: Introduction to ONAP: Complete Network Automation is designed to provide a high-level understanding and business perspective of the ONAP project and a guide for navigating, participating, and benefiting from the ONAP community. The course is also meant for vendors who wish to determine how to position or sell their products into the ONAP ecosystem. The course outline includes:
- Chapter 1. NFV Basics and ONAP Introduction
- Chapter 2. ONAP Scope and Key Concepts
- Chapter 3. ONAP Architecture
- Chapter 4. Official ONAP Projects
- Chapter 5. ONAP Demos and Getting Involved
- Final Exam
LFS164x: NFV Acceleration: An Introduction to OPNFV offers an introduction to The Linux Foundation OPNFV project (Open Platform for NFV), providing the basics of NFV. It delves into the challenges OPNFV solves, with an overview of related projects and industry use cases. We will also discuss how you can benefit from OPNFV. The course outline includes:
- Chapter 1. NFV Basics and OPNFV Introduction
- Chapter 2. Upstream Projects Integration
- Chapter 3. Feature Projects
- Chapter 4. Integration Projects
- Chapter 5. Testing Projects
- Chapter 6. Use Cases and Getting Involved
- Final Exam
LFS263: ONAP Fundamentals is designed to provide a fundamental understanding and basic hands-on knowledge of the ONAP project and a guide for navigating, participating, and benefiting from the ONAP community. The course includes lab exercises to run on the Google Cloud Platform for a deeper learning of each of ONAP's functional areas. The course outline includes:
- Chapter 1. Introduction to Network Function Virtualization
- Chapter 2. ONAP Scope and Key Concepts
- Chapter 3. ONAP Architecture
- Lab 1. ONAP Deployment using OOM and OPNFV
- Chapter 4. ONAP Subprojects
- Lab 2. Virtual firewall (vFW) network service design
- Chapter 5. ONAP Use Cases
- Lab 3. vFW network service runtime
- Lab 4. vFW closed-loop automation
LFS264: OPNFV Fundamentals introduces students to the fundamentals of OPNFV. Starting with an overview of NFV and OPNFV, it delves into the challenges OPNFV solves, then provides an overview of the feature, integration, and testing OPNFV projects, industry use cases and benefits. In addition to the theoretical learning, the course includes lab exercises to run on the Google Cloud Platform. These lab exercises revolve around deployment and testing, for a deeper learning of each of OPNFV's key areas. The course outline includes:
- Chapter 1. Introduction to NFV and OPNFV
- Chapter 2. Upstream Projects Integration
- Chapter 3. Feature Projects
- Chapter 4. Integration Projects
- Lab 1. Deploying OPNFV
- Chapter 5. Testing Projects
- Lab 2. Running Functest
- Lab 3. Running Yardstick
- Chapter 6. OPNFV Use Cases
"With networking becoming increasingly important to a wider range of organizations than ever before, and traditional proprietary solutions being replaced with open source software, there is huge demand for more professionals with expertise in this area of technology," said Linux Foundation General Manager, Networking Arpit Joshipura. "These new training courses will help build a new generation of networking professionals, and ensure existing professionals have the skills needed to succeed in a changing environment."
LFS163x and LFS164x are available to begin immediately on edX.org. There is no charge for these introductory courses, though a verified certificate of completion is available for $99. LFS263 and LFS264 are now open for pre-enrollment, with the courses being fully available in May. Those who purchase either course during the pre-enrollment period can do so for a discounted fee of $99 each ($199 standard).
About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and industry adoption. Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any open source project, which together deliver an economic impact not achievable by any one company. More information can be found at www.linuxfoundation.org.
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our trademark usage page: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage.
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screen and tmux
A comparison of the features (or more-so just a table of notes for accessing some of those features) for GNU screen and BSD-licensed tmux.
The formatting here is simple enough to understand (I would hope). ^ means ctrl+, so ^x is ctrl+x. M- means meta (generally left-alt or escape)+, so M-x is left-alt+x
It should be noted that this is no where near a full feature-set of either group. This - being a cheat-sheet - is just to point out the most very basic features to get you on the road.
Trust the developers and manpage writers more than me. This document is originally from 2009 when tmux was still new - since then both of these programs have had many updates and features added (not all of which have been dutifully noted here).
|start a new session
|tmux OR
tmux new OR
tmux new-session
|re-attach a detached session
|tmux attach OR
tmux attach-session
|re-attach an attached session (detaching it from elsewhere)
|tmux attach -d OR
tmux attach-session -d
|screen -dr
|re-attach an attached session (keeping it attached elsewhere)
|tmux attach OR
tmux attach-session
|screen -x
|detach from currently attached session
|^b d OR
^b :detach
|^a ^d OR
^a :detach
|rename-window to newname
|^b , <newname> OR
^b :rename-window <newn>
|^a A <newname>
|list windows
|^b w
|^a w
|list windows in chooseable menu
|^a "
|go to window #
|^b #
|^a #
|go to last-active window
|^b l
|^a ^a
|go to next window
|^b n
|^a n
|go to previous window
|^b p
|^a p
|see keybindings
|^b ?
|^a ?
|list sessions
|^b s OR
tmux ls OR
tmux list-sessions
|screen -ls
|toggle visual bell
|^a ^g
|create another window
|^b c
|^a c
|exit current shell/window
|split window/pane horizontally
|^b "
|^a S
|split window/pane vertically
|^b %
|^a |
|switch to other pane
|^b o
|^a <tab>
|kill the current pane
|^b x OR (logout/^D)
|collapse the current pane/split (but leave processes running)
|^a X
|cycle location of panes
|^b ^o
|swap current pane with previous
|^b {
|swap current pane with next
|^b }
|show time
|^b t
|show numeric values of panes
|^b q
|toggle zoom-state of current pane (maximize/return current pane)
|^b z
|break the current pane out of its window (to form new window)
|^b !
|re-arrange current panels within same window (different layouts)
|^b [space]
|Kill the current window (and all panes within)
|^b killw [target-window]
Use the same script for updating/ upgrading
Make sure to change the versions to the latest releases:#!/bin/bash set -e bpcver=4.2.1 bpcxsver=0.57 rsyncbpcver=220.127.116.11
Scroll through the script, know what you are doing.
Uncomment the upgrade section(s) and comment out the install section(s)
Again running smartctl after all is said and done:
smartctl --all /dev/sda
Yet an old drive in itself, I run the wheels off of them, and monitor regularly as anyone should.


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Please take a moment to fill out a short survey on how we can better assist you with enabling Adobe Experience Cloud solutions and services on your mobile apps.
Support for the Mobile version 4 SDKs will end on September 30, 2020.
After September 30, 2020, customers can continue to download and use the version 4 SDKs, but there will be no Customer Care support or access to forums. The Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDK (previously referred to as v5) will exclusively support upcoming Adobe Experience Cloud features and functionality.
We recommend that you migrate to the new Experience Platform Mobile SDK when feasible.
Here are the end-of-support considerations for the version 4 SDKs:
4x SDKs will have continued Adobe Customer Support and access to forums until September 30, 2020.
Adobe will release final updates for Version 4 SDKs to facilitate compatibility with upcoming OS releases such as iOS 13/Xcode 11 and Android Q.
Customer issues will continue to be addressed by impact through September 30, 2019, after which Adobe may, in its sole discretion, develop new fixes for problems of high technical impact or business exposure for customers. Based on the customer input, Adobe will determine the degree of impact and exposure and the consequent activities.
Starting October 2020, no new fixes, OS-related updates, or support for 4x SDKs will be provided. Customers will be expected to use the new Experience Platform Mobile SDKs.
The version 4 SDKs were first released in September 2013 to support mobile app implementations for Adobe Analytics (including Mobile Services), Adobe Audience Manager, Adobe Target, and Adobe Campaign. These performant, well-tested SDKs provided rich functionality and are used in well over 18,000 apps across app stores.
Spurred by customer feedback for more control, performance, and functionality over the years; and to support future product enhancements, we released the re-architected Adobe Experience Platform Mobile SDKs in September 2018. The new Experience Platform Mobile SDKs replaces the version 4 SDKs and provide support for new features such as flexible configuration through Experience Platform Launch, modular Adobe and partner extensions.
Solutions such as Places Service and Project Griffon are exclusively available on Experience Platform Mobile SDKs.
To upgrade to the Experience Platform SDKs, see Upgrade to the Experience Platform SDKs.
You can continue to use the version 4 SDKs after the end-of-support dates. However, as mentioned in End-of-support considerations, no support will be provided.
SDK downloads through GitHub and other locations will be available through May 30, 2021.
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Claire Grady is a qualified Nutritional Therapist and advocate for healthy eating & lifestyle medicine. She graduated in 2013 from the College of Naturopathic Medicine and is an active member of Nutritional Therapists of Ireland.
She is the owner of ANU Wellness a client-centered, functional medicine based Nutritional Therapy practice based in Galway. At ANU Wellness we focus on individualized nutrition and lifestyle recommendations to help people achieve optimal health and wellbeing of the mind, body and spirit. Claire is passionate about using food as medicine and the tradition of using herbs to help her clients achieve their individual health and wellness goals.
Women's health is an area close to Claire's heart and she strives to use her knowledge and education to empower to women take care of themselves so that they can in turn care for others. Women are ever changing throughout their lives and educating women on how their bodies' work and how we can look after our health through food and lifestyle choices plays a big role in her Nutritional Therapy practice.


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Wanting to capture the heady, botanical-rich nature of vermouth, we have distilled a blend of wormwood, bay leaves, mint and spices including nutmeg, cassia, cardamom and clove. The backbone is comprised of our smooth and balanced London Dry Gin, with additional orange peel dialling up the bright citrus notes, assisting the marriage of the gin and vermouth botanicals.
Tasting notes
The Nose
Beautiful buttery nuttiness balanced by warming orange citrus.
The Palate
Smooth with a fantastically clean and dry finale.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
It's a Color Challenge at Paper Players
I hate to post this card so late, since the deadline is in about an hour and a half away, but I have been under the weather the first of the week with a severe headache and then we have been out of town for a few days (more about that later) so in between laundry and trying to get back on schedule today I created this card for the challenge at The Paper Players which is hosted by Ann Schach using the colors by Stampin' Up More Mustard, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze and Old Olive. I used one of my favorite stamp sets and I think everyone else as well, As Lovely as a Tree and stamped the oak leaves in Versamark and then embossed with SU clear embossing powder. I cut two sizes of the large Spellbinders scalloped ovals, one in Old Olive and the other in Very Vanilla which I then sponged with More Mustard and Old Olive before stamping my oak tree image with Chocolate Chip. My buttons are from Gina K designs. I then wanted to use an image from last year's set by SU called Wandering Words...so I stamped it as my inside sentiment on a piece of More Mustard card stock. Again, I am sorry to be posting for this challenge so close to the deadline, but if you work fast you can join in or at least check out the beautiful examples at this blog...and a new challenge will be up soon.
I have some pictures of our trip to show you and will try and post later on, but for now I'll say, hope you'll leave me a comment and let me know how you've been!
Labels: Paper Players, stampin' up
5 comments:
- Lesley said...
Great card Patti...I am so happy you had the chance to play along with us again this week!! The nesties work perfectly with the Lovely as a Tree set.
- September 18, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Ann Schach said...
Beautiful, Patti! I love it! The tree is framed so perfectly! Thanks for joining The Paper Players this week!
- September 18, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- Betty Benton said...
Love how you used a wonderful SU set, and the inside sentiment is just perfect for this card! great job!
- September 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM
- craftieodmae said...
all is well here, Bill is coming along, I love your card and will call you later today. Take care.
- September 19, 2010 at 7:30 AM
- Colleen said...
I'm so glad you were out of town :) I was going to be really worried after this weekend! Your card is very pretty!
- September 19, 2010 at 11:33 AM
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is Aliexpress Safe? Why AliExpress is so Cheap- A Complete AliExpress Review!
Most of us have heard about AliBaba, an multi-billion dollar worth Chinese e-commerce platform founded by Jack Ma. The company started out as a business to business service and soon started providing business to consumer services as well. AliBaba has spread its wings and has gone international with AliExpress, aimed at the international markets.
AliExpress reviews has been able to attract customers from all over the world, primarily for offering items cheaper than the market price. In fact, you can save significant amount of money buying certain products from this platform. But, there have also been innumerable reports of buyers getting defrauded or shipped counterfeit items. That has got us asking – Is AliExpress Safe? This is what we discuss in this article. Keep reading!
- Why is AliExpress so Cheap?
- How About Website and Server Security Issues
- So, Where Is the Problem?
- Can I still buy from AliExpress and not get scammed?
- If the price is too low, it is likely a scam
- Use the Escrow Service of AliPay
- Check the merchant's rating before buying
- Wrapping up: By and large AliExpress is safe
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Why is AliExpress so Cheap?
AliExpress manages to sell many products at substantially lower prices as compared to other e-commerce websites. This has been the biggest draw of this online seller. I have a couple of theories how AliExpress is able to sell certain items for so cheap.
Cost of labor, and hence cost of production, is significantly lower in China. This is why the Chinese manufacturers are able to sell their products at a smaller price point. But, what greatly contributes to the low price is the fact that you get to buy directly from the producers/manufacturers on AliExpress eliminating the middlemen from the equation. It's the dealers, retailers and other middlemen who add their profits to the final price and you end up paying more.
But, it's the other possibility that deters us from buying from AliExpress. It is a known fact that Chinese are the masters of copying and counterfeiting. And, it won't be a surprise if the bogus products make it to this platform. Whether it is electronic items, apparels or accessories, there is a chance you may end up buying a fake product. It's got to be cheap if it is counterfeit. Stories have been also told of the buyers being duped by the sellers who just take the money and never ship the products.
If you can tell genuine buyer from fake and good product from bad, that is why AliExpress is so cheap and not a bad place to shop.
How About Website and Server Security Issues
Ever since the launch of AliExpress, only one major vulnerability in site security has been exposed by the experts. But, it's the same vulnerability that plagues the e-commerce giant eBay as well – cross-site scripting or XSS. This vulnerability could have spelled doom on the credibility of AliExpress if it hadn't been timely discovered and taken care of. XSS security glitch lets the hackers the personal information of the users who use specific browsers. The company would have lost a huge number of its customers if the vulnerability had not been spotted and plugged.
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Some minor, nearly insignificant, vulnerabilities have also been revealed but they would not have (or did not) impact the website's users as well as the company. Besides XSS no other major vulnerability has been exposed. What's good to know is that the moment the company was apprised of the XSS issue, they quickly took the steps to take care of it without any delays. That goes on to tell that AliExpress owners are here for serious business and are not just playing around.
Beyond that, I haven't been able to find reports of any vulnerabilities in AliExpress's systems. Of course, not every vulnerability would be publicized, but this most recent XSS problem is by far the most glaring error on the record. And, according to the researchers who discovered the vulnerability, once AliExpress was made aware of it, they took it seriously and fixed it quickly.
AliExpress uses Alipay, the international payment system for Alibaba. This payment system has proven to be effective and highly secure. While transacting on this website, you will need not worry about things going wrong.
So, we can safely concluded that as far as the platform security is concerned, both AliExpress and AliBaba are as secure as they come even after considering WSS issue. After all, the global ecommerce leader eBay could not avoid it even.
AliExpress reviews has a good track record inasmuch as site and payment security. I am not saying that it is invincible, but the even platforms like eBay and Amazon are also not.
So, Where Is the Problem?
Website is safe, payment system is trustworthy; so where exactly does the problem lie? The problem is with the merchants and of course the approval process that allows the merchants on the platform.
One thing that quickly draws our attention is that AliExpress only lets sellers from China to sell on the website. Hundreds of cases of consumers being duped or scammed have been reported over the years, to the extent that the company itself had to set up an internal fraud investigation and analysis division. They also have a separate webpage offering tips to the buyers to avoid frauds while buying from their website. Now who does that? But, at least we know that these issues are on the company's radar and hopefully, in the coming time we would be able to buy from the platform more safely without having to worry about being scammed.
Can I still buy from AliExpress and not get scammed?
Well, I think you can (at least for the most part). There are only a handful of fraudsters and scammers on this platform that are tainting its image. If you are careful, you will be able to tell good from bad. Here are some of my recommendations on safe buying.
If the price is too low, it is likely a scam
Low pricing is the biggest draw of the website. This is why hundreds of thousands of potential buyers flock to AliExpress everyday. Merchants offering 20-30% discount is not unusual. You will often find such offers on Amazon and other global ecommerce platforms as well. But, you know you are likely to be duped of your money when a seller is offering a discount of let's say 90%. For instance, if there is a TV set priced at $1,000 in the market and the AliExpress merchant is offering it to you for $100, you know you have to steer clear of it. If that's the kind of deal you are being presented with, you are either buying a counterfeit product or the seller wouldn't probably ship the item to you.
Use the Escrow Service of AliPay
It is best to use the escrow service of the payment system if you wish to avoid being scammed. It can protect you in more than one way. Escrow makes sure that the purchase amount you have paid is not released to the merchant until it has been confirmed by you that the product has been received. If you happen to receive a counterfeit product or it isn't shipped to you, you can always contact AliExpress and have the payment withheld and later refunded to you. Using the Escrow service also means that your payment details (credit/debit card info) are not sent to the seller.
It is important to check the product carefully upon delivery. Take it out of the box and examine it thoroughly. Make sure that it is genuine and not counterfeit.
Check the merchant's rating before buying
The buyers who have been duped by a seller will almost always go back to the site and leave a negative feedback and low rating to the seller. The rating and feedback are a solid indicator of the seller's credibility. For instance, a seller with an average rating of 4.5 has a really high chance of being authentic as compared to the one with a rating of, say 2 or 3. Always avoid the sellers who have low average rating.
Wrapping up: By and large AliExpress is safe
AliExpress is probably as good as it gets all things considered. If you are careful enough, you will be able to keep yourself from the fraud's way. As I have already said, always check the rating of the seller and never go for deals that sound too good to be true. Reasonable discounts are understandable but no one can sell an item at just a small portion of the actual price and still survive.
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Alexa-Marie Quinn murder: Father Carl Wheatley found guilty
A man has been found guilty of murdering his four-year-old daughter by beating her to death.
Alexa-Marie Quinn had 66 injuries including a bruise from her stomach to her ankles when she died in March 2014, St Albans Crown Court heard.
Carl Wheatley, 31, from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, admitted manslaughter but the jury rejected his plea of not guilty to murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
He will be sentenced on Friday.
The court heard Wheatley had convinced social workers he could look after the girl at his home in Queen Bee Court and was awarded custody of her three months before she died on 12 March last year.
The jury was told Wheatley beat Alexa with "hard, sustained, persistent hitting" after losing his temper. The blows were delivered with such force that fat deposits entered her bloodstream and blocked her lungs.
A pathologist found she died from "extreme blunt-force trauma".
Alexa had been removed from her mother's care some years earlier and had been living with foster parents in Bedfordshire before moving in with her father.
The supermarket worker was also fighting for custody of a three-year-old boy, who cannot be named in order to protect his identity.
Prosecutors said he wanted custody in order to claim more benefit payments.
During the trial, the jury was told psychiatrists diagnosed Wheatley with multiple mental health disorders.
Prosecutor Christopher Donnellan, QC, said Wheatley dialled 999 on the morning of the fatal attack but by the time paramedics arrived it was likely Alexa had been dead for hours.
Det Ch Insp Jerome Kent from Hertfordshire police, said: "Alexa-Marie suffered horrific injuries at the hands of her father, a man who should have been protecting her.
"Not only did he cause her such significant injury prior to her death, he failed to seek any help for her, leaving her to suffer."
In welcoming the verdict, Jenny Coles, director of children's services at Hertfordshire County Council, said: "There will be an independent review of all the agencies involved in looking after Alexa-Marie by the Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Board.
"We are keen to see its results and will welcome any recommendations about any improvements to our services and in our work with vulnerable children and their families."


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Dentistry is consistently ranked as one of the two most desirable professions. That ranking is based on factors like working conditions, salary, and work/life balance. And people have taken note: there are more active dentists in the United States than at any time in history.
Dentistry is a great profession, but it's also one that requires dedication and hard work. Still, that hard work should be balanced by adequate time off to spend with family and friends, and to pursue hobbies and pastimes.
It's not like that for too many dentists in the U.S. Here's why.
One that's never covered in dental school is how to promote your practice and get new patients. For the vast majority of dentists, learning to market is on-the-job training. So, they look at what their competitors are doing and follow along.
After all, if their competition is in business, their marketing must work, right?
Well, sort of. Being in business isn't the same thing as succeeding in business.
Most dental practices, even today, market their practices the same way that dentists did in the 1980's and 1990's. They advertise specials, promotions, low price, and insurance.
What they get in return are price-shoppers, one-and-done's, and insurance-driven patients who only want what insurance will cover.
When dentists' margins are thin, they've got to see a lot of patients to make even decent money. The result is that those dentists work too hard, for too long, for too little.
Beyond that, advertising takes a lot of a dentist's time. Offers need to be decided upon, Ads designed and approved, and media bought every quarter, if not every month. That's an additional hit to dentists' work-life balance.
The one thing that dentists today do differently than their forebears to promote their practices is to have a website. But busy dentists don't have much time to think about their websites, much less keep them updated. And in the vast majority of cases, those websites haven't been updated in 6-8 years. That is an eternity in internet time.
Those thoroughly dated websites do more harm than good when it comes to attracting patients who will actually pay for the treatment they need. People are spoiled for choice these days. When it comes to choosing a thoroughly modern dental practice over one that looks like it's still in the 1990's, it's no contest.
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In almost every walk of life you will encounter the term, "Conflict of Interest" (COI). It is an ethical term that is often used to destroy a person's credibility, or to weaken their position in matters of professional opinion. One of the most interpretive questions relating to a COI is the question of impartiality. Can a person act with impartiality where an apparent conflict of interest exists? The reason this question is so interpretive is because of the many and different ways in which it can be answered. Continue reading
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Competing InterestsAugust 19, 2016
I enjoyed reading the Washington Post Tim Cook interview. The interview was wide in scope and really gives you a window into the mind of Apple's CEO. I recommend it. One section that raised my eyebrows was the discussion of security and privacy. This issue is a fascinating one to me because Apple has taken such a leading role in advocating privacy rights for consumers. As Tim explaned in the interview, "Customers should have an expectation that they shouldn't need a PhD in computer science to protect themselves."
Elsewhere in the interview, Tim talks about Apple's mission.
I absolutely believe the folks at Apple get out of bed in the morning to make great products. However, it really isn't that simple. If you don't believe me, perhaps I could interest you in a 16GB iPhone. Making insanely great products has always required compromises. Apple has to make a profit if they want to stay in business and every Apple product (just like any other company's product) that comes to market requires thousands of small compromises. That's always come with the territory but until recently, I've never really thought of Apple having a competing North Star. Now I wonder.
Privacy is a big deal to Apple. Tim explained:
I think this is more than CEO puffing. I think Tim, and the rest of Apple leadership, feels this in their bones and they are absolutely willing to go to bat for consumers on the issue of privacy. They took a drubbing over the San Bernardino case and I suspect they'd do it all over again. The question, however, becomes what happens when protecting consumer privacy gets in the way of making insanely great products? If Apple's unstoppable force hits its own immovable object, who wins?
There are plenty of consumers already getting off the Apple services bandwagon in favor of Google precisely because the way Google does everything on its servers results in some insanely great user experiences. Apple is responding by trying to get those types of services on-device–as opposed to the less private cloud storage as Google does. We're early days on this but it seems, at least for the immediate future, that the cloud service solution is better, faster, and more adaptable than on-device.
If Tim Cook were sitting here right now, I suspect he'd argue that the 2016 version of an insanely great product is one that (in addition to many other features) protects user privacy and going back to the issue of compromises, it's probably better that you not let somebody else index all of your photos, even if that would make it easier to search out pictures of canteloupes. I agree with that particular compromise but as we move into the next few years, I think the goals of great products and protecting user privacy aren't always going to align.
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An iPad firestorm about nothingMarch 29, 2012Via Scoop.it – From the Apple Orchard Apple's newest iPad hit the market three weeks ago and already their have been a number of controversies surrounding the device. As expected, all of the issues fizzled out because there was really nothing there in the first place. Via techpinions.comRead more
EVENT: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 7:30 p.m. Home Networking and More with Dave HamiltonMarch 28, 2012#Overview# Ten years ago those people who had networks in their homes were considered fringe geeks and gluttons for punishment. Nowadays, however, home networks are as common as cable television and dishwashers, but they can still be a source of frustration for many, especially to do it right! With that, Dave Hamilton — someone who *was* a fringe geek and *has* gone through all the ...Read more
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EVENT: March 13, 2012: "More than Photoshop". Presented by photographer Steve StangerMarch 6, 2012Adobe's Photoshop is a powerful graphics editing program. Its ability to edit, combine, and manipulate photos and bitmapped artwork has made it the industry standard. However, with all that power comes a mind boggling amount of features, complexity, and a high price tag. Other Mac graphics programs are out there which can perform many of Photoshop's functions at a lower price. Some even can do ...Read more
Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPadMarch 3, 2012It's the apps that make the iPad great and Photoshop Touch is perhaps the prime example of the potential of the device and how flexible it is at becoming a great machine for a whole slew of different tasks, from reading, to writing, to viewing to editing and now, to using Photoshop for more than just basic photo edits. Sure, Photoshop Touch is still ...Read more
Ask the Mac Pros at the Princeton Public LibraryFebruary 9, 2012Have questions about how to use your MacBook, iPad, or iPod? Want to try out our new iMacs, but don't know where to begin? Members of the Princeton Macintosh Users Group will be available at various times during this eight-week series to offer tips, tricks, and answers to all of your Apple product questions. Drop by! There is no registration needed. * (Mondays 4-6 pm ...Read more
Doug Dixon at CES 2012February 3, 2012While we wait in anticipation of Doug Dixon's talk this month, I thought I would take a sneak peak at what he saw at CES. The following is from his blog: Ultrabooks: Small and light and stylish laptops (the PC industry's answer to Apple's MacBook Air). Remember netbooks, which were too underpowered and sluggish? Ultrabooks promise to remove the compromises, with power and capacity to ...Read more
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 UpdateFebruary 2, 2012Apple has released an (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5048). The update includes the following. The OS X Lion v10.7.3 Update includes Safari 5.1.3 and fixes that: Add Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support Address issues when using smart cards to log into OS X Address compatibility issues with Microsoft Windows file sharing Address an issue printing Microsoft Word documents that use markup Address a graphics performance issue after sleep ...Read more
February 14, 2012 The Mobile Life: Highlights from the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show with Doug DixonFebruary 1, 2012This year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off the new year with a bang, with over 150,000 attendees packed into Las Vegas to check out over 3100 exhibitors in an area larger than 35 (American) football fields. The big themes this year were "thin" and "smart". Thin as in OLED TVs that looked like a sheet of glass, and Intel's big push for Ultrabook laptops (think MacBook Air). And ...Read more
The Lion Recovery Update includes improvements to Lion Recovery, and addresses an…January 21, 2012Reshared post from +Princeton Macintoush Users Group The Lion Recovery Update includes improvements to Lion Recovery, and addresses an issue with Find My Mac or Lion Server Profile manager when using a firmware password. #pmugnjblog Embedded Link About the Lion Recovery Update Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell.Read more


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Terror attacks in Britain have lowered visitor numbers at London attractions and theme parks run by Merlin Entertainments, the company said on Tuesday.
Merlin, which runs the London Eye and Madame Tussauds and a string of theme parks, said the Westminster attack on March 22 in which five people were killed initially led to "a softer domestic, day-trip market".
Two subsequent attacks in Manchester and London which killed 30 people and injured dozens more "resulted in a further deterioration in domestic demand," the company said in a stock market trading update.
"Given the typical lag between holiday bookings and visitation, we are also cautious on trends in foreign visitation over the coming months," the company said.
Theme parks including Legoland had also been "adversely affected in recent weeks by the terror attacks and subsequent heightened security measures". Merlin chief executive officer Nick Varney said the impact of the attacks was "unclear at this stage".
"What is clear however is that London has bounced back before, and will do again," he said, adding: "I have every confidence in the longer term resilience and growth trajectory of the market".
The company statement also said it had benefited from the plunge in the value of the pound following last year's Brexit referendum, which has increased the number of foreign tourists coming to London.
Shares in Merlin were down 2.54 percent on the London Stock Exchange after the announcement.


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