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Hello everyone I'm sure I'm going to get negative comments as well but I've suffered with anxiety for over 15 years. I have been on nearly every SSRI and almost every benzo combination over the years last combination with Cymbalta and Xanax 1 milligram 3 Times Daily I had bad side effects with Cymbalta so I was switched to Lexapro for 10 milligrams I thought as it's a Xanax wasn't lasting nearly as long and I was needing more so I will switch to Klonopin 1 milligram 3 times a day and Lexapro was increased to 20 milligrams. I have an appointment with my doctor coming up and the same thing as I've been switching back and forth between Klonopin and Xanax for years the same thing is starting to happen with the Klonopin that happen with a Xanax I feel like one milligram isn't helping at all and I feel like I want to take more or I need to take more I don't know if I should ask for an increase in dose or if I should try something else like Valium any ideas?
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Were you able to take Xanax only when you felt an anxious or panicky moment coming on?
Klonopin and Lexapro both build up in the system before the full effect is felt. And then these two drugs cause additional side affects depending on how sensitive each individual is to a drug.
See, it comes down to what the drug is made of, the coating, the foods the patient eats, and what allergies he/she has at that time.
And then there's this thing called tolerability. And when a patient hits this limit, it's so easy to overdose.
I think that's what could be happening with you but I am not a doctor. :-)
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In a world where it seemed like every customer was going to a store to see what they liked, and then went to an online store for a better price, Fabletics has implemented a reverse showroom style. This means that as a consumer, you are able to browse styles at the online store, and then visit your local stores for final fittings and purchases when needed.
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When you complement this with fabrics that feel great on your body and styles that everyone wants, you get yourself a successful activewear brand!
What can I do with the pieces that I love at the store but want to buy later?
That is one of the best parts about visiting a store. While trying on different styles in your fitting room, you can keep those items in your online shopping cart. This way, they can make a final decision later after leaving the store.
Is Fabletics strong enough to take on Amazon?
While Amazon continues to gain territory on all online shopping departments, Fabletics is offering their consumers a more personalized experience that they can enjoy online and offline.
Fabletics' collections bring in different celebrities allowing consumers to relate more with to the brand. For example, Demi Lovato's latest Fabletics collaboration. If Demi loves it, her fans will love it too!
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Have you ever noticed that when people start a question with "what if?" it usually ends up being a negative question?
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These are all fear based questions that lead you to focus on negative outcomes and what might go wrong.
You are less likely to take action to make change if you are only focusing on what bad thing might happen.
Asking "what if?" in this context keeps you stuck. If you stay stuck you are not likely to get the results you want in any area of your life.
And that is a pretty heavy cost to pay just from the way you use two little words.
But here is the interesting thing:
If you turn the use of "what if?" around, it can a very powerful way to motivate yourself to move forward.
For example, let's look at the three examples above again and turn them on their heads:
- What if it not only works but it is a roaring success?
- What if they love it?
- What if the changes you make transform your life, work and relationships?
See the difference?
Asking "what if" in this context is much more likely to motivate and inspire you. If you feel motivated and inspired you are much more likely to take action. And if you are taking action, you are more likely to achieve the outcomes you want.
Isn't that option a hugely better one than staying stuck because you have kept yourself in a mindset of fear?
Remember, you get what you focus on.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
|Jean M. Auel
|United States
|Earth's Children
|Historical novel
|May 4, 1980, Crown
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|468 pp
|LC Class
|Followed by
|The Valley of Horses
The Clan of the Cave Bear is an epic[1] historical novel by Jean M. Auel about prehistoric times. It is the first book in the Earth's Children book series which speculates on the possibilities of interactions between Neanderthal and modern Cro-Magnon humans.
The novel references the advance of the polar ice sheets, setting the story before 18,000 years Before Present (BP), when the farthest southern encroachment of the last glacial period of the current ice age occurred. Auel's time-frame, somewhere between 28,000 and 25,000 years BP, corresponds generally with archaeological estimates of the Neanderthal branch of mankind disappearing.
Plot summary[edit]
A five-year-old girl, whom readers come to understand is Cro-Magnon, is orphaned and left homeless by an earthquake that destroys her family's camp. She wanders aimlessly, naked and unable to feed herself, for several days. Having been attacked and nearly killed by a cave lion and suffering from starvation, exhaustion, and infection of her wounds, she collapses, on the verge of death.
The narrative switches to a group of people who call themselves "The Clan" and whom we come to understand are Neanderthal, whose cave was destroyed in the earthquake and who are searching for a new home. The medicine woman of the group, Iza, discovers the girl and asks permission from Brun, the head of the Clan, to help the ailing child, despite the child being clearly a member of "the Others," the distrusted antagonists of the Clan. The child is adopted by Iza and her brother Creb. Creb is this group's "Mog-ur" or shaman, despite being deformed as a result of the difficult birth resulting from his abnormally large head and the later loss of an arm and eye after being attacked by a cave bear. The clan call her Ayla, the closest they can come to saying her "strange" name. After traveling with them for a while and starting to heal, Ayla wanders away from the group when they stop to discuss what they should do since they haven't found a new home and she discovers a huge, beautiful cave, perfect for them; many of the people begin to regard Ayla as lucky, especially since good fortune continues to come their way as she lives among them.
In Auel's books, the Neanderthal possess only limited vocal apparatus and rarely speak, but have a highly developed sign language. They do not laugh or even smile, and they do not cry; when Ayla weeps, Iza thinks she has an eye disease.
Ayla's different thought processes lead her to break important Clan customs, particularly the taboo against females handling weapons. She is self-willed and spirited, but tries hard to fit in with the Neanderthals, although she has to learn everything first-hand; she does not possess the ancestral memories of the Clan which enable them to do certain tasks after being shown only once.
Iza trains Ayla as a medicine woman "of her line", the most prestigious line of medicine women out of all of the Clans. It takes her much longer to train Ayla than it will her own daughter, Uba, since Ayla does not possess the memories of the Clan. Iza is concerned that when Ayla grows up nobody will want her as their mate, making her a burden to the Clan. So she trains Ayla to be a highly respected medicine woman who will have her own "status" and will not have to rely on the status of a mate.
Ayla's main antagonist is Broud, son of Brun, an egomaniac who feels that she takes credit and attention away from him. As the two mature, the hatred between them festers. When they are young adults, Broud rapes Ayla, and she becomes pregnant. She rejoices in the birth of a son, but he is almost taken away from her because he seems deformed to the Clan, since he does not look like them and, in the beginning, cannot hold up his head.
The book ends with Creb's death, Broud's succession to the leadership, and his banishment of Ayla, who sets off to find other people of her own kind. She is not allowed to take her son with her.
The sequel, The Valley of Horses, continues Ayla's story, which is further developed in other books of the Earth's Children series, which include The Mammoth Hunters; The Plains of Passage; The Shelters of Stone; and the sixth and final installment in the series, The Land of Painted Caves.
The archaeological and paleontological research for this book was carried out by Auel from her public library, by attending archaeological conventions, and touring extensively on sites with briefings by working field archaeologists.[2] Some of the descriptions are based on the first adult Neanderthal skeletons found in Iraq from the cave burial at Shanidar, dating between 60-80,000 years BP. Other data is clearly linked to the widespread Aurignacian culture and Gravettian culture, and their tell-tale Venus figurines which Auel uses as one center of her Cro-Magnon religious practices.[3]
Film and television adaptations[edit]
In 1986, the novel was adapted into a film directed by Michael Chapman and starring Daryl Hannah.
In 2014, the Lifetime television network ordered a pilot episode, based on the series of novels. Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Jean M. Auel, and Linda Woolverton are executive producers, with Woolverton writing the teleplay. The launch was slated for some time in 2015.[4] The Pilot was canceled by Lifetime and has been shopped around to various networks with no luck, and presumed to be dead, as of March 2016.
The filming of a pilot for a series is due to start in 2016, with Ireland as one location.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- The Clan of the Cave Bear (film)
- Earth's Children (novel series)
- Use of animals during the Gravettian period
- Aurignacian culture
- Gravettian culture
- Neanderthal extinction hypotheses
- The Inheritors
- Venus figurines
- ^ "Books by Jean M. Auel". Jeanauel.com. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ^ Auel, various Series forwards, appreciations and credits, esp. "The Shelters of Stone" appreciations make it plain she'd outlined six book series in detail and visited digs in the various locales before this first book, and reprised such visits at various times since.
- ^ Tools and carvings characteristic of these cultures and maps delineating the actual basis dig sites are located within the inside cover art of most of the sequels.
- ^ Lifetime Orders Drama Pilot 'The Clan of the Cave Bear'
External links[edit]
|Library resources about
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Some people seem to have this misconception that ACTA is the 'European SOPA', but that simply isn't true. It's a global treaty, and it's already been signed by eight countries, including the US, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore. Europe votes on Thursday. If they vote 'no', the bill will have to be taken back to the drawing board and reformulated, which should buy us some time at the very least.
If you think this doesn't affect you, you're wrong. If ACTA passes, it could well signal the end of the internet as we know it, and that isn't an exaggeration. It's not just about watching movies and television online. If ACTA passes, sites like YouTube, Livejournal, Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook and even Google and Wikipedia could become impossible to maintain. ACTA would allow ISPs to monitor your net activity and cut off internet access for your entire household if one person is suspected of breaching copyright. Think Big Brother is Watching. I don't think I need to emphasise just how damaging it can be to be without internet access in this day and age, when we rely so heavily on technology.
It's not only bloggers and fandom that would be affected, either. Small businesses, independent film-makers and unsigned musicians who have previously found their niche online would also suffer hugely, and would be at risk of being bullied into submission by Hollywood and multinational corporations under accusations of copyright infringement. All those artists who found fame by uploading covers of songs to YouTube would never have had the opportunity to do so under ACTA, as those cover versions would be prohibited.
I know the internet has its problems, but to my mind it's the single greatest invention to come out of modern times, and it would be an absolute travesty if we were to lose that now. From a personal point of view, I can't even put into words how important this is to me. I've met some of my closest friends through the internet and online fandom, people whom I would likely never have met without it, and it's given me this amazing social support system. I don't want that to end here, and I want to preserve it for future generations so that they can have the same experience and opportunities I've been given through my online interactions.
I know that opinions on the seriousness of copyright infringement and online piracy vary wildly, but that isn't really the point. Internet giants such as Google are opposed to this bill, and it's pretty safe to say that they're not in favour of copyright infringment, as anyone who's ever had a fanvid taken down from YouTube will be painfully aware. Whatever your stance on copyright, this isn't the way to go about dealing with it. This is dangerous legislation that impeaches on some of our most basic human rights, such as the right to privacy and freedom of speech.
So if you're from the UK, please, please sign the petition. If you hail from elsewhere in the world, there may well be similar movements in your own country, but I think the most effective thing anybody can do right now is to keep talking about this. Talk about it on Livejournal, on Twitter, on Tumblr, on Facebook, and anywhere else you can think of. Make sure this issue is never far from people's minds. The internet is an amazingly powerful tool: let's utilise it while we still have the chance.
Please repost and spread the word :)
Please consider reposting this, especially if you have a large proportion of UK flisties. And please consider spreading the word via other platforms: Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, your own personal network.
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17 December 2011 @ 05:08 pm
it's time to play the music
28 Muppets icons (mostly Miss Piggy and Kermit)
it's time to light the lights, it's time to meet the Muppets
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20 November 2011 @ 06:47 pm
tell the world I'm coming home.
(Also, I haven't forgotten about the kink meme prompts, just haven't gotten to them.)
wait who's on first?
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26 October 2011 @ 08:31 pm
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LJ's broken things so bad that people have been given access to other's accounts.
I don't have the energy to slough through everything to find out what the status is right now, but just. Yeah.
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20 October 2011 @ 11:36 pm
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30 stock icons, various
before there was a you and me and there was such a thing as gravity, and the tide came in and the tide went out again
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20 October 2011 @ 11:06 am
My hastily edited teddy bear* has something to say.
"The National Center for Biotechnology Information conducted a study on social conditions for Oregon teens and how they affected suicide rates. They found that 21.5% of the queer kids had attempted to commit suicide, whereas their straight counterparts had a percentage of 4.2.
A typical day for a queer teen in an unfriendly environment involves constantly hiding pieces of themselves from friends and family, and often listening to their classmates use their orientation as if it were somehow an insult. 9 out of 10 queer teens have reported being bullied, and out of this number, half added that this included physical harassment, and another quarter were physically attacked. All this stress takes tolls on their schoolwork as well as their emotional state, as kids who were bullied for their sexual orientation tended to drop about half a grade from their straight counterparts.
The website Bullying Statistics estimates that queer teens are about five times more likely than straight ones to miss school due to sexual orientation-related emotional or physical threat, and 28% of them drop out altogether. Not all of them can report what's happening to them to a parent or teacher, because they can never be sure if they're going to get helped or just hurt more.
One of the more painful things about lgbt bullying is that it's not something that only the students do. Depending on where you live, the education system itself can be against you. Tennessee – not a district, but the entire state – recently passed a bill that would ban students kindergarten through eighth grade and public school teachers from discussing homosexuality. Period. Last year, Constance McMillan was forced to contact the American Civil Liberties Union because she wanted to bring her girlfriend to the prom as her date, and her school said no. Even when they were forced, legally, to change their policy, they encouraged their students to organize a privately-funded prom that would allow them to exclude Constance and her date.
Home life isn't necessarily an outlet, either. Kids who are in the closet have to deal with the stress of hiding something hugely important about themselves from their family. Overall, the chance of being received well when coming out of the closet is about fifty-fifty, and a little over a quarter of out queer teens are kicked out entirely. Even not being kicked out is no guarantee, because it might come down to a choice between running away or being sent to 'reparative therapy' camps, like Exodus International. They don't have anywhere to go, so an estimated approximately 40% of homeless teens identify as queer. Even the kids who look like they're doing okay can be actively terrified, because they know safety isn't necessarily permanent.
A few projects have sprung up to address this. The Trevor Project, founded in 1998, is a helpline for queer teens who are at risk for suicide or just in need of support. Gay-Straight Alliances and other LGBT groups have sprung up in high schools where allowed. Most recently, the It Gets Better project, which I referenced earlier, has gotten a lot of publicity for getting celebrities as well as average, everyday people to reach out to assure queer teens that their lives won't always consist of being harassed in school, if they can just make it through.
But it's not good. Kids are being told from all sides that no one wants them around, and large numbers of people would rather they didn't exist. It's a nightmare, and it
needs to stop.
*Shush, I have to get ready for class in half an hour.
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11 October 2011 @ 08:14 pm
Mississippi Personhood Amendment
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Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting
very little
no attention in the mainstream media.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.
Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.
Jackson Women's Health Organization
is the only place women can get abortions in the
state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in
all 50 states
What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.
The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.
So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.
If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.
What to do?
- Read up on it.
Wake Up, Mississippi
is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment.
Daily Kos
also has a thorough story on it.
- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.
- You can
contact the Democratic National Committee
to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.
- Like
this Facebook page
to help spread awareness.
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10 October 2011 @ 08:17 pm
So you should ask me to write you things. Especially TGWTG things because yes sirree I sure have been writing a lot of that lately. But other things, too.
oh baby baby how was i supposed to know?
oh pretty baby i shouldn't have let you
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06 August 2011 @ 09:53 pm
lullabies & other lies.
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15 July 2011 @ 11:26 pm
we only said goodbye with words, I died a hundred times.
Title: Miss Nothing
Artist: The Pretty Reckless
Fandom: Alex Rider/Second Person, Present Tense
Prompt: Loss of Identity
If you think, 'I breathe,' the 'I' is extra. There is no you to say 'I.' What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale or when we exhale. —Shun Ryu Suzuki
alex rider
hc bingo
vid-maker extraordinaire!
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28 June 2011 @ 03:31 pm
and bingo was its name-o!
My hc_bingo card
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07 March 2011 @ 05:46 pm
trouble ought to be my middle name.
So when I refer to Hoomania, now you can know what I was talking about! With shite audio.
my childhood
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02 March 2011 @ 05:51 pm
fuck you, fuck you very very much
Since I just had some revealing discussions that both ended in my conversational partner all but saying "I am a douchebag", I've had an interesting opportunity to vent my spleen. And I've chosen to repost one of these spleen-ventings because I spent a lot of time on it and got to use a lot of varied and interesting expletives.
Background: some genius at Inception Kink requested fic of Joseph Gordon-Levitt paired with a hitRECorder. Some other genius wrote it, citing hitRECord
chat interactions
as part of their basis for canon. That particular hitRECorder and other hitRECords in general are understandably freaked the fuck out, and contacted the mods. The mods, in their infinite wisdom, decided that it is the right of random creepers on the internet to write fiction about real people, even when said real people feel uncomfortable and violated.
So I contacted the mods
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Kid Cudi Talks About Making of G.O.O.D. Music Album: 'We've Been Working For Months'
During an interview with Big Boy, Kid Cudi revealed details about the upcoming first G.O.O.D. Music compilation album.
"Kanye West has been plotting this project for a long, long time," Cudi told the radio host.
He continued, "Everybody got their projects out of the way–now everybody's focused on this."
The Cleveland native says the album has been in the works for some time.
"We've been working on it for months now," Cudi tells Big Boy. "Some of the G.O.O.D. Music album was recorded before Watch The Throne was established." (via KarenCivil)


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Architecture for the cloud; Tips to build and deploy your cloud based applications
The cloud and cloud-based solutions are here to stay. This will continue to drive business solutions for a long time. Why? Clear and measurable benefits below i believe are the top 4 reasons :
1- Almost zero upfront infrastructure investment
2- Just-in-time Infrastructure
3- More efficient resource utilization
4- The possibility of usage-based costing on your back office applications
Cloud is a disruptive force. However, the cloud's "Achilles heel" is a lack of integration with the rest of the enterprise. Realizing its full potential relies, for the foreseeable future, on integrating data in the cloud with on-premise applications and databases.
Today's enterprise cloud initiatives require decoupled data systems working together , without the need for personnel and other resources to set up and maintain them , making integration key to a successful deployment.
Most companies cannot and will not abandon their previous IT investments to make the leap to the cloud all at once. Instead, there is more likely to be a gradual shift in business processes to the cloud over time, similar by nature to a perpetual proof of concept.
As the cloud delivers on its promise, more processes will be shifted to this computing model. Complexity and diminished ROI will be the consequence when long-term strategy and goals are not implemented in advance. Put simply: integration needs to be a forefront, not on the afterthought of your project strategy.
Always design for failure, be a pessimist when designing architectures in the cloud; assume things will fail. In other words, always design, implement and deploy for automated recovery from failure.
In particular, assume that your hardware will fail. Assume that outages will occur. Assume that some disaster will strike your application. Assume that you will be slammed with more than the expected number of requests per second some day. Assume that with time your application software will fail too. By being a pessimist, you end up thinking about recovery strategies during design time, which helps in designing an overall system better.
If you realize that things fail over time and incorporate that thinking into your architecture, build mechanisms to handle that failure before disaster strikes to deal with a scalable infrastructure, you will end up creating a fault-tolerant architecture that is optimized for the cloud.
Questions that you need to ask: What happens if a node in your system fails? How do you recognize that failure? How do I replace that node? What kind of scenarios do I have to plan for? What are my single points of failure? If a load balancer is sitting in front of an array of application servers, what if that load balancer fails? If there are master and slaves in your architecture, what if the master node fails? How does the failover occur and how is a new slave instantiated and brought into sync with the master?
Just like designing for hardware failure, you have to also design for software failure.
Below is a baseline to help you consider all the moving parts required to build and deploy your cloud based applications.
Lastly build process threads that resume on reboot and good cloud architecture should not be impacted to reboots and re-launches.
Like it or not, the cloud is a disruptive force, that i think will require us to move towards a more data centric business model.
Like usual, please share your thoughts and experiences
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Matt CornwallNice post, security and integration are important points in building your cloud app.
ShilpaHi Alex, nice diagram thank you for sharing, I would also add the distance between the end users to the data center can impact the response time dramatically and internet bottlenecks can affect applications availability, should be looked at the beginning.
JohnI just did a cloud audit for a client , and i would add, the data transport between the cloud and your data center should always be secured with an IPsec VPN connection for enterprise applications. so true the importance of being a pessimist when designing for the cloud.
Sean FernandezPretty great post, agree with your points. We just completed a cloud deployment we faced some hiccups on testing I recommend you do load testing to determine the ideal instance size and instance count for each server tier of your application. My other worry about Cloud i have been in the industry for 30 years, deployments used to take years now they take months, I hope Cloud provides some opportunities of IT or business jobs in North America for our kids.
JohannHi Alex,
We went live with a back office financial cloud application we forgot to address during the project where is our data. How can you secure your data if you don't know where it is? Sure, firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention can keep out most intruders, and data encryption keeps the data safer, but how do you know where your data goes when you terminate your service or when the cloud provider goes out of business? Being able to point to a machine and say your data and only your data is on that machine, goes a long way in the security of your data in the cloud. Dedicated hardware is the key that allows for cloud computing services to pass the most stringent security guidelines. At the end we were able to retrace the data but management was not too happy we missed the boat on this activity.
Grant DonnellyWe are in the middle of a cloud deployment, the biggest issue we are currently facing is with integration testing, overall agree with your points, your site is filled with good advice, providing mentoring and sharing knowledge, without any strings attached, not too many sites offer a no strings attached approach.
MikeAnother important point not discussed is internal politics, in our organization we had one group controlling all decisions and we fell into groupthink, the project was a disaster under delivered, over budget. My advice don't let a few individuals control decision making, listen to other groups make it into a true enterprise project, not just on paper.
Lisa AllenAnother big plus for small and medium size businesses, with cloud computing at your disposal, you can run your business 'on the go.' Especially know we all have become a google society! article offers excellent points on cloud architecture.
MarioWe just went live with a internal corporate type of private cloud, your points are valid we were too optimistic, had several different type of outages, important to make things redundant good points!


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Young's classic '77 release that features 3 records on two discs, this set includes 35 of his songs recorded between 1966 - 76. © 1977 Reprise
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Bjorn Viberg | European Union | 06/21/2009
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"Decade is a compilation album that was first released in 1977 as a 3 record set and is now released as a 2 CD compilation. Here we get 35 tracks worth of music and the album was hailed by critics when it was released and Allmusic and Robert Chritgau gave the album top marks and I agree with this. All the tracks have been compiled by Young himself and we get handwritten notes on each track. The booklet does not have any of the lyrics but does have unsigned liner notes and some nice photographs from the time that this compilation was released. 5/5."
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Philip Bradshaw | toronto canada | 07/04/2010
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"Generally speaking I'm not much of a fan of compilation/best of/greatest hits albums. Amazon.com has a list of "Best Greatest Hits CD's from Great Bands". The upper echelon includes CDs from Zep, Floyd, Rush, Queen, Stones, Beatles, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Who and Hendrix. Quite frankly, aside from the Beatles, who rarely included their 45 rpm hits on their LPs, I'd rather listen to the CDs that include the hits than listen to the hits, one after the other, on a best of compilation. Having said this I must now admit that Decade is one sensational double CD. I suppose, strictly speaking, it isn't a greatest hits package at all. It is simply Young's personal selection of six sides of songs recorded between 1966 and 1976. However I would guess that most would still call this Neil Young's greatest hits, volume 1. After all, it does include all of the obvious - The Loner, Cinnamon Girl, Down by the River, Cowgirl, Southern Man, Helpless, Ohio, Heart of Gold and my favourite Young song, Cortez the Killer. The first CD of the two is breath-taking - the unreleased Down to the Wire followed by fifteen monumentally great, recognizable songs. Disc two is a little different. While some tracks are well known, many are what we now call" rarities". And, finally, I do have to add this - I love A Man Needs a Maid.
At last count I had twenty-three Neil Young records and CDs. I guess you'd call me a fan! I play Everybody, Zuma, Weld, Rust/Live Rust, Gold Rush and Harvest the most. Just recently I pulled out all of the others for a listen and discovered that I should have been playing On the Beach, Freedom and Ragged Glory a little more often. This man has one mighty impressive discography, and its growing! Notwithstanding the fact that I have just about all of these songs on other records and CDs and not withstanding the lousy sound, when I put Decade on the player it stays there until the last sung has run its course. When I compile my list of my favourite 100 or 150 or 200 albums (I've been working on my list of top songs for several years now) Decade will undoubtedly be one of the very few compilations on the list and will certainly find itself in the top 50.


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For the longest time, people have believed that women who look great have a hard time making achievements in education and work. However, today's career woman is managing to combine the good looks and brains into one package. One of these success cases is Jennifer Walden, one of the most successful plastic surgeons and mother from Dallas Texas. Harper's Bazaar named her as one of the top 24 surgeons in the country.
Jennifer developed her passion for cosmetic surgery at a very young age. After medical school, she decided to get an internship with some of the best surgeons in Manhattan. She set up her first practice in Manhattan, and she received many awards for the exemplary work that she did. After many years of service to the community, she decided that she wanted to become a mother. The considerations that she had to make included getting the ideal environment to bring up the child in. She realized that she needed her children to be close to her family, hence the decision to move back to Texas.
She restarted her practice in Dallas and within a short time; she had built a reputation for herself, even bigger than she had in Manhattan. Most of the people that have been treated by her talk about how kind and gentle she is. She also serves on the Plastic Surgeons board for many years now.
Jennifer is also a mother of twins. Everything about her life, and the healthy balance between successful work and home life is an example that most people should strive to emulate.


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Fashion Revolution week is coming up (April 24th-30th) and each year to spread awareness of ethical fashion and thinking more about our clothing purchases I like to participate in their Haulternative campaign. This year I want to feature clothing "love stories", from you!! The Love Story Challenge encourages people to love the clothing they have. We don't always need new … Read More


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