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Guy Takes Selfies on Top of Buildings Because Why the Heck Not?
This guy wants you to feel the highest of highs.
Kirill Oreshkin is a Russian photographer with an unusual hobby: he scales tall buildings and takes selfies, the latest selfie trend to get noticed.
As you can see, he's not afraid, which shows how far he's come, since he says he was afraid of heights, at first.
Now, he just enjoys taking the photos, which you can see for yourself and even buy, if you're so inclined. Or check out some clips on his Facebook page.
"What's going through my head when I'm up there? Nothing special," he said. "I just try to think about hanging tight and staying alive."
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Cameron University will host the Oklahoma state meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), bringing together the five ACS sections which have members who reside in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri on Saturday, March 17. The theme of the meeting, which is sponsored by the Cameron University Department of Physical Sciences and the Wichita Falls-Duncan section of ACS, is "Energy for a Bright Future." Current ACS President Dr. Bassam Shakhashiri will present "Science is Fun and the Joy of Learning" featuring chemical demonstrations and a chemical magic show at 9 a.m. in the McCasland Ballroom of the McMahon Centennial Complex. His presentation is open to the public at no charge.
Registration will be available on-site for those wishing to attend additional sessions. The cost is $50 for ACS members, $55 for non-members, and $20 for students, spouses and pre-college teachers.
Dr. Shakhashiri is the William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin. He has given more than 1,300 invited lectures and presentations around the world and has been featured in internationally recognized media outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, the German-language Business Week, "NBC Nightly News," National Public Radio, CNN, and "The Larry King Show."
Other sessions of interest will be presented by Dr. Lloyd Sumner and Dr. Lance Lobban.
Dr. Sumner will present "Integrated Large-Scale Biochemical Profiling Provides Novel Insight into Plants" at 2 p.m. in Room 100 of the Sciences Complex. He earned a B.S. in chemistry and mathematics from Cameron University in 1989 and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Oklahoma State University in 1993. A research scientist in the Plant Biology Division at The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, his research focuses on the large-scale profiling of plant proteins and metabolites (proteomics and metabolomics) which provide greater insight into the physical and chemical consequences of gene expression and system responses to genetic and environmental perturbations.
Dr. Lobban will serve as the luncheon speaker with his presentation, "The Potential for Biofuels in the Oklahoma Energy Picture," at 12:45 p.m. in the McCasland Ballroom. He is the Francis W. Winn Chair of Chemical Engineering and Director of the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. His areas of expertise are chemical reaction engineering and catalysis, and he has directed research programs related to biomass conversion to biofuels, catalytic and plasma conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels and chemicals, photocatalytic oxidation, and modeling of solid oxide fuel cells.
Prior to Dr. Lobban's presentation, the Oklahoma Chemist Award will be presented to a chemist in Oklahoma who has made outstanding contributions to the science and to the state of Oklahoma.
The meeting will also feature professional papers and posters by more than 100 chemists or chemical engineers on areas related to chemistry or chemical engineering.
For more information, contact the Cameron University Department of Physical Sciences at 580-581-2308.
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The end of fossel fuels?
Okay, I was so shocked by how closed minded people were on another website that I had to come here to see what you all think.
I had mentioned something about WHEN the fossel fuels run out just thinking that this was a fact that everybody knew and nobody thought otherwise. I got people argueing with me saying that fossel fuels will never run out because we will always find more reserves and mother nature is always creating more because things keep dying. ???
I am like, WTF? :o How can anybody think that way? I mean, isn't it common knowledge that we are using fossel fuels WAY fasther then mother nature can create it? And that eventually there won't be anymore reservors?
Do you agree? I mean, nothing lasts forever!
I was just wanting to start a topic as to what poeple believe is the next age once the "age of fossel fuels" draws to a close as it is predicted to do so in the next 50 to 100 years.
I figure that you guys probably think more like me and have to see it the way I do. I am just shocked at the ignorance of poeple. How can they be so blind??? Do they just not want to face the inevitable thinking that it won't happen as long as they ignore it?
By the way, I believe that when the sun sets on the age of fossel fuels, it will rise with the dawn of the nuclear age. I think that will happen in our children's generation, 50 to 100 years from now.
SnowQueen, I just read a great book that it sounds like you'd appreciate! It's called Idiot America (http://www.amazon.com/Idiot-America-Stupidity-Became-Virtue/dp/0767926145), and it's about how certain aspects of the media and other forces are encouraging people to be hostile to science. Yes, it has a liberal bias - Rush Limbaugh would not be a fan. But it attempts to explain why ignorance has become kind of a fad.
SnowQueen, I looked at your profile and I am a few years older than you. Part of why people aren't concerned can be illustrated by Chicken Little and The Boy who Cried Wolf. I have lived through "fosil fuels will be depleted by (fill in the date)" dates twice and a few "the world can only support (fill in a population number) people" limits surpassed. When I was an older elementary student, the coming ice age was used to ban cloroflorocarbons. We must have over done to get global warming. Opps, now they just call it climate change.
Now I do believe we need to find alternatives for a variety of reasons but the doom and gloom people have been wrong before so they must we wrong this time. Right? Not nesisarily, but to many people that is how they think.
I certainly hope the nuclear age never dawns, given little events like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, unless they can come up with something that doesn't leave dangerous residue with a half-life of basically forever.
It drives me insane that I live in Spain which could sell solar power to the rest of Europe if the politicians would just stop lining their pockets at everyone else's expense.But since you can't tax or embargo the sun, they're not interested.
I would hope that the next "energy age" would be solar/Aeolian.
I certainly hope the nuclear age never dawns, given little events like Three Mile Island
Q. How many letters are in the alphabet?
A. 20, because TMI blew up and wiped the USA off the map.
That was March 28, 1979. I was in 9th grade. It was my school friend Debbie's b-day. It was a Wednesday and I came home from school sick with a stomach virus. Mom was working in Harrisburg so my oldest sister picked me up and took me home. As we drove along the Susquahana river, there were cars parked on the side of the 2 lane country highway, state rt 441. My sister commented that "someone must be protesting something again" as we drove by. I went straight to bed and did not hear the news of what was going on until the next day after Mom had gone to work. They were discussing possible evacuations. I had just turned 14, my mom was 30 miles away on the other side of "The Island" as we called TMI. Were the National Guard going to take me one direction and send my Mom in her car another? How would we get in contact with each other again? This was before cell phones.
On Friday, I was well enough to go back to school. It was on lock down, no out going phone calls allowed. The rumors were flying the the reactor had exploded. Parents were coming to the school and pulling kids from classes to leave the area. Finally, my mom came. We went home, packed a few things to take with us and went to my oldest sister's for the night. The next day, we drove to Beaver Falls, NW of Pittsburg, to stay with my other sister until things settled.
Things calmed down after a bit and we went home. My oldest sister had taken her 2 preschool kids with us to Beaver Falls as part of the voluntary evacuation of preschoolers and pregnant women within 5 miles of TMI. They wanted her to take them to Hershey Arena as an evac station. Now that was really going to do good if things went critical (NOT!). It was, maybe, 15 miles away "as the crow flies". She was reembursed some of her evac expenses afterward but had to put up a major fight to prove she was on that 5 mile radius line and not outside it. Mom and I did not count because I was her youngest.
TMI was a series of things that all were very unlikely by themselves and should not have statisticly happened at the same time, any one of which not happening would have prevented the situation. In spite of this, I am neutral on neuclear energy. Every power source has it's issues.
In Europe we are still reaping the effects of Chernobyl.
I am not neutral on nukes.
I don't think that we will "run out" of fossil fuels. To understandwhy, you must understand the underlying economics involved. As the oil companies deplete their sources, the price will adjust accordingly. For example, if the oil companies assessed their supply and predicted that at the current usage, we would be out of oil in 10 years time, then the oil prices would jump, thus decreasing total oil consumption. As the supply slowly approaches depletion, the price would continue to rise until it was no longer practical to use in the current amounts. This would create a hole in the marketplace where there was a huge demand for vehicles that use other means of fuel. This hole would be filled, thus leaving the oil in less and less demand. So I don't think it's really an issue of "running out" so much as an issue of the cost becoming increasingly unreasonable enough to cause us to use alternatives. There are already alternative vehicles, and as oil price increase, you will see a correlation with the supply of alternative vehicles.
We are running out of oil, there's no doubt of that. I cannot give you an exact date, but its complete depletion is inevitable. Unfortunately, now we've found all these reserves of natural gas, so our reliance on fuels that cause global warming will continue.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that, yes, we'd run out of oil and gas eventually, but before we do, the climate will have changed so much that it will be ever more difficult to grow food. Read the book Tropic of Chaos, that will help you see how quickly we're making our earth uninhabitable.


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Pelosi: Will she stay or will she go?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi plans to reveal Wednesday whether she'll stay on as the leader of House Democrats.
"I'll see you right at 10 a.m. tomorrow," Pelosi told reporters at a news conference at the Capitol Tuesday. "While I love you all very dearly, I thought I would talk to my own caucus" first.
Whether she will stay or go has been a much-discussed topic on Capitol Hill since the Nov. 6 election, when Democrats made gains in the House but failed to seize control of the chamber.


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This silky, matte powder shadow goes on smoothly & blends easily. The densely pigmented formula can be layered and comes in a range of beautiful shades for defining lids and lining eyes. (You can even use it to define your brows.) Comes in a sleek, flip-top compact that can be used individually or popped into an empty Palette (sold separately).
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Too bad you don't have a swatch pic. This Shade has been one of the most used eyeshadow in Korea for the No Makeup Make up look (getting more popular in Asia, since most follow Korean beauty trends). Highly recommended for any light medium warmed skin tone to wash this all-over the lid to brighten and enhance the eyes. Also great transition color.
By Melissa 4 years ago.
My first eye shadow! Ever! Woah! I had no idea the editor gave a fantastic score. I used this baby for 7 years+ before I finally threw it away... It is greatly pigmented! And lasts so long. I don't need it now but I highly recommend this product. The quality is great if you don't mind the price
By Mariella 6 years ago.
Bone is essentially invisible on me - applied, it's the colour of my skin, more or less. In that sense, I can use it to create a blank canvas and hide any lid discolorations and it's lovely as a blending out shade or a subtle, elegant brow bone highlight. But there are many, many shadows that perform all these functions and cost considerably less so I'll save my pennies to put toward more "necessary" Bobbi Brown shadows.
By Mariella 6 years ago.
I got this in a free VIB points palette and I've fallen in love with this colour. It's a very deep matte brown with no traces of red. It is, quite simply, fabulous - makes for a daytime wearable smokey eye and works as a soft, shadowy liner as well and, of course, for defining a crease, it is also perfect. I will definitely be purchasing the full size of this. I actually wish I could purchase multiples of the little palette I got as it would be outstanding as stocking stuffers (Christmas is coming) or just to have multiples in various places (purse, gym bag, desk at work, etc.) I'd never have known about or really noticed this shadow had it not been for the lovely little "freebie" palette.
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Favorite films from that year, loosely ranked. As of writing this, I've seen 77 releases from 2017, which is the most out of any other year for me in the 2010s. So good job to me for going to theaters more often. 2017 is also the year I began working at the IU Cinema, so that helped a ton as well.
Limiting the list to 20 films since I saw so many. What a great year for movies, in all honesty.


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Enjoy the rally in the S&P 500 while you can, said Chris Locke, managing director at Oystertrade.com Management, adding that it could last weeks if not months. But trading in the index will be "choppy," Locke said.
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Happy Saturday morning, girlies! I'm so happy the weekend is finally here. Not much stamping going on around my house these days; I started running on the treadmill after work again, so my days have been spent working out instead of stamping. I think I will appreciate this choice when swimsuit season rolls around again! LOL! Unfortunately sometimes this means I'll be neglecting my blog. But in my search for balance, I'm trying to be okay with this!
Since it's Valentine's day on Monday, I wanted to show you a couple more vintage Valentines, and some of my creations from some cool Papertrey sets by PineFeather Press. Check out the shape on this great old victorian
valentine! Isn't it great?
valentine! Isn't it great?
And the penguins! How freakin cute are they?
Last month I got 2 of Heather Nichol's stamp sets, called "Warm Happiness Too", and "Little Bitty Bird". Both of these sets adapt easily to Valentines cards! On this one I tried using Kraft paper in honor of Heather, however I will never have the knack she has with using it! I tried to stamp red hearts on kraft and then brighten it up with my red polka dots. I showered this card with hearts and buttons and glittered the hearts up. Hmph. Not sure if I love it or not, but the birdies seem to be enjoying themselves!
Hope everyone enjoys their weekend and has a Happy V-day on Monday!
Hugs! Lisa
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This is Asus's Fonepad. Not to be confused with the Padfone. It's a 7-inch tablet that also makes calls.
It runs on Jelly Bean and has a 1280 by 800 pixel display. It's the same size and same resolution as Google's Nexus 7 tablet. It also doesn't have a back facing camera, because Asus understands that taking pictures with a tablet is not okay. But it does have a 1.2-megapixel lens on the front for video calling. The tablet runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon, and has 64Gb of storage. Apparently tablet phones are a thing now, so we might as well just accept it.


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Slaughter: Mardi Gras: Made in China
Is it not ironic that our culture is morally against acts such as slave camps and horrible working conditions and yet we support them in lieu of Mardi Gras season?
Many, if not most, of the beads that are purchased come from China. Many, if not most, of the workers are paid less than a dollar an hour – try around ten cents – for their labor. Many, if not most, workers are over-worked in producing our precious, shiny plastic beads.
Why bring conscious in when there is much fun to be had, though? And, perhaps, much money to be made.
Our society is mostly one that embraces principles of utility. That is, a society that tries to maximize well-being and happiness for the greater good. In this theory, anything, or anyone for that matter, can be seen as an instrumental good so long as it promotes well-being and happiness for the greater good. The greater good, I guess, is that of the U.S. China's population far exceeds ours, though.
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CSS Triangle
You can make them with a single div. It's nice to have classes for each direction possibility.

The idea is a box with zero width and height. The actual width and height of the arrow is determined by the width of the border. In an up arrow, for example, the bottom border is colored while the left and right are transparent, which forms the triangle.
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See the Pen Animation to Explain CSS Triangles by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.
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For an equilateral triangle it's worth pointing out that the height is 86.6% of the width so (border-left-width + border-right-width) * 0.866% = border-bottom-width


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Our city streets may not be lined with gold, but there's plenty of coinage, if you're willing to keep your eyes open. Today I found $2.16. The coins were scattered in a small area on San Tomas Expressway.
I have two rules about stopping for coins. 1) I don't stop for pennies. Sure, I'll bend over and pick it up if I'm stopped at a light. 2) I don't risk my life. If a coin is out in traffic, I leave it alone.
It was early on a Sunday morning, so I helped myself to a coin bonanza. I don't know how it got there. It already looked like road kill, so it was most likely out there more than a day. I even left some coins behind since I would have violated rule #2.
In 2006, I tracked how much money I found in a year. It came to $6.30. That will buy a new tube, or 20 patches. This year I'm keeping track again, and I'm now at $3.50 with nine months to go.
This is the most change I've found at once. I have found other goodies, mostly work gloves, tools, hats, and a couple of cell phones (both returned to owner). I've only found a few bills. They don't last long before someone nabs them.
If you see change on the road, feel free to stop and pick it up. We need to keep money in circulation. If it's scuffed up that's fine. We want to recycle old coins, which are melted down to make more coins.
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(ARA) - Harvey is no ordinary canine. The 3-year-old boxer has a full-time job, working almost every day at Greensboro, N.C.-based Replacements, Ltd.
"Every morning he's standing by the front door, waiting to go to work," says Harvey's owner, Sara Vestal, restoration manager. "He's been coming with me since he was 6 weeks old, and he truly thinks this is his job. If he sees me taking something out of a box, he grabs a box too and is by my side trying to help."
Pets in this workplace may sound a bit farfetched, considering the company is known as the world's largest retailer of old and new china, crystal, silver and collectibles. But among Replacements' inventory of 13 million fragile items, you'll find a pit bull in this china shop, along with a beagle, several miniature dachshunds and dozens of other canines every day. And look out for the cats, and yes, a fish. An opossum has even graced the company's retail store with her visit.
Replacements implemented its pet-friendly policy more than 17 years ago, after Founder and CEO Bob Page received a dog for his birthday and couldn't bear to leave him home alone. Once Page started bringing his dog, he realized his employees might enjoy having their pets as well, and opened the company to animal friends. In fact, the company's front doors read, "All Well-Behaved Pets Welcome." Replacements is one of the top tourist destinations for central North Carolina, encouraging customers to bring pets to shop, while its monthly employee pet feature is popular on the company's website.
At a company known worldwide for its diversity and progressive workplace policies, many employees, including Vestal, believe this is one of the best benefits.
"Having Harvey here is a comfort; it relaxes me. If I have to stay late, I don't have to worry about getting home to let him out or what he's gotten into during the day. If I'm having a bad day, doesn't matter, he's in my corner. And taking him out for a walk on my break really allows me to catch a breath I generally wouldn't allow myself, giving me the chance to refocus."
Scientific support
A recently released scientific study reinforces Vestal's perceptions. Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University spent a week at Replacements delving deeper into the impact of dogs at work. The VCU team surveyed and monitored stress levels among three test groups: those who brought their dogs to work every day, dog owners who left their pets at home, and those who do not own any pets. Their work marks the first quantitative study conducted in the workplace on the psychological and physiological impact of pets.
"What surprised us most is the fact stress actually decreased throughout the day among those participants who brought their dogs to work, while stress levels significantly increased for those who left their dogs at home or don't own pets," says principal researcher Randolph T. Barker, Ph.D., professor of management at VCU's School of Business. "We also found it very interesting that about half of those who bring their dogs to work said their productivity increased with their dog present. Additional findings indicate having pets in the workplace also increases cooperation among coworkers."
Barker also notes employees as a whole had higher job satisfaction than industry norms. He believes establishing pet-friendly policies could be a great benefit that doesn't hamper a company's bottom line.
"I think leadership in many organizations may be hesitant to allow animals in the workplace, but our study indicates pet presence may serve as a low-cost, wellness intervention readily available to many companies and may enhance organizational satisfaction and perceptions of support."
Getting started
Replacements' formal pet policy requires all animals must be current on vaccinations, polite to people and other pets, and stay on a leash near their owners unless contained in an office or cubicle space. Owners are also required to clean up after any "accidents."
"Companies interested in starting pet-friendly practices might want to start small," suggests Public Relations Manager Lisa Conklin. "Consider having a pilot day to gauge how pet presence works for your organization. You might try it for a half-day, on a slow day or even a Friday to determine the best fit for your employees and your business."
Conklin adds pet owners must be sensitive to the fact some people have allergies or may be fearful of animals. Likewise, other employees should not be permitted to aggravate or intimidate pets.
"We've seen many instances where employees actually got to know each other better through their pets. I do think it means a great deal to us here - it's hard not to smile when you're greeted by a wagging tail and friendly face!"


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John Utley- Energy Man It you are anywhere near John Utley it is hard to miss him. Six feet three, wavy hair, long stride, and with a smile hiding just behind his eyes—they all make him a figure easy to notice and to remember. However, it is John's professional specialty that makes him unique in Haskins & Sells. As partner in charge of the Firm's Public Utilities Department, he directs a group of specialists who are responsible for coordinating and developing our practice relating to public utilities across the country. John and four others working with him are located in Washington, D.C., although they are organizationally part of Executive Office. Staff members in numerous practice offices relate closely to John and his management group in the performing of audit, tax, MAS and other special services for utility clients, John's job in H&S is different because of the special nature of the industries that have become his life. Customarily, clients of the Firm are served by practice offices at or near the client location, with participating work by other offices where the client has branches or subsidiaries. But public utilities, being regulated by state commissions and by federal bodies, face common problems of financial management unique to regulated industries. In solving these problems it is important to have available a compact, expert group within the Firm to provide answers which have national significance. Furthermore, the public utilities are, as the term suggests, the people's business. And their accounting is subject to scrutiny by government officials, opinion-makers, pressure groups and the man in the street who pays the nation's utilities bills. This creates the need for a special kind of expertise in financial management, where the objective is to analyze in great depth and with foresight the operations of companies on whose continued fiscal good health our highly technical society depends. Discussing utilities accounting in general and electric power companies in particular. 22 John Utley is frank with H&S Reports about his deep concern for the future: 'The public utilities industry is probably in the worst straits today that it has ever been in." he says."The main problem is the unavailability of capital at reasonable cost. We are a country that runs on electrical energy. Without it, in sufficient quantity, we are nothing. "The market value of utilities stocks is down," he continues, "because people don't have much confidence in public utilities stocks and so they don't buy. But the utilities must have the capital to provide for our needs tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. "There are 214 privately owned Class A and B electric utilities in this country, and the capital requirements for them are immense. There arc other, smaller companies, but these 214 are the backbone of the industry. In the next twelve years it is estimated that they will need upward of $293 billion in external financing and S160 billion in internal financing. That outside money can come in only if utilities are earning the returns necessary to attract such capital. "In the past, it was commonly believed that to defend the public interest you took an adversary position toward the utilities.The idea was that 'low is good'—meaning that low rates were in the public interest. But now we are in an era where the proper notion of public interest, I am convinced, must center on a level of rates which will assure the continued viability of our system of power supply. This obviously means higher rates, "The plant planning and building time has stretched out. It takes longer now to build a facility than it used to, and there is more delay because of the environmental requirements that companies must satisfy. So the need for planning well ahead is much greater than it was a few years back." What is the role of our Firm's Public Utilities Department in this complex of regulated business? "The very reason we in H&S are involved in this industry is to provide a broad public function," John says decisively. "We deal with our own client companies, of course, But we also deal with federal regulatory bodies like the Federal Power Com mission, the state regulatory agencies, the counties and municipalities, and with other interest groups. We want to remain and be known as expert, impartial, nonpartisan
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dono0034 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Holland Center, a center for Children with Autisum Spectrum Disorder is seeking a professional, yet warm, 4page coded template and also a logo redesign.
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Order a delightfully festive balloon bouquet for delivery in Mesilla, NM. Choose from a variety of themes for any occasion or recipient. Mylar balloons are available with writing and styles to celebrate any event such as happy birthday, get well, new baby, congratulations, thank you and more. Add colorful latex balloons and a teddy bear to top off your gift.
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Balloons add fun to any occasion. Now you can order balloons online for delivery to Mesilla. Both latex and mylar balloon arrangements are available for same day gift delivery. Check out our complete line of gifts for other unique gift ideas.
Make a Memorable Impression with a Balloon Bouquet Arrangement Delivered Today to Mesilla, New Mexico.
Balloons are not just for kids any more. Adults, both men and women alike love to receive an arrangement of colorful balloons. When you send a gift to a co-worker, friend or family member you want to make sure it is something they will appreciate and enjoy. So instead of sending a traditional flower gift, why not send an unequaled gift that is sure to make a lasting impression. A festive balloon bouquet delivered to their home or office in Mesilla, New Mexico is sure to attrack attention and bring joy to any recipient. Just imagine the grins and smiles on the faces of both the recipient and their office mates as they see their delightful balloon arrangement. We offer the following features for balloon gifts to brighten their day:
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Add a Teddy Bear, Box of Candy or Rose to Your Balloon Gift.
While Mylar Balloons are lots of fun, most of our customers like to add an additional touch to their gift. We like to offer items that will be appreciated by the recipients and that will serve to anchor your gift bouquet. Here are just a few of the gift accents we offer for deliveries to Mesilla:
Plush Teddy Bears
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Make Your Party or Event a Festive Occasion with Mylar Balloons.
Add a dozen colorful Mylar and Latex Balloons to your event or party decorations. Use colorful balloons to set a playful tone for your party. Select playful balloons featuring event related text such as:
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What are Mylar Balloons and Bouquets?
A Mylar Balloon Bouquet normally features six to a dozen colorful balloons. Mylars can be found in fun solid colors or decorated with occasion themed text and fancy designs. Most designers add long wavy ribbons to the balloons and anchor the ribbons at the base with a Teddy Bear, Box of Candy, Roses or other Flowers, Greeting Card or similar items. Some designers use sticks to anchor the balloons and offer to add both a mix of latex and Mylar balloons in the same bouquet.
While most Mylars balloons are slightly oval, others are available in a variety of shapes such as hearts, stars, cartoon characters and numbers to mark important birthdays. Sometimes called foil or metallic balloons. Mylars are made of thin, foil-like metallic material with just a little stretch. They are filled with helium so they can float. Most arrangements last more than a few days while some last a week. How long balloons last is more controlled by atmospheric conditions than the method used to add the helium. If they get cold they will lose air and then when the temperature warms up they will expand again. Regardless of the occasion, a balloon bouquet is sure to be a memorable gift for any recipient or event.
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Our Free Delivery service is usually 2-3 working days (if ordered Mon-Fri, stock permitting) to most of the UK mainland*. In many cases delivery is sooner than this and could arrive the next working day (see below for Start 'N' Go products). Saturday & Sunday do not count as working days. Orders placed over the weekend will be processed on the following Monday (or Tuesday if a bank holiday). Some products, such as some Stihl, Viking or Husqvarna items are 3 - 5 working days, please refer to the specific model for a more accurate delivery guide. In some rare cases, your item might take longer than expected to arrive. If there is a delay in delivery, we will let you know via email.
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Remotely kiss a cow, kiss a bunny, kiss your loneliness goodbye
A team of robot reseachers have developed a prototype of internet-based remote kissing devices that – for reasons unexplained – comes in two versions, one a cartoonish bunny, the other a cow.
The bunny, well, The Reg can accept, seeing as how a juvenile oryctolagus cuniculus domesticus might be some folks' idea of kissable cuteness. The cow, however, leaves us a wee bit befuddled.
To Hooman Aghaebrahimi Samani of the National University of Singapore's Social Robotics Lab, working in collaboration with the Japan's Keio University, the cow is apparently quite suitable for the male half of his long-distance osculation simulator, dubbed Kissenger.
Do note that his device's name is a portmanteau of "kissing" and "messenger", and not a direct reference to Kissinger, Henry A. – although that worthy was reputed to have been quite the ladies man, and was quoted to have noted that "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
The Reg, by the way, has covered boffinary attempts to simulate lip-lock langor before, and we hasten to admit that Samani's attempt – the bunny half, at least – is a more palatable prototype than the straw-in-mouth "kiss-like remote mouth communication device for close relationships" developed at Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications.
Kissenger's mode d'emploi is simplicity itself: one user simply kisses the device's oddly oversized lip-like receiver while the other user holds the same said soft slab next to his or her lips – or cheek, or, we assume, any other part of one's anatomy. Sensors transmit the deformation made by the sender's lips wirelessly through the interwebs, and the smootch is consummated.
As explained in a concept video on Samani's website, one crying need for such long-distance loving is that "Our busy lifestyles often restrict us from kissing our loved ones."
But reaching out and kissing someone is not the only use for Samani's self-described "lip interaction system". He also envisions future human-to-robot kissing that "enables an intimate relationship with a robot," and human-to-virtual-character kissing, which could certainly enliven Second Life interactions.
Perhaps most futuristically, Samani also foresees his technology enabling robot-to-robot canoodling, "allowing robots to take new identities in the future." ®
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Clearwater Manufacturing, a company in Huntersville, NC has created a mini-water bottling machine that sanitizes, fills and caps aluminum and glass bottles on site. The company plans to lease or sell the machines to hospitals, universities, companies, military bases, theme parks and cruise lines.
The invention, which is called the Boomerang Water Bottling System, makes six bottles a minute. The bottles can be kept as souvenirs or returned and reused. This eco-friendly solution eliminates the need for trucks to deliver bottled water, cutting down on vehicle emissions. Obtaining a fresh bottle of water is as simple as pressing the start button: first, bottles are disinfected, rinsed and drained; then FDA-approved municipal tap water is filtered through a series of processes and used to fill the bottles; special caps are sanitized and pressed onto the bottles which are then ready to be displayed for sale. All of this occurs on-site, inside of a machine that is no bigger than a commercial-sized ice maker.
The name "Boomerang" indicates that the return and reuse of bottles is the overall goal, and so far it has been relatively successful. This is more than we can say for the recycling of plastic water bottles. Perhaps one day these machines will be able to bottle soda and other flavored drinks on-site, eliminating the need for the manufacturing and transport of plastic bottled drinks altogether. Look out Coca-Cola. Clearwater is on a mission to save the planet!.


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As an editorial in the Denver Post says...
If you're wondering about all the news coverage of the impending opening of retail marijuana outlets, it's because the event really is a big deal. Colorado on Wednesday will become the first place in the world — we repeat, in the world — where it will be fully legal to sell marijuana to anyone over 21 in licensed retail outlets. more
The Denver Post is certainly jumping on the weed bandwagon. They have hired its first ever marijuana editor and started their own site dedicated to the culture of cannabis...The Cannabist. Not bad, sort of a High Times lite but will cover the local events and personalities. Reviews of strains and products too. Every town needs something like it after legalization. The mainstreaming of marijuana. Who woulda thunk it?
Colorado's experiment is not perfect. Certainly not as laissez-faire as many would liked to have seen but much better tha what we.ve been dealing with for decades. Personal choice harassment may be on the way out.
There are some warning signs. I don't recall the exact show but it was feature on Colorado's cannabis culture and one of the ground floor entrepreneurs interviewed admitted he was hoping to one day sell his business to a big corporation and make himself a millionaire. We can easily predict what would follow going down that path.
Anything that puts a dent in the fraudulent war on drugs has potential for some real good though. As long as there are always provisions for personal grows, individuals can opt out of the commercialization if they so choose. Unless the price of pot gets too high through tax greed, the cartels, our government/bankers and the Mexicans, are going to see a large drop off in profits. If there's one thing that the US can still be number one in besides drone bombing wedding parties, it's in the growing of fine cannabis.
Perhaps 2014 will even see Colorado lead the country into a new era of industrial hemp production. That could be a very positive development.
Anyway, Jan. 1 is a day to celebrate, even for those of us in places that repress freedom. The seeds of cannabis acceptance have been planted and they will spread. Who knows? ....maybe we can even work on some other problems that need our urgent attention.
Like this one as shown in the graphic below.There's no shortage of things that need fixing. Most won't be quite as easy as being finally able to grow a plant but we don't have the half a century we have been waiting to begin to resolve the marijuana issue. 2014...it will be interesting.


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I love the challenge of finding holiday gifts for my kids that are not only fun but encourage learning, too. (Even better if the kids can't tell that the gifts are educational!) So if you need some shopping ideas, here are the year's most-wished-for kid learning toys.
1. Colorku
Like Sudoku but with colored marbles instead of numbers. It's a fantastic game for logic and problem-solving.
2. Doorbell House
The cutest cottage with four doors, each with a unique lock, matching keys, and a special doorbell sound. Great for visual-spatial skills and problem solving.
3. Dude Diary 3.0
Draw, doodle, and write in this very cool, slightly gross, totally awesome diary. Writing practice makes for better writers and readers.
4. Mind Putty
The coolest putty you'll find. Available in thermochromic, magnetic, and glow-in-the-dark. Improves children's fine motor skills and great for creativity. Gift set includes 8 different variations.
5. Kiwi Crate
My favorite of the crafty crates on the market with easy to follow directions and kid-enticing activities. Great for following directions, creativity, and science (in some cases.)
6. Suspend
A balance game for 1 – 4 players that helps kids developing eye-hand coordination, communication skills, and thinking skills.
7. Tapeffiti Fashion Design Challenge
Are your kids as crazy about tape as mine? This kit helps them use tape to create clothes. Imagination plus math and visual-spacial skills make this a great creative learning product.
8. Terra Kids Automobile Kit
Builders, here's a car kit that uses rubberband propulsion and really works. Kids learn to follow directions, problem solve, as well as engineering.
9. Blunders
Play this board game and learn your manners along with the Blunder family. Lots of laughing in this game! Of course, you're learning manners but also cooperation and communication.
10. Hide and Seek Geocache
Talk about learning and fun mixed together! This is everything you need to start geocaching — which is like a huge outdoor treasure hunt using a GPS. Kids will learn orienteering, geography and more.
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Principal Proposed Uses
- Dyspepsia
- Poor Appetite
Blessed thistle has a long history of use in European herbal medicine. All parts of the above-ground plant are used medicinally. The herb was used primarily for digestive problems, including heartburn, gastritis, burping, constipation, and flatulence. Blessed thistle was also used for liver and gallbladder diseases. Blessed thistle is also a component of the famous herbal combination therapy Essiac, widely used (though without scientific support) as a treatment for cancer .
What is Blessed Thistle Used for Today?
Blessed thistle has been approved by Germany's Commission E as a treatment for loss of appetite and non-specific indigestion ( dyspepsia ).
Blessed thistle contains the bitter constituent cnicin. Bitter substances are widely believed to promote appetite, though this has not been proven.
Cnicin does appear to have antimicrobial properties, killing bacteria and fungi in the test tube. 1,2 These findings do not, however, indicate that blessed thistle can be used as an oral antibiotic. Antibiotics are substances that can be taken into the body at high enough doses to kill microbes throughout the system. In contrast, blessed thistle extracts, like those of many plants, appear to have antiseptic properties, meaning that they kill microbes on direct contact.
Safety Issues
Although comprehensive safety studies have not been performed, blessed thistle is believed to be safe. However, cross-reactions are possible among people allergic to plants in the daisy family.
Safety in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or people with severe liver or kidney disease has not been established.
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AirPods with Wireless Charging Case
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New engraving options are now available — from A to emoji.
More magical than ever.
The new AirPods — complete with Wireless Charging Case — deliver the wireless headphone experience, reimagined. Just pull them out of the case and they're ready to use with your iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, or Mac.
After a simple one-tap setup, AirPods work like magic. They're automatically on and always connected. AirPods can even sense when they're in your ears and pause when you take them out.
To adjust the volume, change the song, make a call, or even get directions, simply say "Hey Siri" and make your request. You have the freedom to wear one or both AirPods, and you can play or skip forward with a double-tap when listening to music or podcasts.
Charge your AirPods quickly and easily with the Wireless Charging Case. Just set the case down on a Qi-compatible charging mat and let it charge. The LED indicator on the front of the case lets you know that your AirPods are charging. And when you're away from a charging mat, you can use the Lightning port to charge.
AirPods deliver 5 hours of listening time1 and 3 hours of talk time on a single charge.2 And they're made to keep up with you, thanks to a Wireless Charging Case that holds multiple charges for more than 24 hours of listening time.3 Need a quick charge? Just 15 minutes in the case gives you 3 hours of listening time4 or 2 hours of talk time.5
Powered by the all-new Apple H1 headphone chip, AirPods use optical sensors and motion accelerometers to detect when they're in your ears. Whether you're using both AirPods or just one, the H1 chip automatically routes the audio and engages the microphone. And when you're on a call or talking to Siri, an additional speech-detecting accelerometer works with beamforming microphones to filter out external noise and focus on the sound of your voice.
Designed by Apple
Automatically on, automatically connected
Easy setup for all your Apple devices6
Quick access to Siri by saying "Hey Siri" or setting up double-tap
Double-tap to play or skip forward
Charges quickly in the case
Case can be charged either wirelessly using a Qi-compatible charging mat or with the Lightning connector
Rich, high-quality audio and voice
Seamless switching between devices
What's in the Box
Wireless Charging Case
Lightning to USB Cable
Tech Specs
AirPods (each): 0.14 ounce (4 g)
Wireless Charging Case: 1.41 ounces (40 g)
AirPods (each): 0.65 by 0.71 by 1.59 inches (16.5 by 18.0 by 40.5 mm)
Wireless Charging Case: 1.74 by 0.84 by 2.11 inches (44.3 by 21.3 by 53.5 mm)
AirPods: Bluetooth
Wireless Charging Case: Charges via wireless (Qi-compatible) charging mat or Lightning connector
Live Listen audio7
AirPods Sensors (each):
Dual beamforming microphones
Dual optical sensors
Motion-detecting accelerometer
Speech-detecting accelerometer
AirPods with Wireless Charging Case: More than 24 hours listening time,3 up to 18 hours talk time8
AirPods (single charge): Up to 5 hours listening time,1 up to 3 hours talk time2
15 minutes in the case equals up to 3 hours listening time4 or up to 2 hours talk time5
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iPhone and iPod touch models with the latest version of iOS
iPad models with the latest version of iPadOS
Apple Watch models with the latest version of watchOS
Mac models with the latest version of macOS
Apple TV models with the latest version of tvOS
iPhone Models
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- iPhone 6s
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are the new Airpods waterproof?
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- on May 24, 2019
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They should be fairly be resistant against things like light rain and sweat but nothing anymore seve They should be fairly be resistant against things like light rain and sweat but nothing anymore severer than that. That means you should not use then in Heavy rain, swimming, or in the bath/shower.
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- on Jun 5, 2019
Can you get your airpods engraved in store
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- on Mar 28, 2019
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No. Engraving is only exclusive online, since at an Apple Store they would only give you AirPods tha No. Engraving is only exclusive online, since at an Apple Store they would only give you AirPods that they already have in store.
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- on Mar 28, 2019
Personal Engraving impact on return policy?
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- on Mar 23, 2019
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Doesn't make a difference to the return policy whether engraved or not.
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How do you charge AirPods
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- on Jan 1, 2020
are airpods the same size as apple earphones
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- on Dec 11, 2019
Personally, ive noticed they fit a little bit more snug. They might be a little smaller.
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airpods 1 have the same chip H1 as airpods 2?
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- on Dec 2, 2019
The first generation AirPods have the W1 chip. The second generation AirPods and the AirPods Pro bot The first generation AirPods have the W1 chip. The second generation AirPods and the AirPods Pro both have the newer and more advanced H1 chip.
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Flipped Classroom 2.0: Competency Learning with Videos
Flipped Classroom 2.0: Competency Learning With Videos
The flipped classroom model generated a lot of excitement initially, but more recently some educators — even those who were initial advocates — have expressed disillusionment with the idea of assigning students to watch instructional videos at home and work on problem solving and practice in class. Biggest criticisms: watching videos of lectures wasn't all that revolutionary, that it perpetuated bad teaching and raised questions about equal access to digital technology.
Now flipped classroom may have reached equilibrium, neither loved nor hated, just another potential tool for teachers — if done well. "You never want to get stuck in a rut and keep doing the same thing over and over," said Aaron Sams, a former high school chemistry teacher turned consultant who helped pioneer flipped classroom learning in an edWeb webinar. "The flipped classroom is not about the video," said Jonathan Bergmann, Sams' fellow teacher who helped fine tune and improve a flipped classroom strategy. "It's about the active engaged stuff you can do in your class."
The two teachers admit when they started flipping their classrooms they put everything into video form. Now, they've taken a step back and realized some things shouldn't be in lecture form, and therefore shouldn't be videos either. Instead, the two teachers have embraced what they call mastery learning, with an emphasis on students taking control of their own learning. Instructional videos are an optional part of a bigger move towards asynchronous learning.
"The best use of class time is to meet the individual needs of each learner, not driving the class with predetermined curriculum," Sams said. So he and Bergmann decided to make watching the video lectures optional. The videos are available, but if students felt they could learn it better in some other way, they're encouraged to do what works best for them.
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"One of the most important skills that any student can learn is where to go for information and resources," Sams said. Instead of following a rigid curriculum, the two teachers decided on the key learning objectives of the class — the things they felt their students really needed to know –and structured the class around those. Then they offered students a menu of resources that included instructional video, some sort of practice and links to the corresponding section of a textbook. The teachers became resources and helped provide benchmarks to keep students on track.
The educators say this method is working for them because they've decided to make their classrooms mastery based, whereby "a student gets to the end of some learning unit and must pass whatever kind of assessment you have before he can move on," Sams said — very much like competency-based learning. "There is no place for them to hide. They had to converse with me and tell me when they were ready to be assessed on something," Sams said. When he taught in a more traditional way, Sams admitted there were students he hardly knew.
Working with a mastery-based model means students are not all learning the same thing at the same time. Bergmann said the first five minutes of class are essential to setting the class into productive motion by quickly assessing where students are and directing them to various stations around the room. "Your class looks like organized chaos," Bergmann said. "It's very powerful."
Students are scattered around the room learning a topic in their own way and teachers are walking around talking to students, answering questions and checking in on their progress. There's no assigned homework, unless a student feels he needs to do some extra work to understand a concept. "The kids who are going to get most of my time are the kids who need it," said Sams. "It's the kids who are struggling or the kids who need me hovering over their shoulder."
Sams and Bergmann soon realized that effective flipped classrooms didn't include videos of science demonstrations. That's the most exciting part of science and kids should get to see it up close. Since students were moving at different paces, Sams and Bergmann had to demonstrate the same thing multiple times. "We did demos for just a handful of students," said Sams. "It was a far more intimate environment so we could converse with kids about what was going on."
Disciplinary issues also diminished significantly. "When I was the guy up front, all the attention was supposed to be on me and it was really easy for a disruptive kid to pull the attention to himself," said Sams. With everyone working on their own projects, one kid has much less power to disrupt.
One of the most challenging parts of a messy, asynchronous classroom is that kids aren't all ready to be assessed at the same time, and when they do take a test, they might not pass. Sams' and Bergmann's chemistry classes have formative assessments, constant checking in and talking about work with students on a daily basis.
The two teachers also spent two years building up a store of test questions in Moodle, a free learning management system that randomly generates tests. Those who fail the test can take another to prove mastery.
It took a lot of work to build up the system that now works smoothly and the process revealed challenges in the mastery model. "One of the dark sides of mastery is the demoralizing effect," Bergmann said. He had students that he knew understood the material because of his daily work with them, but who couldn't pass the tests. That's a frustrating and demotivating experience for a student.
Sams and Bergmann turned to the Universal Design for Learning, a set of curriculum principles that maintains students need more than one way to learn information and more than one way to demonstrate knowledge. Following the second principle, the two teachers allowed their students to show they understood the material any way they wanted. Sams said he received songs, welding projects and even hand-drawn graphic novels. He admits those didn't help the students take standardized tests, but they showed chemistry understanding, his main goal.
If this all sounds messy, it is. Sams and Bergmann are the first to admit that there are challenges, especially around grading. But, they've discovered a way to take flipped learning to another level, offering it as one option in a smorgasbord of instructional materials and letting students have the autonomy to choose what works best for them. Kids got behind, but the teachers checked their progress along the way and structured the course so that the most necessary information was in the first four sections, with nice-to-know material in the fifth section.
"We would rather our kids actually know 80 percent of the content, instead of being exposed to 100 percent of the content," said Bergmann.


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Bye Bye ESX and the Service Console!! The long time talked about removal of the service console from the vSphere product set means vSphere 5.0 is now a converged platform offering (ESXi).
So what platform enhancements are in the vSphere 5.0 release?
Image Profiles – An image profile allows for the create of bespoke ESXi images. Common issues in previous version of ESX meant that existing ESXi images could have missing drivers and no plugins like nk1v. It describes all the components in an ESXi instillation image, but not configuration. The Image Builder is a set of command line utilities (powercli version). Image Profiles are kept in a depot, a repository (library of images and VIBs)
What is Auto-Deploy?
ESXi is downloaded and ran from memory. VMware vSphere Auto Deploy virtual appliance loads the hypervisor software onto host as it is booting. It uses the image profiles obtaining from the depot and boot it via PXE. Combining the features of host profiles, Image Builder, and PXE, VMware vSphere Auto Deploy simplifies the task of managing ESXi installation and upgrade for hundreds of machines. New hosts are automatically provisioned based on rules defined by the user. Rebuilding a server to a clean slate is as simple as a reboot and the physical memory is cleared. To move between ESXi versions, you update a rule using the Auto Deploy PowerCLI and perform a test compliance and repair operation.
Auto-Deploy allows for rapid provisioning and re-provisioning of new hosts and enables simplified updates.
The big bonus for Auto-Deploy is no local storage for host hypervisors. The same goes for Boot from SAN.
Recipe for Auto-Deploy:
Custom ESXi image + network boot machine + auto deploy virtual appliance + configuration + host profiles + runtime state information + vCenter server + recording of events + syslog netdump servers
Used to be IPtables – not anymore. Service aware but not state of host. 3rd party components.
Can add rules thorough GUI or xml format.
New Virtual Machine Capabilities
VM scaling:
Hardware version 8. 32 virtual cpu per VM, 1tb ram per VM.
Support for up to 512 virtual machines. vSphere 5.0 supports up to 512 virtual machines totalling a maximum of 2048 virtual CPUs per host.
Support for larger systems. vSphere 5.0 supports systems with up to 160 logical CPUs and up to 2TB RAM.
other new features – UI for multi-core virtual CPUs, extended VMware tools compatibility, support for mac os server.
- New Virtual machine capabilities. ESXi 5.0 introduces a new generation of virtual hardware with virtual machine hardware version 8, which includes the following new features:
- 32-way virtual SMP. ESXi 5.0 supports virtual machines with up to 32 virtual CPUs, which lets you run larger CPU-intensive workloads on the VMware ESXi platform.
- 1TB virtual machine RAM. You can assign up to 1TB of RAM to ESXi 5.0 virtual machines.
- Nonhardware accelerated 3D graphics for Windows Aero support. ESXi 5.0 supports 3D graphics to run Windows Aero and Basic 3D applications in virtual machines.
- USB 3.0 device support. ESXi 5.0 features support for USB 3.0 devices in virtual machines with Linux guest operating systems. USB 3.0 devices attached to the client computer running the vSphere Web Client or the vSphere Client can be connected to a virtual machine and accessed within it. USB 3.0 devices connected to the ESXi host are not supported at this time.
- UEFI virtual BIOS. Virtual machines running on ESXi 5.0 can boot from and use the Unified Extended Firmware Interface (UEFI).
Other new features – UI for multi-core virtual CPUs, extended VMware tools compatibility, support for mac OS server.
Storage DRS (SDRS):
- Initial virtual disk placement (Pod – pool of data stores)
- Out of space avoidance,
- I/O load balancing,
- Virtual disk affinity anti-affinity
- New man agent object,
- Storage equivalent of SRS clusters,
- Consists of similar data stores,
- storage load balancing domain.
- Storage Policy based management (SPBM),
- 2TB+ LUN support. vSphere 5.0 provides support for 2TB+ VMFS data stores.
VMFS-5 – Scalability and performance improvements, increase limits of the file-system (limits a FS size that increases when the FS extends/grows), Reduce SCSI reservation with VAAI primitives. Plumbing of UNMAPs (Space reclamation on TP LUNs). Set the stage for future proofing, more efficient snapshot facility within VMFS, support for 2 TB plus files.
vStorage API for storage awareness (VASA) – to allow array vendors to provide more info about the storage array, (drives, RAID level etc).
VAAI – now doing NAS and Thin Provisioning (pass info down to array to clear up the space). Ability to warn when the array runs out of space.
Storage vMotion Enhancement – speeded up, now snapshot VMs can be storage vMotioned.
Storage vMotion snapshot support – Allows Storage vMotion of a virtual machine in snapshot mode with associated snapshots. You can better manage storage capacity and performance by leveraging flexibility of migrating a virtual machine along with its snapshots to a different data store.
LLDP – Link Layer Discovery Protocol) – bit like CDP
Netflow – inter-vm traffic, vm-physical infrastructure traffic – (vDS sends records to 3rd party collectors such as NetQoS and NetScout)
DVMirror – can monitor traffic inter-vm or intra-vm.
NIOC (network IO control)– network prioritisation (I/O shares) at VM level – QOS extended to network infrastructure – workload isolation between tenants. – done through vDS resource pools and shares within them.
vMotion – support for up to four 10GBPS or sixteen 1gbps nics –single vMotion can now scale over multiple nics (load balance). It can now slowdown during page send (SDPS)(slows down the VM slightly to ensure the copy can complete) feature throttles busy VMs to reduce timeouts and improve success. vMotion can now ensure less that 1 second switchover time in almost all cases. It can support higher latency networks (up to 10MS), improved error reporting, resource pool integration by vMotion now puts VMs in the proper resource pool.
DRS – integration with vShield, support for vShield agents (zones, edge, app, endpoint), a DRS/DPM cluster hosting vShield agent VMs, resource pool management consistent for clusters and non clusters being managed by VC. Resource pool settings stored in VC for non-clustered hosts (same as clustered hosts), enables support for stateless ESXi hosts running in standalone/non-clustered mode, prevents direct host access to resource pool settings managed by VC, improved behaviour when host disconnected from VC, if host loses access to VC users can connect directly to the host and override VC to take control, no longer requires restarting the VPXA.
Cloud Level Scalability:
- 1000's of VDC's
- 50,000+ VMs
- 2000 hosts
- 150,000 Objects
- 200+ concurrent administrators
Can now run on Linux and also comes with a downloadable appliance.
FDM (fault domain manager) – Replacement for VMware HA. no more AAM
- More reliable
• Deploys and reconfigures within seconds, regardless of cluster size.
• Uses multiple channels for agent-to-agent communication: both network and storage
• Removes dependencies on commonly misconfigured services (e.g., DNS)
- New and Improved features
• Management network partition support (new)
• Single HA log file per host and syslog integration (new)
• Host isolation response (improved)
• Admission control (improved)
• Agent error reporting (improved)
Flex Based Client:
- Empowering the Administrator
• Centralize all VMware Administrative User Interfaces
• Seamless integrate with all VMware solutions
• Create a common user experience
• Common "Look and Feel"
• Single Sign On (SSO)
• Scale to the Cloud
• Support multiple platforms
• Provide for ease of extensibility
Its worth noting this is better than the web clients prior to vSphere 5.0 but still has a little way to go to match the vSphere Client.
Update Manger – can now do delayed and staggered upgrades – can upgrade a Virtual Appliances.
And for VDI:
Accelerator. An accelerator has been delivered for specific use with View (VDI) workloads. With this option configured in ESXi, a read cache is constructed in memory that is optimised for recognising, handling, and de-duplicating VDI client images. The cache is managed from within the View Composer and delivers a significant reduction, as high as 90% by early estimates, in IOPS from each ESXi host to the storage platform holding client images. This reduction in IOPS enables large scaling of the number of clients in case multiple I/O storms, typical in large VDI deployments, occur.
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''A Declaration of Economic War''
For more than 8 months now, the Syrian protest movement has been feeling the full force of its government's violent crackdown against its own people. Military and security forces have been using heavy artillery on cities such as Homs, Hama or Daraa, with people being arrested, tortured or simply disappearing, their houses and businesses plundered.
Months of violence against civilians have led the international community to impose a range of different sanctions on the country. But just how effective can economic sanctions be as a means of putting pressure on the Syrian regime?
Critics point out that in the past, such actions have failed to reach their objectives, and if anything, tend to contribute to the suffering of innocent civilians. In response to growing criticism of the negative effects of sanctions on civilians – Iraq having provided a shocking example – countries or organisations that apply sanctions are now increasingly turning to the use of so-called "smart sanctions". The idea being that only specifically targeted individuals and businesses will be affected.
US and EU sanctions
Sanctions are nothing new to Syria. In 1979, the US put Syria on its list of State Sponsors of Terrorism and imposed a number of punitive measures on the country. Since Bashar al-Assad came to power, these have been successively increased, first by the Bush administration under the Syria Accountability and Lebanese Sovereignty Restoration Act (SALSA), and more recently, following the outbreak of the Syrian "Revolution for Freedom".
Measures taken by the European Union over the last decade have included the postponement of the ratification of a 2004 association agreement in response to the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. In May 2011, they also imposed travel bans on selected members of the regime, later adding the president to the list and freezing the country's assets in European banks. A ban on oil imports from Syria followed at the beginning of September.
The EU also joined the US in imposing an arms embargo and recently banned the export of technological equipment for use in the fuels sector as well as stopping all European investment in energy production. Given all this, it seems rather strange that the Siemens group should have put pen to paper on a major contract for the building of a power station to the north of Damascus just a short time before the most recent round of sanctions.
The member states of the EU have bought around 90 per cent of Syria's oil exports in recent years. Foreign companies such as Shell and Total were allegedly requested to cut back their oil production some time ago and have received no payments for several weeks. Shell now wants to call a complete halt to its activities in Syria. Along with tourism and trade, the oil export industry has been one of the country's most important in recent years, accounting for around 30 to 40 per cent of annual government revenue.
Because the state-owned oil trading company has also been affected by the measures, it may well find it difficult in future to secure the necessary imports of refined products. This will cause real problems for both private consumers and businesses in Syria. In recent years, the ability of the two Syrian refineries to meet the country's needs has been steadily decreasing.
Arab League and Turkish sanctions
In mid-November 2011, the Arab League suspended Syria's membership. The League's members then went on to break new ground by voting to impose sanctions on Syria including an arms embargo, restrictions on movements of capital and money, the suspension of international trade, a halt to official aid and investment and the freezing of Syrian government deposits.
In a further move, flights between the Arab states and Syria are to be cut by half from 15 December. Certain individuals have also been banned from travelling and have had their assets seized. The list of those affected includes senior members of the government and the security services as well as one Rami Makhlouf, the most notorious of Syria's oligarchs. Makhlouf, a cousin of the president, has become a symbol of the country's rampant corruption; he has also been the focus of the protesters' hatred from the beginning.
Turkey followed a little later, imposing sanctions of its own on Syria, including the suspension of all financial transactions and a travel ban on Syrian officials. In their official statements, the Arab countries, the EU and Turkey have all insisted that their sanctions were solely intended to put pressure on the Syrian government in order to bring an end to its oppressive treatment of insurgents.
However, given the fact that the measures outlined above already go well beyond the mandate of "smart sanctions", this may well be little more than wishful thinking. Then again, what are the alternatives?
Iran's oil solidarity
The advocates of such actions expect economic and financial sanctions to restrict the ability of the regime to finance its oppression and convince business to change sides. In order for this to happen, however, sanctions not only have to work effectively, they also have to work to an extent that would convince those who have thus far kept their distance from the protests that a "post-Assad" future would be one with real and viable prospects.
The implementation of sanctions was rejected by two of Syria's neighbours, Iraq and Lebanon, while Jordan made a case for its own exemption from the League's ruling. At international level too, there are those – including Russia and China – who, in spite of the fact that well over 4,000 people have been killed, are against sanctions at UN level. Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah have pledged their full support to the Syrian regime. Iran is believed to have demonstrated its solidarity by buying oil from Syria, which rather begs the question as to what they intend to do with the oil, seeing as Iran itself has to import refined products.
The Arab sanctions in particular are likely to be causing a great deal of discomfort to those who have either actively or passively supported the regime thus far. In recent years, the Arab states have become Syria's most important export markets by a long way. Foreign investment outside of oil and gas production has come almost exclusively from the region, and Arab money was used to fund much-needed projects such as the modernisation of infrastructure.
Businesses are actively supporting the regime's efforts to crackdown on the protests by providing funds, vehicles and even manpower. The few major Syrian companies that exist are either part of the regime itself or have links to high-ranking members of the government, civil service or the Alawite-dominated security forces. The interests of such businesses are, therefore, very much bound up with the survival of the regime.
Divided opposition
Syrian opposition groups are divided on the question of how best to topple the regime. Critics argue that economic sanctions – particularly a boycott of trade and investment – would be more likely to have detrimental effects on the people, thus damaging the revolution and not the regime.
The regime, they argue, is well placed to maintain its own contact networks and lines of supply. Members of the Syrian National Council, on the other hand, argue that even tougher sanctions are needed and should be combined with diplomatic isolation. They are also, it seems, no longer completely opposed to the idea of international military intervention. Those protestors who take to the streets of the Syrian cities day by day are now increasingly calling for humanitarian aid corridors or for the setting up of a buffer zone.
As yet, however, none of the countries applying sanctions appears to have come up with a plan for their speedy removal followed by a comprehensive revival of the Syrian economy in the post-Assad era. So far, the EU has come up with nothing more than a general statement on its readiness to develop "a new and ambitious partnership with Syria across all areas of mutual interest."
Syrian economy weakened
According to some reports, the Syrian economy is falling into an ever-deepening state of crisis. The Syrian pound is in freefall, private assets have been withdrawn from the banks on a large scale and prices – including those for basic necessities – have already risen sharply. The way in which the current Syrian leadership has reacted to this, however, seems at best contradictory.
The Syrian government is trying to turn the people against the international sanctions and is threatening those applying the sanctions with retaliation. Foreign Minister Walid Muallem recently announced that Syria would be suspending its membership of the "Union for the Mediterranean". Demonstrations against the Arab sanctions were immediately organised in Damascus, with Muallem referring to the sanctions as "a declaration of economic war against Syria." The Syrian administration responded to sanctions imposed by Turkey by terminating the free trade agreement between the countries.
Some of the measures reveal just how desperate the situation has become for the government. For example, the kinds of phrases it is bandying about in an attempt to stiffen resolve are reminiscent of the slogans used in the 1980s when the Syrian economy came perilously close to bankruptcy.
Clearly, the economic problems are mounting for Syria, and the Arab sanctions can only lead to a further deterioration of the situation. There are very few who believe that punitive economic measures in themselves will be enough to make the Syrian regime see the error of its ways, far less to bring about its overthrow.
Anja Zorob and Salam Said
© Qantara.de 2011
Anja Zorob is a lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics at the Free University Berlin.
Salam Said is a Syrian economist.
Their study Globalisierung und Regionalisierung im arabischen Raum (globalisation and regionalisation in the Arab world) was recently published by Klaus Schwarz.
Translated from the German by Ron Walker
Editor: Aingeal Flanagan/Qantara.de


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Creator: Townsend, Robert M., 1948- Series: Financial history conference Abstract:
ln environments with private information and spatial separation, the ability of agents to establish mutually beneficial arrangements can be limited by their ability to communicate contemporary dealings and histories of past dealings. Indeed, with the extension of some recent work in contract theory and mechanism design, this paper argues that location or person-specific assignment systems, portable object record-keeping systems, written message systems, and telecommunication systems can be viewed as communication systems which are successively more complete in this sense. An attempt is made also to match these various communication systems with systems in use in historical primitive, and/or contemporary societies and to interpret these communication systems as financial structures.
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A couple of mysterious pills and The Matrix on Blu-ray come from Kia in the mail and that's a signal for something, right? I mean, watching the Kia K900 Super Bowl ad would also work, but it will also consume 90 seconds of your life.
If only Mazarin wrote the instructions:
"You take the blue pill - The story ends. You wake up in your GM and believe... whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - You stay in this Kia dealership and I show you how deep the product line goes."
That explains everything, thanks. Now, who do I see about some hamsters driving a hatchback?