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Monday, December 8, 2014
A Body for Terrible Hands
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I believe the skull belonged to the larger of the two new specimens, from Bugin Tsav. What kind of environment produced a megaomnivore like that? The Nemegt had trees for high browsers, and they probably tended to grow alongside the rivers; farther away it may have been too arid. So D. mirificus may have had easy access to tree foliage and fish. As for the sail, I suspect Spinosaurus evolved one just to look taller and more formidable, as a quadrupedal stance made it lower than other big theropods. The sail may have helped ward off Carcharodontosaurus. Maybe that of D. mirificus helped deter T. bataar. Interestingly both big sail backs also had manual claws for defense. Btw I wonder how resources were partitioned between D. mirificus, T. cheloniformis and O. skarzynskii (even assuming the big S. angustirostris fed low). It's a bit odd that the limited(?) high resources of theReplyDelete
Nemegt supported three high feeders. Another oddity: If D. mirificus (like hadrosaurs) preferred riparian habitat, why isn't it more abundantly preserved? Why did it take so long to find relatively complete material?
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2014 at 10:29 AM
I agree about Deinocheirus being the best dinosaur find of the year. Lets face it. The Spinosaurus paper was essentially an extended abstract disguised as a paper and essentially told us to trust them rather than providing data like most science papers. Even though the scaling controversy is probably over there are still some problems with the reconstruction (unikely sail shape, tucked-in gastralia,etc.).ReplyDelete
Kulindadromeus was interesting but not everyone is convinced that it's "fuzz" is feathers (I'm not really convinced either). http://reptilis.net/2014/07/31/new-siberian-ornithischian-and-the-over-feathering-of-dinosaurs-again/
Now Deinocheirus is simply a fascinating animal. I now have a new favorite Ornithomimosaur (sorry Struthiomimus). It certainly is not another generic Ornithomimosaur. The most mysterious dinosaur of the 20th century is now a dinosaur who's appearance and lifestyle are well understood. No ambiguities like Spinosaurus and Kulindadromeus (people are STILL guessing about the nature of those two dinosaurs) It's clear that the best paleontological discovery of the year is Deinocherius. Congrats Lee et al.!
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2014 at 1:09 PM
Dammit can't edit my comment. I was gonna add that Ibrahim et al's COG estimate is probably wrong for various reasons.ReplyDelete
I guess I should make this clear: I think that both Kulindadromeus and Spinosaurus are pretty big stories and are definitely extremely interesting papers to read, whether or not you agree with all aspects of them. My criterion for decided which was the 'best' dinosaur story is [aside from my own papers, ;) ] what was most surprising and unexpected, and I think Deinocheirus fits that bill best.ReplyDelete

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Right now, you're reading one of the most relevant, controversial, popular, and opinionated blogs about the world of publishing, and it is an epic fail on your part.
I spent an abnormally large amount of time reading online this week. And not just reading about writing. I read news articles about recent events, old stories, dog training, and even the weather. I learned many things, but I was not writing.
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One of the more interesting tales is the gritty "Digging," penned by British science fiction novelist Ian McDonald. Set on a partially terraformed Mars, the plot revolves around a young girl named Tash Gelem-Opunyo, who lives in the excavating city of West Diggory on the slope of the Big Dig. How big is the Big Dig? Check out these figures and facts:
Population: 1, 833, divided between the four Excavating Cities of (clockwise) Southdelving, West Diggory, North Cutter, and A.R.E.A (Ares Reengineering of Environment and Atmosphere). Total Martian population: 5, 217.
Elevation: at the digging head as of Martian Year 112, Janulum 1: minus twenty three kilometers below Martian Mean Gravity Surface (no sea level). Same date, highest point of Mount Impossible: fifteen kilometers above MGS.
Diameter of the Big Dig at Martian MGS: 516 kilometers.
Circumference of the Big Dig at Martian MGS: 1, 622 kilometers.
Angle of Big Dig Excavation Surface: 5.754 degrees. That's pretty gentle. The scoopline can't handle more than an 8 degree slope. To the casual human eye — one that hasn't grown up inside the gentle dish of the Big Dig — that would look almost flat. But it's not flat. That's why it's the key figure: those 5.754 degrees are going to make Mars habitable.
Date of commencement of the Big Dig: AlterMarch 23, Martian Year 70. Two thirty in the afternoon, on schedule, the scooplines excavated and the bucket teeth took their first bites of Isidis Planitia.
Volume of the Big Dig: as of above date: 1, 813, 000 cubic kilometers. All piled up neatly into Mount Impossible, the ring-shaped mountain that surrounds the Big Dig like the wall of an old impact crater. Not entirely surrounds. Mount Impossible has been constructed with four huge valleys: Windrush, Zephyr, Cyroco, and Storm of the Black Plums: howling, wind-haunted, storm-scoured canyons — the same wind that sings over the tombs of the diggers who have died in the course of the great excavation and unfailingly stirs the flags and streamers of the mobile cities far below.
Total mass of Martian surface excavated in the Big Dig to date: 7.1 x 1015 tons.
According to McDonald, "Digging" is "a story about how complex it can be growing up in a confined space and how much you can see and what lies over that horizon. It's about learning about disappointments, and how much of life consists of digging holes and then filling them in again."


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1. Talk about a huge breast!
2. Tying the legs together keeps the inside moist.
3. It's Cool Whip time!
4. If I don't undo my pants, I'll burst!
5. That's one terrific spread!
6. I'm in the mood for a little dark meat.
7. Are you ready for seconds yet?
8. Its a little dry, do you still want to eat it?
9. Just wait your turn, you'll get some!
10. Don't play with your meat.
11. Just spread the legs open & stuff it in.
12. Do you think you'll be able to handle all these people at once?
13. I didn't expect everyone to come at once!
14. You still have a little bit on your chin.
15. How long will it take after you stick it in?
16. You'll know it's ready when it pops up!
Another random Thanksgiving fact:
When Chuck Norris' wife burned the turkey one Thanksgiving, Chuck said, "Don't worry about it. honey." He went into his backyard, came back five minutes later with a live turkey and ate it whole. When he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce. When his wife asked him how he did it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said, "Never question Chuck Norris."
See I can be serious too:
"When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts." M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
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MEAD -- The Wikipedia article about her says Rachel Crow is from Boulder. And sometimes she was identified as being from Boulder when she became a star on Fox's "The X Factor."
But ask the 13-year-old singer where she's from and she'll proudly set the record straight: She's from Mead.
Residents of the "little town with a big future" -- the Mead motto -- will get to meet the town's most famous resident when Crow participates in a meet-and-greet event in her honor at 1 p.m. today at town hall, 441 Third St.
"I'm really excited to see my Colorado fans," Crow said. "I'm just happy I get to meet people where I live."
Crow made it to the top five in "The X Factor," a singing competition created by Simon Cowell, who became her mentor.
During her run on the show, she became a fan favorite, hung out with A-list Hollywood celebrities and established herself as a talented performer with a promising career. Disney and Nickelodeon have already been in contact with her, she said.
Much of Crow's recent education has come by way of tutor and home-schooling, but she had stints at Mead Middle School, Legacy Elementary School and Mead Elementary School.
It was at Mead Elementary where Mead trustee Kim Heard first became aware of her. Heard's son was in third grade with Crow, and Heard worked as a volunteer parent at the school.
"She was just a bubbly, happy, friendly little girl," Heard said.
Last month, Heard spearheaded a town proclamation that made Dec. 15, "Rachel Crow Day." Mead trustees unanimously approved the measure.
"Rachel Crow has demonstrated outstanding singing abilities," says the proclamation. "Rachel has represented herself and her community with extraordinary charm and poise."
Crow has attracted a lot of positive publicity to Mead, Heard said.
"I've been one of her biggest supporters," Heard said. "I just thought the town should do something for her."
The last time Mead had a brush with celebrity was in 1990, when a crew filmed scenes from "Die Hard II" at Highlandlake Church.
Barb Crow, Rachel's mother, said Rachel will greet fans and sign autographs during her appearance today. The Crows had been hoping to arrange a meet-and-greet in Mead during Rachel's holiday-time visit to her hometown.
"We wanted to do one really bad, so Rachel could meet her fans here," Barb Crow said.
Rachel spends most of her time in the Los Angeles area to pursue her entertainment career.
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This old rocking chair is in need of some repair work and ideal for shabby chic. The rocking chair is not the most ornate rocking chair but its constructed from solid wood, always a good start.
The rocking chair is a little 'rickety' and requires glueing here and there but nothing to serious and once glued the rocking chair would be solid.
At the moment, the rocking chair is varnished which is showing signs of wear and this would require stripping for re-painting in a 'shabby chic' style.
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I am almost tempted to spray this rocking chair with a bright high gloss finish and finish off with some new cushions. At the moment though, I don't have a compressor or spray gun its on my shopping list because using one can get great results.
New cushions wouldn't be a problem though, the ones in the photo came with this chair and I cannot confirm they are fire resistant, so cannot sell them. However, making some new ones would be good and there's plenty of clothes to choose from, too many to be truthful.
However, making them would be simple enough and I am very tempted to have go at this because I enjoy making things.
|Shabby Chic Rocking Chair Restoration Project
Meanwhile, I will set to work this weekend and re-glue the joints and hopefully remove the varnish and prepare for painting. Its a couple of hours work and will update this post with some tips about preparation although its a fairly basic job.
Once I have prepared the rocking chair, I reckon its a couple more hours work painting in a 'shabby chic' style. Choice of colour and paint is simply down to budget and taste, if you are doing it yourself then there's plenty of choice. If like me, you are doing this for a living then its always best to keep to neutral colours and check out what colours are popular.
|Shabby Chic Rocking Chair Restoration Project
I like to offer my customers as much choice as possible when it comes to colours and finishes. It makes my life much easier knowing that if I create something unique then at least once completed I know at least one person who would buy the finished product.
Delivery for these rocking chairs is not too bad using a courier and the one I use can usually deliver within 14 days UK mainland at a cost of £35.00 my next pick up date will be Friday 28th October.
The route is from Hereford to London, I intend to have this shabby chic rocking chair completed in time for shipping south. Any drop offs along this route will reduce shipping cost for furniture purchased by Thursday 27th October.
So, best get back to work and make a start on some of the projects I am currently working on, please check back here to be kept up to date.


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Enterprises virtualizing their infrastructure to help cut costs could be in for a shock -- system performance may be degraded and they may not save as much money as they had hoped, unless they manage the performance of their business-critical applications.
But that management is difficult because of a lack of tools that enable companies to look in on a virtualized environment and see what is going on, according to a study by Bojan Simic, an analyst at research firm Aberdeen.
The study, which surveyed 137 enterprises in December, found that companies do much better in improving performance for business-critical applications when they're in a physical environment, rather than in a virtualized environment. That's because they lack the adequate tools to do so under virtualization, Simic told InternetNews.com in an e-mail.
As a result, Simic's findings point to what may be a dark underside to a rare bright spot for IT: spending on virtualization is expected to grow in 2009, thanks to the idea that the technology can help reduce datacenter costs while improving efficiency and utilization.
But the study found that keeping business-critical applications at peak performance may actually be harder in virtualized environments. For example, when using tools to manage business-critical applications in physical environments, 62 percent of the enterprises surveyed by Simic reported improved mean time between repairs (MTBR). That figure dropped to 32 percent in the virtualized environment.
Simic found that enterprises had an 85 percent success rate in identifying performance issues before they impacted end users -- but only in setups that relied on a physical environment. The rate for virtualized environments was 37 percent.
And 67 percent of respondents said they saw improved application response times when managing business-critical applications in the physical environment, while the figure for virtualized environments was 39 percent.
Wanted: Virtualization-friendly tools
Companies that have begun virtualization projects have complained about the lack of adequate tools -- prompting a recent flood of new offerings from major players in the system management space, such as CA (NYSE: CA), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) and BMC (NYSE: BMC).
But Simic said customers are reporting that many of those products don't do a good enough job.
"Even though a lot of systems management vendors have capabilities for visibility into the virtual infrastructure, that is not enough to give you full visibility into application performance in virtual environments," Simic said in an e-mail to InternetNews.com. "End users need capabilities that go beyond server monitoring and focus on application monitoring."
That inability to look into virtualized environments means enterprises aren't able to fully understand what is going on in their systems. For 55 percent of the survey's respondents, this shortcoming represents the main obstacle to optimizing application performance in virtualized environments.
Virtualization management tools providers agree that tackling the issue is difficult, simply given the nature of virtualization.
"By decoupling the application from the hardware and having parts of it reside in virtualized environments, virtualization has changed the way we manage applications," Mike Lough, vice president of marketing at virtualization management tools vendor BlueStripe Software, told InternetNews.com.
This article was first published on InternetNews.com. To read the full article, click here.
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Sometimes in urban sketching we stumble upon something that needs to be captured in the moment. Other times we know a general type of thing on our sketching menu. For instance you might consider that you'll be in public transit a good deal for the next few days or perhaps you know you're meeting a friend in a park with joggers.
When you know what type of thing is coming, give yourself the gift of foresight. What does that mean? Well mainly it means taking time between sketches to practice techniques for capturing something you anticipate seeing.
Do you struggle with quick sketches of people? Does your lighting source chance too often in a long sketch? Do you have trouble scaling objects on your page?
If you know an area you struggle with is on your sketching menu take a little time and practice at home. By giving yourself a set time to practice one of your trouble areas on a something in your house or even from a photograph you can try out new techniques without the pressure of your subject escaping.
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This weekend many of us will be meeting up at Cloud Gate – The Bean – and frankly sketching reflective metal is not high on my skill list.
So one evening I found a metal water bottle and tried out a few different techniques for capturing the reflective element that always alludes me. This time I only worked with techniques I generally use for sketch outings. While there are benefits to trying new techniques, I wanted to see what was and wasn't working with my standard methods.
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First I worked only with a "bent-nib" fountain pen (by Sailor) loaded with black ink. Next I tried watercolor in only black and blue and without a base sketch. Finally I sketched the bottle again with a fountain pen and wet the ink with a touch of blue watercolor to see how the colors would shade.
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Trying out several techniques on the same object helped me pin point the strengths in certain approaches so that when Saturday rolls around I'll be better prepared to sketch without hesitation.
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For a lot of MMA fighters, pro wrestling is a good second career. And it makes sense if you think about it. Although pro wrestling has long been criticized for not being "real," it requires a lot of the same skills and athleticism that MMA does. It also allows MMA fighters to continue to "fight" as part of their profession.
That being said, the transition from MMA to pro wrestling doesn't always work for MMA fighters. So Cage Potato just took a closer look at the transitions that some MMA fighters have tried to make into the world of pro wrestling and listed the good, the bad, and the ugly. You can check it out over here. Which MMA fighter do you think made the smoothest transition?
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Do you like good wine? Do you like luxury? Do you also have expensive taste? If so, than UKV PLC wines may be just the thing that's missing in your life! What is UKV PLC wines you ask?
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Since UKV PLC is an independent wine company that isn't limited by a single wine chain, they have more to offer than one might think. They carry UKV PLC vintage wines such as Chateau Lafite, Mouton Rothschild, Lafite Rothschild, and Latous. They buy the most prestigious wines and champagnes from vineyards in Italy, Spain, and France, and their selection is truly limitless.
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Deep Purple is back û but does anyone care anymore? Well, yes and no. It depends on your outlook. The band's releases still generate good publicity and their fair share of debate, while it's clear the glory days are gone, this new album proves there is still a little life left in the beast.
The oddly titled Bananas is the band's third studio album with guitarist Steve Morse. The band's debut with him û Perpendicular û remains one of my favourite ever Purple albums and is highly regarded by just about everyone.
But the follow up Abandon really didn't move me and the gloss was removed from this incarnation of Purple, for which I was previously so impressed with.
Bananas is a far better and more enjoyable record, but maybe not quite good enough to return the band to the lofty status I had previously awarded them and I fear that might be the same feeling elsewhere.
Gillian sounds in fine form, as does the rest of the band û with new organ/keys man Don Airey in place û and the production is worthy.
So the only spot for any let down are the songs. The good thing is that there is nothing bad on the album, just a few tracks that don't inspire as they should and could be labeled predictable.
Highlights for me include the mid-tempo ballad Haunted, with female backing vocals accompanying the band; the darker and bluesier rock track Sun Goes Down; the organ drenched hard blues of Silver Tongue; the laid back 70's rock of Walk On; the Perpendicular styled Picture Of Innocence and the utterly wonderful (mostly instrumental) Never A Word.
Elsewhere on the album House Of Pain is a fairly predictable opening track; Razzel Dazzle is a bit lame; I've Got Your Number misses a memorable hook and Doing It Tonight doesn't really go anywhere and the last track û 90 seconds worth - isn't really needed.
Not classic and still not close to Perpendicular, but not bad at the same time.
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Just ordered, from a seller on eBay, the 2009 Bachmann Club Calendar. I love this calendar as every year it has some great railway images, but for some reason I have never joined the club so that I can get it directly. Maybe one reason is that membership is a good deal more than the $10 or so I spend on ebay for the calendar!
The calendar for 2009 is called "Age of Steam" and features prints of original paintings by the renowned railway artist Malcolm Root
Anyway, if you get a chance, take a look at this beautiful piece of work. I am sure you will agree that it is one of the nicest calendars
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Long Distance Triathlon Camp
A great camp to prepare yourself for racing. The camp caters for abilities from novice to elite and is ideal for people racing in IRONMAN LANZAROTE later in the year! February/March 2019.Read more
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Please note that this camp is only for athletes racing in the Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote 2018
19th - 24th May 2018
Many athletes spend a great deal of time and money training for their IRONMAN races, only to lose it all with bad preparation during the last part of the taper period. This camp offers you a fantastic opportunity to prepare for the race and meet other athletes from all around the world while being coached for the big day.
Many athletes spend a lot of time and money training for their IRONMAN races and then loose it all due to bad preparation during the last part of the taper period, so we have decided to put on this camp to rectify this. The camp offers you a splendid opportunity to get yourself prepared for racing. It will be an event where you will be coached, trained, have seminars and the chance to meet other athletes from all around the world.
Using lectures and DVD's, we will guide you through your nutritional needs leading up to and including the race, bike check ensuring mechanics and set up are correct, race tactics and tips and any other questions you might have before the big day.
We will also arrange the swim training sessions each day to ensure you do the right amount of training in Club La Santa's outdoor Olympic Pools + the actual course in Puerto del Carmen. Biking will be on parts of the course, while the run will be mainly around the Club La Santa resort. We will have our usual group coaches to instruct and help you.
Remember to bring your swim equipment, wet suit, bike shoes, pedals and helmet.
09:30 Bike ride - 2-3 hrs
Followed by 3 k off bike run
15:00 Swim in the 50 m pool
11:00 Run (45 min. + 3k Max)
15:00 Swim in the 50 m pool
09:00 Bike ride (70 km)
15:00 Swim in the 50 m pool
17:00 Talk: Final week nutrition &
08:30 Bike ride (to Puerto del Carmen)
Swim on the IM Swim course
Ride back to Club La Santa
(Bike ride will be on the IM course)
15:00 4 k run
17:00 Talk: Race Day nutrition & Q&A
09:00 We go with bus to Los Helechos
Bike ride to Mirador del Rio &
Arrieta (Back with bus)
15:00 Swim in the 50 m pool
17:00 Talk: The ins and outs of IMLanzarote
"How to approach the day"?
Rest day
15:00 Swim in the 50 m pool
Final kit prep and Bike Check in
is a former national junior triathlon champion and has competed at Ironman as a pro during his twenty years of racing. Since his professional days, he has been involved in the coaching of swimming, biking and running at Club la Santa and other venues.
double IRONMAN Lanzarote and Volcano Triathlon winner (2005+2006). Winner of IRONMAN New Zealand 2006 and the athlete with the fastest bike time in the IRONMAN World Championship on Hawaii in 2008. Triathlon competitor since 1992 – Pro since 2000 and first IRONMAN in 2002.
Test yourself and find new limits in the Club La Santa IRONMAN Lanzarote, traversing a uniquely beautiful and dramatic volcanic landscape
The camp is free to enter for IRONMAN Lanzarote 2018 participants staying at Club La Santa.
Places are limited, early booking is advisable to avoid disappointment. Please note that the camp is restricted to guests staying at Club La Santa.
From time to time, there are not enough participants in an event to ensure that everyone can enjoy a good experience, in which case we reserve the right to cancel. This happens rarely and should this occur you would be refunded the full amount.
A great camp to prepare yourself for racing. The camp caters for abilities from novice to elite and is ideal for people racing in IRONMAN LANZAROTE later in the year! February/March 2019.Read more
Personal swim training will help you improve your technique and fitness; methods include filming you both on and in the water. Suitable for all levels.Read more
Torben Hjort and Jan Bo Petersen are looking forward guiding you around the many beautiful bike routes Lanzarote has to offer, whether you are biking for fun or in training for a race.Read more
The well-known Tour de France partners, Rolf Sørensen and Dennis Ritter, are looking forward to welcoming you to this International Bike Week at Club La Santa.Read more
Seien Sie unter den Ersten, die Sonderangebote und spannende Neuigkeiten von Club La Santa erhalten. Hier geht es zur Newsletter Anmeldung.


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Nakatindi School
For each of the Anthony Robbins Platinum Partner events, the Platinum Partners engage in a "contribution" during the event. Simply put, the contribution is a day-long community service project that has been thought out and carefully planned. For the Africa event, the group chose the Nakatindi Community School of Livingstone, Zambia for its contribution effort. They could not have found a better focus for their efforts.
Education in Zambia is provided at two levels: primary education (years 1 to 9), and upper secondary (years 10 to 12). Some schools provide a "basic" education covering years 1 to 9, as year 9 is considered to be a decent level of education for the majority of children. However, tuition is only free up to year 7, and UNESCO estimates that 80% of children of primary school age in 2002 were enrolled. Most children drop out after year 7 when fees must be paid. In addition to tuition, students at the government schools must also pay for textbooks, supplies and uniforms. Both government and private schools exist in Zambia. The private school system began largely as a result of Christian mission efforts during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
For the Nakatindi School, the government only provided an annual funding of $150 for the last two years for supplies, maintenance, and other needs. The goal, then, of the Platinum Partners contribution effort was threefold: (1) raise a significant amount of money to provide much needed supplies, staffing, and facilities; (2) collect a significant amount of books to aid in the education of the students (who all learn to speak English); and (3) personally visit the school to perform a massive and coordinated maintenance effort in several needed areas: windows, desks, doors, walls (painting), floors (concrete patching), and gardening (the school endeavors to grow all of the food it feeds its students). According to the Anthony Robbins organization, the group conducted an exhaustive search to find a school where the community, faculty and students would fully commit to the effort. I can say they roundly succeeded.
Before arriving at the school, I learned that the school had dramatically increased its proficiency test scores in the last five years since its new headmaster arrived. I also learned that of the approximately 800 students at the school, the majority of them are orphans, who attend primarily so they can get at least the one meal a day that is provided at school. I did not know what to expect in what I would see or find at the school, but what I did find was beyond my imagination.
When we pulled into the school, all of the children – all of them – were out on the grounds, playing, running about in their white and blue uniforms. In the middle of the yard stood a tent with stacks of thousands of books collected by the Platinum Partners as part of the contribution. After a few minutes, I turned to Karl, who works for Robbins Research International, and asked, "What, is this their recess period or something?" His response reflected the impact of three days of travel to get their on my mental faculties: "No, it's Sunday. There's no school today. All of these children came here just for this." I had completely lost track of what day it was. I suspect the travel and my previous day's sudden and violent illness probably had something to do with it. "Wow," I responded simply, dumbfoundedly.
Then, for the next half an hour, I was mobbed like a celebrity by dozens upon dozens of children who wanted me to take their picture. I quickly learned that showing the kids the LCD with the capture of their photo was also a part of the ritual. I also found it was impossible to take a photo of just one child; once I started to set up a shot, the nearest six to eight children would force their way into the shot. I soon learned some deceptive techniques: I'd tell the child I wanted to photograph to stand off to the side, then I would pretend to set up a shot of a mob of children – then quickly turn over and photograph the child I originally wanted to. Then, of course, I would have to turn back to the mob of kids so that they would be satisfied. It was a bit overwhelming, this very outgoing, friendly and fearless group of children, taking pleasure out of such a simple act as having someone take their photo.
After a while, all of the students lined up on both sides of the driveway coming into the school to greet a caravan of jeeps carrying the Platinum Partners. The greeting was much more orderly than I expected, given the energy level of the children and the significance of what the day would have in store for them. As I waited for the jeeps to arrive, I noticed a small boy sitting on a stump with a patch sown into the left leg of his pants: "Barack." I asked him, "You like Barack Obama?" Enthusiastically, he responded, "Yes." If only the POTUS's own people felt the same way about him, I thought. But as I saw throughout every aspect of what happened that day, having the right attitude is a vital foundation for any success. Believe that you will succeed and, with a little help, you will. Believe in failure or hope for failure, and it is bound to ensue.
After the Platinum Partners arrived, everyone gathered for a celebratory dance and drumming, followed by an announcement as to how the maintenance teams would be divided. For the next few hours, I simply went around from station to station, trying to capture a glimpse of the spirit and heart of these children and the Platinum Partners, and to somehow document the significance of the work that was being done. While being a photographer can be a privilege at times like this, being witness to significant events and recording them in detail and artistry, it can also be a barrier. As much as you can get caught up in some of the energy of an event like this, as a photographer, you are somewhat removed emotionally and unable to fully participate in a way that is as meaningful as those you capture on pixels.
I photographed kids and adults hauling buckets of water to soak newly planted trees, working together to hammer nails into repaired desk legs and seats, and getting messy together to paint walls and cement-patch floors. I gained a new understanding of the term "heat in the kitchen" by joining the local women and Platinum Partners (oddly, only the women were assigned to kitchen duty) in the open-air tent that served as the kitchen. With kettles sitting on open, hot coals, it did not take long to get hot under the hot Zambian sun. I thought of the occasional barbecue we have held in our backyard when I contemplated how much food these women had to prep and cook for the 800 children of the school. Given the small space available for those children, it took several hours to run them all through the cafeteria to eat the one meal they would be served that day.
After work, the students and Platinum Partners played soccer and football, danced, shared stories, and posed for more pictures. On one of the newly-painted walls, they all put hand prints in various colors to reflect the bond and partnership of the day. Then, there were many, many more pictures.
The impact of that day and the effort by the Anthony Robbins Platinum Partners simply cannot be grasped; only an examination of the numbers gives a glimpse of how much this contribution meant to the staff and students of the Nakatindi Community School. As of the day of that event, there was only one teacher for every 75 students. There was only one book per classroom. Most of the desks and chairs in the school were broken or damaged in some way. By the day of the contribution, the Platinum Partners had raised over $40,000 dollars to contribute to the school, as well as collect thousands of books. That money would provide salaries for three more teachers for three more years, provide new facilities, and build a fence and pay for a security guard to keep the new, massive book collection from being stolen (a likelihood given the rarity of books in the country). As if that was not enough, later that evening, at the closing social event for the Zambia part of the trip, the Platinum Partners collected $3,000 more to go the next day to purchase tools to donate to the school so that it could continue its maintenance efforts.


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The Holocene Impact Working Group is a group of scientists from Australia, France, Ireland, Russia and the USA who have hypothesized that meteorite impacts on Earth are more common than previously supposed. The group uses satellite imagery to locate the presence of landforms such as chevrons which are thought to have been caused by megatsunamis. Chevrons, which are wedge-shaped sediment deposits, often point in the direction of specific impact craters. The group feels that major chevrons around the world were deposited by tsunamis that originated from impact craters.
After searching for massive chevrons, the Holocene Impact Working Group identified the Burckle crater, which is an undersea crater located to the east of Madagascar and west of Western Australia in the southern Indian Ocean. The position of the crater was determined in 2006 using evidence of prehistoric chevron dune formations in Australia and Madagascar that allowed the team to triangulate its location.
Specifically, the group used the Fenambosy Chevron, which is one of four chevron-shaped land features on the southwest coast of Madagascar, 180 meters (590 feet) high and 5 km inland. The Burckle crater is located about 900 miles southeast of the Fenambosy Chevron. Core samples from the Fenambosy Chevron contain high levels of nickel and magnetic components that are associated with impact ejecta. The Burckle crater is estimated to be about 30 km (18 mi) in diameter and located at 12,500 feet (3,800 m) below the surface of the ocean.
The crater has not been dated by radiometric analysis. The Holocene Impact Working Group have suggested that it was formed about 5,000 years ago (c. 2800–3000 BC) during the Holocene epoch. Near the crater, unusual metals have been reported, including carbonate crystals, translucent carbon spherules, and fragments of mineral glass. Numerous ancient writings from various cultures make reference to a "great flood." It has been hypothesized that these legends may be associated with the impact event. During this time in history the world experienced the end of the Early Harappan Ravi Phase, the end of the pre-dynastic "antediluvian" rulers of the Sumerian civilization and the start of the First Dynasty of Kish.


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Introduction and Hello to All
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Hello everyone!! my intention of creating this blog is to mainly share beauty product reviews as well as beauty tips. There are so many products out there in the market that makes it hard for us to know what is good and what is bad. Of course, all reviews will be based on my personal experience, so please don't use my review as a rule, but instead, as a tip from a friend. My goal is to provide straight to the point reviews and refrain from adding too much detail. However, I can always add more information if readers prefer. I also would love to share some craft ideas and hear from you guys as well. I would love to hear comments and thoughts from everyone. Enjoy and looking forward to this exciting journey!! Take Care!!! :)
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The summer of 2013 has been one of constant struggle and occasional open warfare.
With insects.
I'm not talking about mosquitoes and black flies. I'm a Maine native. I know how to deal with them. This year I have been doing battle royal with ants, fleas, hornets and bees, not to mention deer flies.
It was the insurgent ants that first got me going this summer. One day I discovered that tiny little pavement ants had infiltrated our home and established a supply route from the kitchen window up the wall and along the top of the cupboards. Barely noticeable, these busy little invaders went about their secret business despite our daily retaliations with a rubber spatula. (We didn't want to spray anything because of the grandchildren.)
Then one day I took everything out of the cupboards and discovered that what they were after was a single sugary fruit jelly candy inside a clear plastic box. You would have thought it was impenetrable, but it was filled with a battalion of the little buggers. Tossed out the candy and got rid of the pests.
The fleas were much harder to combat. With a dog and cat that seemed to collaborate with the enemy, we just seemed to import more fleas whenever we thought we'd killed them off and driven them away. We applied Frontline and Advantix regularly to no advantage and began thinking fleas must have developed a tolerance. We vacuumed obsessively, but it was not until we broke down and carpet bombed with Siphotrol (the grandchildren had been gone) and added an internal weapon (Comfortis) to the arsenal that we finally turned the tide.
I am also pleased to report that I developed a dandy method of hand-to-hand combat with the fleas. Fleas are hard to catch and even harder to kill by hand, but a piece of rolled up masking tape proved to be just the thing for capturing any fleas brazen enough to actually land on me. One dab and they are stuck for life.
The bees waged a ground war. They stung Carolyn a couple of times while she was working in the backyard garden and refused to let anyone into the garden, imperiling access to the shed. It was not until I removed the little wire fence around the garden to mow the thick grass that had grown up there that I discovered their ground nest – the hard way. As soon as I ran over the spot, I was attacked and stung several times on the foot and ankle.
After researching how to get even with (and rid of) ground bees, I rejected the most toxic methods. Being a compassionate individual, rather than nuke them, I tried to gently persuade them to move by regularly watering their nest. Bees don't like water. I regarded it as a process of negotiation. But when that didn't work after a few days, I sprayed the little hole in the ground with enough force from the hose to extirpate the bees, their comb, wriggling larvae and all.
We liberals are a gentle lot, but don't get us riled.
Until recently, the hornets had me fooled. Because they showed up every day inside the screen in my office, I naturally assumed they were somehow coming through the window. I kept a paper cup and card at hand so that I could trap the hornet against the screen with the cup, slide the card (which I just noticed has an illustration of a sleeping bee on it) over the top of the cup and transport the hornet outside. I must have deported close to two dozen hornets this way over the summer.
Then I discovered that they had a nest up under the shingles and were actually coming in through a small hole in the ceiling where ice on the roof created a leak a couple of years ago. The enemy is always probing for a weakness. One of these days I'm going to get around to patching that ceiling.
Having run out of patience with my entomological enemies, I went to the store, bought a big can of Raid and blasted the nest hole. The last two hornets of the year now lie lifeless on my desk, their little black and yellow bodies a reminder of the war I have reluctantly waged against the insect world this summer.
The deer flies were another story. They mainly bugged Rudy, our too-black dog. He couldn't make it to the end of the driveway this summer without a swarm of them dive-bombing him. It got to the point where it wasn't worth taking Rudy for a walk until the sun went down, because he'd spend all the time distracted, snapping at flies and sitting down to scratch himself.
As the weather cooled however, the deer flies became slow enough to pick off by hand. Now they are gone.
What all good diplomats and warriors know is that the solution to most problems in life is to wait them out. Time heals all wounds.
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The Draft House Gastro Pub opened its doors in the village of Strandhill in May 2015. Since our opening we have strived to create a unique and quirky gastro pub within the vibrant seaside hot-spot whatever the weather.
Even if you skim through our menu you will notice a variety of amazing Irish cheeses.
Starting with Knockanore farmhouse smoked mature cheddar based in Knockanore County Waterford is smoked in a special smokehouse on the farm using oak locally sourced in the neighboring town of Lismore.
The Fivemiletown Creamery in County Tyrone have been producing award winning specialty cheese for over 100 years! They supply us with the goats cheese we use to make our famous breaded flat cap mushroom and goats cheese burger.
Cashel Blue comes from Beechmount Farm County Tipperary. Cashel blue is famous for being the very first Irish blue cheese hitting the market in 1984.
Wicklow Farmhouse Blue Cheese comes from a small family business in the South East of Co. Wicklow.
The Hempenstall family have been milking cows on a small dairy farm at Curranstown, Arklow, Co. Wicklow for the past 50 years.
Macroom Buffalo Mozzarella comes from Ireland's first and only herd of of milking water Buffalo. The Farm is based in County Cork and owned by Buffalo farmer Johnny and his wife Geraldine.
Dozio's soft cheese is made by Danilo and Helen Dozio in a small creamery in Charlestown County Mayo
Sheerin's Meatin Place is a small shop based in Ballymote County Sligo but the standard of meat that comes from here is very high. Sheerin's is famous for their dry aged beef which is hung for a minimum of 30 days. Not to mention his Sweet Cured Bacon, low in salt, cut thick it's cured on the premises all this and their Award winning sausages make them extremely desirable to work with.
Derek Sherlock Meats in Tubbercurry County Sligo provide us with the finest selection of beef, and chicken.
Our lamb comes from Castlemine Farm which has a long and rich heritage located in the heart of Roscommon. The Allen family have farmed the land since the 1820's when Castlemine Farm was in the hands of Walter (Wally) Allen. He was always of the opinion that the grass fed to animals gives a sweeter taste especially in limestone regions such as Roscommon. The farm has now passed to the next generation and is now run by Sean's sons Derek and Brendan Allen.
Most of our fish is supplied by John Flynn Fish Monger based in County Sligo except for our smoked salmon which comes from Kinvara. Kinvara Smoked Salmon was set up in 1999 and was the first 100% Organic Smoked Salmon company in Ireland. Based in County Galway on the captivating shores of Galway Bay, situated in-between the rugged Burren and the vibrant city.
Croghan's Organic center is based in Boyle Co Roscommon supply us with year-round organic salad, herbs and vegetables, freshly cut, on-the-day seasonal contents.


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Hello everyone!!
Today I am showcasing a graduation card I made for a special girl! Graduation cards in Sweden are very patriotic and blues and yellows are a must!! I am not a fan of that combination to be honest, but I decided to go shabby chic and then it worked for me! :D
Copics used:
Skin: E04, 11, 21, 00, 000, R20
Eyes: G99, YG25, 03
Hair: E15, Y21, E53
Flowers: BG09, 07, 05, 01
Card recipe:
Digital stamp by Aurora Wings called Lotus Sprite big Eyes
Inkido design papers blue and yellow
Cheese cloth
Spellbinders Nestabilities Little Darling Rubberstamps Lovely die
Pearl garland
Paper flowers
Butterflies made of clay and heat embossed with sticky embossing powder and glitter
Stickles Crystal
Handmade cabochon
Glass bottle
Thank you so much for stopping by!
Happy crafting!
xoxo Madeleine


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DonJoy Drytex Economy Hinged Knee
The DonJoy Drytex Economy (Sports) Knee Brace is one of the most popular knee braces among our Brace Shop customers. For mild medial/ lateral support of the knee. The Drytex Economy Hinged Knee is a neoprene alternative constructed of a unique nylon core and polyester Lycra fabric that allows for improved airflow. This fabric provides compression and support, yet allows for breath ability. Ideal for patients who have allergies or irritations to neoprene or live in warm weather climates.
- Removable polycentric aluminum uprights.
- Thigh & calf straps provide additional compression & support.
- Available with or without popliteal cutout. (cutout in the back of the brace to allow more breathability and prevent bunching).
- Drytex material is ideal for patients with neoprene-based allergies.
- Eliminates use of tape adhesives.
- Wraparound available in XXXL size (not available with slip-on hinged brace).
- Easy to apply and adjust.
- Durable lightweight.
- Low-cost alternative.
- Available in slip on style or wrap-around.


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I like giving gifts but,what I really LOVE is packaging them up.
So much fun.........! It's nice to make people feel special and
appreciated. Who doesn't like getting something pretty to unwrap?
With Mother's Day just around the corner I thought a pretty little
gift box was in order.
I covered a plain brown box with some Bitty Bags.
Then using more Bitty Bags and some
Divine Twine, that I wired I created a bouquet.
Wiring the twine is super fun.
Simply feed some fine gauge wire and twine into the tip of a drill.
Squeeze the trigger while holding the other end of the twine
and wire with a pair of pliers.
Perfectly wired twine every time........ perfect for flower stems.
Now for the flowers.......
Cut out about 10 circles.
Stack the circles on top of each other and staple the center.
Starting with the top layer fold and scrunch the layers of paper.
Attach to some wired twine and you have a flower.
For this type of flower you will need a piece of paper folded in half.
Starting at the folded end cut some strips. Leave enough uncut paper
to add a stem.
Roll up the paper and steam, and your flower will form.
Buds are fun to make too.
Start by drawing a circle with a swirl in it. Cut out the circle and
along the swirl line.
Roll up the strip of paper and glue at the base.
Once you have made enough flowers now
the fun begins, creating a bouquet.
I really had fun with the wired twine.
I plan on using it in some future projects.
CAN'T wait to play with that some more!
Plain box
Craft glue
Hot glue
Craft knife
Fine gauge wire
Bitty Bags and Divine Twine
I'm linking up over at Be Different Act Normal come join the fun!


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Professor Anderson's attentive eye noticed more than one interesting thing about this passage in Book 9 -- it's the moment Heracles is finally separated from his maternal portion once and for all:
interea quodcumque fuit populabile flammae,
Mulciber abstulerat, nec cognoscenda remansit
Herculis effigies, nec quicquam ab imagine ductum
matris habet, tantumque Iovis vestigia servat. 265
utque novus serpens posita cum pelle senecta
luxuriare solet, squamaque nitere recenti,
sic ubi mortales Tirynthius exuit artus,
parte sui meliore viget, maiorque videri
coepit et augusta fieri gravitate verendus.
Meanwhile, Mulciber had consumed whatever the flames could destroy, and no recognisable form of Hercules remained, no semblance of what came to him from his mother: he only retained his inheritance from Jove.
As a snake enjoys its newness, sloughing old age with its skin, gleaming with fresh scales; so, when the Tirynthian hero had shed his mortal body, he became his better part, beginning to appear greater, and more to be revered, in his high majesty.Anderson first notes that exuit (exuo) has the sense of "to take off," as with clothes, though what here is being removed is the body, i.e., everything that resembled the man Hercules. As the child of a god and a woman, Hercules is composed of a mortal vestem as well as the immortal vestigia Iovis; the passage is distinguishing between the phenomenal, tangible body and a noumenal, immortal part.
Doffing the body the way the body doffs clothing will remind us that it was the vestem of Nessus, the clothing, that killed the hero. What serves as metaphor here at the moment of apotheosis is cut from the same cloth as a key literal plot element of the story that preceded it.
Anderson goes on to note that while the serpens luxuriates in his new skin and gleaming scales, this is hardly a metaphor of transcendence, one that would intimate a higher mode of existence beyond the body. In fact, the reptilian image of the snake shedding its old skin and delighting in the new is but another metaphor of external covering vs. internal reality, isn't it? The new Hercules, instead of being freed from the limitations of earthly, bodily metaphorics, instead moves from clothing to skin -- where we might expect "spirit," or "numen," we get more body. We're still in the language of the phenomenal world.
But the use of serpens will remind us that Heracles has been entwined by snakes since Hera sent them into his cradle. The earthly career of Heracles, like that of Cadmus, is rounded by the serpent -- except that here, at the moment of death, the emphasis is upon not something repeated, but on novus -- the thing made new. The differences become more marked if we now look back at that earlier scene in Book 4:
baleful necklace given them at their wedding. Indeed, Cadmus even reaches for her colla adsueta:
His tongue flickered over his wife's face, he slid between her beloved breasts as if known there, and clasped her, and searched about for the neck he knew so well.
Harmonia in turn is drawn to the neck of the serpent:
she stroked the gleaming neck of the crested serpent, (lubrica permulcet cristati colla draconis)And as Harmonia looks desperately for some sign of the former Cadmus, the human one, she says:
'Cadmus, wait, unhappy one, tear away this monstrous thing! Cadmus, what is it? Where are your feet? Where are your hands, shoulders, face, colour, everything – while I speak? Why do you not change me as well, you gods, into this same snake's form?She asks where the form, the phenomenal appearance, of her husband is:
"Cadme, mane, teque, infelix, his exue monstris!
Cadme, quid hoc? ubi pes, ubi sunt umerique manusque
et color et facies et, dum loquor, omnia?
cur nonme quoque, caelestes, in eandem vertitis anguem?"Indeed, she uses exuo, the same verb used at 9.268 (quoted above) to describe Heracles shedding his body. But here instead of a metamorphosis in which one thing is distinguished and torn from something ontologically other (Heracles' form from his substance), Harmonia discovers that she can no longer tell where her husband ends and the serpent begins. Her response is to pray to become the same snake (eandem anguem).
Why do you not change me as well, you gods, into this same snake's form?Where Heracles' skin-shedding snake metaphor stresses renewal -- a fundamental distinguishing break with the old and a new beginning, the metamorphosis of Cadmus and Harmonia stresses the merging of the couple so completely in the form of serpents as to lose virtually all humanity, their house (Thebes) doomed over and over to cycle through the curse of Hephaestus.
For Heracles the emphasis is on the advent of a difference, the presence of the novus, something that might break the fate of Thebes.
So, a provisional interpretative thought: the speech of Themis brought into focus a comparative look at two great mythic cycles, Thebes and Heracles, and seemed to underscore how the two respective stories end up mirroring each other like two sides of a serpentine necklace. Here the apotheosis of Heracles suggests a further twist -- that perhaps one of the two heroes is not entirely entrapped in endless repetition. While on Earth, for all his violent temper and madness, Heracles was on the way to becoming a hero with transformative powers. By solving every task he was ever given, he signaled a potential to expand the human. No longer a static creature residing within fixed limits, this son of Jove scorned every limitation, every fearsome challenge, even death.
If Cadmus is the tragic figure whose descendents, like Oedipus, discover that they cannot escape the antics of Fate, Heracles is inaugurating the thought of a dynamism suspending all bounds. Ultimately he bows to Fate, as all mortals do. But his scorn in the face of all challenges, including the realm of Hades, signals a power that works to transform the world it is given -- one whose labors resonate with unearthly terror and laughter.
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Even as it started planning Microsoft Azure, its cloud-based platform for designing Web applications and services, Microsoft evolved in its thinking on the nature of the cloud-and drew some inspiration from the architecture behind Bing, its search engine.
So said Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business division, during a Nov. 17 keynote address at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles.
"Over the past year the industry understanding of the cloud has really evolved. One thing that has become very clear is that the cloud is about more than infrastructure: it's also an application model," Muglia told the audience. "Microsoft has learned about how to build the next-generation application model."
Specifically, Muglia continued, Bing is a prime example of Microsoft's thinking in terms of cloud application models.
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"Bing is a service that's always available; it's highly resilient; it runs on multiple data centers. If we tried to manage this through standard means, it'd be too expensive; what the Bing team did was build an infrastructure on a platform called Autopilot, which can manage the service with a very small amount of human intervention," said Muglia.
In many ways, Autopilot and its automatic data center management are indicative of its thinking in developing the Azure cloud platform.
"Autopilot is a great prototype, but it wasn't built as a platform that could be generalized," Muglia added. "That's where Azure has come in-to take these ideas and generalize them in the form of an application platform that can be broadly used."
Microsoft announced during the conference that Windows Azure will be offered as a Community Technology Preview until the end of 2009, with the full switch-on of the cloud platform for enterprises on Jan. 1, 2010. By February of next year, Azure will begin charging for its services.
"At its core, Azure is Windows-Windows Server," Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said during a keynote speech on Nov. 19. The Windows Azure platform consists of three parts for creating Web applications and services: Windows Azure, an operating system as a service; SQL Azure, a relational database in the cloud; and .NET services, which provide secure connectivity and federated access control for applications.
Combined, Microsoft hopes that the platform will allow it to gain substantial market share against Google, Amazon.com and others making forays into the enterprise-cloud platform environment. Ozzie also introduced a subsystem of Azure, code-named "Dallas," that will function as an open catalog for public and commercial data, as well as a uniform discovery mechanism for that data.
In order to encourage the enterprise's adoption of Azure, Microsoft announced several initiatives during Day One of the conference, including Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtual machine support on Azure, enabling virtualized infrastructure to be moved more rapidly between the cloud and on-premises; Microsoft Pinpoint Marketplace, which will let partners market and sell their applications; and RTM of Windows Identity Foundation, which lets developers provide simplified user access to cloud and on-premises applications.
Muglia announced Windows Server AppFabric, the beta of which will be available for download "shortly." AppFabric is a set of integrated technologies that make it easier for developers to build out and manage middle-tier services built using Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. In addition, AppFabric will provide easy-to-use database caching.
A key part of integrating the cloud more fully into enterprise life, Muglia also seemed to suggest, lies in developing models that allow existing applications to be ported into the cloud. Virtualization and infrastructure technology, he added, will come into play with regard to that transfer, and as companies invest more fully in building their clouds.
"What's important is to begin to evolve these applications," Muglia said, "to take advantage of the attributes that the cloud delivers."


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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Black November: it's enough to drive you to drink.
7 comments:
- cynicalHighlander said...
That 492 % of GDP debt Ian is a wee bitty more.
Guess Which Country Has Debt Of Nearly 1000% Of GDP...
PRESENTING: The Rosetta Stone Of The Entire Sovereign Debt Crisis
In short, the UK has one of the most detestable economies you can imagine.
It's got no resources, it's incredibly service-based, and oh yeah, it keeps missing its deficit targets.
So the real question is "Can Scotland afford to keep propping up the UK?"
- Tuesday, December 06, 2011
""British exports have undercut our European neighbours because of the 25% fall in the value of the pound, but this competitive advantage hasn't stimulated any economic recovery.""
No it hasn't helped exports but it took the great brains of the Bank of England some time to realise that the devaluation was not helping exports because we might not have all that much to export.
It used to be that the monthly trade figures were a regular item on news broadcasts. Remember when people were up in arms when it was £150 million per month. Then suddenly the figures were no longer given any great publicity at all and people just forgot about trade deficits and their consequences.
Now the UK runs a monthly trade deficit of £6 bn or more. Go figure.
As to parallels with previous crisis there is one. The Weimar Republic. The people in charge then had no more clue what to do or of cause and effect as the central bankers do now. Read Adam Fergusson's book 'When Money Dies' and pray the Bank of England stops pressing the 'Enter' button on the computers churning out the QE billions.
- Tuesday, December 06, 2011
- Doug Daniel said...
Brilliant article, Iain. Scary, but brilliant.
- Wednesday, December 07, 2011
yes, as Doug says, scary but true.
- Thursday, December 08, 2011
'Cameron says non!'
Welcome to Little England.
Welcome to Ruritania!
The future for London is as a tax haven for the oligarchs of this world.
As for us Scots; it is time to jump ship.
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Self-joining motif entrelac cube, originally uploaded by fuzzyjay.
So I've been experimenting with entrelac cubes that feature motifs that are not square, but are still in the spirit of entrelac. The lighter-colored patches of this cube are in the shape of zig-zags, but each zig-zag is attached to itself along some of its edges. It makes a nice symmetry on the faces of the cube.


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wcorless - HHO under pressure is a hydrogen bomb!
Hydrogen by itself is not that inherently dangerous. But add oxygen to hydrogen in any concentration above 4% Hydrogen and you have a highly volatile and unstable gas mixture. It is the oxygen in the air that makes hydrogen gas unstable (ever sit and watch a violent thunderstorm?).
The secret to HHO as a motor fuel is in volume production in-place and the ability to meter production as demand calls for it.
Since 2006 two Geo Metro cars have been operating on HHO in Tuscon Arizona with little or no major issues. But they have never run with absolutely no problems. There is a definite difference between the engines running on HHO, the engines running of Compressed Hydrogen Gas, and the engines running on regular gasoline. The best results are with compressed hydrogen gas. HHO comes in third (behind gasoline).
Fuel injection is a simple remedy. But Hydrogen Fuel Injectors are expensive. LPG is a common motor fuel now, and there are a lot of LPG fuel injectors on the market. But the difference between LPG and HHO is like water and maple syrup (totally different). Hydrogen is number one on the periodic table (which means it is the smallest and lightest molecule). Hydrogen lines leak, and sealing them is a task by itself.
Solve these issues and you are step two of ten towards HHO as a motor fuel.


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In the 2017 season, the Camping al Porto finally celebrates the completion of its modernization plan.
Following an idea ripened in so many years, it presents itself in a completely new form.
We aim at the enhancement and constant enrichment of our park. The climate in the largest lake in Italy enables the presence of a surprising range of botanical varieties, from mountain varieties to the subtropical ones. In fact, in just a few thousand square meters, you can find citruses, olive trees, several varieties of palms and yuccas, majestic Mediterranean pine trees, cedars, oleanders, passionflowers, bougainvillea, laurels, birches, plane trees and cypresses. New species are planted every year to further enrich the botanical heritage of the campsite.
However, we also focus on virtuous behaviors that let us and our next guests enjoy the beautiful but delicate envi-ronment surrounding us even in the future. Up to the smallest details, our focus is on the respect and protection of the environment where we live and host you:
Solar panels to heat the water of sanitary fixtures, supply of electricity from companies that produce it from renewable sources, almost exclusive use of low energy light bulbs in Class A, light switching off systems in the absence of users, city-bike for guests to enjoy short trips, are just a few examples of our active participation in protecting the environment.
We also carry out some intelligent environmental actions such as the particular plant arrangement, serving as a shield for the cold spring winds as well as thorough pruning that, besides securing our guests, allows a great radia-tion of the sun in spring and a wide shadow in the warmest months for the wellness of our guests, all with a reduced use of renewable energy sources.
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Matt Hale - Brief thoughts on the Left Unity NCG meeting
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- Published on Thursday, 20 June 2013
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Though not without problems, Saturday's National Coordinating Group meeting was generally positive and set in motion the process leading up to the November founding conference.Add a comment
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Tim Nelson and Paris Thompson: Left Unity and the need for a broad party
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- Published on Monday, 20 May 2013
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Few active on the left in Britain will not have noticed the Left Unity project developing over the last few months. Ken Loach's call for a new party to the left of Labour has gained over 8,000 signatories. Local groups are being set up across the country, with large meetings full of activists from a variety of campaigns, unions and traditions.
This is exciting not simply because of the buzz it is creating, but also because it's an objective necessity to realign the left. Left Unity represents the best opportunity for this in a long time and should be treated with the seriousness it deserves. In this article we will attempt firstly to establish why in the current period left realignment is not just desirable but of fundamental importance, and also why it is a real possibility. We will then attempt to establish what role the revolutionary left can play in this, what positions it should take, and why its role is significant.
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Kris Stewart: Report from Left Unity national meeting
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- Published on Friday, 17 May 2013
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Last Saturday, 11 May, just over a hundred people met in a Bloomsbury hotel. This was the first national coming-together of people involved in the 'Left Unity' project since Ken Loach's intervention sent it viral.
Who was there?
All sorts came along. Workers and students, women and men, younger and older comrades, people from a number of different liberation groups. While I wouldn't say it was perfect, it was better than any other meeting I've sat in recently.Add a comment
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Kieran Crowe: Elections – the headache and heartache of the far left
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- Published on Thursday, 16 May 2013
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Debate is building up steadily about Left Unity (LU) – a project I think we should all be thoroughly enthusiastic for. We shouldn't underestimate the novelty of this process: LU is coming together as an unformed organisation and allowing people who come into it the opportunity to have their own say on what sort of organisation it will be. Obviously this throws up all sorts of debates – and one of the key ones is the question of why and how to tackle elections.Add a comment
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Penny Schenk speaks at Socialist Resistance conference
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Penny from the International Socialist Network sends greetings to Socialist Resistance's April 2013 conference.
Tim Nelson: Rosa Luxemburg and the revolutionary party
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This is the first in a series of articles this blog plans to run as the IS Network begins a wide-ranging discussion and debate about the IS tradition and the way forward for the left. Each piece reflects the views of the author, not a collective position taken by the network.
Of the many debates which have emerged out of the crisis in the Socialist Workers Party, one of the most important has been the question of democracy within the movement, and how socialists should organise. Those of us who have questioned the level of democracy have been accused of wishing to abandon Leninist principles of organisation. Although this is not the case, I would argue that there has been, for a number of years, an overreliance on a certain interpretation of Lenin's writings, which has led us to have a rather limited approach towards revolutionary organisation, and have hindered our growth. Furthermore, I would argue that the International Socialist tradition, particularly before the 1970s, did not limit itself to replicating the methods of Lenin and the Bolsheviks. Tony Cliff, and others within the early I.S., recognised that others, particularly Rosa Luxemburg, had as much to teach us as Lenin when we are discussing methods of organisation.
The debate surrounding Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the nature of socialist organisation has been long-running. The roots of the discussion lie in an exchange between Luxemburg and Lenin in 1904. It is often asserted that Luxemburg's looser, more libertarian model of a revolutionary organisation is to be contrasted with Lenin's Bolshevik Party, a hierarchical, top-down structure dominated by professional revolutionaries with an all-powerful central committee. This idea has, for a long time, suited both those who wish to reject Lenin out of hand as an authoritarian, and those who wish to reduce Leninism to orthodoxy, and justify undemocratic practice in his name. In other words, this false dichotomy has served both those socialists who wish to distance themselves from the Russian Revolution and the Bolshevik Party, and Stalinists and other authoritarian Marxists, who wish to justify their opposition to democracy in the movement by tracing its roots to Lenin.Add a comment
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Hello everyone! I'm here again (Sioux) and I've got a tag to share with you all :)
1. Firstly stipple colour the background with Adirondack Latte and Salmon
2. I wanted to use images from the Air Mail Bird Collage Elements Plate so firstly stamped the gorgeous bird head in Archival Jet Black and masked it.
3. Stamped the T!m distressed wings from the Mini Ornates Plate in Distress Ink Old Paper then masked this.
4. Stamped the franked postage stamp from the Air Mail Bird Collage Elements Plate in Distress Ink Worn Lipstick and masked this.....sorry for all the masking but sometimes you just have to do it! :)
5. Stamped the background using Music # 11 Plate in Distress Ink Pumice Stone
6. Removed all the masks and added the words air mail in Adirondack Pool
7. Thought the gorgeous bird looked so regal that he needed a crown LOL! So used the
T!m crown from the Mini Ornates Plate stamped onto some Ten Seconds Studio Metal (Bronzed God) and attached with silicone.
8. Tattered the edges and added some scratch marks with a pricking tool then inked up with Distress Ink Pumice Stone and Bundled Sage
9. Added a bit of printed twill and an Ideaology Philosophy Tag that had a bit of Adirondack Paint Dabber Espresso swiped over it.....oh! and just had to add a touch of enamel accents in black to the eye of the gorgeous bird....did I mention that he's gorgeous before? LOL!
I enjoyed making that :) See you soon!
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The city of New Orleans used data science to formulate a preventive approach to firefighting. As part of its Targeted Smoke Alarm Outreach Program, the city developed a predictive model to identify areas at the highest risk of fires and fire fatalities. The data fed into the model came from open sources such as the Census American Housing Survey and American Community Survey, as well as the fire department's own data. Taking into account factors such as poverty, building age, location, previous fire history, and the likelihood of dwellings having fire alarms, the project turned once-siloed data into actionable insights.
Officials created a heat map of the city to pinpoint areas for a door-to-door campaign. For instance, since the analysis revealed that those under 5 and over 60 were most susceptible to fire fatalities, authorities distributed and installed fire alarms in areas with concentrations of these age groups. New Orleans distributed more than 7,500 alarms by the end of 2015. Analytics, cross-agency collaboration, and data integration helped the city optimize its resources to protect its most vulnerable residents


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Highline High School's All-Class Reunion Is Saturday, May 22nd
Highline High School's All-Class Reunion will be held at the Highline High School Cafeteria on Saturday, May 22, from 11am – 3pm.
This is open to all alumni.
Here are the details:
WHAT: Highline High School's All-School Reunion
WHEN: Saturday, May 22nd from 11am – 3pm
WHERE: Highline High School's Cafetorium (if you're an alumni you probably remember where that is, right?).
INFO: From an email:
Admission is $25.00 and includes lunch, rental of the cafeteria, and a chance to meet old friends and make new ones.
Please bring a new item for the silent auction. Â All money raised will be used to fund HHS Student Scholarships.
For information contact Joanne Pease at 206-244-2248 or e-mail [email protected]
Further information about the HHS Alumni Foundation can be found at the website: Â www.highline-highschool-alumni-foundation.org.
Info on other HHS reunions is available at their website here.


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Last week I rushed in to the market before work; I was on a mission to get goat cheese for my daughter to take to the beach (she and her friend Marika claim that Spinning Spider's Rosemary-Fig Chevre is their very favorite, but they will eat others when pressed). I sped over to Anne Gaines Grier (Gaining Ground Farm) and got two pints of strawberries. One went to the beach, one I enjoyed tremendously. We have been eating strawberries for weeks now and that is just heaven. And no, I haven't made anything like a pie. They haven't lasted long enough.
And guess what? One or two blueberries in my yard are turning blueish…so blueberries will be coming in soon too. I almost forgot to mention the Currant Croissant I got from Farm and Sparrow Bakery. David made these last year, but I only saw them every now and then. Very, very, yummy and flaky. That was breakfast, and off to work I went.
The previous week, I actually was able to go to the West Asheville Market, the Wednesday Coop Market and the North Asheville Market all in one week. I hadn't planned to go to The West Asheville Market, but it had been super hot all day long. I started daydreaming about those wonderful Popsicle. By the time I got there after work, she was out. Wah! That left me with a perfect excuse to get a bag of Roots & Branches Rosemary Crackers.
I had a big Tailgate Market list on that Saturday. My friend Nell is recuperating from a hip injury, so we got her a beautiful bouquet from Tuckers Gardens and some of Joanne Moore's homemade shortbread. We got 2 pints of gorgeous strawberries from Vanessa (Full Sun Farm) and pound cake from Cathy Osada to go along with the strawberries. For our friend Judy's birthday, we found some earrings that were made from glowing periwinkle-blue sea glass. The jeweler, Victoria Baker makes them with beach glass she collects in her travels.
Of course, goat cheese chevre was on the list. This is something our whole family adores. Amelia just posted a picture of baby Asher licking every last bit of chevre from a goat cheese container. How cool is that? Asher's not even two years old yet!
Make a day of it tomorrow. The markets are hopping. The food is fresh and packed with vitality. The farmers and producers care. We live in an amazing spot with multiple great tailgate markets. Revel in our local abundance. Visit one.
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CHECK OUT Riceville Tailgate Market's new location: Grace United Methodist Church parking lot, 954 Tunnel Road, Fridays, 4-7 pm.


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I really like this film and the movement behind it. I broke my anonymity with my book and continue to do so here on my blog. The shame and stigma of addiction needs to go away, and to some degree, so does the anonymity. Please like this page and share it. TheAnonymousPeopleMovie. Thank you.
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