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Located in the Great Hungarian Plain, Hortobįgy Biosphere Reserve is a vast flat steppe landscape ('Hungarian Puszta') which recalls features of the East Asian steppes in central Europe. However, Hortobįgy is not only a short grass alkali steppe but also comprises springs, canals, bogs, swamps, fishponds and forests. It comprises the most important bird migration site in the Carpathian Basin, which is designated as a Ramsar site.
Man played a dominant role in the formation of the Hortobįgy landscape. The once forested steppe with impenetrable swamps in lower areas, used to be under the influence of the Tisza River that was meandering through the plain. River regulation and the spread of animal husbandry caused major changes of the landscape: large areas became deforested and steppe formations advanced. Today, the landscape is maintained by the combined efforts of nature conservation and traditional farming. Nomadic animal husbandry is on decline, however Hungarian grey cattle, racka sheep, mangalica pig etc. are still kept for gene preservation and tourist attraction. Visitors of the area can learn about the history of the landscape in exhibitions, the Hortobįgy Shepherd's museum and on marked trails.
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I think most people consider the non la, the conical hat worn by everyone from rice farmers to trash collectors, the most easily recognized image associated with Vietnam. I disagree. If any object in Vietnam is iconic, by which I mean ubiquitous, irreplaceable and emblematic of the daily life of the vast majority of Vietnamese, it is the Little Red Stool. Oh how I love thee, let me count the ways.
Oh red stool, you are always an indicator of the best, and cheapest, food Vietnam has to offer. Any chair with a back and four walls to surround it is sure to increase the price and decrease the quality by a factor of four. It is you that shines like a crimson beacon on sidewalks across the length and breadth of Vietnam, pointing the way to delicious cauldrons of steaming pho or bun bo hue or bun thit nuong like a lighthouse to a wayward and starving sailor. Easily stacked and strapped to the back of moto, bike, or cart, you are whisked away at the end of every long day, free from the binds of taxation or permanant address or sanitation standards, only to return reassuringly with the dawn. Harbinger of streetfood, I salute you.
Oh red stool, you provide seating where there once was none, where many thought seating was never meant to be. In aisles and hallways of theaters, hospitals, nay! even "private" buses, you democratically and generously allow all the wretched comers to rest their weary haunches in numbers far exceeding pedestrian concerns of "safety." Some might consider the intrusion of an elbow into their back or a knee into their thigh for a 3 hr bus ride a burden too heavy to bear, but not I, red stool. Let the prols come, let them sit on your four flimsy pillars of communism, for they have been making French Fries all day for the gringos, and must dream fitfully of revolution.
Oh red stool, you are tool and toy, father, mother, secret lover. You allow us to reach objects five inches from our grasp and let us sit with our knees six inches away from our faces. You make tall white people look ridiculous. But soon the rains will come, and your sidewalk habitat will be made untenable by the vagaries of weather. But you will retreat, into the covered places, and you will bide your time. And in the spring, when the showers end and people emerge hungry and stiff from months of sitting in proper chairs, you will have your day in the sun.
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|Aug 16, 2012
New method to produce nickel oxide nanopowders receives U.S. patent
|(Nanowerk News) The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) recently issued a patent (US 8,110,173) disclosing a new and simple method for fabrication of nickel oxide nanopowders invented by a group of Iranian researchers.
|So far, I have patented two inventions concerning the production of nickel oxide nanopowders both in Iran and the US in joint collaborations with my colleagues. The first one involves the utilization of aqueous phases while the other one is based on organic phases," Dr. Seyed Khatibol Eslam Sadrnejad, one of the inventors who is an MIT PhD graduate in Materials Science and Engineering (class of 1978), explained to the News Service of Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC).
|In the current research, we were mainly after a novel, simple and inexpensive alternative method of synthesis of such metal oxide nanopowders, he added.
|Being based on the known solvothermal technique, our invented production process is straightforward and conveniently handled. In a simplified form, the employed synthesis procedure can be described as follows: A specific salt of nickel is first dissolved in an appropriately selected alcohol and then gradually heated and continually stirred in order to make a precipitation reaction occur. After a sufficient period of time, the yielded participate undergoes filtration, drying and calcinations steps, orderly. The ultimate product is chip-like particles having nanometric dimensions and thanks to their very high specific surface areas, they hold promise for applications in energy storage, electronics, optics, process control and particularly catalysis technology. A distinct advantage of our proposed scheme over the previous methods is in not having to use any surfactants (surface active agents) which are relatively costly compounds."
|Summarizing his views regarding the commercialization of the invention, Dr. Sadrnejad said, Implementation of our proposed NiO nanoparticles fabrication method on large scales seems to be economic for our country and we welcome any offers from investors on the topic.
|This research project has been funded by Iran National Science Foundation (INSF) together with the INIC. In addition, the patent registration costs were covered in part by the INIC.
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The simple act of putting food to fire involves a set of complex tasks we often take for granted. Cooking also demands critical cognitive abilities like delayed gratification, the skills to prepare and mix ingredients and the creation of utensils to facilitate sizzling goodness. For most of us, cooking is an act that distinguishes humans from other animals, an exercise in reason, so we believe, that animals can't possibly emulate on their own.
The perception that only humans can learn how to cook on their own is being challenged by research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. In it, researchers discuss the results of a series of experiments on wild-born chimpanzees in which the chimps were tasked to learn how to cook on their own.
In principle, [chimps]have the critical cognitive capacities for cooking. If our closest evolutionary relative possesses these skills, it suggests that once early humans were able to use and control fire they could also use it for cooking. FELIX WARNEKEN, harvard profesor and co-author of the study
Previous research has shown that most animals do in fact prefer easier to digest cooked foods over raw ones, and that chimps, when taught directly, can learn how to cook using utensils. The researchers of this paper, however, were interested in taking this one step further, and discover whether or not highly intelligent primates like chimpanzees are capable of learning how to cook food on their own.
How the chimps fared when learning how to cook
The experiments consisted of showing chimps how the placement of raw foods in a cooking device (in this case, a bottomless bowl without fire – the scientists would replace the raw potato with cooked ones once the chimps completed the task) produces a cooked state. Specifically, the researchers wanted to know if the chimps could first grasp this process in concept. Amazingly, the chimps were able to understand that the device cooked the food. The chimps also exhibited patience, a key cognitive demand in the process of cooking, and waited diligently until the food was (ostensibly) fully cooked for eating.
People focus on the control of fire because that seems so salient, but even if you had a fire stick, several other insights are required before you can use it for cooking. Obviously, chimps can't control fire, but we were trying to hypothesize about some of the other aspects of cooking, like the causal understanding that if you put this raw food on the fire it creates cooked food, or, at the extreme end of our study, the ability to plan. Alexandra Rosati, another author of the study
Next, the researchers tested the chimps' ability to emulate the act of cooking themselves. To conduct the experiment, researchers placed distance between the raw potatoes and the actual cooking device. This separation required chimps to pick up the raw potato, and instead of eating it on the spot, carry them the distance to where the cooking device was kept.
On some occasions, the chimps succeeded. Many accidentally ate the potato along the way since chimps use their knuckles to walk and therefore must often use their mouths to carry food. Still, the research strongly suggests that chimps and humans share many of the evolutionary traits needed for learning how to cook, with a few key differences that most likely precludes chimps from ever learning how to cook en masse as a species like humans did.
Cooking is sort of this very strange behavior because people do it together. Knowing something about the social behavior of chimps suggests that might actually be a really serious problem for them. So in contrast to humans, who will gather food and bring it back to a central location and cook it together, and share the food, chimps sort of eat on the go and they don't really share food in that kind of way. So this sort of social explanation suggests that could be a really serious constraint on the evolution of cooking.


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Evelyn's relationship with the Foundation began in 2016 when she received a Silver Scholarship from the Los Alamos Employees' Scholarship Fund. Soon afterward she joined the staff as an intern, helping out with the day-to-day tasks of the office at the front desk with a specific focus on the scholarship program and building alumni communication. Her role has evolved as Program Assistant, now supporting ISEC in addition to scholarships.
Evelyn graduated from Española Valley High School as Co-Valedictorian. She is proud to have represented both the Valley and the state of New Mexico as winner of the first ever National Spanish Spelling Bee in 2011. Evelyn worked as an intern for the Rio Arriba County Manager's Department and Economic Development Director for two summers during high school.
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The General Electric Foundation has awarded $1 million to the Lowndes County, Ala., public schools to upgrade English, mathematics, and science courses.
"This will be our first public-school project in a rural community, and the largest grant we have ever made for precollege education,'' according to Paul Ostergard, the foundation's president.
The grant, to be allocated over a five-year period, will help create a magnet program for college-bound students.
The funds will also help provide advanced training for teachers, purchase laboratory equipment and classroom materials, underwrite field trips, and make college scholarships available to outstanding students. In addition, the grant will help prepare students who are not going to college for jobs in the community.
The school district had sought the grant, which was announced at a dedication ceremony for a new General Electric plant in Lowndes County.
The Reader's Digest Foundation has awarded $375,000 to four organizations to improve educational opportunities for minority students:
- The Hispanic Policy Development Project received a $150,000 grant to encourage the involvement of Hispanic parents in their children's education in 21 communities.
- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People received $100,000 for a project to stem severe truancy and dropout rates among black inner-city youngsters.
- The United Negro College Fund received $75,000 to help support a scholarship program for minority students interested in journalism.
- The National Urban League received $50,000 for the organization's five-year effort to improve the academic achievement of black students in the public schools.
"Education is the key to breaking the vicious cycle of poverty, illiteracy, and joblessness that plagues too many minority youths,'' George V. Grune, president of the Reader's Digest Foundation and chief executive officer of Reader's Digest, said in announcing the grants.
Beginning in September, Baltimore high-school students interested in careers in finance will be able to attend an "Academy of Finance'' program at Lake Clifton/Eastern High School.
The program will offer specially designed courses and summer internships for selected high-school juniors and seniors interested in financial-services careers. It will include courses in accounting, computer science, economics, and finance.
The American Express Philanthropic Program, in association with Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc., a subsidiary of the American Express Company, has provided a $15,000 grant for the program, plus curriculum-development costs and technical assistance. Local businesses are also supporting the academy with paid internships and grants.
Similar academies exist in Buffalo, N.Y.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Minneapolis; New York City; Phoenix; San Francisco; Wilmington, Del.; and Chicago.--L.O.
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Your partner's voice may reveal all.
For many of us, infidelity is what makes us weary of committed relationships. Whether it's our own past experiences or a discouraging divorce rate, being cheated on isn't something we want to go through.
But a study has revealed that the way to peg a cheater is based on the pitch of their voice.
"There are definitely social, cultural and psychological factors as well," researcher Jillian O'Connor told LiveScience. "But there's an association between infidelity risk and hormone levels in men and women."
In the study, researchers asked about 120 male and female college students to make vowel sounds in varying pitches. Afterwards, participants determined which pair of voices were most attractive and which pitch they thought belonged to a cheater.
The female students associated the lower-pitched male voices with cheating, while the guys associated the higher-pitched female voices with cheating.
If you're like us, you're wondering just how someone's voice can accurately reveal if they are or will be unfaithful. Well, researchers believe a person's voice pitch is related to sex hormones and the more testosterone a male has, the lower his voice; the more estrogen a woman has, the higher her voice; and the more sex hormones a person has, the likelier he/she is to cheat.
The study also mentions that focusing on the pitch of someone's voice can help us determine if he/she will be a great parent. A man who has high testosterone levels is believed to adopt a more dominant behavior and high social status. These are good qualities for our future partner to have, and if we can rule out infidelity, then we can rest assured our partner will not only be good to us but our children as well.


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Craig no one can be offsides in a football (soccer) match. It's impossible because Law 11 is titled -Offside-. ..In reading Law 11 - Offside we find: ..Quote..There is no offside offence if a player receives the ball directly from:..- a goal kick..or..- a throw-in..or..- a corner kick..End Quote..Regards,
You cannot be offside from a goal kick even if you the player was offside when the ball was kicked. .Cheers
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Even as President Barack Obama prepares to make a fresh push for his troubled healthcare program Tuesday, questions still remain about the error rates being seen HealthCare.gov.
The federal agency running the site on Monday repeatedly refused to reveal how many Obamacare enrollments to date have software-related errors that could delay enrollees' insurance coverage, even as it announced a major fix of those problems going forward.
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services also refused to say when it had learned that up to 80 percent of the software errors affecting enrollment data were due to a single "bug" related to enrollees' Social Security numbers, and why it was disclosing that fact only Monday when it announced that bug has been fixed.
The bug may have affected an unknown number of the more than 125,000 enrollments that a source told CNBC have enrolled in coverage through HealthCare.gov since Oct. 1.
Despite these ongoing issues, the White House said Saturday that the website is working at an acceptable level. Obama is expected to discuss the healthcare program, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday.
"In his remarks, the President will discuss the ongoing work to strengthen the website and reach Americans seeking these new healthcare options," a White House official told Reuters. "He will also focus attention back on the core principles of reform that have been lost in the attention on the website, and invoke the successes that are already flowing from the law."
However, it may be tough to shift the focus away from the website. An insurance industry source told CNBC.com that insurance plans are still having serious problems with 834 files.
(Read more: HealthCare.gov fixed? Not, say insurers)
Questions about the so-called 834-error rate were already pressing before CMS' afternoon conference call with reporters about the status of HealthCare.gov, the federal government's marketplace for selling health insurance in 36 states. The number 834 refers to the type of file insurers use to enroll people.
The insurance industry source said the HealthCare.gov repair team has repeatedly put in supposed fixes that seem to solve problems on the website side but don't all resolve the problem on the insurers' side.
Asked about the 834 issue, White House spokesman Jay Carney on Monday said it is "a high priority" to make sure that people who have enrolled through HealthCare.gov "are aware of the steps they need to take" to call the website's call center or their insurer to make sure their enrollment has been processed correctly if they are not sure it has been.
(Watch: HealthCare.gov repairs take effect)
Since its Oct. 1 launch, HealthCare.gov has been plagued not only by lower-than-projected enrollments, but also by software glitches that have corrupted data in the enrollments sent to insurers for processing. Those problems are forcing insurers to painstakingly go over many of the enrollments they get from HealthCare.gov, often by hand, to correct the errors and then formally enroll people in coverage.
CMS in the weeks after the Oct. 1 launch downplayed suggestions that 834 errors were a significant problem, even after CNBC revealed that some insurers were seeing error rates of up to a staggering 99 percent of enrollments they were receiving. But in late October, Jeff Zients, the management expert brought in by President Barack Obama to oversee the repair effort of HealthCare.gov, told reporters the 834 errors were "at the top" of his list of fixes to make.
On Sunday, CMS had announced that a nearly two-month-long effort to fix the glitch-ridden website had led to HealthCare.gov working smoothly for most users by that day, and said the site would be able to handle up to 800,000 visitors per day. The repair effort was racing against a Dec. 23 deadline by which people must sign up for insurance coverage through the site to have coverage kick in by Jan. 1.
In the first 12 hours of operation Monday, HealthCare.gov had 375,000 visitors, which was about twice the volume of a typical Monday, said CMS spokeswoman Julie Bataille. She said a new queuing system to manage that traffic load was put into use for the first time to deal with the volume.
Hours later theHealthCare.gov Twitter feed announced that it had "750K visitors as of 5:30 pm, no queuing now, site fast w/low error rates."
Bataille also revealed that HealthCare.gov had launched "an improved window-shopping feature for consumers" allowing them to see plan premium prices, deductible and other copay amounts, and plan network details without having to fill out a time-consuming application.
Bataille then told reporters that the repair team working on the site had determined that "more than 80 percent of 834 production errors resulted from one bug that didn't allow a Social Security number to be entered" on the online enrollment file.
"That bug has been fixed and is now working properly," Bataille said, adding that CMS was "committed to getting accurate information" to insurers so that people could make sure their enrollments via HealthCare.gov had been processed.


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- AnonymousJanuary 10, 2013 at 9:50 PM
Just want to thank God for this wonderful blog and for all the young adults who have given their time to encourage others through their writing. Recently, my niece visited the site and has been faithfully reading the bible and reviewing the blogs. She was so impressed by this blog that she encouraged her friends and family to join in. What a wonderful, connective experience that our entire family will be reading the word together for the year and receiving encouragement from the writings on this blog. Thank you again for listening to the voice of the Lord.ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing your testimony and your kind words! When we decided to begin this blog we were a bit apprehensive. But we knew that because we took a step out on faith and decided to do something to glorify god, it would be blessed. It is amazing to hear that your niece enouraged your whole family and that you all are on this journey with us! We pray that God blesses your family and gives you insight while you read daily. Again, thank you! And please continue to read along with us and share our blog with others :)ReplyDelete
From late August 2011 to all of 2012 I was without transportation to work. So I had to walk an hour to get there and a hour back. I was on second shift until mid may when I was promoted to Supervisor to then work first shift. I then had to walk at 5:30 am. While walking to work I always listened to Godly music for motivation, I always prayed on way there as the journey was too big for me. I remember one specific night while on second shift it was cold afer 11pm, my body was exhausted I was a half hour from home and my savings account was growing slowly, my thoughts were everyone I know is sleep and has no idea what I'm going through. Also that they can't help me so I fell down on my knees and cried to God. Yes tears fell I said God I am no Abraham or Moeses this trial requires greater faith its too much for me. As soon as I prayed that, a voice I cant explain where, but "I heard thats why your here, your faith needs to grow" after hearing this I was in shock, the voice was God and he was right, I wiped my eyes and as I continued to walk pain left my body and the thoughts of no one cares about me left, I left in peace. My testimony is all of 2012 was a valley or tough time and the car isn't the miracle yet the fact that I made it to work all year and did not quit the job or God is the miracle. Every day at 5 am I was tired yet God gave me strength and energy as soon as I got out of bed. I want to encourage anyone going through a tough time God is still there, just go and he will go with you.ReplyDelete
"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, THOU art with me"
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- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Wow this just made me cry. It's so weird hearing what other people are going through. More importantly it made me realize the different strengths that God has given all of us. Your strength is not my strength and your struggles are not my struggles. I think that God, (during your struggle) called you "as just a time for this." Reading your story made me see how strong you were all along but because you were going through it, you couldn't see your strength on the outside. Yea cars are great, but learning to be humble, praying without ceasing, having God protect you, and also being chosen by God for your struggles...now that's GREAT!!! I think God has chosen you during your struggle then and you're still chosen now. Thank you for sharing your testimony...I needed this motivation today! Please let God continue to bless you all and this blog. It has truly blessed my life since January 1st :)Delete
I just have to share this testimony. So this past semester I was in my final semester doing student teaching. But, because of a faulty on my part, I had to repeat student teaching next semester. I was really bummed out about it. But, people kept telling me, "Oh something good will come out of this." And I kept telling myself "You learned something out of this." But, the feelings of failure kept creeping in. After a while, God worked on my self criticalness and how others felt about me. The fact that I'm sharing is God's work in motion. So, I'm looking it as a rewarding experience and just some more practice for the field. But, this all meant that I would have to take another semester at Rider. Then, they allowed me to walk and I was really grateful for that. Then, thoughts came in my mind like how am I going to pay for another semester. And I prayed like God how is it going to work out. Money is going to be really low in the fall and all these other questions popped in my brain. But, I kept praying and allowing God to handle it. Then, last week, I emailed the director asking her what was going to happen since she said she would handle my registration and what not. And I emailed her asking her when was it going to happen because I need to figure out finances for the semester. Then, on Friday, I was listening to choir songs and the song "Jesus Will" came on. I happened to check my email and the director emailed me back saying that because I received an "L" for the class, I didn't have to pay for the semester. So, this upcoming semester, Jesus paid. And I just want to encourage everyone that no matter what you are going through and no matter how things look, just know that Jesus WILL!!! Jesus will step in on your behalf!! If He's done it before, then there should be no doubt in your mind that He will do it again. Be blessed and love y'all!!ReplyDelete
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"They're [WWE] into this youth movement thing, and it's not a youth movement they need it's a talent movement".
Matt specifically mentioned people like Gail Kim being misused and Christian. He said that Vince McMahon may still be holding a grudge against Christian for his TNA run, but the fact that he hasn't been crowned World Champion is an injustice. Matt referred to Christian as the best worker he'd ever been in the ring with.
"The John Cena thing really bothers me. You lose this match and you have to join Nexus. He did that and within 6 or 7 weeks he had an opportunity to get out. So then people were like oh man he`s fired. I actually liked the first three quarters of his promo until he started talking about Wade Barrett – the first three quarters were very real, very sincere. Then he shows up in the crowd [this past week on Raw] he was wearing knee pads! Then he jumped the rail and he time to take his top off, go to announcer's table and take the monitors out, and there was no security …. i mean … c'mon."
Matt went on to say that Cena being on Raw this week was likely a sign from management that they didn't believe in Miz to carry the ratings – especially with Orton off the show.
Matt Hardy also revealed that he does not have a Facebook account despite the fact that there are several very convincing imposters.
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damn. such a good day. i feel like i have another half a roll from this...but i think it's in my underwater camera which the columbia river basically murdered. whatevs. in that picture of the boys down below...yeah i jumped off that height or maybe a lil more...3 times. no one else would do it. haha! and me and liam made that cake for dylan out of marshmallows, melted hershey bars, chopped up reese's, and coconut on top. damn. can't believe this was like a month and a half ago. time fuckin flies.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
dylan's bday at sauvie's island
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I like these photos a lot- I think when a photographer uses a slightly crazy film camera- or anything that's a bit more basic and gives them less to hide behind- it really shows so much more expression and lets you see their raw talent, unmasked by retouching/expensive shit. Your blog is awesome, thank you for sharing your work!ReplyDelete
Haha, I love these; they're so raw. I really want to have a day like this. I want to go swimming and eat cake.ReplyDelete
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While some folks fret over getting dandelions out of their yards, others eat them!
They're good for you!
And- - -you can eat the entire plant :)
Blissful, huh?
The greens can be eaten in a salad or cooked as you would other greens, the root can be dried and or/roasted and ground and used as you would coffee.
The flowers can be used to make jelly and syrup, stuffed in cakes, muffins, or pancakes- and as you see here, they can be fried.
You can dip and fry each flower individually or stir them all in your batter and drop by spoonfuls into hot grease- uhm- lard :)
When cooked this way, they hardly have any taste, but my mind seems to trick me into almost thinking it's squash, except much milder. The texture? Sorta chewy, and good!
You can mix up a whole grain batter if you like but this is quick, frugal, and easy....and being from the south, frying cornmeal, especially in lard, is tops!
2 cups rinsed, drained dandelion flowers
1 cup self-rising cornmeal (or flour, or half and half, or whole grain with salt and soda)
1 egg, beaten
1 cup of milk
Mix flour/meal, egg, and milk. Dip individual dandelions in batter and drop them into hot oil.
You can also stir the flowers into the batter and drop by tablespoons into hot oil.
Fry on each side until golden.
Drain on paper towel.
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Today I'm sharing a card I made for an order for a friend. The little chap concerned made an appearance into the world about 6 weeks early so I had to make this one ahead of time! :)
Apologies for the dark photo, I took this at about 7.15am today and the light wasn't great but I had to pass the card on today.
I couldn't wait to use my new stamp set by Clearly Besotted Stamps, Baby Love. There are some lovely images in this set and I think this little pram is just adorable. I was also itching to use my new pack of MFT Die-namics Fishtail Flags Stax. I've seen these used all over blogland but everywhere I looked they were either really expensive or sold out. I dragged my chap around a local craft shop a few weeks ago and he thought I was completely bonkers when I let out a little shriek from the corner of the shop where I found a little pack just for me! *little claps*
I had all the elements stamped and cut out and was going to use a square card base but I just couldn't find a layout I liked so I decided on a landscape layout in the end. I'm not entirely happy with it as it looks a little busy, sometimes I start with a layout idea and other cards just sort of evolve. The pram ended up looking a little lost so I sparkled it up with some Stickles for a bit of bling. Boys do glam too right?! :)
Materials used:
- Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Baby Love
- Ink: Versa Color - Baby Blue; Versafine - Onyx Black
- Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Labels One; MFT Die-namics - Fishtail Flags Stax; Xcut Nesting Dies - Circles
- Cardstock: Crafters Companion - Neenah Classic Crest Card (white); Docrafts - Boofle 6" x 6" Designstax (blue gingham)
- Glitter Glue: Stickles - Star Dust
- Ribbon and gems from stash
Hopefully be back soon as I hope to find time to make a couple of challenge cards in the next day or two.
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Let me give you a disclaimer. This first paragraph has nothing to do with barbacoa or plantains or any food in general. If you don't care to know any of my personal life feel free to skip down to the recipe because trust me, it's a damn good one. For a minute I'm going to talk about loss and acceptance (if that's what you want to call it) and the strange ability for us to move on with our lives once certain hopes have been crushed to bits. As of yesterday, my momma has been gone for a whole year. A whole two years since she was diagnosed. It seems the time flew by but at the same time has involved some of longest days and worst nights of my life. When she was first diagnosed, it was unreal. Completely unfathomable that there was any chance she could be gone so soon. I didn't believe it and knew she just HAD to beat it. There was no way I could raise myself at the age of 26, let alone a child, without her. Here we are, 2 years later and it's been a year since I've been able to call her when I need advice or a favor, stop down at her house when I needed to hang out with her, or have her around as a grandma to my son. Last night, Evan was jumping on the bed singing "5 Little Monkeys" which she taught him and I thought about how unfair it was that she isn't around to see it. Anyone who has lost a loved one too early knows how it feels to go from lightness to darkness to lightness and knowing there will always be something missing. Meanwhile through all of this, you become stronger to carry on for yourself and your family because when you are a parent you have to.
I know that's some really heavy reading to follow up with a recipe and there isn't any way to go about it smoothly so I'm just going to give it to you. I don't think the fiance has ever been so happy eating dinner. Even the little man was all about it. Chipotle, watch out.
A 2 lb eye of round roast, cut into 3 pieces
Salt (I used smoked sea salt)
Black pepper
Rub all sides of meat with salt and pepper, sear in skillet on all sides. Move to crockpot.
Mix in food processor or finely chop:
2 Tbl apple cider vinegar
3 cloves garlic
2 teaspoons dried oregano
pinch of ground clove
2 canned chipotle peppers
1 tablespoon adobo sauce
1/2 cup chicken or beef stock
juice from one lime
Once combined, add to the crockpot. Also toss in a few bay leaves. Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours or high for 6. Once meat is tender, shred with fork. Keep all the juice and mix it with the beef and top with lots of cilantro.
Plantain Tortillas:
2 large plantains, peeled and chopped into small slices
juice from one lime
1 egg
2 Tbl lard or coconut oil plus some for frying
Salt to taste
Heat the extra oil in skillet and add the plantains. Fry until lightly gold on both sides. Let cool and add to food processor or high powered blender. Add the rest of the ingredients and puree until a sticky batter forms. Roll into balls and then press into circles on a greased baking sheet (you may need two). Bake for 10-15 minutes at 350. For chewier, soft tacos, make the dough a little thicker. For crunchier tacos, roll it out thinner.
Fill your tortillas with the barbacoa, some avocados or guacamole, salsa, etc., eat, fall in love.


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Birthday gifts
Another week that passed by sooo quickly!
But I've finished the birthday gifts, and that is good!
These are the ones I made for a very dear friend, she likes fabric with sewing motifs :
There is place for a little cutting mat, some tools, and a ruler.
And a pencil case for some pencils, pens and so on.
For another friend I made a book cover using owls, her favorite theme:
Now I can wrap them and write the cards!
The Heart Quilt is almost ready, it feels so cozy!
It rained during the weekend, but the beautiful late summer days are still supposed to come. I enjoy these days, it is not so warm,but it is not so cold. And when the first leaves start to fall, I love to see the rich colors, it is so nice to go for a walk. Then come home, drink a warm cup of tea and hand quilt! It sounds like I'm getting in the mood for Autumn!!!
Wishing you lovely sewing days!


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- Ulrich Lichtenthaler, The role of corporate technology strategy and patent portfolios in low-, medium- and high-technology firms, Res. Policy, 38 (2009) 559–569, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2008.10.009 (Retraction notice)
- Ulrich Lichtenthaler, Determinants of proactive and reactive technology licensing: A contingency perspective, Res. Policy, 39 (2010) 55–66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2009.11.011 (Retraction notice)
- Ulrich Lichtenthaler and Holger Ernst, Technology licensing strategies: the interaction of process and content characteristics, Strategic Organization, Vol 7(2): 183–221, DOI: 10.1177/1476127009102672
One paper was retracted because it was apparently a multiple publication (self-plagiarism), the others for statistical issues. Germany has no national policy on retractions, and even though some universities have ethical codices, there is often no clear road to follow when something like this comes up. With the amount of ethical problems being uncovered in Germany recently, one would think that there would be a national committee investigating. If there is, I am unaware of it.
Update August 16, 2012: Retractionwatch has documented a fourth retraction by Lichtenthaler, this time from Strategic Management Journal.


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The Parable About God's Mercy
Luke 15:1-3,11-32
Mic 7:14-15,18-20 / Psa 103
"…we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and is found.'"
(Luke 15:32)
God loved us in our sinful state,
His mercy has no parallel...
But we can't make salvation wait,
Our time in this life Who can tell?
Jesus said: "A man had two sons, and the younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them. Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. Coming to his senses, he thought, 'How many of my father's hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as one of your hired servants.' So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son.' But the father said to his servants, 'Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate. Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing. So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 'Your brother has come,' he replied, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.' The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him. But he answered his father, 'Look! All these years I've served you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!' The father said, 'My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and is found.'" (Luke 15:11-32)
The Pharisees and the scribes prided themselves in being righteous and obedient to God's laws, and would never associate with sinners like the tax collectors. They could not understand why Jesus welcomed these "unclean" people in His company. So our Lord told them why in His Parable of the Prodigal Son. But it was not merely for the sake of the Pharisees and scribes that Jesus related His story about the prodigal son. More importantly, He gave this parable so that all Christians in all generations would come to know that God, His Father is a person, Who hurts when we go astray, seeks us out when we are lost, and rejoices when we repent of our sins and are converted again. He said, "There will be rejoicing in heaven among the angels of God over one repentant sinner" (Lk 15:10).
This must be the most beautiful parable given by our Lord. As in the others, the message transcends all generations of human history, and the character traits depicted are so provocative, and yet so typical. Like the brashness of the spoiled youngest son, who insulted his father by demanding his inheritance even if the patriarch was still alive, if only to satisfy his lust for travel and the good life. Or the elder son, who, like all first-borns was more responsible and upright, but more unforgiving, with his sense of righteousness and justice prevailing over compassion for his humbled younger sibling. But best of all was the father. He was a wise man, successful in his enterprise, and seeking only the happiness of his children. Typical of most loving fathers, he could not refuse the pleas of his son, who wanted to be on his own. Perhaps he was hoping in his heart that by giving him his share of the inheritance this son of his would be able to find his own niche in life, and like himself, become as successful. And like many of us, the father made the wrong decision.
Our Lord shows us in today's Gospel how deep and unfathomable His Father's love is for all of us, and whatever our sins may be, we will always be forgiven, as long as we just repent and turn back to Him from our sinful ways. God's love is deeper than that of any human father. For who is the father who would allow his own son to suffer and die for the sake of sinners?
Lord Jesus, You raised us to Your glory and kingship by inviting us to Your table even in our sinfulness. Because You are Love, You took a big gamble not only in becoming a man, but in offering us a place in Your divinity. Your mercy is endless, so please grant us the grace of understanding to be able to imitate You. Amen.


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A 23-year-old student of Management Accounting at the Waltham College, London, has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, for alleged drug trafficking.
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He excreted 92 pellets of substance weighing 1.535kg that tested positive to cocaine.
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Investigations revealed that the suspect has been living in the United Kingdom since 2009.
He reportedly told investigators that he was recruited to smuggle drugs in his school in London. He said he was promised £3,500 with which he intended to pay his tuition.
"I smuggled drugs against my wish because of my financial predicament. I was at a cross roads and there was no help in view. They promised to pay me £3,500 and they also gave me two tickets as safety measure.
"They contacted me in my school in London and directed me to a man in Lagos. All travel expenses were paid and when I arrived in Nigeria, they took me to a hotel in Lagos where they gave me the drugs. I managed to ingest 92 wraps because I had no option. I regret my action," Chiedozie, who hails from Oba in Idemili Local Government Area of Anambra State said.
NDLEA's Chairman/Chief Executive Ahmadu Giade urged Nigerians to resist temptations to take to drug trafficking.
He said: "We have the keys to our success. Unless you agree, nobody can make you a drug trafficker. Those who lured this student into drug trafficking are not with him now. Those who come to you with drug trafficking offers do not wish you well, resist them."


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Stacey is L.A. based. She's a Miami native and received her B.A in Economics from the University Of Florida. She then earned her International MBA from Pepperdine University in Malibu. 'I always loved business. I am not a filmmaker rather, I am business trained so that's my basic outlook in all my film work.'
Stacey began in the 'biz' by working for 4 years at the William Morris Agency in indie film packaging. She went on to work as a Producer both in TV and film. Then, as an international sales agent for many years, she 'sold independent films' (i.e. secured distribution) for a wide range of the best international and US domestic companies.
After spending time in the trenches of independent film production, financing, and distribution Stacey decided to write the book "The Insiders Guide To Independent Film Distribution" (Focal Press 2007), considered to be an essential handbook for independent filmmakers seeking production and distribution insight for their films. Simultaneously she launched www.FilmSpecific.com, a virtual training website dedicated to getting filmmakers' project made, seen, and distributed worldwide. Since its launch, www.FilmSpecific.com has been named by Moviemaker Magazine "one of the 50 best websites for moviemakers", and "one of the top 25 websites that filmmakers need to know about". Recognized as an expert in the field, Ms. Parks has spoken and lectured extensively on the subject of independent film distribution across the United States and Europe, including at the AFM, Cannes Film Festival, the Berlinale and British Film Institute.
'So what's your basic outlook? Who are you? Why are you? Talk to me about commerce vs art in film?'
(SP) What is my 'why'? I want to teach filmmakers to think more like entrepreneurs. To make better decisions. To evaluate information better. Traditionally filmmakers think about the creative part first, and then they think about the business part almost as an afterthought (sometimes after completing the film). I think they have to put these two aspects of the process together. Then work backwards, i.e. look at the marketplace and then think of where your film fits and how. I call this Distribution In Reverse.
'What is the main problem for filmmakers today?'
(SP) There are so many options now for distributing your film It's confusing and hard to understand all the information. Too many choices! First things first: you have to figure out what makes sense for your film? That's what I help filmmakers figure out.
'What is your opinion (or preference) on modes of release, i.e. download, theatrical, DVD etc.?'
(SP) Well, that really it depends on the individual film because every film is different e.g., most of my clients will tell me they want a theatrical release for their film but when you examine the statistics you find a theatrical release may not be the best choice strategically and economically.
(SP) So what strategy IS right for your film then? Like I said, every film is different. So when thinking about what type of distribution strategy to pursue for your project, take into consideration the following and try and answer these questions.
– Does your film have a distinct target audience to market to (critical if you want to pursue any type of self distribution) and where can you go to connect with them?
– Have you already started aggregating your target audience? If so, how?
– Are you planning to submit to film festivals? If so, what is your larger strategy around that?
– Would your film benefit from a platform theatrical release? If so, do you already have an adequate budget set aside for that? If you don't, can you raise more money from investors or sponsors?
– Is your film better suited to go straight to DVD in the traditional sense (carving out the rights of course to sell DVDs off your own website)
– Do you want your film represented to foreign distributors at Film Markets like AFM, Berlin, and Cannes? If so, what is your plan for getting there?
– In what order do you plan to release your film to take best advantage of all the platforms available?
– … and the list goes on…..As I'm sure you've already figured out, determining what to do with a finished film (your film!) these days can be overwhelming (Distribution Overwhelm!) — mostly because there are so many choices and directions you can go and order in which you can do them.
Through her book, lectures, website and consulting, Stacey has become a valuable resource for filmmakers "trying to figure it all out".
In keeping with one of the main mandates of this blog, SydneysBuzz.com, we lastly asked Stacey to discuss "The Female Factor" in the modern film business.
'Talk as a woman in the business. Problems? Future? Issues?'
(SP) Well, in distribution (and sales) there aren't too many women, proportionally, working in that part of the business, so I believe women have an advantage in that sense. In my experience, people like to hear a woman's voice and thoughts in the discussion. It brings a good balance to business where there's definitely a predominance of 'male energy'. In producing, I don't believe there is any disadvantage to being a woman in my experience. (again, this is my own personal experience). This is opposed to writing and directing where I have heard there are issues and we're seeing this a lot lately. In sales I actually found it advantageous to be female and it really worked in my favor.
Stacey's website at www.FilmSpecific.com is a marvel of information, easily accessible. Among her many virtues she is a born pedagogue, a natural teacher. When I go into her website I find myself spending time there just reading and poring through all of the information she has organized and dispenses from there. Check it out!
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Arizona Residency Rules
The two most popular universities in Arizona, Arizona State and University of Arizona, have strict financial independence requirements as well as strict domicile requirements in order. Although it's difficult to compellingly demonstrate that you're in Arizona not for primarily educational pursuits, it's absolutely possible for the right person. That's an important aspect, in-state in Arizona is only for those with the sincere intention of making Arizona home indefinitely.
Besides the big two universities in Arizona, the others tend to be less stringent but not by much. That's probably due to the high number of out-of-state the big two attract.
The best suited candidates to earn in-state in Arizona are…
- The lucky: those with special financial circumstances or who are able to plan years in advance
- The hard working: those who are willing to take a productive gap-year or only take limited school for a year.
A strategic plan with great execution is well worth the gigantic difference in out-of-state vs. instate tuition. If you could spend a year to save $80,000 or so and use that opportunity to refine your direction, would it be worth it to you?
Arizona Reciprocity Agreements:
Arizona is a member state of the Western Undergraduate Exchange which is a limited regional reciprocity agreement among select Western States.
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University-Specific Overviews Below:
Since the policies vary greatly by university, please explore the links below to in-state overviews for individual universities in Arizona. If your college is not highlighted, then please consider buying a University-Specific Nutshell Report or see all available university-specific in-state overviews.
Popular Universities in Arizona:
Arizona State University-Tempe
University of Arizona-Tucson
Other Universities in Arizona:
Northern Arizona University-Flagstaff
University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
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CAMP VERDE, Ariz. – On Saturday, December 28, Don Decker from the Yavapai-Apache Nation will be at Montezuma Castle National Monument, showing how the Dilzhe'e or Western Apache people made traditional reed flutes. From 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., while the materials last, Mr. Decker will show visitors how to make and play their own reed flutes.
Traditional flute music has a long history in the Southwest. Flutes have been discovered at archaeological sites in the Four Corners region and were used by many American Indian cultures from historic times until the present. Today, flute music has become emblematic of the Native American Southwest.
Mr. Decker is the former Apache Culture Manager for the Yavapai-Apache Nation and continues to do consulting work for the Cultural Resources Department today. There is no additional charge for the special program. The fee for Montezuma Castle National Monument is $5 per adult 16 years of age or older.
There is no charge for children 15 and younger. All Federal recreation passes are accepted including Senior, Access, Annual, and Military passes.
Montezuma Castle, open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., is located off Interstate 17, exit 289, 2800 N. Montezuma Castle Highway. The trail is a one-third mile, paved, flat loop that is ADA accessible. For additional information, call 928-567-3322, extension zero.


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Microservices Lessons Learned
What I learned moving to a microservice architecture in an enterprise environment.
Microservices are all the rage these days. Everyone seems to be building them, and I have noticed that everyone is struggling with the same issues. And yet if you start looking for information about experiences and best practices, you usually end up with NetFlix, Spring Cloud (which is inspired by NetFlix) or Spotify. And of course Sam Newman of ThoughtWorks who has written a great book on the subject and has given many interesting talks.
I have been working with microservices for about 2 years now, and early last year I took over the architecture of a rather complex content management and publishing platform, using microservices. Note that the company I work for is not a startup, but a more traditional enterprise environment, with a huge existing infrastructure and code base. We have learned a couple of lessons, most of them the hard way, and I want to share those in this blog post.
Don't do microservices on a greenfield project
This is the most important lesson we've learned. When you start a new project, you shouldn't immediately build it with microservices. I think you should always go monolith-first. Why? Although microservices themselves should be fairly simple, and with frameworks like Spring Boot and Spring Cloud they are easy to build, you are building a distributed system, and that adds a lot of complexity. You need to have resilience, you need to start doing distributed tracing and logging, you have to write clients, you have JSON serialization and deserialization, and so on. And perhaps the most difficult part to get right in the beginning, is knowing what part of your system goes into what microservice. Domain driven design surely helps, but your understanding of the domain will evolve as the project grows, and once you have divided everything in autonomous services, it's much harder merging them than it is the other way. When you start monolith-first, you can still use domain driven design, but as your domain evolves it will be much easier to refactor your code. DDD is almost a requirement for microservices, but not the other way around.
Another advantage of starting monolith-first is focus. Because you don't have to deal with all the complexities of a distributed system, you can actually focus on delivering value. And isn't that the most important part of any greenfield project? Actually proving that the system you are building has value for the company should be your absolute priority. If it does not, then you can fail fast and not lose too much money in the process. If it does prove valuable, the number of users starts growing and you need to scale up, then you can start dividing your system into autonomous parts. But that will probably be true only for a small percentage of products.
Let's talk about that other kind of greenfield project: the kind that aims to replace an existing system. I've always believed this kind of project to be a mistake. They are usually a sign of hubris. You basically throw away all the knowledge and all the experience that is present in the old system, and you have to start building all of that again from scratch. No matter how crappy you perceive the legacy system to be, it will usually take a very long time to surpass it with your greenfield project. So basically, don't replace legacy with a greenfield project. In fact, brownfield projects are the perfect opportunity to build microservices, thanks to the strangler pattern. This pattern allows you to gradually replace functionality in your legacy application with a microservice that initially just functions as a façade and, when all consumers of this functionality have switched to the façade, takes over the underlying logic and datestore from the old system. So your legacy system shrinks while your microservice architecture grows. And since your domain is much clearer in a legacy system, it's also much easier to decide what goes where.
Change your organisation first
An enterprise is a totally different beast than a startup. There's already a well-established culture, which is rarely agile in nature, and there is usually a very extensive infrastructure in place. With that infrastructure usually comes a set of strict rules, aimed at maintaining stability. This rigidity might have been useful in the past, when dealing with big software projects and when doing waterfall, but it is a disaster when trying to build a system using a microservice architecture. Once you get skilled at this type of architecture, and your number of teams starts to scale up, things will move very quickly, and your infrastructure will not be able to follow. We have definitely had this problem at our company, and I've heard many people in similar situations telling stories of brilliant systems which work great on virtual machines on a local desktop, but with nowhere to be deployed.
So what should you do about this? DevOps. As long as your company does not have a serious DevOps movement in place, you should stay away from microservices. The ideal environment for microservices is the cloud. You can have self-service infrastructure there, you have scalable storage, message buses, event streams, horizontal scaling of your application containers, it's a match made in heaven. Setting up a private cloud is hard and time-consuming, so if at all possible you should go to the public cloud, at least initially. At a certain scale, having your own private cloud is no doubt cheaper (for now), but at least you can start building stuff in the public cloud while waiting for it.
Even more important than the cloud is automation. You should have full automation of everything, or at least be moving towards it, before starting with microservices. Infrastructure as code is a nice starting point: make sure all your current systems are managed with something like Puppet. You can already go quite far with tools like that, even on classic infrastructure. On the development side, you want to be doing at least continuous integration on your legacy projects, perhaps even continuous delivery. This is possible with legacy projects, and with monoliths. To give an example, before I took over our new microservices architecture, I was responsible for a big legacy monolithic system, scaled on 50 or so servers. When I arrived on the project, there had not been a deployment for 9 months. The deployment manual was an Excel sheet, containing hundreds of manual steps, so nobody actually dared to deploy it anymore. This was one of the main reasons the new greenfield project had been started. In a couple of months time though, I was able to fully automate the build and deploy of this legacy system, using Gradle and Jenkins. From a frequency of once every nine months, we moved to once a week on production, and daily on development, test and acceptance. The greenfield project had not worked on this kind of automation yet, so it took much longer for them to build and deploy the shiny new software.
What you ultimately need to do is stop thinking as an enterprise and start thinking as a group of startups. The company itself, or rather the infrastructure department just provides the platform that the development teams use to build their software on.
1 service is built and run by 1 team
This cannot be stressed enough: there should only be 1 team responsible for a microservice. A team can be responsible for many services of course, but a service should never be built or maintained by more than one team. The whole point of using microservices is autonomy. You want it to be able to evolve without dependencies on other services or teams. When multiple teams work on the same service, you lose that advantage, and you will be stuck in no time. And SAFe doesn't help, we've tried that.
If you want to maximize the autonomy of a team, you should include the UI of a microservice in their responsibility. You want your team to become fully responsible for a business domain. The user interface is always part of that. Which takes us to the next thing to remember:
Don't build monolithic single page applications
Whether or not SPA's are evil or the future of the web isn't the point here, but one mistake you shouldn't make, is building a gigantic monolithic UI on top of your nicely separated, autonomous microservices. In my experience, doing that will make your project grind to a halt. Every feature you build must pass through this fat client, so your autonomy basically disappears.
When we realised this, and we started breaking apart the user interface of our system in small applications (call them micro-apps if you will), we saw a dramatic increase in the velocity of our teams. Breaking apart the UI was achieved by following the example Spotify set: by using iframes. All our microservices now have their own user interface, in most cases not built with fancy Javascript frameworks, but using Thymeleaf and progressive enhancement, and we are able to integrate most of them at the UI level, thanks to things like HTML5 drag-and-drop, websockets and message buses.
Don't start with too many people
Ah, the mythical man-month. We have all known for decades that adding more people to a late project will make it later. And yet, every company keeps making the same mistake. Microservices are very useful if you have to scale, but that advantage doesn't come immediately. Your architecture has to be quite mature before you can scale out your teams. So, just like you should start with a monolith, you should also start with a small team. As you create value and your team matures, you can scale, but not earlier.
Don't overengineer
This rule of course applies to everything, but seems to be more easily forgotten in a microservice environment than anywhere else. Especially in a greenfield microservice project (which you shouldn't do, remember?). The thinking goes a bit like this:
This time we will do it The Right Way
We won't make the same mistakes as the previous developers, who built a piece of crap and were obviously idiots
This microservice will be used by lots of other consumers, so we must make it capable to fulfill every future use case we can think of.
We do microservices now, so we should do DDD, so we definitely should do CQRS, which means we can't possibly build anything without the Axon Framework! And while we're at it, let's use every design pattern we ever learned, then it will surely be 'future-proof'.
Sorry for the cynicism, but this is something I have witnessed my entire career, so I tend to get worked up about it. Just keep it simple. The best way to do this, is to focus on value. Once we asked our teams to deliver value in production after each sprint, and we had metrics in place as evidence for the value they delivered, we saw much simpler designs, which could handle change much better than the old ones that tried to be future-proof.
Resilience is easily forgotten
A distributed system is not more resilient to failure than a monolithic one, quite the opposite. There are many more points of failure you have to take into account. Don't count on everything working correctly, but build for failure. When doing microservices you have to be a good citizen and expect others not to. In other words, you should build for failure. Companies like NetFlix enforce this by having their Chaos Monkey continually testing the resilience in production. I think you should start using these tools as early as possible, so building for failure becomes a natural reflex for your developers.
When thinking about resilience, the first thing developers start doing is add Hystrix to the service clients, as a circuit breaker implementation. This is of course very good, but don't just stick to using this with default settings. Think about what fallbacks you want when an underlying service fails, and make sure you involve the product owners as well. Also, circuit breakers are not enough. They make a consumer resilient to the failure of a producer, but they don't protect a producer from a badly functioning consumer. Add this kind of protection by building in throttling and bulkheads, or by working event-driven. You can control situations like this more easily in a reactive system than when you have all your communication done synchronously, with REST APIs. Avoid building a big ball of mud, consisting of microservices.
Don't forget the testing pyramid
The testing pyramid, developed by Mike Cohn, states that you should have much more low-level unit tests than high-level end-to-end tests. End-to-end tests take much longer to run, and are usually more brittle.
We have repeated this concept time and time again to all our developers, but somehow, end-to-end tests keep taking the upper hand. Is it a lack of confidence in the many components of a flow? I don't know, but it's clear that good testing practices are doubly important in a microservice architecture.
I have tried to describe some pitfalls you might encounter building microservices, especially when you work in an enterprise environment. If you're working in a startup and in the public cloud, your experiences might be completely different from mine. Nevertheless, I hope this blog post can help you be productive faster. Although it may seem otherwise, I still strongly believe in microservices, but like everything, they are not a silver bullet.


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Monster Raid Defense is a new tower defense game where you need to protect your kingdom from monster attack. The game will be released soon and is awaiting for a walkthrough, strategy guide, tips and tricks. Read more details for Monster Raid Defense.
Once upon a time there was one small village, where everyone was happy and living their life peacefully. Everything was great! Until one day, the day when a small blob monster popped up from nowhere and showed itself to a small country girl…
The young girl didn't knew what the small round thing was, but she knew that the blob was very jelly and funny. To find out more, she took a stick and started to pick upon the small and round blob with it….
Unfortunately for the girl, the small and cute blob didn't want to be bullied at all. As a matter of fact, the blob didn't want to have any contact with any other living creature, especially with annoying and bulling people! The blob monster went into mad rage mode!
Now besides of the small country girl and the small peaceful village, the whole kingdom is under attack of the angry monster raid!
Monster Raid Defense Features:
- There are 3 levels, each level contains 20 attack waves. There's a wave boss at wave 18, 19, 20.
- There are 5 towers : normal tower, cannon tower (land area only), electric tower (air area only), slow tower, and buff tower (increase atk speed). Each tower can be upgraded 3 times.
- There are 30 different monsters.
- The monsters will drop random items when they are dead. The items are : power up (boost atk), speed up (boost atk speed), slow all (slow all monsters), stop all (stop all monsters), damage all (damage all monsters)
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The Timeshare Resales Blog Home Page **Update** Margaritaville Biloxi is closed before it really got started. Unable to secure an agreement for the financing for the hotel and other amenities, it folded. Margaritaville (timeshare and hotel) and Jimmy Buffet are finally getting ready to break ground in Biloxi. This is going to be a huge […]
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Social network analysis examines the relationships between actors in a network. The method can be applied to assess how the quality of the coalition has influenced campaign outcomes, or to gauge to what extent a mobilization campaign enhances networking and movement-building for social change. Social network analysis can also be used as part of situation analysis, in the campaign planning stage, and as part of the monitoring process.
Typical questions addressed by a network analysis are:
In order to define a network, evaluators need network data which can be collected through standardized interviews or by direct observation. Specialized software helps visualize networks. A simple and user-friendly open source program is Social Network Visualizer. More information is available on the INSA (International Network for Social Network Analysis) internet platform.
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A game app about Mexico's drug war launched this week. It's called NarcoGuerra, and it challenges you to "end the never-ending war."
Narco Guerra developers argue that the whole point of this game, which is designed for mobile phones and tablets and costs .99 cents, is to make you think about how hard it is to stop the drug trade.
"Better that we are talking about this topic and why it is happening, whatever the medium being used, than we turn a blind eye and pretend it is not going on," Tomas Rawlings, the Narco Guerra developer, said in a recent press release.
"The War on Drugs has been going on for more than 40 years now, and we wanted to explore why that is," added Rawlings.
In NarcoGuerra, you are asked to act as Mexico's Police Chief. You get money, weapons, and troops, and must decide how to deploy these limited resources around Mexico, as you try to rid different parts of the country of cartel activity. Certain actions, like taking down a cartel leader in one area of Mexico, also generate reactions like the emergence of new cartels. This gives users an idea of what the real drug war is like.
– Read the entire article at ABC News.