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This post will be updated as we hear from more suet manufacturers.
Okay, I have communicated with three different suet manufacturers regarding their nut flavored suets and the salmonella peanut butter recall. Currently, peanut butter produced from Peanut Corporation of America is at issue for salmonella contamination, not commercial brands that many of us have in our cabinets. Here are what three manufacturers told me:
C & S states on their website that their nut suets are safe due to their testing and that they do not use any of the recalled industrial peanut butter products from Peanut Corporation of America.
Pine Tree Farms grinds their own nuts and since just the nuts themselves are not part of the recall, their suet is safe.
Woodpecker Products said that their suet is safe because they do not use peanut butter from Peanut Corporation of America.
UPDATE 1: Thanks to Donald the Birder, we also have info that Heath Manufacturing is also saying that their suets are salmonella free since they do not use any of the recalled peanut butter products.
UPDATE 2: Thanks to hscott, we also have info that Wildlife Sciences says that their suet products do not contain peanut products affected by the current recall.
UPDATE 3: Scott's Wild Bird Food has recalled some of its products.
I called Cornell Lab of Ornithology for good measure and they said that if you do not know where the peanut butter ingredients came from in your flavored suet cake, don't feed it to birds. They did offer that since consumer grade peanut butter is currently not on the recall list, making your own peanut butter suet using ingredients you have on hand should be safe.
If you are looking for a suet recipe, I highly recommend Julie Zickefoose's Peanut Butter Suet Dough Recipe.
While making different phone calls, I did have one person tell me, "Birds can't get salmonella."
"Yes, they can," I said.
"No they can't," they argued.
"Yes they can..." and just as I was about to start listing salmonella outbreaks in birds in the last year, he said, "Well, they can't get the strain that's involved in the recall."
I disagree and asked Cornell about this matter. At the moment, there is so little information about the salmonella involved the outbreak we cannot say whether or not it will harm birds and it's best to err on the side of caution. Here is some information from Dr. David Bonter, the project leader of our Project FeederWatch on salmonella and birds.
"Salmonellosis is caused by a bacteria belonging to the genus Salmonella. It is a common cause of mortality in feeder birds, particularly siskins, goldfinches, and redpolls, but the symptoms are not always obvious. A sick bird may appear thin, fluffed up, and may have fecal material on its vent and swollen eyelids. Infected birds are often lethargic and easy to approach. Some infected birds may show no outward symptoms, but are carriers of the disease and can spread the infection to other birds.
Salmonellosis is primarily transmitted through fecal contamination of food and water. It may also be transmitted through bird-to-bird contact. Occasionally, outbreaks of the disease cause significant mortality in certain species.
Disease transmission can be reduced by 1) cleaning areas that are contaminated with the bacteria, and 2) discouraging large flocks of birds from gathering in one location."
At a blog reader's request, I have tried contacting Scott's Wild Bird Food about their suet and they have not answered me at this time, so I cannot say whether or not their suet is free of the recalled industrial peanut butter (this does not mean it's not safe, but at the moment, it does not have the guarantee the other suet manufacturers have). I shook my head at their website. If you go to their web page for North American bird feeding, they show European goldfinches eating their food. Too bad we don't get those in the US. If a company doesn't even know basic North American feeder birds, how we trust that they know anything about feeding birds?
So that is the current info that we have on peanut butter suet being safe for bird feeding.


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With Tony Prenol, Partner & Practice Leader, Blakes IP Group
Mar 2, 2016 OBIO invites you to join us for the first in a series of unique Pre-CAAP workshops throughout 2016 designed for companies that are in the process of raising or will have raised "seed" or later rounds of financing by the end of 2016 and may apply for the next cycle of OBIO CAAP.
In person over breakfast and by GoToMeeting, Tony Prenol, Partner and Practice Leader for the Blakes Intellectual Property group will share his perspectives on how to negotiate with TTOs to close the best deal to establish or license additional technology to grow your business.
Attendees will benefit from Tony's extensive experience related to:
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Anthony is the Practice Group Leader for the Blakes Intellectual Property Group and is a lawyer, patent agent and trade-mark agent. He is involved in all aspects of the clearance, prosecution and enforcement of intellectual property rights and is responsible for the prosecution of patent, trade-mark and industrial design portfolios for clients in a wide variety of industries. He also litigates patent disputes, including cases involving patent infringement and validity as well as competing claims to ownership of inventions.
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"Focusing on Finishes"
Saint Andrew's Scotch Masters will discuss how different barrel finishes affect the various scotch whiskies. Each wine-finished scotch will be preceded by a small taste of the type of wine used in that particular scotch.
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TOMINTOUL – 12 yr old – 40% – Speyside – Sherry finish
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Make your check payable to Saint Andrew's Society and send it to:
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Preview Multiple Barcodes Simultaneously
Assets with multiple barcodes positioned closely together can be challenging to scan.
Standard options
a) If the target barcode is a different type than the surrounding barcodes, then you can select only that format (or formats) to read. You enable this on the Advanced step when creating/editing a service or from the app's settings.
b) With our standard scan engine (not SD PRO yet) the app user can change the decoding window' size and shape within the camera view.
c) You can use a barcode scanning accessory with a pointing light that can be positioned over the target barcode before pulling the scan trigger.
d) When creating your 'Validate Scans' service type, if you select Pattern Validation then if the wrong barcode is scanned the app user will be shown a red Invalid screen. So, for example, you could make only a certain number of digits be valid and discard the Invalid scans.
Barcode Preview (AR)
A great alternative to the standard options is our Barcode Preview technology. Within the camera view of our SD PRO scan engine upgrade, app users can preview the values of multiple barcodes simultaneously and then select the correct barcode to capture and submit to a scan record. This feature can be used in combination with the standard options to make it even more precise.
To try it, sign in to the codeREADr app with SD PRO enabled and in the app's settings select 'Barcode Preview (AR)'. Position the camera over multiple barcodes within the camera view and then tap the individual barcode you want to capture. [If you don't have SD PRO enabled, follow the link in 'b' above to get testing access.]
As the camera and auto-focus technology used on smartphones and tablets continue to advance along with codeREADr's scanning and decoding technology, we see a future where this preview process, augmented with auto-selection technology, could significantly improve the accuracy and efficiency of asset tracking applications. Contact us about your application.


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Micro-hydropower (MHP)
The classification of hydropower plants according to the power output is a matter of size, as shown in this table.
The Dŵr Uisce project is focusing on the development on micro-hydropower (MHP) installations, which ranges from 5 kW to 100 kW.
Pressure Reducing Valve (PRV)
Reduces pressure to a preset level downstream of the valve with the goal to keep pressure levels within a determined range throughout the network.
The Dŵr Uisce project points PRV locations in water networks as potential sites for energy recovery.
Smart Network Controls
Sensing, actuation, and control functions are considered in order to describe and analyse a situation, and make decisions based on the available data in a predictive or adaptive manner, thereby performing smart actions. The deployment of smart network controls in Dŵr-Uisce aims at identifying energy recovery locations and optimise energy performance through the installation of turbines with a dual pressure reducing and energy production function.
Pump as Turbines (PAT)
Pumps as Turbines (PATs) are an unconventional solution for hydro power generation adapt to fit in many scenarios when a conventional turbine unit would not be suitable. Physical behaviour of PATs is similar to that of Francis turbines, but without possibility for flow regulation. Within last decades large numbers of PATs have been studied and implemented as power generators in many contexts like small hydropower schemes with low-head properties, water supply systems (WSS) and industrial applications as replacements of throttling valves. In particular, they proved to be very effective if used for micro hydro off-grid plants and in-pipe energy recovery.
Drain Water Heat Recovery (DWHR)
Currently, hot water from showers, dish washers, washing machines and other hot water consuming appliances is most often flushed through the drain, leaving a significant part of the energy unused. In modern building it is the most important source of energy loss. Drain Water Heat Recovery (DWHR) is the collective name of technologies attempting to utilize this untapped potential. These technologies help in both reducing the fuel and energy consumption related to heating, and allow for the application of wastewater source heat pumps, considered a renewable source of heat. The Dŵr Uisce project aims at quantifying the potential impact of DWHR technologies in Ireland and Wales with respect to the environmental impact of heating and with respect to heating costs. A prototype of a DWHR system is a project deliverable as well.
Life Cylce Assessment (LCA)
LCA is a method of quantifying the environmental burdens for a product or service, such as a HP installation, through its life cycle. It provides a simple platform to evaluate any product or systems based on its associated environmental burdens. A detailed database of raw materials and energy processes is required to accurately report the environmental burdens for these projects. The outputs from LCA require the definition of system boundaries, i.e. the start and end points in which the LCA considers. The results can be used to compare different products, in the case of this project comparing energy recovery technologies and efficiency measures.
In 2009, the EU directive (2009/125/EC) was implemented for the eco-design of energy-related products, which aimed to promote the environmental performance of the product throughout its whole life cycle. Considering that the manufacture of a product requires energy and raw materials, both valuable resources that need to be managed effectively.
The technology platforms in the Dŵr Uisce project are adopting eco-design in their development to deliver low-carbon and resource-efficient systems in line with the circular economy agenda. Our previous work has examined the potential for eco-design post construction of several micro-hydropower projects, and from this, an eco-design approach was made in the delivery of project demonstration sites.
History of Hydropower
Energy exists within any flowing water course, natural or man-made, and this energy can be extracted using hydropower technology. This concept of transferring this energy or 'power, from flowing water has been a longstanding tradition dating back to the earliest water wheels (used for milling, mining, water supply and irrigation) over 2,000 years, to the Roman, Greek and Han dynasties. With significant technological advancements in the 20th century, the evolution of hydropower escalated as a source of electricity led to a new scale of utilisation for this valuable energy resource. Today, hydropower remains one of the most efficient forms of energy production, with in excess of 90% efficiency typical of most well designed turbine installations.
Fig. Example of Traditional Water Wheel.
Energy in Water
The energy extracted from hydropower facilities is derived from the potential energy, which is transformed into kinetic energy and is a function of two parameters; head and flow. The head is the energy per unit weight (or unit mass) of water. This static head is proportional to the difference in height through which the water falls. The volumetric flow of the water is also proportional to the amount of energy that can be extracted from a water source.
There are two main types of turbines; Reaction and Impulse turbines. The selection of a turbine to match head and flow conditions is an important factor when installing a turbine at a hydropower site. The following sections give a summary of the two main turbine types;
Reaction Turbine
Reaction turbines are the most common type of turbines. They generate power from exploiting oncoming flows, as the turbine propeller blades absorb the energy from the moving water. The main types of reaction turbines include; the Francis turbine, the Propeller/Kaplan turbine, the Tyson, Gorlov and China turbines. Also, the development of reverse pumps or pump as turbines (PATs) are used as reaction turbines. Low flow and high head conditions are the most suitable for reaction turbines and the typical turbine is used for enclosed water flows.
Fig. Selection of Reaction Turbines
Impulse Turbine
Impulse turbines are typically more suitable for micro-hydropower installations e.g. run-off-river applications. This type of turbine has several benefits in comparison to the reaction turbine; it tolerates particles in flow, better access to parts, easier to fabricate and a better part-flow efficiency. The disadvantage of the impulse turbine is its unsuitability for low head sites. The Pelton, Turgo, Crossflow and Archimedes are the most well known types of impulse turbines and work under the principle of a jet of water acting upon buckets or runners on a wheel, which is rotated due to the force of the moving water.
Fig. A range of Impulse Turbines
Calculating the Power Potential
The potential power available at a hydroelectric facility can be estimated based on the hydraulic head and flow rate in the water course. The power available from falling water can be calculated from the flow rate and density of water, the height of fall, and the local acceleration due to gravity. In SI units, the power is:
P = ηρQgh
- P - power (kW)
- η - turbine efficiency
- ρ - density of water (kg/m^3)
- Q - flow (m^3/s)
- g- acceleration due to gravity (m/s^2)
- h - head of water (m)
e.g. Power is calculated for a turbine that is 85% efficient, e.g. water density of 1000 kg/m^3; a flow rate of 80 m^3/s; gravity of 9.81 m/s^2; and a net head of 70 m. In SI units: Power (MW) = (0.85 x 1000 x 80 x 9.81 x 70)/10^6 => which gives 46.7 MW
Turbine Selection
As previously stated, the selection of a suitable turbine is based on flow and head characteristics for a water course. The following plot is used as a guideline to decide on the most suitable turbine type for a specific site.
Feasibility Study
Hydropower energy recovery in water supply networks is one of the targets of Dŵr Uisce project. In this context a key element is the demonstration of the micro-hydropower potential in real networks. For this purpose, the feasibility of implementing this technology is assessed in water supply schemes.


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For four days these folks push and shove their way to holiday gifts and accessories.
Did I mention that it's not even Thanksgiving yet?
This is what people should be up in arms about.
Not Starbucks' cups.
I have absolutely no segue here so, let's just get to it.
;Please say hello to this week's cheesecake, Priyanka Chopra.
Ms. Chopra is currently appearing in ABC's new espionage thriller, Quantico, a show which I have seen exactly zero episodes of.
That being what it is, Ms. Chopra jumped off the screen in the early trailers and I made a mental note to give her her time one week.
This is that week.
While Quantico marks Ms. Chopra's first big US exposure, she's been a Bollywood star for nearly a decade.
She was also featured on the cover of the first issue of Maxim - India.
Yes, that's a thing.
She also looks, to me anyway, to be a lock as a future Bond girl.
Let's hit the links.
Alcoholic guitarist with rock star attitude and shitty gear available
A side-by-side comparison of Fury Road and other Mad Max movies
Sequels that make you wish you'd never loved the franchise
Wrestlers who were crazier out of the ring than in it
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It is well-priced for the area at $238,000, since prices in this subdivision range up to the high $400's now.
- 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms
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FRAMED "Breathing with the Ocean" - Giclee Print on Canvas
FRAMED "Breathing with the Ocean" - Giclee Print on Canvas
"Under the waves, she breathes with the ocean."
This piece is framed with a burnished gold frame, ready to hang.
Here's the story of the original:
I painted this piece in Kona, Hawai'i. My studio was outside on the lanai and I listened to the surf as the breeze blew over my easel. Down at the beach, I could hike to 40 foot boulders which loomed over the ocean. After a short prickly climb through wild brush and loose pebbles, I would sit on my favorite boulder and look down into the crashing, swirling ocean. One day as I was sitting on in this beautiful spot and meditating, the stillness beneath the crashing waves came over me and I was inspired to create this piece.
MEDIUM: Giclee print on canvas. Expertly reproduced to look exactly like the original work.
SIZE: 18" by 20 1/2"


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A case study on kinesiophobia & chronic pain.
The history.
Mrs P. is a 35 year old mother of two lovely children. During her second pregnancy around four months gestation she developed bilateral lateral hip pain. The pain eased post labour but returned four months later and has never since resolved.
Since mid 2012 her symptoms have gradually worsened and on presenting to physiotherapy she reported constant bilateral lateral hip pain, lower back pain, aching through both thighs and pins and needles throughout the entire leg. Her symptoms were not in a dermatomal distribution and didn't follow a typical clinical pattern for musculoskeletal pain.
Her resting pain levels were often as high as 8/10 and most aggravated in side lying. Mrs P. was unable to find a position of comfort for her pain. Despite her high pain levels Mrs P. tried to complete her normal daily tasks as best as possible, all the while struggling to manage her pain. In time this became very taxing and impacted on her emotional well being, sleep, and ability to complete her role as both a working-mother and wife.
Past treatment had involved a short period of manual therapy around the hips and pelvis with an Osteopath (providing short term relief) and a pilates program focussing on pelvic stability and core strength (which she felt was making her symptoms worse).
A recent CT lumbar spine reported on mild lumbar spondylosis and broad based central disc protrusion at the level of L5/S1. These results didn't seem to correlate with the presenting symptoms.
The physical examination
At the conclusion of the subjective examination I was perplexed by the onset, nature and behaviour of Mrs P's symptoms and was yet to generate a list of possible hypotheses which could be investigated further in the physical examination.
Instead I had to just look at it all, with no particular pattern or reasoning, purely to be open minded about what I might find and not allow myself to be limited by pattern-recognition. The response to manual therapy was atypical for back pain and the increased pain after pilates made me wonder if compression/stabilisation was not what she needed to get better. Both these suspicions were clarified further in the physical examination.
Day 1
- Standing posture - increased muscle activity in gluteus maximus, TFL and vastus lateralis.
- Single leg stance - increased pain bilaterally and was worse with all muscle augmentations and slightly better with therapist pressure over the hips.
- ASLR was heavy and painful bilaterally, again worse with muscle activation and better with lateral hip compression.
- SLR limited at 30 degrees bilaterally and eased with cervical flexion.
- Prone knee bend 40 degrees knee flexion P2 and ease with cervical extension.
- Unable to prone straight leg raise due to pain over the lateral hips.
- Hypersensitive to light touch throughout the lumbopelvic region.
- Pain with sacral PA and post thigh thrust but no increased movement.
- Didn't look at lumbar AROM Day 1.
- Neurological examination was unremarkable.
- And that is an all over the place assessment of SIJ, hip, lx and neurodynamics and not enough of anything to clear an area nor enough to clearly implicate an area..... and it left me stumped.
So I was considering altered neurodynamics, overactivity and excessive force closure through the pelvic girdle and yet there was an inability to load transfer... the pieces didn't fit.
Day 1 treatment was lumbar rotation stretches and knee hip flexion stretches (don't ask me why I chose that - I think I was worried about flaring her up with further manual therapy). Both exercises and the excessive assessment aggravated her symptoms significantly.
The fact is I didn't complete my assessment thoroughly enough due to severity and unknown irritability and because I wasn't being lead by a list of hypotheses, I was simply running through a range of tests. To my detriment, by the end of day 1 I was no closer to developing a hypothesis.
And despite not having a clear answer for Mrs P. (which I honestly explained to her) and despite being terribly sore following our assessment, she returned more confident and positive that at least I was trying hard to find a solution. One thing I knew I could offer was a systematic assessment of the lumbopelvic region and we agreed to start with that and just see what we found.
Day 2... start again...
- Every test above was exactly the same, which confirmed that the abnormal response was at least consistent and reliable for this patient.
- Lumbar active range of movement (new) revealed restricted flexion to mid shins, extension to end of range and lateral flexion to mid thigh (P2). This didn't provide too much more information or clarity to the problem.
- The mini treatment was what started to link the asterisks.
- Day 2 mini treatment and treatment involved GR III - left sided PA over L23 L34 L45 with the aim of desensiting the lumbar spine to palpation. On reassessment flexion increased to floor, lateral flexion to knees, SLS was painfree, PPT and sacral thrust painfree and ASLR less painful. That is to say, they all changed and with only a small amount of generalised desensitising treatment.
And this confirmed one thing for me..... assess and treat the spine!
After completing my masters degree the one thing I knew was my responsibility as a primary care practitioner is to assess and treat the spine. I didn't do this day 1 and like others prior to me, I missed the underlying driving mechanism.
So the initial phase of treatment involved gently increasing the grade of lumbar mobilisation and focussing on desensitising the lumbar spine, gradually increasing range of movement, and monitoring the effect and nature of change across a range of asterisk signs.
After two treatments, Mrs P. reported that her pain was 30% better, less constant, there were no symptoms in the legs, and she was able to fall asleep in side lying. A good improvement given the chronicity and severity of her symptoms.
And from there it just continued to improve.
After six weeks (of weekly reviews) Mrs P reported that she was 50% better overall. Her goals for further treatment were to be able to walk without pain, sleep without pain and complete normal activities of daily living. When further questioned what was the limiting factor to these activities improving, she responded "I'm worried about becoming paranoid about the pain and being hypervigilant about what I can and can't do".
This isn't something we often hear our patients say and immediately demonstrates a level of trust to confide such fears in me, and also a level of self-reflection about the barriers to recovery. And so I responded "We have outcome measures which can evaluate the way you conceptualise and think about your problem. Would you be interested in completing them to see if we can understand these worries a bit further?"
Outcome measures
After further review of the literature I realised that many of the standard outcome measures I implement with patients to evaluate and measure pain and disability don't have the capacity to evaluate the psychological aspects of my patient's problem.
In this case specifically, Mrs P. had verbally indicated her fear towards exercise and movement, her fear towards therapy and her fear towards her activities of daily living (ADLS) aggravating her pain.
I used the following three outcome measures to evaluate her fear-avoidance, kinesiophobia and pain catastrophization. All are separate components of the cognitive aspects of the 'psycho' part of the biopsychosocial model for pain.
- Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire (FABQ)
- Fear-avoidance about physical activity 11/30
- fear-avoidance about work 2/66
- Overall score 13/96, which was well below the cut off score of > 13 for the physical activity component and > 34 for the work component.
- Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS-EN)
- Overall score of 12/52 which is well below the cut off rate of >30.
- Further psychometric properties of the PCS-EN can be found in the user manual.
- Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia
- Overall score of 44/68 which is above the cut off score of 37.
It was evident from these three different cognitive measures that Mrs P. had a high level of kinesiophobia related to her chronic pain.
Kinesiophobia is defined as "an irrational, and debilitating fear of physical movement and activity resulting from a feeling of vulnerability to painful injury or re-injury" (Kori et al., 1990).
To delve further into the results of the Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia questionnaire we highlighted the statements which she had marked as agree/strongly agree and discussed each sentence individually. The following topics would drawn from the questionnaire and used to tailor a pain-education session to educate Mrs P. about her pain and belief system.
- "I'm afraid that I might injure myself if I exercise."
- "If I were to try overcome it, my pain would increase."
- "Pain always means I have injured my body."
- "I am afraid that I might injure myself accidentally."
- "Simply being careful that I do not make any unnecessary movements is the safest thing I can do to prevent my pain from worsening."
- "Pain lets me know when to stop exercising so that I don't injure myself."
Changes in treatment direction.
Based on the information gained from these questionnaires both myself and the patient were empowered with the tools we needed to educate and re-conceptualise Mrs P's. knowledge and beliefs about her pain.
Further to our in-room discussions, I recommended for Mrs P. to read parts 1, 2, and 4 of explain pain which reinforced and expanded on our conversations.
After breaking down and re-conceptualising the cognitive component of her pain, Mrs P. has returned to a functional rehabilitation program at her local gym 3-4 days a week and begun to exposure herself to ADLs which previously aggravated her pain. All of this has been achieved without further aggravation in her symptoms. Surprised by her level of capability, Mrs P. has been encouraged and more confident to try new movements and activities. This in turn has lead to an overflow to the emotional/affected aspects of her chronic pain problem, and lead to improvements in her sleep, mood, happiness and relationships with loved ones.
In no means have we cured Mrs P. of her pain, but her level of pain and associated disability has significantly reduced to the level that she can cope more independently. It was important to remember that we weren't looking for a quick fix or cure, more we were hunting for the reasons behind treatment failing in the past. And after long and open discussions with my patient decided to explore the 'psychological' component held within the 'biopsychosocial' model for patient-centred care. It was empowering experience for both of us.
Mrs P. continues to receive manual therapy every 10-14 days and has progressed steadily at the gym, all the while we continue to be open to discuss and address the cognitive/affective aspects of her condition. Ten weeks after beginning treatment, Mrs P. is 70% better in her pain levels, disability and level of function. We are both very happy with this improvement.
I learnt that there are ways we can measure and evaluate our patient's belief systems and help them to reconceptualise their pain. Mrs P. learnt that knowledge can help overcome fear of movement and that it is imperative we address the way we think as well as the way we move. A positive step forward in the journey of recovery from a difficult, long-term chronic lower back pain problem.


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In Reply to: Higher than a kite posted by pamela on July 18, 2008 at 01:12:
: : Origin of "higher than a kite"? It is used to signify feeling great and sometimes as a drug reference to being really "high"?
: I don't know the origin, but if someone said they were "high as a kite" I would usually take it to mean drugged, not elated, unless they were talking about some sort of manic state. ("Without my meds for bipolar I get high as a kite"). These days, the assocation of "high" with drugs is so common that I can't see anyone saying "What I nice day - I'm higher than a kite" to mean "I am feeling great". Pamela
I'll add, however, that perhaps this might be because I hang around with grumps who wouldn't ever say "I feel great" anyway.


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Now that I have a much less scantily clad vanity area {I finally put a skirt on it. In case you missed it, click here.}, I'm desperately in need of some stylish organization for the counter-top.
You see, we have the smallest of master baths, with virtually no storage whatsoever. So, my vanity area has to work hard, but it has to look good too. Lately, I've been on the look out for some super functional, yet attractive storage solutions for jewelry, make-up and the like.
Time to get creative, because let me be the first to tell you, there aren't a lot of obvious solutions.
I love this super eclectic mix of storage and display options for all my jewels. A space saver as well, which is always good in my book.
Martha has done it again with this interesting mix of plates, bowls and tea cups. Unfortinately, I don't have the drawer space to make this happen and it would just take up too much space on my one and only counter-top.
An interesting framed wall display is always an option, plus it frees up the counter-top. I smell a DIY project coming on with this one.
I love how Rene, from Cottage and Vine, has one big bowl as a catch-all, paired with a tray for her perfumes. Simple, easy and elegant.
I'm also digging this sweet grouping of painted jewelry boxes, from Sarah at The Yellow Cape Cod. I've got a huge, brown and boring box that usually resides in my closet. Perhaps I'll dig it out and make it over. Simple enough.
My luck really wore out when I turned my attention toward counter-top make-up solutions. An acrylic organizer doesn't really screaming out cute and creative organization solution, now does it? Back to the drawing board on that.
Well, there you have it. Inspiration. Lucky you, I've got more images saved on my organization board on Pinterest. Feel free to check it out.
I'm off to get creatively organized.
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"Automotive News Europe reports that struggling Japanese automaker Mazda is set to cut a total of 250 jobs in the U.S. and Europe. The cuts, originally reported by Japan's Nikkei, come as part of new reorganization efforts and represent 25 per cent of the company's staff in both markets. Mazda has registered losses for the past four years due in part to slow sales and a stronger yen. As a result, the company is looking to tighten its belt around the world.
Mazda will slim its workforce to under 200 workers at a subsidiary in Germany, while the manufacturer's sales staff in California and Michigan will fall to around 550 employees. The news comes on the heels of a buyout last month that saw 107 U.S. employees leave voluntarily. Currently, Mazda has no plans to cut its Japanese workforce, though some reorganization may take place on the home front in the coming months. Those efforts are largely expected to consist of moving workers from satellite offices in Tokyo and Osaka to the home base in Hiroshima."
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Australian melodic hard rock band The Radio Sun will release their fourth full-length album "Unstoppable" on October 20th, 2017. Vocalist Jase Old and guitarist Stevie Janevski have written a bunch of new catchy, well constructed melodic rock songs with the guidance of producer Paul Laine (solo, Dark Horse, The Defiants). Lush vocals and soaring solos are a big part of the band's sound, further enhanced by bassist Anthony Wong and drummer Gilbert Annese.
Andy Shanahan of Australian AOR favourites Roxus is a special guest on the forthcoming new album 'Unstoppable'. The Radio Sun guitar player Stevie Janevski goes on to say, "it's awesome to have Andy play keyboards on the song " and be a part of our new album. Roxus were by far the best AOR band Australia has had - a real honour!"
The Radio Sun will launch the new album with touring right around the world. The boys head to Japan in November and back to Europe in March 2018 with shows at HRH AOR Fest amongst others.
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Another Apple event has come and gone. And sadly it's all quiet on the HomeKit Front. While many of their recent announcements are indeed exciting, new iPads, new iMacs, and new Mac Minis (finally!), we're not an Apple show, we're a home technology show. So we have to admit to being a bit bummed about the lack of public news since the initial announcement of HomeKit back at WWDC.
Even with the lack of HomeKit news, there was still plenty to cover in this week's show. We opened the show talking about a few home technology buying decisions that we are facing in our respective personal lives. At HomeTech, we both live and breathe this stuff in our daily work, so it's always a pleasure when we can put a more personal touch on things by discussing practical uses in our own homes. In terms of recent news, we discuss the announcement by The Thread Group that they are officially accepting applications for membership. To wrap up the show we have a chat about UHD / 4K TV Technology. 4K is all the rage these days. As with any new technology however, there is more to it than meets the eye. HDTV is not a topic we've spent much time on in the past, but with all the changes taking place in that landscape it may be a topic we revisit more moving forward.
As always, we thank you so much for listening! If you enjoy the show be sure to tell a friend or share it on your favorite social media channel. If you have any comments, or suggestions feedback is always welcome! Just head on over to hometech.fm/feedback and drop us a line!
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- Skydrop - The skydrop sprinkler controller
- Rachio - Automated Sprinkler Controller
- Ecobee 3
- Ecovent
- Ecobee Now Compatible with Control4
- The Drivers Lab Ecobee Driver
- Summary of Apple's iPad Event
- Apple opens the door for HomeKit accessory makers w/ finalized MFi specs
- Thread Group Opens up for Membership
- Thread Group Membership Presentation Slides
- Maximizing the Potential of 4K/Ultra HD
- THX tune-up App (iOS)
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For my fourth installment of my blog series Women that Inspire Me, I am featuring Minneapolis jewelry maker, Larissa Loden.
I first discovered Larissa's jewelry at Art-A-Whirl several years ago. As a long-time rock collector (Yes! Nerd alert!), I love gemstone jewelry. And well, Larissa's jewelry is particularly striking. I was drawn to it immediately.
According to her website, "Larissa Loden designs for women who aren't afraid to express themselves. They are strong and fearless, interested in history and love to dress up."
If that doesn't sound like the kind of woman that most of us want to be, I don't know what does. So yeah, sign me up. :)
The jewelry maker "is inspired by stories behind the pieces and those wearing them, and feeds off seeing her jewelry complete a look." So Larissa not only gets inspired by the materials she works with, but also by the women who wear her jewelry. Again, women like you and me.
The first piece I purchased from her was this Lune necklace. Black is my favorite color, and I also am a big fan of agates. After I bought it, I was wearing the necklace almost daily. It is a fantastic piece.
Not only is her jewelry unique, but her offerings are also accessibly priced. Her pieces are mostly in the $30-$50 range.
According to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, Larissa states, "I've toyed with the idea of a luxury line. I just don't want to price myself out of what my customers have learned to love."
As someone who also tries to keep her prices affordable, I certainly appreciate Larissa's commitment to her art and her customers.
Like many of us, Larissa started out making jewelry as a side hustle. She worked as an art teacher by day and designed jewelry at night. She now creates jewelry full time out of her Northeast Minneapolis studio.
Larissa also sells her jewelry at markets all across on the country, as well as offering her wares "at more than 300 stores, including the House of Blues hotel gift shops, The Getty in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."
Inspired by Larissa's fantastic creations, I painted this See the World Through Rose Quartz and Turquoise Oak Dresser. The dresser features genuine rose quartz and brass knobs from Anthropologie. I am just in love with this joyful color palette. This vintage oak dresser is available for delivery to Minneapolis and St. Paul Shoppers.
Get this one-of-a-kind upcycled oak dresser for $225!


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With unemployment is at an all time high and worse in Georgia than the nationwide average – many are not just looking for jobs; however hope. With the down turn in our economy therefore much loss attached to it – so lots of are dissuaded – stress and anxiety health problems are on the rise. But there is aid and hope.
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But the problem is that addiction is not simply a personal issue. It is a social issue since an individual's dependency has an effect on his or her good friends, family, and those who deal with the individual. And so, it frequently triggers a problem for them also. It needs to never be overlooked, and the individual should never be making the choice alone. But, of course, above whatever else, it is necessary that the individual understands that there is a problem, and he or she ought to be psychologically inspired to seek treatment.
He was rearrested and sentenced for belongings of aerosol, misdemeanor effort to use it for a blissful feeling. He was busted breathing in behind a housing project in a vacant backyard.
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We like to numb the discomfort due to the fact that we aren't sure exactly what else to do. This can be by getting high, alcohol indulgence intoxication or prescription substance abuse. Face the pain is the primary step and by doing this it in fact gets simpler. We range from discomfort but it is only an emotion. As soon as you recognize you can sit with it then you are on the way to getting stronger with the support of an inpatient rehab program for drugs or alcohol or an outpatient support system for dependency. Let 2009 be the year to let go of the past routines and usher in the real you that you long to recuperate. Gaining yourself is the finest healing.
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This is a country run with Mega Mania Memorabilia (3 Ms) but unable to look after our majestic elephants.
Three years ago one of the tuskers was dead due to negligence and dehydration after a so called majestic pageant that paraded the hill country.
Then recently a giant tusker was dead in captivity and the popular story circulating round is he was let to die to get the tusks for ornamentation in high office.
Then comes the floods in the East.
A young dead elephant is trapped in a tree. First of a kind of news item and quite relevant in context.
That tells the sorry story of our majestic heritage and how we care.
It is an eye opener for the world if not for this blessed country.
We had 90% forest cover at the beginning of the last century and had over 60,000 elephants.
By mid last century the estimate was 6000 in the wild.
I do not believe we have 600 left in the wild now and the the forest cover is less that 20% now not enough to sustain vegetation let alone elephants.
We are going to commission two mega coal power units in the near future.
The forest cover will be reduced to 10% within a decade of their operation due to acid rain and the environmentalist are hiding behind the saffron clothed M.P.s.
Very soon we won't have a place in the jungle to meditate in quiet solitude.
Mega mania development will sacrifice the rest of the trees in the name of development efforts.
Very soon we have to import coconut timber with coconuts on top.
Last tsunami a few people survived by climbing on top of coconut trees.
We have mega floods after 53 years in the East and there are no coconut (palms) trees grown for 6 years after the tsunami to climb onto.
But we have election after election to elect representative who ruin this country.
Mega Mania Memorabilia at its best!
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The Lost Manuals
The Lost Manuals by J. Neil Schulman: Sooner or later we all imagine there's a set of technical manuals our parents were supposed to give us at birth with instructions on How Life Works. Look no further: you'll find the closest thing to the Lost Manuals in the science fiction section: the author was Robert A. Heinlein. Continue reading
Robert and Rex Ivar Heinlein at the Naval Academy
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Methuselah's Children
Robert A. Heinlein first published Methuselah's Children in a serialized version in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction in July through September 1941. He completely rewrote, expanded and republished the novel independently in 1958 and collected the longer version in The Past Through Tomorrow (1982), the version on which this precis is based. Continue reading
Heinlein's Women: Strong Women Characters in the Heinlein Juveniles
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If This Goes On…
From Bill Patterson, author of the Heinlein biography, a study of Heinlein's story If This Goes On: The composition of "If This Goes On—" took place in August and September of 1939 and shows Heinlein in full command of his very identifiable prose style and distinctive "voice," less than six months after he started commercial writing. Continue reading
A Flight of Speculation
After World War II, Heinlein tells us, he resumed writing with two objectives: "first to explain the meaning of atomic weapons through popular articles… I wrote nine articles intending to shed light on the post Hiroshima age, and I never worked harder on any writing, researched the background more thoroughly, tried harder to make the (grim and horrid) message entertaining and reasonable…I continued to write those articles until the U.S.S.R. rejected the United States' proposals for controlling and outlawing atomic weapons… and I stopped trying to pedal articles based on tying down the Bomb… –Was I really so naif that I though I could change the course of history this way? No, not really. But damn it, I had to try!" Heinlein referred to these articles as his "failing at World Saving." Recently, Ed Wysocki wrote, for the The Heinlein Journal, an article about one of these attempts, entitled "Flight Into the Future." By special arrangement with the author and the Journal, this paper is republished here. This is especially significant because it is the only one of Heinlein's cautionary articles written after World War II that he was able to get published. Continue reading
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BP Claims News: BP Settlement News
BP Settlement News and BP Claims Rumors
Well it has been a few days since the BP Settlement hit the wires. The phone hasn`t stopped ringing, people close to the Settlement have been weighing in through out the last few days, and the good news is, if half of what we have heard today is true, and you have legitimate BP Claims, even if it was denied, we can help you with your BP Settlement.
The Facts are this, the BP Settlement is divided in two parts. There is one aspect of the BP Settlement that deals with Loss of income for Businesses and Individuals, there is another aspect that deals with Oil and Corexit exposure, for Oil Spill Clean Up Workers and people who live and work along the Gulf. There is no cap.
We have long advocated that the needs of the people who got sick needed to be addressed, and are very glad to see them in the BP Settlement. We have called for blood tests and testing for over a year. We can Help you if you are sick.
A new methodology will be put into place for factoring your BP Claims for loss of income.
BP Claims Settlement Rumors: Final Payments may not be Final
If you took a final payment and it was not a Quick Pay you will have an opportunity to be included into the BP Settlement, this is believable, as you dissect the Oil Pollution Act, you can not take a final payout until the true extent of the damage is known.
If you took a quick pay you will not be eligible, I do expect Quick Pays to change as long as you have the documents to substantiate your claim. When Feinberg starved people out, then offered them Quick Pays it was one of the most callous moves during the process. It was awful , and one of the first things he did, as he shelved paying out Interim Claims for months.
BP Settlement and BP Claims New Leadership
Lynn Greer from Brown Greer out of Virgina will be the Interim Administrator of the fund. She is a fabulous choice, as she knows the process intimately. Many people did not know that the GCCF handed off claims to Brown Greer for processing, but that is just what they did. This will allow for seamless integration as the players are not changing, except for Mr Feinberg, but the process will be, as it will be easier to prove your claims with the new format.
Some Attorneys voice concern about the BP Settlement
A Houston-based attorney who represents people and businesses with roughly 12,000 spill claims, questioned whether the settlement will be more beneficial to his clients than the existing fund. We get calls daily from claimants whose claims were never even filed with any accompanying paperwork proving their claims, and some were never even filed. Claimants should not be victims of their Attorneys ineptitude. Anything would be better then the GCCF, oh, except if your attorney never even filed your claim. Find out your claims status is, and if your Attorneys are asking for paperwork get it to them.
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Pour Standards and the Richmond County Beer Club (RCBC) present the 6th Annual "Brew for Autism" on April 6, 2019 at The Great Hall at Snug Harbor.
Brew for Autism is a beer culture event, with 100% of proceeds benefiting Autism Speaks and other Staten Island Autism non-profit organization.
Last year, we raised over $25k for Autism Speaks and other local Autism Advocacy groups.
This year we're excited to be offering VIP tickets; for an additional donation you will get an event T-shirt as well as an extra hour before the event begins to beat the crowd and enjoy a selection of special beverages only available during this hour.
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. (Nov. 16, 2017) – Caltech Head Coach Jon Bonafede has been named SCIAC Men's Water Polo Coach of the Year for the first time as voted on by the conference coaches.
Bonafede's Beavers took a huge step forward in 2017 by winning eight games in one of the team's best seasons in recent memory. Caltech earned its first SCIAC victory since 2001 over Occidental College on Sept. 27, then went on to sweep the Tigers, first with a victory at the Gary Troyer Tournament, then with another victory in Eagle Rock. The Beavers also increased their margin of victory with each Oxy win, showcasing their growth over the course of the season.
"It is an honor to be recognized by my colleagues for this award, especially in a conference with so many talented teams and savvy coaches," Bonafede said. "I am very proud of the hard work and dedication that my team and coaching staff put in this year and I am grateful to represent Caltech."
Bonafede also received some aid in the form of an outstanding recruiting class that featured Second Team All-SCIAC Steven Csaposs (Davis, Calif. / Davis), Alex Janosi (Ann Arbor, Mich. / Dexter), Rahul Arun (Buffalo Grove, Ill. / Adlai E Stevenson), John Wang (Louisville, Ky. / Phillips Exeter Academy) and Nick Clausen (Clovis, Calif. / Clovis East), all of whom should have roles in the gradual improvement of the program over time.
With Richard May (Guilford, Conn. / Choate Rosemary Hall) acting as the only graduating senior, the Beavers will have the opportunity to build on their stellar 2017 season in 2018 with newly minted Coach of the Year Bonafede leading the way.
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This pill deals with maps, [from the reference] kind of associative container that stores elements formed by the combination of a key value and a mapped value.
In a map , the key value is generally used to uniquely identify the element, while the mapped value is some sort of value associated to this key. Types of key and mapped value may differ. For example, a typical example of a map is a telephone guide where the name is the key and the telephone number is the mapped value.
Internally, the elements in the map are sorted from lower to higher key value following a specific strict weak ordering criterion set on construction.
As associative containers, they are especially designed to be efficient accessing its elements by their key (unlike sequence containers, which are more efficient accessing elements by their relative or absolute position).
We could spend hours on end talking about maps, but this time we are interested in one of the simplest operation: insertion. Particularly, you said me you're confused by the existence of at least two ways to insert new elements in a map: the subscript operator [] and the method insert.
The good news is they both perform a proper insertion, the bad news is that you should choose carefully among them when efficiency is important.
Part of this discussion is inspired by Meyers' Effective STL (item 24).
Let's suppose we have a map <K, V> myMap. What about this expression?
myMap[k] = v;
It checks to see if k is already in the map. If not, it's added, along with v as its corresponding value. If k is already in the map, its associated value s updated to v. Then, first the method returns a reference to the value object associated with k, then it assigns v to the object to which the reference refers. Simple, but what if k is not in the map?
In this unlucky case, it creates a new value (and a new key too) from scratch by using the value type's default constructor. We first default construct a new V, then we immediately assign it a new value. Now it should be clear why this approach may degrade performance.
We'd better off replacing our use of operator[] and assignment with a straightforward call to insert:
This has precisely the same ultimate effect as the code above, except it typically saves you three function calls: one to create the temporary default-constructed V object, one to destruct that temporary, and one to V's assignment operator. What if your V object is, for example, a complete 3D model (mesh, textures, materials, etc)?! Just say no to operator[] and save your clock and cache!
On the other hand, the call to insert requires an argument of type std::map<K,V>::value_type (for example, pair<K,V>), so when we call insert, we must construct and destruct an object of that type. This is not good when performances affect us during an update. But remember we can employ the subscript operator because it uses no pair object, so it does not cost us neither a pair destructor nor constructor.
Efficiency considerations thus lead us to conclude that insert is preferable to operator[] when adding an element to a map, and both efficiency and aesthetics dictate that operator[] is preferable when updating the value of an element that's already in the map.
Meyers wrote a useful function providing the best of both worlds, something that sounds like efficient add-or-update:
template< typename MapType, // type of map typename KeyArgType, // type of Key typename ValueArgtype> // type of Value typename MapType::iterator efficientAddOrUpdate(MapType& m, const KeyArgType& k, const ValueArgtype& v) { typename MapType::iterator Ib = m.lower_bound(k); // find where k is or should be if ( Ib != m.end() && // if Ib points to a pair !(m.key_comp()(k, Ib->first))) { // whose key is equivalent to k... Ib->second = v; // update the pair's value return Ib; // and return an iterator to that pair } else { typedef typename MapType::value_type MVT; return m.insert(Ib, MVT(k, v)); // add pair(k, v) to m and return an iterator // to the new map element } }
The insert branch is interesting because it uses the "hint" form of insert. Ib identifies the correct insertion location for a new element with key equivalent to k, and the Standard guarantees that if the hint is corrent, the insertion will occur in constant, rather than logarithmic, time.
Don't forget to perform an equivalence test (not equality) and remember that the correct comparison function is available via map::key_comp.
Keep in mind what happens behind the scenes of operator[] and insert. Choose your friend according to the context you're facing with!


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Many companies have moved applications to the cloud as a way to reduce capital expenditure while improving IT focus and effectiveness. End users see the cloud as a way to access their documents and applications remotely from anywhere and from any device. IT managers see the cloud as a means of rapidly adapting their infrastructures as needed via virtualization and a pay-per use-model. But what about load testing engineers? Can they seize the opportunities afforded by the cloud to better test the performance of web applications?
As with past overhyped trends in IT, it is important to see past all the talk and look for concrete ways to take advantage of this new technology's flexibility and scalability to save time, reduce costs, and improve the way your organization works.
This article describes how the cloud is revolutionizing load testing and the advantages it provides in many situations for ensuring your web applications perform well in production. It also covers key capabilities to look for in a load testing solution. Without the right tools in place, simply moving your testing activities to the cloud will likely not deliver the results necessary to justify the move. Understanding how to apply the right tools and practices to make the most of the cloud is fundamental to cloud-based testing and vital to ultimately going live with total peace of mind.
Benefits of Load Testing in the Cloud
Load testing with the cloud enables testing teams to take a big step forward in conducting more efficient and more realistic large-scale tests. In addition, it enables organizations to realize significant savings in cost and time made possible by cloud technology.
Perform Large-Scale Tests
More and more, today's web applications are experiencing sporadic surges in traffic. These traffic spikes can have many causes, including a new advertising campaign, an online article, a seasonal sale, and buzz on Twitter or other social media. If your application is unable to handle the increased load, you run the risk of lost business opportunities and potential damage to your brand.
Generating the load for large-scale tests to mimic these unanticipated spikes in production traffic, however, typically requires tens or even hundreds of machines. Purchasing and configuring these systems requires a significant investment of time and money. Once acquired and used for the immediate load testing need, the machines may sit unused for long stretches until they are needed for the next large-scale load testing project. With the cloud, you can rapidly set up as many load-generating machines as you need, on demand.
Perform More Realistic Tests
When testing a web application using machines inside your firewall, you're not testing the entire delivery chain. Unless all of your end users will also be within your firewall, such tests are inherently limited and may fail to reveal all performance issues.
With the cloud, you can execute load tests that access your web application as your users will - from outside of your firewall - and validate all components of the delivery chain, including the firewall, DNS, network equipment, and ISP. These tests are more realistic, and they enable you to evaluate the real-world effects of third-party components, such as content delivery networks, analytics servers, and ad servers.
Your users won't all be accessing your app from the same fixed location across the same network, so a realistic load test cannot be completed from a single location. That's why it's important to test your application and its components from different locations and geographic regions and assess its performance as network bandwidth and latency changes.
Save Time and Reduce Costs with Pay-as-you-go
When load testing with the cloud, there is no need to spend weeks setting up and configuring dozens of real machines. You can create and configure the machine image you need once and then replicate it in the cloud as many times as needed. Often, the cloud testing provider will automate this process as well, saving you even more time.
Further, the substantial up-front costs of purchasing and maintaining machines that may be used only infrequently are eliminated with the cloud. Using the pay-as-you-go model, you can rapidly set up the testing infrastructure you need, when you need it, and only for as long as you need it. From a business standpoint, the cloud lowers total cost of ownership, while increasing flexibility.
How to Choose a Cloud Testing Solution
While all cloud load testing solutions will enable you to make use of the cloud in some way, comparatively few enable you to follow all of the best practices outlined here and capitalize on the opportunities that load testing with the cloud offers. A highway lets you travel faster than a side street, but the vehicle you use makes a big difference in how quickly and how reliably you arrive at your destination. In much the same way, load testing with the cloud offers clear advantages over traditional load testing, but the tools you use are even more important to the quality of your tests.
When considering a cloud testing solution, ask the following questions:
- To what extent does the solution integrate with the cloud?
- Will the solution enable us to conduct realistic tests?
- Does the solution support unified tests inside and outside the firewall?
- Is the solution easy to use, or will we spend weeks learning and configuring it?
- Does the solution include full-featured reporting and decision-making modules to help our team make the most of the results?
- Does the solution support the technologies we used to build the application?
Integration with the Cloud Platform
If you opt for a solution that is not integrated with one or more cloud platforms, you'll need to handle several time-consuming tasks on your own. First, you'll need to learn how each platform you'll be using works, including its limitations and constraints. Second, you'll need to build, test, and maintain your own virtual machine images.
Load testing solutions that offer integration with the cloud simplify and accelerate the steps needed to use the cloud infrastructure. These solutions offer one or more of the following advantages over non-integrated alternatives:
- Fast provisioning using preconfigured images. You can set up the infrastructure you need in minutes.
- Simplified security. All required protections are set up by default, including firewall, certificates, and encryption.
- Improved scalability. Leading load testing solution providers have negotiated with cloud providers to allow users of their software to employ more virtual machines (for the purpose of load testing) than are allowed by default.
- A unified interface for multiple cloud providers. Load testing solutions can hide provisioning and billing details, so you can take maximum advantage of the cloud in a minimum of time.
- Advanced test launching. You can save time and effort by defining and launching load generators in the cloud directly from the load testing interface.
- Advanced results reporting. Distinct results from each geographic region involved in the test are available for analysis.
Of course, few solutions include every one of these integration capabilities. Most solutions fall somewhere on the spectrum between little or no integration and full-featured integration with multiple cloud platforms.
Realistic Tests
Although testing from the cloud is, in many cases, more realistic than testing in the lab, simply moving to the cloud is not enough to ensure the most realistic tests. Real users often have access to less bandwidth than a load generator in a cloud data center. With a slower connection, the real user will have to wait longer than the load generator to download all the data needed for a web page or application. This has two major implications:
- Response times measured as-is from the cloud with virtually unlimited bandwidth are better than for real users. This can lead test engineers to draw the wrong conclusions, thinking that users will see an acceptable response time when in reality they will not.
- The total number of connections established with the server will increase, because on average, connections for real users will be open longer than connections for the load generator. This can lead to a situation in which the server unexpectedly refuses additional connections under load.
When choosing a load testing solution, look for one that provides a bandwidth simulation feature that limits bandwidth to ensure that the virtual users download the content of the web application at a realistic rate. This capability is particularly important when testing mobile applications, because mobile devices typically operate with less bandwidth than laptops and desktops.
Similarly, look for a solution that can parallelize requests. Modern browsers have the ability to parallelize HTTP requests as they retrieve a web page's static resources. These parallel requests require more connections with the server and can lengthen response times. Load testing solutions that do not parallelize requests are incapable of producing truly realistic performance tests for web applications.
Unified Lab Testing and Cloud Testing
Organizations that use only lab testing or only cloud testing are at a disadvantage. So are companies that use different tools for these activities.
A solution that supports lab testing enables test engineers to begin verifying the performance of an application internally, before it's ready to be made available via the Internet. This makes it possible to find and fix performance problems earlier in the application lifecycle. Such a solution also lowers cloud costs by enabling teams to conduct internal performance tests on existing hardware when available.
More important, a single solution that supports lab testing and cloud testing enables test engineers to reuse scripts for both kinds of tests, which saves time and effort. Reusing scripts also helps pinpoint performance problems that show up in cloud testing but not in internal tests. Last, a unified solution lowers licensing and training costs, and enables test engineers to use their existing skill set for both types of load testing.
Ease of Use
Testing, with its natural position toward the end of the application lifecycle, is almost always performed under tight time constraints. Delays in the requirements or implementation phases of a project usually result in less time for the test engineers to do their jobs. The pressure is on to deliver results as quickly as possible. This environment is no place for a tool that is difficult to use and configure.
In developing and executing performance tests (either internally or via the cloud) several key features go a long way in improving test engineer productivity, including support for:
- Easily launching the recording of a virtual user profile (preferably in one click).
- Defining advanced behaviors (with structures such as conditions and loops) via a graphical interface, complemented by the ability to use a scripting language (JavaScript, for example) for more complex cases.
- Automatic handling of dynamic parameters. This includes a set of correlation rules for well-known server frameworks. Ideally, the solution will dynamically detect and handle custom parameters specific to your application.
- Sharing common script parts, such as login or logout transactions, between multiple virtual user profiles.
- Comparing results. Sifting through results to determine the effect of a particular application or infrastructure change can be a time-consuming and arduous task without a dedicated comparison tool.
This is a not exhaustive list of usability features that can help test engineers work more efficiently; rather it should be considered as a baseline of minimum required capabilities for an efficient load testing solution.
Analysis, Monitoring, Scheduling, and Reporting
Recording a virtual user profile and playing it back to get raw results is only the beginning of an effective performance test. You need tools to help you analyze the results (in real time when possible), find the root cause of problems, and produce actionable results.
Real-time analysis enables you to detect and understand issues while the test is running. With real-time analysis, you don't have to wait for the test to finish detecting an issue, correcting it, and restarting the test. When testing in production, real-time analysis enables you abort a test if it threatens to affect the performance experienced by real users.
A comprehensive monitoring system is essential when you need to find the root causes of a problem. Predefined performance counters and threshold alerts based on industry best practices make it easy to define and analyze counters. For a nonintrusive solution that is easier to set up, look for a tool that supports agentless remote monitoring.
If your organization performs regular regression tests - and even if it doesn't - you may want to schedule performance tests and execute them automatically via the command line to complement functional testing. Regularly scheduled load tests with automatically generated reports can help organizations detect performance regression as soon as it starts to occur, which makes it easier to pinpoint and correct.
Last, reporting is a key capability and essential for communicating test results to others on the team, including management. Because reporting needs change, it is a good idea to keep your options open with a tool that supports multiple formats, including PDF, Word, HTML, and XML for integration with other systems.
Support for Web Technologies
To test Siebel applications or applications built with Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), Oracle Forms, or AJAX push technologies you need a load testing tool with built-in support for the technologies you're using. Without this specialized support it can be very difficult, if not impossible, to effectively test the performance of your applications.
Similarly, the load testing solution you choose should provide support for the authentication mechanism employed by your applications, whether it is Basic, Digest, NTLM, or Kerberos. Otherwise, you won't be able to set up a virtual user profile that tests the application as a real person would use it.
Summing It Up
The cloud is opening new opportunities to improve the scale and realism of load testing while saving time and lowering costs. When selecting a cloud testing solution, keep in mind that the primary factor in your success will not be simply the move to the cloud, but rather the tool you use and how well it uses cloud technology.
- Benefits of Load Testing in the Cloud (Part 1)
- Best Practices for Load Testing Mobile Applications | Part I
- Challenges and Best Practices for Load Testing with the Cloud
- Best Practices for Load Testing Mobile Applications | Part 2
- Testers Are from Mars, Developers Are from Venus
- Hip? Or Hype? Load and Performance Testing from the Cloud
- Considerations for Choosing a Cloud Load Testing Solution
- The Importance of Accurately Modeling User Interactions in Performance Testing
- Why "Holiday Mobile Performance" Is an Oxymoron
- Learning to Expect the Unexpected: Load Test Before It's Too Late


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They already had the bus, so how did we help? Oh you know, little things like Chromebooks, mobile wifi, a generator, a compressor, and some other supplies. We are pumped to fund applications from do gooders like Brittany and Colleen trying to make a difference in the education of our kids. Rock on, ladies.


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