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Server virtualization and cloud computing carry savings into 2010
Learn how a CIO saved more than $300,000 through server virtualization and cloud computing.
A combination of server virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications and, soon, cloud-based storage meant so much savings for Extra Space Storage Inc. in 2009 that a competitor is actually copying the IT model, CIO Bill Hoban said.
But for Extra Space Storage, a self-service storage space provider with 685 facilities and 2,500 employees, it has meant new functionality it couldn't have afforded otherwise, plus potential funding for other projects.
Extra Space Storage saved $100,000 to $150,000 on the cost of a new data center chiller when it introduced server virtualization. The company went from 63 servers down to 46 using VMware Inc.'s ESX and Hoban said he plans to reduce that number by another 31 servers in 2010.
Server consolidation also helped the Salt Lake City-based company avoid a costly UPS system upgrade.
Next up is the company's EMC storage array. The plan is to move all shared files on servers across departments onto the storage array -- and in turn have fewer virtual servers. The company will also set a cutoff point for stored customer information at 37 months instead of keeping such information indefinitely.
Customer information older than 37 months will eventually reside on a cloud service provider's infrastructure. Hoban said he's considering Amazon Web Services or Google Inc. as a provider for the customer-archived data, he said.
"With a storage array, that's a pretty expensive piece of equipment to hold [archived] data, when it could be better utilized for real-time data," Hoban said.
Extra Space Storage has already made a pretty extensive move into cloud computing through partnerships with several SaaS providers including Salesforce.com Inc. and Centershift Inc., and with an integration service called Cast Iron Cloud from Cast Iron Systems Inc. Cast Iron has preconfigured templates for integrating common SaaS business applications and processes.
In terms of cost savings, about $97,000 in third-party consulting fees for coding was avoided through Cast Iron's templated services. Another $75,000 in savings was gained by building the company's internal help desk ticketing system into Salesforce.com, versus renewing a contract with an existing help desk provider.
The savings are recognized at the executive level, which allowed Hoban to get the budget to upgrade the company's agreement with Salesforce.com to the Unlimited Edition.
"I think because we've saved money, it validates our cloud direction and a lot of other things we are working on," Hoban said. "I think we'll continue to find enough cost savings to absorb new projects."
Let us know what you think about the story; email: Christina Torode, Senior News Writer.


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• WNY Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Donovan American Legion Post, 3210 Genesee St., Cheektowaga, fly tying at 6 p.m., meeting at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday. DEC Fisheries Biologist Jim Markham will discuss "The Lake Erie Steelhead Fishery." Call 684-9523.
• Genesee County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Bergen Rod & Gun Club, 7:30 p.m., Tuesday. Call (585) 768-6278.
• Chautauqua County Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, Mayville Conservation Club, 7:30 p.m., Wednesday. Call Zen Olow (640-2776).
• Safe Act Informational Meeting, Langford Fire Hall, 3901 Langford Road, North Collins, 10 a.m.-noon, Saturday. Call 655-0951.
• West Falls Conservation Society 30 Target 3-D Archery Shoot, 55 Bridge St., open to the public, 7 a.m.-2 p.m., today. For this and other club events, call 655-5030 or 432-6035.
Shooting sports
• WNY Outdoor Practical Pistol League, Tonawanda Sportsmen's Club, 5657 Killian Road, North Tonawanda, 9 a.m., today. Call Bob Guyder (695-1725).
• WNY Practical Pistol League September Match, Tonawanda Sportsman's Club, Killian Road, Pendleton, outdoor range, registration begins at 8:30 a.m., Sept. 29. For a slot or more details, contact WNYPPL Group on Facebook or email email@example.com.
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• Scio Rod & Gun Club, 3978 Vandermark Road, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Sept. 30 and 8:30-done, Oct. 5. Register one hour before the first class.
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• Allied Sportsmen's Club Home Study Course, 12847 Clinton St., Alden, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Oct. 13. Call 474-0460 (Monday-Friday, 6-9 p.m.)
• Wolcott Guns, 3052 Walden Ave., Depew, 6-10:30 p.m., Oct. 14 and 16. Those interested can register in person at the range, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday.
• Hamburg Rod & Gun Club, Hickox Road, 6-10 p.m., Monday and Tuesday. Register in person at the club.
• Nick's Sporting Goods, 1211 Kenmore Ave., Kenmore, 6-10 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday. Call 875-9218.
• His Way Archers, 31 Water St., Jamestown, 6-10 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday. Register at first class.
• Falconer Rod & Gun Club, Buffalo St. Extension, 6-10 p.m., Wednesday and Friday. Register at first class.
• Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club, Mullett St., Dunkirk, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday. Call 366-3397 or 595-3917.
• Westfield Fish and Game Club, Ogden Road, 6-10 p.m., Oct. 4, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Oct. 5. Call 595-3916 after 1 p.m. or 735-6347 after 5 p.m.
• Security Weapons & Training Institute, 659 Ridge Road, Lackawanna: "8-Hour Annual In-Service Classes," 9 a.m., Wednesday and Thursday; and "NYS Pistol Permit Class," 10 a.m., Saturday. Call 822-1043 or go to swatstore.com.
• Firearms Training of WNY Classes: "NYS Pistol Permit Classes," VFW Post No. 1419, 2985 Lakeview Road, Hamburg, 6-9 p.m., Wednesday; Northtown Center, Williamsville, 6-9 p.m., Thursday; and Open Bible Baptist Church, 72 E. Niagara St., Tonawanda; and "multi-State Permit Class," Northtown Center, Williamsville, 5:45-9:45 p.m., Tuesday. Call 903-2558 or go to email@example.com.
• Jim Carr Classes: "NYS Pistol Permit Class," K&K Guns, Varysburg, 5:30 p.m., Monday; and "Utah-Arizona-Florida Pistol Permit Class," and K&K Guns, Varysburg, 8 a.m., Saturday. Call (585) 535-0248.
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• George Washington Club Super Sportsmen's Raffle, 2085 Niagara St., 1-5 p.m., Saturday. Call 873-1905.
• Niagara Frontier Gun Show, Knights of Columbus, 2735 Union Road, Cheektowaga, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday and 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Sept. 29. For details, go to nfgshows.com.
• Genesee County Ducks Unlimited Banquet, Terry Hills Restaurant and Banquet Facility, Batavia, 6 p.m., Wednesday. Call (585) 734-2141.
• Buffalo Audubon Society/Beaver Meadow Center, 1610 Welch Road, North Java Events: "Canoeing on the Beaver Meadow Pond," 1-3 p.m., Saturday; and "Family Walk at Beaver Meadow," 2 p.m., Sept. 29. Most events require registration. Call (585) 457-3228 (ext. 10) or go to buffaloaudubon.org.
• Tifft Nature Preserve, 1200 Fuhrmann Blvd. "Science of Our City at Canalside-Citizen Science," 3-6 p.m., Tuesday; "Wellness Walk," 10 a.m.-noon, Thursday; "Tifft Trek," 2-3:30 p.m., Sept. 29. Registration required for TNP events. For all programs and registration details, call 825-6397 (ext. 338).
• Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve (RWNP), 93 Honorine Drive, Depew, Programs: "After-School Escape (for grades K-5)," 4:30 p.m., Thursday; and "13th Annual Fall Festival," 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday (go to dec.ny.gov/education/68006). For registration details and all Environmental Education Center programs, call 683-5959.
• Niagara Frontier Region of New York State Parks Program: "End of Summer Devil's Hole Bike Ride," Devil's Hole State Park," 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., Sept. 21, call 282-5154.
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• Niagara Frontier Chapter of Adirondack Mountain Club Events: For all club events and extended weekend outings, visit adk-nfc.org.
• Buffalo Orienteering Club Event: "Ellicottville Adventure Run & Hike," Saturday. A 3-hour course begins at 1 p.m.; a 6-hour course starts at 11 a.m. Open to individuals or groups. Call 903-1180 or go to buffalo-orienteering.org.
• Hamburg Natural History Society Events: "Penn Dixie Exhibit at Reinstein Woods Nature Preserve," 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday; "Astronomy Night at Penn Dixie," 6:30 p.m., Saturday. Call 627-4560 or go to penndixie.org.
• Buffalo Ornithological Society and NYS Purple Martin Project "Purple Martin Fall Roost Site Field Trip," Buckhorn Island State Park, Grand Island, 5:45 p.m., Saturday.
• Letchworth State Park Interpretive Programs: "Animal Walk-Visit a Beaver Pond," 10 a.m., Wednesday; "Fiddler's Elbow Hike," 10 a.m., Thursday; "Nature Walk-Genesee Valley Canal Trail," 1 p.m., Saturday; and "Mushroom Foray," 10 a.m., Sept. 29. For all LSP programs, call (585) 493-3625.
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|Future Topics of Common Interest for EU and SEA Partners in Food Quality, Safety and Traceability
|MONTET Didier; ALLDRICK Anton; BORDIER Marion; BRESSON Herve; CHOKESAJJAWATEE Nipa; DURAND Noel; HA Thanh Toan; HAK Sok Chea; HARIYADI Purwiyatno; JINAP Selamat; KEERATIPIBUL Suwimon; LEEPIPATPIBOON Natchanun; LUONG Hong Quang; MARVIN Hans; MEDOC Jean-Michel; MOUSTIER Paule; NITISINPRASERT Sunee; PHAN The Dong; POMS Roland; PRASERTVIT Saiyuod; RAKSHIT Sudip K.; RUANGWISES Suthep; SHAMSUDIN Mad Nasir; SIRIWATWECHAKUL Wanwimol; SPARRINGA Roy A.; STOUTEN Piet; STROKA Joerg; TAHARNKLAEW Rutjawate; TAYAPUTCH Nuansri; TONGPIM Saowanit; VALYASEVI Ruud; VITHAYARUNGRUANGSRI Jongkolnee; SALETES Sloan
|QUALITY ASSURANCE AND SAFETY OF CROPS & FOODS vol. 2 no. 4 p. 158-164
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ProsEasy-add router system covers your entire house with Wi-Fi. Very simple setup.
ConsCan get expensive for larger homes. App and router customization options are very limited at the time of this writing.
Bottom LineFocused on exhaustive coverage and super-simple setup, use, and expandability, Eero is worth a look if you have a house where all-area Wi-Fi connectivity is a problem.
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The France-sized but God-forsaken southwestern province of Pakistan elected a new chief minister who has got the least amount of votes in Pakistan's poll history, 544, in the last 2013 elections.
The election of Abdul Qudoos Bezinjo took place after former chief minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, who had killed his eldest brother Sardar Rasul Baksh Zehri but never got arrested nor tried, was asked to resign amid charges of fabulous corruption and ineptitude.
The new chief minister launched his twitter account this month and as of Saturday night had 106 followers while he is following 15: the Chinese embassy in Pakistan, the deputy chief of mission at the Chinese mission Lijian Zhao and the corps commander of Balochistan, Lt Gen Asim Bajwa.
It was apparent Zehri went afoul of the soldiers calling the shots in Balochistan when he went out of the way to secure the release of family members of two militant leaders, Dr Allah Nazar and Aslam Baloch in November. The outgoing chief minister was a close friend of Cardif-based Baloch "king without a crown," Khan of Kalat Suleman Daud.
A 14-member cabinet was also sworn in but surprisingly they did not include any members of the National Party, a party which has the reputation of getting power and perks at any cost and is headed by ports and shipping minister Senator Mir Hasil Bizenjo. The main reason could be the Sardar Aslam Bizenjo, who many believes is the real chief of the NP, cannot serve in a cabinet that is headed by someone who is not equal or siyaal.
Qudoos Bezinjo's grandfather Abdul Kareem Bizenjo was gunned down by Sardar Sherdil Tumrani, chief of a Bizenjo sub-tribe, after he refused to pay a tribal tax called shashak, or one sixth of produce from the land, to Aslam Bizenjo's father Sardar Faqeer Mohammed Bizenjo.
Qudoos Bizenjo is being called "cheat minister" by online critics of his ascendancy to the top civilian post in Balochistan, even though the real shots are called by the corps commander of the Southern Command, Lt gen Asim Bajwa, former head of the Inter Serbvices Public Relations.
Bizenjo is the third chief minister in less four and half years. After forced annexation of Balochistan by Pakistan in March 1948, balochistan for the the first time had a chief minister, Sardar Ataullah Mengal, but his government was dismissed nine months later on february 13, 1973.
Overall the France-sized occupied territory had 16 chief ministers, of whom only two completed their full terms Jam Yusuf Jamali (December 2002 to November 2007) and Nawab Aslam Raisani (April 2008 to January 2013).
The longest seriving chief minister of the province was an army general, Lt Gen Rahimuddin Khan (July 1977 to April 1985, during the military regime of late Gen Ziaul Haq.


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Maple Syrup Taste Test
Whether you like to drizzle it on pancakes, pour it over waffles, or drench French toast with it, maple syrup is an indispensable part of a delicious breakfast.
But, with so many varieties out there how do you know which one to choose? We tasted 13 of the top brands of the sticky, sweet, amber hued syrups and came up with a few favorites.
Now, we know that there's a great divide amongst the serious syrup fans. On one side are the purists. Those who will settle for nothing but 100% pure, real, maple gold tapped from the chilly trees up north. On the other side are the nostalgics. Those who swear by the thick, dark pancake syrups that remind them of happy childhood mornings. We just couldn't choose a side, so we tasted both!
Find out which were our favorites in the results of our maple and pancake syrup taste test.
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It's been a busy few days. I took the boys and my niece Logan to see "Night at the Museum" on Saturday. We loved it! Ian was a little scared at first, but then he started to get the humor and relaxed.
Later, the boys and I babysat my niece Emma. What a trip that little girl is! She makes them laugh every time they're together. At one point in the evening, I was trying to figure out how to find Sesame Street On-Demand and I heard the kids talking in the kitchen. I went to investigate, and there were the three of them, sitting on the floor and snacking on chips from my sister's pantry.
I adore my nieces. Emma is no exception. She has the greatest personality and the most gorgeous blue eyes! She calls me "Emmie's Een". I love it. :)
Okay, one last thing to share. :) This is one of the layouts I did for this month's Scrapper's Bliss DT uploads. These are all of my nieces, aka "my girls."
Hope you have a terrific night!


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Climb Mt Kilimanjaro- Machame Route
Climb Mt Kilimanjaro- Machame Route
As the highest point in Africa, and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world, Mt Kilimanjaro is rightfully one of the continent's most iconic landmarks. Also known as the "Whiskey Route", the Machame Route attracts roughly 50% of all climbers, and offers incredible views of the Tanzanian countryside, and Kilimanjaro National Park.
What makes Mt Kilimanjaro special is that technical climbing skills are not needed to reach the summit. A good level of fitness, the right clothing and a fondness for camping are all that's needed to climb to the icy peaks 5,895m above ground.
You'll get to spend your first and last night in the Moshi Springlands Hotel, located ideally close to the mountain, it is the preferred base for many climbers. The comforts of a soft bed and a warm shower cannot be overstated after completing your journey.
Climbing Kilimanjaro Highlights
- This might be the most obvious highlight, but reaching the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro is a truly special moment. For people of all levels of climbing experience, looking across the vast plains of Tanzania knowing you are standing above an entire continent is unforgettable.
- Giving yourself time to acclimatise to the altitude is hugely important. The Machame Route has a very high success rate, which is impressive considering how many people take it each year.
- Planning your climb around the time of the full moon can make the experience even more special. It not only makes your summit day easier to have brighter nights, but having the moon shining on your back as you climb makes for some fantastic memories.
Best time to visit
February or October: Either of these months will have the best weather. February is the ideal month to combine it with seeing the iconic wildebeest migration in the nearby Serengeti National Park as part of a Tanzania safari.
What's included
- Meet and greet services Kilimanjaro Airport
- Transfers as specified
- Use of tented accommodation on the mountain
- Meals on the mountain prepared by climb crew
- Services of an experienced English speaking mountain guide
- Porters to carry backpack/rucksack and camping equipment
- Park fees, camping fees, mountain rescue fees and government taxes
What's excluded
- Return flights & taxes to Kilimanjaro which will be priced on application to ensure the best fares.
- Visa for Tanzania; $50.- per person payable on arrival
- Travel/medical/baggage insurance
- Tips for porters and mountain guide; suggested $240.- per person trekking
- Climbing gear including goggles, walking stick, flashlight/torch, bed roll, etc. (though these are available to rent)
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Our opinion
Andre - "I've climbed Kili twice myself, and it is truly the challenge of a lifetime. Because it's a non-technical climb, it's open to most people of reasonable fitness. Towering over the plains of Kenya and Tanzania, those who reach Uhuru Peak can see with their own eyes the dawn rising over Africa."
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These Punny Valentines include:
- Being your friend is a piece of cake! Could pair this with homemade cupcakes.
- Good friends stick together! Could pair this with a sticky snack like a slice of homemade marshmallow cookie pizza.
- We're good together! Could pair this with homemade cookies and a small carton of milk.
- You're one smart cookie! Could pair this with cookies.
- Donut forget how special you are! Could pair this with a small bag of mini donuts.
- You are eggs-traordinary! Could pair this with Easter egg candies.
- You are purrfect & I ain't kitten! Could pair this with fish shaped crackers or gummy candies.
For your significant other:
- I love you watts! Could pair this with some small electronic gift.
- You donut know how much I love you! Could pair this with a gift card to the local donut & coffee shop.
- You're bacon me crazy! Could pair this with breakfast in bed.
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During my audio commentary for Bava's LISA AND THE DEVIL, to be released on October 23 as part of the MARIO BAVA COLLECTION VOLUME 2, I note -- as Lisa (Elke Sommer) exits the antiques shop and gets lost in a series of backstreets -- that some of the locations recall the labyrinthine passages of Karmingen, the fictional village where KILL, BABY... KILL! (1966) takes place. In his audio commentary for THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM, producer Alfredo Leone remarks that all of these early scenes were filmed in Toledo, Spain, where the mural of the Devil carrying away the dead is seen by Lisa's tour group.
On the basis of Alfredo's remarks, I scrapped from my book manuscript (to the best of my knowledge) any reference I had once made to the possibility that some of these set-ups might have been filmed in Faleria, the ancient Italian village where KILL, BABY... KILL! was made. As I recorded my commentary, I couldn't resist adding a mention of the similarity, and after watching the film again on my preview disc, I was driven to pull out the two films and look for shared points of compass.
The above shot is a frame grab of one such supposedly Spanish location from LISA that has always jogged a little KILL, BABY... KILL! muscle in my brain. Now, compare it with the following shot:
This is a fairly famous image from KILL, BABY... KILL! featuring Giacomo Rossi-Stuart and Erika Blanc. The location is obviously the same, albeit with Bava's peerless knack for atmosphere applied to it, making every shadow pregnant with the unseen presence of the ball-bouncing spectre Melissa Graps. We know for a fact that KILL, BABY... KILL! was not shot in Spain.
Here is Elke Sommer, passing through the same location in LISA AND THE DEVIL, filmed seven years later. Not in the nearly 30 years I've been acquainted with both films have I ever consciously matched the location shared by these two shots.
And here is Lamberto Bava revisiting Faleria more than 30 years after LISA AND THE DEVIL, in David Gregory's "Kill, Bava, Kill!" featurette -- intended for release on Dark Sky Films' regrettably withdrawn KILL, BABY... KILL! DVD. I rather prefer that stone wall with the green moss clinging to it, don't you?
Also in LISA AND THE DEVIL I found this shot, which is another setting I felt I had seen more recently. It turns out it was also photographed in Faleria, on the street outside their San Giuliano L'Ospitaliero Church. This particular set-up doesn't appear in KILL, BABY... KILL!, at least to the best of my notice, but the church's bell tower memorably does.
Certainly, I'm not blaming Alfredo for not remembering a little side trip to Faleria during the making of LISA AND THE DEVIL thirty-some years ago. How could I, when these shared locations weren't obvious to me after countless viewings of both films over a period of decades? Also, as you can see, there's a world of difference in how these locations can look in different times of day and also over the years.
Finally, here's Lamberto Bava again, rediscovering the location in the David Gregory featurette. He notes, a few moments later, that the crew of KILL, BABY... KILL! used to take their meals on the steps outside that church on the very cold evenings of the production.
Certainly, I'm not blaming Alfredo for not remembering a little side trip to Faleria during the making of LISA AND THE DEVIL thirty-some years ago. How could I, when these shared locations weren't obvious to me after countless viewings of both films over a period of decades? Also, as you can see, there's a world of difference in how these locations can look in different times of day and also over the years.
The confirmation of recurring Faleria settings in LISA AND THE DEVIL is actually significant, because the film originated from a screenplay co-authored by Roberto Natale and Romano Migliorini, the authors of KILL, BABY... KILL! After finally confirming the logistical connection I long intuited between the two films with these screen grabs, my imagination began to accelerate and still more connections between the two films began to suggest themselves. The Baroness Graps (played by Giovanna Galletti) dies at the end of KILL, BABY... KILL! and the Contessa (played by Alida Valli) in LISA AND THE DEVIL is blind and dies differently... but are they not, in some inexplicable way, the same character? They look and dress much the same, and both are noblewomen who never leave their morbid, secluded villas. Is the Contessa's "shrine of death" villa not an echo of Villa Graps? Are not both women doomed by their unhealthy attachment to their children? And, as I ask in my LISA commentary -- in the movie's closing minutes, as Lisa emerges as a ghost from the ruins of the villa with a ball in her hand -- might not Lisa be short for... Melissa?
These are discoveries and ideas that didn't occur to me until long after finishing my book, so I am evidently still learning about my subject, even after writing close to 800,000 words. I can assure you that you'll learn some new things about LISA AND THE DEVIL from my audio commentary for the DVD, even if you've read my chapter on the film in MARIO BAVA ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK... and vice versa. But it's only now that I have confirmed for myself this spatial relationship between the two films, and I'm glad to have an additional venue like Video WatchBlog, where I can share these eurekas with like-minded folk immediately.


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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Always Hollyhocks
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- umichka said...
So lovely card, Angela! I like your coloring and the frame. And the entire layout looks so nice!!
And I want to ask you to tell me more about your catalog in evernote - how does it look and how you keep there your supplies))
- April 27, 2017 at 12:31 AM
Oh how pretty! My grandma used to have holly hocks. I always considered them an old fashioned flower because of this. Anyway, your card is so rich in color and so pretty. Today it is cold and dreary with some rain and wind so this is a good reminder of spring. Your coloring always amazes me!
Chris R. from Iowa
- April 27, 2017 at 9:34 AM
- Wanda Cullen said...
What a beautiful take on the colors! Love your hollyhocks! Thanks for playing along with us at CTD!
- April 27, 2017 at 10:24 PM
- Renee Moran said...
I love these flowers! So pretty
- April 28, 2017 at 12:40 PM
- Teresa Kline said...
hello! what an amazing card, luv the beautiful flowers! I am so glad you played along with us at simon says stamp wednesday challenge!
blog-paperie blooms
sparkle & shine, kindness *~*
- April 28, 2017 at 6:23 PM
- Kelly S. said...
This is absolutely gorgeous! Wow, it definitely does not look like this was your first time with masking, the hollyhocks are stamped and colored perfectly!
- April 30, 2017 at 8:06 AM
- Pam Spicer said...
Love your card Angela. Your coloring is just beautiful!!
- April 30, 2017 at 8:47 AM
- Cindy Boney said...
Fantastic card!! Love the repeated stamping, and your design is perfection!
- April 30, 2017 at 7:34 PM
- Karen D. said...
so pretty...I love hollyhocks.
- May 6, 2017 at 8:15 AM


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U.S. Brick Sales Remain Steady in 2001; Near-Term Outlook is Uncertain
UK-based Hanson plc also saw sales remain relatively unchanged from the previous year. A slight (3.9%) decline in volume, due primarily to reductions in residential demand in North Carolina, one of the company's key markets, was offset by a 4% increase in brick prices. The company's other major U.S. markets for brick, Texas and Ontario, both held up well—especially Ontario, where demand outstripped supply for most of 2001.
After reporting lower U.S. brick sales in fiscal 2001 due to a softening of the market and a severe winter, Australia-based Boral Ltd. posted gains of 2.5% for the six months ending December 31, 2001, also citing flat volumes and increased selling prices. (The company's fiscal year ends in June.)
At least one company saw an increase in sales volumes as well as pricing. Brampton Brick Ltd., one of Canada's largest brick producers, said that shipments increased 19.4% as housing starts in the company's major markets of Ontario and Quebec grew to 101,000 units, up 5.0% from 2000 levels. Brampton's new state-of-the-art brick production line, which came on stream late in 2000, helped the company meet the increased demand.
International markets for brick were mixed. Housing starts fell by 9% in Austria, 10% in Poland and 5% in Hungary while rising 6% in the Czech Republic. The market in Slovakia also showed modest growth in 2001. The housing market in Germany slipped from a relatively robust condition in the middle of 2000 and was depressed throughout 2001. This also affected many nearby countries, such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark, which rely heavily on exports to Germany. Demand in Israel also remained low due to the current political and economic situation there.
In Australia, the building and construction industry spiraled downward after the boom that preceded the 2000 Olympics. In the second half of 2000, construction activity dropped 26% below the peak of the cycle, which occurred in the first half of the year. However, a recovery in this sector was beginning to emerge by the end of 2001.
While most companies are optimistic about a global economic recovery in the second half of 2002, many are cautious about the outlook for the brick industry in the near term. In the U.S. and Canada, a slight decline in the housing industry is expected to occur in the second half of 2002 and early 2003 and may negatively affect volume shipments. However, long-term forecasts for population growth are favorable and should lead to increased demand for housing in the future.
A recovery in the German market is not expected in 2002, and general levels of construction activity in Israel also look set to remain relatively low. In Australia, however, volumes are expected to continue their gradual recovery during 2002, led by housing and infrastructure spending, with commercial and industrial activity likely to be more subdued.


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Tortoise and the Hare 10K
Date: April 13, 2019
Location: Lions Park, Salisbury, MA
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Description: The 9th Annual Tortoise and the Hare 10k is a fundraiser for the development continuation of the Salisbury Parks and Recreation's Partridge Brook Park. This event also includes a 1 mile kids fun run and offers a 3 mile walk. The 10K Run is a mix of trail & road, while the walk is contained all within the Salisbury Rail Trail.
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Kimball Electronics Statement on Conflict Minerals
On August 22, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") adopted final rules to implement reporting and disclosure requirements as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act requiring certain public companies to disclose their use of conflict minerals originating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the other Covered Countries.
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Kimball Electronics, Inc. Conflict Minerals Policy Statement
Minerals mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries may be making their way into the electronics industry supply chain. Some mining operations in the DRC have been linked to poor labor and environmental practices, and there is evidence that some mining and transportation of minerals in the Eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are funding conflict in the country by funding illegal armed groups. As part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) passed legislation which requires U.S. companies to report on the origin of these conflict minerals including tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold.
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Please make sure you select the top option (number1: IBM Data Server Runtime Client)
Have you successfully tested your connection string before? Here are some ideas on how to do that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3910364/quick-ways-to-test-ole-db-connection-string
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- The tools you can use depend on the system/OS you are on.
- The connection itself is standardized, or there might be minor differences on what connection strings different systems will accept.
- The actual content (e.g. SQL query) will definitely need to be specific to the type of system you connect to (DB2 vs. Oracle vs. MSSQL).
If these testing methods fail, it is likely that your connection string is the problem. In such cases you could try to google for specific system's connection string syntax, e.g.: https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/nipuntomar/connection-strings-for-ibm-db2/
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Hold your mobile phone at a high angle, position your thumb over the button, turn you best side, give a bright smile and take a selfie! This is how "normal" people take selfies.
But people who are crazily addicted to selfies and we don't need to tell you much about it! Scroll down to see it for yourself.
Although some of the pictures are photoshopped but their results are incredible and filled with madness!
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Airbus CEO Fabrice Bregier launched a fierce attack against the tax breaks Boeing gets from Washington State and is encouraging European governments to react fast.
The day before the Berlin Air Show (ILA) opens, Bregier complained about the $8.7 billion in support Boeing negotiated for its latest wide-body program.
"I have a problem and that's the conditions under which the 777X has been launched," Bregier told reporters on Monday. He pointed out that the tax breaks in his view are higher than the total development costs of the program. "But there are rules in this business and tax breaks are illegal."
The so-called Airbus ministers are scheduled to meet at the show on Tuesday to discuss the state of the aerospace industry in general and of Airbus in particular. They will also meet with Bregier for an update on the situation of Europe's largest aircraft manufacturer.
The Airbus CEO made clear that he expects a European reaction, but he does not see the merits of another dispute in the World Trade Organization. "That will take ten years and by that time the 777X will have long entered service."
Instead he –- half jokingly -– proposed that Europe has to come up with a similar system of tax incentives around the main Airbus sites in Toulouse, Hamburg or Filton to replicate what he believes has been done in the U.S.
"We can't face competitors that are heavily subsidized," Bregier pointed out. "It is just not acceptable."
The Airbus CEO also conceded that the 777X will likely force Airbus to invest in upgrades for the A380. "We will face the 777X challenge after 2020. The A380 will have to evolve as well as technologies evolve," he said without specifying what upgrades exactly he has in mind.
Emirates, the A380's most important customer, has been demanding a re-engining program for the aircraft for some time, but Airbus has not yet committed to such a project. Airbus itself has been pointing at the option of configuring the main deck with an 11-abreast economy cabin. That would add another 30-40 seats.
"They (Boeing) will become a competitor to the A380," Bregier admitted. Stretching the 777, thus allowing for more passenger seats, was "good industrial strategy" in his opinion. But he remains confident the A380 has a place in the industry: "If the aircraft was obsolete, Emirates would not have ordered another 50."
Airbus seems to be moving nearer to a firm launch decision for the proposed A330neo -– the re-engined version of the A330. "We are studying it. I'm more optimistic than in January when I discarded the idea," Bregier said.
At the same time he cautioned that "it is not as straightforward as it looks." He wants "solid industrial studies" to be completed before committing to the project.
Bregier estimated Airbus would have to invest in excess of $1 billion if it made the choice. He stressed that Airbus started studying the A320neo in 2009 and took more than a year to firmly commit to a launch.
In the A350 program, "we are globally in line with our plans," he said. The first aircraft will be delivered to Qatar Airways at the end of the year, and the fifth test aircraft is expected to join the fleet in June. The first four test aircraft have reached a combined 1,716 test hours so far.
But "it (the A350 program) is still difficult and will probably remain difficult for a couple of years," Bregier said, while pointing at the planned production ramp-up that will follow entry into service.
The A350 will also pay a visit to ILA, with one of the test aircraft on static display until Tuesday afternoon.


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comScore put out their 2010 Canada Digital Year in Review report last week and I quickly rifled through the first 30 pages to get to the good stuff, video usage! It turns out that Canadians really dig online video. I wonder if there's a video about the differences in bacon, Canadian bacon and back bacon, I bet that would be popular. No offense Canadians, it just spawned from a discussion Mark and I had with Luke Davies from LeanIn (they're Canadian eh) about bacon on a recent conference call.
Bacon aside for the moment, Canadians chewed through an astounding about of online video in Q4 2010 with more than 6.6 billion video views in multimedia sites alone. It's a strange classification but I imagine it's the YouTubes, MetaCafes and Dailymotions of the world since the other categories are Music, News, TV, Sports and Humor. Now it seems like comScore only started tracking online video usage across the granite shield in Q4 of 2010 as all of the numbers are for that period, but, it's still better than nothing.
The largest growth sector for online video in the Great White North was Music which makes me wonder if that's a Beiber Effect statistic what with 279% growth and some 315 million views (up from just 85M in Q4 2009).
Q4 2010 amounted to some 8 billion video views across the board. Not too shabby for a country of only around 35 million.
In the quarter, 46% of videos were consumed by those 35 or older, who made up 52% of unique viewers in this totally awesome pie chart that reminded me of Trivial Pursuit.
Canadians, on average, watched some 267 videos in Q4 and over 20 hours per month. That's more than the US averages in time spent which is impressive. Now that could have all been hockey, or it could be Sh!t My Dad Says which stars well-known and beloved William Shatner, who is Canadian. It certainly wasn't Alan Thicke re-runs or cameos (who composed the Joker's Wild game show theme along with Big Wheels theme for Wheel of Fortune…who knew?! Also, Different Strokes and The Facts of Life, man he is a superstar!).
How do I know people aren't watching his re-runs? The major online viewing demographic in Canada was 18-24-year-olds who aren't old enough to even know what show Alan Thicke was once the father in (no not How I Met Your Mother, that was a one shot cameo, but Growing pains 1985-1992).
Doing the math on both charts we get an average of 15.5 hours per viewer. How I did that? I took the time spent for each demographic and multiplied it by the total percentage of video viewed to get a weighted average and then combined it all for 15.5 hours. If you were to take the five demographic viewing times above and average them you would get 15.24 which would be average viewing per demographic technically.
Overall, what did comScore have to say about online video in Canada? Not much:
Video permeated the online space in 2010 and will continue to do so in 2011. Not only are users streaming their favorite TV series and movies online, but advertisers and social networking sites are reaching their audience through videos as well.
Well that's very…generic. Wouldn't you agree? Then again, they did only track it for the last quarter of the year from the numbers available in the report.


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There is a lot of available support after stroke, in the UK, through agencies and charities. Here you will find a selection of some of the more well-known. However, if you cannot find what you are looking for, please feel free to ask our friendly team for some help in getting you to the right place for support.
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Stroke Association
Stroke Association is the leading charity in the UK changing the world for people affected by stroke. You can contact the Stroke Association whether you're a stroke survivor, a member of your family or a friend has had a stroke, you work with people affected by stroke, or you want to know how to prevent a stroke.
Helpline now on 0303 3033 100
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The Helpline is open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm. We are open on Thursday between 9.00am and 3.30pm.
Local stroke support groups
Use the link below and enter your postcode. You can find support for carers, long term support, communication, general information and support, stroke clubs and more. You can search by category of support you are looking fior and also by postcode on the link below:
Cruse Bereavement Care
Telephone number 0208 939 9530.
Website: http://www.cruse.org.uk/
National bereavement organisation offers comprehensive service of counselling by trained and selected people, advice on practical matters and opportunities for social contact. Monthly magazine and other literature. Many branches offer social contact and practical advice. Also training for those who work with the bereaved.
British Association for Counselling
Telephone number 0870 443 5252.
Website:/ www.bacp.co.uk
Dedicated to the promotion of counselling and maintenance of standards and training and practice, providing information on training and lists of local counsellors on receipt of a S.A.E.
Compassionate Friends
Helpline number 08451 232 304
Website: http://www.tcf.org.uk/
National organisation offering friendship and support to grieving parents and families who have lost a child of any age through illness, accident, murder or suicide. Support in the form of befriending rather than counselling is offered by bereaved parents and/or siblings. They offer a postal library, newsletter, personal contacts, support groups and a range of specific leaflets.
The Samaritans
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Website: www.samaritans.org.uk
The Money Advice Service
For advice on benefits entitlement and financial matters, we recommend you seek further information via your local authority website for local support services or at The Money Advice Service:
Age UK benefits advice for older people
Age UK is for those over State Pension age and living in the area covered by the local branch. Some local branches of Age UK offer a free, confidential benefits advice service. Practical assistance to make sure you're getting all the benefits to which you are entitled. They can provide advice by telephone, face-to-face and home visits and help with completing forms.
Telephone the Age UK Helpline: 0800 169 6565 (8am-7pm, 365 days a year)
Website: Age UK website
Gingerbread Single Parent Helpline
Gingerbread provides advice and practical support for single parents, including advice on benefits and tax credits.
You can call free on 0808 802 0925 (Monday: 10am to 6pm, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 10am to 4pm, Wednesday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-7pm)
Debt advice
If you're worried about keeping up with debt repayments there is lots of free, confidential help and advice available. Find out more by following the link below:
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Housing advice
If you have rent or mortgage arrears or you're worried about losing your home, Shelter offers confidential advice on a range of housing issues.
- Visit the Shelter England website
- Visit the Shelter Scotland website
- Visit the Shelter Cymru website
- Visit the Shelter Northern Ireland website
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I speak of Vic Mazziotti, Northampton County's Director of Fiscal Affairs, professional bean counter. He saved the county a half mil soon after he came on board over its IT contract. He advised the county to rebid a second IT contract, which saved another $1.8 million.
He's at it again. Yesterday, he told county council's operations committee about a phone study he recently had performed. The net result is a savings of $22 thousand per month for exactly the same service currently enjoyed by the county. In addition, the county is eligible for $47 thousand credit for over billed service. If his plan (which consists of three separate contracts) is approved by the full county council, it will save Northampton County $311 thousand over the course of one year.
Vic Mazziotti, all by himself, is worth about one mil in county taxes. That's about how much he has saved taxpayers since his arrival each year. But no trumpet has heralded that simple fact.
In fact, Morning Call columnist extraordinaire Bill White claims John Stoffa's cabinet is "as glitzy as meatloaf, and largely invisible." And get this? They actually loved that name. Really! That's pretty much how they view their jobs.
Instead of the Machiavellian interest you usually find in local politicos, Stoffa's cabinet is more interested in doing its job. Every cabinet member attends every council meeting, a sign of respect not often reciprocated by council members, especially Charles Dertinger. Fiscal Affairs Director Mazziotti saves money while actually increasing services. Director of Administration John Conklin, against all odds, was able to have a very thorough examination of voting machines conducted within a span of days. Bill Hillanbrand has quietly restored confidence in an office rocked by an embezzlement scandal. Steve DeSalva cut cost overruns in half and finally eliminated courthouse dust. Karl Longenbach, the county's solicitor, should really be on the bench. He has kept his client out of court as much as humanly possible, the best evidence of a good lawyer.
Right now, meatloaf is just what the county needs.
Meatloaf is always better the second day.


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State Codes and StatutesStatutes > West-virginia > 16 > 16-6-8
§16-6-8. Annual inspection of hotels and restaurants; powers and duties of director of health.
The director of health shall inspect or cause to be inspected, at least once annually, every hotel and restaurant in the state. For that purpose he, or any person designated by him, shall have the right of entry and access at any reasonable time to inspect kitchens where food is prepared, pantry and storage rooms pertaining thereto, dining rooms, lunch counters, and every place where articles pertaining to the serving of the public are kept or prepared. The said director shall prohibit the use of any article not in keeping with cleanliness and good sanitary conditions. He shall also have the right to enter any and all parts of a hotel at all reasonable hours to make such inspection, and every person in the management or control thereof shall afford free access to every part of the hotel and render all assistance necessary to enable the director to make full, thorough and complete examination thereof, but the privacy of any guest in any room occupied by him shall not be invaded without his consent.


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Several groups make up the larger LGBT community, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two spirited, queer and questioning youth and adults.
The Health Unit's Sexual Health Services administration, nurses and doctors are committed to providing confidential, comprehensive and up-to-date counselling and STI testing for the LGBT community.
The following are a list of credible LGBT resources for community members, family and allies to keep themselves informed of various health issues.
Our Agenda - Gay Men's Sexual Health Alliance (GMSH)
Lesbian Gay Bi Trans Youth Line
PFLAG Canada


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Decades of experience have made it possible for us to stimulate the world of internet marketing. The core of our service is based on the improvement of the Search Engine Visibility, improvement of Social Media Marketing. These are two important criteria of renovating the website traffic. Our mission is to create something positive in the internet marketing field so that it can create some positive impact on unmatched business reputation for us.
Native mobile apps are likely what come to mind when you think of apps. A native app is one that is developed to be 'native' to a specific platform : Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Windows Phone or BlackBerry OS. The principal disadvantage? If you wish to build and launch your app on more than one platform (e.g. a chat messenger) you almost need to start each one from scratch. Let's look at each platform more closely.
If building for Apple's iOS, your developer will need to use the Objective-C language one of the hardest programming languages to master, even for professionals with experience. The good news is that Apple provides its developer community with very good tools. The main one, Xcode, is the tool Our developer will use to create your native app.
Building for Android requires Java. Java is a more common language than Objective-C and has less of a learning curve, so it's not as challenging to find proven developers. However, the tools available to create apps for Android including the most popular tool, Eclipse aren't as good as Xcode; but a new tool called Android Studio could eventually deliver the same quality of development support as Apple's tool.
Windows Phone, while still more popular than BlackBerry, is back in third place. However, it's strongly supported by Microsoft and is particularly worth considering if building an enterprise app. Apps for Windows Phone are made using the C# or VB.NET languages. Microsoft's Visual Studio is a great tool for building an app it's probably the most developer-friendly of the three main platforms.


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Thursday, September 17, 2009
37 Vintage Board Game Commercials from the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s
Just testing out YouTube's play-list embed feature. Enjoy. Don't miss "Mystery Date". Clip four has several commercials together. And yes, "Ball Buster" was a real game, near as I can tell.
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- Dug said...
Hilarious. I owned Battling Tops, and of course Life. And who cares about Ball Buster when you have Bang Box? Aside from a lot more movie and franchise tie-ins, I'm not that sure that the American game mass market is any different, mostly stuff to teach kids to fight and consume.
- September 17, 2009 at 11:22 PM
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University ditches Dell after service snafu
Poor customer service and a "lack of interest" from a major systems vendor led researchers at the University at Buffalo to opt for an IBM SAN over a Dell-EMC hardware expansion.
Researching the structure and behavior of human proteins presents super problems that require a supercomputer and a monumental amount of storage capacity to solve. So when the University at Buffalo's (UB) main technology partner, Dell, "lost interest" in it, UB turned instead to IBM for a computing cluster and SAN storage to beef up its infrastructure.
Dr. Jeffrey Skolnick, director of the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics at UB, spends his days trying to unlock the secrets of life. His ultimate goal is to aid in the development of more targeted drugs to treat diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, AIDS and multiple sclerosis. But analyzing protein structures and mapping molecules was monopolizing the Center's 4652 processors and 15 TB of EMC SAN storage 24 hours a day.
"Our systems are completely full 100% of the time," he said. At the time of our interview, Skolnick had 5400 jobs in the queue and 3944 of his 4000 active processors were running jobs (the IBM systems are still being tested). "This thing is pegged twenty-four-seven. That's why we needed the additional 542 processors from IBM."
Interoperability was a major concern because the majority of the Center's legacy systems are Dell servers backed by storage arrays from EMC Corp. Adding the new IBM gear was a necessary "expansion" of the Center's IT resources.
Skolnick signed a deal with IBM instead of buying more Dell and EMC systems because Dell "lost interest in the installation. Unfortunately, the level of customer service and technical support that Dell provided was not what I had hoped for," said Skolnick. However, he stressed that while his EMC arrays were purchased through Dell, he has never had a problem with EMC's customer service. "Our interactions with EMC were extremely positive. This is by no means a reflection on EMC."
The new IBM systems will enhance and not replace the existing Dell and EMC hardware. "Our Dell and EMC systems have another year of good life," said Skolnick.
Before the Center signed on with IBM, Skolnick's team established a tough product screening process. "We obviously looked at the standard cast of characters. The vendors had to provide us a working architecture to test and if they didn't they were immediately disqualified. IBM passed muster.
The new supercomputer, capable of a peak performance of more than 1.32 TeraFlops, will consist of a cluster of 266 IBM eServer BladeCenter HS20 systems running Red Hat Advance Server 2.1 Linux, each with two 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processors and 1 GB of memory. Seven IBM xSeries 345 Intel processor-based servers connect to 5 TB of IBM TotalStorage FAStT700 storage servers to house the Center's large volumes of biological and research data. The supercomputer forms the basis of the IBM eServer Cluster 1350, a pre-packaged and tested supercluster.
Skolnick has two people maintaining his massive IT infrastructure and no one person dedicated to storage management. Though Skolnick did not disclose how much the IBM hardware cost, he said "the system had to be as automated and easy to manage as possible and it had to [fit] into my budget."
Although the Center's IT budget is "on the order of millions of dollars," Skolnick said cost was not the overriding factor in his buying decision. He said IBM's involvement in Life Sciences was compelling. Subsequently, IBM has entered into a research partnership with Skolnick's group. IBM will share computing algorithms for discovering patterns and correlations among protein data in exchange for Skolnick's input on future IBM technologies. He said "they have no commitment to actually listen to what I have to say, but it's an opportunity to offer an end user opinion [on where IBM is going with its architecture]."
IBM package aims to capitalize on compliance fears
Hospitals treat data with IP storage
IBM promises more integrated management


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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
More Developers Are Using AJAX in Emerging Markets Than in North America
According to this recently released report from the Evans Data Corporation, more developers are using Ajax in the emerging markets than they are in North America. The latest Emerging Markets Development Survey from Evans Data Corp reveals developers in Emerging Markets are embracing AJAX. Over 400 developers from Eastern Europe, Brazil, China, and India contributed Read the rest…
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This is likely our last post on our visit to Copenhagen.
Scandinavian design is very well respected, especially furniture, think Swedish Ikea – and at the high end, see our post on Illums Boligus.
Designmuseum Danmark is Denmark's largest museum for Danish and international design and a central exhibition forum for industrial design and applied arts in Scandinavia.
The museum was founded in 1890 and since 1926, it has been housed in one of Copenhagen's finest rococo buildings, the former King Frederik's Hospital.
The museum garden, the Grønnegård, serves as a performance space in the summer.
According to the museum's pamphlet, "Danish designers have always been more engaged in finding practical shapes that can enhance the utility and aesthetics of existing objects for everyday use, than in revolutionizing society with utopian ideas and theoretic artistic manifests."
Grete Jalk (1920-2006) Sløjfestolen, the Bow Chair – 1963
Not much of a real chair but at least recognizable as one.
The library at Designmuseum Danmark is the largest in Scandinavia in the field of design and the applied arts.
In addition to books, the library acquires numerous periodicals and its use is free and open for everyone. It was a very comfortable and nice place to read.
"Users of the library include craftsmen and women, designers, students and researchers from design schools, universities and museums, pupils from technical schools, set-designers, private collectors and dealers, conservators as well as people with a general interest in the field."
Piano by Danish design legend – Poul Henningsen
We had lunch at the museum café – 'Klint'.
The exhibitions are organized by periods.
Danish modern and Pop
There was a special section dedicated to one of their best known designer – Arne Jacobsen.
His designs are very much in daily use all over Copenhagen.
There was a temporary exhibition about toys and games as well as clothings for children …
…, furniture for the nursery and graphics for education.
All in all, it was a very nice museum. And about the right size for roaming in one afternoon.


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There are roughly 64,000 possible combinations for a standard Master Lock padlock. If you don't know the combination (and there aren't any bolt cutters handy), it can take a long, long time to crack that lock. Well, that used to be true. Hacker Samy Kamkar has devised a method for unlocking any Master Lock printed combination lock in eight or fewer attempts, and all you need to do is spin the dial a few times.
This hack is based on feeling for resistance as you spin the lock, then noting where on the dial it's happening. Kamkar has built a website where you can input the numbers to have eight potential combinations generated. If you've entered the right data, one of those combinations should open the lock.
It starts with pulling up on the shackle (that's the locking bit) and spinning the dial slowly from zero. You're looking for the first two places the dial locks up that are centered on a whole number less than 11. Drop those into the tool and let up on the shackle until you can spin the dial freely. With a little upward pressure, the dial should get hung up in the same place once per turn. This might be a whole number, or it might be in between two, enter the value in the next box and hit "find combos."
The site will list two possible numbers for the last digit, which you can check by pulling up on the shackle while hovering over each one. The number with more give in the dial is the final part of the combination. Then it's just a matter of trying the eight middle numbers with the confirmed first and last digit to open the lock.
Kamkar developed the algorithm to crack these locks when reading up on a known hack that reduced the number of possible combinations to 100. He also took one of the locks apart to examine the combination mechanism. The real key was when he realized that the first and third digit of the combination, when divided by four, always return the same remainder.
Don't expect the Master Lock people to get too frazzled about the hack. It's still far from instant and these are mostly cheap locks that no one is using to protect anything vitally important. Still, neat party trick.


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Monday, December 5, 2011
The Great Pre-Christmas Clean Out of 2011
Here's how I do it:
1. Start by taking out everything that is in the wrong place.
I go through the house and using small square laundry baskets and take out everything that doesn't belong in that room. I have three baskets that are each designated for a floor of the house.
2. Put things in the proper "home" taking care to put like things together.
Books with books, baby doll accessories with baby dolls, little plastic dolls with little plastic dolls.
3. Make one spot for miscellaneous toys - a car that doesn't go with anything else, a plastic trinket or toy that was won as a prize or received as part of a "kids meal" at a fast food place. I clean out almost all of these 3-4 times a year and give them away.
3. Eyeball and see what you have too much of. At one point we had three tea sets, so I cut it down to two and then to one. 4-5 dress up dresses are sufficient. 9 is completely unnecessary.
4. If there are things you can't bear to part with, pack them out of sight, and see if your kids ask about it. That may help you decide.
5. Make one pile for donate and one pile for sell.
You may have different piles, but this is what I do. I have gone CRAZY on the donations recently. Between the thrift store, the pregnancy aid center, the white elephant sale at church, and the toy drive at church (new, wrapped only) I had 4 boxes in the back of my car last week. I wouldn't even keep the stuff I was donating in the house - I took it out to the car, threw it in the proper box, and then covered them up with a beach towel so the girls wouldn't see.
6. The next part is where I get stuck - on the selling. I can always save things for my co-op/consignment sale, but I like to try and sell larger things inbetween then. Unfortunately, I just pile them up on a bookshelf next to my desk and tell myself I'll get to them later. Later sometimes never comes and I should have just given them away in the first damn place ! I've gotten a few things listed on Craigslist yesterday and today, but there's still more I'd like to do.
A BIG part of keeping things organized is to ALWAYS give my kids (and myself) a transition time. I try to not leave toys on the floor, shoes by the door, etc. Picking up things after we're done with them takes an average of 30-60 seconds, but waiting until the end of the day makes the cleanup seem too overwhelming.
Do you have a strategy when you try to de-clutter/organize or do you just dive in ? Do you tidy throughout the day or wait until the end of the day ?
6 comments:
- (Not) Maud said...
So you'd probably call 15 baby dolls an excess, yes? :)
- December 5, 2011 at 6:24 PM
- Stimey said...
I do similar things to declutter. And I do a pre-Xmas decluttering too. I intend to almost completely clear out my basement soon. They have TOO much stuff.
Unfortunately, I haven't been sorting between donate and sell, which means I just have piles of bags in the garage which I still have to go through and which doesn't sound awesome to do in an unheated garage in winter. Those things might have to wait for spring.
- December 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM
- Elaine said...
Congrats! I keep a box in my room and a box at the top of one set of basement stairs (great place, I know). The box in my room is my donate box and the other is my give away to a specific person or maybe sell box. I'm constantly rooting through areas and figuring out what I can put in these boxes. Then, when they're full, I send them out.
- December 5, 2011 at 10:58 PM
- AwwwTrouble said...
I think i hate you just a little bit more. I just cannot get on top of it. I need to tackle just a bit at a time and get through it all bt it's sooo overwhelming. I may need to call in help....
- December 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM
- Rachel et Natalie said...
glad to hear that I am not alone there trying to clearing up drawers with toys and their clothes. I do give clothes away since I do receive some. When it comes to toys, I put some downstairs in a plastic container in the family room and slowly put them in a box for donations.
They do have a lot of clothes and recently I put all the ones they did notwant to wer on the top shelf and these will go too.
Cleaning at home. Shoes have to go in the box in their room when they come in but it does not always work that way....
- December 7, 2011 at 4:07 PM
- Laurie said...
I totally get this.
- December 16, 2011 at 10:20 PM


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View a sample of this title using the ReadNow featureU.S. Patent Opinions & Evaluations authored by Eric Bensen: Patent opinions and evaluations are used in virtually all endeavors involving United States patents, including litigation, prosecution, licensing, product design, product launch, evaluation for acquisition or disposition of intellectual property, bankruptcy, and U.S. securities issues. In U.S. Patent Opinions and Evaluations, Eric Bensen provides expert, up-to-date, practical advice and guidance on the four principle issues of patent opinions and evaluations: claim construction and claim scope, infringement, validity, and enforceability.
Eric Bensen masterfully addresses the needs of the practicing attorney preparing a patent opinion, combining discussions and the framework of the current law with specific practice tips. He also provides clear, straight-forward guidance for non-patent professionals on the principles of U.S. patent law and the fundamentals of U.S. patent opinions and evaluations, allowing them to better understand and rely on them. U.S. Patent Opinions and Evaluations covers everything from general issues--including overviews of opinions, rules for preparing competent opinions, and waiver to nuts-and-bolts issues such as claim construction and claim scope, infringement, validity, and enforceability. The Practice Tips and the appendices provide further practical guidance by setting forth exemplary outlines of opinions and evaluations. A subject index enables quick and easy use of the book as a reference for specific topics.
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CHAPTER 1 Evaluations and Opinions of U.S. Patents
CHAPTER 2 Evaluations and Opinions of U.S. Patents for Infringement and Noninfringement, Validity and Invalidity, and Enforceability and Unenforceability, and Clearance (Freedom to Operate); and A Businessperson's Guide to Understanding and Relying on Evaluations and Opinions of U.S. Patents
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More than weeds
I'm letting go of lots of control in my garden this year. For instance the milkweed – which I used to pull mostly, am giving lots of real estate to. But I just found an article online showing how much trouble these weeds can make for your garden. I want to provide a home for the monarchs but I don't want to be run out of town by these guys either.
any advice?
I typed "Beauty" into Google
I had to search three pages until I found this big beautiful blue rock- and I wasn't even looking for it. Because Google has other ideas of what beautiful is.
Taken in 1972 by the Apollo 17 astronaut crew. According to Wikipedia, this is the only photograph of its kind to date. In all of it's sunlit glory… yep, I'd say that it was beautiful.
Hey, I think I see you. Let's do coffee!
100% Sure
{Last night}
My daughter: "Mom, are you 100% sure the world isn't going to end tonight?"
Me: "Yes, honey. I am. Not tonight.
I admit to sharing a few end of the world laughs but, in all actuality, it's very sad. It is sad that so many sincere people- believed that yesterday was THE day.
The weather was crazy and unstable this weekend. We were in and out of our crawl space, with the rise and fall of the sirens. Crackling skies and torrents of rain put an ominous twist on the evening and I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking about the end of the world.
I have no interest in trying to figure out the Mayan calendar or bible prophecy in this regard … if Jesus didn't know, that's good enough for me. I just need to be ready. And I'm not. I haven't loved nearly enough.
But, I'm thankful for this reminder.
Rosemary Sea Salt Scrub
Rebekah at Honeysuckle Life posted this sea salt scrub recipe and because she said it was easy and budget-friendly, I took her up on it and made the scrub today. Turns out, she was right! It is easy. And, I'm sure if you looked around, you could get the pure almond oil cheaper than I did {just under $7 for 8oz}
I did cut the recipe in half.
- 1/2 cup of pure almond oil
- 1/4 cup of sea salt {I got the iodized version w/ small granules- hopefully that isn't against any rules}
- Rosemary essential oil {about 15 drops} I really like rosemary.
This recipe was a huge hit with my family. We did a hand scrub and they loved the smell of the rosemary and said their hands felt great! I plan on finding sweet little air tight containers and making them up for hand treatment gifts.
Yay! Thanks Rebekah. You're a sea salt scrub rock star.
Will wonders never cease?
a fair warning …
What I'm about to tell you might make some of you blush, others filled with morbid curiosity and still others never visit this blog again. I take my chances.
Today is b-e-a-utiful in the Twin Cities today. The kind of beautiful that makes you want to find a chair, the book you've been neglecting and have at both of them. Well, that's what I was doing–minding my own business, reading "The Mermaid Chair" when all of a sudden I was completely swept into a drama of another kind.
There was buzzing. Lots of buzzing. I looked around to make sure I wasn't going to be involved in target practice of some kind – but nothing. I turned back to my book. Still. The rhythmic buzzing continued.
I got up to find 2 bees, mating like rabbits and right underneath my chair! Wow. I have never seen 2 bees mating like rabbits before so I let my curiosity keep me glued to the scene. Truth be told, I needed and wanted to get my cheater glasses so I could get a better view but I didn't want to miss a thing. So I stared on. Whence all of a sudden, I realized that there were 3 bees. It was hard to see and honestly, bees mating like rabbits aren't exactly of the missionary persuasion- they're kinda wild.
So, I stared on. 3 bees huh. Nature, I'm surprised at you! Suspending judgment, I stared on. I'm glad I did because there really weren't 3 bees catchin a buzz, there were 2 bees ganging up on a … a dragonfly?
Oh, poor dragonfly. The mother in me wanted to defend and protect and come to the rescue of this poor poor anthropod. Then, I argued with myself. Are dragonflies better than bees? Bees are insects too. And anyways, isn't there a shortage of honey because there's a shortage of bees? Will my rescuing this dragonfly affect the honey supply. I love honey. I can't be part of that. So the Joan of Arc in me sat in quiet fear and trepidation. I stared on.
Hang on, the climax of my little story is coming to an end. As you may have guessed, I didn't want to keep this natural wonder to myself and because I don't think bees care about voyeurism, I hurried to get the camera. I clicked a couple of times and realized perhaps, that maybe bees do care about voyeurism. Because I disturbed them. Not long after capturing the titillating images, they pulled apart to reveal 2 of them.
one bee. one wasp.
What? I couldn't believe it. Bees and wasps get together? Does this come as a shock to anyone else? I assumed they were mortal enemies. I mean, doesn't everybody hate wasps? My world is now a little bigger but not in a better bigger but one where the veil of blissful ignorance has been ripped to shreds. I have no idea what to think about this. I'm left with a void of entomological proportions.
That's it friends. Bees and wasps are more than friends.
There is another item of note however. The smaller bee, the one who was making all the heretofore buzzing racket suddenly took off. Ms. wasp was left by herself to adjust her mandibles, tidy her antennae and rearrange her legs. I felt a little sorry for her. I was of mixed emotions.
Dear reader, if you are versed in the mating habits of wasps and bees, please enlighten me. I couldn't be more curious.
I gotta look down more cause there is a lot goin on.
Happy Easter!
He is risen.
What is this color I see?
Rabbits by my house are merciless. Usually. But~ could this year really be different?
Look what I found proudly sitting in the sun … COLORFUL CROCUSES! Oh, rabbits, are you messing with me, mocking me, lulling me into a false sense of security that I get to actually enjoy my tulips and crocuses without constant vigilance.
Whatever. I'll be ready. But, thanks for the sweet reprieve right now!
What's your best secret for keeping the rabbits at bay?
I usually use cayenne wax pepper spray ~but they're on to me! They're smart. And, they have great memories. I NEED HELP!!


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Peak to Peak Collage Cool Quilt Kit
by Nancy Smith featuring Boundless Collage
Believe it or not, this quilt is easier than it looks! The solution to this puzzle is the stitch-and-trim units, which come together to create the braided effect. Create each block, stitch the rows together, and voila! You'll have a finished quilt that looks like magic.
|Pattern Designer
|Monique Jacobs
|Throw 5, Square Throw 10, Twin 10, Queen 15
|Boundless Collage
|Throw 48" x 60, Twin 72" x 84", Queen 84" x 96"
|Fiber Content
|100% Cotton
|Care Instructions
|Machine wash and dry. Craftsy does not recommend pre-washing your fabric.
If you're not delighted with your Bluprint experience, we'll make it right or give you a full refund.


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