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Men, not sure of you heard, but there's a little movie out right now that is driving women around the nation crazy.
Small film that may have crossed your path called "50 Shads of Grey".
I'm pretty confident you're rolling your eyes right now, as women everywhere can't seem to shut up about this movie.
So whether or not you've seen it, it's safe to say this guy has become the dream man that every woman has fantasized
And with great detail that would make a sailor blush.
Christian Grey is the epitome of the guy who has it all.
He has the epic guy pad that has all the latest gadgets, decor and appliances that would make your head spin.
His garage looks like a first class luxury car dealership.
And his suits.. well it looks as if Tom Ford himself has personally designed and tailored his clothing to fit him like a glove. (If you don't know who Tom Ford is google him now.)
This guy seems to run the world and he has billions to run it with.
So you would think a guy with all this finesse and power would have the easiest time with the ladies right?
You would think.
Unfortunately, Mr. Grey comes from a very haunted past, a past so dark that it taints his best attempt for the woman of his dreams.
What does he do to fix this? He buys her everything you can imagine, from an Apple computer, all the way to an Audi car.
And to make sure he secures intimacy, or his "needs" being met, he has a love chamber to woo her, better known as a sexual torture chamber.
This is where it gets all too confusing. (Trust me, I'll be writing more about this within the week and clearing the air, so stay tuned.) He did everything right, enough to make any woman salivate, but somehow this guy who should have it all come to him so easily, royally screws it up.
The chamber has been a place where Grey has brought his previous women, but none of them have impacted him the way his current lady bewitches him.
The problem is, she wants intimacy. Something Grey knows nothing about.
In order for this billionaire to feel, it requires pain.
So he spends, thousands upon thousands of dollars, just to feel.
Good lord, I could've save this man so much money and pain, with just a couple of coaching sessions with me.
For such a brilliant man, so brilliant that he attained billions, you would've thought he had been clever enough to find a solution to his pain and get some type of freedom.
But no, he continues spending his money creating situations that only mask and build on top of his pain, therefore leaving him a tortured soul.
Tony Robbins says "Common sense, isn't common action." Like Mr Grey, so many people live with their so called demons and rather than finding a solution that will lead them to their deserved freedom, they stay in their massive amount of pain. All which you would think would be common sense... Have pain? Get answers..Enjoy Freedom!!
There is always a solution. There is always a real source of pleasure over pain. There is always freedom.
You just have to ask. And once you ask, you have to commit to move forward.
Perhaps you can relate with Mr. Grey? May I persuade you to leave the chamber of torture in your life that has you enslaved? That keeps you from enjoying the woman of your dreams.
If so, help is at the end of your finger tips. Get your answers here.
Stay tuned tomorrow as I share with you how to make 50 Shades of Grey, work for you.
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A dip of the head, a flap of the wing, the black-necked swan – or Cygnus melancoryphus – begins its ceremonial mating dance. Given that they mate for life, the male swan understands the importance of his next moves. Typically quiet and docile, he becomes aggressive and territorial during this ritual. Once he's landed his mate, however, he returns to his good-natured self to participate in the customary, post-copulation bath that cements the new pair's bond. Black-necked swans utilize tactile stimulation throughout the lifespan: for instance, females groom young cygnets to teach them to clean themselves, and both parents carry their babies for the first three weeks of life.
Speeding gracefully through the air – up to 50mph! – black-necked swans swarm the Patagonia region come July just in time for breading season. Designed to fly at such speeds, these swans are almost incapable of walking on land. With stumpy little legs positioned far back on their bodies, black-necked swans struggle to take flight. Once airborne, they compensate for their awkward gait on land with strong flying skills that allow them to migrate northwards to Paraguay and southern Brazil during the austral winter.
Though black-necked populations are stable at present, thousands of these swans in the Carlos Anwandter Nature Sanctuary in Chile died or migrated away following major contamination from the Valdivia Pulp Mill in 2004 and 2005. Owned by a Chilean wood pulp and forestry company, CELCO, the mill is located on the Cruces River that feeds the surrounding wetlands. High levels of iron and other metals polluted the water, decimating the black-necked swan population from 5,000 strong to just 4 birds. The plant was closed in 2005 after CELCO's lawyers produced a false environmental study reporting on pollution in the Cruces River; this scandal prompted CELCO's chief executive to resign and forced the company to pledge $614 million Chilean pesos to Valdivian tourism.
Black-necked swans play the critical role of "manager" of the aquatic plant population within their habitat, as they prefer to maintain a mostly-vegan diet. Given that water conditions are improved through the regulation of aquatic vegetation, we're pleased to report that the black-necked swan is thriving in the future Patagonia National Park. Flocks can be found in the many lagoons bordering the road that runs through the park, giving visitors the opportunity to see and appreciate this particularly beautiful bird.


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Tuesday, 28 July 2015
Because You Know I'm All About That Base
Hello Everyone,
Today we are discussing bases - my top three liquid foundations right now to be exact - I say right now because lets be real, I buy a lot of makeup, one day there may be a new fella in this line up but for now here are my current favourite girlies.
So here are my three leading ladies in the foundation world.
1. YSL Le Teint Touche Eclat Foundation - Aka The Emma Watson - She is classy and trustworthy with an air of luxury. Finish is youthful and dewy but much in the same way I wouldn't take Emma Watson with me if I needed someone to have my back in a handbags at dawn incident, this YSL beauty doesn't handle the hardcore well either, the sheer finish is lovely if you only need a light coverage but on bad skin days or for acne prone skin this might not be the lady for you.
2. Illamasqua Skinbase - Aka The Helen Flanagan - She is gorgeous in pictures (This is my most used Instagram base FYI) consistently flawless and pretty. This is one foundation that will cover everything but just like Helen, in real life the cracks start to show (if you watched her losing her shizz on I'm a Celebrity you'll know what I mean). This foundation sinks into my fine lines like a mofo, suddenly I have a beautiful complexion with major wrinkles, this will be perfect for teenagers or those with no lines or wrinkles because it really is lovely and just like my love for Helen Flanagan, I can't quite let it go.
3. Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum Foundation - Aka The Sheridan Smith - She is the perfect all rounder and fits any occasion, you feel you could take her to a classy establishment for a nice afternoon tea or to a handbags at dawn incident (See Emma Watson above) and be safe in the knowledge that you're covered (That's good skin days and breakout days to us makeup fans) the only let down is that the shade range is pretty poor but if you can make one of the three shades (yes only three) work then this is the way to go.
Hope you enjoyed this post, let me know who your leading ladies are below.
Posted by Sparkles of Light at 06:46 32 comments
Friday, 24 July 2015
The Heel Debate | Judgmental Hate
Hello Everyone,
Today's post is going to be a little different to our usual chat on here but I came across a webpage whilst browsing for shoes lately that caused me to feel a bit of rage... Ok a lot of rage.
Before we get into it, let me start with a bit of background information, we as women know the amount of stick and unfair slander based on our looks, weight, hair, intelligence, make up choices, life choices, sexual experience or lack of...
A couple of examples of this (Should your mind need refreshing) can be seen below:
All of these are just a fragment of the daily judgments we face, I for one am fed up of comments on my weight, look, makeup, clothing choices etc and the list goes on and on and on and,+ I know I'm not alone, especially when people find out I'm a blogger (weird, online geek, what does it even mean) to when they find out what my blog is about I'm suddenly less of a person, I'm one of 'them' but hey, that's fine I enjoy it (Even if one ex friend did say to me "Oh well I'm lucky I don't have to wear makeup but you do need a bit more than me for those eye bags" thanks bitch (note the ex friend bit)
But suddenly, whilst innocently drooling over Valentino heels I'll never be able to afford, I was searching all the shoe sites in the world to try and satisfy my growing shoe lust when this happened...
I have taken the liberty of removing the site same and the user names of these opinionated individuals and I hate to tell you all (but I'm sure you guessed as much) that the comments continued, they even went down the road of discussing the towns and cities of the UK with the most sordid women of all (one being my hometown).
I would like to put out there that I wear heels for me, not to appear sexy or lure men in, especially not the types of men who think wearing a heel makes me 'Slutty' although the idea of being Slutty in itself is an insult because it is yet another hate label that we could do without but that's a whole other post.
Fashion is a form of expression, if a pair of shoes makes you feel confident and happy then girl, you wear those heels, if you want to wear a short dress then you go and you wear that dress, if you're happy in trainers then buy those trainers, shoes don't define you as a person, shoes don't mean you're sending 'come-hither' messages to misogynistic men and shoes don't mean you lack class, what really does lack class is going into a public forum to spout ridiculous theories centered around your own personal prejudices and ill formed opinions, it would be far too easy for me to get involved with a bit of mud slinging here, call these men out and distribute a few insults of my own and I'm sure you all could too, but come on ladies, we all have way more style.
What are your opinions of this? And also... Any good shoe websites I might be missing out on?
Rosy xx
Posted by Sparkles of Light at 06:39 10 comments
Wednesday, 22 July 2015
Pink and Rose Gold Wishlist | Accessories
Hello Everyone,
Today I'm back on the Pinks and Rose Gold wishlists this time with some drool worthy accessories for you,
If you've missed my previous Rose Gold lust-lists there has been a Shoes and a Fashion version prior to this but I thought I'd throw in an accessories post so everything you own and wear can be rose gold HURRAY (Side note, probably don't wear everything Rose Gold all at once or you might look a bit dememted... Unless you're a huge celebrity then aint nobody gonna mention it)
Without further ado here we go:
1. Olivia Burton Rose Gold Watch
2. Asos Zip Top City Bag
3. Ted Baker Sirene Sleek Bow Cuff Bracelet
4. Monya Vintage Style Clip Clutch
5. Asos Ombre Watch
6. Asos Open Leaf Cuff Bracelet
Posted by Sparkles of Light at 08:50 3 comments
Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Updated Thoughts on The Magnitone Lucid
Hello Everyone,
Today I'm re-visiting a gadget I mentioned two months back, the Magnitone Lucid.
I promised in my first impressions post (That you can read by clicking this link) that I would update you all when I had been using the Magnitone Lucid for a longer period of time, well the time has come my friends, the time has come.
So rewind back two months, I was suffering badly with the mother of all break outs, I occasionally get the odd spot but this was something else, this was terrible, I couldn't get the spots to go and no matter how much I cut sugar out of my diet, drank shed loads of water, washed my brushes and cleansed like my life depended on it, nothing cleared the break out (which was caused by L'oreal FYI - more on that in an upcoming post) so when I was offered the chance to try out a Magnitone Lucid I was excited to see if my skin could be saved.
As I said in my previous post, using the Lucid feels nothing like you might expect, I envisioned my face being sanded into oblivion but it actually feels really relaxing once you get used to the idea of using a rotating brush head on your face, there's a sensitive settle or a normal setting, it is recommended you start with the sensitive setting while your skin gets used to using the Magnitone Lucid and then you can move on to the normal setting within a week or so - which I did.
I use mine with my Neal's Yard Wild Rose Beauty Balm (if you click this link it leads back to an old review I wrote about the Neal's Yard Wild Rose Beauty Balm and the picture quality is so bad but hey, I was a beginner) and found that using both together was a dream team, needless to say, my face is fixed, my spots are a thing of the past and my face is way way more glowy and healthy looking.
I'm so happy with the Magnitone Lucid and can't recommend it enough, now that my skin has gone back to normal I am only using the Lucid on days where I've had makeup on, the non makeup days (which are now possible again thank you Magnitone) I am back to using a warm muslin cloth and I'm back to being a happy camper (minus my eye bags and wrinkles due to my never sleeping toddler but in the words of Jaws "We're gonna need a bigger boat" to solve that.)
Have you used the Magnitone Lucid? What are your skin saviors?
Rosy xx
Posted by Sparkles of Light at 08:24 10 comments
Monday, 13 July 2015
Gone Girl Book vs Gone Girl Movie
Hello Everyone!
Today we will be talking about Gone Girl, now I know everyone has read this or seen the film but as usual I caught on to the hype behind everyone else (I have a huge selection of books to be read and I buy more each month so I just randomly select from the pile, Gone Girl sat in that pile for an eternity)
Finally I sat down and opened Gone Girl only to find myself hooked from the first chapter. Yes I know it is totally cliché but it was seriously one of the best books I have read in a long time (note to self - buy more books by Gillian Flynn)
I'll try not to insert spoilers so that if you are thinking of reading the book you still can but basically I sat and hardly moved till I had read the book cover to cover, then the day I finished reading Gone Girl I went and bought the movie, here's my thoughts.
For being the same story there are a lot of crucial differences in the film compared to the original book, some of these surely have to be done in order to ensure that the film isn't 7 hours long but for me I found some of the cuts missed out massive chunks of the story or at worst, they made the movie less believable than the book (the Amy and Desi scene anyone?)
Gone Girl the book spends time building up a complex story, drawing you further and further in and when the twist hits halfway through, it is a gasp out loud moment, an edge of the seat moment, the moment you know you probably wont be moving from your reading chair anytime soon. In the Gone Girl movie, the moment is more "Oh, right.... so...." Less shocking, less monumental and less compelling.
Several main characters have been chopped out including Tanner's wife, Tanner himself has managed to change race during the shift from paper to blu ray which was a bit odd, Hilary Handy is never discussed which is a shame as it gave insight to Amy's young teenage mind.
Plot thickeners have also been binned such as the moment the police discover a helluva lorra violent porn belonging to Nick, Amy's treasure hunt has been cut (apparently Hannibal doesn't factor into the Gone Girl Movie) and no one bites Nick in the face (hives my arse!)
Overall I think I would have enjoyed the movie more if I hadn't read the book but if you're only going to do one or the other, opt for the book - it is just too good to miss.
Have you read Gone Girl? Watched the movie? Both? What were your thoughts?
Bye for now,
Rosy xxx
Posted by Sparkles of Light at 06:53 6 comments
Thursday, 9 July 2015
Another Blog Sale!
Hello Everyone,
So I've been cleaning out again (aka scrimping for more money to buy american beauty products next month) so I've made another little blog sale here.
- Postage is £2.80
- Payments are to be made by Paypal
- Contact me by email if you want anything (email@example.com)
- Once you've asked for something, you have 24 hours to pay for it or it'll have to go to the next person.
- My email is not my paypal so don't get carried away and start trying to pay before I've sent details (This has happened twice before)
Now that's out the way, lets crack on :)
Diptyque Eau De Lierre - 100ml used four times - £25 (My toddler has been at the back of the box with a blue eyeliner so there's marks on the box but not the bottle)
Urban Decay Smoked Palette - used a couple of times (missing the eyeliner) £10
Stila in the Garden Palette - Used 3x £10
MAC Chatterbox, used 3-4 times £5
YSL Glossy Lip Stain used once shade '5' - £8
Chanel Rouge Allure Lipstick - shade extatique, used once - £8
Topshop Matte Lips shade Rio Rio - Brand New in box £4
Wet n Wild I Heart Matte Palette, used once or twice £4
L'oreal Volume Million Lashes glitter top coat, New £3
MAC Stars and Rockets Eyeshadow, swatched £5
Illamasqua Powder Eyeshadow in Wicked, (Pink) used twice £5
Illamasqua Powder Eyeshadow in Obsidian (Black) brand new - £5
Posted by Sparkles of Light at 16:28 4 comments
Sunday, 5 July 2015
Stila 'In The Garden' Palette | Review and Swatches
Hello Everyone,
Today I'm showing you a palette I recently picked up, the In The Garden palette by Stila, This was my first foray into Stila beauty so I was pretty intrigued and lets be real - I have a palette addiction so I couldn't resit adding to my obsessive collection.
I love the garden theme, I'm all about themes, when you have as many palettes as I do you sometimes need a little marketing gimmick to make you spend your hard earned pennies.
The colour range in the 'In The Garden' palette is pretty decent with a mix of neutrals and a couple of bolder shades thrown into the mix (Juniper, Freesia and Rosette) but I personally feel like there should have been a couple more vibrant shades to really give the feel of being 'In The Garden' such as a bright yellow (maybe called Buttercup) but hey, I'm not the one on the design team (but I totally should be right? You can hire me next time Stila)
The rest of the shades from Stila In The Garden seem pretty nice, I especially like the light green and the gold.
I love the theme as I already mentioned, I'm very into nature style branding (for example when Illamasqua released their Reflections Palette I lost my mind, read the review here but mind the bad pictures, it was one of the first posts I ever wrote) so the idea of a garden palette gets a yes from me (Simon Cowell style) Just a shame I can't get my colours to show up like others seem to...
Have you tried Stila In The Garden? Did your swatches turn out right?
Have you got any further Stila recommendations for me?
Bye for Now,
Rosy xx
Posted by Sparkles of Light at 08:01 12 comments
Thursday, 2 July 2015
British Summer Problems
Hello Everyone,
Today's post is a little something different, I thought we could discuss the problems we Brits face once summer comes around.
- Summer doesn't come. You know the drill, Christmas passes and our thoughts start turning to the warmer months that will lie ahead, spring will arrive soon followed swiftly by summer, we go on ASOS and buy all the kimonos and strappy dresses, we buy the sandals and the summer themed lipsticks (Vegas Volt anyone?) Paint our nails mint green or cornflower blue and we wait... No - RAIN.
- Summer plays a trick on you, one day you're happily accepting that the UK sucks hairy bum because we will never see a ray, you're thinking of moving to Spain then BOOM heatwave, overnight it goes from North Pole to St Lucia, the kimono isn't ready, you aren't ready! You've only had 6 months to prepare for this day, you go out, you burn... You're back on the UK sucks hairy bum and complaining that the heat is too much and when will Autumn come?
- People lose their minds over a cloud moving. You see it, the sun shines through the window, there's still no leaves on the trees but it must mean summer right? Suddenly everyone is outside in crop tops and shorts... Catching hypothermia.
- When the sun finally does make a warm appearance, everyone seems to forget their SPF and for the next few weeks we are surrounded by the lobster crew, everyone burning themselves to crisp - forget the cancer my friends - this might go brown!
- Sun makes the news, it says something about the UK as a nation when every single summer the news starts to remind us that it is summer! National news warns you that for this rare couple of weeks coming you will be warm! We have to be reminded daily to drink water, not burn ourselves, stay out of direct sun... basically we need to be told how not to die by the news. Excellent.
Hope you could relate to this tongue in cheek post.
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Big Data On Demand
A while back I wrote a blog post suggesting that datacenter infrastructure would move from an on-premise operation to the cloud. It may have seemed counter-intuitive that the infrastructure itself would become available from the cloud, but that's exactly what's happening.
We've now seen everything from security to system management to storage evolve into as-a-service datacenter offerings, yielding all the benefits of SaaS — rapid innovation, pay-as-you-go, no hardware installation — while at the same time providing rich enterprise functionality.
As the datacenter gets dis-intermediated with the as-a-service paradigm, an interesting opportunity exists for the "big data" layer to move to the cloud. While big data is one of the newer parts of the infrastructure stack — and should have been architected and delivered as a service from the start — an estimated 90+% of Fortune 2000 companies carry out their big data analytics on-premise. These on-premise deployments are complex, hard to implement, and have already become something of a boat anchor when it comes to attempts to speed up big data analytics. They perfectly define the term "big drag."
Without question the time has come to move big data to the cloud and deliver this part of the infrastructure stack as a service. Enter Cazena — our latest investment in the big data sector. The Cazena founders were former leaders at Netezza, the big data appliance leader that went public and was acquired by IBM for $1.7 billion. Prat Moghe, founder & CEO of Cazena, previously led strategy, product and marketing at Netezza. Prat has teamed up with Jit Saxena, co-founder of Netezza, and Jim Baum, the CEO of Netezza — all leaders in the big data industry.
This team knows a great deal about big data and agility of deployment. Ten years ago (long before the term big data was being used), the Netezza team came up with a radically simple big data appliance. Appliances reduced the sheer complexity of data warehouse projects — the amount of time and resources it took to deploy and implement big data.
In the next decade, even faster deployment cycles will be required as businesses want data on-demand. Additionally, the consumption pattern has changed as the newer data stack built using Hadoop and Spark has broadened the use of data. A new cloud-based, service-oriented deployment model will be required. The Cazena team is uniquely positioned to make this a reality.
We could not be more thrilled to be backing the team that has the domain expertise and thought leadership to change the face of big data deployments. Big data is changing the way the world processes information, and Cazena is uniquely positioned to accelerate these efforts.
The Day Storage Went from Dumb to Smart (or Paula Long's Secret Finally Revealed)
I was introduced to Paula Long the CEO of DataGravity about the same time I arrived at a16z (nearly four years ago). Every time a new storage deal was pitched to us, I would call Paula to get her thoughts. Given my own background in storage and systems software, I was blown away at Paula's depth and knowledge in the space. Not only did she articulate every technical nuance of the project we discussed, she had an uncanny feel for what was likely to happen in the future.
Paula casually rattled off every company doing similar things, price and performance of solid-state storage, file systems, volume managers, device drivers, block interfaces, meta data, NAS, SAN, objects, and security. It was enough to make my head spin, yet she analyzed every situation with a clarity that I had never seen before. I had known Paula as the founder of EqualLogic (her prior storage company acquired by Dell for $1.4 billion in 2008), but her insight and wisdom about everything storage far exceeded that of anyone I had met. When she came to me with her own ideas for a new storage company there was no hesitation. Betting on Paula would result in something really special. In December 2012 we invested in DataGravity.
When we talked about DataGravity in those days, Paula would tell me how the real future of storage was unlocking the information residing in the gazillions of files and terabytes of unstructured data that organizations store but never use. She articulated that most other storage companies were in a race to zero; chasing the faster and cheaper angle, with their solid-state storage and incremental innovation. "Table stakes," she would say. "DataGravity is going to do something never done before. We are going to unlock the value of storage. Storage is the obvious place for intelligence to be surfaced." This all sounded great, but – even with my background in the space – I never fully appreciated what Paula had envisioned. She had a secret.
Today, DataGravity is unveiling the world's first data-aware storage system. The system is quite simply revolutionary. We saw a demonstration of the system's capability at a board meeting a few months ago, and that is when it all came together for me. This was not some incremental system that everyone else was building, but an entirely new way of managing storage and information. I left the board meeting thinking that all storage systems in the future would have elements of the DataGravity concepts. It was truly new thinking.
This was not some incremental system that everyone else was building, but an entirely new way of managing storage and information.
The secret sauce DataGravity brings to the market is making dumb storage smart, all in a single system. DataGravity is both a primary storage array and an analytics system combined into one. The combination — without any performance or operational penalty — means, for the first time, that organizations can use their primary storage for file storage, IT operations, AND analytics at the point of storage. "Data-aware" means indexing and giving storage intelligence before it is stored. Instead of having dedicated and expensive secondary systems for analytics, operations and data analysis, DataGravity does it all in one place.
DataGravity is about to change the way we think about storage. From the demographics of data, to data security, to searching and trend information, the system will unlock an entire class of capabilities that we have not yet begun to comprehend. For example, imagine knowing when a file is being written or corrupted, before it is accessed. Or being able to identify subject-matter experts in an organization based on who is writing the most content on what and when. Or determining data ownership and control and correlate this with active or inactive employees. All this from a "storage" system.
So here we are today at an amazing inflection point in the history of storage. Twenty years from now, we'll look back at this day as the day storage went from being dumb to being smart. The day that transformed the way the world stores its information. Just as Paula predicted, and just as Paula knew.
The Datacenter of the Future
The mobile revolution has spread beyond the mini supercomputers in our hands all the way to the datacenter.
With our expanded use of smartphones comes increased pressure on servers to help drive these devices: The activity we see everyday on our phones is a mere pinhole view into all that's happening behind the scenes, in the massive cloud infrastructure powering all those apps, photo-shares, messages, notifications, tweets, emails, and more. Add in the billions of devices coming online through the Internet of Things — which scales through number of new endpoints, not just number of users — and you begin to see why the old model of datacenters built around PCs is outdated. We need more power. And our old models for datacenters are simply not enough.
That's where mobile isn't just pressuring, but actually changing the shape of the datacenter — displacing incumbents and creating new opportunities for startups along the way. READ MORE
Big Data Meets Big Compute
The promise of big data has ushered in an era of data intelligence. From machine data to human thought streams, we are now collecting more data each day, so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. In fact, every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — by some estimates that's one new Google every four days, and the rate is only increasing. Our desire to use, interact, and learn from this data will become increasingly important and strategic to businesses and society as a whole.
Yet, while we are collecting and storing massive amounts of data, our ability to analyze and make use of the data is stuck in information hell. Even our most modern tools reflect an older, batch-oriented era, that relies on queries and specialized programs to extract information. The results are slow, complex and time consuming processes that struggle to keep up with an ever-increasing corpus of data. Quite often, answers to our queries are long outdated before the system completes the task. While this may sound like a problem of 1970s mainframes and spinning tape, this is exactly how things work in even the most modern Hadoop environments of today.
More data means more insight, better decisions, better cures, better security, better predictions — but requires re-thinking last generation tools, architectures, and processes. The "holy grail" will allow all people or programs to fluidly interact with their data in an easy, real-time, interactive format — similar to a Facebook Search or Google Search engine. Information must become a seamless and fundamental property of all systems, yielding new insights by learning from the knowns and predicting the unknowns.
That's why we're investing in Adatao, which is on the leading edge of this transformation by combining big compute and big data under one beautiful document user interface. This combination offers a remarkable system that sifts through massive amounts of data, aggregating and machine-learning, while hiding the complexities and helping all users, for the first time, to deal with big data analytics in a real-time, flexible, interactive way.
For example, a business user in the airline industry can ask (in natural language) Adatao's system to predict future airline delay ratios by quickly exploring 20 years of arrival/departure data (124 million rows of data) to break down past delays by week, month, and cause. In the same way Google Docs allows teams all over the world collaborate, Adatao allows data scientists and business users to collaborate on massive datasets, see the same views and together produce a visual model in just three seconds.
The Adatao software would not be possible, if not for the incredible team behind the project. I first met Christopher Nguyen, founder and CEO, at a breakfast meeting in Los Altos and was blown away by his humble personality. I knew at that moment, I wanted to find a way to partner with him. Here's a guy who grew up in Vietnam and came to the US with a desire to make a difference. Since then, Christopher has started several successful companies, was engineering director of Google Apps and earned a PhD from Stanford and a BS from UC Berkeley, and is a recipient of the prestigious "Google Founders Award".
He's assembled a crack technical team of engineers and PhDs in parallel systems and machine learning. They all want to change the world and solve the most pressing data and information issues of our generation.
I am honored to be joining the board and look forward to partnering with this incredibly talented team. Adatao's approach, team, and spirit of innovation will usher in a new generation of real-time, information intelligence that we believe will be the future of big data.
Mesosphere: A Platform for the Next Generation Datacenter
A new architectural era in computing is upon us, and the datacenter is changing to accommodate it. The cloud generation of companies has ramped their dominance and proven their models, and the legacy enterprise is close behind in making this massive shift. These new datacenters—as pioneered and designed by Facebook, Google, and Twitter—are defined by hyper-scale deployments of thousands of servers, requiring a new software architecture to manage and aggregate these systems. Mesosphere is that software, and we believe this architecture will be as disruptive to the datacenter as Linux and virtualization have been over the past decade.
Today's application architectures and big data workloads are scale-out, stateless, and built to leverage the seemingly infinite processing capacity of the modern datacenters. These modern hyper-scale datacenters are the equivalent of giant supercomputers: they run massively parallel applications that serve millions of user requests a second. We are moving from a collection of servers running discrete, stateful applications, to massive scale-out applications that treat the hardware as one giant server.
In that "giant server" view of the world, Mesosphere is the obvious foundation for this new cloud stack and adoption is scaling fast. Look under the datacenter hood in many forward-looking, hyper-scale environments, including Twitter, Airbnb, eBay, and OpenTable, and you will find Mesosphere.
The Future of the Datacenter is Aggregation (not Virtualizaton)
Ten years ago, virtual machines (VMs) revolutionized the datacenter. This was because while the servers were getting bigger and bigger, the apps running on them pretty much stayed the same size. In order to make better use of those large servers, it made sense to virtualize the machines so that you could run multiple applications on the same machine at the same time.
Today, aggregation is fomenting a similar revolution and applications don't fit on single machines anymore. In today's world, applications run at a much larger scale (millions of users, billions of data points, and in real-time) and they are essentially large-scale distributed systems, composed of dozens (or even thousands) of services running across all the machines (virtual and physical) in the datacenter. In this world, you want to stitch together all of the resources on those machines into one common pool from which all the applications and services can draw.
Aggregation has proven itself in the A-lists of hyperscale companies, like Google and Twitter. They've demonstrated that it's much more efficient to aggregate machines—pooling all of the resources—and then build applications against the datacenter behaving as a single machine.
Aggregation, and the tools to manage it at scale, is what Mesosphere is bringing to everybody —and it's what we believe the future of the datacenter looks like.
The companies that buy into this architecture do not abandon virtualization, containers, or other approaches. These become important infrastructure components. But the way they manage their entire datacenter will evolve beyond the duct tape and band aid, highly manual approach to scripting IT operations tasks and "recipes", and configuring dependencies each time a new application is brought online or a server goes down.
Mesos: From UC Berkeley to Reality
In 2009, Mesosphere Co-founder Florian Leibert was working at Twitter to scale the application in response to its exponential growth. At the time, he spotted a new open source technology that had been built at UC Berkeley called Mesos and he helped Twitter bring it into full production.
Today, almost all of Twitter's infrastructure is built on top of Mesos, which is now an Apache open source project and is at the core of Mesosphere's products. The Mesosphere stack, which includes Apache Mesos, is not a hypothetical technology. It's highly mature and battle-tested, in large-scale production, running in both private datacenters and in public cloud environments. Other organizations using Mesos include: Hubspot, Airbnb, Atlassian, eBay, OpenTable, PayPal, Shopify, and Netflix.
Mesosphere is harnessing the core open source technology of Apache Mesos, and making it possible for everyone to tap into its power. By building an entire ecosystem around Mesos, they are making it easy to install, operate, and manage. For developers, Mesosphere provides simple command-line and API access to compute clusters for deploying and scaling applications, without relying on IT operations. For IT operations, Mesos abstracts the most difficult low-level tasks related to deploying and managing services, virtual machines, and containers in scale-out cloud and datacenter environments, and provides true automation, fault tolerance, and server utilization for modern scale requirements. Finally, Mesos allows applications to move between different environments without any change to the application.
Mesosphere will help define the next generation datacenter. I am honored to be joining the board of a team of dedicated system-level software engineers who will change the face of enterprise computing.
A Simple Formula for a Complex Thing: Trust = Consistency + Time
"Veterans" are not the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Silicon Valley and tech. But there's actually a growing community of veterans in tech here, and leadership is top of mind for them. Which makes sense when you think about what the military does: It's all about putting the right foundation, the right process, the right people in place. That's what a hyper-growth company needs, as LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner observes.
I interviewed Weiner at our recent Veterans in Technology Leadership event, which connected veterans in our network to portfolio CEOs. Weiner, who has had the chance to meet with some Delta Force teams, SEALs and senior military leaders, said, "If you ask the common person on the street if a grizzled vet is going to be compassionate, they're going to be thinking about warfare, about the aggression of war. But I think that's a huge misconception. I've been wildly impressed by the caliber and the integrity and the humanity of these people. That's what makes great leaders."
There's a very clear distinction between managers and leaders. "Managers essentially tell people what to do, but leaders inspire them to do it." Here are some more highlights from our conversation…
PL: Let's start with your leadership philosophy.
JW: Inspiration lies at the heart of leadership. There are three ways for leaders to inspire: (1) Possess a clarity of vision. (2) Hold to the courage of your conviction. (3) Have the ability to effectively communicate both of the above. If you're not forthcoming with information, you're going to create a problem. It's almost an inherent conflict, because your employees are not going to feel trusted.
PL: How does trust play into how you and your colleagues work together?
JW: When people say, "Just trust me," you've never met them before, it's not going to happen. It takes a long time to build up. It can be lost in milliseconds now, literally milliseconds. I'm not saying that figuratively.
Trust is the bedrock of everything that we do, quite literally. So, if we lose the trust of our members, we're done. We're completely done. An old friend once taught me that trust is consistency over time. It's a simple formula for a complex thing.
PL: What changes did you go through as LinkedIn went from a small company to a large company?
JW: The first continuum is the difference between problem solving and coaching. If there's a day-to-day problem, if you're just diving in and just falling back to that instinct that got you to that place to begin with, you're never going to scale. You will never, ever scale. If you're really doing your job as a CEO, you're going to leave your people with the tools to be able to coach their team and so forth.
The second continuum is tactical execution on the one end, and strategic thinking and proactive thinking on the other. By the time you're at 300 people, you'd better accept that you're going to have competition. If you are just reacting to them, it's too late. Trust me, the competition is thinking strategically. You've got to be constantly thinking about what's next, by looking out three to five years and working your way back in terms of what's going to be necessary to get there.
PL: What was your personal journey as a leader?
JW: I think I made a very natural mistake that a lot of us make, which is to project my own worldview onto other people. That if I thought a certain way, why didn't they think the same way? And if I did things a certain way, why didn't they do things the same way?
What I failed to realize back then was that just because I enjoy that part of the business, or I may have a certain facility with that part of the business, doesn't mean others need to. And I need to take the time and understand where they're coming from. This is my first principle of management, which is managing compassionately. And that means putting yourself in someone else's shoes and seeing the world through their lens, their perspective.
PL: What skills do you look for in team members?
JW: The holy grail is the "five-tool" player:
1. It starts with technology vision. Because technology drives essentially everything we do, you have to understand where it's going and how it's going to impact society.
2. The next tool is product sensibility. You need to be able to harness that vision and meet unmet needs in the marketplace.
3. The third is business acumen. If you don't have a sustainable business model, it's not going to go anywhere over time.
4. The fourth is leadership and the ability to evangelize.
5. The fifth and last is the most important tool, and it's resourcefulness. It's just getting shit done.
If you find people with more than one of these skills and they're superlative, do everything you can to hire them. Anything close to four skills, superstars. Five skills and they're people that change the world.
PL: Are we as a nation doing enough to create not just jobs, but the right jobs?
JW: This is one of the most significant issues of our time. Youth-based unemployment in the country is 2X that of general unemployment (6.7 percent), so roughly 13 percent. There are approximately 73 million unemployed youth between the ages of 15 and 24 on a global basis. We have to get this right and we're not: I think we're still training our youth for the jobs of a prior economy that no longer exists — not the jobs that are, or will be.
So, what can we do? We can start with vocational training and identifying where the jobs are. There are 3.8 million available jobs in the country and some people would say it's even higher than that. That number has risen every year since 2008, despite the fact we have all this unemployment.
I'm not just talking about becoming a software engineer in the valley, because training and computer science degrees, that kind of stuff may take a little longer. Of the 4 million or so jobs out there, you've got a lot of jobs that are in retail, that are in real estate, or construction. But the people looking for work may not even know what jobs are available, and where they are.
It's about identifying wherever they are in the country. And making sure we have the right resources to get them the right skills, and can make themselves available for the right jobs. I'd love for us to be investing more of our collective time and energy and resources in finding the way.
PL: What role will education need to play here?
JW: I think most people have familiarized themselves with the fact that our education system is highly antiquated. Very different skills are required for the knowledge economy. Our education system needs less rote learning and more critical reasoning, creative problem solving, and collaboration. Even when we were in primary school, individuality was the model we were taught. Taking tests as an individual, doing individual work, grading me individually.
How many of you are going to be successful by working individually? There's something a little out of whack when we have a school system where every kid is being treated as an individual.
I think compassion is the single most important thing you can teach a child, seriously. I don't mean that in some spiritual, new-age way. I mean it, period. In a more global, interdependent, interconnected society, compassion should be taught. Just like reading, just like math.


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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Romain Virgo Masters The System
Romain Virgo within the credits of his latest album The System states that he chooses to do positive music for the people. Undoubtedly a rarity now days, Romain's positive attitude toward music and life shines through every song on The System and makes it a worthwhile listen. This is reggae music with sunshine and positive vibrations layered on top of positive vibrations and it's the sort of thing that's destined to lift spirits wherever it is played.
Taking a more laid back approach to reggae, Romain Virgo lets the groove take us away and allows his vocals to steer the story of every song with a unique enunciation that makes the whole thing just sound cool. The System is a strong record filled with songs about love, knowing better, and not falling into cliches. Romain seems to be a good guy and his songs reflect an attitude that quite honestly is refreshing to hear.
Firmly in touch with pop influences, Romain Virgo creates reggae that's easy on the ears, huge on hooks, and almost like a more tropical version of R&B. The System is chilled out stuff that's as bright and beautiful as Jamaica itself. If you're not singing the nearly acapella title track after one listen there might be something wrong with you...it's that catchy and to think it's just Romain Virgo and his voice is amazing.
The System is a very good record and Romain Virgo is a unique talent. From his voice to his approach the guy clearly is in love with love and reggae and every song here illustrates that passion.
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Nordberg, D. 2012. Rules of the game: whose value is served when the board fires the owners? Business Ethics: a European review. 21 (3), pp. 298-309. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8608.2012.01653.x
|Rules of the game: whose value is served when the board fires the owners?
|Nordberg, D.
How does a board of directors decide what is right? The contest over this question is frequently framed as a debate between shareholder value and stakeholder rights, between a utilitarian view of the ethics of corporate governance and a deontological one. This paper uses a case study with special circumstances that allows us to examine in an unusually clear way the conflict between shareholder value and other bases on which a board can act. In the autumn of 2010, the board of Liverpool Football Club sold the company to another investing group against the explicit wishes of the owners. The peculiar circumstances of this case provide insight into the conflict between ethical approaches to board decisions, allowing us to see certain issues more clearly than we can in listed corporations with many shareholders. What the analysis suggests is that the board saw more than one type of utility on which to base its ethical decision, and that one version resonated with perceived duties to stakeholders. This alignment of outcomes of strategic value with duties contrasted with the utility of shareholder value. While there are reasons to be cautious in generalizing, the case further suggests reasons why boards may reject shareholder value, in opposition to mainstream notions of corporate governance, without rejecting utility as a base of their decisions. Further, the partial alignment of duty and utility facilitates a pragmatic decision rather than one based on a priori claims.
|Business Ethics: a European review
|Journal citation
|21 (3), pp. 298-309
|Jun 2012
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Nobel Laureate Dies
Chemist Ahmed Zewail, the "father of femtochemistry," has passed away at age 70.
Alison F. Takemura
Aug 5, 2016
WIKIMEDIA, DOUGLAS A. LOCKARDAhmed Zewail, the sole recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry, died this week (August 2), Caltech announced in a statement. He was 70.
At Caltech, Zewail and his team discovered how to image molecular motions on a timescale of incredible resolution: the femtosecond, or a millionth of a billionth of a second. It was his dream to achieve, as he described it, "the timescale of making and breaking chemical bonds," Jacqueline K. Barton, Zewail's longtime Caltech colleague and scientific collaborator, told Chemical & Engineering News.
Zewail, who was born in Egypt, was interested in science early in his life. After winning the Nobel Prize, he recounted, "I had passion about science. My mother said I was going to burn the house (with chemistry experiments)," Al Jazeera reported.
Zewail's contributions to science are internationally recognized. France awarded him the country's highest honor, the Legion d'Honneur, and Egypt bestowed upon him its equivalent, the Order of the Grand Collar of the Nile. In the 2009, US President Barack Obama made Zewail the first science ambassador to the Middle East, to foster better relations between the states through scientific collaboration. After the Egyptian revolution in 2011, the chemist founded Zewail City of Science and Technology, a national research center and university in Cairo, which has just begun to accept students, according to Caltech and Chemical & Engineering News.
"Ahmed was the quintessential scholar and global citizen," Caltech President Thomas Rosenbaum said in the statement. "He spent a lifetime developing instruments that interrogate nature in fundamentally new ways, and defining new directions that cut across the physical and biological sciences."
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi said the country had lost a son and role model, Al Jazeera reported.
Zaweil is survived by his wife, Dema Faham, and four children.


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If bit [0] of the Debug State Cache Control Register (DSCCR) is set to 0 while the processor is in debug state, then neither the L1 data cache or L2 cache performs any eviction or linefill. However, evictions still occur in any of the following cases:
If identical virtual addresses, except for bit [12], are mapped to the same physical address and the line that corresponds to the first virtual address is in the L1 data cache, then an access using the second virtual address causes an eviction of the cache line to the L2 cache.
The L1 data cache controller uses a hash algorithm to determine hits. If two different virtual addresses have the same hash and the line that corresponds to the first VA is in the L1 data cache, then an access using the second VA evicts the line to the L2 cache.
No special feature is required to prevent L1 instruction cache pollution because I-side fetches cannot occur while in debug state.


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Special edition Yoga 920 laptop available in PH this December
MANILA, Dec. 1 — Only less than 100 units of Star Wars Special Edition Yoga 920 laptop from Lenovo will be available in the Philippine market this December. Thus, the company encourages the public to pre-order at select SM Appliance Centers.
This laptop can be availed for PHP 139,995, and can be pre-ordered at SM Appliance Center branches in Mall of Asia, Makati, Megamall and North EDSA.
The white Yoga 920 has a logo of Rebel Alliance, while black units feature the Galactic Empire's logo.
Apart from its sleek and Star Wars-themed design, what makes the Yoga 920 laptop unique?
As Lenovo Philippines unveiled the product recently in Manila, the company said the Yoga 920 responds to voice commands up to 4 meters away while in standby mode.
The voice command can be used to play music, send a short email, among others.
Furthermore, Yoga 920 has a fingerprint reader. Thus, there would be no need for the user to type a password each time he/she would use the unit.
The Yoga 920 weighs 1.37 kilograms, and has a 4K display. Apparently, the unit has up to 10.8 hours of battery life.
It has a 13.9 inch UHD wide-angle IPS touchscreen. Lenovo said the Yoga 920 is equipped with 8GB memory and 512GB of storage.
The unit also comes with the Lenovo Active Pen, which the company said enables pen-on-paper precision. (PNA)


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"I practice yoga to help myself heal, to soften the harsh and often unforgiving internal dialogue, to empower myself and to experience the very best of who I can become. Yoga encourages me to develop an innate sense of curiosity with what I am attached and adverse to and challenges me to change towards becoming more respectful towards myself. Personal boundaries are laid down during the practice, and when I practice the art of yoga for myself, I begin to self-validate, resulting in an unravelling of my sense of disempowerment, as I no longer wait for or need the validation of others".
Let the process unfurl and open up to the journey.
Walk in beauty


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Author: Ivana Dronjak
As a young girl, she wanted to be a vet, but after falling in love with learning languages, she left her hometown and decided to start her work as a translator elsewhere. Emma took advantage of an opportunity and ever since she has been part of flexword. After 8 years of working and living in Germany, she claims to have made the right decision and shares her experiences with us.
Emma, you came all the way from Bridlington, UK to Mannheim, could you tell us how that came about, what was the reason/reasons for the move?
During my Master's degree at Newcastle University, I received an e-mail from flexword about translation internships. In 2007, I spent a semester in Heidelberg, which is just around the corner from Mannheim, so it sounded like a good idea. I applied, got an intern position at flexword and the rest is history. I had planned on living in either France or Germany after my studies anyway so that I could put these 2 languages I learnt to use.
Being far away from your family and starting a new job in another country can be difficult, have you encountered any challenges along the way? How do you feel about it in comparison to now?
Apart from all the paperwork that needs to be filled out in Germany, everything went pretty smoothly. Skype allows me to speak to my parents as much as I want so I never felt homesick. And with England (still) being part of the EU, this helped me to work here much more easily. Brexit might cause some problems, but I am planning to acquire German citizenship so that this doesn't affect me.
Studying translation is not so popular nowadays, was this your first career choice and what was the main attraction for you to study this field?
When I was little, I actually wanted to be a vet. But after starting to learn languages (French at 11 years old and German at 13), I realised I had a passion for this instead. I completed a Bachelor's degree first in Modern Foreign Languages and knew I definitely didn't want to be a teacher. I found it far more interesting to translate different kinds of texts so I chose to do a Master's in Translation. Medical texts are the most appealing.
You have been working as a translator for many years, how does this profession look to you from this standpoint, after gaining much experience?
It is definitely an exciting job, and working in-house for a translation agency allows me to translate a variety of texts, rather than doing one specialist field within a company's translation department for example. I have learnt so much about such a range of products and also about the various CAT tools used in this industry.
What do you think are now the main challenges translators/interpreters encounter? (translation technology, work hours..)
I would say that the main challenges for freelance translators/interpreters are linked to having to compete with other freelancers regarding prices. In order to get jobs, some have to offer cheaper prices while maintaining their high quality. In my opinion, machine translations are not advanced enough yet to be able to properly compete with freelancers, so there should be no concerns there. When customers want translations back ASAP, freelance translators sometimes do have to work at inconvenient hours, but they can always have a day off the next day 😉
For 8 years you have been a loyal employee at flexword, what kept you from changing company and what type of knowledge and skills have you gained since working here?
I was originally only planning on doing an internship here for 6 months and then going on to France to find something there. But when I was offered the possibility to continue employment with the company, I said yes because I really enjoy the job and the office environment here is great. Everyone is so friendly. And, as I mentioned above, I get to translate a wide range of texts, rather than one specific field. I have learnt how to use the main CAT tools like Across, Trados and MemoQ, and have also become very familiar with products offered by a number of companies. On days with busy workloads, I have mastered prioritising my tasks so that I adhere to deadlines.
What would you say if someone new were interested in working for flexword, would you recommend it?
I would recommend it as the teams are so wonderful to work with and the texts I have translated are generally really interesting. Most of the positions here are for project management, and in this field I don't really have any experience. However, I can say that although there is a lot to learn and it keeps you on your toes at times, it is a fulfilling position and definitely not boring!
Finally, is there some quote you live by that you would like to share and where do you see yourself in the near future?
The only quote I follow is to have a "positive mental attitude". I am currently very happy living in Germany with my family and do not plan on moving countries in the near future. It is still a great experience for me to work at flexword, with a good work-family balance.
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Are these the most "real" sex dolls ever? These real to life sex dolls are developed by a company called Silicon Wives.
SiliconWives.com are the premium provider of authentic luxury sex dolls. All of their girls are hand-picked and are made from real silicone and TPE materials to make the user experience "better" than the real thing. You can also buy them with Bitcoin!
"SiliconWives.com was founded in 2015 with the mission to provide the most high-quality sex dolls in a market flooded with low quality, fake dolls. We take pride in our user's experience with our dolls, we have a refund/replacement policy for unsatisfied customers.
Our team has been in the sex accessories business for 10+ and we are very excited to begin our online operation. We have searched 3 continents to find the best doll manufacturers, we hope you like what we have found. Our list of premium sex doll brands includes WM Doll, Sanhui Dolls, YL Dolls, JM Dolls, JY Dolls, and Warm Doll." – SiliconWives.com
They have even built a sex doll robot!
Emma's Features (Taken from their blog):
Beautiful Appearance and perfect body – Improved TPE material (2x as durable as average TPE), multiple height options between 148cm to 168cm, many customizable features including face-type, hair color, skin tone, eye color, etc.
Sensitive touch sensing system – Emma will be able to feel your touch and respond.
Intelligent body temperature maintenance system – Built with your safety in mind Emma will be able to maintain realistic body heat throughout her body, mimicking the warmth of a real woman!
Speech Recognition and Speaking Ability – can converse fluently in both English and Chinese. Ability to sing songs and tell stories! Moan response according to excitement during intercourse.
Remote Upgrading System – You'll be able to receive software upgrades after purchase with an easy 1-click software upgrade system.
Plans for future versions of Sex Robots (Emma 2.0+)
Facial Recognition System so that the sex robot can recognize her owner by appearance.
Fully Robotic Skeleton that will allow the robot to walk, and move during sex.
Improve language Database for a broader and more dynamic range of conversation topics and tones.
Non-prerecorded Variable Speech System will make the sex robot's speech sound more varied, she'll be able to say things in different tones depending on the context of the conversation.


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City of La MiradaHome Menu
Adult Sports
Adult Basketball Leagues (ages 18+)
The La Mirada Gymnasium hosts two nights of Adult Basketball Leagues. Monday night consists of Divisions "C" (Advanced) and "D" (Intermediate), while Thursday night serves host to Divisions "A" (Advanced) and "B" (Intermediate). Games are played in the evenings from 6:30p-10:30p. Teams are guaranteed a total of 10 games, with an additional 2 games of playoffs (not guaranteed).
Team Registration: $375
Weekly Referee Fee: $25
Forfeit Fee: $50
For registration information, please contact email@example.com.
Summer 2016 "C" Champs- The Original Ballers Summer 2016 "D" Champs- Lake Show
Sunrise Senior Hoops (ages 50+)
Rise and shine with a game of hoops alongside other older adults at the Community Gymnasium on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings from 6am to 9am Older men and women ages 50 and over of all skill levels are encouraged to participate. Senior Annual Gym Membership is only $35. Hours are subject to change due to league and camp schedules. For more information contact the Community Gymnasium.


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An owner of a former AFA Practice of the Year and TV show host has been called before the royal commission to answer questions about an SOA he gave to a client, Fair Work commissioner Donna McKenna.
Advisory firm Henderson Maxwell chief executive Sam Henderson advised a client to roll money from a public service fund to an SMSF, which would have incurred a potential loss of $500,000. Now he has been forced to address the royal commission on his actions.
The advice given to Ms McKenna recommended most of her capital shifted into Henderson Maxwell products and one of her superannuation accounts rolled into a Henderson Maxwell-run SMSF (at the loss of a $500,000 lump sum payment for accessing the funds early).
Counsel assisting Rowena Orr QC tendered as evidence a recording of a phone conversation between a Henderson Maxwell employee and the client's superannuation fund.
The recording showed the employee impersonating Ms McKenna without permission in order to obtain information about the fund.
Mr Henderson told the commission he was unaware of the deceit at the time, and that the information obtained by the researcher (that Ms McKenna was in a deferred benefit scheme and would lose money starting an SMSF) was not then relayed to him anyway.
He said he did not terminate the staff member after learning of her actions, but denied this decision was made in a bid to hide the impersonation from public scrutiny.
"I would openly say that she impersonated the client," he said. "It was most definitely the wrong thing to do. And I was bitterly disappointed that someone would do that under my responsibility."
Ms Orr also questioned Mr Henderson over his emails to FPA chief executive Dante De Gori after Ms McKenna made a complaint to the association, asking if he was attempting to pressure or sway the outcome of the FPA's review.
Mr Henderson denied this was his intention, but conceded that he did request on multiple occasions for the association to keep the complaint confidential due to the impact it would have on his media presence.
"I was reaching out in a state of desperation, because I felt I just wanted to be heard," he said.
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So as some people might have noticed in my updated profile or Facebook page, I was recently able to pass the JLPT N2 and Kanken (A series of Kanji/Reading exams for Japanese Students) Level 5. I'm really happy the my 1.5 years in Japan and countless hours of studying and translating have let me get to this point despite never having majored in Japanese. It's nice to have some (albeit minor) credentials to my name as I continue to make strides towards joining the business world after my time on the JET program. Though I didn't study much specifically for the JLPT (and thus can't recommend any books/study materials) I would like to take this time to again encourage all my friends, fellow Vocaloid fans, and aspiring Japanese speakers to consider using Anki, a study/memorization program as part of your studies. I wrote up my detailed thoughts on why and how to use the program in this review/recommendation. I'll be working hard to pass the JLPT N1 this summer and I hope there will be many of you joining me in taking different levels of the examination this summer. While I credit my day to day life in Japan, my students, my friends, and my teachers for all the improvement in my conversational fluency and listening abilities, I have to say that Anki has by far played the largest role in helping me develop the larger, and larger vocabulary base that lets me understand and communicate (and keep IMPROVING) at a much higher level than before. It's possible to learn a lot of things through "absorption" (aka watching anime, Vocaloid PVs, living in Japan, talking to Japanese friends), but unless you make serious efforts to build your vocabulary, those other sources of "fun" studying will be much less useful. Definitely check it out and feel free to contact me with any questions you may have!
Good luck in your studies!


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Advice on planning funerals
and cremations in Iowa
The Iowa Funeral Directors
Association represents 675 Iowa licensed funeral directors and 425 funeral
home establishments throughout the state. The mission of the Iowa Funeral
Directors Association is to promote and support funeral service excellence.
To that end, IFDA promotes high standards within the field of funeral service
through continuing education programs, legislative representation and service
to Iowa communities.
Most funeral homes in Iowa
sell pre-need that will provide funeral services, funeral merchandise,
and/or cemetery services or merchandise upon the death of the person the
pre-need plan was purchased for.. There are some things to consider when
entering into an agreement. In Iowa, every funeral home and cemetery
selling pre-need funeral and cemetery contracts must be registered with
the Regulated Industries Unit of the Iowa Securities Bureau. Each individual
who sells pre-need contracts also must be issued a sales permit. You may
ask to see a salespersons current permit. In addition to registering with
the Bureau, funeral homes and cemeteries must files reports of sales annually
with them. At the time you make a pre-arrangement, you will receive
a fully completed receipt or copy of an agreement as well as a Notice of
Cancellation form. You may cancel the contract at any time prior to midnight
of the third business day after the date of the transaction. By Iowa
law, there are specified disclosure requirements for pre-arranged agreements.
For example, each agreement must state: Whether it is a guaranteed price
agreement or a non-guaranteed price agreement; Whether it is revocable
or irrevocable, and identify who has the authority to revoke the agreement;
The amount or percentage of money to be placed in trust and explain the
disposition of the interest and disclose what fees and expenses may be
charged; And indicate whether a cancellation fee will be charged.
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The Emax model is a nonlinear model frequently used in dose-response analyses. The model is shown in Eq. (9.1)
where i = The patient indicator
Ri = The value of the response for patient i
Di = The level of the drug for patient i, the concentration may also be used in many settings E0 = The basal effect, corresponding to the response when the dose of the drug is zero Emax = The maximum effect attributable to the drug ED50 = The dose, which produces half of Emax
N = The slope factor (Hill factor), measures sensitivity of the response to the dose range of the drug, determining the steepness of the dose-response curve (N > 0) ei = The random error term for patient i. A standard assumption, adopted here, is that the ei terms are independent identically distributed with a mean of 0 and variance a2. An additional standard assumption is that the error terms are normally distributed.
The Emax model dose-response curve shown in Eq. (9.2) is the expected value of the Emax model.
The Emax model dose-response curve can be either increasing or decreasing relative to an increase in dose. If the response is decreasing, the value of the Emax parameter will be negative. Figure 9.1 illustrates the Emax model dose-response curve where the response increases with increasing dose. Note the difference between Emax, the maximal effect attributable to the drug, and (E0 + Emax), the asymptotic response with increasing dose. This difference is particularly relevant when the drug of interest is being administered along with concurrent therapy, as the response at maximum dose includes both the maximal effect of the drug (Emax) plus the effect of the concurrent therapy (E0).
Figure 9.1. Emax Model dose-response curve. Salient features of the model are:
Figure 9.1. Emax Model dose-response curve. Salient features of the model are:
• The Emax model has four parameters: E0, Emax, ED50, and N.
• The Emax model predicts the maximum effect a drug can have (Emax).
• The Emax model predicts a zero-dose effect (E0) when no drug is present.
• The Emax model follows the "law of diminishing returns" at higher doses.
• The Emax model parameters are readily interpretable.
A particular case of the Emax model is given by Eq. (9.3):
Here the slope factor, N, is not included in the model and as such has an implicit value of one. The Emax model without the slope factor parameter is sometimes referred to as the hyperbolic Emax model, while the model including the slope factor is referred to as the sigmoidal Emax model. Although both the hyperbolic and sigmoidal Emax models can be justified on the relationship of drug-receptor interactions (Boroujerdi, 2002), they are primarily used for empirical reasons.
Another common modification of the Emax model is to not include the E0 parameter if the response at the no drug level is known to be zero.
The Emax model is a common descriptor of dose-response relationships. However, as in all modeling, there are situations where it may not be appropriate to apply. These scenarios include:
• Where the dose-response relationship is not monotonic. The Emax model assumes a monotonic dose response.
• Where the number of different doses for the model is small. As the Emax is a four-parameter model, it desirable to have at least five different doses across the effective dose-response range.
• When the response should not be modeled as a continuous outcome.
Dose estimates other than ED50 are often of interest in dose-response analysis. For example ED90, the dose which produces 90% of Emax, is sometimes used as an estimate of the maximal effective dose (MaxED). From the Emax model, the ED90 is estimated by the formula in Eq. (9.4) where p (0 < p < 1) is the percentile of interest. For example if the slope factor N is 0.5, the estimate of ED90 is (EDsox 81).
9.2 Sensitivity of the Emax Model Parameters
This section reviews the sensitivity of the Emax model dose-response curve to changes in its four parameters: E0, Emax, ED50, and N. In addition, study design criteria based on these parameters will be reviewed.
As described in Section 9.1, the E0 parameter is the response when there is no drug present, and the Emax parameter is the maximum attributable drug effect. These two parameters define the upper and lower asymptotic values for the dose-response curve. Changes in the E0 parameter affect the "starting value" of the dose-response curve (i.e., when there is no drug present). Changes in the Emax parameter affect the range of the dose-response curve.
Figure 9.2 illustrates the change in response as the E0 and Emax parameters vary. In Figure 9.2, the dotted line illustrates the change in the Emax model curve relative to the solid line when the E0 and Emax parameters are increased from 0 to 10 and 100 to 110, respectively.
Dotted line:
Solid line:
10 100 1000
Figure 9.2. Emax Model dose-response curves with differing E0 and emax values
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Keeping up with technology isn't just trendy; it's vital to your health and comfort. The latest in dental technology helps us conclude procedures faster, with more accuracy and less pain. High-tech instruments and processes also produce less waste, which provides a benefit to the entire planet. Here are some examples of how we use cutting-edge technology at Omni Dental.
Cone Beam Technology
Dental cone beam CT scanners produce a three-dimensional image of your jaws and surrounding anatomy. This imaging is invaluable for the purposes of placing dental implants. It creates three-dimensional images (called "volumes") in exquisite detail, which allow Dr. Hanlon to accurately and effectively place implants. If necessary, this technology can be used to create 3D-printed implant guides for an even greater level of precision.
Although conventional medical CT scans use a relatively large amount of radiation, our dental cone beam CT scanner delivers a much lower dose for your safety and long-term health.
Painless Injections!
Injection of conventional local anesthesia can be uncomfortable. This isn't ideal, since the purpose of anesthesia is to prevent pain! At Omni Dental, we use buffered anesthesia to help eliminate this problem. As compared to conventional anesthesia, buffered anesthesia has a pH much closer to that of the your body, so the burning sensation during injection is greatly reduced. Even better: since it starts out closer to the body's natural pH, buffered anesthesia begins to work faster and is more effective!
Digital Impressions
If you've ever had impressions taken of your teeth, you know it can be unpleasant. No one wants foul-tasting, messy goop filling their mouth. Now, there's a better alternative that eliminates the need for any physical material.
We're thrilled to introduce our iTero® Element intrarol scanner. An Omni Dental team member uses the iTero®'s wand to capture the surfaces of your teeth, taking thousands of pictures per second. The computer system then assembles these photos into a complete 3D image in real time.
Interested in Invisalign®? Receive a complimentary full-mouth scan from our iTero®, and you can watch a video simulation of how the clear aligners will straighten your teeth.
Digital impressions are fast, pleasant and clean. On top of that, they're actually more accurate than traditional physical impressions. That means you get better fitting crowns with fewer remakes, all with increased comfort.


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I never really told you how I was actually doing the preparation work for the blocks. If you aren't familiar with hand piecing, this may be interesting, if you are a hand piecer, maybe you'll find some new supplies to try.
First, I'm using the Hex N More ruler from Jaybird Quilts to cut my hexagons. I'm cutting the largest one possible with the ruler, but for those of you who may want to try this with a smaller hexagon (half hexagon, triangle or jewel shape), the ruler comes with instructions for four sizes and all four shapes. If you buy this ruler, safeguard your little instruction booklet that comes with it. I had misplaced mine and sent an email to Jaybird Quilts asking a couple of questions, but never heard back from them. Fortunately, I found the booklet days later. I've added little non-slip circles to the back of all of my rulers, this one included.
Once I have the pieces cut out, I then mark the sewing line on the back of each piece of the fabric. I use my Omnigrid ruler that I've had forever to get the 1/4 inch sewing line. Any ruler that is longer than the piece you're marking and has a 1/4 inch line will work. I put the fabric on top of a piece of fine grain sand paper which I've placed on a cutting mat. I like to put it on the cutting mat because I can then turn the mat (or sand paper) without having to move the fabric to mark the next line, plus the sand paper doesn't shift on the cutting mat like it might on a slick table. Then line up the ruler so that the 1/4 inch mark is lined up with the edge of the fabric. Hold it in place and mark with your favorite marking tool.
For this project, I'm using my current favorite, the Sew Line pencil. It comes with one color of marking "lead" when you buy the pencil, but you can purchase four other colors for refills. The five colors are yellow, pink, white, green and graphite. I believe the refills are ceramic. I've never had any problem with the markings not coming off the fabric when I want them too. I'll have to admit, that I have not been as happy with the graphite colored lead as I thought I would. It came off on my hands, making them pretty dirty while stitching. Not what I was hoping for or what I had experienced with the other colors I've tried. The only I have not tried, so far, is the yellow.
After marking the sewing line, I pin two pieces right side together, using Clover fine patchwork pins. They are thin and strong and perfect for most projects. Then I thread the Hiroshima milliner needles with the Mettler silk finish thread using the Clover needle threader and start sewing! Mettler thread just happened to be what I had on hand. I have no favorite yet for hand piecing. I wanted something strong enough to survive my grandson and thin enough not to distort the blocks. This is what I came up with this time.
Sew with a running stitch starting at one end of the line and stitching to the other end of the line, being careful not to stitch into any of the seam allowances. You also have to stitch on the line on both the fabric facing you and the one in the back, so stop every few stitches to look at the back and make sure you're still stitching on the line. I knot my thread to start and then I take a back stitch on top of the first stitch. After that, I take three stitches, back stitch and three more stitches, back stitch, continuing on until I get to the end where I back stitch and then knot. I learned to make the knot I use to finish a line of stitches in this youtube video. It's fabulous! In fact, I wonder if it's possible to start the stitching with the same knot technique? Something I'll be trying soon!


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Basing on the tight competition in today's global market, international businesses need to have their business technical documents translated. Technical translation services are very important to a business operating across borders and will cover various technical documents such as technical user manuals, product user manuals, and data sheets etc, that need to be reproduced in most foreign languages for easy communication. Technical translation is the most challenging in the business world, but I just need to discuss some strategies on how to put it right.
Key practices on technical translation services
These key practices will help you to get a right solution on how to run your business successfully across borders without communication barriers;
Mind so much about the length of the original text; the length of the text in the source language may not be the same after translating it to the target language, for example, when translating technical documents from English to German or Italian languages, expect the translated text in German and Italian to be longer than that of English. But again the Chinese scripts will generally be shorter.
This, therefore, calls for additional pages to cater for such longer texts like in the German and Italian language that expand and reduce space for the Chinese texts that contacts. This is the work of your language translation company to ensure that the translation is done according to the different target language rules and requirements.
The technical content sent for translation should be written clearly and accurately in the source language. This is because the style and the structure of the source content normally affects the quality of the translated content. When writing the texts, keep the sentences shorter, clear, and straight to the point, use the technical language understood by the technical linguists and avoids idioms. And also, allow your language service providers access to your company's style guides and official vocabularies used
Use of a translation memory (TM) can assist to improve on the project. This can work better if you are intending to translate the same or a similar technical document for many times, a translation memory database saved some time back can be used to automate most of the work easily.
The other thing that is important when using the translation memory is that the same terminology principles do apply, you ought to keep your grammar and vocabulary as simple as possible and not forgetting to avoid the use of independent clauses as well as idioms that the translation system can't understand.
Prepare and organize your files properly; make sure that your translation agency should receive the files that are clearly written and in their original formats ready for translation.
There are some few things that you need to do here before the work is sent for translation;
- Keep your document structure organized, clearly labeled and it should be easy to navigate. This will help translators to be able to find and replace files. Disorganized files can waste much of the translator's time as well as yours and there is a possibility of cost increment of the translation exercise.
- Make sure the source content is well edited, proofread and all the irrelevant information is deleted before the document is sent to the translation company, and only prepare the information related to localization
Lastly, try a sample of technical translations before buying; doing a sample of technical translation with the a translation company and have it reviewed by the in-country staff speaking the target language helps both the client and language service provider to identify and correct the major errors before the real translation is done.


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Shengli Oilfield R&T Group participated the KIOGE in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan on 5th-7th Oct. 2016. KIOGE was hold by British ITE group, and greatly supported by Kazakhstan Energy Ministry and Kazakhstan National Oil Company. It has become the largest, most influential and professional oil and gas exhibition in Middle Asia area. The exhibition area was 12500 square meters with totally 525 exhibitors from more than 24 countries, and the number of visitors reached more than 18000.
The Kazakh National Oil Company, ЗАО ТЭМПО(Russia's famous pipe manufacturer), and ОАО Транснефть(the representative of the Russian oil and gas equipment manufacturing industry ) participated the KIOGE.
R&T Group attracted lots of visitors from worldwide countries for business negotiation and consulting. The General Manager of International Business Unit introduced the company profile, product range, core technology of R&T Group, and exposited the international marketing plan and the international resources strategic integration plan. R&T Group won the trust of visitors and exhibitors with its perfect management system and strong resource integration ability, and reached preliminary cooperation intention with worldwide companies.
R&T Group has always been persisting the company mission of "Reliable and Trustable", committed to creating more value and providing more qualified products and service for worldwide customers.


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SAA adds capacity to the Eastern Cape for business travellers
South African Airways (SAA) has added capacity to the Eastern Cape for business travellers between East London and Johannesburg.
SAA currently operates 24 flights per week between Johannesburg and East London, with a double daily service (except on Mondays and Saturdays). Effective Sunday 10 June 2018 the airline has added additional flights on three days of the week, increasing the service to 30 flights per week.
SAA has scheduled the additional flights to cater specifically for the business traveller wanting to travel in time for meetings and who require additional flexibility for return flights.
"Adding these early departures out of East London and late returns from Johannesburg is an ideal way for business travellers from the coastal city to be in Johannesburg early morning to conclude their business and return the same day," says Tlali Tlali, SAA spokesperson.