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Senior System Administrator
£40,000 - £60,000 (depending on cloud experience) + Benefits and Perks
We provide cloud hosted solutions for modern digital agencies & brands. Come and have some fun!
Join a professional, empowered support team as a Senior System Administrator. Enjoy technical variety, collaborative learning and professional stretch.
We are looking for:
+ Linux Experience, especially using Ubuntu/Redhat/Debian Linux in a monitoring environment
+ Technical knowledge of Web Servers, DNS, Email, FTP, DB
+ Working knowledge of virtualisation, exposure to scripting and automation
+ Experience supporting a VMware environment would be advantageous
+ Working knowledge of cPanel would be advantageous
Key Responsibilities include:
+ Resolving day-to-day customer issues via email (ticket system), telephone and occasionally in person on client sites.
+ Carrying out tasks to provision new services for customers and maintaining and upgrading existing services.
+ Proactive troubleshooting to improve customer technical services, both in a process format and via hardware/software improvements.
+ Documenting and communicating amongst the team for repeated issues, creating/updating knowledge base articles on the company Wiki.
+ Server management tasks and being accountable for escalated or problematic support issues.
+ Database administration and maintenance – with regard to documenting upgrades or additional services to customer solutions.
Career path opportunities include:
Strong self-learning and supported development paths geared to your interests. SysOps Engineer, Pre-sales Technical Lead or Technical Architect are all achievable from working within this strong, capable team in an exciting fast-growing multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud).
Founder-led tech team. Culturally, we look for individuals who love to learn, are playful, quietly technically confident and enjoy facilitating team collaboration whilst helping to shape and improve technology ecosystems.
+ Salary £40-£60K depending on experience
+ Free Parking
+ Private health & Employee Assistance
+ Pension
+ Family friendly office hours
You may have worked in the following capacities:
IT Systems Engineer, NOC Engineer, Datacentre IT Engineer, Server Build Engineer, IT Infrastructure Engineer, Data Centre Server Installation Engineer, NOC / Data Centre IT Engineer, LaaS Engineer, Hosting Support Engineer, Cloud Hosting Engineer, Linux Systems Engineer.
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If you have any pre-application questions please contact us first quoting the job title & ref. Good luck, Team RR.


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This is not how we're supposed to treat our wounded vets!
In another move to drain the DC swamp President Donald Trump's administration has been able to uncover a truly sad fact from the Veteran's Affairs hiring practices.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has been allowing its hospitals across the nation to hire Doctors and Nurses with revoked medical licenses. This is a practice that has been going on for at least 15 years and is in violation of federal law. But the VA issued national guidelines back in 2002 where it gave local hospitals discretion to hire clinicians after "prior consideration of all relevant facts surrounding" any revocations. just as long as they still possess a license in one of the 50 states. WHAT????
But this is in directed contradiction to a federal law passed in 1999 which bars the VA from employing any healthcare worker whose license has been revoked by any of the 50 states.
Can someone please tell me why we are treating our vets like second class citizens. While if you go to any top-notch emergency room in the nation all you see is how they are being inundated with illegals who will never pay a dime for their treatment and have never done anything for this country other than break the law to take advantage of our naiveness and generosity.
Veteran patients in imminent danger at VA hospital in D.C., investigation finds
WASHINGTON — Conditions are so dangerous at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., that the agency's chief watchdog issued a rare preliminary report Wednesday to alert patients and other members of the public.
The VA inspector general found that in recent weeks the operating room at the hospital ran out of vascular patches to seal blood vessels and ultrasound probes used to map blood flow.
The facility had to borrow bone material for knee replacement surgeries. And at one point, the hospital ran out of tubes needed for kidney dialysis, so staff had to go to a private-sector hospital and ask for some.
The hospital, which serves more than 98,000 veterans in the nation's capital, lacks an effective inventory system, the inspector general determined, and senior VA leaders have known about the problem for months and haven't fixed it. Investigators also inspected 25 sterile storage areas and found 18 were dirty.
"Although our work is continuing, we believed it appropriate to publish this Interim Summary Report given the exigent nature of the issues we have preliminarily identified and the lack of confidence in VHA adequately and timely fixing the root causes of these issues," VA Inspector General Michael Missal wrote.
The inspector general rarely issues such preliminary findings. The last time appears to have been in January 2015, when his office found lapses in urology care at the Phoenix VA were endangering patients and required "immediate attention."
The VA set up an incident command center on March 30 when the inspector general notified officials about the problems in Washington; it sent logistics specialists, technicians and managers to fix the problems.
Such actions, Missal said, are "short term and potentially insufficient to guarantee the implementation of an effective inventory management system and address the other issues identified.
"Further, shortages of medical equipment and supplies continued to occur…, confirming that problems persisted despite these measures," he wrote.
After the report's release Wednesday, the VA issued a statement saying that the medical center director, Brian Hawkins, was relieved from his position and placed on administrative duty, "effective immediately."
"The department considers this an urgent patient-safety issue," the statement said. "VA is conducting a swift and comprehensive review into these findings. VA's top priority is to ensure that no patient has been harmed. If appropriate, additional disciplinary actions will be taken in accordance with the law."
New VA Secretary David Shulkin told USA TODAY earlier this week that he welcomes outside oversight with hopes it will help him fix the beleaguered agency.
The inspector general's investigation, which stemmed from an anonymous complaint on March 21, found that during the past three years, there have been 194 reports that patient safety has been compromised because of insufficient equipment.
Among the findings:
• In February 2016, a tray used in repairing jaw fractures was removed from the hospital because of an outstanding invoice to a vendor.
• In April 2016, four prostate biopsies had to be canceled because there were no tools to extract the tissue sample.
• In June 2016, the hospital found one of its surgeons had used expired equipment during a procedure
• In March 2017, the facility found chemical strips used to verify equipment sterilization had expired a month earlier, so tests performed on nearly 400 items were not reliable
Missal said that the practices have placed patients at "unnecessary risk," though so far, the Office of Inspector General has not determined if patients were harmed.
"The OIG's work is continuing and will include an assessment of whether patient harm has resulted from any of these inventory practices in its final report on the Medical Center," he wrote.
This better change very quickly. Our troops deserve all from us and illegals deserve nothing. Although the VA is claiming it's very hard to follow all the 66 thousand regulations they are required to abide by there is no excuse for forgetting the one that states you can't hire a Doctor with a suspended license to practice medicine. It's common sense.
And to think, Obama and the Democrat Party convinced the American People that our government can take care of HealthCare better than the private sector can.
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The nonprofit hopes working near Google will provide better opportunities for students and increase diversity in the tech industry.
Nonprofit Black Girls Code and search giant Google are hoping to shorten the distance between the initial spark and an actual job by putting coding students in the same building as Google's New York office.
Black Girls Code and Google launched the new space inside Google's building in Manhattan. Google bought the building in 2010. The space, valued around $2.8 million, is a gift from Google. The idea: By sharing the same space as Google, Black Girls Code will be able to introduce more students to more tech companies, and also attract volunteers and mentors.
"We need a tech sector that looks like the society it serves, and groups like Black Girls CODE are ensuring that we can cultivate and access talent in communities of color," said Google's Head of External Affairs, William Floyd.
Kimberly Bryant, founder of Black Girls Code, said Google has hosted many student workshops in its New York office. This partnership will allow the nonprofit to build a permanent teaching space. It's also another way for Google to invest in a pipeline of future talent.
"They're able to influence these girls that Google is a company they might want to come work for once they graduate," Bryant said.
Black Girls Code was founded in 2011 with the goal of training 1 million girls by 2040. The focus also includes making sure those girls have the range of skills they'll need as technology spreads across all aspects of life. But providing tech education to minority children has its own set of challenges.
"If you look specifically at students of color, and even more specifically at girls from African-American, Latina and Native American communities, it's important to reach them before they get to high school," Bryant said.
Georgia Tech last year found that, across 23 states, fewer than 10 African-American students took the Advanced Placement computer science exam. That year, African-American women made up about 3 percent of the nation's computing workforce,according to the National Association for Women and Information Technology.
Bryant hopes the partnership with Google will lead to many more between tech and nonprofits.
Black Girls Code serves about 1,000 girls in the New York area. Bryant hopes that, thanks to Google, it can double or triple that in the next few years.
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InvisiBright For Android – Swipe Or Tilt To Control Screen Brightness
New to the Android Market, XDA-Developers member dannygirsh's InvisiBright is a handy little tool that allows you to increase or decrease the display brightness of your Android device from anywhere simply by swiping up and down along a side of the screen or tilting the device forwards or backwards. This isn't the first time we've come across such an app. Its functionality is quite similar to that of Brightness Motion. However, said app only uses motion (the accelerometer) to control the level of brightness and owing to the fast right-to-left and left-to-right flicking motion that it requires, is rather uncomfortable to use. InvisiBright, on the other hand, allows you to control screen brightness with slight motion and easy swipes.
That said, the app cannot be used with fullscreen applications (mostly games, that is) if the device does not have a Search key. Unlike Brightness Motion, which runs in the background constantly, InvisiBright requires the user to trigger its brightness control service either by holding down the Search key or by tapping the shortcut it places within the notification area.
InvisiBright's operation is simple. Drag down the status bar and tap the InvisiBright shortcut in the notification area or simply hold down the Search key if your device has one. If the app is set to operate under Touch mode, swipe up and down along the right side of the screen to increase and decrease brightness (simple tapping works too) and tap anywhere on the left side of the screen or hit the Back key to terminate the service. With the app set to operate under Tilt mode, brightness increases as you tilt your device backwards (away from yourself) and increases as you tip it forwards (towards yourself). Tapping anywhere on the screen or pressing the Back key causes the service to exit. The app displays the level (in percentage) of brightness in a toast at the bottom of the screen as you swipe or tilt to vary it.
If you wish to prevent brightness controls from being adjusted according while in landscape orientation, you may lock the orientation of said controls for either or both modes from within their respective preferences menus (Touch / Tilt Mode Preferences > Lock orientation). From within the same menus, you can disable the Touch left side to end (Touch mode) or End on tap (Tilt mode) option to allow only the Back key to terminate the brightness control service.
Watch the video demo below to see the app working its magic in Touch mode.
All aforementioned features are available in the free version of the app. The paid (pro) version comes packed with a few added features for extra flexibility, including a home screen widget, the option to hide the status bar icon, disable the status bar / notification area shortcut altogether, enable a Slide area with a user-defined opacity to appear when in Touch mode and switch back to auto-brightness from Menu > Auto-brightness while using either of the two modes. The widget is simply a faster alternative to the status bar shortcut for when you're on the home screen.
Links to both the free and full (pro) version of the app are provided below. You may head on over to the app's XDA-Developers forum thread to download the latest APK of the pro version for free.
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The US dollar trimmed its losses against riskier currencies yesterday as macroeconomic data from the United States was worse than expected. The currency resumed its decline today as optimism returned to the market.
Unemployment claims rose by 4,000 to 352,000 last week. The increase was small, but forecasters have promised the claims to stay virtually unchanged. The manufacturing index of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia fell from 2.0 in March to 1.3 in April instead of rising as was expected. The reading above 0.0 still indicates an expansion of the sector. The leading indicators fell 0.1 percent in March, while an increase by the same rate was predicted by analysts.
The reports were worse than expected, but in no manner they were disastrous. The data weakened the positive market sentiment briefly, but it looks like Forex traders are again willing to risk and buy higher-yielding currencies.
EUR/USD rose from 1.3048 to 1.3059 as of 2:08 GMT today. AUD/USD went up from 1.0299 to 1.0308 after dropping to 1.0280, while USD/CAD declined from 1.0262 to 1.0248.
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Any reputable contractor doing work on your house or property will provide you with a written proposal for the work requested. Proposals can look different from company to company but they should have essentially the same information.
- The names and address of both the contractor and the homeowner.
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- Warranty period: One year is typical on labor and materials
It is not uncommon for proposals to contain additional information. When reviewing proposals make sure to compare apples to apples. Do your home work on any contractor working on your property and always ask for proof of insurance before the work begins.
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A duo of palatial baroque pearl earrings are comprised of a lustrous cream orient and organically refined silhouette. Bright, luxe 18k gold Ladies add dimension and warmth to the one-of-a-kind pair of Cameo earrings.
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100 Fishing Twitter Accounts You Shoud Be following
Each month we will be highlighting our favourite 100 angling Twitter accounts. From educational to just plain funny, we look for the most unique personalities to add to our list. This is our handpicked selection for July. If you would like to be featured in next month's shortlist, why not tweet us @fishingeyeuk and impress … Read Full Article


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Welcome to my review for the lovely Garnet Sterling Silver Y-Necklace 'Halo of Beauty' I got to try from Novica in association with National Geographic.
This is a stunning necklace that was made buy artist Neeru Goel. It has 14.5 carats of Garnet set in sterling silver .
I love this necklace I think it just goes with everything and is got good weight to it and is a very modern style. Garnet is my favorite gem stone because its looks so pretty in a sterling setting .
I Have gotten quite a few things from Novica in the past and think they are all super well made and always lovely.
Each item you buy from Novica in association with National Geographic helps talented artists from different countries sell their works of art to provide for their families.
One of the fantastic new things is you can now get this necklace and other Novica items on amazon. I think this is a great way to use any gift cards you may have. You can find this necklace here at this link
NOVICA Garnet Sterling Silver Y-Necklace 'Halo of Beauty'
I also did a video review for this necklace which I sure hope you have a look at below and thanks for reading.
I received this item at a discount in order to do this review but my opinions are my own


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Stereoforest pres. Marshmello (USA)
Kalypso Club
Zrce beach, Island of Pag, Croatia
One of the most anticipated Zrce beach dance acts of the upcoming season is definitely Marshmello!
This outstanding superstar whose hybrid trap house music has been internationally recognized will make his debut performance in Croatia next summer.
You will have the opportunity to witness it yourself, 10th August!


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Highlighters are one of my favourite makeup products as I feel like they can change your whole makeup look in an instance. No matter how much of a rush I'm in to do my makeup I'll always put on highlighter as I feel like it makes me look healthier overall! Highlighters come in all different types of formulas, powder, cream and liquid which all give a different effect to the skin. In this post I am going to share with you my favourite highlighters that I've tried so far that never let me down.
Depending on what look you want to go for, whether its a natural glow or a intense shine, there are highlighters on the market for everyones taste. I usually prefer something in the middle, not too blinding but I still want it to be noticeable.
Cream highlighters like the Topshop glow pots give a subtle natural glow which melt into your makeup to make your skin look luminous. I have a few of the Topshop glow pots, but my favourite is the shade 'polished', it's a pale shade with a pinky glimmer to it and it just makes your skin look gorgeous. I don't often wear these on their own as I feel like they're a bit too subtle for my liking, so I mostly use them with powder highlighters to intensify them.
Liquid highlighters are very versatile and can be used like cream highlighters over makeup, or under makeup as a primer before foundation or even mixed in with your foundation. I use them in a variety of ways depending on how I want my skin to look. Mixing them in with your foundation will give you a glowy look all over where as applying them on the high points of your face will give you a more concentrated dewy look. I find that applying them with a damp makeup sponge is best as then they don't rub off your foundation underneath and blend in a lot better without being streaky. My favourite liquid highlight is the Soap and Glory Hocus Focus liquid illuminator. It has a white base with a pink and gold duo chrome effect to give the most beautiful glow, this is a product I'm going to be using a lot over the summer months as I fee like it will enhance a tan!
I feel like powder highlighters are the easiest to use, they just swipe on and you're good to go. Where as with cream and liquid you need a good technique to ensure they don't look streaky. The majority of my highlighters are in a powder form as for me they are the quickest to use and most of the time when I'm doing my makeup I'm in a rush! I have a large selection when it comes to powder highlighters, from bright gold to pink to really bronzy ones. The four pictured above are the ones I use most often.
The top one is my all time favourite, it is the Topshop 'mother of pearl' highlight and you just have to see it in the flesh to appreciate it, the photo doesn't do it justice. It is a multi tonal pink, gold, orange and blue colour. It is more like glitter than the others with bigger particles but it is still velvety smooth when applied and gives more of a strobe effect to the skin. Underneath that is the top left powder highlight from the Sleek Cleopatra kiss highlighting palette. This highlight is a pure warm bronze and instantly gives you a sun kissed glow to your skin, this paired with warm bronzy makeup just looks gorgeous! The third one is from the same palette and is the bottom right powder in the palette. This is also quite a warm bronzy shade but it is more on the pinky side and is less intense. The shimmer is slightly thicker with little specks of silver glitter throughout. Lastly is my most recent purchace but one I have wanted for years. I feel like this highlight has been in the youtube and blogging community radar for ever! It is the 'mary-lou manizer' highlight from The Balm Cosmetics and is a classic yellowy/gold highlight. It leaves a beautiful glow without any base colour so I feel like it would be gorgeous on any skin tone.
Those are my favourite highlighters but I'm always on the look out for more so if you have any recommendations of highlighters that you really like, I would love to hear about them!


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Dearest Kayla,
Today you are six. This post is for you. Today is all about you. And as an older sister of two you deserve one day a year to be all about you and nothing else. A day of no getting in trouble. A day of you picking the movies you want to watch. A day where I don't make you compromise with Kyleigh. (Although a lot of days are like this, you just don't believe it.)
This year you hit a big milestone: you started school. You've now been a kindergartner for two and a half months. We received your first report card on Friday. You are doing so well. But I didn't expect anything less. Your teacher said you are eager to learn. You make friends easily. And you enjoy school. I hope those three things stay with you forever.
These past two and a half months have flown by faster than any other months in your life. And sometimes I feel like before I know it you'll be twelve and then eighteen and then moving out. And most times I can't believe how much you are growing up and becoming a big kid. I can tell my little girl is slowly slipping away by your taste of music and shows. The toys you want to play with. The way you talk. And the way you want to dress. But in other ways you still are very much the little girl I know. You still want your blankets at night; soft side up. You still want mommy to tuck you in. And you still want to hold my hand at times. But no matter how big you get or how much you hate to admit it you will always be my baby, my first baby. And I am so proud of the little young lady you are becoming.
You've been talking a lot about kids in your class. Kids who say they have a boyfriend or girlfriend. Boys who say a little girl named *Jessica is prettier than you. And while I've never seen Jessica I can assure you that you are prettier than her. And that it doesn't matter if *Matthew thinks Jessica is prettier than you. Because one day you will meet a Matthew of your own and he will think you are the most beautiful thing to grace this earth. I hope when you come to me about these things I have said the right thing to you. I hope I make you feel beautiful because your daddy and mommy think you are. And we think you are smart. And kind. And funny. And sweet. And an amazing person. But please try not to worry about these things. You are only six. Your only job right now is to go to school. Clean your room. Be nice to your sisters. Play with barbies. And to get a lot of sand in your shoes.
I just hope you don't grow up too quickly. I'm in no rush so please feel free to take as long as you want.
I love you my beautiful girl. Happy 6th birthday!
I love this letter I wrote to Kayla.
A trip down memory lane through photos:
A few of Kayla's favorite things at age six:
Justin Bieber
Monster High
Cotton Candy
Bell peppers
Anything art related
Computer games
Shoes that make noise while shewalk
*names of children have been changed.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
six. an old letter. and a trip down baby kayla memory lane.
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Happy birthday sweet Kayla! She is so beautiful, smart and such a good big sister. She's stolen my heart too. I love all these photos. So nice seeing pictures of her as a baby. :)ReplyDelete
Happy belated birthday to your sweet girly! She is a gorgeous girl!ReplyDelete
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Aw, I loved seeing the older pictures of her since I haven't seen any of when she was wee little. Every kid deserves to have a day where they get to call the shots, I'm sure she enjoyed her day! She's such a beautiful little girl, and that little cheek dimple is killer ;) Wish she could know my L hehe!ReplyDelete
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The Miner's Cottages are two c18th cottages located on the High Street in the Somerset village of Pensford, England. Formerly two cottages, they had been joined together in the 1950s to form a single residence. Design Storey acting, as both architects and developers for the project, had a vision to reinstate the original configuration of the cottages and fully restore them to create two dwellings appropriate for 21st century living.
Our approach was to respect the character and history of the building by conserving original features whilst acknowledging its industrial past. A new dining kitchen was added to the rear this was clad in narrow larch boards, stained coal black, to reflect the mining heritage of the area. Large bifold doors and a deck were added to take advantage of the elevated position and views connecting the cottages to their natural surroundings. Miner's Cottage II features a coal black kitchen with exposed brickwork, reclaimed from the demolished lean-to extension, creating an industrially-inspired space.
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US Navy Training Jet Runs Off Runway
The U.S. Navy pilot who safely ejected from a U.S. Navy T-45C Goshawk near Naval Air Station North Island at approximately 2 p.m. May 22 has been released from the hospital and is in stable condition.
The pilot, who was safely recovered by local mariners from San Diego Bay, was transported to University of California, San Diego Medical Center for medical evaluation and has since been released.
The pilot was from Training Squadron NINE (VT-9), stationed out of Naval Air Station Meridian, Mississippi.
The aircraft was conducting routine training in advance of aircraft carrier landing qualifications prior to the mishap.
The Navy is currently working to crane the aircraft out of the water.
A safety investigation will be carried out to determine the cause.
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Dr. Bill Hudgins is a chiropractor serving downtown Fort Worth and the surrounding communities. Dr. Hudgins and the rest of the friendly team at Northside Chiropractic Clinic are dedicated to chiropractic solutions to target your unique needs, whether you are suffering from back pain, neck pain, headaches, or even just plain old muscular tightness and tension. You may need pain relief after suffering an accident, experiencing an injury, or if you have a specific condition such as chronic back pain or a spinal condition; even if you just want to improve your overall health, Dr. Hudgins can help you achieve your wellness goals!
At your first visit to Northside Chiropractic Clinic, Dr. Bill Hudgins will explain the science behind how chiropractic care works, and give you a full evaluation to see if chiropractic care is right for you. If there is a good fit, we can develop a plan of chiropractic care that is specific to your condition and health goals.
If you are new to seeing a chiropractor and want to find out more, please email us or call 817-626-8795 to receive personalized answers to your questions from our friendly team. We also welcome referrals, so we invite you to share our chiropractic and wellness information with your friends and loved ones.
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Five artists join forces as part of Jay-Z's Inspire Change initiative as Royce 5'9″, T.I., CyHi The Prynce, White Gold and Sy Ari Da Kid connect for "Black Savage."
Five artists join forces as part of Jay-Z's Inspire Change initiative as Royce 5'9″, T.I., CyHi The Prynce, White Gold and Sy Ari Da Kid connect for "Black Savage."
Cyhi The Prynce and Jonathan Hay connect to drop "Indiana" alongside FainCarter and King Graint as they try to get the devil off their back.
CyHi The Prynce is at it again. It's becoming commonplace for CyHi to show up and wreck it. But this 5 Fingers of Death freestyle on Sway in the Morning is ridiculous.
While we await CyHi's next album, he teams up with Kanye West for "Dat Side" as the two trade verses.
After going on a spree of killing freestyles, CyHi the Prynce prepares to release No Dope On Sundays by delivering the single "Movin' Around" with ScHoolBoy Q.
CyHi The Prynce continues his freestyle rampage when he shows up on the LA Leakers show to give Kendrick Lamar's a thorough tongue lashing.
Cyhi The Prynce showed up on Sway In The Morning and proceeded to annihilated the Five Fingers Of Death freestyle challenge in the best way possible. Not a hesitation and nothing but a plethora of hurtful bars that should easily be in the running for freestyle of the year.
In the midst of the Drake and Meek Mill feud, CyHi The Prynce drops this track that is seemingly a shot at the man that brought him into G.O.O.D. Music, the one and only Kanye West. CyHi appears to be upset that he's yet to make any noise on the label and completely goes off. But an alarm clock going off could signal that this is nothing more than a dream. Listen to it and you be the judge.
We are one month removed from the biggest event in TBP history, Mission Underground LA (MULA), and quite possible the biggest underground hip-hop festival in current production. It is only fitting to drop the biggest cypher of the event first. This one features Funk Volume's Jarren Benton, G.O.O.D. Music's CyHi The Prynce, and Slaughterhouse's Joell Ortiz over one of the hardest beats we have ever heard from Trox. If you aren't familiar with any one of these artists PLEASE get acquainted after watching the cypher, as they are some of the most elite emcees in the industry right now.


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Veteran Bollywood actor Raza Murad, who has just returned from Amritsar, has decided to launch a campaign to rescue Sarabjit Singh, who has been sentenced to death in Pakistan for terrorism.
Sarabjit has been in Pakistan jails for more than 20 years and has been convicted of staging four bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan in 1990 that claimed 14 lives.
Raza has now decided to launch a 'Sarbajit Bachao' campaign all the way to the Indian and Pakistan parliaments. For this, he will rope in the help of all the Punjabis in the entertainment industry.
'We all know about Sarabjit's tragic case. He has languished in a Lahore prison for 21 years now. Even if he has done anything wrong, as the Pakistani government claims, his punishment has far exceeded the misdeed. It's time we woke up in one voice to ask for Sarabjit to be returned to India,' said Raza.
The campaign was prompted by a visit to Amritsar last week.
'I was at the Harminder Sahib in Amritsar on Saturday. Sarabjit's family saw me on television and sought me out through a friend in Amritsar…It's one thing to read about someone's plight. But to see Sarabit's family's distress first-hand was a heartrending experience, and one that I cannot bring myself to put aside and move on with life. The suffering that Sarabjit's wife Sukhprit Kaur and his two daughters have undergone shook me to the core.
'Sarabjit's daughter Poonam told me that she once went across border with food for her father in prison. But it took three days for her to get permission to visit her father in jail. The food was spoilt by then. I was devastated by the daughter's grief. If as an actor I am not able to use my voice for this cause, then I am afraid my life is not worth much,' he said.
Raza has a definite plan.
'I have formulated several levels of protest… the first is to get an active participation of the entire Punjab entertainment industry. I'm also framing letters to the Indian prime minister and the president. Letters to the Pakistan's prime minister and president are being sent through the Pakistani embassy, as too our memorandum of protest through the Ministry of External Affairs.'
A candlelight protest is being planned by Raza at the India-Pakistan border.
'I don't know what made Sarabjit's family reach out to me. But they have placed their trust in me to get him back… Maybe they're over-estimating my influence. But I am going to make a do-or-die effort for Sarabjit's release. I want my voice to be heard from the governments on both sides of the border.'


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01/08/18: Featured in Holistic Scotland Magazine August/September issue,
"Forest Bathing for Beginners"
11th February 2018: Scotland discovers the joys of forest bathing, featured in the Sunday Herald. Find out about Forest Bathing and the importance of spending time in nature.
Doctors heading up new treatment scheme say petting ponies and building fires can help insomnia and diabetes
20 January 2018: I recently shared my thoughts and support for GP's prescribing nature activities to relieve depression, insomnia, and other health issues with the Scottish Sun. Read it here.
06 January 2018: Listen to a live guided forest bathing walk with me covered by the BBC Radio Scotland Out of Doors team, Mark Stephen & Euan McIlwraith at Scone Woods near Perth.


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Response – Surveillance / One Nation – October 2013
Coming with the 2nd solo release by Response, are two contrasting but equally as good tracks in the shape of 'Surveillance' which has been heavily supported by Fabio.
Rolling subtlety but enough weight for the dancefloor, harking back to Marcus Intalex & ST Files of old. 'One Nation' is a firm favourite at Ingredi- ents towers, with it;s Virus esque sound pallet and awesome reece bassline. Quality stuff from this new producer out of Manchester.
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It's Bike to Work Week across most of British Columbia this week, and this year, for the first time, I've gotten on the bandwagon and signed up.
Of course I work from home, which should make the commute easy. But don't think I've been lax about my resolution.
I used to be an avid cyclist. Not Lance Armstrong avid. I'm more of a cruiser than a racer. But as forms of transportations go, it's one of my faves.
I haven't taken my bike out of the garage since my son was a year old. And that summer it only saw the light of day two – maybe three, times. It's been closer to five years since I've ridden with any regularity.
Back in the day, my bicycle was my main source of transportation. Yes, I had a car, and I used it when the weather was increment, I had lots of stuff to carry (like groceries) or when I wanted to get somewhere fast. But, being a writer and therefore somewhat sedentary, using it as a form of transportation was actually multitasking with a workout.
But that's not the only reason I like bike riding. I like the simplicity and inventiveness of bicycles. I am fascinated by their history, and their mechanics. I appreciate the freedom of the bicycle – did you know that it contributed to the emancipation of women in the 19th Century and was dubbed the "freedom machine" by suffragettes? And I just love the wind in my hair and the power going through my legs and into the pedals.
I learned to ride a bike when I was four. I couldn't wait to go for long bike rides, touring the neighbourhood.
My favourite bike was an old gents bike I bought in England for £10. It was black and had pedal brakes that only just worked, and was a awful lot of work to get anywhere on, but I was so sorry to part with it when I left.
My bike now is a silver Kuwahara mountain bike. It's much easier to ride, and does as well on dirt roads as pavement. But it doesn't have the same appeal, style-wise, as that old black contraption in England. Someday I'd like to trade this one in for one of those sweet little retro numbers.
In the meantime, though, I've been hooking up the bicycle trailer every day this week and loading the kidlets up for a ride. Monday and Tuesday we went down the Mission Creek Greenway and back. Today it was the farmer's market.
I will begrudgingly admit that I may have overdone it. The trips out have been much more enjoyable than the trips home again, where I've had to gear down so low I might as well as remove the chain altogether. But Bike to Work Week has given me the incentive I needed to, as the band Queen so eloquently put it, "get on your bikes and ride!"
I hope to get the old two-wheeler out more regularly for the rest of the summer.
P.S. Linking up with BC Good Life Wednesdays!
– Words and photos by Lori-Anne Poirier


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Health care battle tests longtime bipartisan Senate team
WASHINGTON — For nearly a decade, Democrat Max Baucus of Montana and Republican Charles Grassley of Iowa have worked together on the Senate Finance Committee to shape tax cuts, trade measures and health bills.
As Congress returns to work next week, however, their partnership has frayed over President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the nation's health care system.
Grassley made a stream of caustic and pessimistic remarks as he toured Iowa during the Senate's August recess. He initially made no attempt to challenge unfounded charges that the House of Representatives Democrats' health care legislation included "death panels" and called Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California "intellectually dishonest" in using the controversy to divert attention from problems with the Democrats' approach.
Now the question is: Can this marriage be saved? Don't bet on it, at least when it comes to a health care overhaul.
"Would either Baucus or Grassley arrive at a compromise just because we're friends?" Grassley said in a recent interview with Kaiser Health News. "No. Product is what we're working on, and bipartisanship doesn't result just because we have a good working relationship. It works because we're able to work things out." He insisted that his relationship with Baucus was still intact, however, and that bipartisan talks on the issue would continue.
Baucus agreed, telling KHN: "We have a long history of working across party lines, and while we may not always agree on every issue, we always try to find a way to work together."
Grassley's problem, said David Yepsen, the former chief political reporter for the Des Moines Register, is that he's caught "between different forces crushing in on him," with Senate GOP leaders and conservatives back home adamantly opposed to a deal, and large numbers of Obama voters in Iowa who support health care action.
Grassley, a five-term lawmaker who's up for reelection next year, also said he wasn't sure that bipartisan talks could produce a Finance Committee deal in September. He also said that the soaring budget deficit — now projected to total $9 trillion in the coming decade — "puts a stake in the heart" of many reform ideas.
Baucus, the chairman of the Finance Committee, said he still thinks that a health care overhaul is "inevitable" this year.
"I remain committed to getting health care reform done — done right and done this year — and a bipartisan bill is my first, second and third choice," he said. "As always, I'm going to work with anyone who shares that goal."
However, with Grassley, the ranking Republican, inching away from the bargaining table, Baucus may be left with two bad choices:
_ Drastically scaling back the committee's $900 billion draft plan in an effort to satisfy a few Republicans, a move certain to alienate large numbers of liberal Democrats
_ Standing aside as Senate and House Democratic leaders use special budget rules to try to push through a major bill, which likely would include a controversial public insurance plan, with virtually no Republican support.
"I think as Democrats talk about, 'Let's do it ourselves,' that makes it easier for Grassley to say, 'Okay, I'm out of here,'" said Yepsen, now the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill.
With the death of Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the Democrats' majority in the Senate shrank to 59 votes, including two independents who generally vote with the Democrats. In all likelihood, the Democrats will need 60 votes to overcome a Republican filibuster to pass virtually any health care legislation this year.
Besides Grassley and Baucus, the Finance Committee negotiators are Republicans Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Democrats Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico. If Grassley and Enzi bail out of the so-called "Gang of Six" talks, the Democrats' only hope is to hold on to Snowe, a moderate Republican.
Even if Snowe remains on board, however, the Democrats could have trouble preventing defections by a handful of moderate-to-conservative Democrats who're facing strong opposition to health care legislation from their constituents.
When they shook hands and returned home for the August recess last month, Baucus and Grassley thought a health care deal was within their grasp and that the final details could be wrapped up by a Sept. 15 deadline.
Baucus aides, however, became alarmed by some of Grassley's town hall comments, particularly by the way he waded into a controversy sparked by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's warning that a Democratic end-of-life counseling provision in the House bill could lead to "pulling the plug on grandma."
Aides to Baucus conferred with Grassley's staff to try to determine whether there'd been a sudden rupture in their relationship. Baucus conferred with Grassley several times by phone during the August break, gently sounding him out about how his town meetings were going and his impressions of public sentiment — but not confronting him about any of his statements.
With so much uncertainty about the fate of health care legislation this fall, about the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the Baucus-Grassley relationship will soon be put to its ultimate test.
Baucus, 67, a reticent Montana rancher, and Grassley, 75, a folksy Iowa farmer, share many of the same economic and social values. Both are political mavericks who've angered their party leaders in the past by cutting deals with the other side that conflicted with their parties' agendas.
The two first teamed up in 2001, when Grassley took the helm of the Finance Committee, and they've swapped roles as chairman three times since then. Bipartisan deals worked out by them smoothed the way for President George W. Bush's major tax cuts, the 2002 fast-track trade agreement, and the 2003 Medicare prescription drug benefit.
While sensitive to their parties' political imperatives, Baucus and Grassley frequently have charted a middle course, such as when Baucus enraged Senate and House Democratic leaders by privately negotiating a compromise with Republicans to pass the Bush administration's Medicare prescription drug benefit plan.
Grassley sided with the Democrats to help pass a $35 billion expansion of a health insurance program for children of low-income families, although Bush later vetoed it. When Obama and congressional Democrats revived the legislation but changed provisions of the bill regarding legal immigrant children, Grassley voted against the bill. It passed nonetheless, and Obama signed it into law.
This time, with the political stakes so high over the fate of Obama's signature health care initiative, Grassley and Baucus are finding it much harder to chart a course independent of their parties' leadership.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky calculated last spring that defying Obama on health care reform would pose less of a risk to Republicans than Obama's landslide election results suggested it would.
Beginning in May, McConnell began declaring publicly that his party was ready to work with the president to overhaul the health care system, while stressing that "it's important to get it right" and avoid creation of a government-run health care system that "could soon lead to government bureaucrats denying and delaying care."
Democrats pushed their own versions of health care legislation through the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and three House committees — Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and Labor.
Baucus and Grassley, however, took a different approach and created a six-member negotiating team consisting of three Democrats and three Republicans to try to draft compromise legislation that could attract large numbers of votes from both sides of the aisle.
As the "Gang of Six" seemed to be inching toward an agreement, though, Republican criticism of the effort stepped up, and Grassley came under increased pressure from GOP colleagues to slow down or sidetrack the bill.
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., boasted that if the Republicans could bring down the bill, Obama would suffer "his Waterloo." Over the August recess, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., told reporters that the Republican leadership not only was unalterably opposed to a public option, but also wouldn't go along with a fallback proposal to create nonprofit health insurance co-operatives.
"I think it's an accurate picture to say that both parties would try to discourage us," Grassley told Kaiser Health News last week. "But we have held the position since January that we're affecting one-sixth of the economy and that we're affecting life-or-death issues with every American that it ought to be done in a broad bipartisan way and that's lots of Republicans and lots of Democrats — but not necessarily all Republicans and all Democrats."
Asked whether he's been criticized by some in the Republican leadership for persisting in search of a bipartisan deal, Grassley replied: "Not to my face, but I think to my back I have been."
(Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News contributed to this article.)
(Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization that's not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)
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Hot New DVD and Blu-Ray Releases This Week (August 19, 2008)
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House, M.D. – Season Four
In the fourth season of this Emmy-nominated drama, the always-cranky House (Hugh Laurie) deals with the departure of his entire diagnostic team by hiring 40 new doctors and forcing them to compete in "Survivor"-like fashion for permanent positions on his staff. While firing unqualified candidates left and right, House uses his remarkable medical deduction skills to solve the ailments of his patients, including a female race car driver. DVD (4-disc series)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
After losing yet another nanny position because of her gruff demeanor, Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) mistakenly lands an assignment as the assistant of an American starlet (Amy Adams) and finds herself swept up in a dizzying world of glamour and high society. Based on the novel by Winifred Watson, this charming 1940s-era tale also stars Ciarán Hinds, Lee Pace, Shirley Henderson and Mark Strong. DVD
Street Kings
Still reeling from the death of his wife, Los Angeles detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is devastated when he's named as a suspect in the murder of his partner (Terry Crews). With the help of a young homicide detective (Chris Evans), Ludlow struggles to clear his name. His boss (Forest Whitaker), meanwhile, tries to protect him from a tough Internal Affairs investigator (Hugh Laurie) who's determined to put Ludlow behind bars. DVD | Blu-Ray
This made-for-cable film chronicles the extraordinary behind-the-scenes drama that unfolded in the weeks following the highly controversial 2000 election - a presidential race that further split an already divided America. With the country's leadership hanging in the balance after the closest vote in history, the battle between George W. Bush and Al Gore would come down a hotly contested vote count in Florida. Kevin Spacey and Laura Dern star. DVD
Prom Night
Donna (Brittany Snow) has been looking forward to her senior prom for as long as she can remember, anticipating a night of magic surrounded by her best friends. But what she doesn't bargain for is a visitor from her dark past and a party that will end in murder. Donna and her friends find themselves fighting to escape the clutches of a deranged killer before the night of their dreams turns into their worst nightmare. DVD | Blu-Ray
The Watergate scandal toppled the world's most powerful man: U.S. President Richard Nixon (Anthony Hopkins). Director Oliver Stone re-creates the turbulent days of the early 1970s as a shadowy epic of lies and intrigue. The cast includes James Woods, Ed Harris and Joan Allen, but the film belongs to Hopkins, who portrays Nixon as a man possessed of great gifts but haunted by past failures. DVD | Blu-Ray
The Life Before Her Eyes
As the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting approaches, Diana (Uma Thurman) flashes back to a time when her teenage self (Evan Rachel Wood) and best friend, Maureen (Eva Amurri), dreamed of leaving their small town. As she relives the events surrounding the tragedy, drifting between past and present, Diana wonders if she can live with the choice she made that changed their lives forever. DVD | Blu-Ray
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If you ask any professional chef what kitchen tools are most essential, kitchen cutlery will most likely rank at the top of their list. Reason being? There is so much in the world of cooking that can be accomplished with a good quality knife! For today's post, I wanted to share my guide to kitchen knife 101 with you all. I will run through the essentials for any knife block, my tips for basic knife care and a few of my personal favorite kitchen knives. Kitchen knives are a huge part of cooking, so it's important to be empowered with the necessary information regarding the basics of kitchen cutlery to ensure that you are set up for culinary success!
Knife Block Essentials
- Paring Knives- knives with 3inch blades. These knives give you the most flexibility for peeling, coring, cutting and shaping various fruits and vegetables. I recommend having both serrated paring knife and straight paring knife.
- Chef's Knife- a large knife (either 6", 8" or 10" blade) known to be the most versatile. Traditionally used for slicing firm vegetables, mincing garlic, crushing spices, etc.
- Slicing Knife- a blade that is at least 10" long and used to slice fruits very thin, as well as both raw and cooked meats.
- Santoku Knives- I recommend having both 5" and a 7" Santoku knife. This style knife is thinner than a chefs knife, making it ideal for easily slicing those tougher vegetables and chopping produce with great precision.
- Steak Knives- I recommend having at least 8 steak knives. These knives are ideal for single use when cutting through tougher entree meats (such as beef or pork).
- Serrated Knife (aka Bread Knife)- This knife has a long scalloped blade that slices easily and cleanly through hard crusts as well as tender crumbs.
- Honing Steel- this metal rod is used to realign or reset the knife blade after each use. Note- a common misperception is that the honing rod is used for sharpening, when in fact it is not a sharpening tool.
- Kitchen Shears- used for finely/precisely chopping herbs and even cutting up an entire chicken! A good pair of kitchen shears is essential for any cutlery set.
Caring for Your Kitchen Knives
- Always hand wash your kitchen knives (both blade and handle) after each use. Never use the dishwasher to clean your knives as they tend to dull the blades and warp the knife handles.
- Always dry your knives really well post wash and prior to storing.
- Have your knives sharpened a few times a year.
- Store your knives in either a knife block or drawer storage. If knives bang into each other while being stored, the blades can become damaged.
My Personal Favorites
- Shun Kanso Chef's Knife 8"- Attempting to chop up a butternut squash used to be a nightmare! True story- I have actually broken knife blades in the process of dicing squash. It wasn't until this past summer, when I was introduced to the Shun Kanso Chef's Knife that I finally realized squash prep work didn't have to be that laborious. This knife easily glides through even the toughest of vegetables and has made food prep an absolute pleasure!
- Kyocera 4.5" Utility Blade Ceramic Knife - This knife has been featured in my August Kitchen Tools post and now again in this post because it really IS that fabulous! Never in my life would I have thought that a knife would be able to slice tomatoes paper thin until I came across this knife. When it comes to slicing soft produce with great precision, nothing beats this fabulous piece of cutlery.
- Victorinox Serrated Paring Knife- This is another knife that has been featured as a kitchen tool of the month and for good reason! It cuts like a dream, costs less than $10.00 and is the only knife I know of that can go in the dishwasher time after time without ever going dull!
While this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to everything there is to know about kitchen cutlery, I feel that this post should provide you with a great knowledge base. For those of you who might be looking to further your kitchen cutlery education, I highly recommend checking out these three resources:


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What Your IT Department Wants You to Know About Cloud-Based Application Adoption
In response to the business demand for rapid, agile deployment of new systems, Software as a Service (SaaS) burst onto the scene to provide organizations with low-cost, comprehensive capabilities that don't require someone with a technical background to deploy. These cloud-based applications are accessed online under a SaaS arrangement. So rather than purchasing software to install and then adding additional hardware to support it, you can simply download a solution on-demand for a low monthly fee (or free in some cases) and start using it right away.
For instance, a marketing department wanting to share large digital files can simply download a cloud-based application such as Dropbox or iCloud directly from the Web, charge the corporate credit card (or leverage the free version), and get exactly what they need in a few minutes without waiting for IT to intervene.
When you consider the rapid deployment potential and lower upfront cost of SaaS, it's no wonder the average organization today is leveraging an upwards of 1,427 cloud services, and the majority of business leaders consider these applications to be mission critical to the business.
The SaaS delivery model is here to stay and it's rapidly changing the way businesses get work done. However, this so-called "Shadow IT" has led to some unintentional and potentially serious consequences when left unchecked.
Is SaaS Adoption TOO Easy?
In the good old days, files and emails were stored locally on computers. IT knew with certainty where critical data lived. Today, anyone with an Internet connection can download an application without IT ever knowing. The business no longer needs to wait for a corporate-wide solution; they can simply download what they need, when they need it, all the while bypassing traditional IT deployment models.
But is bypassing internal IT resources to acquire new systems, software, and other technology really improving efficiency and driving down costs? That depends on who you ask. From an IT perspective, "Shadow IT" is interfering with their reasonable need to maintain and control the environment, leading to a series of issues that require our urgent attention.
Here is what your IT department wants you to know about cloud-based adoption
- Security: When SaaS applications can be adopted without IT's knowledge, there is no way to ensure that proprietary information, including business and client data, is being protected. Working within a defined security framework ensures that user access and devices are centrally managed. When end users access SaaS applications outside of the framework, IT loses control which could lead to disastrous consequences like data loss or breach (read about how Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security is helping to remedy this issue).
- Financial Waste: Due to the low cost and ease-of-use nature of SaaS, business units are quickly solving their problems by purchasing their own software. When the business is doing well, leadership is less likely to inquire as to how the problems are being solved, including the specific solutions or applications in use. Do you know how many applications your business is running? If you're like most businesses, you can't answer this question, which means you're most likely paying for and maintaining redundant or unnecessary software that will amount to significant cost and efficiency loss down the line.
- Data Fragmentation: The process of aggregating and managing data to deliver insights about the business is already complicated. Add the proliferation of disparate applications, hybrid environments, and end-user demands for self-service brought on by SaaS, and the problem becomes even harder to solve. Without the ability to centralize and view business data, IT lacks effective oversight and the businesses fails to gain valuable insights to drive results.
The ability for IT to effectively manage and support its evolving environment is becoming increasingly challenging. Effectively managing the changing IT landscape warrants a significant cultural change that not only impacts the role of IT, but also requires a behavioral change from the company. Defining the core applications required to drive productivity and efficiency, gaining buy-in from the business and users, and educating the organization on the importance of security and access control will help ensure a smooth and effective transition to a cloud-first model.
Are your employees aware of the potential risks associated shadow IT? Are you in control of managing and operating such an environment? To keep pace in today's ever-changing environment, businesses require a variety of flexible technologies, delivery methods, skills, and organizational restructuring. If you're looking for a strategic partner who can aid in navigating these technical shifts, contact SWC to learn more about our Managed Services offerings.


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October of 2016 marked the end of my year long race season where I finished ranked 5th in the world for Elite Women in the Sport of Stand Up Paddle Boarding. One month later I was out for a run when I felt a nagging sensation in the medial parts of both of knees. Following that day, I couldn't walk without pain and decided to get an MRI. The MRI unveiled that I had Pes Anserine Bursitis in both of my knees. I went to see a Specialist on knees and the Doctor told me that 6 weeks of Physical Therapy would make the Pes Anserine go away. After completing 6 weeks of the physical therapy my knees had not gotten much better and there was still chronic inflammation. I felt absolutely hopeless and believed that I would now have to live with this injury for the rest of my life. I had to stop competing in my sport and go on a complete Hiatus. At about 8 months since the injury happened I decided to start doing some research on my own and find someone who actually knew what Pes Anserine Bursitis was and how to cure it. Thats when I came Across Brian. He had a Youtube video about Pes Anserine and some exercise and taping methods that would specifically help. I decided to send him an email and see if he could help answer the questions that were bogging my mind for months. When he responded I about cried. Not only did he FaceTime me for almost an hour but gave me a regimen of exercise and stretches and was able to distinguish what was causing my pain just from me describing my symptoms to him. We discovered that my knee issues were stemming from my hips and the lack of flexibility and strength that I had was causing that in-balance to be distributed to my inner knees. Without Brian's knowledge and help I sincerely do not think I would be where I am today. I can train at 100 percent again and was even able to compete in the last race of my 2017 season and placed 3rd overall! There is never an immediate cure for any pain within the body but I was able to distinguish what my issue, with Brian's help, and was able to do something about it. It took me 8 months of living in pain everyday, chronic inflammation to the point where I didn't even walk my dog because I would be in discomfort for days after, to come to the conclusion I needed to search for a real answer. Thank you for being the answer Brian and helping me on my journey to recovery!
I was having a very successful running season, just getting to the heart of the schedule—all the things I'd been training for. Two half marathons, one advertising itself as the toughest half in Texas. I was in great shape except for the nagging hamstring and hip pain. I found Brian Boyle on Instagram. I contacted him via text message on a Sunday afternoon, figuring I'd hear from him during the week. Much to my surprise, he contacted me almost immediately, setting up a FaceTime call so we could talk. We talked and went over symptoms, both of us hoping we could save the two runs.Brian put a video together with exercises specifically for me. I practiced with the videos for a few days until it became apparent that the injury was not going to permit me to run. So, starting from step one, beginning with hip alignment and moving toward progressively strengthening exercises, I started from scratch. Having bee through a hamstring injury before, the exercises were familiar. Brian pointed me to his Mesh Tongue series on YouTube so I could watch the videos over and over again to make sure I was doing them right. After three months of carefully following Brian's instructions I started running again and entered my first race in May. Furthermore, Brian didn't just leave me. He still follows up and checks on my progress. I can recommend Brian without qualification. That's me in the blue shirt, finishing my second 5K!
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Since opening in March 2013, Special Thai restaurant has quickly gained a reputation as a fabulous dining experience that brings authentic delicious Thai cuisine to Eastleigh and its surrounding area.
Special Thai is a family run restaurant and features authentic yet healthy Thai food. It is the perfect place to experience contemporary Thai food in a stylish and relaxed setting situated in the centre of Chandlers Ford.
This was previously Thai cottage - a fabulous little restaurant and take away which we were mortified had appeared to have closed. Now renamed the menu looks great and we just had a really delicious takeaway - the duck in tamarind sauce a particular delight. Very glad to have you back and will be visiting frequently!!
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I and my friend came to Special Thai on 29th May,2013 and it was really worth for 1 hour and 20 minutes train to go there. For the starter, we ordered"dimsum", prawn tempura and chicken wings. Prawn tempura with the garlic sauce was extremely nice and also the chicken wings. Dimsum would be better with more sauce in it but it is alright for me. The main dishes were Thai Curry Chicken, Udon, Pak Choi and Stir Fried Mix Vegatables eat with Egg Fried Rice and Coconut Rice. I love all the main dish and especially is the coconut rice with Thai Curry, it is amazingly matched!!!
For the dessert, for any tourists, you should try the Thai pancake, very worth to try.
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The restaurant was lovely and cosy with beautiful Thai artwork. We ordered several dishes and all of them were delicious. Having been to Thailand and i can honestly say Special Thai brings the authentic taste of Thai cuisine to the Uk, beautifully presented accompanied by amazing flavours. I will definitely be visiting again very soon.
It was amazed when I walked in! All the decoration were full of traditional Thai style which are delicate! Of course the food were absolutely lovely! I like the prawn tempura with sweet chilli sause, fragrant and crispy! And the staffs were very friendly and they were in special Thai uniform! I will be regrettable if I miss it !
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George Hunzinger was a furniture maker during the later half of the 19th century. He emigrated to the United States in 1855 and began manufacturing furniture in New York City. Like his contemporary furniture makers of the Victorian Age, Hunzinger's pieces are very decorative. What is unique about his furniture is the innovative and distinctive designs he patented. This site contains information and photo's of Hunzinger's work.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Hunzinger Mirror?
This is the first mirror I have ever seen attributed to Hunzinger. Obviously no stamp. It does have cute little turnings though....
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Hunzinger "Styled" Rocker
No stamp on this rocker, but it is definitly similar to other pieces by Hunzinger. The only thing I would question is the placement of the cross-brace. In this piece, the cross-brace appears to be there just for looks & to hold up the arm rests as opposed to being the front legs of the chair.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Hunzinger Stool?
This really cool stool was listed on eBay as being made by Hunzinger. No stamp was noted or any other documentation provided. Regardless of it's origin, it is a very nice piece.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Hunzinger Platform Rocker
This platform rocker based on the 1876 patent looks to be in prime condition. It was listed on eBay with these pictures:
Monday, December 11, 2006
Reclining Chair - 1866 Patent
This is a great peice on eBay and a perfect example of how not to upholster your fine 140 year-old antique Hunzinger folding chair. That patern looks like a cross between a lawn chair from Lowes and a needlepoint of letuce and rotten tomatos. I'll try to update this in a day or so with the sale price.
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Lollipop Rocker
This must have been one of his most well liked designs for rockers and chairs. This one is advertized as being constructed of maple.
Saturday, December 09, 2006
US Patent 30823 - Dec 4, 1860
Friday, December 08, 2006
U.S. Patent 371758 - Oct 18, 1887
This is Hunzinger's U.S. Patent 371758. It is dated Oct 18, 1887. This is some sort of folding bed. Great to have around when family comes over.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Patent Number 624812 - May 9, 1899
This chair was patented after George Hunzinger died by his hiers. According to the patent, it was his design. This odd shaped chair has wide platform arms that fold down to the sides. The patent is dated: May 9, 1899. It is US Patent Number 624812.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Antiques by Lise Bohm
Antiques by Lise Bohm has a section for Hunzinger furniture on their website. There are many pieces of the furniture for sale there along with pictures. Most of the pieces appear to be in superb condition. Check it out here.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Hunzinger? Not so much...
This chair is listed on an antique website as being attributed to Hunzinger... I'm not convinced. Not much here that matches up with his other furniture. I won't believe it until I see a patent or a stamp for this model chair. This is part of a set listed for $9500.
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Lollipop Platform Rocker
This Hunzinger platform rocker has the lollipops that are featured on several models of his chairs. The rocker is using the patented spring system. This piece is listed on eBay for starting bid of $750.
Friday, December 01, 2006
Stamped 1869 Rocker
This Hunzinger rocker is stamped: Mar 30, 1869. This date is for the 88297 patent. This uses conventional rockers with the cross brace for the legs. Starting bid on eBay $500. Buy it now price $950.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Superb Chair...
Check out this incredible chair. Obviously of Hunzinger design, this one is stamped and is listed on eBay for $600. I'll try to post an update with it's final price.
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Folding Stool
This is something I have not seen before - a folding stool atributed to Hunzinger. No date stamp is shown. Nor is a patent mark indicated. But the style is fairly similar to his other work. It is listing on eBay - starting bid $150.00.
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Folding Chair - 1866
Hunzinger folding chair. Feb 6, 1866. Stamped. This piece was listed on eBay with a starting bid at $499. Seller claims original fabric. Unsold as of yet.
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Hunzinger Chair?
This chair was listed on eBay as being a Hunzinger. I'm not totally convinced. Other than having brass casters, there does not seem to be anything remotely similar to his other furniture. The seller did not show images of a Hunzinger mark. The piece sold for $600 at a live auction.
Monday, November 20, 2006
Folding Chair
This Hunzinger folding chair is marked as being designed on the Feb 6, 1866 Patent. It is listed on GoAntiques.com for $1295.
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Another Patent - May 9, 99
Christa found this Hunzinger patent tag on a piece listed on eBay. I'll be looking it up soon... only 499 patents awarded that day... may take a while to look through.
UPDATE: I found it! U.S. Patent No. 624812
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Folding Chair
This Hunzinger folding chair was recently listed on a live eBay auction. We placed an absentee bid on it, but did not win. We were somewhat surprised that the piece went for $250 as it appeared to be in very poor shape. The people who listed it indicated that the chair was stamped: Hunzinger Pat. May 19, 1870.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006
The Book
The Furniture of George Hunzinger: Invention and Innovation in Nineteenth-Century America
By Barry Harwood
This is the only text I can find soley dedicated to Hunzinger's furniture. It was part of an exibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Unfortunately, you can't get any more copies from there any longer. So if you are looking for one, you will have to get it second hand. The lowest price I could find for the text was $190. I'll probably get one sometime... hopefully I can find someone that is not selling it for that much.
Monday, November 13, 2006
The Mother-Lode - Excerpts from Harwood's Book
I found an Antique auction house that published several selections from Harwood's book on Hunzinger. As the book is no longer avaiable, these are the only pages I have been able to actually view. Here is the link.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Hunzinger folding chair - 1873
This signed Hunzinger folding chair sold for $250 on an eBay auction this week. I suspect it would have gone for more except for the very poor condition of the aphostery. According to the seller, there is a Patent marked: May 19, 1870. However, I checked that date and found that no patents were issued on that date. Possibly it was mis-read...
UPDATE: This appears to be under the Patent 138892 - May 13, 1873
UPDATE: This appears to be under the Patent 138892 - May 13, 1873
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Another patent date found: Feb 13, 1894
I found another patent date stamped in the caster that was on my rocker. The date is: Feb 13, 1894. There are only 479 patents that were issued that day... this whole patent searching thing will take some time....
Friday, November 10, 2006
US Pat. 88297 - March 30, 1869
This is George Hunzinger's patent for an improved chair. The patent date is March 30, 1869. The patent number is 88297.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Platform Rocker
Another Hunzinger platform rocker. This one is neat in that it has some sort of embossed leather back. You can also clearly see the patented spring mechanism. Very cool.
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Patent 433623 - Aug 5, 1890
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Lollipop Platform Rocker
Hunzinger evidently did a lot of these turned pieces with a round top. They are frequently listed for sale as lollipop chairs or rockers. This one is on the platform rocker base.
Monday, November 06, 2006
Hunzinger Standard Rocker
This is a modified lollipop rocking chair on a conventional rocker base. It listed for $899, but did not sell. I suspect it was overpriced. Probably would have sold for $250 as there were several screws missing and the finish was quite worn. Or it could be the awful fabric that someone put on it.
Hunzinger Folding Chair
This signed-stamped chair went for $149 on eBay. This is probably low for the piece as it is stamped and the finish appears in good condition. There was only one bidder. Notice the carvings at the top.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Folding Chairs
I believe that these folding chairs are based on U.S. Patent 52416 dated Feb 6, 1866.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
US Pat. 52416
This is George Hunzinger's patent for a reclining chair. The patent date is Feb 6, 1866. The patent number is 52416.
Floor Rocker
This is a rare Hunzinger floor rocker. It is easily identified by the lollipop spindles that he used on many of his rockers. This peice also has a stamp as well.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Round Table
Here is an excellent example of Hunzinger's unique designs. Where other manufactures might use a 4-sided base made of two pieces of wood, Hunziner crafts his base out of 3 oddly shaped spindles. I would have loved to have this one... Unfortunately, this sold for way out of my price range.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Pair of Chairs
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
A Hunzinger Stamp
Hunzinger was pretty proud of his work and made sure people knew who made it. A significant number of his pieces will still have the stamp of it's maker. Here is an imprint from the back of a chair.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Merklen Bench
This particular bench was listed on eBay as being a Merklen/Hunzinger bench. It looks more like a Merklen piece as it has the brass claw feet and does not share many of the elements of other Hunzinger pieces such as angled braces. This bench went for $1,400.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
Why Refinish?
When I mention that I refinish antique furniture, many people say, "Don't do that, it will reduce the value!" And they are right... if the piece is already in good shape. The two Hunzinger chairs we have purchased have been in horrible shape. Mine in particular appears to have been left in a moldy basement for many years. In this case, the value of the piece has already reached rock bottom... it has nowhere to go but up. This pic is from the eBay listing...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Hunzinger's Angled Brace
One of the most distinctive features on many of Hunzinger's chairs is an angled brace which acts as the front legs. You can see it on this selection of chairs.
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In the context of the crisis of representation, (or in the context of the crisis of traditional cartography), this lecture considers, the need to establish a fresh foundation for cartography. The task of becoming cartographers implies a return to the possibility of deducing the value of territory and the ways of establishing a discourse with it, on the basis of experience. In this way, contemporary art could serve as a model.
Martí Peran is a critic and curator and is also a faculty member of the University of Barcelona. A member of the editors team of Roulotte, he frequently contributes writing to a number of newspapers and art magazines. He has lectured at numerous museums, universities and festivals, and he has curated several historical and contemporary art exhibitions, including the recent 'This is not a museum' (2011–13:Barcelona, Liujbliana, Ciudad de México, Wasghinton DC, Santiago de Chile, Miami).


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|Six-room replica of ancient dwelling at Anasazi State Park (Julianne G. Crane)
According to museum sources: This is one of the largest communities of the 'ancient ones' west of the Colorado River, it was opened to the public as a state park in 1970. This partially excavated and reconstructed village consists of almost 100 rooms. Outside the museum, visitors can tour a life-sized, six-room replica (above) of an ancient dwelling and view a portion of the original site.
"Anasazi is a Navajo word that is now referred to as the ancient ones. Anasazi refers to village-dwelling farmers who existed on the Colorado Plateau between A.D. 1 and 1300. They eventually cultivated crops, and the primary products were corn, beans, squash, and cotton. They domesticated the turkey, and continued to gather wild plant foods and hunt game in order to supplement their diet."
|Underground 'pithouse' (Julianne G. Crane)
Because pithouses are better insulted that surface dwellings, they were perfect for higher elevations of 6,700 feet. They remained cooler in the extremely hot summers and warmer in the frigid winters.
There are picnic tables and restrooms. The small community of Boulder has basic supplies, however. don't expect a large selection of groceries or other travelers' needs.
If you go:
Anasazi State Park Museum
On Hwy 12, in the town of Boulder, Utah, approximately 248 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Elevation: 6,700 feet
Park hours: Open year-round, seven days a week
March 1-Oct. 31: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Nov. 1-March 1: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Holiday Closures: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day
Fee: $5 admission; $3 Utah seniors; $10 for families
Address: PO Box 1429, Boulder, UT
Phone: 435-335-7308
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Nijo 4 Lobed Table
Upon visiting Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Sean was inspired by the massive doors of the ancient Japanese fortress. The Nijo series draws on a number of attributes from that experience. The tables are cast in resin. The copper version is then electroplated and receives a hand finished patina. The coloration of the patina is a result of natural oxidation, each table will be unique, slight variation is to be expected. The black volcanic rock version is cast using ground volcanic rock from the island of Java.
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According to Arthritis Research UK, a British medical research charity dedicated to curing arthritis, around eight million people in Britain are affected by osteoarthritis, with around one million taking treatment for the disease. Osteoarthritis, often described as "wear and tear" arthritis, is the most common type of arthritis and age is the single greatest risk factor for its development. Osteoarthritis is associated with damage to cartilage, the slippery material that cushions the ends of bones in a joint, eventually resulting in inflammation, pain, stiffness and loss of joint function.
Scientists from Australia have found that regular walking, combined with glucosamine sulphate supplementation, improves the symptoms of osteoarthritis. Researchers at the University of Queensland, Australia, carried out a trial involving 36 people, aged between 42 and 73 years, with mild to moderate osteoarthritis of the hip or knee. The volunteers were given glucosamine supplements to take every day for six weeks, by the end of which their pain levels had fallen by 13%. They were then asked to begin a 12-week progressive walking programme, on top of the supplementation, and given a pedometer to monitor step counts. The authors showed that volunteers who walked a minimum of 3,000 steps, at least three days per week, reported significantly less arthritis pain and significantly improved physical function. Those who walked for five days per week gained no additional benefits.
Study author Dr Heesch said that the findings "provide preliminary evidence that osteoarthritis sufferers can benefit from a combination of glucosamine sulphate and walking 3,000 steps per day for exercise, in bouts of at least 1,500 steps each, on at least three days per week."
Experts have long known that walking is important for people with arthritis, to keep the muscles that support the joints strong and supple, as well as helping to lift low spirits by stimulating the release of hormone-like substances, called endorphins – the body's own natural painkillers and mood elevators – into the bloodstream.
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My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 2)
2. "The truth is these are not very bright guys...and things got out of hand."
Screenplay by William Goldman
Man, I've been quoting this a lot this past decade.
It's the first underground-garage meeting between Bob Woodward and Deep Throat and Woodward is asking about the bits and pieces he and Bernstein have gathered, which they don't know how to fit together. He talks about John Mitchell resigning to spend more time with his family. "Sounds like bullshit," he says, in that less-cynical time, that pre-Watergate time. "We don't quite believe that." "No," Deep Throat adds, "but it's touching." Deep Throat sees not only the larger issue with Watergate but the larger issue with Woodward. So he says the line to steer him straight. "Forget the myths the media has created about the White House," he says. "The truth is these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
The problem isn't just the people in charge; the problem is our myths about the people in charge. We believe we live in a meritocracy. We believe—we still believe!—people are where they are through talent and hard work. Yet what accounts for success? If I had to make a list, it might look like this:
- Relationships
- Persistence
- Ruthlessness
- Salesmanship
- Luck
Maybe intelligence should go on there. Maybe talent. But replacing what? I almost feel like I'm being charitable. I didn't include lying, for example, or bullshit. Maybe that's packaged under "salesmanship."
Forget the myths...
I first began to think of the line not when I worked at the University Book Store in the mid-90s but during the five years I spent at Microsoft Games. The bookstore was what it was and I expected little from it. But wasn't Microsoft this mega-successful company? Shouldn't it know better? Yet in some ways it was worse. The people in charge assumed their success meant they were smart, and that their smarts would ensure continued success. This was in the late 1990s. They were arrogant, and not very bright, and things got out of hand.
Now it seems I can't go a month without saying the line. A friend will complain about something at work, something stupid his boss is doing, something idiotic and expensive the higher-ups are planning. "Why do they think this'll work? How could they be so dumb?"
The truth is these are not very bright guys...
Don't get me started on business and politics: "Operation Iraqi Freedom," Mission Accomplished, "Bring 'em on," Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, "You're doing a heckuva job, Brownie," the Terri Schiavo case, the U.S. attorney scandal, credit default swaps, Bear Stearns, Lehman Bros. "They were doing what with the prisoners?" "They were doing what with our money?" "They thought they could get away with what?"
...and things got out of hand.
The line is like "The Wire" before "The Wire." It explains everything. It's not just for the Nixon administration anymore.
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