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16 The trees of the Lord are well cared for—
the cedars of Lebanon that he planted.
17 There the birds make their nests,
and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.
18 High in the mountains live the wild goats,
and the rocks form a refuge for the hyraxes.
19 You made the moon to mark the seasons,
and the sun knows when to set.
20 You send the darkness, and it becomes night,
when all the forest animals prowl about.
21 Then the young lions roar for their prey,
stalking the food provided by God.
22 At dawn they slink back
into their dens to rest.
23 Then people go off to their work,
where they labor until evening. NLT
What is it about trees that point to the work of the Lord?
What is it about mountains that point to the work of the Lord?
What is it about animals that point to the work of the Lord?
After the profound observations in verses 16-22, how does verse 23 fit ironically into this section of Psalm 104?
Sometime in the next 24 hours, take a moment, out of the regular, mundane schedules of your labor, to notice the Lord's work all around you.


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So you walk into a charity shop or second hand store or you inherit an old chair from your grandmother and have grand visions of it looking totally cool in a new piece of fabric. But it can be a bit daunting, the prospect of doing it yourself – if you even have the skills – or finding someone to do it for you. What fabric is suitable and what will look nice? And what to choose so you will still like it in a few years time, rather than a quick funky makeover that you might only like for a little while?
A vintage Lloyd Loom chair I transformed for a customer, using Farrow and Ball paint and a gorgeous piece of purple and grey patterned fabric.
I have revamped a number of chairs for customers and to sell in the shop. In some cases I did it totally myself (the more straight forward type of seat) or I would come up with the design and hand the actual job over to a professional upholsterer. It is amazing to see a smelly and tatty old chair being transformed into a fabulously stylish piece. My advice? Go for it. There are just a few things to keep in mind.
There are pros and cons for both tackling a project like this yourself or getting someone else to do it. If you are on a tight budget and have lots of time, then it might be worth-wile learning how to do it yourself. It will be a fantastic achievement and something to be really proud of. On the other hand, especially when you have little patience, some things are better left to people who make a great job of it and spend that little bit extra to get the result you are after. After all, ask yourself how much you would spend on a new chair in a high street store. Probably not even of the solid quality of your old vintage find.
For a more complicated vintage wing back chair I selected the fabric and designed the new look and asked a professional to reupholster it for me. I painted the feet in a graphite chalk paint to match the fabric.
People are sometimes surprised by the cost of getting a chair reupholstered. It is however a mistake to think that just by buying a second-hand chair that needs new covers, you are going to save lots of money. Apart from the amount of time and material it takes to bring a chair back to life, it's not about saving money really. It should be regarded as a different, far more interesting and exciting option. Plus you are saving something from being thrown away by giving it a new lease of life. How cool is that?
Here's a quick comparison of doing it yourself versus handing the job over to someone else:
Doing it yourself:
- Pros: you will be learning/practicing new skills, potentially saving some money, get a feeling of great achievement and have a fab creative project to work on.
- Cons: it will probably take you a long time to do, it is quite technical when trying to tackle a big chair such as a wing back. You may not get the professional looking result you were aiming for.
Paying a professional:
- Pros: they know what they are doing, using the right materials (fire retardant etc) and make your chair look amazing. They have the knowledge and expertise to advice on fabrics. They work a lot faster than you!
- Cons: it is more costly than doing it yourself.
An old rocking chair I revamped using Ikea fabric, which is now living in the Dell of Abernethy holiday accommodation in the Cairngorms!
Choosing fabric
When choosing fabric for an a chair or sofa, make sure it is suitable for upholstery. For smaller seats such as kitchen chairs it is OK to use curtain material or fabric you would use for making cushions, but for the bigger chairs it needs to be suitable for upholstery and fire retardant. If in doubt, just ask a specialist fabric retailer.
There are of course millions of fabrics to choose from and it is totally up to you whether you want to go wild and patterned or choose a more classic and timeless fabric such as plain wool. I love the furnishing fabrics at Ikea. They are fun and inexpensive and most are suitable for (light) upholstery. Ideal for a quick makeover of kitchen chairs or box cushion seats. John Lewis also has some great fabrics, ranging from around £11 per meter for some of their printed cottons to well over £50 per meter for a quality wool. Keep in mind that for a wing back chair you will probably need around six meters of fabric, so the fancier your material, the more costly your project.
I love the fabrics by Scion (Harlequin), which come in fabulous graphic patterns. This is Scion Axis Tangerine.
Other sources for finding fabric I have used are good old eBay (you can often find some good value remnants of wool, linen and other quality materials) and Fabric Rehab, a great website with beautiful patterned fabrics, which you will love if you like the Scandi look like me. Always try and get a sample if you can when buying online, to prevent getting a roll of fabric that is not what you were after.
Webbing and foam
Mid century armchairs, including those made by Ercol, often have rubber Pirelli webbing rather than traditional webbing, which is fairly easy to replace, using the metal clips that come with it. The rubber straps are quite costly, so make sure you measure up how much you need before ordering. Pirelli webbing can be found on eBay or online shops specialised in upholstery. Furniture from the 1950s and 60s also often has foam blocks inside the seats (as supposed to horsehair filling used in traditional, antique furniture), so this is another thing that is pretty straight forward to replace. You can get foam in various thicknesses and density. For an armchair seat I usually buy a 4″ thick block, for a kitchen chair 1″ or 1.5″ is often enough. A useful website to buy foam from I find is Easyfoam.
Two Pirelli webbing projects I tackled myself: a small sofa and an armchair
A gorgeous mid century armchair by Greaves and Thomas I replaced the Pirelli webbing and box cushion for.
The small vintage mid century teak sofa, with new webbing and grey linen box cushions
Get in touch with us if you want advice, have a project you need help with or would like us to come up with a design and help select fabric for your chair. Or have a look at the vintage armchairs we have in stock, which would look great reupholstered. We are happy to help!
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English people are well-known to be tea lovers as well as Asians, but what people don't know is that tea is the most popular drink consumed in the world after water.
Here it comes an amazing marketing idea by Twinings. One of the world's best-know tea brand is carrying out a promotional campaign in Philippines to enhance their brand value and gain more exposure. In a cake shop in Cebu, we pleasantly had the chance to enjoy some of the custom shape coasters by the English tea marketer.
They are entirely made of durable silicone in a shape of an minimalistic and elegant teapot. This good quality materials product, allow good grip for holding drinks and at the same time protecting the finish of the wooden table from the heat and preventing water leaking. After the using they are easily washable thanks to the smooth surface.
We are sure all the customers will love these soft cup pads. They are perfect to give a touch of class to the tea break and subliminally advertise.
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- Increased perceived value: these coasters will probably be combined together with the tea or coffee brand your company produce, this adds an extra value that make your customers indirectly raise their perceived standard.
- Raise brand awareness: coasters are very convenient promo items, they can be used at home, in office, in pubs or exhibited in stores. This makes plenty of opportunities for your coaster to be shown off.
- Expanding product range: if you are a drinks company, these custom shape coasters would be a perfect marketing idea in pubs but also as a promo item to add to a new product line to expand your articles range.
To make it more appealing and suitable for your brand we can offer you some adjustments as different colours, shapes, sizes, add a higher boarder and so on. If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will provide you with our quality sourcing, designing and manufacturing services necessary to help you in your next promotional campaign.
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We set up a special mixtape for our 7th Birthday. My AweSOMe Winter Mixtape includes the best releases of January and the most interesting upcoming release of February, March and April (just write and search, in our website, the name of the artists to read more about the releases). You can listen tracks from Gailes (Benoit Pioulard + Rafael Anton Irisarri), Elli de Mon, Phill Reynolds & Matthew Paul Butler, Francesco Giannico, James Murray, Hand Habits, Loess, HAWK, Daigo Hanada, Half Waif, Matt Jencik, Henry Green, Surf Philosophies, Wicked Expectation, Anjou, High Planes, Earthen Sea, Steve Smith, Rosie Carney, Poppy Nogood. Listen below.
1. Daigo Hanada – Solitude
2. Gailes – Requiem For An Airport Television Newsread
3. James Murray – Footsteps
4. Francesco Giannico – See
5. Rosie Carnie – Awake Me
6. Elli de Mon – Lullaby – Jhulave_Maya
7. Matt Jencik – Cosmic Horror
8. High Plains – Cinderland
9. Hand Habits – Flower Glass
10. Phill Reynolds – Hey Kid
11. Anjou – Soucouyant
12. Matthew Paul Butler – How Shall We Be Saved
13. Earthen Sea – Exuberant Burning
14. Wicked Expectation – Starigrad
15. Loess – Striae
16. Surf Philosophies – Come in in The Feeling
17. HAWK – Take It Away
18. Steve Smith – My Favorite Shoes
19. Poppy Nogood – The light hits you eyes_i blink
20. Half Waif – Frost Burn
21. Henry Green – More Than This


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F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone insists he has no plans to retire -- ever.
Nov.15 - F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone insists he has no plans to retire -- ever.
The 78-year-old billionaire, who shaped the modern commercial success of the sport and today remains in charge and a shareholder, told Gulf News he will keep working indefinitely.
"Never, never, never," he told the newspaper, when asked when he will hand over control to a successor. "The first day I won't be going into work is the day they will be lowering me into my grave.
"And that won't be for a long time to come," he promised.
Ecclestone had triple coronary bypass surgery nine years ago, but he said in late 2008 he feels "as fit as a fiddle".
He also predicts a healthy future for his sport and the annual calendar, despite the recent loss of the traditional Canadian and French grands prix.
Bernie insists there are plenty of alternatives clamouring to join the exclusive circus.
"If you could see the list of requests I have in my office you'd hardly believe it. It is mind-boggling," he said.


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With a nod to Miriam Robbins Midkiff and her "What You Missed" posts at the Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Blog (Miriam always says that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery), I'm reprinting the minutes of Annual Business Meeting. Very special thanks to Shirley Pugh Thomson, CGS Recording Secretary who submitted these minutes as her last act as she departs the board of directors.
The annual business meeting was called to order by President Jane Lindsey at 1:00 p.m. She distributed copies of minutes of the January 12, 2008, annual business meeting to the approximately fifty-five members attending and introduced the Board of Directors of 2008.Questions? Leave a comment and I'll be glad to elaborate on any aspect of the annual meeting.
Vice President Verne Deubler provided copies of the proposed $118,750 budget for 2009, discussed various elements of it and pointed to the need to constrain expenses in the coming year. ACTION: Resolved, seconded, passed: That the 2009 budget is adopted as presented.
Nominating Committee chair Chris Pattillo presented the list of nominees for seats on the Board of Directors: Kathryn Doyle and Chris Pattillo, for second terms, and Stephen Harris, Cathy Paris, Carolyn Steinberg and Diana Wild for first terms. ACTION: Resolved, seconded, passed: That those people nominated for directorships are hereby elected. Directors
leaving the Board in January 2009 are Jane Hufft, Laura Spurrier and Shirley Thomson. Following the election, Jane briefly described plans being considered for revisions in directors' areas of responsibility in 2009.
Activities of the various committees were reported by chairs Bill O'Neil, Lorna Wallace, Carolyn Steinberg, Chris Pattillo, Laura Spurrier, Sandy Fryer, Linda Darby, Kathryn Doyle, Nancy Peterson, Marianne Frey, Nancy Servin and Jane Lindsey.
Jane described a wide variety of events and activities being planned for the coming year and urged that members keep up to date on such matters by frequent visits to the CGS Web site and the CGS blogspot.
The meeting adjourned at 2:30 p.m.
Shirley Pugh Thomson, Recording Secretary


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Cities used to be the cultural epicentres of their respective countries. Over the past few decades, the Digital Age and its side effect, globalization, has pushed cities into a different type of public sphere.
Sociologist Saskia Sassen, writing about the future of studying the modern city in sociology, remarks that the Digital Age shapes major cities into "nodes, where a variety of economic, political and subjective processes..." operate on a global scale. This shifts the role of the modern city away from the usual tropes of a regional, even national, center of identity and work, and into that of the global, "...engaging [the world] directly."
This is a keen observation about how our culture is changing around our continued adaptation--some would say, dependence upon—digital technology. This perspective is changing the way we look at cities, and how we may utilize them as a tool for our globalized future.
Most important is Sassen's implication that cities operate on a more powerful scale than other areas of a respective country, "bypassing the national," as she calls it.
While this has, in a way, always been true, what is different now is that the common city is in direct conversation with the rest of the world due to globalization: cities are becoming as powerful as the nations they occupy. This increase in influence and power may give rise to different social opportunities, which would require bold steps and experimentation to capitalize upon.
The Creation of Smart Cities
One step that many cities could be taking to better the effects of globalization is integrating technology into the socio-political infrastructure, creating a smart city. There are many factors that contribute to what a smart city could be, but generally speaking, the smart city is one that utilizes technology to its advantage, along with maintaining a socially agreed-upon intelligence within certain city characteristics--including smart living, smart economy, smart people and smart governance, among others.
Now, what "smart" living, people, economy and governance could mean can vary depending upon what city we may be speaking of, and "smartness" can range from awareness of the use of resources, to using technology to increase efficiency of public works projects.
IBM, one of our leading technological companies, sees the potential opportunity in being the leader of the smart city movement, outlining on their site the different attributes of what a smart city could be.
Further, IBM has published an open letter to the mayors of the world, giving examples of three city leaders making data-based decisions—as opposed to the old ways of policy-based legislation—which better incorporate the average citizen into the local community process, and increases the efficiency of those processes.
For example, a citizen can notice a broken streetlamp, send a picture from their smartphone to the city's data receiver, which would then, based upon the data, generate a repair order.
The implications of such a system, extrapolated to all cities and throughout the socio-economic structure, are staggering. Citizens, living so long with all the information at hand but powerless to utilize the knowledge, would finally be able to help make decisions about their everyday lives.
This can be accomplished without damaging the necessary division between politicians and average citizens--a division made necessary to avoid a chaotic, citizen-run political-state. Politicians would still have control over legislative responsibilities, while the citizens would gain certain responsibilities in their living situations and public works projects.
It would require the average citizen to participate, and to possibly allow water-tracking—even structure-tracking—technology into their everyday lives. But the benefits of such a situation could outweigh the negative implications of greater government control—and besides, they're already listening to everything we say and do anyway.
Special Consideration
The larger concern with smarter cities is what to do going forward, in terms of national policy. Should the new smarter, globalized cities receive special treatment from their respective governments? After all, according to IBM, over the world's population lives in cities; should those citizens be given their own provincial power?
The questions are complicated, and bring even more complicated answers. Technically, the citizen would be given greater power in their decisions with the integration of the smart city movement, and policy-makers would be hesitant to create a new order out of a city that already runs on state law (plus, just imagine: the State of Manhattan. A trifle odd).
Besides, the biggest economic advantage for cities almost makes tax-breaks a moot point: economic agglomeration.
Agglomeration is an economic phenomenon that traces the rise in productivity in firms and workers within cities. It is generally agreed upon that innate advantages of cities—larger market, sharing of suppliers between businesses, a higher transmission of local ideas—lead to agglomeration, or a higher rate of business in urban areas.
If smart cities were to be given the larger economic power of a state, there could be a greater influx of people into the area, which may actually lead to diseconomies of agglomeration: put simply, overpopulation of a city can lead to negative social consequences, such as pollution and traffic congestion, that would in turn create an economic downturn.
This is why cities never grow too large or overcrowded—why thousands of people take the train into New York City everyday to work. If cities were to be given the same status as a state or providence, people might be more inclined to live there, which may ultimately have a negative effect on the economy.
This is speculation, of course: agglomeration is the title of a phenomenon, not a concrete theory of economics, and, to take a chaotic theoretical perspective, the deterministic nature of cities does not necessarily make them a predictable entity.
The initial iteration of the smart city will expand, unpredictably, as our older cities have expanded into agglomeration and sustainability--a sustainability that has been proven in recent years by pollution and poor economic growth to be, in fact, unsustainable.
Put simply, too much change would produce wildly unpredictable variations of the city at different iterations. When facing such an uncertain future for cities, we should proceed with cautious, yet bold, experimentation.
Which begs the question: how, exactly, do we do that? The answer could be found in a grand social experiment going on right now: the charter city.
Charter Cities
Charter cities are another fascinating aspect of the globalization of cities in our age, another indication of how cities are flexing larger power over socio-economic variables.
Charter cities, as a concept, are being pioneered by Professor Paul Romer, the famous economist and activist previously of Stanford University, now teaching economics at New York University.
The basic idea is that a third-party nation invests in an unused strip of land within a struggling, usually third-world, nation, and creates what are hopefully prosperous economic and social conditions. Locals are allowed to come and go as they please.
There is a "commitment to choice" that averts coercion into participation: under Romer's direction, the charter city is the seed, and the people need to cultivate it.
What they cultivate is, hopefully, a better local economy. This good economy would, in theory, spur further change throughout the rest of the struggling, developing nation. The host nation would also benefit, receiving returns on its investment, thereby creating an upturn in the overall global economy.
This is something that Honduras had been working on for over a year, although it seems that this effort has collapsed. Romer, and his partner Brandon Fuller, proposed in April 2012 that Canada "partner with other countries to help Honduras... not with traditional aid or charity, but with the institutional know-how that support economic prosperity and the rule of law."
There is, obviously, substantial political risk of such an operation--such as problematic infrastructure investing and future rule-of-law dealings between potential investors--but Romer and Fuller attribute these risks as aspects of "weak governance", and that better, more equal rules for charter cities are needed if they are to thrive.
This is the principle reason why the Honduras project failed: "Strong independent oversight of the project was never created." Or in other words, no one wanted to take the political risk and make the proper arrangements.
"I don't want to participate in this again," Romer recently said, "unless there is a stronger governing presence and a national government with some accountability." In essence, what Romer is calling for is more than a private investment—not a corporate city—but a socio-economic investment, a revamp on both the economic and governing scale.
So this does not mean that the overall concept of charter cities, as Romer sees it, is dysfunctional. What the Honduras project shows us is that true goodwill on the part of our governments will go a long way toward possibly achieving economic prosperity.
But more than that, what Honduras ultimately proves is that ambitious socio-political experimentation—like Romer's concept of charter cities—is necessary to pull us out of our economic recession. The ways of old—the private, corporate investment, so prone to corruptibility—cannot work.
So, Honduras is not a failure by any means; it's just the first iteration of another deterministic-yet-unpredictable system. It stands as proof that goodwill is necessary to pull us out of the mess we are all in.
With the introduction of another variable--a positive, well-meaning governance--the new iteration of charter cities, wherever they may be, could produce better results. We are, after all, speaking of communities here; both smart cities, and their experimental doppelgangers, the charter cities, require that variable of positive communal influence, an awareness of one another that, in the Digital Age, may just be easier to come by.
After all, if we can integrate technology into the infrastructure of our cities, if we can create what amount to small utopias in the middle of third-world disparity, why should it be so hard to believe in the power of mankind's hopeful goodwill? Stranger things have happened...
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Josh Hamilton hit 28 Home Runs in the first round of the 2008 Home Run Derby. Unfortunately, since he hit so many of them in the first round, he couldn't beat Justin Morneau for the title since the Home Runs do not carry over into the final round.
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Aug 18 2007
Ortiz Blasts Grand Slam Against Angels
Score: 6-5 Red Sox Bottom 8th For the next few innings, the score remained the same until the 8th when the Red Sox not only got insurance runs, but did some serious damage. red sox, angels, boston, boston red sox, sox, bosox, boston, baseball, mlb, ortiz, david ortiz, grand slam
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Aug 08 2007
Barry Bonds Passes Hank Aaron On All Time Home Run List
According the All-Time Home Run list, Barry Bonds is number 1 after hitting his 756 Career Home Run (now 757). The day that Barry Bonds tied Aaron's record, A-Rod hit his 500th Home Run of his career, at the age of 32 years and about 10 days, which makes him the youngest player to be a part of the 500 club.
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Nov 11 2006
Ortiz, Ramirez Win Silver Slugger Award
David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez are widely regarded as the most feared and productive No. Since 2003 when Ortiz joined the Red Sox, the dynamic duo racked up 333 HRs and 1005 RBI's. baseball, boston, boxsox, david ortiz, manny ramirez, mlb, ortiz, red sox, silver slugger, sox
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Jul 11 2006
Homerun Derby 2006
Since David Ortiz of the Red Sox lead the Majors with 31 HRs going into the All Star Break, most people thought that this was his year to win the Homerun Derby considering Big Papi is the best Clutch hitter in all of baseball.
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According to ITPro, the most common reason why a business will consider migrating their data and infrastructure to a cloud solution is the cost savings that are available.
Traditional data centres can be costly to run. Aside from the capital costs of buying and replacing equipment, there are also costs for the skilled staff required to manage the infrastructure, and the power and communication costs for simply keeping the lights on and data moving from A-to-B.
In theory, using a public cloud service like Microsoft Azure saves on most of these costs. A business no longer needs to buy and maintain their own servers, and the resource costs like technical support, and power are handled by the provider. Using a public cloud service also strips out the cost of backups and disaster recovery. Microsoft Azure operates across multiple data centres, and information can be backed up in near real time, meaning that the risk of outage and data loss is significantly reduced.
Despite this, many organisations find that moving to the cloud doesn't always provide the cost savings they expected, and in some cases, the way services are charged for means that a monthly Azure subscription can get out of control.
There are a number of reasons why the cost of the cloud solution can increase to higher levels. Some of these are simply due to increasing need over time – a business may need additional VMs as new staff come on board, or require additional storage space to meet their demands as the amount of information they produce and process increases. There are also some fundamental issues that can arise from the initial move to the cloud.
Typically, when a business makes the decision to migrate to the cloud they build a new infrastructure using Virtual Machines that replicates what they had before. Azure makes it really simple to provision VMs at different specifications – the number of cores, processor speed, memory and storage.
A lack of analysis of usage and storage requirements during the environment planning phase can have big implications for the long-term cost. Virtual infrastructure that is under or over the required specification will result in cost inflation.
If you create a Microsoft Azure subscription direct with Microsoft, the specification for an entry level VM is as follows:
This configuration (A0) is intended as a very low spec machine for testing simple applications. The amount of memory and storage is too small to enable serious use, and while it might be plausible to use it for limited processing, the limitations of the machine rule it out for practical purposes.
A more typical specification for a VM would be as follows:
The D3 VM outlined above costs 34x more than the entry-level VM but is more capable. If a business has initially under specified their cloud environment and needs to upgrade to more powerful machines in order to get the functionality their staff need, there will be a significant jump in price.
Proper planning and analysis of the requirements as part of the architecting process mean that there won't be any nasty surprises around the corner.
No-one wants to pay for something that isn't being used, however quite often with the cloud, there is a need to do just that. Traditionally, you would create a server farm which is powerful enough to handle peak levels of demand. This ensures that user experience – whether for hosting or application use – remains acceptable at all times. However, it also means that a business can end up with a lot of redundant capacity in their infrastructure.
When we started working with Microsoft Azure in 2010 as a hosting platform for SharePoint, we quickly found that the subscription levels meant that costs for our clients could rise quite quickly. SharePoint requires multiple VMs to handle different elements of the platform including document storage, application and DB hosting, and also Search Indexing. Separate VMs are also needed to handle the Active Directory and user management.
For most businesses, the level of resource required to operate the environment changes significantly over time. At peak times, the VMs require more power and memory to handle user requests and data management, while at times of low usage, there will be too much capacity.
Cloud Control automates the resources in an environment, adding more machines and power when needed, and scaling them back when they are not. This means that our Azure clients get true Pay as You Go cloud infrastructure and are billed on actual consumption.
Cloud Control also handles a lot of additional management tasks such as backups, Active Directory, and OS level updates and patches. On average, our clients save more than 30% on the cost of going direct.
In the longer term, cloud costs will still tend to rise – as you add more storage or additional applications, you will still need to accommodate them – but Cloud Control can help you reduce the cost of your subscription almost immediately.
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Eating is so much a part of life. Your body gets down its nutrients from food. Occasionally we can go overboard with our eating habits and it can lead to gaining weight. One major issue with food is emotional eating.
The problem of emotional eating could end with the scale but it begins in the head. Stress unfortunately takes its toll on your life. When your defense mechanism's compromised your health takes a hit and also your emotions.
Everybody has good days and bad days. How we handle the bad ones brings emotional eating into play. You seek comfort for your hurts. Individuals who turn to food for comfort obtain a coping mechanism that won't judge them, hurt them or tell them "no." To complicate the issue, eating enjoyable foods can cause the release of endorphins just like when exercising. So, after eating, you feel better.
Emotional eaters utilize food to alleviate stress. They hide behind the food rather than seeking solutions to the problems. This is not rare when the stressor is something horrifying such as physical abuse or a death.
But, how do you know you're using food in this way? The 1st sign is obvious. You'll gain weight if you eat too much. In view of the weight gain, examine other areas of your life:
* Have you been under stress of late at work or at home?
* Has anything traumatic occur in the last year?
* Are you dealing with some trouble but haven't found a solution?
Responding "yes" to any of these questions may mean that you are an emotional eater. You eat but you're not necessarily hungry at the time. The foods that you prefer are what we term "comfort foods":
* High fat content foods like French fries, fried foods
* High carb foods like mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese
* Sugary foods like donuts, ice cream, cookies, cake
There's help for emotional eaters. The first step is acknowledging that you have a problem. You'll undergo feelings of helplessness and guilt. The guilt feelings are over potentially ruining your health and the helplessness rests in the fact that you don't see a way out.
Second, seek counseling. There are a lot of types of counselors out there that can meet your need. Emotional eating has nothing to do with diet or changing your eating habits but capture over your emotions.
A counselor may suggest things like visualization, practicing problem solving skills, and family support. Visualization helps you to see your problems in an absolutely realistic way and not blown out of proportion. You'll also learn to see food as nourishment for the body and not an emotional crutch.
Thirdly, your family can learn your triggers for stress and be on the lookout for changes in your eating habits. They can help you be conscious of the foods you are eating, assist you in making healthy food choices and exercise together with you. Right diet and exercise increases immunity, blood flow and positive thinking. Yoga heightens the mind/body connection so you don't eat when you aren't hungry.
Finding fresh ways to solve your problems and dealing with stresses will push food out of the equation. You'll feel good about finding solutions which will substitute the dependence on food.


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This is a new beginning for me and my artwork. After experiencing this past workshop I cant help but change my ways. Design is my main focus from here on out. NO MORE! No more will I render anything that hasnt been well designed or thought out. It takes along time to render so I want to make sure it is worthy of my time to finish it before I even come close to 20% done. When I find those great designs that are worthy of full rendition I will render them to a complete finish unlike I have never seen. I hope you all like where my art is going.
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Skeleton of a missing woman was reportedly discovered in the house of her brother, who is said to be a pastorThe news made the rounds on Friday of a certain unnamed pastor whose late sister's skeleton was found in his apartment in Peace Land Estate in the Akute area of the state.
Nemesis caught up with the man whose landlady tried to evict him from his flat over late payment of rent, as he had not paid his rent for a year.
In annoyance, the landlady, simply identified as Iya Lati was said to have stormed the apartment, ignoring the pastor's incessant pleas.
Iya Lati reportedly invaded the pastor's home, accompanied by some persons, in order to evict him. They were, however, thrown into shock as they discovered a human skeleton inside the apartment.
The pastor reportedly confessed, alleging that the skeleton was that of his sister.
According to him, he had two sisters, one of whom was Funmi, suspected to be the deceased.
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Vitor Belfort scored a brutal first round knockout over Dan Henderson at UFC Fight Night 32, putting to rest the demons that haunted him from their first match at Pride 32 and possibly ending the storied career of the aging legend.
In the aftermath of the bout, many are discussing 'The Phenom's' place in the Middleweight title race and it appears that the former 205lb. Champ is in with a good chance at facing the winner of Weidman vs. Silva II. Nothing is certain in MMA, but Belfort has put himself in the best position possible with the win.
As is the ritual following a Belfort victory, as of late, the discussion has turned to the shady topic of TRT. Belfort has once again given his side to the story, as he spoke to ESPN:
"The [TRT] critics are always going to be there," Belfort said. "If you do it, they will say, 'he cheated.' What people don't know is that we do good work. I was the only guy to do blood work. Now Dan Henderson has to go through blood work; it's in our contract. All the fighters have to do blood work. With the blood work you can track if they [fighters] use testosterone. We know some guys do it; they do things to cheat. My lab work is right there. My levels are right there, every week"
Belfort famously failed a drugs test following his first match against Henderson, at least this time around both guys were on muscle exploding rage potion TRT so it was a level playing field. Belfort continued:
"I'm not doing anything illegal. It's a treatment. Actually, if I go without it I will be at a disadvantage. It will be like the other guy is on something and I'm not. If you have asthma you get treatment. If your have high blood pressure, you get treatment for it. This is my treatment. Everybody knows."
It would be easy to question the reason why Belfort would be at such a disadvantage without the treatment, for example, has he ruined his ability to naturally produce testosterone by 'blowing his wad' in his early years?
If this was the case, should he even be allowed to compete as a pro athlete? I'm quite often split on this matter, as it is involved in a sport where guys could get badly hurt, or worse, and I'm also not a doctor (yet).
"I don't care what people think, talk or say. It's doesn't take my focus away. I do want to fight for and win the UFC title, but I don't need to keep talking about it over and over. I'd love to fight in Las Vegas; I've fought in Canada, I love fighting in America, I have lots of fans here. I have just as many fans here in America as I have in Brazil. Of course I want to fight here, I live in America."
Whether we like it or not, there is a serious chance that we may have our first (?) UFC champ that is on the legal, but much debated treatment.


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Say hello to the NRP Knight Owls, Northridge Prep's competitive robotics team coached by Mr. Fernández. Coach Fernández is a Northwestern graduate with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Design Engineering, as well as a master's in Robotics and Control.
Each year, the Knight Owls build a robot to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge. The game is revealed in September, and the competition season officially begins in late November, culminating with Regionals in January and State in late February. Success in this competition requires team members to collaborate effectively, developing skills in brainstorming, coding, mechanical construction, testing, and fundraising.
Additionally, the team meets every Saturday morning from 9 AM to noon, an important commitment when joining the club Last year the team made it to Regionals, but this year they hope to make it to State.
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Ask U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo where the discussion on managing Idaho's federal lands should start, and he doesn't hesitate.
"Collaboration," said Crapo, a Republican who has championed bringing Idaho ranchers, loggers and motorized recreationists together with environmentalists to find compromise.
Crapo met with members of the Clearwater Basin Collaborative group Wednesday in Lewiston to discuss the next step now that they have reached a broad agreement on how to manage the Clearwater-Nez Perce National Forest - all 4 million acres of it.
Timber companies, county officials, the Nez Perce Tribe, recreation groups, sportsmen, and conservation groups agreed to a work plan that includes increasing logging and other active management.
Also in the plan are additional federal wilderness and Wild Rivers designations on the national forest in north-central Idaho that is popular for recreation.


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July 17, 2017
Aprilaire 12 Water Panel OEM Replacement – Product Overview
The Aprilaire12 water panel is a genuine OEM replacement for Aprilaire whole-home humidifiers 112, 136, 224, 440, 445 and 445A, 448. When the Aprilaire 12 water panel is used with the corresponding humidifiers listed above, it is designed to last one full humidification season. However, if your home has hard water, it may need to be changed twice per season. (most times this is not the case, only in extreme circumstances) Most of these humidifiers have a maintenance light, so it will be easy to tell when your water panel needs to be replaced. The Aprilaire #12 water panel is sized at 11-1/2″ x 14-3/4″ x 1-1/2″ and is made in the USA!


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Chelsea striker Dominic Solanke is set to sign for Liverpool, report the BBC.
Solanke came up through the ranks at Stamford Bridge, and his good performances for our youth sides convinced Jose Mourinho to hand the Englishman his debut.
Having failed to establish himself as a significant figure in Mourinho's first-team squad, a la Marcus Rashford, who is also 19-years-old, he was shipped out on loan to Vitesse.
Solanke's stint in the Eredivisie was so-so, he bagged seven goals but failed to showcase the sort of ability that could see him break into Chelsea's side.
It appears as though his time in West London is now set to come to an end. The BBC report that Solanke has failed to agree terms with Chelsea over a contract extension, and will subsequently be joining Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool.
The BBC believe that Solanke's failure to agree terms with Chelsea was largely due to his lack of game-time. The BBC note that he will now join up with Liverpool's U-23 side – go figure.


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Beijing Opera tells stories of luck. The masks show the audience how the characters are trying to attract luck. The 'Sheng' is the male character. The 'Dan' is the female character. You can wear either. After all, good fortune is totally gender non-specific.
Next time you change your clothes, change your luck too.
Red, the colour of fire, brings good fortune and joy. It has been so successful in attracting luck that it is now used in almost every part of Chinese life.


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So, which one do I choose?
The present tense is ideal for emotional reads, thrillers, horrors and anything where you want your reader to feel, gulp and sigh with the narrator. For an even stronger effect combine present tense with first person POV (check this post on POV if you don't know what I'm talking about).
Check out the beginning of "I'll give you the sun" by Jandy Nelson to see what I mean:
"This is how it all begins. With Zephyr and Fry -reigning neighborhood sociopaths- torpedoing after me and the whole forest floor shaking under my feet as I blast through air, trees, this white hot panic."
Things to keep in mind when using the present tense:
- If the narrator is seven, they cannot speak like Sheldon
- The vocabulary has to be appropriate for the place and time the story occurs, even more so than when using past tense. For example, they didn't say OMG or ugh in 1992 (to check if a word is appropriate time-wise check this post)
- If combined with a first person POV remember that the narrator can only know what they know, not what's going on on everyone's head (again, see post on POV)
Things to keep in mind when using the past tense:
- You can make the narration feel more in the now by mixing in dialogue (which will always be in the present tense, here's the post on writing and formatting dialogue) and thoughts (remember to italicize, here's the post on formatting in general). You can even talk about things that will happen in the future!
- If you have to describe something that happened before the time of narration, use the past perfect (had+past. For irregular verbs you want to use the past participle–sing, sang, sung). For example…
See? In the sentence above "was about to" tells us something will happen in the future, while "had gotten" tells us something happened in the past.
Regardless of your tense choice, BE CONSISTENT!
I wrote my novel in the present, can I switch to past or vice versa?
Panic not. Been there, done that. Everything is possible, but you have to be methodical and come to terms with the fact that it will take you at least five rounds of editing to catch all the wrong verbs.
Just keep writing ^_^
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- Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying; raising from apparent death; reproducing.
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- adjective Tending to resuscitate; reviving; revivifying.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
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Planning for medical catastrophes, like what kind of resuscitative measures should be taken and under what specific circumstances, isn't something people want to plan for in part because most people aren't regularly exposed to death, said Dr. Kendra Belfi, an internist who specializes in geriatrics.
In contrast, last month Santorum even affirmed the morality of refusing resuscitative efforts, adding, "I think that's a decision that people should be able to make."
When she talks with him about alternatives to aggressive resuscitative techniques, today she must also reveal that palliative treatment can ease his anxiety, breathlessness and pain if his condition worsens.
Barbara Coombs Lee: Palliative Care Information Act at the Bedside: Achieving Truly Informed Consent
Despite aggressive resuscitative efforts, the patient expired.
I tried all the resuscitative techniques at my disposal, useless though I knew them now to be: arm-flapping, chest-massage, even mouth-to-mouth breathing, distasteful as that was, but with the expected result.
So presumably, Dr. Murray was in a panic at that moment because he had attempted resuscitative efforts unsuccessfully, and he was probably not thinking very rationally at that time.
A lot of times they'll have what's known as an FRSS which is a forward resuscitative system.
It's about a doctor who is not licensed by the Drug Enforcement Administration to administer anything more than a powerful cough medicine, and who was using, allegedly, Diprivan, which is only used in operating rooms and in outpatient surgery rooms, and not having the proper resuscitative equipment.
They have a thing called the forward resuscitative surgical system which were the tents that were set up in Iraq.
MOORE: CPR, emergency drugs, attempt at pacing, and other resuscitative efforts were all unsuccessful.


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The Climate lawsuit against Shell
Both ENDS is co-plaintiff in the climate lawsuit being brought by Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth The Netherlands) against Shell to stop the company from causing harm to the climate. Shell has known about the severity of the climate problem for many years but continues with the climate-polluting extraction of oil and gas. By doing so, it undermines efforts to achieve the climate goals. Companies have a responsibility not to cause serious harm to society and the climate. Because Shell refuses to take that responsibility itself, we are taking the company to court. In brief, we demand that Shell has zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and adapts its activities to be fully aligned with the climate goals in the Paris Agreement.
Making pension funds more sustainable
Pension funds have a lot of influence because of their enormous assets. Both ENDS therefore wants pension funds such as the Dutch ABP to withdraw their investments from the fossil industry and to invest sustainably instead.
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News / 2 February 2020
How to become a fossil-free investor
The world has to stop using fossil fuels, but investment in the sector continues unabated. Investors of all kinds, including banks, insurance companies and pension funds, are hesitant about making the change to sustainable energy and are not sure where to start. In the autumn of 2019, together with the DivestInvest Network and Sustainable Energy (Denmark), Both ENDS published a report entitled 'Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Businesses'. The report describes five criteria to test whether companies in the fossil sector are actively taking steps to wind down their fossil activities. The criteria are helping investors to choose investments that are in line with the Paris goal of restricting global warming to a maximum of 1.5 degrees Celsius. We spoke to Lars Jensen, Senior Analyst at Sustainable Energy and lead author of the report.
Press release / 5 April 2019
Press release: Friends of the Earth Netherlands submits legal summons in climate case against Shell
The Hague, April 5, 2019 - Today Friends of the Earth Netherlands will deliver a court summons to Shell to legally compel the company to cease its destruction of the climate, on behalf of more than 30,000 people from 70 countries. A 236 page complaint will be delivered to Shell's International Headquarters in the Hague this afternoon by Friends of the Earth Netherlands, ActionAid NL, Both ENDS, Fossielvrij NL, Greenpeace NL,Young Friends of the Earth NL, Waddenvereniging and a large group of co-plaintiffs.
Publication / 14 May 2017
Press release / 24 October 2019
Press Release: These five criteria help investors go green
Press release 24 October 2019
Starting today, investors can use five criteria to test whether companies in the fossil sector are actively working on phasing out their fossil activities. Too many investors still seem hesitant to switch to a profitable future of sustainable energy and these criteria should help them do this. The organisations DivestInvest Network, Sustainable Energy (Denmark) and Both ENDS (the Netherlands) publish the report "Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Businesses" today, which describes these five criteria. The criteria aim to help investors choose investments that are in line with the Paris goal "stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius warming." The recommendations are presented at the World Pension Summit deliberately, because pension fund investors in particular can take more responsibility in this.
Press release / 6 May 2020
Press release: Fossil investments by pension funds aggravate economic blow
The value of ABP's pension fund investments in fossil fuel companies has fallen by 44% from end of last year to its lowest point on March 16 this year, while the value of the rest of the portfolio decreased by 26%. This impact can be seen in simulations based on the publicly available equity portfolios of Dutch pension funds ABP and Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), carried out by research agency Profundo on behalf of Both ENDS. The simulations show that the risks of investing in the fossil fuel sector are increasing.
Press release / 26 March 2019
Wealthy Dutch investors to disinvest personal capital worth 200 million euros from the fossil industry
Joint press release from Both ENDS and Fossielvrij NL - 26 March 2019
A group of 22 wealthy Dutch investors have decided to disinvest all their personal capital, worth a total of 200 million euros, from the top 200 oil, gas and coal companies. The investors have pledged to disinvest all their capital from the fossil industry within three to five years. By doing so, they are giving a clear signal that they do not want their capital to contribute to disastrous climate change.
Press release / 14 May 2017
Criticism of Dutch pension fund ABP's investments in coal, oil and gas
The Dutch pension fund, ABP, invested about two billion euros more in the fossil energy industry at the end of 2016 than the year before. This is announced by the report "Dirty & Dangerous: the fossil fuel investments of Dutch pension fund ABP," published today by Both ENDS, German urgewald and Fossielvrij NL. The report criticizes these investments because of the impact on the climate and the catastrophic consequences for the people in the areas where coal, oil and gas are being produced.
News / 1 May 2019
ABP still on collision course with Paris climate goals
Amsterdam 1 May 2019 - Dutch pension fund ABP's 'sustainable and responsible investment report' today suggests that the pension fund is well on track in terms attaining its internal sustainability goals. However, an analysis by Fossielvrij NL, Both ENDS, urgewald and Greenpeace shows that ABP remains on a collision course with the Paris climate goals. At the end of 2018, ABP still invested 16.5 billion Euros in the fossil industry. ABP's investments in the world's 44 largest climate polluters even increased between 2016 and 2018.
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Press release / 22 June 2020
Press release - Climate movement: "Pension funds, stop investing in fossil gas"
Amsterdam, Copenhagen 22 June 2020 – In these times of increasing climate crisis, corporate social responsibility also means that investments in fossil gas must be phased out as quickly as possible. In a world in which a maximum temperature rise of 1.5 Celsius is the norm, fossil gas cannot be a 'transition fuel' towards sustainable energy. This is the message from five European environmental organisations (Both ENDS, the Danish AnsvarligFremtid, Fossil Free Sweden, Fossil Free Berlin and the Italian Re:Common) to pension funds in their countries that still invest in fossil gas companies. They are promoting that message with a new campaign called "Gas Free Pensions", which is being launched today.
Press release / 9 May 2018
ABP promises to go green but sticks with fossil fuels
New research by Both ENDS, Fossielvrij NL and urgewald shows that, in 2017, pension fund ABP invested 500 million euros more in coal, oil and gas than in the previous year – a total of 10.9 billion euros. These investments in fossil fuels not only stand in sharp contrast to ABP's claim that it has achieved substantial successes in its climate policy, but are also in flagrant violation of the Paris climate agreement. Unlike international forerunners among pension funds, ABP continues unabated to invest in the fossil energy sector.
Press release / 12 February 2019
Press Release: 6 organisations join climate lawsuit against Shell
Amsterdam, 12 February 2019 - Fossil fuel giant Royal Dutch Shell is facing legal action from environmental and human rights organisations if it fails to align its growth plans with global climate goals aimed at averting catastrophic global warming.
Press release / 3 February 2020
Climate movement: ABP takes steps on coal and tar sands, but oil and gas remain blind spot
Amsterdam, 3 February 2020 - A step forward, but oil and gas remain a blind spot in Dutch pension fund ABP's new investment policy published today. That's what environmental organisations Both ENDS, Fossielvrij NL, Greenpeace Netherlands and urgewald say in response to the new climate policy of the EU's largest pension fund, with assets over 442 billion euros. Although ABP is taking first steps to invest sustainably, more is needed to stop the climate crisis.
Press release / 23 September 2019
World's 5th largest pension fund ABP increases fossil fuel investments
Amsterdam, 23 September 2019 - The world's 5th largest pension fund, with assets of over €430 billion, Dutch ABP is continuing to invest in companies that are on a collision course with the Paris climate goals, such as coal and oil companies.


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House in Hill a few steps from the sea, with swimming pool, Park and charming views
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3 roomsLiveable floor area : 750 Sq.ft.
- View : Panoramic, sea/ocean, swimming pool, garden/park, meadow, fantastic sunset
- Children welcome
- Setting : Waterfront, Romantic
- Sandy beach at 1.85mi.
- Culture, Fishing
- Exposure : East
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In Fano: Underground city, court Malatestiana, Arch of Augustus, the walls of Augustus, art gallery, a theater Fortuna; Fairgrounds antique market (the second Sunday of each month). market national exhibition of books and antique press (month of July); specialties of fish, the famous Brodetto soup; Moretta typical drink of Fano. Namely, less than 50 km: important cities such as Urbino, San Marino, San Leo, Gradara, Rimini, Riccione, Cattolica, Ancona, Senigallia. And yet... the fun places: Italy in miniature, the Aquarium Le Navi, delphinarium, Mirabilandia, Fiabilandia, Aquafan, Oltremare. Natural scenery: the caves of Frasassi, Riviera del Conero, Gola del Furlo... Places of worship: the sanctuary of Loreto, San Ciriaco ad Ancona... Art venues: Recanati, based on Museum of Leopardi. Pesaro, home of G. Rossini; Pergola, gilded bronze;... Discos: Baia Imperiale Gabicce, Miu has I love has Marotta, etc...
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6 km from the motorway A14 Marotta-Mondolfo; 6 km from the railway station of Marotta-Mondolfo; 10 km from the railway station of Fano (FS + bus) 15 km from the railway station of Senigallia (Ancona); 22 km from Pesaro station; 37 km from the airport of Falconara (Ancona) and 60 km from the airport of Rimini


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Why we want it: In its very recent history, Kate Spade Saturday has already charmed us with its playful uptown-downtown girl dress code. Enter this bright cherry-red tank balancing our desire to beat the Summer heat and appear totally adorable while doing it. It's a little retro with a modern twist and a polished finish — the kind of top that's sure to illicit about a hundred compliments each time you wear it. For that reason alone, it would be a shame to reserve this top for Saturdays only.


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Part of the Springer Series in Statistics book series (SSS)
Comparing Distributions refers to the statistical data analysis that encompasses the traditional goodness-of-fit testing. Whereas the latter includes only formal statistical hypothesis tests for the one-sample and the K-sample problems, this book presents a more general and informative treatment by also considering graphical and estimation methods. A procedure is said to be informative when it provides information on the reason for rejecting the null hypothesis. Despite the historically seemingly different development of methods, this book emphasises the similarities between the methods by linking them to a common theory backbone.
This book consists of two parts. In the first part statistical methods for the one-sample problem are discussed. The second part of the book treats the K-sample problem. Many sections of this second part of the book may be of interest to every statistician who is involved in comparative studies.
The book gives a self-contained theoretical treatment of a wide range of goodness-of-fit methods, including graphical methods, hypothesis tests, model selection and density estimation. It relies on parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric theory, which is kept at an intermediate level; the intuition and heuristics behind the methods are usually provided as well. The book contains many data examples that are analysed with the cd R-package that is written by the author. All examples include the R-code.
Because many methods described in this book belong to the basic toolbox of almost every statistician, the book should be of interest to a wide audience. In particular, the book may be useful for researchers, graduate students and PhD students who need a starting point for doing research in the area of goodness-of-fit testing. Practitioners and applied statisticians may also be interested because of the many examples, the R-code and the stress on the informative nature of the procedures.
Olivier Thas is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Ghent University. He has published methodological papers on goodness-of-fit testing, but he has also published more applied work in the areas of environmental statistics and genomics.


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July 25, 2018
I agree with JoAnn to ask Rhode Island for their study. Of course CT would have to pay a fee to Rhode Island for their I-95 Tractor Trailer Study. It's certainly more cost effective than paying out $10 Million for an unnecessary CT Toll Survey. Don't forget that the $10 Million price tag for a CT Toll Survey will be paid by 70% of CT taxpayers too.
What's wrong with Malloy? Is Malloy having a problem with his cognitive ability to think/process logic and reasoning?
No more Democrats for governor in the State of CT. All Democrats do to solve budgetary problems is raise taxes in CT. Raising taxes in the State of CT is only a 'band-aid,' not solving CT's money problems. How about some fiscal responsibility in the State of CT?


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IN THE PAST two weeks, both President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney claimed to possess farsighted plans for powering America's economy. At their parties' nominating conventions, the candidates and their surrogates described a future in which the country is more energy-independent, nearly everyone in the energy business succeeds and the energy-dependent economy hums along.
In fact, the visions articulated of late are far from farsighted. Neither adequately described the real and massive energy and environmental challenge America faces, let alone offered a credible strategy to face it.
The next president must manage a gradual transition off carbon-emitting technologies and toward lower-carbon options — while also recognizing that America does not have the luxury of wasting its wealth while reshaping its energy sector. Neither candidate's plan is up to the task.
Mr. Romney would try to keep energy cheap. He deserves credit for opposing the renewal of a particularly inefficient wind-power subsidy, for example. But his latest energy independence plan doesn't even mention the words "climate change," and his full-throated endorsement of burning lots more coal is retrograde. Coal-related air pollution causes chronic illness and early death, and it is a primary culprit in global warming. On renewable sources of energy, Romney would and should invest in research, but he also treats emissions reduction as a nice byproduct of pursuing other goals, inspiring little confidence that he would reduce pollution enough.
At least Mr. Obama freely recognized the dangers of climate change last week, and he can claim some first-term accomplishments. Best are his groundbreaking fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, which promise to curb oil use and emissions. Though the president can't honestly take credit for the recent boom in natural-gas production, his administration has resisted environmentalist calls to crack down on obtaining this cheap fuel, which has about half the carbon intensity of coal. Wind and solar energy use has doubled but is still only a small part of the mix. The president has promoted energy research, and the Environmental Protection Agency under his watch has all but banned building traditional coal plants.
These accomplishments, however, resulted not from a well-designed plan but from a haphazard collection of half measures and lucky circumstances. Mr. Obama's approach is both too expensive and too modest. It is too expensive because it includes an array of poorly designed subsidies and political payoffs — such as the wind tax credit Romney opposes. It is too modest because it attacks carbon emissions in a piecemeal fashion — sector by sector, even technology by technology — rather than by applying an ambitious common carbon plan across the whole economy.
Instead of "all of the above," America needs a plan that blunts incentives to use dirty energy without overspending on government-backed boondoggles. The best way to do that is by putting a steadily rising price on carbon emissions, empowering consumers to decide how and where to wring carbon out of the economy. Though we suspect both candidates recognize the logic of this idea, neither wants to stand up for it this election season. That's another waste.
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Franz Welser-MöstConductor
"Welser-Möst and the Cleveland players, joined at the hip, … offered playing divinely precise, exquisitely refined."
For 18 years, Franz Welser-Möst has shaped an unmistakable sound culture as Musical Director of the Cleveland Orchestra. Under his leadership, the orchestra has been repeatedly praised by international critics for its musical excellence. Through innovative projects and co-operations, young audiences have been continuously approached and consulted and, as a result of these initiatives, 20% of all Cleveland Orchestra concertgoers are now under 25 years old. Welser-Möst has brought numerous world premieres and opera productions to Severance Hall. In addition to orchestral residencies in the USA, Europe and China, he and the Cleveland Orchestra are regular guests at all the major international festivals.
As a guest conductor, Franz Welser-Möst enjoys a particularly close and productive artistic partnership with the Vienna Philharmonic. He has twice appeared on the podium for their celebrated New Year's Concert, and regularly conducts the orchestra in subscription concerts at the Vienna Musikverein, as well as on tours in Japan, China, Australia and the USA. Welser-Most and the Vienna Philharmonic have also performed together at historical memorial concerts in Sarajevo and Versailles.
Franz Welser-Möst is also a regular guest at the Salzburg Festival where he has set new standards in interpretation as an opera conductor with recent performances including Rusalka, Der Rosenkavalier, Fidelio, Die Liebe der Danae, Aribert Reimann's opera Lear and Richard Strauss' Salome, with which he made festival history in 2018. Due to the incredible success of the production, Salome will be brought back to the festival program in 2019, as Rosenkavalier was after its first summer performances with Welser-Most at the Festival in 2014.
He will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at the opening concert of the 2020 Salzburg Festival, as well as a new production of Richard Strauss' Elektra.
Franz Welser-Möst has been the recipient of a number of major honours and awards. He is Honorary Member of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, winner of the Vienna Philharmonic's Honorary Ring and has been awarded the Kilenyi Medal of the Bruckner Society of America as well as the Kennedy Center Gold Medal in the Arts.
Franz Welser-Möst has made numerous CD and DVD recordings, including the recording of Der Rosenkavalier and Salome from the Salzburg Festival, and many of his recordings have won international awards. The most recent live recordings with the Cleveland Orchestra include a 3 CD box set "The Cleveland Orchestra – A New Century" – with compositions by Beethoven, Varèse, Strauss, Prokofiev, Johannes Maria Staud and Bernd Richard Deutsch.
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by Larry Bell, Newsmax
If there's anything that climate crisis theology clerics hate more than fossil fuels, it's got to be any glad tidings about CO2. Like, for example, results of a global satellite study published last month in the journal Nature.
It reported that thanks to that "pollutant," the planet is producing lots more veggies even the most strident non-carnivorous ideologically superior planetary salvationists should truly celebrate.
How much more?
Well according to the 32 researchers from nine countries, it amounted to "a persistent and widespread increase" of greening over 25% to 50% of the "global vegetated area" over the past 35 years. Less than 4% of the globe showed a reduction. Of the 85% of Earth's ice-free lands, the areas covered in green average about 32% of that amount.
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Interviewed in a Croatian blog
I was interviewed in the blog Diary of a Croatian Larper. Read the article here.
An even bigger honor was bestowed upon me a few weeks ago. I read on the same site an interview of the American "Larp Girl", Kaza Marie Ayersman,who talked about her own live roleplaying community in the state of Georgia. Apparently the Manifesto of the Turku School has completely changed their fantasy larp campaign, when the group ran into it some years back. Quite amazing, considering the manifesto is almost thirteen years old!
There's other good stuff in the blog, too. Definitely worth checking out!
New blog in English
This is the international version of my regular blog Musta tuntuu. The contents will mostly be English translations of my Finnish postings.


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There's a stereotype that says the Japanese possess a refined palate. The French are said to possess it, too, but have you seen a French movie lately? All they eat is spaghetti.
In Japan's case, the stereotype is mostly self-generated, and the rapid rise of fast food has done nothing to counter it. Last week, a reporter for the online OhMy News service wrote about how he eats more meals consisting of hamburgers than meals consisting of rice, and at the moment his favorite food is McDonald's limited-edition Mega Teriyaki Burger — two meat patties slathered in teriyaki sauce and stuck in a bun.
Recently he was enjoying one when his companion said, "What if I told you that what you are eating is pork?" The reporter sniffed, "I think I know the difference between pork and beef." He called McDonald's public-relations department, which informed him that the Mega Teriyaki is indeed 100 percent pork, just like the sausage served with the McDonald's breakfast. It says so right there on the MacDonald's Web site.
The reporter was stunned, since he couldn't taste the difference. As a result, he came to realize that the Meat Hope scandal which has dominated the news cycle for the past several weeks "may only be the tip of the iceberg."
Meat Hope is the Hokkaido meat processor currently under investigation for mislabeling the products it sells. Ground meat sold by the company as beef was found to contain the meat of pigs and horses, not to mention offal and trim and even soybean byproducts. Chickens labeled as being domestically raised were said to be actually from Brazil. Croquettes that went unsold by their sell-by date were bought back by the company and resold. As ridiculous as the company name may sound to a native English speaker, given its alleged infractions "Meat Hope" as a corporate moniker is practically sublime. One buys their product in the hope that it's actually meat.
Of course, it isn't the first mislabeling scandal to rock the Japanese meatpacking industry, and, as the OhMy reporter implied, it seems entirely likely that the practice is widespread.
Some media reports claim that Meat Hope has been mislabeling its products since 1983. The whistle blower who exposed the company's misdeeds allegedly brought evidence to local authorities and the agriculture ministry last year but was ignored. It wasn't until that person went to the media that the mislabeling came to light.
An article in last week's Shukan Post explained how widespread mislabeling is and put forth the supposition that Meat Hope President Minoru Tanaka simply adopted fraudulent practices that are common throughout the industry. Tanaka is a famous success story in Hokkaido. He entered the business as a teen and once received an award for devising a new type of meat grinder. His success, implied the Post, is based on his skill in exploiting people's belief that they understand quality when, of course, they don't.
The article explains how it is ridiculously easy to pass ground meat off as anything you want. Some fast-food companies use beef from dairy cows, which is cheaper than that from beef cattle and usually tougher. The meat is tenderized with additives, spices are added for flavor and extra fat is injected for juiciness. And when you mix this ground meat with mashed potatoes and deep fry it to make croquettes, it becomes even easier to pass off as something else.
In fact, a good deal of the cost of processing meat goes into making it look or feel right rather than taste good. Additives and extra blood are used to improve meat color and texture. And the practice isn't limited to meat. Even sashimi is sprayed with oil to make it look glossier.
According to one food scholar interviewed by the Post, "Mass production means you always have to be suspicious. The responsibility lies with the consumer." However, consumers are often more interested in convenience and low price than they are in quality, and — the BSE scare that kept American beef out of Japan for more than a year notwithstanding — safety may not be as big a factor as some believe. As a housewife friend once told me, "The fact that I buy processed food means I've essentially given up."
Tanaka tried to use this idea in his defense, telling reporters that he was always under pressure because "consumers demand cheap food now."
But that isn't the half of it. The media has somehow convinced consumers that they can have their sirloin and eat it too. If you watch any 6 o' clock news show these days, you will always see a segment in which reporters feast on heavenly sushi or steaks that are unbelievably low-priced. Until the end of the bubble era, the media focused on gorgeous food as a once-in-a-while luxury, but since the early '90s economizing has probably been the fastest-rising fad in TV programming. The message is: You don't have to spend big to eat grandly.
So if the consumer demands low price and high quality, he will get it; or, more precisely, he will be made to think he is getting it. Much of the mislabeling that Meat Hope carried out did not necessarily mean that the meat was bad. Adding organs and horsemeat to beef didn't make the final product unsafe. In terms of food efficiency, it could be considered a good thing, since it means less stuff is thrown away.
That isn't to say Meat Hope shouldn't be punished. Understanding the real ingredients of the food you eat is very important, and if you have some sort of food allergy, it can be a matter of life or death. But the real reason the media has focused so much attention on the scandal is that Tanaka's subterfuge implicitly mocks Japan's storied taste buds. The OhMy reporter learned this the hard way: A Mega Teriyaki Burger will never taste the same again.