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Taylor Swift was spotted in Soho yesterday sporting a Jonathan Simkhai dress from his Fall 2014 collection, a blushed Prada Saffiano Lux Small Tote, and $880 Bionda Castana leather mesh pumps.
Swift choose to wear pumps instead of open-toe booties as seen on the model.
Bionda Castana's leather and mesh pumps are also available in black.
Would you have gone with Prada's Saffiano Lux Small Tote or a simple clutch instead?
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I think Taylor looks even more stylish than the model. If she doesn't want to be a singer, I think she will be excellent model.
I want those pumps!!!
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Darlows Enigma
I have had great luck with this in a sheltered corner. Most years there are some dead tips to remove and that is it. But THIS winter!
There are canes leafing out but also many dead to the ground
At least a quarter of them. And many are interior canes on a 6' plus shrub. If you know Darlow you know what a suicide mission it is to go inside.
SO I'm thinking of drastic action - reduce whole thing to under3' and then finish by removing dead stuff at base.
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I'd say go for it! I had this same problem on some of my OGRs this spring. Reine des Violettes was no problem because she is thornless but Rose de Rescht has those tiny needle thorns! I took her right down and am hoping she'll come back stronger for it. She hadn't really been pruned a lot in about 5 years so she really did need a good hair cut! Honorine de Brabant was a mess too so she got whacked. My climber Blaze I had to take off all but one of the longest canes and that got cut back down to where I could at least see a few buds fattening. It's going to be an interesting season!
I sympathize with you on pruning Darlow's Enigma with all the multiple small branching canes with extensive sneaky thorns. Fortunately, DE is a survivor. You could probably take a chainsaw to the whole bush and it would come back swinging, particularly if it's an own-root bush. Mine has been in an out-of-the-way mostly shade corner for 6 years or so with basically no pruning, so I rarely dare approach that corner. It still does fine with benign neglect, but it shouldn't complain one bit to have random and severe hacking.
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David Robert Carry (born 8 October 1981, Aberdeen) is a Scottish former swimmer, of Scottish/Faroese heritage.[2] His specialism was freestyle, and he represented Scotland at the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2006 he won two golds in the 400 metre freestyle and 400 metre individual medley.
He attended Robert Gordon's College during his school years. He represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400 m freestyle and 4×200 m freestyle relay swimming events. Carry then represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 400 m freestyle. He qualified for the finals with the time 3:47.25. His final result was seventh, with the time 3:48.62. He also represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay.
Carry retired from competitive swimming in October 2012.[3] He presently works for his former sports management company, Red Sky Management, based in Edinburgh as a business coach.
Carry along with heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill, boxer Nicola Adams, fellow swimmer Michael Jamieson and sprinter Allan Wells were ambassadors for Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.[4]
Carry is married to fellow swimmer Keri-Anne Payne.[3]
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- ^ "Swimming Schedule and Results". Retrieved 22 August 2007.
- ^ "Kvarti føroyingurin í finaluni" (in Faroese). sportal.fo – Føroyski ítróttar portalurin. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
- ^ a b "Aberdeen swimmer David Carry announces retirement". BBC News (BBC). 8 October 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Swarbrick, Susan (20 August 2013). "Keep calm and Carry on winning". The Herald (Glasgow: Newsquest). Retrieved 30 August 2014.
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Hey guys, fairly new but I feel like I do alright, trying to find a champ to really stick with and I am extremely partial to Leblanc but am repeatedly told she is useless outside of pub stomping at low levels. I guess my real question is, are all champions viable at a higher play level or are some really "useless" as it has been put to me?
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the only champ that is useless to you is a champ you have no inkling on how to play, and the best way to fix that well is researching how to play that champ.
every champ has its plusses and draw back
take the champ i main for example, Miss fortune, her strong point is her insane attack speed ian super powerfull aoes her draw back is her mobility is not very great when it comes to escape situations (like when deeling with shen or other tanks that are chasers)
take twitch as another example he is one of if not the hardest champs to play, and players that play him well make him seem more over powered then people currently think he is.
its in my belief that there is no overpowered champians, just players who have figured out the champ and champs that are reltively easy to play
(i have seen some pretty terrible jax players btw)
so what am i trying to say here?
If you Like leblanc and ypou feel you are excelent at her play her. who nows maybe you make it to the platnum league on her and show the few people critisizing you on her just how usefull and viable she is
remember to play as a team though, that is what this is, a team based game.
At the level of competitive gaming (eg. tournaments), Le Blanc falls off tremendously due to people knowing not to give her kills early game making her not too useful late game. Also, coordinated teams will communicate with each other to prevent LB ganking and snowballing off other lanes.
However, for the most part, LB is fine as she is. However, do keep in mind that for most games as LB, you'll probably find yourself really useful or really useless.
Fs Son0fSilas
Not useless, but with experience summoners will better know how to deal with her.
For instance, you play against a level 20 summoner whom somehow has never played against an LB. They go in to poke at her, and all of a sudden half their life is gone. They freak out, have no idea how to counter her play, and suddenly you have a 10/0 LB at 15 minutes in. Then they have no idea how to shut her down lategame. No one is any good at focusing her. It's gg, and you just pubstomped successfully.
Now you play against a level 30, 1400 elo with about 750 games played. Maybe they have an MR rune page, or they start null mantle. They stay back, and farm, but are also smart enough to not get zoned out. If they have decent range they will poke back. They will out trade you, and if they beat you to 6, they will kill you in an instant because LB is made out of tissue paper. Even if you can get a gank in at another lane, they will have much better warding and there is a good chance it will fail. Lategame, if you are out of position for even a second it's gg, and late game teams will melt her face.
Against teams without much CC she does great, however she lacks a lot of AoE burst, and against an AoE comp she IS completely useless.
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leblanc is definitely not useless. and as long as she gets kills, she does NOT fall off. but like kachine said, if u play LB, you ll be either really strong or really weak. for a while, people thought she was op (only because reginald played her well a few times in competitive games), but that was when people built nothing but a rod for defence on mid champs. now, you see a lot more people building MR with the new chalice item and abyssal, it's really hard to play an all-or-nothing champ like LB. if you do get a few kills in lane and start roaming and killing their bot and jungle, you can make yourself strong while shutting down the enemy team. but you are betting everything on those few kills, and if you dont get those, you will be pretty useless.
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Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones (10) tips his hat to the crowd as he bats in the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Mets in Atlanta, Friday, Sept. 28, 2012. Jones plans to retire after the season.(AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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For decades we have been developing applications that are tightly coupled and bound to the underlying infrastructure. With the introduction of the cloud though this legacy architectures prove not only to be inefficient but also a major obstacle for you to compete successfully in the new competitive landscape.
Let's look at couple of reasons why application modernization is a requirement if you want to leverage cloud technologies, independent of whether those are home grown, private or public.
The Problem With Tightly Coupled Applications
Majority of the applications are developed with some user interaction layer, business logic and backend storage. When those are tightly coupled together your only option to scale the application is to add more hardware to the machine that currently runs this application, approach also known as vertical scaling. However there are few problems that arise:
- Adding more CPU power and memory to the machine has certain limits that are imposed by the hardware architecture. You can invest in more advanced hardware but this increases even more your infrastructure costs (high-end hardware costs several times more than the commodity hardware used in cloud data-centers).
- The performance of your application is determined by the slowest component in it. Thus even if the UI is super fast and is able to handle large amount of users but the business logic is slow and cannot handle the load you will be limited to the load the business logic can handle. Because the UI and the business logic are tied together you will not be able to scale just the business logic in order to handle more users. This leads to inefficient resource utilization and again higher infrastructure costs.
- Tightly coupled applications do not normally have clearly separated tiers with defined interfaces and changes in one part of the application may have undesired impacts in another. Tasks like fixing, updating and extending it become a maintenance nightmare. The budget for supporting and maintaining such applications grows each year.
Here is how those things get solved in a cloud architected applications:
- Adding CPU power and memory is trivial - it is just a matter of adding a new instance of the application (or just part of it as you can see in the next bullet point). Cloud enabled applications scale out by adding more instances of the application or the application components that work in parallel (also known as horizontal scaling).
- The performance of the application is not anymore determined by its slowest component. Because the components of the application are clearly separated you can scale out just parts of the application (i.e. the business logic in the previous example) to match the load that the UI can handle. You have much more flexibility and granular control over the way your application scales.
- Because the components of the application are clearly separated, changes in one component do not impact another as long as the interfaces are kept in tact. Tasks like testing fixes, updating components, improving the performance of particular tier and any other maintenance and support becomes much easier.
The Problem With Local Resources
Another common problem with legacy applications are the dependencies on local resources. Few examples are:
- Dependencies on locally installed software or libraries. Such dependencies can be specialized server software, local queue implementations, client libraries used for special rendering etc. Lot of the times this software comes with additional licensing costs.
- Reliance on the local file system. Application logging is a typical example but you can also think of other things like loading data from local files, storing data locally etc. Server failure results in data loss, which in some cases may not be acceptable.
- Sticky sessions and storing session information locally. Every web application relies on user sessions and each web framework offers a way to manage those on the server side. However if the server fails the session is lost, which impacts the user experience.
The biggest problem with local resources is the assumption that those will be available throughout the lifetime of the application. But even the most reliable hardware can fail and when this happens everything that is stored locally will be lost. The price you will pay for lost data will significantly exceed even the most expensive hardware.
Cloud enabled applications solve those problems as follows:
- Workloads that require specialized software can be deployed on a infrastructure pool that has the software preinstalled. Thus adding more customers will not require new licenses for the software.
- Critical data as well as logs is stored in a central storage local that is regularly backed up and can even be geo-replicated. The chances of data loss in the cloud are significantly lower.
- Sessions are stored either in a shared storage or in distributed cache and accessible from each instance of the application. Thus failure in one application instance does not impact the user experience because the next request is routed to another instance.
The Problem With Configurations
The last one I would like to touch on is the problem with configuration. Near all applications suffer from the configurations problem but in legacy applications this is particularly amplified. The whole problem starts with the need to have one configuration that mangoes all components or at least the front-end and the business logic. Then over time this configuration grows and grows together with the new functionality added to the application.
But this is not the only issue with legacy applications configurations. The bigger issue is the settings that rely on the underlying infrastructure. This was OK when you were in control of the infrastructure and on which server the application is deployed however this approach results in increased configuration sprawl when the application needs to be moved between environments.
When you design your application for the cloud though you are forced to abstract the configuration from the underlying infrastructure and things like hard coded local paths, reliance on local environment variables or machine configurations have no place in your configuration files. Thus you make changes in your configuration only when new functionality is added and not when you move your code between environments (as in development, test, production)
Even if you are not considering immediate migration of your applications to the cloud is worth evaluating your application portfolio and estimating the effort to make it cloud-ready. It is of benefit not only for your cloud efforts but as a general strategy for the future.
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Second home broken into with guns stolen thanks to Journal News 'gun map' in New York
The leftist scum at Journal News should really be proud of themselves. Now a second home has been broken into, and guns were stolen out of the home thanks to the Journal News 'gun map.' For leftists who can't quite grasp the problem here, it's that LEGAL gun owners no longer have their guns while criminals now do. Looks like the so called 'SAFE ACT" really prevented another problem (NOT!)
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Critics who have continuously alleged that the Journal News' interactive map that includes gun owners' personal information will lead to crime may begin uttering some "I told you sos" (albiet, a bit prematurely). Two pistols and related permits were stolen from a home in New City, N.Y. The owner of the firearms was listed on the newspaper's controversial map — leading some to wonder if the criminal act and the publication are connected.
Newsday reports that thieves entered the home on Wednesday evening. Once inside, they "ransacked the house" and broke into two safes, stealing a third. The guns were apparently in this latter unit that was taken out of the home by the criminals.
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- Location: Deira, Dubai
- Tel: 04 262 4444
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Princeton Professor of Physics William Happer has long been skeptical of the climate change movement, viewing it as largely a religious, I would say substitute religious, cult. He set forth a summary of his views in an article in First Things in 2011:
There are many honest, hardworking climate scientists who are trying to understand the effects of CO2 on climate, but their work has fallen under suspicion because of the hockey-stick scandal and many other exaggerations about the dangers of increasing CO2. What has transformed climate science from a normal intellectual discipline to a matter of so much controversy?
A major problem has been the co-opting of climate science by politics, ambition, greed, and what seems to be a hereditary human need for a righteous cause. What better cause than saving the planet? Especially if one can get ample, secure funding at the same time? Huge amounts of money are available from governments and wealthy foundations for climate institutes and for climate-related research.
Funding for climate studies is second only to funding for biological sciences. Large academic empires, prizes, elections to honorary societies, fellowships, and other perquisites go to those researchers whose results may help "save the planet." Every day we read about some real or contrived environmental or ecological effect "proven" to arise from global warming. The total of such claimed effects now runs in the hundreds, all the alleged result of an unexceptional century-long warming of less than 1 degree Celsius. Government subsidies, loan guarantees, and captive customers go to green companies. Carbon-tax revenues flow to governments. As the great Russian poet Pushkin said in his novella Dubrovsky , "If there happens to be a trough, there will be pigs." Any doubt about apocalyptic climate scenarios could remove many troughs.
What about those who doubt the scientific basis of these claims, or who simply don't like what is being done to the scientific method they were taught to apply and uphold? Publications of contrary research results in mainstream journals are rare. The occasional heretical article is the result of an inevitable, protracted battle with those who support the dogma and who have their hands on the scales of peer review. As mentioned above, we know from the Climategate emails that the team conspired to prevent contrary publications from seeing the light of day and even discussed getting rid of an editor who seemed to be inclined to admit such contentious material.
Skeptics' motives are publicly impugned; denigrating names are used routinely in media reports and the blogosphere; and we now see attempts to use the same tactics that Big Brother applied to the skeptical hero, Winston Smith, in Orwell's 1984 . In 2009 a conference of "ecopsychologists" was held at the University of West England to discuss the obvious psychological problems resident in those who do not adhere to the global warming dogma. The premise of these psychologists was that scientists and members of the general population who express objective doubt about the propagated view of global warming are suffering from a kind of mental illness. We know from the Soviet experience that a society can find it easy to consider dissidents to be mentally deranged and act accordingly. Continue reading
Environmentalist Proponents Jump The Shark
An environmental confederation in the UK got the talented screenwriter Richard Curtis to produce a short film, ironically called No Pressure, for the 10:10 campaign, an effort to remind people to do their part in reducing carbon emission 10% by 2010 AD.
Unfortunately for the environmental movement the film backfired because it reinforced the image that beneath the surface environmentalists will do anything once in power to make it compulsory to follow their vision for the future, which includes violence.
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Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant.
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth. And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth. And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat: And to all beasts of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to all that move upon the earth, and wherein there is life, that they may have to feed upon. And it was so done.
–Book of Genesis 1:26-30
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It is always nice to see one's perspectives confirmed by events. In the past I have strongly argued that science and politics are not autonomous or independent from one another. I have always believed that while scientific methods cannot be subject to political control, scientific presentations that do not take political moods into account are as arrogant as they are irrational. The arrogance stems from scientism – the belief that only scientific methodology reveals truth.
What political science – or perhaps, more accurately, political philosophy – teaches is that, following the wisdom of Hobbes, on any matter that touches human interests, there will be political disputes, especially over how data and findings are to be interpreted. Not even physics has been exempt, when we look at the degree to which it was politicized in the USSR and the battle between the "Copenhagen" interpretation of quantum physics and those interpretations preferred by Marxist materialists. And the further one descends from theoretical physics to say, biology, the greater and more politicized the controversies are likely to become.
But there is a vast difference between political control from above, as was exercised by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and political pressure from below, such as that which has been exerted upon the climate scientists of the IPCC. While they, and their most rabid defenders, first reacted to the Climategate scandal with utter contempt for the "denying" or "skeptical" masses, they have now actually admitted that they are culpable for the disaster and are in a far more conciliatory mood – indeed, what else can they do in the wake of scandal after scandal after scandal?
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Pajamas Media has put together a complete database for the Climategate documents here. The docs make for fascinating reading. On a whim I did a search using the term Hitler. The e-mail that came up is from February 21, 2005:
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Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act !"
Italics added by me. It seems that the reluctance to release supporting data by these scientists has been going on for years. These documents give us an astonishing look inside a group that has been spearheading the global warming movement.
Junk Science Part II
A follow up to my initial post here on what is becoming known as Climategate. Now news comes from New Zealand about massaging of data by global warming proponents.
The New Zealand Government's chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire for allegedly massaging raw climate data to show a global warming trend that wasn't there.
The scandal breaks as fears grow worldwide that corruption of climate science is not confined to just Britain's CRU climate research centre.
In New Zealand's case, the figures published on NIWA's [the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research] website suggest a strong warming trend in New Zealand over the past century.
Thoughts on 'Climategate'
I think Prof. Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy outlines a sensible approach to the recent 'Climategate' scandal:
Most of us, however, lack expertise on climate issues. And our knowledge of complex issues we don't have personal expertise on is largely based on social validation. For example, I think that Einsteinian physics is generally more correct than Newtonian physics, even though I know very little about either. Why? Because that's the overwhelming consensus of professional physicists, and I have no reason to believe that their conclusions should be discounted as biased or otherwise driven by considerations other than truth-seeking. My views of climate science were (and are) based on similar considerations. I thought that global warming was probably a genuine and serious problem because that is what the overwhelming majority of relevant scientists seem to believe, and I generally didn't doubt their objectivity.
At the very least, the Climategate revelations should weaken our confidence in the above conclusion. At least some of the prominent scholars in the field seem driven at least in part by ideology, and willing to use intimidation to keep contrarian views from being published, even if the articles in question meet normal peer review standards. Absent such tactics, it's possible that more contrarian research would be published in professional journals and the consensus in the field would be less firm. To be completely clear, I don't think that either ideological motivation or even intimidation tactics prove that these scientists' views are wrong. Their research should be assessed on its own merits, irrespective of their motivations for conducting it. However, these things should affect the degree to which we defer to their conclusions merely based on their authority as disinterested experts.


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