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|By Reuven Cohen
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|June 27, 2009 10:15 AM EDT
I had another random thought, it might be crazy, but I thought I'd share it. I think I may have been completely wrong in describing cloud computing as a metaphor or analogy, or more simply as Internet centric infrastructure.
Let me explain, the Internet is a physical network implementation. Basically the Internet can be thought of as a network of networks interconnected linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other physical hardware based aspects. In contrast the world wide web is a system of systems or a series of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole -- the application.
To put it another way, the problem with describing cloud computing as a metaphor for the Internet is it's actually a "euphemism" for the world wide web.
According to wikipedia, Euphemisms may be formed in a number of ways. A Periphrasis or circumlocution is one of the most common — to "speak around" a given word or concept, implying it without saying it. Which it seems is what we are actually doing when referring to "cloud computing". Over time, circumlocutions become recognized as established euphemisms for particular words or ideas. Basically cloud computing is an other way to describe the web, or more broadly the next generation of the world wide web.
With this in mind, I think the challenge in trying to define a simple common definition for cloud computing is that we've been describing the wrong concept. We're not describing the physical infrastructure of the Internet so much as the application of that infrastructure.
There's Big Data, then there's really Big Data from the Internet of Things. IoT is evolving to include many data possibilities like new types of event, log and network data. The volumes are enormous, generating tens of billions of logs per day, which raise data challenges. Early IoT deployments are relying heavily on both the cloud and managed service providers to navigate these challenges. In her session at Big Data Expo®, Hannah Smalltree, Director at Treasure Data, discussed how IoT, Big Data and deployments are processing massive data volumes from wearables, utilities and other machines...
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Buzzword alert: Microservices and IoT at a DevOps conference? What could possibly go wrong? In this Power Panel at DevOps Summit, moderated by Jason Bloomberg, the leading expert on architecting agility for the enterprise and president of Intellyx, panelists will peel away the buzz and discuss the important architectural principles behind implementing IoT solutions for the enterprise. As remote IoT devices and sensors become increasingly intelligent, they become part of our distributed cloud environment, and we must architect and code accordingly. At the very least, you'll have no problem fil...
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SYS-CON Events announced today that MetraTech, now part of Ericsson, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Ericsson is the driving force behind the Networked Society- a world leader in communications infrastructure, software and services. Some 40% of the world's mobile traffic runs through networks Ericsson has supplied, serving more than 2.5 billion subscribers.
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The 4th International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 17th International Cloud Expo - to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - announces that its Call for Papers is open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
May. 25, 2015 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,033
The worldwide cellular network will be the backbone of the future IoT, and the telecom industry is clamoring to get on board as more than just a data pipe. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Evan McGee, CTO of Ring Plus, Inc., discussed what service operators can offer that would benefit IoT entrepreneurs, inventors, and consumers. Evan McGee is the CTO of RingPlus, a leading innovative U.S. MVNO and wireless enabler. His focus is on combining web technologies with traditional telecom to create a new breed of unified communication that is easily accessible to the general consumer. With over a de...
May. 25, 2015 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 4,780
Disruptive macro trends in technology are impacting and dramatically changing the "art of the possible" relative to supply chain management practices through the innovative use of IoT, cloud, machine learning and Big Data to enable connected ecosystems of engagement. Enterprise informatics can now move beyond point solutions that merely monitor the past and implement integrated enterprise fabrics that enable end-to-end supply chain visibility to improve customer service delivery and optimize supplier management. Learn about enterprise architecture strategies for designing connected systems tha...
May. 25, 2015 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,049
Cloud is not a commodity. And no matter what you call it, computing doesn't come out of the sky. It comes from physical hardware inside brick and mortar facilities connected by hundreds of miles of networking cable. And no two clouds are built the same way. SoftLayer gives you the highest performing cloud infrastructure available. One platform that takes data centers around the world that are full of the widest range of cloud computing options, and then integrates and automates everything. Join SoftLayer on June 9 at 16th Cloud Expo to learn about IBM Cloud's SoftLayer platform, explore se...
May. 25, 2015 04:45 AM EDT Reads: 3,263
SYS-CON Media announced today that 9 out of 10 " most read" DevOps articles are published by @DevOpsSummit Blog. Launched in October 2014, @DevOpsSummit Blog offers top articles, news stories, and blog posts from the world's well-known experts and guarantees better exposure for its authors than any other publication. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce softw...
May. 25, 2015 04:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,270
With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo in Silicon Valley. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be! Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place Nov 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with 17th Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal an...
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15th Cloud Expo, which took place Nov. 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, expanded the conference content of @ThingsExpo, Big Data Expo, and DevOps Summit to include two developer events. IBM held a Bluemix Developer Playground on November 5 and ElasticBox held a Hackathon on November 6. Both events took place on the expo floor. The Bluemix Developer Playground, for developers of all levels, highlighted the ease of use of Bluemix, its services and functionality and provide short-term introductory projects that developers can complete between sessions.
May. 25, 2015 04:00 AM EDT Reads: 6,416
From telemedicine to smart cars, digital homes and industrial monitoring, the explosive growth of IoT has created exciting new business opportunities for real time calls and messaging. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivelin Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of Telestax, shared some of the new revenue sources that IoT created for Restcomm – the open source telephony platform from Telestax. Ivelin Ivanov is a technology entrepreneur who founded Mobicents, an Open Source VoIP Platform, to help create, deploy, and manage applications integrating voice, video and data. He is the co-founder of TeleStax, a...
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The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to evolve the way the world does business; however, understanding how to apply it to your company can be a mystery. Most people struggle with understanding the potential business uses or tend to get caught up in the technology, resulting in solutions that fail to meet even minimum business goals. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jesse Shiah, CEO / President / Co-Founder of AgilePoint Inc., showed what is needed to leverage the IoT to transform your business. He discussed opportunities and challenges ahead for the IoT from a market and technical point of vie...
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Grow your business with enterprise wearable apps using SAP Platforms and Google Glass. SAP and Google just launched the SAP and Google Glass Challenge, an opportunity for you to innovate and develop the best Enterprise Wearable App using SAP Platforms and Google Glass and gain valuable market exposure. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Brian McPhail, Senior Director of Business Development, ISVs & Digital Commerce at SAP, outlined the timeline of the SAP Google Glass Challenge and the opportunity for developers, start-ups, and companies of all sizes to engage with SAP today.
May. 25, 2015 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,138
The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo – to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY – is now accepting Hackathon proposals. Hackathon sponsorship benefits include general brand exposure and increasing engagement with the developer ecosystem. At Cloud Expo 2014 Silicon Valley, IBM held the Bluemix Developer Playground on November 5 and ElasticBox held the DevOps Hackathon on November 6. Both events took place on the expo floor. The Bluemix Developer Playground, for developers of all levels, highlighted the ease of use of...
May. 25, 2015 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,530
Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The industrial software market has treated data with the mentality of "collect everything now, worry about how to use it later." We now find ourselves buried in data, with the pervasive connectivity of the (Industrial) Internet of Things only piling on more numbers. There's too much data and not enough information. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Bob Gates, Global Marketing Director, GE's Intelligent Platforms business, to discuss how realizing the power of IoT, software developers are now focused on understanding how industrial data can create intelligence for industrial operations. Imagine ...
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The 17th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. 17th International Cloud Expo, to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, APM, APIs, Microservices, Security, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportunity. Submit your speaking proposal today!
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Hadoop as a Service (as offered by handful of niche vendors now) is a cloud computing solution that makes medium and large-scale data processing accessible, easy, fast and inexpensive. In his session at Big Data Expo, Kumar Ramamurthy, Vice President and Chief Technologist, EIM & Big Data, at Virtusa, will discuss how this is achieved by eliminating the operational challenges of running Hadoop, so one can focus on business growth. The fragmented Hadoop distribution world and various PaaS solutions that provide a Hadoop flavor either make choices for customers very flexible in the name of opti...
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BSP supremo Mayawati today said the Election Commission should take suo moto cognisance of the 'manner' in which BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi filed his nomination from Varanasi at the time when sixth phase of polling was being held all over the country, including Uttar Pradesh.
"BJP PM candidate Modi filed his nomination for Varanasi seat yesterday. At that time polling for the sixth phase was being held all over the country including UP. The manner in which it was highlighted by the media in a one-sided manner is not right and the EC should take suo moto cognisance," Mayawati told reporters here. "EC should take strict steps. It is not in the public interest," she added
Mayawati said that she has received information that that the crowd which assembled during Modi's rally was mostly called from outside the city. "As a planned strategy it was told that the crowd was local so as to take maximum benefit in Poorvanchal, but this won't benefit," she said.
An attempt is being made to create air in favour of BJP forcibly with the help of media with the funding of capitalists, which is not visible on the ground, Mayawati alleged. Attacking the opposition parties she said that when they come to the power, they formulate policies to benefit capitalists and run the government. The people have to vote after much consideration otherwise the country will be pushed backward, she said. The BSP supremo said that after capitalists they have also managed astrologers. "Huge money is being invested to create air in their favour," she alleged.
Mayawati said that there was a fight between BJP and Congress to form the government. "While Congress is contesting by keeping in front its yuvraj as undeclared PM, BJP has kept forward Modi," she said.
She said that if Modi has to contest election from UP, he should have contested against Rahul. "If Modi has to contest election from UP itself then instead of Varanasi, he should have contested from Amethi against Rahul. "I want to ask the EC that after yesterday special attention on the security should be paid not only in Varanasi, but all the places in Poorvanchal having temples and mosques," she said.
Mayawati demanded that instead of UP, responsibility of these places should be given to the centre and necessary directives should be issued. "If any incident takes place in Varanasi, it will affect the entire country," she said.
On a question regrading SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav being the PM, the BSP supremo said that she sees a planned conspiracy into it. "I don't feel that he can become the PM. When he cannot handle the state, how will he handle the country," she said.
On Congress promising reservation to Muslims, Mayawati said that the party was misleading them. "It was the first time in 1995 we gave reservation to backward among Muslims. If Congress had to do it, it should had given reservation earlier. In reality it never looked into the interests of Muslims," she alleged.
Mayawati exuded confidence that BSP would get maximum seats in the third phase of election in UP polling for which was held yesterday. "Not only Dalits, OBCs, Muslims and poor section of upper caste are also voting in favour of BSP," she said.

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Italy Opts for New Nuclear Construction Program
Franceâ''s Le Figaro reports today, May 22, that the Italian government has opted to build a new group of nuclear power plants. Following Chernobyl, Italians voted in a national referendum to close their existing reactors, and so if the country follows through on the governmentâ''s new commitment, it will be not merely a matter of adding reactors but of initiating an all-new nuclear program.
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Could I have flipped the spacers around during the re-assembly? I'm wondering if I should just take it off and try the whole thing again?
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If any of you follow me on Twitter, you know I can't stand United Airlines. I won't go into all the details about why but now I have yet another reason to avoid their airplanes like the plague. The President of the compancy is holding a gala to benefit the abortion giant Planned Parenthood. More from LifeNews:
The president of United Airlines is hosting a gala fundraiser for a Texas-based affiliate of the Planned Parenthood abortion business.
Jeff Smisek is President and Chief Executive Officer of United, one of the world's most-recognized companies and a leading airline. He is also a member of United's board of directors.
However, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast will soon have Smisek hosting a benefit event for the abortion company. The invitation posted on the website of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, reads, Jeff Smisek "requests the pleasure of your company" October 16th in Houston for a Gala event. Tickets for the event start at $500 each and the event will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Houston.
United Arliines breaks guitars, loses kids, has horrible customer service and support an organization known for covering up the sex-selective abortion of girls and underage sex trafficking.
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Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (tā´ōdôr fôntä´nə), 1819–98, German writer. Although he is primarily important as a novelist, he did not begin to write fiction until he was almost 60 years old. Thereafter, during his last two decades, he produced almost a novel a year. Earlier he had written two volumes of poetry, Gedichte (1851) and Balladen (1861), as well as accounts of his travels and his experiences as a war correspondent and prisoner during the Franco-Prussian War. He was also a drama critic for many years. The first master of the realistic novel in Germany, he wrote 17 perceptive novels that revealed the state of contemporary Berlin society, delineating the characters of its inhabitants largely through dialogue and monologue. He was particularly adept at studies of troubled women. His novels include L'Adultera (1882, tr. The Woman Taken in Adultery, 1979), Irrungen, Wirrungen (1888, tr. Trials and Tribulations, 1917), Frau Jenny Treibel (1893, tr. 1968, 1976), and his masterpiece, Effi Briest (1895, tr. 1976). He also wrote short novels and the autobiographical Meine Kinderjahre (1894, tr. of extracts, My Childhood Days, 1913–15).
See studies by H. Garland (1980), A. Bance (1982), H. Chambers (1997), G. A. Craig (2000), and M. Doebeling, ed. (2000).
Theodor Fontane: Selected full-text books and articles
Gordon A. Craig.
Oxford University Press, 1999
Roy Pascal.
University of Toronto Press, 1956
Jean H. Leventhal.
Peter Lang, 1995
Joseph P. Strelka.
Peter Lang, 1984
Alex Natan.
O. Wolff, vol.1, 1961
Horatio Smith.
Columbia University Press, 1947
Gerhard Masur.
Basic Books, 1970
Nicholas Saul.
Cambridge University Press, 2002
Jethro Bithell.
Methuen, 1955 (5th edition)
David L. Gross; Charles E. McClelland; David B. King; Gordon A. Craig; Gary D. Stark; Vernon L. Lidtke; Leonard Krieger; Bede K. Lackner.
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Arete Industries will debut their new brand at the Community Associations Institute (CAI) conference held in Orlando, Florida, May 14-17, 2014. This show is projected to see 1,300 attendees, which include community managers, management company executives and community association homeowner leaders. The premiere will establish a presence for Arete within the community sector on a national level.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Oi SA (OIBR - Get Report), formerly Brasil Telecom SA, are up 6.51% to $0.921, reversing its lows of yesterday.
The company was said to have raised $3.71 billion by selling stock at a price below Monday's close, Bloomberg reports.
The funding moved the company closer to its merger with Portugal Telecom SGPS SA (PT).
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- Although OIBR's debt-to-equity ratio of 3.11 is very high, it is currently less than that of the industry average. Along with the unfavorable debt-to-equity ratio, OIBR maintains a poor quick ratio of 0.79, which illustrates the inability to avoid short-term cash problems.
- The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. In comparison to the other companies in the Diversified Telecommunication Services industry and the overall market, OI SA's return on equity is significantly below that of the industry average and is below that of the S&P 500.
- OIBR's stock share price has done very poorly compared to where it was a year ago: Despite any rallies, the net result is that it is down by 55.18%, which is also worse that the performance of the S&P 500 Index. Investors have so far failed to pay much attention to the earnings improvements the company has managed to achieve over the last quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
- OI SA reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. We feel it is likely to report a decline in earnings in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, OI SA reported lower earnings of $0.39 versus $0.79 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 108.7% in earnings (-$0.03 versus $0.39).
- OIBR, with its decline in revenue, underperformed when compared the industry average of 2.7%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues fell by 32.3%. The declining revenue has not hurt the company's bottom line, with increasing earnings per share.
- You can view the full analysis from the report here: OIBR Ratings Report


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Hey Folks! The last month's issue of Rock & Gem Magazine was all about agates and it's inspired me to cut some of my exotic agates and share some info about agate in general. Agate is basically quartz that has formed in layers in some kind of hollow cavity. That cavity could have resulted from a gas bubble in the earth, or a hollow space left by some other material that has eroded away, or between other layers of rock. Agates will almost always have some kind of layering. Quartz CRYSTALS can form in between or on top of layers of agate. Banded agate can also be found mixed up with jasper. Basically if quartz forms in larger crystals we call it some kind of quartz crystal, if it forms in banded layers then the quartz is agate, and if it forms in amorphous-mixed up deposits it ends up being a jasper. The best way to visualize how they form is to think of superheated silica juice from the earth shooting up from below and filling up empty pockets in the earth, thus forming layer over layer as it solidifies. Naturally, no two agates are ever alike!
When little tiny quartz crystal form on top of agate or inside of an agate nodule it's called "drusy" quartz. Drusy basically means "little tiny crystals". Not all drusy is quartz, but pretty much all drusy on agate IS quartz crystals. Here are two exotic beads I just made out of a really rare, exotic Brazilian agate geode. The top layer of drusy is a dark, mossy green, then there is a thick layer of clear agate, and then there is a layer of botryoidal (bubbly surface) brick red colored agate underneath that. These are the last pieces of this kind of material I have. I found one geode with this color combination years ago and this is all I have left. I've never seen colors and clarity like this in Brazilian agate and green drusy is rare!
This piece is snow white drusy, on TOP of larger sized quartz crystals, on top of translucent agate, also from a Brazilian agate nodule....
the back of this bead shows natural troughs that lead up to and open into the bead hole, allowing for more creative beading! It's unknown what caused the troughs, but agates form around all kind of things. I think a little cascading cluster of pearls coming out the back would look stunning...
This next piece is a white and caramel colored tube agate from Missouri. The drusy qaurtz crystals have had an atomically thin layer of titanium applied on top of them (in a laboratory) to create the rainbow irridescence. I used to get a lot of my material coated with titanium but haven't had any done in years. It has to be sent out to be done in a laboratory in a plasma deposition chamber. It's a neat effect! The tube agate in this piece looks a bit like a "lingam" pointed down into a crevasse below it that is evocative of a "yoni", I'm just saying....
I recently got just three pieces of this exotic agatized bamboo from Java. When they found these PERFECT, naturally hollow, agate cylinders in Java, they were trying to figure out how the agate formed in perfectly cylindrical cavities. They speculate that ancient bamboo stalks were buried and created cylindrical cavities that were then filled with silica and created these amazing carnelian cylinders! I didn't even have to drill them since there was a thin hollow tube down the center already! Natural botryoidal outsides....
and I just polished the ends. Even more amazing is the ONE piece I got that is TWO cylinders agatized TOGETHER! I think these would make great centerpieces for a double strand of some earthy colored pearls...
Banded agate from Botswana in southern Africa is famous for it's classic grey and white banding. I like the angles that this one formed at and the sort of "yoni-lingam" imagery at the wide center of the fork. Finally, here is some black and white banded agate where the black is caused by PSILOMELANE (sill-om-e-lane), which is heavy with manganese. There are also dark black, branch like dendrites in the psilomelane. The white agate probably intruded into and formed AFTER the psilomelane and chalcedony formed. This material is from the N. Mexico - Mexico border area and is quite rare... and again we see small amounts of drusy quartz formed within the vug of the agate bands!
That's all my agate sharing today. I have some pretty purple agates and other interesting pieces in process that I'll share with ya soon. If you would like to see more images of any of these stones there are multiples in my eBay store. Thanks!
Ecclesiastes 3:5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
Thank you David for sharing all you knowledge with us. If you keep it up we will all be very savvy in semi precious beads. And let me not forget also savvy in Bowlerite. I have to admit I was pretty dense on that term.And once again, you made the blind see.
Thanks again for all you share with us.
Happy Beading!!
Small-town USA.
This time you REALLY got my attention!
I love agates, and now know so much more! You really know how the 'teach'!
Thanks so much!
Hi David! This was a nice read to go with my coffee. Thank you! I have 2 questions, if you don't mind.
1) When cracking open multiple geodes, what's the best & easiest way of telling what you have?
2) This may sound like a silly question, but a year ago while watching Cash & Treasures, Kirsten Gum pronounced Agate as being agat. How is it pronounced. Agat, or Agate, with the middle a strong?
You always have a way of making it easy for all of us to understand a bit better the wonderful world of rocks. Love the drusies
MelindaB ~ Juneau, Alaska USA
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Wow, I'm nearly speechless. I have always loved agates, but you're opening my eyes to a new love of geology.
My husband and I have always said 'When we win the lottery' we'd travel whereever we wanted to go. And lately I've added that I would buy beads wherever we go. NOW I think I'll have to consult with you as to where I can go to see natural formations of such beautiful specimens.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and gems with us.
Hi David, thank you so much for this wealth of Inforamation. I love agate and druzy !!! This info. will help me be more knowlegeable. Your ideas are great too ! Thank you for sharing !!! Take care, keep safe and God Bless ! Merry Christmas !
Love ya', Gypsy
i love your titanium druzy. great colors :D
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Scott McCormick comes from a long line of mediocre – yet devoted – golfers. He lives in Arizona with his wife Alexis and their two dogs. When not trying to improve his short game on an office putting machine or following his favorite PGA tour pros on Twitter, he works as an freelance writer for GolfNow, specializing in San Diego Golf and Phoenix Golf. When Tiger Woods demonstrated some poor golf etiquette at this year's Masters Tournament, the world was watching closely. From uttering unmistakable four-letter words to kicking his nine-iron, any behavior by Tiger Woods that could be deemed juvenile was analyzed to death. As any old duffer knows, golf can be a frustrating game. For most of us, we have the good fortune to not have our worst moments on the links be recorded for posterity, but not having cameras in his face constantly didn't stop PGA Tour pioneer Tommy Bolt from earning the nickname "Tommy Terrible" for his rage-induce golf antics during his career that started in 1946....
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Doc Rivers on Avery Bradley going forward: 'We really don't know'
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PHILADELPHIA — As expected, the Celtics will not have Avery Bradley available as they try to close out the Sixers in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Bradley did not take part in the shootaround Wednesday morning and could not get himself to the point of being ready for the game in warmups. Bradley missed Game 5 Monday with a left shoulder injury that was re-aggravated in the third quarter of Game 4 Friday night in Philadelphia.
"We keep saying day-to-day but we really don't know," coach Doc Rivers said an hour before Game 6.
Ray Allen, meanwhile, will play but Rivers said he is clearly limited by his right ankle sprain, that he reaggravated on Monday night in the Game 5 win.
Rivers also said Greg Stiemsma is ready to go off the bench despite two sore feet.
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BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0: Two ways to manage a PlayBook
One of RIM's long-standing claims to fame is its security support, through its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) and its more than 500 policies IT can apply to a BlackBerry smartphone. If you want to manage a BlackBerry PlayBook via BES, you must do so by tethering it to a BES-managed BlackBerry. Otherwise, you get just the management capabilities inherent to Microsoft Exchange; this should be enough for most businesses, but not some regulated ones or for employees with very sensitive information. The PlayBook is not yet supported by MDM tools as iOS and Android 3 and 4 are, so you can't augment those Exchange capabilities as you can with iOS and many implementations of Android.
But the PlayBook honours RIM's security legacy in its support for separate business and personal data partitions on the device. The business partition is both encrypted and password-secured. The Documents to Go app, for example, can work with both partitions, so users have one app to edit Word and Excel files, while keeping the business data and personal data separate. That's an elegant approach to the mixing of personal and business information endemic to BYOD. Although iOS has a similar notion, its lack of a visible file system means you can't get such a clear and accessible separation of business and personal data as the PlayBook OS offers.
The PlayBook OS supports VPNs and secure Wi-Fi, but as is the case of every non-Apple and non-Microsoft OS I've tested, it can't connect to our corporate Cisco IPSec VPN or to our certificate-based secure Wi-Fi network.
BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0: The PlayBook that RIM should have shipped last April
Although iPads and Android tablets are overall superior to the BlackBerry PlayBook, RIM deserves credit for coming up with a plausible competitor. It's too bad this isn't the PlayBook that shipped in April 2011, before Apple's iOS 5 and Google's Android 4. Ten months ago, the gap between the PlayBook 2.0 OS and the competing iOS 4 and Android 3 the competitors would have been wide but with a plausible chance of being narrowed in a reasonable pace. At this point, despite with the progress RIM has made, the competition has moved even further ahead.
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Sheriff's Department mechanic Ed Gilner has been riding motorcycles for about a dozen years but a Harley-Davidson only since 1993.
He now swears by the twin-cylinder behemoth - an ``American icon,'' he calls it - and could never go back to riding any other makes.
``It's just the sound and feel of a Harley. It's different than any other bike. Nothing feels like a Harley does,'' said Gilner, 50, of Quartz Hill. ``Once you ride one of them, all the others just seem to be so mundane.''
Gilner is among the 1,000 Harley owners expected this weekend at the Antelope Valley Fairgrounds for the seventh annual Southern California State H.O.G. Rally, which runs through Sunday.
The Harley Owners Group, a worldwide organization, was formed about 15 years ago as a way for the motorcycle manufacturer to stay in touch with its customers, rally organizers said.
Gilner's license plate says ``BAT HOG'' because his black bike ``looks like something Batman would ride,'' he said.
Rally coordinator Denyce Johnston says there are 52 H.O.G. chapters in California, with about 40,000 members. The one in the Antelope Valley has 168 members who hail from Acton to Barstow.
``It's a social group actually. It's a way to have Harley owners meet and make new friends,'' Johnston said. ``Our main thing is to ride and have fun. We call it the `R and F factor.' Whatever we do, it has to have the R and F factor.''
The image of Harley riders has changed over the years. They are no longer seen as the stereotypical biker ruffians or social misfits, an image spread by movies and television in the 1950s and '60s, members said.
Johnston, a 49-year-old school secretary at Vasquez High School in Acton who wears silver hog earrings, said Harley riders are doctors, lawyers, professionals, retirees, and even a state senator.
``They are white-collar, blue-collar. Anybody who can afford to has one,'' Johnston said. ``It's not the stereotypical biker. It's not that way anymore. We're respectable, family people.''
Harley-Davidson motorcycles can cost anywhere from $7,000 to $22,000. Johnston rides a 1340 cc Heritage Soft Tail Classic.
Retired autoworkers Nonie and George Massman rode to the rally from Buena Park.
``We love Harley-Davidsons,'' said George, 55. ``They are just great. They've got a T-shirt that says, `If I had to explain (the bike's appeal), you wouldn't understand.' ''
Nonie, 54, said their Harley is a good way to spend time with her husband. The couple has logged 45,000 miles traveling to every state in the Union, and every province in Canada and Mexico.
And the ride on their Ultra Classic is comfortable, said Nonie, likening her seat to a big reclining chair with armrests.
Planned rally events include the Poker Run, where participants draw cards from five different locations and the winners are picked for best hand and worst hand.
The stops are at the fairgrounds, Foster's Freeze in Rosamond, Carl's Jr. in Mojave, the Apple Shed Restaurant in Tehachapi, and the Harley dealership in Lancaster.
At the fairgrounds grandstand, bike games include a ``churro bite,'' in which riders and passengers travel down a straight line slowly, and the passengers bite off a chunk of the sweet Mexican confection as they pass. Organizers may slather the churro in whipped cream.
Other contests include a hoop toss and putting clothespins on a line. There also will be a bike show and a bike ride through Palmdale and Lancaster.
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PHOTO (1--Color) The license plate on Quartz Hill resident Ed Gilner's Harley-Davidson, left, refers to its stylish suitability for a certain Caped Crusader.
(2--Color) Ed Gilner, Antelope Valley Harley Owners Group historian, straddles his motorcycle in anticipation of this weekend's rally, when hundreds of bikers from a variety of backgrounds and hometowns will arrive for riding fun and friendly competition.
(3--Color) Harley-Davidson rider Mike Baranik motors his hog through Lancaster.
(4) Fabian Terracciano cruises through town on his Harley-Davidson.
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For Ati tribe, Dinagyang 'is about us'
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ILOILO CITY—Freshly Tumanon and Roberto Castel would be among the hundreds of performers in the Ati tribe presentation today in Iloilo's Dinagyang Festival.
But unlike other performers, they would not be wearing elaborate costumes or covering their bodies with soot.
They are members of the indigenous Ati community of Panay Island which has organized a group that is performing during the weeklong festival.
"The Dinagyang is about us, and we are proud of who we are," said Castel.
The Miro tribe, named after a wild cat, is the only group among 11 Ati tribes that is performing in Dinagyang not for the prize. It will be the first, however, to perform at Freedom Grandstand.
The tribe's contingent is composed of 60 dancers and 30 drummers, all Ati tribe members from the Iloilo towns of Anilao and Barotac Viejo.
Joan Palacios, pastor of Anilao Christian Church who acts as the tribe manager and spokesperson, said the performers were from tribal groups from the villages of Camiros and Mostro, and Sitio Balagon in Barangay Badiang in Anilao, and the Ati reservation in Nagpana in Barangay Lipata in Barotac Viejo.
The four groups have 1,122 members mostly engaged in farming, charcoal-making and hunting. Panay Island has an estimated Ati population of 6,000.
The tribal leaders decided to join the festival this year so they can also showcase their culture, said Palacios.
"For a long time, we have been mere spectators of a festival that was supposed to have originated from us. We are at times disappointed that the festival does not genuinely reflect our culture and practices," he said.
Their eight-minute performance will depict the life and practices of the Ati community including planting, hunting and weddings.
The group has tapped a choreographer who designed the dance steps based on traditional Ati dances. Costumes of the dancers are made from indigenous materials like pandan leaves and nito fiber.
Tumanon, 13, a student of Anilao National High School and one of the youngest performers, said she was excited to be part of the performing group. She did not mind the almost nightly practice sessions from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
"It's an opportunity to show who we are," she said.
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Aston Villa boss Martin O'Neill has welcomed Tom Hanks' commitment to the club.
O'Neill said: "I'm a fan. I'd look forward to meeting Tom and having a chat. And we might as well have the very best - we don't deal with C-list celebrities!
"I don't know if Tom is coming on Saturday. Maybe that's the missed call I've got on my phone!
"I was surprised but delighted to hear he was a Villa fan, although I heard he liked the club because of its strange-sounding name.
"I know you can get people who will come out of the woodwork. But for someone to take a genuine interest is brilliant.
"I hope he can come over some time. Arsenal have got Kevin Costner but we want the best - and we've got him!"
Villa welfare and liaison officer Lorna McClelland was in London for the film premiere and managed to grab a chat with Hanks.
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Beet burger and other veggie options available at the Kitchen [Next Door]
Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is always busy, and this past Sunday afternoon, it was humming with activity -- families strolling down the sidewalk with toddlers in tow, couples gazing into each others' eyes and groups of friends gathered on patios to upend a pitcher in preparation for Monday morning. The newest addition to the Kitchen -- the Kitchen [Next Door], 1035 Pearl Street -- was filling up slowly but steadily, its streamlined decor and sanded-but-not-stained wooden tables playing host to a large family with a baby in a high chair and clusters of small groups scattered around the dining room.
The menu isn't large, but the seasonal farm-to-table ethos of the restaurant -- much like its parent facility, only with a less-expensive, fast-casual slant -- offered a handful of vegetarian dishes that were hit-or-miss (at least the ones that we tried).
The beet burger -- served with balsamic onions and arugula (we asked them to hold the feta) -- was the high point of the meal. Served on a flour-dusted bun, it was juicy and fat, and the slight bitterness of the arugula contrasted beautifully with the sweet beet and all-absorbing bread. If you don't like beets, you'll hate this burger -- but if you do like beets, it's a tasty option.
The best part of the spiced chickpeas and hummus dish was undeniably the bread; it was golden-brown and fluffy enough to use for a pillow. For $7.95, though, the hummus and chickpeas should have more flavor. Despite the scattering of paprika on the hummus and the spices in the chickpeas, the dish was pretty bland.
The Greek salad was somewhere in between the hummus and the beet burger. The romaine lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes and red onion were clearly garden-fresh; the veggies were crisp, and the tomatoes juicy and a vivid red color. But there wasn't much to set this salad apart from dozens of other Greek salads across the metro area. Fresh and crisp are good, but $8.95 is a tad hefty for a salad this size, with nothing in particular to differentiate it from the salad masses.
The service at the Kitchen [Next Door] was quick; the food was produced in an amazingly short time, so it's a good option for Pearl Street-walkers who are in a bit of a hurry. And maybe a little maturity will give some of the basic dishes a little more flair. In the meantime, it's probably a good plan to try some of the more unusual dishes -- like the beet burger, mushroom loaf sandwich or roasted veggie salad -- and think carefully whether you really want to drop your dime on the middle-of-the-road menu mainstays.
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LGUs to get lower IRA share in 2012
The Department of Budget and Management on Friday said the internal revenue allotment share of local government units would decrease to P273 billion in 2012 compared to P287 billion this year.
In a statement, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad attributed the lower IRA share of LGUs to the sharp decrease in revenues in 2009 as a result of the global economic crisis and "revenue-eroding measures passed at that time."
"Year after year, we in the Department of Budget and Management have followed the provisions of the Local Government Code on the share of LGUs in national internal revenue taxes, with no exception," Abad said.
"It is unfortunate that revenues in 2009 declined, but that is the legally-mandated base year for computing the IRA for fiscal year 2012," he added.
According to the Local Government Code, the IRA share of LGUs should be computed as 40 percent of the national internal revenue taxes collected in the third fiscal year before the current fiscal year.
Based on this formula, the DBM said the IRA share of LGUs would decrease by P13.635 billion or 4.8 percent to P273.31 billion in 2012 from P286.94 billion in 2011.
Abad also said the IRA's sources only include taxes collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue and do not include tariffs and customs duties.
He said the National Internal Revenue Code of the Philippines has identified the national internal revenue taxes that are sources of IRA. These are income tax; estate and donors' tax; value-added tax; other percentage taxes; excise taxes; documentary stamp taxes; and such other taxes that may be imposed and collected by the BIR. Norman Bordadora
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After one game, "Friar ball" alive and running in 2011
"I think one of the things we want to be consistent in is how we play," said Venable, who, like Headley, used his legs and head to score a run Thursday. "We did a great job last season in playing hard in most every game.
"That's not easy to do over a long season. But I think we played at a pretty high level. That's one thing we can't slip back on."
While Headley drops from fourth to sixth in the lineup this season easing some of the pressure, Venable moves into the leadoff slot.
He's attacking the role with a new stance (standing up straighter) and a determination not to chase as many pitches out of the strike zone.
"If I'm more selective, I'm going to cut down on the strikeouts (240 in 800 major league at-bats, including two in five at-bats Thursday) and improve my on-base percentage. Venable has struck out 30 percent of the time during his career while drawing only 83 walks.
But like Headley, Venable can create opportunities when he does reach base.
On Thursday for example, Venable was leading off second with none out when Jason Bartlett grounded to third baseman David Freese. As soon as Freese released the throw, Venable took off. His break was so perfectly timed that he didn't draw a throw. He then scored on a very short fly to left center -- committing to the dash home when he saw center fielder Colby Rasmus calling off left fielder Matt Holliday.
"To make the throw to the plate, he had to turn around," said Venable. "I had the momentum."
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Wow... Bernard Stamm's Open 60 "breaks in half" in the Western Approaches...
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PCP - NA's are still having trouble estimating the dynamic loads on offshore sailboats (hence the change from 4:1 to 5:1). You listed a well published safety factor.
It is not a published factor but a mandatory one. All boats have to have at least that safety coefficient.
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But I'm pretty sure the rest of the boat is not built to a 4:1 safety factor. You're very good at picking and choosing snippets of information that support your argument.
That is an unfounded statement. I do not find snippets of information, I found my opinions. The only one available is that one, the others are obviously a well kept secret.
There is a good reason for that one to be a mandatory coefficient and not any other and the reason is that the keels have been by far the most fragile part of that boat (with the masts). That is why there are a mandatory safety coefficient for keels and not for any other boat part. Hulls have been particularly resistant and did not show any particular weakness being Stamm's case an exception in many years in what regards a catastrophic breakage.
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Race boats have always been lightly built unless they're under a rating system that gives heavy boats an advantage, like MORC. …
Of course, but contrary to other offshore racers these boats are designed to race a non stop circumnavigation sailed most of the time in high latitudes. If they don't finish they don't win.
This is not the kind of offshore boat that makes a Fastnet or a Sydney-Hobart and then are thoroughly verified to see if all is alright or if something needs fixing. On these ones that only happens after a 40 000nm circumnavigation and for that reason they have to be much stronger than the typical offshore carbon racer. That has a reflex in what regards the applied safety coefficient, that is naturally bigger than on racers that race incomparably shorter races, even if offshore ones.
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What you chose to not address what my point about item #4: This boat should not have broke. PERIOD. It was well under powered in the conditions and was either an oversight of the sailors (very likely on a delivery where everyone is not 'dialed in') or it was a build issue/ inspection issue. ……
Item #4: None of this has anything to do with what happened in this incident b/c the boat wasn't powered up or racing. Heavily reefed on a delivery it got caught in a storm and thankfully no one died. This boat (not the open 60 platform) clearly had some structural issues that weren't caught on its last inspection and the damn front tried to fall off
That one I do not understand. You have answered yourself that question:
"This boat (not the open 60 platform) clearly had some structural issues that weren't caught on its last inspection"
. Probably Jon is right and that previous delamination (hole) that boat suffered produced structural problems that were not detected neither repaired even if the boat made 60 or 70 000nm after that.
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Let me make it clear, I'm not hear to say that open 60's are unsafe boats, but they don't hold the same safety factors as a Hanse or Hinckley. This is an acceptable risk as I see it. However, you cannot say that carbon race boats don't have failures on a pretty regular basis. And part of this is due to the thin layup, and lack of historical data in regards to cyclical loads on a rough sea. They're still working out the details.
In fact carbon boats can be much stronger than boats built with any other materials and the failures on carbon racers have nothing to do with the material itself but with the fact (as you say) that they are built as light as possible.
There are cruising boats built in carbon and there will be more in the future.
The technology exist for many years and is used not only in boats but cars and airplanes. The details have long been worked….not yet completely in what regards the loads in a canting keel, but that is a different story and that were mostly of steel (and now they are all).
Regarding the reliability of carbon hulls, there are many old Open 60 with 15 years still racing around the world. In fact they have proved so "indestructible" that they are used on a minor circumnavigating race, the Velux 5 Oceans (minor but longer). Each of those boats had already made many circumnavigations and hundreds of thousands of Nm, more than almost any cruising boat on the planet and they have made them racing and many times in high latitudes.
The fragility of carbon racers has to do with being as light as possible regarding the conditions they meet. Inshore carbon racers are more fragile than offshore carbon racers and these ones more fragile than boats designed to race while circumnavigating non stop. This ones have to be necessarily very strong.
Yes, it is possible that a Hinckley or an Hanse have a safety coefficient bigger but that coefficient is related with the forces and conditions the boat have to face and as a IMOCA boat has to face much tougher conditions that does not mean that a Hanse or a Hincley are stronger than an Open 60, quite the contrary. Put them on the big Austral desert facing 50K winds and 10 meters waves and they are more at risk than an Open 60, from breakage and from capsizing, simply because the Open 60 was designed taking those conditions into consideration, not the Hanse or the Hinkley.
That does not mean that I do not agree with you that these boats are so powerful that they cannot be sailed full throttle all the time. The shipper has to manage the power according with the sea conditions but for what we have seen on the last edition…the power these boats can take even in rough conditions is just amazing. In fact I am no sure who would break first, the boat or the skipper
well, here is already 2014. For the ones that are still in 2013, a good "passage". I am drinking champagne!!!
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As if he is only a spectator watching from the Bridge when the "lemmings plummet." It's also important to note that he's eating shitty food and drinking a multi-national's drink. As if to say that he's in the same trap, but at least being aware lets him not follow the system blindly.
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HRO - Boone County Regional Airlines
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Interesting Facts About Flights from Harrison to Akiak (HRO to AKI)
(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)