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We eat, drink and socialise at the best vegan businesses in Sydney. Think of it like a walking food tour – that happens to be vegan.
You get EVERYTHING included for the tour. Food. Drinks. Discounts. Showbags. The LOT!
We host guided walking tours throughout Sydney with up to 5-6 stops at the best Vegan businesses on offer.
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Brussels Sprouts and Spinach Truffle Frittata
- 8 eggs, whisked
- 2 cups Brussels sprouts, cut in fourths
- 5-6 cups fresh spinach
- 3 tablespoons bacon fat
- 2 teaspoons truffle oil
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon paprika
- salt and pepper, to taste
- avocado, to garnish
- chopped parsley, to garnish
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Place a large skillet over medium high heat and add the bacon fat. Once pan is hot, add minced garlic, Brussels sprouts and a bit of salt and pepper. Let cook until browned on one side, then use a spatula or flip of the wrist to move the sprouts around.
- After about 5-6 minutes, add the spinach, cover to help steam and cook for about 3-4 more minutes until spinach is cooked down and soft.
- While spinach is finishing cooking, whisk your eggs in a large bowl, then add the truffle oil, garlic powder, paprika, and salt about pepper, along with the cooked spinach and brussels sprouts. Mix well.
- Pour into a cast iron skillet.
- Place in oven and cook for 15-18 minutes depending on the size of the skillet. You'll know when the frittata is done cooking when you press on the middle and it pushes back a bit.
- Top frittata with a dribble more of truffle oil, avocado, and parsley. Love life.
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An Open Letter to the Editor of
FrontPage Magazine
Dear Mr. Horowitz (1):
I am not a Zionist, nor am I anti-Semitic. I'm anti-terrorism, pro-freedom fighter; anti-neocon trickle down autonomy, pro-truth-justice-American-way rebellion and r/evolution. You might say I'm an anarchist, and that would be fine.
I'm a nobody writer struggling to make my way and earn some credibility among what few readers I have.
So you can imagine my excitement when, while compiling a list of writing credits for my resume by Googling myself, I discovered that I was referenced in a FrontPage Magazine article, "Buffalo's Bullying Professor," by Karen Welsh, dated June 14, 2005. The professor she is referring to is a friend of mine, James Holstun.
At first, I was thrilled because I thought Ms. Welsh must be dissing me for something I'd written. I was hopeful, believing I was finally on your radar.
That optimism, however, was quickly shattered.
Ms. Welsh writes:
[Prof. Holstun's] reference to Norman Finkelstein is by no means accidental: To date, Holstun has made no attempt to hide his alignment with the anti-Semitic professor's views. Indeed, in April of 2004, the GGMS, at Holstun's instigation, invited Finkelstein to Buffalo to deliver a lecture. An article by writer Chuck Richardson called Finkelstein's lecture at Buffalo "reckless, and ruthless in his attacks," capable of stirring up "anti-Semitism whose significance he otherwise discounts." Perhaps for precisely that reason, Holstun, in an email that was reprinted on Finkelstein's personal website, enthused that it was a "particularly welcome event," gushing that "Finkelstein was superb."
Mr. Horowitz, you may thank Ms. Welsh on my behalf for characterizing me as a "writer". I work hard and pay my dues. However, I did not characterize Mr. Finkelstein's 2004 visit to SUNY Buffalo this way. In fact, Ms. Welsh transfigured my words and sentiments into something quite alien to me. The article she's referring to, "A call for 'black love': An outsider's view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a dark, hot room in Buffalo," was a review of Mr. Finkelstein's lecture, "Israel and Palestine: Roots of Conflict, Prospects for Peace," at SUNY Buffalo, sponsored by the University and Western New York Peace Center. I have pasted a copy of it below for your convenience. You will see that although I was critical of the speaker, Ms. Welsh did not choose any of those criticisms, which she could have correctly cited. Instead, she took this section, which I quote entirely, and raped it:
So you see, Ms. Welsh was actually quoting Mr. Bartov's criticism of Mr. Finkelstein's book, not my criticism of his lecture. Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased to see my name thus digitized, being the vain political bastard that I am, but having my words misrepresented is quite troubling. You may slander my character, sir, but you may not bear false witness against my work. I sin everyday but project every ounce of honesty I have into my writing. I make mistakes, but I do my best to correct them.
My first question, Mr. Horowitz, is how something so obviously libelous to Prof. Holstun -- in my amateur opinion, the article's malicious intent is to damage his career and person through obvious falsehoods and misrepresented, unsubstantiated "facts" (2) -- can occur in a trustworthy publication without further amendment? Surely, your readers want to believe the "facts" you're presenting to them are accurate.
This article's continuing existence on FrontPage shames you. Certainly, you are aware that libel is not protected under the First Amendment. If we were a truly litigious society, as some on the right claim, I imagine you'd be bankrupt.
And this leads to my second question: How do you get away with it? It doesn't take much web research to discover that you, your friends and your worst enemies are bullies.
Call me naïve, but if it walks like a bully, smells like a bully, and rejoices in bullying, chances are it's a bully - no matter how it's labeled or what it prefers to call itself, right? You and those who hate you are in a profoundly ugly conflict that is jeopardizing life on the planet, life that each side believes God/$$$/instinct/genius/OPPORTUNITY has commanded and motivated it as an elite people to dominate the rest of us. (3)
I've written about Nazis in my hometown, and the virulently anti-black racism in its insular municipal government for my hometown newspaper (available upon request). Many of these folks hate you and all Jews the way you hate everyone who prefers a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I hate each side's fundamental hatred and stupidity.
Question three: Am I misunderstanding you, and how so? Believe me, a few short years ago I would have never dreamed of having a pro-Palestinian attitude, but facts and history, as I understand them, have led me to this view. By instinct, I empathize with the victims in all conflicts. Using honesty and reason, I try to defend them. (4)
Question four: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Israel, with America's backing, much more powerful than its enemies? I mean, we all know Israel has a massive stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, that it's hanging over the head of anyone who'd interfere with its right wing, Zionist operations in the occupied territories. This extreme military superiority has allowed Zionist Israel to engage in aggressive policing actions rather than outright warfare to maintain its transcendent position above the majority of human beings in the lands it occupies. The Israeli-American war on terror is particularly brutal because it goes after suspects where they live, rather than a battlefield. It's a new kind of warfare with "precision strikes" against "evil enemy combatants" and no Geneva Conventions. The new modus operandi is bullying, torture and terror.
Questions five through nine: This kind of warfare requires Gestapo and Ba'athist techniques, doesn't it? At what point will you realize American-Israeli brutality makes your side worse than its enemies? Who's to be held in higher esteem by whom, Mr. Horowitz, the individual suicide bomber who kills 20, or the American-Israeli pilot who kills 20 and lives to kill 20 more tomorrow? I know, there's more of "them" than "you," Mr. Horowitz, so suicide missions are unthinkable, and thanks to American-Israeli military power completely unnecessary. Does standard of living dictate kill ratios and modes of murder? Does the zealous need for an actual Jewish majority in Israel necessitate the Zionist-Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homeland?
Question ten: How do you understand my questions so far?
In case you're missing their drift, I'll take a moment to explain. I'm concerned that my friend, Prof. Holstun, is about to be dragged through the mud like Mr. Finkelstein. As Ms. Welsh surely knows from having read my article, I'm quite aware that when The Holocaust Industry was published in 2000, Jewish organizations from all over the world vigorously tried to discredit Mr. Finkelstein's scholarship (to no avail), influence publishers not to publish his books (failed), and favorable critics to ignore it (largely successful).
When Mr. Finkelstein published The Holocaust Industry, New York University was his employer. His contract soon expired, and he took a similar position with City University of New York. But that didn't last long, either. In no time, this native New Yorker could not find work in the city he loves, and found himself feeling exiled to the hinterlands to reap his daily bread. Making matters worse, Mr. Finkelstein was defamed in France, ironically enough, for allegedly libeling the Anti-Defamation League and fomenting anti-Semitism.
Mr. Finkelstein is not a "self-hating Jew" nor anti-Semitic, which are not the same as being anti-Zionist. These terms are as different as apples, oranges and bananas. To state that the kind of persecution Jews faced during the Holocaust is not unique in human history in no way justifies what happened. Those who believe the murder of six million Jews can be diminished so easily have twisted agendas. Those who feel genocide has never occurred before in human history (at least not to such a highly cultured people, making their brutal decimation more tragic) are racist.
What bothers Mr. Finkelstein's critics most, however, is the fact his parents survived the Holocaust. The usual arguments that someone like Mr. Finkelstein is a "self-hating Jew," again, do not apply. These detractors seem incapable of ferreting out the differences between anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist positions. Good citizens critique their government's policies without hating their neighbors. A Jewish-Israeli can be anti-Zionist minus the anti-Semitism. Ethics and logic, in fact, require it.
In a Counterpunch interview, Mr. Finkelstein spoke of how growing up Jewish did not mean growing up Zionist:
As a Jew I felt that I bore a certain amount of responsibility for the policies of Israel because Israel claimed to speak in the name of the Jewish people, and therefore they were using the history and suffering of the Jewish people as a means to justify its policies. However, my family were not Zionists, and therefore I see no special connection between the two.
These sentiments are easy for dissidents like me to understand. Just replace "Zionism" with nationalism/racism, and "Jew" and "Jewish" for one's own ethnic nation -- whether it be American, Chinese or Sudanese. Any group of people that considers itself literally "chosen by God" (or whatever), feeling itself innately superior to others, has always waged war in whatever land it feels is "promised" to them by their personal deity. In the strictest moral sense, it is essential for good people to speak out against atrocities committed in their name, so as not to be recorded for posterity as criminals who occupied space that was not their own, or as allegedly innocent victims of terrorism.
I will let Prof. Holstun convey his positions on these subjects, since I'm incapable of improving on them. His eloquence and sensitivities speak for themselves. Instead, I present this anecdotal evidence as testimony not only of his kindness, but his talent and dedication to teaching.
There was a huge and embarrassing factual error in "A call for black love," which Prof. Holstun tenderly corrected. The error went like this: "[T]he 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict -- known as the Six Day War -- in which Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia attacked Israel hoping to drive it into the Mediterranean Sea, but ended up losing the Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza Strip, with the latter two being occupied and settled by Israelis to this day."
The man Ms. Welsh calls "Buffalo's Bullying Professor" wrote to me, gently letting me know of the mistake:
As even your linked entry notes, Israel struck first, claiming, as all aggressors always do, that their attack was "pre-emptive." But Menachem Begin himself said in an address to Israel's National Defense College: "In June 1967, we again had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai did not prove Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him." Israel was also the aggressor in the 1956 War, the Lebanon War, and the 2002 invasion of the West Bank. In the Yom Kippur War, Egypt attempted to regain territory conquered and illegally held after the 1967 War. Finkelstein's Image and Reality is good on this question -- I recommend it.
I then did the only honorable thing, publishing Prof. Holstun's letter in its entirety on my now defunct web site, admitting to my error, and making it clear for all the world to see. Prof. Holstun, being an anti-bully, never even suggested I make the corrections or tried to intimidate me in any way.
In fact, I'm a former student of his. He was always an example of tolerance. He disagreed with many of my positions, but was never pushy and chose instead to make his points by asking great questions and giving me things to read. He was the best kind of teacher: nurturing, provocative and stimulating. As hard as I have searched, I have found no students who have considered him a bully, and cannot verify Ms. Welsh's assertions in this respect. All I have found is a pile of evidence that Prof. Holstun is a vehement anti-bully.
If the same thing happens to Prof. Holstun that has happened to Mr. Finkelstein, it would be a great loss to SUNY at Buffalo and the surrounding community. It would be especially tragic for his students.
In the spirit of fairness and accuracy, I ask that you repair Ms. Welsh's malevolent diatribe against Prof. Holstun and dis-characterization of my work. (5) Criticism is fine. Just keep it honest and fair. Mr. Bartov's criticism, quoted above, of Mr. Finkelstein's book applies to Ms. Welsh's article perfectly.
Which leads me to my eleventh and final question: Who is Karen Welsh and what are her credentials? I Googled her and found only this article for certain, and another Karen Welsh whose opinions make her someone with ostensibly different views. Strange that a writer with no prior web credits lands a gig on a site that claims 1.2 million repeat visitors for May 2005. It makes me wonder if "she" really exists.
Mr. Horowitz, I'm looking forward to your timely response to these questions and request. I'm confident we could get the facts straight with an honorable effort. Your silence will suggest, however, at least to me, that you are bullied by truthfulness and blasé about anything but your own manna from heaven, whatever that may be [sic].
Hope you and yours are doing well.
Chuck Richardson's writing is archived at www.bastardpolitics.com. His first book, Memos from Apartment 5, is now available in many online bookstores. Copyright © 2005 by Chuck Richardson.
1) For those of you who don't know, FrontPage is run by David Horowitz, in my view an apparently virulent, Zionist hate-monger. Click on his name and decide for yourself. Also notice the "GOPOSTAL" section of this site.
2) Particularly nefarious is a posting on FrontPage, dated June 14, 2005, 10:36:11 a.m., suggesting Holstun be kicked and beaten to death: "So he likes violence does he… then since it is he who has chosen the rules of the game oblige him by catching him alone and severely kick his ass some dark night and tell him why. Those who advocate terrorism and violence against innocents should be given no quarter and no possibility of a rematch." This comment has been up for eight days now. What could possibly excuse this?
3) "OPPORTUNITY." For those among us wonkish enough to read government documents, I suggest reading President Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy. In particular, I want you to notice how many times the word "opportunity" is used. It recurs more often than terrorism. Be aware of this word, of who uses it and how. It reveals much of what's really happening: "…the United States will use this moment of opportunity to extend the benefits of freedom across the globe."
4) The difference between truth and honesty is simple, at least for me. Honesty is what one believes to be true, and truth is always beyond that. Whether or not an absolute truth exists is beyond my purview, but I suspect, after reading a couple of layman's books on quantum physics, Taoism and postmodernism, it doesn't. However, I agree to disagree with others on these points because, when I get right down to it, this whole shebang is a leap of faith. Peace.
5) These are the most egregious falsehoods in Ms. Welsh's story:
a. Ms. Welsh's misattributing Mr. Bartov's criticism of Mr. Finkelstein's book as my take on Mr. Finkelstein's lecture. She mischaracterizes my sympathies, and I take offense to that.
b. "Holstun attempts to emulate Finkelstein's anti-Israel propaganda in his classes." This could be an opinion if Ms. Welsh has observed Prof. Holstun teaching, but she hasn't. Unfortunately, she presents this tidbit as fact, and in a demeaning way. Prof. Holstun "emulates" no one, to my knowledge, and he's certainly not a propagandist. He doesn't meet the requirements: "Propaganda, in a narrower use of the term, connotes deliberately false or misleading information that supports or furthers a political cause or the interests of those in power. The propagandist seeks to change the way people understand an issue or situation for the purpose of changing their actions and expectations in ways that are desirable to the interest group. Propaganda, in this sense, serves as a corollary to censorship in which the same purpose is achieved, not by filling people's minds with approved information, but by preventing people from being confronted with opposing points of view. What sets propaganda apart from other forms of advocacy is the willingness of the propagandist to change people's understanding through deception and confusion rather than persuasion and understanding. The leaders of an organization know the information to be one sided or untrue, but this may not be true for the rank and file members who help to disseminate the propaganda." So, in my view, this is a defamatory statement that belittles Prof. Holstun's teaching ability and could affect his livelihood.
c. Her attack continues: "Never at a loss for anti-Israel invective, Holstun chafes at criticism when it's directed at him. When Ellen Goldstein, the community relations director at the Jewish Federation of Greater Buffalo, raised concerns about Holstun bringing Finkelstein to Buffalo, the professor bristled. The professor e-mailed another faculty member huffing that Goldstein was a 'sneak' who committed a 'craven' act after she made an inquiry into Finkelstein's visit. Goldstein, for her part, deftly rebutted Holstun's remarks: 'We "craven" community "sneaks" have no intention of letting you browbeat or intimidate Jewish students,' she said, 'or subject them to harassment in the disguise of academic freedom.'" The malicious intent of this article is obvious because Holstun's side of this dispute is readily available online, where one can see for one's self that Prof. Holstun's position is incompletely stated by Ms. Welsh, thus giving a false impression of his temperament as a human being.
d. "Whether Holstun's students can similarly speak up in his class, however, is far from clear," writes Ms. Welsh. "In letters dating back to 1997, the Revolutionary Marxist Collective at SUNY/Buffalo described the strong-arm techniques Holstun has used as both a teacher and mentor: Here is a "teacher" who presents himself as the essence of the pedagogy of support and yet his own text is nothing but naked violence,' the collective wrote. 'Holstun is relying on this violence, supported by his institutional power, to silence oppositional students.'" First of all, Ms. Welsh is implying the RMC folks were Holstun's students when neither of them was. Second, I haven't been able to verify that anyone has actually said "his own text is nothing but naked violence," and if this is a fabrication it exposes you, in my neophyte opinion, to legal action, if anyone really has the time, money or cajones to bother.
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TV Series Signation - "Geschichte lebt" - ORF3 from immortal-arts on Vimeo.
Photogrammetry for High End 3D Video Production
The producers of the ORF3 TV series "Geschichte lebt!" wanted a memorable and photo realistic camera flight which starts from the bird's eye perspective. The camera then gives a view of the street level, flying along a park and several buildings, through a window of the Austrian State Archives and continuing the path inside the building through a maze of shelves and stairways moving down from the 3rd floor to the ground level before the final destination, a door, is reached.
For this seamless animation, the quality needed to be very high since the camera would come quite close to several objects and surfaces. The demand of a photo realistic 3D environment required some advanced production techniques because the final material would be rendered in resolutions up to 4K/8K and did not allow washed out or blurry surfaces. Next to the technical difficulties it was also challenging that the area and the connected buildings are very well known. This required to produce an accurate digital replica of the area.
This talk will be a quick walk through of the production process and points out which methods where used and combined. An important aspect was the incorporation of photogrammetry and the use of software that takes advantage over the GPU to calculate 3D models and textures in very high resolutions (>100k).
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Craft Beer Takes Center Stage at 2015 NBWA Convention & Trade Show
The 78th annual National Beer Wholesalers Association Convention and Trade Show convened at Caesars Palace and attracted nearly 4,000 industry representatives.
Spokane, Washington's No-Li Brewhouse was named the National Brewery of the Year by the National Beer Wholesalers Association, an award that recognizes brewers who not only produce great beer, but also build strong partnerships, provide education, offer support to their distributor customers and more.
The convention was a chance for distributors to research all that's available in the world of brewing, while the trade show was a showcase of breweries from all over the world representing nearly every beer style with more than 500 different beers.
The most congested spaces on the trade show floor were amongst the tables of the 31 craft breweries represented in the Brewers Association-sponsored Craft Brewers Pavilion, and the rest of the trade show appeared to be dominated by artisanal beer sporting plenty of flavor. No surprise there, as the craft beer industry continues to be the fastest growing segment in the entire US beverage alcohol industry. The evidence is that in 2014 for the first time ever, craft beer accounted for a double digit share of the total beer market with an 11% volume share of the marketplace up from 6% in 2012 and growth of the craft brewing industry in 2014 was 18% by volume and 22% by dollars compared to growth in 2012 of 15% by volume and 17% by dollars. Additionally, as of June 30, 2015, the number of operating breweries in the U.S. was at 3,739, an increase of 699 breweries over the same time period of the previous year.
The lone Nevada brewery represented at the trade show was Tenaya Creek Brewery from Las Vegas, which was pouring its Bonanza Brown Ale, named for the street its new production brewery is located on. This new larger facility will further enable Tenaya Creek to expand its production and sales.
Anchor Brewing was serving a new addition to its line, Anchor Barrel Ale, a blend of Anchor ales aged in Old Potrero whiskey barrels and on their staves, brewed as a tribute to pioneer brewer, distiller and visionary Fritz Maytag.
Who would have ever expected Guinness to come out with anything other than its iconic stout? The brewery with over 250 years of brewing experience has re-imagined the traditional IPA style with its Nitro IPA, brewed with five hop varieties—Admiral, Celeia, Topaz, Challenger and Cascade—and infused with nitrogen.
One of the more interesting beers I sampled was the Bacon Bomb Rauchbier from the Milwaukee-based Brenner Brewing Company. While a vegan beer, the blend of German beechwood- and Wisconsin cherrywood-smoked malts and fresh black pepper give it a deceptive bacon bite. Also on the wild and crazy side, New Belgium Brewery had Ben & Jerry's Salted Caramel Brownie Brown Ale, a collaboration with the ice cream maker with cocoa and vanilla powder in the maturation vessel to retain flavors of a big dessert beer blast. And, Southern Tier had its Crème Brûlée Milk Stout, brewed with lactose sugar and vanilla beans.
I was drawn to sample beers from Heretic Brewing Company because it's located in Fairfield, Calif., the birthplace of my wife Lally, but after experiencing the quality of its beers I no longer felt biased. I especially liked the Petit Rouge, a Belgian-style ale steeped with hibiscus flowers that had a slightly tart flavor reminiscent of cranberry and pomegranate.
Artisanal Imports brought Bierbrouwerij De Koningshoeven's La Trappe Bockbier from the Netherlands, the world's only Trappist Bock, which is being imported to the US for the first time. It differs from German Bocks as it is a bit drier, darker, bitter and more roasted and is a bottle conditioned ale, not a lager.
Rince Cochon has long been one of my favorite Belgians and I was happy to find Eurobrew Specialty Beer Importer pouring a fruited version of it—Rince Cochon Red—a 7.5% ABV version of the blond ale made with red fruits: raspberry, strawberry and cherries that is coming to the US for the first time.
Unibroue, Canada's answer to Belgian styles, brought its new La Resolution, a 10% ABV Strong Dark Ale spiced with ginger, toffee and caramel with a gingerbread and spicy aroma.
I've had many an IPA with grapefruit flavor derived from certain hop strains, but Magic Hat introduced me to its new Electric Peel, which has actual grapefruit peel added, resulting in a quite noticeable bittersweet finish.
Uinta Brewing Company was one of the first breweries to come out with a double IPA, its Detour, which was packaged in corked 750 ml bottles, but it is now available in 12 oz cans. In February, the Salt Lake City-based brewery will release its first Gose, Ready, Set, Gose a tart and salty German beer style; along with a full-time Brettanomyces series beginning with a Brett IPA.
The 4.4% ABV Royal Jamaican Ginger Beer, brewed in Kingston by Big City Brewing with locally grown Jamaican ginger, impressed me with its intense bite, with a burn almost like a pepper beer, and definitely stronger than any ginger beer I'd previously tasted.
This was my ninth time attending the trade show, which has become noticeably dominated by craft beer choices, a trend that has grown exponentially over the past 16 years. If this trade show is any indication, it would appear that more and more distributors are embracing the craft beer segment as it slowly but surely chips away at the pie, securing a larger piece of its share of the beer market.
The NBWA is a major beer biz convention that wisely comes to Vegas every other year and alternates in other cities sans trade show. For more information, visit the NBWA's website at www.nbwa.org.


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At our first 90 minute visit we'll discuss your health history and your current health concerns. I'll get a thorough understanding of your diet, lifestyle, menstrual cycle, sleep, stress, energy, digestion, current medications and supplements. We'll review all of your body systems and do a physical exam specific to your concerns. Because I focus on whole-person medicine, we'll discuss your mental, spiritual, social, and emotional health as well as your physical health.
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Guys. I can't believe I'm typing this but, I KEPT A PLANT ALIVE! And it's thriving. So I decided to make this DIY Copper Foil Planter so that my one plant to survive can feel special and sparkly. And because I wanted to use copper foil in a project OK?!
A friend gave me a Pilea plant for Christmas too so I'm making this corner of my studio into a little indoor garden. It gets plenty of light but not direct sun so I hope to keep it from dying.
You can find the full tutorial for this planter (which was once terracotta!) on the Homedit site here. They share a ton of inspiration for DIY projects and interiors.
I hope you've all had a good week and have some fun plans ahead for the weekend. I'm off to a water colour class!


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Weninger's Lives of the Saints – Saint Kilian and His Companions, Martyrs
Saint Kilian, the glorious apostle of Franconia, was born in Scotland, the son of noble but not less pious parents. The Almighty, who had destined him to convert many thousand souls, bestowed on him the grace to lead, from early youth, a blameless life, and to make, when more advanced in years, such progress in virtue and divine science, that he was greatly beloved and venerated, as well by the clergy as by the laity. He had deep compassion for those who were yet blinded by idolatry, and felt within himself an irresistible impulse to labor for the salvation of their souls One day, when he was musing on the words of Christ: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me," he made the resolution to devote himself to the salvation of souls. After he had been ordained priest, he persuaded some intimate friends to accompany him into the heathen countries and illuminate their darkness with the light of Christian faith. They were willing to depart with him, and Kilian left his home and property, crossed the sea, wandered through several provinces, and at length arrived at Wurtzburg, in Franconia. The inhabitants of that city, and indeed of the whole province, worshiped, before all other gods, the goddess Diana. The holy man, pitying their ignorance, went with his companions to Rome, to obtain the Pope's permission to preach the Gospel in that region, as well as in the neighboring states. The Pope gladly assented, consecrated Kilian bishop, invested him with the power to preach the Gospel to the heathens, and gave him many wholesome instructions for beginning and continuing his holy work. The newly consecrated bishop returned, immediately after receiving the Holy Father's .blessing, and arrived at Wurtzburg, accompanied by Colman, a priest, and Totman, a deacon, the same who had left Scotland with him. Assisted by these, he began his apostolic labors. He preached the word of Christ and opposed idolatry with so much zeal that, in a few days, many showed themselves ready to embrace the Christian faith. The many miracles which the holy bishop wrought, in testimony of the truth of his words, caused the heathens to recognize their error, and humbly request of him to baptize them. When Gosbert, at that period Duke of Franconia and an intelligent man, heard of this, he called the Saint into his presence and desired to hear the new faith explained by him. The holy bishop, accepting the invitation, spoke with such wisdom and eloquence, that the duke, after some more conversations with him, was convinced of the truth of his words, and promised to receive holy baptism publicly on the coming Easter festival. He kept his promise, and Kilian received him and a great many of the nobility, on the appointed day, into the bosom of the Christian Church, to the great joy of his heart. The example of the duke was soon imitated by thousands of his subjects, and Kilian entertained the hope soon to see the whole province come under the sweet yoke of the Saviour.
The duke grew daily in piety and virtue, and endeavored to be an example to his subjects. There was, however, one dark spot in his life that overshadowed all his goodness. Geila, or, as others write, Geilana, his brother's wife, lived with him. When Saint Kilian heard of this, he begged God's aid in prayer, and then went to the duke and told him that, according to the laws of the Church, his conduct was very sinful, and exhorted him to dismiss Geila. Gosbert, who deemed it impossible to part with Geila, was at first greatly troubled, but promised the Saint that he would consider his words, and think of the best way to send Geila from his Court, after the war was ended, to which he was just making preparations to go. Geila was informed of this, and, almost beside herself with rage, sought to revenge herself on the Saint, and determined to despatch him, before the return of the duke. Hiring two assassins, she promised them a large sum of money, if they would murder the bishop and his companions. The night on which this crime was to be committed had come, and Saint Kilian, having said his prayers, had just lain down to rest, when an angel appeared to him, 'saying: "Rise, Kilian, thy work is done: only one contest more, and thou shalt gloriously reign with me." The Saint immediately arose, and awakening his companions, he exhorted them to be faithful; after which they prayed together, thus preparing themselves for the approaching struggle. While they were still on their knees, the assassins rushed into the room, but Kilian, going towards them, said: "Friends, what purpose brought you hither? You may execute the command of the duchess: we are ready to end our lives." Without uttering a word, the hirelings drew their swords and murdered Saint Kilian and his two holy companions on the spot. Then, making a deep hole, they cast into it the holy relics, the vessels of the church, the books and everything they found belonging to the holy martyrs. This the wicked Geila had ordered them to do, in order that the criminal deed should never be revealed. The just God, however, soon made it known all over the land, by means of those who had endeavored to hide it. One of the assassins became possessed of the devil, and ran raving and howling through the streets, crying in fearful tones: "Oh! Kilian, how thou dost persecute me! I see the sword, stained with thy blood, above my head." Having repeated these words many times, he at last tore his limbs with his own teeth, and thus died a horrible death. The other murderer also became raving, and in despair killed himself with his own dagger. The godless Geila, the author of so wicked and cruel a deed, ended her life in the same manner. She also became possessed of the Evil One, and was terribly tormented. She herself – so was it ordained by God – had to confess her wickedness publicly; for she was heard crying:
"It is just and right that I am tortured, for I have caused the holy men to be tortured. You persecute me too much, O Kilian! Colman, you are lighting the fire, and you, Totman, increase it! Your vengeance is too great" After having thus raved for a long time, she expired with dreadful suffering. According to the testimony of Baronius, Saint Kilian and his companions received the crown of martyrdom in the year 689. The Almighty revealed to the world, in the course of time, the holy relics of these faithful servants, and glorified them by many miracles. Baronius also ascribes to the powerful intercession of these holy martyrs the fact that the true Faith has remained in the province of Franconia, and that heresy, which, long after their glorious death, came to plant its seeds, was happily destroyed there, while other states of Germany lost the Faith almost entirely, to the irreparable damage of their inhabitants.
Practical Considerations
1. Saint Kilian reproved the duke for his unlawful conduct, and endeavored to reform him, although he had to fear his wrath and the rage of a wicked woman. You have not to fear anything like this, and yet you are silent when you might prevent many wrongs by kind expostulations or by proper punishment. For example, you are silent or laugh when another makes unchaste remarks in your presence or slanders his neighbor, or curses. You might prevent him, but you neglect it. Is this a sign that true love to God fills your heart? "Christ is crucified before our very eyes," cries Saint Thomas of Villanova, "and we are silent." Where is our love to God? If some one speaks disparagingly of your friends in your presence, you are not silent, and why? Because you love them. How then can I believe that you have one spark of love for God, if you listen in silence when He is offended, and do not endeavor to prevent it? Endeavor to do this in future, and try to prevent others from offending the Almighty. As far as those under you are concerned, as for instance, your children and domestics, you are under still greater obligations not to neglect it. It is quite certain that parents and all those who possess authority over others may commit great sin, and even make themselves guilty of everlasting condemnation, if they silently pass over the faults of those under them, or do not punish them properly. They make themselves guilty of all those iniquities which those in their charge commit on account of their silence, or which they commit more freely on account of not being reproved. The punishment which parents have to expect from God for this we may learn from what happened to Heli, because he was too indulgent to his children, and did not duly punish their faults, as Holy Writ testifies. (1st Kings 2).
2. Almighty God punished in this world the murderers of Saint Kilian, and the unchaste woman who instigated them to the criminal deed. And yet they had only deprived him of his bodily, his temporal life. How terrible will be the punishment that awaits those who have deprived their neighbor of his spiritual, his eternal life; who have been the murderers of his soul? And who are these? All those who advise their neighbors to do wrong, or who incite them to it, either by words or bad example. Christ Himself calls the devil a murderer from the beginning, because he incited Eve to sin; and Saint Augustine adds: "Do not suppose that you are no murderer, when you lead your neighbor to commit sin. You murder him by doing so," as Satan deprived Eve of her spiritual life, and hence became a murderer. "You have been guilty of as many murders as you have given occasion to sin," says Saint Gregory. You deprive him also of eternal life, if he dies in his iniquities and is damned. What can you expect of divine justice? Certainly not heaven, if you do not repent. A murderer is already sentenced: "No murderer hath eternal life abiding in him" (John 3); "The murderers and the unclean shall receive their reward in the pit filled with fire and burning brimstone." (Acts 21) These words, addressed to those who murder the body, indicate that no less punishment will await those that murder the soul; for, a murder committed on the soul of any one, by leading him into sin which will deprive him of eternal life, is infinitely more deserving of punishment, than a murder committed on the body. If a temporal murder is a sin that cries to heaven and deserves hell, what sentence ought to be spoken against a spiritual murder? Saint Thomas of Villanova hesitated not to say, that if he were certain that he had caused the ruin of one single soul, he would depart this life with greater fear than if he had murdered the bodies of a hundred persons. Be careful that you do not die, and appear before the judgment-seat of the Most High, with cause for such fear and trembling.
- Father Francis Xavier Weninger, DD, SJ. "Saint Kilian and His Companions, Martyrs". , 1876. CatholicSaints.Info. 14 March 2018. Web. 23 October 2020. <>


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Christian Right-Wingers Love Porn: New Studies Suggest the Bible Belt Has A Kinky Side
A new study published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, produced by researchers from Canadian Universities, found American states that identify as more religious and conservative are also more apt to search for sex online. Of course, the study makes a point of separating the religiously conservative from the politically conservative. The latter is more likely to look for sex specific terms, such as "gay sex, free porn and xxx," whereas those that consider themselves religious were looking for generalized sex terms that could've theoretically fallen under the "health and wellness" category.
In heavily religious states, abstinence is often pushed as the only safe sex, with very little to offer in the way of sexual education. Unfortunately, that leaves a growing number of people with questions about sex but no answers. Enter Google: the best way to find an answer to personal, possibly embarrassing questions without calling attention to yourself. So of course the study finds that religious communities have a higher percentage of sex-related searches. That's what happens when you can't find it elsewhere.
"When people are touting these very hard lines about what others should and shouldn't be doing and then in their private lives they're not doing what they say, that doesn't surprise me."
Earlier this year, Homegrown Video announced the results of a six-month study on amateur porn demographics. Just under a third of all homemade sex tape submissions were created in the "Bible Belt." Perhaps even more surprising is the increased female involvement. According to Homegrown Video owner Farrell Timlake, women are now submitting their own videos almost as much as men. Mind you these are not porn stars, just regular folks at home who film themselves for the world to see.
But perhaps even more interesting is the type of user-generated content coming from areas of the country some consider repressed. "We get so many interracial tapes from states that people would stereotype as being racially bigoted areas," says Timlake. "And that plays into the same thing: the more repressed it is, the more taboo it is, the more somebody is going to want to see it or touch that fire."
Interesting article, even though it does fall into the category of 'the blindingly obvious being recast as the cautiously empirical'.


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In an interview in Tuesday's Independent, four days before her appearance in the Royal Opera's revival of Puccini's La rondine, Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu spoke about the "violence" she says she faced during her marriage to her former husband, French-Sicilan tenor Roberto Alagna.
The allegations that she makes, though vaguely expressed, are disquieting. She only describes one specific episode when, she claims, Alagna hit her in the presence of his father and brother, who said "not a word". But she alleges he was violent to her in front of her own family, and describes incredulity at his behaviour over a period of time.
She claims that "people" and "colleagues" (no names are mentioned) warned her against him, but that because she was in love she was "completely blind". "I pretended too much," she adds, "and I suffered too much. Now it's time to be really honest." Alagna's agent, meanwhile, has dismissed her claims as "idiocy".
Allegations of domestic violence are of course grave, though in this instance there are those who are prepared to question them. Gheorghiu's name is synonymous with attention-seeking, of which this, according to a response piece in the Telegraph, may well be another example. Whether she likes it or not, Gheorghiu has allowed herself to take on and seemingly to enjoy the stereotypical persona of the prima donna as volatile, monstrous and badly behaved.
The Gheorghiu-Alagna marriage, meanwhile, was played out in public as a grand operatic spectacle that rivalled any of the works in which they regularly appeared together. Reality and illusion always seemed to buckle a bit in the telling of their tale. Like Burton and Taylor – the comparison is a familiar one – there was grand passion on stage and off it to begin with, and no one was quite sure where artifice ended and life began.
But the glamour was rapidly tarnished by a notoriety that teetered on the comic, and artistic integrity and professionalism were seemingly thrown to the winds when the series of high-profile cancellations, rows with managements and conductors, and walkouts began. The nicknames – "Bonnie and Clyde", "the Ceaușescus", opera's "Jordan and Peter" among them – spoke volumes. All of which has saddled both Alagna and Gheorghiu with a reputation for self-dramatisation and unreliability that persists now their marriage is over.
Gheorghiu's allegations are serious. At this point it must also be stressed that the truth of this story is as yet known only to the couple themselves and to those whom Gheorghiu claims as witnesses. It may soon, of course, also be a matter for the courts. That the initial response has varied from less than sympathetic to downright disbelieving, however, is due to Gheorghiu's temperamental past behaviour, which has done her infinitely more harm than good.
Unless she can back up her claims, she may well find that being "really honest" about her marriage to Alagna is harder than she thought.


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With only two days to go before Spain's opening match at the World Cup, Julen Lopetegui has been fired as national team coach because he accepted a job to lead Real Madrid next season.
In a surprise announcement Tuesday, Real Madrid appointed Lopetegui as Zinedine Zidane's successor to take over after the tournament in Russia, sparking outrage at the federation and among Spanish fans at the timing of the announcement.
Royal Spanish Football Federation (Real Federación Española de Fútbol, RFEF) President Luis Rubiales, who made the announcement about Lopetegui's departure at a much-delayed press conference on Wednesday in Krasnodar, later said Fernando Hierro would replace Lopetegui as coach for Spain's match against Portugal in Sochi on Friday.
The 50-year-old Hierro, a former national team player and Real Madrid captain, had been acting as the federation's sports director and was already in Russia with the national team.
Rubiales said firing Lopetegui wasn't the best solution but it was needed after the federation was caught by surprise by Real Madrid's announcement.
"The federation cannot be left out of a negotiation by one of its workers and be informed five minutes before the press release," Rubiales said. "We have been compelled to act."
Rubiales, who took over as president last month, said Lopetegui betrayed the federation's values and it was the only decision he could make.
"It's a difficult situation, but we are not the ones who determined the action that had to be taken. The federation has its values and it has to maintain them," Rubiales said. "It may look like a weakness now, but with time this will make us stronger."
"Negotiating is legitimate but it took place without the RFEF being informed until five minutes before a press statement was released. There has to be a message for all workers in the federation that there is a right way to do things."
Lopetegui did not attend the press conference but was expected to talk to the media later.
"We have to work on a series of decisions that come just two days before the opener," Rubiales said. "There's a lot to do."
The replacement
Hierro spent most of his career as a defender for Real Madrid and finished his playing days with English club Bolton in 2005. He played in four World Cups with Spain, from 1990 to 2002, and in two European Championships, 1996 and 2000.
Hierro was Carlo Ancelotti's assistant at Real Madrid after Zidane left the post in 2014.
He coached second-division club Real Oviedo two seasons ago and was Malaga's general manager after leaving his sports director position with the Spanish federation in 2011.
After Madrid's announcement that it hired Lopetegui, critics immediately began questioning some of the coach's decisions with the national team, including his choice to leave some Barcelona players such as Sergi Roberto out of the World Cup squad. There were also questions about how Lopetegui would be able to fully focus on the national team while also having to discuss pre-season signings for his new club.
There are six Madrid players in Spain's team for the World Cup.
Lopetegui's name had not been mentioned by Spanish media among the probable candidates for the Madrid job, which opened up after Zidane unexpectedly quit. Last month, Lopetegui agreed to extend his contract with the national team through 2020.
"I admire and respect Lopetegui a lot. He is a top coach, and that made it harder to make this decision," Rubiales said. "Winning is important, but above that, we need to know how things have to be handled."
According to reports in the Spanish media, the players tried to intervene at the last minute to prevent Rubiales sacking Lopetegui.
"I have spoken with the players and what I can guarantee is that the players will do everything in their power, along with the new technical team to take the team as far as possible," said Rubiales.
Spain and Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos appealed for unity between the fans and players.
"We are the national team. We represent a badge, colours, a fanbase, a country. The responsibility and commitment are with and for you. Yesterday, today and tomorrow, together," tweeted Ramos.
La Roja were among the favourites to lift the trophy this summer but the astonishing developments of the past two days could have a devastating affect on their chances.
The 51-year-old Lopetegui took over from Vicente del Bosque after the 2016 European Championship. He was credited with reviving a team that was on the decline after winning Euro 2008, the 2010 World Cup and Euro 2012.
By successfully blending talented youngsters and veterans from its golden generation, Lopetegui kept Spain unbeaten through 20 matches in charge, comfortably leading the team to the World Cup from a qualifying group that included Italy.
He won European championships with Spain's under-19 and under-21 teams in the early 2010s, but had a lacklustre stint with Portuguese team Porto in his only job with a major club. He was fired after failing to win a title during almost two years in Portugal.
Rubiales took over a federation which was in the hands of embattled official Ángel María Villar for nearly three decades. He was elected president over Juan Luis Larrea, the federation's former treasurer and its interim leader since Villar was suspended following his arrest last year on suspicion of corruption.
In one of his first actions, Rubiales cancelled a previously arranged "vacation" trip by officials to the World Cup that would cost nearly 2 million euros (US$2.3 million). He got the money reimbursed and spent only about 500,000 euros (US$590,000) with new travel arrangements for sponsors and federation officials.
"We are all affected," Rubiales said about Lopetegui's departure. "We have to think about what is best for the entity, for the federation and the team, and from this afternoon we will all be together to go forward."


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Spending Your Money Judiciously on Cloud
Executive Summary
With the accelerated rate at which businesses are adopting Public Cloud today, it has become extremely important for businesses to adopt methodologies to manage their Cloud finances effectively. Companies today have a range of options to cut their costs in Cloud. For instance, they could take advantage of the state-of-the-art Cloud architecture patterns, use effective reporting tools, introduce automation solutions for inventory control and improve their Cloud Governance strategies.
This paper discusses the various approaches we provide to our customers to stay cost-effective in Public Cloud without compromising on the real benefits reaped from Public Cloud adoption.
Cloud is now an integral part of every organization's digital transformation roadmap. The term "zero CAPEX" has been frequently associated with Public Cloud platforms. Public Cloud vendors are globally expanding their footprint and exponentially increasing platform capacity each day. The true benefit of "economies of scale" is passed on to customers – As a result of this, the costs of Cloud services have been continuously decreasing and the number of services are on the rise.
Cloud Computing offers cost advantages primarily because as a user of Public Cloud, you are using space in a third-party vendor's data center. You thereby save on real-estate, equipment, power, backup and manpower, which are offered to you as a service by your Cloud Provider. The immense benefit of the pay-as-you-go pricing scheme also makes Cloud financially attractive.
However, as a regular user of Cloud, a company can experience a phenomenon we call "Cost Explosion in Cloud". This scenario can be compared to that of a shopping experience in a supermarket. When you purchase services in Cloud, you may end up buying items that you really do not need. As time goes by, these items that you over-purchased end-up fattening your Cloud bill. "What does my bill look like? How do I itemize my bill? How can I bring down my bill the next time I shop?" These are the queries that intrigue most businesses.
"26 percent of respondents to the Right Scale 2016 State of the Cloud Survey identified cloud cost management as a significant challenge, a steady increase each year from 18 percent in 2013.
Cloud cost management provides a significant opportunity for savings, since few companies are taking critical actions to optimize cloud costs, such as shutting down unused workloads or selecting lower-cost cloud or regions."
In this paper, we discuss various measures an organization could adopt to control the spending on Cloud. This paper is organized into four key sections. In Section 2, we talk about the "What" aspect – we make you aware of what is it that you are spending on. Section 3 talks about the "Where" aspect – we help you see where exactly you are spending your money. In Section 4, we cover the "How" aspect – here, we help you with various solutions and techniques to lower your Cloud expenditure. Section 5 covers a few Case Studies with illustrations on how we helped our customers solve their cost problems. This paper has been written to be agnostic of any specific Cloud platform. However, we have used examples from the environments of various leading Cloud Providers, and the case studies use these platforms as the basis. Scope of discussion in this paper is restricted to Public Cloud.
Getting Timely Insight into Cloud Expenditure
According to Gartner research1, the Public Cloud market is estimated to reach USD 383 billion in year 2020. Every organization is investing significant time and money in understanding, experimenting and utilizing Cloud services. The reliance on Public Cloud service providers is only going to increase in future.
Any organization with a Public Cloud presence would want to know what Cloud services incurred the majority of its cloud expenditure. It is a common trend that only huge bills demand everyone's attention whereas the average bills are overlooked in business.
It is therefore essential to know how much one is spending on cloud services as well as the distribution of charges. The table below lists the various cloud services and their pricing trends, which would help the company have a bird's-eye view of its Cloud expenditure.
"It is a common trend that only huge bills demand everyone's attention whereas the average bills are overlooked in business."
Typically, an organization uses multiple Cloud accounts from a single Cloud Provider to meet specific requirements of various departments, local offices, or subsidiaries. The consolidated bill will include the total spend on each AWS account. Below is a representation of a sample Cloud bill with percentage spent on each of the accounts:
Eventually, an organization may adopt a multi-cloud strategy to avoid vendor lock-in, to utilize specific Cloud services or to implement Disaster Recovery. The consolidated bill in this case will include the incumbent costs for each Cloud Provider as shown below:
The bills educate the Corporate Finance department about the total expense on their Cloud Infrastructure. A review of the bill and charge-back are ensured in every organization. However, only a deeper analysis of the bill would show where precisely the organization has been spending on, in Cloud. The next section deals with the various aspects of itemizing and analyzing the bill and the tools that help in the process.
Cloud Finance Analysis
This section focusses on the different ways an organization can view fine-grained details about their Cloud expenditure.
Certain businesses may find it important to identify the Cloud cost distribution across different departments and geographies, while other organizations may need to report the costs by different Cloud resources and by the applications that run on Cloud. Companies that run their workload on multiple Cloud platforms may find it relevant to view cloud costs based on Cloud service provider. A combination of these cross-sections can also make a useful view. A daily, weekly, monthly or yearly trend can be extrapolated to make projections of usage and costs into the future.
The various tools available in the industry for Cloud reporting can range from the gamut of reporting possibilities exposed by the Cloud Provider themselves, to offerings from third-party vendors as shown in the figure 4. As a business, it is important to evaluate which tools give you the reports that best suit your portfolio.
Certain Cloud reports are very useful from the viewpoint of the CFO of a business who wants to make sure that the Return on Investment (ROI) of the company's Cloud Investments is in line with the projections. Third-party tools, such as CloudHealth and Cloudability, offer a great number of ways to pull out many such reports.
Once we know where the wastage in Cloud resides through reporting and analysis, the next step is to take remedial measures to bring down those costs, and that is the focus of the next section.
Cloud Cost Control Measures
Knowing where the Cloud costs are spent is just a beginning of governing on Cloud. What ultimately has to happen is to drive in remedial actions on the information gathered. In this section, we propose various solutions to help stay money-wise on Cloud. Below are few key control measures:
1. Tuning the Architecture to save costs
Architecting your infrastructure and applications in Cloud is an iterative process, wherein you apply a set of principles and paradigms to your design that would make it flexible and conducive to expansion. Apart from flexibility, cost is another factor that must be considered in your design.
Cloud users have a tendency to use as many resources as possible and to employ as much high-end resources as available, for a given need. However, a mindset of planning the architecture ahead of time and avoiding overprovisioning has to be followed instead. Employing auto-scaling is a great way to avoid overprovisioning.
Use of services that allow the architecture to be loosely coupled (example, SQS service in AWS) and use of dedicated services for certain use-cases (such as Glacier service in AWS for archival, AWS Direct Connect to save on Data Transfer costs, etc.) should be encouraged. Being informed about cost cuts offered by the Cloud Providers would help one redesign the architecture to be cost optimal.
The following list offers a few architectural insights towards saving on your Cloud costs:
2. Choosing the right Cloud Provider and Services
It is essential that a detailed Requirement Analysis be performed before determining the right Cloud vendor/partner. The key parameters captured during in-depth application assessment and infrastructure discovery can help in determining which particular target Cloud Platform is best suited, from cost, compliance and technology point of view.
The following are some of the points that ensure cost-effectiveness in the choice of Cloud Provider/Services:
3. Shut down unused services periodically
The majority of costs in Cloud are incurred by running instances or servers and their associated data storage. Many a times, development teams spin up servers for testing and leave them running for a long time. Same is the case with other expensive services that the team might have used for evaluation or Proof of Concept projects. Hence, it is important to periodically monitor or audit the Cloud Inventory in order to save money for the IT Department of a company.
Follow some of the points below to save on costs:
4 Tagging Services Periodically
From the cost perspective, the relevance of tagging the services cannot be stressed enough. First, the cost reports make more sense and add value when the resources are tagged, as one can enlist user-defined tags (such as Application, Stack and Role Tags). With this information in place, one can know which application is using which service and where exactly the costs were spent. Second, it would be easier to determine which servers to downsize when we have more information handy.
Listed below are few relevant user-defined tags:
5. Sizing the resources
When a user has over-provisioned a deployment, it becomes necessary to detect low utilization and adjust the machine sizes. The following set of guidelines are suggested to facilitate this process:
6. Choosing a Cost-Effective Pricing Scheme
Most of the Cloud Providers offer a range of pricing schemes to save on Cloud. One has to tap the right pricing scheme depending on one's usage and commitment. Choosing the right pricing scheme, however, requires experience. Tools such as CloudHealth, AWS Trusted Advisor, Cloudability3, etc. make recommendations to change the pricing plan of existing resources based on usage patterns.
The following list shows the different usage patterns and their corresponding pricing schemes:
7. Having good Cloud Governance measures
According to IDC Technology Spotlight, more mature cloud architectures depend on policy-based automation and self-service to rapidly provision new services and ensure compliance with corporate standards and service-level agreements (SLAs).
According to IDC Technology Spotlight, more mature cloud architectures depend on policy-based automation and self-service to rapidly provision new services and ensure compliance with corporate standards and service-level agreements (SLAs).
The IT departments feel that because of automation and self-service, the control is moving away from their hands to those who are actually provisioning the cloud services. This phenomena has led to a new term called "Shadow IT".
Provisioning of services in Public Cloud directly impacts the total costs of services. The IT team should be in loop when decisions are made for usage of cloud resources and/or services. The Cloud Governance framework should also define the maximum spend capacity for all departments to keep costs under control. Furthermore, only legitimate users should be allowed to provision services for approved business cases.
The Cloud Governance framework should provide an answer as to who is accountable for safeguarding confidential or sensitive information stored in Cloud. There should be a clearly defined encryption and multi-factor authentication standards for all employees, contractors, and third party vendors when they are accessing sensitive data in the Cloud. Appropriate trainings could be imparted to the users who would be accessing sensitive information in Cloud.
One distinct advantage of using Public Cloud is that most of the cloud services often come with advanced monitoring, management, and tagging features. An effective Cloud Governance framework can be built by utilizing the key features of cloud services and by adhering to the published vendor guidelines.
An organization can also utilize third party CMP tools which provide multi-cloud governance modules. These modules can further be utilized for automated Cloud Governance across multiple cloud platforms. Detailed information related to cloud discovery, cloud utilization, cloud spend, cloud security, and application resiliency can be obtained easily for building the governance model.
Case Studies
Case Study 1 – Cloud Reporting and Analysis to save on Cloud costs:
After migrating their workload to AWS cloud, one of our customers realized that it was a humongous effort to manage their cloud costs over a period of time. UST Global, being a Cloud technology consultant, helped them get a hold of their expenses by introducing them to the various tools for mining and reporting of their Cloud spend for various time intervals. Business insights derived from these reports aided their stakeholders to take corrective actions.
AWS billing and cost management service was configured to get the detailed billing reports and cost allocation reports. AWS's Cost Explorer was utilized to filter Consolidated Costs based on specific parameters. Also, various utilization reports provided by AWS for on-demand and reserved instances were collected to get information on purchase history and instance usage for the linked accounts.
Data mining from these reports and tools identified the exact areas like services, applications, departments, etc. which were incurring huge cloud costs in a recurring pattern. From these valuable insights, corrective actions like shutting down the instances or downsizing the instances were taken. Similarly, other third-party tools were showcased, that interfaced with the Cloud Provider's API, for collecting useful information about the instance usage and trends. With this data, it can calculate savings and also make recommendations for changing pricing schemes.
A variety of automated reports were designed and implemented, that were run as weekly scheduled jobs using server-less Lambda functions. These reports were mailed to the decision-makers so that the customer could analyze their Cloud Inventory that could be cleaned up at regular intervals. Along with this, effective Cloud governance policies were introduced and the process of tagging services periodically was automated so that their reports were more informative.
Case Study 2 – Using various cost control measures to save on Cloud costs:
A customer with large workloads on AWS Cloud consulted UST for optimizing their operational costs. When examining their infrastructure, it was found that there were several instances that were underutilized.
The following recommendations were presented as the methodology used to tune the EC2 instances to save money.
For example, C4 instance type was used for many of their NAT servers and VPN servers. The requirement was for enhanced networking capability instances and not for high computational needs. Therefore, an M4 instance type was a perfect fit, which reduced the overall cost considerably. These recommendations coupled with decisions to shut down servers after consulting the users of the instances saved 35% of Cloud Costs per month, bringing in great revenue to the business.
The customer had not planned well on selecting the right pricing schemes for their business's applications hosted on Cloud. After analysis, we recommended many pricing scheme switches for their applications which is consolidated into the figure 14:
The purchase plan switches helped them save more than 40% of their running costs. Accounts which were experimenting their workloads in Cloud or running development environment were identified. AWS free tier options for such accounts were suggested, which they could avail by unlinking those accounts from corporate consolidated
AWS billing account. We also defined a process to revisit their cloud architecture every 6 months to identify new workloads which are feasible for moving to economic pricing schemes.
Case Study 3 – Tuning Architecture to save on Cloud costs:
Here is another case study where redesigning the cloud architecture with enhanced cloud services saved costs along with increase in application robustness for a customer in AWS Cloud.
The customer's monolithic web application was unwieldy, expensive and rigid from the design point-of-view. Their application had a time-consuming backend workload. The Web and App tiers were hosted on high capacity servers and since they had spiky demands, multiple servers were maintained.
We suggested a decoupled architecture for the application applying a scalable cloud design pattern. The new provider managed cloud services which are highly scalable and robust were used to replace some application tiers. The proposed architecture saved about 45% of their costs compared to the previous monolithic architecture they were running on. The figure 15 depicts the architecture we designed for their system:
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UST Global's business philosophy of "fewer CLIENTS, more ATTENTION" is a distinguishing factor enabling us to provide unsurpassed business value to our client, by way of a highly tailored and customized solution. Our focus is on client mindshare, not market share, and clients continually rate us ahead of our competitors in attributes such as speed of response, flexibility, innovation, and 'Commitment-beyond-Contract'. Customers will experience this first hand in every interaction with the UST Global team. UST Global follows a client-centric engagement model wherein we endeavor to develop partnership with clients through focused senior executive oversight and management.
UST Global is a partner with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and VMWare. UST has experience helping customers migrate large workloads to Cloud, application assessment, infrastructure discovery, cloud security, and cloud governance. Our proprietary CMP tool FogPanel is a single pane of glass management solution for a multi-cloud environment.


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Envelope Films were proud to sponsor the Filmonik Kabaret in Easter 2014. Held over 4 days in Federation House (location provided by Castefield Gallery), the Easter Kabaret was an international film workshop encouraging collaboration and experimentation.
Envelope Films co-produced the Filmonik Easter Kabaret Intro Film with Jonny Pratt, and was based on promotional artwork designed by Gareth Crook.
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"We shot the performances in separate chunks in front of a green screen, then used several effects to create the impression of an animated spray-paint stencil. A virtual camera was key-framed to move across four 4K videos arranged in sequence and in time with the music, once the silhouettes had been layered over the high res backdrop and exported."
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