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Hello all and Happy Tuesday. 😁 Here is my post for the day. Hope you enjoy!🤞🏽 Also, comment if you do or don't. I would love some feedback.🙏🏽
Hawaii!🏝 Shane and I used to work together at a restaurant. I was a hostess and he was one of the chefs.
Well, I started at this place a couple months before he did so when he started I was fairly new and a little bit shy😬 so for the first few months I never really talked to anyone. Then December came along and our company Christmas🎅🏽 party came around. I showed up kind of early so I seen everyone walking in and I saw him in his street clothes and I was like, "Damn!😱 Who the fuck is he?!" I started talking to him that night and I almost fell in love!💙 Lol. Anyways, we started talking around Christmas time and just went on from there. Started going out March 03, 2014🎊
Now 3 years and 1 month later we're engaged💍, living together🏠 with a dog🐶. He asked me to marry him just a year after we started up our relationship and of course I said yes. We haven't gotten married yet because we have some family away and want to attend the wedding👰🏽. I've been actually thinking about going to the court house and getting officially married then having a big event later when all our families are able to be together.
Honestly, Shane and I have been through a lot of shit; good and bad. Definitely more ups👆🏽 than downs👇🏽 in my opinion. He's my first serious relationship and I've definitely grown into a better woman with him being in my life and vice versa. We've become better people and consistenly keep God⛪ in our life. How we've stayed together this long (Maybe not too long for some people, but ya'kno) will be in another post. =)
Well, that's it for now. I wish that you guys have a wonderful day/night. Remember, stay positive and feel beautiful because you are.


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Monday, June 12, 2006
Definitions for billingsgate
- coarsely or vulgarly abusive language.
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Citations for billingsgate
They talk forever and forever, and that is the kind of billingsgate they use.
Take with you the honors of war, sir. You have outcussed me. I acknowledge your superiority in billingsgate--"--he paused and for an instant his voice mounted, as he added--"and in nothing else!"
Origin of billingsgate
Billingsgate comes from the name of a fish market in London where the fishmongers were known for their crude language. The term came to be used in reference to foul rhetoric in the mid-1600s.

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Monday, 3 June 2013
I decided to delete every single post I've ever made, ever and change the whole motive of this blog. Screw all those flashy widgets and shits. I don't even fucking know how they work anymore. All those jumbled up html crap seems nothing more than disorganised symbols, numbers and letters. I think this blog will be geared more towards more personal stuffs now(depends on my mood really and what kind of sudden realisation I have that I feel like immortalising). Well there it is. Here's to a new hello. I guess.
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Fish tank gravel is what most people use to cover the floor of their fish tanks. While gravel is a popular choice, there is also aquarium sand available at pet retailers and online fish supply stores. Aquarium sand can give your aquarium a tropical look, but fish tank gravel is economical and easier to use. The best decision for your tank can only be made after you weigh the pros and cons.
Gravel is the easiest fish tank floor covering to use. It comes in many different colors that you can use to customize the look of your tank. You can have everything from neon green and pink to natural looking grey and brown stones.
Gravel is also easier to clean. You can use a gravel vacuum during the cleanup process to suck up small bits of debris and waste. The vacuum will eliminate the tiny pieces while still leaving the gravel intact on the fish tank floor.
On the other hand, gravel shifts a lot more than sand does. If you plan on using live plants in your aquarium design, you may find that they will become disheveled and unplanted over time. It can also display pockets and needs to be smoothed out from time to time.
Aquarium sand is a bit trickier to use. You must turn off the filter on your tank when you first start to use the sand. It is very cloudy to begin with and you have to give it time to settle. You also may need to get an upgraded filter that won't get stuck on the tiny sand particles. Debris shows up much more clearly with sand than it does with gravel.
On the positive side, live plants root well in the sand surface. Sand gives a much more professional look to your tank. It's also an aesthetically pleasing choice if you have a tank with tropical fish.


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Managing a large family is quite the learning curve! I grew up in a household of 5. My husband grew up in a household of 5. We are a household of 8. So, with that comes some learning. You have to learn how to manage your family appropriately without going crazy or always feeling like you're drowning in chores. How do you manage all of the laundry that comes with a large family? (I am STILL learning that one.) How do you budget for a large family? How do you manage extracurricular activities in a large family? All of these questions are important to managing your large family.
Yeah, this one is my nemesis. I have yet to conquer this one. We did try one summer to limit how many of each item of clothing everyone had, but I ended up buying more clothes as I was washing too many loads every day to keep up. (having 4 boys will do that to you. They attract all manner of dirt and grime.) What I *TRY* to do every day is at least 2 loads. (you know that meme where it says you keep washing the same load so mildew doesn't set in?...yeah that's me.) Just this past year I created a system of baskets with everyone's name on them. The baskets are small and light so even my 2-year-old can carry one. Each morning (or whenever I have a load done) they grab their baskets and put their clothes away in their assigned drawers. I've even taught my almost 7-year-old how to put wash in the washing machine and then transfer them to the dryer. She likes that chore. My advice is to include the children in the laundry as soon as they are able.
My husband is in charge of the finances for us. He gives me a weekly budget, and every Monday I go to the bank and withdraw the amount in cash. Cash makes sure I don't go over budget. It's kind of hard to spend money you don't physically have, right? Everyone's weekly budget will look different, depending on income, number of people, and other things. I suggest talking it through with your husband and mutually coming to an agreeable amount.
With so many kids in one family, and all of the kids getting older and looking for fun things to do: how do you keep them all straight and happy without going crazy?? I just signed F up for summer gymnastics class with her cousin. My brother-in-law has wonderfully offered to pick her up and take her to the class every week. On the Monday's he cannot do it, my dear Mother-in-law has offered to take the girls. Most things require me to pack all 6 kids in the van and go. I don't mind it most days, but it can get overwhelming. I can only imagine what it will look like if TJ wants baseball, L wants football, or K and R have soccer. In the fall, the kids who are 5+ go to Pioneer Club at their cousin's church every Wednesday. I usually am able to take only the kids in PC and leave the littles at home with Daddy. But on the days I can't do that, I take them all and we just play in the nursery until it's done. My advice is to just understand that if you want your kids to be involved in sports or other extracurricular activities, it's gonna take a lot of time and some annoyance. I'm blessed to have a husband and family I can rely on, but it's not always possible. Extra things will take sacrifices.
Do you have some suggestions in these 3 categories? Please share them in the comments!
Thursday, May 19, 2016
3 Ideas for Controling Chaos
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One of the BEST vegan meals I have ever had was at Gracias Madre in San Francisco, I can't even explain what they did to my kale, but it was AH-MAZING. Needless to say, I was pretty stoked to find out that the owners had another restaurant in L.A. called Cafe Gratitude.
My lovely friend Agatha had been recently and kept telling me I needed to try it (can I just say I adore the fact that I have omnivorous friends who are into vegan food??). I finally got the chance to go a few weeks ago and I was gleefully happy. I love that this company offers 100% organic vegan food at all it's locations grown on their very own farm in Northern CA.
We went on a Wednesday night and it was packed. We waited almost 45 minutes for a table, but once seated service was fast and the food came out quickly. Our table started with "I AM HONORING": Live Nachos with spicy sunflower bean pâté, guacamole, salsa fresca, nacho cheese and homemade crackers. SO INCREDIBLY DELICIOUS! I was definitely honoring whoever came up with this concoction because it was flavorful, fulfilling and oh so pretty!!
For my entree I ordered the "I AM WARM-HEARTED": Grilled polenta with fresh puttanesca sauce and spinach topped with cashew ricotta and Brazil nut parmesan. Even though I was already pretty full from the nachos, I devoured this meal and probably would have even licked the bowl clean had I not been in a public place! The polenta was crisp on the outside and creamy on the inside and I have to say that I have become a huge fan of cashew cheeses, I haven't met one yet that I didn't like.
Agatha ordered the "I AM TRANSFORMED": Two seasonal corn tacos with caramelized butternut squash, black beans, sliced avocado, salsa fresca and cashew nacho cheese. She was nice enough to give me a bite and this too was amazing. Each dish is just bursting with flavors and knowing that you're eating healthy clean food grown on an organic farm just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Isn't Agatha adorable!!??
I am definitely thankful for Cafe Gratitude and can't wait to go back again, especially now since a BabyCakes opened a few blocks away!
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Cafe Gratitude
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I wanna go tooooo!!! And to the L.A. Babycakes ;)ReplyDelete
Although a vegetarian, I do indulge ina lot of vegan meals. I so wish we had eateries like this in the U.K, I do want to eat there.ReplyDelete
Those sound so absolutely amazing! I do hope to visit you in LA some day, and to try some of those awesome places!ReplyDelete
And vegan cupcakes for the win!
oh wow!! that looks and sounds amazing!!!ReplyDelete
We are trying to plan a trip to San Fran so I'm gonna have to hit up the other place when I go :)
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Built before the house, and now situated in the front of the house, the Cumbernauld Sundial. Itself a 'B' listed monument has not always stood where it is today.
It was once placed in the rose garden of the house when it was a private dwelling. This garden was then turned into a car park and the sundial was moved to the rear of the house by the CDC when they had control of the house as you can see in our photo to the left.
Hugo Millar in his History of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth (1980) believes that this was most likely a wedding present given when the Wigtons were at Biggar and was moved to the house when it was ready for occupation.
Just recently with the refurbishment and conversion of the house the Sundial has been moved back to it's original location at the front of the house as part of the new Partierre garden.
Interestingly the initials on the sundial differ from those on the back of Cumbernauld House despite them both coming from the same Earl. The Sundial has the initials of the Earl's first wife and the house is carved with those of his second. There is speculation that the divorce from wife number 1 was the reason that the second wing of Cumbernauld House was never built as the earl lost so much in the settlement!


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SYDNEY, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Australian researchers say a new infrared test that measures the quality of hay will help farmers determine how much feed an animal will eat.
The test, developed by Australia's science and industrial research agency, the CSIRO, uses a mechanical device called Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy to measure the toughness or shear energy of oaten hay.
Around the world, NIRS already is used to measure the fiber and sugar content of forage and feed, but it never has been used before to measure shear energy.
The advance has particular importance for the dairy and equine industries, where hay is an important part of the animals' diet. Making the hay as good as possible, particularly for young animals, is critical for productivity.
That means not only ensuring the hay has a high nutritional value but also that the animals can digest it easily.
David Henry, project leader at CSIRO Livestock Industries, that is where the shear test helps. By measuring the toughness of the hay, it can tell producers how easily an animal will be able to break it down into small particle sizes that can be easily digested.
The higher the hay's shear energy measurement or toughness, the longer the animal will need to chew, the less it will eat and the less energy it gets. After eating, it may feel full, but it cannot make ready use of the nutrients in the hay.
"The beauty of NIRS is that it is inexpensive, rapid and accurate," Henry said.
It takes just 10 minutes to measure shear quality from the time the hay is ground up and thrown into a NIRS machine. It is a huge advance on current wet chemistry analysis, which takes up to two days.
Henry believes NIRS technology also could be used to rapidly and accurately test other characteristics of forage quality, such as fibere and carbohydrate content.
Hans Jung, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was in Australia learning about the project.
"I'm not sure if knowing the shear is going to enable you to give animals a better diet, deliver better milk or increase profits," he said. "But being able to estimate the shear value of hay using NIRS is a huge cost and time saving over the way we usually do it. It's not only cheap and rapid, it's also quite precise.
"This is an advance. To my knowledge, no one has taken this shear force value and applied it to the diet of foraging animals," Jung said.
Colin Peace, executive officer of the Australian Fodder Industry Association, which consists of hay producers, exporters and consumers, is more circumspect.
"We see it as still being at the experimental stage," he said. "But the potential is here to really help producers focus on what their end markets require and make the production pathway more efficient. It could eventually increase production efficiency for a lot of ruminant feedlot systems."


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Anna Faris & Michael B. Jordan: People's 'Ones To Watch' Party!
Anna Faris strikes a pose while arriving at People's Ones To Watch party held at Hinoki & The Bird on Wednesday (October 9) in Los Angeles.
The 36-year-old Mom actress was joined at the event by Michael B. Jordan, Bellamy Young, Nick Wechsler, Kat Graham, Dawn Olivieri, Brant Daugherty, Bailee Madison, Bonnie McKee, Jesse McCartney, Corbin Bleu, Chelsea Kane, Derek Theler, and Andy Samberg with his wife Joanna Newsom.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Anna Faris
"Heading to the people mag event w baby sister @b_naughhty and fiancé @cottrellguidry in tow," Kat wrote on her Twitter account. "#MixedBabiesInDis."
FYI: Anna is carrying an Edie Parker clutch. Bellamy is wearing Rene Caovilla heels, H. Stern earrings and ring, and a Gilan bracelet.
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Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is where software applications, processing power, data and artificial intelligence are accessed over the Internet. Many private individuals now regularly use an online e-mail application such as Gmail, as well as sharing photos and video on social networking sites like Facebook. However, these types of cloud computing activities are just the beginning. Indeed, it is likely that within a decade the vast majority of personal and business computing will be Internet based.
According to IDC, cloud computing was a $47.4bn industry in 2013, and will be worth $107bn by 2017 (IDC). Like it or loathe it, cloud computing is thereore far more than hype. In fact, I would suggest that cloud computing has now become such an unstoppable force that the only real choice for any of us is whether we want to be part of the cloud computing steamroller or the traditional computing road.
This section of ExplainingComputers.com provides an overview of cloud computing. In particular it focuses on the phenomenon's characteristics, how it works in practice, and the key factors that are driving its uptake. You can learn more by watching my cloud computing videos or by reading my book A Brief Guide to Cloud Computing.
So what, you may reasonably ask, is the cloud? Well, for years the Internet has been represented on network diagrams by a cloud symbol. When, around 2008, a variety of new services started to emerge that permitted computing resources to be accessed over the Internet, the label "cloud computing" therefore emerged as an umbrella term. Does this mean that we really ought to be talking about "Internet computing"? Well, perhaps. However, in the strictest sense, the "cloud" is a label for online computing resources rather than the entire Internet. The term "cloud computing" is also useful to separate the kinds of things we have been doing online for a couple of decades from a totally new age of online software and processing power.
I have already said that cloud computing is where software applications, processing power, data and potentially even artificial intelligence are accessed over the Internet. Building on this basic definition, it can also be stated that cloud computing is where dynamically scalable, device-independent and task-centric computing resources are provided online, with all charges being on a usage basis.
Cloud computing is dynamically scalable because users only have to consume the amount of online computing resources they actually want. Just as we are used to drawing as much or as little electricity as we need from the power grid, so anybody can now obtain as many or as few computing resources from the cloud as they require at any particular point in time.
Cloud vendors including Amazon Web Services (AWS) now quite literally sell computer processing power by the hour. For example, anybody can now rent "virtual server instances" from Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud or "EC2" service for as little as $0.02 an hour (or indeed you even sign up for a one-year trial of the AWS Free Usage Tier for nothing). As Amazon explain, "EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing [customers] to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as [their] computing requirements change".
Cloud computing is device-independent because cloud computing resources can be accessed not just from any computer on the Internet, but also any type of computer. Provided that it has an Internet connection and a web browser, it really does not matter if the computer being used is a traditional desktop or laptop PC, or a tablet, smartphone or smart TV. Such device independency is also a killer feature of cloud computing because it means that users can move between computing devices -- such as their work PC, home PC, laptop and tablet -- without having to worry that they will always have access to the latest versions of their files.
Cloud computing is task centric because the usage model is based entirely around what users want to achieve, rather than any particular software, hardware or network infrastructure. Users do not have to purchase or install anything before using a cloud computing resource. Nor do they have to maintain or pay for anything during periods in which no resources are being used.
The above means that cloud computing empowers its users to just get on with what they want to do. Today, nobody sits down to use a pencil. However, lots of people do still consciously sit down to use a computer. Cloud developments may, however, start to catalyze a mentality shift from tool-in-hand to task-at-hand computer application.
Due to the fact that cloud computing is charged on a usage basis, it has no fixed costs. A fixed cost is something that has to be paid regardless of the number of people who use something or a company's level of production. This compares to a variable cost that will change according to output levels. For example, the annual cost of renting a factory is likely to be fixed. However, the cost of staffing a factory and of the raw materials it consumes will vary according to how much it produces.
Traditionally computing has involved substantial fixed costs, such as those costs incurred in the building and equipping of a data centre. However, because cloud computing is dynamically scalable and task-centric, for users such fixed costs disappear. All of the costs of cloud computing are therefore on a per-usage or variable basis. As demonstrated by the earlier example of Amazon EC2, processing power can already be purchased from the cloud by the hour.
The fact that cloud computing has only variable costs is of extreme importance for small companies. This is because small businesses have traditionally not had access to the sophisticated, customised types of business application available to larger organizations. However, because they do not charge an initial fixed-cost outlay, cloud computing suppliers including Clarizen, Netsuite, Salesforce and Zoho are now levelling the software-access playing field by allowing companies of all sizes access to the latest types of business application.
As already mentioned, cloud computing can encompass activities such as the use of social networking sites and other forms of interpersonal computing as examined on the Web 2.0 page. However, most of the time cloud computing is concerned with accessing online software applications, data storage and processing power. The fundamental, practical building blocks of cloud computing are therefore what are known as software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). As discussed in my Three Ways to Cloud Compute video (embedded below), anybody wanting to understand cloud computing really has to get to grips with what SaaS, PaaS and IaaS are all about. So take a deep breath and here goes!
SaaS, PaaS and IaaS all involve a cloud vendor supplying servers on which their customers can store data and run applications. However, there are differences in the level of control provided to the customer, as well as the type of cloud hardware on which a customer's cloud applications are run.
In very simple terms, when businesses opt for SaaS they can only run those applications that their cloud supplier has on offer. When they opt for PaaS they can create their own applications but only in a manner determined by their cloud supplier. And when they opt for IaaS they can run any applications they please on cloud hardware of their own choice. OK, that may at this stage be as clear as well stirred pond water! So let's now work through it again in more detail.
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Software as a service is where computer applications are accessed over the Internet rather than being installed on a local computing device or in a local data centre. So, for example, people may use an online word processor like Google Docs, an online database application like Zoho Creator, an online photo editor like Pixlr, or an online invoicing application such as Zoho Invoice. Many SaaS applications are free to use, at least initially.
SaaS can provide its users with many benefits. These include the general cloud computing advantages of dynamic scalability and any device independence, as well as the benefit of being able to use an application without incurring fixed costs. Many SaaS applications are also collaborative. This allows multiple users to share documents and even to work on them at the same time. For example, in the Google Sheets spreadsheet different users can work on different cells simultaneously. The cells different users are working on are locked-off and highlighted in different colours. A real-time chat window can also be opened up alongside the spreadsheet to further enhance collaboration. For more information on collaborative working using Google's cloud computing apps, you can watch the now classic video Google Docs in Plain English.
Taking collaboration further still, the outputs of some SaaS applications can be embedded in other web pages as web service gadgets. For example, a Google Sheets or Zoho Sheet chart can be mashed into another website. There it will automatically update when the data in the online spreadsheet that is generating it is changed. SaaS applications are also constantly updated, which can free users from the "upgrade hell" of a major traditional software package revision.
The disadvantage of SaaS is that it is basically a take-it-or-leave-it form of cloud computing. This means that businesses and individuals who require direct access to cloud computing hardware on which they can run their own applications cannot use SaaS. Rather, they need to cloud compute at the platform or infrastructure level using either platform as a service (PaaS) or infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
A platform is a software environment used to develop and run applications. For example, Microsoft Word is an application that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform. When people choose to cloud compute using platform as a service or 'PaaS', they obtain access to an online platform provided by a cloud computing vendor. They can then use this platform to develop and deliver their own online (SaaS) applications.
Applications developed using PaaS may be used privately by just one or a few users within a particular company. However, they can also be offered free or for-a-fee to anybody on the web. This means that if you have a great idea for a new online application then you can use PaaS to turn it into a reality.
Several cloud suppliers now offer PaaS tools. These notably include Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure, and Force.com. All such offerings effectively provide their customers with a box of cloud computing Lego. New applications are then constructed from the plastic bricks on offer. With Force.com, some applications can even be built using a simple drag-and-drop interface. Relatively non-technical people can therefore create new online applications very quickly. Indeed, Force.com claim that their "simplified programming model and cloud-based environment mean [customers] can build and run applications five times faster, at about half the cost of traditional software platforms".
Whilst PaaS is great in many situations, its users do need to be mindful of the involved flexibility verses power trade-off. What this means is that whilst PaaS makes it relatively easy to create new online applications, users are nevertheless constrained by the particular programming languages and tools provided by their PaaS supplier. In other words, PaaS vendors have total control over which Lego bricks they allow their customers to build with. Whilst this ensures that applications built using the tools on offer will always function correctly, it is nevertheless restrictive. It is for this reason that many companies and some individuals choose to cloud compute at the infrastructure level.
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Infrastructure as a service or "IaaS" is where a cloud supplier provides online infrastructure on which their customers can store data and develop and run whatever applications they please. IaaS therefore allows companies to move their existing programs and data into the cloud and to close down their own local servers and data centres.
Whilst computing applications run on platforms, platforms in turn run on computing infrastructure. So, for example, whilst the Microsoft Word application runs on the Microsoft Windows platform, in turn the Microsoft Windows platform runs on the infrastructure of an IBM-compatible PC.
The fundamental building block of cloud computing infrastructure is the server. Cloud computing servers are basically computers on which online applications can be run and data can be stored. When provided by an IaaS vendor, cloud servers can also be real or virtual.
Real or "dedicated" servers are individual, physical computers - known as blades - mounted within equipment racks in a data centre. In contrast virtual servers - also known as "virtual server instances" - are software-controlled slices of real, physical servers. Virtual servers are created by a process called virtualization that allows many users to share the processing power of one physical server.
Dedicated physical servers and virtual server instances can perform exactly the same functions. But there are also some important differences between them. For a start, virtual server instances are cheaper to supply as each does not require its own piece of physical hardware in a cloud data centre. On the other hand, virtual server instances are sometimes seen as less secure by those who do not want to share server hardware with other customers. For this reason, four categories of IaaS are available. These are most commonly known as "private clouds", "dedicated hosting", "hybrid hosting" and "cloud hosting".
IaaS Categories
The four categories of IaaS are represented in the figure below. In each case a large rectangle outlines a cloud data centre. In this data centre there are then a number of dedicated physical servers (shown as small rectangles), together with a number of virtual server instances (shown as circles within a cloud). Dedicated physical servers or virtual server instances in the figure are shown in solid rather than outline when they are part of a particular IaaS category.
Under the first IaaS category of a private cloud (or more fully a vendor managed private cloud), a customer rents a number of co-located servers in part of a data centre. This means that their cloud hardware is as separate as possible from that of other users. Private clouds are therefore considered the most secure form of IaaS. However, a private cloud cannot be dynamically scaled and is the most expensive form of IaaS as a block of servers is permanently dedicated to one customer. (As an aside, it should be noted that an increasing number of IT companies are also starting to use the term "private cloud" to refer to the building of a cloud computing infrastrucuture -- or "internal cloud" -- within a company's own data centre. Such a development is not really cloud computing at all, and may be regarded as a last-ditch attempt to maintain the status quo. Under any sensible definition, a "private cloud" has to be a cloud computing arrangement where the hardware concerned is owned and housed in a vendor's shared data centre. OK, rant over, and back to the three remaining IaaS categories!).
In the second IaaS category of dedicated hosting, a customer rents dedicated physical servers on demand from anywhere within a data centre. Whilst this means that the hardware they use is mixed-in with that of other customers, in this IaaS category once again customers do not share the particular servers they use with anybody else. As well as being less costly than a private cloud, dedicated hosting can therefore be dynamically scaled. This means that the customer is able to increase or decrease the number of servers they are both using and paying for on a daily or even hourly basis.
Under the third IaaS option of hybrid hosting, a customer rents on demand a mix of dedicated physical servers and as well as some less expensive virtual server instances. For example, a company may run all of its applications on dedicated physical servers, but store its data on virtual server instances. Or a business may rent virtual service instances by the hour to cope with occasional peak processing demands. Once again, the whole offering is dynamically scalable, with both dedicated and virtual servers able to be added or taken away as required.
Finally, in the last IaaS category of cloud hosting, a customer rents as many or as few virtual server instances as they require on demand. This means that customers share all of the servers they use with other customers. Some companies subsequently see this as too risky. However, cloud hosting is also the lowest-cost and by far the most technically and environmentally efficient form of IaaS. This is because cloud hosting allows an IaaS provider to run all of their physical servers in use to capacity and to close down those not required.
IaaS Providers
Many companies now offer IaaS services. For example, as already noted, Amazon has a product range called Amazon Web Services or "AWS". This falls under the fourth IaaS category of cloud hosting, with Amazon offering the rental of virtual server instances.
At the heart of AWS is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or "EC2". This allows customers to run either new or existing applications in Amazon's data centres. EC2 is described as "elastic" because customers can increase or decrease the infrastructure capacity they are using within minutes.
EC2 users can purchase and activate one, hundreds or even thousands of virtual server instances simultaneously. They do this by setting up Amazon Machine Images or "AMIs" that contain all of the applications, data and configuration settings that their virtual servers will need. AMIs can be created from scratch, or chosen from a range of pre-configured templates. AMIs can even be pre-loaded with licensed software from vendors including IBM.
Another key component of AWS is the Amazon Simple Storage Service or "S3". This enables customers to store data online in so-termed "buckets". As Amazon explain "S3 provides a simple web interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites".
Another IaaS provider is Rackspace, which provides private clouds, dedicated hosting, and cloud hosting services. The latter include Rackspace Cloud Servers (as a competitor to Amazon EC2) and Rackspace Cloud Files (as a competitor to Amazon's S3). IaaS services can also be purchased from most major players in the computing industry, including IBM.
Cloud vendors offering SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services now provide most individuals and organizations with a real alternative to running local computing resources in-house. There are also now three reasons why, within a decade, cloud computing is likely to be the only mainstream computing show in town. Specifically, the key reasons that cloud computing will become inevitable are that:
The above drivers of the Cloud Computing Revolution are explained below and in the following video:
The Competitive Cloud
Cloud computing will become essential for firms that wish to remain competitive simply because it will cost them less to cloud compute than to run an in-house data centre. Already many cloud computing vendors claim that their customers can reap cost savings of up to eighty per cent. Because cloud computing is dynamically-scalable, task-centric and does not require substantial fixed-cost investments, firms that cloud compute are also likely to be more competitively agile than their competitors.
In his classic cloud computing manifesto The Big Switch, Nicholas Carr compares the growth of cloud computing to the development of the electricity network around a century ago. Before that time, businesses had to make their own power using internal generators. However, when a reliable electricity grid became available, companies were increasingly freed from having to generate their own energy in-house. The opportunity to plug-in to cheaper electricity on-tap from a national power grid also offered two competitive benefits. Firstly, it saved companies money. And secondly, it allowed companies to focus their resources on other aspects of their business.
In a striking parallel to the Big Switch from local to central electricity generation a century ago, today we are entering a Cloud Computing Age in which businesses will be able to dispense with an internal data centre, and instead plug-in to cloud computing resources that will fuel their information processing requirements. For example, ThinDesk is now offering small and medium-sized companies in Canada the opportunity to move to a thin client / cloud infrastructure which it claims will provide them with up to forty per cent cost savings, coupled with increased reliability and productivity. Carbon footprint and energy reduction savings of up to eighty per cent can potentially also be achieved with a ThinDesk solution.
The Green Cloud
Talking of energy reduction and carbon footprint savings, cloud computing is also inevitable because it is more green. Today, most internal company data centres run their servers at around thirty per cent capacity. In contrast, the servers in a large cloud data centre typically run at eighty per cent capacity or more. This means that less energy is wasted, with the carbon footprint of each unit of computing power being reduced.
Cloud computing is also more environmentally friendly than traditional computing because it removes the need for most users to have high-power PCs and laptops. This is because lower-power computers based around processors are perfectly sufficient to run cloud applications. Their use can also cut end-user energy bills and carbon footprints by as much as eighty percent.
The use of cloud collaboration and virtual meeting tools may also allow some people to work from home a little more and to make fewer business trips. As more and more people and companies adopt cloud computing, it may therefore help to take some cars off the road and some planes out of the sky.
The Next Generation Cloud
As well as being more cost-effective and more green, cloud computing will be increasingly essential for many next-generation computing developments, such as Big Data and cloud-based AI services. In other words, cloud computing will be driven not only by a desire and necessity to do existing things in more effective ways, but by a demand to do entirely new things.
One of the defining characteristics of cloud computing is that it enables value to created via collaboration and data sharing. Local software and data inevitably constrain collaboration and the anytime, anyplace, anywhere use of information resources. As a consequence, we will be prevented from obtaining the benefits of new developments such as "crowdsouring" unless many of us cloud compute.
Crowdsourcing uses the Internet to help generate value from the activities of a great many people. Today, crowdsourcing mainly involves lots of people working together to tackle a problem that in the past would have been left to just one individual or a small team. This had already lead to many open source developments where all of the involved intellectual property is created and shared online for mutual benefit. Already crowdsourced, open source products and services in use or under development include computer software, robots, 3D printers, prosthetic limbs and electric cars.
The rise of cloud computing will make it easier for individuals to consciously work together on crowdsourcing projects. But the Cloud Computing Revolution will also be driven by the significant potential to crowdsource data from many of the things that people consume and the objects that they manipulate.
Soon there will be so many cameras, microphones and other sensors online that a great many objects will start to cast a constant data shadow in the cloud. Whilst this may raise concerns, it will also allow us to reap crowdsourcing benefits similar to those of online social networking. For example, satellite navigation systems will be able to advise on routes based not only on internal maps, but also the position and predicted intent of all other vehicles on the road. However, this will only happen if a great deal of data is pooled and shared in the cloud rather than being held and processed on local computing devices.
Developments in artificial intelligence will also depend on crowdsourced cloud data. Programming a mobile phone or a robot to recognise everything in view is likely to remain very difficult if internal data and processing power have to be relied on. However, a phone or robot with access to cloud resources including video feeds from other nearby cameras will be in a far better position to usefully make sense of the world around it. What this means is that for computers to be usefully smart they will require access to information from our immediate environment that can only be crowdsourced from the cloud. In turn, along with augmented reality, the development of artificial intelligence is likely to be a very strong driver for the mass adoption of cloud computing. Indeed, IBM already offers "cognitive cloud services" delivered via its Watson artificial intelligence (AI).
Cloud computing frees both individuals and organizations from the cost and hassle of installing, maintaining and constantly upgrading software applications on their desktops and in their data centres. It also allows companies to focus on their core competencies, rather than investing in centralized computing facilities that have to be maintained and upgraded and that may not be utilized at an optimum capacity. This said, the many critics of cloud computing point to the fact that users become totally reliant on a high quality Internet connection. Cloud computing also creates a reliance on external suppliers which may also raise potential business continuity, data protection and security risks.
The aforementioned concerns do have to be carefully considered. This said, our reliance on the Internet is now so great that even if most of our applications are locally installed then the disruption caused by an Internet outage is already highly significant. In a sense, a reliable Internet connection has now become as requisite a utility service for business and personal activities as a constantly available phone network and electricity supply. All that cloud computing is therefore doing is making us even more explicitly aware of this. Like it or not, we have already mortgaged our souls to the Internet.
Many of the fears associated with cloud computing security and data protection are also largely perceptual. Granted, using cloud computing makes individuals and organizations dependent on both their cloud vendors and the integrity of their Internet connection. However, anybody or any company that makes web searches or sends e-mail -- let alone who makes online purchases or does their banking online -- is already trusting both the quality of available online security, as well as the security of those they purchase from, not to mention the integrity of their Internet Service Provider. We should also not forget that storing data locally can also create data protection problems of its own. As events in the United Kingdom public sector have demonstrated time and time again in recent years, it is apparently very easy to loose thousands and even millions of highly sensitive personal records on lost or stolen laptops, USB keys or CDs.
One of the key things highlighted by cloud computing developments is the need for secure personal computing devices. Certainly, anybody using cloud computing services needs to take appropriate measures for ensuring safe web access. These include setting a strong password, ensuring antivirus, antispyware and firewall software are installed, and ensuring that their operating system and web browser(s) are always updated with the latest security patches. All users also need to be educated not to open suspicious e-mails that may contain and install malware. More information on appropriate online security measures can be found on the security page or from GetSafeOnline.org.
Somebody recently informed me that cloud computing sounds like a return to the age of centralized computing when dumb terminals were totally dependent on a centralized mainframe. To some extent there is more than a little truth in this. Yet there are also important differences to the previous mainframe era. For a start, cloud computing is levelling the playing field by bringing the potential benefits of remote and highly professional computing resources to all sizes of business. Any company and indeed anybody can now connect to software or hardware as an online utility, with fewer companies having to invest in a large-scale computing infrastructure.
As the above hopefully highlights, cloud computing significantly differs from the previous dumb-terminal/mainframe era in that users do not become reliant on a single, specific, centralized computing resource that their organization has to invest in and maintain. Rather, they become reliant on a far looser external web of resources which they will always to an extent be free to "mash" as their needs dictate. In other words, a competent use of the cloud by either an individual or an organization ought always to involve a loose rather than a tight-coupling of computing resources. Reliance on individual SaaS, PaaS or IaaS vendors ought therefore to be minimised in the same way that nobody obtaining power from a national electricity grid is dependent on the continuous functioning of an single, specific power plant.
In comparison to previous computing eras and paradigms, cloud computing potentially also offers many advantages. Not least, over the coming decade fewer individual users will be tied to a particular device when they want to access their data and applications. Collaborative working will also become far more common, with the benefits of using an online word processor or spreadsheet far outweighing the potential drawbacks in most circumstances. Cloud computing is also likely to be far more environmentally friendly than many currently mainstream computing practices. It will also enable the next generation of computing developments like augmented reality, visual search and artificial intelligence
To embrace cloud computing requires a new mindset. For too long computing has been about hoarding and putting up barriers -- both technologically and culturally -- rather than sharing and opening up communication and collaboration. For business, the computing industry, and the planet more generally, cloud computing ought therefore to be welcomed as a breath of fresh air that will become part of the solution rather than part of the problem. The world faces too many global challenges for us all to continue to compute by ourselves . . .
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Name: Natalie Van Rooyen
Restaurant: Stop Crying Teats
Title: Co-Founder
Q: Why did you first get into cooking?
It's a family thing, everyone in our family can cook well, almost everyone that is!
Q: Where were you before you came to Kuwait?
I lived in Dubai for just under 3 years.
Q: Describe your favorite dish from your home country.
There are too many to choose from but I would have to say my mom's chicken pie… it's so flavorful and the crust, flaky ,melt-in-the-mouth goodness!
Q: Name three ingredients you can't live without in the kitchen.
Olive Oil, garlic, salt (my mother says a kitchen without salt is a kitchen without love).
Q: What is the most important part of a sandwich?
The Bread.
Q: How does your personality differ inside and outside the kitchen?
Inside the kitchen I am in the driver's seat, and usually I prefer to cook alone, I'm in the zone and in my own happy space. Outside the kitchen I am more relaxed and don't mind relinquishing control. Well kind of, maybe?
Q: When you're not cooking, what do you do for fun?
I bake, dabble in music, a bit of mixing here and there, and I cuddle with my two furry babies or spend time with friends.
Q: If you weren't a chef, what would you like to be?
I've always wanted to be a fashion designer, but I cannot draw to save my life, so I opted for working in the fashion industry as a buyer instead.
Q: If you could choose, what would your "last supper" be?
It would be prepared and served by Gordon Ramsey, of course! A five-course meal starting with the perfect fennel & feta flatbread, followed by seared scallops with minted peas, then a scoop of lemon sorbet to cleanse the palette. Entrée would be a 300g medium grilled tenderloin fillet & oven roasted vegetables, followed by a light passion fruit crème brulee.
Quick fire
My Breakfast: I alternate between organic oatmeal with bananas, blueberries, flax and chia seeds or 3 eggs with avocado and baby spinach sprinkled with pumpkin seeds.
My Knives: I drool over the knives in Williams & Sonoma…. I like a big, sharp, sturdy knife with a wooden handle for good grip! Makes chopping easy.
Most overused spice: Cumin.
Favorite Foodie Destination: Thailand & New York!
Favorite Kitchen Gadget: My Kitchen Aid hot pink Mixer!
Favorite Food Aroma: Tom Yum!


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Hey everyone,
It's been a little hectic on my end. Due to things out of my control I haven't been able to work on my writing or Kickstarter the past month and a half. Thankfully the book trailer for Kickstarter is currently being edited and the final version of Echoes of Nightmares is ready to be sent to an editor as soon as the funds are received.
So things to do in the near future:
1. Kickstarter for DARK DAYZ: Dawn trilogy – I – Echoes of Nightmares
2. Work on A.N.G.O.N. – Forge of the Body (A new fantasy novel)
3. Spruce up my novel adaptations of Earthbound and Final Fantasy I (For fun/practice)
So that' that. I'm hoping to have the Kickstarter up within the next couple weeks! Stay tuned and be sure to spread the word on this blog and the Kickstarter when it's launched.
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Any ideas for gluten free pies and stuffing?
This is my gluten-free apple pie, with pie crust. No one ever guesses that it's gluten-free:
The crust can be used for any type of pie, including pumpkin.
As for stuffing, you can make gluten-free cornbread, dry it out in the oven or toaster, and use it as you'd use regular cornbread for stuffing. Or, try using Udi's or Rudi's gluten-free breads, if you'd rather buy something.
Here's my gluten-free cornbread:
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup sorghum or brown rice or white rice flour
1/2 cup sweet rice flour (get this at Asian markets, sometimes called Mochi)
2 Tbls tapioca flour
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 Tbls baking powder
1/3 cup oil
1 egg
2 tsp cider vinegar
1/2 cup soymilk or other milk
1 tsp molasses
Makes 1 9x9inch pan, greased. 400F, 20-30min.
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My husband is gluten intolerant and a few years ago I discovered this gf cornbread dressing recipe. It is so good, I make it every year, and everyone (gluten eaters included) love it. I change up the roasted veggies depending on what is available and always include butternut squash.


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Some interesting facts about Old New YorkNew York harbor and Lady Liberty have always welcomed new immigrants to its shores, but many important time periods in historic new york occurred long before the dawn of photographic record. Images of streetcars, the two majestic lions flanking the entrance to the Fifth Avenue Library and the juxtaposition of poverty and the dreary existence of Lower East Side tenement life would not become a part of recorded history until the last two centuries when photography was introduced to the modern world.
The earliest facts concerning historic new york involve the Lenape Indians who were the chief inhabitants of Manhattan Island prior to the arrival of Giovanni da Verrazano in 1524. Over the course of the next century, the Dutch founded New Amsterdam, which became New York City in 1664. The site of many battles during the American Revolutionary War, New York was the nation's first capital until 1790.
Photography's permanent imprint on history
The late 19th and early twentieth centuries heralded visually recorded history in the form of photography. Many different images of historic New York began to appear, one of the earliest concerning the 1904 opening of the New York City Subway system at the City Hall Station. The Inter-borough Rapid Transit (IRT) was the very first subway company to operate in New York City and the series of transportation links operating out of Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station flourished and helped to bind the city together.
Coupled with industrial and economic growth, historic new york experienced rising crime and poverty rates. The Gilded Age in those prosperous years before income tax and World War I sharply incised the indelible gap between the rich and the poor. A working class evolved as the city's demographics stabilized and labor unions brought new protections to workers. The 1920s and the era of prohibition coincided with the construction of skyscrapers including numerous Art-Deco masterpieces, which would forever symbolize the character and appearance of historic new york. Beginning in 1925, New York City became the most populous city in the world, overtaking London, which had reigned for a century. The Great Depression was one of the city's most difficult times but a light of hope shone with the election of reformer mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, and the fall of Tammany Hall after eight decades of political dominance.
Both before and after World War II, vast areas of historic New York were reshaped by the rise of the bridges, parks and parkways coordinated by Robert Moses, who was considered the greatest proponent of automobile-centered urbanism in America. New York merged as the leading city of the world, a positioned bolstered by Wall Street and the 1951 relocation of the United Nations to Manhattan's East Side.
During the 1960s, the views of real estate developer and city leader, Robert Moses, began to fall out of favor as the anti-Urban Renewal movement gained popularity. It was a tumultuous time and like other major cities, New York suffered race riots, gang wars and population and industrial decline. By the 1970s historic new york had also gained a reputation as a crime-ridden city.
The 1980s saw a rebirth of Wall Street, and the city reclaimed its role at the center of the worldwide financial industry. Unemployment and crime remained high, but New York did recover, bolstered by the influx of Asians, Latin Americans, and U.S. citizens, and by new crime-fighting techniques on the part of the NYPD. In the late 1990s, the city benefited from the success of the financial sectors, such as Silicon Alley, during the dot com boom, one of the factors in a decade of booming real estate values.
New York is still making history with its recovery from the terrible terrorist attacks of September 2001, which claimed almost 3,000 lives. There will always be a spark of hope in the city that never sleeps, for historic new york never has and never will stop making history.


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There are a few things that I love, my boys, my husband, going to garage sales and now scrapbooking. (Ok there might be a few more but just naming a few right now). I am mainly into making cards right now but eventually want to start making scrapbooks for the boys before they move out... I have never blogged before so bear with me, there are a lot of things that I am going to attempt to do that wont be perfect but Im sure I will get better as I go. I am eventually going to start a 365 scrapbook project where i make a card or scrapbook project everyday but I think for now I will just post as I go. I went to an awesome scrapbooking yard sale this past weekend so I am going to have to start making more things to use what I found.
The two cards that I posted were my very first card I made with my Cricut and one I made for Father's Day with some things I picked up at a garage sale. :) The Hoppy Father's Day frog card was made using the Create A Critter cartridge and some basic Cricut cardstock. I added in a polka dot background with some card stock I picked up at Michaels. The DAD card was made using chipboard letter cut outs (garage sale find) green Cricut cardstock, paper from the Green Stack and some embellishments (also a garage sale find). I had so much fun making these cards that hopefully I will get better and it will get easier as we go along.


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After lingering on the market for almost six years, a penthouse in the Sky Lofts Condominium in Manhattan was relisted Thursday, and the asking price of $45 million remained unchanged from its 2011 listing.
The penthouse in the trendy downtown neighborhood of Tribeca was purchased by private investor William Duker via a limited liability company for $30.5 million in 2009, public records show. The property was put up for sale for $45 million in May 2011.
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The price was raised to $48 million, reduced to $44 million and then crawled back up to $48 million again in 2015 when it was last listed. The price adjustments came with a change of brokers and agents, according to listing history.
The new listing agent, Raphael De Niro at Douglas Elliman, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
The 7,500-square-foot residence spans the top two floors of the building and has four bedrooms, four-and-a-half bathrooms, with a 4,500-square-foot wrap-around terrace, according to the listing. The south-facing great room features 18-foot ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows with a direct view of One World Trade Center.. There are three fireplaces throughout the home.
The residence also comes with its own private key-locked elevator and one private parking spot.
Built in 1929 as a printing factory and converted to luxury homes in 2000, the Sky Lofts Condominium on Hudson Street features 21 units. Building amenities include a 24-hour doorman and shared roof deck.
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I crocheted this for one of my friends who has a new baby. Not sure which friend yet. I have to choose from 10 people who are about to pop out a kiddo.
I thought I could just bang it out because it is simple. It really took a long time to make. J likes it a lot. I don't think he wants me to give it away...
Pattern is Lion Brand Vanna's Choice
Baby Pond Friends Stacking Toy
Pattern Number: 90075AD


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I'm at it again. I'm unable and unwilling to cease! Is there a cooler, hashtag-friendly way to say that? Anyone?
(Music nerd sidenote: I would highly recommend Did you know there was a book? I always get excited when there's a book for that.)
Aaanyhiphophistory, I'm still putting cheese in your waffles, and mine. Don't shoot the messenger (or the message-sender for that matter, because I'm both), but it's totally delicious.
I think you should consider it, especially if you: (a) like sweet and savory things, and/or (b) have a hungry mouth. Do I hear yes and yes? Excellent.
Feta, in particular, has that groovy, delightful tang. Just a little something unexpected, you feel me? Plus–and this is arguably the very best reason to put cheese in your waffles–it melts, oozes, and browns, creating the most beautiful crispy-cheese spots on the edges.
Fennel is a special touch, for lovers of anise/licorice flavors, and for lovers of new frontiers. I'm both. See, I had a cookie with fennel seeds in it recently, and I'm a new woman… If you liked the old one, I'm sorry, but she is gone. If you didn't, you probably won't like this one either–again, sorry! Feel free to skip the fennel seeds. Obviously.
As for the cranberries, I don't need to explain. Sweet, tart, pure, fruity! Actually, I almost went with dried figs (truer to the life-changing cookie), but that is too many f-words in one waffle, even for me.
Other f-words that come to mind/out of your mouth when you're eating these for breakfast are not my responsibility. I mean that in the best, most delicious way. Happy f-ing December, you fierce fluffernutters!
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup crumbled feta
- 1/2 cup dried cranberries
- Vegetable oil for waffle iron
- Preheat your oven to 250 degrees and preheat waffle iron.
- Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, fennel seeds, and salt in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk milk, melted butter and eggs to combine, then stir this into the flour mixture. Fold in feta and cranberries.
- Brush hot waffle iron lightly with vegetable oil and dump about 1/4 cup of batter into each mold (more or less depending on the size of your iron–I used a Belgian waffle one). Cook waffles according to manufacturer's instructions until they're browned and cooked through.
- As you cook them, transfer to a rack in the preheated oven to keep warm and crisp. Continue until batter is gone.


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In a way, this Wall Street Journal story is funny: "The recession is cramping the style of hip-hop artists and wannabes -- many of whom are finding it difficult to afford the diamond-encrusted pendants and heavy gold chains they have long used to project an aura of outsized wealth." And in a way, it isn't. I mean, this is someone's version of the American dream we're talking about.
What I wonder about, though, is if anyone will use this situation to flip the image of luxury jewelry. To play up the human rights abuse angle of the gem trade and equate jewelry with, say, wearing fur. Can gems ever become vulgar? Can wearing jewelry ever be repositioned as a sellout -- a betrayal of poor, oppressed people of color? Couldn't this stick, given that the most precious gems are often found in the world's most impoverished regions and mined by the world's most impoverished people? We all know about conflict-free diamonds and the Burmese ban but because gem-wearing ladies in Manhattan never get splashed with red paint, no one seems to care. Is human suffering not as compelling as animal suffering? Would the "environmental pollution" story play better? Are gems just too pretty? Or are hip-hop superstars just not that influential?


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We've launched our Companion's Tale Kickstarter! We can't wait to pring this game to the world.
You can find both of us at Dreamation 2017 (February 16 – 19 in Morristown, NJ). Laura will be running Companion's Tale, and Dev will be running Love Commander (which will be out soon!). We'll have new prototypes with us, so come visit.


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For my poem analysis, i chose to do the poem "A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest" by Emily Dickinson. Within this poem, Dickinson describes how she met a hunter who describes how the wounded deer leaps the highest. At first, the reader tend to wonder how this makes sense. One would think that since the deer is wounded, that it would not have the energy to leap high, or even have the will or the power to leap at all. Well, this theory is explained in the rest of the poem when the hunter to whom Emily Dickinson is talking to makes comparison to how this effect tends to be true in life. For example, the author states, "The smitten rock that gushes,
The trampled steel that springs:
A cheek is always redder
Just where the hectic stings!" From this quote, it is very easy to see how this interesting comparison comes to be true in life. For example, it tends to be very true that the sting on one's cheek tends to be the most red where it hurts the most. I found this very interesting because this is the point within the poem, where the comparison that a wounded deer jumps the highest begins or finally makes sense to me. To me, this comparison that the hunter makes, makes the most sense to me out of all of the comparisons that the hunter makes throughout this poem. When the author wrote this poem, she could have wanted a reader to look between the words or she may have wanted to make her work stand for something rather than this encounter that she had with the hunter, but i do not think that she actually meant to do this no matter how many other critics may think so. Because the man that she claims to have met was a hunter, it would make perfect sense if this is what literally happened to Dickinson because she seemed to exile herself from society, so if she literally had this experience, then i would not be surprised.


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Tonight Odd Records recording artist and Spider Poets collaborator Sonny Joe Slim made his debut with new Nashville blues band Crosscut Saw at Bourbon Street Blues and Boogie Bar in Printer's Ally in downtown Nashville.
The band killed it on two sets of blues classics with Sonny Joe on harmonica and totally nailing the vocal on Howlin' Wolf's Whose Been Talkin'?
Expect a lot more good times with this hot new band that finds Sonny Joe in his element.
More details on the rest of the band forthcoming.
Let's boogie!


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[Game] Mekorama
free apps for android
Mekorama : Help a tiny robot stumble home through 50 puzzling mechanical dioramas.
Relaxing gameplay
Charming robots
Collectible level cards
Diorama maker
Small install size
Try Mekorama for free for as long as you like. Then pay what you think it's worth. I hope you'll love it 🙂
Martin Magni
Mekorama user reviews :
Fun After first 15 levels I decided to choose pay what you want plan and give a little support, I think the little robot buddy is cute (i like how it wave hands) the difficult of level at this point is not very hard. Good job!!
Small cool game Pretty cool, not giving 5 stars only cause the 'donate' pop-ups are getting more and more annoying
This is how to make a game! This game really stands out. Polished design, fun levels, quirky robots. What else could you want? Did you say a level editor to make your own designs… then yes! Make and share them with your friends! Lastly, NO ads, pop-ups, nadda. The game is pay-what-you-want.
The One and Only On my phone I've only this game, it's fantastic and levels are not easy. The most exciting thing is the possibility to share levels with friends
Clever and Polished Great spatial, timing and physics based puzzles. With cute characters, and a level designer this game is still insanely pay what you want. The only thing you might consider missing(for now) is Google Play games integration and a graphics quality toggle but it's probably at a sweet spot as is. The walking right turning electrified bots are the worst!
Creative, Challenging, Relaxing, Addictive Martin has created a sequel that expands and builds upon the amazing world of Odd Bot Out in so many ways that, as you progress, you'll gain even further appreciation for his master game design skills. It's fun, and beautiful. On top of that, you get a very well thought out level builder that allows everyone to then share (Little Big Planet style) them and further enjoy this game, making it a living product brilliantly.
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