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Every February, I visit the Allan Gardens Conservatory to view the spring flowers display. It is so nice to see colour during the dreary end of winter.
I know you are all getting tired of all these puppy photos but I promise that once we get through the housebreaking phase, I will get back to a little more varied photography.
This card is for for the Play Date Café Challenge #105. The cardstock was sanded and then embellished with dots of Enamel Accents. The focal stamp was stamped with chalk ink on kraft cardstock. I added some highlights with a white gel pen. TFL!
Blogpost: layersofink.blogspot.com/2011/11/promises-to-keep.html
Supplies: Artistic Outpost Snowy Woods stamps; Distress Ink Tattered Rose; VersaMagic Aegean Blue; Core’dinations whitewash cardstock; Ranger white Enamel Accents; DMC floss; twine; mini stapler; Kaisercraft rhinestones.
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sooc, except for the crop :D
The Promise of Data: Will this Bring a Revolution in Health Care?
(March 22 to 27, 2015)
Credit: Salzburg Global Seminar/Ela Grieshaber
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It has now become an orthodoxy that we are moving into the age of 'Big Data'. This derives from ever increasing processing power and the vast surge in connectedness - with mobile technologies at the forefront and sensors in nearly all appliances, we are set to have 50 billion devices by 2020 connected in the cloud. It is argued that medical decisions can be truly evidence based, combining the most complete medical science with personal data, drawing where appropriate on 24/7 monitoring through mobile devices and patient reported outcome measures. Lifestyle advice and preventive action can be honed with ever greater accuracy. Benefits from treatment, its best timing, lowest cost, better understood risk, and more predictable side-effects should all flow from this data transition, bringing lower costs and higher value.
Corporations are competing in both investment and rhetoric. In 2013 Google launched a new subsidiary, Calico, which Larry Page claimed would represent 'moonshot thinking around health care', and there have been many similar claims. But how is all this justified? And how can we ensure that those advances which do arise from this new control of data truly benefit patients, rather than just the provider - and that this will be a benefit distributed across the social gradient and globally?
What are the risks on the horizon? Data is often siloed and used for competitive advantage. Protocols around privacy could be tested to destruction; for instance, it is possible to reverse engineer anonymized data to identify individuals. Forbes magazine even reports a case of medical data being sold on eBay. How might these risks be best mitigated?
This session will review the claims for Big Data and its true potential, and seek to identify the conditions under which it should yield the greatest benefits to patients and populations.
This is a picture of a wedding ring, and. a rose bought for a missed loved one. Who chose a career path over a marriage. To signify. That no matter the miles, or the stains. They'll always be loved, Because of promises made.
Sir Steve Redgrave and a host of top athletes visited schools across the country as part of Sporting Promise, a partnership between the Youth Sport Trust, Matalan and Sporting Pro.
101023-N-1531D-154 - NEW AMSTERDAM, Guyana - (Oct. 23, 2010) Marines from Special Purpose, Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF), embarked aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), construct a playground set during a Continuing Promise 2010 medical civic event in New Amsterdam, Guyana. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.” ~ John Lennon
Another heart to add to my collection. One of the gals I work with received this beautiful heart shaped ring last night from her sweetie. It's a promise ring. He promises never to break her heart. It is actually a small heart (hers) within a larger heart (his). As so as I finished congratulating her I asked if I could photograph it for my collection. She was more than happy to . She even came over to my desk to make sure I didn't forget... I think she's in love... :-) Congrats.. Meliss......
101019-N-1531D-073 - OREALLA, Guyana - (Oct. 19, 2010) The multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
101025-N-4153W-003, SKELDON, Guyana (Oct. 25 2010) NGO's leave the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) in Skeldon, Guyana, October 25, 2010. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the shore of Guyana in support of Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked onboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation's teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations to improve mutual understanding of current medical issues. (US Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Bryan Weyers/Released)
"Day is short now, and night is long. This is the end," said Winter. "It is over. I am blowing in on a cold north wind, and the colors are gone, the leaves are gone.... Life is gone."
"No," said the Maple. "Autumn is passing, but life is not. I am only going to sleep after putting out my little wings, after putting forth my promise of life renewed... my promise of spring... of rebirth and renewal."
Then, with a gentle sigh, Maple went to sleep.
Winter shrugged and blew its cold, cold wind. Winter touched all with its icy fingers. Snow and ice ruled the land.
But the Maple and the seeds, dormant yet vital, remained.... The promise remained.
Although it is Autumn, I have found this beautiful bud on a playground in Munich. It has really been too hot during November.
So this bud is a false promise...Winter is coming soon!
Sir Steve Redgrave and a host of top athletes visited schools across the country as part of Sporting Promise, a partnership between the Youth Sport Trust, Matalan and Sporting Pro.
Sir Steve Redgrave and a host of top athletes visited schools across the country as part of Sporting Promise, a partnership between the Youth Sport Trust, Matalan and Sporting Pro.
The Very Cool Bayonetta clone delivers on some parts.
I believe she was $200 USD shipped from Giantoy, and comes with the main figure, her four guns, a pair of glasses, and 6 total posing/gripping hands.
The head sculpt, like it nor it, is as promised in the prototype photographs. It's alright, as I would expect from an unlicensed product such as this. The glasses, on the other hand, were a major pain to keep on her face, so I got the photos done and put them back in the box. The hair is a combination of sculpted and rooted, and I know that is going to make some people cringe. The outfit is actually pretty good, and wasn't just flimsy piece of cloth cut to shape. There appears to have been a competent pattern maker involved here, as the tailoring and stitch work are quite good, and work to flatter the underlying body. Material appears to be some sort of pleather rather than a simple cotton cloth, and there's a simple rose pattern on her left rib cage area.
Is the body choice accurate to the character? Nope, but what else is new. At least the outfit doesn't look like it was simply thrown on to whatever body they could find for the cheapest. One does need to be wary of the various chains on her body, as they are literally hanging on by a thread and could pull off. The matching boots also look quite nice. The hairs on her elbows are rooted and are honestly some thing of a pain to pose with, but at least it's not sculpted. It's a shame this wasn't the Bayonetta 2 outfit where she has long sleeves instead.
Her guns have some really atrocious paint work - we're talking paint quality that makes it look like I did the work myself. Clipping the guns onto her heels is generally an exercise in futility. You either experience paint scraping because of the connectors themselves, or if you're lucky like me, the connectors break because the plastic is so brittle, and the QC is terrible. This choice of poor plastic also extends to her hands as well.
Speak of her hands, her gun holding hands only have one actual job - to hold her guns. They fail at this miserably. First off, they're not moulded in the way the character holds the gun, which is to have the pinky sticking out.. This is necessary due to the way the grip of the pistols are shaped. Very Cool doubly fails at this because I'm guessing they wanted to make a few extra bucks, and decided to mould the pinky stuck to the rest of the fingers, where as the prototype on the box at least had it separated to facilitate the function of holding the gun. Lastly, and I'm guessing this is the reason why this figure took so long, is that Very Cool effectively either stole the TBleague tooling and started up their own factory, or they paid TBLeague to create a batch of S23 specifically for their use. While the curves and musculature of that body are there, the material used to make the body looks really bad. It has this very unnatural sheen to it, and feels like to me what would happen if you used half the colouring you would get in a typical TBLeague body.
The good news is that at least you can get around this body issue with a body swap, though it will cost you.
So ultimately, the fact that the figure cannot actually hold its weapons properly is what killed the entire experience of handling this figure. Yeah, the shiny body isn't great, but I could forgive that if Bayonetta could do all sorts of badass gun poses, like she does in the game. But since she can't, this one kind of fails in my eyes, even if her other parts are decent.
FHA Commissioner Tours Philadelphia Promise Zone Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Carol Galante and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter toured the Mantua neighborhood on March 7, 2014, which is one of the first five communities to be designated a Promise Zone. Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell and Eva Gladstein of the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity also toured the area.
FHA Commissioner Tours Philadelphia Promise Zone Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Carol Galante and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter toured the Mantua neighborhood on March 7, 2014, which is one of the first five communities to be designated a Promise Zone. Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell and Eva Gladstein of the Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity also toured the area.