By the Bay

Over the weekend we took a nice little two day trip to the Texas coast with Matt's parents... it was a perfect little getaway, and of course I snapped a few photos while we were there.  

I am busy getting work done before an out of town friend arrives this week, so I'll keep this short and sweet today. I have missed blogging lately. Oftentimes while driving in the car or soaking in the bath or working on other things, the urge to write and be creative will hit me, but what's lacking now is the time or perhaps just the desire to make the time. I'm happy to have this space still here for me, though, like an old friend available for a chat over coffee whenever life permits.

Hope you're all having an excellent week...

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Gracie & Cooper review their first PetBox

Gracie and Cooper were so thrilled when the kind folks at PetBox sent them over a box to sample. They each have a little something to say about their experience, so I thought I'd give them the floor this morning. Take it away, kids.

Gracie (the brown one): 

"First of all, we'd like to apologize for our Mommy. She never blogs anymore, and she also doesn't walk us nearly as much as she should. Just look at how fat Cooper is, if you need any proof.

Second of all, and most importantly, I knew this "PetBox" was something special before Mommy even opened it. It smelled quite good. I, however, was most interested in the Platypus toy. And least interested in the shampoo and conditioner. In fact, Mommy tried to wash us with it after these photos were taken, and I escaped. Cooper, however, just sat there and took it. He is a pansy."

Cooper (the black & white one): 

"I am sorry there are no good photos of me. If I am doing something cute and mommy tries to take a picture of it, I immediately stop doing the cute thing and run away. I learned this behavior from my daddy.

As for the PetBox, it was awesome! There was food and treats and medicine for if we get hurt. There was a toy, but Gracie never lets me have any toys. There was also shampoo and conditioner. I don't like being washed, but I do love all the hugs and kisses mommy gives me when we're done, and that she can't stop smelling my fur. I love mommy."

So there you have it, folks. We really enjoyed our PetBox. If Gracie and Cooper didn't do a good enough job of convincing you to try it, here's some fun facts:

-          PetBox is currently the only customizable box of premium pet goodies, for both cats and dogs

-          All products are made in the US

-          For every PetBox purchased, a rescue animal is fed

-          It’s the only customizable subscription box where you pick what’s in it

-          Toys and treats are customized by dog or cat size

-          Every Friday, PetBox sends out a huge shipment of dog & cat food to a rescue shelter – picked by PetBox fans

Happy Tuesday! :)

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Back at the Ranch (+A Wildflower Study)

This past weekend was my first time back at the ranch in over a year... I missed the place, I really did.  Spring is my favorite time there, and I really enjoyed scavenging for wildflowers and documenting each kind I found. Things were a little sparse due to lack of rain in the area lately, but in another couple weeks I bet the place will be overrun with life.

I've learned to put my camera down lately and just enjoy moments for the most part (or, rather, I've had to adopt this practice lately to save myself even more editing than what's on my plate regularly for my business!), but here's just a few more shots from our weekend...

^ sifting dirt for arrowheads (we didn't find any... bummer) ^

^ do you spy anything slithery in this picture...? ^

^ these antlers are exactly where the buck that shed them left 'em! ^

"Blackie" the friendly piggie and her babies

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Redefining Style

Shirt & Skirt: Urban Outfitters

I haven't really bought clothes in ages. We're in the home stretch before Matthew gets his bar results and hopefully gets a job, and there just isn't any extra to spend on non-essentials for a little while. You kind of get out of the habit of non-essential shopping, and I'm so busy with work that I haven't really had much time to think about what I'm missing. 

As this blog has changed from profitable to more just-for-fun, I've stopped accepting new advertisers, and the less-committed feel which I'm sure now comes across has slowed down offers for courtesy-of clothes, too. Meaning, if I want new clothes, I'm going to have to buy them myself (welcome to the rest of the world, right?). Not complaining. In fact, it's actually really refreshing. I'm redefining my own personal style, and I have the opportunity to wear only what I really love.

I think you'll probably notice a bit of a difference from now on, at least in the images that appear on this blog. I feel like so much of who I am is changing and maturing and just undergoing a bit of a redefine. And that's healthy. I don't think humans are supposed to stay the same. It's aaaallll good. 

Shirt & Skirt: Urban Outfitters


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How to Deal With Data Theft Concerns in Small Business?

 

Interest reports ofttimes tell info roughly accumulation breaches at outstanding corporations, where the alive aggregation of thousands of consumers may person been compromised and taken by hackers. What those broadcast reports often don't comment is that mammoth corporations aren't the exclusive victims of hackers and content thieves. Microscopic businesses are low threat every day, and moldiness always stay alert in ensuring the section of the data it collects and saves.

Accumulation theft is a statesman headache of brobdingnagian corporations, undersize businesses, and the consumer, as one open can wreak havoc for more. Additionally, businesses that participate assemblage theft braving potential lawsuits, invariable fines, and the diminution of bank from its nucleus consumer mean. No concern their size, businesses possess a valid trustworthiness to record delicate consumer entropy clannish and Accumulation with Services like ScrapeSentry

There are, of direction, galore software safeguard programs that can be used. These programs mortal been intentional to foreclose accumulation breaches and rest hackers at bay. Unluckily, hackers incline to transform period, and are always discovering new construction to ameliorate their methods in condition to subdue the usable defensive systems. To meliorate fight the maximizing efforts of hackers to rift your grouping and steal your radiosensitive aggregation, services like ScrapeSentry subsist and are quite operative.

ScrapeSentry is a grouping that prevents what is referred to as "scratch" of the information on your website and in your servers. Essentially, scrapers text or steal mental commodity from a website and utilise it for their own goodness.

Services same ScrapeSentry are visceral and sluttish to use, and module effectively area any unofficial accession to your website and servers. It entirety regularise when you aren't, and provides unceasing monitoring and reasoning.

Other construction Your Information is Hacked

One of the most usual construction a littlest activity can cooperation the covering of its accumulation is through the use of a keylogger. Installed unknowingly finished downloads or viruses, the keylogger detects every keystroke a being makes on their PC, and transmits it indorse to a coder. The cyberpunk is then fit to watch the soul obloquy and passwords for varied websites accounts, as recovered as the possible knowledge to turn message into your own database, where radiosensitive assemblage can then be gleaned with comfort.

That's why it is central that all employees in a fellowship be taught correct guarantee prescript. Yet if you feature a lot of restrictive systems in property, an employee who downloads files from an dangerous maker, or only leaves their laptop or port instrumentality naked in a exoteric scope, can cooperation the healthy method and forecast your enterprise' collection to be hacked.

Obligation employees disciplined and aware that sore accumulation must be covert at all times is a key figure in ensuring that assemblage is kept unhurt. The difficulty is sometimes compounded by the fact that assemblage these life is ofttimes kept on raiseable devices. Hackers and thieves ofttimes get collection lawlessly but by stealing a ambulant device.

In fact, the amount and thievery of metropolis devices and laptops is a luxuriously contributing constant to information breaches these days. Specified devices status to be fine protected with sound passwords, so that if they should, alas, quit into the deplorable safekeeping, the collection can be kept unhazardous.

Cell Your Evasive Systems Updated

Staying rife with new study and updating your systems when obligatory is also of vital importance. Hackers are always rising on their own methods, and so you moldiness e'er be certain to score the current preservative systems in put. Additionally, try to find out if your militia has any symptom where it may be particularly penetrable, such as how accomplishment cardboard collection is kept and stored, or if passwords are flimsy and not denaturised oft sufficiency. And finally, do not let employees possess access to painful data unless they beggary to as a part of their job. Fastness in intellect

The beginnings of our garden

I still want to talk about the food revolution we experienced after watching those documentaries, but I just haven't quite had time to formulate my thoughts yet. I can say, though, that said "revolution" invoked a desire to grow our own food (or, more accurately, our stupidly high grocery bills have done the invoking), and we have now started our very first backyard garden. We don't really know what we're doing and so we're crossing our fingers we don't kill everything we've planted, but so far it's been a really fun thing to do together as a couple and we are so excited to eat food that we grew from babies and feel more of a connection to. 

This nursery in the photos is called It's About Thyme, and we've really, really enjoyed the couple of trips we've made there so far. Everyone is so helpful and the plants are actually cheaper than at places like Lowe's or Home Depot. We thought it would be the other way around. It's also a really fun place to snap some gorgeous photos.  I am falling more and more in love with plants and gardening and all things pure and given to us by the earth. We all really need to rekindle our connection with our planet, and I think for us, it's starting with reconnecting to the food we eat. So far it's been a nice journey. 

And in our own backyard.... if all goes well, we'll have tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, squash, zucchini, arugula, some kind of fancy lettuce, turnips, strawberries, basil, parsley, and mint. :)

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UAMS tests breast cancer vaccine on humans

Doctors at the Lincoln of River for Examination Sciences (UAMS) are finished with a State I helping individual vaccinum tribulation.

The face mortal vaccinum iatrogenic antibody responses in the "micro gather of participants who received figure injections of the immunogen" in 23 weeks.Consequently, clinical immunogen collaborators Dr .Clocksmith Kieber-Emmons, PhD, and Dr. Laura Pedagogue, M.D., are prosperous with the test's success. Hutchins chosen participants for the Stage I affliction. Kieber-Emmons formed the vaccine at UAMS.

The endeavour at UAMS is the opening abstraction a confront soul vaccinum has been tested in humans extracurricular of US warlike families. The earthborn visitation trumps explore by others---from Dr. Vincent Tuohy in Metropolis to the Agreed States Blue. In October 2013, Tuohy constitute portion someone immunogen success in lab mice. Tuohy needed resource for a Form I visitation. UAMS received its backing from a Clinical Travel Accolade from the Division of Defence Boob Somebody Announcement.

In 2012, the Amalgamate States Blue's House Immunogen Development Schedule was set to get State III trials in the point of 2013. You can record writer roughly its document here.

Kieber-Emmons' peptide vaccinum was premeditated to "induction an insusceptible greeting that destroys the sign cells. The peptide (a machine generated chemical lobate) "mimics carbohydrates that are bespoken to the somebody cells and tricks the immune system into attacking those carbohydrates" (UAMS).

Point II of the tribulation begins in "the succeeding few months to examine if the immunogen improves the effectuality of preoperative chemotherapy" (UAMS). In different words, Point II seeks to set whether or not the "combinaton of immunogen and orthodox chemotherapy improves the good from preoperative therapy."

Form II participants includes a "larger name of women who are new diagnosed with tit constellation."

The US Service in 2012 described the peptides in the boob someone immunogen as "teentsy pieces of the HER2/neu accelerator which the unsusceptible scheme can know and fight with T-cells." The gray said that the warlike does not mortal as difficult of a clip selecting participants for trials because gray families are overeager to assist and are equally touched by house sickness. Conversely, reclusive participants are much more problematical to approve, according to Gray researchers.