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IS it possible to delete achievements that you earned?
By mrniconi,
March 6, 2011 in Xbox 360
mrniconi
I played this one game one day just to play,
and i got one achievement but I don't want to keep it
so i was wondering if there's any way i can delete it.
PLZ HELLLLPPP!
Venomized 6 posts
Gackt 4 posts
H2O 5 posts
ChromiumDragon 11 posts
Gackt
Total awards: 15
No, it's not possible to delete/remove earned achievements.
Venomized
Total awards: 4
You can't delete achievements.
Though it would be nice if microsoft made something which allowed you to completely get rid of a game on your Gamertag.
They would make a lot of money in my opinion if they made a "Free 1 Game Wipe From Garmetag" for 400 MSP. Preferably 200 =p
I would get rid of 1 and only 1 game on my gamercard. Lost planet 2. Worst game ever. Worst Story. Worst Gameplay. Worst Achievements.
And to those people who say there are a bunch of games out there that are worse, I know. But from the games that I played, this is the worse for me.
AltruismIsDead
There is one way to remove earned achievements. It might take a bit of time and effort, but what you have to do is first create a new email address. After that, create a new Xbox Live gamertag.
Once you do that, you tie your gamertag to your email, you replay all the games you had before - re-earning all the achievements you got, then you make sure not to play the game(s) you don't want the achievements in.
After you earned all the achievements you want back, you can then change the name of your old profile, then change your new profile name back your old one.
Ta-da! Achievement deleted!
After you earned all the achievements you want back, you can then change the name of your old profile, then change your new profile name to back your old one.
Lol at first I thought you actually found some glitch/mod when you said there is one way. 2 more seconds into reading your post I was like "yeah right.."
If anyone is that obsessive or OCD over their achievements....well I have nothing to say to that.
rekikire
Yay it's only been a few days and we've got this thread again.
Search for delete in the General Xbox 360 forum
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/search.php?searchid=19765624
Iregore
I know, this comes up so much, I keep getting tempted to say this (which by the way is a complete lie and I would never really do it, but it is tempting):
Actually there is, somebody reverse engineered the dashboard and announced they found a hidden feature to do this only yesterday. You have to go through the settings tab on the dashboard and highlight network settings. Then press the guide button and go to your achievements list and highlight the game in question, then you have to press A B B A Y X LB RT LB X X Y A LT, then jump in front of your Kinect sensor and sing "I'm a little teapot" all the way through and a hidden menu will pop up with a list of achievements for that game which you can then delete one by one.
You have to do all this straight after turning the console on and the dash loading without making a single error, so if you make one error, turn your console off for ten seconds and then try again.
Edited March 6, 2011 by Iregore
Worhammer
If anybody were to actually do that, they deserve what they get. You should say that in order to do it, you have to be in kinect video chat with somebody else first.
spyder2g
Actually there is a way. Well kinda. If you got the achievement offline and recover your profile before you sign in online the achievement will be gone.
Starstrukk X360A
Yeah, it's possible.
You get tape and cover that selection on a screen so it doesn't pop up.
Although, I guess it would suck when you actually have to move away from that screen...
TakahashiDemon
Only if you get them offline then don't go online afterwards, delete your account then recover it, the achievements will be gone, I did this by accident with Bayonetta once.. when I was moving my account to my BF's xbox I forgot I got 2 Bayonetta achievements offline and didnt go online since, but it was an easy fix, just had to load up my game and they popped up, they were the kind that I would be mega pissed off if I had to do all that again =/ (completing on Climax).
But if you got them online, they're for staying there, until MS give in to this moaning about deleting achievements.. more likely be done in a way someone mentioned in this thread where you have to pay MSP to actually remove the game.
Cringer85
I'm probably the only one, who is glad we can't do this. Honestly, I would be glad to be rid of some achievements myself, but on the other hand, every single gamer in the world would then have a 100% completion gamercard - and that would defeat every competition purpose.
jakepeter11
The only way is if you have been on xbox live and then gone off. And before you get back online recover your gamertag to another console. With that you will not have your achievements from those you played offline. I did that with some easy achievements. They were annoying to do though.
ChromiumDragon
And exactly why would this matter? Why should I be stuck with incomplete gamercards that I don't want just because other players are competing with each other? Why the hell do I care about their competition?
I want to be able to delete games where the server is down and I can't earn the online achievements any more. I want to be able to delete games if there's achievements that are glitched. I want to be able to delete games my son accidentally played for a little while on my gamertag. And yes, I want to be able to delete games where the achievements would ultimately take longer to earn than I am willing to invest.
I am not a part of any of these competitions. Sure, some people who are in these competitions would cheat and do this to stay ahead, but to be honest, that's not my problem, nor is it Microsoft's. If you want to hold or participate in some kind of gamercard competition, then by all means have at it. Have a blast. But the rest of us are not and should not be bound by the rules you set forth in your competition.
And it should be free to delete. There's no reason other than greed to charge for it. Charging to change your gamertag is one thing -- it prevents one person from hoarding a bunch of gamertags that s/he will never use. But there is no reason to charge for deleting games from your gaming history.
If I want to delete a game from my gamercard, that should be an option for me. It has no effect on any other players and does not affect their ability to play games or earn achievements whatsoever. It may affect third-party competitions, but the way to remedy that is to simply remove the offending player from the competition, not hold everybody else to your standards.
MachineZed
Why do you care about your completion % anyways if it isn't about the competition?
What is to stop your son from deleting your hard earned games that you did complete? I mean if he can add a couple games to your score, he could theoretically remove them too. Including the games you wouldn't want him to remove.
It takes about 3 years for the companies like EA to take down their old sport game servers. Do you not think that 3 more iterations of nearly the same game is enough to take down the servers of the old game? Or is 3 years not long enough to get those online achievements?
Personal pride. I like looking at it. I couldn't give a shit what anyone else thinks of it. Believe it or not, not everybody plays games for the same reason. And some of us couldn't care less about "competition".
Of course he could. But it's much, much easier to accidentally play a game on someone else's account than it is to delete a game. To delete a game history, you have to take a number of deliberate steps -- press the center button, flip over to the Achievements tab, select the game, press X to delete the game history, and confirm it. This is not going to happen on accident.
There are several games that have been taken down in two years or less.
A quick google search came up with '09 games that were shut down on February 2, 2010:
Nascar 09 (Europe)
Fantasy Football 09
There have been other games that were also shut down relatively quickly due to low online participation -- I believe Tom Clancy's Endwar and Lord of the Rings fall into that category, but I'm not 100% certain. There's also games like FEAR 2 that have virtually nobody on the servers.
And there are games where earning the online achievements take months. I don't know what your personal situation is, but as for me, I have things like a job, kids, family obligations, etc. to worry about. My days of buying a game on release date and grinding out the online achievements are long gone. These days, I'm lucky if I start to play a game six months after it was released. I'm sure I'm far, far from the only person in that position.
I'm not saying that the servers need to stay up indefinitely. If the game has low participation or it's been a number of years, then I have no problem with them taking down the servers. But we should also then be able to delete the game history from our list. I don't think it's too much to ask.
And again -- it has absolutely no effect on your ability to earn achievements on your games or participate in whatever competitions you want. If someone in your competition is deleting their game history, you still have options available -- disqualify them. Problem solved.
If you don't want incomplete games on your gamercard...complete them. If you are that set on not having a random game with 5points or so on it...go back and play it until you get all the points in it. OR don't play games you are not sure you will be able to 100%.
Having the option to delete/remove achievements is stupid.
Personal pride. I like looking at it.
Your pride is a lie if you have mod (in any way) to get a score you're proud of.
You can't un-achieve something.
If you're not sure you'll like a game play it on a second profile first.
If you don't want people getting achievements on your profile set a password for it.
If you really don't like having a low completion % on a game then GO COMPLETE IT.
No more "stupid" than being against something that would have absolutely no effect on the way you play games or earn achievements just because that player happens to play games/earn achievements for different reasons than you do.
Not everybody is in it for the competition. And if you're against deleting achievements.....don't delete them. If they were to implement such a feature, nobody's forcing you to use it.
Not exactly something I would lose any sleep over. It's not like I'm hacking games to get achievements I've never earned.
Why not? Because you said so?
I prefer not wasting what little time I can allot to gaming by playing a game on a second profile first.
Or they could just add an option to delete them, which would accomplish the task of being able to delete achievements that I never earned in the first place.
Again, some games cannot be completed. Servers shut down. Achievements glitch. Shit happens. Not all of us have the ability to buy games on release date and spend 24/7 grinding them out.
All this would accomplish is giving players a way to clean up their gamercards. Given how often this topic comes up on here and other boards, I'd say it's a pretty popular request. Again, nobody would force you to use it, and if you're judging others on what is or isn't on their gamercard, then quite frankly, that's pretty sad. What the hell do you care if I delete every achievement I've ever earned ever? How does that affect you in any way, shape, or form?
Edited March 7, 2011 by ChromiumDragon
MightyPeter
Just out of curiousity, what was the achievement?
It would ruin it for those people who do it competitively.
Why don't you just put in the extra effort to 100% games instead of wanting the easy way of deleting incompletes...
Vindicator51
You really don't like being on the wrong side of the sword, do you?
Tufty
How would you feel if you got to 100,000G then someone hacks your account and deletes all of your progress? I bet you'd love the system then.
I want to be able to delete games where the server is down and I can't earn the online achievements any more.
Dude, shut the fuck up. I hate it when people complain about servers being shut down. People that complain about it usually:
a) play it and leave it at like 300G for about a year, then moan because they can no longer go back and get the achievements.
b) see about 53 million articles about how the servers for a game are shutting down in about 3 days, then they decide it's a good idea to start it before it becomes impossible to max out, then fuck up and end up with about 750G.
c) people who do no research on games decide that they want to purchase an EA sports game from 2006, then complain because they got 5G before realising that they were a complete fucking moron.
Conclusion: probably 99% of the time if the servers shut down and you're left with achievements that are impossible to get it's your own fault for being stupid. There are reasons that would be out of people control though.
Edited March 7, 2011 by Tufty
and yet you care about completion % enough to want to fake it by deleting stuff?
It really doesn't take long to work out if you like a game.
If you're that short on time i really don't see how you'll be able to get enough of the acievements in most games to make this argument worth it.
Or people could use the measures already implemented to get the same result.
Why should they waste time making more features because you can't be arsed to use the ones they've already given you?
DOBOYX2
Just lock this thread already..It's clear that no one wants to discuss this topic any further.


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This Isn't Love, This is Ecstasy: Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
So this is the prequel to the film The Flintstones, but it is a much, much better film. First of all the storyline is better, much, much, much better. And even though I love John Goodman, Mark Addy is a much better Fred. Rosie O'Donnell sucked as Betty. But most all, it has Thomas Gibson in it.
So Handsome!!!
Sorry, I'm sorry. I just had to take a moment there. Back on track now! Uh, where was I? Oh yeah, this is much better than the first film.
So Wilma Slaghoople has had enough of her rich lifestyle. She is tired of friends who don't care about her. Tired of people who can't think beyond what's in vogue, etc. Tired of Chip Rockefeller who's only interested in her wealth. She escapes from her mansion and travels down to the town below, where the "common, everyday" people live. She stops at a burger joint and meets Betty O'Shale. Betty thinks she is poor and caveless, and not only invites her to live in her home but gets her a job as well at the diner.
Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble are best friends and roommates. The two have just passed their exams and are now certified Bronto Crane Operators. They go out to think about their lives, Fred expressing how he wants someone special to spend it with, when they meet the Great Gazoo, an alien banished to Earth to observe the dating rituals of man.
One day Fred and Barney go out to a burger joint and meet Betty. Fred picks her up and procures Wilma for Barney. They go out to an amusement park, but there Barney and Betty feel an instant connection and go off together. Fred is upset at first with being placed with Wilma, but after their bowling game they connect and start falling for each other. Fred also wins Dino for being such a great bowler. Soon the four (and the two couples separately) are spending all their time together, falling in love.
Wilma's mom has tracked her down and tries to get her back, but Wilma won't go as her mom is cold-hearted and looks down on her friends. Her mom convinces her to come to her father's birthday party, she agrees if she can bring her friends. The next day they are shocked by how wealthy she is, Betty hurt at how Wilma lied to her. Fred was going to ask her to marry him, but after this he feels as if he doesn't have enough to offer her. Wilma is mad at how her mother treats her friends, and storms out. Chip tries to make it up to her and invites them all down to his casino in Rock Vegas.
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I'll Always Be There When You Need Me: Anastasia (1997)
So this film is based on two things, the person Anastasia and the 1956 film of the same name. Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II Romanov. With the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Czars were kicked out of power and later killed. The only body to not be found was Anastasia, which lead to a rumor that she wasn't dead, but was still out there and would return one day. There was actually a woman who claimed she was the real Anastasia, going by the name Anna, but even though she knew countless details that only a Romanov would have known; it was later determined that she wasn't Anastasia. The 1956 film, while starring the wonderful Ingrid Bergman and the very handsome Yul Brynner; was not very good. Yul Brynner was too mean and Bergman was too hysterical, etc. It just sucked. So about twenty years later Fox remade a animated version that had more likable characters, a more adventurous plot, and a collection of wonderful songs. I love the songs in this movie; Rumor in St. Petersburg, Journey to the Past, Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart), and (my fav) At the Beginning.
That said, there is one other little thing I want to clear up. Anastasia is not a disney movie. I REPEAT! ANASTASIA IS NOT A DISNEY MOVIE! DISNEY DID NOT MAKE THIS MOVIE!!! It was 20th Century Fox! FOX MADE IT! FOX! FOX! FOX! FOX! It just urks me how people call it a Disney movie because it IS NOT A DISNEY MOVIE!
So the film begins in 1916 Russia, where the Czar is giving a party. His mother, the Dowager Empress (Angela Lansbury) is visiting from France. She and his youngest daughter, have a close connection and the Dowager gives her a secret music box and a locket that is a key, that have the saying "Together in Paris". The ball is interrupted by their "holy man" Rasputin (he was a real creepo) played by Christopher Lloyd. Rasputin is mad at the Romanovs for trying to banish him, and has sold his soul to brung destruction on all of them. The Dowager and Anastasia are saved by a kitchen boy, who sneaks them out through a secret passage. They run for a train, but Anastasia trips and is left behind.
Fast forward ten years, the Dowager Empress has put out notice of a heavy reward to anyone who can bring her, her granddaughter. Dimitri (John Cusack), the kitchen boy, is all grown up and has been having tryouts to find someone to play Anastasia so he can get the money and be gone from Russia forever. He and his partner, Vladimir, an ex member of the Royal Court, both have the knowhow to get it done. Dimitri also has the music box.
Meanwhile, Anya (Anastasia), played by Meg Ryan, has been living with amnesia in an orphanage. Now being of age, she is being sent out to work. Instead of following the directions given to her, she decides to follow a stray dog she found and head to St. Petersburg and ultimately, Paris.
The two meet up in the old Romanov palace as Dimitri and Vladmir have gone there to lick their wounds, no applicants worked out, and Anya wants to get papers from Dimitri to get out of Russia. They notice her similarities to Tsarina Alexandra and offers it as a potential way to find her family, not telling her about the money (you know that old cliché). They board the train and are on there way
Meanwhile, Rasputin is rotting in Purgatory, as he can't go off to hell until all the Romonavs are dead, and can't go topside because he lost his glass vial of evil I guess (I'm not sure what its real name is), is lost. Bartok, his pet bat has found the vial and goes down telling him about Anastasia's "rebirth". Rasputin goes up to kill her.
Back on the train, Anya and Dimitri feel a little something for each other but are mean to each other not wanting to admit it. They have to move to the baggage cart as things have changed under Stalin. While there, Rasputin attacks and they have to switch to a boat. Rasputin attacks them, and Dimitri saves her. They eventually reach Paris, and Anya passes all the tests, solidifying it when she answers that she was saved by a kitchen boy. Dimitri hears this and knows that she is the real deal. The only issue is, the Dowager has decreed to see no one again. They decide to surprise her at the opera, Dimitri deciding to let her go and to do everything he could to help her connect to her family. Dimitri's scheme has reached the Dowager's ears and she really lays into him, with Anya overhearing. Anya is pissed that Dimitri lied to her and runs off to her hotel room. Dimtri then drives the Dowager over there and the two talk and are united. They have a ball to welcome her back, with Vladmir being reinsteated and honored with medals. The Dowager offers Dimitri the money, but he refuses (sound like someone you know?) and takes off. That night, Rasputin attacks Anya, Dimitri returns, and they defeat Rasputin. The two elope and run off, Anya telling her grandmother that she will see her again soon.
Just like 10 Things I Hate About You it was hard to choose the "most romantic moment" as it was chock full, but I can only pick one.
So Dmitri has left. He could have told Anya what he did for her when she was a kid. He could tell her that he was the one who saved her as a child. He could have told her that he figured out she was Anastasia and tried to help her at the Opera to get in to see the Dowager. He could have told her that he made sure that the two had a chance to talk because he wanted to reunite her with her family. He could have told her he didn't take the money. Instead, he wanted to make her dreams come true. She made him want to reform his conman ways.
But Dmitri has no illusions. Even if he changed his ways, he knows nothing will happen between them.
So he leaves. He leaves because he knows that she needs more than he can give, she needs someone better. (Sound like someone else we know?)
Meanwhile, back at the ball Anastasia is being attacked by Rasputin. He has her down, and just when you think its over, Dimitri comes running in to save the day.
Yes! HE CAME BACK TO BE WITH HER! Even though it doesn't make any sense. Even though coming back might not change anything, he DOES IT ANYWAY! Even though there is no guarantee that they will get together. Even though he knows she still might be angry with him and kick him to the curb. It doesn't matter. He loves her so much he has to tell her how he feels. That's so romantic!
And in the case of true love, coming back always works out.
He's always been there for her.
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September 16, 2012 by Moreland
So last week I wrote a post, Flirting With Disaster, on how awful I am with flirting. I also mentioned that this guy Verne came over and tried to flirt with me, but had a major fail. Well the story didn't end there.
The other day I went bowling with some friends. We were having fun and hanging out. Everyone was making fun of my unique bowling style, which involves the bowling ball going reeeeallllly sloooooow. I mean it goes as slow as the girl in the Disney film Alley Cats Strike!
So my turn came up and I went up to the ball return, looking for the one I had been using when all of a sudden the a guy from the group next to us says:
"Hey I see you have a mustang on your shirt. Do you like to ride in them?"
I look up to see what kind of loser is trying to come on to me with that lame line and then it hits me………………………..
It's VERNE!
Verne, I want to be a lawyer Verne. The Verne who wouldn't leave me alone that day!
I was so shocked at running into him again, that I shouted you're VERN! Then he realized who I was.
Unfortunately, sparking his memory of me didn't really help me out that night.He told me that he had been high that whole day and actually remembered very little about me. To "make up" for this he spent the rest of the night trying to get to know me.
I also found out from him that not only did he like to get high all the time, but he liked to party all the time. I am just not into guys who just want to kill off their brain cells with drugs and alcohol, oh no not for me.
Then he tells me that he is going to be doing maintenance, "because he is really good with his hands".
UGH! Gag Me!
Like what part of that line am I really supposed to find attractive?
So at the end of the night he tells me he's going home but would like to get my number.
In my head I'm like
So I'm about to tell him I don't give my number out to strange guys who party but I only get as far as:
I can't. I don't give out my number because…
When he interrupts me and says:
Oh you have a boyfriend?
I know it's wrong to lie, but I saw this as an easy out and went with it
Well kinda, yeah I do. Sorry!
Just call me Pinocchio
Hey I could have been mean like I've been with other guys. I figured this lie wasn't too painful. Hopefully my nose doesn't start growing, I think it is just right as it is.
But that is not the end of it. Check out Bad Penny
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Technology-enhanced Learning in the Corporate Context
Anoush Margaryan, Betty Collis
Handbook of Research on Digital Information Technologies : Innovations, Methods, and Ethical Issues
Thomas Hansson
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In Feb. 2013, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) released a report on workplace mental health issues. Tracking the Perfect Legal Storm by Dr. Martin Shain concluded that employers have a legal duty to maintain not only a physically safe but also a psychologically safe workplace under seven different kinds of laws.
The new report discusses the fact that CSA Z1003 is a voluntary standard that hasn't yet been adopted by any jurisdiction into its OHS or employment standards laws. But the applicable laws may indirectly impose a duty to provide a psychologically safe workplace on employers, especially to the extent that these laws bar harassment and bullying. And compliance with the Standard can help employers satisfy that duty.
Avoidance of conflicts, grievances and disputes.
The Standard contains a vision for a psychologically healthy and safe workplace, which is a workplace that actively works to prevent harm to worker psychological health, including in negligent, reckless, or intentional ways. Or more simply, the report says it's a workplace in which due diligence is applied by the employer to protect the psychological health and safety of employees.
Although the Standard provides detailed information and guidance on how to actively work towards a psychologically healthy and safe workplace, there are four simple principles (The 4 Be's) which can help illustrate the main concepts.
Employers should be aware that the employment contract could at any time be interpreted by a court or tribunal as including an implied promise to provide a psychologically safe system of work.
The foundation of everyday justice in the workplace is a consistent process for resolving issues fairly and promptly. This process balances the rights and responsibilities of the employer with the rights and responsibilities of employees.
Being careful, in the context of a psychologically healthy and safe workplace, means behaving in such a way as to avoid reasonably foreseeable harm to others. To do so, at a minimum, those who manage, support or supervise others should have basic interpersonal skills that include the ability to actively listen, elicit information and facilitate vital conversations in a respectful manner. Employers can also extend this principle to support the development of basic, respectful interpersonal skills for all employees.
Be on the lookout for signs of conflict or other interpersonal tension among employees, and between employees and their managers or supervisors. Act to resolve conflict when you see it. Being vigilant is facilitated by a system that includes regular evaluation of a minimum standard of fair, civil and respectful conduct, and is important in both unionized and non-unionized workplaces.
The responsibility to be proactively vigilant in this regard is a key element of sustaining a psychologically safe workplace. In light of this fact, and as a precautionary measure, employers would do well to study the Standard as a potentially effective way to avoid or weather the storm that potential liabilities can attract.
Beyond this strategy of self-defence, employers can use the Standard to shift the employment relationship towards one in which their interests in business and service efficiency are served by the same strategies that protect psychological health and safety at work.
For more information and resources on CSA Z1003 and mental health issues in the workplace, go to the Psychological Safety Compliance Centre.


Just like anyone else, I like when my home smells pretty. I have candles and wax warmers in almost every room. I tend to gravitate towards baked goods and fruity smells. One company that sells an incredible selection of wax melts is Eagle Rock Candle Co.
weak candles that did not last long, and discontinuing fragrances too quickly. They promise to provide the highest quality product at the lowest possible price. Currently, 89% of their fragrances have been customer suggestions.
Eagle Rock Candle Co. does not sell candles, as the name might suggest. However, they do sell a large variety of wax melts. They carry fragrances to suit almost any mood, from floral and sweet to manly and seasonal.
Eagle Rock Candle Co. promises to never discontinue a fragrance. I certainly appreciate that. If there's a scent I like, I want to be able to buy it without fear of discontinuation. For instance, you can purchase Christmas fragrances right now. If you like the smell of Elf Sweat, by golly, you can get it any time of the year!
The wax melts are very affordably priced, and there's a description for each fragrance. The melts are made of 100% natural soy wax. It only takes one or two at a time in a wax warmer to emit a pleasant odor.
I have purchased wax melts from other companies and I don't necessarily have anything against them. What really stands out about Eagle Rock Candle Co., though, is that they are economically priced, they don't discontinue fragrances, and there's a lot of fragrances offered that I've not seen anywhere else. Again, for instance, Elf Sweat! Or ButterBrickle! Or Muscadine Grape! If you don't want to venture out of your comfort zone and instead prefer regular, familiar scents, those are available too.
I personally have my favorite scents, with most of them being the ones that smell liked baked goods. Of the eight wax melts I have from Eagle Rock Candle Co., I've found that they all smell just as the name and descriptions indicate. As if it couldn't get any better, Eagle Rock Candle Co. offers free shipping on all orders shipped within the U.S.
One person will win two packs of wax melts from Eagle Rock Candle Co., in scents of choice.
Hansel & Gretel's House sounds very inviting!
I would like to try peppermint for Christmas time.
I would love to try the Fresh Pear scented wax melts.
I'd love to try the Autumn Harvest!
My husband would hate it but I would love to try cinnamon bark!
I'd love to try Sweet Orange.
I would like to try the Cinnamon Bark & to have for the holidays. Thanks for the giveaway.
I would like to try the Eucalyptus wax scent.
I would like to smell the Christmas Tree scent. I am already, in my mind, rushing through the end of summer into fall and winter and Christmas!
I would like to try the magnolia scent.
The Butter Brickle would be really interesting, would love to try it.
I would love to try the Autumn Harvest scent!
I would absolutely love to try the 7-Up Pound Cake.
I would love to try Vanilla Sandalwood.
I'd like to try Banana Nut Bread scent!
I've never tried wax melts before. The scents sound wonderful.
I would love Brown Sugar & Fig!!
I'd like to try Cinnamon Bark.
I would love to try the scent apple pie.
I would LOVE to try French Garden and Patchouli Rose. Also for the basement (man area, lol) I would like to try Dragon's Shaddow there. I cannot get over all the scents this company has available and the price point is pretty great with all the scent options they have.
I'd like to try the Almond Joyful scent. Sounds nice.
I would really like to try the apple cinnamon.
I have purchased from this company quite a bit.
I have not tried Beach Daisy before though so would love to try that one.
I'd love to try lemon cheesecake!!
I love the candy apple and want to try autumn harvest.
Vanilla cupcake I would really like to try.
I would love to try the Monkey Farts. I love the name and the scent description.
I would love to try the cinnamon bark scent.
I'd love to try peach!
Cranberry Relish would be awesome for fall.
There are so many scents that sound great but I'd love to try the blackberry fizz.
I was looking for something with pecan in ot, but couldn't, so I will go with my next favorite smell - Lemonilla.
I'd like to try Sweet Orange!
I would like to try the Lily Of The Valley scent.


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COOKE, WILLIAM GORDON
Steven A. Brownrigg
COOKE, WILLIAM GORDON (1808–1847). William Gordon Cooke, soldier and statesman, son of Adam and Martha (Riddell) Cooke, was born at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on March 26, 1808. He was trained in the family drug business. He moved to New Orleans to continue his career and on October 13, 1835, volunteered for the New Orleans Greys. He arrived with the second company at Velasco, Texas, on October 25, 1835, and was elected first lieutenant the next day at Quintana. After arrival at Bexar on November 8, 1835, Cooke was elected captain of his company and raised volunteers to storm the town. Cooke led the party that captured the priest's house on the main plaza, thus forcing the Mexican capitulation, and received the flag of surrender, which he sent to Col. Francis W. Johnson, commanding officer (see BEXAR, SIEGE OF).
Cooke then volunteered for the Matamoros expedition of 1835–36. As captain he led the reformed San Antonio Greys to Goliad. Shortly after Sam Houston's arrival and impassioned speech there, Cooke offered his services to the Texas army and was sent with his company to Refugio, where they were joined by Col. James Walker Fannin, Jr., and the Georgia Battalion. Fannin ordered Cooke to San Patricio to reinforce Maj. Robert C. Morris. Cooke was subsequently left in command there when Morris, Johnson, and Col. William Grant proceeded to the Rio Grande.
Cooke received Grant's letter stating his intentions to join the Mexican Federalists and, after relaying this news to Fannin, was ordered to fall back to Goliad, where he arrived on February 12, 1836. He was then sent with two Mexican prisoners to Washington-on-the-Brazos, where he joined Houston's staff as assistant inspector general. Cooke went with Houston to Gonzales and there assisted in organizing the troops. At the battle of San Jacinto he served on Houston's staff with the rank of major. Cooke was in charge of the guard on the prisoners when Antonio López de Santa Anna was captured. He prevented the angry Texans from executing Santa Anna so that he could be brought before General Houston.
When Houston went to New Orleans to recover from wounds received in the battle, Cooke accompanied him, but soon returned to Texas to serve as chief clerk of the War Department. In October 1836 he was appointed stock commissioner in Houston's first administration and was responsible for issuing stock certificates and certificates to fund the public debt. He served in this office until the spring of 1839. In November 1836 Houston appointed Cooke acting secretary of war and on January 31, 1837, inspector general, an office he held until July 31, 1837. Cooke then retired from the army because of ill health and opened two drugstores in Houston. On June 9, 1837, he was made official signer of the president's name to promissory notes of the Republic of Texas, a job necessitated by injuries to Houston's arm that were aggravated by illness. The position lasted until November 11, 1839.
Cooke reenlisted in the army around October 1838 and received a commission as quartermaster general of the republic. In March 1840 Mirabeau B. Lamar named him commissioner to sign treaties with the Comanches, and in this role he took part in the Council House Fight in San Antonio on March 19, 1840.
On August 18, 1840, Cooke was appointed colonel of the First Regiment of Infantry, the unit that laid out the Military Road from the Little River to the Red River. Fighting Indians and starvation along the way, Cooke explored and mapped much of north central Texas. He established Fort Johnson and Fort Preston on the Red River and Cedar Springs Post on the Trinity River; at this post were the first structures built by white men at the future site of Dallas. Cooke's success in this venture prompted a grand military ball in his honor, held in the Senate chamber at Austin on February 27, 1841, and a nomination for vice president of the republic. He declined the latter and accepted instead an appointment from Lamar in April 1841 as senior commissioner on the Texan Santa Fe expedition.
Cooke assisted Lamar in promoting and organizing the expedition and was to have been the chief civil authority in Santa Fe. On September 17, 1841, he was deceived by the traitor Capt. William G. Lewis and surrendered the Texans' arms. Cooke and his men were marched to Mexico City and imprisoned in Santiago Prison on December 26, 1841. They were released on June 14, 1842, and stayed at Waddy Thompson's house in Mexico City and then in Jalapa, Vera Cruz, until passage could be arranged. Cooke arrived at Galveston aboard the United States brig Boxer on August 10, 1842.
Ignoring his pledge not to take arms against Mexico under pain of death, he immediately joined with Gen. Edward Burleson to expel the Mexican general Adrián Woll from San Antonio. On September 22, 1842, Cooke was wounded in Capt. John C. Hays's charge on the cannon at Arroyo Hondo. On October 25, 1842, Houston appointed him quartermaster general and chief of the subsistence department, in which capacity Cooke helped organize the infamous Snively expedition and the Somervell expedition,qqv of which he was a member until February 1, 1843.
Seeking further revenge, Cooke went to New Orleans to join Edwin Ward Moore on his expedition to the Yucatán. They sailed on April 15, 1843, in the sloop-of-war Austin. Cooke participated in engagements with the Mexican steamships Montezuma and Guadaloupe (see MONTEZUMA AFFAIR), and after the Independencia joined the Texan fleet, he twice accompanied her on raiding expeditions, hoping to capture prisoners to exchange for those held in Mexican prisons. The first expedition resulted in the capture of the Mexican ship Glide, and the second brought back news to Moore that Houston had declared him a pirate, charges against which Cooke later defended him. They returned to Galveston on July 14, 1843, and Cooke received an appointment from Gen. Sidney Sherman as adjutant general of the Texas militia.
Cooke was elected representative from Bexar County to the House of the Ninth Congress on September 2, 1844, and served his term as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. Partly as a result of his efforts on Commodore Moore's behalf, Cooke was appointed by President Anson Jones in December 1844 to replace Morgan Calvin Hamilton as secretary of war. Cooke, who had become the last commander of the regular Texas army when the troops were disbanded in 1841, was now responsible for raising troops and supplies for the United States army of occupation under Gen. Zachary Taylor. He served in this office until the spring of 1846, when he ran unsuccessfully for the Congress of the United States. He lost to Timothy Pillsbury by a narrow margin. On April 27, 1846, Cooke was appointed the first adjutant general of the state of Texas by Governor James Pinckney Henderson. He served in this office until his death.
Cooke was a Protestant and a grand royal arch captain of Holland Masonic Lodge No. 36 in Houston. On August 16, 1844, he married Ángela María de Jesús Blasa Navarro, daughter of Luciano Navarro and niece of José Antonio Navarro. They had one son. Cooke died of tuberculosis on December 24, 1847, at his father-in-law's ranch in Seguin. He was buried in nearby Geronimo and, on March 2, 1937, reinterred in the State Cemetery, Austin. Cooke's Camp, near San Antonio, Cooke County, and Cooke Avenue in San Antonio were named for him.
Allen F. Adams, The Leader of the Volunteer Grays: The Life of William G. Cooke, 1808–1847 (M.A. thesis, Southwest Texas State University, 1940). Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836–1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963). Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832–1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941). Harry Warren, "Col. William G. Cooke," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 9 (October 1905). Tom Henderson Wells, Commodore Moore and the Texas Navy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1960).
Army of the Republic
Handbook of Texas Online, Steven A. Brownrigg, "COOKE, WILLIAM GORDON," accessed July 17, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcobv.


hardware setup is an important factor.
This Ceph benchmark shows some examples. We are also curious to hear about your setups and performance outcomes, please post and discuss this here.
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Interesting and useful write up. A bit summarized on the results presented (thin on details) but still quite useful.
I was surprised to see the large read performance gain with 100Gbe network vs 10Gbe, especially given the close race between them on the write side. Some more digging on this - and potential optimization strategy - would be warranted.
Also, the introduction discusses the possibility of using a 3-node cluster with the comment that in a three node cluster "the data is still available after the loss of a node". While true, this is sorely incomplete and misleading. If you are going to make this statement you really owe your readers at last a slighly more detailed treatment of failure modes showing why it takes "replication count"+1 nodes (four in this case) to maintain fully stable operation with a failed node and some treatment of why odd-numbers of nodes create more resilient outcomes.
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interesting, thanks for posting. Do you have 40GBit/s NICs as well? Were your interfaces bonded? I guess a lot of people would be interessted in LAGs with 2-4 GBit NICs.
I would be interessted in a benchmark with 8 OSDs (or even more).
We did not used any bonds. Anything slower than 10 Gbit is a big limiting factor for SSD Ceph Clusters.
We did not test 40 Gbit.
If you can improve your network throughput (bonds) and latency, it will help.
The performance with more OSDs (e.g. 8 OSD per node) is quite similar to our 4 OSD per node cluster. Just add more if you need more capacity. This is valid for SSD only clusters in these tests.
The benchmark has been done with a 'rados bench', this is a single client with 16 threads writing to ceph. On a cluster in a production environment you will have concurrent writes (and reads, ofc) of different clients, where the write gap will be even clearer.
You are talking about a technical white paper, not a benchmark paper. I agree, in a technical whitepaper, this would need more clarification.
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@PigLoverYou are talking about a technical white paper, not a benchmark paper. I agree, in a technical whitepaper, this would need more clarification.
But you make the claim about being able to run a 3-node cluster and still access the data with a node OOS. While it is "true", it is also dangerous guidance and shouldn't be given without a caution - even in a bechmarking note.
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Martin, how many OSD did you place on each nvme dev? I'm getting slightly better numbers then you're showing but with single osd per drive, but according to best practices (http://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ceph/wiki/Tuning_for_All_Flash_Deployments) the optimal results are with 4 osd/drive.
@alexskysilk, we did not use any separate DB/WAL device.
Depending on your hardware and configuration (default config in our tests), you might achieve better (or worse) results.
@PigLover, I am still not seeing your point here. How would you like to see the section phrased?
3x 5260 = 15780 IO/s, assuming a replica of 3. That is close to our 4k fio benchmark. Ceph syncs its objects onto three disk and then gets a ACK back. This is also why reads are performing significantly better then writes.
Taken from storagereview.com, compare their test with ours. I suppose, the SM863 960GB, will show similar results when run with our fio benchmark.
Made with the above fio line on one of our SM863 240GB.
I understand that there are 3 writes to be acknowledged and that, that will cause a decrease in total IO/s, but that does not fully explain the huge difference in write IO/s when writing directly on a single disk compared to writing to a ceph pool.
We are not talking about 5-10% performance loss here. From 17k IO/s to 5k IO/s is like a 70% reduction (if I am not screwing up the percentage calculation)!
Also your calculation of 3x5260=15780 IO/s doesn't sound like a correct methodology to measure the IO/s. Or at least it's irrelevant to multiply by replicas.
If that's how we should calculate the total ΙΟ/s, then the theoretical maximum should be 17k IO/s x 3 = 51k IOPs. Which 15.7k IO/s still is ~69% less than 51k IO/s.
Obviously the hardware can handle way more. The bottleneck seems to be somewhere in Ceph, and the 'x3 writes acks' doesn't sound like a valid reason for this.
The CPU usage during these tests is ~50% so there's plenty of room there.
Also your calculation of 3x5260=15780 IO/s doesn't sound like a correct methodology to measure the IO/s.
From my understanding, the ACK is returned, when the third copy has been written. So a write takes in the worst case 3x times longer (first write to primary, then in parallel to the secondary and tertiary). And I guess, your cluster is not empty, so OSDs are already busy serving ohter clients.
3 PVE hosts with 4x Bluestore OSD each (total of 12). We achieve around 9k IO/s, with 10 GbE (MTU 9000) and the cluster was idle (also the switch). Our latency is lower then in your figures and I presume that you have already a workload running on your cluster. Further, our server and network hardware differs from yours. The encapsulation of ethernet packets on infiniband will certainly add to the latency that you observe.
To make a comparison, you would need your setup empty (not in production) and do baseline benchmarks and testing.
Ceph uses by default 4 MB objects and is optimized to handle those, while a test with 4KB makes sense for comparison of a single drive, it does less for ceph.
All my posted results are from a lab cluster that is completely empty and set up just for benchmarks and tests.
The rados benchmarks were done without a single VM running at the time and networking wise all nodes can do >20Gbps without breaking a sweat.
All the CPUs on all nodes during the rados benchmarks never went over 50%.
So there is no apparent bottleneck anywhere on the physical hardware.
The bottom line is, how do you make ceph perform faster than this? As I said, high throughput numbers are useless when it comes to real life workloads. And getting only 5k IO/s when each drive can do WAY more is just bad from whatever aspect you look at it.
I repeat. We are talking about 70% decrease in IO performance. That is cannot be caused by waiting 3 times longer for the replicas ACK. It's just preposterous for a technology that's supposed to be super high-performant for the cloud.
Even at 9k IO/s it's still a 47% decrease in performance! Something is wrong with these results.
Look at the latency, the 10 GbE has lower latency then the 40 Gb IPoIB. Ceph doesn't work with IB nativ, this costs a lot of CPU and the packtes go through the IP stack, so some features of IB aren't used at all (this adds latency).
That is cannot be caused by waiting 3 times longer for the replicas ACK.
Does that mean that the most IOPs you can attain on any 3 replica ceph installation on 10GbE with these Samsung SSDs, are at best 6500-9000 due to the latencies you just described?
Sorry for insisting on the same stuff, I am just trying to make sense of the results.
What's the best documented ceph performance on proxmox to date?
Not separate DB/WAL (not much point if the data resides on nvme). Multiple OSDs per NVME. I'm attempting to follow the document here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/accelerating-your-nvme-drives-with-spdk which should yield an order of magnitude improvement in IOPs.
@alexskysilk, SPDK increases performance as Ceph doesn't need to go through the kernel to access the NVMe drive, but it will not take away the latency from the network. I hope, you may share some benchmarks with us.
Note: SPDK needs its own build packages and is not a straight forward setup, for anyone starting out with ceph.


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Structure, conduct and performance of farm gate marketing of natural rubber in Edo and Delta States, Nigeria
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The study examined the structure, conduct and performance of farm gate marketing of natural rubber in Edo and Delta States of Nigeria. Copies of questionnaires were used on 75 randomly selected rubber farmers. Data collected were analyzed using Gini coefficient and budgetary technique. The results indicated that gross margin and net profit were N17,821.31 and N17,278.47 while the gross margin and net profit per farmer were N62,588.47 and N60,682.00 respectively. The marketing margin and efficiency were 44.03 and 122% respectively. Rate of return was also high. The Gini coefficient analysis showed that the market was concentrated (0.256), showing the possibility of non-competitive behaviour and equality in earnings among marketers. ©2010 Academic Journals.
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Civil Rights Group Sue Ben Carson For Delaying Anti-Segregation Housing Reform
Originally published in The Intercept on October 23, 2017.
A coalition of civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Monday against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its secretary, Ben Carson. The suit is aimed at stopping a move by Carson the civil rights groups say will only further racial and economic segregation.
A policy known as the Small Area Fair Market Rent rule was set to go into effect on January 1, 2018, after years of advocacy, research, and public debate. In August, however, HUD abruptly announced it would be delaying the rule's implementation for two years, claiming that further study was needed.
Brian Sullivan, a HUD spokesperson, told The Intercept that while his office cannot comment on any pending litigation, the delay of the Small Area rule does not represent any change in agency policy. "I gather there are some who believe this is a change of policy, or that it might signal a change in policy, but there is no change in policy," he said. Sullivan also referred to a blogpost HUD posted on August 25 reiterating this point, specifically that the delay was a decision "informed by research" and that waiting until next summer when the pilot's final report is released will allow for more successful implementation.
More than 5 million people in 2.2 million households use federal housing choice vouchers — colloquially referred to as Section 8, referencing the statute that created the subsidies — to help afford rent on the private market. The subsidies, however, are based on metropolitan-wide rent formulas, meaning that many low-income families are often relegated into communities with few job opportunities, poor schools, and high crime. The rule change would have required — or will require — public housing authorities to calculate so-called fair market rents based on ZIP-codes instead.
While tweaking a rent subsidy formula sounds minor and technical, the policy could impact millions of low-income people, especially African-Americans, who represent a disproportionate number of voucher-holders.
"The delay of this rule will have a segregative effect, denying these primarily African-American families who would want to move out of their neighborhoods the chance to do so," said Ajmel Quereshi, a senior counsel with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, one of the groups that filed the lawsuit. "This case is about more than just housing. Of course they hope to live in a higher-quality residences, but it's really about people who want to move to better and safer neighborhoods but they can't because of the value of their voucher. It's about schools and transportation and doctor visits and grocery stores that people want to be able to access to support their families."
One such voucher recipient is Crystal Carter, an African-American woman living in Hartford, Connecticut, and a plaintiff in the suit. Carter had been looking forward to January, so that she could finally move herself and her five children out of their low-income neighborhood into a safer, nearby suburb.
The Small Area Fair Market Rent rule would, in effect, make housing vouchers worth more in more affluent areas, and worth less in poorer communities. As it stands now, most voucher recipients like Carter can't afford to move into nicer neighborhoods because their subsidy isn't large enough to cover rent. Landlords in segregated neighborhoods can, in turn, price gouge their voucher-holding tenants, who have little choice but to pay up.
The lawsuit — brought by attorneys with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Public Citizen, and Relman, Dane and Colfax — argues that HUD's failure to implement the Small Area rule violates the Administrative Procedures Act, the statute which governs how federal agencies propose and implement regulations. The attorneys have called on the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia to temporarily and permanently enjoin the suspension of the rule.
This lawsuit is the latest in a series filed over the past nine months against the Trump administration for violating the act. When Trump's Environmental Protection Agency rescinded a rule requiring dental offices to reduce the amount of mercury they discharged into the environment, anadvocacy group sued, arguing that the EPA violated the Administrative Procedures Act by failing to provide sufficient notice or opportunity for public comment. (The EPA has since reinstated the rule.) When 19 Democratic state attorneys general sued the Department of Education in July forindefinitely delaying rules that would provide increased protection for student loan borrowers, they argued that the department violated the Administrative Procedures Act, again failing to give sufficient notice and time for comment.
"So much about this administration's violation of norms is about pushing the envelope, seeing how much they can get away with before the courts step in," said Megan Haberle, a Poverty Race and Research Action Council attorney involved with the new HUD lawsuit.
The new lawsuit was borne out of an earlier HUD case, filed in 2007 by the Inclusive Communities Project, a Texas-based fair housing organization. The group challenged HUD's policy of setting a single fair market rent for the 12-county Dallas metropolitan region, alleging that its formula violated the Fair Housing Act by effectively steering black renters away from predominantly white areas, and confining them into poorer, segregated ones. The lawsuit was settled in 2010, with HUD agreeing to institute fair market rents at the ZIP-code level in Dallas. In 2014, researchers published an independent study of Dallas's experiment with ZIP-code level rent subsidies, finding that the new policy enabled many low-income voucher holders to move into more affluent communities and at no net-cost to the government.
Fair housing advocates who wanted to see the Small Area rule expanded beyond Dallas kept up pressure on HUD to revamp its policies across the board. The federal housing agency eventually responded by launching a pilot study in 2012, testing the policy in five states. By 2016, HUD had collected enough data to determine that voucher recipients' average neighborhood poverty level decreased after switching to Small Area Fair Market Rents and that the moves were relatively cost-effective.
On November 16, 2016, HUD published its final rule requiring 187 public housing authorities across 24 metropolitan regions to adopt Small Area Fair Market Rents. The metro regions — selected for their degree of voucher concentration and their housing vacancy rates — were given until January 1, 2018, to implement the new ZIP-code-level formula.
Advocates were incensed when the Trump administration pulled the plug a little over two months ago, without offering clear explanation why.
"HUD is required by law to go through a process that opens what it's doing to public comment, to be transparent, and they've shirked that obligation very clearly," said Haberle, the Poverty Race and Research Action Council attorney. "As far as is there a speculative rationale here even if HUD isn't articulating it? No."
Haberle emphasized that HUD's rule drafting process was painstaking, beginning with the Dallas lawsuit, the pilot studies and their evaluations, and many stakeholder consultations thereafter. Moreover, four days after HUD announced it would be delaying the rule, it released its interim pilot report, finding that the Small Area rule was working largely as expected.
The Small Area rule has been opposed by housing industry groups such as the National Association of Home Builders, the National Apartment Association, and the National Multifamily Housing Council. The National Association of Home Builders applauded the Trump administration's suspension of the rule, which they had urged Carson to rescind in a private June meeting.
Under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, HUD carries an affirmative obligation to reduce racial segregation in federal housing programs. As HUD made clear in 2015, this means it must take proactive steps to "overcome the legacy of segregation, unequal treatment, and historic lack of opportunity in housing."
"Violations in every Administrative Procedures Act case sound so boring, but this lawsuit is significant not only because it challenges the way the Trump administration tries to break the law, but also because of what's actually at stake for the people who were counting on access to these vouchers," said Allison Zieve, an attorney with Public Citizen. "This will have a concrete effect on real people who were counting on this."
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Japan enters its rainy season in June starting from the Western half of the country. The rainy season is really humid, making you feel blue.
During such a depressing period, a refreshing blue hydrangea or a beautiful pink hydrangea can make you feel much better. Actually many people look forward to this season to see the beautiful hydrangea flowers despite the annoying humidity.
Hydrangeas must have really good meanings, for it helps us feel better during this hard season. However, they do not seem to have very good meanings.
You may now be curious about its negative meanings that go against its positive image. So, I will explain the characteristics of this flower and its meaning. Here are the 5 key words.
2. Soil ph. Level and growing pattern influences the color.
4. Changes in color and bad meanings.
5. Can you give hydrangea as a present?
The origin of the name for hydrangea is Azusai in Japanese. Azu means to gather and sai means blue flower. Since many blue flowers gather together, hydrangea started to be called Azusai in Japanese. As time passed, the pronunciation Azusai changed to Ajisai, which is currently how people call hydrangea in contemporary Japanese. As you can imagine from the name, this is the reason why you usually see many small flowers blooming together when it comes to pictures of hydrangeas.
There are roughly 5 colors of hydrangea: blue, red, white, pink, and purple. The hydrangea is very unique. The colors can change during its lifetime and the quality of the soil can also influence the colors.
There are other factors that determine the color, but only these 2 have been confirmed. So, how does it differ when hydrangea changes its color as it grows and when the soil has some influence?
Both soil ph. Levels and the growing pattern influences the color of hydrangea. Generally, when the soil is acid, it tends to become blue. When the soil is more alkaline, it becomes red. In Japan, the soil is mostly acid. Therefore, there are more blue hydrangeas. However, the growing pattern also affects the color.
When the flower blooms, it is at first light green, then becomes white, and finally changes into blue or red. Sometimes, you can see several colors in the same plant. This is because the hydrangea absorbs aluminum ions from the soil through its roots. And the amount of ions will determine the color. It seems that there is no simple explanation for how the color is determined.
The meanings for hydrangea is different from those in the West. In Japan it tends to be described positively because the small flowers are all together helping each other. That is why there are so many good meanings such as "friendship", "family bonds", or "peace".
These meanings come from the Japanese way of thinking that value collaboration. However, the hydrangea does not have only good meanings.
As mentioned earlier, the negative meanings exist in Japan from the Westernized meanings. Now let's see some of these.
Hydrangeas change their color as it grows. This changes in color are actually called "shichihenge" or 7 transfigurations. Based on this idea of constant change, negative meanings such as "fickleness", "cheating" or "betrayal" were born.
As you can see, there are both positive and negative meanings. These negative meanings are completely different from the image of having a strong bond, right?
These changes in color do not give us a good impression, but many people are still attracted by its beauty. It would still be nice to be absorbed in the flower's charm.
Since hydrangea has both positive and negative meanings, you should be careful when you give it to someone. Some people only know the negative side of this flower, so it is very important to tell them about the positive meanings. It would be sad to have yourself misunderstood.
If you want to give it to someone old or stubborn, you may want to avoid giving this flower. Also, the hydrangea flower is poisonous. But you can still enjoy it as a decoration. Just be careful not to put a petal in a dish or have someone eat it by accident.
How did you like it? It is important to attach a message to the flowers when you give them to someone because it has completely opposite meanings. Write down the messages of unification or peace when you use them in a wedding ceremony for a married couple.
However, we can also say that it is because of the 7 transfigurations that we can enjoy its beautiful colors.
When you see a hydrangea blooming around a temple or your neighbor's garden stop and observe it. Your mind will be in peace by looking how the small flowers are so close to one another. Maybe you are the next person to fall in love with the hydrangea.


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DOVER, DE – May 7, 2018 – Kevin Harvick took the No.4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Fusion to Victory Lane for the fourth time this season. The horsepower of the Ford FR9 EFI engines powered five Fords in the top-10 on Sunday in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series AAA 400 Drive for Autism.
"The first thing I've got to do is just thank everybody on my team — everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing, Roush Yates Engines, everybody from Ford for just continuing to put the effort that they put into these cars. Three cars (Stewart-Haas Racing) in the top five says a lot about where we are as a company. It was great to see those fans stick around for the finish, but it's fun racing your teammate."
"I would first like to say congratulations to Stewart-Haas (Racing) and Kevin Harvick," said Doug Yates, President and CEO of Roush Yates Engines. "The way the race played out was a testament to all the hard work and dedication our teams have put into the Ford program this year. All the teams have been working hard to get everything we can out of the engines and cars. And to see the Fords running up front was a great sign that we are headed in the right direction."
Harvick started from the front row and controlled the first part of the 400-lap race by leading 201 laps and sweeping Stage 1 and Stage 2. Overall the Ford Fusions led a total of 374 laps; Team Penske teammates Brad Keselowski (108) and Joey Logano (1), along with SHR teammate Clint Bowyer (40), and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. from Roush Fenway Racing (24).
Clint Bowyer was leading the race before a brief rain delay caused a short red flag caution. After the caution, Harvick passed teammate Bowyer on Lap 338 of 400 and did not look back, crossing the start-finish line 7.450 seconds ahead of the Bowyer. SHR had three cars finish in the top-5, including the No. 41 of Kurt Busch in fifth.
In total five Fords finished in top-10; Harvick P1, Bowyer P2, Busch P5, Keselowski P6 and Ryan Blaney P8. With this weekend's win Ford Performance has recorded the sixth points win of the 2018 season and leads the Manufacturer Points Standings by six points.
We will build on this momentum as we go night racing in Kansas this Saturday night. Reference the full 2018 schedule on www.roushyates.com.
14 CHAMPIONSHIPS – 326 WINS – 291 POLES!
*Photos courtesy of NASCAR Media and Ford Performance
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