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Friday, April 12, 2013
Happies and Crappies
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Omg my Blissdom bag is not completely unpacked either lol! I'm heading to Miami next month and watch it will JUST have been emptied haha.ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend xo
i am soooo bad about creating logos. really , haha. i love froyo. i think i deserve it today!ReplyDelete
O M G Cake and brownie batter? Where is this fro-yo place? (you will have to email me because I can't figure out my blogger settings). Also, not looking forward to the rain :( Hopefully I'll be able to sleep in and get another restful and relaxing weekend in the books!ReplyDelete
Froyo...YUM. I could seriously have it every day and not get sick of it. I hope you can find some time to sleep and relax this weekend! You certainly deserve it :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 13, 2013 at 4:01 PM
Mmmm froyo! There's a great spot in Portland that I love to go to. I can't wait to hit it up when I get home!ReplyDelete
I do love me some Froyo. Even though we had a harsh winter, I'd still drop into my local froyo lac once a week... and experience a serious brain freeze, ha!ReplyDelete
Hello! I just came across your blog, and I love it! I've decided to follow you! If you get a minute, I'd love to know what you think of my latest outfit post! While you're visiting, follow along so we can keep in touch! :)ReplyDelete
xo, elle from Living in Color.
You still looking for a logo - I might be able to help with that!ReplyDelete
love the first picture!! and I too am not happy about cold and rain/snow in mid april!!ReplyDelete
I am the worst when it comes to unpacking, this time, Allen said, "unpack first, before you do anything else." Ha! He knows me well!ReplyDelete
Impromptu dates are one of the best bonding moments you can have with your kids. I usually take my daughter out for a fro-yo, but she always picks out a less-than-stellar combination. Hehe! Schedule another. They might choose more exciting toppings and flavors next time. :)ReplyDelete
I appreciate you and hopping for some more informative posts. happy new year 2016 new year 2016 happy new year 2016 images feliz año nuevo 2016 imagenes de año nuevo 2016 feliz año 2016 happy new year images 2016 new year 2016 images new year images 2016 bonne année 2016ReplyDelete


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I knew we were in for a treat when Charleston wedding photographer Kayla Jones sent over Lindsay + MacCrae's February wedding. The ceremony took place at the picturesque Isle of Palms Methodist Church (seriously, isn't it gorgeous?) followed by quite the celebration at Mount Pleasant's Dunes West. Not only did the adorable couple team up with an impressive team of vendors, their guests we're ready to have a good time...and Lindsay + MacCrae gave them just that! Did I mention they did a flash style first dance?!? Impressive, eh?
Charleston Wedding Vendors
Photographer: Kayla Jones Photography / Florist: Ooh! Events / Reception Venue: Dunes West / Ceremony Venue: First United Methodist Church, Isle of Palms / Videographer/music : Complete Music and Video / Cake: Tiffany and Amy Drennan / Gown: Bridal & Formal / Bridesmaid Attire: David's Bridal / Tux Rental: Men's Warehouse / Makeup Artist: Merle Norman / Hairstylist: Bonnie Joly / Invitations : Invitation Consultants

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Have you been to Ruski's? The Danforth St. dive might be the quintessential neighborhood bar. They've got the shabby interior, the ornery wait staff, they open early every day, their prices are reasonable, and the menu says they've been "serving the west end for over 150 years". Sure, I don't remember the day they opened, but I do remember my first visit and I was looking forward to trying my first breakfast this time, hoping that it would be something to remember for a long time too.
We arrived at about 9:30 on a Saturday morning – they opened at 7 – to a modest and diverse crowd. Some patrons looked like they just got out of work and were having cocktails, some brought the family for breakfast, and a few people looked like they were recovering from the night before. We just wanted a morning feeding and maybe a cocktail to begin our day. As I sat, I looked around some at their old decor which I always find interesting. I noted the "Beer – it's what's for dinner" sign and the 25¢ vending machines. I also noticed a board with some drink specials, and though they seemed great, none of them were appropriate for my breakfast.
When the waitress visited, we took a second-long look at the menu and Mrs. Portlandeater ordered a Coffee. When that was delivered, she added a Mimosa and I followed up with a Spicy Bloody Mary. We then looked for something to eat. I wanted both something hearty and something sweet, which is often the case when I venture out of the house for my first meal of the day. My eyes mainly focused on the more expensive items since I was hungry as could be and assumed the pricier meals came with the most food.
Once our drinks were delivered, we were ready to order. I went with the Fill Me Up, Please – 2 eggs, hash and bacon, home fries, toast plus choice of ham, sausage patties, local Italian sausage, or extra bacon. I chose the Italian sausage, eggs over hard, and a biscuit. I also ordered a Single Pancake to cover my yearning for something sugary. She decided on the Just Enough – 2 eggs, home fries, toast, choosing scrambled eggs and grilled English muffin. With that done, I looked over to my bloody to give me some pre-meal juice joy.
The close-to-crimson, cock crow cocktail in front of me was tasty, a little spicy, and otherwise pretty standard. I always appreciate the extras in them and found the pepperoncini, olive, and celery that were included. I didn't plan on consuming the olive and was uncertain about the celery, but I was all about the pepper. I took it into my hands, folded it in half and threw it in my mouth. It had a spice that was a little strong for mid-morning and I realized quickly that it was a harsh way to wake myself up. Though it's not a hard and fast rule, I don't generally eat whole hot – even mildly hot – peppers before noon. Nonetheless, I shook it off and got back to my beverage.
A waitress walked to our table with all the food we had ordered. My meal was huge and though it was hidden under bacon and sausage topped by a biscuit, there was a helping of hash the the size of a fish filet on my plate. What surprised me even more was the the size of the pancake which hid a large portion of the plate on which it was delivered. My wife's meal was a little smaller, but still pretty serious considering it seemed as though it was supposed to be tiny. I could hardly wait to eat as I squirted some ketchup next to my home fries and grabbed my silverware.
My eggs were perfectly over hard and the bacon as crispy as could be, so I was off to a good start. The sausage was sliced down the middle, and though a little less seasoned than I like, was still pretty good and quite a bit larger than expected. The biscuit was flakey and freshly grilled. I saved the hash to try last. It's one of my favorites and a couple bites made the meal feel complete. Occasionally eating it with the ketchup, it mixed well with everything else I had and added to the unnecessary, but appreciated, mass of meat in the meal.
It took a while to get through the gargantuan gastronomic glut that was my plate of food and when I was done, I felt pretty full. I took a moment to let the last bite of animal flesh hit the bottom of my digestive tract and then I remembered it. I slowly turned my head to the left as though I was trying not to get caught staring and the corner of my eye began to catch the pancake. I had nearly forgotten about it, but I knew I could not stop now. I pulled it in front of me, grabbed the syrup on the table, and squeezed enough of it onto the cake to sweeten the flapjack to my standards. Then I put the fork to it like it stole my lunch money. Ahhh…the sweet, sweet taste of a good pancake. There was the fix I needed.
Eating the pancake wasn't easy after all the other food, but I did get a second wind after my first few bites allowing me to get through it all without any serious gastrointestinal discomfort. The wife and I both finished our food and drinks and decided it was time to go home and relax on a day that was expected to be wet and miserable. We paid our tab of $36 before tip and went on our way, venturing outside into the drops of rain. Fortunately, even showers and dark clouds couldn't take away the joy of having had a meal at Ruski's. That happiness would stick with us for hours.
Ruski's has a vibe that is part dive and part super-dive. The crowd there is made up of all kinds of people just looking to enjoy some food and drink where, depending on their mood, they can either not be bothered at all or have a conversion with the person right next to them. The wait staff will get you anything you want, but they might give you that look – you know that look – if you don't ask for it just right. The food is not even close to high end, but always seems to satisfy. It's much better and served in greater quantity than the prices would indicate. And the drinks are solid every time too. If you like dives, Ruski's might as well be Greg Louganis. Go and hang out there for a while. It just feels right.
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If you're a bride and your wedding date is coming swiftly nearer, chances are your stress level is rising quickly. If a few things get cancelled or changed, it can rise even faster.
I was doing wedding photography for a bride recently in Indiapolis, Indiana (USA), and as we chatted a few weeks before the wedding, she mentioned that in her efforts to stay calm and un-stressed throughout the whole process, she had set herself three goals for the wedding, which were:
1. Get married.
2. Have fun.
3. Get great wedding photos!
Naturally I love these three goals, and despite my temptation to shift goal number three into the first slot, I do realise that there is no point in goal 3 if goal number 1 never happens! (And without the success of goal 2, wonderful photos are much more difficult.)
It's very easy to get swamped and frustrated and exhausted when dealing with last minute wedding details. This same bride – the one with the three admirable goals – arrived in the States from Greece only to find that her makeup person, hairdresser, wedding cake, AND flowers had all cancelled on her, a week before her wedding day. As we sat around at the rehearsal dinner the night before, one of her bridesmaids was giving a short speech, and mentioning that all of these had been cancelled. The bride-to-be, sitting happily with her groom, Ed, piped up, "But Ed didn't cancel."
There were cheers, laughter, and a few 'awwww's' that filled the room at that comment. To me it showed Stacie's determination to stick to her goals, and not let these small things weary her or exhaust her or stress her out. Yes, I'm sure she had a few moments where she wanted to tear her hair out (or perhaps that of the flower shop or cake decorator), but she managed to remember that none of these things would prevent her from achieving the three most important things to her on her big day.
Having been part of countless weddings (as well as engagements, rehearsals, and other wedding-related events), I can tell you that by the time the bride is walking down the aisle to meet her groom, suddenly all those things that seemed so critical fade in the light of the bigger picture. Her friends and family are there; she is beautiful; and her groom is waiting. Does it matter so much that there was no pillow for the ring bearer to carry? Or that those extra ribbons weren't put on the flower vases? Or that a few of the fairy lights wouldn't turn on? No, it really doesn't. And when I see the glow of expectant joy on the bride's face as she comes down the aisle, and the laughter when the best man drops the rings, and the triumphant blaze of success on the groom's face when the couple is announced as the new Mr. and Mrs., I realise too that these little things are just that. Little.
So stay focused on the big goals, the important ones. Everything else is just extra.


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Meanwhile, a boy turns nine./
Kid A asked for a cheesecake, and wonders! We are in a town that has a bakery with the greatest cheesecakes! This would not have happened in Goa, or Pokhara Nepal. Nope.
(It got a little muddled on the scooter ride home. But that didn't effect the taste at all!)
At nine, he is an old pro at blowing out candles.
So, he is nine. And he is still exactly the same.
Ever since he has been old enough to grab, he has watched sand run through his fingers, sometimes for half an hour at a time. When he was really little, he would ignore playground equipment and just sit and let the sand run through his fingers.
I'm writing his birthday letter still.
(Our trip was successful! And exhausting. It was like driving from San Francisco to LA, then turning around and driving back. In hours driving, that is. In other ways, it was not at all like that. Because I've never seen albino water buffalo on the I-5, or so many people sitting in the beds of trucks, or quite so many edible bamboo stands.)


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Pastel Nails DIY/
Here's a fun & colourful way to dress up your nails this Summer! These are 3 of my favourite nail polish colours from essie, I've actually almost used up all of the coral colour!
I painted the first coat the night before, if you're layering coats of paint, and using some sort of sticker or tape on your nail, it's better to give it plenty of time to dry so the bottom layer doesn't chip off or smudge with the tape.
I used these easy manicure strips across the center of my nail, they're cheap at any store, and easier than just using tape because they're a bit less sticky, and have a subtle natural curve that matches your nails
Once the second layer is dry, peel off the stickers, and add a clear top cot.
The final and most important step, eat lots of ice cream and popsicles, because it looks so darn cute ;)


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"If you don't have any goals, any path will get you there." "If you want to keep getting what you're getting - keep doing what you're doing."
Coaching is a fast track change model. You are empowered to discover, design and implement the goals that are most important to you.
Changing self defeating and sometimes repetitive thoughts that undermine energy, happiness and self esteem while increasing stress and anxiety. Changing negative feelings that are generated and supported by negative thinking that dampen enthusiasm and steal away joy and fellowship. Changing negative behaviors that sabotage health, longevity and well being.
Developing a Life Vision. Setting and moving toward goals. Aligning goals in order and direction. Devising suitable steps.
Gathering Information. Building Your Confidence. Finding Your Passion. Overcoming Obstacles. Honoring Your Values. Identifying Support Networks.
These are some of the nuts and bolts that I bring to coaching from my 40 years experience. But coaching is all about you, all about where you want to go and what you want to accomplish.
Coaching can be done in my offices, but is most often and most economically done on the telephone.
Decide what might be the first goal you want to achieve. Or which Thoughts, Feelings or Behaviors you would really like to Change.
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We've brought our blog back so that we can show you how to take the projects further by using sensors, alternative microcontroller boards, materials, and programs.Read More
Downloadable Files for Make It, Wear It
The projects in this book have sewing patterns, laser-cutter designs, 3D model files, and software program files available as downloads from the publisher's website. Sewing patterns have a file extension of .pdf and can be printed on regular 8½ × 11-inch printer paper. Designs that can be cut and etched on a laser cutter have a file extension of .svg. These can be read with most laser-cutter software as well as 2D design software. The 3D model files have an extension of .stl. 3D design models are also available on Thingiverse and YouMagine, or you can have the models printed by Shapeways.
3D Printing on Fabric
Our Mimic dresses feature 3D crystals printed directly on fabric, individual addressable LEDs, color sensors and Arduino microcontrollers. Want to learn how we 3D printed on fabric? Check out our tutorials over at Make:
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We were pleased to show our latest project at the 2016 MakeFashion Gala! The Mimic dresses are Chameleon dresses, changing colors in reaction to the environment. The dresses use sensors to measure object colors, changing the color of the dress through LED lights on motifs 3D printed on the fabric. The wearer of the garment controls the color through the use of color swatches.


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When considering how you get vital clinical data that arrives via "paper" (mail, fax, etc.) into the hands of providers quickly, people often say, "oh, we have scanning." But what does that really mean?
Generally, "we have scanning" falls into 2 areas:
We have scanning = we manually enter data and attach the file to the record: This usually means that mail, fax or even e-mailed PDF files arrive and someone (sometimes a dedicated person, sometimes the staff who sees the document first), sits in front of their EMR or other application, enters the pertinent clinical data, and then attaches the file to the record so that the provider can see any other information that was not entered.
We have scanning = our documents are automatically routed and attached to records, but the clinical data is either manually inputted or not inputted at all. Often times, in this scenario, a sophisticated system can read enough information from the document to attach it to the correct patient record so that the provider can access the file, but the clinical data is not entered into fields to allow fora full patient history, trending or full reporting. The provider needs to rely on reading all current and past lab results and other reports to try to get a full picture of the patient. In some cases the data is manually inputted by the same staff mentioned above if this trend/historical analysis is required.
But in reality, there is now a 3rd type of "we have scanning" organization. It is one in which more than 80% of the clinical data fields from lab results and other reports sent from external organizations are captured automatically. The captured information is highly accurate and gives dedicated or clinical staff the ability to easily validate the values before being sent to the EMR or other systems.
In this scenario companies enjoy:
- Quick access to discrete lab results in the EMR or other database
- Significant reduction in data entry time
- Increased accuracy over manually entry as staff has easy tools to simply validate values instead of typing them in themselves
- Complete data being entered from lab results as all data and ranges can be automatically inputted instead of workers inputting only most important items due to time pressures – giving more complete data for better quality of care decisions
- Meeting Meaningful Use requirements for discrete lab results data
It is a system that can be used to enhance your current scanning system, if you have one, or to give you the routing and data entry capabilities that you never had.
So, you say you have "scanning", but is it actually getting important clinical data to where it needs to be? Learn how Aurora Advanced Healthcare reduced the time and effort needed to get important clinical data from non-interfaced lab reports into their EMR so that providers could make the best possible decisions for their patients.
About the author: Ellen Bzomowski
With 20 years of experience in data capture and voice recognition, Ellen's experience has focused on achieving higher efficiency and automation in getting data where it will be most useful to an organization. At Extract Systems, she continues to focus on the same ideas and works to get the word out about how Extract Systems' advanced data capture and redaction solutions make more data valuable and accessible, while securing anything that is private. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University and lives and works in Boston.


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Life insurance is a type of insurance that gives financial security to individuals and their families in case of unexpected death of the earner. The transfer carries out an executive order by President Trump, who mentioned the change would benefit customers as a result of brief-time period, limited-duration insurance is exempt from the onerous and costly insurance mandates and regulations" in the Affordable Care Act.
Notwithstanding something to the contrary in the Policy, it is hereby expressed and agreed that You have voluntarily opted for a Deductible, as specifically appearing within the Policy Schedule, in consideration for a discount in premium quantity payable for this Policy.
If the insured experiences a loss which is potentially coated by the insurance coverage, the insured submits a declare to the insurer for processing by a claims adjuster The insurer could hedge its personal risk by taking out reinsurance , whereby another insurance firm agrees to carry among the danger, especially if the danger is just too massive for the primary insurer to hold.
For example, a home-owner's insurance policy will normally embody legal responsibility coverage which protects the insured within the occasion of a claim brought by somebody who slips and falls on the property; vehicle insurance also consists of a side of legal responsibility insurance that indemnifies towards the harm that a crashing automobile can cause to others' lives, well being, or property.
General insurance compensates for misplaced or destroyed possessions on account of misfortunes like unintended fires, sudden pests, droughts, impromptu strikes, surprising storms, flash floods, theft of one's possessions and many different issues.


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1917, artillery, Austria-Hungary, Battle of Passchendaele, Belgium, Buczacz, Carpathians, Craonne, Delatyn, evacuation, Flanders, France, Galicia, Germany, Great Britain, Kerensky Offensive, Ottynia, prisoners of war, retreat, Romania, Russia, Second Battle of the Aisne, Tlumacz, Trembowla, Ukraine
Russian retreat pivoting on Trembowla; Buczacz, Tlumacz, Ottynia, and Delatyn evacuated, and positions in Carpathians abandoned. Rumanians 7½ miles from their old front, taking another 450 prisoners. Artillery battle in Flanders increasing. Fighting on California Plateau, Craonne region; French repel counter-attacks.


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Web server Administrators have been using the Debug Diagnostic 1.1 to troubleshoot crash\hang issues on IIS 5 and 6. The Debug Diagnostic tool needs no introduction. It is a great tool and it provides you a lot of flexibility in collecting crash dumps for any user mode process running on a server. But as of now, the Debug Diagnostic tool is *not* compatible with Windows Server 2008 and it is recommended that you not use it on a Windows 2008 server because you may get unexpected results. The good news is that the Debug Diagnostic team is currently working on releasing a version that is compatible with Windows 2008, but what to do until that time?
The answer is to leverage the powerful Windows Error Reporting (WER) feature that comes with Windows 2008. You can use WER on a Windows 2008 server to collect a crash dump of any process without any other tools.
The good news is that Windows Error Reporting is enabled by default on every Windows 2008 server and takes dumps of all application crashes on the server. If you have experienced crashes of an IIS worker process, all you have to do is check if there is a dump generated for you already. To do that, please follow these steps.
- Click on Start-> Run and type WERCON
- This will open up the "Problems Reports and Solutions" dialog box and it will look like this.
- From here, just click on "View Problem History" and see if you can find any crashes for "IIS Worker Process"
- You can select the particular IIS Worker Process crash entry and right click on it and choose "View Problem details". This will open up a window like this which will give you an overall idea of the crash.
- To get the dump files for this crash, just right click on "View a temporary copy of these files" and this will copy the relevant .hdmp , .mdmp and version.txt to your local temporary folder. These are the dump files which you can either analyze using WinDBG or send to Microsoft for further analysis.
Windows Error Reporting introduced a new feature (in Windows Vista and above) which lets you create a LocalDumps registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting and then under that you can create a subkey with the name of the executable that you want to take dumps for. This approach had a few limitations as of now. It turned out that :
- This feature works only if HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Auto is set to 0. If Auto is set to 1, the control is given to the debugger specified in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger setting and the debugger decides what to do with the unhandled exception and WER is not given a chance to handle the exception.
- The .net framework version 3.5 and below do not recognize this registry key. This means that if your process has some managed code and if some unhandled exception happens while managed code execution (the exception may be native or a CLR exception), the LocalDumps method will not get you dumps for the process. The functionality inside the .net CLR to read the LocalDumps registry key is added in .net framework 4.0. Because of this limitation, the LocalDump feature becomes less useful for an IIS worker process because most of the time an IIS worker process is running ASP.NET applications or some managed code.
What if WER is not taking the dumps for the process of interest
- If you notice that dumps are not getting generated, you can check the general WER settings on your machine. These settings can be configured at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting. The complete list is available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb513638(VS.85).aspx. I will just include the most relevant ones in regard to taking dumps :
Disabled Should be 0. If this is set to 1, WER will be disabled completely ForceQueue Default value is 0 but you can set it to 1 to ensure that dumps are generated on every crash DisableQueue Should be 0 DisableArchive Should be 0 CorporateWERServer If you want to keep the data locally on the server and don't want the dumps to be moved to the WER server, you can set this setting to a non-existing server in your domain. This will ensure that the data is stored locally on the server. MaxQueueCount Default is 50, You can increase this to a higher number to increase the total number of dumps that will be saved to the ReportQueue(For more information on ReportQueue, refer to this article)
- Another important thing to be aware of while using Windows Error Reporting is that a lot of Windows Error Reporting settings can be configured via group policy. To look at the WER settings on your server, open up Local Group Policy Editor (GPEDIT.MSC) and you will be able to see these settings under Computer Configuration –> Administrative Templates –> Windows Components –> Windows Error Reporting. This is how it looks.
The relevant WER settings defined in group policy will override the local settings. Most of these group policies don't apply to Windows Vista and above. The ones that do apply are
- Disable Windows Error Reporting
(Under Advanced Error Reporting Settings )
- Configure Report Archive
- Configure Corporate Windows Error Reporting
- List of applications to be excluded
- Configure Report Queue
There may be specific reasons why the WER settings are disabled on domain and it is recommended to get in touch with an Administrator before making any changes to the above policies. Explaining these group policy entries would result in a discussion outside of the scope of this post, so I recommend looking at the MSDN documentation for the above policy settings for more information on them.
Windows Error Reporting and ADPLUS
Administrators who are aware of Debug Diagnostic tool may also know about another tool called ADPLUS.VBS that ships with the Debugging Tools For Windows. Though ADPLUS.VBS tool has a -crash switch that lets you attach a debugger to a process in CRASH mode, it is not the best option to use while troubleshooting worker process crashes because ADPLUS doesn't have the ability to auto-attach to a new process. You can only attach ADPLUS to a process which is already running on the machine. This becomes a big limitation for an IIS worker process because a worker process may recycle or shut-down based on what is configured in the application pool settings. Another problem with ADPLUS is that it starts a new window for cdb.exe and someone may accidently close this window which may end up killing the worker process itself.
You may have noticed that WER just lets you generate a crash dump for a process when it crashes and doesn't provide you the flexibility that Debug Diagnostic provides you though (e.g. taking dump on specific exceptions, specific breakpoints, events etc.). If you want to dump your process on a particular exception on Windows 2008 and above, you still have to use the ADPLUS tool. The discussion how to use ADPLUS to troubleshoot crashes for a process is out of the scope of this article.
This is one of the latest additions in the Sysinternals suite of tools. ProcDump is a command-line utility whose primary purpose is monitoring an application for CPU spikes and generating crash dumps during a spike that an administrator or developer can use to determine the cause of the spike. ProcDump also includes hung window monitoring (using the same definition of a window hang that Windows and Task Manager use) and unhandled exception monitoring. It also can serve as a general process dump utility that you can embed in other scripts. I won't spent too much time talking about PROCDUMP in this blog post because we already have another post which talks about this tool in detail - http://blogs.msdn.com/webtopics/archive/2009/08/08/using-procdump-exe-to-monitor-w3wp-exe-for-cpu-spikes.aspx
- Windows Error Reporting (WER) for developers http://blogs.msdn.com/oanapl/archive/2009/01/28/windows-error-reporting-wer-for-developers.aspx
- Using WER: Collecting User-Mode Dumps http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787181(VS.85).aspx
- How to use ADPlus to troubleshoot "hangs" and "crashes" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/286350


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BTS of @donnyzavalaphotography workshop in Oregon, see the entire film on our blog today. It really fires me up when I'm surrounded by such giving and passionate artists, it drives me to become better. I asked him, what is your why when creating these workshops. He tells me, "One of the things that I really enjoy in teaching during my workshops is seeing others bringing their energy and passion for creating ways to improve their business. The give-and-take relationship from teacher to student is something that I don't take lightly. I am professionally and personally invested in every individual in this relationship which fills me and brings joy to my profession. This is a very area that continues to fuel me to teach others as I truly enjoy seeing them succeed." ___ Photographer Workshop Instructor @donnyzavalaphotography #donnyzavalaworkshop Film @outliveweddingspdx Creative Director & Stylist @utterlyengaged Speaker & Workshop Sponsor @photovisionprints Floral Designer & Stylist @selvafloral Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist @kate_tuma Wedding Gown @clairelafaye Suit @duchessclothier Rings @susiesaltzman Paper Goods & Calligraphy @kelseymaliecalligraphy Surface Styling Boards @emma_natter Client albums @priscillafosterhandmade Film sponsor @fujifilm_profilm Model @musemanagement
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iSkool : iSkool is an end to end Education Practice Management System (EPMS) that is committed to revolutionize the education system and let institutions to focus more on their core objectives of education. iSkool provides the institutions with the following benefits that can simplify their administration process and help them in achieving their priorities and commitments.
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Editor's note: The Republican National Convention is not just a "Cleveland thing." Community Update checks in occasionally with cities and counties around the region to share what they are doing to engage, assist and prepare within their communities. Jennifer Kennedy, Interim Director of Lorain County, shares this update.
Why is the RNC Convention in Cleveland important for Lorain County?
The Convention offers people the opportunity to come visit Lorain County. We would love for not only visitors, but Clevelanders as well to come here and enjoy our dining, or adventures like kayaking, zip-lining, or fly fishing. We want people to be able to escape the busyness of the city and to come enjoy the abundant natural resources in Lorain County.
What do you hope to gain in the short and long term?
Lorain County is an area on the rise and is a growing community. We have great shopping, great dining, and amazing access to our 23+ miles of lakefront. We want people to come to spend a day, or the whole weekend here on the beach, and experience everything we have to offer. Our goal is to get people to fall in love with the area, and to come back!
What is Lorain County doing in preparation?
The majority of our preparation includes increasing awareness around our adventures, dining, wineries, shopping, and our vibrant and charming north coast. We have also opened up new lodging and hotels, including the Residence Inn Cleveland Avon at The Emerald Event Center. Furthermore, we have applied for a development grant to create a plan to strengthen our lakefront communities and lake access. We want it to be more cohesive and accessible for walkers and bikers, and strengthen the businesses that surround our beaches.
Who is involved in the efforts?
Avon Lake, Sheffield Lake, Lorain, and Vermilion along with the County Development and Visit Lorain County are all working together, and lakefront efforts are being led by Lorain County Commissioners. Visit Lorain County, Lorain County Chamber, and Lorain County Commissioners have been actively marketing Lorain County for the Convention.
For more information:
Visit www.visitloraincounty.com and follow Lorain County on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
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Drumplings is the vision of Founder Deon St.Mor, a creative powerhouse that has spent his life forging sensory experiences that heighten the senses. From beauty brand MOR Cosmetics to Glamping Hotel St. Jerome's, Deon brings the experience gathered throughout his prolific career to take his customer on another sensory journey like no other – this time, one of taste.
When St.Mor founded MOR cosmetics, he created beautiful formulations and fragrances that were wrapped in incredibly detailed packaging. As a continuation of his personal brand expression, St.Mor wanted to push the boundaries in the creative sphere by infusing global flavours into beautifully hand wrapped packages – the dumpling skin.
With Drumplings, St.Mor desires to offer a new taste experience by connecting people to flavours from all over the world through a delicate, mouth-watering dumpling.
Matched by the charismatic and vibrant space expressed from the brand, St.Mor's sidekick is Jeremy Raven, a culinary expert who has extensively researched the global footprint by traveling to 40 countries, from previously owning a successful catering company and worked on four different continents.
Passionate about the traditions of every food culture, Raven intends to infuse that passion into dumplings, a global superstar in the cultural food landscape.
As Raven once wrote: "I developed my food philosophy by drawing upon very simple and true values, with the unique aim of striving to use locally grown and produced foods wherever possible and to offer the best quality cuisine. To deliver a philosophy, is to understand nature's parameters and be accountable for your choice."
Drumplings offers a visual experience that is fun, street smart and nimble, full of brazen, roguish character that is surrounded by entertaining strangers who are on the run, seeking the treasure they have heard about from afar. It is the ideal place for people who are hungry for something different, delicious and unique but with an old classic favourite.


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Oh, the dreaded inbox. I feel we all have such a love/hate relationship with it!
I'm sure that you've forgotten to follow up with an email (I certainly have). It's just so easy to lose track of a to-do list in your inbox.
There are a few ways to get around this problem. My two favorite solutions are to use Asana and Followupthen.
But Amanda, I don't want to have to keep leaving my inbox to write down tasks for every email!
I am here to tell you that you don't have to!
Today we'll start with Followupthen.
Let's say you are sending an email to a client for them to sign a contract. You want to send a reminder in 1 week. Do you have to go and write it in your calendar or to-do list to check on it within one week? Nope! You will send a bcc to email@example.com and you'll receive an email in exactly one week! It's that easy!
So head over to https://www.followupthen.com/ and sign up for your free account to get started!
Amanda Leigh, with her business savvy tools and upbeat attitude, helps entrepreneurs develop systems that work for, not against them. By setting up project management systems and email management protocols curated specifically for each business, Amanda's dedication to helping others thrive means making sure nothing is forgotten.
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Happy almost New Year! Have you guys started considering New Year resolutions yet? I have ten million. Become a dietitian, save money, blog more, try kick boxing, save more money, become more conscious of sodium, spend more time on myself. Should I continue?
In all seriousness, I have never followed resolutions because I strive every day to be my best self whether that is to eat well or work hard– I try. But, I respect and understand resolutions. I see the importance. A huge tip that I can give you as you decide on your resolution is to make it achievable AKA realistic and detailed. Loosing 20 pounds is a horrible resolution- sorry. Instead think of ways that you can start working towards a healthier body. And why do you want to have a better body, is it to look better, for health purposes? Set your priorities straight.
A great specific resolution is to cut back on sodium and sodium-packed process foods. Sodium causes bloating, weight gain and water retention. And most process foods contain way way too much. Cooking from scratch often helps with sodium control, but we still keep table salt around- and pour it on our dishes (even home cooked ones) to increase flavor.
Now What? Herbs and spices are a great way to reduce sodium as they are packed with flavors. But sometimes you just need some good ol' fashioned salt. So I tried this awesome brand called Salt for Life which is a table salt alternative that is 75% lower in sodium compared to regular table salt.
Salt for Life is a sea salt + potassium blend and I swear you won't even miss regular salt. Plus you get an extra boost of potassium in this (hello electrolytes!) FYI: if you are a gatorade drinker- stop it, it's junk! Mix water with lemon and lime juice with Salt for Life and a little honey. boom.
Okay so let's talk about these cookies! I am obsessed with this salt for table salt so I decided to take it one step further and see how it works with baking. I love salted caramels but god knows how much sodium is in that! So I tried these "Low Sodium Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies"
- 1.5 cups gluten free or all purpose flour
- .5 tsp baking soda
- 1.5 tsp Salt for Life table salt
- .75 cups grade B maple syrup
- .5 cup organic unsalted butter or ghee
- 3 tbsp white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 6 unwrapped Werther's soft caramels (because I cheat sometimes)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
- Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in a bowl.
- Beat maple syrup, warmed butter, and white sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until creamy.
- Beat eggs, 1 at a time, into butter mixture until blended; beat in vanilla extract. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture until dough is just combined; fold in chocolate chips.
- Divide dough into twenty 2 tablespoon-size balls; arrange on a baking sheet. Press 1/4 caramel piece into each dough ball
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, 13 to 15 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool.


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Jan Swasthya Abhiyan Rajasthan Consultation27/02/2018
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During the end of 2005, Prayas set up an advocacy and research unit in Jaipur called Centre for Health Equity. The centre carries out equity related research in health systems and engages in various legislative and executive advocacy.Read more
Centre for Labor Research and Action (CLRA) promotes workers' rights in the vast informal sector economy of India.Read more
We at Prayas have always maintained that we are mere facilitators. We believe that no change is possible unless it is wanted and brought about by the people themselves.Read more...
स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं के संबंध में आज पंचायत समिति में होगी गोष्ठी
Don't shrink budget allocation of free medicines: Rajasthan activists
Rajasthan activists worried over court order on pictorial warning
Rajasthan government spends only Rs 904 per capita on health
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I read that you use a different part of your brain when you learn a second (or third?) language later in life. I wish I could access that part. I know it's there. I just don't do enough homework. I want to learn Icelandic but I have other priorities, chief among them to "finish" my book. So I go to my Icelandic class and flounder and flail - and fail.
I did my homework yesterday, but I didn't learn much. We had been given a recent copy of an Icelandic newspaper and told to pick an item and report on it. We had to translate it, of course, but we could report in English. I made pönnukökur - pancakes - not that I haven't made pancakes before, but Icelandic pancakes are different: thin, like crèpes, and rolled or folded around brown sugar or preserves, eaten at kaffitíma (coffee time), not breakfast. I followed the recipe and had to learn the words for teaspoon, tablespoon, etc., and also to follow metric measurements for the flour and butter, etc. I am still an alien on this planet, have been ever since metric measurements were introduced in Canada. Egg, I'm happy to say, is egg. So I took pönnukökur to class. Frábært! (Great!) But I still can't speak or understand Icelandic and I can't speak or understand metric, either. There must be something I can do. I keep trying every day.


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Centered around an historic house, with roots dating back to the 8th Century.
Deans Court has evolved from a traditional English country estate into an idyllic romantic venue, in picturesque Dorset.
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Easy and personable. No challenge we presented was too great.
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Country Weddings at Deans Court focus on taking away the stress that can sometimes come with planning an elaborately detailed event and instead, keeping the elements which really matter – a fun, relaxed and memorable day to celebrate the beginning of a new life together.


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OuiShare activities consist of building community, producing knowledge and incubating projects around the topics of communities and the collaborative economy, as well as offering support to individuals and organizations through professional services and education.
Started in January 2012 in Paris, OuiShare is now an international leader in the collaborative economy field. A non-profit organization which has rapidly evolved from a handful of enthusiasts to a global movement in 25 countries in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, our network of 50 expert "Connectors" engage over 2000 members and contributors worldwide.


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**Toads and Diamonds-- Heather Tomlinson
Labels: 5 Flowers , Book Review , Squeaky Book
Genre: Fairy Tale
Publisher: Henry Holt
Pages: 288
Amazon Link*: Click here
Goodreads Page: Click here
Diribani has come to the village well to get water for her family's scant meal of curry and rice. She never expected to meet a goddess there. Yet she is granted a remarkable gift: Flowers and precious jewels drop from her lips whenever she speaks.Review: I love that I am reviewing this book exactly one year after it was released. I've been pining after this book for so long, and was SOOOO happy when I finally got the chance to purchase it.
It seems only right to Tana that the goddess judged her kind, lovely stepsister worthy of such riches. And when she encounters the goddess, she is not surprised to find herself speaking snakes and toads as a reward.
Blessings and curses are never so clear as they might seem, however. Diribani's newfound wealth brings her a prince—and an attempt on her life. Tana is chased out of the village because the province's governor fears snakes, yet thousands are dying of a plague spread by rats. As the sisters' fates hang in the balance, each struggles to understand her gift. Will it bring her wisdom, good fortune, love . . . or death?
If it isn't already obvious, I LURV what I call TFT (twisted fairy-tales). There's just something so magical about them. Heather Tomlinson's first book, The Swan Maiden, was one of the first books I ever got from the publisher and I LOVED it, too (though I've gotten much better at reviewing).
What made this book so awesome was how fairy-tale-ish it was. You know fairy tales--they often are comprised of a series of events and obstacles that the MC must overcome. Detail is often sacrificed for plot, or vice versa (depending on the teller). There's usually some romance. And (most recognizably) things either end up happily ever after (usually very suddenly especially using deus ex machina), or everyone dies.
Sound about right?
I pretty much just outlined this book. The sisters are given a challenge and they have to deal with it, going through some crazy stuff along the way. Is the plot super-duper deep? Nah. It's a pretty light story, just like a fairy tale. It isn't like The Goose Girl, which goes into such detail you just feel immersed. Tomlinson creates her own world in which I felt like an observer, not a member. But that was okay with me.
Then there's the romance. It wasn't really flushed out. It just seemed like people fell in love pretty easily. But did that make it fake? No! It was cute and sigh-worthy.
And in the ending everything wraps up nicely. Not all of the questions are answered, but there aren't any gaping holes in the story. I would have liked more (no, I would have loved more) but I was content.
But Tomlinson definitely brought some originality to the tale. I loved the India setting, and the different religious aspects brought in (the religious people AREN'T crazy!). Wonderful twist to this tale.
If you like fairy-tales, you will like this book. It's light, easy, lovable, and wonderfully written.
*I am an amazon affiliate. If you purchase this book using my link, I will get a tiny fraction of the purchase, which goes toward contests.


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Please note that the cars or exhibit items shown in this database are part of our collection but may not be on display when you visit.
In 1969, Matrasports was taken over by Simca which became fully Chrysler-owned in 1970. The Bagheera was introduced in 1973. It has a Simca engine inclined and mounted transversely at the rear, power-assisted disc brakes, and all-independent suspension. The fiberglass coupè body sits on an ungalvanized steel spaceframe. Notice the unusual seating of three in a row–a typical seat for the driver and a two-person bench seat next to it. Apart from their road cars, Matra made a very successful career in racing. This car was Matra's highest volume production car. With a fiberglass body, it weighs about 1,950 pounds.


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For GSS A Changing Cosmos chapter 4. Excerpt: ...astronomers now can precisely measure the distance of stars up to 10,000 light-years away -- 10 times farther than previously possible...employing a technique called spatial scanning, which dramatically improves Hubble's accuracy for making angular measurements. The technique, when applied to the age-old method for gauging distances called astronomical parallax, extends Hubble's tape measure 10 times farther into space. ...Parallax, a trigonometric technique, is the most reliable method for making astronomical distance measurements, and a practice long employed by land surveyors here on Earth. The diameter of Earth's orbit is the base of a triangle and the star is the apex where the triangle's sides meet. The lengths of the sides are calculated by accurately measuring the three angles of the resulting triangle. ...This new long-range precision was proven when scientists successfully used Hubble to measure the distance of a special class of bright stars called Cepheid variables, approximately 7,500 light-years away in the northern constellation Auriga. The technique worked so well, they are now using Hubble to measure the distances of other far-flung Cepheids. Such measurements will be used to provide firmer footing for the so-called cosmic "distance ladder." This ladder's "bottom rung" is built on measurements to Cepheid variable stars that, because of their known brightness, have been used for more than a century to gauge the size of the observable universe. They are the first step in calibrating far more distant extra-galactic milepost markers such as Type Ia supernovae. ...To make a distance measurement, two exposures of the target Cepheid star were taken six months apart, when Earth was on opposite sides of the sun. A very subtle shift in the star's position was measured to an accuracy of 1/1,000 the width of a single image pixel in Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, which has 16.8 megapixels total. A third exposure was taken after another six months to allow for the team to subtract the effects of the subtle space motion of stars, with additional exposures used to remove other sources of error. ...visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble... http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/april/nasas-hubble-extends-stellar-tape-measure-10-times-farther-into-space/#.U0cDuMdGLHQ. By NASA RELEASE 14-104.
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I've known about Pylos, Greece for a long time — but I didn't know I did. I knew it from the 1827 Battle of Navarino. (War for Greek Independence). This was the last major naval battle fought entirely by ships under sail.
The Ottoman Empire's Mediterranean fleet was all but obliterated. There is an obelisk in the town plaza commemorating the battle. It is surrounded by cafes and shops. It was before siesta and lively.
We had hoped to go to the "Palace of Nestor," a dig dating back to the Mycenaean era, but it was closed. So, we spent most of our time just wandering. We wandered out to the fortress (the Neocastro), the site of which arguably dates back to the Peloponnesian Wars given the Athenians fortified the point when driven ashore here (in Spartan territory) by a storm. Out-numbered at the outset, the Athenians won because they were reinforced and captured all the Spartan ruling class warriors who had come south to teach those Athenians a thing or two. This left Sparta with essentially no military leadership, and they sued for peace with great alacrity. Today the graffiti artists have won, and the place is littered with trash.
We wandered around the town square, but the ship fed us so well, it was hard to think in terms of eating anything, and we had an early departure for Sicily planned. We found the post office with a shopkeeper's help — important because this was the last stop in Greece.
After dinner our team, "Windpower," won the Pictionary competition over "Losers and Stupids" (yes, the name they chose for themselves). No surprise there… [We did it again as "Windpower.2" later in the voyage.]
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WASHINGTON — The government has new rules for preventing food poisoning in fresh-cut produce, but companies don't have to follow them.
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Fruit and vegetable-related outbreaks of food poisoning are on the rise and in recent months have struck in spinach, tomatoes, lettuce and cantaloupes.
In the new, voluntary rules, announced Monday by the Food and Drug Administration, fruit and vegetable processors are urged to adopt food safety plans similar to those in the meat industry.
"We've never before formally recommended that the industry adopt regulations such as" the meat industry's, said Nega Beru, director of FDA's Office of Food Safety. "So this is a first."
The difference is that controls in the meat industry are mandatory. Slaughter and processing plants are required to take a scientific look at vulnerable places in the production chain and do constant monitoring of those points. And the Agriculture Department inspects the plants daily.
Food safety advocates and the produce industry are calling for greater government oversight of fruits and vegetables.
The new guidance is "totally unenforceable," said Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an advocacy group.
"While a grower or processor may chose to use the guidance one week, they could choose not to use it the next, and there's nothing the government can do if the grower or processor chooses not to use the standards," she said.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat who heads a subcommittee on food and farm spending, said the FDA guidance "merely tells growers what they already know."
Increasing number of outbreaks
Last fall, an E. coli outbreak in spinach killed three people and sickened nearly 200, and an outbreak of salmonella in tomatoes sickened more than 180 people.
At a field hearing Monday in Wisconsin, Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wisc., said outbreaks are on the rise for many reasons — growing imports, more widespread distribution, lack of inspection and growing consumption.
During the hearing, Tom Stenzel, president of United Fresh Produce Association, pledged to see the guidelines followed in every processing operation in the country.
Fresh-cut produce includes shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes, salad mixes, peeled baby carrots, broccoli florets, cauliflower florets, cut celery stalks, shredded cabbage, cut melons, sliced pineapple, and sectioned grapefruit.
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Using iLife '11: Add Slideshows with Music to Your iDVD Project
Photo slideshows are reason enough to burn DVDs in iLife. You can send an already completed slideshow from iPhoto directly to iDVD or create a custom slideshow in iDVD. You can then rearrange photos, delete slides, or add more images from iPhoto using the iDVD Slideshow Editor, which offers tools for setting the slide duration, assigning transitions, and adding songs from your iTunes library.
If you created a slideshow in iPhoto, select the slideshow in iPhoto and select all thumbnails in the slideshow, and then choose Share→Send to iDVD. iPhoto prepares the slideshow for iDVD and then adds the slideshow to your project in iDVD automatically, or it opens iDVD and starts a new project if iDVD isn't already open. A new button appears with the title of the slideshow as it was in your iPhoto library. You can also send a keepsake, such as a photo book, to iDVD as a slideshow.
To create a slideshow in iDVD, follow these steps:
Click the Add (+) button in the lower left corner of the iDVD window, and choose Add Slideshow from the pop-up menu that appears (or choose Project→Add Slideshow).
A new button, named My Slideshow, appears on the menu shown in the Viewer.
Double-click the My Slideshow button to open the Slideshow Editor.
The Media Browser also switches automatically to the Photos tab.
Drag events, selected photos, or albums directly from the Media Browser into the Slideshow Editor in the order you want for your slideshow.
To add music to your slideshow, click the Audio tab in the Media Browser, browse GarageBand or your iTunes library for a song, and drag the song to the Audio well (the Speaker icon) in the Toolbar section of the Slideshow Editor.
To set the overall volume of the audio, drag the Slideshow Volume slider in the Toolbar section of the Slideshow Editor to the right for higher volume, or to the left for lower volume.
The Slideshow Editor displays the duration of the entire slideshow in the upper center border of its window. You can switch the Slide Duration pop-up menu from Fit to Audio to, say, 10 seconds, and see what the duration of the slideshow would be. When set to Fit to Audio, the slideshow duration is very close if not the same as the song's duration.
To set a transition between slides, choose one from the Transition pop-up menu in the Toolbar section of the Slideshow Editor.
To set the slideshow to play in a loop, or to add navigation controls or titles and descriptions, click the Settings button (with the Gear icon) in the Toolbar section of the Slideshow Editor.
The Settings dialog appears, with these options:
Loop Slideshow plays the slideshow continuously.
Display Navigation Arrows places left and right arrows on each slide that viewers can use to manually control the slideshow with their DVD remotes.
Add Image Files to DVD-ROM copies the individual image files to the data portion of the DVD-ROM in addition to the slideshow being placed on the video portion.
Show Titles and Comments displays each photo's title and comment in the slideshow.
Duck Audio While Playing Movies ensures that if the slideshow includes video clips with sound, the music or other type of audio you added to the slideshow plays at half-volume so that you can hear the video clip.


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Posts by Andrew
Painting by John Moores 2018 artist Pete Clarke added to the Walker's collection
8 July 2019 by Andrew
Artist Pete Clarke blogs about his painting doubt and distance… of lost content, which was exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery as part of John Moores 2018. It is one of two works from the show purchased by the Walker for its permanent collection. The other is David Lock's El Muniria.
Gary Lawrence wins John Moores 2018 Visitors' Choice
26 October 2018 by Andrew
Visitors to the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 have spoken in their thousands and voted for Gary Lawrence's Kos Town Paradise Hotel Front Terrace to be their winner for this year's Visitors' Choice Prize. The dark and deceptive painting won the £2,018 prize, sponsored by Rathbones. Read more…
Martin Greenland – the earlier years
24 August 2018 by Andrew
Cumbria-based artist Martin Greenland won the John Moores Painting Prize in 2006 with his painting Before Vermeer's Clouds. It was not his first time in the exhibition, having been selected for the John Moores several times before that. Here, Martin tells us about those earlier paintings, and how it felt to get through. His thought-provoking blog is an insight into the emotional responses an artist can face, even upon selection.
And the winner is…
12 July 2018 by Andrew
Over 2,700 artists entered the John Moores Painting Prize 2018, of which only 60 are exhibiting after a lengthy process that saw each work judged anonymously. Opening 14 July at the Walker Art Gallery, this year the Prize celebrates 60 years as Britain's longest running painting competition, and today, the John Moores 2018 first prizewinner was announced.
John Moores 2018 prizewinners' shortlist announced
The five prizewinning paintings shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize 2018 have been announced. One of them, selected from more than 2,700 entries, will be chosen as the overall winner of the £25,000 first prize.
Sir Peter Blake marks 60 years of the John Moores with new design
26 April 2018 by Andrew
Sir Peter Blake, Patron of the John Moores Painting Prize and winner of the John Moores junior painting prize in 1961, has created a unique artwork commemorating the 60th anniversary of the competition.
Sir Peter is one of Britain's best known Pop artists who co-created The Beatles iconic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album sleeve, as well as record sleeves for Band Aid, The Who and Paul Weller. In Liverpool, his design of the Mersey Ferry Snowdrop was inspired by First World War dazzle ships. It was one of three designs commissioned by Liverpool Biennial and National Museums Liverpool to commemorate the centenary of the start of the war in 2014.
Look out for his John Moores Painting Prize design across the exhibition media campaign launching late June, as well as on venue banners, leaflets and posters. John Moores Painting Prize 2018 opens at the Walker Art Gallery on 14 July, find out which artists are exhibiting here.
Chinese seafarers drop-in event at Maritime Museum
20 April 2018 by Andrew
Recent visitors to the Merseyside Maritime Museum will have noticed works taking place on the second floor where we're developing what will become the new Sea Galleries. As part of this work, we're looking for help from the Liverpool public to help tell the stories of the city's unique maritime communities. On 26 April there will be a drop-in afternoon focused on finding out more about Liverpool's Chinese seafarers. Deputy Director and Curator of Maritime History, Ian Murphy, talks about how the gallery needs the input from one of Liverpool's oldest communities.
Black Salt at the Maritime Museum
29 September 2017 by Andrew
Black Salt: Britain's Black Sailors exhibition opens today. Revealing the historically overlooked experiences of Black seafarers, the exhibition and the book it is based on – Black Salt: Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships – reveal how Black sailors contended with the dangers and hazards of life at sea, and challenged inequality on board and ashore. The book's author Liverpool historian Dr Ray Costello, blogs about some of the roles those sailors would have had. Read more…
National Museums Liverpool is out and proud!
We commemorate the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality this week with the opening of the exhibition Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity at the Walker Art Gallery. The exhibition brings together a diverse range of artists who have used their work to explore sexuality and gender identity since 1967. Read more…
Lights out, Liverpool! New Maritime drama
5 July 2017 by Andrew
Dave Brown, Education Demonstrator at Merseyside Maritime Museum blogs about the new drama Lights Out, Liverpool! which he devised and performs this Sunday, 9 July.
"The 'U boat peril' was as Churchill himself said the only thing that really scared him during World War Two. But Liverpool and the people who lived through bombing, especially during the may Blitz in 1941, their story was never really spoken about during the war. So I thought to bring the story to life, become someone who lived through it all, both on land and at sea.
Lights Out, Liverpool! is the reminiscences of sailor turned ARP warden, Jim Coleman who worked on the tugs on the River Mersey, before signing onto a tanker to bring much needed supplies back to Britain. Though a fictional character, his experiences are based on true stories that I've weaved together to give visitors a sense of the period during World War Two when Liverpool was a vital link in helping to win the War. Important events that affected the city that Jim talks about include the 1941 May Blitz and Battle of the Atlantic. We also get to hear that despite the challenges of the War, there was a great sense of humour on the docks."
Performances are at intervals from 1.30 and are free, click here for more information.


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As part of my Buy Nothing New challenge, I cancelled my Netflix subscription. Even though I have only had it for a few months I knew it wasn't having a positive effect on my life. Netflix is good at making you watch things episode after episode as soon as the current episode ends the next episode starts loading automatically, ready to start in 15 seconds.
And I am not alone in my preference for watching stuff, it is the number one pastime for Australians. On average Australians spend over 2.3 hours of the day consuming audio/visual media activities i.e. watching television. Over the pond, Americans are at a slightly higher number at 2.8 hours average a day. When you look at these numbers without any context it doesn't seem like much but it adds up.
Remember those 2.3 hours that are spent watching TV per day? Well, it takes time out of other types of leisure such that people spend 1on average 13 minutes on their hobbies, 21 minutes on sport and outdoor activities, 23 minutes reading, and 10 minutes socialising per day. Plus, 2.3 hours a day over the period of a whole year it adds up 839.5 hours total, which equals to 104 working days! Imagine what you can do with all that time. This is where you can carve out the time to relax, to see your favourite people, or work on your art, anything that you have been meaning to get to. However, doing is not always as easy as saying.
"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room & read a good book." – Groucho Marx
I am no Groucho Marx, I like sitting down to watch a well-directed film, I love documentaries and I have a soft spot for BBC period dramas. I know from experience planning my viewings work out to be a much better experience. When I moved out of home two years ago, I decided to not get a TV for the new place. Often, watching a movie or a show was the default when I lived at my parent's home. I would watch TV after school and work. The reason for that was because I had not planned any other fun or relaxing activities after the working day and TV was just what was there. Often what I watched then wasn't even good, it just happened to be on - just noise to fill the void.
The trick with watching less TV and using the time from the efficiently seem to make sure you have replacement activities as well as planning in advance. In the two months without Netflix, I have been writing more, reading, going to the beach, and have started meal prepping in the evenings that have now been freed up. I am also planning to source a second hand Scrabble set, so I can have Scrabble nights.
How to Quit Netflix (plus some other screens) and Do Awesome Stuff
Step 1. Cancel your subscription to Netflix, your cable, and give or sell your TV.
Step 2. Now to fill the void with an activity that is good for you because sitting still in silence is hard, especially if you have avoided it all your life. These activities can include going for a walk, exercising, getting enough sleep, meditating, sewing, writing, learning a new language, practicing your music, making art, spending time with your loved ones, learning to make stuff (i.e. food, furniture), starting a business, or starting a revolution, your choice.
Step 3. Plan what you really want to watch. Now that you are only watching things because you want to and not because you are bored you can be really selective and make the most of it. Watch documentaries in the areas that you have always been interested in, or the films by your favourite director, or TED talks. One thing that I have been enjoying lately is watching my childhood favourite cartoon in French so I can improve my French and watch something I enjoy.
How about you? Do you watch TV or have you stopped watching for a while? What would you like to do if you if you had just a little bit of free time? I would love to hear your thoughts!
With love and simplicity,


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — On a recent Saturday afternoon, John Toppel, a retired Hewlett-Packard sales manager, did not spend his leisure time golfing or mowing the lawn. He spent it at a local electronics store extolling the virtues of H.P. laptop computers to customers.
He was not paid by the store or by Hewlett-Packard, for that matter. Mr. Toppel, 62, left the technology company four years ago, but he remains a volunteer cheerleader for H.P., one of thousands of its retirees whom the company is trying to galvanize into an auxiliary army of senior marketers, good-will ambassadors and volunteer sales people. None of them get paid; they do it, they say, because of their affection for the company.
"I feel like I have two marriages: a wonderful marriage at home for 36 years and a wonderful marriage at H.P.," Mr. Toppel said. "I guess that's now a former marriage, but I still have strong feelings for it."
Across the country, companies are making use of retirees as part-time or temporary workers. They are taking advantage of not only their expertise, but also their desire to stay involved and engaged with the world through work.
Hewlett-Packard's twist is particularly unusual in Silicon Valley, where long-term company loyalty is as rare as a pinstripe suit. Here, people switch jobs and companies on Internet time, chasing the latest technology developments and the chance to cash in stock options or catch an initial public offering.Continue reading the main story
But Hewlett-Packard, founded in 1939 before there even was a Silicon Valley, has tens of thousands of alumni, many who spent decades at the company, based in Palo Alto, Calif. Old-timers express a familial loyalty, telling stories of eating meals and drinking coffee with the founders, David Packard and William Hewlett, or receiving a baby blanket from Mr. Packard's wife, Lucile, on the birth of a child.
In a move it says reflects a renewed emphasis on grass-roots marketing in the Internet era, Hewlett-Packard is seeking to turn its retirees into a valuable asset that other, younger tech companies lack.
"We're moving forward with an effort to capitalize on the fact we have these great brand stewards," said Michael Mendenhall, chief marketing office of Hewlett-Packard. "When you look at the importance of great word of mouth and great third-party endorsement — who better to do that than your own employees?"
Mr. Mendenhall appeared last Monday at the retirees' annual gathering with Hewlett-Packard's chief executive, Mark Hurd. They urged more than 500 retirees who had gathered at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. — hundreds more watched over the Internet — to do volunteer sales, join local alumni clubs, get involved in legislative issues the company cares about and represent Hewlett-Packard in philanthropic and community events. The company's goal is to inspire involvement from as many as 40,000 retirees.
Mr. Toppel, who did a recent stint as a volunteer salesman at Circuit City, said he gladly is participating because he feels great loyalty to the company. He and others also say they still own shares in the company, giving them a financial incentive to contribute. And, Mr. Toppel said, the company is giving a renewed sense of purpose to retirees.
"It makes them feel good, makes them part of it, makes them feel wanted," said Mr. Toppel, who spent 31 years at Hewlett-Packard and now is a professor of management at the business school at Santa Clara University.
The idea of encouraging retirees to work for free has inspired some criticism. Susan Ayers Walker, founder of SmartSilvers Alliance, which offers consulting services to business looking to connect with older consumers, says she is offended that Hewlett-Packard can't find some way to compensate volunteer workers, particularly salespeople.
The company said participation is the reward. "It's about being part of the H.P. community and its rich heritage," said Mr. Mendenhall. "That's what they get."
Their involvement can be bittersweet, say some of Hewlett-Packard retirees. The oldest among them — now into their 90s — are the last of the generation that helped build Silicon Valley, watching it evolve from endless fields of almond, plum and cherry orchards into laboratories, semiconductor companies and software makers.
They also are workers from a bygone era of paternalistic employers that promised lifelong employment. That era is largely gone across the country, including at H.P., which broke a tradition of avoiding layoffs and has terminated more than 30,000 workers over the last five years.
The contrast between the Hewlett-Packard of yesterday and the typical Silicon Valley company of today is especially pronounced, said Joe Schoendorf, 62, who spent 18 years at H.P. and is now a venture capitalist. "If I look at a résumé today, it says two years at Netscape, two years at Google, two years at Amazon, and then Facebook. That used to be a bad résumé that meant the person couldn't keep a job," said Mr. Schoendorf. "There is no institutional loyalty."
Leslie Berlin, a project historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford, said the ethos has probably changed today at Hewlett-Packard, which now has 172,000 employees. But in Silicon Valley's history, the loyalty engendered by Hewlett-Packard stands alone, she said.
"This is quite a unique phenomenon," she said. "They represent the collective past of this place," she said of the older retirees.
To be sure, companies like I.B.M. and Lockheed Martin have loyal retiree groups. So do relatively newer entrants into the Valley's economy and culture, like Intel. A tight-knit network of retirees in the area, alumni from places like SRI International and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center who helped build the Valley, have an enormous sense of tradition. But they often are tied not to a company but to their work on specific projects or technical standards.
In the case of Hewlett-Packard, retirees talk about how the company treated them with respect. The company was, historians say, the first to adopt flexible work hours, and it put an early emphasis on ideas rather than titles.
Last Monday, Chuck Ernst, 91, a former customer service manager, attended the retiree meeting with Frank Musso, 75, who spent 25 years at H.P. They said they might not have too much time or energy to get involved in volunteer projects, but they liked the way the company was reaching out. They said the company's embrace of its retirees started in earnest several years ago and has been intensifying.
"H.P. wants us to feel connected, and they're doing all this work to keep us connected," said Mr. Ernst. He said he thought the company probably ought to pay retirees to get involved in sales, but it's not something he feels strongly about. "We're proud of the company, and we don't hesitate to let people know it."
Some former employees also do not hesitate to let the company know how it might do better. One of them is Art Fong, 88, who joined Hewlett-Packard in 1946 after being recruited by Mr. Hewlett over a spaghetti dinner. Every few years, Mr. Fong sends the company a technical suggestion, as he did on the day of the retiree meeting.
"I suggested some improvements to their new TVs," said Mr. Fong, who spent 50 years at the company, 40 of them full time, and, thanks to stock ownership, retired a wealthy man.
He said he has another suggestion for the new Hewlett-Packard: "Be nice to your employees. Treat them like family."Continue reading the main story


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the positive alternative
Just another day, another year, another afternoon hanging out with people from situations so different to me. Listening to teens and pre-teens talking about kittens and pumpkins and whatever current teenage band obsession; listening to them talk about fights in the refugee camps, deaths and ethnic feuds and hurricanes. Trying to keep up, this bouncing between worlds I sort-of know and worlds I know nothing about. Eventually, they turn to me and ask: so, what about your history? As nonchalantly as you please. I can't think of any story that would make sense in light of what they just spilled out, hands full of candy, mouths full of braces. My history? I say, stalling for time. It's pretty different from yours. But like yours, there was some very sad stuff. And just like yours, there was the wonderful. //
When I was 13 I started an evangelical punk band. I taught myself the bass guitar, rounded up a few older kids from the youth group (plus my older sister, who looked and sang like a young and sanctified Gwen Stefani). We practiced in the church auditorium, in the strip mall, where my dad was the pastor. We wrote songs about God, and relationships, and sin. We covered a lot of MxPx. We toured all the Christian coffee shops in Northern California. We opened for a few big Christian bands, we played with other young kids such as ourselves. We played terrible music, the same three chords over and over again. One time the local paper interviewed us. Christians! Punks! Extremely Young! It's hilarious in retrospect, but it's true. The article ended with a quote from me, thinking I was being extremely sage: "Christians can be punk rockers too". I cut my hair like a boy and died it various shades of orange, wore yellow-tinted glasses and dog chains around my neck. I was serene, calm, and in control with my bass guitar in front of me. I sang my back-up vocals with a surety in m voice, keeping my band on task at all times. I was a missionary, was the thing. I had dreams of Russia or China or Africa; of being a martyr, of going out in a flame of glory. But when I was young, it was the punk rockers that was my field, and I threw myself into that world with abandon, all for the sake of saving others.
In many ways, I have nothing but kindness in my heart for my 13-year-old self. I had a lot of chutzpah. I didn't know how to not be myself: nerdy, intense, evangelical in every way. I didn't know that doubts would come, and that they would only strengthen me; I didn't know what a relatively charmed and secure upbringing I had experienced, a true minority in a world of exiles.
But mostly, I feel kindly towards myself because I didn't know what the love of God truly looked like. I thought it had to do with being pure, and righteous, and feeling assured of where I would go in the afterlife. Of having the right answers, of being comfortable on the winning side, of logic and reasoning and plain common sense. It was a safe, cozy, love--one that I had experienced from my first day on this earth. I sang songs about a consuming fire, but in my mind it was more of a warming glow.
What is my history? I was born in the church, I grew up in the church, I remain in the church. I used to dance and scream and shout for the Lord, surrounded by sweaty teenagers just like myself, people who were complicated and grew up in an alternative universe, one that was touted as being positive, sometimes to the point of being saccharine. We all had different experiences, but it was all strangely interchangeable: the concerts, retreats, books, music, youth pastors--we were all told of the love of God, in a way that the young and the privileged can understand.
The necessary shatterings throughout the years have been a form of kindness in of themselves. But I am grateful still for my history, my young hungry heart. When I was 13, resolute and happy, the underpinnings of a belief in a very good God was cemented in me, deep into the very core of who I was.
In many ways, I miss those years. Of being so happy, of feeling so right. The older I get, and the more I experience the love of God, the wilder and woolier it all seems. Because the flip side of love is grief; for every revelation I have of how I am perfectly loved just as I am, I get a flash of the grief God experiences over the injustices of our world--his children being raped, being killed, being herded like cattle in refugee camps. His love for me has led me to say yes, when I really would have wanted to say no. His love has led me to couches and apartments and classrooms of the hurting, stories washing over me, I don't know how much more I can bear. That love, that sorrow and joy so inextricably linked, it burns. Not the fiery glow of the martyr, but a thousand little deaths, a thousand tiny resurrections.
By His wounds we are healed, the scriptures say. He was wounded for us, and it was love that led him there. And the deeper I walk towards obeying and loving Christ, the more wounded I feel. Because He never once promised us safe. He never once promised us security. Instead, He promised us his kingdom, where there are more miracles and traumas than I ever thought possible.
It is a tender place to be.
This is for all of our dear, earnest 13-year-old selves.
My dear friend Addie wrote a book, about her own years in the wilds of evangelical subculture, of growing up in our ghetto. This girl is a legitimate writer, her words layered upon themselves, full of reflection and honesty and kindness. Her book comes out today, and I am telling you to go out and read it. You can read a few sample chapters here and here. Or, order it online (or ask your local bookstore!)
Linking up with the synchroblog here.


text: Press Release F5 Helps Deliver Low Cost Cloud Services for Illinois School Districts December 06, 2010 F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced that IlliniCloud, a non-profit cloud computing organization, has deployed F5® solutions to help deliver cost-effective cloud services for public and private schools in Illinois. Formed in 2007, IlliniCloud provides cloud services that help Illinois schools run critical applications ranging from school administration and disaster recovery services to student performance tracking and video hosting. Because it is a non-profit organization, IlliniCloud can focus on delivering low cost services to schools. Its use of F5 solutions has reduced application delivery services costs for school districts by as much as 70 percent compared to the cost of providing capabilities in-house, and has cut their need for expensive Tier 1 storage by as much as 85 percent. Building a cloud environment that can scale to meet the needs of 860 public school districts (as well as any private or parochial schools choosing to participate) required capable, cost effective management tools. That's why IlliniCloud turned to F5® solutions, including BIG-IP®products for application delivery services and server load balancing, and ARX® products to virtualize storage resources and provide policy-based file management for added efficiency. "The BIG-IP devices provide the server redundancy we need, and they have been very easy to set up, maintain, and support," said Jason Radford, System Administrator of the Bloomington, Illinois school district where one of the IlliniCloud data centers is located. "And ARX provides such cost savings, I wouldn't run a data center without it. It's allowed us to really hold down storage costs by automatically moving files to lower cost storage tiers as the data ages or otherwise becomes less critical." IlliniCloud's infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution runs dozens of specialty applications for school districts. Districts use IlliniCloud's software as a service (SaaS) capabilities to run email as well as data collection, retention, and analysis applications to track student performance and perform other academic and administrative services. The organization's backup and data storage services have helped school districts address data growth of up to 200 percent per year, and its disaster recovery services now provide schools with reliable data protection and recovery capabilities. As IlliniCloud continues to provide more services throughout Illinois' 860 school districts, it hopes to expand its use of F5 solutions to provide statewide network load balancing, data optimization, and storage tiering capabilities. "IlliniCloud provides the unique opportunity to address many of the existing distinctions or funding inequalities between districts by providing low cost, vendor-neutral cloud services to any district that wants them," added Radford. "With F5, we have a solution partner who can help us provide the highest level of services at the lowest cost, and who will be there with us for the long haul as our needs evolve." For more information about IlliniCloud, please visit http://www.illinicloud.org/. Bloomington School District will be presenting its cloud strategy, including its use of F5 solutions, on Wednesday, December 8 at the Gartner Data Center Conference 2010 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. F5 Networks will also be exhibiting at the conference in Booth #44. About the Gartner Data Center Conference 2010 The Gartner Data Center Conference is the most comprehensive compilation of sessions and advice on the future of the data center ever held. It offers the latest actionable insights and best practices in all areas affecting the data center—real-time infrastructure to servers and storage to business continuity and disaster recovery. Additional information is available at www.gartner.com/us/datacenter. About F5 Networks F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5's flexible architectural framework enables community-driven innovation that helps organizations enhance IT agility and dynamically deliver services that generate true business value. F5's vision of unified application and data delivery offers customers an unprecedented level of choice in how they deploy ADN solutions. It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources, streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global enterprise organizations, service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 content providers trust F5 to keep their business moving forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com. You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html. F5, BIG-IP, and ARX are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. TAGS:


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