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Yes, there are many areas and modules within SAP. But you can simplify your focus by understanding this: your chances of breaking into SAP are greatly increased if you can target the area of SAP that would give your current skills the greatest "leverage." For you, the most relevant area of SAP is the Basis specialization. "Basis" is basically SAP's proprietary phrase for technologies that pertain to systems administration, performance tuning, software installation and support, security, and DBA functions. Often there is an "EAI" component as well, as the Basis administrator helps to ensure the overall systems landscape is "open" and that SAP is communicating effectively with third party software programs through whatever messaging systems or exchange protocols are being used. For some Basis folks, there can be a heavy DBA expertise, for others, the database knowledge is less deep. Obviously, the term "Basis" is kind of a catch-all that covers more skill areas than any one person can master. One way to look at it is to think of Basis jobs as encompassing all the major SAP technical skills EXCEPT for programming. Clearly, from the general Basis description I've provided here, many of your current skills would be relevant to SAP Basis positions. If you go into SearchSAP.com's career section and type the keyword "Basis" into the job search function, you can scroll through a number of Basis jobs that will give you further insight into the types of skills that are required and the types of technical backgrounds companies are looking for.
Of course, in today's highly competitive SAP job market, identifying the area of SAP you are going to target is only a starting point. You still have to get that opportunity. The good news is that the Basis job market has held up, at least to a degree, during the "outsourcing" craze, because it's a lot harder to outsource your technical landscape than it is to outsource a programming assignment. Although the jobs are out there, you will find that SAP hiring managers are going to expect a lot more SAP experience than you currently have. That may prompt you to consider getting training and certification, but if you've read my previous columns, you know that certification is no guarantee of an SAP position - far from it. Your best chance, as loyal readers know by now, is to be hired by an SAP user that finds your current skill set relevant. Don't worry if your job is not SAP-specific. With your technical skills, if you get on a major SAP project, your work should at least touch on SAP, and hopefully, over time, it will bring you closer to pure SAP roles. Training and certification may help you in that transition, but more in terms of providing know-how that you may be able to draw on when the time is right. Keep in mind, however, that as you think about breaking into SAP and increasing your knowledge base, you should not only master the Basis toolkit, you should also be learning everything you can about the Web Application Server and NetWeaver, SAP's "next generation" technical architecture that will gradually replace most Basis functions. I'm not going to go into detail about that technology in this answer, but I have addressed these topics many times in previous responses which you can scroll through.
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One of my long standing goals is to always pay as little as possible in airfare. The latest tool to achieve that end is Farecast which tracks airfares over time and lets you know if you should buy tickets for a trip now or wait for prices to drop. There's a lot of received wisdom about when you should buy tickets, but Farecast uses quantitative analysis to make predictions about how to best time your purchases.
I'm anxious to apply it to my future ticket purchases. (The search interface is really nice as well, comparable to the one provided by Kayak.)
On the other hand, given the idiotic flight security rules, I'm not exactly eager to fly at all.
One thing I'll be interested to observe is whether Farecast will end up being a force for change in how airlines price their tickets. Airlines profit through obscurity, but Farecast could wind up making the pricing strategies of the airlines more transparent.

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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
You child will find out how his tongue works while watching this video.
Your child will watch this video and will learn how sugar works in the body.
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Your child watches a clip from Earth to Luna in which she learns about constellations and stars.
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You child watches a video from the BBC about a male bird of paradise which tries to impress a female through an original dance.
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First things first: I'm sorry if I had you all craving chocolate at your desks yesterday!
Any top chef fans out there? Though my loyalty to the show wavered significantly when they awarded the title to season 5's aging frat boy, Hosea, I'm still a devoted fan. I've actually been enjoying this season. I'm rooting for Angelo. Why? Because he's arrogant, and arrogant cheftestants are by far the most fun to watch. I still miss Stefan like crazy.
A cheftestant who I didn't much like was season 3's Sara: I thought she was whiney and childish. But if I'm correct, she did make a cool "upscale barbecue" dish at the start of the season, which was really just a spin on a familiar favorite: grilled beef lettuce wraps. (To be fair, I'm sure that I'm ignorant of the nuances of this dish, and that there are many varieties out there that I'm not aware of. So perhaps grilled beef lettuce wraps aren't really the same as what Sara made. But work with me here.)
If you google "Asian lettuce wraps," you'll get a whole lot of recipes that look vaguely similar. They all involve lettuce cups (obviously), and most of them also involve a layer of rice, a layer of cucumbers, and a layer of beef–either ground beef, or grilled beef strips. This is one of the many dishes I discovered post-veganism, so I've never actually tried the original version, but I have to say that, if we can somehow ignore the whole beef thing for a moment, these guys look like my cup of tea. They're simple, tasty, semi-raw, and feature clean ingredients and flavors. All of my favorite thigns.
So, when I found myself with some jicama on hand a few nights ago — jicama being the vegetable I most enjoy using as a raw "rice" base — I thought, wouldn't it be easy to rawify and veganize Asian lettuce wraps? All that needs to go is the beef, really; these can be made with jicama "rice," but regular rice would work nicely, too.
Here's the dinner that resulted from this little moment of brainstorming. It was one of my favorite raw entrees of the past few weeks: a little sweet, a little spicy, and easy to make, if you put aside 8 hours of time to marinade your vegetables. It would also be a fun dish to serve with company: if you doubled the quantity, everyone could enjoy the process of assembling their wraps, and you could definitely add to or vary the toppings. Sky's the limit!
Raw Vegan Asian Lettuce Wraps (makes 4 wraps, and serves about 2)
For the marinated cucumbers:
1 small cucumber, very thinly sliced
1 tbsp rice wine vinegar
1 tbsp agave syrup
1 tsp nama shoyu or tamari
1 tsp sesame oil
Healthy dash red pepper flakes
Mix all liquid ingredients with the cucumber and add red pepper to taste. Let marinate for at least 8 hours. When you're ready to use them, they'll look like this:
1 extra large portobello mushroom, or two small, sliced into strips
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp nama shoyu or tamari
1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1/2 clove garlic, minced (if you like! I don't like, but lots of people do)
Combine all iquid ingredients and garlic if you're using it, and submerge the mushroom strips into the marinade. Let sit in the fridge overnight or for eight hours, flipping the mushroom once or twice.
1 medium/large jicama, peeled and cubed
1.5 tbsp mirin. If you don't have mirin or can't afford it, use 2 tsp agave syrup instead
1.5 tbsp rice wine vinegar
1) Chop jicama in a food processor till it resembles "rice." Remove it, and squeeze it through a nut milk bag, cheesecloth, or simply some paper towels to release a lot of excess moisture.
See? I just used paper towels. When you're done, it should be relatively dry and crumbly.
2) Mix jicama "rice" with mirin and rice vinegar. If you think it needs salt, add a dash or tamari or nama shoyu.
For the wraps:
4 large butter lettuce leaves
To assemble the wraps:
1. Prepare the marinated cucumbers and portobello, and let sit overnight (or for eight hours) in the fridge.
2. Prepare the jicama "rice."
3. Before you're ready to eat, lay out the butter lettuce leaves. Top your first with some of the jicama rice, some of the cucumber (you'll obviously want to remove them from the marinade!), and then a few strips of the mushroom (ditto!). Repeat with the three remaining lettuce leaves, and add any leftover fillings to the others, so that you have four fully loaded wraps. Enjoy!
See how cool they are?
A perfect, flavorful bite.
To go along with my wraps, I threw together a simple summer salad: 1/2 cup of garbanzos, 1/3 cup cucumbers, sea salt, lemon, fresh dill, olive oil, and 1/2 cup of the best cherry tomatoes I've ever eaten–no joke!–fresh from the farmer's market:
This salad almost vied with the wraps for the starring role in my dinner. But in the end, the wraps won:
What a fresh, easy meal! And perfect for this week long heat wave we've had.
Hope you guys are interested in giving this dish a shot. As I said, you could absolutely use a cooked grain if you don't have a processor to make the jicama "rice," and you can use any number of sauces, marinades, or veggie toppings with it. As with all of my favorite meal ideas, this isn't a recipe so much as it is a template for you to run with.
I'm pleased to say that, as of last night, my internet is back up and running. I'm even happier to say that, at this time tomorrow, I will be wandering the streets of San Francisco!
A few words about the genesis of this trip: as you all know, I have a best friend. Her name is Chloe. Chloe and her husband, Knud, live in New Orleans. This is sometimes cool, because I get to visit The Big Easy, but most of the time it's rather sucky, because I miss having Chloe nearby. Whenever she and I have a chance to hang out, I grab it. Chloe and Knud were supposed to come to NYC for Labor Day, but they realized that tickets to San Francisco were even cheaper, so they booked a weekend there. When I learned about this change in plans, there was only one thing to do: follow them.
This will be my first trip ever to the west coast (east coaster that I am, I've never been further west than Chicago), so I'm very excited. Most of all, I'm excited to eat at some of San Fran's amazing vegan restaurants, to visit its markets, to hang with my favorite girl crush, and to hug Chloe so often that she wants to strangle me by the time we leave. (Get excited, bun.) Some of you have asked if I'm planning a blogger meetup: to be honest, this is such a short weekend (2 full days, 2 travel days), that I really want to devote most of my time to being with Chloe and Knud. But I do have plans with some friends who I've made through blogging, and vegan dining aplenty is of course on my agenda. Get ready for some serious food porn!
I'll check in tomorrow, then, from The City by the Bay. Have a great afternoon!


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And the ones who made it possible to have the feeling its worth doing all of this. You. Your comments and feedbacks are very important to me. To hear you like what I'm doing makes me happy. Thank you for you time!
And I want to say thanks to all the partners, who cooperated with Bonsoir Chérie. I'm still honoured to work with so many great companies. Thank you for your confidence.
Some of my most wonderful moments during my time as a blogger. I could post tons of images.
But all I want to say is: Thank you!
Some wonderful days in Paris, when some of my favorite pictures where made. Thanks to the boy who made all those wonderful pictures from the article Ballet de Paris.
Days in Berlin - a city where I spent a lot of time. Last visit was in january for my very first fashion week outside of switzerland.
Sneakerness in Paris. Staying in the most amazing rooftop apartment in whole paris, with the most adorable hosts.
First Pictures made with a my new canon, an very happy about the quality.
Pictures after a wonderful working day with an amazing team. Thank you Fabian!
Meeting Kristina Bazan at the Stylight Afterparty.


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Davis scores again. The orchestra plays with the enthusiasm of discovery and without a single moment of uncertainty or poor judgement.
To read the complete review, please visit American Record Guide online.
Though Colin Davis has been an advocate for English music throughout his long and honor-filled career, he has until recently been better known on disc as a champion of Berlioz and Sibelius. In 2002, LSO Live released concert recordings of the two Elgar symphonies and the Payne elaboration of the Third, to mixed reviews in Fanfare (26:1 and 26:2). Davis has also recorded a somewhat diffident Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn on DG, and an Enigma Variations, also for LSO Live, that Peter Rabinowitz found praiseworthy, though hardly a revelation. With the London Symphony, Davis was working with an orchestra that could play Elgar in its sleep, so I didn't have high expectations for this recording with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, in the first year of his directorship. I am pleasantly surprised. While this is not going to be anyone's recording of choice in a crowded field, it is a distinctive view of the work, suffering only slightly from the stiffness of unfamiliarity. The energetic sections have an appealing vigor, lines are always kept clean and well balanced, and Davis's hallmark precision is generally an asset. Only in the more nostalgic sections toward the end do things get sluggish or literal. The Nimrod variation, for instance, starts out beautifully hushed, but does not fully realize the throat-catching surge of the climax. The BGN variation is taken too slowly, undermining the essential wistfulness of the cellist's portrait. The tempo of the Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage quote in the Romanza is even more drawn-out, suggesting that Elgar was seeing Lady Mary Lygon off on the Titanic. Fortunately, Davis brings things back with a vigorous EDU variation that leaves one with an overall positive impression.
It was, in any case, for the Vaughan Williams that I chose to review this release. Davis has never commercially recorded a Vaughan Williams symphony, though a powerful concert performance of the Fourth was released by the Boston Symphony in its Centennial box. His The Lark Ascending, on the Hahn disc, is the only piece by this composer that Davis has conducted for the microphones, and that is different meat altogether. The Sixth, like the Fourth, is Vaughan Williams in militant mode, and this live recording from 1987 is the most harrowing performance of the work I know. As with the Elgar, there have been more characteristically British recordings—Boult effectively created the hallmark unsettled jauntiness of English performances—but the angry muscularity and concentrated malice that Davis draws from his Munich forces is an arresting alternative. Even that romantic transformation of the first movement's second subject—noble and warm-hearted in most recordings—does nothing to ease the tension. Vaughan Williams denied that he intended any commentary on postwar angst, but here is the embodiment of the post-apocalyptic view of this work. The central section of the Moderato suggests hopelessness in the face of the violence that surrounds it, and the final Epilogue moderato is more icily devastating than any other performance on disc; not quite pianissimo until near the end, but perfectly impassive. Only a few disappointments: The English horn solo at the end of the second movement is lumpish, and the saxophone solo in the brutal Scherzo misses the irony of the jazzy interruptions; unfortunate, but not major detractions.
The sound is excellent; rich and detailed with a wide dynamic range. With the exceptions noted, the orchestral execution is exemplary. Though of only passing interest for the Elgar, this disc is an essential acquisition for serious collectors of RVW recordings, and presents a perfect argument against those who still maintain a "cowpat school" image of this intensely expressive 20th-century composer.
Sir Colin Davis's live recordings of Elgar's symphonies were amongst the earliest releases on the London Symphony Orchestra's own label. I reviewed them here in 2003. Others had been almost wildly enthusiastic, so I was surprised that all three performances struck me as self-indulgent and lacking in drive. I was also distracted by conductor's vocalising. Here he is, twenty years earlier, with the German orchestra of which he was Chief Conductor from 1983 until 1993.
Davis plays the "Enigma" theme very straight, the pulse hardly wavering. This is refreshing and effective, and the following variation, dedicated to the composer's wife, follows, as it should, at exactly the same tempo. This variation, beautifully paced and played here, provokes the only really audible groan from the conductor. Mr. Steuart-Powell (Variation II) is a bit more boisterous than usual, but none the worse for that, and Davis's reading of "W.M.B." (Variation IV) is superbly incisive. Matthew Arnold's son (Variation V) is significantly slower than the metronome mark, the wandering, unison string theme sounding very romantic indeed, and not a little melancholy. The flowing "Ysobel" (Variation VI) features very reedy, un-English sounding bassoons. It is again slower than marked, but this doesn't stop it being one of the loveliest readings I have heard, sincere and tender. Davis takes a slight liberty with the long, held G that leads into "Nimrod", but it's so effective one forgives him, and the variation itself is superbly done. Has there ever been a more moving musical tribute that this? A longer silence would have been welcome before "Dorabella" (Variation X), and I've heard this done more affectionately, though George Sinclair's dog Dan is vividly brought to life in the following variation. Elgar's cellist friend is in danger of sounding effete in Variation XII (B.G.N.) in what seems to me the only damagingly slow tempo in the whole performance. The slow passages of (***) (Variation XIII) are also taken substantially more slowly than the score demands, for example, but the music can stand it, and the remarkable recreation of the sound of a steamer's engines is most vividly brought out in this performance. I find the final variation, the composer himself, to be the least successful. The brass playing lacks the last degree of refinement, and the reading doesn't quite swagger as it should. Overall, though, this is a very fine performance indeed, and one is happy to be reminded of what a masterpiece the work is.
Although Sir Colin has conducted Elgar's music throughout his career, he has neglected that of Vaughan Williams. Indeed, the only other recorded Davis-conducted Vaughan Williams work I have heard is The Lark Ascending, played by Hilary Hahn, and all but ruined by the conductor's over-expressive accompaniment. Here, in live performances from Munich, he tackles Vaughan Williams' most pessimistic symphony.
The first movement begins very well, very broad and powerful. The rushing, syncopated semiquavers are brilliantly done and for a while everything is very convincing. But compared to the conductor's finest rivals, there is a certain lack of menace. The power is there, and there is no lack of surface brilliance, but it's not threatening enough. In the finest performances, when the big tune arrives near the end of the movement, we are not fooled: we know, from the outset, that this is not what it seems. In the present performance it sounds almost—but not quite—like a waltz, and the transformation of this tune, over only a couple of bars, into the music of the symphony's opening, does not horrify as it should. Andrew Davis, originally on Telarc, gives the finest performance of this symphony I have ever heard, and he contrives to make this big tune an oasis of hope, broad and noble, and the only one in the work, so that its transformation is horrifying, a door slammed in the face, never to be reopened. Andrew Davis is more successful in the second movement too, where he keeps a strict metrical approach to the horrible, repeated rhythmic figure. Sir Colin is freer with this, and some of the horror is dissipated. He is, however, absolutely superb in the central section, with all those divided strings, the concentration and intensity of the playing really quite remarkable. He and the Bavarian players are very fine in the scherzo too, though the saxophone soloist simply doesn't manage the same sick, sleazy swing as his London counterpart. He begins too loudly, too—it is marked piano in the score—and is balanced rather too far forward. The final movement is superb, as lacking in human warmth, even human presence, as any of the finest performances. Inevitably a few coughs are heard from the audience, but they do not break the atmosphere. How many in the audience were familiar with the work and what did they make of it.
This disc is part of a series dedicated to celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the existence of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The sound is very fine in both works, though there are moments, in the Vaughan Williams in particular, where the strings seem underpowered compared to the rest of the ensemble. The booklet contains an essay by Bernhard Neuhoff, in three languages, that deals with the conductor and, briefly, the two works on the disc. Sir Colin Davis was obviously highly appreciated in Munich, and as one of the finest living conductors, rightly so. All the same, I wonder how many music lovers would be completely in agreement with this opening statement from the booklet essay: "The great musicians can be roughly divided into two groups: on the one hand, we have the exaggeration artists (to borrow a phrase from Thomas Bernhard), on the other the unpretentious. Sir Colin Davis doubtless belongs to the latter group. With his elegant baton technique, he seldom sets exclamation marks, his ideal is naturalness."
Colin Davis delivers an excellent performance of Vaughan Williams' Sixth Symphony, aptly ferocious in the first movement, threatening in the second, with a raucous scherzo and a hypnotic finale. It's a symphony he's always conducted well, and the Bavarian Radio players dig into the music with plenty of passion and gripping sense of discovery. Unfortunately, the symphony comes shackled to a wholly unnecessary version of the Enigma Variations.
It's not a bad performance by any means; indeed, after the somewhat mannered opening theme it's mostly quite good. Davis is particularly exciting in the quicker bits: W.M.B., Troyte, G.R.S., and the finale. He also captures the scary interlude in Romanza very dramatically. Nimrod, though, is a bit of a letdown, its tension oddly distributed and the string ensemble slack. Had this one variation been better, I could recommend this disc with almost no reservations. But an Enigma without a great Nimrod just doesn't cut it. As it is, if you're in the market for a fine RVW Sixth, you'd do well to sample this one.
Sir Colin makes a rare foray into the music of Vaughan Williams
While Sir Colin Davis has made a speciality of conducting British music, it is surprising that he has recorded so little Vaughan Williams. Here, happily, is a fizzing exception, a live recording made in 1987 for Bavarian Radio, of the Sixth Symphony, with all its wide variety of expression, from the violent opening to the sustained pianissimo of the extraordinarily original finale
What is especially remarkable is how the players take to this music so enthusiastically. Their control of RVW's jazzily syncopated writing has just the right degree of freedom and the pianissimo finale is superbly sustained, with no suspicion of an unmarked crescendo over its 10-minute span. The relaxation at the end of the first movement, when the composer allows himself a warm tune in place of the original jaunty second subject, is beautifully caught, and the violence of the slow movement gives way naturally to the humour of the third movement with its distinctive use of saxophone.
Elgar's Enigma Variations are just as beautifully sustained, this time in the slightly more open acoustic of the Herkulessaal in Munich, a most sympathetic venue. Sir Colin's interpretation is marked by steady speeds and high contrasts. So the first variation, representing the composer's wife, at its steady tempo opens up into a gloriously warm climax, and "Troyte" is marked by big dramatic brass and timpani, while the great emotional thrust of "Nimrod", still at a steady tempo, is glorious, with the Bavarian strings at their most beautiful. The finale then emerges in mounting excitement, and here more than anywhere one values the fact that this was a live recording. The Elgar was recorded in 1983 but, like the Vaughan Williams, it benefits from wonderfully clear, well-balanced sound. An outstanding and very welcome disc.
Colin Davis, a self-proclaimed unpretentious conductor, took the helm of Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundunks in 1983, succeeding Rafael Kubelik and the tragically deceased Kirill Kondrashin. This BR Klassik album features a recording of Elgar's Enigma Variations made in the same year Davis took over the orchestra, demonstrating from the get-go the conductor's broadening of the orchestra's repertoire to include English composers and others. Even though Davis had only just begun working with the orchestra, his insistence on precision and the eventual transformation that it brought to the orchestra can already be heard. Davis draws out a remarkable warmth from the strings and a simple clarity from the winds. He allows the music to speak for itself rather than imposing unnecessary emotional emphasis. The result is a thoroughly moving, passionate reading of Enigma. Jump ahead four years to 1987 and Davis' work with the orchestra is truly apparent in their recording of the Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6. The sometimes aggressive symphony is executed with the utmost precision, brilliant dynamic contrasts, and unfettered control of tempo. As either an introduction to these two great English works or to Davis' early work with Rundfunks, this album is an exceptional choice.


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Christmas in Boston
In the early 1950s, Cushing forced one of the great changes in Catholic theology by excommunicating Father Leonard Feeney for preaching on Boston Common that ''there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church."At hearing this news, loud Boston protest-mongers have scheduled a 2pm rally and press conference at Cushing's grave in the Portiuncula Chapel at St. Coletta's Home for Retarded Children in suburban Hanover to support Feeney and decry the heterodoxy of Cushing -- a known supporter of the Kennedy family -- who died in 1970.
As is true of today's exclusivist claims for a Christian meaning of ''the holidays," there was an undercurrent of antisemitism in Feeney's exclusivist claim for Catholicism. An inch below all Christian triumphalism is special contempt for Jews who reject the idea that Jesus is the saving Messiah. Robust assertions of the one meaning of the winter celebration are a version of the claim that there is only one way to God. Jews may not accept that, but how dare they forbid the dominant Christian culture from celebrating its dominance.I wouldn't say it was "overturned," but simply that this was a reaffirmation of the disciplinary authority of the diocesan bishop -- but, as with doctrine itself, doctrinal chauvinsts have very little time for licit authority when it doesn't swing in their favor.
What made Cushing's excommunication of Feeney astounding was that Feeney's line had been official Church teaching for most of a thousand years: No salvation outside the Church. Feeney confidently appealed to Rome, forcing the Vatican to take a position on the question. When the Vatican supported Cushing and upheld the excommunication of Feeney, the long-held doctrine of Catholic exclusivism was overturned.
Why was Cardinal Cushing the one to force this change? Cushing's sister Dolly, an MTA toll taker, was married to Dick Pearlstein, who, with his father Louis, ran the haberdashery that was on the way to being Boston's best men's store, which it remains. Cardinal Cushing was often in the Pearlstein home, and he had ample occasion to experience his brother-in-law's innate goodness. There came to be no question for Cushing as to whether his sister's beloved husband was beloved of God. That Dick Pearlstein was Jewish -- a ''non-Catholic" -- ceased to have decisive meaning, and Cushing began to take Feeney's ''orthodox" preaching as an insult to his own family. An abstract principle of theology was upended by the sort of cross-group interaction that had become common in America.Mhmm. Mhmmm.... Go on.
There are religious reactionaries in the world who are suspicious of America precisely because of the religious and cultural elbow-rubbing that occurs in neighborhoods and even families. Upholding the conscience of each individual means refusing to let a particular appeal to conscience dominate public space. But critics can see in such protected plurality of doctrine the top edge of the slippery slope toward ''relativism." One need not share that worry to acknowledge that when people of differing beliefs begin to treat each other with full respect, an elbow-rubbing of the mind always follows.
To encounter another approach to the great questions of transcendence is inevitably to rethink one's own approach. Competing truth claims can yield when emphasis shifts from the claim itself to the idea of truth behind it. The question, ''Is there one way to heaven?" can become the question, ''What is 'heaven' anyway?" Soon enough, believers can recognize that the truth of their own tradition does not depend on the falsehood of someone else's. The next thing you know, as in Cushing's encounter with the Pearlsteins, basic doctrines of one's own tradition may go out the window.
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Golf Classic 4th July
The Annual Club Golf Classic is on the July 4th 2019 at Westmanstown.
A team of four costs €300 to include Golf & Dinner.
Tee Boxes can be sponsored for €100.
Tee times are from 12.00.PM to 5.00.PM.
The event is sponsored by Financial Solutions with prize giving at 9.00.PM.
Teams are welcome from all businesses, groups, other local teams too.
We will have live entertainment on so we hope to see many of you coming up to make this a Social event too.
ALL club members are asked to contribute to this very important fundraiser either by playing, organising a team or sponsoring a Tee Box - all monies raised goes back into improving the facilities available to YOU, YOUR CHILDREN AND YOUR CLUB.
For further information contact PJ Gallagher at firstname.lastname@example.com or John Kissane at firstname.lastname@example.com or contact names on attached poster.
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The Cancer-Fighting Salad Everyone Should Be Eating Once a Week (With ACV, avocado and MORE)
Think salads are boring? Think again! This recipe is loaded with nourishing ingredients to help boost your energy levels, promote clear skin, and keep your immune system strong. It's packed with antioxidants, protein, and healthy fats which makes it a well-rounded salad that your body will crave.
This low-calorie super food is packed with essential nutrients responsible for the healthy functioning of your body. Spinach is high in vitamin C, which plays a vital role in the synthesis of collagen that your body needs to maintain healthy hair and skin. In addition, consuming this leafy green comes with the following health benefits:
• Contains an antioxidant that lowers blood sugar levels.
• Helps protect your body from cancer as its chlorophyll content blocks the carcinogenic effects of chemicals that are produced when you cook foods at high temperatures.
• Its potassium content lowers blood pressure.
• Is a source of a vitamin K, which contributes to bone health.
• High in fibre and promotes healthy digestion.
A rich source of beta-carotene, spinach helps lower the risk of developing asthma.
Spinach is good source of magnesium, which boosts your metabolism and supports your immune system.
No fat is better than healthy fat. Avocados are a great example of this. Not only is this creamy fruit able to satisfy your palate, it also provides you with an array of health benefits:
• Helps balance your cholesterol levels
• Contains beta-carotene, the same antioxidant found in carrots that is responsible for helping you maintain healthy vision
• Another good source of vitamin K
• Contains folate, which helps keep your brain healthy and lowers the risk of depression
• Good for digestive health and maintaining regular bowel movements
If you're looking to shed a few pounds, start chowing down on a handful of pecans. They are loaded with fatty acids that help control your weight. Pecans also contain antioxidants that protect your body by destroying harmful free radicals and warding off diseases, cancer and infections.
Pomegranates are an amazing fruit that are both delicious and healthy. Health benefits of pomegranates include:
• They have antioxidant, antiviral and anti-tumour properties (their antioxidant content is triple that of wine or green tea)
• Aids in maintaining healthy blood circulation
• Cures stomach disorders
• Treats diabetes and cancer
• Soothes sore throats
• Clears skin
• Reduces inflammation
Its antiviral and antibacterial properties reduces plaque and helps you maintain good oral health
Pomegranates can be consumed in a variety of ways, such as drinking it in juice form, using it to make molasses or eating its seeds.
The following salad recipe contains each of the above ingredients and will allow you to reap all of the health benefits that were mentioned plus MORE!
Superfood Spinach Salad
Serves: 1-2
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 2 minutes
• 1 1/2 cups organic spinach leaves
• 1/2 avocado, sliced into pieces
• 1/3 cup organic cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
• 1/3 cup organic blackberries
• 1/3 cup raw pecans
• 1/3 cup pomegranate seeds
• 1 Tbsp avocado oil
• 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
• 1 tsp balsamic vinegar
• 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
• Sea salt and pepper to taste
1. In a large bowl, add all of the salad ingredients.
2. In a mason jar, add all of the dressing ingredients.
3. Shake the jar well until all of the ingredients have been combined.
4. Drizzle the dressing on top of the salad.
5. Toss the salad so all of the ingredients are coated with the dressing.
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Building a bona fide business intelligence platform
How do you launch a BI platform that increases BI experts six-fold? Admit you know less about your data than you think.
A problem well-defined is a problem half-solved, or so the saying goes. Jarrod Johnson of Mikesell's Potato Chip Co. recommended another adage to live by -- at least when implementing a BI platform -- Know thy data.
The MIS director launched Mikesell's first bona fide business intelligence (BI) solution in late 2011 and kept tweaking until he got it right. In the process, he increased the number of active BI users six-fold at the century-old snack manufacturer, and has plans to extend the use of the platform to the independent drivers who handle 60% of the Dayton, Ohio-based company's routes.
The rollout, however, did not come without some bumps in the road. "We thought we knew our data and what our sales people wanted to see, but when we got down to it, we didn't," said Johnson, who served as the company's director of marketing research and analysis before he was brought over to head up IT in 2001."I would have spent a lot more time really understanding where our data is located and what sales wanted before we wrote one line of code."
Defining the problem
A 21-year veteran at Mikesell's, with much of that time spent in sales and marketing, Johnson had a good feel for what needed fixing on BI. As a former business power user, he knew the interface to the company's sales history was not user-friendly: i.e., a 5250 green-screen emulator connecting into AS/400 systems. Nor was the output: printed paper.
I would have spent a lot more time really understanding where our data is located and what sales wanted before we wrote one line of code.
Jarrod Johnson,
MIS director, Mikesell's Potato Chip Co.
"There was no easy way to get the sales data into Excel or the webpages relied upon by users," Johnson said. "If anybody wanted something besides the two or three basic reports that came out of the system, they'd have to come to us."
Since "us" was an IT staff of four people (counting Johnson) for 300 employees, considerable time and effort went into building ad hoc BI reports. "It was honestly easier for us to build something from scratch rather than trying to find the last time we ran the report and make the existing system work." A comprehensive, intuitive sales dashboard, with plenty of slice and dice functionality, was a must for a new business intelligence platform. So was the ability to create reports in Excel and other formats, because "users appreciate it so much."
The $50 million business maintains multiple data sources, from a legacy sales database to JD Edwards on the back end for financials. Johnson found the flexibility and usability he wanted in the WebFOCUS BI platform from Information Builders Inc. in June of 2011. What Johnson hadn't accounted for was the time it would take to locate, clean up and format the data.
Making the BI solution work
"We did everything wrong," Johnson said, only half-joking. The first mistake was setting an overly aggressive timetable. "I said to Information Builders, you've got this much money and this time to give me an application -- and with very little input from us. That did not work."
Johnson's team had recently cleaned up data for a rollout of new handheld devices for its route drivers in six states, so the data quality didn't look horrible. However, there was "a lot of bad data" in the databases that the company's current systems had been coded to ignore.
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"When you bring in something like WebFOCUS, it doesn't know the rules that have been written into the system," Johnson said. Suddenly all these records show up and we're asking, "Why are they there?" Getting the new BI solution to filter out the bad data required going through the code and determining how the record got in there and if it should be deleted. "You want the old program and the new BI tool to come to the penny, or people won't believe in the new tool," Johnson said.
Another miscalculation? Assuming what the sales people really wanted to see in the presentation of the data. To get it right, IT worked with a power user assigned by the business "hand-in-hand" for months. "We went through two or three versions of this application before we got what they wanted," Johnson said. "We gained a lot of knowledge that we may never have gotten," he added, but the changes "did make it harder."
Next iterations for the business intelligence platform
A trip to the Information Builder's users summit in June taught them some tricks to speed up the application (e.g., rewriting jobs with a minimum amount of data before dragging names and labels into all the processing.) The exposure has also fired up Johnson's team to get cracking on mobile BI.
"I've connected an iPad up to our current app, so it can be done, but it's a bit squirrely." That would extend the BI capabilities to the company's 100 independent drivers. There are plans afoot to make the dashboards more visual. In the meantime, there's plenty to brag on. The number of users who can slice and dice Mikesell's data has risen six-fold, from four (two IT people and one each from sales and marketing) to an additional 20 sales managers.
The benefits of mobile BI play out on a daily basis, Johnson said, recounting a recent example of a sales person being told by a storekeeper that Mikesell's products weren't selling. "He went out to his car, turned on his laptop, logged into the dashboard and ran the report. He ran back in and said, 'I have your numbers here and you're up 52%. I think we're doing something right.'"


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What Happens When I've Deleted A Product On A Store?
If you've chosen to delete / archive products on your store, they will not be deleted automatically in Veeqo. Also if a listing has ended on your store, this will not delete the product in Veeqo.
Delete A Simple Product
Products can only be deleted in Veeqo if they're no longer attached to any store listings.
1. To check if a product is linked to store listings, head to the Products > Listings page and select Linked as the Linked status and search for your product.
2. If you find the product and it's linked, select the Unlink icon on the far right this will unlink your Veeqo product from your store listing.
3. Once the product is unlinked from all store listings, it can be deleted manually. Go to the Products page, find the individual product you'd like to delete or select multiple products and click the Delete button.
What happens to products linked to eBay listings
In eBay, listings cannot be deleted. They can only be archived and this will then make the listing inactive on the product in Veeqo. Inactive listings are shown with greyed out logos on the product page.
If a product has an archived eBay listing linked to it, the product cannot be deleted in Veeqo.
Whenever you delete a product in Veeqo any attached listings are automatically archived. This means that the listing is not connected to a Veeqo product and not actively having orders pulled. To unarchive these listings head to Products > Listings and select UNLINKED and INACTIVE.
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Delete A Variant Product
Go to the Products page.
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We're different in all the best ways imaginable. We do more than your typical dental office, and the results are truly rewarding for both doctor and patient alike. We are the one and only dental office that has both a dental oncology department and expertise in managing heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and other chronic inflammatory diseases with physicians. Dentistry meets medicine, at Stonebriar Smile Designs. Our doctors genuinely have more that your oral health in mind.
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Pakistan has laws against rape and adultery, but what about incest?
Writing about the sexual abuse of a little girl is hard. Writing about the little girl's incestuous relationship resulting in years of rape at the hands of her father is harder.
In all the history of humankind, all societies have considered incest abhorrent, shameful and worthy of criminal sanction. But skirting around the uncomfortable topic of incest comes hand-in-hand with its social sanction. And in no place is incest slipped under the proverbial rug so eagerly as it is in the shame and honour based culture of Pakistan.
This is because in a shame and honour based culture, the shameful action of one family member necessarily falls on all family members.
This is why the recent sentence of 12 years in prison handed down to Saeed Ahmed Khan for the many years of incestuous rape of his daughter, is a welcome relief and yet another step by the Pakistani judiciary in the right direction.
A review of incest cases in Pakistan reveals the patriarchal and gendered power dynamics at play. Alongside Pakistan's patriarchal attitude, a glimpse into the family unit itself becomes equally necessary.
Sociologically, a family unit is not only a place where a child will typically reach physical maturity, but also where she will form emotional attachments and come to understand her social heritage, her place in the world.
Within this familial framework, the prohibition against incest is understood by all and is deeply rooted in the human archetypal psyche; it is perverse, unnatural and absolutely prohibited.
But what happens if an adult – a trusted head of the household with insurmountable power – unnaturally chooses to betray the prohibition on incest?
With several incest cases having been successfully litigated, sexual abuse within the household is finally on the forefront of the minds of Pakistanis.
This does not mean that the widespread gender inequality and deep-rooted attitudes of male superiority over women has been eradicated from the average Pakistani psyche. In fact, socially and culturally, not much has changed since the 2011 United Nations Human Development Report ranking Pakistan 115th on the scale of gender equality out of 187 countries.
But cases of incest are being confronted head-on more and more because of bravery of emboldened victims – who in conjunction with their family members, peers, and legal advocacy – opt to enter the permanently life-altering, hell storm that is seeking criminal retribution against a family member in the ultimate public arena: a courtroom.
At this time, Pakistan has no set of laws dealing with incest. What it does have is a law against rape and zina (adultery).
But, according to Anber Raz, Sexual Violence Programme Officer at Equality Now,
"These laws are problematic and don't address sexual violence adequately."
In the recent decision of Saeed Ahmed Khan, plenty of people were quick to point out that 12 years in prison is trivial and senseless for a crime so fundamentally abhorrent.
But in a society like Pakistan where religious scholars and regular folk alike are quick to dismiss incest on the delusional basis of something like this not being possible in an Islamic country, the conviction of Khan is monumental, and it is considerable.
Yet the legal process remains overcome with frustrations and fatigue.
War Against Rape (WAR) Programs Officer Rukhsana Siddiqui speaks of the frustrations of dealing with a culture in which incest does not have acceptance and where most cases will ultimately go unreported.
"There are social pressures: the mother, the relatives and their opinions. At every stage, the woman is not believed. The police and medical examiners will say 'ye Islami mulk hai' (this is an Islamic country) this cannot happen – these women are lying for their personal motives," says Siddiqui.
Often those who will come to WAR will not immediately want to initiate legal action. Siddiqui's team tells the victim that her silence will only perpetrate the cycle of sexual abuse. The ugly truth is that there will be more like her unless she is the one to speak up.
If the victim agrees to pursue legal action, an FIR is registered with the police. This is followed by the medico legal exam after which point the case will begin a long journey through the perennially backlogged court system of Pakistan.
For Anber Raz, the medical examination is the biggest hurdle faced by lawyers during the court procedure.
"As experts, doctors' opinions are highly valued. But when the experts lack adequate training and understanding of sexual violence that is a big problem," says Raz.
In one of Equality Now's cases, the expert doctor retained took the liberty of giving her own personal verdict on what had happened to the victim.
According to the doctor, the girl wasn't a virgin but not because she had been raped since there were no physical signs of a struggle.
Equally problematic is Pakistan's inadequate DNA database.
"In an incest case where the accused is known to authorities, DNA comparison is possible," says Raz. "But often, this DNA sample is not stored correctly or becomes contaminated."
Equally troubling is the requirement that the woman purchase her own rape kit from the main floor pharmacy of any given hospital.
"This means people have to ask for the kit in a public place where they can be easily overheard," says Raz.
"In a country like Pakistan where there is already a huge stigma around rape, this just adds to the many reasons why women would be reluctant to come forward."
The views expressed by the writer and the reader comments do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of The Express Tribune.


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While the tax reform conversation has focused on tax cuts for the middle class and families, changes to higher education tax policies, primarily in the House bill, could cause many undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students to see a big tax hike.
Why it matters: Higher education will be a big issue when the House and Senate merge their tax cut bills into a final version. This is also a major partisan issue. 58% of Republicans said colleges and universities have a negative impact on society in a recent Pew survey, while 72% of Democrats said higher education had a positive impact.


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It all went horribly wrong as soon as I needed to use the toilet. Of course it did.
I'd held it together until then. I'd survived 2 months of solo travel through East Africa, having men shout at me and try to grab at me on the local matatu buses in Nairobi. I'd braved 2 weeks of living in a village without electricity or running water, learning how to draw water from a well and do all my business in a squat toilet. I'd volunteered for an NGO, working alongside inspirational individuals in harrowing conditions, every day exposing me to previously unimaginable levels of poverty. East Africa challenged me more than any place I've travelled before or since, and I was unable to shape my experiences into something I could understand. The knots of certainty that tied together my knowledge and expectations about the world had been shaken loose, leaving tangled strands of doubt drifting through my mind.
It wasn't until the final few days of my trip, whilst on an organised safari of all things, that I finally came undone.
Determined to push aside my uncertainties and enjoy my final days in Tanzania, I'd arranged a trip to the legendary Ngorongoro crater:
Rising at 6am in preparation for the long drive into the savannah, I'd held it together during the 7 hours we spent in a jeep without seatbelts. With nothing to hold me down, my head crashed painfully into the jeep roof whenever we went over a bump in the rough, unfinished road. I'd held it together as we drove past poverty-stricken villages, my stomach churning with guilt and helplessness as I imagined the conditions inside. I'd even held it together when we pulled up at our camp in the scorching sun, and I realised I was out of drinking water. Our guide still had several water bottles left over from our lunch, and I asked if I could have one.
"Err, no I don't think so" came his quick reply.
I was momentarily stumped. He'd been freely offering out the same bottles earlier in the day!
"I'll pay?" I tentatively offered. "Can I buy one?"
He declined me again. Mumbling vaguely, the guide started to walk away, taking all the water with him.
"Please!" I called out. "I'm really thirsty!"
He didn't even turn around. Grunting in exasperation, I marched to my tent, only to hear the water man call after me, "Hey, just like, chill out… there's no hurry…"
No explanation and no water came my way. I took a deep breath and continued walking, distracting myself by unfurling my sleeping bag inside my tent. Aside from the clothes I was wearing, I'd brought very little with me for the 2-night trip, so I had nothing else to unpack.
Storm clouds rolled in as the sun finally set, cutting through the heat of the day. We had a long, slow dinner in the simple dining hall, raindrops landing with dull metallic thuds on the corrugated iron roof. I'd finally been able to buy drinking water, and I was happily gulping it down as I chatted to a group of Mexican backpackers over dinner. We were excited, speculating about the animals we might see tomorrow as we greeted sunrise in the Serengeti national park.
The only downside to finally being able to hydrate? I needed to pee. And I had foolishly not investigated the toilet situation before sunset.
Still, I was an optimist. It was only a few metres to the toilet block. And it was an actual toilet block! No peeing in the bushes for me, I thought to myself, as I navigated the falling rain with the dying light of my headtorch.
The dim bulbs swinging above the wooden dining benches were the only electric lights in the camp, and the soft glow emitting from these bulbs quickly faded as I took a few tentative steps away from the mess hall. Even the noise of my fellow travellers was quickly muted by the steady rain, obscuring my senses and making me feel quite alone in the dark night.
There was no path through the campsite, and my flip flops were slipping dangerously on the wet muddy grass. As soon as I came to a downhill slope, I slipped. It was almost comical. My feet skidded out from underneath me and I landed on my bum with a thud, scrambling for purchase on the wet grass. My head torch flew off, and as I lunged to grab it I lost my balance again, sinking my hands into the soft mud in a clumsy attempt to break my fall.
Soaked and filthy, my frustrations of the last 2 months poured out. I let rip a stream of expletives that would make a Hell's Angel blush, as I desperately tried to leave this hellish incline. At last, I stumbled into the toilet block, shining my torch around the pitch black room. The beam of my headtorch illuminated the mud caking my hands and arms as I fumbled to turn on the nearest tap. But the tap was busted; not so much as a drop of water came out as I span the handle around again and again. I tried the next one, and the next… and they all came up dry. I dimly remembered overhearing something as I arrived at camp, preoccupied with the water bottle fiasco; the camp water supply had been interrupted. Not only were my hands, arms, face and my one set of clothes covered in mud, but there was no running water to clean myself.
I checked around the outside of the building for taps, and inside all the toilet cubicles, but the simple squat toilets offered no help. As I squatted down over the basic toilet facilities, my hair swung stiffly into my face, and I realised in dismay that even that was somehow caked in mud. And of course, there was absolutely nothing I could do about it.
After an interrupted night's sleep, painfully aware of how much dirt I was transferring into my sleeping bag, I sheepishly approached the dining hall for breakfast. I'd tried cleaning my hands with antibacterial gel, succeeding in swirling the muck into strange patterns on my fingers and palms. I had already drunk nearly all my drinking water, and after splashing a tiny amount onto my hands, I'd panicked, imagining if I had more problems buying water today.
"This is how I live now." I thought to myself, as I approached my group of Mexican friends, sitting at the same table as last night.
"I'm a feral mud-creature trying unsuccessfully to infiltrate normal society."
Everyone at the table looked annoyingly clean as they ate breakfast with their hands. Of course, there was no cutlery in this culture. Of course I would have to eat with my filthy mud-creature hands.
The group stopped eating and looked at me cautiously.
Are you… okay?" they asked tentatively, too polite to directly ask why the hell I was caked in mud.
Umm, yeah…" I mumbled. "I kinda fell over in the rain last night."
"We heard. You sounded quite… unhappy?"
I was unsure if this was a polite euphemism or the result of a limited English vocabulary. If by "unhappy" they meant "disproportionately angry at the whole damn country", they'd be right.
I felt my cheeks burning red as I imagined these mild-mannered Mexicans overhearing my furious tirade last night. Fortunately, the mud disguised my embarrassment, and I tried to laugh it off. In that moment, there was nothing to do but continue with life as usual. I pulled up a seat and broke off a chunk of chapati with my dirt-encrusted hands.
"2 more days," I thought to myself, as a gentle coating of dirt fell from my hair and landed in my breakfast. "2 days until I can go home and try to make some sense of all this." I desperately needed time and space to start sifting through the dense tangle of experiences overwhelming my mind, to draw together the horrors and the beauty I had witnessed into some sort of whole. But most of all, I needed a freakin' shower.


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I used to have an interface for nearly everything when building applications and I've been pulling back on that position lately. Here I'll explain two cases where I've pulled back and written fewer interfaces. No implements Keywords Does Not Mean There Are No Interfaces This is important: every single object has an interface it presents… Continue reading Not Everything Needs an Interface
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Lifecycle Objects as Extension Points
Something I've found myself doing more and more is writing lifecycle objects that add notification-like extension points to other objects. A good example is the MessageLifecycle interface and its implementations in PMG's queue library. Rather than pollute the queue consumers with events or other more generic things directly, the lifecycle provides and extension point into… Continue reading Lifecycle Objects as Extension Points
Three Pieces of Advice for New Senior Developers
A coworker of mine took a new gig last week. One with increased responsibilities and a job title bump that put them into a more senior position as a company about the size of PMG or smaller. I gave him three pieces of advice. 1. Do Code Review, Not Style Review Worrying about coding style… Continue reading Three Pieces of Advice for New Senior Developers
My Favorite Type of Documentation
With applications or libraries its easy to lose sight of the forest for the trees. It's easy to get lost in the details and forget the broad strokes of what the applicaiton or library or module is trying to accomplish. If that's true for the authors of said application or library, imagine how a user… Continue reading My Favorite Type of Documentation
The Two Types of Interesting Problems
The first type of interesting problem is the one everyone talks about: novel problems. New stuff, stuff that hasn't been tackled before -- either by the person doing it or the world as a whole. These are interesting for obvious reasons: it's fun to experiment -- to try new things and push both individual and… Continue reading The Two Types of Interesting Problems
Parameter & Result Objects: More Than Grouping Values
A parameter object replaces one or more parameters to a method with a single object instance. A result object is a object created specifically for a return value from a method. Parameter Objects Changing a method to accept a parameter object is a common refactoring for grouping parameters that belong together. Unfortunately that's not the… Continue reading Parameter & Result Objects: More Than Grouping Values
On Library Exceptions
https://twitter.com/chrisguitarguy/status/915313560036741120 I made this statement on twitter about PHP libraries throwing exceptions that I want to expand here. I'd say there are two broad categories of exceptions that a library might throw. Domain Exceptions These are specific to the library's domain. For instance, if I'm working with AdWords I know that AdWords account IDs take… Continue reading On Library Exceptions


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Do you have smaller breasts?
Do you think your small breasts are affecting your whole appearance?
Do you want to improve your breasts?
If your answer is yes to above mentioned questions then you should opt for the most suitable breast enhancement method. Breasts are the most important women's body part, which are considered the symbol of femininity and woman's beauty. So, every woman admires large, full and firm breasts and those who have small breasts want to enhance them. Perhaps this is the reason that breast augmentation surgery is among top five most popular cosmetic surgery procedures. Enhancing your breasts can in fact improve your whole appearance or looks. So, if you want uplift to your appearance, consider having breast augmentation surgery.
There are several options available for enhancing breasts but breast augmentation surgery using implants is the most accepted. Most of the women consider this procedure helpful for increasing the size of breasts but its benefits go far beyond merely making your breasts larger. This is because fuller bust will bring an improvement in your whole body contour. The procedure is helpful for you if you have any of following issues.
Besides providing aesthetic physical advantages, breast enhancement provides certain additional benefits also. It improves your self-image and boosts your confidence making you more sociable and personable. Let's have a look what breast augmentation surgery involves.
Breast enhancement surgery is the surgical procedure performed under general anesthesia. Incisions can be made in various sites and the site is selected depending on patient's requirements. Incision can be made around areola, in breast fold beneath breasts, in the armpits or in the navel area. Breast implants are inserted in the breasts through these incisions. Implants can be placed either beneath the breast tissues above pectoral muscles or below the pectoral muscles. After insertion of implants, incisions are closed.
The final results of surgery become apparent after swelling resolves completely. Swelling, bruising and tenderness are temporary side effects of surgery that are common and normal. The recovery time varies from patient to patient but generally, it takes two weeks to recover for most of the patients.
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Day 26: A childhood memory:
I thought this picture was really creative. :DPlaying with my American Girl doll Kirsten is the side yard and pretending to be a pioneer is one of my favorite memories. We made mud pies and everything.
Day 27: A physical feature you love:
In myself or others? In myself I really like how petite I am (even if people DO often thing I'm younger than my age). In other people, I usually notice their hair and smiles first. :)


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Meandering At Kings Canyon's Wilderness
My second day was mixed of Kata Tjuta, a bit of Uluru and Mount Conner. So far I was floating in satisfaction and fantastic scenery and experiences. At first, I thought that the group's next destination was just nearby until we spent more than two hours in the road. It was like the same feeling during my Day 1 trip,


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Alissa Kleinnijenhuis is a Dphil candidate in Mathematics at the University of Oxford, and member of the Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) and the Oxford Mann Institute (OMI). She is a visiting scholar at the Bank of England, and will spend some time this academic year as a visiting researcher in the Financial Stability Program of the Yale School of Management and the PIIRS Global Systemic Risk Research Community at Princeton University. She is working under the supervision of prof. Doyne Farmer. Her research focuses on modeling systemic risk. In particular, she is interested in systemic stress testing. She is developing financial system models for stress testing that capture the interconnections between financial institutions (both banks and shadow banks) in a credible way and such that the model can be applied to data that would be available at a central bank. Alissa holds a BA(Hons) in Mathematics and Economics from University College Utrecht, and an Msc in Mathematics and Finance from Imperial College London. As part of her BA she followed one year of graduate courses in Financial Mathematics at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her professional experience includes work as a (PhD) research intern at Rogge Global Partners (London), Morgan Stanley (London), the European Central Bank (Frankfurt) and the Bank of England (London).


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Did you know that last year Northern Ireland Hospice benefitted from the generosity of 53 local people who chose to leave the charity a gift in their wills?
Such generosity funded the care of one in five of their patients this year.
Many people support Hospice but they don't always realise the transformational impact of gifts in wills.
Gifts in wills help to maintain and develop their services both now and in the future. In 1998 they cared for 114 local people, today they care for over 3,000.
Sadly they will continue to care for many more in the future as demand for their service grows. That is why gifts in wills are so vital to them.
Having an up-to-date will is relatively straightforward and one of the most important things you can do for your loved ones and yourself.
It can give you immense peace of mind to know that your final wishes will be fulfilled regarding your loved ones and causes close to your heart. It can also spare your loved ones from making difficult decisions on your behalf, or dealing with the consequences if you haven't got your affairs in order.
Sharon Gorman, Legacy Officer, says: "A gift in a will, no matter how small, helps to secure hospice care. It will give local people living with a terminal illness greater hope, support and specialist hospice care long after your lifetime.
"By including a gift to Hospice in your will you could give local patients a gift that is priceless. A gift of compassion, dignity and comfort."
Sharon can be contacted on 028 9078 1836 or at email@example.com if you would like an information pack or an informal chat about including a gift to Hospice in your will.
Further information such as their Wills Guide and Legacy Charter are available on the website www.nihospice.org


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There are more photos, bits of information and even a few videos from the bar on their site, or better still go there in person!
Contemporary news about H.P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu, the Necronomicon, Miskatonic University, Arkham, R'lyeh, The Book of Eibon, Yog-Sothoth, De Vermis Mysteriis, & other unspeakable things...
Friday, March 25, 2011
12 photos from inside the glorious Lovecraft Tea Shop and Bar
There are more photos, bits of information and even a few videos from the bar on their site, or better still go there in person!
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One of the many beautiful attractions in Cyprus is the Salt Lake in Larnaca. Among it's picturesque beauty also lies the Hala Sultan Tekke, one of the holiest shines within Ottoman Islam. It is a Special Protected area under the Barcelona Convention and an important Bird Area, boasting 85 species of water birds which use this migratory passage through Cyprus as a feeding and breeding area.
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Reverb12 Prompt1: The Pros and Cons of Being Present
It's time for Reverb12! While I don't get to blog as much anymore as I manage my business growth, I must make an exception for Reverb.
Reverb happens every December when bloggers reflect on the year that has passed and start to manifest their dreams for the new year. If you've been around since the start of my journey into self-employment and small business ownership, you may have read my entries for Reverb10. My job is to help people reach their goals and maximize their personal and professional development. Not all coaches or "experts" agree, but I believe I'd be remiss if I didn't share my own challenges and triumphs from my experiments with pursuing my own dreams.
I missed Reverb11 because I was in the midst of moving myself 900 miles from New York City to Savannah, GA, last December. Inspiration to move first came to me through the understandings about myself and my goals that I gained through Reverb10.
I can literally confirm that participating in Reverb changed my entire life.
If you want to sign up for Reverb yourself, you can sign up here to get the prompts. Also follow the hashtag #reverb12 on Twitter to read what other people are discovering.
So here we start with Prompt 1 of 31.
Prompt 1:
How are you starting this last month of 2012?
Take a moment, close your eyes, take a deep breath and ask yourself the question: how do you feel…
… in your body? in your mind? in your day job? in your creative life? in your heart?
One of my favorite songs in the world is As Is by Ani DiFranco and today I found myself singing one the lyrics at the top of my lungs: "…cause when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff. When I look up, I just trip over things."
I feel that way and that is why I am starting December present in my life.
2012 has been a year of personal growth and change that started with relocating to Savannah on January 2nd after 15 years as a neurotic, overstretched and dissatisfied New Yorker. Today, December 2nd, I took a road trip to Tybee Island in the first car I have ever owned with my boyfriend who I met this summer, and a friend I met in an entrepreneurship incubator who happened to find herself in this corner of the country. I stood at the edge of the water in my sundress on a 76 degree day in December and breathed in deep and thought of the person I was three years ago. I wondered what her reaction would be to me right now.
Honestly? Probably "Who the f*ck are you?"
I have decided I am okay with that.
Being present also gives you a chance to recognize what's NOT working in your life. That would be my health. Since August, I have not felt in control of my body- it has been throwing me unexpected and unwelcome surprises. Some of what I feel is a physical cost of having reached what I wanted in my professional life so quickly, some of it is my denial of changes that come with age, and some of it is "just because." I don't have any immediate solutions, but I know that this is something I need to focus on in 2013.
I am enjoying my present because I set big audacious goals for myself in 2010 and I met almost all of them. Enjoying my present so much has made it difficult to figure out what other big and audacious goals I want to pursue in 2013 beyond more of the same. "The same" is a temporary place and I can't wait for the Reverb12 to steer me in the right direction.


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Rig 3.5 lightweight personal tarp
Siliconised ripstop nylon tarp with 16 hypalon attachment points, ideal for a solo mission when you need to move as light as possible
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Rig 3.5 is a shaved down version of our popular and much adulated Rig 7.
The 2.4 m x 1.4 m size is ideal for 1 person (or 2 people at a bit of a squish) to use as extra shelter for bivvying and lightweight enough to use for fast and light travel.
Packing down to the size of your hand, Rig 3.5 is a great option for lightweight travel such as bikepacking, microadventures and overland travel.
The 16 hypalon reinforced attachment points allows Rig 3.5 to be pitched in an almost limitless number of configurations.
The 30d PU coated silicon Cordura fabric is fully taped on the underside to stop any water coming through, and the siliconised coating on the top side reduces water build up.
Key features
- Ideal for a solo mission whether in a tarp or bivvy bag
- Stuff sack included
- Walking poles (pictured) are not included
- 3 Year Alpine Bond
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Sleeps: 1
Fabric: 30D PU coated siliconised Cordura fabric
Attachment points: 17 reinforced hypalon rig points: 5 lifter tabs; 12 exterior tie down points
Total Weight (inc. stuff sack): 300 g
Open dimensions: 2.4 m x 1.4 m
Stuffed size: 8 x 10 x 14 cm
Origin: China
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I never saw that comming
I thought to myself oh no I've been here before, I was wild camping in Boredale Hause close to the top of a pretty high group of fells, and I was caught in a bad storm. This was the first time I use a tarp in this situation and I was lying there at 2am thinking will it stay up will everything be OK, at this point a sheep slammed into the back of my head and back and ran across my bivvy leaving 3 large hoof holes as it went. Despite this the tarp stayed up and protected well until morning and the bad weather lasted all night, it's in the bin now but very highly recommended from me.
Great little tarp! I have used mine twice now for Paragliding Bivvy adventures and I can get me and my glider under it no probs. I have the blue one which I love the colour of
The only thing I could say which could be improved is the stuff sack. Its big enough for the tarp but I like to store the tarp with the awesome little titanium tent pegs you can also get from Alpkit in the same bag and I leave my guy lines attatched. Also if its wet, even damp its nice to keep the rest of your kit dry so a slightly larger than supplied waterproof stuff sack is the way forward.
Other than that, flawless! So many ways to rig and great service :-D
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Tiny, lightweight and reliable. This tough little tarp is easy to pitch and gives just enough room for a single camper and their gear. With a number of useful attachment points, the pitch configuration is limited only by what you can think of.
The only improvement I could suggest is more attachment points along the 'short edge' to allow for an overhang on 'lean-to' pitches.
Great solo backpacking shelter!
I've used this little fella a couple of times now and I'm very happy with it. I've pitched it with both walking poles and 29er+ bike wheels, it's works a treat in both set ups. If you want to keep all of your items under cover, then you may want something slightly bigger, but if you are looking for lightweight, keeps you dry, this is your fella. Always super impressed with the quality of the Alpkit range.
Excellent value for money!
Had this tarp for about 3 months and used in various weather. The tarp is perfect for solo trips with my bivi. The quality is excellent and the 16 tie out points make the tarp very versatile and the number of configurations are endless. The 2.4m x 1.4m is plenty big enough for me and my gear but if you need to shelter 2 people I'd go for the larger model. I've made a video review should you require more detail.....Great product!
Amazing quality and function at an excellent price
Excellent quality tarp, durable, lightweight and very good design.
It is fairly small (as the dimensions specify in the description).
Check the size before you buy, don't give poor ratings because it is smaller than you wanted when the dimensions are very clearly stated!
Go for the next size up
I am an Alpkit fan but as a six footer I found this item to be too small to be of any practical use as a solo tarp
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Wilderness Skills Rig 3.5
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My minimalist tarp set up using the Alpkit rig 3.5. Absolutely crazily small pack size but full coverage. This set up was similar in size to a typical hooped bivi tent so only really suitable for overnight.
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Bikepacking.com Hunka Down for a Bivvy
Team a bivy bag with a simple flat tarp, and you have yourself an extremely effective way of warding off the UK's notoriously inclement weather.
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Yes, I am still in the planning stages of this wedding. Yes, my engagement has lasted this long. And yes, I do live in Utah. You'd think I'd have it all done by now? Actually, you'd think I would have had it done by the time I was 18. Well, I don't, and I didn't. How many days until the big day? 35. Yes. Just over a month. Now, an acquaintance of mine recently got engaged (to my ex who recently returned from a mission in December, which is… Ahem… Awesome.) So, I've found it humorous to play some comparison games. Because I'm like that.
Me: Brunette, short hair, like to wear men's cargo shorts and read science fiction, 21.
Her: Blonde, long hair, likes to wear dresses and flowers, probably reads books by the guy who wrote "Charly," 18
Her: Dated him for… Something like… Maybe three months? That might be pushing it.
Me: Dated him for… Something like… fourteen months.
Her: Engaged April 24
Me: Engaged February 12
Her: Hand felt like a museum piece first day back at school after engagement.
Me: Had fill-in ring first day back at school after engagement, just wanted to eat m&ms all day and not tell anybody–waited for people to notice my new jewelry. The (very) reluctant attention hog.
Her: Considering elopement on April 28th
Me: Considering elopement now, because I only have 35 days left to make all this stuff for my wedding.
Her: Engagement photos done May 3rd (that's only one and half weeks following the engagement)
Me: Engagement photos done April 10th (I think)– Two months after the engagement. Wow, slow.
Me: Engagement photos outfit: Jeans, Shirt from the D.I., and my boots of AWESOME.
Her: Pretty dress.
Me: Engagement photos: Park, messing around, and a giant pipe.
Her: Engagement photos: Trees, hay bales, and a tractor.
(My roommate is also getting married. She was very adamant about doing her photos up at some national park. I think that is boring. "Stand next to this tree and smile. Stand next to that shrub and smile. Walk down that path holding hands and smile." Ours were more like, "Hey, let's go play on the swings! Let's ride these dolphins! Let's climb this wall! Let's see if we can both fit down this slide!" Yep. Much more fun.)
Her: Grateful for girl's nights in the midst of "crazy wedding planning" (hint, her date is in August–it's not crazy yet, dear)
Me: Grateful to be able to eat nachos and watch Bones/America's Next Top Model/The Office by myself to relax from "wedding plans." (AKA doing homework and letting my mom and future mother-in-law stress while I take "brain breaks" from said homework. Also grateful that I at least finished planning the middle school band festival. That was a higher priority than the wedding.)
Anyway, I'm a terrible Utahn/bride. Dating for more than a year?? Procrastinating wedding plans??? Not including some shade of pink or purple in my wedding colors??? (BTW my colors are green, white, and gold) No hay bales??? No matching denim????? No hair extensions (might even cut hair back to a pixie)????? Man! What is MY problem?? Heck, I may even add a drum circle to my reception entertainment, just to let people know how TOTALLY wack-o I am!
Also, if I hear the phrase "It's your day, do what YOU want!" I might throw up. My favorite, though, is, "It's YOUR day, do what YOU want! But you're GOING to want this!" I'm perfectly content letting J.D.'s mother do as much as she wants. I have no idea what's going on for the luncheon, but she apparently has it completely under control. Thank heaven for mothers.
But… I am really, REALLY excited. 🙂


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It's the most beautiful time of the year. Cherry blossoms peaked bloom last week and while I didn't spot Katy Perry in DC, I managed to find a beautiful spot in Reston, Virginia thanks to a tip from the Washington Post. Justin and I drove next to Barron Cameron Park to find flowery trees aligning the roads and a small walking path surrounded by cherry blossoms. The article proved correct; no crowds filled the area. Instead we found one family taking pictures, but other than them the secret remained hidden.
I pulled out my kimono from last season's Brandy Melville collection and paired it with my new Runway Bandits dress. The colors coordinated with the ready-to-bloom trees along with a hint of red from my Nike x Liberty collaborative sneakers. I finally found the perfect reason to whip out my Linda Farrow shades I grabbed in London.
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Cardigan: Brandy Melville.
Dress: Runway Bandits.
Sneakers: Nike x Liberty Air Max 90.