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Growing housing pains rampant
Howard County commissioners met with attorneys during a special meeting Monday morning, as the court looks to move forward with much-needed housing regulations ahead of the expected shale-fueled boom in the local oilfield.According to County Judge Mark Barr, commissioners met with attorneys from Bickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP of Austin to discuss what measures the county needs to take to regulate expected housing within the county, including RV parks and possible man camps."We didn't take any action during the meeting. Right now, we're at the phase where we're trying to bring in consultants and attorneys who deal with these types of issues on a daily basis," Barr said. "We have to gather all of the necessary information before we can tackle this issue."Early estimates for the Cline Shale formation — based on Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy's exploration in the area — put the estimated recoverable reserves at 30 billion barrels of oil. By comparison, the U.S. Geological Survey estimates the Eagle Ford holds up to 7 billion to 10 billion in recoverable reserves, while the Bakken Shale could hold as much as 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil.Barr said he expects to schedule public hearings on the matter toward the end of April or possibly the beginning of May."It's important the local citizens and business owners understand whatever regulations we come up with, they will have a chance to have their say in the matter," Barr said. "That's what the upcoming public hearings will be all about. And we're hoping to not just have residents involved in the process, we also want the businesses who are going to be affected."The last thing we want to do is handcuff anyone or any business. That's not our goal here. However, we have to start somewhere. It's sort of like herding cats. We know it's going to be a complex, but we feel like if everyone comes together, we have a better shot of getting this right. We'll be publishing details in the Big Spring Herald, along with the dates and times of the public hearing."Barr said the county is already seeing a staggering growth in these types of housing projects, which include RV and trailer parks."Just during our last regularly scheduled meeting, we had six requests for septic permits for these types of properties," Barr said. "It's not a matter of 'if they come' at this point. The oil business is coming and there are plenty of people out in the county who are looking to capitalize on it."As the supply for housing in the oil field continues to grow, so does the demand, according to Barr."They fill them up just as soon as they get them open," he said. "It's certainly not slowing down. If anything, it's picking up speed. Right now, it's anyone's guess what the total demand is going to look like once this boom gets into full swing. We'll just have to wait and see."As the Cline Shale draws more and more oil companies to the Crossroads area, Barr said it will become vital for both the county and the city to work together to make accommodations."Cooperation between the county and the city of Big Spring is going to be imperative," he said. "We're going to have to work together to make sure we protect the city and the county and the people who live here. If we don't protect them, the oil companies are simply going to come in and take what they want, then leave."


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by Clark Groome
To close its inaugural season at Mt. Airy's Sedgwick Theater, the Quintessence Theatre Group has chosen Oscar Wilde's magnificent "The Importance of Being Earnest." While director Alexander Burns' production is inconsistent, the play's glories nonetheless shine through.
The classic comedy about mistaken and misrepresented identity, love, class wars and family is so wise and witty, so incisive that even a flawed production can't mask the play's inherent beauty and brilliance.
In the Quintessence production, Josh Carpenter plays Algernon Moncrieff, the London resident who creates the fictional Bunbury so he can escape to the country whenever life in the big city bores him. His performance on opening night was still settling in. In the early going he was far too anxious to prove he could be a British aristocrat who could speak with a proper British accent. The result was a somewhat forced turn that slowly, over the play's three acts, settled down, allowing him to become Wilde's marvelous character.
His pal Worthing — Jack at his country house, Earnest in London — is in Jake Blouch's capable, if not convincingly English, hands. Unlike Carpenter's Algernon, Blouch seems comfortable with his character from the beginning.
Part of the difficulty for both of these actors comes from director Burns' decision to set the play, written in 1895, in the 1960s. I'm not sure why he did that, but it really doesn't matter; this play works because Wilde's words are timeless. What matters is that Carpenter initially seems caught in the 19th century's last decade while Blouch is more in tune with the production's time period and acting style.
Janel Miley's Gwendolen Fairfax, Worthing's beloved, and Emily Rast, Algernon's object d'amour Cecily Cardew (who happens to be Worthing's ward), are both quite good. Their commitment to having a husband named Earnest, their initial confusion about who's who and their palpable pleasure when all is romantically resolved are delightful.
Lesser roles are taken by Sean Close as Cecily's butler, Marie Maginity as the essential Miss Prism, and Paul Hebron as both Algernon's butler, Lane, and the Reverend Chasuble.
Close is really little more than set decoration. Maginity's Prism has an almost incomprehensible accent and is, alas, rather wooden throughout, never letting her affection for Chasuble or her horror at having left a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station (The Brighton Line) 28 years before be anything more than transparent actor's choices, and not very good ones at that. Her performance can best be described as acting by the numbers.
And then there is Janis Dardaris' Lady Bracknell. In recent memory this magnificent role has been limned by the likes of Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith and, currently on Broadway, the magnificent Brian Bedford. Dardaris, one of the area's best actresses, is just terrific as Gwendolen's imperious mother and Algernon's slightly daffy aunt. Her presence in this young company's cast is both a blessing and a bit of a curse. I sense that all the other actors, like tennis players whose opponents are significantly better, are trying to be as good as Janis is. That's the good news.
The less positive news is that's not going to happen, at least any time soon, with the results that the other performances pale in comparison.
That said, the Quintessence production, simply but effectively designed by Eliza Brown (sets), David Sexton (lighting) and Jane Casanave (costumes), still honors "The Importance of Being Earnest" and shows just why it's still one of the English language's greatest comedies.
This is a very nice, and encouraging, way for this young company to end its first full season at the Sedgwick.
For tickets to the Quintessence Theatre Group's production of "The Importance of Being Earnest," which plays through May 22 at the Sedgwick Theater in Mt. Airy, call 877-238-5596 or visit quintessencetheatre.org

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A few good runs
A nice video compilation of some of the best club rides..
Daisybank dig weekender 2012
Big thanks to all who turned up to repair Daisybank dirt jumps this weekend. It was an epic couple of days of dirt moving and packing in. I still cannot quite believe how much we achieved and how good the summer is going to be riding up there.
Buckholt Wood riding agreement
Last Friday (March 23rd) representatives from Cheltenham & County CC and Bigfoot MBC reached what we considered as a workable riding agreement with Natural England and the forestry manager
Cheltenham & County and Bigfoot MBC hit Ribbesford
With our two clubs having recently collaborated in trying to negotiate the return of mountain biking to Buckholt Woods we furthered this partnership with a superb gravity riding day at the downhill trails near to Ribbesford
Afan videos
A couple of videos from the recent weekend to Afan


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Investigating Step 4:
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Not every thesis statement can be supported.
You may search for sources to support your thesis statement - and come up empty. Some topics may be too current or too obscure for coverage in academic journals. Or you may find too many articles to wade through if your research question is broad. Be flexible with your topic, thesis statement, and research question. Revising them early in the process based on what you DO find will save you time in the long run.


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Rich2 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
rebates.com- life is complext, rebates shouldn't be
rebates.com is a new web site devoted to making rebates easier for consumers and marketers. To date we have processed over 2 million rebates for consumers ranging from national retailers and brands to energy star and ecommerce vendors. What makes us special is we WANT the consumer to get the rebate. Some rebate processors make it difficult because the longer the processor keeps the rebate money, the more "float" they get. We process rebates and send them to consumers via co branded prepaid cards. Processsing is all done online because we integrate with point of sale systems. Instead of mailing in your receipt, you simply log on to our site, enter a code, your email and mailing address and youre done. The site will internally link to partner stores, offer a rebate search capability and the home page will feature a video explaining the process. We are very consumer friendly and our retail partners love us because we increase customer satisfaction by reducing the hassle and our marketing system results in more rebate money being spent at the retailer (instead of a check that is never seen again). There is NO One doing this and its the future of rebate marketing- a $15 billion a year promotional tool.
We re targeting two principal audiences. Consumers who want rebates on cars, appliances or just about anything. But we also want the site to appeal to retailers (both online and offline). Our philosophy is "everybody wins" because the consumer has a better experience. This reduces complaints to retailers and brands. Marketers love the service because we drive spend back to them with our co branded card. We also enjoy patent protection on our process and can aggregate two rebates onto one card. So if you buy baby diapers with a $5 rebate and toothpaste with a $1 rebate, we cn mail you a prepaid card for $6. We also offer value added deals as an option to the rebate. Lets say you get a $75 rebate on a laptop, at te time of processing we may offer you a $150 warranty or $100 leather bag in lieu of the cash rebate.
The logo needs to be very web 2.0 and will likely include the name in the treatment. It might have elements of cash/money/prepaid card and or technology. We want to promote our friendly approach and may want to include our new tag line. "Life is complex, rebates shouldn't be".
I am attaching a pdf of a DRAFT version of the site. Once this logo contest is complete, the next contest will be to incorporate the logo into a new website design based on the attached file.
The idea of creating the site in the style of US currency has some appeal so one treatment of the logo might have elements of a $10 or $100 bill. But youre the designer so have fun with the logo. It would be great if the logo worked in black and white as well but don't feel constrained, 99.% of the time the logo will be viewed online.
One last item to note: 99% of the rebates we send consumers are via a prepaid credit card (Amex or Mastercard/visa), perhaps including a card in the design might make some sense. Thanks for your help and Happy New Year
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Sunday, 20 September 2009
ODI Series – Handling errors with Planning/Essbase loads
The question basically is how do you know when there have been any metadata load errors so you can take action, it is true that an error log is produced but there is no real indication that errors have occurred.
There are a number of different methods to attack this problem and I am going to go through a couple of methods that you can use. You would of thought that just checking for the existence of the error log would be enough but unfortunately the error log is recreated each time an interface is executed even if no errors are wrote to it, otherwise the ODI tool "OdiFileWait" could have been used to check for the existence of the file.
One method would be to use something like Jython/Java/OS commands to check the size of the file and if it is not zero bytes then act on it, it is a perfectly acceptable way of dealing with it but not one of my preferred methods.
The first method I am going to take you through is based on the statistics that are generated in one of the steps on the metaload knowledge modules,
I did write a blog on how to report statistics correctly so it is worth having a look through that first to get an understanding of what I am going to be talking about.
Right, I will now consider you know how to report statistics correctly by updating "Report Statistics" step in the knowledge module.
If you run an interface metaload that generates load errors and check out the "Report Statistics" step in the operator you will see the number of records processed and how many of them were errors
So by looking in the operator we can see that 1 record was rejected but we need to be able to act on that error, to do this we need to access the ODI work repository where it stores the statistical information, before we can do that we need to set up a connection to the work repository, I will briefly go through setting up the connection which I am sure you can do for yourself by now.
In the Topology manager create a new Data Server for the technology your ODI work repository is using.
Add the JDBC connection information.
Add the physical schema information
Finally add a logical schema to the context you are using.
With the connection in place we can now access the tables in the work repository, the table that stores the statistical information is "SNP_STEP_LOG".
As you see there are fields NB_ROW,NB_INS,NB_ERR
These relate to the total number of records, the records inserted and the number of error records, so you can see the values for the interface I ran earlier, the whole record is defined by the session number.
The session number for the interface I ran was 909001. So if you think about it by querying this information you will be able to find out if and how many errors were generated.
That is all fine but how are we going to know what the session number is for the interface being run, luckily ODI has an API command that will tell us just that. The command is odiRef.getSession("SESS_NO")
Now we need a way of storing the value produced from the query and once again ODI has just the thing for it – variables, to be specific a refreshing variable, a refreshing variable lets you set the value of a variable by the use of a query.
Create a new variable, it can be set to a numeric type.
In the refreshing tab select the logical schema for the work repository that was set up in the topology manager earlier.
The query is added, note you will need to surround the ODI API with <%= %> for it to be able to compile and execute correctly, you will not be able to validate the query as the query can only use the API commands at runtime.
With this refreshing variable we can now store the number of errors that have been generated, we just need to put this all together in a package and add a check to act on the value of the refreshing variable.
If you drag the variable onto the diagram again and set it as an evaluate variable.
This means we can check the current value of the variable and if it is greater than 0 then act on it.
In my example if the number of errors is greater than 0 then I send an email out advising there were errors, the amount of errors and attaches the error log, if the errors were 0 then I send out a success email. This is just an example you could add whatever process you want depending if there were errors or not.
Well that is the first method covered and it is probably the method I prefer to use.
The second method also uses a refreshing variable but this time the variable will use a query to read the first line of the error log and if it doesn't contain a first line it errors and follows the next step of a process, if it does contain an error it follows a separate step.
First of all you will need to have a logical schema that points to directory location of the error logs.
If you have ever looked in the operator at the SQL generated when loading from a text file you will notice a long string of ODI specific parameters for the file that is being loaded.
Basically we are just going to lift the code that is generated and put that into a refreshing variable.
If you want to generate the code for yourself then just create a new data store using file technology
In the Files tab just set it is as delimited, you don't need to change any other options.
In the columns tab manually add a new column of string type and set the lengths to a high value. Now you can just create an interface and use the data store as the source and for the target it doesn't really matter as we are just after the code that is generated.
Execute the interface, it doesn't matter if it fails just check the operator for the Load data step.
Now you can just copy the code that is generated.
Create a variable, the data type of Alphanumeric can be chosen.
Set the logical schema to the one that was created earlier that points to the error log directory.
Paste in the code
select C1 C1_C1
from TABLE
ERROR_LOGSNP$CRLOAD_FILE=E:\FileStore\/enterr.logSNP $CRFILE_FORMAT=DSNP$CRFILE_SEP_FIELD=09SNP
Now I updated the code slightly, I removed the C1_C1 as that is not really required, I also updated the section
I updated it to use the ODI API command getSchemaName, this will convert the current schema details at runtime into the full path, this is good practice as if the directory ever changes you only have to change the location in the topology manager.
So the final code is
select C1
from TABLE
Just to recap, if you use this refreshing variable it will try and read in information in the file, if will either fail if there is no data or succeed if there is data in the file.
Now we can put this into a package like the earlier example
Then just add steps to the success/failure of the refreshing variable.
So there we have it two examples of error handling when using the Hyperion KMs, hopefully you have understood and found it useful what I have tried to explain, I know it can get a little confusing at times. If you want it explaining further then just get in touch.
Until next time!!!
4 comments:
- Cameron Lackpour said...
How about I just take all of my difficult problems and just have you do all the work? :)
Thank you again for your generous knowledge sharing. You are an inspiration to the rest of us.
- 26 September 2009 at 13:19
- Siddhartha said...
Thanks for the second method. That was really helpful. I have worked with Hyp. Planning and ODI sometimes back. I have a suggestion regarding the first method. The step where you set error rows, after setting the error rows, you can check that jython variable for higher than zero condition and if that condition is true, you can raise a jython exception. That would fail the IKM if there are error rows. At least that worked for me. In the current environment there is no Hyp. Planning so I can not demonstrate through ready code.
Please keep up the good work.
- 28 September 2009 at 10:43
- xavier said...
Hi John, I try the second method .. It's work fine with test file, but with big essbase.err file, I have some issue because the line are two large :
12899 : 72000 : java.sql.SQLException: ORA-12899: value too large for column "ODIWORK"."SNP_VAR_DATA"."VAR_V" (actual: 334, maximum: 250)
however, I but 1000 as maximum length ... have you any idea ?
- 22 January 2010 at 09:21
- DJCC said...
Hi John,
hi Xavier, any clues on how to resolve the issue reported by Xavier?
I'm facing the same problem when extracting metadata (accounts) from Essbase with ODI:
ORA-12899 value too large for column
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
- 9 June 2015 at 03:44


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This is the courtyard of the main arts building of Bangor University in North Wales. The building isn't really as old as it might look. It was build around 1910 but it still gives the feeling of standing in a court yard of a much older castle.
Wales (Cymru in the Welsh language) is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The major cities are Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Bangor. The city of St. Davids is the smallest city in the UK with a population around 2000. Wales itself has a population of around 3 million. The Welsh language is spoken by around 20% of the population.


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Burglaries reported in Denham area
$2,000 reward offered
Residents and cabin owners of the Denham area and southeastern Aitkin County have been on high alert after a recent string of burglaries. One citizen stated the burglaries appear to be connected. "Whoever did this had obviously cased the residences," stated the unidentified homeowner. The burglaries began on June 27 and have continued into July. The first round of burglaries began on Farm to Market Road and then, residents believe, the same thieves worked their way down Birch Creek Road. In July alone, seven burglaries were committed in this general area.
The majority of places being burglarized are hunting cabins. One residence, which had been hit by the recent flooding, had been burglarized while their possessions were kept in their garage until the home was cleaned up completely. Many of these places have locked gates, which the thieves had cut. It is believed the crimes are mostly occurring at night or during the day while homeowners are not present.
Items being taken are fairly substantial such as lawn mowers, guns, outboard motors and tools. Other less substantial, but essential items such as gas cans, copper wire, extension cords, toilet paper, food and liquor were also consistently taken from the houses and cabins. One residence was reported to have the cupboards, freezer and refrigerator all cleaned out.
One unidentified property owner says he had four game cameras stolen, two of which were securely mounted to trees.
Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole declined to comment on the details of the crimes because the cases are currently under investigation. Sheriff Cole did advise citizens to immediately report burglaries to law enforcement. He stated one of the problems the sheriff's department encounters is residents and property owners don't report the crimes committed. He stated that 50 percent of crimes, statistically, go unreported. At press time, the Aitkin County sheriff had not yet returned the newspaper's phone call.
Tips to keep your house or cabin more safe from theft include the following:
- Don't keep expensive items in cabins/hunting shacks.
- Invest in motion-sensor lights and keep the outside of the house/cabin well-lit.
- Keep blinds closed on windows and doors so thieves cannot peruse the items in your house.
- Make the house/cabin seem as if someone were home with timed lamps or radios.
- Keep any shrubs around the home trimmed low so potential thieves are unable to hide in them.
- Start a neighborhood watch group.
Any belongings in a home or cabin should be photographed or videotaped. An inventory of all belongings should be made, right down to model and serial numbers.
There is a $2,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of these individuals. The contact number is (651) 245-7648.


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As a consultant, one of the things I commonly do is help organizations upgrade to newer editions of SQL Server. When doing so, I never recommend in-place upgrades for production servers. Instead, I always recommend standing up brand new servers to temporarily run side-by-side until configuration and security settings have been validated and until it's clear that the new hardware can handle expected workloads. Then, after acceptance testing (i.e., verification from a couple of key end users that everything is working correctly), an explicit transition can be scheduled where the new servers take the place of the old servers.
Related: A Day in the Life of a DBA
In my experience, in-place upgrades are almost never worth it (except, potentially, with the exception of some dev workloads). Here are some reasons why:
Call me nuts, paranoid, or just plain crazy, but I simply don't trust Windows or SQL Server installations. Yes, most of the time, they go completely as expected. But upgrades commonly bump into ugly problems. And if we're talking about production workloads, running into one of the random problems that can crop up when trying to run an upgrade on a production server can be insanely expensive—not just in terms of additional downtime, but also potentially in terms of your credibility.
Related: The Upgrade Dilemmas
Furthermore, even if you want to argue that an in-place upgrade where you reformat the server back to bare metal, spin up a new OS, and then install SQL Server (the new version) over the top of your old hardware (after grabbing db backups, etc.) can work, I'll still argue against such an approach. First of all, I've seen too many strange or weird cases where the installation of either Windows Server or SQL Server just doesn't take correctly. Yes, those instances are increasingly rare. But, when we're talking about a production workload, I almost never find the potential risk to be acceptable. Furthermore, even if you delude yourself into thinking that you can practice or rehearse the upgrade process, you're doing that in a controlled environment and not against the actual hardware or metal where a driver problem or issue might crop up.
Instead, I find that it's much easier and effective to stand up a new replacement host, configure it without any stress or duress (i.e., without worrying about a ticking clock counting down to when you need to be back online or running), and double-check all best practices and security configurations, and the like. Then, you can just copy security information (such as logins, etc.) on to the server and load on copies of your databases (i.e., via backups) to then start pointing application servers at this old/stale data to begin acceptance testing. Then, once you're sure everything is working correctly, you can just schedule a time to take the current production server down and switch over to the new server. And, if something goes wrong during that transition (as long as you haven't started writing data to the new location), then you can always abort your migration and switch back to the old server and try again another time. Whereas, if you try an in-place upgrade and something goes wrong, then, well, you're screwed and are stuck scrambling to get something back up and running.
If we assume that gremlins represent show-stopper or fatal problems that completely thwart upgrades, then what about something even worse? Like, something that fails to upgrade or install correctly as part of your upgrade—but which you don't detect right away. Then, imagine the cost (in terms of pain/manageability) of having to workaround that issue more or less indefinitely. While such artifacts are rare, the costs they impose ensure that they're something you want to avoid like the plague. And while you CAN miss these kinds of issues or problems when you stand-up a brand new server to replace your old server, my experience is that you have much more time and ability to test and interact with this server (and hopefully, therefore, find such problems or issues) as opposed to being in a serious hurry to get core functionality up when doing an in-place upgrade.
Missing out on Hardware Improvements
If you're upgrading to a new version of SQL Server, it's likely been about 2-3 years since your previous host was provisioned. Hardware capabilities have, effectively, doubled in that time. And the size and demands of your workloads have likely increased over that same time—so attempting to upgrade on the same/old hardware can and will work (each new version of SQL Server usually picks up around a 15-20 percent performance boost due to increased efficiencies in the underlying engine)—but just doesn't make as much sense as upgrading to new hardware.
Of course, while that argument makes instant sense to tech heads, it doesn't always make great sense to bean-counters (i.e., if your CIO or manager comes from a background more related to bean counting. or, if funds are sparse, then hardware benefits and improvements alone might not be enough to justify). Still, I'll always argue that disruptions caused by anything listed above also come with costs (which can sometimes be unacceptably costly in terms of negative user interactions or linger maintenance costs), and that new hardware is almost always worth it. Besides, when you take this approach, it's not like you throw away your old production hosts when you're done. The old production hosts can easily be repurposed for other tasks (for other workloads) or can be reused as staging or dev servers, if they're still in decent-enough working order.
Unless you're just assuming that you can do an in-place upgrade and everything will work—which is just plain dumb—then you're going to need to spin up some sort of additional host or server to act as a testing server that you can use to see how your applications behave when they've been upgraded.
Related: Don't Assume It Works: Testing Your Application Before Deployment
In other words, if you're going to go through this effort anyhow (and you really would be stupid not to), then WHY test this on anything BUT the new hardware where you're going to actually be hosting your databases going forward? In other words, with an in-place upgrade, you're going to have to go 'fake' an upgrade/testing environment, and then, you'll just assume that everything you tested and validated there will work on your current/production hardware after you magically manage to upgrade that hardware without any issues. Whereas, if you perform a side-by-side upgrade, not only are you removing the guess work, but you can also actually put your new hardware under load (in many cases) to fully verify how it will behave.
Another great benefit of side-by-side upgrades is that you can decrease downtime. In fact, with enough preparation and staging (along with rehearsals when/where needed), you can actually upgrade in 5 minutes or less. With in-place upgrades, you're forced to wait while a Wizard churns along and upgrades various components, databases, binaries, and the like. But with a side-by-side migration, you can verify that the new server is configured and working as needed, then load copies of recent FULL backups on to the box, restore (but not recover them), and then just keep applying T-Logs through the day (or use DIFFs + T-Log backups if that makes more sense). Then, you've got a warm spare configuration so that when your maintenance window arrives, you can just shut down the current production host, take tail-of-the log backups, and then apply them to your new server and then spin up your applications (with connection strings pointing at the new server) after recovering the database. All in all, very easy to handle, very easy to practice and rehearse, and very easy to pull off with minimal down-time.
Related: Performing a Side-by-Side Installation of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000


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HERCULES — The developer that recently bought Hercules' ill-fated Market Hall retail site will host a community meeting Jan. 12 to introduce itself and solicit input.
Palo Alto-based McNellis Partners' primary focus is redeveloping shopping centers and retail and office buildings, according to its website. The site features 15 "Selected Projects" with illustrations, mostly in Palo Alto and the Sacramento area.
John McNellis, one of three principals of the firm, touted the 6.62-acre site at Sycamore and San Pablo avenues, near the interchange of Interstate 80 and Highway 4, as "a brilliant retail location" in an interview with this newspaper.
He did not get into details of what his firm envisions at the site, which served as a temporary and unsuccessful outdoor food court from spring 2010 to spring 2011. But he offered some specifics about what he believes would not work there: Residential use, for instance, would be "totally silly" so close to a busy freeway onramp, he said.
And there is no demand for office space there, he added. He also ruled out multistory structures and mixed-use development.
McNellis Partners recently bought Market Hall from Kennedy Funding Inc. of New Jersey, which had granted a $2.5 million mortgage loan in 2010 to the former developer of the site, Newport Beach-based The Red Barn Co. Red Barn had acquired the site from the city's redevelopment agency in 2009 for zero dollars, with a pledge of a share of future proceeds from the project and a promise to develop it to a density of at least 300,000 square feet, including 50,000 square feet of commercial space.
McNellis declined to say how much his firm paid for the Market Hall site. An official at the Contra Costa Assessor's Office said Monday no recent sale of the property had been recorded into its system, adding that the process usually takes about three to six weeks.
Red Barn had intended the defunct Market Hall as a temporary placeholder for the future Market Town, Phase I of a three-phase planned mixed-use Hercules New Town Center. The other two phases were dubbed Cinema Town and Transit Town.
By the time Market Hall shut down last year, the redevelopment agency-financed, $12 million primary project fund for Hercules New Town Center was depleted. A chunk of it — almost $3.2 million in an 18-month period in 2009 and 2010 — paid for travel, luxury hotel stays, supplies and other expenses racked up by Red Barn president Tom Weigel and other company principals.
Payments included a $20,000-a-month consulting fee to Weigel; about $280,000 in consulting fees to ACEC Consulting Inc. of Irvine, owned by a Red Barn principal, Jason Jazayeri; about $182,000 to Long Beach-based consultant Linda Peak; a $10,000-a-month retainer, plus two bonuses of $50,000 each to Red Barn's Charlotte, N.C.-based law firm, The TownField Group Inc.; and a $97,500 transaction fee to Kennedy Funding in connection with the $2.5 million mortgage, plus related legal costs.
The $12 million primary fund also had financed Red Barn's $1.6 million buyout of its erstwhile partner, the Surland Companies of Tracy, in 2006.
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One girl's twistedly fantastic interpretation of what the hell is really going on in those tribes.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Elyse: Enchantingly Verbose
Next up is 27 year old Las Vegas resident and dance team manager, Elyse. Elyse was second runner up is Miss America and cites wet laundry as one of her pet peeves. She loves to bake cupcakes, amass useless trivia, and read memoirs. Leave out the cupcake part and we could be sisters. Tortured artsy female memoirs and biographies cover almost every tabletop in my house. How many books on Anais Nin one gal needs, I do not know, but I've got enough to wallpaper your basement.
If you drink decaf, Elyse wants nothing to do with you and if you're a pretty girl in ugly shoes... forget about it! Elyse will give you the hand and dance away. Apparently, pretty girls should wear pretty shoes. Does that rule hold true for ugly girls? Should they only wear ugly shoes? What if you're having a bad hair day and you've got a pimple on your chin? Do you have to break out the clogs and push the Jimmy Choo's to the back of closet? Elaborate Elyse! You can't just toss out a rule like that and not include the bylaws.
One of the words Miss Elyse uses to describe herself is "enchanting". Enchanting isn't a word you can appoint yourself! Enchanting is a word you let someone with a velvet smoking jacket and monogrammed loafers use to describe you. Alright, let's see how enchanting this Elyse chick really is:
And the award for most words crammed into 90 seconds goes to....
Jesus Christ. She's a piece of work, isn't she? I've never heard someone talk that fast and say so many nice things about themselves in so little time. This one we'll definitely have to keep an eye on. I'm not sure she's villain material, but she'll definitely be a stand out. This is the sort of big personality and confident demeanor I've been ranting about over and over again about on my Bitchy Big Brother Blog. She's exactly the type of person you want to see on a reality show. No way she'll be hiding in the shadows.
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I have heard this and from her 34th floor overlooking Vegas while rehearsing speeches all about herself. She looks like a mermaid in this clip.ReplyDelete
Good Lord. Just listening to her made me tired. Chick ain't lasting long. She's gonna annoy the heck out of the others on that island.ReplyDelete
- DiabolicalSeptember 9, 2011 at 8:17 AM
Jesus! Well I know who I'd be picking for the swimming challenges. Beeotch didn't stop to take breath once. She says she's got the social game sewn...isn't gonna happen unless she gets her trap sewn.ReplyDelete
Yeah, she'll get booted early b/c she can't keep her damn mouth shut.ReplyDelete
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Biomanufacturing Morphs
In biopharma, budgets are returning and manufacturers are emphasizing innovation, productivity, and cost control.
|Survey Methodology: This eighth in the series of annual evaluations by BioPlan Associates, Inc. yields a composite view and trend analysis from 352 responsible individuals at biopharmaceutical manufacturers and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) from 31 countries. The methodology also encompassed an additional 186 direct suppliers (vendors) of materials, services and equipment to this industry. This year's survey covers such issues as: current capacity, future capacity constraints, expansions, use of disposables, trends and budgets in disposables, trends in downstream purification, quality management and control, hiring issues, employment and training. The quantitative trend analysis provides details and comparisons by both biotherapeutic developers and CMOs. It also evaluates trends over time, and assesses differences in the world's major markets in the U.S. and Europe.
Biopharmaceutical manufacturers are now defying many of the overall trends seen in the pharmaceutical and other mature industries. Namely, they are already showing strong signs of recovery from recent worldwide economic problems. As it matures, the industry continues its shift toward improved productivity and quality, all the while controlling costs.
These trends are documented in our 8th Annual Report and Survey of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Capacity and Production [1]. This year we find that company budgets are clearly recovering from recent economic belt tightening. However, manufacturers are maintaining their conservative approach to production, and keeping their focus on cost reduction and quality improvements. In this year's study (see Figure 1), the shift in the focus to production quality was particularly apparent. Here, we saw an 11 percentage point increase, to 57.1%, of global respondents indicating they are seeing operational changes toward production quality.
This trend is affecting company budgets linked to these factors. The largest budget increases this year were in areas associated with productivity and quality. This was a change from previous years when most budgets had simply been slashed. Responses indicate that companies are expanding budgets, but are doing so cautiously, with expenditures being critically evaluated. Overall, spending in virtually all budget areas is up in 2011, between 1% and 6%.
This year, "New technologies to improve efficiencies/costs for downstream production" leads the pack with a 6.4% average spending increase. This budget increase comes on top of last year's budget-leading 4+% increase. This is a result of funding for activities that reduce capacity constraints due to bottlenecks from downstream operations. Funding of new technology in upstream processing is nearly as substantial as downstream funding. Integrating "New technologies to improve efficiencies/costs for upstream" saw budget increases of 6.2% (Figure 2). Upstream manufacturing's greatly increased yields in recent years keep it competitive from both productivity and performance standpoints.
In this year's study, responses from 352 global biomanufacturers/CMOs in 31 countries, and 186 vendors to the industry, show that the top spending projections are going toward internal investments into new technology (upstream and downstream) and personnel and process development and optimization.
Companies are focusing on productivity by "retooling" and training existing staff resources. In fact, "Operations staff training to improve efficiency" ranked 4th this year, which suggests that funding for on-going process improvements is likely to continue. Similarly, the survey shows respondents attributing "Better process development" and "Overall better control of process" as the number 1 and number 3 factors, respectively, in creating " 'Significant' or 'Some' Improvement in Biomanufacturing Performance."
Across all departments, budget trends are a leading indicator of how constraints have loosened, especially for expenditures that improve process performance. The annual survey documents how this industry, despite recent worldwide economic difficulties, has maintained steady growth, and continues to mature.
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Survey data indicate that biopharmaceutical companies are increasing their outsourcing, but are doing so in areas that may reduce costs, or improve productivity. Recent increases in company budgets are often not being directed toward rebuilding in-house staff that had been reduced, or eliminated in recent years. Outsourcing of certain key tasks, such as manufacturing, is growing at a steady pace. Overall, the prospects for outsourcing by biopharmaceutical companies, including contract testing and manufacturing companies, appears promising with healthy growth expected, particularly for the more sophisticated and broadly-capable contractors.
This year's survey included evaluation of 23 key areas of biopharmaceutical outsourcing. As shown in Figure 3, when asked where costs had been successfully reduced last year through outsourcing (in addition to any prior years' cutbacks and outsourcing), the highest percentage, 13.2%, reported outsourcing of jobs in process development, and 9% outsourcing R&D, and 11.8% manufacturing, including 5.7% off-shoring manufacturing to foreign contract manufacturers (CMOs).
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Celtic striker Anthony Stokes has been charged before a court in Ireland with assault causing harm.
Dressed in a grey hoodie, blue jeans and runners, the 25-year-old is accused of assaulting Elvis impersonator Anthony Bradley, 42, at a nightclub in his home town last year.
Dublin District Court heard he was arrested - by arrangement - on Chancery Street in Dublin this afternoon.
The footballer was officially charged at 1:55pm with assault causing harm, under section three of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997.
The alleged incident happened at Buck Whaley's nightclub on Lesson Street in the Irish capital on June 8 last year.
Garda Noel Gibbons, of Pearse Street Garda station, gave evidence at the brief hearing of the arrest, charge and caution.
Stokes made no reply to the charge, the officer told the court.
The garda officer agreed with Stokes' solicitor Michael Staines that the footballer had co-operated with the arrest and charge.
Judge Michael Walsh remanded Stokes on bail, with no conditions, on his own bond of €1,000.
He has been ordered to appear again before the court on 29 May.
Judge Walsh asked Stokes to hand over details of his mobile phone to prosecuting authorities.


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There was a party last night in New York to honour Bryan Lourd, one of the most powerful players at CAA, and therefore Hollywood. Reese Witherspoon was there. She's been working with Lourd for a while. And her husband, Jim Toth, shares a few major accounts with him. Gwyneth Paltrow was there too. Gwyneth has been with Tracy Jacobs (Johnny Depp's agent) for a few years now. But this is the second CAA party she's been to in as many months. Do you smell something?
Gwyneth and Reese have been getting close. There's been talk of doing a movie together. With Ryan Murphy, who was also at the party and who is also with CAA. Again, do you smell something? Maybe it's just me. Maybe it's just a party and G wanted to go talk sh-t with one of the best. Reese Witherspoon is most definitely one of the best. Also, Jesus Christ, she is having some serious hair issues right now.
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My favorite part is when the committee was thinking of their favorite books. I like how they were talking about their favorite authors and their favorite books. I wish those were real books because they look like interesting books to read. Two of the titles are Do Monsters go to the Dentist and My Life as a Rabbit Vampire. I like how the pictures look like cartoons. They look like they are in pen or pencil because they are in black and white. Also, they have lots of little tiny details. I think Hubie is the same in all of the Black Lagoon books. In this one he is fearful about the author being mean. In all of the other books he is fearful about something.
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About The Hunt
5.5 = number of days away from home
4 = days The Bull went out to look for caribou
11 = number of hunting excursions on those days
39 = number of caribou seen on these excursions; most were cows with calves, or bulls that were too far away
immeasureable = miles he hiked on these excursions
5 = number of caribou seen on our way home (and all right by the side of the road, and in a noisy construction zone no less!)
About The Location
59 = average high temperature (in Paxson, the closest town to our campsite)
42 = average low temperature (again, in Paxson)
4.5 = days with rain
1 = day without rain (the last one, of course, when we drove home)
1 = days of dry brush while The Bull was hunting (the first. . . it was dry when we arrived and dry when we left. . . apparently we hit a patch of rain! Thankfully he had hip boots to keep himself dry on those wet days)
20 = percent of time there was rain during those days
1 = days our pop-up tent leaked
0 = amount of dust (but see previous item of days of rain, which yielded . . . . )
countless = amount of mud
1 = number of Iditarod mushers met on the trip
About The Hunting Party
4 = adults on the trip
6 = children on the trip
1 = baby
8 = bicycles taken out there
1 = horse on the trip
4 = tooth brushes purchased for people who had forgotten theirs (oops!!)
1 = number of times that the baby fell out of the trailer (thankfully, she did not hit the trailer tongue on the way down!!)
lots = number of diapers changed
1 = back ache for me (which is amazing, because normally it's every day; guess I need a firmer mattress?)
7 = sets of clothing taken for each Moose child
3 = sets of clothes they went through on the first day camping (refer back to previous number of rainy days. . . . and temperature . . . )
10 = loads of laundry it took to clean up when we got home
3 = boxes of Kleenex brought with us
1 = Moose children who were sick when we left for camp
3 = Moose children who were sick when we left for home
What We Did There
just over 900 = miles driven from Anchorage, round trip
$4.85 = most expensive diesel fuel, per gallon, on our trip (Meiers Lake)
$6 = What I paid for one shower at a lodge near our campsite (a tiny shower stall in a cold shower house, mildewy, run by a generator, and very little water pressure. . . best shower I had the whole trip!) ( . . . OK, the only shower I had the whole trip! But still!)
$6 = What we paid for two showers in Glennallen (modern and clean, and neither for me)
11 = Narnia CDs listened to while driving out there and back
almost 5 = inches of the baby's afghan I knitted while The Bull drove many of those 900 miles
about 20 = blueberries picked by Calf #2 on "Blueberry Hill," his favorite spot near our campsite
40 or 50 = number of times the Calves and their friends hiked up to Blueberry Hill or down to the swamp
4 = days the Mooselets got to ride bikes around the camp
8 = chapters read in my book
About The Food
40 = pounds of dry ice purchased
$96 = cost of that dry ice (ouch!!!)
4 = days the dry ice kept things frozen
24 = ice cream treats that were purchased (intended to be eaten on our trip with our friends)
24 = ice cream treats that melted (it just never got warm enough to eat ice cream)
about 14 = pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables purchased (bananas, pears, oranges, lettuce, carrots)
17 = different meal items brought (macaroni and cheese, spam, canned soup, beanie weenie, tortilla chips with cheese dip and refried beans, pouches of ready-to-eat curried potatoes, granola bars, peanut butter and jelly, sliced turkey and cheese for sandwiches, cup o'noodles, instant oatmeal, dehydrated potatoes and cheese powder, canned fruit, canned juice, hot cocoa, coffee, milk)
4 = different meal items that we didn't eat on our trip (we took waaaaaay more food out than we could have possibly eaten!)
8 = cans of spam taken out
2 = cans of spam eaten
11 = meals eaten in the wilderness
5 = meals eaten with our camping friends
5 = loaves of bread taken with us
3 = meals of sandwiches
9 = types of snacks brought (cracker/cheese packets, cookie packets, homemade cookies, gummi bears, jerky, smoked almonds, black licorice, dried fruit, corn chips)
36 = ounces of jerky taken
2 = gallon sized bucket of cookies taken
The End Results
1 = caribou that came home with us! Praise the LORD!!
468 = photos taken
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* Athena Miller in her Flutterbydaisy Dress *
Love these photos Athena sent me today... very Alice in Flutterland...
Tales from The Treehouse
Today disappeared. Laughing with my lil bro that boredom caught on until I tea stained almost the entirety of my wardrobe in the sink ... now everything matches. Thinking up frills to wear tomorrow for doing nothing with you, I'm thinking something tea stained, clearly, wrapped in a red bow to let go of the sparkles we're buying before we do and eat lunch; we like plans when they are to do nothing. The rest of my non-day was spent knitting, there I sat, here, I have lots of knittedness in the making for a few lovelies...Knit knit... lala knit... la la...full of wool. It would be nice in the morning of the postman posted me my camera films *crosses fingers and toes* typing of postmen - the case of the missing package was open, had chapters and is now solved and Sabines dresses are safe home with her to dance in for New Years hurrah!
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Twins unable to outlast Rangers in pitchers' duel
ARLINGTON -- The Justin Morneau era came to a close on Saturday, and the Twins struggled offensively in their first game without him.
On the same day Morneau was traded to the Pirates, the Twins lost in walk-off fashion on Saturday night, as Leonys Martin provided a game-winning single in the ninth inning off reliever Brian Duensing to give the Rangers a 2-1 win at Rangers Ballpark.View Full Game Coverage
ARLINGTON -- The Justin Morneau era came to a close on Saturday, and the Twins struggled offensively in their first game without him.
On the same day Morneau was traded to the Pirates, the Twins lost in walk-off fashion on Saturday night, as Leonys Martin provided a game-winning single in the ninth inning off reliever Brian Duensing to give the Rangers a 2-1 win at Rangers Ballpark.View Full Game Coverage
It ended a pitchers' duel between Mike Pelfrey and Matt Garza, which finished in a stalemate for the right-handers, as they both pitched well but were saddled with no-decisions.
"Normally when you give up two runs, you're going to win the game," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "But Garza threw the living fire out of the ball. We thought Pelfrey was unbelievable, but we couldn't get any hits to knock in any runs."
Left-hander Caleb Thielbar started the ninth for the Twins, but he gave up a one-out double to Alex Rios before intentionally walking Jeff Baker. He was able to get Jurickson Profar to fly out to center for the second out, but the Twins opted to go with right-hander Josh Roenicke to face Craig Gentry.
Roenicke ended up walking Gentry to load the bases to bring up Martin, which caused Gardenhire to bring in the left-handed throwing Duensing. Duensing got ahead of Martin with a 1-2 count before Martin singled up the middle to give the Rangers the victory.
"It's my second walk-off," Martin said. "I was concentrated in that at-bat. I wasn't looking for a homer. I was just protecting my zone, and it worked."
It came on a night when Pelfrey turned in one of his best performances of the year, as he surrendered just one run on six hits over seven innings without issuing a walk. He also tied a season high with seven strikeouts.
"This was probably his best outing, if not for the year, in a long time," Gardenhire said. "He's throwing the ball pretty good right now. He's pounding the zone. I don't know how many changeups he threw, but he moved the ball in and out. His pace was good."
It was an impressive turnaround for Pelfrey, who walked a career-worst six batters in his last start and now has quality starts in three of his last four outings since skipping bullpen sessions in between starts.
"It was good after walking six last time," Pelfrey said. "I told you guys that was pretty embarrassing. I think it was a career-high, so that's not me. So I wanted to go back out there and get ahead and throw strikes."
Garza, who pitched with the Twins from 2006-07, was also solid, throwing seven strong innings. He gave up just one run on three hits and three walks while striking out nine.
The lone run scored against Garza came on the first batter of the game, as Brian Dozier launched a solo blast on the third pitch of the night. It gave Dozier his 15th homer, which set a record for most homers in a season by a Twins second baseman.
"He can juice it," Gardenhire said about Dozier. "He's playing good, swinging good and playing good defense."
The Rangers tied it up in the first on a sacrifice fly from Adrian Beltre after Elvis Andrus and Ian Kinsler laced back-to-back singles with one out. But Andrus left the game with tightness in his back while running to third on Beltre's single and was replaced by Adam Rosales, who scored on Beltre's sacrifice fly.
But that was it for the scoring until Martin's game-winning hit in the ninth. The Twins had a few opportunities to take the lead, but went 0-for-3 with runners in scoring position, including stranding Ryan Doumit and Chris Colabello in the seventh inning.
"Normally if you hold the Rangers like that you feel pretty good about yourself," Gardenhire said. "But unfortunately we lost tonight."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger.


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Please can someone explain how god is love and just and yet ruthlessly murders innocent babies and children in this story. It is now known that the ancient Egyptians were a great African civilisation. From their writings, it is clear that they were not as evil as depicted in the bible, yet this 'loving' god decides to commit the worst possible atrocity against them and people celebrate it like it was a good thing!
Can you imagine going about your normal daily life in ancient Egypt and then waking up one day to find thousands of innocent children dead. If god is omnipotent he did not need to do this. This is sick!
Then he commands his "chosen" people to commit racial genocide and slaughter, rape, and enslave their neighbours.
What happened to "thou shalt not kill"?
Sorry, but i think reading the bible again is turning me into an atheist. It is far too barbaric and unbelievable to be true. Either Yahweh was, and is an evil monster or It was all made up by barbaric ancient tribes with an axe to grind and a genocidal superiority complex.
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A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
I'm Hamlet Batista, an expert Search Engine Marketer. You can search for me in Google "hamlet batista". I decided to start my most ambitious project. I believe it is possible to make money by giving. We are wired to return favors, so I am going to challenge ten million people to help others and make money while doing it, and I will challenge myself to help them for free and to give $1 for each one of them to charity. So, the goal of the site is to help ten million people make money online, and to give ten million dollars to charity.
The website/business is not a charity but a new coaching program to teach people how to make money online. The difference with our program is that we will give out the first money making module for free. No e-mail, no money required. We are teaching how to make money upfront with the hope that they do make money and want to learn how to make even more. For each person that makes money from the free content, I will give $1 to charity.
Here is the link to the logo http://tenmilliondollarchallenge.co…ackage.zip
Anybody looking to make money online.
1. In the front page, I need a counter from zero to ten million, with the actual count of how many people I have helped so far. (Just the art, not the coding)
2. In the front page, there should be just one post, the featured post that will include an introductory video
3. I want to see creative ideas that include happy people, money, charity work, etc.
4. The sidebar should only include two sections: latest comments from the featured post, and latest entries from people that have made money.
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"We must all understand that this is a defining moment. It is not about saving any one country or region. It is about saving the world from a downward economic spiral."
Well, yes Ma'am, but has it not been glaringly obvious for the last three years? It is not particularly optimistic if it takes over three years for the top world officials to grasp something which is that obvious.
Having recognised the scale of the crisis Ms Lagarde said that Europe should boost bailout fund and consider euro bonds. The net effect of such actions would be to spread the crisis onto thus far healthy economies. She added:
"I am convinced that we must step up the Fund's lending capacity."
In a nutshell Ms Lagarde recommended solving the current crisis with even more debt and more countries dragged into it. It is not a particularly bright idea. As explained three years ago in "The largest heist in history" the only effect would be prolonging the crisis and making it bigger.
If her recommendations are implemented, some time later we will be back into square one but with a much bigger problem. This is the approach to solving the current financial crisis for nearly 5 years (since Northern Rock collapse). And it led from bad to worse to even worse. Some with experience in the financial sector regard people dealing with the current crisis as "outrightly stupid" but one really has to pose a question about their sanity (in the most basic meaning of this word). Albert Einstein's famous remark: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" describes their behaviour very accurately.


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Project devices
This site provides a list of devices the OpenEmbedded Projects owns, where they were located, where they will be located, what people intended to do with it.
The OpenEmbedded Project will lend the devices for a limiting time to people interested and willing to do useful projects with them. The guidelines still need to be set up as it is a matter of trust.
2x Sharp SL-6000L (tosa)
First device was won at TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 which was kindly sponsored by Xtops.DE.
- 2005.09.13 Holger Hans Peter Freyther (zecke) picked it up. His interest is in assisting Dirk Opfer to finish the SL-6000er Linux port. The initial plan is to keep the device for three month and pass it on. He is willing to pass the device on earlier if others are interested to work on it.
- 2006.01.10 device was sent to Liam Girdwood (lrg) to work on drivers for Touchscreen and audio. His plan is to keep the device for a few weeks until the touch and audio are working well.
- 2006.07.14 device was given to Mike Arthur (mikearthur) by Liam Girdwood (lrg) to work on drivers for touchscreen and battery.
- 2006.09.27 device returned by Mike Arthur to Liam Girdwood (lrg) and Graeme Gregory (XorA)
Second was donated by anonymous donor.
- 2006.06.08 Aman Gupta (TheMasterMind1) got it.
- 2006.06.27 Marcin Juszkiewicz (Hrw) got it - machine will be used to resolve current OpenZaurus problems and testing 2.6 kernel.
1x Sharp SL-C750 (shepherd)
This device was won at TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 which was kindly sponsored by Xtops.DE .
- 2005.09.10 Christian Fertig (_FuF_) picked it up. His interest is in improving multimedia packages for Opie and GPE but also videolan etc.
- 2006.05.01 Mickeyl got it back. Plan is to hand it over to Zecke at OEDEM in October.
- 2006.10.06 Holger Freyther (zecke) received it
2x Sharp SL-5600 (poodle)
First device was donated by anonymous donor.
- 2006.06.08 Aman Gupta (TheMasterMind1) got it.
- 2006.06.27 Marcin Juszkiewicz (Hrw) got it - machine will move to Mickeyl soon.
- 2006.10.07 Micheal Lauer (Mickeyl) got it
Second was donated by Daniel Stutzbach.
- 2006.09.11 Graeme Gregory (XorA) now has it for audio work.
1x Sharp SL-C3000 (spitz)
This device was sponsored by SIEMENS R&D.
- 2005 Mickeyl got it to improve OpenZaurus experience on Zaurus models w/ HD.
- 2006 Marcin Juszkiewicz will get it at OEDEM in October.
- 2006.10.07 Marcin Juszkiewicz (Hrw) got it
- 2007.02.25 Rolf 'Laibsch' Leggewie got it on FOSDEM. He works on Japanese support.
1x USB-VGA adaptor
This device will be used for presentations on OE powered devices. It requires a usb 2.0 host controller, so it won't work with the ratoc CFU1U card.
- 2006.11.03 Koen got it to do some initial testing
1x Greenphone
This devices was given us by Knut Irvin (Qt Community Manager). It will be used as a reference platform for hopefully future work on Qtopia Integration
- 2007.02.24 Holger Freyther got it at FOSDEM
1x Various hardware
Given by an unknown person, 1xOrinoco wifi card, 1x4gb flashcard, 1x Canon flash card , 2x usb cable.
- 2007.02.26 Gerwin van der Kruis got it at FOSDEM
1x Unknown Mini-itx epia box
Given by an unknown company, got it by mail.
- 2007.02.26 Gerwin van der Kruis got it at home


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Coat: J. Crew circa 2009, Dress: Vintage, Tights: J. Crew, Shoes: Target, Goofy Smile: Birth
Thanks a lot wind, for sending like, three stands of hair across my face.
That dress is perfect! Very Mad Men-esque indeed. And your eyes look so pretty in the close-photo! :>ReplyDelete
Love it! :) You keep putting together such striking and well-contrasted outfits... I also love the coat you paired this with! :)ReplyDelete
You look absolutely lovely - adore that coat so much! xxReplyDelete
They turned out adorable!! Lady lunches are tops!ReplyDelete
so pretty. love that second to last photoReplyDelete
These pictures are making me drool slightly O_O (umm not in a strange 'i'm having a stroke' kind of way though heh) You look so beautiful!
I'm so envious of your eyebrows tooo, have you got a tutorial of sorts anywhere around so i can steal your beauty secrets?! xxx
This is A FANTASTIC OUTFIT.ReplyDelete
totally love the retro dress darling.
xo kaitlin
pretty outfit!
:) love it dear.
lovely post! I know exactly what you mean about not being able to wait to fix something up before wearing it. That takes tiiime.
Also love the little cat especially!
Fourth photo, gorgeous. "and steamed it while wearing it", hysterical.ReplyDelete
You always look so very timeless :) It amazes me how you're able to switch between decades so effortlessly. Love this outfit :)
adorable! I think it really suits you!ReplyDelete
I think the dress looks great on you! Lovely!ReplyDelete
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Mad Men instantly sprang to mine when I saw this dress :) It's really pretty on you and the coat rounds off the 60s feel!ReplyDelete
wow, this photos look so pretty ^^
just lovely! Your blog is addictive.
I am a fashion blogger from right outside Albany. You have great photos and cool style!
Glad you braved the cold weather and wore this dress. Its a beauty.
Stop by & enter my Vedette giveaway!
nice outfit. i like watching somebody wearing skirts like this one :)ReplyDelete
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I recently started reading your blog and it is one of my favorites. I love the pieces you put together. You have such a classic and chic look. I know what you mean about buying something even if it isn't the most flattering shape (I do this often) but I honestly think you pull this dress off beautifully!ReplyDelete
i love the dress! i'm a firm believer in wearing clothes that you love and appreciate, and not worrying about how flattering they may be! i think you look great. :)
You look so very pretty in it! And your face is a crime against humanity, stop being so lovely. xxxReplyDelete
that dress is insanely sweet! love it!
This dress is so lovely on you-- and that close up of your face is just gorgeous. You're such a beauty.
I've been trying to branch out into looser shapes (I'm quite curvy and feel like anything that isn't cinched isn't flattering), so seeing you do so makes me smile! You look lovely no matter what. :)
I really love your look ;)
stopping by an abandoned house on the way to a thrift store to take outfit photos with a friend seems like the perfect way to spend an afternoon. i love the dress and want that coat! beautiful color and fit.ReplyDelete
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Your dress is so cute, love it! :)ReplyDelete
I just found your blog and I love it. You have great style and I rellay like how you always look very stylish where other people might look old-fashioned. You know what I mean?
Following you!
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that dress is so cute! vintage is always flattering.
Love Love Love the dress!
I love the graphic print/check at the moment and this dress looks adorable on you. You have such an endearing blog and have started following.
Thank you,
Your coat is really beautiful i also have that one and i paired it on my women's wool-blend pant suit and it really looks great. You must also try it for yourself.ReplyDelete


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As a music and English teacher, I've always loved hearing stories, reading stories and now writing stories. I was inspired to write by my mother, who also writers, and by my excursions overseas.
I was born in Auckland, New Zealand. Lived in the city until I was nine, when I moved away from every thing I'd known, to live in a small town called Paeroa. It was there that I grew to love the countryside, the pot belly fire place, my 'Anne of Green Gables' home. My mother home schooled my three brothers, sister and I until high school, which made us a close knit family. After graduating from Waikato University, we had all moved over to live in the suburbs of Hamilton. Soon after I got married and moved to South Korea.
It's been a long time coming, but I'm on my new adventure of writing and self publishing books. My husband, Saveth, and I now are back in NZ and raising our son, Ezra. Saveth has been exceptionally supportive and Ezra has been a big inspiration for my writing.


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Working with Analysis Services Databases During the Development Phase
New: 14 April 2006
You can develop an Analysis Services database by using Business Intelligence Development Studio in either project mode or online mode.
Single Developer
When only a single developer is developing the entire Analysis Services database and all of its constituent objects, the developer can use Business Intelligence Development Studio in either project mode or online mode at any time during the lifecycle of the business intelligence solution. In the case of a single developer, the choice of modes is not particularly critical. The maintenance of an offline project file integrated with a source control system has many benefits, such as archiving and rollback. However, with a single developer you will not have the problem of communicating changes with another developer.
Multiple Developers
When multiple developers are working on a business intelligence solution, problems will arise if the developers do not work in project mode with source control under most, if not all circumstances. Source control ensures that two developers are not making changes to the same object at the same time.
For example, suppose a developer is working in project mode and making changes to selected objects. While the developer is making these changes, suppose that another developer makes a change to the deployed database in online mode. A problem will arise when the first developer attempts to deploy his or her modified Analysis Services project. Namely, Business Intelligence Development Studio will detect that objects have changed within the deployed database and prompt the developer to overwrite the entire database, overwriting the changes of the second developer. Since Business Intelligence Development Studio has no means of resolving the changes between the Analysis Services database instance and the objects in the project about to be overwritten, the only real choice the first developer has is to discard all of his or her changes and starting anew from a new project based on the current version of the Analysis Services database.
See Also
How to: Connect in Online Mode to an Analysis Services Database using Business Intelligence Development Studio
How to: Create an Analysis Services Project Based on an Existing Analysis Services Database
Working with Analysis Services Databases in a Production Environment


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Frances Lucille Bourgeois Keebaugh, 90, of Ravenswood, WV, passed away March 17, 2013 at Jackson General Hospital, Ripley, WV.
Frances Lucille Bourgeois Keebaugh, 90, of Ravenswood, WV, passed away March 17, 2013 at Jackson General Hospital, Ripley, WV.
She was born February 19, 1923 in Jackson County, WV, to Cyrus Nathan "Nate" Bourgeois and Desta Violet Williams Bourgeois
Lucille was a homemaker and mother.
She was a member and Sunday School teacher at Flatwoods United Methodist Church. She was also a member of the Happy Homemakers Extension for several years; a 4-H leader for over 40 years; and was a 4-H leader of Hemlock Hillbillies 4-H Club. Lucille and her husband had been members of the Jackson County Junior Fair for over 42 years. Lucille earned the 'E' Pin working at Ames Shovel Plant during World War II, 1942-43. She was a resident of the Hemlock Area and caretaker of the Hemlock Community Building for many, many, years.
She loved canning, gardening, making apple butter, knotting quilts, and spending time with special companion, her dog, Brownie.
Survivors include: daughters: Virginia Carolyn Skinner, Illinois; Juanita Frances Burgess, Ravenswood, WV; Opal Irene Keebaugh Johns and spouse Terry , Ripley, WV; and Ruth Fern Keebaugh Grimmett and spouse, Patrick, Garner, NC.
Sons: Kenneth Ray Keebaugh and spouse Patsy, Ravenswood, WV; and Wilmer Royal Keebaugh and spouse Pat, Evans, WV.
Miss Lucille also leaves behind 17 Grandchildren; 24 Great Grandchildren; and 4 Great-Great Grandchildren; half-brother: William Bourgeois, California;
Her Sister: Mary Elizabeth Shatto, Ripley, WV:
Honorary Children: Tim (Janet) Somerville, Ravenswood, WV; and Charlie Pence, Flatwoods, WV.
Miss Lucille was preceded in death by her parents; Her husband William, "Bill" Keebaugh; brothers, Robert Warren, Elmer Seamon, and Lester "Jack", Roland Gilbert, and Nathan Lloyd Duane Bourgeois; and sister, Juanita Bourgeois Harmon.
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Lincoln City Libraries is hosting a book discussion group for Spanish-speaking parents and their elementary-age children Saturdays, June 9 through July 7. Programs are from 11 a.m. to noon at the Bennett Martin Public Library, 136 S. 14th Street. The Magic Tree House series of books will be read and discussed, and the programs include crafts and a light snack.
Literacy activities will be provided for preschool children as the parents and older children participate in the book group. Pre-registration is required. To register, call Lorena at 402-217-4918.
This program is made possible through funding from the Kevin Colleran Memorial Fund, established with the Foundation for Lincoln City Libraries. For more information, visit lincolnlibraries.org.


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Pauly D will have his own reality show ... so will Snooki and Jwoww -- now that MTV has officially ordered 12 episodes of each spin-off.
TMZ broke the story that Snooki and Jwoww had been shooting a pilot episode for their show -- which will chronicle their experiences as roommates after their lives on "Jersey Shore."
As for Pauly D -- MTV says his show will focus around his life on the road as "one of the country's most in-demand DJs."
Both shows are scheduled to debut on MTV in 2012.
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