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Mr Hirst spent the evening playing snooker, but on being told the sale figures, he pronounced: "I think the market is bigger than anyone knows. I love art and this proves I'm not alone. And the future looks great for everyone.†(Economist, 2008).
We arrived in Florence last February and stayed for about five days. It was cold and damp in the mid-50 degrees, reminding me of San Francisco. A friend we were visiting said the city was built on a swamp and we climbed up a hill to a Franciscan chapel where the original alabaster windows were still in place. Through the translucent stone, the light shone dark and brown and because it was colder inside than out, we didn't stay long but climbed back down the hill to wander through the city once more. During those five days I felt a little like a pinball bouncing around a Renaissance amusement park. A classy Medieval Times with boar instead of mutton. Regardless of our haphazard path we inevitably ran into something famous: Dante's church, for instance, or a squatting boar fountain—even those churches that hadn't made it on the map still contained gravestones embedded in their walls or floor—some of these dating as far back as the first or second century. History was everywhere and it was bigger than us.
On the third day a bus passed with an advertisement for Damien Hirst's bedazzled reminder of death. I burst out laughing.
The last thing I expected to see was Hirst's glimmering, gaudy skull in a city that seems in constant worship of its past. Nevertheless, the city seemed to love it. There were banners and posters all over the place. Everywhere it said, "For the Love of God," and why not?
The skull was on view in the Palazzo Vecchio—an old city hall, adjacent to a square full of fountains and sculptures and ice cream shops. Walking past the David replica, we bought tickets and wandered upstairs to the second floor. There, we entered a giant ballroom. The dimensions of the room itself were astounding—170×75 ft—not to mention the similarly massive tapestries on the walls, or the several larger-than-life sculptures that lined the room. While the tapestries themselves are phenomenal, they are nevertheless replacements for work never made by Michelangelo and Leonardo DaVinci; both had been commissioned to make work for the room and both, for various reasons (Da Vinci's fresco allegedly melted when he tried to heat up the drying process with hot coals) were unfinished. In their stead, Giorgio Vasari's war paintings hang with astonishing authority, depicting a series of Florentine victories in battle. They are massive, complete with impeccable detail. Horses so plump they are cherubic, with lords in armor on their backs, holding spears as shorter personalities–midgets and boys–hustle at their feet replenishing arrows and running swords or torches every which way. In these tapestries everything is in focus, each curious figure serving its own distinct purpose that nevertheless reinforces a greater compositional whole. There is no focal point, rather the harmony stems from the a series of active constellations.
But of course, the room boasts even more cultural capital. The ceiling is indescribable. It's full of different panels of paintings and due to their detail it feels a little closer than it actually is. Additionally, larger-than life sculptures pepper the room.
Among those sculptures, six statues by Vincenzo de'Rossi depict the Labors of Hercules. As the story goes, Hercules was enraged (by Hera) to kill all of his children. After waking from his madness and discovering what he'd done, he went to the Oracle of Delphi to seek atonement. There he was set to 12 impossible tasks. These he accomplished. He is also attributed with making the world a safer place, in that he killed all of its monsters.
All of these works and figures depicted in the ball room were larger than life for the feats they captured, the size of their depiction and their (to me extreme) historical vantage.
Two ticket attendants stood in the far corner of this room. They clacked our tickets and pulled back a velvet rope so we could step behind them and passing through a very narrow, subsequent room I had the impression we were walking through an old fashioned toilet, or cloak room. Built-in benches lined the walls. Each surface of this wooden vestibule was also painted and close, so that I could have reached up to touch the ceiling with my hands. After no more than four strides, someone pulled back a velvet curtain. I could not make out this person's face, only their white gloves. Beyond the curtain lay another small, light fast room no more than 8ft squared. In the center of this room Damien Hirst's skull sat on a plinth encased in glass. Aside from the very small flashlight of the skull's attendant, the diamonds were the only thing illuminated in (and illuminating) the small cloak-and-daggers space. We were permitted to walk once around the glittering mask—enough that I could enjoy the diamonds in the roof of the skull's mouth, the curious third eye and the gritty unglittered teeth—before the same faceless attendant pulled back a second curtain and emphatically (as seen with the rigorous flash light motion) ejected us back into the grand ballroom.
2. Hercules
A few weeks ago I found myself at the Lyric Opera House, on the third floor balcony watching Hercules; it was a pretty psychedelic experience. Tiny figures with massive voices paraded around a massive stage. Whereas in Italy I'd been small with respect to the work, here I could cover anyone's head with my thumb.
The opera is not personal, it's archetypal. The characters don't have personalities so much as they have roles and musical motifs to enact. Except for their voices, they might as well be cardboard cut-outs. In this instance Hercules has returned from war. Peter Sellars took Handel's four-hour opera and reduced it to 2 with one intermission. The libretto is full of repetitive phrases and the performers trilled through those like song birds. The set did not change shape; most of the stage contained a landscape of rock that no one walked upon with pillars and a pathway around it. Depending on the emotional tempo of the performers, the rocks gleamed in different colors. Sellars' interpretation pulls out a story of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; the repeating phrases underscore that intent, as each character is constantly reliving their experience. Hercules has returned from battle with the spoils of war–including a young woman who just watched him kill her father. Hercules may or may not be interested in her and his wife, Dejanira, cannot connect with her husband; she remains perplexed and frustrated that, after so much waiting, she would remain alienated in her husband's presence. She is jealous of the young woman he brought back. They argue. She tries to win him back by dosing his coat with the blood of a centaur. The centaur told Dejanira that his blood was an aphrodisiac where it turns out to be an acidic poison. When Hercules puts the coat on, he burns alive.
While I don't think about Hercules often, I think even less about his death. It seems that his death is the greatest problem, in a way. No one knew what to do with him once he had been admitted in Olympus. There is an awkward encounter between Hercules and Odysseus, for instance, when Odyseuss has to differentiate between Hercules the God and Hercules' ghost.
- "And next I caught a glimpse of powerful Heracles—
- His ghost I mean: the man himself delights
- in the grand feasts of the deathless gods on high…
- Around him cries of the dead rang out like cries of birds
- scattering left and right in horror as on he came like night…"
Somehow these thoughts coalesced then. I started thinking about how one must be large when facing the death of heroes; how the import of these legacies is both essential and arbitrary. Hercules is part of a scaffold that makes meaning. Florence is an early pillar in that scaffold; its Renaissance established a criteria that is still resonating today–whether under Sellars' directorial agenda (during which one can experience over and over and over again the death of Hercules), or in Hirsts' work, where, it seems, the hero is dead and the market remains.
"The speech of an elder in the twilight of his life is not his history but his legacy; he speaks not to describe matter but to demonstrate meaning. He talks of his past for purposes of his future. This purpose is the prejudice of his memory. He remembers that which has been according to what could and should be, and by this measure sifts the accumulation of his memory: he rejects the irrelevant event, elaborates the significant detail, combines separate incidents of similar principle. Out of physical processes he creates a metaphysical processional. He transposes the chronology of his knowledge into a hierarchy of meanings. From the material circumstances of his experience he plots the adventure for the mind which is the myth," (Divine Horsemen, Maya Deren).
3. History
The diamond: something that has been marketed to represent eternity, who's value is based almost exclusively on market control. Until 1870, diamonds were rarely found in South American riverbeds. Thereafter they discovered huge diamond mines in South America. In order to protect the value of the diamond, these jewel harvesters had to band together to "perpetuate the illusion of scarcity" (Atlantic Magazine, Edward Jay Epstein,February 1982). This is where the value of Hirst's skull comes from, which is interesting given his consistently unconventional use of auction houses as primary exhibit halls.
The focus of Hirst remains fast on the potentials of an immediate future. He has utilized the auction house as a kind of performance filled with its own intrigue. In one article, there was a mysterious Russian who participated by phone. Everyone is complicit in the staging of this wealth. "Sotheby's was keen to build its own brand around a celebrity artist rather than the usual assortment of inanimate objects. The sale was marketed on YouTube and through the media around the world, part of a conscious effort to broaden international demand for the work. Sotheby's filled its exhibition rooms with Hirsts. Never had so much of his art been seen in one place. Many art-world insiders saw the sale as an artistic event,†(Economist, 2010). And of course, like diamonds, the value of the work lies in the demand.
In some way, I want to posit the idea the emphasis is on the market because, contextualized by such predecessors, it is impossible to participate on their terms. If Hercules can die, what is there? I have heard that Hirst has a storeroom of corpses with which he can replace deteriorating sculptures. I have also heard, in response to the suffering market, he has considered opening his own museum, to house his own work. Those are unfounded rumors, but I like them. In the context of that great hall, Hirst's skull struck me like a peep show at a carnival; it was gaudy and feeble and small. Titillating because of its impeccable surface of expense. A trashy sex kitten with black teeth: perhaps the perfect face for death. Yet here too, we've seen the market is not "bigger than anyone knows." If anything the last couple of years have demonstrated real limits to capital.
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Bedlam! Yay!
Get ready world, the Second City is about to take second stage (duh, the Cardinals and Tigers are playing) as Ozzie Guillen and his White Sox make their annual vomit inducing trip to that sacred dump on the Northside, Wrigley Field. Emergency rooms from East Chicago to Oak Park, all the way up to Waukegan are expecting a full flow of the black and blued.
The only bad thing about this series is that it's simply too short — and, for whatever lame reason (to curb unwanted drunken injuries perhaps?) the schedule puts chapter one of the 2009 Crosstown Classic on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday rather than stage the regular weekend raucous which often leads to… well, death. Insatiable bloodsuckers like myself will have to find another way…
Still, this will be a memorable occasion. Think Bob Probert with fangs versus Chris Chelios with brass knuckles, both of them drunk enough to do Phyllis Diller in a well lit room. To celebrate the awesome combination of equally bitter/mediocre clubs sharing this fine city, we would like to continue what has become an RSBS tradition, with the sacred presentation of the worst rap song ever made:
"Black and blue, daz wha you gonna be!"
"Oh, yeah? It's the Crosstown Ri-val-ry!"
No ball game — no matter how poorly played or mismanaged or lackadaisical — could be more embarrassing than that.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
*Remember, starting tonight, the Cardinals try to put an end to the blasphemy spewed by my Tiger-lovin' colleague, Mr. Krause, and his incessant yet feeble attempts at revisionist history. You had your Denny McLain, Mr. Krause. We had our Wainwright. Get over it.
**Special shout-out to Tom Walsh from Rocky Mountain Way for taking the time to meet with me on Monday. Good times. Post to come.
***Oh, and a special thank you to Sammy Sosa for making this Crosstown Classic buzz with juicy revelations!


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As documented on the product site, "Reporting Services Scripter is a .NET Windows Forms application that enables scripting and transfer of all Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services catalog items to aid in transferring them from one server to another. It can also be used to easily move items on mass from one Reporting Services folder to another on the same server. Depending on the scripting options chosen, Reporting Services Scripter can also transfer all catalog item properties such as Descriptions, History options, Execution options (including report specific and shared schedules), Subscriptions (normal and data driven) and server side report parameters."
It has a very nice GUI and the options are pretty self-relevant. There are a few steps that one needs to follow to create a setup out of this utility for reports deployment.
Step 1: Configure paths for the below
a) Point to correct path of RS.exe location on the Globals Tab
b) Target report server url where you intend to deploy your SSRS Reports
c) SSRS Solution or Project file under which all the SSRS reports are added or select individual reports that you would want to target. Also you can click on the Get Catalog button to find out the reports on the server that you have configured.
d) Output location where you want the setup files to be created
e) Select Generate Report Script on the Report Tab
f) Select Specify New Parent Folder / Create Folder Hierarchy option from the General Tab as per your requirement.
Step 2: Click the Script button to create setup files
Step 3: Execute the setup batch file created, and this would deploy all the reports.
Behind the scenes, the batch file executes the VB Script files created for each SSRS Report. This script files contains the code, that creates a corresponding object of SSRS Reports model, and uses the RS.exe utility with these reports as parameters. This utility sets all the properties of these objects that are collected thru the user interface.
If still there is someone left, who is a fan of coding, all the information on how to create scripts using VBScript to deploy each different object of SSRS can be found on this page.


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Apple vs Google, Devon vs CHK, Ford vs GM, Hedged Pairs, Hypothetical Model, JHB Capital, JPM vs Wesll Fargo, Long/Short, Market Neutral, MSFT vs ORCL, Pepsi vs Coke, Sempra vs EQT, XOM vs CVX
The model is based on 9 paired trades of extremely liquid stocks. In most cases they are some of the largest market-capitalized investments in their sector. These are the mega-caps typically. The idea here is to embrace liquidity in size.
Let's dive right in and take a look at what stocks we have in the model, why they are in there, and what is driving the thoughts behind the process of selecting them.
I have set up this test model with a number of intentional failures, to see how it would treat these events on its own. Let's review those trades, and see how the model is coping with them.
The model is reporting three false readings on its stable trade checkpoint. These would trigger the removal of the trade from the basket, and a new replacement trade being plugged in to redeploy the capital.
I am using .75 as the hard cut-off for a trade that is flirting with an equal ratio. In each of the test cases, the model would reject the trades, while two of the three are profitable trades.
As is obvious, the model caught the Coke versus Pepsi trade and would have put it on in the reverse direction. This was a planned test, and I was glad to see it. Coke has overperformed Pepsi YTD, and while the model is exposed to it from a test point of view, it would never have been put on or kept in.
The test model has a false positive trade embedded with its love of Ford over GM, while the equity markets have sold Ford and bought GM in comparison to each other YTD. This trade is listed as a true trade, but is in fact underwater as will be seen below. The trade would be allowed to stay in, due to its positive reading. It would get rejected if its losses reach 1.5% of the portfolio AUM.
The following model snapshot was taken end of yesterday during the writing of this article.
The only real failure in the model selection process is JPM versus Wells Fargo in the battle of the TBTF.
JPM is up YTD more than WFC is, and even with the model saying to reverse this trade I would instead pull it and watch. The model is trying to put on a losing trade YTD here.
While it may turn out to be correct, the vagaries of bank balance sheet reporting are such that I would suggest the model is only as good as the data being put into it. I believe, in all cases, a model should still have a human reviewing the individual trades.
The third false trade reading in the test model is based around XOM versus Chevron. These two companies are almost identical, and while the market prefers XOM over CVX, the model would reject this trade and book the profits. The Ratio strength level has hit a point that would generate a sell.
In Review
At this time, the model should have the PEP versus KO trade kicked out due to false ratio before .75, along with the XOM versus CVX trade and the JPM versus WFC. This would leave in the F versus GM trade due to it only being underwater, but is expected to turn around due to its current model score.
In reviewing the rest of the Model Portfolio, the additional trades, specifically CLR versus PBR, SRE versus EQT, AAPL versus GOOG, DVN versus CHK, and MSFT versus ORCL are positive trades, with a positive score in the selection process.
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Ah yes, Ryan Miller has updated his blog. It's the usual blahblahblah travel/seeing the family cakes. However, I do have to wonder what weird, creepy shit was said that made him speak out about him not being on the big social networking sites. I know we all take our Facebook pages for granted, but can you imagine that these guys can't even have their own Facebook for fear of being hounded by fans? I know probably half of them register under fake names or something to keep in touch with their friends, but still. They're missing out on what is probably one of the key parts to being a 20-something today. (If I ever needed a fake name, I would totally go with "Regina Flange" in case you were wondering.)
– I saw this YouTube video mentioned on PTI, and of course, I had to go seek out the full version. During a five-hour rain delay during the Big East baseball tournament, UConn and USF had a dance-off to keep themselves and the fans amused. Watch the whole thing, you really won't be sorry!
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Pixma MG6350 multifunction printer full review
The Canon Pixma MG6350 is a multifunction printer that offers colour inkjet printing on paper and disc (CD, DVD, Blu-ray) via USB, Wi-Fi, smartphone app and cloud, as well as high-resolution scanning and copying.
The Pixma MG6350 is a sleek, low-profile, good-looking all-in-one printer/scanner/copier that boasts an intuitive 8.8cm colour touch-panel control screen. Unlike the more tactile Canon Pixma MX895 there's not a single physical button on this printer. See other multifuction printer reviews.
It's available in glossy black and ultra-cool white, which is a nice change from the usual black-only option.
Touch controls and automatic paper output
The hidden touch controls make this wireless inkjet photo all-in-one smooth and sleek, although I did inadvertently nudge some of the controls when my hand brushed the machine.
The paper output tray comes with a neat paper-support bar that automatically half extends when opened and retracts automatically when shut.
Pixma MG6350: inkjet printer
The printer's six-ink system includes grey for richer colour photos and stunning mono prints. The full set of inks are: Pigment black, black, cyan, magenta, yellow and grey.
The advantage of so many ink tanks is that you change only the colour that has run out rather than multi-ink cartridges that require new supplies even though one or more colours are still available.
That's not to say that the Pixma MG6350's inks are cheap – they aren't – but the number of times you have to replenish them should be lessened.
It's easy to access these inks: you simply flip up the top front panel, but not the entire top of the unit as with most multifunction printers.
Energy saving
It might not have a green ink cartridge but this is an energy-efficient printer. Auto Power On automatically turns the printer on when you start printing, and Auto Power Off switches the printer off if not used for a set time. And you can save paper, too, as it supports duplex (two-sided) printing.
Paper trays
The MG6350 has two separate paper trays. Neither holds a lot of paper – the lower tray holds 125 sheets of A4/legal/letter paper, and the upper tray can hold 20 sheets of photo paper (max: 4-x-6in) – but you can load the different types of paper simultaneously.
Photo quality
Black output is dark and sharp at default settings and even crisper at the best quality setting. The colour output looks orangeish on plain paper, but crisp and accurate, if a bit cool, on Canon's own photo paper.
We liked the photo-quality (1pl, 9,600dpi) prints, although there was some regular banding on some of the output – which we were obviously less pleased about. We'll be checking to see if this was just a problem on the review unit we tested.
Print speed
In our tests, monochrome pages print faster enough at 8.4 pages per minute (ppm) on the PC and 7.7ppm on the Mac. Photo speeds are average: snapshot-size (4-x-6-inch) photos print at 2.7ppm to plain paper and just over one per minute to glossy photo stock. Full-page photos printed on the Mac exit at about 0.6ppm.
Pixma MG6350: CD/DVD disc printing multifunction printer
While the MG6350 doesn't have a fax facility – and who uses fax these days anyway? – it does offer something that the Pixma MX895 doesn't: direct on-disc printing. the ability to print onto disc might not be necessary for everyone, but it's a great extra for the MG6350.
While Apple is stripping optical DVD and CD drives from its range of Mac desktops and laptops there are still plenty of us who still use and create discs for archiving, sharing and music.
The ability to print direct to disc will be enormously attractive to disc devotees, and there aren't many direct disc printers available. You can also copy from one disc and print this directly to another.
One of the reasons people might choose the MG6350 is the Direct to Disc CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc printing function – which is rare for inkjets and multifunction all-in-ones.
Previously we've been impressed by Canon's Direct to Disc function on inkjets such as the Pixma IP4500. With the 6350 you get the same great results on printable discs but the process is a bit more of a hassle first time round.
Where the IP4500 used Canon's clunky but simple CD-LabelPrint software the MG6350 relies on the bundled Canon My Image Garden software (see below). I eventually worked out how this worked but found the software and the online manual unhelpful and unintuitive.
It also took me quite a while to work out where to place the special disc-printing tray. The manual instructed me to "open the inner cover" but nowhere in the online or printed Getting Started sheet was an "inner cover" mentioned. I've included a picture here so you don't have to go through the initial confusion.
Once you've worked all this out disc printing is straightforward, except for the head-scratching Image Garden software, and the results are good. The whole process is needlessly over-complicated, though, and features an annoying five clicks and one printer-screen OK tap when you're ready to print.
That said, if you need a quality multifunction inkjet printer that can print onto discs as well as paper the Canon Pixma MG6350 does the job very well.
Pixma MG6350: scanner/copier
Copy and scan times are both very fast compared to the average. The A4 flatbed scanner lacks an automatic document feeder (ADF) for longer documents, but the scanner lid does telescope to accommodate thicker materials.
Pixma MG6350: Latest internet, app and wi-fi technologies
All the latest printing platforms are supported, including Apple AirPrint that lets you print directly from an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
Canon's Pixma Cloud Link enables access to internet content directly from the printer, so users can print photos directly from available online albums and have access to a range of printable online templates, such as stationary and calendars.
Cloud Link lets you can print directly from the Internet using the printer's touch screen, where you can browse and print your photos from online albums at either the Canon iMage Gateway or Google's popular Picasa. Using Google's Cloud Print you can print from anywhere that has a wi-fi or data, including emails, photo and PDF attachments, and Google Docs from your Gmail account.
You can download the Android and iOS app Easy-PhotoPrint for wireless printing from your smartphone or tablet.
Setup was, again, not ideal. To enable the wi-fi on the printer you are instructed to "press and hold the WPS button on the access point". If Canon thinks that most inkjet users know what a WPS button or even an access point is it clearly believes we're all IT support engineers rather than ordinary non-technical people.
As you see when I describe the other bunndled software that ships with this printer Canon seriously needs to make its manuals and on-screen instructions a lot more intuitive and simple for ordinary mortals to understand.
Canon print software: My Image Garden
The Pixma 6350 comes with My Image Garden software for organising and printing your photos, with some nifty features such as facial recognition, calendar creation, layout suggestions and a bunch of fun filters. The Print Your Days app (Windows only) lets you print photos direct from Facebook.
I'm probably spoiled being a long-time user of Apple's iPhoto software but I found Canon's bundled My Image Garden to be utterly unintuitive. Lord knows how you're supposed to simply import photos into the software. It picked up an apparently random selection of photos from my hard disc, but there's no obvious import function in the controls.
You'd be wiser sticking with quality photo software such as Adobe's Photoshop Elements (Windows and Mac) or Apple's iPhoto (Mac only) than trying to get your head round My Image Garden. Sadly uou do need to use it for disc printing, so you can expect some initial confusion when embarking on this aspect of the printing functions.
Canon's Facebook application Print Your Days helps you enhance and print photos directly from the social site. You can adjust photo layouts and create collage prints with up to five photos printed on a page, with a range of style and editing options, including borders, effects, cropping and captions. Mac users don't get this option, sadly, as it requires Windows 7 or Vista and Microsoft Silverlight 5.
Pixma 6350: price and ink costs
The Pixma MG6350 has an RRP of £169, but at the time of writing could be found for around £130 – see the retailers listed at the foot of this review. If you want the white version the list of retailers is smaller than for the more standard black model.
Of course, as with all inkjets, the real expense comes with the ink cartridges. A full set of the six standard ink cartridges will cost around £60, but the higher-yielding XL cartridges, while £80, offer better value per page – with Canon claiming between two and four times the page yield for the XL cartridges.
This is not the cheapest inkjet we've tested but there's some comfort in the more efficient six-ink system.
Pixma MG6350 multifunction printer: Specs
- Up to 9,600-x-2,400dpi printing
- CD/DVD disc printing
- duplex
- AirPrint
- 6 Individual Ink Tanks with ChromaLife100+
- Up to 2,400-x-4,800dpi scanning
- Flatbed scan 48bit input / 24bit output (RGB each 16bit/8bit)
- Wi-Fi
- 466 x 369 x 148mm.


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I do not know if we talk about the same thing.But until version 2017 (included) in the ifc file some of the wall component is disappeared. Not only information about.This was most often the case with walls with different heights of individual wall components.
"That is still the case, it dont care about uplift's etc, maybe because TC give us "Simple BIM""I was under the impression that the IFC file format was opensource . Even sketch up can save as IFC and there is guidance how to make sketch up models "BIM" in sketchup.We have all the tools to make TC fully BIM. We can almost make a completely parametric model. We have some "BIM" limitations but I think they could be solved - we can't constrain different types of objects to each other. specifically walls and slabs - we cant extract data from custom objects (we possibly could but we don't know how too)- we can classify some things using property sets and label them in plan view (views are an issue). It would be nice if we could label in DP and viewports too.-If we go the xref route we can use the draft palette to create views that will update when the model changes. - pen settings and hatching is a problem though.- we can extract data to make schedules- we can hyperlink to dataFor me the biggest problem is that we cant reliably save to IFC. This makes sharing data with other disciplines an issue.
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Companies filing vague patents seems to hinder innovation and create "patent trolls," that file lawsuits that demand license fees, and several tech companies want to battle those abstract patents.
Facebook, Google, Zynga and other tech companies filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals to battle the "wide-ranging patent claims" between two companies, according to AllThingsD. It seems that Alice Corp. filed for a patent on closing electronic financial transactions. However, it seems that Alice Corp. also asked to patent a data processing system to share information, which some say is essentially a computer.
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This made the tech companies a bit wary.
From the brief:
Granting patent protection for such claims would impair, not promote, innovation by conferring exclusive rights on those who have not meaningfully innovated, and thereby penalizing those that do later innovate by blocking or taxing their applications of the abstract idea.
Already tech companies must buy up whatever patents are available to battle one another against licensing fees or to stop manufacturing smartphones. By taking a proactive stance, these companies are fighting for what is theirs before they have to defend it in a patent-infringement case.


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Is there a way to create a fade in effect like what happens in the kickstarter video to create more or less a motion controlled night light? Mainly interested in the smooth fade in effect and i couldn't really find any existing code from the examples that had that effect. Maybe also throw in code so that you trigger the motion sensor, lights fade to bright but stays on for at least x seconds until it gets another motion reading at which point it will cause the leds to fade out (or just a auto timeout after a while).
Also will there be instructions on how to solder the contact for a battery?
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#include "PlumduinoHardware.h" // Leave this line first. Do not edit this line. This causes Arduino
// to include background functions when turning your code into
// machine language Wink can understand.
// Below is the "setup" function. It runs one time as soon as Plumduino turns on. You can add stuff
// to this function if you want, but hardwareBegin() should always be the first code in the list.
void setup(){
hardwareBegin(); //initialize Wink's brain to work with his circuitry
int s1, s2;
int hue, brightness;
void loop() {
s1 = analogRead(Slide1); //read slider 1
s2 = analogRead(Slide2); //read slider 2
hue = s1 * 0.35; //scale down 1024 scale of slider to 360 degrees
brightness = s2 /4; //scale down 1024 scale of slider to 255 brightness
getColorWheel(hue, brightness);
while (digitalRead(Motion) == LOW){
setAllPixelsRGB(0,0,0); //set all pixels to off
// code will continue here when the motion sensor pin goes high
setAllPixelsRGB(red,green,blue); //results of getColorWheel() plugged in for color values
while (digitalRead(Motion) == HIGH){
// do nothing (wait for pin to go low again)
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I live in Delray too and looking to play again. I only took 1 lesson about 14 months ago and before that probably haven't picked up a racquet in 15 years. As a kid I used to hit the ball around with friends but nothing serious.
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It is no secret that I went to Ole Miss and have a deep deep love for Oxford, Mississippi. I have been devastated the past few weeks with the news that Colonel Reb will no longer be in production after August of this year. I know they took away his presence at the football games two years ago but I don't think that anyone thought it would come to this! I have joined the rest of the Ole Miss community in my scramble to procure all things Colonel Reb in his last few weeks on store shelves. This has not proven easy considering I live over 5,000 miles from Oxford. If ANYONE has a hot tip on where to find Colonel Reb tervis tumblers of ANY size, the reward will be great!! Anyways, I digress. I received a facebook message from a friend of mine today telling me that there were Colonel Reb jon-jon shortalls for sale at The Divine Children's Show on Facebook. I nearly panicked. I hadn't even see the shortalls yet but I knew I had to have them! I'd been sitting home with no car bored all day and this was my only happiness!! I quickly located the page and couldn't believe my luck!!! This is the cutest page ever!! I recommend everyone check it out!! The shortalls were only $29 and that included shipping!! For anyone who knows about children's clothes (and I certainly don't know much) a hand smocked outfit like this can run upwards of $50 or more. I really didn't have to think twice before I bought them. It completely made my day. The End. I have nothing else to say about my day other than I enjoyed my dinner with my husband and my child now has Colonel Reb smocked shortalls. Life is good.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Hotty Totty!
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Baby Nursery Complete!
After a slow start this morning (I slept until after 10:00am for some reason) I ended up having a fairly productive day! Our house doesn't look like a tornado hit it and I accomplished quite a few things. First off I cleaned out our refridgerator. I know that this doesn't sound like a huge accomplishment but trust me, when you save food like we do but don't ever eat leftovers, it adds up. Now I feel like I can actually see into our fridge again. After the fridge I tackled the even bigger task of cleaning out our garage. It wasn't that there was that much STUFF in there but there was so much dirt and leaves that I don't even know where it all came from. I moved our bikes into the basement (since god knows how many times I have "tapped" mine with the front end of the car) and all miscellaneous things OUT. I swept out the whole thing and now it looks fantastic. There is nothing in there now and if I come home to find out that "someone" has started storing things in there again, we are going to have some issues! :) Friendly warning.
After my cleaning frenzy I decided that Evans' nursery was probably never going to look as good as it does now so I took a few (okay 28) pictures of it to share. I know that I have shared most of these at some point so this is the last you will see of it, I promise. The only thing left that we are waiting on is the glider/rocker and god knows when that will arrive.Evans' bath towels.View from his room. Nice huh? Sure beats his parent's view!Evans' cute lamb chair from his great Aunt Kay and Uncle Frank!Picture over the door from his Grandmother Susie (even though we are not positive this is what she will be called!).Super cute laundry basket.His name letters made especially for him by his mother. :)The AWESOME Jonathan Adler rug that Susie bought him. It was very interesting getting this to Germany from the States!Some shots of his crib and bedding.Inside of closet. This will probably be the one and only time it is organized!And last but not least his cute lamb sign from his Aunt Tate that hangs on the outside of his closet.Taa-daaaaaa......That's all! Believe it or not I had more but I realize that some people will probably stop reading my blog after this post!
I fetched Deaner from the base this afternoon when he got back from Brussels. I was lucky enough to get this from him when he arrived!!And look what was inside!!!!YUM!! I can't think of a better treat than handmade Belgian chocolate!! Now I will just have to restrain myself from eating them too quickly!! We have just enjoyed a nice SPICY dinner (maybe a jumpstart for Evans) and now I have to go clean up! I hope I didn't bore everyone to death with pictures! Happy Hump Day!
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
What is wrong with me?
I woke up this morning, showered, got dressed and had lunch with my friend Barbara. I picked up our mail at the base (one of our strollers arrived!! And yes, I said ONE of them) and headed home. As I was sitting on the couch to settle in to surfing the internet my finger happened to brush against my ear. I was surprised to feel something very GREASY on my EAR. I looked in the mirror only to find a big GLOP of my conditioner in my EAR! WHAT? How does this happen?? I mean, I'm super glad that it wasn't something really nasty like ear wax but I sure hope no one noticed my conditioner oversight!! SICK!
I realized this morning that the big Wiesbaden wine festival is starting on August 13th and running until the 22nd. I'm thinking that perhaps I can persuade my doctor to induce me at my appointment on the 9th so that we can be ready for wine on the 13th?!? What do y'all think? Maybe she will go for it?!? Ha. Maybe he will come on his own by then anyways and Mama will be able to have that glass of wine at the festival!! I'm sure my parents wouldn't mind coming early to be able to enjoy the festival as well! Steph found me some of the pictures from last year. You can't ask for anything more than this!The only thing that would be different about this year is the addition of a few week old baby! I think Evans would really enjoy the festival!
So, one other big accomplishment of the week is that our plane tickets are booked for our trip home at Christmas! Deaner's dad helped us book them with his medallion status (we are lowly Silver Medallion while Dick is the prestigious Diamond Elite status!) and I am so so so relieved that they are booked and we don't have to think about them again. Last year at this time tickets were much cheaper and this year they have shown no signs of coming down. We are all set and it is one less thing on my plate between now and Christmas. Now if the future 4 month old will just behave himself on his first transatlantic flight!
Tonight is my last night without Deaner, thank goodness! My last meal of mac and cheese alone! I'm ready for him to get home. Then the baby can come. No more traveling after this trip so we are all set! 39 days til College Football Kickoff! Happy Tuesday to everyone!
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Monday, July 26, 2010
30 Days til 30
So it might really be 31 days but since today is almost over this title just looks better. I can't believe that I am about to turn 30. What an old lady!! Half of me finds it hard to believe that I could still be pregnant in 30 more days but the other half of me can't believe that I will have a baby in a matter of that short a time! Deaner seems to think that Baby Evans will arrive not this weekend but next. We will see! As long as it isn't in the next two days while he is in Belgium, I am fine with that.
Did everyone have a good weekend? Friday night we ate at a great Greek restaurant and Saturday Steph and Jon came over and we grilled out steaks. Yum! We played a great game of Phase 10. Has anyone else played this game? The best game ever!! I can see it being a popular stocking stuffer from us this year. We really enjoy it.
This morning I woke up early with Deaner to take him to the base to pick up his government car. Remember we are still operating without the Crossfire and will be until the part arrives from the States that we need. God please let it be fast because sharing a car basically means that I don't have one. Anyways, we had breakfast together and he was on his way. I headed to the commissary to pick up a few groceries and then I went to the post office to get stamps for the birth announcements and to send two baby gifts. As I was getting out of the car to go into the post office I noticed Deaner's laptop bag still in my back seat. As this point it had been over an hour since he left. And I was in a hurry having COLD groceries in the car and all. I called Deaner who nearly freaked about leaving the computer and he said he had to turn around. After mailing my packages and getting stamps I had to drive the laptop halfway to him. Thankfully we got to the rendevous point at exactly the same time and it wasn't a big deal.
I have had a relaxing afternoon since then. I tried to copy my sister by making her famous Oreo Balls but I failed miserably and I don't even want to eat any of them they look so bad! I'm sure they don't taste so bad but we will see. I have come to the conclusion that I like to eat things that other people make better. By the time I make something, the thrill of eating it is gone!
Hope everyone had a great weekend!!!!!
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Massive Oversight
It has been brought to my attention by an avid blog follower (my dad) that in the hub bub of excitement waiting for baby Evans to arrive in the next couple of weeks that I have severely neglected one of my most commonly anticipated events of the year. How could I even overlook the fact that besides the birth of my first son in approximately 33 days that College Football Kickoff will most definitely take place in a matter of 43 days. How is that for a constant? I might not know when Evans will arrive but by God, kickoff WILL occur in 43 days. This is big deal for us here in the Deaner household and I am sure that in the years to come, Evans will realize that this is nothing to mess around with. Normally the weeping starts around the second week of January because really, it IS hard to live all summer without football. The anticipation builds all summer but when we hit the 100 days til kickoff mark it is game time. This year my ever enlarging belly, back pains and sleepless nights have preoccupied me and I have let it slip to 43 days before shaking myself out of this fog and getting a grip on reality! I suppose this could be looked at as a blessing! No matter when Evans arrives, Kickoff (yes, it does warrant a capitalization) will occur on September 4th and I intend to be ready. Should my son make his appearance in time (and my god, he better) let's talk about something really important, like what he should wear! I am thinking that it will probably be a three costume change day as I don't want him showing any favoritism so early on in life. First we have the Ole Miss selection, which I am sort of concerned won't fit him right away.Unless of course he continues to grow at super sonic speed. The only upside to having a 10 pound baby is that he can wear his football gear right away! We will have to choose one outfit from this genre.....Again, I am infuriated by this picture not turning the right way but I don't know why it is doing it. I am pretty sure this white one will fit him right away. The red jacket was mine as a child and he will have to be a few years old before that will fit. And last but certainly not least, one of these.I realize that we are a bit lacking in the UVA department. Daddy is not going to be happy about this. It is by far Evans' nicest jersey but considering it is a 2T I'm not sure how that is going to work out. There is NO upside to having a baby THAT big! I know that the orange shirt is for basketball, which we don't really give a hoot about, BUT the shirt is for a newborn and it just so happens that it was also mine as a baby. How cute is that? Anyways, if Evans graces us with his presence for college football kickoff 2010 than he will be well dressed. I can hardly wait for the season to begin, and of course to meet my baby!
Yesterday went to hell in a hand basket shortly after I posted about my boring day. The Crossfire broke down AGAIN on Deaner's way home from work and I had to go pick him up. I am so sick of dealing with this car that I could scream. And let's be honest, Deaner is the one dealing with it, not me. But here I am stuck in the house again today with no car! A part has been ordered that again, may or may not fix it, but I am double crossing my fingers and I would appreciate if y'all did too! My dinner ended up really great even though I was totally rushed through my prep time having to have gone to pick up the stranded man. Here are a few shots of it. Thanks to New Girl on Post for her ideas!!It was really good and it will probably be added to the weekly rotation. It was super easy to make but all that chopping was a little tedious! We have no huge weekend plans. Steph and Jon are coming to cookout tomorrow night and hopefully by then the Commissary will have some better steak selections! I hope that everyone has a really good weekend!! Go Rebs, go Cavs and go Dawgs! :)
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Thursday, July 22, 2010
While my mood has somewhat improved today I have just about absolutely nothing to report. I got up early with Deaner this morning and rode with him to pick up his car. Which may or may not be fixed. It may or may not turn off again on the Autobahn. Isn't that assuring? We had breakfast at Burger King, which I would truly like to eat every single morning but alas, I do not wake up in time for it 95% of the time! After we got the car I ran to the commissary to pick up a few things. Deaner has been hinting around that he would like me to make him stir fry for dinner one night so I picked up all the things that I need to make it. I haven't ever made it before but I have had some helpful hints and I am hopeful that it will be good. I'll let y'all know tomorrow. Thank god it is almost the end of the week! I have to say that the week went by pretty quickly! Deaner just told me that he has to go to Brussels on Monday and stay until Wednesday! Boo!!! Oh well, I am sure I will be fine here eating mac and cheese from the blue box and relaxing! Today after I got back home I went and got back in bed to read because I wasn't feeling so hot and I fell asleep for 2.5 more hours! Geez. And we are talking I was really asleep and having dreams. I guess I was really worn out from something. It is rainy and gross here today and the Country Club is closed anyways so what else was there to do!?
Now I think I will read my book for awhile, shower (yes, it is 4:05pm and I still haven't taken a shower) and then start preparing my divine meal for this evening! Hope everyone has had a great day!
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day
I mean, I guess my day hasn't exactly been as bad as Alexander's but it hasn't been a great one. And I can't exactly put my finger on why. I woke up this morning worrying about anything and everything that I could think of. Maybe this is normal with a baby coming so quickly on the horizon? I think that it has been triggered by the issues with the Crossfire yesterday and me worrying about how much it is going to cost to fix. Then I started thinking about how much it is going to cost us to fly home this Christmas, buying gifts, buying diapers and formula if for some reason I have to formula feed and I just started to unravel. Hopefully it is just an off day and tomorrow I will feel better.
I tried to escape my day by floating in the country club pool. It is supposed to rain the next few days so I figured it was a good idea to get some sun in before we don't see it for a few days. The high this weekend is actually only in the 60's and I am REALLY looking forward to it! So back to the pool. There are a few things that have really been annoying me lately. The first and the worst is the addition of this to the neighbors back porch.I do not understand windchimes. They really annoy me. I mean, the neighbor hangs them up and then goes to work all day long leaving me to listen to them chiming all day long! Currently I am sitting in the den. The dining room and the kitchen are between me and I can still hear them though the window from the house NEXT DOOR. I might be launching Operation De-chime soon. As if the chimes aren't enough, there is always this.See this harmless looking silver thing to the left? It is actually the devil disguised as a PINWHEEL! Everytime the wind blows this pinwheel spins and lets out a blood curtling screech that just about will make your ears bleed. I'm not sure who it belongs to though (my money is on George) but I have seriously considered making it disappear one night. Who knew that one little pinwheel could cause a person such angst? :) Lastly, I was very annoyed by this today.My super nice, super expensive (ha ha) pink raft has apparently buckled under the weight of this pregnant body. There is a hole in it somewhere (obviously) and it is pretty pathetic to look at when I rolled off of after my afternoon float. Least I still have the green one to pop! Anyways, now I am going to settle in on the couch to read and wait for my husband to come home. Hoping that tomorrow is a better day!
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Here is the finished product from Way Cool Designs!! Susie sent this picture last night before I went to sleep and of course I was super excited to be able to share it with y'all! Now if only I didn't live in Germany and didn't have to wait so long for it to arrive! Maybe it will be one of those packages like from Barnes and Noble that arrives in 4 days but I am not going to hold my breath! I just can't wait to get it so I can start filling in all the family information for Evans! Again, for anyone interested, Susie also does wedding guest books etc and she is certainly worth checking out! While we are on the topic of baby items (which I am sorry for those of you who find them completely a snooze, I am trying to keep the talk to a minimum!) Deaner put together the baby swing this weekend. My sister and brother in law gave us this awesome swing at my baby shower in Atlanta and I have been trying to wait until a more appropriate time to put it together. Of course it was not necessary to have a swing sitting in in our dining room for the last several months but I decided that with 36 days left it was okay to go ahead with assembly!Here is my handsome handiman putting Evans' lamb swing together. I know that Deaner is an engineer and all but after this incident...I figured that I better inspect the finished product a little bit more carefully this time around. It was a good thing I did! Apparently Deaner lost interest in the swing when it came time to put the actual seat/fabric part on it and if we had actually put a child in it the way he had arranged it, it would not have been a good ending. I had to take the whole seat part apart and redo it! Geez. After my discovery I figured it was just better if I put together the bouncy seat!Now we are done with putting stuff together for awhile at least. Deaner's dad is bringing our jogging stroller when he comes in September but that might be the last big thing. Who knows what else will come up.
So, today has been an eventful day. I went and got a pedicure on the base because I had a gift certificate. Lacking.....to say the least. Still I needed one BAD and I got one. The issue came later in the day. About half way thru this post I received a call from Deaner who informed me that the Crossfire had stalled out on the access road between the airport and autobahn. I found this a big concerning but apparently it started up again after some time and he was able to keep driving. Until it did it again and this time on a very narrow part of the autobahn. He couldn't even get out to put up his orange triangle!! The police had to come and a tow truck and I just got back from picking him up at the mechanics place where it was towed too. Nice huh? Just what we need. The mechanic thinks it could be something with the computer in the car and that it will be super expensive. Just what you want to have happen when you have doctor's bills coming right and left and a baby coming in 5 weeks. The guy told us we need to sell it. I have never liked the car but still, I don't want to have the hassle of selling a car and buying a new one with a baby coming anyday. I'm over it and in a grumpy mood about it. Don't even ASK about Deaner's mood! Happy Tuesday!
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Monday, July 19, 2010
Productive Weekend!
Well, how was everyone's weekend? Ours was nice and relaxing for the most part! We had dinner with friends on Friday night at a delicious Greek restaurant where we will definitely be dining again. I love finding places here that we like because I find that they are few and far between around here!
Saturday I had a productive day and got several things ordered for the baby. It dawned on me a few days ago that I still had no baby book for Evans. There is so much tacky stuff out there and I had been really put off on previous occasions when I had looked. Saturday I was determined to find one and order it because frankly, we were running out of time. I stumbled upon the website Way Cool Designs and fell in love with the perfect baby book. There were SO many options and Deaner was actually into helping me pick one out! In the meantime, I put some feelers out with some friends, asking if anyone had any baby book suggestions and I had TWO friends respond with this being the same vendor that they used! I e-mailed the owner, Susie, to make sure that they could ship to our APO box and got an immediate response confirming that they could. SOLD. I called to place my order and Susie was MORE than helpful. She assured me that they ship to APO's all the time and that it wasn't a problem. She also said she would make a special effort to get my book out to me as quickly as possible to ensure that I had it before Evans arrives. There is a lot to say about great customer service and I certainly found it here! Deaner and I picked out a baby book with a coffee color linen cover just like this one.With this font monogram (although ours will be in navy blue).And our ribbon will be in navy blue as well. There are several themes that you can choose for the inside pages and Deaner and I chose to have the Beatrix Potter pages because that is what we had as children. I can't tell y'all how excited I am to get my baby book!!! I am sure that in the coming weeks I will start anxiously checking our APO box for my treat! I would highly recommend using this company if you are in the market for a baby book. I will definitely be posting more pictures of it once it arrives!!
I also pre-ordered Evans birth annoucements!! I copied a picture of the ones that I chose from Tiny Prints BUT I decided that I don't really want to show them yet or no one will be surprised when they get them! The stupid person there tried to tell me that they would charge me $25 to ship to my APO box. What a rip! However after a bit of research, it turns out Tiny Prints has a printer here in Europe and I can have the announcements UPSed here for only $10 and they will only take 1-5 days to arrive! The envelopes are already being shipped to me so I can get those done and out of the way! :) I was feeling QUITE productive at the end of Saturday!
We had a great dinner down on the river Saturday night and Sunday had a relaxing day. Deaner left for England this morning for a meeting but he will be back tomorrow afternoon so he isn't gone for long. I have done a major cleaning of our house today which greatly needed to be done. The top two bedrooms are spotless and I even vacuumed spider webs off the ceilings. The next two bedrooms (ours and Evans) and the guest bathroom are also spotless. The entry hallway on the first floor is sparkling. I have only completed half of the main floor though before I ran out of steam. The kitchen and laundry room are perfect but the den and dining room still need a bit of work. Unfortunately the Country Club was calling my name and I had to have a several hour float to recover! Now I am about to eat some dinner and watch some TV! Perhaps tomorrow I will resume my cleaning! Happy Monday to everyone!
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Evans is a Beast!
Well, I was pretty happy with Evans' size at my appointment two weeks as he was 4.5 pounds and in the 50% for weight. I thought that was pretty normal and nothing out of the ordinary. Today, on the otherhand, was another story. Apparently Evans has totally chunked up and now weighs 6 pounds and is in the 70th percentile for weight! WHAT? What is going to happen if I go another 6 weeks?? That means that I could have a 9 pound child. God help me. I mean, I know that babies slow down their growth at the end but something tells me that Evans isn't going to stall out at 6 pounds. Yikes! The doctor even called him CHUBBY and showed us his belly fat! Nice. I am sure that this in NO WAY reflects my eating habits and what I have chosen to feed this child! :) Now I don't see my doctor for another THREE weeks because her office is closing for summer vacation. Some timing huh? I'm frightened to see how big this baby gets while she is closed. And frightened to see how big I get. At my next appointment I will be almost 38 weeks. I hope I make it until then! She said she thought I would make it to my next appointment but I guess we will see! I wonder every night as I waddle to the bathroom how much longer this is going to last!! I don't know what I am going to do but I feel like time has completely stopped!!
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Unwanted Guest at the Club
Things at the Deaner Country Club have been going really pretty well the past few days. I have had some really nice relaxing afternoon lie abouts in the water and I truely don't remember the last time I was this tan (on the front side at least). Deaner and I had a small squabble this past weekend over who the actual "owner" of the DCC is because apparently whomever the owner is, gets the better chair. I feel like I am the owner of the club but he says that he is since he is the actual mortgage holder on the club. I just let him have the chair in the end and I know in my heart who the real owner is! Like we have a mortgage on an 80 euro pool!
Unfortunately I think I may have an unwanted visitor at the DCC. As I was peacefully floating today on my raft without a care in the world I was very startled to hear a giant croaking sound. Yes, that is right, three very large RRRRRRRRRIBBITS right in a row. I did some detective work around the pool because the last thing I want is a giant frog taking up residence there but he was no where to be seen. I think he might currently be residing in George's fish pond next door but I hope he doesn't get a hankering to move to my much nicer and much cleaner pool, because he is not welcome. I continued to hear him all afternoon. The rrrrrrribbets are so distinct and come in sets of three and for awhile I was thinking that maybe it was a toy of some sort. I'll try and pay attention tomorrow.
My lack of blogging yesterday was in direct relation to the heat. I just couldn't stand to sit with the computer on my lap producing heat on my legs. Tonight it looks like it might rain (HALLALUJAH!) so I figured I would try and get in a quick post. Deaner is frying bacon in the kitchen for BLT's and while the smell of bacon is delicious to me, I hate that my kitchen is going to stink for the next 12 hours! More updates to come tomorrow! I have a doctor's appointment at 11:30 and I can't wait to hear if there are any developments in Evans' arrival schedule! Looks like there is definitely a storm brewing here so I need to go make sure the cover is secure on the DCC. More later, Happy Wednesday!!!!!!
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Monday, July 12, 2010
My Club's Newest Employee
Isn't he handsome? And he has so many uses!! Saturday Deaner took on the role of lifeguard at the club as well as the pool boy. We decided that since I love my pool so much that we need to take really good care of it. We went to the German Home Depot (OBI) on Saturday morning before taking to the pool and bought some chlorine/pool chemicals so my water can stay fresh and so clean clean. We realized quickly enough that the water was not going to stay so crystal clear for weeks on end if we didn't buy some chemicals. It was really interesting trying to translate the instructions into English so that we didn't end up with chemical burns on our body! However, I think we figured it out just right because the water is nice and clean now without an ounce of slime! We also go a skimmer (a.k.a. a cat pooper scooper because the "real" skimmers were so expensive), a pool cover (again, a.k.a. a cheap paint drop cloth) and this little guy!!Actually Deaner picked him out all by himself because I had to sit in the air conditioned car with the groceries while Deaner ran into OBI for the pool goods. I didn't mind at all! So there was lots of time spent at the Club this weekend. Deaner and I both swam on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It is just so refreshing. On Saturday the pool was getting a bit on the warm side so we drained out some water and replaced it with nice freezing hose water. When it is 97 degrees outside and you have no AC in your house you resort to desperate measures. There have also been many many showers this weekend. I never thought I would say that I was sick of seeing the SUN in Germany!
I have been saving some pictures to post that I keep meaning to share with y'all and then I forget. The first is that Evans' laundry basket liner finally arrived from Pottery Barn Kids. I will never understand how places like Barnes and Noble can get me 10 hardback books here in 4 days but some places like PBK take 3.5 weeks to ship me a piece of fabric. Regardless, it is here and it fits the basket that I bought at the PX.Now his dirty clothes can be housed in style! :) Also we received two packages recently from friends of mine with AWESOME gifts for Evans'. First my friend Jen sent these cute outfits!And then my friend Julia sent us these.I'm sorry, I have tried to rotate this picture 4 times and I just can't figure out why it won't work. Cock your head to the side! :) I can't wait for Evans to get to wear all these adorable outfits. I am currently washing them right now so they will be nice and ready for him!
So that is about all from our weekend. I'm heading over to Steph's today to help her organize her spare bedroom. Yes, that's right, I'm taking a day off from my Club but that is okay because it is supposed to be nice and hot all week. There will be plenty of time for clubbing. Honestly it has been so hot in Germany the past week that I'm really surprised I'm still alive. I am really hoping that we get a good doctor's report this Thursday and that the Doctor still thinks there is a chance I will be early. I don't know if I can continue like this until August 25th!!
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Today at the Club
Today at the club was another giant success. Steph came over this morning for a day of fun in the sun at the Country Club and the weather did not disappoint! It was about 85 degrees and not a cloud in the sky all afternoon! Last night I made a Club playlist on my ipod of 75 of the most popular beach/pool songs that would play for 5 hours of floating in the pool. It was fantastic. Even with the remote I never had to start the playlist over again! The menu at the Club today was a bit more sophisticated than yesterday and Steph and I dined on fresh brushetta for lunch in our top notch dining facility.Not to mention the mass amounts of brownies consumed after our afternoon of floating. And don't forget the smoothies we had after lunch! After my small sunburn yesterday I decided I needed to float on my stomach today. Thankfully our rafts had enough "give" in them that I was able to do this very comfortably. So comfortably in fact that 3 hours of floating passed in no time at all! It looks like I am going to keep this tan afterall! Jon is out of town so Steph is staying for dinner with us. I made spaghetti sauce this morning and we are just waiting for Deaner to get home from the gym so we can eat. I think we will dine at the Club for dinner as well! Happy Thursday!!
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Country Club at it's Finest
I have to admit, I grew up enjoying my parent's country club immensely. I was on the swim team from the age of 5 and it was pretty much the dominating environment of my childhood. In the summers the normal routine was to wake up in the morning, put on our bathing suits, head to swim practice, afterwards jump off the diving board 4389734 times, have lunch at the pool, jump off the diving board 4398743098 more times, then have dinner at the pool with my dad joining us after a day of work. I have to say that it was the life. And I have been missing it a lot lately. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. If I couldn't be lounging around at Ansley in Atlanta, I would have to create my own private Country Club and extend membership invitations to only the tip top elite in Germany. Last week I took the first steps towards my dream by purchasing the pool.Now this pool might not look like much but after two days of preparation, I think that my country club is closer to being complete! I really wish that I had taken some pictures of it today while it was in action but sadly, I don't want to show a picture of myself in a bathing suit. So here it how it looked yesterday while it was being filled.Who knew it would take ALL day to fill a 1500 gallon pool? I sure didn't. I finally turned off the hose around 5 because I may or may not have gotten a bit nervous about the actual weight of the pool on our deck. I mean, as much as I want this pool, I don't want it to collapse into our basement or anything. That might not be worth it. Upon Deaner's arrival home last night and his assurance that the pool would not collapse into our basement I resumed work this morning. I got our new patio umbrella set up.So now we have a dining facility at the Club. I realize that that umbrella is tilted to the side but there have been contruction workers at the house next store and this provided a bit of privacy. And finally!! The pool was filled to capacity!Keep in mind that during the day (before 5pm) my whole swimming pool is in the sun. I'll try and do better with the pictures tomorrow! Do you like my rafts? At the real Club, rafts are not allowed but this is the joy of having your OWN club! You get to make the rules! Today my friend Anne came over for the Grand Opening of my Country Club and it was a huge hit. The water was still a bit chilly having just come out of the hose but we both got in the pool and floated on our rafts for an afternoon of pure enjoyment! I didn't even manage to sink my raft despite being over the weight limit! Today at my pool I served fruit smoothies, brownies and diet coke. Not my finest menu but I am expecting that to improve. Steph will be joining me at the Club tomorrow and I am planning a lunch of fresh brushetta and icy drinks. In about 7 weeks or so I will also be serving a full bar. I am hoping that I can talk Deaner into grilling out by my pool this weekend so I can show him how awesome it is. For membership information please contact me!
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Shirley MacLaine makes playing difficult women look easy.
MacLaine, who became a near-instant screen icon after her film debut in the late 1950s, has played characters who run the gamut from gamine to grandmother, but she always seems to add a little extra fire to her acting furnace when the lady in question's an ornery sort. She crafts another divinely difficult performance – maybe her most cussed, and most minimal – in director Richard Linklater's "Bernie," a taken-from-the-headlines tale in which the denizens of small Texas town refuse to suspect their local undertaker (Jack Black) when his wealthy, elderly companion (MacLaine) turns up missing – mostly because he's beloved for his good deeds and she's so loathed for her mean-spirited attitude.
The actress herself was far more smiles than snarls when she sat down for an exclusive chat with PopcornBiz about her latest project, as well as her past on-screen lives.
I imagine as an actor, figuring out how someone ticks is the first approach to anyone you play, but this character challenged you.
Well, I'm very interested in human nature – you know, behavioral studies and things like that – but I didn't know enough about Marjorie, except she was this evil bitch that everybody f**king hated.
You never got any notion as to what got her there? What turned her so dark?
Tried. Couldn't get it from her nephew, from her son, from all the relatives. Couldn't get it.
Did the comedy strain in the movie make her easier to play?
Oh, sure! I wouldn't have if done it if it was a drama, if I hadn't detected in Rick [Linklater] this ambiguous sensibility that, he's like that in real life, I probably wouldn't have done it. But I knew it was going to be funny. Why did I know that? Because of Jack [Black]. He is brilliant in this movie. In my opinion, he's brilliant.
As a seasoned live performer yourself, what was it like for you to see what Jack's able to do musically in this film, as well as on the acting side?
I was shocked. The night that I came in to shoot a scene late and he had been rehearsing the '76 Trombones' thing and he treated me to the whole choreographic spectacle of him doing that. And it went on for a while with really difficult moves. I was just floored.
Do you ever still want to grab the mic and do some singing?
I might do some singing-acting, but no dancing.
Done with that?
Yeah. Or it would be done with me.
I was looking at all the films that are listed on your IMDB that are coming around the corner. What keeps you so interested in coming back and doing the job that you've been doing, after so much accomplishment?
I just love all the different aspects of life. Particularly with what the human race is going through now, and the kind of characters that this conflict and dilemma produces. I'm interested in the times, always. And I love creativity. I love trying to interpret what are people talking about. It's insane now. And this picture, in many respects, exemplifies that insanity: how a whole town could know that he's the killer and still refuse to believe it.
Speaking of being interested in the times, you've stayed so busy, work-wise, throughout your entire career. Whereas a lot of other performers might have their memories of their day, you know what Hollywood was when you started, what it is today and everything in between. What do you like about show business now? What don't you like? I'm just curious if you could compare the two.
Yeah. Two things, and maybe one is fortunate and one unfortunate: the corporate mentality running the business – and Broadway, by the way – is so debilitating because it smothers anarchy. It smothers the specificity of creativity. On the other hand, because the corporations are running the studios and so forth, you've got now an independent film industry the likes of which we never had. And that is the natural result and the cause-and-effect law. I've always been in the studio system. In fact, they tell me I'm the last of the contract players. I think I might have been. I sued Hal Wallis, I was under a five-year what they called 'white slave' contract, and basically I won – or let's say we settled, which means I won. So I won the battle and lost the war. That was the end of the studio system. [Today] I don't work in the studio system very often. I work now in the independent. I find that very exhilarating. And you have to shoot faster. And you have to talk faster. You have to be there and be healthy, instead of all of the perks and the formality of the old studio days. On the other hand, what a time that was!
You're getting a special honor from American Film Institute this summer – the Life Achievement Award.
Isn't that wonderful?
What does that mean to you?
It means looking out and seeing all these extraordinarily talented people and what I can say to them that exemplifies my experience and my thanks. That's what it means to me. It's a little nerve-wracking, but I hope it doesn't keep me up.
You've got so many great films in your filmography, from 'Some Came Running' to 'The Apartment' to 'Being There' to 'Terms of Endearment.' But are there some films that you would encourage the Shirley MacLaine fan to check out that maybe didn't get their due in their day?
That's a good question. I would say 'Desperate Characters'. Frank Gilroy directed. We made it for $250,000. A performance of real economy on my part. It said a lot about human nature in New York. I would say 'Madame Sousatzka' if they haven't seen it, because it's about an a musical art teacher and her insistence on discipline. I did a picture called 'Two Loves' and I remember loving it when I did it, but I can't remember what it's like.
You were sort of the lone female member of the Rat Pack. They've been celebrated in so many different ways. Especially in the last 10-15 years. What do you think people don't know about them that they should appreciate? Things that you know about those guys because they were your friends that the public personas have eclipsed over the years?
I think people didn't realize that all of the saloons that Dean and Frank played in were owned by the Mob, and that's why the associations with the Mob guys came into being. It was all because of who owns where they performed – but everything is about who owns what these days, and it's important for people to understand that. And that 'Murder, Incorporated' was financed by talent.
As I leave I'll throw out one more. They're starting to make films about people you worked with and knew personally, like Alfred Hitchcock being played by Anthony Hopkins, and Martin Scorsese's Frank Sinatra film. What does it mean to you to see these people you know now becoming the subject of films themselves?
They were like walking movies at the time. It's no different to me. I mean Hitchcock was a caricature of himself. Knew it. Capitalized on it. Frank, of course, was bigger than life. Aren't they doing one on Dean, too? He was more subtle about being bigger than life. But he was. And the funniest of them.
Seriously, brilliantly, inventively funny--which people didn't understand.
Shirley MacLaine Delivers Another Delightfully Difficult Dame for 'Bernie'
Shirley MacLaine makes playing difficult women look easy.


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by Cassie Taylor
Around the same time each year we come to realize what or who we truly are Thankful for.
On this day November 26, I would like everyone at BHS and every where else to know that as a student at Blountstown High School, who eats lunchroom food, I am thankful for our lunchroom ladies, Mrs. Vera Anderson (group manager), Mrs. Sandra Dudley (main cook), Mrs. Cristle Taylor (outtake manager), Mrs. Catherine Sheppard (manages the student accounts), and Mrs. Marie McDaniel (helps serve the line, and washes dishes).
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New York (CNN) – The now-immortalized final moment of Anthony Weiner's failed New York mayoral campaign was the candidate's middle finger directed at a reporter curbside as his car drove away Tuesday night.
CNN affiliate NY-1 captured Weiner flipping the bird on video as the candidate departed his primary election night party after delivering his concession speech, punctuating the end of his bizarre campaign and an odd evening.
If that wasn't enough drama, Weiner had trouble getting into his event as Sydney Leathers, the woman at the center of the sexting controversy that began the unraveling of his mayoral campaign, had shown up outside in what she admitted was a blatant play for media attention. Weiner's problem was there was only one entrance to Connolly's Pub and Restaurant, the election night headquarters for his campaign.
"I'm here to celebrate. I think he needs some sex therapy," explained Leathers, who is now embracing a career in the porn industry.
In Weiner's final days, more curiosity than serious candidate
Dressed in a skintight, red dress and platform black pumps, Leathers got what she was looking for as some of the press inside headed outside to interview the newly minted porn star. For about 30 minutes, it was a media frenzy outside. Leathers stuck around for several hours hoping Weiner would show up, even heading inside to the bar to drink a glass of white wine with a male friend.
"We went to his campaign headquarters today first, and he decided to rearrange his schedule because apparently he doesn't think he can handle confronting me or me being in his presence so I felt like it was only appropriate to make one last stop," she said.
She was right that campaign staff didn't want a scene out front as they spent a long time figuring out how to choreograph Weiner's arrival. When the candidate finally showed just before 11 p.m., he quickly bolted into a next door McDonald's restaurant. The press corps and Leathers gave chase – yes, this really happened – security pulled a blocking maneuver as Weiner ducked through a door that connected Connolly's and the Mickey D's.
Despite the antics, Weiner made no mention of the spectacle outside during his concession speech. But his mood may have been reflected by his departing gesture.
- CNN's Laura Dolan, Rosa Flores and Tim McCaughan contributed to this report.
The media, nothing more than pathetic vultures.
Hey, I guess New Yorkers made the right choice!
I do not like Weiner and would never vote for him, but this young woman is a "garbage worm." All men should be aware there are woman out there, just like her, willing to take them down.
this just shows me how low and base some people in our society have become.,
no self respect.,
just greed and self gratifacation as a lifestyle choice.,
it shows an underlying sickness and deviant nature.,some would even say criminal.
whatabout the sick ties between his wife and the clinton empire/
yup sickness and depravity.,criminal behavior on all counts.
Did anybody even think this knucklehead was gonna win but him? I think NYC told him where to stick that lame bird he threw! Can't even get that right!
It appears NYC actually gave Weiner the finger.....! As for the slut who followed him around for media attention....she too needs therapy.
Now Weiner is free to pursue his real calling: Pervert
Would you expect anything else from a guy who cheats on his wife and recently had a verbal obnoxious discussion with a New Yorker in a bakery shop? He'll surface again I'm sure. What an absolute idiot!
Are we sure that was his finger?????


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September 22, 2011
Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan under review
PRATT — The Kansas Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan was prepared in 2005 as a requirement for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) to be eligible to continue receiving State Wildlife Grants (SWG). Scheduled to be updated before its 10-year anniversary, efforts are currently underway for this revision.
The first element of this revision was updating the native species list in July. The next step is soliciting recommended changes to the list of Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN), including suggestions that any species already on that list be taken off.
Also, an important new element of this revision will be the identification of priority areas for actions. By identifying priority Conservation Opportunity Areas, SWG funds may be most effectively applied to the most pressing issues and SGCN species. After nominations have been received, they will be considered for listing as SGCN species, or taken off.
The state of Kansas has received about $9 million in SWG funds since 2000. This plan revision and update will be finalized in 2013. Anyone interested in this process is welcome to provide input. Go online to tinyurl.com/cwcprevision to see the schedule and first actions as part of this revision.
With the help of many experts, KDWPT staff have updated the native species list. Within this listing, categories for the names, as well as whether a species is recognized as a state threatened (T), endangered (E), or an extirpated or extinct (x) species may be viewed. Also, the SGCN species are identified as yes (Y) or no (N) in the last column. A nomination form may also be found at this site.