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Mars Hill Seattle Branch Moves Into Former Methodist Church
A Washington State branch of a megachurch will be soon moving to a historic church building due to its growing numbers.
The Seattle Downtown branch of Mars Hill Church plans to relocate from a former Tabella nightclub to the historic building for First United Methodist Church of Seattle, which for the past five years has served as an entertainment hall.
Pastor Tim Gaydos of Mars Hill Church Downtown Seattle told The Christian Post about how the building, constructed in 1906, had for years been considered for demolition.
"This building faced an almost 25-year battle to see it preserved, and it faced a wrecking ball to be replaced by a large tower five years ago. A developer and preservationist came in, bought it, and turned it into a concert hall," said Gaydos.
"We developed a good relationship with him and started talking about what it would look like to repurpose it and return the space to its original intent as a church, what it was built for over 100 years ago."
According to the Seattle Times, the former home of First United Methodist Church of Seattle once served as the congregation of notable Seattle "founding families" when it was completed in 1906. However with time the congregation decreased in numbers and eventually First UMC ended up selling the building in 2007.
Dr. Sandy Brown, senior pastor of First UMC, told The Christian Post that the sale of the historic First UMC building was part of a growth strategy for the 500-member congregation.
"The 2007 sale of our historic property at Fifth and Marion was part of our long range strategic plan to replant ourselves in a more residential neighborhood of downtown Seattle," said Brown.
"We achieved that goal with our property purchase and building project at Second and Denny, where we have 10,000 condo and apartment-dwelling residents within a 1.5-mile radius of our building."
According to Brown, outside of "the memories created in that sacred space," First UMC has no current connections to the historic facility or Mars Hill, having "deconsecrated" the space on Easter Sunday 2008.
"In doing so, we relinquished our ties to the building and closed it as a place of worship. We are glad for Daniels Development that they were able to find tenants to occupy this beautiful building," said Brown.
"Our relocation has contributed to the renewed vitality of our historic congregation."
Mars Hill Church was founded in 1996 and is headed by Pastor Mark Driscoll. It has 14 locations in four states with an average weekly attendance of 14,000. According to Pastor Gaydos, the Downtown Seattle branch of Mars Hill has a 1,500 regular attendance divided into five worship services.
"Based on the incredible and miraculous growth rate that we've been on, if that continues, and we believe that Jesus is really doing a miraculous thing building his church in urban Seattle, then we would love to see God allow us to outgrow this space in the next five years," said Gaydos.
"At that point, we'd likely have to look at Key Arena!"

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Who is your favorite author(s) and why? I read so many different genres. Nora Roberts is definitely my favorite for romance, and I would have to say I love Jenny Crusie's romantic comedies. I started out reading Kathleen Woodiwiss and devoured Sandra Brown. I am all over the charts with favorites like James Lee Burke, Clive Cussler, Richard North Patterson, Grisham, Cleo Coyle, and way too many more to list. Suffice it to say, if it makes me laugh or cry, or I have to figure out the mystery...I'm there.
Tell us about your new book. Liver Let Die is the first of the Clueless Cook Mystery Series. My heroine, Jordan McAllister, is a wannabe sports reporter who follows her college fiancé all over Texas and ends up in Dallas where he is the heir apparent to the sports anchor at a local TV station. It doesn't take long for the busty weathergirl to steal him away, and Jordan is left trying to find a job so she doesn't have to go back home to Amarillo and face her parents and four brothers and hear them say, "I told you so." She ends up in Ranchero, a small town near the Oklahoma border and the only job she can get is writing the personals. When the culinary reporter breaks her hip in a jet ski accident, the editor offers her the gig. Jordan jumps at the chance, seeing it as one step closer to her coveted sports job. Her first assignment is reviewing a newly reopened steakhouse north of town, which presents a problem right off the bat since she doesn't eat much red meat and hates fancy food. She takes the recommendation of her hunky waiter and orders foie gras (fatty duck liver) which ends up in her purse. The next night her waiter is found under the stairwell outside her apartment stabbed to death, and he has her name and phone number in his pocket. She becomes the prime suspect in his murder ...and the main course on the murder menu.
What is the appeal of writing mysteries? I love tricking the reader with red herrings. If I'm reading any other genre, I want to scream, "Kill somebody. Blow something up."
What kind of writings turns you off? What stops you from writing? Sloppy writing when the author doesn't even bother to fix repeats or tries to get too cutesy. This isn't always newbie writers, either. I also am not a big fan of flowery descriptive writing. "Kill somebody, dammit!!"
As for what stops me from writing, I am an admitted procrastinator. If I know I have to have something done, I wait until the last minute to do it. Only recently I discovered I do this because I am a crisis junkie. I do my best work under pressure. So, as my panic rises and my deadlines loom, I know I am just getting in the groove.
How have you shocked your readers? I don't know about my readers since I really don't have any yet, but I know I shocked the heck out of my hubby one day. I love..love writing raunchy villain sex. God only knows what that says about me. One day, I ran a scene by my husband. He kept saying, "OMG. OMG." Finally, he asked if my CP allowed me to write like that. My CP and I still laugh over that. And once I let a dear friend take one of my manuscripts on a road trip. Her hubby was bored and asked her to read it out loud. (This was my Colombia story and the sex scene comes near the end.) When she read it, he got serious and said maybe they should pull over for a minute. Then he asked her if she thought I really knew all that stuff. Now when he looks at me, I can see the question in his eyes. I finally said. "Okay. I'm not saying I do and I'm not saying I don't, but the entire 400 page manuscript takes place in Colombia, and I've never been there." I still see him looking at me funny, though.
How do you get your ideas? What is your writing day like? The idea for this series came to me one night while I was sleeping. The editor had read a paranormal mystery of mine and loved it but couldn't use it. (too much bad language, sex and gruesome murder scenes.) She asked my agent if I could write a cozy series. When my agent asked me, I said no, but decided to sleep on it and give her my final answer in the morning. I woke up with this great idea and wrote three chapters and a synopsis. A week later, I had a three book contract.
As a sidenote, my editor asked for the ghost story again and is trying to figure out if she can place it somewhere in her lineup. Fingers crossed
Another time, I got this great idea from a 20/20 program, and my paranormal series comes from growing up with 5 sisters.
Can you share three writing tips? Never let anyone tell you that you are not a writer. You are only that when you quit writing; never give up on yourself. In today's market, selling to NY is harder, but there are other venues open. My agent says this is a great time to be a writer; never send out anything that isn't your very best; and a fourth - every writer should have at least one great critique partner who isn't afraid to tell her when there are problems, yet can tell her in a way that doesn't destroy her self-confidence.
Fill in this blank: Your ideal fictional hero would think you gorgeous if I had Farah Fawcett's hair (mine is thin and baby fine,) Eva Longoria's body (I'm cute and chubby,) and could cook like Paula Deen (I am a pretty good cook!).
How much do you love cake? OMG, I love cake. Matter of fact, all my books have recipes at the back. I sent in ten, expecting the editor to pick one or two, and she kept all ten. Liver Let Die has FOUR cakes. These are Jordan's Ho Ho Cake, Myrtle's Mandarin Orange Cake, Myrtle's (she owns the local diner in the story) Chocolate Chip Coffeecake, and the Longhorn Prime Rib's Chocolate Decadence Cake.


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2 crookneck squash, cubed (about 4 cups)
2 large shallots, minced
2 cups Arborio rice
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1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
3 slices cooked thick cut bacon, cut into 1 inch pieces
4-6 eggs, fried
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
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We have really been having great luck with our squash. We didn't even know it was crookneck when we planted it (extra plants from my mom's neighbor) but we've been enjoying it. Normally grocery stores only carry zucchini or plain yellow squash (at least around here) so crookneck is a fun change. I think it tastes a little sweeter than regular summer squash, even when compared to homegrown zucchini of years past. Of course, you could sub in yellow squash or zucchini if you don't have crookneck. The fried egg and bacon was just a fun idea I had. Sort of a dinner-breakfast crossover. Brinner?
Note: I used an awesome knife from New Westknife Works to cut up all of these ingredients. It is so sharp and cuts like a dream. I have never made such quick work of a squash before. I can't wait to try it out on winter squash. They are beautiful as well. Right now they are hosting a giveaway for a knifeblock + knives. It is an amazing set. Contest ends August 13th.


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CD Review: Beethoven's "Fidelio"
In his monumental six-part work The Oxford History of Western Music, Richard Taruskin begins the volume devoted to the 19th century with Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, which debuted in Vienna in 1805 before its final revised version was staged there in 1814. Here we have an opus of searing intensity that signaled the arrival of Romanticism in music.
At the same time, it epitomized the turmoil and fervor of the Napoleonic era. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, the power of the Austrian police was focused on suppressing local dissent. Consequently, Fidelio's celebration of political freedom was disturbing subject matter indeed for its earliest Viennese audience, which, nervously, considered it a failure. But thanks to Beethoven's genius, it was to become the basis for one of the greatest operas of all time.
Decca's live recording (on two CDs) derives from a pair of performances at the Lucerne Festival in August 2010. The Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which uses the youthful Mahler Chamber Orchestra as its core ensemble, is outstanding under its frequent conductor Claudio Abbado. The 78-year-old Italian maestro actually founded the orchestra in 2003 after being diagnosed with stomach cancer. He recently declared himself in good health again — and based on this rousing recording, he has recovered strongly enough to bring the theatrical fire and musical discipline for which his increasingly rare opera performances are revered.
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Tapping India's diaspora to salvage rupee
Scots newspaper launches for Irish diaspora
Returning diaspora men transform Mogadishu wedding industry
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International Organization for Migration meeting encourages more humane treatment of vulnerable migrants
International migration and global inequality
Africa: Post-2015 - It's Time to Harness Diaspora Power
Somalis Sour Marriages in the US Diaspora
In Zimbabwean diaspora, only some trek home to vote
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Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward
Kenyan envoy extols role of diaspora
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Diaspora homebuyers are foreigners
Diaspora Nigerians and National Development
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Girija Vyas discusses real estate sector issues with Indian Diaspora
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India seeks diaspora bailout without strings
8th Ethiopian Diaspora Business Forum to Be Held in D.C.
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Pinoy diaspora prompts Emirates to open new route via Clark
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Armenian Diaspora Minister hosted British Ambassador
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Akpabio tasks Akwa Ibom Diaspora on development of state
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Temporary amnesty for illegal Indian workers
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Anti-education budget to encourage brain drain in Pakistan
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Overseas Students Feel 'Unwelcome' And 'Isolated' By Government's Migration Policy
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Immigration: Marriage fraud and other violations may be forgiven if reform bill passes
Bush Institute Backs Immigration Reform as Bullish on US Economy
G.O.P. in House Leaves Immigration Bill in Doubt
UK's 'absurd' visa policies have hurt student recruitment from India
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FG promises to defend Nigerians' interest on new UK visa policy
UK's new 'discriminatory' visa bond scheme blasted by critics within and outside
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Remittances Play Significant Role in Philippines
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Remittances up as rupee falls
Weak rupee: NRIs' relatives back home to get more rupees
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Diaspora conference facilitated 240 business meetings – Jamaica Trade Ministry
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Ethiopian diaspora, back home to boost economy
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International Migration no longer peripheral to mainstream population
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The New African Diaspora in Vancouver
A Modern Immigrant Finds the Spotlight
US recognises Gadar centenary
Inspiring Foreign-Born Offspring Of Africans In The Diaspora
9th Annual International African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference
The Diaspora Prepared to Invest in Africa
11th Annual African Diaspora International Film Festival
Tinubu to speak at British African Diaspora Conference in London today
A return visit provides a new perspective on emigration
Returned emigrants suffer from more alcoholism and social isolation
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Commission on migration and development
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Indian diaspora youth call on Vayalar Ravi
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New Diaspora: Online Project Documents the Greek Immigrant Experience
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International migration conference calls for cooperation
Immigration bill amendment targets drug farms on public lands
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Hindu immigrants to U.S. doubled in last decade
Vietnamese Films Talk Diaspora
Kejriwal-led AAP organising a convention in Chicago today
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Narendra Modi addresses Indian diaspora in US, slams govt
381 Million Adults Worldwide Migrate Within Countries
Zuckerberg-led tech push for immigration finds enemies on the left
Corruption influences migration of skilled workers
Legal expert criticises migration zone decision
World Bank: Migration of labourers 'demands more attention
UNAOC Pursues Efforts To Improve Migration Coverage In Swiss Context
Immigration Will Fuel Future Population Growth, Census Says
International migration to lead US population growth
Age at immigration is key to newcomers' economic outcomes, Ottawa says
How the geography of U.S. immigration has changed over time
Why the Irish Want a Special Immigration Deal
Science and Engineering Diaspora Engagement at the 2013 Global Diaspora Forum
Jamaica: Draft Diaspora Policy to be Presented at June Conference
Jamaica: Draft Diaspora Policy to be Presented at June Conference
JAMPRO to Connect Diaspora Investors with Local Businesses
South Asian groups in US seek just immigration system
South Asian groups in US seek just immigration system
Turkish Migration Conference 2014
IOM set to address Diaspora's citizenship rights
Saudi's Nitaqat Law: Trouble for Indian Expats?
India, S. Arabia to set up JWG on Nitaqat programme
India concerned over Nitaqat law
India-Saudi Arabia joint group to mitigate nitaqat fallout
Scary days ahead for NRK returnees
Saudi Arabia's "Nataqat Law" to effect Thousands of Indian workers: Report
India helping Nitaqat-hit expats
Our Vietnamese Hearts: The Diaspora 38 Years Later
Landmark win for dalits as UK bans caste bias
China draws ethnic Chinese students from across Asia
Some say immigration bill is bad deal for the GOP Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/04/27/3367794/some-say-immigration-bill-is-bad.html#storylink=cpy
Morning Bell: Why My Family Came to America
When Assimilation Stalls
Tighter language requirements will help immigrants and Canada
America deserves a common-sense immigration process
Immigration debate in US Congress signals big shift, especially for those in Arizona
Immigration of unaccompanied minors on rise
US Immigration reform needed but compromise bill a tough sell for all
Filipino Vets' Tale Tells Immigration Reformers Never Give Up
Boston Bombings show we need to talk about Immigration Policy
Immigrant America: A redundancy
Napolitano: Immigration bill makes America more secure
International migration conference calls for cooperation
1st African Diaspora World tourism Awards, Atlanta: Mimiko, Fashola, Runsewe on honorees' list
Congressional immigration debate signals big shift
Immigration reform is a no-brainer to help the economy
Gulf demand boosts remittances of Filipinos
GCC workers drive global remittances growth
UAE among cheapest for remittances - World Bank
Remittances to developing world hit $400bn in 2012
UN chief calls for comprehensive solution to international migration issues
Incentives needed for skilled migrants to go home
Global migration can spur opportunity for social and economic growth, Ban says
Major shifts in migration playing key role in development in global South, says UN
Diaspora groups: how to be seen and heard
International Experts to Address Crucial Issues Facing Diaspora
Africans are helping themselves more than aid workers are, according to new research
NRIs need to break out of the 'desi' party cocoon
Migration is development: Peter Sutherland
Chandy denies dumping diaspora complaints in Dubai
Zimbabwean Diaspora remit $400m yearly
Conservatives See a Turning Tide on Immigration
US Immigration Bill offers both opportunities, challenges: TCS
Kerala to have a diaspora survey
UK wakes up to caste bias
Hindu groups clash over anti-caste discrimination law
British MPs reject controversial amendment to anti-caste legislation
British MPs vote against anti-caste legislation
USAID and Western Union Launch the Libya Diaspora Marketplace
Sikh Diaspora demands justice for 1984 riots from judiciary
Dublin to play host to Global Diaspora Forum
'All's not well with Punjabi diaspora'
How To Argue For More High-Skilled Immigration Comment Now Follow Comments
'Gang of Eight' Senate Immigration Bill Expected Tuesday
Rubio throwing support behind bipartisan immigration bill
Immigration Bill Expected to Focus on Work Skills
Medical entrance test discriminatory to NRIs: Indian community bodies in US
Immigrants to EU countries less likely to live on benefits
Connecting India, South Asia, diaspora with reality art show
Study finds trend reversal in emigration from Kerala
Immigration issues on the minds of those at Chavez rally
Lawrence Fuchs, Expert on Immigration, Dies at 86
U.K. immigration norms kick in
Thousands rally in Jersey City for immigration reform
Thousands march in Miami for immigration reform
Indonesian Diaspora Foundation Educates Young Global Leaders on 21st Century Smart Technology Transformation
Punjab's engagement with diaspora superficial: Thandi
Angolans in Diaspora Contribute to Mankind Cultural Heritage
Kerala for relief to diaspora
Filipinos Reverse diaspora
Diaspora talent is lured back, but fails to stay
Beyond Remittances: A Case of Diaspora Addressing Global Issues in Sri Lanka
Diaspora Connection: Xi trip highlights China's Africa influence
15 African Diaspora-Interest Films That May Premiere At The Cannes Film Festival
Artist of the 'Afro-Cuban disaspora' presents personal work at MOCRA
Nollywood rated third globally in revenue earnings, says NEXIM Bank MD
Diaspora network ITLG kick starts 'Women in Leadership Group'
U.S. Visas Granted To Indian Students Rise By 50 Percent
Time to make migration part of global development strategy
Legal immigration has plummeted over that last 150 years
Ireland's diaspora return
Connecting India, South Asia, diaspora with reality art show
U.S. Visas Granted To Indian Students Rise By 50 Percent
Zimbabwe ordered to allow Diaspora vote
What's new in the Tamil diaspora? The Global Tamil Forum comes out of the shadows
Special fund proposed for Kerala diaspora
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No escape from caste prejudice even in UK
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After Wharton snub, Modi to address Indian diaspora in USA
Brain Bank to Link Diaspora with Indonesia
Diaspora remittance up 15% in January in Kenya
Diaspora bonds could help economy of Ghana - Report
Tamil diaspora in Malaysia proud of their heritage
4,309 Diaspora Armenian students currently study at universities of Armenia
The Semantics of Migration
European Network of Filipino Diaspora to attend global summit
How to improve diaspora engagement
State Department To Engage Science and Engineering Diaspora Networks in Boston
IFAD grants Somalia 1.5mln USD to tap Diaspora investment
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European network for Filipino diaspora sets up formal structures in Malta
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Avoiding Reform GCC states seek alternative sources of labour
Food Movement: Another "Sleeping Giant" Awakens on Immigration Reform
Sweden: human development index higher in places with more immigrants
Qatar announces planned migrant workers charter to fend off World Cup criticism
Basque Government Director for the Diaspora visits the United States
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Diaspora Remittances to Africa Hits $60 Billion
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Ted Nelson & John Perry Barlow For MONDO 2000 (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #17)
"I went to a party on Nelson's Sausalito houseboat and wound up in a house in San Rafael in a scenario that involved some folks I'd met at Nelson's party — three beautiful hookers, John Gilmore and a chimpanzee wearing bondage gear and assless chaps…"
John Perry Barlow and Ted Nelson blew into Mondo space around the same time… probably mid-1990, as the magazine was just taking off. At the time, Barlow was fresh off the farm… that is to say, it's my impression that he'd been laying low as a gentleman rancher in Pinedale, Wyoming for many years and was just starting to get into the wind. (He's been running around at a fair pace in the wider world ever since.)
Morgan Russell had met him at some public event and was bringing him around to meet us. I remember that there was some fair warning that Barlow was coming around… and that he was a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, which I knew nothing about. At the time, I thought Robert Hunter wrote all the words for the group. I was not, obviously, a deadhead, but was nevertheless excited to meet someone connected to their scene.
The actual meeting is a blur, although I do remember we gathered around the fireplace and talked agreeably for a long time. Did he give us $1,000 right then and there to help with the project, or was that later?  How the money happened for those transitional Mondo moments is a curiosity to me… one that will be explored in more depth in the History Project book.
I'm pretty sure that Ted Nelson smoked his first DMT on his first visit to the Mondo house and that he found it impressive. Some time very soon thereafter, I went to a party on Nelson's Sausalito houseboat and wound up in a house in San Rafael in a scenario that involved some folks I'd met at Nelson's party — three beautiful hookers, John Gilmore and a chimpanzee wearing bondage gear and assless chaps… but that story I will hold for the book itself. (And I'm only lying about the chimp.)
In this unpublished segment from an hours-long chat between the two — really organized as an interview with Ted — Nelson goes into his rap about "biostatus.â€Â He had explained his biostatus concept to myself and Russell one time, sitting in his office at Autodesk and, to be honest, I couldn't quite grasp the novelty of it as it sounded like basic sociobiology (Nelson seemed surprised that I knew of such things.). Maybe it's a behaviorally-specific exfoliation of sociobiology… a few years before people started talking about evolutionary psychology?
This was during a brief period where the hacker genius John Walker — cofounder of Autodesk, the famously successful Sausalito, California-based producers of AutoCAD, let the experimental freaks in.
At some point around 1988, Walker, as head of Autodesk decided to use the company's wealth to experiment. There was the Virtual Reality project, worked on by Eric Gullichsen among others. "Cyberpunk" SF writer and math genius Rudy Rucker was hired to create a Cellular Automata program called CelLab, and James Gliek's CHAOS. Â
And perhaps most interestingly, our man Ted was gifted with the opportunity to try to achieve the Xanadu vision —I always understood it as a hypertextual project linking everything to everything in an ever-evolving and highly intelligent way (and with much more intentionally than… say… Google).
Owen Rowley was also there in some capacity, and those of you who know Owen Rowley (rhymes with Crowley) know just how cool that is.
A monthly speaker's program featured Timothy Leary and Todd Rundgren, among others.
As you can guess, it was an interesting (and casual) place to spend an afternoon. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but at some point, fiscal responsibility (some might say sanity) returned, John Walker moved on, and Autodesk returned to its core task. Carol Bartz became CEO. You've heard of her.
The conversation between Nelson and Barlow took place in a restaurant in Sausalito and was published in 1990 in MONDO 2000 Issue #4 under the title "Caverns Measureless To Man: An Interview with Xanadu Founder Ted Nelson by John Perry Barlow.â€
Listen to Nelson tell Barlow about "biostatusâ€
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Previous MONDO History Entries
Psychedelic Transpersonal Photography, High Frontiers & MONDO 2000: an Interview with Marc Franklin
Gibson & Leary Audio (MONDO 2000 History Project)
Pariahs Made Me Do It: The Leary-Wilson-Warhol-Dali Influence (Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #3)
Robert Anton Wilson Talks To Reality Hackers Forum (1988 — Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #4)
Smart Drugs & Nutrients In 1991 (Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #5)
LSD, The CIA, & The Counterculture Of The 1960s: Martin Lee (1986, Audio. Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #6)
William Burroughs For R.U. Sirius' New World Disorder (1990, Mondo 2000 History Project Entry # 7)
New Edge & Mondo: A Personal Perspective – Part 1 (Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #8)
New Edge & Mondo: A Personal Perspective – Part 2 (Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #8)
The Glorious Cyberpunk Handbook Tour (Mondo 2000 History Project Entry #9)
Did The CIA Kill JFK Over LSD?, Reproduced Authentic, & Two Heads Talking: David Byrne In Conversation With Timothy Leary (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #10)
Memory & Identity In Relentlessly Fast Forward & Memetically Crowded Times (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #11)
The First Virtual War & Other Smart Bombshells (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #12)
Swashbuckling Around The World With Marvin Minsky In How To Mutate & Take Over The World (MONDO 2000 History Project #13)
FAIL! Debbie Does MONDO (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #14)
Paradise Is Santa Cruz: First Ecstasy (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #15)
William Gibson On MONDO 2000 & 90s Cyberculture (MONDO 2000 History Project Entry #16)


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LOS ANGELES — TikTok celebrities Bryce Hall and Blake Gray are facing criminal charges after they hosted recent parties in the Hollywood Hills despite the city's ban on large gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic, authorities said Friday.
The Los Angeles city attorney's office filed
It was not immediately clear if Hall and Gray had attorneys who could speak on their behalf and efforts to reach their representatives were unsuccessful.
City Attorney Mike Feuer said he is not aware of any COVID-19 cases that have yet been linked to the Aug. 8 and Aug. 14 house parties, but the two-week period for symptoms to appear has not passed. Los Angeles police responded to both parties, which featured several hundred guests, and issued citations.
"If you have a combined 19 million followers on TikTok in the middle of a public health crisis, you should be modeling great
Hall and Gray are accused of violating the city's pandemic health order and a party house ordinance. Penalties include a year in jail and up to $2,000 in fines. The Aug. 14 party was reportedly to celebrate Hall's 21st birthday.
Mayor Eric Garcetti last week authorized the city to shut off water and power to the home. "Despite several warnings, this house has turned into a nightclub in the hills," Garcetti said.
With bars closed in town, large house parties can become "superspreaders" of COVID-19, Garcetti said.
Garcetti's action followed an Aug. 3 party at a different home in the city where hundreds of people gathered without masks or social distancing. The party ended in a shooting that killed a woman and wounded two other people.
Los Angeles County has recorded nearly 237,000 cases of COVID-19 and more than 5,700 deaths, making it the hardest-hit county in the state.
"It isn't just the party house itself that's affected," Feuer said. "These individuals who attend your parties could leave and spread (the virus) to siblings, to parents, to grandparents, to coworkers, to others in the public."
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Electronic Medical Record/Electronic Health Record Use by Office-based Physicians: United States, 2008 and Preliminary 2009
by Chun-Ju Hsiao, Ph.D.; Paul C. Beatty, Ph.D.; Esther S. Hing, M.P.H.; David A. Woodwell, B.A.; Elizabeth A. Rechtsteiner, M.S.; and Jane E. Sisk, Ph.D., Division of Health Care Statistics
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Policymakers' interest in the progress of health information technology adoption by health care providers has increased since 2004 when the federal government set the goal for most Americans to have electronic health records by 2014 (1). The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act may accelerate the pace of electronic medical record/electronic health record (EMR/EHR) adoption by providers, because it includes funding to promote adoption and use of electronic systems (2).
The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is an annual nationally representative survey of patient visits to office-based physicians that collects information on use of EMR/EHR. In 2008 and 2009, a supplementary mail survey on EMR/EHR use was conducted in addition to the core in-person NAMCS.
According to combined data from the 2008 surveys (mail and in-person surveys), 41.5 percent of physicians reported using all or partial EMR/EHR systems (not including systems solely for billing) in their office-based practices. This estimate was obtained from the question, "Does this practice use electronic medical records or electronic health records (not including billing records)?" (Yes, all electronic; Yes, part paper and part electronic; No; and Don't know). The comparable figure for the 2007 NAMCS was 34.8 percent (3).
Besides reporting on all or partial EMR/EHR systems, physicians reported the computerized functionalities in their practices. Systems defined as basic include the following functionalities: patient demographic information, patient problem lists, clinical notes, orders for prescriptions, and viewing laboratory and imaging results (4,5). Systems defined as fully functional include all functionalities of basic systems plus the following: medical history and follow-up, orders for tests, prescription and test orders sent electronically, warnings of drug interactions or contraindications, highlighting of out-of-range test levels, electronic images returned, and reminders for guideline-based interventions (4,5). In 2008, about 16.7 percent of physicians reported having systems that met the criteria of a basic system, and about 4.4 percent reported that of a fully functional system, a subset of a basic system. Comparable figures for basic and fully functional systems in the 2007 NAMCS were 11.8 percent and 3.8 percent, respectively (3).
According to preliminary estimates from the 2009 mail survey, 43.9 percent of the physicians reported using all or partial EMR/EHR systems (not including systems solely for billing) in their office-based practices. About 20.5 percent reported having systems that met the criteria of a basic system, and 6.3 percent reported that of a fully functional system, a subset of a basic system. The figure shows EMR/EHR use among office-based physicians from 2001 through the preliminary 2009 estimates. Because NAMCS did not collect data on some features of computerized systems prior to 2006, the trends for basic and fully functional systems start in 2006.
These data indicate that physicians have been increasingly adopting EMR/EHR systems. From 2007 to 2008, physicians' use of any EMR system increased by 18.7 percent. Within the same period, the percentage of physicians reporting having systems that met the criteria of a basic system increased by 41.5 percent. The 2009 preliminary estimates did not change significantly from 2008.
NAMCS is a national probability sample survey of nonfederal office-based physicians. The target universe of NAMCS includes physicians classified as providing direct patient care in office-based practices, including those in community health centers, according to the American Medical Association or the American Osteopathic Association. Radiologists, anesthesiologists, and pathologists are excluded. Samples of physicians stratified by specialty were selected from 112 geographic areas across the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Samples of 3,200 and 2,000 physicians were selected for the core in-person NAMCS and the supplemental mail survey, respectively. NCHS conducted the 2008 core NAMCS from December 31, 2007 to December 28, 2008, and the 2008 mail survey from April 2008 through August 2008. Trained field representatives from the U.S. Census Bureau conducted in-person interviews to collect data for the core NAMCS. For the mail survey, each sampled physician received up to three mail surveys and one reminder or thank-you postcard. Two weeks after the third mailing, telephone calls were made to nonrespondents. The final estimates of 2008 EMR/EHR use combine the core NAMCS and the mail survey. The unweighted response rate of the 2008 combined surveys was 64 percent (65 percent when weighted by the inverse of the probability of selection).
From March 2009 through June 2009, NCHS conducted another EMR/EHR mail survey on a sample of 2,000 physicians with the same sampling design as in 2008. The preliminary 2009 estimates reported here were based on the 2009 mail survey. Because of additional efforts to locate nonrespondents via extensive website searches, the response rate (both unweighted and weighted) improved from 62 percent in 2008 to 74 percent in 2009. NCHS will combine the results from the 2009 mail survey and core NAMCS after the 2009 core NAMCS has completed data collection to produce a final estimate of EMR/EHR use for 2009.
The 2008 in-person and mail surveys used the term "EMR" while the 2009 mail survey used "EMR/EHR." The change of terminology in the survey reflects that EMR and EHR are often used interchangeably. A copy of the 2008 and 2009 surveys can be obtained from the NAMCS Website. Starting in 2007, the skip pattern after the all or partial EMR/EHR systems question was removed, and physicians reported computerized functionalities regardless of their answers to the all or partial EMR/EHR systems question.
Statements of differences in estimates are based on statistical tests (e.g., chi-square tests of independence, Student's t-test, or weighted linear regression) with significance at the p < 0.05 level. Terms relating to differences, such as increased or decreased, indicate that the differences are statistically significant. A lack of comment regarding the difference does not mean that the difference was tested and found to be not significant.
- White House. Executive Order: Incentives for the use of health information technology and establishing the position of the National Health Information Technology Coordinator. 2004.
- Blumenthal D. Stimulating the adoption of health information technology. N Engl J Med 360(15):1477-9. 2009.
- Hing E, Hsiao CJ. Electronic medical record use by office-based physicians and their practices: United States, 2007. National health statistics reports; forthcoming. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics.
- DesRoches CM, Campbell EG, Rao SR, Donelan K, Ferris TG, Jha A, et al. Electronic health records in ambulatory care-A national survey of physicians. N Eng J Med 359(1):50-60. 2008.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Health information technology in the United States: Where we stand, 2008 [PDF – 410 KB]. 2008.


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This is one model who's not so thrilled that her face is emblazoned on a shirt.
California model Hailey Clauson, who's just 16, has filed a whopping $28 million lawsuit claiming that a racy photo of her is being used illegally on the company's apparel. The Manhattan court filing rails against Urban Outfitters, two boutique stores, and photographer Jason Lee Parry for allowing the "blatantly salacious" shot to appear on a t-shirt. Clauson says the photo has damaged her reputation.
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The photo shows Clauson, clad in leather shorts, sitting with her legs perched on the back of a motorcycle. If you're wondering what could possibly be so scandalous, the photo is still available on Parry's website. (The image shows nothing illegal, but click with caution.) Now imagine that image splayed across the chests of millions. The lawsuit cites that "her crotch area [is] the focal point of the image" and notes that the shot is of interest to "the likes of pedophiles."
Even at her young age, Clauson is a mainstay on the modeling scene, having worked in Los Angeles and Paris for haute designers like Gucci and Oscar de la Renta. The blond bombshell posed for Parry at the March 2010 shoot, when she was just 15. But the lawsuit says Parry agreed not to release the photographs after Clauson's modeling agency complained. The murky situation began when the images wound up in German magazine Qvest and subsequently on t-shirts at Urban Outfitters.
But as with any court proceedings, cue the "he said, she said." Photographer Parry, 32, says that Clauson's parents were present at the shoot and gave permission for him to release the photos. But he later told the New York Post that "the images got [stolen] from me."
Nick Carbone is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @nickcarbone. You can also continue the discussion on TIME's Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.
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Chemistry 4.0 – sustainable and digital
January 18, 2018
BASF's commitment to sustainable development has been anchored in its corporate purpose since 2001, "We create chemistry for a sustainable future." Every product the company makes is measured in terms of its contribution to societal, ecological and economic sustainability. The assessments involved include the product's impact on cost efficiency, conservation of resources, health and safety. As well as spanning the entire value chain, this process addresses regional and industry-specific differences as well. The most sustainable solutions are then developed systematically. On the strength of its sustainability performance, BASF this September was included once again in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, one of the best-established sustainability indices. "We are very pleased with this outcome. We have been working nonstop to improve our sustainability performance. Being listed for the seventeenth time in succession confirms to us that we are on the right track," says Dirk Voeste, head of Sustainability Strategy. "We developed the Sustainable Solution Steering® method and launched it with the business units and research community to continue improving our solutions and products while steering our whole portfolio in the direction of sustainability. Digital solutions help us in those efforts."
SMART: the IT solution that makes sustainability transparent
One example is the Sustainability Metrics And Reporting Tool (SMART) developed by Supply Chain Operations & Information Services. At the touch of a button, it shows just how sustainable BASF products are in their respective applications and regions. The criteria include energy use, water consumption and emissions. SMART also delivers information on quantities, sales and margins per sustainability category. The combination with financial indicators delivers a full picture of economic and ecological performance, quickly and conveniently providing information and insights that sales and product management colleagues can use as selling points to boost sales. "Corporate assessments and data collection for the BASF annual report used to be very time-consuming before SMART came along," says Peter Kölsch, team leader, Applied Sustainability and application owner for SMART and Sustainable Solution Steering®. "In the past, we had to create analyses manually. The approach is much easier and more pragmatic now, thanks to SMART." To make better use of the information SMART delivers in marketing and sales, BASF developed a solution that collates sales information with SMART data to facilitate target group-specific analysis. "We will also be able to upgrade the solution with new features at some point in the future," says Stephan Sauer, Advanced Business Analytics. "For instance, we will be able to add a recommendation feature for sustainable BASF products."
Power Plant 4.0
Measuring and maximizing a sustainable portfolio is one thing. Managing existing resources efficiently every day in production is another. Digitalization helps in both cases: first, by providing suitable user software; second, by providing smart forecasts and action recommendations from systems that learn. Reliable and accurate prediction is the key to the efficient use of existing resources. One example is "Power Plant 4.0," a joint European Site & Verbund Management and Supply Chain Operations & Information Services project. BASF's Ludwigshafen headquarters is the world's largest chemical complex. Despite using high-efficiency plants and methods, the sheer size of the Verbund site means that it requires vast amounts of energy in the form of steam and electricity, roughly equivalent in fact to the total energy consumption of all private households in Switzerland. To meet these needs, BASF has three power plants of its own in Ludwigshafen. The challenge is to ensure economical, needs-driven electricity and steam supply. The solution is a smart, highly dynamic mix of autonomous energy production with the lowest possible reserve capacities and top-up supplies from the energy market.
The aim of Power Plant 4.0 is to improve efficiency and sustainability using new digital methods and tools. Priorities include optimizing the purchase of electricity from the grid and the sale of temporary excesses to the grid. Electricity trading is a highly complex business, however. Very short-term electricity prices are generated in real time and change every fifteen minutes. To buy and sell economically, decisions need to be made in a matter of seconds. In a highly flexible plant network, energy planning at BASF used to be based on monthly requirement forecasts for every single one of the more than 200 facilities on site. The forecasts were then collated manually.
On the path towards Power Plant 4.0, forecasting was automated and is now based on an algorithm that takes into account previous requirement statistics, weather data and energy prices. To optimize output, a big data-based analysis tool was launched that identifies correlations among items in huge data sets and supports decisions to buy or sell electricity on that basis. The so-called optimizer also plays a very important role for electricity trading in Power Plant 4.0 – a software program connected both to the big data analyses and the latest stock market information. It permanently calculates buy and sell options on the basis of current electricity prices, current load on site, and power plant availabilities and suggests actions to take. When a transaction takes place, the new target levels for the power plants are determined automatically and passed on to their control systems. "To make sure energy management is genuinely cost-effective and needs-driven, a smart, highly dynamic mix is necessary," says Markus Scheuren, Energy Verbund Management. The Ludwigshafen power plants are at the forefront of big data forecasting today. The reliability of energy requirement forecasts has increased significantly as a result: "We used to have deviations of 20 to 30 percent and now the forecasting accuracy using the algorithm is more than 95 percent. It is virtually identical to the actual energy requirement," explains Benjamin Priese, Advanced Business Analytics. And since the more precise requirement forecasts reduce the reserve capacities required, the existing capacities are sufficient to fuel new investment on site. This means plans to invest an additional 30 million euros in new plants can be postponed for now.
Waste Management 4.0
The drive for more efficient use of resources is moving to the next level: This time, it's about waste. With a big data-based waste volume forecasting system, energy from the incineration plant is about to give Power Plant 4.0 even more power. "It adds about 1.1 million euros to our steam revenues," says Jürgen Faderl, Waste Management Production Wastes. The undertaking is highly complex. "Machine learning can provide effective support here because an extremely large number of different factors come together," says Priese. Each product has its own calorific value. More than 800 different waste streams thus have to be analyzed and cleverly put together in new "heat packages" – an energy boost that "fires up" sustainability that bit more.


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This is the Skylab 4 Command Module, which served as the crew cabin for going to and from Skylab, the first U.S. space station. Skylab 4, the third and last of the Skylab missions, was launched on November 16, 1973 with Command and Service Modules CSM-118. The three-person crew, Gerald P. Carr, William R. Pogue, and Edward G. Gibson, spent 84 days on orbit, landing on February 8, 1974. The mission included the observation of the comet Kohoutek, among numerous experiments. The crew completed 1,214 Earth orbits and four extra-vehicular activities totaling 22 hours, 13 minutes.
CSM-118 was transferred from NASA to the Smithsonian in 1975.
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.


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America is Vastly Unprepared for Cyber Warfare
The threat of a cyber attack is as dangerous and more likely than a nuclear attack.
What is a credible cyber threat? This is how the U.S. Department of Homeland Security defines it:
Cyber threats to a control system refer to persons who attempt unauthorized access to a control system device and/or network using a data communications pathway. This access can be directed from within an organization by trusted users or from remote locations by unknown persons using the Internet. Threats to control systems can come from numerous sources, including hostile governments, terrorist groups, disgruntled employees, and malicious intruders. To protect against these threats, it is necessary to create a secure cyber-barrier around the Industrial Control System (ICS). Though other threats exist, including natural disasters, environmental, mechanical failure, and inadvertent actions of an authorized user, this discussion will focus on the deliberate threats mentioned above.
I recently had a meeting with a former top U.S. intelligence appointee as well as a gentleman who is recognized as the world's top expert on the Internet. The topic of the meeting was the current and real threat of cyber attack to our homeland and/or our interests around the world. The meeting was sobering and fascinating. What was clear is that America is vulnerable and there exists gaps in prevention and response on the part of our government and private sectors.
In the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, the American people were asking, "How is it possible that our government didn't see it coming or that we were unable to prevent it? How was it that we were not able to "connect the dots?"
America has become good at responding to crises but we have not been very good at avoiding them.
The White House, Congress and the business community have been warned of the clear and present danger of cyber attacks. We know that those who seek to do America harm like China, Iran, Russia, North Korea and others are constantly hacking, probing, and attacking our computer/Internet infrastructure. Yet, despite thousands upon thousands of daily "attacks," we as a nation are ill-prepared for a devastating coordinated attack to our banking system, energy grids, transportation infrastructure, military assets, etc.
This is what the Center for Strategic & International Studies reported with regard to foreign capabilities:
There are countries that could launch damaging cyber attacks. At least five militaries have advanced cyber-attack capabilities, and at least another 30 countries intend to acquire them. These high-end opponents have the resources and skills to overcome most defenses. Just as only a few countries had aircraft in 1914 but most militaries had acquired them 10 years later, every military will eventually acquire some level of cyber-attack capability. Cyber attacks will likely be used only in combination with other military actions, but they will be part of any future conflict. We can regard them as another weapons system with both tactical and strategic uses, similar to missiles or aircraft that can be launched from a distance and strike rapidly at a target.
The president of the United States has a well thought out protocol in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. but sadly has no such protocol exists in the event of a massive cyber attack. The president of the United States is never more than a few steps away from the "Football," the name given to the attaché case carried by the president's military aide that contains the nuclear codes to launch a retaliatory strike in the event of a nuclear attack on the U.S. The president has as much as 30 minutes to respond in the event of a nuclear attack. However in the event of a cyber attack a president may only have seconds to respond.
According to the experts, there does not exist the legal authority to stop an attack or to properly retaliate to a massive cyber attack to America. Our intelligence officials may be able to see it coming, but lack the necessary and proper command and control similar to the protocols of a nuclear attack to deal with it at a level of the commander-in-chief.
The greatest threat to America in this day and age is not nuclear warfare it is cyber warfare. A cyber attack or attacks can be as lethal — if not more so — than a nuclear one.
The question is not whether America will be attacked, but rather when it will be attacked.
The generalized constitutional responsibilities of the president must be codified by statute to reflect this new threat allowing the president to respond as commander-in-chief to an act of cyber warfare.
Now is the time for the president to carry cyber warfare options as closely as he does nuclear.
The federal government must act immediately to institute the necessary, proper, and reasonable responsibilities on government and private industries to protect themselves from cyber attacks. The failure of government and industries such as financial services, energy, hospitals, transportation, national security, and communications to prepare for cyber attacks is inexcusable.
Now is the time to make sure our government and the most vulnerable private sector enterprises are up to the task to thwart attack by instituting protocols and coordinating and disseminating information.
A version of this article originally appeared on Newsmax.
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This is probably because I work with multiple customer, with different environments, rather than just setting things up once within my own environment so this "Automate everything" approach will not apply to everyone. It's about finding the value and ROI of spending the time designing/writing the automation versus the effort of manually doing the task.
That said, the latest one I went to tackle, was creating SLA working hours calendars within System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager (SCSM).
I had been on and off trying it for a while but picked it back up again the other week, but finally gave up banging my head on the desk (especially when I forgot to move my cup of coffee) and reached out for some help.
I sent a tearful email to my fellow SCSM Cookbook authors and Dieter Gasser, like the SCSM coding guru that he is, replied back in triple quick time with how to do this in PowerShell.
The basic outline principal for this is:
- Gather the classes for Calendar and Working Days
- Gather the Relationship between the two
- Gather the Enumerations for the Days
- Set an array for the Calendar and each Day with the Name, TimeZones, Start/End times and if they're enabled or not
- Create new Objects for the Class based on those arrays
- Create the Relationships between the Days and the Calendar
- Commit them to the database
This was so easy in the end I (as usual) had been trying to boil the ocean with a bonfire instead of taking a cup full and using a kettle.
So thanks to Didi, I was able to take his simple code which went line by line setting each day and wrapped it into a script that queries an XML file allow modelling of multiple calendars and the streamlined creation of them.
I've uploaded the script and example XML file to the TechNet gallery as a zip file here:
The XML is fairly self-explanatory. For each calendar you would like to create, add a <SLACalendar> </SLACalendar> section and fill in the details for the days.
If you don't want a day as a working day, just set it as Enabled="False"
The only part I've not made easier yet is the TimeZone setting.
Currently you will need to find the string value used within SCSM and copy this to the XML.
This is fairly easy to find, just create a temporary calendar with the timezone you want and then run this PowerShell one-liner to display all the timezones in use:
(Get-SCSMObject -Class (Get-SCSMClass System.Calendar$)).TimeZone
Copy and paste the output to the XML.
Once you have the XML ready, create the calendars by running the script as so:
New-SCSMCalendar.ps1 –XMLFile <Path to XML>
e.g. New-SCSMCalendar.ps1 –XMLFile C:\Temp\Calendars.xml
Again, huge thanks to Didi with his help on this, be sure to check out his blog (http://blog.dietergasser.com/) or follow him on Twitter @DiGaBlog


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