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Louisa's Place
Berlin is an exciting city. It has a unique buzz about it and some gems to discover when it comes to hotels. One such gem is the Louisa's Place, a turn of the century mansion renovated to become an elegant hotel consisting of 47 suites / apartments.
Elegant - and homely we should add. This is evident as soon as we enter. Instead of a counter, standard hotel style, what you get is a desk and a warm smile to welcome you. It sets the pace for the rest of your stay.
The suites are stylishly furnished with classic furniture offering contemporary functionality, combined with warm hardwood floors, soft natural colors and bright walls. Talking of the walls, they are generally decorated with watercolors and digitally reworked photographs of the hotel.
The kitchens in the suites are modern and fully equipped. In addition Louisa's Place offers free WiFi-access in all suites, so that communication with the world is assured.
One of the great things about Louisa's Place is the Spa area and indoor pool (take a look at the photos to see what we mean). It's really cool and if a morning swim is a need, then Louisa's Place is definitely for you.
Louisa's Place is also very conveniently placed to explore Berlin and located right by the Adenaurer Platz Underground Station
Best For
- Family Friendly Hotels
- Animals welcome
- Bar
- Central heating
- Credit cards (AMEX) accepted
- Credit cards (Visa, Mastercard) accepted
- Elevator
- Garden
- Handicapped easy-access
- Internet terminal
- Internet WiFi
- Library
- Meeting room
- Parking covered
- Restaurant
- Sauna
- Spa & wellness
- Swimming pool heated
- Swimming pool indoor
- Terrace
Room Amenities
- Hair dryer
- Internet WiFi
- Kitchen fully equipped
- Kitchenette
- Mini bar
- Non smoking rooms
- Room for handicapped
- Room service
- Safe
- Satellite TV
- Telephone
- Bicycles
- Massage
- Swimming
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LAKELAND, FL (September 23, 2014) — The City of Lakeland Parks Division will be on Lake Morton at 7:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 1st for the 34th Annual Swan Roundup. Crews will be catching and herding the swans as the initial part of their annual veterinary check-up. The swans will be confined in large holding pens on the south side of the lake for their annual wellness examinations that will start Thursday morning, October 2nd at 7:30 a.m. with Patricia Mattson, DVM. The Annual Swan Round-Up allows Lakeland's Parks and Recreation Department to closely monitor the health and vitality of Lakeland's swan population.
The original swans on Lake Morton were donated by Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom in 1957. As Lakeland's swan flock grew, it became paramount to give the regal birds an annual health check so the Swan Roundup began. This practice started in 1980 and has continued every year since then. The swans were first cared for by veterinarian (emeritus) and original "Swanvet" W.G. Gardner who recently passed but his dedication to the flock carries on with Dr. Mattson.
Dr. Mattson has almost 20 years of experience in veterinary medicine. She the owner of Companion Animal Hospital a full service facility that provides general medical care, preventive medical care, vaccinations, health certificates, caesarean section, diagnostic services, on-site kennel, on-site laboratory testing, flea control, dietary counseling, spay/neuter, declawing, radiology, general surgery, dentistry, emergency services, microchipping, pharmacy services and boarding.

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Location: Washington, D.C., DC
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|While on a roof top on 13 th and N streets NW, I imaged a sphere (egg shaped) anomaly shooting a beam of light towards the ground? Imaged with 1080 i HD camera technology. Sample shows a bright white egg shaped anomaly with blue and red lights , beam is focuced from apex of egg at a 45 degree angle. No noise was heard, image sample is extraordinary!


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7 reasons to cut your hair short
Short hair has definitely been centre stage over the last year or more. We've seen a stream of celebrities chopping their locks, but fashions come and go, so are there any other reasons to cut your hair short? Well yes, in fact we think there are plenty.
1. Short hair saves so much time.
If you're fed up with waiting hours for your hair to dry naturally or spend an age with hairdryer in hand, this could be all the convincing you need to cut your hair short. Not only does short hair take so much less time to wash, but drying and styling time is dramatically reduced too.
Here at the salon we often find new mums coming to us a few weeks after the birth of a little one, asking for their long hair to be cut short. Without a minute to themselves anymore, they realise what a massive time saver it could be!
2. Every bit as versatile.
Just because you have cut you hair short it doesn't mean you're stuck with the same style day in and day out. Many short haircuts have several different styling options, from smooth and sleek to spiked up or wispy. Take a look at our article for ideas on how to add variety to short hair. And don't forget, your Lifestyle stylist will be happy to show you styling options for your new cut.
Short hair can be styled in so many different ways.
3. Great for an active lifestyle.
If you're sporty, love swimming or spend loads of time in the gym, you'll know that a short haircut is a godsend. No more ponytails swinging around or loose strands covering your eyes and sticking to your face. Plus, it keeps you much cooler too. Then, when you're done you'll be out of the gym in half the time, giving you more time to enjoy your evening.
4. It's super chic and über professional.
There's no doubt about it, short hair looks incredibly professional – you only have to think of American Vogue's editor Anna Wintour with her timeless and classic bob. A chic, short haircut sends all the right messages out to an employer, indicating you are confident, dynamic and modern.
Anna Wintour never deviates from her stylish short style
5. An amazing tonic for a broken heart.
One of the most common times that women cut their hair short is after splitting up with a partner, when they want to make a break with the past. It's a great way to revive your confidence and to mark a fresh start. We would advise you consider your decision for a few days to ensure there are no regrets, but if you still think it's right for you then go for it!
6. Refresh and repair damaged hair.
It might sound a bit drastic, but if your long hair is in bad condition and you're plagued with dry and split ends, there really is no better way to repair the damage than to cut your hair short. What's more, with a short style so much easier to look after than long hair, there's much less risk of the damage returning.
Victoria Beckham's inverted bob became a classic.
7. You'll see your confidence grow.
Don't underestimate the liberating feeling and psychological benefits if you cut your hair short. Without your old curtain of long hair to hide behind you'll find you become bolder and more confident. It can sound a little scary at first but don't be put off – the rewards are there for the taking.
We know that a dramatic change from long to short hair can be pretty daunting, so if you're still unsure, consider changing in a series of stages. Start at shoulder length and work your way shorter over time as you grow in confidence.
Have a good chat with your stylist who will be able to help you decide on the best style for your, but our guess is once you've taken the plunge you'll never look back.
Get more ideas for short hair here:
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New Research Underscores the Ready-to-Buy Mindset of YP Users
The question on the minds of many local business owners today is: "How can I connect with the right local consumers who can eventually become loyal, paying customers?"
We know that today's consumers zigzag between devices, platforms, and the online and offline worlds at a dizzying pace as they travel along their path to purchase. Oftentimes, they visit multiple sources before ever making a purchase decision. This can be confusing and overwhelming to any local business owner who might be dipping their toes into building an integrated marketing strategy for the first time. However, it also signals a huge opportunity to reach consumers wherever they are on their purchase journey.
Our mission at YP, The Real Yellow Pages® is to connect local businesses with local consumers across America's largest, ready-to-buy audience. We stand by that promise each and every day. And while we've always known that the people who come to yellowpages.com, the YP℠ app, and The Real Yellow Pages® Directory are more inclined to make purchase decisions than the average searcher, we wanted proof to back it up.
So, we partnered with comScore on a custom research study to compare the local search and spending behaviors of YP℠ users against all searchers. The results were impressive, speaking volumes about how YP uniquely helps consumers find new local businesses and make more informed purchase decisions. Today, we're excited to unveil the results of this research. Here's a preview:
2 out of 3 YP users start their search intending to make a reservation, appointment, or purchase
91 percent of YP users contact a business after searching (visiting website, calling, emailing, etc.)
74 percent of YP users make a purchase after conducting a search (vs. 68% of all searchers)
YP users spend an average of 34 percent more per purchase than all searchers.
Even though this is just a sneak peek at the results, the numbers speak for themselves – it's an overwhelming endorsement of YP's role as the champion for local businesses. Check out the full array of insights from this research by downloading the YP Advantage Report today.
Don't stop there. Learn more about YP's full-suite of integrated marketing solutions that help local businesses connect with local consumers in a big way.


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Our Respite Service caters for both the client/ service user as well as the carer, giving both some "me" time.
The service is open to anyone with a neurological or complex medical condition.
We offer a range of specialised services including a bright welcoming place to relax, socialise, promote self-confidence and make new friends.
The day consists of a mixture of planned activities, and a choice of therapies and workshops. A light lunch and refreshments are provided.
At present our Day Respite Service runs on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 09.00-16.00.
Click here to download our Respite Leaflet


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My name is Kristy, and I was with Brookside for 8 years. I left for 2 years and now I am back! I was married in April 2011 to my wonderful husband Kyle. We now have a daughter and a son. We have a cocker spaniel named Carson, and two cate named Ernie and Tootie.


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Shrek Forever after is one of the popular movies of the most popular series of Shrek. If you are one of the fans of fairy tales, then get ready to see such a fairy tale in such an amazing way. There are many things that you should know that will blow your mind. Well, there are several things that Shrek movie makers' hides and we have collected them all.
Shrek forever after was said to be the last Shrek movies and it was all a trap. Shrek is a lovable ogre fallen in love, had a best friend. And just like every married man, he was going through many hassles. Although, we are here to surprise you and if you have watched Shrek forever after then you will surely found these facts mentioned below interesting.
Some Interesting facts about Shrek Forever After
There are many things about this movie that holds many secrets. And here we have collected all such things that you will find astonishing and surprising. So let us get to it:
• The piper – The piper was played by an original jazz player, and the player was the son of the guy who wrote this book.
• Artie was scrapped altogether – Justin Timberlake was caught going to the sets, and everyone was waiting for his role in the movie. But scenes come out to be scrapped.
• Fiona's hairs were modeled after Janis Joplin – Yes, this is so damn true that these hairs were modeled after Janis Joplin. It took 10 years of CGI research to catch up where it needed to be in the movie.
• Rumplestiltskin appeared in Shrek the Third – It was shown as the evil genius in all the movies. But it was more like a nerd in Shrek the third movie. He had such a different look that makes him look more like a henchman.
• One of Rumple's witches is named Baba – Baba Yaga was one of the religious gurus in the Russian soviet. These were the boogeyman in those cultures.
• Shrek was inspired from a real-life character – Well, you might find this surprising that this Shrek Character does exist in real life. The guy named Maurice Tillet was behind this character, and he was just like Shrek. Born in 1903, this guy developed a disease-causing his bones to grow bigger.
• Piper appeared in Shrek Forever After – The time when Shrek emerges from the house, then the piper shows up on his way to find the fairy tales creatures.
• This is the only movie in which Shrek cries – With such circumstances with his wife and children to take care of makes up a heartwarming scene. This makes Shrek sob and then cry in the end.
Bottom Line
As a whole Shrek is the best character and the whole movie was based on the same principle saying that the actual beauty lies in the heart, not in the appearance. And that makes this movie much more impressive. You can read more about shrek the movies on editionsautrestemps.com.


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On installing GeoMedia
WebMap Professional_06.01.03.08 on
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Following Error window pop up at the end of installation process or if I uninstall it.
I have .Net framework 2, 3.5 and 4 installed.
GeoMedia WebMap Professional Readme:
System Requirements
Installation Requirements
For Server-side Microsoft .NET programming and running Version 2.0 or later of the GeoMedia WebMap Professional .NET components and Services, it is required to have preinstalled the Microsoft .NET Framework Version. The installation uses utilities (regasm.exe) of this Framework version to register at installation the WebMap-related Primary Interop and Managed Code Assemblies.
GeoMedia WebMap Professional Server-side Hardware
GeoMedia WebMap Professional is designed to run on Intel chip-based server hardware/systems. Database hardware is not limited to Intel-based systems.
Response time is an important consideration for any web installation, so you should design your site to deliver the best possible performance for the environment in which you intend to publish information. If the number of WebMap Map Server executable instances (each serving a large number of concurrent user requests) is likely to be greater than 12, you should consider installing multi-processor servers.
- Pentium III or equivalent microprocessor -- minimum
- 300 MB disk space required for Typical installation
- Up to 1 GB disk space (2 GB or greater recommended) to accommodate temporary cache files in a production environment
- 2 GB RAM or greater recommended, 100 MB RAM per map server minimum
- 128 KB ISDN or better communications connectivity
Server-Side Software:
GeoMedia WebMap Professional supports the following software platforms:
Operating Systems:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 32-bit and 64-bit running in 32-bit emulation mode
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 2 recommended)
Microsoft Windows Vista, 32-bit and 64-bit running in 32-bit emulation mode
Web Server Software:
IIS 7.0 for Windows Vista
IIS 6.0 for Windows Server 2003
IIS 5.0 for Windows XP Professional
IBM HTTP Server (servlet engine of IBM Websphere or TomCat)
Java via Intrinsyc's J-Integra® COM/Java bridge
Oracle iAS (native servlet engine)
Java via Intrinsyc's J-Integra COM/Java bridge
Sun Open Net Environment Web Server (native servlet engine) (formerly Sun IPlanet)
Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Active Server Pages (formerly Sun Chili!Soft ASP)
Java via Intrinsyc's J-Integra COM/Java bridge
GeoMedia WebMap Professional works with any database that can be accessed with 32-bit ODBC drivers.
For Server-side Microsoft .NET programming and running of the GeoMedia WebMap Professional .NET components and Services, Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 or later, with ASP.NET. For programming, a .NET-supported Development Environment compatible with the Framework.
GeoMedia WebMap Professional Client-side Software Requirements
Operating System:
- Microsoft Windows XP
- Microsoft Windows Vista
System Configuration
Microsoft .NET Framework
GeoMedia WebMap Professional 6.1 requires the Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0. GeoMedia WebMap Professional 6.1 was certified against .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0.
Windows XP .NET 2.0.
Windows Vista .NET 3.0 (includes 2.0).
Loading GeoMedia WebMap Professional on a 64-bit Operating System
This section provides the system administrator and end user with information on installing and deploying GeoMedia WebMap Professional on a 64-bit operating system. If you run on a 64-bit operating system, such as Windows Vista™ x64, you will need to know the differences discussed in this section. GeoMedia WebMap Professional is a 32-bit application, but it can be run on most 64-bit processors. Loading GeoMedia WebMap Professional on a 64-bit operating system will result in a few changes in folder and license file locations, registry entries, and use of Microsoft Windows tools.
Folder Location—Folder structures for GeoMedia WebMap Professional are different on 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. On a 32-bit operating system, all GeoMedia WebMap Professional folders and Common Files folders install under C:\Program Files. On a 64-bit operating system, these folders install under C:\Program Files (x86).
License Files—When placing a license file for GeoMedia WebMap Professional on a 64-bit operating system, it must be placed in the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intergraph\Ingr_Licenses. Note there is no Intergraph folder in C:\Program Files\Common Files on a 64-bit operating system. Like the license folder, GeoMedia WebMap will be placed in C:\Program Files (x86)\GeoMedia WebMap Professional.
Registry Entries—In a similar fashion, GeoMedia WebMap Professional and related registry entries are different on a 64-bit operating system. GeoMedia WebMap Professional HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry entries are unchanged on a 64-bit system, but HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry entries are in a different location. The new location for local machine entries for GeoMedia WebMap Professional on a 64-bit operating system is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Wow6432Node > Intergraph. If the FlexLM entry for GeoMedia WebMap Professional licensing needs to be modified for license file location or concurrent license server reference, it is also in the new location at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > Software > Wow6432Node > FlexLM license manager.
32-bit Compatible Applications—Any 32-bit compatible operating system application used in conjunction with GeoMedia WebMap Professional has also been relocated on a 64-bit operating system. For example, ODBCad32.exe is the application used to create ODBC DSNs that may be used for various GeoMedia warehouse connections. There are two different ODBCad32.exe files on a 64-bit Windows operating system. One normally resides in C:\Windows\System32, the other in C:\Windows\SysWOW64. Because a 64-bit operating system can run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications, a folder is used to distinguish 32-bit applications from 64-bit applications. Windows applications available from Windows Explorer views reference 64-bit applications. If you need to run a 32-bit Windows application, you must browse to the 32-bit folder, and then run the application from there. The 32-bit Windows applications will be found in C:\Windows\SysWOW64. The 64-bit applications will be found in C:\Windows\System32.


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Super Yummy!
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1 cup walnuts, soaked 24 hours
2 cups mushroom pieces
1 cup diced bell pepper of choice
juice of 1 lemon
few sprigs fresh cilantro
*mineral salt to taste
2 cloves fresh garlic
1/2 white onion
four baby carrots
*cumin powder to taste
2 tbsp. olive oil
unpasteurized cheese
*lemon juice to taste
Recipe Directions
(Here's the fun part: Add ANY other vegetables you want! I personally add a LOT more vegetables than the original recipe called for, including but not limited to green onions, broccoli, parsley, cucumber, basil and zucchini. So long as you add more nuts and mushrooms, the consistency will be perfect.)
Blend all ingredients together in food processor, occasionally folding and stirring to ensure even consistency. Once smooth, serve on a green lettuce leaf with a slice of avocado, tomato chunks, and unpasteurized cheese if you please. Wrap and enjoy, or dehydrate into patties if a firmer texture is desired.
Another fun way to eat leftover mushroom pate: de-stem large mushrooms, blend stems into excess pate mixture, fill mushroom caps with pate and drizzle with olive oil/salt. dehydrate for 30 minutes. Enjoy!
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This is an incredible blend of vegetables, soaked walnuts, and mushrooms that is loved by all who have tried it, hopefully including you!
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I was standing at the bus stop, in our village on the outskirts of Beijing.
It is more like the place where the bus stops, than a bus stop.
A rectangular sign with a big green '35' and service times in small print on a reddish-brown post, planted next to the road.
Behind me a house.
A little to the left a shop.
In front of it an old snooker table.
The proprietor's wife washing vegetables, she just picked from rusty buckets next to it, on the old green felt.
Birds gave us music as they twittered in the tall green trees.
It was early.
Well, early-ish.
The bus arriving any time between 06h30 and 06h50, depending on how many people wanted to make their way from the countryside to the nearest city.
The moment was beautiful.
The old man, who must've suffered a stroke, scurrying by, his left leg dragging, as he made his customary morning walk.
Greeting friendly, as always.
Lifting his right hand slightly, with effort, in that universal gesture of peace.
At first I was the only one waiting for the bus.
Eventually others joined me.
A young girl in her school uniform.
A man, smartly dressed, perhaps on his way to work as well.
A grandmother with her grandson and a bag filled to the brim with snacks and drinks for their journey.
It was a quiet moment.
My body breathing the cool morning air.
My soul sipping from the atmosphere.
A gift.
A tiny little gift.
To be standing here.
Enjoying the rhythm of this place.
The movement.
The sounds.
The aroma.
The peaceful resignated energy.
My heart putting her arms around the idea that my days are filled with a thousand little gifts, every day; gifts which I often unwrap without even noticing them.
Waking up.
That first moment.
Opening my eyes.
A new day.
Listening to the silence of what is our home in this present time.
Smelling the ground coffee as I pour water from the kettle.
Walking past the pond where someone is already trying to entice a fish into breakfast.
Sitting next to a complete stranger on the subway.
Striking up a conversation.
Learning something new.
Watching the man, in the small cubicle, behind the waist high counter, as he magically creates the most delicious ChouMieyen, shaking the frying pan with ease, flicking sauces and spices onto the mushrooms and cabage and noodles, stirring it lightly, then more vigorously, before carefully dishing it into the little round box from which I will nourish my body.
Walking through the Hutong, on my way to the lake where centuries ago a temple stood.
Eating the fried noodles, while children run past and the water softly touch the banks.
Being embraced by a little student as class begins.
Putting her tiny Chinese arms around my neck, as she says good morning, then scratching in her bag to pull out a crumpled drawing. A man on a podium, a caravan next to him. A girl giving the man a prize. Lots and lots of little Chinese Characters saying that she loves me and that I a the best teacher she ever had.
Seeing the little boy, who I was told is a real trouble-maker, flourish, as suddenly English has meaning, just because he doesn't have to sit in one chair for 80 minutes but can roa the classroom from front to back, while foreign letters, which used to be uncomfortable in his mouth flick past on the electronic screen, creating words and sounds and sentences, which now have meaning.
Getting lost in another's words, almost missing my transfer station on the way home, as I drink the ideas of a man who lived before books were sold in shops or as code for devices.
Sitting down to eat with friends.
At a large round table.
Many dishes appearing one after the other.
Each one new.
Discovering who people are.
Crossing the divide of culture and language.
Being together, in happy acceptance, enough.
Cycling through the forest.
Choosing a beautiful piece of red meat at the market as music competes with anouncements and pedestrians push by to get fresh produce.
Lighting a fire, cooking dinner outside.
Being together with my Tribe.
Spectating, as they laugh and tlk and discuss and engage.
Seeing our little girl rush down the stairs to meet me, late in the evening, as I arrive home from the heart of the city.
Feeding on her happiness to see me.
A little while later, falling asleep on my lap, terribly tired, her little body limp in my arms, her being at rest against me.
Touching my Zuko.
Feeling the energy between us, not dissipated through two decades of life, but energised, bolstered by everything we've shared and endured and experienced and lost and gained and lost again in twenty years.
Pushing the two-wheeled square wheel-barrow, loaded with the week's garbage to the disposal site, in the shade of more trees, everyone I pass waving with the words 'ladzito' (garbage), responding with a simple 'dwe' (yes), aware that even this interaction is beautiful, kind, as we share geography for a fleeting time.
Playing, alongside my daughters, with two little blind boys, to help them learn English, before they head off to meet their adoptive families in a country they've only heard of. Seeing them, my daughters, lavish love and kindness, just because they are.
As I wait for another vendor to make the tastiest 'Dzen Bing', a pancake of sorts with egg and chives and crepes and beef, I look at the days we have.
Days strewn with little gifts, in every nook and cranny.
Exquisite gifts.
Tiny gifts, easily missed.
If we become obsessed with all we want or do not have, or even with tremendous gifts we seek, like happiness framed by love and peace.
Perhaps along The Way of the Gift, I am discovering that all the Gift is fused together.
Dispensed and given from moment to moment.
Each little bit a part of the immense entirety, which fills our existence.
Even the moment of dissapointment, woven into it, gift as well.
For everything we receive, we receive from our Origin and Source.
And all of it is good.
And so, as bus 35 arrives, and I wait for the grandmother and her grandson to embark, before I get on too, my heart resolves to enjoy the little things.
Gifted to me all day long.
To see them.
Taste them intentionally.
Savour them.
The bitter-tasting gifts, always in-between, a little more palatable, amongst the myriad of little things which make my life so fabulous.
A cool shade of gratitude engulfing me, as I find my way into another day.
A hope alive, that you too, as I write these words, might see.
The myriad of little gifts sprinkled into every moment.
For they are everywhere.
To be unwrapped and enjoyed.
To fill your existence with meaning and happiness.


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This lengthy article written by Brad, explains how to check the performance of your SQL Server.
If you have been a DBA for long, then you will know that performance tuning SQL Server is not an exact science. And even if it were, it would still be difficult to find the "optimal" configuration for the "optimal" performance. This is because there are few absolutes when it comes to performance tuning. For example, while one particular performance-tuning tip may help boost performance one way, at the same time it might hurt performance in another way.
Over the last five years that I have been a SQL Server DBA, I have put together a mental checklist that I use when it comes to performance tuning SQL Servers. I use this checklist as a guide when I perform a "performance audit" a (new to me) SQL Server for the first time. I often get requests to "look over" a SQL Server and to offer suggestions on how to boost its performance. Until now, I have never really written down the process I go through. But as I have begun to do more and more performance tuning consulting, I now have decided that it is time to put this performance audit checklist on paper. Hopefully, you will find it as useful to you as I find it is to me.
The SQL Server Performance Audit
The goal of this performance audit checklist is to help you, in a quasi-scientific way, is to help you identify any obvious performance problems with your SQL Server. As I mentioned above, SQL Server performance tuning can be difficult. What I am trying to do with this checklist is to identify all of the "easy" SQL Server performance problems, leaving the hard ones for a later time. I am doing this because is it easy to confuse the easy and the hard SQL Server performance tuning decisions. By creating a list of the "easy" performance tuning areas, it is easier to focus on getting the easy ones out of the way, and once they are out of the way, then you can focus on the more difficult ones.
One of the advantages of using this checklist to perform a SQL Server performance audit is that is will not only tell you what can do to easily boost current performance, it also can be used to help you know what you have already done correctly. In some cases, the choices you have made for your SQL Server may be deliberately different than the recommendations found on this checklist. In other words, you have purposely made a specific decision not to follow common SQL Server performance tuning practices. In some cases, you may be right. Not all SQL Server performance recommendations are applicable to all situations. In other cases, you may have made a decision based on resource limitations, such as not having the money to purchase the necessary hardware to carry your load.
If that's the case, then you have no choice but to live with this. And in other cases, the decisions you have made may be due to political reasons, which may or may not be able to be changed. In any event, you need to do what you can, using this performance audit to identify those areas that you can change, and making those changes to boost your SQL Server's performance.
Ideally, you should perform this audit on each of your SQL Servers. If you have many of them, this could take some time. I would suggest that you start on the servers that are currently producing the most performance problems, and the working your way to the rest of the servers as you have time.
Once you complete your performance audit, you still arent done. Remember, these are the easy ones. Once you have the easy ones out of the way, then you can begin to devote your time to working on the harder performance issues. And thats another article for another time.
How to Conduct Your SQL Server Performance Audit
To make your SQL Server Performance Audit easy to perform, I have divided it into several sections. They include:
The best way to conduct your SQL Server Performance Audit is to first review each of the above sections, and to print them out. From there, complete each section, writing down your results as you collect them. You may perform the audit in any order you like. I have only listed the above steps the way I have because this is the way I generally approach a Performance Audit.
Once you have completed your audit, you will be ready to decide what approach you want to take to implement the various recommendations discovered from taking the audit. You will learn more about this in the last section.
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Ivir tha past wheen o weeks I hae bin taakin aboot things ye cudnae bate wae a big stick. Weel maebae it's because I hanae got yin oany mere but I fair miss an appen fire. Och I know thur a locth o work: trapesin ashes through the hoose, trying to get the pan emptied wioot gettin covered in stoor, brushin oot tha hearth, I havenae forgotten the botheration. But the heartsome glow was a great company on a cowl nicht.
Maebae thons why it a pits me in mind o sittin roon tha fire as a wean. In thon days wae wernae spreatoot a iver the hoose o an evenin. Ivreyboady sat in the yin room. Ma faither readin tha paper, ma mither knittin' and ma sister drying' her hair yin side at a time. It's true tha rest o tha hoose wud o foundered ye but Im no sae sure that the cowl was the ainly reason wae stayed thagither, standing fornenst the mantle tae oor backs wus measelt wae tha heat.
Tha fire just made iverythin mere hamely. Even the toast we broont iver the flames on a lang toastin' fork tasted better than the slices that jumped oot o tha toaster. Bit maebae thon was a the way fir a hae mind o mae mither tellin mae aboot tha soda breed she had as a wean, baked on the gridel hangin fae the crook, an hoo it was better thon oany fae the oven.
Sitting here wae tha oil fired central heating gaen full bast. I simtimes wunder which is the waarmer hoose? The yin wae tha plumpim radiators or the home with smouldering peats and glowing logs. So if ye still hae an open fire enjoy it an until next time Lang may yer lum reek an yer spicket dribble.
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Fischer scores one final time for Red Wingsby Brian Compton
DETROIT -- There's not a day that passes that Jiri Fischer doesn't realize how fortunate he is to be alive and still involved in the sport he loves, even if it's now in the front office rather than on the ice.
But Tuesday afternoon at a snowy Comerica Park, Fischer found himself back in a Detroit Red Wings uniform, skating with some of the biggest names in the history of the Original Six franchise.
It was a fairy tale indeed, and became even more so when Fischer scored in the first period of Detroit's 5-4 victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first game of the Alumni Showdown as part of the festivities leading up to the 2014 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic, which will be played Wednesday at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.
"Do I celebrate? Do I not? Is it going to be embarrassing? Is it not? [But] it felt great," Fischer said. "That was maybe the last goal in a Red Wings uniform for most of us to score. It was a lot of fun."
Fischer also is having a lot of fun in his role as director of player development for the Red Wings, a position he's held for six seasons. The 33-year-old was forced to retire after nearly dying during a game against the Nashville Predators in 2005, when he suffered a seizure on Detroit's bench. His heart stopped, but doctors and emergency attendants were able to bring Fischer back to life with the help of an automated external defibrillator. He was 25 at the time.
A first-round pick by Detroit (No. 25) at the 1998 NHL Draft, Fischer saw his playing career end after 305 games. Today he can't push his body to the limit the way he used to, but Fischer said he goes to the gym regularly.
"One of the restrictions is not to play in the NHL," Fischer said. "That's the main one. I exercise to have fun, not really to chase records anymore. Fitness became kind of a passion, how to feel good instead of trying to compete at the highest level."
Fischer's front-office position allows him to skate occasionally while working with Detroit's prospects. And with several former teammates still living in the area, he sometimes skates with them at Joe Louis Arena, the place where his career -- and almost his life -- came to an end.
"I get on the ice with some of the guys in development camp," Fischer said. "It was a great idea that Kris Draper started about a month ago that a bunch of us get together and skate at [Joe Louis Arena]. We get together a few times and it's a lot of fun.
"It's outstanding. I get to interact with the coaches and [Red Wings coach] Mike Babcock is obviously a special guy. It's a lot of fun the way we get treated by ownership and Kenny [Red Wings general manager Ken Holland] giving me the opportunity to work for him is outstanding. Being in the press box with him for some of the home games when I'm not traveling, it's just like going to Harvard and learning. It's a lot of fun.
"I got a second chance right off the bat. The heart didn't change in a way that would allow me to participate in pro hockey again and I went in the front office. After the first couple of years I really got a knack for how to deal with all different individualities and the guys that we draft. It's really about the guys and their progress and I try to help them out. I try to jumpstart the process, getting the pro habits down, lifestyle to the routine that everybody has to go through every day. It's really passing down the experience to some of the guys so hopefully by the time the lucky few are going to turn pro they're going to be a little bit ahead of the game. It's very rewarding."
With Fischer's help Tuesday the Red Wings built an early 2-0 lead on goals from Fischer and Aaron Ward. Stew Gavin and Todd Warriner scored for Toronto later in the first period to erase the deficit, but Petr Klima gave the Red Wings a 3-2 lead with less than two minutes left in the first. Pat Verbeek and Ward scored before the midway point of the second to make it 5-2.
Brad May got the Maple Leafs back to within two with 6:41 left in the second and Tom Fergus made it a one-goal game about three minutes later.
But Fischer and the Red Wings were able to hold on to win the opening game of the Alumni Showdown, a game and an afternoon Fischer won't forget anytime soon.
"It was outstanding," Fischer said. "The weather couldn't be any better, the atmosphere was awesome. Toronto kept coming on strong at the end so it made it really challenging. It was a lot of fun."


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On November 4, 2009, NERC will host a workshop in Atlanta, Georgia to obtain stakeholder input regarding the renewal of the delegation agreements between NERC and the Regional Entities. In conjunction with this workshop, NERC has developed a discussion paper which includes a projected timeline for the development of the new delegation agreements and highlights key areas of focus.
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This is the first in what I hope will be an occasional series of fiction experiments. Thanks to my friend Freddy Nassar for volunteering his likeness for my studies.
It would have been appropriate to get on the road a little early, but he didn't. There were numerous little things to be done before he could leave the house. Shower, shave, feed the cat, clean the litter box, and scrub the spot on the floor where the cat had expressed his dismay with the state of the litter box. He checked his e-mail while waiting for the coffee to brew. He checked it again while sipping his coffee pensively, quickly, wishing he could gulp it down like water, knowing he should be getting on his way. He checked his email once more from his phone as he sat in the car waiting for the engine to warm up and melt the ice on his windshield. No new messages, except for the usual barrage of sales pitches from online retailers used once to purchase a Christmas gift for a girlfriend who was no longer so much as a friend. At 7:45, he put the car in reverse and began to move only to glimpse a dark, hulking figure in the rearview mirror. Brakes. Park. That fleeting moment of insanity: Is that a fucking bear? A fat, ruddy face lowered into view, leathery red cheeks smiling idiotically.
"Sorry!" shouted the stupid face. Two hands appeared alongside it, one wearing a mitten, one bare-fingered, both waving stupidly. "Have a nice day!" The idiot bear man moved on with snow and ice crunching under his feet.
At 7:54, the car was warm, sitting at a traffic light, and grumbling away like an old man. Freddy checked his phone. Nothing. Greenlight. Acceleration. The way the tires spin until they can get traction on public roads when winter catches them by surprise. Freddy's car scrambled as though having a bad dream of its own, then bolted into the intersection just as the cars behind him began to honk. "Fuckoff!" Freddy shouted as he fishtailed through.
The next time the car stopped, it was facing a low, grey building nearly identical to every other building within a radius of about 5 miles. The front door was locked, and Freddy opened it with a key that he carried along with his car and house keys. His gloved fingers fumbled for a moment, human error, but the key slid into place and the door recognized its partner, and the grey building opened itself up, offering him a slightly less grey and rewardingly warm interior. Lights, automatic. Carpet, grey berber, that bland mélange of colors that is not a color unto itself, intended to disguise the stains of everyday abuses.
Freddy's lungs overtook him with a spasm that produced something that he was compelled to expel emphatically onto the floor. "Ugh," said Freddy, as he scuffed the filth into the carpet with the sole of his favorite shitkicking boots.
Freddy used to enjoy being the most competent person in the office. That was before he learned there were no rewards for competency. If you are good at your job, efficient, if you ensure that rules are followed and schedules are met, you get the occasional pat on the head or an invitation to lunch with the boss. You get invited to play golf. Freddy did not want to play golf. He had learned the rules of the game and how to swing that stupid stick at that stupid little dimpled ball, and he sometimes tried playing mental games like in fourth grade — imagine your boss's head on the ball, et cetera. He drove around in golf carts with old men droning on and kept score for them and was jolly about being the looser of every round. After all, bosses and clients love to win. They invited him back often when he'd been good, guided some tough project through the weeds and made everyone a bit of cash.
Good-boy Freddy rolled his eyes, pulled off his gloves, and stuffed them in his pockets. With a groan, he unzipped his pants and pissed on the carpet, letting the morning's coffee finish it's journey to an unexpected destination. He listened thoughtfully to the sound of piss on berber, a sound he'd never contemplated before, and at the same time felt a thrill not entirely unlike the first time he dragged his tongue up the length of a woman's body. Strange, he thought, that those two things should be connected in his mind. But then, life is certainly strange. Sex is strange. People are strange. What wasn't strange was this office and golf and the coworkers who were now officially late.
8:46. Work started at 8:30. No fucking respect for schedules, Freddy thought. No fucking respect for each other or themselves — what a waste, he thought.


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Do you ever find yourself doing all the right things for the wrong reasons? If you're anything like me, you do this more often than you would like to admit. It is far more common for me to get carried away with wrong thinking than it is to have pure motives. And it's because of that, that I have some things I need to get off my chest.
There is a question that I constantly, almost daily, have to ask myself, "Why do I start with the best intentions and always come up short when it comes to motivations?"
You see, I love teaching, nurturing, and watching people around me grow in their technical ability. I get some kind of natural high when I am able to help someone out. I think it is the greatest thing that there are people on Twitter who have never met me, but are willing to help me with some technical problem. It is equally as great that people spend their time writing blogs (or podcasts) that they put out for free for my consumption.
Seriously, think about that for a moment; what an amazing field we have chosen to work in. In fact, I find it so invigorating that I try to help people as much as I can. There is something inside of me that wants to give back to the community that has helped me so much as I have grown and continue to grow as an engineer.
Here's the problem: I find myself equally, if not more excited when I get retweeted, or one of my blog posts hits it "big". You know, when you find yourself hitting F5 over and over on your Google analytics page to see how many people aren't reading your blog. Or you're having a conversation with someone; suddenly a *great* tweet pops in your head; you tweet it and wait anxiously for the retweets to begin. This becomes the validation for your awesomeness. You know how great you are, but for some reason you need others to validate how great you are.
OK, maybe it's just me. I am ashamed to admit it but I constantly fall into this trap. I find myself wrapped up in my own mind wanting more and more attention from my virtual peeps. Somehow I feel as though my identity, my self-worth is wrapped up in how *popular* I am online. That my networking skillz (yes, skillz with a Z) can only be validated by how much ataboys and "Wow you're a genius" comments I get on a daily basis. If I'm not getting it in person, well then heck I have to get it online. After all, there are WAY more people to behold my glory online.
Here's the thing. I don't think I am alone in this, while it may not be as big of a struggle for some; it is definitely an issue I have seen time and time again in the field of IT.
Where does it come from?
I believe it stems from the fact that we are paid by how much we know. So we must strive and struggle to prove our worth. It's almost as if the further into our career we go, the more proud and egotistical our behavior must become. If we aren't the best and brightest around, then why would a company want us? We constantly feel the pressure that we must earn our keep day in and day out. And forget it if we don't know something…that is just death as we know it.
Is this reality?
Do we really need to think like this? No, I think engineers put this pressure on themselves – while not entirely, for the most part it is our fault.
What can we do?
Honestly, I wish I had the answer to that. I have tried time and time again to let it go. My family does not judge me based on my OSPF skills or how well I can explain the traffic flow internally inside a Cat 6500. And at the end of the day it doesn't really matter.
So why am I publicly admitting to my own egotistical behavior? I have no idea – really I don't. Maybe it is just my narcissism, unabashedly releasing itself into the wild. Or maybe I am just looking for some empathy from some fellow engineers who struggle the same. Or maybe yet, it is my way of holding me accountable to change. At any rate, I cannot stop trying to help and give back to the community, even if that means my motives aren't always as pure as I would like them to be.
If one out of every 100 times I strike it rich and my motives are pure, it is worth the 99 times that they aren't. If I can help in any small way, if I can give back just an ounce what has been given to me, it is worth it no matter what.
So here is my advice – just have fun. We get to work with some really cool technology, so let's just have fun and forget about being the best and the brightest. If you have fun and just keep learning, I believe it is only natural that you will become a great engineer – one that isn't so paranoid and annoying.
Let's just keep putting material out there, let's keep helping as best as we know how and maybe, just maybe, our egos will take a side step and we can get on with it.
Well, I feel better. Thanks for listening.


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Alleviating any concerns that Lions receiver Calvin Johnson's knee injury could linger through the season, Johnson participated in practice today.
That's particularly noteworthy because Johnson often takes Wednesdays off during the week, just because the Lions' coaching staff likes to keep him fresh for Sundays. The fact that he's feeling good enough to work even on a day when the team would be happy to let him off suggests that the knee injury that caused him to miss Week Five is not an issue going forward.
Lions running back Joique Bell and cornerback Rashean Mathis both practiced as well, three days after they had to leave the game against the Browns with injuries. That suggests that both Bell and Mathis will be good to go on Sunday against the Bengals.
Also at practice was running back Montell Owens, who has been sidelined since the preseason with a knee injury. Getting Owens back could provide a boost to the Lions' special teams, as Owens was a two-time special teams Pro Bowler with the Jaguars. Owens was placed on injured reserve with the return designation, so he will not be eligible to return for a game until after the Lions' Week Eight bye.
Missing practice for the Lions were safety Louis Delmas, tackle Jason Fox, receiver Nate Burleson, tight end Tony Scheffler and running back Theo Riddick.


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Scrapbooking has been part of my life since 2005. It is my sanity saver, cheaper than therapy, and a much needed creative outlet. In an effort to keep things simple, I've moved my scrabooking blog to this site. I hope you find inspiration here!
I used to be terrified of live video. Terrified. But once I got used to it, I found it kinda fun! It's one of my favorite ways to connect with my tribe and share life with you. So, you can preview a couple of things here, then head over to Facebook for all the series I've done (there's cooking, cleaning, encouragement, hacks and more.)
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A local AAA manager Tuesday said the "dire prediction" he made earlier this year is coming true despite the steady drop in gas prices .
A local AAA manager Tuesday said the "dire prediction" he made earlier this year is coming true despite the steady drop in gas prices .
For the first time in almost a decade, the number of people traveling for Thanksgiving will be lower than the year before.
National average $1.88 $3.08
Utica-Rome average $2.17 $3.32
Current gas prices around the state
Albany: $2.14
Binghamton: $2.20
Buffalo: $2.40
Rochester: $2.30
Syracuse: $2.14 HOLIDAY FORECAST WKTV meteorologist Matt Lanza Tuesday said the Utica area should have decent weather throughout the weekend.
Temperatures will be in the mid- to upper-30s with "a couple of stray snowflakes" or light snow at the most.
A narrow band of lake-effect snow will affect the area north of Boonville.
Travelers may want to keep an eye on local weather as the weekend continues, as there's the potential for a storm early next week that could affect the weather Sunday.
The culprit? The economy.
Holiday travel this weekend is expected to be down 1.4 percent from 2007, meaning about 600,000 additional people nationwide will be staying home, said Ed Welsh, general manager of Central Region AAA New York.
Not only is it the first time Thanksgiving travel has been down since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it's also the first time in more than 20 years that travel has been down on four consecutive holiday weekends, Welsh said.
Fewer people also traveled on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day this year.
"The drop on the other holidays was larger than this one, but to have a decrease at Thanksgiving is fairly unprecedented," Welsh said.
Carol Martin of Utica said her family normally travels to see friends and family in Pennsylvania for Thanksgiving. This year though, they will be staying closer to home because of financial reasons.
"Even though the gas prices are down, we decided on the economy just to stay here," Martin said.
Welsh said another factor in the decrease in travel numbers this year is airfares. They are up an average of 8 percent over this time last year, and air travel has dropped by more than 7 percent, he said.
Auto travel has dropped about 1.2 percent.
"What saved this from being an even worse decline was the low price of gas right now," Welsh said.
Locally, the average price of gasoline Tuesday was $2.17 per gallon, compared to $3.32 per gallon at this time last year, and a record high of $4.23 per gallon June 21. The national average Tuesday was $1.88 per gallon, Welsh said.
Welsh expects gas prices to continue dropping for a few more weeks before balancing out in mid-January. But even that might not be enough to reverse this year's travel trends, and Christmas travel likely will be flat at best, he said.
But just because the number of travelers is down doesn't mean traveling will be noticeably easier, Welsh said.
"Even though we're reporting that travel is down, people need to realize there will be about 40 million people on the road and in airports this weekend," he said. "It's still a very busy holiday."
Welsh reminded travelers to keep someone informed about what time they expect to arrive and to carry a cell phone. Also make sure to check your vehicle's tire pressure and windshield washer fluid.


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Our Daily Bleed...
"Those are my principles.
If you don't like them
I have others."
Groucho Marx(ist)
Last American commander of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
Suffolk, England: CAKES & ALE DAY, food to the poor.
All Souls College, Oxford: MALLARD DAY, celebrating the discovery of an unusually large & tasty duck on this day in 1437.
Hindu World: PONGOL OF THE COWS. Sacred animals are sprinkled with water, saffron, flowers & leaves of sacred plants; their horns are painted, garlands hung about their necks. With drums & cymbals they are driven through town with much festivity.
1601 -- Church authorities burn Hebrew books in Rome.
1699 -- New Old World: Witch One? Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches."
In a cold world woolly thinking is comfortable when worn next to the skin.
1742 -- Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 86.
1784 -- Treaty of Paris, officially ending US War of Independence, ratified by Congress. By its terms, "His Britannic Majesty" is bound to withdraw his armies without "carrying away any Negroes or other property of American inhabitants."
1794 -- All in the Family?: First successful cesarean section in US, Edom, Virginia. Dr. Jesse Bennet performs it on his wife.
1818 -- Zacharias Topelius (1818 - 1898) lives. Swedish speaking writer, journalist, historian, whose writing career divides into three roles: story teller for children, describer of Finland & her landscape, & founder of the Finnish historic novel.
1836 -- French painter Henri Fantin-Latour lives. He was a friend of the Impressionist painters, but his style was more in the realist vein.
1841 -- The only woman artist among the prominent French Impressionists, Berthe Morisot lives.
1850 -- Germany: While held in the Königstein fortress, the anarchist Michael Bakunin is condemned to death by Saxon tribunal.
Bakunin played a principal role in the May 3rd uprising with the famed composer Richard Wagner. The rebellion was crushed & Bakunin today is sentenced to die.
1850 --
Pierre Loti, whose themes anticipate some of the central preoccupations of French literature between the world wars, lives, Rochefort. His career as a naval officer took him to the Middle East & East Asia & provided ample material for his writing, starting with Aziyadé (1879) & Madame Chrysanthème (1887).
1858 -- France: Italian Nationalists led by Felice Orsini, a Free Mason, bowls three bombs under Napoleon III's carriage in front of the Paris Opera, killing eight bystanders & injuring 148. Orsini thought that killing Louis-Napoleon would precipitate a general popular revolution in France that would spread to Italy to expel the various foreign regimes then ruling the divided peninsula.
Beloved & Respected Comrade Leaders Empress Eugenie, only only slightly wounded, stepping from the wreckage of the carriage, was heard to comment,
Cest le metier Its all part of the job.http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/india/italy1859.htm
1860 -- High Seas:
Strange Stuff: Fall of irregular-shaped pieces of solid ice of different dimensions, up to the size of half a brick, in a thunderstorm, upon Capt. Blakiston's vessel [London Roy. Soc. Proc., 10-468]
1862 -- Scotland:
BLACK RAIN: Fall of black rain, Slains [Rev. James Rust. Scottish Showers]
(Hmmmmm ... & you thought this normal in Scotland.... )
1866 -- US: Art Young, "Masses" cartoonist, lives Orangeville, Illinois. Daily Bleed Patron Saint December 29.
1875 -- Albert Schweitzer lives, Kaysersberg, Alsace-Lorraine, Germany. Medical humanitarian, organist, historian of the apocalyptic enigmas of early Christianity & the end-times. Nobel Prize-winner, 1952.
1878 -- US: Supreme Court rules unconstitutional any state law requiring railroads to provide equal accommodations for passengers, regardless of race or color.
1882 -- Thomas Nast, in Harper's Weekly, lampoons Mother Shipton in a cartoon about the Apocalypse, for her false prediction that the world would end in 1881. Mother Shipton is England's most well-known prophetess, a British version of Nostradamus. Currently, about 100,000 people per year reportedly visit the Mother Shipton Cave in her home town, apparently seeing light at the butt-end of the tunnel.
1886 -- France: Louise Michel est conduite par la police au domicile que lui ont trouvé ses camarades, 89, route d'Asnières, à Levallois.
[Source: Michel Chronologie]
1886 -- Hugh Lofting, creator of the children's Dr. Doolittle series, lives, Maidenhead, Berkshire. Though avoiding the word "nigger", he referred to Africans as "coons", which is no better. Presumably neither was used in the movie.
1886 -- France: Peter Kropotkin, imprisoned for the past three years, is released from prison, on or about today, due to pressure from national & international protests. (I don't have the exact day ed.)
"In the middle of January, 1886, both Louise Michel & [Emile] Pouget, as well as the four of us who were still at Clairvaux, were set free..."
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, pp485
[Details / context]
1888 -- Maurice Dommanget lives, Paris. Labor historian & revolutionary syndicalist. Wrote many works on the French Revolution: Manifeste des enragés; Babeuf et la conjuration des égaux, for example, as well as books on Blanqui, the Paris Commune & the history of socialism.
1888 -- Émile Bachelet lives (1888-1967). Anarchiste individualiste, antimilitariste, impliqué dans les affaires liées à la bande à Bonnot. Wrote Trimards (roman; 1951).
1888 -- France: Jean-Baptiste André Godin (b.1817) dies. (See January 26, 1817)
1892 -- Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984), pacifist pastor, lives, Germany.
In Germany they came first for the Communists, & I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, & I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, & I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, & I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, & by that time no one was left to speak up.
Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor
1893 -- England: Independent Labour Party founded, Bradford, headed by Keir Hardie.
1894 -- His seaman's career over, Joseph Conrad returns to London & finishes the manuscript of a tale he has been writing for five years. Almayer's Folly, his first novel, is published the following year.
1895 -- US: Brooklyn trolley strike begins (-Feb. 2); militia is later called out.
1896 -- John Dos Passos, lefty novelist/capitalist realist (the U.S.A. trilogy), & later Cold War warrior, lives, Chicago. An integral part of the Lost Generation crowd in Paris in the 20s. His increasing fascist leanings estranged him from most of his associates, including Hemingway.
1898 -- Reverend Charles L. Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, dies at 66.
1909 -- US: Dr. Ben Reitman & Emma Goldman arrested on charges of conspiracy against the government; both are held on bail. Buwalda arrested for disturbing the peace. Supporters of Goldman & Reitman rally to protest the arrests tomorrow; police forcibly end gatherings.
1909 -- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor cantata "Bon-Bon Suite" is performed for the first time in its full orchestral version, Brighton Music Festival, England.
1909 -- Spain: Félix Likiniano lives (1909-1983).
More Strange Stuff: "Mysterious white aircraft" seen & heard about noon, Chattanooga, TN (also seen on previous two days) [New York Tribune, Jan 15]
1912 --
American author / socialist / feminist Tillie Olsen lives, about this time.
(1912 or 1913 in Omaha, Nebraska; she is not sure of the date because it was never recorded.)
"& when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?"
Tillie Olsen, (d.2007)
1914 -- US: Hog-Wild? Henry Ford's assembly line begins production of the Model T. Each car requires 90 minutes for assembly. His ideas for the assemblyline were first formulated after visiting the Chicago slaughterhouses, where 75,000 hogs a day were being routinely butchered.
1914 -- US: IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)-Suhr Trial begins, Marysville, California.
On January 28th the Court mandates the return of Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman to fulfill their prison sentences.
On January 30th, from Petrograd, in Russia, the US ambassador notifies the State Department of Russian anarchists threatening to hold him personally responsible for Goldman's & Berkman's safety in prison.
1919 -- Russia: Voline, Russian revolutionary & anarchist historian, arrested & dragged from one prison to another.
Trotsky, pretender to the throne, already had ordered his execution, & Voline escaped death only by sheer accident...
1921 -- Murray Bookchin lives.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint 2007-2009
American anarchist theorist, organizer, social ecologist.
1925 -- Self-Criticism?: Novelist/playwright Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka) lives, Tokyo, Japan, into a samurai family. Right-wing gay fascist, novelist who put the finishing touches to his The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, committing suicide a few hours later.
1927 --
"Hungarian Varsovienne" Henry Ford's Old Fashioned Dance Orchestra, recorded
This pre-Depression recording exists thanks to Henry Ford's ironic role as patron of the folk arts. The automotive mogul had a 19th-century rural sensibility, even as his assembly lines & Model-Ts inexorably pushed America into the 20th century. He sponsored fiddling contests & a dancing school, their uplifting value lost on the anonymous worker who told Edmund Wilson:
"A man checks 'is brains & 'is freedom at the door when he goes to work at Ford's."
1929 -- Canada: Doggin It? First International dogsled mail arrives in Montreal. See 2 February.
1933 -- Avant-guard film-maker Stan Brakhage lives. Regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century, made over 400 films.
1938 -- England: Ethel Mannin & Emma Goldman speak on "The Betrayal of the Spanish People" at a CNT-FAI program in London; the audience turns against the Communists when they attempt to break up the meeting.
1939 -- Nederlands: Working every day since late December at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Emma Goldman finds it impossible to arrange Alexander Berkman's papers without also organizing her own; she finally finishes the work today.
1941 -- US: A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters & chief spokesperson for the African American working class, calls for a March on Washington, demanding racial integration of the military & equal access to defense-industry jobs.
The call prompts black enthusiasm too great for the government to ignore.
[Details / context]
1941 -- Picasso begins writing his play "Desire Caught by the Tail", finishing in three days.
1944 -- US: Nisei eligibility for the draft is restored. The reaction to this announcement by those interred in the American concentration camps is mixed.
1945 -- France: Poet Jean Ajalbert dies.
Avocat, poète impressionniste, écrivain naturaliste & anarchiste. Active in the decadent movement with Tailhade, et al., transposing the effects of impressionist painting into poetry.
1946 -- India: Two jetties collapse in Ganges 160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed.
1952 -- The Modern Jazz Quartet is formally incorporated.
1957 -- Humphrey Bogart, (Whiskey Straight) dies at 57, at 2:30 in the morning. Bogart, arguably America's most famous film actor, had cancer of the esophagus. News programs treat his funeral as a national event. Humphrey always Bogarted the joint. Humphrey Bogart also was an expert chess player who played for stakes.
A target of the conservative & liberal American witch hunters of the 40s & 50s.
1961 -- England: Prison revolts at Maidstone & Shrewsbury.
'Calendar Riots'
1962 -- France: Justin Olive (1886-1962) dies. Militant anarchist & revolutionary syndicalist.
1963 -- US: George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!."
1966 -- US: March on Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond, African American pacifist, from Georgia House of Representatives, after his endorsement of SNCC statement critical of US involvement in Vietnam; Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1966 -- Houston, We Have a Problem?: David Jones changes his last name to Bowie to avoid confusion with Davy Jones from the Monkees.
1969 -- High Seas: Series of explosions aboard the American nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise kills 17, injures 85.
1970 -- US: United Airlines halts its "men only" executive flights between New York & Chicago.
1970 -- A display of John Lennon's erotic "Bag One" lithographs opens in London. Scotland Yard seizes prints two days later (as "evidence" of pornography lol).
1970 -- Spain: Government drafts 55,000 postal workers to crush strike.
1970 -- US: Anarchist/pacifist Ammon Hennacy dies.
Best known for his work in operating the "Joe Hill Hospitality House" for transients in Salt Lick City, Utah. Influenced Dorothy Day & U. Utah Phillips. Hennacy was a self-described "Christian-anarchist-pacifist" who never paid taxes or went to war.
1970 -- Poland: Riots in Polish Baltic ports, continuing until the 18th.
Source: 'Calendar Riots'
1972 -- France: Radical publisher Adrien Perrissaguet (1898-1972) dies.
1973 -- Tapped Out?: Tap dancer Roy Castle (1932-1994) measured at 1440 taps/min on BBC TV.
1976 -- Spain: Wildcat strike wave spreads across the nation to Barcelona, resulting in the formation of workers' general assemblies & defiance of the unions & government.
1977 -- Amorous novelist Anais Nin is amorous nomour.
1978 -- The Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, Frisco, California).
1981 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Jim Carter authorizes sending combat equipment to Salvadoran junta. Just another democratic gesture to freedom loving people.
1984 -- He Urned It?: Ray Kroc, founder of McDonalds, dies at 82. Cremated in one of his own restaurants, his ashes are kept at the first McDonalds, in a kroc.
1987 -- Germany: In nuclear reactor protest, Robin Wood occupies Environment Ministry, Lower Saxony.
1989 -- England: 1,000 enlightened Muslims burn Salmon Rushdies' Satanic Verses in Bradford. Probly some religious thing.
1990 -- The Simpsons live. Matt Groening's satire of the American family offers visually clever parodies of the media itself. The characters stem from a long line of TV families, from the Honeymooners through the Flintstones. Homer makes one of the great parental statements to Lisa, when she says he does not understand something:
"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."
1991 -- US: An estimated 30,000-60,000 rally at Seattle Central Community College (where Auntie Dave was once editor of the student paper, & the school tried twice to remove him) in Seattle, Washington, in vigil & opposition to pending US invasion of Kuwait & Iraq.
1991 -- Guatemala: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Jorge Serrano Elias installed as president.
1991 -- A Bibliography of Published Works by Murray Bookchin, including translations, compiled by Janet Biehl on the occasion of the anarchist Murray Bookchin's 70th birthday today.
1992 -- Chile: Protest against 10 murders by police in the last 20 days, Santiago.
1994 -- France: Spanish anarcosindicalista, feminist, educator Federica Montseny (1905-1994) dies, Toulouse.
Daily Bleed Patron Saint, 2006Anarcho-syndicalist
Renowned Spanish feminist, radical educator.
1994 -- Peace accords signed to dismantle Ukraine's nuclear weapons & take US & Russian missiles off Ukrainian targets.
1996 -- US: 16 protesters arrested in a winter blockade of the rural Wisconsin site of the US Navy's ELF transmitter, which transmits triggering signals to nuclear weapons aboard US submarines. A total of nearly 400 arrests have occurred in 24 actions between 1991-96.
2003 -- Human Rights Watch annual report criticizes Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Liberia, Russia, the US & Vietnam. Don't know how the US could be on this Family Values list.
2005 -- US: Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr., ringleader of a band of rogue guards at the Abu Ghraib prison, convicted at Fort Hood, Texass, of abusing Iraqi detainees. Probable scapegoat to protect higher-uppitys, later sentenced to 10 years in prison.
2006 -- Pakistan: The government angrily denounces yesterday's CIA airstrike that killed at least 18 (including five children). The CIA claimed it got "good reporting" on Al-Zawahri's location & ordered the Predator airstrike...so good it was wrong (Al-Zawahri Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in the al Qaeda terrorist network later turns up on video), & so good it managed, once again, to kill many innocent civilians. About par for this known American terrorist organization.
2008 -- US: Milton Wolff, the last surviving Abraham Lincoln Brigade leader from the Spanish Civil War, & a lifelong social activist dies, Berkeley, California, at age 92. Author of Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel & A Member of the Working Class.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Wolff http://www.pbase.com/image/91900759
2009 -- US: Prosecutors charge Olympia mixed-martial-arts champion & avowed anarchist Jeff Monson with first-degree malicious mischief for spray-painting an anarchist symbol on the state Capitol building & an armed services recruitment center last year.
2011 -- US: Surprise??!!: Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge candy recalled for being...toxic. Naturally & artificially flavored indeed! Apparently Pakistani-Iranian-China terrorists been putting way too much impure lead in the stuff.
3000 --
"The white man knows how to make everything,
but he does not know how to distribute it."
Sitting Bull
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|Reading Buddies at Boulder Ridge - Play Dates
Event Type: Kids
Age Group(s): *Grades K-3
Date: 7/20/2018
Start Time: 3:00 PM
End Time: 3:45 PM
Kids in Grades K-3 have fun reading and playing games in groups with other kids and our teen volunteers. Reading Buddies is every Friday, June 15th - July 27th, at the Boulder Ridge Mobile Home Park in Lafayette. No Registration Required for Summer Reading Buddies.
*Parent or Guardian must be present or inside the Boulder Ridge Mobile Home Park area. There is also an attached room to the Reading Buddies space that Parents/Guardians are welcome to stay in. As well, there is an outside space for Parents/Guardians.
* Kids that have completed their Kindergarten year are eligible to attend.
Contact: Renee Jacobsen
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ATLAS at Uppsala University
The Division of High Energy Physics at Uppsala University takes part in research on elementary particle physics in the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva. Currently the main research activity is physics analysis of the proton-proton-collision data successively being accumulated by ATLAS. The plan is to collect an integrated luminosity of about 1 fb-1 by summer 2011 and of 5–10 fb-1 by the end of 2012, which is enough to enable the search for most of the particles at the TeV scale predicted by Supersymmetry and other theories beyond the Standard Model. The Uppsala ATLAS Group has since long developed an expertise in charged Higgs physics analysis and tau trigger conditions. Another important activity of the group is to prepare for the ultimate upgrade of the LHC luminosity (HL-LHC) by developing new semiconductor technology for a track based first level trigger. The Group welcomes new PhD students and Postdocs to join its research program at ATLAS.


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Those first week of school pictures were adorable. Each of your precious kiddos stood with their outfits, backpacks or sat at their home-school tables ready to go. Parents kept social media and stores busy with shopping lists, large purchases and offers of school clothing swaps. Oh, the preparation represented!
Whew. Now that the first week or so is over, it's time for the a new school preparation. I'm talking about stocking up on vitamins, immune boosters and cleaners. Let me show you how I prepared for school. I turned into the 'OCD-cleaning-frenzy mommy'.
Now we must prepare for the REAL back-to-school onslaught. Prepare for the Crud. The Plague. The Pink-Eyed Monster. The germs are here. After only TWO DAYS Jonathan's teacher has called in sick with pink-eye. William's Physical Therapist cancelled on account of illness. Playdates are being cancelled right and left. The sound of sniffling is breaking the silence. Our kids are going DOWN, y'all. They will be snotty. They will cough. They will use us as human tissues and towels. This is the joy that will ensue and continue until Christmas, when we all visit other states and spread our strains of viruses to others and bring it home, infect others and then suffer until Spring Break.
Sick kids were a problem before, but now I'm in a new world that I only vaguely knew existed.
This is a very crucial problem for us this year because William the Conqueror's immune system is very low and compromised. It's making me into a New Mom- that Germaphobe Mom. With my firstborn I was careful, but didn't sanitize the pacifier when it dropped. I thought eating a handful of dirt was an 'immune system builder'. I was once told that I was 'a first time mom that acts like a third time mom'. I took it as a compliment. Then cancer happened and I am now turning into a super-germ-destroyer because I've seen what happens to William when the usual illnesses hit his defenseless body. His suffering is drastically disproportionate to ours.
The 24 tummy bug that was passed around was a serious issue when William caught it. 7 days caused a 4 pound weight loss and ultimately sent him to the ER. With a brother in school bringing home the Elementary-Influenza, this house is on lock down.
All toys get washed every two days. I also wash the toys at church. Everything is on the ground and touching mouths.
At the door we have a shoe station. Shoes are shed at the door to avoid tracking outdoor germs where Will crawls. We have hand sanitizer and wipes to clean the doorknob. We even have face masks for people to 'just have allergies' or 'have a little tickle that is probably nothing' for when flu season hits.
Overkill? Yep. Am I terrified that he will get sick? Nope. It's going to happen. He is in the Lord's hands…and mine, which are clean.
We have changed circumstances and changed lifestyles. We seem like masters of overkill, unusual and even trapped in a bubble. It's what we do to protect our children. There are a lot of things out there in the world to protect our kids from and to face head on. We can pretend like they don't exist, or we can confront them. More importantly, we can't let fear control us or over-influence our actions. If the Lord saw fit to bring my boys through serious illnesses and challenges, there is purpose. Nothing is wasted.
What is threatening your home and or your children? Physical threat? Spiritual attack? Emotional issues? Anxiety? Starting over? The unknown?
When someone we love is susceptible, it is our job to rally the troops and protect. It may seem counter-intuitive to some, but this is where love shows. This is how we are truly strengthened.
Wash your hands and say your prayers. Jesus and germs are everywhere.


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Business Licence Categories And Fees
Below is the list of business licence categories in Regina and the costs to purchase each type of licence, as per The Licensing Bylaw, 2006-86:
- Resident Business Licences
The City issues resident business licences to businesses that operates from a premise, located on property in the City that is not assessed and taxed as commercial or industrial property, but does not include a non-profit corporations.
The initial cost for a resident business licence (first time applicant) is $112.50, and $225 to renew your licence each year after the first. The licensing fee is non-refundable.
Note: Resident businesses with less than $5,000 in annual revenue (as verified by the Canada Revenue Agency) are exempt from paying a business licence fee.
- Non-Resident Business Licences
The City issues non-resident business licences to businesses which carry on the majority of their business, in whole or in part within the City, and does not maintain a permanent premise within the City, but shall not include a non-profit corporations.
Non-resident business licence owners pay $450 initially and for each year after the first. The licensing fee is non-refundable.
- Other Business Licences
Under The Licensing Bylaw, 2006-86, second-hand dealers, pawn brokers, coin dealers and tow truck drivers have a separate licensing fee schedule and must meet specialized requirements.
Contact the Business Support Branch, Community Services at phone 306-777-7717 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information about the fees and licensing procedures for these businesses.


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Maybe a pretty person makes a pretty photo. Maybe the outfit or the hair or the colors makes the photo appealing. At first.
In the initial glance at an image, what do you see. Perhaps there are fun props, quirky poses, something beautiful. Maybe you don't know why you like the photo. You just do. I'm not really one for fuss. I don't really like using a lot of props or things in photographs. I like spirit. I thrive on emotion. I love seeing behind the image, what is really in that photo. Because really, there isn't much chance in any single moment of seeing nothing in life. If you are seeing nothing... it is my humble opinion that you are missing a whole lot.
There is substance in everything. There is a story everywhere, in everything. In every molecule, every moment, there was something before it. Or some path that lead it to right now. You have a story, and many of them. I may not know what it is when I first set out to photograph you, but I'll see it somewhere along the process. Or I'd like to think that its possible to catch a glimpse of your story in your eyes, in your silence, in your movements on your own and then how you move with your man/lady/child/mother/sister. We are all full of tightly woven sinews, all connecting us together inside ourselves as well as those stories fusing every single one of us all in a closely knit and intricate labyrinth.
I am somehow connected to you. Right now, you reading my watery words... me typing them from my laptop, feet up, reclined... baby wiggling away inside my belly. Listening to nothing but the wind howl through our fireplace, I contemplate what's behind an image. You, wherever you are, which ever screen you are perched at in whatever part of the world. Reading these words. Maybe there are ten of you. Maybe only one. But somehow, something has brought us together. Be it only in the vast world of cyberspace, for this moment. Our stories have met.
When I look back at a few of these photos from the past, I see what I saw in that moment. In whatever fleeting moment was occuring, I am right back there. What I find most interesting, is to wonder.. what you see? Is it different from what stories I see, or feel or wish to feel. Do you see behind the image? Or is it just a nice photo. Is there anything compelling about it to you? What is it? I'll likely never know. But I will leave you with a few of the images that I truly love. Mainly because of what lies behind the photo. Maybe you see it too?


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Simplifeye gets $3 million to make wearables part of your doctor's workflow
New York-based Simplifeye thinks it can improve the productivity of the people who work in your doctor's or dentist's office by making patient information more easily available. The twist? It's doing so by putting that information on wearables like the Apple Watch.
The company was founded by cousins Zach and Ryan Hungate. Ryan spent some time working on Apple Retail's personal shopping initiative before going back to school to become a dentist. After seeing how inefficient the workflow is in a given dentist's office, he teamed up with Zach — who has a background in finance and venture — to build a system to improve communication and collaboration in medical and dental offices.
The main problem, as Zach described it to me, was the way in which records are accessed and relayed to staff for each patient. Doctors, medical assistants, dentists and hygienists bounce between patients and administrative staff to get updated on the status of each individual who comes in.
All of that results in a lot of downtime as they shuffle between patients getting up to speed, which leads to longer wait times for patients. Sessions typically start 15-20 minutes late, due in part to inefficiencies in just how information is relayed.
With Simplifeye, the cousins decided to take advantage of new wearable devices like the Apple Watch, which would give staff instant access to the information they'd need right on their wrists. And rather than being overly reliant on walkie talkies, buzzers or even just running around trying to find the right person to see a patient, staff can now be alerted when their next patient is ready and available to be seen.
By plugging into existing patient record systems, Simplifeye makes data more accessible without doctors or dentists needing to log into a desktop application.
Simplifeye, which graduated from AngelPad in late 2015, has raised $3 million in funding from investors that include SoftTech VC, First Round Capital and Felicis Ventures, as well as Semil Shah's Haystack Fund, Joe Montana's Liquid 2 Ventures and angels Wiley Cerilli and Ariel Poler.
With that funding, the company is going to step up its sales and marketing. It recently struck a deal with Henry Schein, a major distributor of healthcare products and services. Simplifeye is one of the first products to be accepted as part of the company's Global Innovation Center, and has struck a rev share agreement whereby Henry Schein will market Simplifeye to its network of customers.
With its funding and that strategic partnership, Simplifeye is poised to sell into the thousands of private practices that are looking for ways to better serve their patients.


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Chucho Valdés
Following up on 2000's ensemble tour de force Live at the Village Vanguard, Blue Note issued this album by Cuban sensation Chucho Valdés -- a solo concert recorded live in 1998 at Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse in New York. Listening to the great pianist in an unaccompanied setting, one is struck not only by his formidable technique but also by the huge sound he gets out of the instrument. His versatility is also something to behold: Valdés has the delicate touch of a jazz pianist, the rhythmic heart of a Latin master, the velocity and technical resources of a classical virtuoso. "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and "Besame Mucho" are the only cuts that will be easily recognized by American listeners. The rest are Latin themes by composers such as César Portillo de la Luz ("Delirio"), José Antonio Mendez ("Novia Mia"), and Antonio Maria Romeu ("Tres Lindas Cubanas"). Valdés also contributes two of his own: "A Mi Madre," a beautiful ballad that segues into a rousing vamp-based section, and "Rumba Guajira," a lively Latin tune with pronounced elements of gospel harmony. ~ David R. Adler


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Family Reunion Forum
Re: 1st Family Reuinion
In Response To: Re: 1st Family Reuinion ()
Angel, please don't get frustrated. I really envy you that thrill of anticipating the very 1st Family Reunion! I went to my first last yeat in August, Dallas, Texas and had the time of my life. I'd heard of a few of the older ones and most I'd seen only in census repots. I, too, like yourself had been doing all this research long before I even heard there would be a family reunion and when I did it seemed planned somehow as a venue for me to share what I'd learned so far.
Is there any family member that you know or perhaps that your Mother knows that will be attending as well? Why not try to reach that person and fill them with your excitement. It's worth a try. Take the research, believe me they'll appreciate it. Some will attempt to cross hairs and dot t's but the majority will fall on the information like flies on sugar, trust me.
I put all mine together in the form of a book, printed 105 copies, had them shipped there and went to the Fish Fry the night before the Big do. I talked the book up and met so many people. Took a single copy with me to Fish Fry and let it circulate the house. The next day I sold 85 copies! There were other family members there and each were provided with 6 ft. folding tables to share family memorabilia, products, etc. Can you believe that I still get requests for the book. Only wanted to cover my cost of printing and sold them for $23 but, they were a smash.
Please don't give up. It's like playing Big Whiz. If you can't come in the front door, go in the back door (smile). It'll be worth it. Can't wait to hear about your trip.
Take a Video Camera, please. You'll be glad you did.


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The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on Wednesday approved West River Parkway as the site for the memorial for the victims of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse.
The Remembrance Garden will honor the 13 people who died and the 145 who were injured after the bridge collapsed during evening rush hour on Aug. 1, 2007.
The memorial site is located across the street from Gold Medal Park, which served as a gathering place in the weeks following the collapse. The park was the city's original proposed site.
The garden memorial's design features elements that refer to the collapse, including 13 I-beams, one for each of the people who died. The space's linear dimension, 81 feet, references the date of the collapse (8/1).
Other features include a water wall that has engraved names of everyone who was on the bridge during its collapse and a path that leads from the fountain to the bluff edge overlooking the Mississippi River.
A formal dedication is scheduled for Aug. 1, 2011.