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Warning! Disclaimer: VERY long post ahead featuring a year in the life of our little Monroe! I really can't believe that she's already an entire year old! Time flies when you're having fun, and we've been having SO much fun with this little girl. She adds so much love to our home and we are so thankful that this sweetheart was born into our family!
So, without further ado I give you Monroe's first year of life!
Our first look at Monroe, just a few minutes old! September 14th, 2011.
One day old.
Monroe's blessing outfit, it was the very same dress I wore on my blessing day. So happy my daughter got to wear it too!
Three months old. December. I have to smile SUPER big whenever I see this photo of my wonderful husband with our first daughter! Thank you Joseph Llanes for this sweet sweet portrait!
A few weeks later Sloan came running in to where Monroe was crawling and accidentally fractured her right tibia bone, so she had to where a cast for SIX full weeks! Sloan felt super bad about it! Monroe didn't even care about the cast, she just kept going and going!
August. Eleven months old. I was ECSTATIC when I realized that her hair was long enough to put pigtails in! So much fun!
September! ONE year old!!! HOW in the world did that happen?! Seriously, what a FUN year it has been and what JOY this little girl has brought to our family! Every single day we get to spend with her is cherished!
I love her. I love her. I love her. Thanks Collette Bud for the cute hair clip, it paired perfectly with this fun sequin headband!
I bought these little booties when I was 6 months pregnant with Monroe, she FINALLY fit into them at one year old, had to take advantage for her official one year shoot! She's still so itty bitty.
This little blue dress was mine as a baby, it fit Monroe perfectly and it was so much fun seeing her in it!
The best. Monroe isn't quite walking yet, but she stands pretty well with the help of her big brothers.
I CANNOT wait to see what the next year of Monroe's life will be like! I love you my little Roe!
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Casey said:
Soooo beautiful! Loved them...(09.20.12 01:42 AM)
Alyda said:
Seriously you have the most beautiful family! Makes me want children (that's a big deal). Your little girl is just so squeezable! xx(09.20.12 05:12 AM)
Kate Whitmore said:
Amelia Lyon, you've got some gorgeous kiddos. Seriously obsessed with the black and white under the tree of the three of them. Perfect.(09.20.12 05:54 AM)
Corissa said:
I LOVE this post!! She is adorable and your boys are so handsome! Happy One Year Monroe!(09.20.12 06:36 AM)
Jade said:
Hi Amelia - love your work. I don't comment often, but I had to today. Just love the family happiness that oozes from these. Gorgeous.(09.20.12 06:53 AM)
Kiki said:
Hello pretty baby. :)(09.20.12 07:42 AM)
Heidi said:
Wow! Adorable pictures!!! Guess that's what happens when you parents are photographers. But I seriously LOVE the picture of dad standing and baby leaning back in joy. I want to print it myself! SO cute!!!(09.20.12 07:47 AM)
Grandma & Grandpa Lyon said:
Oh my, just what our hearts needed today!! WE LOVE HER! Thank you so much for making it possible to know her a little bit even though we have not even held her yet! We are so glad her parents are photographers! We are so glad she is in a family that loves her so much. She is blessed to have two wonderful, fun older brothers to love her and help her. Thank you for being such good parents. WE LOVE ALL OF YOU!!(09.20.12 07:51 AM)
Millie said:
Ahhh, my heart just melted! I love your photography, but I love it best when looking at the photographs of your own family. So so great.(09.20.12 08:11 AM)
Courtney said:
She's so adorable and my little girl will be one in 9 days!(09.20.12 08:47 AM)
Drew Renner said:
Holy cow shes a cute little gal, love the post. You've inspired me to take better pics of my kids.(09.20.12 09:16 AM)
Katie Metka said:
beautiful!! Monroe is so cute and your photos of her are just lovely!(09.20.12 09:47 AM)
Lindsey Moreno said:
Such a fun post of a beautiful family and adorable little Roe. I love seeing how much you love your family. xo(09.20.12 10:57 AM)
CHenin said:
Amelia, she is such a doll. I am so happy for you and Justin. You have a beautiful family and we're lucky to know you! xoxo!(09.20.12 12:04 PM)
Rebecca said:
Awww she's too cute! She's got the most beautiful eyes ever, they smile!(09.20.12 01:33 PM)
Carmen vanDyck said:
Love it!! She is beautiful, your family is so darn adorable, and what a great whole year post. Love it, love it!(09.20.12 01:37 PM)
Brooke Ogilvie said:
Too much cuteness Amelia!! Beautiful family!(09.20.12 01:59 PM)
Kelsey Murphy said:
Too much cuteness to handle! Love seeing your beauties up on the blog! :)(09.20.12 04:24 PM)
emily said:
AWWW -- ameila, your kids are ADORABLE!!! Monroe is beautiful -- I love all the pictures capturing 1st year!(09.20.12 06:32 PM)
Linda said:
Amelia, these pics brought so much joy to my heart. I have a baby girl of my own. Where do you get her flower headbands and that lovely romper? So much pretty!(09.20.12 07:12 PM)
amelialyon said:
Thanks Chenin! We're lucky to know the Boutwells too!:)(09.21.12 08:00 AM)
Erin said:
Cant believe she's a one year old. What an adorable, smiley girl!(09.21.12 09:26 AM)
Ellie Be said:
this is too precious!! love love love watching her grow. she is adorable. your whole family is adorable. :)(09.22.12 06:08 AM)
Hayley said:
What a beautiful girl. I actually said "aww" out loud a few times. She looks so happy and full of life!(09.22.12 07:00 AM)
Saundra said:
well done, I love them!(09.25.12 08:56 AM)
ksen :) said:
love!!! so beautiful. she is so precious, as are all of you! happy birthday Monroe!(09.25.12 01:26 PM)
Jackie Wonders said:
OH MY WORD! loved the entire post Amelia! You're such an amazing mommy :) xo(09.28.12 01:07 PM)
Kris Sundberg said:
You are soo good at keeping up with the family photos - What a cutie! Love seeing these!(09.29.12 11:58 PM)
Collette Budd said:
Oh Amelia ♥ She is so precious its such a blessing to have boys then be blessed with a princess ♥ such is my world too. I adore the pics and how perfect Monroe looks in her hair pretty. Totally made my week!(10.01.12 11:04 PM)
Lydia said:
The little girl in blue is adorable. Sensationally realistic photography. I like your style.(10.02.12 02:50 AM)
amanda vanvels said:
what a sweet little girl. looks exactly like you, too!(10.04.12 07:45 PM)
Christina said:
Wow! At one week old, she already looked so much like her brothers! Beautiful(10.09.12 02:25 PM)
Alex Volmar said:
Wow, very nice pictures! - Love it!(01.12.14 02:53 AM)
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There are so many wonderful moments that I feel extremely blessed to be a part of and photograph. One of the most amazing things I've had the opportunity to photograph and witness are the births of my little nieces. Many of you may recall Lucy's birth story and Lola's birth story. What an emotional roller coaster, yet it's such a spiritual experience, photographs do not do it justice. I was thrilled when Jill and Kenny told me that they wanted me to be there to photograph the birth of their second baby girl Jade. What an intimate experience, to be honest I debated whether or not if I should blog these, but the images are too remarkable to not share (plus, I have the blessing from Kenny + Jill to share). Not to worry, I kept it clean!:) So here you go, let the images speak for themselves and tell this wonderful birth story of Jade Matilda!
I'm SO happy I get to have another beautiful niece in my life! Jade Matilda this aunt already loves you so much!
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Kathy said:
These are so inspiring and beautiful!! You really allowed the beauty of birth to show in these photos. Kudos to Jill. Most of us could only wish to remain so beautiful throughout labor! :D(05.29.12 02:03 PM)
Anonymous said:
I'm blown away! Amazing work.(05.29.12 03:23 PM)
Angie Baxter said:
Absolutely breathtaking - some of the most moving images I have seen! x(05.29.12 05:20 PM)
Traci said:
#1: These are amazing images! #2: I've never seen anyone look that beautiful during and after birth--holy cow!!!(05.29.12 06:21 PM)
talia said:
these are beautiful! I don't know how to explain it but birth photos are ALWAYS better in black and white! thank you for sharing!(05.30.12 10:17 AM)
Amy DeYoung said:
Just beautiful!! Love them all :)(05.30.12 02:14 PM)
Katie Metka said:
absolutely beautiful! 2.5 months til I get to meet our 5th! these photos make me wish these next few months would pass more quickly:)(05.30.12 04:09 PM)
Erika said:
These are absolutely magical. What a special set of photos for little Jade to have when she gets older, to see how much her parents loved her even before she got here!(05.30.12 07:22 PM)
Angie said:
LOVE these, so beautiful!(05.31.12 12:54 PM)
MOM said:
WOW Honey you are so talented in shooting just the right moment and catching the right emotions - That was so beautiful how Kenny and Jill were feeling in those photos - It is such a blessing having a family, I am so thankful for you kids and for having such wonderful precious grand babies for Dad and I to love! Thanks again - YES....I am crying!!!(05.31.12 02:24 PM)
Malkoza said:
Bravo!!!!(05.31.12 04:28 PM)
Melissa Rossiter said:
Amazing!!!!(06.01.12 09:58 PM)
canvas prints said:
very well done, your pictures are amazing(06.03.12 03:14 AM)
SR said:
These melt my heart!(06.09.12 03:22 PM)
Anonymous said:
That picture of him checking his cell phone...is that David Beckham? Amazing pics!(06.11.12 10:55 AM)
Denver maternity photographer said:
your best work yet and some of the best coverage i have never seen like this. Congrats for your new baby. Both of looking very loving and caring, really outstanding job you guys.Denver maternity photographer(06.11.12 11:52 PM)
Aruba Photographer said:
Wow! This is the first time I've ever seen a birth photo session. I love it! You did a great job at it! We do weddings but I think this is a much more significant moment to capture! Thank you very much for sharing!(06.12.12 06:24 PM)
Shannon said:
What a special day captured. I had a chance to meet Kenny at The What IF Conference and he is one Awesome guy!! The way he talked about his wife and daughter was so special and was excited to see the new photos you posted of his new little one.(06.14.12 01:58 PM)
clipping path zone said:
What have for say. Lovely...(06.21.12 03:56 PM)
Tracey Best said:
Wow girl those are soooooo fantastic!!! I love seeing the love between Kenny and Jill:) Jade is beautiful, just like her Momma:)(07.18.12 03:46 PM)
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A Good Cuban
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Still, there are a lot of fabric covers that you can remove and wash, so you might still be able to clean the chair in the case of an accident. Always check to see if the cover is removable and washable, as some removable covers might not actually be safe to put in a washing machine.
Stay with Simple Designs
Sticking with a bean bag chair that has a simple, straightforward design is another way to help you keep your costs low. There are a lot of different bean bag chairs out there that offer versatile designs that allow you to create different seating configurations. While this is nice, it's a feature that can often increase the final price quite a bit. If you want to keep stay inside your budget, then steer clear of these multipurpose or adjustable bean bag chairs.
Focus on chairs that have simple, traditional round designs to keep from breaking the bank on your next purchase. You should also check out chairs that are styled to be like chairs, as these are sometimes less expensive due to the fact that the construction process doesn't require as much engineering effort.
Bonus Tip: Check all the Colors
One last tip to help you keep costs as low as possible is to always check every color option out there. Sometimes manufacturers can sell a particular color at a lower price than all the others. If you don't mind having a bright green chair or one that has neon zebra stripes, then it could translate into some major savings in the end. Just remember to keep that low price in mind when you look at your "unique" color choice.


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I wrote this almost a year ago, but never published it. I think part of my problem is that I want every post to be perfect. Since the arrival of my son two months ago, my free time has pretty much been negative. Please forgive me if I have left anything out or its not perfect, but the follow post should be a great guide for building your first niche blog or website.
1. Brainstorm potential site ideas – What are your passions, what do you love to do, think about what topics are always on your mind, if you could do anything next weekend what would that be. This is not easy, but if you dig deep you will find something. Just make sure you enjoy it other wise you abandon it with in a few weeks.
2. Select domain I have been using Godaddy for years and think even thought there are cheaper register I stick with Godaddy for convenience. I have also used name.com , network solutions, namecheap.com
3. Select hosting. The hosting companies I use have one click set up which makes setting up a website extremely easy. I can have a new site up and running in less than five minutes. I use and recommend the following providers.
total choice hosting
4. Build the site
Use wordpress one click in your hosting package to have a site up in minutes
5. Choose a theme. There are plenty of simple free themes or you can use select a premium theme.
6. Get site indexed
7. Submit Your Site to Search Engines
To submit website to Google, click here.
save the file into a notepage with a .html like google-site-verification: google504e11a978986f36.html
save this file into your www
if you have done it correct it will open a page and show you the code
if you have done it correctly it will be verified and direct you to your dashboard
To submit website to Yahoo, click here.
To submit website to Bing, click here.
8. Write articles
Use odesk, elance or someone in your network that can write articles $5-10 per article.
Each article should be 300-500 words
Provide them with the themes and then word the title of the post around the keywords you are targeting
have them provide you with the titles of the articles so you can approve
check each article with the premium version of copyscape: http://copyscape.com/login.php to ensure they weren't just copied from another website. (only .05 cents per article)
Do not add all articles your site in one go. Set up a schedule to add one a week (this can easily be done in wordpress)
9. So you can get some links to the posts submit the posts to the relevant blog carnivals here: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/
You can also use this page to comment on some blogs which have the commentLuv plugin installed (only a few though, I definitely wouldn't go over the top with this tactic) to get some links for each post.
10. Start your own carnival and post on your site. Here is a great example of a carnival http://blogcarnival.com/bc/cprof_10938.html
11. I would also think about getting your writer to write some more posts or use some of the best ones that they wrote to give to other bloggers for guest posts so that you can get a link back this way. You can you this link to find great guestblogging locations: http://www.buzzblogger.com/500-places-to-syndicate-your-content/
12. Links!
get links
get links
get links
check to see how many links you have
13. Start tracking keywords
I used to use SEObook.com's free ranking tracking mozzilla plugin
14. Once you are tracking a lot of keywords google will block your IP and the rank checker will return no results. You can then upgrade to a premium service like Advance Web Rankings software
15. Plan to let website marinate for 4-6 months to see if you can get organic listings
Once you have steady traffic its time to start monetizing
Adsense, Affiliate links – cj, linkshare, clickbank and many more
Please remember that your site will not be successful overnight. Its going to take hours and days of work, but if you work hard you will be successful!
I am sure I left a many things out. Please comment below on what tips and tricks you recommend.


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Key projects at Boulder's National Center for Atmospheric Research will now be supported by a powerful new supercomputer capable of more than three times the amount of scientific computing performed by its predecessor.
The new cyber-wonder is called Cheyenne, and it takes its name from Cheyenne, Wyo., the city where it is housed within the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center.
Projects that will be supported by the new supercomputer include studies of wind energy, long-range, seasonal-to-decadal forecasting, extreme weather, climate engineering and space weather, giving scientists a better understanding of solar disturbances that can affect the operation of power grids, satellites and global communications.
"Cheyenne will help us advance the knowledge needed for saving lives, protecting property and enabling U.S. businesses to better compete in the global marketplace," Antonio Busalacchi, president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, said in a prepared statement. "This system is turbocharging our science."
NCAR is managed by UCAR on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
Cheyenne is one of the world's most energy-efficient and powerful supercomputers, a 5.34-petaflop system capable of more than triple the amount of scientific computing than that performed by Yellowstone, which was NCAR's previous supercomputer. Additionally, it is three times more energy efficient.
A petaflop is the ability of a computer to perform one quadrillion floating point operations per second. Cheyenne is currently the 20th-fastest supercomputer in the world and the fastest in the mountain west.
Since the 2012 opening of the NCAR-Wyoming Super Computing Center, more than 2,200 scientists from over 300 universities and federal laboratories have used it, according to a news release.
Charlie Brennan: 303-473-1327, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/chasbrennan


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On 30.1.2012 16:56, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 1/30/12 10:40 AM, Bronislav Klučka wrote: >> img1 = document.getElementById("my-image"); >> img1.src = URL.createObjectUrl(myBlob); >> img2.src = img1.src; >> should work like a charm and the URL and blob will be released as soon >> as all references will be 0 (destroying the image) > > No, it won't. As currently specced it will be released when the > document goes away or when the url created via createObjectURL is > manually revoked. That's precisely the problem. > > -Boris > In this case you got me... what sense does it make? If there is no reference to original blob or any other object using that URL, why is it kept? so just a line URL.createObjectUrl(blob) creates a memory leak? Heh? Which brink me to my previous question, what happened to Blob.URL? Just brink it back and this whole conversation can go away... BronaReceived on Monday, 30 January 2012 16:16:38 UTC
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text: Hiyas, I'm from Melbourne, Australia and travelling to Charlottesville, Virginia for my brothers wedding May 10-17. I'm wondering if anyone within 3 hours of Charlottesville would be interested in doing a swap of their Model S? I'll use your car for a week and you can use mine at a time of your choice when you come to Melbourne. The swap does not need to be at the same time. I've driven on US roads plenty of times, even in a 26" foot Cruise America RV, so i'm no stranger to driving on the wrong side. My car is a brand new RWD 90, Solid White, Autopilot, Premium Sound, Premium Interior, Black Next Gen seats and body colour roof. If your interested in having a discussion about this reply here and I will PM you. There is obviously a lot at stake here so we can arrange a video call, show each other our cars and ID and check what the go would be with insurance. I'm happy to pay a bond and if we don't swap our cars at the same time I can pay you a fee to hire your car which you can refund me when you make use of mine. Cheers, J


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Katie Holmes joined Blake Lively on the red carpet for the 12-12-12 Concert Benefiting The Robin Hood Relief Fund To Aid The Victims Of Hurricane Sandy at Madison Square Garden in New York City last night.
There has long been an A.P.B for Katie's red carpet mojo and it appears to be still at large judging from this look.
Wearing a Tom Ford Fall 2012 look, which we've seen a few times before, even on the 2011 US X Factor winner Melanie Amaro last week as she performed on the show, Katie fails to excite in this look.
The purple velvet knee-length dress with sheer sleeves would've looked amazing on her in her heyday.
Her hair is so poorly styled, if styled at all, and I'm so o.v.e.r. those Tom Ford padlock pumps.
I really wanted to love it.
Credit: Style.com & Getty


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Sunday, September 14, 2014
September 2014 - Bitcoins by BitSent
BitSENT CEO (Leo Dominguez) and Rep. (Ryan Scott) explained the origins of crypto-currencies, and how they can benefit both payees and payers in everyday use. Foremost amongst such currencies is BitCoin, which can now be exchanged for online payment in many thousands of locations. BitSENT, a Canadian company, has also installed BitCoin ATMs in several major cities. Put in CDN$s and get BitCoin value in exchange. Spend that currency wherever it is accepted, and for much lower service rates. Such exchanges are well trusted and secured by nodes throughout the World. Another major endeavour of BitSENT is the creation of new BitCoins by investing in shared BitCoin mining, a process requiring extensive computing power and technical expertise - something these clever individuals hold in spades. http://www.bitsent.ca/
Thursday, September 11, 2014
August 2014 - What to do After XP
July 2014- Video Editing and Streaming
Mathew Farrow (presenter, centre) is flanked by his mom and grl-friend, as well as two club executive members... Anne and Dan Delong. A local news photographer is snapping a photo.
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text: The Willy Wonka name has been used to market candy for almost 40 years, and in all that time the Wonka company has yet to introduce anything as interesting as Fizzy Lifting Drinks or Invisible Chocolate Bars, instead subjecting consumers to Laffy Taffy and not-very-everlasting Gobstoppers. Now the Nestle-owned brand is going upscale, with its new Wonka Exceptionals line, which will launch with a Golden Ticket promotion. Winners will get a trip around the world, but won't be handed the keys to Wonka's factory or dominion over the Oompa Loompas. [More]


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By Todd Cunningham
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Salinger," Shane Salerno's long-awaited documentary about reclusive author J.D. Salinger, got off to a strong start at the specialty box office.
The Weinstein Company opened it in two theaters in New York and two in Los Angeles, and it brought in $90,969 for a $22,742 per-theater average. That was the best opening among a slew of small films that were released seeking to capitalize as Hollywood's summer blockbusters faded, and TWC plans to expand it into around 175 theaters in 60 markets next weekend.
TWC had hoped to release "Salinger" prior to the release of the Salerno's nine-years-in-the-making book of the same name, but it wasn't completed in time. That may actually have helped, as the docu has received a ton of publicity following its premiere in Telluride last weekend. Most of that centered on the movie's explosive claim that the reclusive author wrote five more books after going into seclusion.
"Winnie Mandela," starring Jennifer Hudson as the wife of South African icon Nelson Mandela (Terrance Howard), took in a soft $2,174 per-theater average with $69,584 from 32 locations for RLJ Entertainment.
It's the first of two films about the Mandelas scheduled to arrive in theaters this year. The Weinstein Company has set "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," which features British actors Idris Elba as Nelson and Naomie Harris as Winnie, for November 29.
It was a busy weekend for TWC at the specialty box office. It also opened the French romantic comedy "Populaire" - about competitive speed typing - and it brought in $16,662 from three theaters for a $5,554 per-locations average.
"Good Old Freda," Magnolia Pictures' documentary in which Freda Kelly looks back at her career as lifelong secretary for The Beatles, took in $8,000 from a single theaters in New York.
Magnolia also rolled out "Touchy Feely," about a massage therapist unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact, in two theaters. It took in $4,000.
Writer-director Lynn Shelton's R-rated comedy premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival and is her follow-up to last year's "Your Sister's Sister," which also starred Rosemarie DeWitt.
Both the Magnolia releases were also available on video on demand.
"The Ultimate Life," a faith-based drama from High Top Releasing, brought in $650,000 from 412 mainly Heartland theaters for a $1,578 per-screen average. It's director Michael Landon Jr.'s follow-up to the "The Ultimate Gift" and stars Jason Bartholomew as a billionaire with questionable priorities who re-examines his life after discovering his grandfather's journal.
(Editing by Chris Michaud)


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If you are a SharePoint Conference 2011 registered attendee, the Microsoft SharePoint documentation teams are offering a limited number of dedicated solution-design sessions for individual customers that are not currently engaged with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS). These sessions are intended to help IT professionals envision and plan a solution based on the 2010 family of SharePoint products and technologies.
Sessions will last 60 minutes. If you are selected, you will meet with one or more product experts (Microsoft product team members, consultants, or MVPs) and one or more SharePoint documentation team members to discuss your solution goals, get advice on current challenges, and envision how to enhance your solution using SharePoint 2010 products. Design sessions are offered for the categories listed in the table below.
Proposed Focus Areas
Automated Deployment and Updates
Are you implementing an environment for automating deployment and updates? We want to hear your challenges and work through design issues. Special consideration is given to environments that automate updates from a test environment to a production environment using Windows PowerShell and scripts.
Business Intelligence and Office Services in SharePoint
Share how your organization currently uses or wants to use business intelligence (BI). Come to this session to discuss a BI solution that meets the needs of your entire organization, ranging from executives to teams and individuals.
Designing Virtual Architectures
Review your plans for deploying SharePoint in a virtual environment. Prerequisites for this session include virtual architecture design plans or a representation of your current SharePoint 2010 virtual environment.
Enterprise Search
Share how your organization currently uses or wants to deploy or improve enterprise search to help your people be more productive. Let's discuss how you design a search solution that is optimized to help users and that meets your performance, scalability, and security requirements.
Geo-distributed Environments
Are you scaling across the globe? Share your business requirements and we'll discuss recommendations for scaling beyond a single farm, including: optimizing the collaboration experience, deploying service applications, and optimizing farms for WAN connections.
Mixed Deployments (On Premises and Cloud)
Do you want to move parts of your business infrastructure to the cloud and keep other parts in on-premises deployments. What new user scenarios are you trying to enable by doing this? How do you decide which parts stay on-premises and which go to the cloud? At what point does a standard cloud plan become insufficient and a private cloud becomes worth the additional investment? What are the main considerations driving all these decisions? This session aims to explore these sorts of questions.
Office Web Apps for SharePoint
Do you have a need for browser-based viewing and editing of Office documents from anywhere you have a connection to your organization's SharePoint site? Do you have questions regarding PowerPoint Broadcast Slide Show. Come to this session to discuss Office Web Apps and deploying into your current environment.
Social Computing at Scale
Are you planning or implementing social computing features, such as user profiles, profile synchronization, and My Sites, in your SharePoint environment? Do you have questions about implementing these features in a complex environment, such as cross farm or with multiple regional farms? Come to this session to review your plans and understand when to you should use multiple User Profile service applications and how to configure your environment to stay in sync as things scale out.
Web Content Management - Internet Presence
Review your existing Web Content Management/Internet solution, or your plan for implementing a new Web Content Management/ Internet site. Get feedback on your solution design from the experts, as well as input about using WCM features in SharePoint Server 2010, such as content deployment and publishing.
Sessions will focus on your design and implementation choices. You will meet with product experts who specialize in your focus area.
To be eligible to participate, you must meet the following criteria:
- Your organization must be planning or maintaining a solution that fits at least one focus area.
- Your organization must not be currently working with Microsoft Consulting Services.
- You must bring either a draft of your intended solution or a representation of your existing SharePoint solution. For example, your draft can include the proposed physical topology, logical farm architecture, hierarchy of sites, plan for database sizing and settings, search settings, plan for security and isolation, etc.
To nominate your company or organization for a design session, send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com by September 9th, 2011 (EXTENDED!) September 16, 2011, and include the following information:
- Name of your company or organization
- Contact information: name and title or role in your organization
- One or two focus area(s) you are interested in and any specific questions you have about that area now
- Brief description of your solution goals and the challenges you'd like to discuss in the Design Time session
Information that you share with the product experts and documentation team either in e-mail or during a design session will be treated confidentially. If you are selected, we will contact you with the day and time of your session by September 26th, 2011.
We look forward to seeing you in October!


text: When Keller Golf Course wanted to open a year-round restaurant, they needed an identity that would reference the game played outside its windows, while standing on its own. The restaurant's interior has a classic warmth to it that I wanted to extend to the menus. The logo references the shape of a club face and blends both classic serif and a more modern sans, looking both back and forward. Together with the new dinner menu and supporting collateral, Keller Grille feels upscale, yet approachable.


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Honest. Honesty. Honestly, what does truth mean?
If yours is yours and mine is mine,
how can we understand what's mine is yours
and yours is mine?
Your truth could be scary. Different. Ordinary.
Mine may be strange. Extreme. Unchanged.
Her truth could be singular. Expansive. Coarse.
His truth may be selfish. Minuscule. Forced.
Truth is not a box, perfectly contained and square.
Truth is not a circle. Round and round it goes. Never ceasing.
It leads somewhere.
Truth is an explosion. A bomb ready to detonate.
Millions of fragile shards fragmented across the globe.
We are pirates. Explorers. Astronauts on an alien landscape.
Shall we dig for the gold hidden inside our souls? Or are
we doomed to lead disparate lives paralyzed by fear?
Truth is the sum.
Mine. Yours. Ours.
Humanity's curse.
Humanity's cure.
Truth is the questions within, glimpses in our vulnerability.
Shall we be brave and unearth the answers? Or continue to
hide where no light tends to go?


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It's interesting that there aren't more YA books based on Greek Mythology, because there is so much there to draw from. The crazy part about The Goddess Test is that I never would have thought to make Hades the love interest of any story because Hades has always been a bad guy in Greek Myth. If you aren't familiar with the myth of Hades and Persephone and how he abducted her, don't worry, you get to learn about it in the book. However, Aimée Carter tells us a version of that story that will break your heart…but not for Persephone, as it's always been.
Kate has to be one of the kindest characters I've read in a while. She is incredibly unselfish and always puts other people's welfare and feelings before her own. She is also strong, but at times, she lets things slide for too long or she's too forgiving before she's had it and decides to stand up for herself.
Henry, our Hades, is in fact "dark, tortured and mesmerizing". He's ruled the Underworld an eternity and he isn't able to do it alone anymore. He's tried for the last century to find a girl who could rule with him, but they have either not been strong enough or have tragically died before the tests. He's ready to give up but agrees to one more try. If this doesn't work out, he will relinquish the Underworld to another God, and he will eventually fade into nothingness.
This is where it gets interesting for me. In this story, the guy isn't trying to woe the girl because he's fallen in love with her from first sight, and it's not the other way around either…at first. Henry chooses Kate to be the next potential Goddess because he senses she's different, and Kate only goes with Henry because he promises to keep her mother alive as long as she remains with him. Once they're in Henry's home and they begin to spend time together, they become friends, and Kate begins to fall for him. Unfortunately for Kate, Henry does not seem interested in taking their relationship anywhere beyond the realm of friendship. Trust me though, he has his reasons. I loved and suffered watching this relationship blossom. When they finally got there, I just about squealed I was so happy!
I was pleasantly surprised by the way the tests, and the ones who administered these tests were unveiled. I don't want to give too much away, but I'll say that what surprised me was the fact that there was only one person working against Kate. For some reason, I thought more people were rooting against her than for her.
The Goddess Test ended on a bittersweet note, and I'm so sad that I have to wait soooo long for Goddess Interrupted. If you're looking for something different to read, maybe a little magical, go pick up this book. I KNOW you'll like it! :)
Book Info
The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter
Series: Goddess Test #1
Published by Harlequin Teen
Pub Date: April 19th 2011
Pages: 293
Format: eARC | Source: NetGalley
Genres: Romance, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult
Buy the book! | Goodreads
Every girl who had taken the test has died.
Now it's Kate's turn.
It's always been just Kate and her mom – and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. So Kate's going to start at a new school with no friends, no other family and the fear that her mother won't live past the fall.
Then she meets Henry. Dark. Tortured. And mesmerizing. He claims to be Hades, god of the Underworld – and if she accepts his bargain, he'll keep her mother alive while Kate tries to pass seven tests.
Kate is sure he's crazy – until she sees him bring a girl back from the dead. Now saving her mother seems crazily possible. If she succeeds, she'll become Henry's future bride and a goddess.
If she fails…


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Comfortable and popular: cotton. Everyone wears cotton garments: whether it's jeans or a jersey – in organic quality or conventional cotton. It is a great and versatile material that we simply cannot do without. In recent years, organic cotton has started to play an increasingly important role – and not only for tree-huggers and "ecos". More and more fashion labels have their own organic collections, and manufacturers of baby carriers are doing the same – in many cases, a special organic collection is offered.
At manduca, however, there is no extra organic collection – we just use certified organic cotton for all our manduca products. That sounds like a good thing. And it is! Organic cotton has many advantages – here is a list of the most important organic cotton benefits:


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If you aren't you should be! If you are like me, you have a love and hate relationship with Javascript. It's used to do so much, but it's loose rule set makes it a potential nightmare.
At work we already were using Checkstyle and FindBugs for our Java code, so why not apply the same idea to our Javascript and React code?
There a few options, but we chose to go with eslint. It has a large number of plugins and support for React.
Setup was dead simple. Create a
.eslintrc file in the project root. Then add
gulp-eslint to the gulp build chain.
We decided to follow the airbnb style. We did make some small alterations.
Now what happened next was not as simple:
Clean up was pretty easy. Most of those errors and warnings were the use of
var or small style violations. After a couple of hours we now have a much cleaner, consistent and more maintainable Javascript and React code.


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Start from a main routine
You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.
Some languages (like Gambas and Visual Basic) support two startup modes. Applications written in these languages start with an open window that waits for events, and it is necessary to do some trickery to cause a main procedure to run instead. Data driven or event driven languages may also require similar trickery to force a startup procedure to run.
- Task
Demonstrate the steps involved in causing the application to run a main procedure, rather than an event driven window at startup.
Languages that always run from main() can be omitted from this task.
- 1 Ada
- 2 AutoHotkey
- 5 Clojure
- 6 Component Pascal
- 7 Erlang
- 8 Forth
- 9 FreeBASIC
- 10 Gambas
- 11 Go
- 13 Julia
- 14 Kotlin
- 15 Logtalk
- 16 Mathematica
- 17 Oforth
- 19 Pascal
- 20 Perl
- 21 Perl 6
- 22 Phix
- 23 PicoLisp
- 24 PureBasic
- 25 Racket
- 27 Ring
- 28 Ruby
- 29 Scala
- 30 sed
- 31 Seed7
- 32 Tcl
- 33 Visual Basic
- 34 zkl
- 35 ZX Spectrum Basic
In Ada, the "Main" procedure doesn't have to follow a special naming scheme. Any parameterless procedure will do.
with Ada.Text_IO;
procedure Foo is
end Foo;
AutoHotkey always starts at the top of the script. A main() function can be called from there, or event hooks set.
The awk language is data driven. However, it does support the use of begin blocks, so we could use one of those to provide us with a main startup procedure:
# This is our main startup procedure
print "Hello World!"
Code execution in C always starts at main(). Macros make possible programs such as the one below, although it's not the best way to write C code.
#define start main()
int start
printf("Hello World !");
return 0;
Hello World !
Use Leiningen. It will allow you to describe many aspects of your project, including which namespace's -main function it should invoke at startup. When you use the 'lein new app' template, it will generate and configure a -main function for you. You can edit the project.clj to modify :main if you wish to start from some other point. For more details, read the documentation.
Component Pascal[edit]
In BlackBox Componente Builder any exported procedure without paramenter (command) can be invoked through commanders (CTRL-q ModuleName.command)
MODULE MainProcedure;
IMPORT StdLog;
PROCEDURE Do*;
StdLog.String("From Do");StdLog.Ln
END Do;
PROCEDURE Main*;
StdLog.String("From Main");StdLog.Ln
END Main;
END MainProcedure.
^Q MainProcedure.Do
^Q MainProcedure.Main
From Do From Main
When started Erlang enters a REPL (read-eval-print loop). To call a function called main in the module m you do: erl -run m main argument1 argument 2 ...
Forth still runs the interpreter when given a file to include in order to compile the source, but you can avoid the interactive interpreter by invoking an entry point ("main") then calling BYE to exit.
include foo.fs
: main ... ;
main bye
This pattern is also used (e.g. GNU Forth) to interpret a Forth snippet from the command line.
$ gforth -e "2 2 + . bye"
Furthermore, professional Forth systems like PFE and SwiftForth have a means to make a "turnkey" application which omits the interactive interpreter, suitable for installing on a third-party system. The command would take an entry point and target executable name:
' main turnkey app.exe
FreeBASIC does not require an executable program to have a main() procedure. However, there's nothing to stop you creating one and then calling it to start the program:
' FB 1.05.0 Win64
Sub main()
Print "Hello from main!"
End Sub
- Output:
Hello from main!
In Gambas, to make an application startup from a main routine:
- Create a new module called MMain
- In the MMain module, create a public sub called Main as follows:
PUBLIC SUB Main()
' This is the start of the program
- Right click the MMain module, then select Startup class from the context menu
In Go all executable programs must have a main package which includes a function called main() with no parameters nor return value.
However, execution doesn't necessarily begin with main() itself. If there are top-level functions called init() with no parameters nor return value, these are executed first in declaration order and they can call other functions including main() itself.
Here's an example which illustrates this behavior. Note that main() gets called twice, first by the second init() function and then automatically by the runtime.
In practice, init() functions are generally used to initialize top-level variables which cannot (or cannot easily) be initialized in situ rather than to pre-empt the main() function in this way.
package main
import "fmt"
var count = 0
func foo() {
fmt.Println("foo called")
func init() {
fmt.Println("first init called")
func init() {
fmt.Println("second init called")
func main() {
fmt.Println("main called when count is", count)
- Output:
first init called foo called second init called main called when count is 1 main called when count is 2
J, by default, starts an event loop.
If a file name is specified on the command line, that file is executed before dropping into the event loop.
Thus, if the script issues an exit command, that will happen before the event loop executes.
If you want the script to exit even when it hits an error, you can use an immex phrase, which will be the first thing executed by the event loop, before it prompts.
If the program, julia, is executed via the command line without a program filename argument, it will enter its REPL (Read–Evaluate-Print-Loop) by default, without executing any user code until that is entered via the REPL command line. If, instead, Julia is started with a Julia program filename as argument, it will execute that program and, after that program terminates, exit without seeking any REPL input.
The version of Kotlin which targets the JVM always starts from the main(args: Array<String>) function unless it is running in REPL mode when it simply executes lines of executable code in the order presented. The REPL is started by typing, kotlinc, without any parameters at the command prompt. For example:
- Output:
Welcome to Kotlin version 1.1.1 (JRE 1.8.0_121-b13) Type :help for help, :quit for quit >>> println("Look no main!") Look no main! >>> :quit
Logtalk applications don't run a main procedure at startup by default but there are several ways to accomplish that. One of them is to include an initialization/1 in a source file. The argument of this directive is a goal that will be proved when the source file is compiled and loaded. For example:
:- initialization(main).
The initialization/1 can also be used within entities (objects and categories) to automatically run entity-specific initializations when the container source file is compiled and loaded. In alternative, it's usually possible to pass a goal as a command-line argument when running the application executable (the details depending on the backend Prolog compiler being used).
Mathematica automatically starts a REPL (read-eval-print loop), which is a kind of event loop. If that is not desired, pass -run on the command line. Note that if Mathematica is called via MathLink from within an external program, then the main loop has to be defined, which will usually differ from the standard one.
If Oforth loads a file and this file does not launch anything, nothing happens but file interpretation, and oforth leaves.
For instance if file1.of is :
: main(n)
"Sleeping..." println
n sleep
"Awake and leaving." println ;
- Output:
>oforth file1.of
Nothing happens because oforth has nothing to perform.
If Oforth loads a file and this file launchs a function or method, it will be interpretred (and so, performed), and oforth leaves.
With this file (for instance file2.of) :
: main(n)
"Sleeping..." println
n sleep
"Awake and leaving." println ;
10000 main
- Output:
>oforth file2.of Sleeping... Awake and leaving.
The function is performed.
Another way is to load a file and to give what to run into the command line parameters. For instance, using file1.of
- Output:
>oforth --P"10000 mysleep" file1.of Sleeping... Awake and leaving.
Of course, "main" as function name to launch is not required : every name is ok.
GP scripts start from the top of the script. PARI code starts from the main function.
Pascal programs are mostly compiled and run a 'main' procedure automatically, this procedure is not explicitly named main. Units (separate files of code without a main procedure) have initialisation code which also runs automatically.
Same as Perl 6.
BEGIN {...} # as soon as parsed
CHECK {...} # end of compile time
INIT {...} # beginning of run time
END {...} # end of run time
Perl 6[edit]
When executed with the standard setting, Perl 6 code always runs the mainline code automatically, followed by the MAIN function if you have one. However, it's possible to start up with an alternate setting that might want to create its own event loop or MAIN. In such cases you can always capture control at various phases with blocks that we call "phasers":
BEGIN {...} # as soon as parsed
CHECK {...} # end of compile time
INIT {...} # beginning of run time
END {...} # end of run time
Any code which is not part of a routine is considered 'main' code. If you want a
main() you have to explicitly invoke it.
procedure main()
end procedure
PicoLisp automatically starts a REPL (read-eval-print loop), which is a kind of event loop. If that is not desired, call (wait), or pass -wait on the command line. Per convention, the GUI event loop is started by calling (go), or by passing -go on the command line.
PureBasic is procedural and any code which is not part of a procedure is considered 'main' code. This code also does not use any explicit syntax (i.e. a 'main' module) to cause it to execute and it always executes first.
Racket can be configured to run a REPL, run a main function, or just run top-level expressions. A main function can be run by executing racket -tm program.rkt.
#/usr/bin/env racket -tm
#lang racket
(provide main)
(define (main . args) (displayln "Hello World!"))
The closest REXX has to this type of behavior is when a REXX program starts,
then executes (as per this discusion, say) an XEDIT session, and
then re-directs commands to the XEDIT session via the ADDRESS command.
XEDIT has native (built-in) support for the REXX language as a macro language.
The XEDIT mentioned above runs on the VM/CMS operating system.
address 'XEDIT'
[XEDIT commands here.]
func Main
see "Hello World!" + nl
Hello World!
Every Ruby source file can declare blocks of code to be run as the file is being loaded (the BEGIN blocks) and after the program has finished executing (the END blocks). BEGIN and END Blocks
# begin code
# end code
A program may include multiple BEGIN and END blocks. BEGIN blocks are executed in the order they are encountered. END blocks are executed in reverse order.
No kidding and trickery[edit]
In Scala there are two concepts not available in another OO-languages e.g. Java. The concepts are
object and
trait. Both cannot have parameters.
object's are singletons (one and only one instance of a parameter-less class) and are static. Exactly the same as a
main. By use of the
trait App a main method is preprogrammed and brought in an
object which can be called on the command-line. There are more the one different
object's possible each can be called by his object name on the command-line. In the trait
executionStart field is initialized with the starting time. By submitting an
-Dscala.time argument on the command-line the execution time can be reported. The field
executionStart can also programmatically used.
- Example:
object PrimaryMain extends App {
Console.println("Hello World: " + (args mkString ", "))
object MainTheSecond extends App {
Console.println("Goodbye, World: " + (args mkString ", "))
sed program repeats itself for each line of input, but your program can begin with commands that address line 1. (This requires that your input has a line 1. If your input is empty file, like
/dev/null, then it is impossible to run commands.)
# This code runs only for line 1.
1 {
Explain-a-lot processed this file and
replaced every period with three exclamation points!!!
# This code runs for each line of input.
Code execution in Seed7 always starts with main. This holds for text programs:
$ include "seed7_05.s7i";
const proc: main is func
writeln("hello world");
end func;
And for grahical programs:
$ include "seed7_05.s7i";
include "draw.s7i";
include "keybd.s7i";
const proc: main is func
screen(200, 200);
end func;
If a Tcl interpreter (such as tclsh or wish) is started without a script file, it will (typically) provide an interactive command prompt that supports read-eval-print-loop functionality. However, if a script file is supplied the file is executed and then the program either exits or, if Tk is in use, the application waits, servicing events, until the last window is deleted.
Visual Basic[edit]
In Visual Basic to make an application startup from a main routine:
- Create a new module called MMain.bas
- Create a new subroutine in the new module as follows:
SUB Main()
' This is the start of the program
- From the menu in the application development environment, choose: File, Project Options.
- Ensure that MMain.bas is selected, by clicking in the list
- From the pulldown list, choose "Sub Main"
- Click the OK button.
In zkl there is no main per se, the constructor of the top most enclosing class (usually the file as files define a class) is run. This remains the same even when a gui front end is pasted on.
file foo.zkl:
forms an anonymous class whose constructor is a function with the above code. "zkl foo" does the expected.
ZX Spectrum Basic[edit]
On the ZX Spectrum, there is no main function as such. However a saved program can be made to start running from a particular line number by providing the line number as a parameter to the save command. The following example will save the program in memory so that it starts running from line 500:
SAVE "MYPROG" LINE 500: REM For a program with main code starting at line 500
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After more than a century of service, Banbury's Signal Box North is no more.
During the early hours of Mothering Sunday, bulldozers methodically demolished Banbury's last existing signal box that had stood rail-side since 1901.
The demolition marks the completion of the removal of both Banbury's functioning signal boxes, after the southern box was demolished last summer.
Upgrades to the signalling system, in the form of a £76 million centralised hub located in Rugby, by Network Rail were the beginning of the end for the buildings.
A community group dedicated to the preservation of the Victorian box ultimately lost the war but won a significant battle in preserving the it for a three-month long farewell tour during which school children and the public could visit and tour the box.
Reaction to the demolition has been predictably morose. Steven Kerridge, who was involved in the fight to save it summed it up.
He said: "The box is now sadly gone but will for ever remain in the memory of those involved in running the visits throughout last summer and all those thousands of visitors who enjoyed that special glimpse into a lost world."


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Just a little while ago (last July), they were so hopeful when adopting the Addis Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3):
"We, the Heads of State and Government and High Representatives, gathered in Addis Ababa from 13 to 16 July 2015, affirm our strong political commitment to address the challenge of financing and creating an enabling environment at all levels for sustainable development in the spirit of global partnership and solidarity. We reaffirm and build on the 2002 Monterrey Consensus and the 2008 Doha Declaration."
… and so on… The SDG tanker had been set on course, and little attention seems to have been given to the slowdown in most large emerging economies (EM) nor to the risk that ample liquidity driven by OECD monetary policy will not last forever. Poor countries´ challenging economic backdrop dominated by falling commodity prices, lower demand from China and the prospects of the Fed eventually hiking rates, all that was largely ignored in the official FfD3 documents
But consider the prospects of mobilizing foreign and domestic resources in Africa, which has become increasingly China centric over the last 15 years. According to the IMF latest (October 2015) Regional Economic Outlook on Sub-Saharan Africa, aptly subtitled "Dealing with the Gathering Clouds", Africa´s recent good macro performance has rested on three pillars: high commodity prices; associated capital inflows; and better policies and institutions. Wasn´t the Fund consulted during the FfD process? Or was it simply ignored?
Figure 1: Commodity Prices August 2015, 2016 Projections
% change since January 2013
Source: IMF (2015), "Dealing with the Gathering Clouds", October.
The first pillar, commodity prices, has broken over the last three years (Figure 1). Sub-Saharan Africa counts 8 net oil exporters and 15 net nonrenewable exporters. The prices of their main export staple - fossil fuels and metals - have crashed by between more than 60 and 30 percent during that period. Oil exporters are hard hit: If oil exports constitute 40 percent of a country´s GDP, an annual drop in oil prices by 25 percent translates into an income effect of minus ten percent. To be sure, commodity prices may fall even further; they may stagnate from now on; and they may rise again. Only the rise of commodity prices would alleviate African producers. Don´t bet on it, says Carmen Reinhard (2015)[1]: price declines typically retain downward momentum. By the end of the boom, many commodity exporters had already initiated investment projects to expand production. As these investments bear fruit, the increased supply will sustain downward pressure on prices. For minerals, short-term supply is price-inelastic: a result of near-insurmountable barriers to exit and a significant proportion of fixed costs.
The second pillar, net capital inflows, is so far surprisingly unaffected prima facie. The IMF WEO, released last October, still projects a small surplus (0.4% of GDP) in the capital account for Sub-Saharan Africa. DB Research[2] produces fresh evidence that Eurobond issuance by Sub-Saharan African frontier sovereigns (excluding South Africa) has held up remarkably well in 2015.
Figure 2: Change in Debt Service Cost, Sub-Saharan Africa 2015
However, issuers had to offer significantly higher yields than previously and yields on secondary markets jumped to multi-year highs (Figure 2):
· While Emerging Market Bond Index Global (EMBIG) spreads have moved up since October 2014 by less than 100 basis points (bp), sub-Saharan sovereign bond spreads have risen by between 120 bp (South Africa) and almost 500 bp in Zambia.
· As all outstanding sovereign Eurobonds in SSA are denominated in USD, any depreciation will have a direct effect on the local currency value of debt service payments. This is potentially even more harmful for interest burdens than rising spreads. The drop since summer 2014 against the USD has been most severe for the Zambian kwacha, the Angolan kwanza, the Namibian dollar, the Ugandan shilling and the Tanzanian shilling which lost between 51% and 20% yoy against the USD, as of November 2015. Zambia has been hit hardest: debt service cost rose in 2015 by 18 percentage points of GDP (left hand scale in Fig. 2) and by 106% in local currency terms (right hand scale).
The difference between rising local currency cost of Eurobonds – around 20% on average in SSA - and the drop in growth rates to low single digits makes for terrible debt dynamics, which is unlikely to be compensated by a corresponding surplus in the non-interest account.[3]
[1] Reinhard, Carmen (2015), "The Commodity Roller Coaster", Project Syndicate, 9 November.
[2] Masetti, Oliver (2015), "African Eurobonds: Will the Boom Continue?", Deutsche Bank Research, Research Briefing, 16th November, Frankfurt/Main.
[3] Debt dynamics for a country´s local currency debt-GDP ratio eD/Y are driven by e(r-n)D + (G-T), with e the real exchange rate, r real interest cost, n real growth rate, D/Y the debt-GDP ratio and (G-T) the non-interest deficit. The same debt-dynamics equation can be applied to public finance.


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Madhyamaheshwar Trek in Garhwal, Uttaranchal
Situated south-west of Kedarnath and part of the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary (one of the worlds richest bio-reserves), the Madhyamaheshwar Temple is a close copy of Tungnath, its sibling to the south
Uniana - Bantoli
Distance : 11 km
Time : 5 hours
Level : Easy
Trekking start from Uniana (1,700m) but work is afoot to extend it to Ransi, some 3 km away. There is a lovely view of waterfalls and forests as it rises to Gondhar. Less then 1 km later, another bridge spans the Saraswati River just as it merges into the Madhyamaheshwar stream. Where you will find exhilarating views of the river, and a tantalising views of the Mandani Peak (6,193m) to the west.
Bantoli - Madhyamaheshwar
Distance : 9 km
Time : 4-5 hours
Level : Moderate
Madhyamaheshwar – Budha Madhyamaheshwar and Back
Distance : 3 km
Time : 2 – 3 hours
Level : Easy
Madhyamaheshwar – Bantoli
Bantoli – Uniana


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Spring is here and the weather is starting to heat up! Well, at least it is where I am in Las Vegas. Right now, we've got high temps in the 80s and it's only going to get warmer, a lot warmer, as we get into May. I'm all signed up for Bryce Canyon Half Marathon in July and my 12 week training starts this Monday! I'll definitely be that running early in the morning on weekends and running on the treadmill at the gym during the week. Our gym has an indoor track, which is nice for laps but when you are trying to run a few miles on it, it can get super boring super fast!
Anyhow, with a new season, comes the need/want for a few new workout pieces! I perused a few of my favorite brands online and found some workout wear that is perfect for your summer runs! Click the images to go straight to the shopping ;)
What are some of your go-to summer workout pieces? I'd love to hear about them in the comments below!


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Our March meeting was held once again at Amani International Coffee House on the North Side. Note that the pic to the right is from last month, but…and correct me if I'm wrong…I believe that Katie, Norm, and Rose all sat in the exact same positions (different table) this month too. How interesting and random!
Here are the various resources discussed during this month's meeting:
Upgrading to Office 2007 and/or Windows 7
- Microsoft Office compatibility pack for Windows users
- Microsoft Office compatibility pack for MAC users
- Windows 7 advice: make sure your printers, scanners, and other peripherals are compatible before upgrading. Microsoft has a Windows 7 Update Advisor tool on its website.
- Alternatives to MS Office include OpenOffice, StarOffice, Google Docs.
- Purchase MS and Adobe products cheap on TechSoup.
Other resources mentioned during our meeting
- CutePDF, which converts documents to PDF format. The pay version supposedly will allow you to edit PDFs if it was originally created with form fields on it. (Doesn't work with Acrobat 9.0 format for some reason.)
- Fundraising Software packages: Giftworks, DonorPro, Raiser's Edge.
- Here is a link to an online matrix of fundraising/online donation packages.
- Content management systems (open source): Joomla, Drupal, Plone, WordPress, Weebly.com.
- Second Life: virtual world – TechSoup has a "Nonprofit Commons" on it and they have a Second Life user group that meets weekly.
- The Foundation Center has published the 2010 version of its Grants for Information Technology Directory, available in digital format for $39.95.
Our next meeting will be held at UCP/CLASS in Oakland, on April 7, 2010. Please note that we are now holding our meeting from 8:30 – 10 am each month.
The Bagels & Bytes 2010 Calendar is here.


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Viking Professional 24-Inch 5.3 Cu. Ft. Right-Hinged Outdoor Rated Undercounter Solid Door Refrigerator - VRUO5240DRSS
Product Info Guide
Recommended Accessories
Key Features
- Store up to 20 wine bottles or 162 12-oz cans
- Audible and visual door alarm
- Two-stage blue LED interior lights
- Insulated and sealed electrical components designed for outdoor use
- Right hinged configuration
Viking supplies the essentials to create the ideal outdoor entertainment area. Rapidly cool down drinks with the Viking Dynamic Cooling Technology with superior temperature stability and the thermal-efficient cabinet makes this refrigerator energy efficient while keeping your food fresh. The slide out convertible shelf with stainless steel front allows you to switch from canned beverage storage to a wine rack configuration. This Viking fridge is able to store up to 20 wine bottles or 162 12-ounce cans allowing you to enjoy your party without needing to restock the fridge. An audible and visual alarm will also go off if the fridge door is left ajar by an absentminded party guest. The temperature can be adjusted to as low as 34 degrees and up to 42 degrees with the integrated controls on the top of the solid stainless steel fridge door. Easily see what is stored in the included smooth-glide clear utility bin or the rest of the fridge with the two-stage theater-style blue LED interior lights. Insulated electrical terminals, sealed electrical contacts, and water-resistant thermostat makes this a great all-weather outdoor refrigerator. Vacation/Sabbath mode saves energy while the unit is not in use. The solid stainless steel right hinged door also includes a built-in lock. Explore the power and performance of Viking in your outdoor kitchen.
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|Right Hinge
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|Self Closing Door
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|160 lbs
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Under the Building Interim Regulations 2017, suitable safety barriers must be installed to all existing swimming pools and spas capable of containing a depth of water more than 300mm and used principally for swimming, wading, paddling or the like, including a bathing or wading pool or spa.
Read our good practice guidelines for information on public safety and convenience at construction sites.
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