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FDF Volume 1: Issue 60: Lenny Kravitz - Circus
Album - Circus
Artist - Lenny Kravitz
Key Players - Lenny Kravitz does it all (bass,guitar,drums) on the bulk of the tracks. Craig Ross plays guitar on a fair # of tracks.
Produced By - Lenny Kravitz
Release Date - September 12, 1995
What caused me to blow off the dust? - Being a fan of his music there was a few to choose. For some reason when the time came I was drawn to this album. No real reason, other than I felt like giving Lenny a listen again.
Overview - This is the 4th studio album from Lenny Kravitz. The album was a little different than his previous records as it had some heavier religious overtones. His debut went Gold, and this album went gold but the two in between each sold over 2 million copies each (Gold in the USA is 500,000 sold)
FDF Comments (aka the songs) - The album opens up with one of the more well known Kravitz tracks "Rock And Roll Is Dead". Its a straight up rocking tune that asks the very question, or states that rock and roll is dead. For the bulk of the album Lenny plays all the instruments, which is quite a feat, but none of the drum, bass or guitar parts are over the top. They all do their "part" if you will. "Circus" opens with a single guitar that leads to a bass and drum beat. Its a much slower track than the opening track but Lenny is in fine voice on the track. Opening with a very "John Bohnam" esq drum beat "Beyond The 7th Sky" hits down hard. A single chord on guitar strums over the drum tempo and first verse of vocals. The are some pretty slick bass riffs towards the end, but the drums are really the showcase, again as simple as they are. The blistering "Tunnel Vision" follows. Hands down a top 10 song I have seen performed live (see the personal comments). The guitars are crunchy and there is a slight compression on the vocals. The bass pretty much takes the lead on this track. The guitar has a little more "waka-waka" wah wah pedal to it. The are some synths as well. The one semi-dud to the track is the guitar breakdown towards the end. Its slows the groove, but the drums bring it all back in for the second part of the guitar solo. Live, this track has some great horns. "Can't Get You Off My Mind" is the ballad, love song dujour on the record. This particular track was a single from the album and garnered some radio play. Opens with a dual electric and acoustic guitar and simple drum beat. The song is about the woe's of the road, or whatever else the listener wants it to be. Look at the title of the song! A little past the half way point a hidden gem of a Kravitz song lies in "Magdalene". There is something about this track that is infectious. Not sure if its the rhythm section or how he sings the line "She wears the pants on her hips to looooooooooow". Its got a great summer time groove to it. "God Is Love" opens with Lenny singing the words via a heavily processed microphone. Sounds a little like he is singing down a tube as well. Its a mellow, trippy track, that personally I find to be "skippable". "Thin Ice" is another heavy drum driven track. This track has a great funk feel to it with the bass and drums complimenting one another well. Never thought you'd hear this but "Don't Go And Put A Bullet In Your Head" opens musically like a lounge song. Its got canned back beats and a slow guitar chime underneath. Its a slower tune with some organ work as well. Nothing really flashy or ground breaking going on other wise. "In My Life Today" leads off with a solo acoustic guitar before the band comes in. A very psychadellic sounding track it is one of the longest tracks on the record as well clocking in over 6 minutes. Lenny has a lot of emotion in his voice on this track. The chorus is a great "sing along" chorus. Towards the end Lenny sings out the "today" line with a lot of phase on the vocal. He holds the note for a fair amount of time too. Personally, its a 'scan back' moment on the track, i could listen that one part over and over again. The album closes with "The Resurrection" which slowly fades up with acoustic guitar. After a little bit the drums come seemingly out of now where and hit down hard. Its got a very "Led Zeppelin feel" at times. As the song grows to a close Lenny emotes a lot more vocally. What may have bored the listener at the start should now have their attention.
Where are they now? - A new album is due on November of 2007. Lenny has also recently begun work with a design firm.
FDF Personal Comments (aka the Live experience) - Lenny does put on a great live show. The first live show I saw with him was February 9, 1996 in the pretty small, Orpheum Theater in Boston. I will never forget the live version of "Tunnel Vision" that night..it was probably 15 minutes long and it slayed. The second time was May 28,1999 at the Tweeter Center. The thing that stands out about that show, besides it being the first concert i went to since my daughter was born was that during the closing tune "Are you Gonna Go My Way" the lights began to fade up in the venue then the power was cut. I made a b-line for the door at that point. I didn't want to be in some sort of melee (nothing happened)
FDF Overall Take - Like him or not Lenny is a pretty talented guy. Paul McCartney used to do the bulk of the work on "Wings" albums, and the same holds true for Stevie Wonder on his records, but for Lenny he just gets pigeonholed as some "classic rock knock off". As stated earlier, is the stuff overly "complex" no, is it fun and fits his sound? Sure. The peaks and valleys of this record are many. The good songs are good the not so good songs are not so good (talk about being vague). For the casual fan a "best of" collection will do the trick.
Lenny's myspacepage
Curious? Check out some MUSIC!
These are using a new mp3 host. These tracks are from MTV Unplugged (all acoustic) the version of all along the watchtower is from the "Concert of the Century". Its a great version w/Eric Clapton.
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Are you gonna go my way
Let Love Rule
Always on the Run
My Precious Love
Fly Away
All Along the Watchtower
Again, new host so if there are issues fire away in the comments.
One place you can buy the cd is
Disclaimer - For the most part songs listed you can find on iTunes or your local cd shop. The idea is to give you a little taste of the music. Please support the artist buy purchasing some of their work. Songs are posted for about 1 week but can and will be removed at the request of the artist, band, band management etc. If you are one of those persons contact me via the email link in the profile and they will be removed as soon as we are made aware of the request.


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For any enterprise software company or startup, the ultimate measure of success is how much money it makes for its investors. Money is the best surrogate we have for value a company delivers to the world - and by extension, the impact it has on the world.
For a product company like ours, its the product that delivers this value. Hence, the goal of product management is to build products & features that customers value & are willing to pay for. Our customers derive value when they use our products to address important design problems, but the journey starts much earlier, starting with how they discover our product, their perception of the product pricing, their experience during the sales process, and most importantly - their experience after they have bought the product.
On the other side, in order to be successful, product management works with designers & software developers in defining and sequencing what needs to be built to deliver value.
Development cycles are no longer a problem area
While the latter has received significant attention, and almost down to a science. Thanks in part to the rich literature on development, over the last year we have continued to drive down our time-to-production, which today stands at 5 days (now with much reduced variability since we moved away from Scrum & adopted Kanban). This means that any new feature that customers would value can be built & deployed in less than 5 days. A major contributor here has also been our focus on moving developers closer to customers via support rotations, frequent usability testing, and integration with engagement-tracking software like Totango which give us rich visibility into how the product is being used. We don't ship any new feature without tracking commensurate module/action in Totango.
Time to revenue as a metric
While for software development teams Time to production metric an objective works well, one of the metrics to track for product management becomes Time to Revenue, and minimizing this time requires significant focus in ensuring that information flows from the edges of the business to product management, and the other way around, as quickly as possible.
Now unlike software developers and designers, their primary job is not to respond to product management's needs. Many constituents of the business interact with the world, and their primary job ranges from marketing & selling the product to helping customers adopt the product in greater numbers, thereby making money for the business. This makes flow of information inherently frictional, and the business must organize to make this as frictionless as possible
In order to solve this problem, most companies have product managers who go & speak with customers, sales teams, marketing teams, and customer success teams to learn about the world outside, and in turn helps them do their job better by arming them with valuable information. This makes product managers an important constituent. This also implies that there is reduced burden on other business teams in deeply understanding the needs of product management.
Decentralizing product management
At Sefaira, we have taken a different approach. We believe that organizing our teams to maximize our surface area that interacts with the world, product management needs to be distributed at the edges, and product management responsibilities need to be embedded with the edges of the business. In order to be successful here, we need to ensure the teams are always aware of key things we are trying to learn from the world, and in turn be able to push this information to product management. Conversely, they need to be the voice of product management.
Product management responsibilities need to be embedded in the DNA of all business functions. This reduces product management's responsibility to organizing incoming incoming information, look for the most compelling hypothesis and test them by devoting maximum development fire power at these hypothesis. In turn, product management leans on the business to evaluate the outcomes.
What does this mean for other functions?
For different stakeholders, I will outline key areas where they need to think like a product manager in addition to their core responsibilities.
Sales rep
- When a prospect ask about functionality that the product doesn't have, learn if the prospect would value the functionality they are seeking. If yes, what problem would they solve with it?
- When a prospect is unwilling to buy at proposed price, learn how much they are willing to pay for the product
- When a prospect is unwilling to buy, learn what problems the product would need to solve for them for them to value it
In turn, they should be equipped to talk about the kinds of problems we are looking to solve in the upcoming months, and learn if prospects value solutions to those problems. A false or a positive signal both unlock different kinds of investments based on product management's judgment.
- Build new content and drive awareness based on what the product team is building
- Create and spread the word on success stories
- Build a compelling set of use cases for the product
Customer success
- Learn of blockers to product adoption
- Recruit users for usability testing and user interviews
- Learn how latest features are being used & provide insight to product management
Once these expectations are clear, the organization needs to be instrumented such that information can flow freely. We intend to rely on a combination of Asana, Slack, & Totango to stay aligned here.
The benefits of such organization are immense. Due to inherent decentralization of product management, this can shorten cycle times significantly, and scale well as the business & product footprint grows without the need for hiring additional product managers, or impacting cycle times. This keeps our business responsive to customer needs and allows us to bridge the gap between problems and solutions rapidly.

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A few weeks ago I started a series called 30 Second Rants, for those rants that are shorter and don't take a full-fledged blog entry to explain. Now I'm going to start a 30 Second Ramblings series for those thoughts that are too long for Twitter, but too short for a full blog entry.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a woman in possession of a sale item must tell her friend about the deal she procured. This is especially true with clothes. As soon as she receives a compliment about the clothing item or accessory, she feels the need to let her friend know what a great deal she got.
"I love that shirt! I've been looking for a turquoise shirt but everything is either ugly or too expensive!" says friend.
"Thanks! You'll never guess how much I paid for it. It was originally $49.95 at Banana Republic. Guess how much I paid? $9.95!" replies wearer.
You see, men hunt for animals they can brag about ("I was out for three hours and didn't see one deer. The next day I saw three in less than 20 minutes, including the ten-point buck I shot. I'm gonna put him in the den beside the buck I got last year.") and women hunt for deals. The thrill of the hunt for that perfect pair of shoes to match the blue top you got on sale at Anthropologie.
By the way, the other day I got a ridiculously cute top at Anthropologie for $19.95, originally $98! Booyah!
September 19, 2009
30 Second Ramblings: Sale Items
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The scope of Watchmen (1986-87) is wide and ambitious. Written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, it encompasses the history of comic books and super heroes, 20th-century history and foreign policy, the Cold War, science, art, and popular culture. The world of Watchmen is an alternative America in the mid-1980s. Nixon is still president of the United States. U. S. defense policy depends on the powers of a super-hero named Jon (his super hero moniker is Dr. Manhattan), who is capable of destroying anyone anywhere in the world at any time.
Watchmen is clearly a product of the Reagan administration. Paranoia about increasing U. S.-Soviet hostilities, about nuclear war, and government repression are constant themes.
This graphic novel is composed of 12 illustrated episodes, interspersed with 12 narrative sections. The episodes were originally published as separate issues during 1986-87. The first few narrative sections contain histories of one sort or the other. Later in the novel they contain pertinent documents or excerpts from newspaper articles. Every narrative in the book is related to every other narrative. One sequence of scenes running throughout the book concerns a newspaper and magazine vendor on a street corner. He is fearful about the growing possibility of nuclear war. A young black man is usually present in these scenes, sitting on a street curb reading a comic book narrative about "The Black Freighter." Excerpts from what he is reading are mixed with the newspaper vendor scenes. (I realize that the term graphic novel is controversial. Even Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman object to it. But it is a generally accepted term designating a form of expression that is receiving increasing respect from readers and critics, and Watchmen is frequently included as a leading example of graphic novels).
The central plot of Watchmen involves a series of murders of former super heroes. In the alternative world of this novel, most of the super heroes are simply average citizens inspired by comic books to put on costumes and become vigilantes. A recently enacted law has made their activities illegal, and most of them have retired. Several characters become involved in trying to discover who is murdering the former heroes.
The characters of Watchmen clearly and dramatically distinguish it from most other comic book narratives. Character development is, I gather, an important element of graphic fiction. Many of the characters are relatively well developed. They have detailed histories, human problems, and complicated personalities. One is afflicted with impotence. Another has a difficult relationship with her controlling mother. They range all over the political spectrum. The most interesting character to me is Rorschach, whose difficult childhood left him psychologically scarred. When the other super heroes enter middle age and retire from vigilantism, he continues. Everyone fears him, regarding him as a psychotic criminal. But in the course of the narrative he proves to be the most interesting of all the super heroes, the most unwilling to compromise his principles, the most intent on discovering the mystery behind the murders. At a certain level, however, all these characters remain what they are: well developed, conflicted comic book characters.
The illustrations are detailed and full of visual information that advances the plot. They are intelligent and appropriate to the narrative itself. But they never rise above the level of standard DC Comics graphics.
"Who will watch the watchmen?" This question expresses a crucial theme of the novel. Watchmen explores the concept of a world where super heroes really do exist and considers what it would be like to live in a world where such beings have nearly limitless powers. Only two characters in the novel actually have such powers. One is Jon, a former nuclear scientist who was caught in an accident that essentially disintegrated him into atoms. He manages to reconstitute himself, and when he does, his powers are limitless. The other is Conrad Veidt, whose intellectual genius and limitless wealth allow him to build and do virtually anything he wants.
Readers must suspend disbelief throughout much of this novel. Of course, Watchmen is science fiction, which by nature requires one to accept the given premises and principles of the story. But science fiction also operates within the demonstrable laws of science. This novel sometimes expects you to accept facile explanations and justifications: for example, Dr. Manhattan's unlimited powers—nothing in the world of quantum physics remotely supports this notion. Another example is Veidt's ability to do many of the things he does, such as create an artificial life form that he teleports into the center of New York City. Limitless wealth will not allow one to do what science cannot accommodate. One might argue that Watchmen portrays an alternative world, a different America where such things are possible, but if the basic laws of biology and physics in such a world differ from those of our own, what relevance does that world have to this one? Or one can argue that Watchmen is fantasy or allegory, but either argument would seem to me a stretch. Or one might insist that in comic books anything is possible, but such an argument subverts if not refutes the links Watchmen draws with our own world, not to mention that this work clearly rises above conventional definitions of the term comic book.
There are slow moments in the narrative. Often very little happens from one frame to the next. Sometimes the effect seems to build tension, suspense. You have to put up with these. There's also a physical issue: the paperback edition of Watchmen that I read combines all 12 issues of the original series. To conserve space (I assume) many frames are crammed onto each page, and the print is small and sometimes difficult to read. (Maybe this is an old person's problem). The mere creation of all the frames that make up the illustrated portion of the novel is impressive to consider. The book itself is heavy. Watchmen devotes much time and space to giving us the histories of the costumed heroes, though in the end this really does not advance the plot—it's almost a kind of diversion. I suspect that the intensity and developing tension of the Watchmen episodes would have developed more effectively had I read the individual episodes as they were published, rather than all within a relatively short period of time.
Is Watchmen great literature?—Newsweek named it one of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century. The intricacy of the narrative, the interwoven subplots, the detailed, nuanced creation of the city of New York and of the heroes themselves—all of this is impressive. The novel has an encyclopedic quality, sometimes seeking to encompass everything—all science, all culture, all literature. Clearly the author is creative and intelligent. With a specifically dark and humorless vision he argues that in the end the only way to ensure world peace is to force it on humankind through tricks and deceptions that cost millions of lives.
I do not regard this novel as great literature. Certainly among comic books, among graphic novels, it may deserve iconic status. For me, despite the intricacies, there is a cold two-dimensional quality to its characters and plots and subplots. Despite their detailed lives, the characters in the end are comic book figures, lacking the substance and the grain that characters from real novels possess. We depend in Watchmen on the operating laws and limitations of the world it creates. It's separate from our own world, no matter how much like our world it may be. The fate of that world matters less outside the covers of the novel that contains it than it does within.


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The Piñata Factory
As Twin Cities homeless people take over foreclosed homes in a kind of "modern underground railroad," Chicago's Piñata Factory enlisted more than 100 Chicago-area kids to create hundreds of colorful piñatas -- filled with functional blankets -- and place them under overpasses to raise awareness of homelessness. Watch the Current's video.
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Thanks for giving Co-op Image, and Mike, and the other people involved whom I don't know, some notice. They deserve it - they do great things.
If people are interested in contributing in the future, the place to look is www.coopimage.org.
(I used to work with them, although I wasn't involved with the Pinatas.)
There is an interview of sorts with Mike Bancroft, who's at the center of the always collaborative Co-op Image at www.5questions.areachicago.org
They also, by the way, make a mean hot sauce.
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Friday, October 10, 2008
tea and white rabbits... 10 october 2008 gratitudes
1. saw the new banksy installation at the village pet shop and charcoal grill in the west village with coco. it's his first ever new york based exhibition and it is incredible. he features animatronics to illustrate his intent: "I wanted to make art that questioned our relationship with animals and the ethics and sustainability of factory farming, but it ended up as chicken nuggets singing."
the bunny putting on makeup was kind of heartbreaking. incredibly clever and adorable, but nonetheless pretty devastating. same with the sad-eyed tweety bird rocking in his cage encircled by his plucked feathers. tugged on every last heartstring.
2. the kind designer for the clothing brand Sea, Sean Monahan brought me the most adorable pair of slouchy white pants from his line. and they are a one-off sample to boot! it was the nicest surprise to a very slow day in the west village. i really have met some of the most gentle, most sincere, and most generous people here.
3. had the most delicious day of indulgence (which is pretty much everyday for me...) in honor of our stock manager, jaime lewis's last day. the champion sweet treat was by far the delectably gooey doughnuts from doughnut plant, courtesy of my manager chris weir and his girlfriend regina kim. i think i might be in trouble, its just a stones throw from my apartment...oh dear.
4. am currently enjoying a piping hot cup of tea, curled up under a quilt, nursing a fast-approaching cold. i need some preventative medicine asap.
* to all the darlings out there... if any of y'all know of any recipes for pink milk, or what that really is even, please let me know. i've heard mention of it before and it sounds right up my alley. merci.
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- K. Sundari said...
At first I thought that rabbit was real. You talking about tea made me want to have a nice cuppa too. Oh and about pink milk, when I was little I used to sneak into the kitchen and put strawberry jam into my cup of milk and stir it up until it was really pink and sickeningly sweet.
- October 11, 2008 at 12:40 AM
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- October 11, 2008 at 9:47 AM
- little gypsy. said...
i believe you crush strawberries or raspberries into the milk. perhaps in a blender or with a mixer. or you could stir in some strawberry syrup or strawberry yogurt.
have fun!
- October 11, 2008 at 10:49 AM
- Joanna Goddard said...
oh yes!! i saw that too and totally though the cheetah was real. very cool!!
- October 11, 2008 at 11:37 AM
- Mila said...
What a gorgeous picture of that teacup! Amazing! (Polaroid?)
I only know milk with strawberry taste. that is pink...
Lots of love for you, dear!
- October 12, 2008 at 7:14 AM
- onesilentwinter said...
i have must see this!
- October 12, 2008 at 5:52 PM
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I have decided that I am bi-polar. I haven't been officially diagnosed by a doctor or a therapist or anything but one Friday night while partaking in a glass (or three) of pinot I extensively googled my symptoms and bookmarked some very pertinent pages on WedMD so I'm pretty sure I self diagnosed myself accurately. Who needs this ObamaCare bullshit and co-pays when you have the internet and a ton of neurosis to entertain yourself with, right?
Why do I think I am bi-polar, you ask? I'll tell you. Or maybe I won't. Get it? Because I'm bi-polar. I crack me up. Anyway....
After a very long winter filled with lupus flares and migraines and rashes and basically wishing I was a bear that could just find a nice pot of honey and a cave to hibernate in until it was all over, I started to see the light at the end of a very long autoimmune filled tunnel. I was finding my energy again. The rashes were subsiding. I didn't feel like throat punching someone every time they told me I "looked tired" or want to rip my ears off at the sound of even the slightest hint of human movement because of my migraines. I was starting to feel less Charles Manson-ish and more like my usual smart ass, hyper, OCD self.
But then.....the body, self love, bi-polar thing started happening out of nowhere. Because for all of these months that I couldn't work out I wasn't gaining weight, but I was obviously losing muscle and strength because I wasn't able to work out and I spent much of my time on the couch, in my sweats, taking my meds and watching the days roll by hoping that the next one would be the day that I didn't hate my body and the world. The only marathons I was a part of were the Netflix marathons where I watched all four seasons of Girls in three days or where me and my daughter watched Mad Dogs in one sitting on a gloomy, shitty, pain killer filled day when I was questioning my life and whether it was worth living it (but that's a story for another day).
So, when I was able to put down the Amazon Fire Stick, take off the sweatpants, put on my big girl pants and start living life again, I had mixed feelings about the person that remained after what I considered to be the lowest point of my life - including that time I went through the Big C. (Hey, remember when I went through cancer for 12 years and I was all fat and in a bad marriage and then had all my lady parts ripped out and had radiation and met my now husband and got my shit together and lost 160 pounds and got all healthy only to find out I had FUCKING LUPUS and fibromyalgia and hypoglycemia and they wanted to take out my pancreas too basically rendering me a fucking diabetic because HEY WHY NOT TAKE ANOTHER BODY PART YOU ASSHOLES and then I throat punched all the cunts that were pissing me and THE END).
Back to my story.
Somedays I feel beautiful and amazing. I am grateful for this body and happy that six years later I have managed to keep the weight off despite all of the crap that has happened. I have battled my depression and anxiety in silence and still not turned to food or alcohol or drugs as a comfort. I have held steadfast to the goals I set for myself and remained in control like a FUCKING ROCKSTAR (cue self back patting). I can get dressed and make it through the day living all 41 years of my life on earth like a beautiful, valuable human being.
But then here come those self diagnosed, WebMD, googled bi-polar days where I literally feel like the StayPuff marshmellow man in the Ghostbusters movie waddling in slow motion through the streets of Manhattan knocking over towers and buildings, eating everything in sight. I feel like a round, blimpyity, sludge filled, disgusting, saggy, fat piece of dog shit. I want to give up and become one of the People of Walmart wearing flesh colored leggings and Winnie the Pooh t-shirts with my Crocs and my trucker hat. Fuck it all and pass me the Twinkies.
But instead, I went out and bought an elliptical. And started my 30 day yoga challenge again. And stopped leaving candy in my desk drawer. And took yogurt to work instead of going to Tim Horton's everyday for the broccoli cheddar soup (YUM). Some days it makes me feel like a total bad ass. Some days I hate it, but I do it anyway because I know that in the end I will thank myself for it. I look back at the old pictures of when I got down to my lowest weight and I just want to get there again SO BADLY, but it seems like a million elliptical miles away. However, the saying goes that the journey of a million miles starts with a single elliptical step. Or some stupid shit like that.
I guess the long and the short of it is that it's time to shut down the laptop and get off Google and WebMD and get my fat ass into gear instead of complaining about the things that can only be changed by actually doing the things that need to be done to change them. I still think I rock at this self diagnosing thing though.


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For one thing, he (actor Russell Crowe) found himself on the receiving end of repeated nuisance calls from, of all people, Michael Jackson. "For two or three f*cking years," he says. "I never met him, never shook his hand, but he found out the name I stayed in hotels under, so it didn't matter where I was, he'd ring up do this kind of thing, like you did when you were 10, you know. 'Is Mr Wall there? Is Mrs Wall there? Are there any Walls there? Then what's holding the roof up? Ha ha.' You're supposed to grow out of doing that, right?" - via Jezebel.com
Obviously, that situation has resolved itself.
Not so obviously, while Michael Jackson may have been the biggest celebrity to engage in childish prank behavior for the sake of mentally terrorizing other celebrities, he's not the only one.
Don Knotts routinely shook down action hero Steve McQueen for his lunch money outside the studio cafeteria, using a switchblade to underline his intent. It got to the point where McQueen would tremble and start crying when the "Andy Griffith Show" or "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" would appear on television.
Stay tuned this week for more outlandish tales of childish celebrity behavior from Jeff and Michael!


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We swung by Hemmeter's and while they don't have ALL of their pumpkins out yet (like they do closer to Halloween), they had plenty of massive massive pumpkins.
We picked up this beauty for $4.50 (the one on the right!).
We weighed it when we got home - 51 pounds. So...yes, this pumpkin cost us about 8.8 cents per pound.
I wasn't sure how to cut into it - last year, I tried a variety of knives but was having a lot of trouble. The pumpkin flesh is something like 3-4 inches thick which is fine but the skin (in the past) was very very tough. This year, Stacey offered to help me butcher the pumpkin for roasting.
We took it out to our porch, washed it and then....
After about...2 minutes, it was basically done (cut into 3 main pieces).
You can see just how HUGE this pumpkin is!
Stacey butchered the rest of it into manageable pieces, then we took them inside for seed scooping.
Just for kicks, here are the photo taken timestamps:
3:36pm - Stacey begins cutting the pumpkin
3:39pm - Stacey finishes
3:46pm - Stacey and Matt start scooping the seeds
3:52pm - Stacey and Matt finish
So...about 9 minutes work to turn
The next step for this pumpkin is roasting. Unfortunately, I can only fit about 4 of these pieces in the oven at a time and it's taking something like 100-120 minutes to roast it. When they're soft, I'll puree them and freeze the puree.
Not too much work for a TON of fresh (well, frozen) pumpkin puree!


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Cambro CPU185472V4480 Camshelving® Premium Shelving Unit with 4 Vented Shelves 18" x 54" x 72"
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It takes a long time to create heirlooms. Photos and information on this blog are not free to be pinned, copied, or transferred without my permission. Please be cyber savvy and ask before taking.
Friday, October 16, 2015
All the way across
3 comments:
- The Chilly Hollow Needlepoint Adventure said...
Thanks for all the photos. It makes it easier to see just how large this piece is, plus all the color changes and stitches.
- October 16, 2015 at 6:29 PM
- NCPat said...
You are welcome! I have to stand on a chair to take the overall photo so I thought this might work!
- October 16, 2015 at 8:50 PM
- Beth in IL said...
Nice! Be careful standing on chairs!
- October 18, 2015 at 3:01 PM
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Should i Set Up Hong Kong or Bvi Company?
There are different pros and cons for setting up a hong kong company with setting up a BVI company. As each client's situation and requirement is different case by case. Client is suggested to seek professional advice before processing.
|Hong Kong Company
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|Easier to get tax exemption if the business is operated offshore.
|Bank account opening
|Easier to open company bank account even for foreigners
|More requirements.documentations and proofs are needed to open company bank account.
|Pricacy protection
|Relatively low level of privacy protection as the registration is open for public search
|Easier to achieve anonymity & privacy protection as the registration is not open for public search.
|Enter into china market
|Hong kong company setup could be a better choice if you plan to set up a company or rep office in china later.
|Not a very preferred entity as certain restrictions might apply. Also, you could not enjoy CEPA benefits.
|Discontinuance of business
|Required to follow deregistration procedures. Generally the whole process will take around 6-9 months.
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Check out our Forum Rules. Lets keep this forum an enjoyable place to visit.
About two weeks ago I was complaining that one of my bows was "faster" than the others. I weighed the bows and measured balance point but still did not learn anything.
So I have been staring at these bows wondering what was going on and then I just did the obvious. I divided my bows by "quickness". How easy was it to play fast? My present bow collection is 6 bows and I grouped 3 as "fast" and 3 as "slow". I then saw the difference.
The 3 slow bows had heavier rubber pads. These were 2 Glassers and an octagon Meinel. The "fast(er) bows had windings but no larger diameters in the winding areas.
Now, I was still not convinced so I cut all the padding off of one Glasser. Immediate difference.
I would wonder if I'm losing it but then I remembered something. Have I not seen many a fiddler playing way up the stick past all the frog hardware?
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Well, I to will miss ol Barry, but I understand.
If you want to focus on one type of music and have discussions with like minded people. Then there are probably sites out there that are more focused on that particular genre.
But if you like all kinds of music, except hip hop. (my opinion only) Then this is the place for you.
No matter where you go, there you are!
Be it ever so humble. Where I belong ……… I guess it's in my genes even if I mingle on "fancy" forums
About "fancy" …. FIDDLERMAN has 4 videos on top of the RECOMMENDED pile on YouTube today !!!!!! (Is that a record?) (And the counter on this post says I have 999 posts. I wonder what I will win for 1000 posts? A car? A little car? A SkiDoo? (they have to be in good supply in Ft. L.)
( Cash will work.)
( Maybe I'll retire.)
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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Nobody NEVER-EVER wants to offend anybody here!!! You can't leave, we are family! Don't you love us anymore?
Barry, you're right of course, if you don't feel you're contributing here and thereby wasting your time, we wish you well and adieu.
However, I'm with Pierre, we've all learned a lot from you, I'm a big fan of your YouTube page, and I don't think everyone here is an aspiring orchestral classical musician. We're just ordinary folk sharing and trying to help each other out.
I also watched the video and enjoyed the 'family' atmosphere of those musicians. I'm an Aussie, so I don't 'Yeeeee Haaaaa' at anything ... ever. But if I'd heard that holler during the video, I wouldn't have thought it out of place.
I think what I'm trying to say is that those of us ignorant of the differing genres of violin/fiddle or any other type of instrumental music really appreciate input from those who do know where they're coming from.
Oliver, make sure you post a pic of your little car. Congratulations on making 1000, I think you're king now, aren't you?
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
@Oliver- I have the Glasser bows and the older one has a loose plastic padding. I have thought about cutting the dang thing off. An alternate thought- it could be used as a counter weight slid down the other end- ha!
I have noticed many Irish fiddlers choke up on the bow- looking at the Comhaltas competitions, it seems more do than holding it at the frog. I am not sure why they do- does make one wonder. I think I'll ask my Dublin trained fiddler friend on Facebook.
The Faded Love video was nifty! I love seeing a house full of musicians (: I am surprised though no one was playing harmony. They could have had a triple fiddle thing going on, ala Johnny Gimble/Bob Wills/Asleep at the Wheel version- love that!
Well dang, that's sad that Barry left! I live in the same neck of the woods as Barry, in fact, ON the bluff of the Cumberland river (: I wish I had seen this when it was first posted. The one thing that impressed me about this site is that fiddlers of all genres can learn from this site, and from one another. I may have been trained classically, but there was a CDB (Charlie Daniels Band) sticker on my violin case throughout school, and my dad took me to many a CDB Day out in Mt. Juliet, TN. When I wasn't practicing for orchestra, Jr. or Youth Symphony, I was listening and playing along with recordings of Charlie Daniels, Johnny Gimble, Papa Ti Jean Carignan, Joe Venuti, Chubby Wise, Don Messer, and many others. My orchestra teacher was very encouraging, even about me playing fiddle tunes by ear. Any technique, seriously, of any genre can be applied to another. I play mostly folk music now, but I am indebted to my orchestra teacher, Henry Hampton for the excellent classical training I got, and I honestly believe it has made me a more versatile player, able to play a variety of genres.
I always suspect that things particular to fiddle playing have a special pedigree of common sense that I am too brain washed to figure out. But I will continue to try the fiddlers' bow style now and then and hope for a eureka moment.
Meanwhile I am playing with my modified Glasser.
My guess is that Barry will reappear even if just for a short visit(s).
Yes, I think you are certainly right about Faded Love harmony.
PS While I'm here.....did any one mention the Christmas Program? See Free Music Lists for further info.
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement and want to include our whole families in honoring Black History Month and beginning a public dialogue about how racial justice is everyone's responsibility. Of course we believe that All Lives Matter -- but right now -- we want to emphasize that Black people are being hurt at a very high rate and that having black skin does mean that you are treated differently and most of the times in a bad way. We want our kids to appreciate and see that Black is Beautiful and Black Lives Matter!
This action is for the children, to each kids how to stand up to injustice and have a voice in the community for what's right. It is also for the parents, to show that it is vital to talk to your kids about race and there are developmentally appropriate ways to do it. ...
Important note: the content of the #BlackLivesMatter campaign is in response to racist violence, but since children have differing information about what's going on in the world, participants will not be discussing murder, and staying away from the slogans that infer killing. Instead, they will be focusing on how and why Black lives are valuable in their community. The organizers thank you for respecting this.
I'm not going to pretend that this event didn't feel slightly odd to me. The parents, mostly but not exclusively white, looked as if they came from up the hill in Noe Valley, a more affluent area. The market occupies the street in front of the Mission District landmark destroyed by fire early this month, a blaze that left over sixty people homeless. Most of the newly homeless are Latino immigrant families; many are children. This wasn't their march.
On the other hand, I would bet that the sort of parents who bring their kids to this sort of thing are the sort of people who helped raise $180,000 for the fire victims. For all its tensions, San Francisco can still sometimes delight.


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|Terminal 3 Changi Airport, first time flying to Sendai, will be visiting Yamagata & Matsushima Bay and lots of Temples.... :p
|Sendai Train Station
|Driving pass Stadium in Sendai City
|Famous Beef Restaurant, near the Cow Museum
|Look at fares on bus, then pay later... remember to go up the bus from the middle!
|Below, Ichibancho Shopping Arcade
|Sendai Station with the sky bridge
|Yamadera Temple
|Delicious Jelly balls, cooked with thier special broth... YUM!!
|Owner asking the dog to let me take a picture and not to be shy... hehehe
|Matsushima Bay
|Domestic Flight from Sendai to Narita Airport
|Asakusa, lots of tourist, famous Sensoji Temple
|Asahi Beer Tower on my left, with the beer drop facing forward...These are some of the pictures i'm sharing here... More shots in my flicker and the rest on my facebook...


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Make Money From Art™
Mentor & Student Paintings
Burra Regional Art Gallery
Feb 9-March 15, 2017
Jacqueline Coates with students of the Make Money From Art(TM) Program at the first Barossa Art Residency at Salon Rouge Gallery, Kapunda, SA in 2012
In 2012, South Australian artist and single mum Jacqueline Coates decided to take her art teaching practice and revolutionary Blooms Painting Method(TM) to the world and created the Make Money From Art(TM) Program, a new concept in art school involving teaching how to paint and how to create an art business that will succeed.
Almost five years later Jacqueline has mentored well over 100 students from all corners of the globe in her 12 month content program, as well as Australia wide with skype mentoring, comprehensive teaching manuals, an app and live painting workshop intensives. In February 2017 she will show the work of her students alongside her own and celebrate the successes of her students along the way.
Bon Beach Victoria artist Michelle Endersby learned how to paint
then had her first major exhibition in New York
Jacqueline's students have included a forensic criminal detective, mums, nurses, a wedding cake maker, an accountant, a jillaroo, a pharmacist, a banker, a family lawyer, a real estate agent, a school teacher and a yoga teacher. They have come from outback Queensland and all states of Australia, from Dubai, New Jersey in the USA, Singapore, NZ, and Kuala Lumpur.
Jacqueline started by creating a wish list she would have loved to have had herself as an emerging artist, to help new artists flourish, be empowered quickly and support themselves in their own business with a distinctive body of work instead of wasting valuable time making typical mistakes most do when starting out.
Students and graduates of the Make Money From Art Program have successfully shown in New York, New Orleans,
had their painting splashed across a designer range of clothes, created home wares ranges and other products, sold commissions and plenty of paintings to pay for their art habit during the the program with an attitude of earn while you learn. Far from being penniless artists, one student made $27,000 during the program from winning art prizes and selling paintings.
Far from being penniless artists, like most art school students are, it's the norm for Jacqueline's students to make money from their art whilst they learn to paint and create their business. One student made $27,000 during the program from winning art prizes and selling paintings on the way.
'The difference between how I teach and how a traditional art school teaches their students,' says Jacqueline, is the practical mentoring the participants receive from a real life selling artist, not an art teacher on a wage.
'I'm in the business of nurturing artrepreneurs, who can stand on their own two feet, believe in themselves, think laterally, not accept sheep thinking, and creatively support themselves through their art to enjoy a lifestyle as an artist. I also nurture their unique qualities so they can shine and enjoy appreciation from others.'
-Jacqueline Coates
Another student created a six figure income and was able to leave her job for good and take the family on a holiday they otherwise wouldn't have had if not for her art successes.
In February Burra Regional Art Gallery will host Jacqueline Coates art and her students, hold artist talks and workshops. The exhibition promises to be stimulating, and exhibit artists with wide ranging interests who make money from art.
Jacqueline will be launching her book Make Money From Art during the exhibition.
The Make Money From Art(TM) exhibition opens on February 9 to the public with
opening drinks and artists gathering Saturday 11th February, 2017
Commencing with a painting demo at 3pm
How to paint a large canvas in one hour or less.
SPEECHES FROM 5.30pm and auction of the demo painting all proceeds to the gallery.
10 am painting workshop booking via art gallery
How to mix hundreds of colours from 5 tubes of paint.
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Imagine having every tool you need to get your AR back in service, right from your pistol grip. The Samson Field Survivor is a multi-tool system that has a patent-pending mechanism which secures inside the pistol grip.
The Samson Field survivor contains:
The Field Survivor tool is the one tool necessary for every AR to keep you safe in Combat, or in play on the range. Just insert the Survivor into place and twist the base to lock it in to place. Then Field Survivor fits all AR pistol grips and Hogue AR15 Rev 2 grips.


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More currency collapse in Mad Bobby Mugabe's Maoist/racist hell on earth:
Bloomberg reports:
Zimbabwe's dollar plummeted 67 percent on the black market this week, forcing some retailers and gasoline stations in the capital, Harare, to stop trading.
The currency, officially pegged at 250 against the U.S. dollar, sold for as much as 300,000 a dollar on the streets, where most Zimbabweans exchange their foreign currency, money traders said. It has depreciated from 100,000 earlier this week and from 3,000 to the dollar on Jan. 20.
Inflation in Zimbabwe, the world's fastest-shrinking economy, accelerated to 4,530 percent in May, according to NMBZ Holdings Ltd., a Zimbabwean bank. The nation's statistics agency hasn't released figures for May yet.
The southern African nation is in its eighth successive year of recession after President Robert Mugabe began seizing white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to black subsistence farmers denied land during white rule. That slashed export earnings, sparking shortages of everything from motor fuel to the country's staple food, corn meal.
Read it here.
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January 25 marks 3 years since the world and our Supernatural family lost Kim Manners.
To remember Kim and celebrate what he means to us all
We're inviting everyone to join in...
A Very Special Tribute to Kim Manners
The Kick It In The Ass Supernatural Rewatch
We'll be synchronising our DVDs and watching 4 of Kim's best loved episodes....
All Hell Breaks Loose 2
No Rest For The Wicked
Lazarus Rising
So join us Sunday January 22 at 11am Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time (Sydney)
to remember Kim.
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I have been keeping an eye on Professor Trevor Marchand's on-going scholarship on learning a craft. While in Singapore a couple of weeks ago, I caught up on various publications archived on his webpage which includes videos summarising his work.
There is a video of his inaugural professorial lecture: The pursuit of pleasurable work: An anthropology of craft and craftspeople plus a shorter lecture discussing craft knowledge, learning and apprenticeship. The video of his inaugural lecture as a professor covers the work he undertook when he enrolled as a student of woodwork / furniture making. The shorter video summarises the focus of his work to date.
Some publications listed are available for download. Marchand's anthropological studies provides evidence of the socio-materiality and socio-cultural-political dimensions of craft work and of how apprenticeship learning contributes to the learning of crafts which often have scant verbal vocabulary to describe specific physical actions, approaches and problem solving strategies.


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Sunday, 2 November 2008
NAV 2009 Web Services and InfoPath
Lars Lohndorf-Larsen has already made a couple of posts on how to expose codeunits and pages as web services using the upcoming NAV 2009 three-tiered architecture and has provided a sample c# program for consuming them.
I'm using the Marketing Beta Release for this so any partner will be able to download the VPC image and repeat this exercise.
First of all, you'll need to expose the Customer Page (Object ID=21) as a web service with a service name of Customer. This is as simple as running form 810 Web Services and inserting a record with Object Type=Page, Object ID =21, Service Name=Customer and ticking the Published field.
If you enter http://localhost:7047/DynamicsNAV/ws/CRONUS_International_Ltd/Page/Customer in your web browser, you should see the WSDL for the page web service. It still amazes me how easy this is.
Now it's time to start up InfoPath. On the Getting Started page, click the Design a Form Template... option on the left hand pane.
In the Design a Form Template dialog, click the Web Service option and click OK.
Select the option to Receive and submit data and click the Next button. Paste the URL for the Customer Web Service into the field that is asking for the location of the data connection web service. If you used the right URL (I just copied it from my browser address bar after I had checked the WSDL for my web service) you should see the following screen when you click Next.
I found this screen a little confusing because I've never used InfoPath before I didn't realise it is wanting me to tell it which method can be used for reading data from the web service. Select the ReadMultiple option and click Next. On the next screen, you get an opportunity to name the data connection. I left mine as the default Main query and clicked Next. The next screen askes for the URL to the web service that will be used when users submit their changes. It defaults to the previous URL so just click Next. On the following screen you are asked to select the operation that will be used for submitting the data. I selected UpdateMultiple and clicked Next.
On this page we need to specify where the Customer comes from so I clicked the Modify button next to the Field or group text box and drilled down until I could select the Customer Node in the XML structure.
You can leave the name for the data connection as Main submit and click the Finish button. If all went to plan, you should now have a new template to drag your fields on to.
Drag the filter group on to the Query fields area of the design surface and select the option to add the groups as a repeating table. This way users will be able to add any filter fields to the read command. You can select the properties of these fields and set a default value - for example, Field defaults to No. and Criteria defaults to *. This will ensure you get some records back. You will also need the setSize parameter since this is mandatory for the ReadMultiple operation. Drag this on to the control surface and give it a default of 100. You should have a query section that looks something like this.
Now expand the dataFields node and drag the Customer node on to the fields area of the design surface and once again select Repeating Table as the option. This puts in every field which is way too much so just right click on the table after you have created it and selec the properties, then click the Change Binding button. You will see a tree that is expanded to show the customer node, that's fine, just click Next and you'll get on to a dialog where you can remove fields. For a quick way to remove all fields, click in the Columns in table list box and hold down Alt+R until there are no fields left - now you can click on the fields you want and add them. I used No, Name, Address and City. You should re-size the fields so they fit the available space and have a larger Name and Address field. Now it's time to run the form and see what happens. Click the Preview button. When prompted, select the option to connect rather than work offline. Hit the Run Query button and accept the dialog box and you should see something similar to the following.
Nice! OK now you can try editing the name of one of the customers and hitting the submit button. If you see a dialog saying "The form was submitted successfully, you've just updated the NAV data!
14 comments:
- Ian Piddington said...
Cool example when I tried it everything appears to work, I get the success message back when submitting my changes but when I look in NAV or re-run the query the changes haven't committed to the database. I am no Infopath expert so I may have missed something in the form.
- 2 December 2008 at 7:40 PM
Ya, I did follow the same example and noticed that the UpdateMultiple method of the web service ONLY update changes made to the first record on the first Repeating table row. Any changes to the following rows are not updated back to NAV.
- 15 January 2009 at 4:08 AM
- Gaspode said...
Hi Maged, thanks for leaving a comment, I really appreciate it. Yes you're right the Web Service with Infopath is really simple but the drag and drop method doesn't update any records other than the first. I am going to try and find out how to do this using configuration and if I cannot, I'll post some code to do it. If anyone else solves this first, please feel free to blog it and post a link here.
- 16 January 2009 at 9:54 PM
Hey Gaspode! Thanks a lot for your explanation. It works like a charm, I do have some problems while creating an Sales Order or Customer: some Date fields are required in InfoPath but are read-only in NAV. Therefore I cannot submit the record without an error. Any help is much appreciated!
- 12 February 2009 at 5:12 AM
- Gaspode said...
Hi Merlin, Hmmm. Maybe you should post a question on dynamicsuser.net or mibuso.com. I have tried to get some help from InfoPath experts but things seem to be a bit slow moving. I'd like to solve the problem of updating all records and not just the first, but this date one is new to me. Are you including non-editable (like Date Last Modified) fields on the InfoPath form?
- 12 February 2009 at 8:46 AM
- mootsoo said...
Hi Gaspode
Thanks for this post. It looks nice.
But i have problem to do this.
I have installed full version of NAV2009 and also i have license.
But I couldn't find Form810. And also i couldn't create page in my page designer. Can you tell me why it is?
- 23 February 2009 at 3:30 PM
- Gaspode said...
Hi Mootsoo, it seems to me that the license you are using has not been upgraded to work with the RoleTailored client. If you get a newer version of your developer's license you should be fine with this. For this particular example, you can use the CRONUS demo license as we are not writing any code in NAV.
- 24 February 2009 at 9:43 AM
- mootsoo said...
Hi Gaspode
Thank you for answering.
Yeah your right. Now i have Form810 :).
But one problem there.
I don't understand that URL. I couldn't connect it. Can you explain that URL?
- 24 February 2009 at 2:07 PM
- Gaspode said...
Hi Mootsoo, there is a pretty good explanation of the URL in my book and you are lucky because you can read the section as a free article on the publisher's web site. Take a look at "Where do I find that URL?" in the article http://www.packtpub.com/article/extending-application-using-microsoft-dynamics-nav-2009-part1.
- 24 February 2009 at 6:58 PM
- mootsoo said...
Hi Gaspode
Thanks, i have connected.
But also there is a problem. When i doing like this your article, that error comes: WSDLReader:Could not find '/definitions' inside the default WSDL namespace HRESULT=0x80004005: Unspecified error
- WSDLReader:Loading of the WSDL file failed HRESULT=0x80004005: Unspecified error
If i doing in Visual Studio it can't specify namespace Webservice. And also Customer_Service, Customer_Filter - missing assembly reference.
But i can't solve this problem.
- 24 February 2009 at 7:57 PM
- Gaspode said...
Hi Mootsoo, Hmmm. I'm not really sure I understand what your problem is. If you enter the URL to your service into Internet Explorer, do you see a valid WSDL file? You need to ensure this is correct first, maybe you are not putting in the correct URL, or maybe you have other problems with the web service. As for the Visual Studio, I'm not sure what you're getting at there. If you are on dynamicsuser.net you can private message me with your e-mail address and I might be able to help more.
- 26 February 2009 at 8:46 PM
- mootsoo said...
i have sent you short e-mail.
- 1 March 2009 at 4:30 PM
I am unable to browse to the WSDL document. I am new to Navision, just studying for my C/SIDE Intro exam. I can see my web services in my role tailored client, and they are published. Am I missing a step? Thank you for any help you can give a novice.
- 18 June 2009 at 9:14 AM
- Gaspode said...
Hi Nicole, make sure your Microsoft Dynamics NAV Business Web Services service is running. If it is, try typing in the URL into Internet explorer. Follow the links at the start of this blog for Lars's basic how to guide on accessing Web services and also see the free article extract from my book on the PACKT web site. You can find links to this from www.teachmenav.com.
- 18 June 2009 at 9:41 AM


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|Neapolitan cookies I made for my girls!
In other news, every once in a while the FOCUS headquarters ask us to submit a campus story about something with a student, event, extraordinary Bible study or the like. I volunteered to write this one and just thought I'd share it with all of you:
September 21, 2011 – Story for corporate from NDSU
When I applied to be a missionary at the beginning of this year I could not wait to hit the college campus, inspire young women the way I had been impacted by FOCUS missionaries and most of all, have the time and energy to continually reach out to the students and do fun spur-of-the-moment activities with them. Since I arrived in Fargo my entire scheme has been flip-flopped and rather than being the only one reaching out to the students, they have greatly surprised a lot of us and actually want to make plans and reach out to me. You might be thinking, "Wow, not rocket science Kelsey, of course the students want to get to know you and hang out with someone who is as excited about everything as you are." Okay, so that was my first "A-ha!" moment.
I also figured, "Okay, so if they actually do want to hang out with me, it will probably be all the hard-core Catholics who hang around Newman all the time and see me everyday regardless. Well if it weren't for yet another surprise being thrown my way, and her name is Lindsey. Joe, one of the male student leaders, passed me the name of a grad student he worked with all summer who, "isn't Catholic but she needs something like this. And she ran track in college so she'll fit right in with your athlete study." He also threw a caveat my way: Lindsey does not really care for the Catholic faith nor want a whole lot to do with it. Great, I instantly thought, she already doesn't like me.
|Jamie (freshman in my study) and I having fun after the hayride
That following Friday we got coffee and I think I can pinpoint it as one of the highlights of my semester thus far. Not only is she a strong Christian woman with outstanding morals, but she actually likes to ask me questions and has been trying to get to know me just as much as I have been her. And she thinks I'm interesting—you certainly cannot go wrong there! That first coffee date we planned to go hiking in Minnesota that coming Sunday and since then she has been the one asking me to randomly hang out, go for a bike ride to get some ice cream, come over to meet her grandfather who's in town, go for sunrise runs, etc.
The coolest part about my budding friendship with Lindsey is that we can be 100% ourselves with one another, ask each other questions about our pasts, thoughts, desires, ideals and most importantly, our faiths. Not only has she been continuously coming to study each week, but also she recently sent me a couple of sermons about communion and would like to get together to talk about it and see what I think about communion (a.k.a. the Eucharist), since she understands how different our opinions and beliefs are. I cannot wait! No matter how the Holy Spirit works in both of our lives it truly is an amazing experience to be able to just live my life, spend time with her doing ordinary activities and growing together as sisters in Christ. God is good, all the time.
Until next time, please keep myself, the other missionaries and all of the students at NDSU in your prayers, God bless you!
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Regulator continues probe into Satyam fraud
Special teams of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday continued their probe for the second day into the Rs 70-billion Satyam fraud.business Updated: Jan 09, 2009 12:52 IST
Special teams of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday continued their probe for the second day into the Rs 70-billion Satyam fraud.
A three-member SEBI team headed by its southern regional manager A Sunil Kumar was checking the books at Satyam offices here and Bangalore, while another team was looking into the records of Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), auditors of the scam-tainted company, at its Jubilee Hills office.
SEBI officials also talked to Satyam executives to verify Raju's statement, which he made on Wednesday while resigning as the firm's chairman.
The sensational confession by the chief of India's fourth largest IT services provider that the company cooked its books resulting in "inflated (non-existent) cash and bank balances" over several years has left thousands of investors and company employees in the lurch.
Satyam's interim chief executive Ram Mynampati confirmed that the SEBI team visited the Satyam office and spoke to associates. "We expect this process to continue for a few more days," he told a news conference on Thursday evening.
It is not clear whether SEBI officials will question Ramalinga Raju, his brother B Rama Raju and V Srinivas, who resigned as managing director and chief financial officer respectively.
Meanwhile, rumours of Raju's imminent arrest continued for the third consecutive day, with television channels reporting that he was likely to be arrested soon following mounting pressure on the state government.
The police, however, maintain that they would take action only after receiving a complaint from shareholders or regulators. They have ruled out any action on their own on the basis of Raju's statement.
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Ending speculations on Raju's whereabouts, his lawyer, S Bharat Kumar, on Thursday said he was in Hyderabad and had no intention to avoid the process of law.
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The council agreed to seek more than $195,000 in block grant funds for a handful of programs, including improving street lights, curbs and facades of downtown buildings. Property owners could receive money for improvements by grants, low-interest loans or partial payment toward the total cost of improvement projects, said Borough Manager Lloyd Hamberger.
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Stunning. I was so taken with these images, these beautiful cases of precious stones, that I didn't think for a minute of the potential metaphor buried in them, questions of value and environmental determinism. Is this a metaphor for artists who aspire to beauty and worth but are not born to the purple? Is it that the rich are different from you and me, that those who are surrounded by the means more closely associated with the beautiful, or those who have access to what is precious, can create a more intensely beautiful body of work?
My students struggle with this question too: is my sense of my world something out of which art may be made? When they struggle with subjects for their poems, they can't help but note that, in some of the books we read, some of us have had vivid, important lives: delightfully splendid, intense, fantastic, terrific, loud, eye-catching material, more immediately attractive. (It's a popular concern these days; a current Rolling Stone article about the phenomenon that is HBO's Girls recounts a twentysomething tweeting: "Lena Dunham is everything I could've been if I hadn't gone to public school in Nebraska.")
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LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A UK court has ruled that SABMiller shareholders can be treated as two classes when they vote on the company's takeover by Anheuser Busch InBev , granting the request from the brewer for a split.
The 79 billion pound ($103 billion) deal requires 75 percent approval by SAB shareholders. The largest two, which together control about 40 percent of the shares, have already signalled their support.
SAB requested that those two shareholders - cigarette maker Altria Group and Bevco, a vehicle of Colombia's Santo Domingo family - be treated as a separate class.
A split would effectively raise the hurdle, since each class would have to approve the terms by three-quarters.
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