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The Adventures of Dary Stone
The Dallas commercial real estate exec's career path has meandered through politics, banking, finance, and education. Here's what's next.
When Dary Stone found himself out of a job in 1982 after his boss, Texas Gov. Bill Clements, lost a reelection bid, Bob Perry, a Houston homebuilder and top GOP fundraiser, offered the then-29-year-old attorney some advice. "He told me I needed to focus on just one thing," Stone says with a wry smile. "I've studiously avoided doing so."
In fact, Stone's career path has meandered through a number of different fields—and he has excelled in each.
Along with serving as a director of Cousins Properties Inc., today he also maintains his own firm, RD Stone Interests, helps run a local wealth management concern, oversees real estate investments for Tom Hicks, and is driving development of a $250 million football field for Baylor University.
"I'm very lucky," he says. "All of the things I've done in one area have sort of slopped over into others."
This past fall, Cousins Properties' third-party client business, which operates in Dallas and Atlanta, was sold to Cushman & Wakefield. That's led to a shift in focus for Cousins—and Stone, who's now concentrating on acquisition and development pursuits in Texas.
He works out of an office in Hicks Holdings' suite at the Crescent in Uptown. Hicks calls his colleague "remarkably talented."
"Certain people can multitask, keep all the balls in the air—Dary is like that," Hicks says. "He's also a great communicator, and he's very competitive. He has basketball games at his place on Saturday mornings, and he gets the best of most guys, even if they're better athletes."
The son of an FBI agent, Stone moved with his family to Dallas from Washington, D.C., in 1968, when his father became chief of the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science. It was the middle of his sophomore year. After attending integrated schools out east, he found himself at the lily white, affluent Hillcrest High. On the first day of classes, Stone noticed a group of girls wearing leather jackets emblazoned with "Panadeers," and mistook the drill team for a gang—"a very attractive girls gang, but still a gang," he says.
Stone went on to attend Baylor University, then Baylor Law School. He was just 23 when he graduated and took a job at what's now Fanning Harper Martinson Brandt & Kutchin PC. Within weeks, he was approached by a friend to help with the Texas gubernatorial campaign of Bill Clements, founder of SEDCO, once the world's largest offshore drilling company. Stone thought it would be a good way to help build his law practice, took a leave of absence, and signed on.
His job was to go into towns like Midland or Abilene or McAllen and call on people in Clements' Boy Scout or TIPRO (Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners) directories and get them organized into groups. A campaign event would be held, and Stone would move onto the next burg. After winning the primary against Ray Hutchison, Clements asked Stone to become his personal assistant during the general election, and deputy general counsel in his administration. Among other things, Stone was in charge of pardons and paroles. "You couldn't get out of prison without going through my office," he says.
Clements loaned Stone to Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign in 1980. He served as organization director for Texas, a critical state for propeling Reagan into the White House. Stone was then named to head an agency that looked after the state's interests in D.C. "It was a cool time to be in Washington," he says. "Jimmy Baker was chief of staff, Karl Rove was another guy who worked with us. There were a lot of 'Texans-go-to-Washington' guys, and it was a ton of fun."
Segue into Real Estate
With an "Extreme Right Wing" plaque prominently displayed on the wall behind his office desk, there's no doubt as to where Stone's political loyalties lie. But it was a Democrat who helped him get into commercial real estate. Back when Clements was first running for governor, Stone became friends with his counterpart on Democratic opponent Steve Hill's staff, Steve Van. After Hill lost to Clements, Van went to work for Criswell Development Co. in Dallas. When Stone found himself in a similar situation four years later, Van, who today serves as president and CEO of Dallas-based Prism Hotels & Resorts, helped bring Stone into the Criswell fold. There, he worked on Spectrum Center, 8080 Central, and "the big building downtown," Fountain Place.
In 1986, Clements prevailed in a comeback bid, and appointed Stone as chairman of the state's finance commission, the regulatory authority for state banks and savings and loans. It was during a time of profound change in the industry. When Stone began his post, there were about 240 state-chartered S&Ls; when he left, there were five.
By then, Stone had formed his own real estate firm, RD Stone Interests. His first acquisition was Spectrum Center. Knowing about the regulatory environment at the time, he brought in FADA (Federal Asset Disposition Association) as a tenant. The group took 7,000 square feet. "Ultimately, that became FSLIC, then RTC, then FDIC—and 240,000 square feet," Stone says. "I had the only growing tenant in Dallas. That kept my mortgage current, and kept me in business."
In the early 1990s, Stone was approached by North Carolina developer Henry Faison to do a joint venture and pursue opportunities in Texas. Faison Stone worked on a number of projects in Austin, then won a huge prize: the operation and management of Las Colinas, one of the country's largest master planned developments.
Las Colinas' primary owner at the time, pension fund TIAA of New York, was looking for a firm that didn't have any bad loans, and someone with political connections. Faison Stone fit the bill. After winning the deal, the firm went from having about 20 North Texas employees to 150. "We took over at a time when Las Colinas was a disaster," Stone says. "Everything was posted for foreclosure, occupancies were dropping, bankruptcies were happening every day. And we had all of this land—which is the last thing you want when there's no market for development."
The firm aggressively pursued corporate relocations. It moved Transamerica into the iconic Williams Square, and inked several big land sales to ExxonMobil and others. Perhaps most significantly, Cousins was successful in getting zoning changes that allowed for multifamily and other non-office uses.
Faison sold his firm to Trammell Crow Co. in the late 1990s. Stone didn't want in on the deal, as redundancies in the market likely would have left many on his team without a job. His group was hotly pursued by other suitors. Ultimately, Stone merged his company with Cousins Properties Inc. of Atlanta.
"A lot of times the story of a private entrepreneur who sells to a public company is a short, ugly one," Stone says. "But the story with Cousins, because it's such a terrific company, has worked out fantastic."
Chairing the Board of Baylor
Stone's influence has also extended to his beloved alma mater, Baylor University. He joined the board in 2004, and served as its chairman from 2009-2011. During that time, his son, Dary Jr., was on the football team (along with Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III).
During his tenure, Stone led the effort to hire a new university president—Ken Starr, famous for his independent counsel investigations of then-President Bill Clinton—and the capital campaign for the school's new football stadium. Stone is still involved in that project, which is set to debut in 2014.
Current board chairman Richard Willis, CEO of Navarre Corp., says Stone's varied experiences have benefited Baylor. "He was very good at bringing practical solutions, making sure we were flexible, and educating the board on best practices," Willis says. "And without Dary, we wouldn't have made progress on the stadium. He raised more money for us in six months than we did in four years. He's always willing to fill whatever role the university needs him to fill. I think he'd dig a ditch for us if we asked."
Today, Stone spends most of his time on projects for and with Hicks, and on pursuits for Cousins, whose local holdings include 2100 Ross, a 33-story downtown skyscraper the firm purchased in August. He continues to work with the third-party team he first built at Cousins 20 years ago, but this time as a Cushman & Wakefield client.
Stone, whose "aw-shucks" manner stands in contrast to the many chest-pounders in Dallas commercial real estate, says his success is more a fortune of circumstance than anything else. "I'm a pretty average talent in all things," he says. "I worked in politics when the state was shifting from Democrat to Republican, in banking during the S&L crisis, in real estate during a time of unprecedented change and growth, and for Baylor during its renaissance. I'm really just a product of being part of the greatest city and state I can imagine."


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Explorations I: Dichotomy
I have always been fascinated by the forms and symmetries of the natural world and have been exploring them with my work. I therefore started seeking compositions and representations in the human body as I explore our relationship with it.
Dabbling in the medium of painting, I discovered the compositional theories of the painter Gordon Onslow Ford on dot-line-circle as primary structural elements. I now seek those in the body.
I use black and white sepia tones to shift the perspective from the sensual to the abstract.
I also use strong contrast, with little graduations of gray, to raise questions on how the body relates to the self. Questioning the dualistic theory of body and mind as separate and the cultural paradigms associated with either, I explore the intrinsic relationship in the form of the Buddhist n?mar?pa.
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Several Twilight cast members left Vancouver today to head to the Teen Choice Awards in LA. Last night they once again gathered together for a group dinner, walking in a row downtown, reminds me of that press shot of Friends…was it Season 7?
By request, Twi-Hards, by request, the photos are attached.
Eating together and also working out together – here are Kellan Lutz and Elizabeth Reaser after the gym. Kellan as you can see is totally ripped. Me I'm not down with dudes who walk around in beaters. This is a personal preference. Am sure many, many, many of you don't mind. It's whatever quivers your lady business. Beefcakes have never quivered my lady business. Please however go ahead and let the Lutz quiver your lady business. I'm your pusher.
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Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 10: My What Teeth You Have!
Tooth of Anisopleurodontis pricei discovered by Mayana de Castro Silva, an undergraduate student who is working at the Federal University of Piauí with Juan Cisneros. Photo by Ken Angielczyk.
In a previous post, I noted that many of the fossils we find are the remains of sharks that lived in the Parnaíba Basin. Yesterday and today we found several teeth in the course of our work that are both very impressive and are representative of a group of sharks that many people are unaware of, even though members of the group persist today.
The Holocephali are known by several common names, including ratfish and chimeras. The latter name is especially fitting because members of the group often look like they were put together from a random assortment of spare parts from other sharks and bony fish. Most chimeras in the modern biota live in deep ocean waters and or of limited economic importance, so they are infrequently seen by the general public.
One species of fossil chimera, Anisopleurodontis pricei, is known only from the Permian of the Parnaíba Basin. We didn't find any fossils of it on our trip in 2011, but this year we've been finding a lot of them, perhaps because we're looking for fossils in a slightly different way. Mayana de Castro Silva, and undergraduate student working with Juan who is on the trip started the flood yesterday when she found a beautifully preserved isolated tooth. Christian Kammerer followed up this afternoon by finding a set of several teeth that likely belonged to one individual. Even Jose, one of our drivers who likes to look for fossils, got in on the action when he found a tooth embedded in the rock forming the floor of a stream bed.
A tooth of Anisopleurodontis pricei that is part of a set found by Christian Kammerer. Note the elaborate ridged ornamentation on the base of the sides of the teeth. Photo by Ken Angielczyk.
Like most sharks, the majority of the skeleton of Anisopleurodontis pricei was composed of cartilage; therefore we only know it from its teeth. Chimeras tend to have relatively large heads for their body size, so it's likely that Anisopleurodontis pricei was in the range of two to three meters long in life, even though its teeth are impressively large. Many chimeras known from the Permian seem to have had diets consisting of hard-shelled prey, like bivalves, snails, brachiopods, and ammonoids (shelled relatives of squid and octopods that resembled the living chambered nautilus). However, they tend to have broad, flattened teeth suitable for crushing, unlike the taller, concical teeth of Anisopleurodontis pricei. This might mean that Anisopleurodontis pricei had a diet that included animals like fish that it could puncture its teeth. On the other hand, some of the teeth we found today have wear facets on them, which formed when the teeth were rubbing against resistant parts of prey, so maybe Anisopleurodontis pricei was something of an omnivore, eating both fish and hard-shelled prey.
We also have been having good luck finding tetrapods over the last couple of days. So far they are all amphibians, but we've found a mixture of skull and jaw bones, as well as parts of the limbs. Most of these seem to represent Prionosuchus, but one little specimen that was found by Domingas da Conceiçáo (another undergraduate working with Juan who was also on the 2011 trip) seems to represent a new kind of amphibian. Its small size, combined with the fact that the curvature of its jaw is indicative of an animal with a much shorter, broader skull than Prionosuchus implies that is something different. If further study does confirm that the specimen is not Prionosuchus, it will be only the second species of terrestrial vertebrate known from the Pedra de Fogo Formation, and thus an important discovery.
Small amphibian jaw that might represent a new species from the Pedra de Fogo Formation. The picture shows the top surface of the jaw, with the broken surface of the teeth. Photo by Ken Angielczyk.


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Brilliant!... now i have my 11 yr. old, son a Mets fan, hooked!ReplyDelete
Right after the game he says to me " who do you think the Artist Joe will paint for tonight's win. we both went with R.A.! ... well done.
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- AnonymousJune 12, 2010 at 1:17 AM
Kept checking the site after the game and decided to check one last time before bed... this one is awesome! I hope you have two more reasons, tomorrow and Sunday, to draw a scared Oriole! R.A. looks great in this, and he's looking great on the field - thrilled to see that the Mets are only 1.5 out of first place, and I absolutely can't wait to see your work during next week's Subway Series! Let's Go Mets!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 12, 2010 at 1:31 AM
I can't WAIT to see what you draw the day Beltran finally rejoins the club! PS: Love the Ollie in the Box drawings...hysterical! You make my night after every game. LGM!ReplyDelete
Hey Ryan! Thanks for checking out my drawings! it's great to hear we have another young Mets fanReplyDelete
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R.A. is one of the top pitchers in the NL East! I hope to see more great starts out of him.ReplyDelete
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I just love your watercolors and art.
My daughter is a big sports nut (a hockey player), a mets fan and a great artist. She is going to be jazzed to see your watercolors
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After the rash of nasty hits this past weekend (who knew football involved hitting people?), the NFL is taking drastic steps to curb vicious helmet-to-helmet hits, namely larger fines and threatening players with suspensions.
But these stricter enforcements are designed only to make it look like the NFL is trying to do something. Looking like you're fixing something and actually fixing it are two different things, and these bigger fines aren't going to solve the problem, if indeed the NFL truly wants to solve it.
Football is, inherently, a contact sport. You can do your best to prevent concussions, but you'll never get rid of them entirely, just as you'll never be able to rid the sport of torn ACLs, sprained ankles and Tony Siragusa.
Part of the problem, at the least the way I see it, is in the design of the NFL's protective gear, namely helmets. The NFL wants to avoid helmet-to-helmet collisions, because they can lead to severe neck and brain injuries. Doesn't that suggest to you that the helmet itself is part of the problem?
You could argue that NFL players right now are TOO well-protected. The helmets they use are so heavily cushioned on the inside and so rigid on the outside, that it's easy to feel like you can bash your head against anything and come out intact.
Take it from someone who played football for ten years. Wearing a helmet makes you much more inclined to bash your head against things. Just ask Gus Frerotte. You see players bash their helmets together right before games to get fired up.
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Do you see basketball players doing the same thing with their bare heads? No, you do not. That would be insane.
With so much protection on your head and your shoulders, an individual has far less fear about launching himself into other people and objects. Your instinct to slow down and protect your own head is removed.
That's the problem with helmet-to-helmet hits right now. The hits are bad, but the helmet makes the hits that much worse. They speed up the collision, make your head that much harder, and expand the size of your head's surface area to make a collision with another head more likely.
There are contact sports that allow tackling and don't use helmets, as you well know. Rugby and Australian rules football are both sports that feature rough tackling, but the absence of helmets and pads make tacklers much more self-aware of HOW they're tackling someone else. You're not gonna lower your head and leave your feet to drill someone if you know your head is utterly defenseless.
If the NFL is serious about reducing concussions (I suspect they aren't), then they need to stop looking at how players play and more at what they're wearing. And they're going to need ask medical professionals if sending players out onto the field fully armored does more harm than good.


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Now that both sides have named their Ashes squads, we can ask the really important question...which side has the most google hits?
Andrew Strauss - 471,000
Alistair Cook - 491,000
Both unremarkable, a professor and a magician almost as famous
Kevin Pietersen - 897,000
KP's 2nd favourite band, McFly, performed a song about him called 'It's all about you.' None of these hits involve KP talking about anyone else.
Ravi Bopara - 361,000
Decent total at first glance for the newcomer, but it turns out that most of these are about KP and just happen to mention Bopara.
Paul Collingwood - 501,000
Seems to be a lot more interest in him than is warranted
Ian Bell - 901,000
Suprising result, further research indicates 897,000 of these results also include the word 'sherminator'
Matt Prior - 10,500,000
Surely some shenanigans going on here...suspect Zaremba's involvement. Regardless, expect Flintoff and Pietersen to demand 'google parity'
Andrew Flintoff - 525,000
Yet again the results do not live up to the hype
Stuart Broad - 466,000
Including Stephanie Broad adds another 3.08m results
Adil Rashid - 326,000
Slightly more popular than Chris Hinton
Graeme Swann - 582,000
Less popular than his brother
Ryan Sidebottom - 251,000
Sponsored links to hair salons make up the bulk of these results
James Anderson - 21,100,000
James Anderson didn't know that James Anderson was so popular
Graham Onions - 717,000
98% Involve at least 1 pun
Monty Panesar 195,000
Results for Monty Panesar + Scaly Piscine total 187,694
Tim Bresnan 68,100
My ISP may have filtered out links originating from unreliable areas
England Total 38,352,100 average 2.397m
Phil Hughes 1,090,000
Before he became a cricketer he was George Bests Agent, so presumably he can sink a few
Simon Katich 111,000
Apparently he likes to be known as Duck Blaster
Ricky Ponting 921,000
92% also include the phrase Well have a bowl
Mike Hussey 366,000
Used to have the highest number no. of hits since Headley, has slumped recently
Michael Clarke - 23,100,000
Virtual Fairs Why Bother?, indeed
Marcus North - 3,660,000
There seems to be a whole town named after him, kudos.
Shane Watson 402,000
Amongst the double glazing adverts, it seems Shane has written a handy guide for those of us looking for a man after 40
Brad Haddin 147,000
Adam Gilchrist has nearly 4 times as many
Andrew Macdonald 3,690,000
None of these hits are about him
Mitchell Johnson 8,950,000
For those who havent seen him he looks like this:
Nathan Hauritz 47,800
Slightly lower than his bowling average
Stuart Clark 465,000
Has his own breakfast show on Delta Radio
Brett Lee 1,720,000
Is apparently named after a greyhound. I did not know this.
Ben Hilfenhaus 44,400
Peter Siddle 94,200
Graham Manou 47.400
If they made a pact between them to talk about each other all the time they could boost their profiles.
Australia total 44855400, average 2.803 million
So it looks like a victory for a Michael Clarke inspired Australia, England deserved underdogs for the Ashes


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Anti Snoring Chin Strap Clinic Edinburgh - . My Snoring Solution is actually a chin strap for snoring maintain lower jaw in an upward position during sleep. A lot of men and women who snore loudly while sleeping have been said to have a problem with their jaws dropping backward while sleeping. Hence, this results to the tongue vibrating contrary to the throat.
The use of a jaw supporter will keep the jaw in upward position and consequently reduce air velocity and soft tissue vibration. Therefore, you are doing the right thing if you think your snoring problem can only be solved using My Snoring Solutions chin strap. -
What Is a Chin Strap?
Technically speaking, chin strap is a device that is designed to help us to fix every problem related to our chin. In this instance, the biggest issue is your snoring habit that has come to another level, which requires advanced solution. For that reason, you can decide to use a chin strap from My Snoring Solution.
If this is the 1st time you heard about this particular thing, here is some explanation. A chinstrap is normally manufactured from any materials from neoprene type or any flexible fabric that wraps over your head. A chinstrap is usually used under your chin to effectively reduce your snoring habit.
The chin strap from My Snoring Solution will keep your mouth shut and essentially will keep your chin comfortable while you are sleep. Basically, chin strap is a very straightforward device. You just simply slang it around your chin and over your face.
If you will also consider this chinstrap from My Snoring Solution as your snoring solution, you also have to about how exactly how this snore devices works, what are the advantages or the disadvantages with this device, and most importantly a vital step that you have to take before you are taking one of them home with you.
How does it Work?
Deciding a chin strap from My Snoring Solution as your snoring solution does not take much time. As well as understanding how a chin strap works. It will not like discovering a formula for a disease. It is very simple. The chin strap works by comforting your chin while you sleep and allowing your mouth to keep closed. Your closed mouth will automatically prevent any air to travel around your throat and around your tongue. Since your mouth is kept closed, the chin strap will encourage you to breathe through your nose.
The best thing that the chin strap from My Snoring Solution jaw supporter can do is when it allows you to produce healthy breathing pattern which gives any dividens in your battle against sleep apnea and your snoring habit. Therefore, the chin strap will also minimize any rapid flapping of any primary causes that constantly produce the sound of your snoring. This chin strap from My Snoring Solution will work well to those who are not nose snorers. This device is perfectly designed to help all snorers who are snoring through their mouth, not their nose.
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Best Chin Straps for Snoring
Since there many devices that you can rely on to solve your snoring problems, you have to choose wisely the best chin straps you will use. Without any doubt, the chin strap from My Snoring Solution is ranked highly among all of them. However, it is totally your right to have a look at any other chin straps products as your references.
Basically, a proper set of chin straps for snoring like what My Snoring Solution can offer will cost you some money if you compare it to TSD's, Mad's or BIPAP or CPAP masks and machines. It is not a secret that the top range can be up to $120, with the range usually starts from below $10 up to approximately $50.
A credible and trusted research states that there are over 100 brands that offer many solutions for our snoring problems, including using the snoring chin straps. Yet, there are only some brands that really stand out and are proven in solving a serious snoring problem. In fact, you are going to need a unique design; an approach that has never been used before that offers you so many advantages compared to any other products.
Therefore, getting the the most comfortable device to solve your serious snoring problem is like trials and errors experience, which cannot be done once. Here are the brands that really stand out and are proven in solving a serious snoring problem, as we have discussed before.
- My Snoring Solution
- SnoreShieldTM Aid
- Gideon Adjustable
- Sleep Well Pro
- Smartech Smart Sleep
- Care Fusion Puresom
- Natra Cure Anti-Snoring
An absolute good news for you since is My Snoring Solution ranked highest among those stand out and proven brands. Do not put the price as one of the considerations, whether you are going to purchase it or not. The most important thing is now you can find the best solution for your serious snoring problem once for all.
Does My Snoring Solution Jaw Supporter Work?
Actually, there are many ways that you can try to reduce your serious snoring problem. One of the so called ways is by using My Snoring Solution jaw supporter to keep your mouth closed while you sleep. However, you can never expect that this device will give you instant impact and result.
It is not like a magic where you can magically solve your snoring problem in one day. You have to let My Snoring Solution jaw supporter works well by giving it time in reducing your snoring volume. In another word, the jaw supporter works in two ways.
The first way is by getting rid of your snore, surely after some giving it some time. Many customers mostly wish the first way to work on them. However, the second way is also important since some people may only deal with the second way.
If the first way works by getting rid of the snoring, the second way works by reducing the volume of the snoring. In another word, the My Snoring Solution jaw supporter will work based on how loud the snoring volume is. The louder the snoring means the more time will be needed to reduce the snoring volume.
Basically, both ways can work well as long as you always use the My Snoring Solution jaw supporter every time you sleep. The point is this jaw supporter will work differently to to people. It means, it will more depend on how bad your snoring problem is. It will more depend on the person, not the device.
How to Use
When you have decided to use My Snoring Solution Chinstrap, you will have to go for anything related to it. Then, understanding how to use the device is important. Otherwise, it will not work well and you may think that you have just wasted your money for a useless thing.
Basically, using chinstrap from My Snoring Solution is quite simple. Once you see the device, you will have no difficulty in installing it to your head. There is only one clip on the device to make sure that it is connected to each other. The two holes you will see on the device are designed to place where your ears are. Place your ears there and make sure they are not stuck by the device.
My Snoring Solution come in three sizes; small, medium and large. Therefore, you also have to select the proper size for your head to provide the most comfortable condition once you use the device. Otherwise, the My Snoring Solution jaw supporter or chin straps will not work properly to solve your snoring problem. Once you have selected the proper size for your head, you can always set the looseness using the one clip provided.
Clinical Trial Test Results
Normally, customers will look for any significant results first before they decide to buy the so-called product. If that is the issue, you do not have to worry about any clinical trial test results that involve My Snoring Solution in it.
This brand is undoubtedly tested by many volunteers that have decided to participate in this new era; the era where snoring is not a big problem anymore for all bad snorers. The volunteers themselves are selected wisely based on the problems that probably can be solved using My Snoring Solution products.
As a result, the selected volunteers that have tried the product are the people with sleep disorders, sleep apnea syndromes and neurology problems. From the data, we can clearly see that My Snoring Solution products not only can solve your snoring problems but can also solve any other issues related to your sleep problems.
If My Snoring Solution products can also solve other sleeping problems, then actually you do not need to ask what the benefits of using the products are. The main benefit of using the chin strap is the fact that it is not invasive.
Unlike any TSD's or MAD's, you do not have to insert it into your mouth. Of course we all know how it feels to insert something into our mouth; it will be so uncomfortable. Using the My Snoring Solution chin straps will also reduce any possible issues related to jaw discomfort or tooth pain.
Surely it will make chin straps a perfect solution for people who are using dentures in their daily life. You do not have to worry about your dentures since you will never need to insert something into your mouth while you sleep. Not only that, a chin strap is also easy to to be cleaned and you can easily store them when you are not wearing them.
It is safe to say that a chin strap is perhaps the non-clinical device that can last long. Those facts just make My Snoring Solution chin straps a device with so many benefits.
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Where to Buy
Although you may have seen some My Snoring Solution complaints in reviews, the truth is that the reviews are overwhelmingly positive. This is a product that was designed with the serious snorer in mind and allows him or her to get a decent night's sleep without waking up their partner.
This anti-snoring chinstrap is sold only online at the official website, not available at Amazon, Walgreens, Walmart, CVS, Chemist Warehouse, Shoppers Drug Mart, Target, Reddit and on others retailers stores. For a limited time, My Snoring Solution is currently offering consumers a Buy One and Get One Free. My Snoring solution is priced at $119 and by availing of the special offer, you can keep one extra for yourself or share it with your partner or friend.
If you're live outside the U.S like UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Luxembourg, French, Brasil, Deutschland, Dubai Qatar, España Spain, Ireland, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, and other countries, the shipping cost is $19.95 (international shipping). While for the U.S.A, $9.95 for Standard Shipping (5 to 10 days) and $29.95 for Express Shipping (2 business days).
In addition to getting My Snoring Solution, you will also get a free DVD from the American Medical Review and a book called "The 7 Steps to Sleep Success" that will help you and your partner to get more sleep.
Before you think the My Snoring Solution complaints are for real, you owe it to yourself to give it a try. You will undoubtedly find out that the few My Snoring Solution complaints that are out there are not legitimate, and if you don't like the product, you can always return it for a full refund (only chinstrap product).
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Pros and Cons
However, there are always the pros and cons in everything we are talking about; so are in using My Snoring Solution chin straps.
- Your mouth is free from anything since you do not have to insert something into it
- Made of good material and trusted flexible fabric
- Really comfortable to wear
- You can wash the chin straps using machine
- Money back guarantee in case it does not work to you
Overall, the My Snoring Solution chin straps look good for those who snore through their mouth; especially when you do not have to insert something into your mouth. We all know that sleeping with something in our mouth will just disturb our sleep. More than that, you can have your money back if the devices do not work on you within the agreed days.
- Some customers think that the chin straps are too expensive
- There are no refunds on pillows and any S&H charges
- Unfortunately there is no license yet from the Better Business Bureau
- The products have not been cleared by the United States Food and Drug Administration
My Snoring Solution Info
Official website: mysnoringsolution.com
P.O. Box 509
Lillian, AL 36549
Money back guarantee: Yes
Coupon codes: No
Free trial: No
Free shipping: No
Return: Yes
Exchange: Yes
Forum: N/A
Email support: [email protected]
Contact: 1-800-44-76673 or +1-877-877-3089 (Customer service phone number)


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On sunday the 4yh of May I visited the Battle of Hoogstraten.
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I was a bit far away, but there are some nice ones in there. Or so I think
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The bleak, blunt French film Rust and Bone is a love story without romance, a bloody- knuckled fight picture absent a clear victor. By the end of the two hours, which feel like six, there are no winners or losers, only exhausted survivors - audience members included.
The bleak, blunt French film Rust and Bone is a love story without romance, a bloody- knuckled fight picture absent a clear victor. By the end of the two hours, which feel like six, there are no winners or losers, only exhausted survivors � audience members included.
That might sound like harsh criticism, but it is merely fair warning about the unflinching honesty and grimy worldview of acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet). This is an impressive piece of moviemaking but not a pleasant one � which says a lot for a film that is one-quarter sex scenes. Even the happy ending is a vague, precarious arrangement.
Set in the French Riviera, Rust and Bone entangles the wayward lives of Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), a killer-whale trainer at Marineland, and Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts), a destitute single father.
Ali is a man of few words but constant animalistic action, much to the detriment of his parenting. Thanks to his hulking stature and boxing past, Ali is hired as a bouncer at a club. There, Stephanie, having ditched her dull boyfriend, gets into a bloody, drunken scrap and needs a lift home. Ali leaves her his number, and she eventually uses it � but only when her life becomes as pathetic as his.
Cotillard, a striking actress, mutes her incandescence � especially when Stephanie loses both legs below the knees after a work accident and falls into a depression.
Unable to work with orcas � brutal beasts yet graceful when trained � she turns to the closest thing: Ali. �If we continue, we have to do it right � not like animals,� she scolds him. Yet Ali�s thoughtlessness � especially in bed, where he pays no heed to her new limitations � draws her closer. When he callously goes for a swim in front of her, she becomes so frustrated that she hits the water, too.
Cotillard was nominated for a Golden Globe; some thought she would get an Oscar nod as well. (She didn�t.) But, for as good as she is, Schoenaerts, a strapping Belgian, is the revelation. Ali is not a bad man, but he shrugs off violence.
If Schoenaerts would have tilted his portrayal in the direction of being either mentally challenged or sociopathic, the film would have collapsed. Instead, he plays Ali as a man with simple forward urges � including picking up a woman at a club right in front of a devastated Stephanie.


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Cafe Flora
2901 E. Madison St
Seattle, WA 98112
hours: vary according to season
*Look carefully at the picture and you can see me in yellow and Toddler Yum reflected in the window. Fun, huh?*
In another lifetime as an intrepid young vegetarian college student, I came to this vegetarian cafe restaurant with my significant other. I didn't have a food blog at the time, needless to say, so I didn't document the experience and had forgotten entirely about the place until I found myself standing in a parking lot and then an atrium that was eerily familiar. At that time, I don't think they had a gluten-free menu, so I had to navigate the place for myself with the help of the waitress. This time, I went specifically because of two phrases that turned up in a google search; "Gluten-free menu" and "Vegetarian." Those two little phrases don't come up much together, with a few exceptions. After spending the morning with my Dad at the Pike Place Market, gluten-free vegetarian fare sounded pretty good.
But as usual, when confronted with too many options I waffled. Everything sounded good.
I was going to be sharing with Toddler Yum, so I wanted to find two things to order. I was excited by the prospect of gluten-free sweet potato fries, until I found out that they were fried in a shared vat of oil with gluten stuff. Oops. The waitress helped by suggesting their seasonal pizza, which had heirloom tomatoes, corn, macadamia nuts and cheese. Their description sounded better than mine, but I can't find it on their current menu, so you will just have to trust my possibly faulty memory and eyeball the pizza to see what I might have left out. There was something green and herbal, I do believe. Cilantro? Basil Pesto? Who knows. The important thing was, when the pizza arrived, it WAS good, and beautiful too. Those tomatoes looked and tasted like they could have come straight out of my prized heirloom tomato garden.
The second menu item was a no-brainer. I was so smitten by the description of their Pesto Potato Quiche that I couldn't help but order it.
"Caramelized onions and Gruyere cheese baked in the traditional custard with a thin crispy potato crust and topped with fresh basil pesto; served with wild greens dressed in balsamic vinaigrette."
Um, yes please. We got the order in right in time, too, before they took the breakfast items off the table.
Just as I expected from that luscious description, the quiche was divine. Actually, I would have to say that it is probably the best darned quiche that I've ever had. That thin potato crust was perfect, and had me questioning if it was really gluten-free. (It was, but I had to reassure myself by neurotically questioning the waitress.) The filling was truly what took the quiche over into the realm of the heavenly, though. The sophisticated flavor of the cheese… the onions… the pesto… all the flavors melded together and showed me just how amateur the other quiches I'd had (and made myself at home) truly were. Oh, it was so good, and even Toddler Yum agreed. However, once she saw my Dad's portabella mushroom "burger" and fries, she was too busy stealing his fries* to eat much of my good food. *Toddler Yum is not eating fully gluten-free right now. In fact, we're trying to feed her gluten regularly so she can have the Celiac bloodwork done. I even had her try some of his gluten bread, although she did not like it.*
I thoroughly enjoyed my experience at Cafe Flora. The food and the ambiance is equally lovely. We started out in the atrium with waterfall, but moved because they have a kids play area that Toddler Yum became obsessed with on sight. Once she had seen it and gasped in rapture "Oh. My. Goooodness!" I knew keeping her out of it was going to be impossible. We moved closer to the play space. Nice play area and awesome food that didn't hurt my tummy, even 3 1/2 hours afterwards. Even my hardcore carnivore Dad seemed to enjoy it, and kept the "where's the beef" comments to a minimum. For him, this is big, so I was happy.
I would definitely recommend Cafe Flora and their sophisticated vegetarian menu for gluten-free folks in the area looking for a tasty meal. I just wish there was a similar place closer to me that I could go to regularly! They even have a cookbook which I assume you can purchase on Amazon for those who can't make it to Seattle or want to recreate their favorite dishes at home. Sounds good to me!
Other bloggers review Cafe Flora:
Oh Taste N See
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Parents' calendars are packed—it's often hard to even get the entire family together for dinner—so they have to look carefully at every new program offered. Parents want to know what their child will gain by attending and if it's something their child will want to do week after week.
FaitHWeaVeR FRienDS is a new mid-week program at Morenci Church of the Nazarene that organizers believe will be worth adding to the family calendar.
At FRienDS, kids connect the Christian faith with real life. Children will participate in projects, games and preparing snacks to share with friends. There is also a Surprise Station where kids are always kept guessing.
Each week there is something different including guest speakers, activities, science experiments and building projects. Each week children will apply what they've learned by completing a Weekly Challenge which will often be a service project to be completed at home so they will learn to serve others in a practical way.
With a variety of appealing activities, children should look forward to coming week after week, said organizer Tracy Schell. What kid doesn't like hanging out with friends and having fun?
An informational meeting and ice cream party is planned at 7 p.m. today (Wednesday). Families are invited to make their own banana splits and get a brief overview of FaitHWeaVer FRienDS. Highlights from MEGA Sports Camp will also be shown so families can see what a great time the kids had at the basketball and cheerleading camps.
Families should call the church at 458-7195 to reserve a place for the Aug. 20 meeting so there will be enough ice cream and toppings.


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Tradeshows Burst with Productivity Pushers
Software Plans, Monitors Laser and Waterjet Cutting
Bystronic's FABTECH booth displayed laser-cutting equipment with optimized process-monitoring capabilities and Plant Manager Cutting (PMC) automated programming; its Xpert series of press brakes that offer remote diagnostics to ensure optimized uptime and productivity; and Byjet waterjet-cutting systems. laser-cutting equipmentPMC performs planning and
Bystar modular laser-cutting machines (shown) cut flat sheet and plate as well as tubes and formed profiles. Material-thickness capacity is 1 in. in mild steel.
Bystronic Inc.: 631/231-1212; www.bystronicusa.com
Laser-Punch Combo; Press-Brake Control
Strippit LVD introduced the FABTECH crowd to its LP-1225 laser-punch combination machine. The machine combines the firm's latest hydraulic punch press and Fanuc's fast-axial-flow CO2 laser technology.
Cadman Touch control Also on display was an Easy-Form press brake, to help show off the company's new Cadman Touch control (shown). The control includes state-of-the-art infrared touchscreen technology running on a Windows XP-embedded PC-based control unit. Visitors to the booth were invited to develop
Strippit LVD: 716/542-4511; www.lvdgroup.com
New GTAW Torches Boast Greater Comfort and Control
Weldcraft introduced at FABTECH its newest addition to the Legacy series of gas-tungsten-arc-welding torches—the LS17 air-cooled torch—which features an innovative torch-handle design that is says improves welder comfort, control and productivity. It's rated at 150 A DC and 125 A AC. The unique, flexible knuckle joint at the base of the torch handle permits greater torch control and easier movement, say company officials, while also minimizing stress on the power cables and on the back end of the torch body. A styled soft-grip handle adds to operator comfort and prevents slipping to improve overall torch control. The torch is available with a 12.5- or 25-ft. single-piece rubber cable assembly.
Weldcraft: 920/882-6800; www.weldcraft.com
Laser-Cutting System with Compact Automated Material Handling
Syncrono 2D laser-cutting systemPrima North America, Inc., Chicopee, MA, demonstrated the Syncrono 2D laser-cutting system at FABTECH. The system was outfitted with Prima's new CV5000 laser resonator and new, compact CompactServer automatic material-handling system. CompactServer requires no extra floorspace beyond that for the laser cutter, allowing the Syncrono, with a working area of 60 by 120 in., to become an independent, unmanned workcell. The CV5000 laser resonator provides exceptionally high cutting speeds for increased productivity, and the ability to process thicker materials and produce superior cut quality with a reduced heat-effected zone, all while consuming less power and lowering operating costs as compared to previously used similarly powered laser resonators, according to company officials.
The CompactServer consumes no floorspace owing to its components being located over the automatic pallet changer. This integrated approach allows the system to be transported without disassembling it, and installation is simplified because no foundations are required. Two open and accessible shelves on the material handler simplify loading and unloading of raw and finished sheetmetal stacks.
Prima North America, Inc.: 413/598-5200; www.prima-na.comCompact Yet Powerful Manual Plasma-Arc-Cutting Machines
So much metal-fabricating equipment seems to be getting more powerful and yet smaller in size and lighter in weight, and manual plasma-arc-cutting machines represent good examples of this. Such is the case for plasma-cutting machine manufacturer Hypertherm, which showcased its Powermax45 portable power supply. The unit, rated for a maximum output current of 45 A, can cut mild steel to ¾ in., yet it weighs a mere 37 lb. and measures a svelte 16.75 by 6.75 by 13.7 in.
Also on display was the HyPerformance HPR400XD 400-A power supply for mechanized precision cutting. Dubbed by booth attendees as the next generation of HyPerformance plasma, the unit includes the firm's PowerPierce technology (use of a liquid-cooled gas shield) that dramatically improves (by 25 percent, reportedly) piercing capacity compared to other similarly-rated machines on the market. The process minimizes dross adhesion to the shield, particularly when cutting thick material, which can clog the vent holes and affect consumable life and cut quality. It can cut mild steel from 0.5 to 80 mm thick.
Hypertherm, Inc.: 603/643-3441; www.hypertherm.com
Waterjet Cutter Allows for Simple Tank Loading
Jet Edge, Inc.,St. Michael, MN, introduced its mid-rail-gantry waterjet systemJet Edge, Inc., St. Michael, MN, introduced its mid-rail-gantry waterjet system to the FABTECH audience. It features an 8 by 13-ft. work envelope with an exposed tank that allows for simple overhead loading. The system comes standard
Jet Edge, Inc.: 800/538-3343; www.jetedge.com
High Laser Power, High Cutting Speeds
TruFlow 7000FABTECH was the setting as TRUMPF Inc. Farmington, CT, introduced the TruFlow 7000, a 7-kW laser available on the high-speed TruLaser 5030 cutting machine. The new laser expands the range of sheet thicknesses that the machine can cut and increases cut speed. The TruFlow 7000 cuts stainless steel to
Trumpf Inc.: 860/255-6112; www.us.trumpf.com
Pneumatic Swing Clamps with Sensing Capability
Swing ClampsDe-Sta-Co, with its Workholding division based in Auburn Hills, MI, showcased the 9500 series of pneumatic swing clamps (pictured), equipped with sensing capability that allows for precise control and monitoring of clamping position. Exerting clamping forces of 41 to 212 lb. without deforming delicate parts, the fully enclosed clamps are designed for harsh application environments. The 9500 series also is well suited
De-Sta-Co: 888/337-8226; www.destaco.com
Reportedly the World's Largest and Strongest Six-Axis Robot
Fanuc Robotics America Inc., Rochester Hills, MI, used the IMTS stage to roll out its behemoth M-2000iA super-heavy-duty robot. Designed to meet customer requirements for handling truck, tractor, and automotive frames and parts, the robot offers a 900-kg payload. The robot's rigid arm design features a vertical lifting stroke of 6.2 m for transferring extremely heavy items such as a car body.
A second model in the super-heavy-duty robot series, the M-2000iA/1200, can support a 1200-kg payload with a 1.25-m offset from the faceplate and full articulated motion at the wrist. The strongest power for all six axes enables a single M-2000iA/1200 robot to handle a heavy part that previously would have required dual robots, according to Fanuc officials.
The M-2000iA operates with Fanuc's latest R-30iA controller featuring integrated intelligent functions such as vision and force sensing.
At IMTS, the M-2000iA/900L was set up to position a tractor frame near a Fanuc R-2000iB/165F robot. The R-2000iB, equipped with iRVision 3DL, picks randomly piled brackets and places them on the tractor frame, with power clamps holding the brackets in place. The M-2000iA/900L then positions the tractor frame near two quad-arm Arc Mate robots to simulate a coordinated welding sequence to weld the brackets to the frame. Upon completion of the weld cycle, all of the robots demonstrate envelope or coordination paths. Finally, the R-2000iB robot returns the brackets to the pick station and the cycle repeats itself.
Fanuc Robotics America Inc.: 248/377-7000; www.fanucrobotics.com
Remotely View Critical Weld Data
Production monitoring and delivery of process data from the plant floor to the corner office continues to take on an increased role as manufacturers look to optimize throughput and quality, and provide job-status reports to their customers. For its part, Lincoln Electric officially released the newest version of its Production Monitoring software, version 2.0, which enables remote review of critical weld data from the shop floor, the executive office or on the road.
The software grabs data from any networked Lincoln Electric Power Wave power source so that engineers and executives can stay connected with the shop floor from anywhere in the world. In addition to monitoring weld data, it allows for storing and sharing of files, monitoring production tasks, setting welding-process limits and tolerances, and tracking consumable inventory. Welding-machine faults also can be logged and e-mailed, while diagnostic troubleshooting can be performed from a remote location. New with version 2.0: a web browser-based user interface, and a new data-management system through Microsoft SQL server express.
Lincoln Electric: 216/481-8100; www.lincolnelectric.com
Camera System Ensures Safe Machine
The V300 WS, debuting at FABTECH, is based on image-processing technology. The sensor's illumination and receiver is integrated in the compact, triangular housing that allows mounting in or on the corner of a workstation's frame. Reflective tape, attached on the opposite sides of the mounting location, relays the illumination. With its 110-deg. angle of view, the camera system automatically detects the entire length and breadth of the reflector area and aligns the monitoring field with a resolution of 20 mm. The system responds within 20 ms if anyone reaches into the machine while it is running, and sends a stop command to the machine.
Sick, Inc.: 800/325-7425;www.sickusa.com
See also: Bystronic Inc., FANUC America, Inc., Hypertherm, Inc., Jet Edge Waterjet Systems, Lincoln Electric Co., Prima Electro North America, LLC, SICK, Inc., TRUMPF Inc., Weldcraft, LVD-Strippit, Inc.
Related Enterprise Zones: Automation, Fabrication, Other Processes, Quality Control, Software, Tool & Die, Welding


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The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public.
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Anglo-Saxon Vernacular Literary Culture
Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Literary culture in Anglo-Saxon England flourished in two languages—Anglo-Latin and Old English—although the written record of that flourishing is uneven. The literature in these languages of culture did not develop in isolation from each other: vernacular literary works often show a keen awareness of Latin texts and textual practices. Vernacular literature in Old English was precocious in its early expansion from secular and religious poetry to homiletic and documentary prose, as well as translations of the Bible, saints' lives (in prose and in verse), histories, and philosophical works. The best known of all Old English works is Beowulf, and close behind are the short lyric poems generally, though misleadingly, known as elegies. Not always clear from even the best Modern English translations is the way that these intense poems share techniques of composition and echoes of shared formulas with other long and short poems. The saint-heroes of Elene, Juliana, and Judith share heroic values and poetic language with Beowulf and The Wanderer. This kind of appropriation—where the language of secular poetry was repurposed for religious subjects—was the miracle Bede saw in Cædmon's Hymn.
Old English literary prose developed in the late 9th century in conjunction with a program of translation from Latin associated with King Alfred. Within a relatively short time, Anglo-Saxon scholars translated into Old English Gregory's Dialogues, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Augustine's Soliloquies, the first fifty psalms, and, further, Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and Orosius's World History. The late 10th and early 11th centuries saw an efflorescence of Old English prose, particularly in the works of Ælfric of Eynsham and Archbishop Wulfstan of York. Spanning the 9th century to the 12th, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reports and reflects on the events of its time, in verse and in prose.
The Chapter in Western Literature
Nicholas Dames
First known as a kephalaion in Greek, capitulum or caput in Latin, the chapter arose in antiquity as a finding device within long, often heterogenous prose texts, prior even to the advent of the codex. By the 4th century
European Literature and Book History in the Middle Ages, c. 600-c. 1450
Lars Boje Mortensen
Medieval European literature is both broader and deeper in its basis than what is usually offered in literary histories with their focus only on a narrow canon and on vernacular languages. One way to see this bigger canvas is to consider technical and statistical book-historical factors together with the authority of the two Roman Empires (Western and Eastern) and of their religious hierarchies (the papacy and the patriarchate). A coordinated reading of developments in the Latin West and the Greek East—though rarely directly related—brings out some main features of intellectual and literary life in most of Europe. With this focus, a literary chronology emerges—as a supplement to existing narratives based on either national or formal (genre) concerns: the period c. 600 to c. 1450 can be considered a unity in book-historical terms, namely the era dominated the hand-written codex. It is also delimited by the fate of the Roman Empire with the Latin West effectively separated from the Greek Empire by c. 600 and the end of Constantinople in 1453. Within this broad framework, three distinctive phases of book- and intellectual history can be discerned: the exegetical (c. 600–c. 1050), the experimental (c. 1050–c. 1300), and the critical (c. 1300–c. 1450). These three headings should be understood as a shorthand for what was new in each phase, not as a general characteristic, especially because exegesis in various forms continued to lie at the heart of reading and writing books in all relevant languages.


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For the last 8 years, Jet Brain' Resharper has been a must have add-on to Visual Studio for me and many other .NET developer's. Simply put, the productivity and features that Resharper provides enables me to write quality code, faster and with less bugs than by using Visual Studio alone. When I started working on Open Source projects a couple of years back at Couchbase, nothing change: Resharper and Visual Studio remain my primary tools.
In this post I'll go over some of the features that I believe make the Resharper and Visual Studio combination a win!
One thing that Visual Studio has lacked is first class support for 3rd party Unit Test Frameworks, such as NUnit; instead you are forced into using MSTest (although support was added in later years for other frameworks if you have the correct license). Additionally, depending upon you license you may not even have the ability to run Unit tests directly from the IDE. You simply right click on the project and select "Run Unit tests". Resharper adds support for running Unit Tests from the context menu if you are using NUnit or MSTest; there are plugins for other 3rd party libraries such as xUnit.net. Importantly, it's "frictionless": right click, "run unit tests" or CTRL + U, R. Boom. Tests are running!
A couple of cool and useful features that I use quite a bit are:
These are both just toggled on/off from the unit test Session Dialog:
In the image above, the "paw" is the "Track Running Tests" toggle and the "clock" is the "Show Time" toggle. Cool stuff.
Refactoring is one thing that Resharper excels in. Most of the features that Resharper have seem to be borrowed from the Java world of Eclipse or Intellj, which makes switching between IDE's easier. The refactoring features I use most often are:
The refactoring features make it easy to make changes to large class libraries without fear of introducing bugs. The refactoring allows you to review proposed changes and also cancel the changes if you detect a conflict. In addition, Resharper will make recommendations based off "Code Smells" and warnings and offer quick fixes. In general these are spot on, but you must ensure that the proposed change doesn't have any or side effects and or matches your intention. If not you can ignore the recommendation and provide a hint to Resharper to tell it to longer warn or suggest the change to you.
I am not sure what the exact feature is called, but I like it! What is it? Well, when you start typing the name of a type you wish to use in your code or when you cut and paste code from an example and want to try out, the project may not have references to it or the file may not have the correct using statements. This feature will inspect your project and try to reconcile the using statement to add.
This makes it so much easier to get up and running. I can't tell you how many times I have answered forum questions where a user simply cannot find the reference. You can also use this as a development tool to create classes, properties, etc. while you write your Unit tests or other code. Very useful.
For me, Resharper is a must have add-on for Visual Studio. Without it, I simply don't feel as productive as I could be. In a way I feel like I am coding with blinders on, I simply don't have the information (about the code) and tools I need to succeed. I only went over a handful of features, but those are the ones that I use most often and the ones that I feel add the most value. If you haven't tried Resharper, take it for a spin; you may just find that missing addition to Visual Studio that makes your productivity skyrocket and your code quality increase.
Tags: resharper, opensource, jet brains, open source
At long last, we present the official Developer Preview 1 (DP1) for the Couchbase .NET 2.0 SDK! Previously, I posted about some of the motivation behind rewriting the Couchbase .NET SDK and also some of the goals and features you should expect to find in it. This DP1 represents the minimal subset of features promised and should give you a feel for the direction we are taking the API from a developer's perspective. In this post, I'll show you...read more.
Blog post describing the contents can be found here:
Release note found here:
Binaries can be found here:
or on Nuget:
New blog introducing a series of posts I will be doing on the design and development of the new Couchbase .NET SDK 2.0 client at couchbase.com: http://blog.couchbase.com/introducing-couchbase-net-sdk-20-development-blog-series
The first post is a pre-cursor to rest of the series and I go over some of the history, motivation, goals and objectives, features and finally a bit of the high-level design that I will be writing about over the coming months as the new client is developed. This is intended to be an evolving, interactive series so feel free to drop a comment if you see something that you think can be improved upon.
Tags: design, development
Heads up that the Couchbase .NET SDK version 1.3.1 was released officially yesterday! This release is mostly a maintenance follow up to the 1.3.0 release which added significant improvements (a rewrite of) the connection pooling portion of the client.
A list of issues and tasks that were resolved:
The release is available on Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/CouchbaseNetClient/1.3.1 or from S3: https://packages.couchbase.com.s3.amazonaws.com/clients/net/1.3/Couchbase-Net-Client-1.3.0.zip
Tags: release
Source code can be found here: https://github.com/jeffrymorris/githook-version-example
Consider the scenario where you wish to base your assembly versioning off of your commit history from Git. Ideally you would want to be able to pull some information from Git regarding the commit you wish to build from, you most definitely would want this information to follow the traditional .NET versioning semantics or something similar like semver.org, and importantly you would want it to be integrated with your build process and automated. Integrated, because once you have your process in place, you probably don't want to waste time manually changing things every time you do a build and automated, because you don't want human fingers touching it (and perhaps making human mistakes) every on every build cycle.
Git provides a couple of different ways of getting information regarding the current state of your repository, of prominence are "git-describe", which will show you the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit[1] and "git-rev-parse" to print out the SHA1 of a given revision.
git describe --long shows you the "nth" commit since the last tag and the shortened SHA1 of that commit. For example, given a tag created with the following command: "$ git tag -a 1.0.0 -m "1.0.0 tag", assuming that two commits have occurred since the tag was created, git-describe with the –long parameter will output: "1.0.0-2-g1089655":
Where 1.0.0 is your tag, 2 is the number of commits since you created the tag, and the 1089655 is a shortened SHA1 of the last commit.
.NET Assembly versioning is fairly well documented, in a nutshell it involves the following four values that are included within a special class in your project under the properties subfolder and compiled into the manifest of your assembly:
<major>.<minor>.<build number>.<revision>
All four values are positive integers, which separated by periods: 1.201.344.1 as an example. The .NET runtime uses this information, along with other information (say from an App.config or Web.config file) to ensure that the correct version of an assembly is loaded at runtime.
The special class mentioned previously is the AssemblyInfo.cs class and it contains a number of attributes which when compiled, make up a portion of the assembly manifest, which is a collection of static data describing how the assembly elements related to each other[2].
Of importance to this blog post are the following three attributes contained within the AssemblyInfo.cs class:
For our purposes the AssemblyVersion, which contains the <major>.<minor>.<build number>.<revision> values and the AssemblyInformationalVersion, which is largely a plain-text value will be the attributes, will be what we rely on to version and provide build information to the assembly.
Within every Git repo is a folder called ".git", by default it is not visible but it's still accessible via the command line. The ".git" folder contains another set of folders where Git stores information related to the repository:
The "hooks" file is a special folder for storing, well, hooks! What are hooks? They are special snippets of code or script that is run when certain events are triggered in git. For example, there are hooks that are run when a commit occurs, after a rebase, etc. A full overview of all of the hooks can be found on the git man pages here.
We want the version information to be updated only when a build is in process and because we only want it updated when git pull happens (otherwise the validity of the version is compromised), we will use the post-merge hook. The post-merge hook fires after a successful pull and merge. This means, however, that if the local is the same as the remote, it will not fire. This is something to consider in your solution.
Creating a post-merge hook is easy: you simply create a file named "post-merge" with no file extension and place it in the .git/hooks directory. The easiest way to do this is probably by just navigating to that folder and doing a touch:
Once you have the post-merge file in place, Git will invoke it on every pull request or fetch which results in the local repository being updated with changes from the remote. This workflow fits well in an automated build environment.
Once you have the post-merge hook in place you can now write some script to update the version information within your .NET project.
When Git is installed, several bash tools are also installed it. One of those is probably familiar to most Linux developers or administrators is Sed, which translated means "Stream Editor" is utility for parsing and transforming text. In this case, we will use Sed and a regular expression to find the line within the AssemblyInfo.cs file we wish to update and replace it with the updated revision information obtained via the git-describe mentioned previously.
Here is the relevant code:
What this does is do a git-describe with the "—always" flag, which will always return something: a shortened SHA1 of the most recent revision if a tag is not present. The script then checks the return value of the git-describe, which is stored in the variable "tag" to see if it has a git tag associated with it. If it does then it splits the value in "tag" and concatenates them into a format compatible with .NET versioning discussed previously. The result of this is stored in another variable "version" and echoed out on the next line. This variable "version" is then swapped with the previous values in the AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion attributes using a regex and Sed. Finally, the whole git-describe value stored in "tag" is swapped with the previous value of the AssemblyInformationalVersion attribute.
After building the project and right clicking on the assembly generated, this is what we see:
The .NET assembly version stored within the assembly manifest will also be 184.108.40.206. As previously discussed this loosely translates to the <major>.<minor>.<build>.<revision> semantics described above. Additionally, if you chose to you could base your tag structure off of semver.org's guidelines and only use the last digit to designate a non-releasable test build (for example) based off the previous tag and the number of commits since it was created. On release builds you would specify a new tag with the last digit zero and the second to last digit one increment more than the previous or something to that affect.
1 https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-describe.html
2 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/51ket42z%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
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Visual Studio | Git | Versioning
On September 13th 2013, leading NOSQL database provider, Couchbase, will be invading San Francisco for it's annual community conference, Couchbase [SF] 2013! I'll be there as well participating in a Couchbase Cluster – smaller interactive and discussion driven sessions – representing the .NET Client SDK.
The event will host three different tracks: developer, operations and administration with speakers from Couchbase and from Customers of Couchbase who have a wealth of experience and various use-cases to share. There will also be smaller interactive sessions that go over advanced topics, new offerings such as Mobile Couchbase and the various Couchbase Labs projects that are available for free on Github or via Nuget (if you are a .NET developer).
So if your in San Francisco on September 13th or are willing to travel a bit, come by and join in on the fun!
Tags: Couchbase, Couchbase [SF] 2013, NOSQL
conferences | couchbase | NOSQL
Annotations or Attributes (Java vs. .NET/C#) are a means of decorating classes, methods and properties with additional metadata or declarative information. The annotations/attributes can then be queried at runtime via reflection and methods associated with them can be invoked.
Incredibly powerful and useful, they are quite common in various frameworks for tasks associate with say validating data associated with a class or property or for mapping properties on an entity to column names in a table in an RDBMS. There are many, many other uses as well.
Here is an example in C#: https://github.com/jeffrymorris/attributes-example
Note that in both Java and C#, annotations/attributes are a first class language construct. This is useful for many reasons, including improved readability and comprehension, they are type-safe, you can attach a debugger and step into them, etc.
Today I learned that PHP also has a form of annotations…well, sort of! It seems that a couple of PHP frameworks (Symphony 2 and Doctrine 2) have "implemented" them not as a language construct but as a hack via comments:
Folks, those aren't comments…that is code that will get executed! Yuck, this is wrong in so many ways…especially since there is an RFC for adding annotations to PHP in the works: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/annotations.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should!
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Not much more to say about Eclipse…
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A couple of weeks back, while at SxSW, I attended an excellent presentation about NOSQL databases by Gary Dusabek of Rackspace: NoSQL Databases: Breaking the Relational Headlock. The following post summarizes some of the key points and provides a comparison of the various technologies. He didn't go over CouchDb, Couchbase or Membase, so I'll add my own notes about those offerings as well, since I personally have used each.
The major problems with traditional Relational Database Management Systems is the inability to scale linearly, Single Point of Failure (SPoF), lack of sharding features, and the requirement of de-normalization to ease the use of data. Typically, to deal with scale, you would add processors, memory, disk space etc. to build a bigger box capable of handling increased volume or throughput. This is normally referred to as "vertical scaling". Unfortunately, vertical scaling is not cost efficient; the cost of CPU and memory increases disproportionately to performance – it's cheaper and more efficient to cluster cheaper hardware – horizontal scaling. Additionally, RDBMS performance tends to suffer when transactions are introduced to ensure data corrected-ness, consistency and isolation.
When choosing a NOSQL solution the following considerations must be evaluated:
All being said, NOSQL solutions are not necessarily a replacement for RDBMS, but a complement to handle issues of scalability and complexity. An example usage would be as the Q in CQS…store a master copy in a fully normalized form in RDBMS and then push a de-normalized form into a NOSQL solution for scaling reads. Additionally, by virtue of being schema-less, development is typically easier and faster.
The following is an non-exhaustive overview of NOSQL databases:
This is a just a cursory overview of several NOSQL databases, I'll be evaluating each one in detail in the coming weeks to get a better feel for where each solution fits given a particular scenario. From what I can see, some are more specific in the scope of problem sets that they satisfy, while others are more general purpose tools that satisfy a range of scenarios.
Tags: NOSQL, Document database, key/value database
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