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To cause dents or dimples in something. I can't believe how much that runaway shopping cart dented up my car!
make a dent in (something)
To make noticeable progress in a task or to consume a noticeable amount of something of which there is a large quantity. I have a meeting in an hour, but before that I'm hoping to make a dent in this backlog of documents that need to be filed. I didn't think we had made enough potato salad for the party, but we barely made a dent in it—look how much we have left!
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make a dent in
Begin to accomplish or consume something, as in I've barely made a dent in this pile of correspondence, or Help us put a dent in this pie. This metaphoric expression alludes to striking a blow to make a physical indentation in something.
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Hello Everyone, is there a way to put animation om a pump based on the changing values of the speed tag; the propeller rotates when the rpm of the speed is greater than zero in PI Processbook else remains static.
Hello Everyone, is there a way to put animation om a pump based on the changing values of the speed tag; the propeller rotates when the rpm of the speed is greater than zero in PI Processbook else remains static.
I searched for 'ProcessBook animation' and this came up:
How to use a timer in VBA ProcessBook? (i.e. Animation or recurring update ... )
I was going to share the same link . Asle Frantzen was faster.
Please let us know if this solution is suitable or if you need further help.
Yea. But I want to use symbol library say propeller to rotate when the speed tag in rpm is changing real time to rotate when its PI values are greater than zero (0).
Best Regards
I did work a little with something that might be interesting for you. As Asle Frantzen mentioned you will need to work with the rotating symbols and the angles yourself.
An example of it is a gear rotating.
I used the gear symbol that has to positions in order to make animation work.
You need to place them one on top of the other to make it work.
To make it look like is moving or there is an animation you are going to make it appear and disappeared.
I used a value in order to get the trigger information from. ( you can see it in the red square).
If I change the value of the tag to "1" the gear starts moving.
Private Declare Function clock Lib "Msvcrt.dll" () As Long
' This is the timer period, and can be adjusted to give a longer or shorter period between animation frames
Const Milliseconds = 125
Private Sub AnimateFan(ByVal IsRunning As Boolean)
Dim t1 As Long
Dim i As Integer
For i = 1 To 19 ' This should be adjusted based on the value of the Milliseconds constant. See below for more info
' To make sure that we can stop the animation on multistate change, the number of loops we iterate through should be
' (ProcessBook data refresh interval (Default 5000 milliseconds) / value of Milliseconds / 2) - 1
' For example: (5000 / 125 / 2) - 1 = 19
If IsRunning Then
' Toggle which icon is visible during each animation frame duration
' Frame 1
Gearanimationframe1_1.Visible = True
Gearanimationframe1_2.Visible = False
t1 = clock() + Milliseconds
' Start the timer
While clock() < t1
' Frame 2
Gearanimationframe1_1.Visible = False
Gearanimationframe1_2.Visible = True
t1 = clock() + Milliseconds
' Start the timer
While clock() < t1
' Just set one of the icons visible to indicate no activity
Gearanimationframe1_1.Visible = True
Gearanimationframe1_2.Visible = False
End If
End Sub
Private Sub Display_DataUpdate()
Dim MyMultiState As MultiState
Set MyMultiState = ThisDisplay.Symbols("Value1").GetMultiState
If MyMultiState.CurrentState = 1 Then
Call AnimateFan(True)
Call AnimateFan(False)
End If
End Sub
This the .pdi that I was using. I do recommend to use the way that Fabiano Batista mentioned to be in the safe side and be able to use it in all the clients.
Just be aware that you will lose the VBA functionality if you try to display in SharePoint through web parts. You can layer objects, make them multistate and use a tag to change the fill between coloured and none, but the refresh would be too slow. I believe that with Coresight 2016 you can use animated gifs.
As Richard D'Souza has pointed out, I recommend trying to solve this problem using only standard ProcessBook functions. It should work in every client rendering your ProcessBook display without any problem (including in PI Coresight, Webparts, etc.). Here is a procedure you can follow:
2. Add 2 fans from the Symbol Library (one has a blade angle offset in related to the other - you can use these fans later to compose your pump drawing)
3. Add a multistate Symbol in the one that in the top layer, as follows:
STATE 2 (notice the "Blink" field is checked):
4. Finally, position the top-layer fan (configured with a multistate symbol) on top of the static one. You will see the blades moving when the pump is running only.
I hope this helps!
Definitely way easier than what I tested out and available for all clients as Richard D'Souza mentioned ... Thank you Fabiano Batista .
Hello Carlos,
Am trying to use the VBA code stated but am having issues; can u help:
Private Sub Display_DataUpdate()
Dim MyMultiState As MultiState
Set MyMultiState = ThisDisplay.Symbols("\\XXX\YYYY").GetMultiState
If MyMultiState.CurrentState = 1 Then
Call AnimateFan(True)
Call AnimateFan(False)
End If
End Sub
Hello All,
Pls i need your help on rotating objects in PI Processbooks. Am designing a PI Processbook, and intend animate turbine to be rotating based on the speed value of the turbine
Hello Tamunosoye Bill,
Thank you for writing in PI Square .
You are including directly the PI Tag root in the code Set MyMultiState = ThisDisplay.Symbols("\\XXX\YYYY").GetMultiState. (highlighted in red)
What I am using there is the Multi-State from a value symbol which is "Value1". This symbol was configured to have a multistate depending on the value of the tag assigned to it.
With this you are going to be able to make the gear rotate.
You are also going to need to specify with the milliseconds and the multistate how long you would like the frames to switch from true to false to make a sensation of speed.
Hello Carlos,
Thanks for sharing this idae. Its working fine. Is there to make the vba codes work independently?
Best Regards


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|State website:
|2010-cycle districts:
|Congress, State Senate, State House « NEW
|2000-cycle districts:
|Congress, State Senate, State House
|Primary governing law:
|Conn. Const. art. III, §§ 3-6
Congress: The legislature missed its September 15 deadline; a backup commission -- including the eight members of the legislative committee, plus a new ninth member selected on Nov. 3 -- also missed its Nov. 30 deadline. Under court order, the backup commission had until Dec. 21, but missed that deadline as well, returning the process to court. On January 13, the special master in the court case drew draft lines; on February 10, those lines were approved by the state Supreme Court.
State leg.: The legislature missed its September 15 deadline, but on Nov. 30, the backup commission approved state Senate and state House maps.
- Institution
Redistricting political control:
Governor State Senate State House Congressional lines 23 D, 13 R 100 D, 51 R 2/3 supermajority required State legislative lines 23 D, 13 R 100 D, 51 R 2/3 supermajority required 2000 cong. lines 21 D, 15 R 100 D, 51 R 2/3 supermajority required 2000 state lines 21 D, 15 R 100 D, 51 R 2/3 supermajority required
Primary responsibility for Connecticut's congressional and state legislative lines rests with the state legislature, which may pass a plan on a vote of 2/3 of the members of each legislative chamber. The members of the legislative committee responsible for redistricting are listed here. [Conn. Const. art. XXX]
If the legislature fails to pass a plan, those lines will be drawn by a nine-member backup commission, in place since 1976. Each of the four legislative leaders (majority and minority leader in each legislative house) chooses two commissioners, and those eight commissioners choose a ninth, who must be an elector of the state. [Conn. Const. art. XXVI(b)]
Original jurisdiction to challenge a redistricting plan, or to rectify inaction, in state court is vested with the Connecticut Supreme Court. [Conn. Const. art. XXVI(d)]
- Timing
Census data were delivered to Connecticut on March 9, 2011.
The legislature's deadline for producing plans is September 15, 2011. If the legislature fails to pass a plan, the backup commission will be convened, and must provide a plan by November 30, 2011.
[Conn. Const. art. XXVI(b)-(c)] Candidates must file for congressional and state legislative primary elections by June 15, 2012. [Conn. Gen. Stat. § 153-9-400(a)]
Connecticut prohibits redrawing lines mid-decade, before the next Census. [Conn. Const. art. XXX]
- Public input
Public hearings were held in July. Legislative committee meetings are archived here.
Members of the public can submit proposals by mail, in person, or electronically, by August 31, 2011.
- Criteria
Like all states, Connecticut must comply with constitutional equal population requirements and with section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
For Connecticut's state legislative lines, the state constitution further requires that districts be contiguous, and that state House districts not divide towns except where necessary to comply with other legal requirements. [Conn. Const. art. XV, §§ 1-2; Fonfara v. Reapportionment Comm'n, 222 Conn. 166 (1992)]
- 2010-cycle cases
In re Petition of Reapportionment Comm'n, No. SC 18907 (Conn. Sup. Ct.): a request that the state supreme court draw lines, based on the failure of the state's backup commission to do so.
- Petition (Dec. 2, 2011).
- Grant of extension of time through December 21 (Dec. 6).
- Memoranda by Republican commissioners, Democratic commissioners (Dec. 21).
- Scheduling order for special master (Dec. 27).
- Order directing special master (Jan. 3).
- Briefs from interested parties
- Reapportionment Comm'n Democrats (app.), Republicans (app.),
- Coalition for Minority Representation Statewide, Hartwell.
- Replies by
- Reapportionment Comm'n Democrats (app.), Republicans,
- Coalition for Minority Representation Statewide.
- Special Master's order, draft report (and appendix) (Jan. 13).
- Comments by
- Reapportionment Comm'n Democrats, Republicans,
- Coalition for Minority Representation Statewide, Durham.
- Special Master's letter transmitting Jan. 13 plan to court (Jan. 19).
- Order adopting special master's map (Feb. 10).
The latest: A petition requesting more time was granted; the backup commission had until December 21, but missed this deadline as well. The court appointed a special master, who presented a map to the court on January 19; that map was approved by the court on February 10.
- 2000 cycle
In the 2000 redistricting cycle, Connecticut's legislature could not agree on any plan. The backup commission adopted congressional districts on December 21, 2001; state Senate districts on November 26, 2001; and state House districts on November 30, 2001. It appears that none of the plans were challenged in court.


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This book calls the attention of the scientific community, government organizations and non-government agencies, and the general public to arguably one of the most important and complex of the world's tropical rainforest regions - the greater Panama Canal Watershed. The Rio Chagres basin is the primary source for water to operate the Panama Canal, and also supplies water for electricity generation and potable water for municipal use, but this important national resource is largely unstudied from a scientific point of view.
The broad objective of the book is to characterize and understand the physical and ecological components of an isolated and largely pristine tropical rainforest, and describe how the different natural components of a tropical rainforest interact with one another.
Dedication. Contributing Authors. Preface. Part I: Setting the Scene. 1. Geographic Overview of Panama: Pathway to the Continents and Link Between The Seas; E. J. Palka. 2. An Introduction to the Panama Canal Watershed; R. S. Harmon. 3. Light and Shadows in the Management of the Panama Canal Watershed; S. Heckadon-Moreno. 4. The Geological Development of Panama; R. S. Harmon. Part II: The Upper Rio Chagres Basin. 5. Igneous Geology and Geochemistry of the Upper Rio Chagres Basin; G. Worner et al. 6. GIS Database and Stream Network Analysis Upper Rio Chagres Basin, Panama; D. A. Kinner et al. 7. Soils of the Upper Rio Chagres Basin; J. Bruce et al. 8. Hydrology of Hillslope Soils in the Upper Rio Chagres Watershed;. J. M. H. Hendrickx et al. 9. Infiltration in the Upper Rio Chagres Basin, Panama; L. Calvo-Gobbeti et al. 10. Runoff Production in the Upper Rio Chagres Watershed; J. Niedzialek & F. L. Ogden. 11. Downstream Hydraulic Geometry Along a Tropical Mountain River; E. Wohl. 12. Bedrock Channel Incision Along the Upper Rio Chagres Basin; E. Wohl & G. Springer. 13. Using TRMM to Explore Rainfall Variability in the Upper Rio Chagres Catchment; R. G. Knox et al. 14. Tree Species Composition and Beta Diversity Upper Rio Chagres Basin; R. Perez et al. 15. A Note on the Amphibians and Reptiles in the Upper Rio Chagres Basin; R. Ibanez D. Part III: The Regional Perspective. 16. High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Remote Sensing of Panama Canal Zone Forests; S. Bohlman & D. Lashlee. 17. Biogeographic History and the High Beta-Diversity of Rainforest Trees in Panama; C. W. Dick, et al. 18. World Holdings of Avian Tissues from Panama, with Notes on a Collection from the Upper Rio Chagres in 2002; S. Rohwer & R. C. Faucett. 19. Estimation of Landslide Importance in Hillslope Erosion in thePanama Canal Watershed; R. F. Stallard & D. A. Kinner. 20. Long Term Sediment Generation Rates for the Upper Rio Chagres Basin: Evidence from Cosmogenic 10Be; K. Nichols et al. 21. Estimation of Regional Actual Evapotranspiration in the Panama Canal Watershed; J. M. H.Hendrickx et al. 22. Operational Rainfall and Flow Forecasting for the Panama Canal Watershed; K. Georgakakos & J. Sperfslage. 23. Projected Land-Use Change for the Eastern Panama Canal Watershed and its Potential Impact; V. H. Dale, S. Brown, M. O. Calderon, A. S. Montoya, and R. E. Martinez. Index.


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Naturally cheerful, friendly, charming and even a bit of a jester, Havanese love to play.
About the Havanese
Havanese are sturdy little dogs with short legs and a lively gait. They have abundant, soft, long hair, which is often wavy. These dogs are loving and affectionate with their owners and prefer to be by their side throughout the day.
Havanese are alert dogs who will notify their owners of approaching strangers and therefore make great watchdogs.
Source: key facts and characteristics sourced from Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI)
Breed specifics
- Country
- Cuba
- Group
- FCI Group 9, AKC Toy Group
- Size category
- Small
- Avg life expectancy
- 12–15 years
Intelligent / Alert / Friendly / Playful / Loving
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EX-SERVICEMEN have answered the Mail's rallying call to bring a Spitfire back to Birmingham.
They spoke as the paper launched a campaign for one of the legendary fighters to return to the city after a consignment of almost 60 craft were found buried in Burma.
Norman Webb, aged 76, and from Great Barr, said his uncle Les Bowdler worked in the Castle Bromwich factory as a welder.
"He would have loved to have seen the Spitfire back in Birmingham," said Norman.
"I think it's fantastic that the planes have been found."
Grandad Peter Lloyd, aged 75, is the honorary secretary of the Normandy Veterans Association.
He called for a Spitfire to be placed alongside the famous sculpture at Birmingham's Spitfire Island road junction.
"It is very important because this is the home of the Spitfire," Mr Lloyd said.
The ambulance driver, who served with the Royal Army Service Core in Germany between 1955 to 1958, said: "It was made, tried and tested here before they went into action.
"I've always had an interest in the Spitfire and we need at least one. It would be very fitting if it was put on Spitfire Island."
Norman French, aged 69, served from 1961 to 1967 as a member of the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards.
He said: "It is a great idea to bring it back home. We should have at least one of the planes here to signify the work that was done in Birmingham."
And Ralph Gibbs, aged 66, agreed. The Quinton man served with the Parachute Corps from 1964 to 1973.
"My father Raymond, who fought in the Second World War, would have been in favour of the Spitfires coming back," he said.
"He served from 1939 to 1944, and in Korea. It would be wonderful if one of the aircrafts were back here and I fully support the Mail's campaign. It is very important."
The Spitfire was built at the Castle Bromwich factory, which produced up to 320 planes a month at its peak. By the time production ended in June 1945, a total of 12,129 Spitfires had been made.
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December 14 marked the one year mark of my HRT. Before that I was working hormone-free, just soaking in the testosterone poisoning and being a girl. Found a doctor to prescribe my medication then he dies in an accident. Found a replacement and am very happy that I've begun my journey.
What I'm not happy about is my progress. I have a simple wish… to be able to walk down a street without seeing people elbowing their companions and pointing at me. How small a fucking town do I have to live in before I'm comfortable? I'd move to a cabin in the woods but I'm afraid my heels would dig into the dirt paths LOL.
I went shopping yesterday. Needed some retail therapy to get out of a funk. I bought some very nice stuff. Then I remembered when I was trapped with other townsfolk due to hurricane evacuation I had no male-type clothes to wear… I went en fem, sort of. Sloppy but me. So yesterday I actually bought jeans and a few shirts. Just in case. I can't tell you how depressed it made me to think I may have to go back to them. I held them up and looked at them, tears in my eyes. I would hate it.
I'm giving myself two more years. My doctor said I'd reach full effect after three years. Fingers crossed. No matter how I'm dressed… how ugly I am… how unlike the many transition photos I see on Reddit that I'll never be able to attain… I am a woman. <sigh>
Sorry. Holiday depression starting to set in. Happens every year around this time when I go out and see all the excited families shopping, laughing, enjoying the season. Will I ever get over this annual funkfest? Heehee <sigh> No
My only high point has been my discovery of Second Life where I've been able to start a life, find a love, and now even plan a wedding. Thank you Kelly Cross for coming into my life. Hope my downer of a post doesn't scare you haha. I'll be fine as soon as I see you log on.


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LITTLE ROCK (December 1, 2014) – Historic Arkansas Museum will celebrate a decade of nog at this year's 10th Ever Nog-off on Friday, December 12, from 5 to 8 p.m. This popular celebration of a favorite holiday drink is a friendly competition for the best eggnog in Little Rock. Guests are invited to sample a variety of nogs ranging from historic recipes to contemporary innovations, then vote for their favorite.
The People's Choice Award goes to the nog that receives the most votes from guests. The Taster's Choice Award goes to the nog chosen by a panel of local celebrity judges. Winners retain bragging rights until next year's Nog-off. Noggers include: Cache Restaurant, Capital Bar and Grill, Copper Grill, The Empress, Loblolly Creamery, Bridget Fennel Farris, John Selig and Family and Stone's Throw Brewing.
This year the competition will begin with a ceremonial cracking of the first egg by the first two inducted Nog Emeriti - Louise Terzia, the First (and Second) Ever Nog-off winner, and David Burnette of South on Main who has won the Nog-off in various categories a record four times.
While sampling competitive nogs, guests will enjoy live music and holiday shopping in the Museum Store, featuring the best of Arkansas-made arts and crafts. In conjunction with 2nd Friday Art Night, two new exhibits open: Capturing Early Arkansas in Depth: The Stereoview Collection of Allan Gates and "this is the garden: colors come and go" Works by Rachel Trusty.
Capturing Early Arkansas in Depth explores a world before motion pictures and color photographs when stereoscopic photography captured life in early Arkansas. Today, stereographs are a meaningful source for studying the 1800s. In Arkansas, these views are a window into the growth of a young state, early tourism, railroad expansion and a unique culture and people. The exhibition continues in the Arkansas Made Gallery through April 5, 2015.
Rachel Trusty's solo exhibition, "this is the garden: colors come and go" takes its name from the classic poem by e.e. cummings. The exhibition includes paintings, sculpture and mixed media works with floral motifs. The collection alludes to femininity, family and the transience of life. Trusty's work has appeared in galleries, shows and competitions across Arkansas as well as in Massachusetts and New York. She was named one of "Five Arkansas Artists You Should Know" by Arkansas Times in 2014. The exhibition continues in the Second Floor Gallery through February 9, 2015.
Visitors can start 2nd Friday Art Night at Historic Arkansas Museum's 10th Ever Nog-off, where there is plenty of free parking, and later catch the trolley to other participating venues. Shuttle service ends at 8:30 p.m.
Also on exhibit:
UNDER PRESSURE: Arkansas Society of Printmakers Exhibition
The Great Arkansas Quilt Show 3
A Beauty on It Sells: Advertising Art from the Collection of Marsha Stone
We Walk in Two Worlds: The Caddo, Osage and Quapaw in Arkansas (permanent)
The Knife Gallery (permanent)
Historic Arkansas Museum is open 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1 - 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission to the galleries and parking are free; admission to the historic grounds is $2.50 for adults, $1 for children under 18, $1.50 for senior citizens. The Historic Arkansas Museum Store is open 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 1 - 4 p.m. on Sunday.
Historic Arkansas Museum is an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, which was created in 1975 to preserve and enhance the heritage of the state of Arkansas. Other agencies of the department are Delta Cultural Center in Helena, Arkansas Arts Council, Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission, Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, Mosaic Templars Cultural Center and Old State House Museum.


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People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have long agreed on one thing: there should be only one China. While the political gulf between Taiwan and the People's Republic remains huge, the two Chinas have scheduled private talks in Singapore within the next few weeks that could be the first step toward closer ties. The agenda may include the introduction of direct transportation links, perhaps starting with service between the Taiwan-controlled island of Quemoy and Xiamen, one of the mainland's free-marketeering special economic zones. Why talk now? Both sides may be concerned about recent electoral gains in Taiwan made by...
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Choudhury, Sanjukta, David Nana Agyeman-Budu, Arthur R. Woll, Treena Marie Swanston, Tamara Varney, David ML Cooper, Emil Hallin, Graham George, Ingrid Pickering, and Ian Coulthard. "Superior Spatial Resolution in Confocal X-ray Techniques Using Collimating Channel Array Optics: Elemental Mapping and Speciation in Archaeological Human Bone." Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry (2017). DOI: 10.1039/C6JA00297H
Canadian Light Source scientists have discovered a way to determine if lead found in bones is the result of contamination after burial or because of exposure during a person's lifetime.
"We are very excited to be working on this because we see it as a way to add a new tool to the toolkit of a researcher," said Dr. Ian Coulthard, a scientist at the CLS.
"This opens the possibility of going back and re-examining bone samples that other researchers dismissed as being too contaminated to study. We can now pull useful information about biological exposure to toxic metals out of those samples."
Lead oxides were a primary ingredient in many paints and putties in the 18th and 19th centuries. The lead oxide paints rendered wooden warships waterproof and resistant to damage from insects. Lead is also malleable and easy to form, which was useful for construction. Archeologists and anthropologists will now be able to revisit history to learn more about exposure to toxic metals such as lead. They could also better understand the practices of ancient civilizations, such as the Incas, that left no written record.
"Without the written record, the human remains become more important. There are still the artifacts but there are things that the human remains can tell you that the artifacts cannot," said Dr. Coulthard.
Prior to this discovery, researchers examining exhumed bones were unable to determine if the lead they were seeing in the bone had leached into the bone from the soil because they would see traces of lead contamination throughout the sample.
During their study, the scientists were able to pinpoint specific lead contamination by manipulating a beam of light and making it the same size or smaller than the structural features of the bone. Such a high spatial resolution can localize traces of lead to an area as small as 0.002 millimetres.
"Where you see the red or yellow that is brighter, that's where the lead is," said Dr. Coulthard as he pointed enthusiastically to his computer screen showing images from the study.
The findings of the team, which included researchers from the University of Saskatchewan, Lakehead University, and Cornell University, is the cover story of the most recent issue of the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. The group conducted its investigation at the Sector 20 US Department of Energy and CLS beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, Ill.
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Prague Municipal House
The Prague Municipal House is, without doubt, an iconic building. It was built on the site of the former Royal Court Palace and opened to the public in 1912. One of the reasons that makes the Municipal House so important to the Czech history is that this is where the independent state of Czechoslovakia declared their independence in 28th October, 1918.
Even without its amazing historical heritage, the Prague Municipal House is grand in its own right. It is impossible not to see the building and not fall in love with it. The Municipal House is a grand building by all counts, complete with arched hallways, gold work, elegant chandeliers, stained glass work and all that comes to the imagination where you think of ancient things to see in Prague. The building itself is enormous and it hosts many different kinds of bars and cafes, not to mention the grand opera, of course.
The Municipal House is the home to the famous Smetana Hall, one of the best concert halls in the entire world. Filled with works of carved stone, gold painting, amazing lighting and tasteful frescos, the Smetana Hall is definitely something to behold. The largest classical concerts are held here and to attend any such concert is a privilege indeed. The Municipal House is the home to the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Tickets to attend the concert needs to be booked in advance. Although they may be a little pricey, but to attend one of the best concerts in the work, you will have to pay the due price.
The Municipal House has more to offer than the phenomenal concert hall. There is a French restaurant where you can enjoy traditional, French and international cuisine. There is also a Czech style beer hall for you to get a taste of the local Prague. Also, the first American bar in Prague has also found a home in the Municipal House, where you can enjoy different kinds of cocktails, martinis, etc.
You can find the Municipal House in the Republic Square near the Powder Gate. It is within walking distance of the Old Town Square and the Wenceslas Square. Whether you attend the concerts or not, the Municipal House is a must see on any trip to Prague.
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Okay, this time, i will give you a blog tutorial about how to create energy saving mode for your blog. This is a kind of screen saver or standby screen which will work if the blog readers visit your blog but they are do nothing (silent without any activity). Your blog will very interesting and interactive if this is installed in your blog. Just follow the steps below to install energy saving mode in your blog :
1. Log in to your dashboard.
2. Go to "Template" menu
3. Click "EDIT HTML".
4. Proceed. *tips : backup your template before you editing HTML of template.
5. Find the </head> code.*click CTRL + F to search. Put the following codes above </head> (before head code).
<script language='javascript' src='http://www.onlineleaf.com/savetheenvironment.js' type='text/javascript'/>
This standby engine uses the jQuery Javascript library, so if you are using other Javascript libraries or code, add below code instead of above code :
<script language='javascript' src='http://www.onlineleaf.com/savetheenvironment.js' type='text/javascript'/>
You can also set how long time your readers have to be inactive, so the screen saver work. Add ?time=X which X should be replaced with the number of seconds you would like to define the time interval. An example could be:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.onlineleaf.com/savetheenvironment.js?time=120″></script>
You can also set the language of screen saver. Add ?lang=code, which code is one of the language short codes below.
ak – Akan
da – Danish
de – German
en – English
es – Spanish
fr – French
fi – Filipino
gr – Greek
hr – Croatian
id – Indonesian
jp – Japanese
it – Italian
nl – Dutch
pl – Polish
pt – Portuguese
bpt – Brazilian Portuguese
ro – Romanian
sl – Slovenian
se – Swedish
sk – Slovak
sw – Swahili
tr – Turkish
vi – Vietnamese
The following example will be using Indonesian for the standby screen:
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.onlineleaf.com/savetheenvironment.js?lang=id"></script>
6. Well, after you set as you like. Just click save and the screen saver installed in your site.
*If you are using WordPress, just download the plugin, activate it and everything should work instantly.
Okay. That's all. If you have any question, don't hesitate to ask. Happy Blogging 🙂
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If you walked down the street of the a busy city and asked random people about Christians what do you think they would say? I would love to say that those people would have nothing but good things to say, but sadly that is not true. Unfortunately, the word that would be most commonly used probably wouldn't be loving, nice, compassionate or forgiving. Unfortunately, the word probably most often used to describe a Christian is hypocrite. That's not to say that I agree with that, but that's what a lot of people would say. So naturally I thought we should check out what the Bible has to say about hypocrites and hypocrisy.
Sometimes when looking up a certain topic in the Bible you can't find a place where the Bible specifically talks about it and you have just have to put two and two together. Hypocrisy or hypocrites is not one of those topics. The Bible talks about hypocrites a lot and nobody talks about hypocrites in the Bible more often than Jesus himself.
Jesus obviously frowned upon hypocrisy but what exactly is hypocrisy? There are a few different ways of being a hypocrite and each is shown in the Bible. The first type of hypocrisy can be found in Matthew chapter 6.
In verse 2 Jesus says, "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full." Jesus goes on to say, "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their rewards in full."
This is probably not the most common type of hypocrisy although you may know someone like the people described in these verses. This type of a hypocrite is somebody that actually does something good, but does them for the wrong reasons. It's not good enough to just pray to God or give to the needy, you must also have a good reason for it. A good Christian will pray because he wants to have a closer relationship with God or give to the needy out of compassion but a hypocrite will do these things for their own glory. A hypocrite will make sure that other Christians see them so they can brag about how good a Christian they are.
Another type of hypocrite can be found in Matthew chapter 7. Verse 5 says, "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
This example of a hypocrite is probably the most common example of a hypocrite. Mainly because this type of hypocrisy isn't really about being a Christian. This type of hypocrisy can be seen in anybody. Basically what this verse is talking about is that person A is telling person B about a flaw in them when person A is a hypocrite because they also have the same flaw. It basically would be like Lex Luthor walking up to Superman and telling him he should be nicer to people.
Like I said, this type of hypocrisy can be found in anybody, not just Christians, but how should a Christian act? A good Christian would first take a look at themselves and see if they have this flaw before calling somebody else out on it. If they also have that flaw then they should take care of it before they tell anybody else what to do. That is what Jesus is talking about when he says to remove the plank from your own eye.
If you're not being a hypocrite there is nothing wrong with confronting somebody with a problem they have but just like the hypocrites in the first example, you shouldn't do this in public. Talk to the person in private.
Both of these are examples of hypocrites and you probably know people like them but when people call Christians hypocrites they are usually referring to the third example. 1 John 2:4 tells us about this type of Christian. "Whoever says 'I know him' but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him."
It's pretty simple. This type of hypocrite is the type of person that claims they are a Christian but then doesn't act like it. They might attend church on Sundays even though the night before they were out doing sinful things. The Bible is very straightforward, these people are liars. You probably don't need the Bible to tell you that, it's pretty clear. In God's eyes people that claim to be Christians but don't act like it aren't "Christian hypocrites", they're just non-Christians. They were never Christians to begin with.
Of course God isn't saying, "if you ever break one single rule then that's it, you're a liar." It just means if you really are a Christian then you will make a genuine attempt to follow all of his commandments. We aren't perfect. Sometimes we'll make a mistake and unfortunately when we make that mistake a non-Christian will probably be there to call us a hypocrite because they love pointing them out. But as long as you keep on trying to follow God's commandments then you aren't a hypocrite, you're just human.


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Education Resources
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Traditional Educational Program
This educational program is being phased out and will conclude on June 30, 2020. Click here for details on this program.
The District 31 Leadership Trio is producing a series of webinars on various topics. Click here for a list of upcoming webinars and links to view previous webinars.


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The poor lady who runs a website selling old images has had her work stolen by Catholic Online and sold in their Chant Art section for over a year (taken offline since last week) without compensating her even though she is still listed as the owner in their user agreement. We also know that the company added the old Catholic Encyclopedia to their website simply to spite the owner of New Advent (Michael Galloway told me this directly). Here is a link to a pdf of the entire complaint filed with the Kern County DA about Catholic Online. It's a very disturbing list of accusations. We can vouch that many of them are true from first-hand experience.
More Information on the Catholic Online Alleged CrimesDecember 11, 2007
Catholic Online is not an Ethical OrganizationDecember 6, 2007
We (and others) have had plenty of problems with the Catholic Financial Services division of Catholic Online. It turns out that others have too. Catholic Online has a section of their website called Chant Art. This content was compiled by Julie Brown and Catholic Online was supposed to pay her as they sold images. It turns out that they are selling the images at far below what she was selling them for and haven't been paying her for the sales. She has called, emailed and sent letters with no response.
If you advertise with this group, I would recommend you stop. You are just helping to support an organization that gives Catholics a bad name.


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In case you missed it, a few weeks ago Google seems to have made a quiet change to how Google Analytics records visits coming from Image Search results.
Whereas previously Image Search showed up in your Google Analytics as a referral visit – and thus allowed you to easily filter it from your reports – now it seems Image Search visits are part of the organic search traffic in your Google Analytics reports.
See for example these two graphs for one of our client sites:
As you can see the drop in referral traffic from Image Search coincides with a rise in Google organic search traffic.
Shouldn't Google Image Search traffic be part of organic?
Now you may think that Image Search should be part of the organic search traffic measured in Google Analytics. But you'd be wrong. Because Image Search traffic doesn't behave like regular search traffic. At all.
Image Search traffic has an incredibly high bounce rate. Users search for an image, look at it and perhaps save it to their harddrive, and then click the back button or close the window. Either way it is extremely rare for Image Search traffic to look beyond the page where the image is embedded. In fact most of the time, thanks to how Image Search works, users don't even properly see the page where the image resides.
This makes Image Search traffic all but useless for the vast majority of websites. So the fact that it wasn't part of your organic traffic reports in Google Analytics, and the ability to easily filter it from your reports, were very handy and much-used.
But now that Image Search traffic is part of the organic search report in Google Analytics, things have changed drastically. It totally pollutes organic search metrics, skewing the bounce rate, throwing keywords in there that have no real value for your website, and generally messing up your SEO reports.
And the real problem is that you can't filter these image searches from your reports. Not without some serious Google Analytics wizardry. In fact, if anyone knows how to filter image searches from your organic search reports, please do let us know.
I have no idea why Google has chosen to pollute organic search traffic reports with this useless Image Search traffic, but one thing is sure: it's having a severe negative impact on our ability to report accurately on our SEO efforts.
Now for every keyword Google Analytics reports organic search traffic for, I find myself wondering if this is actually useful traffic that ends up on a landing page and that we can potentially monetise, or if it's utterly useless Image Search traffic that is nearly impossible to extract value from.


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Enjoy the Pleasures of Nature With Shaylor's Ponds and Patios
Shaylor's Ponds & Patios was founded by Chad Shaylor over a decade ago based on his passion for the outdoors and his appreciation for the aesthetic pleasures of nature. We are now enjoying our thirteenth season of beautifying and maintaining the properties of our valued customers. He Chad has always enjoyed helping local families and businesses beautify and maximize the enjoyment of their properties. At the age of nine, Chad began mowing lawns and had eight mowing accounts at that time. In 1997, at the age of seventeen, he entered the professional lawn care industry. Chad then continued to further his education and gain additional knowledge to expand his services to include professional landscaping, hardscaping, and pond installation and maintenance in order to best serve you, our valued customers. Chad continues to take great pride in transforming the landscapes of our customers into sanctuaries for enjoying relaxing and entertaining times with family and friends.
"Producing a quality result for our customer PLUS absolutely delighting our customer is the first priority at Shaylor's Ponds & Patios and we will not settle for anything less."
– Chad Shaylor
Our Commitment to Excellence is Exemplified by Your Satisfaction
The commitment to excellence does not end with Chad Shaylor as the owner of Shaylor's Ponds & Patios. All of our employees exemplify our enjoyment of the outdoors and the great sense of satisfaction of providing our customers with the dream of a lifetime come true in their own personal backyard haven. The best feeling that we get as your pond installation and maintenance, landscape, hardscape, and waterscape services provider is when we see your excitement and sense your satisfaction of a job well done when you see your completed project for the first time.
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Shaylor's Ponds & Patios is a pond installation and maintenance contractor. We regularly participate in Aquascape's Aqualand Pondemonium event in St. Charles, Illinois, where we network with other pond professionals from around the world, keep up-to-date on the latest technological advances and trends, and gain knowledge to best serve our customers.
Pondemonium is the biggest pond-related event in the world. Shaylor's Ponds & Patios is a proud PRO-CAC Certified Aquascape® Contractor dedicated to providing the highest grade of installation and maintenance service and we are the only trained and dedicated service professionals in the entire region. When you want the job done right the first time, count on us.
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We are Dedicated to Using Only High Quality Materials
We are committed to providing uncompromising value and consistent quality that you can rely on. When you choose Shaylor's Ponds & Patios as your dedicated property maintenance and improvement contractor, you can rest assured that we will do our best to meet your needs. Because we use high‑quality materials and work hard to provide you with the best and most durable installation possible, we guarantee that our estimate will not be the lowest price quote that you may receive.
However, we do guarantee that you will receive the best value for your dollar and you will receive a high‑quality installation or maintenance service that will endure. You will be proud to showcase any project completed by Shaylor's Ponds & Patios for a very long time. We do not skimp on material quality or craftsmanship and it is abundantly apparent when you view our completed projects at our garden displays or at the homes and businesses of our clients and when you speak with our former (and current) customers. We are proud of the work that we do and we are certain that you will love your installation, as well!
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Please note that we do not artificially inflate our prices. We charge you a price that is fair and reasonable for both the high quality materials that we procure on your behalf, as well as the hard work of our employees who are all locally based and fully committed to serving you and the community with unwavering excellence. Our company is based on quality and integrity above all.
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Annie Goes to Catholic School
A cute story of a six-year going to a Catholic school while her friends in the neighborhood attend the local public school… some differences she sees – the good and the bad.
Little Ozzie Goes to School: Bullying Confronted
(New Edition!)
A story of a young boy in first grade who has a bully in the class… the who, why and uh-oh!
Anna is available for book signings in your store or event.
To book your date for signings or obtain copies to sell in a store, contact Anna directly for available dates, costs and copies.


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Play Safe Initiative is happy to welcome the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation to the Play Safe Network.
The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation's (ONF's) focus is neurotrauma – specifically the practical application of research to improve the lives of people with an acquired brain inquiry or spinal cord injury, and the prevention of neurotrauma injuries. ONF is a not-for-profit research organization that utilizes strategic research funding activity and the building of relationships with numerous partners and stakeholders to foster, gather, and apply research knowledge. ONF aims to increase the effectiveness and use of prevention, and to improve the systems of care, outcomes, and quality of life of those who have sustained a neurotrauma injury and to create and sustain improvements in practice and policy in communities across Ontario.
PSI looks forward to working with ONF on the prevention and treatment of sport and recreation brain and spinal cord injuries.
For more information on ONF: www.onf.org
Play Safe Initiative is happy to welcome Guelph Youth Basketball to the Play Safe Network!
The Guelph Youth Basketball Association (GYBA) was formed in 2006 through the unification of (7) seven previously existing basketball clubs in Guelph. The mandate was to unite youth basketball under one umbrella in order to provide the best coaching, facilities and overall organizational support to the greatest number of players in the city. GYBA is a registered not-for-profit corporation governed by a volunteer board that exists to provide the young people in our community the opportunity to participate in programs that teach fundamental basketball skills, as well as very important life skills.
PSI is looking forward to working with GYBA on upcoming research and sharing safety resources.
For more information on GYBA:
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For Students Enrolled in College Credit Course(s)
DSC has made the National Clearinghouse its authorized agent for processing enrollment verification requests for our students who are enrolled in college credit courses.
Please note: Current semester Enrollment Verification will not be available until after the Daytona State add/drop period, as indicated on the Academic Calendar, has ended.
Click here to Request an Enrollment Verification
What other information can I obtain from the National Student Clearinghouse Self-Service Site?
The National Student Clearinghouse Self-Service Site also allows you to:
- View your enrollment information on file with the National Student Clearinghouse
- View the student loan deferment notifications that the Clearinghouse has provided to your loan holders (lenders and guarantors)
- View the proof(s) of enrollment that the Clearinghouse has provided to your health insurers and other providers of student services or products.
- View specific information about your student loans.
How many credit hours are considered full-time, half-time, etc?
The college reports enrollment on a semester basis with 12 credits or more being Full-Time; 9-11 credits being three-quarter-time; 6-8 credits is Half-Time; and less than 6 credits is Less-Than-Half-Time.
What if I have a pre-authorized (pre-printed) insurance form that requires an official
college signature and seal?
Students that have a pre-printed insurance form that requires an official college signature and seal may be submitted to the Records Office for completion. (Examples of pre-printed insurance forms are health, automobile and good-driver discount.) Please print, complete and sign the Enrollment Verification Request Form, attach the pre-printed insurance form and submit to the Q&A Center. Forms can also be faxed directly to the Records Office at 386.506.4489. Please be sure that your insurance form has been filled out prior to submission to the Records Office.
What if I have a loan lender or government agency (ex. D.C.F.) that requires an official
college signature and seal?
Please print, fill out, and sign the Enrollment Verification Request Form, and submit to the Q&A Center. Please be sure to write the name and mailing address (or fax number) of where your certification letter should be sent to in the space provided at the very bottom of the request form. Request forms can also be faxed directly to the Records Office at 386.506.4489. Please allow 3 business days after receipt of the request for processing
How long does it take to process the enrollment verification request?
If you have submitted an enrollment verification request form, please allow 3 business days after receipt of the request for processing.
Does Daytona State College charge a fee for enrollment verification?
No, Daytona State College does not charge a fee for enrollment verification certificates.
Businesses: How does a business request a student's enrollment information?
Daytona State has authorized the National Student Clearinghouse to provide enrollment verification. Businesses may contact the National Student Clearinghouse at:
Web: http://www.degreeverify.com/
Phone: (703) 742-4200
Fax: (703)742-4239
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Mailing Address: National Student Clearinghouse; 13454 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300, Herndon, VA 20171


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Bad Blogger, Bad Blogger, Bad Blogger…
God, I seem to go in fits and starts with blogging. Sometimes I have shitloads to say, and others I…don't.
Writing News
I have an EC release this month (WOOT!) and Burning (as Sarah Masters) comes out on the 9th with Loveyoudivine. It's the second of the Blinded series, told from Lee's point of view, 1st person. The co-author book with Jaime Samms, Fight, will be coming very soon. I'm really pleased to announce Fight will also be available in print, which is pretty damn groovy, even if I do say so myself. Also, my print copy of The Master will be arriving soon, and I can't wait to sniff the fresh pages. Sad cow.
Since blogging last I've submitted two more tales to EC, one by myself and one co-author. I'm also in the middle of writing another for EC, and the third book in the Blinded series, Inferno, will be written some time this month. So, it's all go, and I'm a tired little bunny, but so far this year it's been a blast of busy, busy, busy.
Weight Loss News
As some of you know from my 'notes' page on Facebook, I've been trying to lose weight for a long time. Since the beginning I've lost around 56 pounds—though I haven't got the proper tally because my friend has the list of what I've lost the past 10 weeks or so—but I really started going for it on Boxing Day 2009. Since then I've gone down two dress sizes—not that I wear dresses—and finally accepted/believed I've lost the weight and sorted out my wardrobe so my old clothes are no longer there. It took a while for me to accept it, and even when sorting the clothes out yesterday I wanted to keep some. But I was good and got rid.
I've joined some friends, and we walk about six and a half miles on weeknights. Some weeks I can go every night, some I can't. It all depends on what I'm writing or doing on any given day. If a book's gripping me, the walk goes out the window. Career comes before my vanity at the moment. Still, any exercise is better than none, so I don't beat myself up over not going all the time. And sometimes I'm too damn tired anyway. That's it from me today, I think. Hope you all have a great weekend!
Monday Mumbles
I had a brilliant, productive weekend. Isn't it great when things work out the way you planned? Saturday I finally managed my scene in the co-author book with Jaime Samms. We're at around 41K, and the finale and epilogue are Jaime's babies. It's been a great experience working with Jaime. I've said it before, but we bounce off one another and have the same ideas as to where the story is going. Jaime writes her parts in 1st person—love it!—and her character, Paul, is one half of an abusive relationship. I love the way Paul develops as the story unfolds. Although his vulnerability is always there, he gets stronger and accepts he's worth more than being treated like dog turd. My character, Carl, is an absolute beast. A murdering, controlling beast. But at the same time I hope I've shown the other side to him where readers may well pity the guy, despite him being awful. The tale is called Fight—a duel-edged title, which will become clear when the book is read.
After writing my scene, I critted a novel for my friend. The time breezed by, and I finished it Saturday night, which left me all day yesterday to write some more of my latest book involving two vamps. Well, there are more in there, but the focus is obviously on my hero and heroine. It's been fun to write so far with no stumbles along the way.
Today I'm visiting a friend's house then coming back to read. I need a day off from writing, so rather than do all the mundane things I should be doing, like cleaning and ironing, I'm going to sit down and enjoy someone else's manuscript. On the print book front, I'm reading my squidgy pal's novel, Master of None by Sonya Bateman, signed by her with heart-warming words. I've known Sonya for years and read the book as a manuscript, but reading it as a hold-in-your-hand book is so cool it isn't funny. I keep smiling while reading, so happy that Sonya's hard work has paid off. She deserves it!
So, that's about it from me today. Tomorrow is the dreaded grocery shopping and a bit of writing, but I have permission to repost an article that featured in the latest AWH magazine. I'm interested in what your thoughts will be on it.
Well, I'm off. The day proper must begin. Have a good one, folks!
Writing, A Day Off & A Couple of Covers
Thursday is usually my day off because my daughter, Nat, comes to visit. Unless I've got too much to do, steeped in a book, I take this day to forget about writing-based stuff and just be me. The problem is, my body and mind usually give up on me when I slow down or rest, and Thursdays see me dog tired by about three o'clock.
Anyway, I've been writing this week and gave myself two days to finish Burning. Unfortunately, as is usually the way with me, the book will be longer than my estimate. I'm a pantser, and my books usually evolve as I write them. The book took a different direction to my original intention, which will add another 6K to the book. No matter. So long as I know where I'm going with it, whatever word count I end up with is by the by. It just means another couple of days writing it, that's all.
After Blinding I want to write my part in the book I'm co-authoring with Jaime Samms then it's back into my latest EC book. Once those are done, I can start Inferno, the 3rd book in the Blinded series. It's all go, but I'm happy with that at the moment. I have my to-do list under control and don't feel so overwhelmed with everything on it.
I've been so busy this week I haven't been walking with the girls at night. By the time seven o'clock rolls around when we usually set off, I'm shattered. My mind is drained, and the last thing I feel like doing is giving my body a battering too. But I'll be back to walking Monday next week, because I'm determined to have Burning and my co-author scene off my list.
I've created a couple of covers for LYD authors. I enjoyed making them. I love doing cover art. When I go into Photoshop, I concentrate so hard on what I'm doing that everything else fades away. Here they are:
Hmm. That's about it from me as Sarah Masters/Emmy. The other me, whoa, she's having a ball with EC. One book out, another due in July, edits coming soon on a novel and a totally groovy review has given me hope that I'm onto a good thing with her. She's been well received in various places so far, which is lovely because I did worry, using another pen name, what it would be like being a 'new' author again. It's been great. Better than the first time around. I'm comfortable with her voice in her books—bonus!
Well, I'm off for a day of talking to Nat and pottering about the kitchen tidying up. I do plan to write about my '24' and Lost addiction at some point, so if you're also a fan, it would be good to read your take on the programmes. TTFN!
New Release!
Off we go today with the release of book four from The Marked One series. Here's a bit of blurbage:
Another Realm: With the task of slaying dragons ahead, Jerry and Zeb enter the realm of Vildas, a part-desert, part-earthy plane. The myth has it that The Beckoner and The Marked One survive the dragon fight, but with someone else in the realm with them… Circumstances ensure Zeb must conjure a demon for help in seeking out an invisible threat—a threat that can change destiny and end their lives.
At the moment I'm co-authoring with the wonderful Jaime Samms and having a great time with our book. We've been taking it in turns to write a chapter each. Jaime's are in first person, and she writes the good guy. Mine are in third person, and I write the bad guy. He's a killer, so I'm in my element there. The tale is unfolding so well, and we're writing with no plan. I'm really happy to say it's like we're reading one another's minds as to where the story will go, and I feel we'll have a fantastic book once it's complete.
I've got another thriller/suspense in mind for my next book. The kernel of a plot is in my head, and I'll be ready to start in a few days when a little more of it has grown. I'll be writing about a sociopath, so I'm looking forward to that!
That's about it from me today. I'm having a day off. How exciting!


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One would think after living in Oregon for 22 years I would be accustomed to rainy, dreary weather. Hmmmm...why then do I still contend with April every year. Spring sends the wonderful promise of flowers and sunshine and beautiful new leaves, and then it crashes around us with storm after storm after storm. Just when I have big plans to work in my yard, invariably my good intentions have to be put aside because of day after day of rain.
I have been doing a lot of scrapping though because the weather has kept me inside most of the time. I completed all of 2006 photos, and am well into 2007. I have even scrapped Easter Sunday! So that has been nice. Thank heavens I have a hobby that I enjoy so much. My son sent me a letter from Philadelphia today and one of his comments summed up my feelings perfectly: "The sun just makes you sooo much happier!"
Join me in my search for meaning, for worthwhile pursuits, for discovery. "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you." --1 Peter 3:15
Monday, April 23, 2007
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
What All the Fuss is About!
I guess it is finally my turn to see what all the fuss is about with "blogging". I think it is time for me to come into the 21st Century, right? I appreciate the example of my sister, Wendy, for showing me the way. I also need to thank her for her faith and confidence in me. Because of her, I have had the opportunity of submitting some of my work to be published in Tiffany Mitchell's new scrapbook idea book. I really enjoyed the challenge of designing layouts based upon her sketches. As usual, everything seems to hit all at once, and that was certainly no different. I had just returned from our huge choir tour to Miami, and in between doing the trip laundry, I was busy with scrapping. There were so many other things I probably "should" have been doing. It was great, though. I loved it. I am glad to have a place to post some of my work. I don't know who will ever look at it, maybe just me, but that's okay too.
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Thanksgiving is here, so it's time to take off the gloves and mix it up.
Kasich's Superpac decided to throw some punches at Trump. This could be interesting, I thought. What will they come up with?
A Nazi allusion. My God, how much are they paying these clowns? It's a sanctimonious sermon from a Vietnam war hero. It's a joke. It won't harm Trump a bit. Unfortunately, it's the kind of attack which probably appeals to Kasich the moralist. He's a tolerant and caring man, offended by anyone who he thinks is offensive to someone else. It seems to me that Kasich's admiration of himself is what led him to like this kind of attack (although, of course, since his Superpac did the ad, he'd never seen it. Right).
A few weeks ago I figured Christie would be the guy to after the Donald. It made a lot of sense. For whatever reason he passed. I think he'd do a better job than Kasich, who has consistently disappointed.
The other rumble is between the Cubans, over amnesty and data collection. It's all noise. They're wasting their time and money. I guess they look at the calendar and figure we better start spending some of this money we're sitting on. Don't just sit there, do something.
Since it's become the conventional wisdom that it will be one of the Cubans they've both been going up in the polls, dramatically, in Cruz's case. Since Trump shows no sign of going away soon, and has even risen slightly since Paris, Cruz is the next target of the Donald. Cruz doesn't want this fight, not now. He may not be able to avoid it.
All fascinating to watch. Campaigns tell you a lot about a person. They test your judgement, and your nerves. And your balls.
If I'm Kasich or Christie, or anyone on the stage, for that matter, at the next debate (Vegas, 12-15), here's my question for Trump. "You've called me a stupid loser, you complained about Ms. Fiorina's face, you told the Governor of Ohio he didn't belong on the same stage with you etc. etc." You repeat some personal abuse that Trump has heaped on every person on that stage. "We are all seeking the nomination of our party in one of the most critical elections in our history. By the sort of adolescent insults you've thrown at every person on this stage, you have demeaned this entire process. It's as though you think you're back on your TV reality show. If this is the way you conduct yourself as a Presidential candidate, why shouldn't we expect the same sort of juvenile behavior if you're elected?"
You're looking Trump right in the eye as you ask this, and you're dead serious. This is a serious question, and you have a right to a serious answer. I doubt he'd handle it well.
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It's a new era at Chef, and not just because the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct has suddenly created a spectacular view from its Seattle waterfront headquarters.
The 11-year-old enterprise automation technology company rounded out a period of massive internal change Wednesday morning by promoting Corey Scobie, its existing product and engineering leader, to succeed its co-founder, Adam Jacob, as its chief technology officer.
It's a big symbolic milestone, given Jacob's role not just in starting the 300-person company but also in creating the original technology on which it was founded — helping to pioneer the larger DevOps movement that unites development and operations teams for rapid deployment and updating of software.
"There are few people who you can say with a straight face have changed an entire industry, and he's one of those," Chef CEO Barry Crist said of Jacob this week.
Jacob announced in January that he was stepping down from his day-to-day role at Chef, while remaining an advisor and board member. Until now, the company had left the position of CTO unfilled, with Scobie, a veteran of companies including Akamai and IBM, leading product and engineering as a senior vice president.
"Adam is an iconic figure in open source, an iconic figure in DevOps, and an iconic figure in the Chef community, and I didn't quite realize when I joined that my job might be to somehow try and fill his shoes as the CTO," Scobie told GeekWire, crediting Jacob for his work to reposition the company. "I couldn't be happier about where we are with Chef. We've made some incredible investments and innovations in the last couple of years."
Jacob came up with the original technology while running a consulting company, and founded the startup in 2008 as Opscode with his consulting colleagues Barry Steinglass and Nathan Haneysmith, along with Jesse Robbins, who made his mark as an operations and infrastructure guru at Amazon and other companies.
Renamed Chef in 2013, the company has gone through a series of changes over the past year, and not just on its executive team.
Earlier this year, Chef changed its approach to product development and licensing, releasing all of its products (including the previously proprietary Chef Automate) under the Apache 2.0 open source license. Chef Habitat, Workstation, and InSpec had previously been open-source. At the same time, the company announced its new Chef Enterprise Automation Stack as its own branded distribution of the technology, for commercial licensing.
In an interview, Jacob described Scobie as the perfect person to succeed him as CTO, leading the company's technology initiatives into this new era.
"The market has shifted," Jacob said. "After 13 years in any market, things change, and so having Corey bring not only his technical expertise but also his point of view on the market and his point of view on how Chef should go into that market … has been incredibly valuable."
Chef on Tuesday also named John Wyss, a Cisco and ServiceNow veteran, as its new vice president of product management. It's latest in a series of executive changes, including the hiring of Google, Splunk and Microsoft veteran Brian Goldfarb as chief marketing officer, and former Impinj CFO Evan Fein as chief financial officer.
The company focused originally on infrastructure automation, helping developers automatically configure and manage their servers. With many of those companies moving away from their own servers and data centers to major cloud providers, Chef has shifted much of its focus to application automation, along with new capabilities in areas including compliance and security. Chef's executives say they now see opportunity in a wide range of enterprise automation technologies, including management of desktop computers and Internet of Things devices.
Crist said the expanded focus reflects the needs of the company's biggest customers. "We think that the automation problem isn't specific to infrastructure — it's really across everything," he said.
Customers known to use Chef's technology include Nordstrom, Alaska Airlines, Facebook, Gannett, General Motors, GE Digital and other Fortune 1000 companies.
Along with the changes, the company is also seeing an expanded set of competitors. While Chef has often been mentioned in the same sentence as Puppet, a Portland-based competitor, it's increasingly also competing for business against Red Hat, which acquired application deployment and automation technology company Ansible in 2015.
Jacob, meanwhile, is embarking on a new era of his own. He said he recently started a company called The System Initiative, with two other co-founders. He serves as its CEO, but is just getting started with the venture and isn't yet discussing its plans in detail. This is in addition to his work on the Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities project, which he launched last year.
Chef, which has raised more than $100 million in funding over its lifetime, doesn't disclose specific financial results as a privately held company, but Crist said the response to the Enterprise Automation Stack has been positive, creating more clarity for big business customers, while bringing in new customers and generating more revenue per customer.
Long-term, Crist said, Chef is positioning itself to be a successful freestanding company. He acknowledged that would inevitably mean becoming a public company, but he declined to give a specific timeline. The hiring of Impinj veteran Fein as CFO gave the company a financial leader who has extensive experience with the IPO process.
In the meantime, Chef has a new vantage point, literally.
Sitting down for a conversation this week in the common area of the company's Pioneer Square headquarters, Crist acknowledged the symbolic parallels between the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Chef's efforts to rebuild its business. The double-decker highway, which has been replaced by an underground tunnel, was previously just outside the company's exterior windows — making it difficult to have a quiet conversation, let alone see the water.
"It's not a reach, because we've joked about it ourselves," Crist said, when asked about the symbolism. "Ultimately, the ocean is where we're heading."


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The journalist George Monbiot has challenged climate change denialist, Professor Ian Plimer, to a 'dual'. Monbiot has taken issue with a number of points made in Plimer's book, Heaven and Earth, and seeks clarification on them in writing before a public debate begins. Here is a sample of points made in Plimer's book that Monbiot, quite rightly, questions:
"the last two years of global cooling have erased nearly thirty years of temperature increase."
"NASA now states that […] the warmest year was 1934."
"the sea ice has expanded"
"If the current atmospheric CO2 content of 380 ppmv were doubled to 760 ppmv […] [a]n increase of 0.5C is likely"
"About 98% of the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere is due to water vapour."
"satellites and radiosondes show that there is no global warming."
"The Hadley Centre in the UK has shown that warming stopped in 1998″
"Volcanoes produce more CO2 than the world's cars and industries combined."
"termite methane emissions are 20 times potent than human CO2 emissions".
See here, for Monbiot's questions in full.


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Causes of the Great Depression: Stock Market Crash & Fallout - High School Lesson Plan
The Lesson
The Crash of 1929 was the impetus for the Great Depression, but it was the preexisting economic conditions - far more widely spread than the number of individual investors, that caused the downward spiral that doomed Herbert Hoover's presidency.
Bell Activity: Write the following question on the board, and have students answer in their journals: "What are some specific metrics that we can use to determine if the economy is doing well or poorly?"
Stock Market Game
Start with a brief discussion or explanation of what stock is (pieces of ownership in certain companies) and how stock markets operate (supply and demand largely determine the value of stocks, as expressed by their price).
Tell students that you are going to simulate how the stock market works. Each one will need a piece of paper, which they should turn "landscape" style (lying on its side). On your classroom chalkboard, write 5 publicly traded companies that would have been around in 1929 (I like to use RCA, Coca-Cola, Chase Bank, Rawlings, and Sears) on the left margin of the board, leaving space in between.
Across the top of the board, list 5 months - June, July, August, September, and October. Under June, make up prices for each company. "Give" each student $1,000 of imaginary funds, and have them invest in the available companies. Tell them that they may not keep any money as cash, and make sure that they are keeping track of how many shares they have purchased, not just how much money they have spent. Track the performance of their purchases over the next three months, making up prices as you go. Make sure that prices rise, steeply in some cases. Build class excitement by having kids compare how much they have made. Try to create a sense of competition. In October, "crash" the market to levels considerably lower than the prices you started out with in June.
Once the market has crashed, debrief the activity. Talk about how much unhappier people would be if the money were real. Then explain the concept of "buying on the margin" - buying stock with borrowed money. Buyers only needed 10% of the actual value of the purchase in cash; the rest could be borrowed from a bank or other lending institution. If the value of the purchase fell below its original price, it would trigger a margin call in which the lender would ask for their money back immediately. This would force the purchaser to sell and also somehow raise the balance owed in some other way. All of these sales would drive prices stock down, triggering more margin calls.
The Causes of The Great Depression
Tell students that the stock market crash was not the cause of the ensuing depression; it was the spark that lit the powder keg. There were several underlying causes that had quietly built up over time:
1. Growing amounts of consumer debt. During the 1920's, more and more Americans bought more and more goods using credit that required regular installment payments. Simply put, they were overleveraged.
2. Low prices for agricultural commodities. After World War I, farmers failed to adjust to lessened demand, causing a supply glut.
3. Overproduction in industries. Manufacturers were largely ignorant of the fact that their products were nearing the saturation point for sales and continued to produce at robust rates, often borrowing money to do so.
4. Weakness in traditional pillars of the economy. Coal was being supplanted by oil and railroads by automobiles. Both these and their affiliates suffered.
The Fallout: Stocks plummeting hurt businesses and individuals. Many people hurried to banks to withdraw their savings to cover themselves. The high level of withdrawals (also known as "bank runs") caused many banks to close completely. Other banks called in all of their loans to cover withdrawals, causing businesses to close and lay off workers. These workers tried desperately to get their savings (if they had any) out of banks, and the cycle began again. The downward spiral launched the country into the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover was faced with an unprecedented challenge.
This post is part of the series: The Great Depression
This unit on the Great Depression is intended for high school students. The lesson plans are designed for a block schedule that has 88 minutes allotted for each class. Modifying them to fit a traditional, shorter period should not be a problem.


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