← The cold is coming.
Live capability all over the place.
Basset calls this blast from the (snowy) past "Pinto in the Snow," but I don't think it is. Looks more like a Ford Country Squire without the wood trim, which would then make it a Country Sedan (I think). My friend Paul had one — aka the Party Wagon — and I'd recognize it anywhere.
But the model isn't the point of this picture, of course. This is weather journalism, dammit! Basset writes: "right in the middle of a state highway somewhere up north… right after the giant snowblower went through." Northern Michigan, of course. Where else would people drive Ford station wagons in weather like this?
* The headline of this post is an inside joke. Ha ha ha.
Nope, Nance, that is indeed a Pinto. Look closely and you'll see it's a 2-door wagon.
Definitely a Pinto, I drove it there.
would have been 1978 or 79… the larger-market stations downstate in Detroit and Grand Rapids were starting to shoot video and do live shots but we were still entirely on film.
You're right. It's a Pinto. Maybe my brain has recalibrated, but it just looks so big.
I drove what had to be the rustiest Pinto wagon on earth back and forth to the UP regularly in the late 70s. Snow and ice storms galore, no extra weight in the back. I did not recognize this as a Pinto either but I'll take your word for it. I figure I have just blocked all memories of ever owning such a vehicle.
Lou Forrest would be very pleased. And so would Dave Layman's 3-piece suits. Snow in Atlanta, by the way. WT…?
well, I was 22, immortal, invincible, and infallible when I moved up there, so driving in the snow was no problem… actually my VW Beetle did a lot better, but the Pinto had a heater.
now, a modern Dodge Charger is a whole 'nother story in the snow. rented one of those at the Grand Rapids airport when we went back over Christmas and didn't even get out to the highway before we took it back and swapped for a 4-wheel drive SUV.
so once we had traction and a reasonable chance of forward motion we had one of those white-out experiences going up 131. nowhere to stop and someone probably would have hit us anyway, we just wandered to one side of the interstate till we hit the rumble strips, then back to the other.
Ouch. Very painful picture. Since I began living in my current house that was built during the dark days of disco, I've recognized that if it were a car it would be a 1979 Ford Pinto station wagon. Seems like it would have more room than the regular Pinto, but no. Not much. Even if it's gutted, painted, supplied with a new engine, new seats and new carpet, a custom dash painstakingly made of solid oak by an Amish carpenter, etc, it's still a 1979 Ford Pinto station wagon. At least the car in the picture is white and not brown.
I didn't even know Pintos were available as station wagons. I had a friend who had a Pinto, and I remember it wasn't considered a cool car. So when I could afford a car, I did her one better and bought a Gremlin. My brother-in-law the mechanical engineer said it was like driving a rock but my contrary nature loved it. And surprisingly, it was fine in the snow.
Oh, my god. "Like driving a rock" has to be the funniest thing I've heard all week. Thanks, Sue's brother-in-law. My grandparents used to call the Gremlin a "pregnant roller skate." Didn't make sense then, either, but everyone thought they were hilarious.
For all the mockery, deserved, of weather related local news remotes, the exception that proves the rule is when you get close to Minus 40 Fahrenhite, and send a guy outside with a cup of hot water — go live just in time for a minimum of explanation, and then fling the cup full up in a fan in the air. You hear a report like a gunshot (well, a .22 anyhow), and then a thud as the now frozen water hits the ground, solid.
Worth going back for a second time, after sports right before flipping to the Seinfeld rerun.
Damn, that's seriously irresponsible Jeff. I admit it helps to be loaded when gravity fails and negativity won't pull you through. Pot's better than brewskis, though. It's all in slo-mo and it seems like you're on the side of the angels.
I'm doomed or blessed ("it's a blessing and a curse, you'll thank me later", A. Monk), to never take inclement weather news (both weather and news) with more than a moue. We lived in a Boston satellite town (there are no suburbs) through the blizzard of '78.
I was managing a solid waste transfer station (garbage truck dump on the way to the landfill). We served most of metropolitan Boston, and we couldn't close until the last of the 40 yd. trucks dumped their loads. You can't leave a compacted load of garbage on a truck. Methane forms, spontaneous combustion is inevitable, the first thing that burns is the hydraulic lines, and a $125k truck is toast. So I watched the snow mount, for hours.
We had a Triumph Spitfire, wonderful roadster, but it cleared clear ground by about 8 in. By the time I got out of there, accumulation was around 24 in. It took me three hours to get home, maybe 3.5 miles from work. When I got home, I poured a large Lynchburg elixir, and after one sip, the phone rang.
My brother Mark was calling from somewhere he could "see the Citgo sign". I had thought he was safe in Georgia. I went out to find him. Mark had a very large Chrysler. We learned to drive doing donuts after dates in the Motor City, both of us could handle the weather. I got him safely back to our apartment in Watertown. Then we thought about the ramifications of the storm and realized a heroic effort was necessary.
We went back out, but this time in the Chrysler tank, with a toboggan. We bought several cases of Molson's Golden (and it's OK, but I sure wish they had Sam back in the day.) We bought several cases of DeKuper cherry brandy half-pints. We loaded what we could in the trunk of the beast and the rest lashed to the toboggan. Got home safely, unloaded our cache, and put on Back in '72.
Around 6am, I was wide awake and realized we had neglected food. Wind was 45-50 mph, but I put on wondrous new Thinsulate boots and about half the clothing I owned and headed out. Chest high drifts in open spaces, but somehow reached a local mom and pop. I despise ski-mobiles, but I was ecstatic to see one parked in front of whatever the Italian version of a bodega is, with vapor clouds coming from the boiler stack.
So I bought about 15 lbs. of cappacola, mortadella and Old-World hard salami, and all the provolone in sight. And all the day old bread. Slogged it home in a big trash bag, in the pillion seat of a Ski-Doo. When I got home, the storm had cleared, there were 48 in. of snow, and people had awakened and ventured out. I was personally iced in. I mean, my face, my beard, my clothes.
We fed and watered the community. After a day or two, the landscape was pristine, gorgeous, and the sun broke through. Our street was a glacier about three feet thick, until emergency workers showed up with heavy equioment. The first few assaultsn the icepak by backhoe were hilarious. The Caterpillars bounced off.
Much-maligned Michael Dukakis managed this pretty well, even if his ubiquitous TV presence in the infuriating crew-neck sweaters infuriated everyone. (Probably deserved a Presidential Medal of Freedom for a 'good job'.) Nonetheless, cabin fever set in, despite the alcohol and the great sandwiches. On the fourth day, the sun began to melt our icy bars. We went out en masse, everybody on foot, and laid waste to the frozen bread dough section at the supermarket. It was like 28 Days Later without the zombies.
So I say: Lake Effect? Try the Atlantic. Cruel mistress. If Gordon Lightfoot thinks there's something about the Lake that comes close to the wave that cleared the lighthouse in Boston's inner harbour, his idea of a real storm is pretty wimpy. And I grew up with ice-storms in Detroit.
Yep, Michigan's colder than New England in Winter. But the pure whim and inchoate violent urge of North Atlantic weather make those Detroit ice storms seem trivial. Cold is something with which modern man can deal. Being buried in precipitation isn't, especially when the wind conspires.
Maybe Michigan is headed for turning arctic. Maybe not. I sure don't know. I'm not a scientist. Anybody stupid enough to claim human behavior has no effect on global climate is either a sophist ahole, or a wackjob, or both.
Claiming these things have happened before is the saddest refuge of ideocrats, and, logically, makes the opposition case. Why now? When it happened before, did Manhattan rule the world below the new sea level?
And I don't mean to interject something as mundane as football, but refs stepped in to make these games today ridiculous, and they made things a Pats game and they're doing their best to screw up the other. It doesn't matter the sport. Refs are aholes that wished they could but couldn't play. They screw everything up. On crucial calls, they're wrong more than they're right, and they do it on purpose. They're jealous.
I'd love to blame today's loss on the refs, but the Chargers lost it all on their own. Four field goals. Geesh.
This is why I tell everyone, me and the Chargers are dating, we just ain't goin' steady anymore. In fact, we're breaking up for the summer.
Well, Danny, condolences. Chargers had the misfortune of relying on Philip Rivers, the one QB that's a more insufferable, self-important prick than Tom Brady. Didn't have to be that way. Drew Brees would have won that game. Of course, had Ladainian Thompson played, quarterback position would have been rendered moot.
And you're right, it's not really the game officials. Belichek lobbied the league to change the holding rules all last offseason. And he had a plan. Pats were called exactly 11 times on the entire season. Now, there's almost no such thing as offensive holding against a Pats lineman.
Rooting for Eli ought to be the new national pastime. As he sinks he rises. I don't necessarily think NYC is the belly of the beast, but it spawned Rudy 911, and without Brooklyn, it's got no soul. If you root for the Pats, it's like rooting for W. You deny the Constitution and the laws of physics when it suits your greedy needs. People in New England wouldn't like the comparison, but the Pats are the epitome of the Wadministration. You change the rules in your favor and tell everybody else to including Congress to f**k off if they object. And then you eavesdrop.
I guess I'm the only one of the nn.c regulars who drove a Pontiac Astre. Yes indeedy – bought it on my 19th birthday. It was a good little car, and I even gave it to my younger brother after driving it for 8 years, and it lasted him another 18 months.
I loved the "like driving a rock" comment. Made me think of a phrase my hubby attributed to some really cheap bed pillows we had long ago: Soft Rocks.
Football: I have offered condolences to the many many many many Packer fans here, but secretly I am so glad that we will not have nonstop Packer coverage (including things like pre-empting evening coverage to run old games) for the next two weeks. It's enough to make you want to kill yourself. Although I admit I loved seeing the Packer Bikini Babes in the stands – the sooner the country loses the idea of Wisconsin women as beer-guzzling heifers the better. It smacks of someone hiring three models, but still, they are as gorgeous and full of life as my daughter and all her friends and a good example of what Wisconsin really has to offer.
A Pontiac Astre! My goodness, Dorothy. They made like three of them. I'm amazed this thing lasted 10 years. The Astre was the Poncho version of the Chevy Vega, a car with a distressing Fiat like tendency to melt when exposed to moisture.
Yep, it was dark green and I nicknamed it "Gracie." Because my mother used to say Mike and I reminded her of George Burns & Gracie Allen.
ADDED: Holy Crap, I just did a Google search for a picture of one and found out Jay Leno has one (1976) in his collection.
i thot it was the pacer that was the pregger skate. my pal betsy got one for graduation, and we took it out drinking the night before on High Street. it was some kind of weird office park fountain green. what was up with those AMC colors? my grandparents somehow wound up with a Hornet a few years earlier; i remember dropping them off at the doctor's office and taking that baby out across the roads of Carroll County, trying to get it above 65mph. the noise!
I had an AMC Matador in grad school. Nuff said.
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What is a Drug or Narcotic Offense?
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If you are being accused of being under the influence of or using a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia (ie: syringe) or marijuana, you will be charged with a misdemeanor. If you are being accused of possession of methamphetamine, the D.A. has the power to charge you with a misdemeanor or felony depending on the weight of the substance found, the type of drug involved, and your prior criminal record. If you are being accused of any drug offense involving sale - possession for sale, offering to sell, or sale- then you will be charged with a felony. Each county has it's own drug policy and may take certain types of drugs more seriously than others.
The difference in consequences between simple possession and possession with the intent to sell are great. For example, whereas a person facing simple possession may face 2-3 years of court probation and days in jail, a person facing possession with intent to sell may face 2-5 years of formal probation with months or years in county jail or prison. Other common terms of probation for drug and narcotic offenses include a search condition, registration as a drug offender, no weapons or guns, drug laboratory fee, and court fines and fees.
If you are a non-violent drug offender, you may be able to substitute jail time with drug treatment. There are two different state wide programs that you may be eligible for- PC 1000 ("DEJ") and Proposition 36 ("Prop 36"). A primary difference is that the DEJ program only requires about five to six months of classes and drug testing followed by twelve (12) months of informal probation; whereas, the Prop 36 program can last about three years and requires more serious treatment, testing and counseling. In addition to these programs, there are often county specific drug treatment programs that aim to divert offenders away from the criminal justice system towards treatment.
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that the graphic medias are used like \\\"signs\\\" in a clear and precise way.
The change of millenium has supposed in his trajectory the rereading of the historical vanguards: Self-portrait (1999), Abstraction (2002), Angel (2004).
The vision of Davis Lisboa is attracted by all the possibilities of expression: colour, line, space and meaning. Although he had moved away from a certain realism still implicit in his present canvas establishing almost a prologue to the definitive adoption of an abstractionism totally influenced by the availability of the artist to the evocation of a pictorical image being both informal and symbolical at the same time.
His painting represents the synthesis of a classic and a modern vision of the world. The artist has arrived to this situation with a careful chromatic investigation where masses of colors are mixed to express his world directed to an immediate dynamism of rare expressive power.
that as a whole he transforms into a true explosion of colours. Before being fixed images on the canvas his paintings constitute an experimented �reality� in the thought. From this reality an essential painting is born, where colour, drawing and composition are invented in an instant, without rethinking, without mistaking.
The matter does not prevent the flow of the emotion: the instinct arises with its fundamental force and it obtains conscientious and expressly the support that welcomes it. Davis Lisboa is an artist of the civilization of our time that lives art as a revelation, as a message and as a consequence like true poetry.
Davis Lisboa was born in S�o Paulo, Brazil, in 1965. Graduated in Communication, he has worked as an illustrator in Brazil from 1983 to 1987. He moved to Barcelona, Spain in 1987 still working in illustration.
He studied several art courses like painting in the Escola Brasileira de Arte, SP, Brazil (1984); Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain (1987-1990) and at the Universitat de Belles Arts de Barcelona, Spain (1996).
Spain; Galeria d�Art Paspartú, Barcelona, Spain, Galería de Arte San Vicente 31, Seville, Spain.
He has works in some public and private collections, like BMW Ibérica, Madrid, Spain, JBM, Barcelona, Spain, Centrum Miasta, Chelmek, Poland and now in the Museu de Arte do Parlamento de S�o Paulo, Brazil.


Naturally, using this version require Python 2.6 (that fortunately I've ready-to-use on BlueHost), and, like the Trac guide says, you need Genshi and Babel installed to use it. So, this time, we will try to use easy_install to simplify our installation. With easy_install in fact, you can just specify the name of the package you want to install, and will be automatically downloaded, with any required dependencies, and then installed.
And now Babel, required at version 0.9.5.
Now, we can try install Trac, always using easy_install (but if you prefer, following the Django guide, you can install it using the "normal" python installation procedure). In this way, without specifying the version, you will be sure to have the latest available (latest stable).
Done! You trac is installed. Now you need just some other little things to see it in action.
First thing, create a trace project.
Project environment for 'Kermit' created.
Then point your browser to http://localhost:8000/kermit.
where, the first folder is the trac repository you have created before and the second one is the apache folder. Scripts (fastCGI, CGI and WSGI) are created inside cgi-bin subfolder.
If you make executable the script you want to use (chmod +x script-name) you can already test your trac installation using a url like http://www.yoursite.com/trac/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi.
Naturally is not to cool to use an url like that one, so we can configure a .htaccess to invoke our script.
Finished. Access the folder where you have created your .htaccess file and you should see your trac running.
Siamo in Francia ormai da 7 mesi e qualche giorno, quindi direi che é giunto il momento di raccontare qualche peripezia della vita oltralpe. Cominciano dalle basi: la sécurité sociale (la A.S.


The last two weeks, actual work has conspired to keep me away from the blog. How rude. I miss "the beach" already.
It seems only fair to summarise the lessons I have learnt whilst masquerading as an architect on a short consulting stint with Marc McNeill. Simon Brown at Coding the Architecture is much better at talking about this stuff than I am, but I need to update the blog with something!
Someone's called you in because they want your help, and presumably if their problem was simple they would have fixed it already. You're not there to know everything out of the box, you're there to find out what's going on and summarise it. That means asking questions, even the dumb ones. That's something I learnt off my previous boss.
As a developer, I like to think in code, I like to poke around it to find out what's going on. But if you want to get a feel for the bigger picture, not having access to the code, or even the documentation, could be better. It forces you to look beyond the detail. Sketch things out on the whiteboard to help get the picture of the domain and the systems in your head.
In the first week of the engagement I made some assumptions based on the information I had gathered so far. Once I'd run those past the architects and developers really working on the code, I found they were only half the story. The feedback from those guys helped evolve the picture of the current state of play, and shaped the future direction.
Especially of acronyms used and people's names and roles.
This is probably more a "me" thing. My memory works as an index, so I need the detail somewhere - I can remember I wrote something about something, and where I wrote it, but I won't remember the details. I also find that simply writing things down helps to get it straight in my head. I probably didn't use 50% of my notes, but all that information was in my head.
5. Buy your own whiteboard pens!
I've worked in a lot of places, as a consultant and a permanent employee. And one thing you can almost guarantee is that the pens in your meeting room will not work. Or they'll be permanent.
...and pages and pages of supporting diagrams and information.
The air in Les Alpes must've helped get the brain moving! Of course, I took my camera on my little jaunt to France.
It was a great first role for me at ThoughtWorks. I worked my socks off and thoroughly enjoyed it.


Altior is set to sidestep Cheltenham on Sunday and make his hotly anticipated chase debut at Kempton on Monday week instead.
The Supreme Novices' Hurdle winner was in the Grade 2 Racing Post Arkle Trial but his trainer Nicky Henderson, who sent out O O Seven to win first time out over fences at Cheltenham on Friday, said he would not take up the engagement.
Henderson said: "Altior will not run on Sunday. Instead he'll go to Kempton ahead of a possible tilt at the Henry VIII at Sandown.
"He hasn't done anything like as much schooling as O O Seven has had, so I thought we would go to Kempton for a little doodle around there."
Six have been declared for the Cheltenham race, and Henderson will still have a runner, Hammersly Lake.
Winter Escape will face 16 rivals when he bids to stretch his unbeaten run to four in tomorrow's £100,000 StanJames.com Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham.
There were no surprises at yesterday's 48-hour declaration stage, and the five-year-old remains a warm favourite at a general 11-4 to give JP McManus a first win in the race since the ill-fated Lingo scored in 2005, and Alan King a first ever success. He was widely available at double figures when the Greatwood was first priced up.
A strengthened card for the third day opens with a rematch between Champion Bumper winners Moon Racer and Ballyandy, who were separated by only three-quarters of a length when they made their hurdling debuts at Perth in September. They meet in the Grade 2 Sky Bet Supreme Trial Novices' Hurdle.
Sprinter Sacre stole the day 12 months ago when bouncing back to form in the Shloer Chase, and Nicky Henderson is hoping for a similar outcome when his fragile former dual festival winner Simonsig bids to get his career back on track in what looks a competitive renewal.


Johanna warns us that there is "no such thing as percent complete" when it comes to tracking status on a project. Your managers and customers want to know percent complete – and there is a way to report it. Project planning and scheduling involves walking this fine line.
There's an interesting problem with reporting percent-complete status on tasks. How do you know the percentage of completion?
The more serial your lifecycle, or the more you implement by architecture instead of by feature, the less completed work you have. Since I don't count partially completed work, it's possible to have 0 progress until the very end where things finally start coming together.
Another factor that can cause this to happen – bugs. When your approach is to write until the code is "done" and then test it, you're assured that this will happen to you. If you take a continuous integration approach to testing, you can eliminate the influence of quality issues on this specific phenomenon.
Johanna has a valid point when it comes to individual tasks. However, you can still report the percentage of the tasks that are complete. And you can even weight that percentage based on the estimated effort of each of those tasks. This helps you demonstrate some velocity during the project without misleading yourself.
At the end of the first week, I was 20% done. At the end of the second week, I was 40% done. At the end of the third week I was 60% done. At the end of the fourth week, I was 80% done. Right on time, at the end of the fifth week, I was 90% done. At the end of the sixth week, I was 92% done. Seventh week, 93% done. Time and I both marched onward. At the end of the 10th week, I was 97% done. But this time, I actually believed I was within a week of being done — I only had three one-day tasks left to complete. It took me two more weeks. A total of 12 weeks for a 6 week task.
The key thing to track when estimating development work is to track things at the proper level of detail. We have always used tasks in the 2 to 8 hour range. The range is set to 1) avoid too much overhead on tracking tiny deliverables, and 2) to avoid this exact problem by deluding ourselves about poorly thought-out activities.
There are three benefits to this estimation approach.
Decomposition Equals Planning. By decomposing a 40 hour development task into half a dozen discrete deliverables, you force yourself to think about design and execution. If you blithely say "8 hrs design, 8 hrs refactor, 8 hrs implementation…" you're doing yourself a disservice. You might be following the letter of the law, but not the intent. This planning (which qualifies for "as little as possible" planning when you're being agile) helps to organize both your work and your thoughts. Different people work in different ways, so this will benefit some more than others – but it benefits every developer. And plans don't prevent changes unless you let them.
Deliverables Demonstrate Progress. Having discrete deliverables lets you know up front how you're doing. And it lets you know early on if you're having problems. Although we didn't discuss the math behind it in our tutorial on creating PERT estimates, when one tasks exceeds the estimate, other tasks are likely to do so as well. In general – each pert estimate is a representation of risk, quantifying the factors that would cause a task to vary from the estimate. Each estimate is created independently – but they often share the same risks. Imagine that the same risk applies to two tasks. The first task runs 50% over the estimated time, due to that factor. Do you think the second task is now more likely to exceed the original estimate? This will help you decide the cost of delaying the release.
Consistency Creates Credibility. Reporting repeatedly on the status of deliverables lends credence to the overall plan. It establishes credibility with your customers / managers. It also removes some of the mystery from the black box of "this release will be late." You can communicate "this deliverable will be late." The end result is the same – the release is late – but now you have a framework for discussing and addressing the cause of the delay.
Don't "track" monolithic tasks with percent complete. You may need to report percent-complete on monolithic "roll-ups" of multiple tasks to managers – that is fine. Make sure you're tracking the individual tasks (or that you trust the people on your team to do that and roll it up for you). Don't use this article to enable micro-managers. Use this article to avoid deluding yourself about the actual progress on your project or release.
This one I totally don't understand, probably because most of my career was in construction where the elements were absolute and subsequently you could estimate with some certainty the percent complete. After reading your article, I don't understand why I can't estimate percent complete based on hours estimated vs hours completed? Can you tell me what concept I've missed in the article. thanks.
Construction projects allowed larger better understood items, because they had been done for many decades, and as you said – they are concrete deliverables (pun intended). When you pour a large foundation, you know it will take 2 weeks to cure, with a near-zero chance that you will have to tear it up, remix and repour because you forgot to put the rebar in place first. So you can present that knowledge. The foundation might make up 20% of the total build time for a pre-fab structure.
What if there are too many impurities in the water used to mix the concrete? That could delay setup time (and mess up the schedule). And you won't know until it is too late. When you do a core sample after it "should be done", that's when you find the problem.
Imagine you're framing a stick-built house. It "should" take 5 guys 2 weeks. What if they are really slow? It takes them 3 weeks. But you don't get to go on-site and inspect their work, so you don't know they aren't done until the 11th day. If you had listened to them after 1 week, when they said they were 50% done with the whole frame, you'd be in trouble. Software is like that – a project manager can't inspect the code to know if they really are 50% done. Imagine on the other hand, they had 4 days to do the first floor, 4 days to do the second, and 2 days to frame the roof trusses. On day 5, when they said "the first floor isn't done yet" you would know you had a problem. In construction, the people managing the schedule (almost?) always had the experience to be able to look at the "big deliverables" and decompose them into smaller deliverables. The "use smaller tasks estimates" process was happening implicitly. Can't do that with software if you're not a developer. And on large projects, you might not be able to do that anyway.
When the drywall team hangs the sheetrock and muds all the joints, the finishing team can come in and paint. What if the joints weren't done well? You have to add time to the schedule to sand and re-spackle. What if a freak storm comes in, driving temperatures down and humidity up? Spackle and paint drying times extend significantly. If your team doesn't know to bring in a portable space heater, your schedule will slip.
I think the key thing is that you can estimate percentage of deliverables that are complete. And the estimated time for remaining deliverables is the "best info you have." If you don't review the deliverables, it would be like saying "this project should take 6 months – therefore after 3 months, it should be 50% done – with no way to confirm it. With construction projects, you have those confirmations because you have the concrete deliverables.
Great question, and thanks for the continued reading!
There is a slight misunderstanding here, imho. A construction project is divided in two phases: design and then, construction. For software development, we have the same paradigms. The design phase, and then the "construction" of the software (compiling, building assets).
The best way to measure percent complete on any project is to have a measure of output as time spent on task loosly correlates with output. Unfortunately, the software community finds the use of output metrics inimical to good software develpment — especially lines of code.
On my own software projects, I have estimated output and tracked output against time with excellent results. My favorite measures are LOC, Defect Count, and Defect Fixed. Before the project starts I estimate LOC and expected number of defects to find and to fix, and then as I execute the project I proceed to track against those estimates and contrast them to effort expended as a percentage of budgeted time.
For those who give this a try, they will find the amount of control they have on their projects to be unsurpassed by any other techniques. The common arguments are that it's impossible to accurately predict LOC and Defects, but that isn't the point. The objective is to control your project, and even though the precision isn't 100%, it still is able to tell you that your assumptions that the project plan is based on are wrong, and it tells you that early so you can do something about it, and thus, control your project.
Hey Bill, thanks for reading and commenting!
I think your system is a good one, but generally, any rational approach to tracking of output – consistently applied – will be valuable.
I don't have the data to back it up, but it seems like I write the most lines of code in the earliest part of implementing something, and it isn't a linear relationship. The first 20 lines of code may take 10 minutes, and the last 2 lines of code may take an hour. But your point is valid – and if I consistently see that, I can account for it in my forecasts.


the one-stop-shop DVD & Movie F.O.R.U.M.S for everything Bollywood and Indian!
It is Carlo Pedersoli actually. Guiseppe is his son.
Producer of Shalako (1968), The Wild Geese (1978), The Sea Wolves (1980), The Final Option a.k.a. Who Dares Wins (1982), Wild Geese II (1985), among others.
Good to see he created films right up until his death. I missed out viewing Mother's Day though due to being away from home and nowhere near a cinema.
Think I'll watch one of his films tomorrow.
R.I.P. "John Merrick". His role that brought me to tears.


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Glimcher Sells Tulsa Promenade Mall
Glimcher Realty Trust, a retail oriented REIT, has recently announced it has completed the sale of Tulsa Promenade, a mall located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Tulsa Promenade Realty Management L.L.C., a private investor, has acquired Tulsa Promenade in a $12.3 million deal from a joint venture of Glimcher Realty Trust and an affiliate of Oxford Properties Group. The proceeds were used to retire the mortgage on the property.
Mike Kohen, Tulsa Promenade Realty Management's CEO, told Fox23.com that he plans to improve the mall and diversify its tenant mix by attracting national and local retailers.
"Today's transaction further illustrates our focus on enhancing the quality of the portfolio and managing our balance sheet leverage," stated Michael P. Glimcher, chairman & CEO of the Ohio-based REIT, which was the property's majority owner. "The completed sales of Tulsa Promenade and Lloyd Center along with our recent acquisitions are accelerating our transformation."
The venture continues to operate another mall in the Glimcher portfolio.
Located at 4107 South Yale Ave., in Midtown Tulsa, the 926,426-square-foot mall was built in 1965 as an open-air center and was originally named Southland. The center was enclosed and given its current name in 1987. Its anchor tenants include JCPenney, Dillard's and Macy's.
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This week in New Music: Steps do perfect 90s pop on Tears on the Dancefloor, The Cranberries demonstrate just why they were – and remain – a class act on Something Else, Blondie enlist Sia and more on album number 11 Pollinator, Ásgeir goes electronic for album number two and Feist goes confessional indie rock on Pleasure.
The Steps fanbase is heading for its 30s (perhaps late 30s at a push) so a new album makes sense and quite honestly it's glorious pop nonsense with some major missteps (sorry).
On Tears on the Dancefloor, Steps know their audience and mine its collective kid-consciousness for all its worth on a collection of mostly perfect, sugary, Eurovision-friendly anthems.
"Story of a Heart," "Neon Blue" and "Firefly" are perfect 90s pop. "Happy" is a majestic anthem. "Glitter and Gold" is so cheesy it could have come off Kylie Minogue's 1990 album Rhythm of Love.
Nostalgia rarely sounds this good.
Recorded in the University of Limerick in their hometown, The Cranberries – commercially one of the most successful Irish bands of all time – have issued Something Else, a collection of orchestrated old tracks with three new ones.
Most of the rerecorded songs on the album add another level to Dolores O'Riordan's still stunning voice and the quartet at their sweet pop best. The reimagined version of "Free to Decide" musically at least actually reflects the unpleasant themes of the song all the better.
"Zombie" just doesn't really work because it should always be edgy and angry.
Of the three new songs, "Why?" is the standout.
Something Else will be essential to fans. A good dose of marketing could well introduce The Cranberries to an entirely new audience.
As a band with a history of working together for more than 40 years on and off, Blondie possibly felt the need to do something different on album number 11 Pollinator.
The titles gives it away – Debbie Harry and co. have enlisted the help of a vast array of songwriters for Pollinator, presumably as an attempt to extend their own sound.
Working with the likes of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) and Sia has bore results. Although at times perhaps trying too hard to keep up with the kids, fans will lap it up.
Singer songwriter Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson's debut album In the Silence (originally Dýrð í dauðaþögn) is apparently the best selling Icelandic album of all time.
Given Ásgeir's falsetto vocal tricks, comparisons with Sigur Ros's Jonsi are obvious but you would be best to follow the likes of Bon Iver and Sweden's The Tallest Man on Earth – aka Kristian Matsson – for pointers.
Like Bon Iver, for album number two it appears that Ásgeir may also be shedding the singer songwriter box for a glitchy, electronic sound akin to James Blake and Halls.
Have a listen to lead single "Afterglow" below.
For her latest album Pleasure, Feist goes for a solid, pared-back indie rock style that will draw comparisons with the likes of PJ Harvey and Haley Bonar.
The Bonar comparison is less relevant as the South Dakota singer tends towards the more playful while Feist goes for confessional rock that often reminds the listener of Harvey at her early caustic best (for example the storming "Any Party").
Feist also has her quiet moments on the likes of "I Wish I Didn't Miss You" but the noisy bits are the standouts.


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Espen Sommer Eide – Selected Works
Espen Sommer Eide – artist/composer
Alog is the duo of Espen Sommer Eide and Dag-Are Haugan.
About Alog
Since forming in 1997 Alog have been among Norway´s leading performers of experimental electronic music. They are mainstays at Rune Grammofon and have been with the label since their debut album "Red Shift Swing" was released in 1999. Already a mature and original collection, their sound has since been developed through their second album, "Duck-Rabbit" (2001), and almost perfected with their previous album "Miniatures", which also won them a Norwegian Grammy for best electronica release in 2005.
Some of the techniques that Alog invented for their "Miniatures" album have now been refined and developed on their new album "Amateur". They have increasingly worked with various acoustic instruments and in collaboration with other musicians for long recording sessions in special locations. Travelling around the west coast of Norway with Nicholas H. Møllerhaug and Nils Økland sidekick Sigbjørn Apeland they recorded in music schools and primary school music rooms in an attempt to capture the unique sound of each selection of instruments found. Because of bad weather they could be stuck for days on islands off the wild northern coast recording themselves playing any instruments they could find and building more of their own. These sessions were subsequently worked on in the studio to bring out the unique spirit of the "Amateur". This spirit is characterized by a curious and fresh approach to playing that is often lost in the process of becoming a virtuoso on a singular instrument. The word "amateur" originally denotes a person who is motivated by a passion or love for their activity. It has been the goal of Alog on this album to preserve and enhance this special energy in their songs. Most computer music software today is made to hide the individual, unique qualities of the musician, to make rhythm and pitch perfect and to make everyone sound the same. In order to achieve their goal Alog had to turn this process around with their "augmented acoustics" technology and bring out the hidden "amateur" energy of each song.
Alog are still Espen Sommer Eide (1972) and Dag-Are Haugan (1970). Espen has played music "all his life", mostly on percussion instruments, flutes and trumpet, before emphasising computer-generated sounds. He currently lives in Bergen where he is involved in the city´s experimental music scene. He has released three solo albums as Phonophani, all on Rune Grammofon. Dag-Are Haugan holds a master degree from the Malmö Academy of Fine Art in Sweden. He started playing guitar in his teens and formed several pop bands in his hometown Tromsø. He has released a solo vinyl album, "9 Solitaires", on the K-RAA-K label.
About the albums
Each Alog track is its own small world with its own internal logic, and Miniatures collects nine good ones without a single dud. An excellent record. Pitchforkmedia (US)
Some of the most graceful and exciting electronica around, and reaffirm here their place amongst Scandinavia's most important electronic musicians. Milkfactory (UK)
"Miniatures" is fascinating in its rich details and untroubled flow. Dagsavisen (NO)


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Lumen Gentium () — догматическая конституция Второго Ватиканского собора Католической церкви. Полное название — Догматическая конституция о Церкви «Lumen Gentium». Утверждена папой Павлом VI 21 ноября 1964 года, после того как она была одобрена на соборе. За финальный вариант конституции высказался 2 151 участник собора, против — 5. Своё название получила по принятой в католицизме практике по своим двум первым словам.

Конституция Lumen Gentium стала одной из четырёх конституций Второго Ватиканского собора и одним из наиболее важных документов, принятых на нём. Она посвящена Церкви, её мистической роли в деле спасения человечества, её иерархическому устройству, правам и обязанностям отдельных её членов.

Структура
Конституция Lumen Gentium состоит из 69 статей, объединённых в 8 глав:

 О тайне Церкви (статьи 1-8)
 О народе Божием (статьи 9-17)
 Об иерархическом строении Церкви и, в частности, о епископате (статьи 18-29)
 О мирянах (статьи 30-38)
 О всеобщем призвании ко святости в Церкви (статьи 39-42)
 О монашествующих (статьи 43-47)
 Об эсхатологической природе странствующей Церкви и о её единстве с Церковью небесной (статьи 48-51)
 О Пресвятой Богородице Деве Марии в тайне Христа и Церкви (статьи 52-69)

Содержание
Конституция суммирует экклезиологическое учение Католической церкви. В первой главе раскрывается смысл мистического понятия Церкви, как невесты Христа и чётко определяется, что Церковь Христова может быть только одна и что она пребывает в Католической церкви:

хотя и замечается, что «вне её (Церкви) состава обретаются многие начала освящения и истины, которые, будучи дарами, свойственными Церкви Христовой, побуждают к кафолическому единству».

Вторая глава посвящена понятию «народ Божий», главы с третьей по шестую описывают иерархическое устройство Церкви и излагают взгляд Церкви на клир, мирян и монашествующих. В третьей главе, помимо прочего, Lumen Gentium вновь подтверждает Догмат о папской безошибочности. В четвёртой главе особо подчёркивается важность деятельности мирян: «Поэтому миряне, даже занятые преходящими заботами, могут и должны осуществлять ценнейшую деятельность по возвещению Евангелия миру». Седьмая глава иллюстрирует понятие «общение святых» и говорит о связи земной Церкви и Церкви небесной. Заключительная глава конституции подробно рассказывает о понимании Католической церковью роли Девы Марии в спасении человечества и о её почитании в Церкви.

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Ссылки
 Lumen Gentium на официальном сайте Ватикана
 Lumen Gentium на русском языке
 Джеймс Т. О'Коннор. Церковь Христова и Католическая Церковь

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Billionaire: $30k/year is not enough to live on
June 4, 2021, 9:17 a.m.
Eldridge co-founder & CEO Todd Boehly joins 'Influencers with Andy Serwer' to discuss inflation and income inequality in America.
ANDY SERWER: So where do we stand now? What phase are we in, in terms of the recovery? And there's-- well, there's a lot of questions to ask. Are you concerned about inflation? What about fiscal and monetary policy? Give us your assessment, generally.
TODD BOEHLY: Yeah. So, you know, I think inflation is interesting, right? I think what you're having is labor costs are going to go up, period. And I think they should, right? So, you know, I look at $15--
ANDY SERWER: Why do you think they should?
TODD BOEHLY: Because I think that for this whole partnership that we're all in together, as the US, right, there should be more balance between kind of what people are getting paid. And ultimately, I think we're working on figuring out that balance. But you have a situation where there's going to be wage inflation because, you know, $30,000 a year is not enough to live on.
So I think from our point of view, we think there's going to be that type of inflation. But then when you look at the total market, right, and you look across, does that mean that your tech platforms are going to start charging you more? No. Does that mean that your banking platforms are going to start charging you more? No. Does that mean your media companies will start charging you more? No. Right?
So I think, you know, when you start to dissect what part of the industry is likely to have inflation-- and frankly, people talk about things right now like steel and lumber, and I'm not so sure it's actually the commodity itself that we're being starved of, but it's actually the labor base that's manufacturing that process into the end unit, whether it's steel or whether it's wood. I just think we need more people back working. So therefore, I think those types of costs are going to go up higher.
So when you start to think about inflation, I think it's going to be attached to, you know, the physical world where there's labor attached to the end product. And that's going to be marked up, you know. And ultimately, that will then cycle through, in the terms of the costs. So I think we're going to be paying more for hotels and more for food and more for restaurants-- which, frankly, we should.
ANDY SERWER: Right. And can you have inflation in one part of the economy and not another part? And then ultimately, what does that mean? Does that mean it's sort of a bout of inflation?
TODD BOEHLY: You know, I think it's almost like a market correction within a universe that is representative of a part of the-- part of the economy. But I don't think it's going to be widespread.
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Today Exotec, a leader in global warehouse robotics, announced $335M in Series D funding at a $2B valuation. The Growth Equity business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management led the round with follow-on investments from 83North and Dell Technologies Capital. Exotec will leverage the funds to continue to launch large-scale deployments in North America, Europe, and Asia for global brands. The company also plans to hire 500 new R&D engineers by 2025 to accelerate the development of its high-perform
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — A World Health Organization official warned last week of a "closing window of opportunity" for European countries to prevent their health care systems from being overwhelmed as the omicron variant produces near-vertical growth in coronavirus infections. In France, Britain and Spain, nations with comparatively strong national health programs, that window may already be closed. The director of an intensive care unit at a hospital in Strasbourg is turning patients away. A
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania and Turkey on Monday pledged to further boost their ties and increase their economic and cultural relations. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Albania to talk with Prime Minister Edi Rama on strengthening bilateral ties and also inaugurate new apartments funded by Turkey for Albanians left homeless by the 2019 earthquake. Upon landing Erdogan immediately headed to the northwestern town of Lac, 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of the capital Tirana, w


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Estonia's Former President: Look At What America Does, Not What Trump Says
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Estonia's former president Toomas Hendrik Ilves, in an interview with Foreign Policy, declared the Baltic nations must look at what America is actually doing in terms of reinforcing the Baltic regions against perceived aggression from the Russian Federation, rather than what President Trump says.
Baltics Want Trump To Reassure Them, In Face Of Continued Perceived Russian Aggressions In Region
Trump has been campaigning to force NATO member countries to pay their required investment into their own defense capabilities, and the NATO alliance, rather than rely on the American defense umbrella, and essentially the American taxpayer, to defend Europe.
"I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about Article 5 [of NATO's founding treaty]," Ilves said, adding that applying Article 5 would be discussed if a member state has been attacked. "It's not as if any country can just go off starting a war and then summon Article 5," he said.
"But in this case, we see that there is a fairly strong and long continuity in terms of the policy from the [Pentagon] regarding defense for the Baltic countries and Poland. A lot of the speculation is based on off the cuff remarks that haven't actually translated into policy in any way. At least as of yet," he said, reported The Baltic Times.
The former Estonian leader also commented on NATO's reaction to the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, which he saw as inviting Russia to continue aggressive activities in its 'near abroad'.
Putin Decries EU's Treatment Of Russian-Speakers In Baltics
"The Georgian war was treated as a one-off that had no implications for anything. That was the prevalent attitude at the time. But there was a sharper reaction in 2014; there was more shock from Crimea and [the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash]," Ilves said.
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Roseate Terns are medium-sized terns. In breeding plumage they have a black top of the head, from the base of the bill to the nape of the neck, white sides of the neck and front and a pale-grey back. Some have a pink tinge on the front/underparts. During the non-breeding season only the back half of the head remains black, while the forehead turns white. In the transition zone, above the eyes, there is some black-and-white speckling. The irises are dark. The long, narrow and slightly downcurved bill is always dark-grey to black in eclipse. It can have a red base during the breeding season. When rearing chicks the bill can become all-red. Legs and feet are orange-red, in eclipse possibly also paler/more yellowish, but in all seasons redder than those of similar tern species.
See Roseate Tern at Wikipedia .
The global distribution of the Roseate Tern is available HERE .
There are several races of Roseate Terns (depending on authority, 3 to 5; for details refer to the relevant literature), which are a partly migratory species. Nominate race "dougallii" populates parts of the coastlines on both sides of the North Atlantic. Another population/race is sedentary around Madagascar and parts of the East African coastline, migrating to breed along the coastlines of Oman, Goa and Sri Lanka. Race "gracilis" is found in south-eastern Asia, where they are sedentary in the tropical part of their range (from ca. Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines to New Caledonia and northern Australia) and breeding migrants to the subtropical coastlines of western and eastern Australia in the South and China, Taiwan and islands towards southern Japan in the North.
In Australia only Roseate Terns of race "gracilis" are found breeding. They occur only in coastal areas and their distribution ranges from near Perth, WA, around the northern coastline of the continent, to about Frazer Island, QLD. In the northern, tropical part of their range they are sedentary, in the subtropical part migratory. They are uncommon in an area spanning from the Kimberley coast to western Arnhemland and they are not found anywhere inland. Members of race "bangsii" from East Asia may be found as non-breeding migrants from the North.
Roseate Terns have a preference for coral reefs and other sparsely vegetated islands, where they breed in colonies on beaches, just above the high water mark, while hunting for fish in coastal waters. They spend much of the rest of the year on the open oceans.
B. Hensen reports spotting a Roseate Tern, race "gracilis", at Lee Point, Darwin, NT, in July 2018. All photographic and sighting information presented on this page has kindly been contributed by B. Hensen.


There was some disagreement on what zoning approval may be required. Township ordinances do not allow for towers on residential or agricultural land. Todd's position was that Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) operate under the FCC's Over The Air Reception Device (OTARD) rule to put up towers and provide internet to unserved areas. Mr. Kingsley's interpretation was that OTARD allows a person to put up a tower to receive internet, but does not allow a provider to serve others off of that tower. According to Mr. Kingsley, using the tower to service others would be a change of use and require a variance. Although Todd disagreed with that interpretation, he would rather work with the township than against them.
Mr. Kingsley has since recommended Todd apply for special conditional zoning or they change the township ordinance to allow for such towers. The special zoning would likely be quicker than changing the ordinance. It is not clear how long it would take, though. In any case, the project has already been delayed 6 weeks during these discussions with the township. I am not certain how Todd and the Township will proceed, but I feel confident that service will be rolled out here and possibly township wide. I also know everyone is eager to get broadband and frustrated with the delays.
This is a brief summary of events. There are a many other aspects and considerations that I couldn't concisely and clearly explain in one email. Let me know if you have any comments, questions or ideas. I will let you know when I have more information.


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Client Success: Ann Temkin's Memoir Illustrates Personal Struggle to Revelation in Spiritual Quest
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"I know others have held the same secret," Ann J. Temkin said of her newly released memoir. "I needed to explore this period of my life, and I wanted to let them know they are not alone."
The Smoking Nun recounts a woman's conflicts over loving God, humanity, and one forbidden man. Passion, struggle, and betrayal ignite this true story lived amidst the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War. Advanced readers found the book inspiring, relevant, and revealing for our current times, calling it "a spiritual quest bound with an inextricable thirst for justice."
In late 2015, Ann saw the Oscar-winning film Spotlight about The Boston Globe investigative journalists who found proof of a cover-up of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church. Even though her situation was not the same, Ann began to think differently about a part of her life she had kept secret. Then came her struggle with whether or not to write about her hidden love affair with a Catholic priest.
Soon, she went to the book signing of a friend. "She didn't know my story. No one did. And when she signed my book, she wrote, 'Tell your story. It matters.' I took that as a sign and began to write."
Though possessing a career's worth of writing experience and a published author of 2014's memoir Sight In The Sandstorm: Jesus in His World and Mine, Ann shared that writing this book was often painful.
"My story involves an early time when I was not in touch with my own feelings and in an environment that encouraged denial. Writing about it, I often asked myself, 'What was I feeling?' I had to confront realizations and emotions that had never surfaced before. And it was scary to make myself so vulnerable, not just about the secret, but about my spiritual life."
As her editor, Ann and I worked from initial writing through publication. "Wayne got it, and when he didn't, he asked questions and remained encouraging." I facilitated a focus group to lead into final revision, and she credits the stellar panel for their insight and praise. Ann's cover designer Cristina Montesinos, along with fellow authors, friends, and Mort, her husband of 35 years, were positive influences during the two-plus years of process to publication.
Ann always welcomes opportunities to share her book and hear reflections from readers. For details about readings or to inquire about having Ann speak with your group, please visit www.anntemkin.com or follow her on Facebook.
For budding writers, Ann advises, "Just start somewhere. Anywhere. Then just write. Thinking about it comes later.
Through her journey of revisiting and resolving the past, Ann came out stronger on both life and writing. "I'm not at all shy about calling myself a writer now."
Category: Client Success, Congratulations, Creative Writers' Workshop, Editing, Personal Memoir, Self-Published, Writer's Coaching, Writers / Tags: authenticity, authors, books, clients, Focus Group, memoir, process, risk-taking, vulnerability
Client Success: Lynne Byrd Celebrates Community Visionary and Best Friend
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"I knew Joyce and her friends very well," Lynne Barfield Byrd shared of her best friend Joyce Amacher, the community visionary who passed away in February 2017 and is featured in Lynne's latest book The Queen of Dunwoody. Lynne and Joyce became fast friends when Lynne's son and Joyce's daughter dated and eventually married. They grew closer as co-grandparents of two little girls, co-authors of The Story of Dunwoody: 1971-2001, and co-founders of the Dunwoody Preservation Trust. "Joyce and I worked hard to identify the descendants of pioneer families and save the remaining historic homes in Dunwoody."
"The book began with tributes from her friends along with remembrances of people who worked with her to make Dunwoody a great place to live." Lynne, the author of three books and a historian who has placed three Dunwoody homes on the National Register of Historic Places, started the book's research by interviewing Joyce's husband of over fifty years. "I had some pleasant surprises when talking with Bill. He's a reticent kind of man, but he straightened me out on a lot of details."
The Queen of Dunwoody is the story of Joyce Amacher, an Atlanta native who moved to Dunwoody in 1968 where she and her husband raised their family and she focused her talents and passion on community enrichment, fighting the effects of urban sprawl while advocating for architectural design standards.
As a visionary leader, Joyce knew the talents of other community members, encouraging them to contribute their best. She served as charter member and one-time President of the Dunwoody Homeowners Association, the volunteer governing body until Dunwoody became a city in 2008. When the county planned to expand Ashford Dunwoody Road into a 4-lane, she was influential in gaining permission and funds to beautify the road with a tree-filled median. In 1998 after a devastating tornado, she led efforts to replant the Dunwoody Forest. She and Lynne spearheaded efforts to purchase and restore the Cheek-Spruill House, known as the Farmhouse.
In writing and compiling this book, Lynne credits encouragers like her husband Noah who organized over 100 photos for this full-color publication, as well as a local group of first-time writers called "The Wow Girls."
And this is the second book Lynne has completed with me. "I was fortunate to meet Wayne South Smith at his workshop at the Dunwoody library in 2013. Wayne was the editor and project manager on my first book, a memoir called The Sweetness and the Pits: Remembrances of a Georgia Peach. I never could have done it by myself and probably would have given up trying without his help. It was wonderful to work with him again on The Queen of Dunwoody. Wayne is the most patient and encouraging person a writer could work with."
The Queen of Dunwoody will launch at the historic Donaldson-Bannister House on May 5, 2018 from 2-4pm. Proceeds from sales will be evenly divided between Joyce's three favorite non-profits: The Dunwoody Preservation Trust, The Dunwoody Garden Club, and the Dunwoody Homeowners Association.
Category: Client Success, Congratulations, Editing, Personal Memoir, Self-Published, Writers / Tags: authors, biography, books, clients, community, memoir


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India has become the first country in Asia to buy US shale gas after state-owned GAIL booked a ship of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Cheniere Energy Inc's Sabine Pass plant in Louisiana. GAIL bought the cargo on spot basis and will receive it at the Dabhol LNG import terminal in Maharashtra, a company official said.
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and my query is here:
with Managers as
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To Alexander Hamilton from Elizabeth Hamilton, 19 October 1801
From Elizabeth Hamilton
[New York, October 19, 1801. On Sunday, October 25, 1801, Hamilton wrote to his wife: "I was much relieved, My Dear Eliza, by the receipt yesterday morning of your letter of Monday last."1 Letter not found.]
1. See H to Elizabeth Hamilton, October 17–18, 1801.
"To Alexander Hamilton from Elizabeth Hamilton, 19 October 1801," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-25-02-0250. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 25, July 1800 – April 1802, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977, pp. 427–428.]
From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton [17–18 October 1801]
From Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Hamilton [21 October 1801]


I LOVE a good Sunday Self Love Day! Technically it's my Saturday since I work on Saturday. BUT yesterday I did just that! Here are four things that make me so happy and relaxed going into a new week.
1. My new Lively fragrance. As you all know, I am a Brand Ambassador for Lively. I've been obsessed with their bras long before getting that title and now they just launched a new fragrance! FYI, I am super picky on my smells. First off the packaging and branding on all of their products is amazing. I just love a brand that takes care in the details. But most importantly the smell is perfection. I've been wanting a new signature scent and I just love the sophistication in the Lively smell. Makes me ready to concur the day. Get $10 with my code AMB-thenerdygirlie2.
2. Dry Bar. You may have seen my MANY tweets and THIS blog post about how much I LOVE Dry Bar. They gave me a free blow out back in December and I've been hooked ever since. I went with my girls at work for Galentine's Day, we celebrated my besties bachelorette party at Dry Bar in Miami and yesterday I was able to get another FREE one from Netflix and The Santa Clarita Diet. It is such a relaxing experience. I LOVE the head massage and I always just sit back and unplug for the hour. Plus you walk out not only relaxed, but with great hair for the upcoming week!
3. Can't Clutch This. You may have noticed the lack of Can't Clutch This posts here and on my socials. If I'm being honest, I almost skipped this month because both January and February's clutches weren't really up my ally. But when Kelly of Studio DIY posted that this was the MOST requested clutch EVER, I just knew I couldn't skip. This month is a CACTUS clutch! I added both the keychain flair and the pin flair this month because I was so excited to have the subscription back on track for me. I may or many not continue in the future...I do have 15 clutches at this point! LOL PS check out that Dry Bar hair!!!
4. Plants. On my first birthday in Denver, my bestie gave me a cactus! Since then I've been hooked on plants. Luckily Ocean Eyes is too! He already had a few in his house when I met him. I've bought some here and there to add to our collection. He's gotten me some and for this past birthday he got me three macrame plant hangers. Sunday we went shopping for plants to fill them. I just adore having the color, the freshness and the joy they bring into our home. It is so much fun watering them every Monday, watching them grow and the calmness they bring.


Hey guys, I know I haven't written in a while but thats only because I have been incredibly busy!
Just last weekend I graduated from highschool! I was actually very surprised to learn that I would be graduating as the salutatorian of my graduating class with a 4.5 GPA. Walking up on stage to get my diploma as the salutatorian felt very good. On top of all of that I graduated a whole year early! It was a lot of hard work but it all paid off. Now I can get back into the normal groove of things like racing more often! Although I have been out of highschool for a short time, I have kind of thought about the good things I've done and the mistakes I've made. Looking back, I think I would have focused a little bit more on getting my work done instead of making sure I trained like a maniac. I was no doubt a procrastinator most of the time because the only thing in the back of my mind was something with two wheels. Yes, racing kept me a little bit pre-occupied but like I have said before, it has kept me out of trouble. Riding my dirtbike was one of the only escapes for me and still is. I have never had the urge to drink or do any type of drug. In my eyes, they will only put a handicap on my riding capabilities so why in the world would I want to deal with that? At times, I may not have had a bus load of friends because I didn't go with the flow but I am way better off now!
Besides highschool, something even cooler that happened recently was my house on MTV Teen Cribs! It aired for the first time back on April 22nd and has been re-airing almost every week. MTV shot the house for their new spin off of the original Cribs called Teen Cribs. It was so much fun to do a tour of the house and to have MTV at my place. Hopefully you all watched it or are going to watch it. Soon I will post the video or a link to it.
You might be asking so Jessica since you're out of school, what are your next plans? Well for now, I am trying to get into Rollins College down here in Florida. I want to major in journalism and TV broadcasting. I was also offered an internship with Research Media Group out of Alexandria, VA to cover political news. For those of you who aren't familiar with the group, they are the watchdog for the media and help keep the politicians in line. The internship would give me the opportunity to cover news on Capital Hill, the pentagon, the White House and any other major political spot. It will be a very educational and amazing opportunity.
I just saw that Jorge Lorenzo took the pole position today at Mugello; very surprising to me! tomorrow's race should be more than exciting!
Jessica "Motogirl" Lee is a 28 year old motocross racer and journalist. Born into a family of motorcycle enthusiasts and industry insiders, she has been riding and nurturing a passion for motorcycles from the age of four.


CDs are ready to roll and rock!
We're excited to announce that the CD of the 1978 Uncle Dirty's session is in the final stage of completion. Freshly remastered and spruced up for 2012 it includes the tracks from the original vinyl pressing plus three additional songs – Sea Me Home, Love is the Key and Lucy. A 12 page insert booklet contains lyrics and photos from the session and performance photos shot by Steve Hough. The first 100 copies of this limited edition will also be signed by the band members during our private reunion show on May 26, 2012.
Please comment to this post to get your copy. I will notify you when they are ready to ship.
Extremely rare self-published album available at Rockaway Records in Los Angeles, CA.
The 12″ vinyl LP is listed at a sale price of $200. Brothers Wayne and Gary Johnson began re-selling albums in 1979 after attending one of the legendary record swap meets in the Capitol Records parking lot in Hollywood. What began as a hobby more than 30 years ago, quickly turned into a business when they were virtually forced to open a store, if only to house their growing collection!
Rockaway purchased "Rainbow Records", a small well-known record store in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. They now started selling new and used records and cassettes in addition to collectibles. Rockaway grew so quickly, they had to move 2 more times, finally settling into the present Silver Lake location in 1992.
In 1984 another brother, Alan, opened a Rockaway in Mesa, Arizona. Sadly, that store is now closed. Then in 1992, yet another brother, Scott, opened a Rockaway in Brisbane, Australia.


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The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
Why Rex Tillerson's Departure Matters
Philip Seib reflects on the U.S secretary of state's relatively short tenure, surveys the damage from his departure and offers some advice to his successor.
American Public Diplomacy Is Our Country's Best Foreign Policy Tool
Mel Levine, Rockwell Schnabel and Jay Wang champion the importance of American public diplomacy today.
Why the White House's Arts and Humanities Commitee Decided to Resign
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New Survey: White House Communications Team Harming PR Industry
A new USC Annenberg study shows that the most visible figures in American and global media are doing a disservice to their field.
CPD Board Member Appointed to Fulbright Board
President Obama taps Markos Kounalakis to serve on the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Obama's Tweet Meister
His comments not only call into question the honesty of policy statements from the White House, but they also display a fundamental disregard for the news media's role in informing the public about what its government is doing. Performing that role requires that the relationship between press and government...