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What's Your Best Tipsy Purchase?
Have you ever gone to happy hour and then gone sho
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What did you buy? I spent $15 on margaritas one time and then went to a store and spent $8000.
If you're thinking about buying something anyway, alcohol can put you right over the edge! And it can talk you into the strangest things.
I was out at happy hour a few years back, drinking margaritas and eating chips and salsa, and I shared with a friend how badly I wanted granite counter tops. Long story short and a few sips of tequila later, then next thing I knew I was at a home improvement store financing $8000 worth of granite counter tops for my kitchen. I loved them! But I wonder if I would have made the same big decision to buy them sans the margs.
Designer jeans are another big tipsy purchase item for me. I won't usually spend my Benjamins on expensive jeans when I'm stone cold sober, but after a drink or two I cannot live without them and think they are way more important than the electric bill.
What about you? Any drunken purchases you're proud of or embarrassed about? I won't judge if you don't judge. Do tell on Facebook today. We might look at that new car of yours a little differently!


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Bach for Another Round
Andrew Megill and Bruno Weil organize another masterful Carmel Bach Festival
By Scott MacClelland
THE OPENING weekend of the 71st Carmel Bach Festival offered a mighty feast in the form of the Festival namesake's Mass in B Minor and Cantata BWV 21, and Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, the first of three performances each spread over as many weeks. The sprawling, two-hour Mass launched the annual celebration Saturday night, availing the all-professional Festival Chorale, a youthful and responsive force of 28 voices, recruited and trained by associate conductor Andrew Megill. For the occasion, Megill drew out five voices to begin various choral movements and sections, in the manner of a concerto grosso, the five as concertino to the tutti ripieno. This effect worked wonders in casting the choral tapestry into 3-D, and, according to Megill, it was a not-uncommon practice by Bach himself, especially when taking up a new post.
Under music director Bruno Weil, the great choral scenes of the Mass dominated, leaving the solo arias and duets and the lesser choral scenes on a more intimate plane. Giving the whole work an overall arching sinew is always challenging; Bach cobbled the Mass together from various of his earlier cantatas and only assembled it in the form we recognize at the end of his life. The hair-raising highlights of the Saturday performance were the opening Kyrie, the "Gloria" and "Cum Sancto Spiritu" from the Gloria section, and the "Et resurrexit" and "Et expecto resurrectionem" from the Credo section. The solo vocal quartet's most expressive moments were served up by mezzo-soprano Sally-Anne Russell and, only in the second half, tenor Thomas Cooley and bass Sanford Sylvan.
Bach's early Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, which opened the Sunday matinee, exhibits unusual melodrama among the composer's sacred cantatas. Yet the performances by soprano Kendra Colton and bass Sanford Sylvan were coolly cautious. Only tenor Thomas Cooley gushed, suggesting that Bach was a lusty man of the world, not just a church mouse. Once again, the chorus was divided into concertino and tutti, especially effective in Sei nun wieder zufrieden where Bach sets an original part against an arrangement of a familiar old church chorale. Festival Chorus and Youth Chorus both participated, adding more colors to the combined choral force.
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The Brahms Requiem set the emotional high point of the weekend in which Weil fully engaged every moment of the inspired symphonic score, emphasizing its choice of biblical texts without smoothing off its dramatic allusions to inevitable death. Soloists Kendra Colton and Sanford Sylvan rose to occasion while the combined Chorus and Chorale ranged from timorous intimacy to implacable authority.
THE CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL runs through Aug. 9 at various venues; see www.bachfestival.org for details.
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The logo with its royal crest is simplistic by design, according to Hov. "I wanted to make it really classic and strong; a throwback to Brooklyn and what we're about," Jay-Z tells MTV News about the image. "It's real gritty and we're not about flash — well, sometimes. Just the roots of Brooklyn as this very bold, strong, simple logo."
We are surprised that MTV didn't ask Jay about Mushnick's response to the logo, and his inflammatory column about him and his basketball team. In it, the writer suggested that the other team owners take the urbanizing to the extreme. "Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N—ers? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B—-es or H–s. Team logo? A 9 mm with hollow-tip shell casings strewn beneath. Wanna be Jay-Z hip? Then go all the way!" he wrote in his column.
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In the end, Jay-Z's inspiration for the logo came from the vintage New York transit system signage of yesteryear. "It was really a take off the old subway signs, if you look at the old subway signs they were in black and white," he says. "It was that strong, beautiful, iconic black and white. I wanted to pick something that would stand the test of time and be here forever."
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NM Tech Children's Center Endowment Fund off to Great Start, Sept. 27, 2005
by George Zamora
(Right: Are we having fun yet? Children and teachers from the New Mexico Tech Children's Center look on as the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) makes a $10,000 donation to the newly established Children's Center Endowment Fund. Jim Ulvestad, director of NRAO's New Mexico operations (left of check) presents the check to Dr. Ricardo Maestas, Tech vice president of student and university relations (right of check). Above check is Tracy Cardenas, manager of the Tech Children's Center.)
SOCORRO, N.M., Sept. 27, 2005 – A newly established endowment fund at New Mexico Tech is off to a great start after recently garnering two major contributions to kick off the fundraising campaign for the university's on-campus child care facility.
The New Mexico Tech Children's Center Endowment Fund received a $10,000 donation last week from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which maintains its Array Operations Center (AOC) on the university campus.
In addition, an individual contribution of $1,000 also was made to the university's newest endowment fund just prior to the NRAO donation.
However, even with $11,000 in the bank, there's still a long way to go, since university administrators have set a goal of raising $250,000 for the New Mexico Tech Children's Center Endowment Fund.
Plans call for interest generated from such an endowment corpus to be used to better ensure the ongoing operation and sustainability of the child care facility and its related early education programs.
"Despite having implemented a five percent increase in tuition fees earlier this year, the Tech Children's Center is still projected to end the fiscal year with a deficit of about $50,000," said Tracy Cardenas, manager of the Children's Center and adjunct instructor of education at New Mexico Tech.
"As a practical solution to alleviating this recurring situation, the Tech Children's Center Parent Advisory Board decided to establish an endowment fund to assist with expenses," Cardenas explained, "mainly by supplementing salaries and benefits for teachers and staff at the Center."
The Tech Children's Center — the only full-time child care program available in Socorro — has four full-time staff members and six student teachers, who are currently charged with educating and caring for 25 pre-school children.
Of the 25 children currently enrolled at the New Mexico Tech Children's Center, eight are children of Tech students, seven are children of Tech faculty and staff, three are children of NRAO employees, and seven are children from the local community whose parents are not employed at Tech.
"Two of our teachers have been working at the Children's Center for more than ten years each, and we would like to keep them," said Cardenas. "We hope that establishing this new endowment fund will work toward allowing us to do so."
Once the New Mexico Tech Children's Center Endowment Fund reaches its fundraising goal, Cardenas also has hopes that generated income will be used for staff training and travel expenses.
"There is an enormous amount of new knowledge and technology available for early childhood education and care, and allowing our teachers to learn about recent developments in their field complements their professional development," Cardenas said. "In turn, they can then bring this new knowledge back to the classroom, ultimately benefiting the children and families as well."
Informational brochures about the fundraising campaign for the New Mexico Tech Children's Center Endowment Fund recently were mailed out to Tech alumni, soliciting their financial assistance, and are currently being mailed out to Tech faculty and staff, in hopes of building up the corpus of the endowment fund.
For more information about contributing to the Tech Children's Center Endowment Fund, call the New Mexico Tech Advancement Office at 505.835.5525.


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Storage Analytics and Billing
This topic discusses the cost of Storage Analytics and how to use metrics and logging data to understand your storage services bill.
Cost of Storage Analytics
All metrics data is written by the services of a storage account. As a result, each write operation performed by Storage Analytics is billable. Additionally, the amount of storage used by metrics data is also billable.
The following actions performed by Storage Analytics are billable:
Requests to create blobs for logging
Requests to create table entities for metrics
If you have configured a data retention policy, you are not charged for delete transactions when Storage Analytics deletes old logging and metrics data. However, delete transactions from a client are billable. For more information about retention policies, see Setting a Storage Analytics Data Retention Policy.
Understanding Billable Requests
Every request made to an account's storage service is either billable or non-billable. Storage Analytics logs each individual request made to a service, including a status message that indicates how the request was handled. Similarly, Storage Analytics stores metrics for both a service and the API operations of that service, including the percentages and count of certain status messages. Together, these features can help you analyze your billable requests, make improvements on your application, and diagnose issues with requests to your services. For more information about billing, see Understanding Azure Storage Billing - Bandwidth, Transactions, and Capacity.
When looking at Storage Analytics data, you can use the tables in the Storage Analytics Logged Operations and Status Messages topic to determine what requests are billable. Then you can compare your logs and metrics data to the status messages to see if you were charged for a particular request. You can also use the tables in the above topic to investigate availability for a storage service or individual API operation.
See Also
Storage Analytics Logged Operations and Status Messages
About Storage Analytics Logging
About Storage Analytics Metrics


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