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About midnitez's Garage
About me and my passion for cars
I've always loved cars. I'm not much of a mechanic, but I really appreciate a beautiful, powerful car.
My first car
1967 Ford Galaxie 500 XL
Car I wish I still had
My 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 XL
My dream car
Probably have to be a 1967 Chevelle. A buddy of mine in H.S. had one and I've wanted one ever since.
Car clubs I'm in
None yet. Looking to sign up with one of the few local clubs around here soon though.
- Driving song: Crash and Burn by April Wine
- Car movie: Gone in 60 seconds (the original)
- Car magazine: Hemming's Muscle Machines
- Car game: Any Gran Tourismo
— Profile last updated: Oct 24, 2007
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Aug 2, 2006
Got the car back on July 5th. The guy did a great job. Did more than originally planned and he still came in under the max quoted me. Been trying to get it out as much as possible but the weather hasn't always cooperated. At least it's home now, though.
Long summer
Jun 26, 2006
Took the car into the body shop May 5 to get a spot redone on the rear quarter (the shop originally fixed it last fall but it started to show through). I figured this would be a good time to take care of the rockers and front fenders that had been cheaply...
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GREAT price! I remember W'n'W a couple of years ago, and they sure weren't anything to rave over, but they seem to have turned over a new leaf, and one that is easy to afford!
I found this in a half-off bin at Rite-Aid today, so it was only 99 cents. It is Poppy Shine, which seemed very bright in the tube. It's actually a very pretty reddish pink, not too bright or overwhelming on my FFF skin. It lasted a lot longer than I expected it too, also... glossy lipsticks usually last half an hour, max. I definitely would buy again, to try a few other shades.
I have "honey shine", which is peach-honey colored. This felt dry on my lips, but gloss corrected that and it is a beautiful color.
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for $1.67 these are simply amazing. i will be picking up other shades. i picked up 'suga shine' today on a rec and it is amazing...my lips but better with a bit of shimmer and a lot of shine. perfect. and these have a gloss consitancy but work like a lipstick. i am in love. yay for wet n wild.
What a drastic improvement in formula for W&W! No more "crayon" lippies: this smooth, almost lip-balmy-feeling lipstick was a big hit with me. Although they don't leave lips with a glossy shine, they do give you moisturizing color and a nice, fresh finish. I got #329 "Suga Shine" and #330 "Cranberry Shine" and have loved both of them. "Suga Shine": A light, silky warm blush-pink pick-me-up color that would be beautiful with alot of this spring's pinky shades, and was not too pale for my yellow-toned PPP skin. "Cranberry Shine": a nice true-red, didn't turn fuschia on my lips, and even when blotted off gave my lips a nice, red stain. Would work best with a lip liner to hold it in place (because of its very smooth consistency). For abt. $3 these are a risk-free indulgence! Only bummer: my "Suga Shine" broke off at the base the second time I used it. *sigh* Thus only a 3 for "Packaging Quality."
I love this lipstick! I picked up Latte Shine today, and wow! It is a great neutral brown and does give a fairly shiny look. The lipsticks are also very moisturizing-usually I have to top lipsticks with gloss because my lips are so chapped, but this lipstick worked great on its own. Plus, it was only $1.29 at Target. You can't get better than that.
Kealoha gave a great review on this!
To add to what she wrote, I'll say that this new line of l/s (look for the pink metallic tube), while there weren't a slew of choices available (hey, they're new, and maybe are just being tested out?), they DID have a nice and varied selection in what they did have. And because they were only $1.79, I grabbed 2 to test them out.
Lemme tell ya, WnW did good with these! I picked up #323 (Latte Shine), which is a shimmery pale golden brown (LOVE!), and #322 (Honey Shine), which is a sheer shimmery pale peach. There was another shade called Suga Shine, which I adored in the store, but I knew it was too pink for me ... but for those interested, it's a shimmery golden pink, perfect for spring!
IMO, these Wild Shines are a cross between Revlon's Moisturous l/s & Maybelline's WS l/s -- they slick on and don't seem to cake up at all, and IMHO, they're BETTER than Maybelline's WS l/s, as they really ARE shiny in their finish. Amazing, considering they're so inexpensive! Not the longest-wearing lipstick on earth -- but for what they cost, and how they feel, I don't mind reapplying .
These were an unexpected gem, and are definitely worth checking out, ladies!
I got this in Poppy Shine. It's a very pretty red-ish pink. And Shine factor isn't the greatest but it's a great, cheap sheer lipstick to play around with.

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Appelbaum says that the museum must "do justice to [journalists'] passion. So if it works for journalists, then I think it's really accomplished its goal." But the Newseum is, in the end, a museum for the nonprofessional—which may be more apt than we find comfortable. After all, as the Newseum itself suggests, journalism is becoming a profession of the amateur, from the growing army of bloggers to the student who used a cell-phone camera to photograph police storming the site of the Virginia Tech massacre. Not everyone applauds these trends, of course. One interactive kiosk asks visitors whether bloggers are "important to the future of journalism." Of those previewing the museum, only 50 percent said yes.
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I enjoy Arkham and I have Kinsburg and Talisman from FF. Talisman was my first FF game and I don't really play it, not really interested in the whole dungeon style theme's. I enjoy the horror style but have quite a few horror games now but not a sci-fi style which I'm looking for.
It's mostly just me and my gf that play so is Android ok with 2 ?
I really do like the artwork and board with Android but I'm starting to think I just want the game for this
I do prefer a game with some dice but not too worried about this and the game length doesn't bother me.My gf seems to like the whole mystery/murder theme to it.
So is this the right sci-fi game for me or do I look else where ? I'm not aware of any sci-fi style games like the style of Arkham, is there such a game ?
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Hi everyone....any help on this dilemma would be MUCH appreciated. I am living in a wonderful old rental house. Everything would be perfect were it not for the unfinished basement, which, I believe, is causing a mold problem in the house. The basement has several areas, one of which is an exposed dirt retaining wall. The floor gets about 2 inches or so of water when it rains. I am fairly certain the area is not well-sealed, as there are spiders, crickets, and other creepy crawlers all over. In addition, I've noticed (especially when I travel) that all of my clothes have a musty odor, which I assume must be from the humidity in the basement. My allergies have also been horrible lately--I almost feel like I'm developing asthma.
As this is a rental, I don't want to spend an arm and a leg fixing the problem, but have heard that laying plastic sheeting might help. I also have considered air filters and/or dehumidifiers. If anyone has ANY suggestions, please post here or send me an email. Thanks so much!!! |
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You should alert the landlord to the problem and request that the house be tested for mold, particularly "black mold." Black mold is toxic, and can cause numerous health problems ranging from not feeling well, to developing asthma to neurological disorders. If you are not feeling well at home, make note if you're health improves when you leave the house. If the landlord refuses to test, you can buy a toxic mold test kit at the Home Depot for about $10, but the kit is only good for one room. (So testing can get expensive if you plan to test more than a few rooms.) If the basement is damp, you should get some fans down there to get the air circulating, and put a de-humidifier down there to help dry up the place. You might also want to put a de-humidifier in the main area of the house. I am not an expert on mold, but we recently purchased a basement unit condo and did research on the topic. We keep the dehumidifier running most of the time, and sealed the concrete floors with masonry concrete sealer which seals the floor from ground moisture. This might also be an option for you....good luck! |
Definitely run a dehumid. Nice Whirlpool or Kenmore costs about $169, cheap brand $99, or get the landlord to bring one. I know a guy who owns rentals and he always has 2 or 3 of em in storage. Other ideas...you or the landlord could do... Pressure wash all concrete in the basement with bleach solution. Wear a plastic poncho and a filter mask. It will kill off a lot of the mold. Run the dehumid after that and keep the basement dried out so it won't grow back. Hope it improves for you. |
I run a $20$ used dehumidifier in my basement during the summer.. Gallon upon gallon of water is removed, and this basement is very dry, but with poor ventilation.In the winter the basement is heated.. There is also a semi-crawl space under the kitchen which was sealed up more or less,(zero ventilation) The air smelled realy good, and there was no rust and no rot.. Not bad for a old $40,000 dump of a home !! Adrian |
There are hundreds of thousands of different varieties of mold and only 3 have been found to be toxic and even those ... no one is sure at which levels they are dangerous. They usually onlycause problems in those persons that already have allergies to mold. (Lots of research resulting from my daughter's allergies). There is a lot of hysteria about it now, just as there has been with other substances in the past, but unless you have a known allergy or asthma, it should not create a problem. Plastic sheeting will indeed reduce the moisture if effectively covering the soil, however, that would be impossible in the presence of standing water as you have described. Also - the exposed side wall would still allow moisture to enter so the remedy would be only a partial one at that. LL would have to install drain tiles and sump pump, block the walls and concrete the floors. This is a typical basement in many older homes in our area. If you are having a problem, you might consider finding another home in which to live. Since it was an acceptable method of building at the time at which the home was built, it is probably grandfathered into local building codes as being acceptable since it poses no structural danger. |
Thanks so much for all of the suggestions! We put a dehumidifier in the basement and air purifiers in each room and they seem to be helping. I think we're going to try putting up plastic sheeting the next free weekend--even if it's not a perfect solution, it will hopefully do more good than harm! Thanks again--I'm a newcomer and this forum has been tons of help in dealing with the common problems found in older homes. |
- Posted by Prettyphysicslady (My Page) on Tue, Sep 24, 02 at 20:47
Also, the de-humidifier helps ( I have a 100 year old home) but you need to stop water coming into the basement. We found by just extending out the drains from the gutters we eliminated our water problem. You can buy the extentions for about a quarter or 50 cents or so at HomeDepot, Lowes or any of that type store. |
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- Julien Macdonald, a designer and a judge on "Britain's Next Top Model," issued a slap in the face to plus-size models everywhere when he said they don't belong on his show. "There were no plus-size models," he said, referring to the show's sixth season. "This is a serious show. You can't have a plus-size girl winning. It makes it a joke. It's not fair on them. You're setting them up for a fall. I know what would happen to them. They're looked down upon." Ugh, what condescending hogwash! Ever consider that maybe you are part of the problem, Julien? [Styleist]
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The ending of spring football largely means the beginning of the pre-season rankings phase of the college football season.
One of the first to get their rankings out is Athlon's, one of the venerable pre-season rankings. The magazine is starting a monthlong countdown of its Top 25, and begins today with its No. 25 pick --- the Washington Huskies.
Here's its rundown of the Huskies. With each team it also has a slideshow of that team's top 10 players for this season, and top 10 since 1967 (really? No Marques Tuiasosopo?)
Obviously, all these things are just for conversation and discussion, and I always hope fans appreciate them in that light. I often get comments that all such pre-season rankings "are meaningless.": Of course they are. But college football teams play 12-13 times a year or so, 3-4 hours or so each time. If we solely limited our talk of college football solely to that 50 hours or so of time, it'd be kind of boring. All of these kinds of rankings, whether you agree with them or not, help pass the time and drive the conversation in the off-season.
Okay, on to a few more links. ...
--- Times columnist Jerry Brewer says it's "absurd'' to say Chris Polk should have stayed in school for another year.
--- Bud Withers' review of Pac-12 spring camps today hits on Washington State.
--- ESPN's College Football Live has also unveiled its pre-season Top 25, which does not include UW.
--- The Oregonian's Oregon rundown leads off with some thoughts on Darron Thomas going undrafted.
--- The Pac-12 spring meetings are this week and Buffzone.com looks at what might be on tap.
--- Some Oregon State news and notes.
--- ESPN's Pac-12 blog examines possible draftable players out of the conference for 2013.
--- Some links around the conference from Christian Caple.
-- Hat tip to the guys at the Review for this interesting story on former WSU running back Dwight Tardy reviving his baseball career at Mt. SAC, the same school where Nick Montana is now playing football.
--- Finally, I was a guest last night on Northwest Sports Tonight with Paul Silvi (he's the well-dressed one) talking about UW spring football and Chris Polk:


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Co-conspirator Sentenced for Fraudulently Claiming Millions in Fuel Tax Credit Refunds
Six Defendants Participated in the Scheme
Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Soumahoro Ben Amara, age 46, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today to 33 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud and filing a false claim in connection with a scheme to obtain fraudulent tax refunds from the IRS, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. Judge Titus also ordered Amara to pay restitution of $694,883. In addition, Amara was sentenced to 24 months in prison to be served consecutive to the 33 months, for identity theft in an unrelated case filed in the Eastern District of Virginia.
According to his plea agreement, between 2006 and at least July 2008 Amara filed 43 fraudulent corporate tax returns for tax years 2005 through 2007, asserting that corporations purportedly owned by him had paid taxes on fuel that was used for non-taxable purposes, entitling them to obtain refunds. The returns claimed fuel tax credit refunds totaling $3,321,594 and the IRS issued refund checks totaling $694,883 in response to some of the claims and rejected other claims. In fact, at no time did Amara or any corporation owned by him purchase the fuel on which the tax refunds were claimed.
"Everyone who files a tax return should take full advantage of all deductions provided by law; however, no one is entitled to an undeserved windfall," stated C. Andre' Martin, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge.
Mr. June Leftwich, age 34, formerly of Forestville, Maryland and Telemaga Bamba, age 44, of Bowie, Maryland, prepared the tax returns filed by Amara and shared the proceeds of the refund checks issued by the IRS. According to Bamba's plea agreement, he and his co-conspirators filed 154 fraudulent corporate tax returns for the tax years 2004 through 2007, claiming $11,772,004 in refunds for fuel tax credits. Judge Titus sentenced Bamba to 70 months in prison and ordered Bamba to forfeit two Mercedes-Benz vehicles and a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, and to pay restitution of $928,649.
Judge Titus sentenced Leftwich to 55 months in prison for and ordered him to pay $2,404,087 in restitution. According to his plea agreement, Leftwich filed 60 fraudulent corporate tax returns for the tax years 2003 through 2007, fraudulently claiming $4.2 million in refunds for fuel tax credits. Leftwich also prepared 13 fraudulent individual and corporate tax returns for tax years 2003 through 2006, filed by his wife, Dorian Holmes, falsely claiming fuel tax credit refunds totaling $830,384. The IRS issued refund checks totaling $499,364 and the couple used the fraudulently obtained tax refunds to purchase residential property in Houston, Texas. Judge Titus sentenced Holmes, age 28, to serve two months in prison for her role in the scheme, and ordered her to pay restitution of $499,364.
In a related case, Judge Titus sentenced James Hallmon, age 44, of Fort Washington, Maryland, to 21 months in prison for filing federal corporate tax returns in which he fraudulently claimed $647,060 in fuel tax credits. Another co-conspirator, William Smith, age 34, of Forestville, Maryland, pleaded guilty to falsely claiming $2.4 million in fuel tax credits, and is being sentenced on June 22, 2009.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein thanked the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation for its investigative work and Assistant United States Attorney Stephanie Hammerstrom of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia for her work on the identity theft case. Mr. Rosenstein commended Assistant United States Attorneys Jonathan Su and Gina Simms, who prosecuted the tax case.


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Dipping Your Toes in the SharePoint 2013 and Office 2013 Preview Goodness
If you haven't been living beneath a rock in the last two days, you probably heard the news we released the SharePoint 2013 Preview and Office 2013 Preview. Since there is already a massive amount of content available on blogs, TechNet etc. I'm not going to add even more with this blog post. My goal is simply to give you a limited amount of resources to quickly get you up to speed with all the news.
SharePoint Saturday Belgium was a Big Success!
Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend and present at the SharePoint Saturday Belgium edition. The Belgium Information Worker Usergroup (BIWUG), who organized the event, deserves a big round of applause; they hosted around 200 enthusiastic SharePoint people on a free and fun event. Of course a big thanks also goes to the numerous sponsors: Xylos (for making their great infrastructure available), AvePoint, Beyond-it, Metalogix, K2, Microsoft, Spikes, Ventigrate, Aurelium, Axceler, CTG, Idera, RealDolmen, Webtrends, and Wrox.
URL Shortening For SharePoint 2010
I'm pretty sure everybody who is using SharePoint has sent a link to a document in a Document Library to somebody else (in an email message for example). So you probably know that links to documents (or list items) can become pretty long if the document is located in a Document Library on a site deeply buried in a hierarchy. SharePoint is of course not the only platform having this "issue" and the internet already solved it quite some time ago with URL shortening. From Wikipedia:
TechDays 2011 - Check out the sessions and build your own agenda
Check out the live agenda and find out why you should attend TechDays 2011. Review the sessions and speakers and build your own personalized agenda. Today we already have more than 1200 registrations. Don't lose time and register now before the event sells out! If you are attending, feel free to drop by and say hi during my SharePoint & jQuery session. :-)
Getting Started with jQuery Templates and SharePoint 2010
Yesterday evening Scott Guthrie announced that Microsoft's contributions to the jQuery Javascript library were accepted as Official jQuery plugins. One of those contributions is the jQuery Template plugin that allows you to do (up to a certain level) something like data binding similar to the approach we know from Silverlight. The idea is to create a template (think HTML snippet with elements bound to data properties) and data bind that template with an array of objects. You can find the API documentation over here, or you can check out Boris Moore's excellent Getting Started guide.
So how can we leverage this in SharePoint 2010? Well jQuery Templates are a great match for either the SharePoint 2010 ECMAScript/Javascript Client Object Model, or the SharePoint 2010 REST API. The following example shows how to quickly display a list of Tasks on a page, by only using jQuery and the REST API in SharePoint 2010. Let's start with a very basic Site Page that puts an empty ul element in the PlaceHolderMain Content control (notice the ul element gets a specific id set):
<%@ Page MasterPageFile="~masterurl/default.master" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">

</asp:Content>Next, we need to put some script references in the PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead Content control to load both the jQuery library and the jQuery Templates plugin. For now this plugin is a separate .js file, in the next release of jQuery this plugin becomes a part of jQuery itself. (The demo code assumes that both .js files are deployed to the same location as the Site Page.)
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server">

</asp:Content>After the script references (also in the PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead Content control), we need to define our template, also using a script element that has the type attribute set to text/x-jquery-xml. This template is just an HTML snippet that gets created for every object of the array that gets "data bound". In the template it's possible to use references to those object's properties by using template tags. For example ${Title} will get the value of the Title property of the object that gets "data bound". In the sample below, I'm defining a template that's basically an li element which displays some properties of a SharePoint Task item. Notice that to display the Description of the Task, I'm using the {{html}} Template Tag, because Description is a Rich Text Field thus it contains HTML itself.
Finally, in a new normal script element (once again in the PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead Content control), we can use jQuery's getJSON function to make an async call to the REST API. The getJSON function takes as a parameter a URL to call, which will be the URL of the listdata.svc (= REST API end point) that fetches all Tasks that are not yet completed. The last parameter of the getJSON function is a callback function that will use the jQuery Templates mechanism to build a new li element for every retrieved Task item, based on the template we defined above. This is accomplished by using the new tmpl function, called on the template. The return value is an array of DOM elements, which are added to the empty ul element, defined above.
Once the Site Page is deployed, the result will look as follows:
If you're interested, I've created a (slightly enhanced) sample Visual Studio project that's a Sandboxed Solution (download here, including source code). This project provisions the required .js files, and the Site Page. On the demo Site Page I've used the following template:
Notice that the div element that shows the Description value, is using the style display:none; so initially the Description value is not being displayed. In the callback function, after the li items are built, I'm using jQuery's toggle function to show and hide the Description div when the corresponding Title is clicked.
$("#tasksUL li").toggle(
function () {
$(">div", $(this)).show("fast");
function () {
$(">div", $(this)).hide("fast");
);When the Sandboxed Solution is deployed and activated, just navigate to the demo page using the URL http://yoursite/TemplateDemoAssets/demopage.aspx. You'll see a nicely animated list of Tasks that are not yet completed!
Deploying and Using jQuery with a SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solution
If you're an avid reader of this blog, you probably now that I'm quite a big fan of the jQuery Javascript library, especially in combination with SharePoint sites. For a while I've been trying to find a mechanism to deploy jQuery and add a reference to it on all SharePoint pages of a site, by just using a Sandboxed Solution. The first part, deploying the jQuery file, is really easy; this can be done in a Module in a SharePoint project. The second part was more of a challenge; making sure the jQuery file got referenced in all pages of a SharePoint site. My initial thought was to do this by using the AdditionalPageHead Delegate control, but it's not possible in a Sandboxed Solution (you need to deploy the .ASCX to the SharePoint root). My second thought was to use the new ScriptSrc attribute you can use in a CustomAction (I wrote about this attribute some time ago). But initially I was under the impression that the ScriptSrc attribute could only target Javascript files loaded from the SharePoint Root (the \LAYOUTS) folder, resulting in a no-go for a Sandboxed Solution as well. Daniel McPherson stumbled upon this issue as well, but neatly solved it using Javascript to add the reference dynamically.
But apparently you can make use of the ScriptSrc attribute to reference files from the Virtual File System (e.g. a Document Library in a site) as well! (thank you Frederic Dobon for mentioning this!). The trick is to use the ~SiteCollection prefix in the ScriptSrc attribute, for example:
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
</Elements>It's that easy! For your convenience I've uploaded the source code and the resulting SharePoint Solution (WSP file) to CodePlex.
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object" when using SharePoint's ClientContext.Current in Silverlight
SharePoint 2010 and Silverlight is a fantastic combination, especially when you use the Client Object Model for Silverlight to access SharePoint data. But maybe you've encountered the following situation: your Silverlight application works great when it's hosted in the out-of-the-box Silverlight Web Part, but when you build your own custom Web Part to show the Silverlight Application it just doesn't work anymore: the browser tells you there is an Error on page. The details of the error are: Unhandled Error in Silverlight Application Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
When you debug your Silverlight code, you'll notice that the issue is that the ClientContext.Current is a Null Reference. To solution for this problem is that fact that if you want to use the Current ClientContext you need to add the MS.SP.url parameter to the initParams in the HTML object that loads the XAP. This MS.SP.url parameter needs to contain the URL of the site in which the Silverlight Application is currently being displayed. The code of your Silverlight Web Part could look as follows:
public class SLWebPartDemo : WebPart
protected override void RenderContents(HtmlTextWriter writer)
@"<object data='data:application/x-silverlight-2,' type='application/x-silverlight-2' width='100%' height='100%'>
<param name='source' value='{1}XAPs/SLWebPartDemoControl.xap'/>
<param name='initParams' value='MS.SP.url={0}/{1}'/>
<param name='onError' value='onSilverlightError' />
<param name='background' value='white' />
<param name='minRuntimeVersion' value='3.0.40818.0' />
<param name='autoUpgrade' value='true' />

</object>", SPContext.Current.Site.Url,
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Upgrading Features in SharePoint 2010
If you have developed Features for SharePoint 2007, you're probably aware of a very serious limitation of Feature Development: upgradability. Deploying version 1 of your customization is no problem, but If you want to deploy a bug fix or additional functionality in version 2, you're basically on your own. The good news is that in SharePoint 2010, this problem is solved: as a developer you can now build features that are upgradable. The basic concept goes as follows, you built your feature as usual, and optionally you've got the opportunity to specify what should happen when the feature gets upgraded from a previous version.
Chris O'Brian has written an excellent series of articles about this topic, so go to his blog to read the details:
Easily Adding SafeControls in SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2010
Many SharePoint developers know that deploying your SharePoint customization to a SharePoint server often requires you to tinker the web.config of the sites where you'd like to see the customization in action. You can do these web.config modifications manually (not advisable), or automate them with the help of the SPWebConfigModification class from the Object Model. But quite often it's not even necessary to use that class; when you deploy your customizations with the help of a Solution (.WSP file), like you should, the Solution deployment mechanism can modify the Web.Config to apply the most commonly used changes. This is defined in the Solution Manifest of the Solution file. The following Solution Manifest will add for example a SafeControl element for the current Assembly, which is required to display controls like Web Parts, User Controls etc. in the SharePoint sites.
<Solution xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/" SolutionId="684047e7-a990-4917-8a84-5d2ae5c8b1f3" SharePointProductVersion="14.0">
<Assembly Location="SafeControlsDemo.dll" DeploymentTarget="GlobalAssemblyCache">
<SafeControl Assembly="$SharePoint.Project.AssemblyFullName$" Namespace="SafeControlsDemo.EmptyElement1" TypeName="*" />
<FeatureManifest Location="SafeControlsDemo_Feature1\Feature.xml" />
</Solution>Visual Studio 2010 will automatically add the necessary SafeControl element to the Solution manifest when you add for example a Web Part item to the Visual Studio SharePoint project. But sometimes Visual Studio is not smart enough, or doesn't have enough information to automatically do this for you. A pretty common scenario is when you build a CustomAction using the ControlClass and ControlAssembly attributes, pointing to a User Control that should be rendering the UI element defined in the CustomAction. In this case you explicitly have to add the required SafeControl element (for the User Control) to the Solution Manifest. As you probably know you can modify the Package.Template.xml to add the required SafeControl elemen, but you have to write that XML manually. A better idea is to use the power of the Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint developer tools, available out-of-the-box! The little trick is to select the item in your SharePoint 2010 project in the Visual Studio Solution Explorer window. The Properties window will show, for the selected project item, a property called Safe Control Entries.
When you click the ellipsis (the three dots), Visual Studio will show a dialog in which you can easily add the required SafeControl entries. Visual Studio will even fill out default values for you, referencing the assembly of the current project. As a result, the Solution Manifest will be updated with the corresponding XML (you can verify that by opening the Package item and selecting the Manifest view at the bottom). Easy isn't it?
Where did ULSTraceLog go to in the SharePoint 2010 Logging Database?
The Logging Database is one of the many new concepts that will make the life of many SharePoint administrators quite a bit more enjoyable. In SharePoint 2007 the Unified Logging System (ULS) logged all of its data to text files, typically found on your SharePoint server in 12\LOGS. We still have that in SharePoint 2010, but besides those text files, ULS can also write the data to a database! The advantages are obvious: easy to query, one central location for all servers in the farm, easy to build reports etc. You can find this ULS data in the SharePoint 2010 logging database (typically called WSS_Logging), in the view ULSTraceLog.
Quite recently on one of my demo machines (standalone installation on Windows 7) I noticed the ULSTraceLog view was not available in the logging database. It turned out that there is a Timer Job that's responsible for writing the data to the database, when the Timer Job hasn't executed, the view is not there (the first time it executes, the view is created). Even more, the timer job was disabled, so the view would never be created, nor any data would be written to the database. If you encounter this situation as well, it's quite easy to solve:
- Open the SharePoint Central Administration site
- Navigate to the Monitoring section
- Select Review Job Definitions
- Click on the job with the name Diagnostic Data Provider: Trace Log
- Click on the Enable button to enable it
- Optionally click on Run Now afterwards, to start it immediately
There you go, the ULSTraceLog will be created and the ULS messages will appear in the database!


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Texas Ranks No. 4 In Top States For Dog Bite Claims
At number four, Texas ranks high in a list of the top 10 states for dog bite claims in 2013.
Event Educates DFW Teens On Distracted Driving
Hundreds of teenagers are expected to gather Saturday at Stonebriar Centre Mall in Frisco, in the hopes of winning a car and a $100,000 grant for their school.
Boss Saves Employee's Life At Southlake Office
Brandon Reyna was a new employee at a State Farm office in Southlake two weeks ago when he collapsed. But his boss was able to save his life thanks to a free CPR class.
Judge Upholds $350 Million State Farm Refund Ruling
A state judge has upheld an order by the state insurance commissioner that State Farm Insurance refund customers $350 million for excessive premiums.
Inventory Your Belongings Before They're Gone
The Richardson police department has about 25,000 items in its property room — items that either stolen or lost sometime last year.
State Farm Raising Rates
State Farm's raising auto insurance rates next month.


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This is a tutorial on how to make a simple but effective Eeyore Head cake.It was made using 2×7"sandwich tin cake's. This cake is a great little starter if your just starting out making Novelty cake,with a great end result.
List of Materials
- 2x7" round cakes
- Blue/purple,Cream,and Black Fondant
- 2 x 7 inch round cake pan
- Buttercream icing (for crumb coating)
- Filling
- black food coloring
- paint brush
- xacto knife
- pizza cutter or fondant cutter
Start by carving the 2 cakes into a Bell shape.
Fill your cakes as you wish.I just used Jam & Buttercream.
Now sandwich together and crumb coat,as you would normally . Now roll out the Blue/Purple Fondant and cover the cakes. Get the cream Fondant and roll this out but once you've rolled it cut a curved edge to shape the Nose part.You can use a knife/cutting tool or i prefer a Pizza cutter! Then lay the fondant on top of the face (dry at first) to make sure you get the correct shape before adding a little water underneath to secure it.Rub gently and smooth over.I use my hands only for this part. Now take 2 little piece's of Black Fondant and in your fingers roll 2 tear drop shapes to form the Nostrils.Place them onto his Nose . Now cut 2 circles of Cream for his eyes and roll 2 black sausage's(small)to form his eyebrows.Put them all in place.
Roll and cut 2 Black circles the same size you just did for his eyes,but now you want to cut a little off the top of them to place over the cream to form the eye colour.Add 2 small black rolls just above these to help form that dropey Eeyore eye shape. Use black food coloring and paint brush to paint on "stitch" details to his face
Finally add the whites of the eyes 2 tiny white pieces of Fondant and draw on the stitches with an Edible pen. For the ears roll out your Blue/Purple Fondant and cut into 2 Bell shapes,i then did the same with a lighter shade of purple/lilac and added it for the inner ear.Place them onto the side of the cake and let them fall naturally ,then shape as you wish.


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Sometimes, it's good to get away from it all. Poor Moon's new video can help get you there.
The West Coast indie-folk band — composed of Fleet Foxes' Christian Wargo and Casey Wescott and brothers Ian and Peter Murray — has released a clip for "Holiday," the gentle-breeze single from their self-titled debut.
The video, which you can watch exclusively here, features beloved character actor and mustache maestro Tom Skerritt (Top Gun, Picket Fences, Brothers & Sisters) popping pills and checking into a mental clinic, where he plays on the lawn and chills with the band.
Check out the clip, directed by Austin Wilson and Harry Calbom, in the player below:


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VIP's a 'kinky brute' (NYP)
Aspatuck Holdings CEO Jason Meyer is being sued by his new(ly estranged) wife for, among other things, calling her a bitch and "ejaculating on her face after she refused to refer to herself as his 'slave' and tell him he was 'the most powerful man on earth' while they were having sex." She also had a problem with a photo in which "his ex-wife was wearing a very short black leather dress and holding a whip, and Jason had a mask with metal chains around his body."
Indictment Is Waived in Galleon Case (Reuters)
Former McKinsey exec Anil Kumar may have struck a deal.
(Anonymous) Hedge Fund Manager On Year-End Closings (n+1)
n+1: So you spent the last part of the year closing down the books–is that what it's called?
HFM: Closing the books for the year, which really mainly relates to getting prices for all of the securities, instruments, derivatives in our book so that our year-end financials are totally accurate. It's actually the worst: a lot of banks don't close their books for the year on the calendar year, they have a fiscal year, but our fiscal year is the calendar year, and there literally is no day of the year that is worse for the process of getting marks for your whole portfolio than December 31, because everyone is gone. You're looking for a price on an illiquid security and you call up the bank you dealt with, and the salesperson you deal with is not there, his backup's not there, his backup's backup is not there, the trader's backup is not there, you're literally getting the most junior person on the desk trying to get someone on his cell phone on the ski slope in Vermont–it's just about the dumbest time to choose to do it. Every year, two weeks in advance, I send a list to all my counterparties, saying, "Here's the list of things I need pricing for, really, make sure you have somebody available to price these. And 'skiing' is not an excuse; 'I'm with my family on safari, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro'–not an excuse." And every year the excuses are, "I'm skiing," or the guy's on safari, whatever–it's incredible. So my New Year's is always wrecked. I'm waiting around for the last guy to give me the last price.
AT&T Ends Tiger Woods Sponsorship (WSJ)
Narrow-minded thinkers who blew the opportunity to incorporate this into their next campaign. But whatever, you know? No sweat of W's sack. Piece of shit carrier and its dropped calls was responsible for way too many a night spent sans cocktail waitress.
Woman found stabbed in backcountry Greenwich (Greenwich Time)
100 Sterling Road.
Big Meeting Today, Clothing Optional (CNBC)
Uh, Vikram does this all the time. NBD: "About one in five UK participants in conference calls have called in while naked. Almost half have worn only their underwear while 68 percent have only worn pajamas, a survey by BT Conferencing showed Wednesday. The most popular place to call into a conference is in bed, while "the smallest room in the house, our toilet or somebody else's, seems to be the second most popular location," BT said in a statement."
Should Your Fake Tan Be Taxed? (The Big Money)
Moz? Care to weigh in?
Things To Look Forward To In Early 2010 (People)
Gary Busey's gonna be a dad!
What's New, Pussycat? Using the Toilet (WSJ)
Okay, sure: "Mr. Tibbs hops onto the toilet, takes a cautious lap around the seat, pokes his head inside the bowl and checks it out. Then he jumps down and belts out a heart-wrenching meow before jumping back up again. He will proceed with this choreography at least a dozen times as I coax and correct, if necessary. Then he does his business, and I lavish him with treats and praise. Yes, I am toilet-training my cat."
Archive for December 2009
$$$ Julian Robertson named New Zealand's first honorary knight [DP]
$$$ The Big Lebowski Gets The Academic Treatment: At times Mr. Owens sounds as if he's been hitting the minibar himself. He writes about how Leon Trotsky is "doubly implicated" in the White Russian, first because he helped defeat the anti-Communist White Russian army during the Russian civil war, and second because he later fled to Mexico, "Kahlúa's country of origin." Mr. Owens suggests that the Dude has a kind of "Trotskian positionality." [NYT]
$$$ 2010 Will Be Challenging For Goldman [HuffPo]
$$$ WSJ Misleads On Harbinger Capital "Insider Information" Story [HFImplode]
Fund Chief Snared By Taps, Turncoats (WSJ)
Tears for only hedge fund manager with the sense of humor to tase his employees and hire midgets as jokes: "That morning, the trading day began early like any other at Galleon's Madison Avenue offices. Then, an investor who lived in Mr. Rajaratnam's building called to say he had seen the FBI arrest Mr. Rajaratnam. Galleon employees began texting each other with the news. One trader burst into sobs."
E-mails inside AIG reveal executives struggling with growing crisis (Washington Post)
In late July, Goldman Sachs, one of the firm's largest trading partners, challenged Financial Products' numbers, asserting that Goldman's calculations showed a significant drop in the swaps' value. That drop, Goldman contended, triggered provisions in the swaps contracts requiring AIG to post hundreds of millions of dollars in collateral to protect Goldman against the apparent escalation in risk. "They are not budging and are acting irrational," Tom Athan, a Financial Products executive, wrote on Aug. 2 to Forster after a tense conference call with Goldman employees. "I feel we need Joe [Cassano] to understand the situation 100% and let him decide how he wants to proceed." Athan added, "This isn't what I signed up [for]. Where are the big trades, high fives and celebratory closing dinners you promised?"
Rich Cling to Life to Beat Tax Man (WSJ)
Just hold out 'til Friday, li'l fellas! Then you're free to bite the big one.
Tiger Hunt Sparks Tall Tales (NYP)
Unbelievably, the Tiger Woods and his 97 affairs storyline has resulted in some lies. Thankfully, the Post is here to set the record straight, namely about TDubs and Rachel Uchitel shacking up together. It's not happening. We can all breathe easy now.
Thundercats Movie Canceled (Vulture)
Will no heroic hedge fund manager step up and finance this thing?
Set of identical twins busted in long-term $2M investment scam (NYDN)
Makara and Tsele Nkhereanye, 38, who live with their mother, maintain their innocence.
In the Loftiest of Buildings, High Art Still Finds a Home In The Lobby (NYT)
Sure, no mention of the brass Mallomars recently installed in Stamford. Assholes.
GMAC Set for Another Cash Infusion (WSJ)
What's $3.5 billion among friends?
Cleave Watch: Amanda Drury (DB)
I woke up to emails from several of you claiming sightings of "very aggressive amounts of cleave, even for AD's standards." Naturally, I took the time to investigate. This is what she's wearing today:
$$$ Hovde Capital Advisors: "We Believe Pershing Square Is Out Of Touch." [PDF]
$$$ Citi: The Bank That Couldn't Shoot Straight [MarketWatch]
$$$ Equity's Lost Decade: The Offering [Hedge World]
$$$ Investors Reshape IndyMac [WSJ]
$$$ Delayed gratification is overrated: avoid the temptation to postpone pleasure. JO&C right now! [NYT]
$$$ Vote for the best Post cover of the decade. I like "Holy Shiite." [NYP]
The Man Who Wired Silicon Valley (WSJ)
The hedge fund community has been (potentially) robbed of a tremendous human being: "At Galleon, Mr. Rajaratnam took his fondness for pranks and dares to a new level. When executives from stun-gun maker Taser International Inc. came to make an investment pitch around 2005, Mr. Rajaratnam offered $5,000 to anyone who'd agree to be shocked. Employees gathered around as two people propped up trader Keryn Limmer at the elbows and another person fired the weapon. Ms. Limmer's legs buckled beneath her from the shock. Ms. Limmer declined to comment. That same year, employees arrived at Galleon's morning meeting to a surprise: In the conference room was a dwarf whom Mr. Rajaratnam introduced as an analyst hired to cover "small-cap" stocks. He was, in fact, an actor hired for an April Fool's Day gag."
Ponzi collapses nearly quadrupled in '09 (AP)
Charles P is not going to be happy to hear this. In all, more than 150 Ponzi schemes collapsed in 2009, compared to about 40 in 2008, according to the AP's examination of criminal cases at all U.S. attorneys' offices and the FBI, as well as criminal and civil actions taken by state prosecutors and regulators at both the federal and state levels. Everyone running one of these things, promise me you'll do better in 2010, okay?
Debriefed: A first look at the X-mas bomber's explosive underwear (NYDN)
Go ahead, take a peek.
Moran Stanley To Overhaul Pay Plan (WSJ)
The compensation committee has met several times over the last month– once for 7 whole hours!– to discuss how top executives will get paid. Thankfully, no one wants to go the way of Goldman's all-stock plan. One idea is that 65% (or more) of pay will be subject to clawbacks in the event of future losses. Also, 20% of total compensation would come in "shares awarded based on Morgan's share price compared with peers' share prices." And of course you have John Mack. Not getting paid at all. Again.
Did Tiger Cost Shareholders $12 Billion? (CNBC)
The University of California, Davis says yes. What they don't answer: did each girl cost shareholders roughly the same amount? Did Jungers and Grubbs cost more?
Ex-Hedge Fund Analyst Finds Calling On YouTube (NPR)
Salman Khan teaches math on the internet. Ping Jiang is hoping to be the next lonelygirl15.
Most cocaine diluted with unsafe livestock drug (SFGate)
Just an FYI: "Most cocaine coming into the United States has been diluted with a veterinary drug that is used to deworm horses and other animals but can cause severe illness and death in humans, public health experts say."
Departing AIG Counsel Gets Millions as She Exits (WSJ)
Anastasia Kelly is getting a few mill in severance after quitting over being fed up with Ken Feinberg and his "ideas." So that worked out pretty nicely for her.
Trump Trimmed (NYP)
Trump Entertainment Resorts, which owns the Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Marina and Trump Plaza casino-hotels, "quietly acknowledged yesterday that the properties are worth an estimated $459 million — down from $2 billion in assets when Trump Entertainment filed for bankruptcy in February 2009."
Top Videos Of 2009 (CNBC)
The network's top clips for the year include Santelli's teabagging rants, a conversation with Art Cashin, Obama swatting a fly, the Lingerie Football League and this:
$$$ James Grant Interview: Let The Good Times Roll [NYM]
$$$ Charlie Gasparino: New York Needs Wall Street [HuffPo]
$$$ JP Morgan may scrap £1.5bn London HQ plan over Labour's attacks on City: "Jamie Dimon made the coded warning to Alistair Darling in an angry phone call after the Government revealed its 50pc super-tax on bonuses in the pre-Budget report. Although Mr Dimon did not explicitly threaten to can the 1.9m square foot Docklands development, he pointedly used it to demonstrate the bank's commitment to London. A JP Morgan executive stressed: 'There were no threats made on the call and we have made no decisions on people or buildings based on the super-tax announcement.'" [Telegraph]
$$$ Sex Diaries: The Divorced Trader Living Out His Fantasy Life [DI]
Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff had dizziness, high blood pressure, not assault injuries (NYDN)
Prison officials claim the report that Bernie Madoff had the shit beat out of him last week is false, and that he was hospitalized simply for dizziness. His lawyer/barnyard specialist Ira Sorkin agrees: "The Bureau of Prisons said that report was not accurate," Sorkin said. "Indeed, Mr. Madoff was treated for dizzy spells and high blood pressure. That's all I'm going to say." Two things to consider here: 1) they're lying and 2) WHY? What are they trying to cover up?
UBS Case Whistleblower Seeks Prison Postponement (Reuters)
Bradley Birkenfeld the former UBS broker helped out the IRS by letting it know which of his colleagues were in fact helping their clients not pay taxes, would like to pump the brakes on his prison sentence. He's supposed to report to the big house January 8 for 40 months, but apparently has more people to rat out and would like to see if we can come to some sort of an agreement if you know what I mean and I think you do. Also, he's still waiting on the money he's owed for a job well done.
Feds probe banker Allen Stanford's ties to Congress (Miami Herald)
Representative Pete Sessions sent this email to the artist formerly known as Sir Stan the day he was charged with possibly running a Ponzi scheme: "I love you and believe in you…If you want my ear/voice, email. –Pete." When Raj went down, Chuck Schumer shot him a text, "I don't care what they say, I love my bitch. Don't let them break you. –C." Both are an NBD situation.
Bill Gates Takes Noel's Place In Mustique (NYP)
This is almost too painful to type but we always promised to never keep things from each other, no matter how hard or painful: Walter Noel and the fam did not spend Christmas in Yemanja, for the second year in a row. And they might sell the place, for the cash.
New Hedge Funds Gain Momentum (WSJ)
The guy who started The Children's Investment Fund will be charging 1.5 & 15, with a five year lockup.
Bloody Fight On The 6 Train (Gothamist via)
There's a video. There's a video.
In the FT's parallel universe, Goldman Sachs boss is the hero of 2009 (The Guardian)
One UK newspaper is pretty sure the other must be clinically insane, otherwise there's no other logical explanation for the crowning of Lloyd Blankfein as Man of The Year.
Madoff Son Of A Gun (NYP)
Andy Madoff applied for a gun permit 6 months ago. The NYPD claims, despite evidence to the contrary, that he never got one, because this rumble in the Bronxoutside a Chinese restaurant on the Upper East Side would've disqualified him. Also, take a moment with this:
Does Golden Pay for the CEOs Sink Stocks? (WSJ)
"Each dollar that goes into the CEO's pocket takes $100 out of shareholders' pockets."
Letterman 'extorter' pushing for plea deal (NYP)
Supposedly Robert Halderman would rather go to jail for one year instead of 15 for his poorly thought out out plan to take David Letterman for a ride, though his attorney claims there's no such deal in the works, and that they're going for a full dismissal of the charges. Dream big in 2010.
After Bailouts, Washington's The Boss (WSJ)
And look who decided to show up:
$$$ Barclays hands out pay rises to investment bankers (some of 150%) [The Guardian]
$$$ Goldman Sachs Responds to The New York Times on Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligations [GS]
$$$ A bunch of former Bear Stearns employees got drunk together in midtown. [Bloomberg]
$$$ That's it for us. We hope everyone has a great vacation, celebrating the birth of Christ, or whatever you happen to be doing. Very abbreviated scheduled next week, with exceptions made for Bernie dying or sex tapes of a much-loved hedge fund manager surfacing.


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Un-BEE-lievable: NYC Fines Man $2,000 For Not Watering His Hive
Click here to read the article on cbslocal.com
Click here to read the article on cbslocal.com
"What's killing the bees? —my question has shifted more towards, "Good lord, what doesn't kill bees"
"…Colony Collapse Disorder is a problem. But it isn't the problem. Instead, it's just a great big insult piled on top of an already rising injury rate. Saving the honeybee isn't just about figuring out CCD. Bees were already in trouble before that came along. "
Backwards Beekeepers: Hollywood Hills cut-out
LA Backwards Beekeeper Roberta writes:
A call to the Bee Rescue Hotline sent us up to the Hollywood Hills to do a cut-out from an exterior garage wall. The homeowner said that the hive had been there for almost 20 years. There had also been two other hives on the property that other Backwards Beekeepers had removed.
Knowing that the hive had been there such a long time, we were surprised to find just one area with brood comb and an equal amount of space for just honey. It was funny how the bees had set up the hive: on the left of one wall stud was the brood and on the right (between the next set of studs) was the honey. There was very little crossover.
This hive was just barely hanging in there. Leah put the brood and bees into Rob's handmade nucs and brought them to one of her queenless hives.
We checked the hive the next day and there were some bees on the comb, but not many. There were also a bunch of bees left in the wall that didn't want to go into the nuc box that I had left there, so I'll need to move them on another night.
More than 1,000 People Want Urban Beekeeping in Mar Vista
"Organizers have collected more than 500 hand-written signatures and more than 600 online signatures from Change.org members. Let's keep the momentum going!"
Post by: Sarah Parsons, Change.org Editor
(you do not need to live in Los Angeles to sign)
From an old beekeeping book…How to Keep Bees and Sell Honey:
"This is probably the finest bee hive in the world. It was built by E. S. Williams, St. Petersburg, Florida, who spent 6 months constructing it. It holds two standard 10 frame hive bodies and a bottom board. The second story lifts off for hive manipulations. It is wired for 110 volt current, has window shades and curtains. The front plastic doors swing easily and fit snugly. There is a flag pole, also a sign, that is not pictured here. This has been displayed at the Kentucky and Florida State Fairs. It is unusual items like this that make a few fair exhibits stand out."
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West Ham United celebrated the sixth annual World Autism Awareness Day on Tuesday, together with autism organisations and charities around the world, .
Meet Anna Kennedy, 52, from Uxbridge. This remarkable woman remortgaged her own house so she could set up a school for autistic children after her two autistic sons were turned away from mainstream education. She has now expanded support for those with autism to include two schools, a college, a respite home and a website with over 60,000 international social media followers.
"Mums all over the world contact me, from America, Canada and even Japan and I'm interested to learn how different countries respond to autism," said Anna.
"We support lots of families in and around Upton Park and we've been into the local schools to give educational talks to raise awareness of bullying."
The award-winning autism champion, who has several fanatic Hammers supporters within her team, is the driving force behind the largest facility in Europe for educating and supporting people of all ages with autism as the Director of Hillingdon Manor School in London.
Hammers Joint-Chairman David Sullivan, who owned the lease on the Yiewsley Grange site, agreed to lease the property to Hillingdon Manor School to allow for much-needed expansion.
The co-owner of the Hammers even celebrated the club's promotion back to the Premier League with the generous donation to Anna Kennedy's charity projects.
Speaking in May last year, Mr Sullivan said, "West Ham United is more than just a football club. Since 1895 we have been rooted in the community and working hard for the benefit of London.
"We support many charities and in particular those who work tirelessly to help children.
"I have known Anna for some time and the passion she has for her work to help those with autism is clear to see. So I am delighted to share the success of our wonderful club with her by personally donating a five figure sum to this most deserving cause."
Mr Sullivan's donation has even allowed the school to purchase unique nature trail outdoor play equipment and see the return of an exciting event to celebrate young performers with autism.
Last year Anna launched the first ever performance of Autism's Got Talent, staged to a packed house at the Mermaid Theatre and attended by the likes of Esther Rantzan, singer song writer Lynsey De Paul, the voice of Britain's Got Talent Peter Dickinson and Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow.
Now, after the approval of none other than Simon Cowell, Autism's Got Talent is set to take to the stage again on Saturday 11 May. Supported by Pineapple Dance Studios the show brings together a diverse group of very talented young people who are on the Autistic Spectrum, for an enjoyable evening of entertainment and awareness.
Tickets are available now by calling 01895 619734, or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also look out for Anna and her team who be will running a bucket collection at the Boleyn Ground on 20 April for the game against Wigan Athletic..
To find out more about Anna Kennedy's work and how you can learn more about children and adults with autism visit, www.annakennedyonline.com


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RE: butcher block island - walnut, cherry or red oak?? (Follow-Up #7)
posted by: margcooks on 10.09.2010 at 07:34 pm in Kitchens Forum If you haven't already, check out Brooks Custom (I'm not sure where you are--they're based in NY). They have a great site with pictures, too, and do an amazing job. (We're getting a edge-grain, eased edge, oiled mahogany island top for the island, and using honed white marble for the other countertops).
http://www.brookswood.com/index.htm Two other good sites to drool and learn are John Boos (http://johnboos.com) and Craft-Art (http://www.craft-art.com). Post pix when you're done! NOTES: Butcher block sites
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FOOD: Sonoma Farm Tour, CALIFORNIA
With menus around the country dropping names like Laura Chenel goat cheese and Liberty duck, can celebrity farmers be far behind?Farm field-trips to Sonoma Valley's artisanal producers are becoming the new wine tours. Food & Wine Trails (www.foodandwinetrails.com; 800/367-5348) arranges chef-led, hands-on learning experiences: making cheese at Bellwether Farms, baking tarts with a former chef from Chez Panisse, mixing your own Bordeaux at Chateau St. Jean, and shucking oysters at Hog Island Oyster Farm. Book a room at nearby Beltane Ranch, a 1,600-acre, family-owned working ranch and B&B. Lounge in a hammock or have breakfast overlooking the vineyards from the wraparound porches of the charming 1892 house. Without any phone, TV, or Internet, there's nothing to interrupt the serenity. Ancient oaks and gardens surround the five guest rooms and the cottage, all decorated with family antiques.
11775 Sonoma Hwy., Glen Ellen; 707/996-6501; www.beltaneranch.com; doubles from $130, including breakfast.
ACTIVE: Cataract Canyon, UTAH
After a few days spent floating past the sandstone cliffs of Canyonlands' Cataract Canyon, you'll think you've been gone for weeks. Meet up with laid-back river guides in Moab; then head down the glassy flats of the Colorado for a three-day trip back in time. You will pass rock strata 300 million years old and petr0glyphs carved on canyon walls by the Anasazi. (Nothing like pre-history to put life into perspective.) Nights are spent on broad sandy beaches where towering red rocks are the only walls. The river's current both lulls kayakers to sleep and serves as a morning wake-up call. There's enough time for the energetic to hike to Indian ruins, isolated buttes, and otherworldly rock formations—and for everyone else to read by the river or just loll around. Worried you've grown too relaxed?Halfway through the trip you hit "the Confluence," where the Green and Colorado rivers meet. In high-water season (May and June), this white water is some of the most challenging in North America. But by late summer, the water becomes ideal for even novice river riders.
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Don't expect to discover your inner cowpoke after checking into one of the nine working ranches in Texas, New Mexico, or Oklahoma run by Big Ranch Productions. There are no campy, Hickockian staged events or cattle drives for bankers. At Tongue River Ranch, history buff Millard Morris welcomes guests to his 89,000-acre, four-county-wide spread on the Panhandle Plains for a firsthand look at life on a modern ranch. The farm is not in Dumont, Texas—Dumont, Texas, is surrounded by Tongue River Ranch. So forget saddle sores as a mark of authenticity; rather, look forward to cattle round-ups, front-row seats at the Western Heritage Classic Ranch Rodeo in Abilene, photo safaris, and in nearby Fort Worth, a visit to the National Cowgirl Museum & Hall of Fame and a shopping trip to the famous Maverick Fine Western Wear. There are also cowboy cooking classes—to teach city slickers how to dine under the stars.
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that Leslie Frasier is the new DC
2015 Draft
1) Jordan Phillips-DT-Oklahoma
2) Alex Carter-CB-Stanford
3) Geneo Grissom-OLB-Oklahoma
4) Kevin White-CB-TCU
5) Justin Coleman-CB-Tennessee
6) Blake Bell-TE-Oklahoma
7) Spencer Roth-P-Baylor
Was he ever on the same staff with Tomlin?
total speculation. if this thread was on the Page 2 right now I wouldn't comment and bring it back to page 1.
Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go...
Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go...
Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go...!!!
Anybody but Dick.
I would be very surprised if Leslie Frazier is the new DC for two reasons. One, he has never run a 3-4 and two the Steelers brass has told Kevin Butler he is next in line. The Rooney's dont go back on their word.
Steelers 2015 Draft???....Go Freak! As in....
1-Bernardrick McKinney MLB Mississippi State 6 ft 5 250 4.5 40 yard dash
The ONLY reason the Steelers would stiff Kevin Butler, at this point, is if they were planning to convert the D to a 4-3 (something which, considering the present personnel on the roster, might make sense). If that was the case, it really wouldn't alter draft strategy but it would increase the urgency of bolstering DL depth.
My sense is that it is Butler's job to lose if LeBeau retires.
Steelers...On The STAIRWAY TO SEVEN!!!
ASIAN... thanks, brotha!
Whisenhunt and Grimm both thought they were next in line once upon a time, though...


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Congress is once again considering expanding an "anti-hacking" law that's already disturbingly broad. Will users someday risk a felony rap for flouting websites' Terms of Use? [Orin Kerr, Volokh]
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Tor up my friends! A completely anonymous proxy (in addition to Tor) and anonymous e-mails would be nice too.
This is how the Chinese live, and soon you Americans will be monitored just like them. As with anything, if you are stupid enough to get caught, you deserve it.
This law will snag a bunch of low level hacker wannabees who are not computer savy for BS infractions which should ordinarily be contract disputes with a website's posted policy. Anyone intent on taking out critical computers and will be soooo anonymous and spoofed that the feds will kick in the doors of an unsuspecting doofus and probably shoot them in the process. http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/arizona-swat-team-kills-marine-in-botched-raid/
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posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 5:54 pm
I was looking at the online technical appendix and happened upon the formula used to compute factor scores for CFA/SEM models. After looking at this, I came up with two questions.
1.) It appears that Mplus takes the posterior moment approach, which uses the posterior disttribution or conditional distribution of the latent factors (Y) given the observed data (X):
Furthermore, the means of the posterior distribution are used as estimates of the factor scores. Am I correct in my assumption here?
2.) I know that SPSS uses Bartlett's method and the Anderson-Rubin method to compute factor scores. Are these methods different from what is used in Mplus because they use the alternative solution as opposed to the posterior moment or Bayesian solution?
Thanks, and I hope all of this is clear.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, December 01, 2008 - 6:17 pm
1) For continuous outcomes and for categorical outcomes with weighted least squares estimation, Mplus uses the maximum a posteriori method. For continuous outcomes, this is also called the regression method - probably the most commonly used method for factor score estimation. For categorical outcomes this is also called MAP (e.g. in IRT).
For ML with categorical and other non-normal outcomes, Mplus uses EAP, the expected a posterio method.
2) Those methods are different.
posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 9:31 am
Thank you for the quick response. As a follow-up question, for ML with continuous outcomes, does Mplus use EAP, MAP, or something different?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 10:01 am
MAP - the regression method.
Maren Winkler
posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 - 4:53 am
Dear Drs. Muth�n,
is it possible to estimate factor scores in Mplus 5.21 using weighted likelihood estimation (WLEs)? If so, what would one have to specify in the input file?
Thanks for your help!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 - 9:50 am
Sampling weights can be used in the estimation of the model from which factor scores are derived.
Maren Winkler
posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 6:04 am
Dear Drs. Muth�n,
I have estimated factor scores for a measurement model with 7 indicators. All load a common factor (i. e. F1 BY a b c d e f g;). Additionally, I have established a nested factor for four indicators (i. e. F2 BY d e f g;) with F1 and F2 not being correlated (F1 WITH
When I correlate the factor scores for F1 and F2, the correlation amounts to .289. Why would that happen? Is there a way to specify that their correlation is 0?
Thanks for your help!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 - 10:57 am
Factor scores and factors are not the same so this correlation is not surprising. You cannot specify the correlation is zero for the purposes of generating factor scores.
Heather Pearce
posted on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 6:56 pm
I have been provided with factor scores for my categorical variable factors, whose items were all measured on 5-point likert scales. While I appreciate the utility of these and will be using them for the correlational analyses I need to perform, I'm also expected to provide raw means and standard deviations for these factors. Can you please tell me how I rescale these factor scores to have the same Ms and SDs as my original scale?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 7:54 am
You won't get factor scores coming out scored as 5-point Likert scales. Factors are specified as continuous normal variables. With continuous outcomes the mean of the factor is also different from the mean of the factor indicators due to the inclusion of measurement intercepts which pick up the indicator means. Also, means and variances of estimated factor scores are not the same as those of the estimated model parameters. Furthermore, the estimated factor score do not have the same correlations with other variables as the true factors do. These are some of the reasons behind the need to do a 1-step SEM instead of the multi-step procedure it appears you have in mind. Only if you have many good indicators would the estimated factor scores work like true factor scores. It doesn't help to rescale the estimated factor scores.
It sounds like you have categorical factor indicators which adds another layer of complexity - you can't put a continuous factor score into a categorical scale.
Sarah Phillips
posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 2:59 pm
I am using multilevel data (students nested in classrooms nested in teachers) and have computed the factor score of a classroom-level scale using TYPE=COMPLEX. I am hoping to use these factor scores as independent variables in an HLM model.
I understand from reading Linda's response to others that the factor scores MPLUS generates are not standardized but do have a mean of zero.
I am wondering how to interpret any significant results for this scale in my HLM models because I am not sure what the units of the factor score are and whether it would be correct to say that they are standardized around the grand mean. For example, can I say that a score that is 1 standard deviation above the grand mean is associated with an X standard deviation change in my dependent variable (this variable is standardized around the grand mean)?
Thanks for your help!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 7:15 pm
You can standardize your estimated factor scores before you use them in your model.
But why do you take this 3-step approach (FA-factorscores-HLM)? You can do this in 1 step in Mplus.
deana desa
posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 1:40 am
Does Mplus uses MAP or EAP for computing factor scores when MLR is used?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 9:51 am
We use MAP for MLR continuous and EAP for MLR categorical.
Elina Dale
posted on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 9:16 pm
Dear Dr. Muthen,
In the write-up by Dr. Skrondal on MPlus website, it says the following: "With continuous variables,Mplus estimates factor scores as the maximum of the posterior distribution of the factor, which is the same as the Regression Method for factor score estimation.With this method, using factor scores as predictors gives unbiased regression slopes, but using factor scores as dependent variables gives biased slopes."
Does the last part of the statement, i.e. using factor scores as predictors gives unbiased slopes, also apply to MAP method used in MPlus with categorical outcomes?
Thank you!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 10:18 am
With MAP, slopes will be biased if they are used as independent or dependent variables.
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