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Parks and Recreation
The water features at Snyder Park and at the Cannery Square are scheduled to operate from the Friday of Memorial Day weekend through the end of September from 9 am to 9 pm.
Providing and preserving Sherwood Parks and Open Space enhances the desirability of our area as well as contributing to the safety and health of our residents. Parks and Open Space are an investment in the future well-being of individuals and groups as well as the continued viability of our community. ~ Parks Vision statement
Sherwood has dedicated a section of Snyder Park as an off-leash area for our four-legged friends. Park is available sunrise to sunset at Snyder Park.
If you would like to reserve a shelter for your next function, please call Public Works at 503 625-5722 and we will be glad to schedule that for you. Rental fees are applicable for parks that have covered areas.
The City of Sherwood values events which bring people together through the celebration of the arts, sports, history, commerce, health and more. As a means of encouraging these gatherings, the City makes its streets and public right-of-way available to civic, private, and community groups to organize and sponsor activities that enhance Sherwood.
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In an effort to prevent drunk driving fatalities, AAA is teaming up with Mother's Against Drunk Driving for its Care Cab program.
Anyone can get home for free on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day anywhere inside the I-275 loop.
The service begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday and runs through midnight Jan. 1.
Call 513-381-FREE to request service.

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Tax Policy
January 27, 2015
Letter to Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) strongly endorsing the American Opportunity Tax Credit Act of 2015, which makes important reforms to the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC) and Lifetime Learning Credit.
January 21, 2015
Letter to Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), endorsing his bill to increase the student loan interest deduction from $2,500 to $5,000 for individuals and $10,000 for joint filers, along with other changes.
December 10, 2014
This brief answers questions frequently asked by students, faculty, alumni, journalists, public officials, and others interested in endowments and the financial circumstances of American colleges and universities.
Letter to all members of the House and Senate, urging them to pass a permanent extension of the Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Charitable Rollover this year.
September 4, 2014
Letter to the Senate in support of passing a permanent extension of the Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Charitable Rollover, included as part of a package of five charitable giving provisions in the America Gives More Act of 2014.
July 17, 2014
Letter to the House of Representatives outlining ACE's opposition to the Student and Family Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 3393), which would combine the Hope Scholarship Credit, the American Opportunity Tax Credit, the Lifetime Learning Credit, and...
July 16, 2014
Letter to the House in support of a bill (H.R. 4619) to permanently extend the Individual Retirement Account (IRA) Charitable Rollover, which expired at the end of 2013.
July 8, 2014
Tax reform provides an excellent opportunity to improve some of the individual provisions that will make the framework more effective for students, their families and taxpayers repaying student loans, writes ACE and the higher education groups...
July 7, 2014
Summary of the Black-Davis Student and Family Tax Simplification Act (H.R. 3393), approved by the House Ways and Means Committee on June 25, 2014.
June 24, 2014
While H.R. 3393 takes several important steps forward to create a simpler, single tax credit, there are a number of provisions that are of great concern and therefore ACE does not support the measure.


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Skin Cancer Treatment (Professional) (cont.)
Cellular Classification of Skin Cancer
This evidence summary covers basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the skin, and the related noninvasive lesion actinic keratosis (viewed by some pathologists as a variant of in situ SCC ).[1] Although BCC and SCC are by far the most frequent types of nonmelanoma skin cancers, approximately 82 types of skin malignancies, with a wide range of clinical behaviors, fall into the category of nonmelanoma skin cancer.[2] Other types of malignant disease of the skin include the following:
(Refer to the PDQ summaries on Melanoma Treatment, Merkel Cell Carcinoma Treatment, Mycosis Fungoides and the Sézary Syndrome Treatment, and Kaposi Sarcoma Treatment for more information.)
BCC and SCC are both of epithelial origin. They are usually diagnosed on the basis of routine histopathology obtained from a shave, punch, or fusiform excisional biopsy.[1]
Basal Cell Carcinoma
BCC is at least three times more common than SCC in nonimmunocompromised patients. It usually occurs on sun-exposed areas of skin, and the nose is the most frequent site. Although there are many different clinical presentations for BCC, the most characteristic type is the asymptomatic nodular or nodular ulcerative lesion that is elevated from the surrounding skin, has a pearly quality, and contains telangiectatic vessels.
BCC has a tendency to be locally destructive. High-risk areas for tumor recurrence after initial treatment include the central face (e.g., periorbital region, eyelids, nasolabial fold, or nose-cheek angle), postauricular region, pinna, ear canal, forehead, and scalp.[3] A specific subtype of BCC is the morpheaform type. This subtype typically appears as a scar-like, firm plaque. Because of indistinct clinical tumor margins, the morpheaform type is difficult to treat adequately with traditional treatments.[4]
BCCs are composed of nonkeratinizing cells derived from the basal cell layer of the epidermis. They are slow growing and rarely metastasize. However, they can result in serious deforming damage locally if left untreated or if local recurrences cannot be completely excised. BCCs often have a characteristic mutation in the patched 1 tumor suppressor gene (PTCH1), although the mechanism of carcinogenesis is not clear.[1]
Squamous Cell Carcinoma
SCCs also tend to occur on sun-exposed portions of the skin, such as the ears, lower lip, and dorsa of the hands. However, SCCs that arise in areas of non–sun-exposed skin or that originate de novo on areas of sun-exposed skin are prognostically worse because they have a greater tendency to metastasize than those that occur on sun-exposed skin that develop from actinic keratosis. People with chronic sun damage, sites of prior burns, arsenic exposure, chronic cutaneous inflammation as seen in longstanding skin ulcers, and sites of previous x-ray therapy are predisposed to the development of SCC.[4]
SCCs are composed of keratinizing cells. These tumors are more aggressive than BCCs and have a range of growth, invasive, and metastatic potential. Prognosis is associated with the degree of differentiation, and tumor grade is reported as part of the staging system.[2] A four-grade system (G1–G4) is most common, but two- and three-grade systems may also be used. Mutations in the PTCH1 tumor suppressor gene have been reported in SCCs removed from patients with a prior history of multiple BCCs.[5]
SCC in situ (also called Bowen disease) is a noninvasive lesion. It may be difficult to distinguish it pathologically from a benign inflammatory process.[1] The risk of development into invasive SCC is low, reportedly in the 3% to 4% range.[6]
Actinic Keratosis
Actinic keratoses are potential precursors of SCC, but the rate of progression is extremely low, and the vast majority do not become SCCs. These typically red, scaly patches usually arise on areas of chronically sun-exposed skin and are likely to be found on the face and dorsal aspects of the hand.
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A local favorite, Ballpark Beerfest, is once again making its way to the Brazos Valley! With the Bombers having an amazing season with a 31-7 record, American Momentum Bank Ballpark is ready to celebrate! Friday, August 3 from 6pm to midnight is our 6th Annual Ballpark Beerfest, then we're making an awesome addition to the lineup with Midnight Madness! After Beerfest ends, the Bombers will start their game at midnight, taking on the Victoria Generals.
Admission is FREE for this event, which will feature over 100 beers and wines to sample, live music, multiple restaurant food showcases, games and the Kidz Zone with inflatables. Guests will be able to taste Ales, Lagers, Pilsners, Porters, Wheats and much more from an extensive beer list that features over 20 countries worldwide.
VIP Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased online at www.bvbombers.com. VIP Tickets, which include an exclusive BeerFest mug, t-shirt, 5 tastings, an express line pass, guaranteed seating on the party deck, exclusive 15 extra beer options, 10 Bombers bucks, can be purchased for only $40 plus tax. Another ticket package being offered is the $15 package, which includes 5 tastings and a BeerFest mug. Advanced tickets are $7.50 plus tax and can be purchased now through Friday, August 2, or tickets can be purchased for $10 at the gate.
For ticket information contact Kylie Hula at email@example.com Come and join the fun at the 6th Annual Ballpark Beerfest!


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A term used for being left out of the fun or uninvited after seeing a post on a social media website. Being left out, not invited or otherwise forgotten about. Best used as an adjective under a post on Social Media Sites.
I saw that you guys all went out for Breakfast this morning. That sucks man, I wasn't invited. I got Beckerd.
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"In this time of increasingly personal cinema, the films of Jean-Luc Godard make those of most of his contemporaries look about as original and individual as monogrammed Volkswagens." - The New York Times
While alone in an abandoned television studio, two militants, Emile Rousseau (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Patricia Lumumba (Juliet Berto), have a discourse on language. Referring to spoken word as "the enemy" the weapon used by the establishment to confuse liberation movements the two deconstruct the meanings of sounds and images in an attempt to return to zero and truly experience the joy of learning.


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Since it is the week leading up to Canada day, I thought it would be fitting to celebrate Canada's birthday by sharing the stories of Canadian developers who have developed applications on the Windows Azure platform. A few weeks ago, I started my search for untold Canadian stories in preparation for my talk, Windows Azure: What's In the Cloud, at Prairie Dev Con. I was just looking for a few stores, but was actually surprised, impressed, and proud of my fellow Canadians when I was able to connect with several Canadian developers who have either built new applications using Windows Azure services or have migrated existing applications to Windows Azure. What was really amazing to see was the different ways these Canadian developers were Windows Azure to create unique solutions.
This week, I will share their stories.
Leveraging Windows Azure for Mobile Applications
Back in May, we talked about leveraging Windows Azure for your next app idea. We talked about the obvious scenarios of using Windows Azure – web applications. Lead, for example, is a web-based API hosted on Windows Azure. Election Night is also a web-based application, with an additional feature – it can be repackaged as a software-as-a-service (hosted on a platform-as-a-service). (More on this in future posts) Connect2Fans is an example of a web-based application hosted on Windows Azure. With Booom!!, we saw Windows Azure being used as a backend to a social application.
Today, we'll see how Tony Vassiliev from Gauge Mobile and his team used Windows Azure as the backend for their mobile application.
Gauge Mobile
Gauge Mobile's focus lies in mobile communications solutions. Scanvee, their proprietary platform, provides consumers, business and agencies the ability to create, manage, modify and track mobile barcode (ie. QR codes) and Near Field Communication (NFC) campaigns. Scanvee offers various account options to accommodate all business needs, from a basic free account to a fully integrated enterprise solution. Essentially, Gauge Mobile helps businesses of all sizes communicate more effectively with their consumers through mobile devices. They provide the tools to track and analyze their activities and make improvement in future communications.
Jonathan: When you guys were designing Scanvee, what was the rationale behind your decision to develop for the Cloud, and more specifically, to use Windows Azure?
Tony: Anything in the cloud makes more sense for a start-up. The advantages which equally apply to mobility can always be summed up to: affordability, scalability, and risk mitigation by reducing administrative requirements and increasing reliability. Microsoft has a definitive advantage when it comes to supporting their developer community. Windows Azure integration into existing development environments such as Visual Studio and SQL Server makes it easier and more efficient to develop for Azure. As well, naturally, utilization of existing technologies such as .Net framework and SQL Server are beneficial. Lastly, Platform-as-a-service model works better for us as a start-up than infrastructure-as-a-service offerings such as Amazon EC2. Azure offers turnkey solutions for load balancing, project deployment, staging environments and automatic upgrades. In conjunction with SQL Azure which replicates SQL Server in the cloud, total risk and administration costs of Azure solutions are less than an investment in EC2 where we still need to setup, configure and maintain our development and production environments internally.
Jonathan: What Windows Azure services are you using? How are you using them?
Tony: We are using a Windows Azure compute services - a web role (to which the mobile application connects) at the moment and we have a worker role in the works for background processing of large data inputs, outputs, invoice generation and credit card processing. We are also using one business SQL Azure database to hold the application's data and one for QA. We will be using sharding once we are at a point where we need to scale. Access Control and SQL Azure Reporting are two other features that we have on our roadmap. Access Control for integration into third party social networks and SQL Azure Reporting for our analytics. We may also end up using SQL Azure Sync depending on the state of SQL Azure and upcoming features for back up and point in time restores..
Jonathan: During development, did you run into anything that was not obvious and required you to do some research? What were your findings? Hopefully, other developers will be able to use your findings to solve similar issues.
Tony: There were few minor hiccups but nothing significant, everything was pretty straight forward!
Jonathan: Lastly, how did you and your team ramp up on Windows Azure? What resources did you use? What would you recommend for other Canadian developers to do in order to ramp up and start using Windows Azure??
Tony: Our senior engineer and architect is a .NET expert who had previously heard of Azure. He came equipped with all of Microsoft's development tools which provide good integration for Azure development. We started with a free account on Azure, created a prototype web role, deployed it, and sure enough it was a very simple and elegant procedure and we have continued to use Azure since.
As you can see, when it comes to mobile platforms, Windows Azure offers you an easy way to add backend services for your applications without having to put strain on the device. If your application has intensive processing and data requirements, such as Scanvee, you'll need the infrastructure capacity in the backend to be able to support those requirements. Windows Azure can do that for you in a matter of a few clicks with no upfront infrastructure or configuration costs. Check out Connecting Windows Phone 7 and Slates to Windows Azure on the Canadian Mobile Developers' Blog to get a deeper understand of how these platforms can work together. Once you've done that, get started by downloading the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 or for iOS and working through Getting Started With The Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7 and iOS.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Tony for sharing his story. For more information on Gauge Mobile, check out their site, follow them on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Tomorrow – another Windows Azure developer story.
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It's finally here! The first long weekend of the summer! Looks like all of the stars aligned, giving us an amazing opportunity to spend three whole days ramping up on Windows Phone 7 Mango.
Yesterday, Brandon Watson of the Windows Phone team announced the availability of the Windows Phone Developer Tools Beta 2 on the Windows Phone Developer Blog. There's lots of new features to play with in this release and some new goodies as well. Check out the release notes for a complete listing. To top the news of the release of the new tools, the Mango OS can now be put on your retail Windows Phone 7 device so that you can test out features like fast app resume, updated Live Tiles, motion sensor, live agents, sockets, background audio, and raw camera access on your retail Windows Phone 7 device.
I mentioned that the stars aligned – well that's not just because the tools were released or that you can now update your phone. It's actually that you can do all of that AND have Windows Phone 7 expert and Microsoft MVP Mark Arteaga (@MarkArteaga) to guide you through exploring these really cool updates!
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Make sure you stay tuned to Mark's blog and follow him on Twitter. With 1500 new APIs in Mango, have no doubt that there will be additional walkthroughs posted in these months coming up to the Mango release and beyond.
From your team here at Microsoft Canada, we all wish you a safe and enjoyable weekend! Happy learning!
On behalf of Canadian mobile developers, I'd like to thank you, Mark, for guiding us on this exciting journey.
About Mark Arteaga
Mark Arteaga is Founder and President of RedBit Development which specializes in helping customers such as Bell Media (formerly CTVGlobeMedia), The Globe & Mail and MTV implement mobile based solutions. Mark has an extensive background in software development and has dedicating the last 10 years to the trade. Mark has also been awarded Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award 6 years in a row for his role in the Windows Phone developer community and is the only Windows Phone Developer MVP in Canada. Mark is often speaking to the developer community at various events about mobile based solutions throughout Canada. You can contact Mark via his blog at blog.markarteaga.com, email@example.com or follow him twitter.com/MarkArteaga on Twitter.
Leveraging Windows Azure for Social Applications
Back in May, we talked about leveraging Windows Azure for your next app idea. We talked about the obvious scenarios of using Windows Azure – web applications. Lead, for example, is a web-based API hosted on Windows Azure. Election Night is also a web-based application, with an additional feature – it can be repackaged as a software-as-a-service (hosted on a platform-as-a-service). (More on this in future posts) Connect2Fans is an example of a web-based application hosted on Windows Azure. But we also talked other, not-as-obvious scenarios such as extensions for SharePoint and CRM, mobile applications, and social applications.
Today, we'll see how Karim Awad and Trevor Dean of bigtime design used Windows Azure to build their social application, Booom!! (recognize the application? Booom!! was also featured at the Code Your Art Out Finals)
Booom!! allows you to receive the information you want from your favourite brands and pages on Facebook. No more piles of messages in the "Other" box or constant posts to your wall. Booom!! only sends the stuff you want and drops it right into your personal Booom Box. Booom!! provides a simplified messaging system for both page admins and Facebook users.
At the Code Your Art Out Finale, I had a chance to chat with Karim and Trevor, the founders and developers of Booom!! about how they built Booom!! using Windows Azure.
Jonathan: When you guys were designing Booom!!, what was the rationale behind your decision to develop for the Cloud, and more specifically, to use Windows Azure?
Karim: We chose cloud technologies for the app not only because it was a technical requirement for the competition (Code Your Art Out) but we are always conscious of scalability with everything that we build. We want our applications to be able to grow with their user base and cloud technology allows us to accomplish this without much financial investment.
Trevor: We were in the final stages of evaluating Amazon's EC2 when we entered into the Code Your Art Out competition. We were excited to hear the Windows Azure was a technical requirement because we wanted to evaluate Microsoft's cloud solution as well. I found the Azure management portal to be very intuitive and with little effort I had commissioned a database and deployed a WCF service to the Cloud. This same scenario on Amazon would have taken at least twice as long and I would have also had to have previously installed SQL Server and any other supporting applications. One feature I saw as a real benefit was being able to promote your code from staging servers to production servers. It was a no brainer after the first deployment attempt. We are a start-up and we have limited resources and limited finances, using Azure helps to ease those pains and remain competitive.
Trevor: We have a .NET WCF service hosted in a Windows Azure hosted service – a web role. Our PHP-based Facebook application front-end application talks to the service in Azure. We are currently working on deploying the front-end onto Azure as well, and then we will also start taking advantage of the storage services to optimize the front-end client performance. Then, we will be "all in"!
Trevor: We did experience some issues with getting PHP deployed to the Cloud and we are still working through those issues. We used the command line tool (Windows Azure Command-line Tools for PHP) to create the deployment package and everything worked great in the DevFabric but when I deployed, I would get a "500 - Internal server error". I have determined the issue is with my "required" declaration but I'm not sure why and I could not find much documentation on this or on how to enable better error messaging or get access to logs. Still working on that. Otherwise, everything was smooth!
Jonathan: Lastly, what were some of the lessons you and your team learned as part of ramping up to use Windows Azure or actually developing for Windows Azure?
Trevor: Microsoft has always built intuitive tools and Azure is another great example. There will be many things I'm sure we will learn about cloud technologies and Azure specifically but for now it was nice to see that what we did already know was reinforced.
Karim: Azure is an impressive piece of technology that will help many small to large business grow and scale. It's nice to see Microsoft playing nicely with other technologies as well – WordPress, PHP, MySQL, etc.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Karim and Trevor for sharing their story. When you have a chance, check out Booom!!. Enter your email address so that you can receive an invite to the beta release when it is ready. I had the opportunity to see Booom!! being demonstrated – looks pretty cool. I, for one, am looking forward to giving it a test drive. Stay tuned for pictures and videos from the demonstration.
This post also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
Connect2Fans is a BizSpark Startup who has developed a solution to support artists, writers, musicians, photographers, and other people in the arts and entertainment industry who are finding it difficult to connect directly with their fans. With Connect2Fans, artists have complete control over all fees that are charged to their fans, which will lower or eventually eliminate service fees altogether. Through the Connect2Fans software, the artists and entertainment industry personnel will be able to offer inventory items such as digital files (MP3s, Ringtones, Videos, PDF Books, Software etc), tangible merchandise (CDs, DVDs, t-shirts, photos, and paintings), ticketing (barcoded, PDF, and reserved seating) and hospitality services (restaurants, limo, and VIP services amongst others).
I had a chance to sit down with Jason Lavigne (@Jason_Lavigne), co-founder and director of Connect2Fans to find out how he and his team built Connect2Fans using Windows Azure.
Jonathan: When you and your team were designing Connect2Fans, what was the rationale behind your decision to develop for the Cloud, and more specifically, to use Windows Azure?
Jason: Dave Monk and I put together a video that answers just that.
Jason: We are using Web Roles, Worker Roles, Windows Azure Storage, and SQL Azure. The one item that we think that would be unique would be our use of MongoDB for our main data store that allows us to maintain 10,000+ concurrent connections per node.
Jason: The biggest gotcha would be the throughput of Windows Azure Storage Tables (internally we call this Azure DHT) was too slow for the kind of traffic we needed to support. Our solution was to setup MongoDB in worker roles for writes and a replica set on each web role for reads.
Jason: Every day we are learning more and more, but the biggest lesson I learned while learning and using Windows Azure was that Microsoft is a fantastic resource for support. I am not just saying that because you are from Microsoft, I am serious when I say that Microsoft has made it clear from the very beginning that they are there for us and the have certainly stepped up when we needed it.
That's it for today's interview with Jason. As you can see, Jason and his team broke away from what you would consider the norm. The Windows Azure platform's flexibility and ability to custom tailor to a specific set of requirements allowed them to achieve the best results for their specific solution.
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Jason for sharing his story. If you'd like to find out more about Connect2Fans, you can check out the site, Twitter, and Facebook. To find out more about how Connect2Fans is using the Windows Azure platform, you can reach out to Jason on Twitter.
Missed previous developer stories in the series? Check them out here:
Lead Election Night
This post also appears on Canadian Developer Connection.
Election Night
On any given election night, the biggest challenge to accomplish successfully is the collection of data. Most campaigns have volunteers numbering in the hundreds out at polling stations scrutineering the results. The polls close across ridings at the same time, so that data comes in fast and furious. In almost every typical scenario, it gets lost. Election Night streamlines the data input process as much as possible, and where possible, allow for remote data input by the scrutineers themselves, so that as much of that valuable data is captured as quickly as possible. In addition, Election Night helps decide the best way to allocate volunteers to the polls through data visualization techniques.
Postmedia Inc., the company that maintains canada.com featured the application on their public site. See how the application was integrated into the site – Riding by Riding and Poll by Poll. You can also access the application directly on Windows Azure - Election Night National Viewer and Election Night District Viewer.
I had a chance to sit down with John White (@diverdown1964), CTO of UnlimitedViz, Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP, and one of the developers of Election Night to find out how he and his team built Election Night using Windows Azure.
Jonathan: When you and your team were designing Election Night, what was the rationale behind your decision to develop for the Cloud, and more specifically, to use Windows Azure?
John: The technology to support these requirements have been around for quite some time. However, and election campaign is ephermal. It lives for about 5 weeks and then disappears. The cost required to implement the required infrastructure to support such a solution has been prohibitive, and the skill required to support remote access has been beyond the ability of most local campaigns. Windows Azure was an obvious fit, primarily because it required no infrastructure, but also because it was easy to access from anywhere.
John: The solution uses both Windows Azure and SQL Azure. The Windows Azure instance contains a Silverlight application that uses RIA Services to connect back to an Entity Framework model. That model connects to the data housed in SQL Azure. In addition, standard ASP.NET pages are also available for interaction with generic smartphones and tablets. When the visualization capabilities were needed by a major media outlet, we were able to package a subset of the application, allow them to deploy it to their Windows Azure instance, and still maintain the data in our SQL Azure instance [Software-as-a-service using Platform-as-a-service]
John: The only difficulties that we ran into were typical early adoption type issues. For example, the standard Silverlight RIA services implementation does not bundle the required libraries for Windows Azure. These were overcome by consulting with Channel 9 videos (like these videos) and published Microsoft guidance.
John: Lessons learned? Not very many! Don't leave too many Windows Azure instances running indefinitely. Your developer allocation doesn't cover the required cost. Also that SQL Azure storage is very, very cost effective, and fast. Our solution is serving up a million rows with complex queries and geo-encoded data.
Jonathan: Any last comments and/or thoughts you'd like to share about Windows Azure?
John: Election Nights fortifies our position of continuing to build cloud based applications with scale. By leveraging the Azure technology platform we were able to repackage components from a much larger application into what Postmedia needed for their website in less than one week. Developing to a common infrastructure meant that we no longer worry about the common deployment roadblocks of matching our application requirements to our client's environment. It just works!
That's it for today's interview with John. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank John for sharing his story. Tomorrow – another Windows Azure developer story.
Lead is a worldwide leaderboard platform which developers can integrate into their games to engage its users. Lead provides a consistent reliable service and a growing ecosystem of products for developers regardless of the platform on which they develop. Lead is developed by Fersh, a student digital multimedia start-up based out of Toronto, Ontario. Fersh's portfolio includes a number of award-winning mobile games, applications and developer resources. Fersh offers a range of products and services including consulting and customized software solutions across several platforms.
I had a chance to sit down with one of Lead's developers, Kowsheek Mahmood (@aredkid) to find out how he and his team built Lead using Windows Azure.
Jonathan: Kowsheek, when you and the team were designing Lead, what was the rationale behind your decision to develop for the Cloud, and more specifically, to use Windows Azure?
Kowsheek: Being a start-up company with constrained funding, it was not feasible for us to have multiple dedicated servers for Lead. Furthermore, since we wanted Lead to provide a consistent experience across geographical locations, a distributed solution was the right fit. At Fersh we use Microsoft technologies to develop our applications which range from games to mobile and web applications. We chose Windows Azure because we could use our existing knowledge of the technologies involved and leverage them well. Also, Windows Azure provided for high availability and a flexible utility-style service, that fulfilled our requirements and was affordable.
Kowsheek: We are using Windows Azure Compute Web Role instances to host the frontend site, as well as our simple but really powerful API with developers will integrate in their games. SQL Azure hosts our databases in which we store the leaderboard data for each game using the API. We are also using Blob Storage and the Content Delivery Network (CDN) for static content, distributed to different geographic regions.
Kowsheek: While working with the ASP.NET Membership service, initially it wasn't clear how the database on SQL Azure would have to be built. A quick Bing search showed that there is a tool similar to the regular tool called "aspnet_regsqlazure" that builds the database. You can find out more in this support article. Once we downloaded the proper files and ran them against the database, all was well.
Kowsheek: Initially, dedicated servers seemed feasible but after taking into consideration things like scalability and reliability, the hosting solutions seemed to fall short, so it always serves well to consider all the requirements and available options from the get-go.
That's it for today's interview with Kowsheek Mahmood of Fersh about their application Lead. Lead is currently in Alpha release but has already been integrated into several games, such as the popular Windows Phone 7 game Sudoku3D (Facebook, Twitter). If you're a game developer, Lead is definitely something to check out. Perhaps you could even participate in testing Lead.
This post also appears on the Canadian Developer Connection.
On June 10, we announced the finalists of Code Your Art Out, a "wicked" coding competition, as described on the competition's home page. Last night, the Code Your Art Out Finale was held at the BizMedia Rooftop in downtown Toronto and was packed with developers, designers, people who are passionate about non-profits, other Code Your Art Out contestants, the finalists, and their close friends and family.
To kick off the finale, some of the Code Your Art Out contestants had the opportunity to present their submissions. Even though they didn't make it to the finale, their apps were fantastic, exemplifying the openness and interoperability of the Microsoft stack.
Here's a recap of the apps:
ProfessorPedia Tony Yang and Team ProfessorPedia is both a social and an informational platform for students' daily academic lives. It captures several main features of students basic academic needs: Professor rating, book trading, student forum, and WikiNote. On the professor rating system, users can have access to professors' basic information and students' comments on his/her courses easily by searching for the professor's name or the course name. ProfessorPedia's book trading system is designed for both first and second hand textbook trade and exchange between post-secondary students. The student forum is what the name suggests - a place to relax, spread, and gather feeling and warmth. Students can chat and discuss course materials in the forum as well as through the integrated online chatting system.
Technologies Used: Windows Azure, PHP, jQuery, Data Mining, CakePHP
And the winner of Code Your Art Out and the recipient of $10,000 is…
Congratulations to Epilogger, second place winners of Code Your Art out and the recipients of $5,000.
The competition was tough and each of the participants put in their all to achieve excellence in the three judging criteria (Interoperability, Creativity, Usage), creating applications that are truly unique and have real world uses. Congratulations to all!
Stay tuned as we talk to each of the contestants about their applications and the technologies they used.
This post also appears in the Canadian Developer Connection
My team is in the midst of our planning cycle right now and a question came up that has us scratching our heads. "What conferences or face to face activities do developers and architects in Canada attend in order to get training and keep up to date on what's out there?" Times have changed – there used to be a lot of conferences and activities years ago – but what about now? Oh – I am also talking about ones NOT PUT ON BY MICROSOFT. We're trying to think outside of the box here. Drop me an email (email@example.com), tweet me a reply (@jrozenblit), chime in on Twtsurvey or LinkedIn or comment below!
There's the big conferences such as TechDays and Prairie Dev Con, or alternatively, your company might have internal lunch and learns and team knowledge building activities, but there has to be more out there.
This is part of a larger conversation that we've had together. You've heard me talk about investing in yourself and your skills – external training /info sessions/partner events are one avenue to stretch that training budget. It still takes a withdrawal on your personal time budget. Going out and participating in community driven technology meetups/user groups/professional associations also take a tax on your personal time, but it's a necessary evil.
Do you take the time to make this type of investment? If so – where do you go? I ask once again: "What conferences or face to face activities do developers and architects in Canada attend in order to get training and keep up to date on what's out there?" Drop me an email (email@example.com), tweet me a reply (@jrozenblit), chime in on Twtsurvey or LinkedIn, or comment below!
I'll make sure to post the replies back to share with all of you.
Last week, I was at Prairie Dev Con and had the pleasure of sitting in on David Alpert's sessions on user experience called Design for Success. I found it fascinating that such an important part of an application never really gets the attention that it deserves, and most times, overlooked entirely. This is very bad, and David explains why in his talks.
If you have a chance to see this talk live, I highly recommend it. David is a very dynamic, enthusiastic, and clearly passionate speaker, and so seeing these talks in PDF below doesn't do it justice, but will give you insights into why User Experience is fundamental to the success of an application.
As software developers, we love to solve problems. Too often, however, we start mapping out solutions using our favourite patterns and technologies before we fully understand the goal, or we focus on functional requirements and lose sight of the big picture. In this session we'll cover the basics of what a User Experience approach brings to the table and how it can make a difference in the success of your application.
Design for Success 102 – 7 Ways to make your app more Learnable, Usable, & Enjoyable
Why are some apps a pleasure to use while others a source of endless pain? In this follow-up to Designing for Success 101, we'll focus on end-user interactions. Looking at several design patterns we'll explore how to generate less frustration and more delight for our clients and their customers.
Your Thoughts
When you're developing applications, how much attention to you pay to the user experience? How do you go about designing your application's user experience? Share your thoughts in this Ignite Your Coding LinkedIn discussion.
About David Alpert
David Alpert is a Senior Software Developer, Front-End Engineer, Interaction Designer, experienced Business Analyst, and proven leader and mentor who wants to change the IT industry. With a BSc. Honors in Computer Science and over 15 years of development experience, David is a passionate visionary whose knowledge, skills, and communication style are focused towards identifying and removing friction in all aspects of application development and teambuilding.
David is currently living in Winnipeg, Manitoba with his superhero wife and 5 amazing kids.
There was a lot of buzz around mobile development at DevTeach Montreal a few weeks ago with an entire track dedicated to mobile development, 4 Windows Phone 7 sessions, and a post-conference full day event all about Windows Phone 7 with Colin Melia.
As an added bonus, Carl Franklin (@carlfranklin) and Richard Campbell (@richcampbell) were on hand to host a special .NET Rocks! show – Panel of Mobile Platform Experts. On the panel were Kevin McNiesh, iPhone expert; Robert MacHale, Android expert; Michael Hutchinson, Mono expert; and Colin Melia, Windows Phone 7 expert. The experts sat down to talk about where mobile development is at, development processes, and fielded questions from the audience.
Now, you can relive the discussion here.
In addition to this conversation, Colin had an opportunity to chat with Richard about the challenges of securing applications using the phone and the Cloud. The discussion dug hard into Active Directory Federated Services, Azure Access Control Services and more.
Download the RunAs Radio Interview "Colin Melia Secures Azure and Windows Phone 7"
Do you have any questions you'd like to ask Colin? Share your questions in this Phone Development LinkedIn discussion.
About Colin Melia
Colin Melia is a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP for Silverlight known as an architect, trainer, speaker and author with deep and broad knowledge of the latest Microsoft technologies, proven problem solving skills, hands-on solution creation ingenuity and the ability to communicate rich and complex ideas.
He speaks regularly with his British accent at conferences, events and code camps for Microsoft and community organisations as well as being a college academic advisor. In the summer of 2010 he developed and delivered the first Windows Phone 7 boot camp tour in North America, training dozens of developers and companies across Canada at Microsoft offices. His recent articles and reference cards have been featured on Mobile Developer Magazine & DZone and he regularly posts on his blog.
Colin has 17 years of hands-on experience in areas of rich UI with WPF/Silverlight, cloud development with Azure and BI with SQL Server, along with in-depth knowledge of core technologies such as .NET, OData, WCF, WF, LINQ and WIF. He has developed award-winning simulation technology with rich UI, cloud-based learning portals and workflow-driven BI systems. He also created the first streaming video community site with Windows Media.
He has worked in the finance, telecoms, e-learning, Internet communications and gaming industries, with his business solutions recently in use at major league companies world-wide.
There was much talk about Silverlight 5 during this year's DevTeach in Montreal. Last week, Susan (@HockeyGeekGirl) posted her DevTeach conversation with Laurent Duveau (@LaurentDuveau) about how Silverlight 5 takes DataTemplate to the next level with implicit data templates. Colin Melia was also talking about Silverlight 5 at DevTeach, with a demo during the conference keynote, and a session on Silverlight 5 features in the conference's Silverlight track.
At the conference, Colin got together with Carl Franklin (@carlfranklin) of .NET Rocks TV, and together, they bring us a sneak peek of Silverlight 5 as well as a handful of cool demos to show off some new features. Check out Show #198 of .NET Rocks TV!
Ready to give Silverlight 5 a try?
Silverlight 5 beta is now available for download. You can find the download, as well as Silverlight 5 videos, MIX11 videos, and top tutorials here.
Colin Melia is a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP for Silverlight known as an architect, trainer, speaker and author with deep and broad knowledge of the latest Microsoft technologies, proven problem solving skills, hands-on solution creation ingenuity and the ability to communicate rich and complex ideas. He speaks regularly with his British accent at conferences, events and code camps for Microsoft and community organisations as well as being a college academic advisor. Colin has 17 years of hands-on experience in areas of rich UI with WPF/Silverlight, cloud development with Azure and BI with SQL Server, along with in-depth knowledge of core technologies such as .NET, OData, WCF, WF, LINQ and WIF. He has developed award-winning simulation technology with rich UI, cloud-based learning portals and workflow-driven BI systems. He also created the first streaming video community site with Windows Media.
The Microsoft Imagine Cup brings together student developers from all over the world and asks them to use their creativity and passion for technology to help solve the world's toughest problems. This year, more than 350,000 students from 183 countries and regions registered to compete and, from July 8-13, the finalists (more than 400 students from 70 countries) will meet for the Worldwide Finals in New York City.
Head over to the Imagine Cup site, check out the projects, and see how student developers are using Microsoft technologies to truly change the world (perhaps you may even be inspired to go write an app or two of your own as a result!).
Beginning today, people around the world will have the opportunity to get involved in the excitement through the Imagine Cup People's Choice Award. Cast your vote on the People's Choice Award site! Your colleagues, friends, and family can vote as well, so spread the word.
Here are just a few examples of how the teams are using Microsoft technologies at Imagine Cup:
To top that, there were quite a few teams that brought all of the above together, using Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, AND Bing Maps with solutions ranging from finding carpools to predicting disasters due to water flow.
The People's Choice Award is just one component of several competitions and prizes at the Imagine Cup. From creating apps and videos to building Web sites and embedded solutions, students are truly helping to change the world with Microsoft technologies.
Vote for your favourite projects and support student developers as they grow and start companies that thrive to have an impact in their communities and around the globe.
It's official! You can now start developing Windows applications that make use of Kinect! The live launch event is actually still on Channel 9 right now! Go check it out. If you've missed parts of the event (it started at 9:30 AM PST this morning), they'll be available in the Channel 9 Live Events Area within 24 hours.
Want to jump right in and start playing with the SDK? Here's what you need:
Last but not least, here are some cool examples of using Kinect for Windows:
So? What do you think? Cool or what? Is your head spinning with app ideas where you can leverage Kinect? Share your thoughts in this LinkedIn Ignite Your Coding discussion. I look forward to seeing what cool things you all will come up with!
If you were one of the 167 developers that were in Regina, SK these last couple of days for Prairie Dev Con (and if you weren't, then make sure you are next year because it is just a great event! More on that at another time…), you would have heard Jeff Sandquist (@jeffsand), Senior Director for Channel 9, make mention of something happening this week during his keynote. He didn't say what, he just said that it would be awesome!
I can't tell you what I don't know, but here's what I do know:
and last but not least, I can tell you it has something to do with…
So, hopefully, you are now just as curious as I was when I heard (and still am!), so make sure you check it out tomorrow! Then, come back here and share your thoughts!
Last month, during TechEd North America, we were introduced to some of the new features that were coming in the next version of Visual Studio, specifically in the area of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). My colleague Susan Ibach (@HockeyGeekGirl) was at TechEd and blogged about some of those details. If you weren't able to get out to TechEd and haven't yet watched sessions on-demand that talk about Visual Studio vNext, you absolutely must.
Tech·Ed North America 2011 Keynote Address Jason Zander, Robert Wahbe
If you fast forward to 1:01:15 in the video of the Keynote address, you can watch Jason Zander, Corporate VP, Visual Studio talk about what to expect from Visual Studio vNext.
The Future of Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management Cameron Skinner
This demo-heavy session offers early insights into the future of Application Lifecycle Management and agile development that are incorporated in the next release of Visual Studio.
And if those two sessions were not enough to get you excited, our friends at TechNet Edge captured some great conversations on the ground at TechEd, specifically, this conversation between Richard Campbell and Jason Zander about the upcoming ALM features.
Jason Zander on ALM
Jason Zander talks to Richard Campbell about Visual Studio v.Next, specifically the upcoming ALM features. Jason talks about the next generation of ALM and how it brings stakeholders, developers and IT Pros closer together with new tooling.
Want to dive deeper and find out more? Download the Visual Studio vNext whitepaper. It'll provide you with additional contexts and outlines of the problems that Visual Studio vNext is working to solve, how they relate to problems that are faced as an industry, and how Visual Studio vNext will improve the effectiveness of ALM.
So what's next? Stay tuned! As more information because available, we'll make sure that you hear about it here. In the meantime, join me in this LinkedIn conversation around the features announced in these sessions, share your thoughts, and perhaps recommend a feature or two that you would like to see in Visual Studio vNext.
This article is also featured on Canadian Developer Connection.
Back in March, Frédéric (@fharper) introduced Code Your Art Out, a "wicked" coding competition, as described on the competition's home page. Between March 1st and June 1st, any kind of web app could be submitted. Over the last week, the apps were judged on their interoperability with different technologies, creativity, and usability, and now I can announce the finalists! But before I do, just a reminder of what's at stake for these finalists:
What did they have to do? The participants had to create any web solution and deploy it to either Windows Azure or IIS. Alternatively, they could port an existing web solution onto Windows Azure or IIS. That's it. Everything else was left up to their creativity.
So with that, drum roll please…
On behalf of the Judges, we'd like to give a HUGE congratulations to the following finalists:
The competition was very tough, and deciding the top two was not easy, but it was a unanimous decision that Epilogger and Save The Rain shall battle it out for 1st and 2nd place on June 24th in downtown Toronto. The URLs for these apps will be shared after the 24th as well a recount of the finale event!
Look out for them because they are impressive, easy to use, unique and all around wicked. Congratulations and thanks to all of the teams who submitted apps for the competition. Everyone did a great job and should be very proud!


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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] opal_value_array
From: Jeff Squyres (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-25 07:14:11
Hmm. We're getting into "distant memory" here, so I could very well
be wrong.
But I *thought* that the original array implementation would return a
0 or a -1. It's possible that in the value_array consolidation that
this behavior was lost...? I'm not sure.
Other than that, I can't think of a good reason why we did it that
way. :-\
On Feb 24, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
> I recently spent several days attempting to track down a bug in the
> trunk, finally finding that the root cause was linked to a rather
> strange behavior of the opal_value_array class.
> If you call opal_value_array_get_item and request an index that is
> beyond that of the current size of the array, this function will
> automatically increase the size of the value array, and return
> whatever garbage is sitting in the expanded memory location. There
> is no warning this has happened - no error code is returned, the
> memory is not zero'd, etc. What you get back may be
> indistinguishable from a "real", albeit nonsensical, value.
> Can someone explain why this behavior was considered desirable? It
> was clearly a designed response - I simply cannot see -why- we would
> want this behavior. If you request a value outside the bound of the
> array, what purpose is served by returning garbage as if it were
> "valid"?
> Ralph
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Magic Chord-O-Matic Machine!
I was playing around with a keyboard at a Guitar Center that had an auto-harmonize feature. Below a certain note pressing a key would play a chord instead of a single tone. What was interesting was that playing chromatically (white and black keys) it played chords that retained a firm sense of key (C major) - if you jumped around randomly or did chromatic runs it didn't sound like there were a bunch of modulations taking place. What formula do you think it used to do this?
Tickling the MIDI-enabled Ivories
I want to learn to play keyboard, a continuation of sorts of this question. When I say this, I mean a MIDI controller - for the sake of being a midi controller, not as a stepping stone to piano. My goal lies primarily in doing something creative musically (dare I say "compostition" at some point down the line) with software synths played live (by me, not a tracker). So the answers to that last question have sent me on my way theory wise, but how do I learn to actually, you know, move my fingers around? [more inside]
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Stuff about Rhythm Heaven Fever
. Oh good God THIS so hard.
I've only just played it this year because I couldn't afford to buy it (cheap as it was) in 2011. But if we're going for GoTY based on when
played it? RHF, easily. It's not even a contest.
If you can still import Rhythm Tengoku somehow, I'd recommend it. I ended up buying two, one for me and one for my sister (there's only one save file), and we both ended up having a blast. Honestly, it's probably the best version based on gameplay mechanics, in that almost all the buttons are used (but it's still rooted in simplicity). You may like the music in other games more, and I think the endless games in sequels are better (though endless Doctor Virus is pretty cool), but I still think you'd appreciate all the stuff you can do considering the lack of a restrictive system. The drum lessons can get pretty intense.
I still find myself thinking about RHF, as I left my Wii back at my old home, and I really miss playing it. I can't stop grooving to the game in my head, and I just wanna play those songs again. The localized vocal tunes are also very catchy this time out, way better than most of the ones in the DS game. I can't stop humming Tonight or I FEEL FINE! or whatever it's called outside of Japan (Remix 3).
It's another swing and a hit for the Rhythm Heaven team, also responsible for Wario Ware (it's no wonder this series is so great), and probably one of their best outings as far as the music, catchiness, fan service, endless games (the two player ones are pretty amazing), and overall fun factor, especially with another person. It makes me wonder if this is it for the series, and as much as I hate a franchise being driven into the ground, I kind of hope for at least one more Rhythm Heaven. I'm not quite ready to part with this franchise, yet. If not, hey, I'd say it went out with a bang!
As for everything else I'm kind of indifferent, but...
Best Xbox360
: I dunno. I mean, I like Rayman Origins on an artistic level, but I think I'd've have to give it to
, which is another old game I've only just played. I love SHUMPs, and prior to this, I've never played one from CAVE. Once you learn the system, it's addictive as all get out, and the soundtrack is amazing (as well as the arrange soundtrack). Consider this a gateway game as I'm now curious to play as many other CAVE shooters as possible.
Best Handheld: Kirby: Mass Attack.
It really surprised me.
... that's it. I don't play a lot of video games, it seems.
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DVD of the Week – Behind the Candelabra
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Check out These LGBTQ-themed Holiday Flicks!
Holiday Double Feature: Make the Yuletide Gay and Come Out, Come Out Make the Yuletide Gay follows a young gay couple as they spend their first Christmas apart. When Gunn travels back home to Wisconsin he goes back into the … Continue reading
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DVD of the Week – Orlando
Here's an oldie but a goodie: the film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic tale of gender-bending and unfettered movement through time. The gorgeous and androgynous Tilda Swinton plays Orlando, who begins life as a boy of the Elizabethan Age but … Continue reading
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OPEN DANCE for the public
From October 29, 2013 7:00 pm until October 29, 2013 9:00 pm Save to calendar
At Mr. Lee's Restaurant Banquet room located behind the restaurant on the lower level.
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The Cambridge Social Dance CLub will be having a dance open to the public Tuesday October 29th from 7:00 - 9:00 at Mr. Lees Banquet room. The cost is $5.00 per person. Snacks and punch provided. Water will be available for a small fee. The attire is Dressy Casual (no jeans)


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Following on from the previous Chernobyl post, here's a video of vehicles left abandoned in the exclusion zone. Following the disaster, vehicles were banned from leaving the zone as they would bring contaminated radioactive beyond the exclusion zone into the rest of Ukraine. Many vehicles remained in situ where they were parked on the streets of Pripyat before being moved to huge compounds. The vehicles remain there today, rusting and decaying, much like the rest of the city.
The text below is a fascinating account of the accident by evacuee Lena Kostuchenko who was pregnant at the time of the accident.
I was five months' pregnant when the accident occurred. My husband and I were spending the weekend at my mother's house in Kopachi (a village just south of the power station). We woke up on Saturday morning and decided to go to Chernihiv, the nearest big town, to buy maternity clothes. At the bus stop we saw lots of fire engines and troop carriers on the main road. We waited and waited, but no bus came. Eventually a policeman told us there would be no buses, because there had been an accident. There had been small accidents before, so we did not worry. We worked in the garden all day.
On the Sunday I had to go to work in Pripyat. Again there were no buses, so we set off on foot. But I began to feel very ill, before I had got half way. My husband helped me home, then walked to Pripyat alone.
When he got back, he said the town had been evacuated. By then I had got out of bed and wandered outside. Another policeman finally told me the truth - he said there was high radiation and pregnant women should get out at all costs. At that time I did not know what radiation was. Police were blocking the main road, but we drove to Ivankiv via back roads. Two days later I ended up in hospital. Doctors threw away my clothes, and "decontaminated" me with a cold shower.
There were lots of other pregnant women there. The doctors said all would have abortions, or induced births. They did some of the abortions quickly, then changed their mind and said we would all give birth, after all.
We went to Chop (on the Hungarian border) then to Mykolayiv (near the Black Sea). In each new town, I had to throw away the clothes I had bought in the last one. They must have been contaminated by my own radioactive body. I gave birth to Anya two months early. She was big - 2.5kg (5.5lbs) and 49cm tall - but her nails had not formed and she was a yellowish colour, so she was put in an incubator. I was not allowed to see her for eight days.
Later, when we moved to Kiev, specialists hospitalised her on sight. Her haemoglobin count was about a quarter or a third of the normal level. At that time you could not say it was because of Chernobyl - it could be anything except Chernobyl. Much later a haematology professor told me I had been very unlucky: I was in the wrong place at the wrong time of my pregnancy. Anya has a very rare blood disease and almost no immunity. In 2004 she caught meningitis and was in a coma for three days. A doctor told me it was all over, but she pulled through. In the 1990s a law was passed, which promised benefits to Chernobyl invalids, but it said nothing about child invalids. Together with some other parents I formed an organisation, Flowers in the Wormwood, which successfully lobbied for the law to be changed. There is a tendency now to play down the problem of Chernobyl, and, if possible, to forget it. Once the 20th anniversary has passed, I think the state will begin to withdraw support.
Location: Pripyat, Ukraine
Category: Vehicles
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Greenland on Wednesday boycotted the biennial meeting of the Arctic Council after Sweden refused to accept its representatives on an equal footing with other members, its prime minister said.
"Until Sweden took over the chairmanship in 2011, Denmark had three chairs at the table with a representative for each part of the Danish commonwealth," Prime Minister Aleqa Hammond told Greenland daily Sermistiaq.
Arctic Greenland, along with the Faeroe Islands, is part of the Danish Commonwealth. Under a home rule agreement with Denmark, Greenland has full control of its raw materials and internal affairs, while decisions on defence and international affairs reside with Denmark.
"When the Swedes took over, the commonwealth was only given one chair and Greenland and the Faeroe Islands had to sit behind and not directly in the negotiations," Hammond added, saying she feared that a new Canadian chairmanship would adopt the same principle.
Hammond added that at a meeting Tuesday the commonwealth delegation had decided to demand two chairs at the negotiating table, but that the other members of the council were unlikely to agree.
The Arctic Council is composed of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden and the United States.
Both US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took part in Wednesday's meeting.
Although Hammond said Denmark fully supported the Greenland move, Danish Foreign Minister Villy Soevndal was more cautious on arrival for the meeting in Kiruna.
"Denmark regrets that Greenland's government has not wanted to take part as there are important issues on the agenda," Soevndal told reporters.
"We hope that there will soon be basis for Greenland to fully resume its place in the Arctic Council's work and we will be working actively to achieve that," he added.
Hammond won an overwhelming victory in Greenland's March elections on a ticket of increased independence for the vast Arctic territory.


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Austria's Elisabeth Goergl claimed her second World Cup victory of the month after dominating Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch to win the women's super-G at Cortina d'Ampezzo on Thursday.
In changing weather conditions Goergl, starting ninth, clocked a winning time of 1min 24.23sec for the Olympia delle Tofane course with Hoefl-Riesch, starting 21st, second at just 0.04s.
Another Austrian, Nicole Hosp -- who started 11th from the field -- finished third at 0.34. Goergl won the women's downhill at Altenmarkt, Austria earlier this month to claim her first victory of the season.
"What I am looking for every day is the way to ski the best," said Goergl after claiming the sixth World Cup win of her career. "That is the main focus and of course it is great when it pays off and you are the fastest."
With the Olympic Games two weeks away, Goergl's second victory in succession appears to have given her a boost before her trip to Sochi -- but statistics suggest otherwise.
On five previous occasions a women's super-G was held in Cortina a month before the Games but none of the five winners at the Italian Dolomites venue won Olympic gold in the discipline.
However a number of potential gold medal winners in Sochi were not far off the podium.
Liechtenstein's Tina Weirather finished fourth at 0.69, Anna Fenninger of Austria was fifth at 0.74 and last year's World Cup champion, Slovenian Tina Maze, was 0.92 off the pace in sixth. All four were late starters.
American Julia Mancuso, who started 18th, was almost a second off the pace in 0.98 although Swiss Lara Gut, the World Cup super-G leader, could only finish 19th and has seen Fenninger come to within three points of her series lead.
World Cup overall and downhill leader Hoefl-Riesch is a favourite for the downhill on Friday and welcomed her first super-G podium of the season.
"Today I finally managed not to make any big mistakes and I am really happy about this race," said the German, who is hoping to carry her form to the Olympics, where she is defending champion in the slalom and super-combined.
"The season has been going well for me, not perfect but really good. With the Olympics getting closer, I hope I will have enough of this consistency and mental strength entering the races there."
Hosp said: "I know I can be fast and for sure it's always nice when it works out and when you're standing on the podium. Maria and Lizz (Goergl) had both really good runs and I am not so far away. I am happy about it."
Two women's downhills are set to be held, on Friday and Saturday, while a second women's super-G is scheduled for Sunday.
Cortina d'Ampezzo was set to host a super-G and downhill last week but both races were cancelled and rescheduled due to heavy snowfall.
The Italian venue is also staging a downhill and a super-G that were originally scheduled at the German resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.


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AdamChandler (274) Enfield, New Hampshire | March 5, 2013
Nice dive bar, mediocre tap list, very friendly owner. Id make this my after work hangout if I lived here. the prices are really affordable.
vshollows (89) , England | April 3, 2016
Small semi-cellar bar made to look like an English Pub. They have fitted three 4 person booths in a very tight space. The owner and barman are both English. All the beers are Danish though, including 2 ciders made by the owner himself.
WildYouth (19) Barcelona, Spain | February 19, 2016
Small authentic bar, good selection of local beers on tap
Guruhso (28) Grindsted, Denmark | December 16, 2015
Small Cellar bar. Low ceiing and dark with some maritime impression. 12 taps of danish microbrews available. Service was customer-friendly and free taste samles was offered.
Bryne (559) Bryne, Norway | September 22, 2015
A small cellar bar with low ceiling and full of cigarette smoke. And, watch your head when entering, if youre not a Hobbit. Good selection of Danish craft beers on tap. Cant complain about beer and service, but its hard to enjoy the smell of fresh beer when everything smells of tobacco. (Visited September 18th 2015)
McWorta (151) , Luxembourg | August 2, 2015
Can be packed but a good place to get away from the general crowd. Good choice of beer, friendly staff which knew their stuff, yet prices are pretty steep as pretty much always in the city.
Scotty001 (124) Portlethen, Scotland | May 13, 2015
Small cellar bar, full of smoke and character. Good range of mainly local micro beers available.
sic1314 (476) Leiden, Netherlands | April 27, 2015
Dark and dingy cellar bar, full of character. Interesting tap selection. Could easily see myself as a regular here.
kerenmk (154) Tel Aviv, Israel | February 8, 2015
Visited 17.1.15. Small, basement-like place right in the city center, not far from the Taphouse. Informal atmosphere and good background music. Beers good, we managed to taste a bunch of stuff we didnt spot in other bars in town, despite the small selection. Well worth the visit.
StoutHead (50) , Denmark | February 5, 2015
Ive been there a couple of times and the atmosphere is pretty good. The selection of beer is okay for a "brown bar" (a place where smoking is allowed), but it doesnt compare favourably with any of the good beer bars is town - not at their as-high prices, and not being a smoker I dont see myself coming there other than very rarely. But still - it does have a nice atmosphere.
brnandersen (116) Copenhagen, Denmark | January 3, 2015
Visited a Saturday afternoon after some hefty shopping... A pint at Lord Nelson should be suitable to calm the nerves down a bit... Small basement bar in inner city Copenhagen with brown interior, low ceiling and lots of memorabilia around the bar. Including a large painting of the infamous Lord Nelson. Smoking is for some reason allowed this place, except for Mondays and Fridays before 22.00. No smoking while I was there - however, you can smell the smoke. Solely Danish microbrews on tap and a couple of their own ciders. Amager, Ugly Duck, Beer Here etc. Nice service from the barman, who offered samples. Offerings are also Whisky and speciality Rum. Tiny toilets with the worlds smallest sink... This is a nice, cosy place. However, since smoking is allowed and Copenhagen has so much else to offer (in terms of beers, that is) I will not be a regular customer. Other places offers a broader selection and a smoke-free environment.


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A winning Powerball ticket sold in Arizona
The rush to buy Powerball tickets for a chance to win the second-largest payout in U.S. history has produced two winning tickets, one in Arizona and one in the Kansas City, Mo., area.
The jackpot had increased to $579.9 million by the time of the drawing, making the cash option $379.8 million.
Powerball.com reported an additional 8,924,123 players won prizes totaling more than $131.5 million.
The numbers drawn Wednesday night are: 5, 16, 22, 23, 29 and Powerball of 6.
Arizona lottery officials said early Thursday morning they had no information on the winner or winners but would announce where the ticket was sold during a news conference scheduled for 10 a.m.
The jackpot hit came on the heels of 16 consecutive drawings that produced no top winner, boosting the Powerball to become the second-largest potential lottery payout in U.S. history.
Tickets were selling at an average of 130,000 a minute across the United States in the hours before the drawing, said Chuck Strutt, executive director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, which runs the Powerball game. That equates to players buying 7.8 million tickets an hour, spending $15.6 million an hour for a chance at the huge jackpot.
The huge sales volume, which was about six times the rate of the week before, prompted game officials to boost the jackpot twice in two days.
An estimated 90 percent of the tickets sold were quick picks in which the players allowed computers to pick the numbers, adding an extra element of randomness to the number choices.
There had been no Powerball winner since Oct. 6, and the jackpot was initially posted at $425 million, which was a record for the game. However, it was revised upward on Tuesday to $500 million when brisk sales increased the payout.
On Wednesday morning it was increased again to $550 million and revised once again prior to the drawing to $579.9 million. That was rapidly closing ground on the $656 million Mega Millions prize of March, the largest lottery jackpot in history.
"Sales have been so fast and so strong it's difficult to keep up with the estimates," said Mary Neubauer, spokeswoman for the Iowa Lottery, one of the founding Powerball states.
The estimated jackpot will be reset to $40 million.
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Two LDS missionaries heading home after family dies from CO poisoning
"The blessing of being a member of the church is that we know families can be together forever," Craig Parrish said. "Elder Parrish and Sister Parrish know that. They've been out teaching it as Mormon missionaries. They know their parents were sealed in the temple and that means they are sealed to their parents and their brothers forever. At the end of the day, it does make a difference."
A local LDS Church leader, stake President Scott Barfuss, said in a statement released Monday afternoon, "We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of the family members of two of the church's full-time missionaries. We extend our heartfelt sympathies to these missionaries and their entire family as they mourn this tragic loss."
Carbon monoxide, or CO, has been called "the silent killer" because humans cannot see, taste or smell it, the USFA warns. CO poisoning can be caused by faulty furnaces or other heating appliances, portable generators, water heaters, clothes dryers or cars left running in enclosed spaces.
Police are examining the natural gas appliances in the Parrish home to see if any malfunctioned, according to the AP.
Bill Parrish was a dentist on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Both he and Ross, who went by Cathi as a child, were alumni of Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho), BYU and Idaho State University.
CO poisoning claimed several lives and sickened large numbers of Americans in incidents over the weekend.
Twin 80-year-old brothers, William and Walter Schofield, died after working on a car together in an enclosed garage in Chehalis, Wash., on Sunday, according to KOMONews.com.
A restaurant manager died, one of his employees remained hospitalized and 26 others were treated and released after inhaling carbon monoxide at Walt Whitman Shops, a Long Island mall, on Saturday night, CNN reported. A leak was found in the flue pipe of a water heater.
Fire officials in Blount County, Tenn., found high levels of carbon monoxide in a home where a 58-year-old woman and her dog died on Saturday, according to KnoxNews.com.
A dozen people and a police officer trying to rescue them suffered CO poisoning in Arcadia, Wis., on Sunday afternoon. The group, which included seven adults and five children, was using a charcoal grill inside the house to keep warm, the Pioneer Press reported.
The USFA listed symptoms of CO poisoning as headache, nausea and drowsiness.
Precautions against CO poisoning can include the use of a CO alarm, regular clearing of vents and annual professional inspections of appliances. Cars should be removed from garages immediately after they are started. Grills should not be used inside homes for heating.
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