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Rocks In My Sandals
A chronicle of the ramblings of a California transplant to this mystical land known as Texas.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Reunion Tower
She made an unusual request in that she asked for Dianna and Nicole to join her in a nail painting, foot scrubbing event. A girls day out if you will, so they took her on a whirl-wind mani-pedi sojurn to their favorite Asian nail spa, Diamond Nails. There they wild away the hours having little Asian women poking and prodding their cuticles and toes......sounds devine.
As for me, we did our usual mixing it up with politics and the future of the developing world as we saw it. It was still early in the campaign and we were able to poke fun at just about everybody. Whenever she comes we always take in a movie or two. She rarely takes in a movie at home. Long story about her Ludite husband not wanting to be brain scanned at the door or something. Remind me to tell you about it sometime.
With Dianna, we saw "Hail, Caesar!" with George Clooney (surprisingly lame about some early Hollywood actors and the American Nazi movements the late 30s) and she enjoyed herself immensely. We joke with her about her very loud laugh when sex scenes come across the big screen. She has this propensity, at uncomfortable moments, when she will blurt out a loud one "Ha!" and a short staccato series of cackles which startle just about everybody in the place. You really have to hear it to get the full effect. She'll even do it while we're watching a show at home. It's amazing to watch and hear.
Hyatt Regency Dallas. Reunion Tower, also known locally as "The Orb," was completed in 1978, along with the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion, as part of an urban redevelopment project. Remodeling began in 2007 and it was reopened in 2009.
The tower consists of three floors with circular floor plans on top of four shafts of poured-in-place concrete. A central cylindrical shaft houses stairs and mechanical equipment. Three rectangular shafts, containing elevators, rise parallel to the central shaft. Each shaft's outfacing wall is made up of glass panels, affording views of the city during the 68-second elevator ride to the top.
Five Sixty on the tower's rotating top level on February 11, 2009. The name is a reference to the restaurant's elevation. The middle floor of the tower is used for special events managed by Wolfgang Puck Catering. The Cloud 9 Cafe is accessible from the observation deck, serving meals and snacks with a 360-degree view from behind glass but is only open on weekends.
At night, the globe at the top of the building is illuminated with 259 custom LED fixtures (would not want to change those light bulbs) and are controlled by various computer-generated patterns and colors coinciding with special events or holidays.
Not as much to do as I had hoped but a definite stop for Kennedy Assassination history buffs. The view of Dealey Plaza was the best part. You could see all the prominent features from the route down Houston onto Elm by the book Depository by the grassy knoll with the railroad tracks and picket fence to Stemmons Freeway. Pictures can't replace this view.
On the way back, my sister confided in me that she had not seen the new Star Wars movie and when she returned to her busy life back home, would probably not catch it before it left the theaters. Being the good brother I was (and without anything else to take her to) I busied by iPhone to determine when the next showing would be (great Fandango app) and got her there just in time to pick up popcorn a soda and a water.
I had a great time seeing her and wished we were closer in distance and not so far away. Since both our parents have been gone, the older I get, the more I wished I could connect with her.
Yeah, we call each other periodically, she more than I, but its so much better when I can see her and hear that piercing laugh when we talk politics or watch a movie. Makes me want to hop onto a Southwest and drop into John Wayne Airport to hang out with her a little while longer. Maybe I can make that happen too.
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Grandparent Week
|The Grandparents in happier times
Our darling daughter and son-in-law decided to travel to New York City to visit family and tour the sights. When planning their sojourn they advised us they would not be taking their son and asked us to watch our two year old grandson "for a couple of days". Closer to the departure date it turned out it was a full week and we would be watching their seven month old Lab as well.
|"buy Disney products...buy Disney products"
|Jax the wonder dog
The big day came and the daughter and son-in-law dropped off Jax the aforementioned crazed black Lab who, as it turns out, really hasn't been around many dogs and immediately went berserk with joy all over my two dogs. First day was going to be inside until we could get home and supervise them.
Once released, we squeezed him into the RSX, his car seat (yes...you can get a car seat into the backseat of a sports car) and zipped, as cool as we could, back home. Nay.. I did not bow to the video gods like his mother...nope, he was subject to the old school stereo and we sang Hip Hop and Country songs back and forth to school. He may be partial to Jay Z but really leans toward Lil Wayne.
|No...he got in there all by himself
|Nick two days after the assault
The result was a class-A black eye. Rest your minds, the kid was fine and just walked off giggling. The guys at work were giggling as well when I showed up. I had considered a Starbucks line-cutting confrontation but decided against it.....mostly because everybody knows how much I despise Starbucks....no one would have believed it anyway.
|Don't let that smile deceive you
For instance, I have the more gentler approach to bedtime. The Grandson will pull himself into my lap and lean back as we watch TV until he slips off to sleep. Oh, no...not Granma. There is a schedule to keep and when he starts rubbing his eyes, he's scooped up and put down into his bed with Panda Bear tucked in and it's lights out.
As an example, I, for one, am not a big fan of screaming babies. My reaction is well documented, I go in and comfort, wait until he's nodded off and then a slow descent to the crib and slink out of the room. Lately when I've tried that, I have received "the look", a piercing stare of the kind your mother (or wife) gave you when you were about to countermand an order she had just given you. You can see her rising up like the Queen in Snow White as she grows in size until she morfs into that fire breathing dragon. It can be ugly if left unchecked.
|Climbing Grandson
I find it amusing that when he has access to several hundred dollars of age appropriate toys, he is perfectly content with playing with empty cans of beer he finds on our walks. He can take a simple cardboard box and roll around in it for hours. His favorite pastime is to throw open the Tupperware drawer and pull out every piece and try to mate it to its top (which I can still not do....ever).
He loves Mac and Cheese, pizza (really..who doesn't) and he even likes salad...yes, green vegetables...and black Olives. What an amazing child. Clearly this recessive gene had slipped past my kids.
|Robert and his Uncle Bill
|New Dog Habitat
Although (and I will never admit this to anyone even under threat of torture) no matter how many times you have to say no or watch him cry when he's denied a toy or some daredevil antic, he always comes back and gives me a big hug and always makes me smile. We missed him as soon as he was gone.
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Sunday, November 1, 2015
Cruise Somemore
|Church and shrine of the namesake
|Phillipsburg Courthouse built 1793
According to Catholic Online (who knew?), Martin was born in 315 AD in Pannonia, Hungary under Roman rule, Martin was an early adopter of Catholicism when he was about 10 when the Roman's still considered it "the church of what's happening now". He was forced into military service at 15 but still celebrated his Christianity in secret. He became an officer and while assigned to France, showed his Christian values by cutting off half his officer's cloak in two with his sword and handing half to a freezing beggar he passed when he was 18. Unheard of behavior for a Roman soldier. This crystalized his faith and from that moment on he became a conscientious objector and was briefly imprisoned for his cowardice but was released from prison and eventually the army. He became an early Bishop and was made the Bishop of Tours, (Centre-Val de Loire region) France (well…back then, Gaul). He died at 80 around 395 AD and they celebrate him on November 11th when Columbus drove by St. Martin island in 1493.
By 1624, the French had established a colony to grow tobacco in the north and in 1631 the Dutch came in to produce salt in the south. They have squabbled over the island ever since and even the British came in for a time to muddy up the waters as well. By 1816 the British moved out and the island was split again with French St. Martin (note the spelling) gaining independence in 2007 and the Dutch in 2010.
So we arrive to find the temperature a sizzling 86 heading for 90 with 80% humidity. Our tour wasn't until 1 pm so we decided to get out early and check the shopping on Front Street. Typical Caribbean digs, lots of high priced shops with the same names, Diamonds International, Del Sol, hey there's was even a McDonalds just down from the port entrance. We made our way around and after some minor purchases (Dianna insisted on getting a little bottle of Mercurochrome….ya got me) our first meal on St. Maarten was….an Italian Sub at Subway. Ok…you can stop laughing now.
We putted around until our drive around the island tour began. Luckily the bus was air conditioned. Lord it was hot. The "See and Sea Island tour" was nothing to write home about (wait a minute....that's what I'm doing now) but did have some interesting points. The most interesting was on the French side of the island. We stopped for a shopping/eating stop in the French Capitol, Marigot. There we decided to try the national drink, a Guava berry Rum drink. It has Guava berry (grown locally), Coconut milk and local rum. At a little café called "Chez Coco" we tried the straight Guava Berry and rum first, though tasty, a bit harsh but the frozen Colada mix was really great and refreshing. I recommend it highly. Is anybody else noticing a trend in our vacation observations?
Some interesting factoids were that (surprise) St. Martin's one and only industry is tourism and everyone is somehow involved in that industry. We had arrived in their low season (hurricane season) and they were heading into high season December to June. The other was, contrary to Bermudas edicts, there are more cars than people (about 74,000) on the island and we got a taste of that on St. Martins windy roads. Our tour guide pointed out that there were several homes on St. Martin that had gold stars displayed on their exterior. A custom in the Caribbean, she said this denoted a home that was over 150 years old.
|That would be Jack
|Our ship on the left, the Disney boat (and all those screaming kids)
The Dutch moved in by 1657 establishing their capitol as Charlotte Amalie wife of King Christian V. The British rolled in around 1801 and took the island without a shot being fired. That lasted only a year when they gave it back to the Dutch (weird). Then they took it back in 1807 and hung around until 1815 when they gave it back to Denmark (those wacky British). The United States showed interest in the island during the Civil War but it never got any traction in Congress (probably preoccupied with financing the war) but came back around when the Danish government approached the US to purchase St.Thomas, St Croix and St. John which they did in 1917 (for $25 Million). Residents were made citizens in 1927 and they got territorial status in 1954. They got home rule in 1970.
The day started out well in that we got out early. The tour started at 10 so at the appointed time we made our way onto the pier to meet the guides. Unfortunately, the weather was hotter than we left at St., Maarten with double humidity. And, ironically, the more western, Americanized locale only had open busses to cart us around. Oh you can imagine my wife's excitement at that news. So we packed the busses which turned out to be modified F-350 pickups for the jaunt up the steep (I'm talking 8% grades in some places) windy roads to the top of St. Peter Mountain.
After jostling our weary bones for 30 minutes we were rewarded with a beautiful setting at the top. The St. Peter Great House and Botanical Gardens was kind of the highlight of our trip. Just over a thousand feet above sea level, it had majestic views of Magens Bay as well as a view of about five other islands looking toward St. Johns and points north and east. The 11 acre estate was once a plantation and home to a Virgin Islands Governor. There is a large tropical garden and even some exotic birds to check out. Very cool.
The best part was the sampling of various Caribbean finger foods and the sipping of 15 different flavored rums by Cruzan from near by St. Croix. The Company is family owned by the Nelthropp family since 1760 and produces some fine rums in 80 to 151 proof. It's pronounced "kru-zhun" which is what you do after having the 151 proof stuff. Wow!
The garden is steps down from the main house and has some pretty cool exotic birds and flowers. As soon as you make your way down, you're completely surrounded by thick jungle as though you've been transported to a different place.
The complete downside of the trip came when we arrived at San Juan Puerto Rico. First time in Puerto Rico, we did not opt to stay a couple of days (yes..I know we've been told about the beauty of Old San Juan) and had to make our way to the airport.
INS chose that day to be one of the worst debarkations we've ever experienced. There were like 10 lanes of cloistered crazy people, in an airless, humid, warehouse, trying to drag all of their luggage through Customs to get your passport scanned and a, "thanks for playing" grin from a Customs Agent I wasn't sure English was his first language (hey...we were supposed to be in America again). Don't get me started on the que on Calle Marina in the blazing sun waiting on a VERY disorganized transit crew trying to match luggage and people to their busses for the trip to Luis Muñoz Marin Airport for the luxury of flying 3 hours to Miami for another three hours to Dallas. The vacation was officially over!
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Saturday, October 24, 2015
11 days on a Cruise
Check-in was uneventful for one exception. During the rather droll question and answer period, Disneylandesque chicanes and the phalanx of ship photographers insisting on documenting your every cruise moment we all endure during one of these sojourns, one stood out. The lovely Toya leaned over her laptop and, lowering her voice, asked my wife if she thought she might be pregnant. Imagine our surprise at this 20-something asking my clearly 59ish wife if she might be with child. After all the questions about our health and if we had ever been around any human who may have coughed or sniffed in our direction. As it turns out, the cruise lines have a "Pregnancy Policy". Apparently one can only sail if they have been pregnant less than 24 weeks. The generic response is that they don't have the needed medical facilities to handle miscarriage or delivery. Ok….I can go with that.
It might also cause a little rift when it came to the child's nationality. There are no stedfast rules to go by but generally (thanks to GPS), the child's citizenship might be determined by location on the high seas. The child could be registered under the country flag the ship is registered to (Panama for the Dream), the proximity to either the port of departure or arrival (New Orleans, USA, Puerto Rico, US Territory), or the parents can weigh in under the legal concept of Jus Sanguinis (right of blood). No worries….that ship has sailed for us.
Weather Underground, looking a whole lot like Al Roker, scratching away with his charcoal tipped stick. Maybe there's a cave in the Carolinas somewhere chronicling the weather patterns of yore.
Due to the ebbs and flows of the atmosphere, the tropical oceans generate the most rain and, depending on the region, can cause between 115 and 197 inches (holy cow!) of rainfall per year (yes Tonia….about 1/3 of an inch per day). Of course, that moisture then gets carried back over land (well….except for California it seems) and falls collecting in rivers and streams which also flow back into the ocean (in various degrees of cleanliness) refilling it that way as well. The Amazon has the highest flow of 55, 211,960 gallons into the Atlantic….A SECOND! This re-circulation is referred to as Hadley Circulation and helps in driving global weather which generates the hurricanes, tropical storms and thunderstorms we watch on the Weather Channel and our weather apps. So as long as this continues (depending on your views on global warm……opps, sorry, climate change) we thankfully, won't run aground anytime soon.
Remarkably, after surveying the ships compliment, we determined there are few riders under 50 and lots older than that. There is a smattering of 20 and 30-somethings but they are so few as almost to be nonexistent….and absolutely no little kids except for one infant in a stroller I saw (Ok...turns out there were 78 kids aboard...who knew?). Thus the halls and decks are littered with walkers, wheel chairs and a collection of canes and crutches. The fun began when, during the safety briefing, when asked for a show of hands of how many needed special assistance in the case of a water emergency, like half the people there raised their hands. Hey…there's even a blind lady with a walker AND a service dog (a really cute yellow Lab). Well and to say there was also an older woman who had her little Bijon in a stroller too (seriously...you can't make this stuff up). I can't wait to see how this all plays out on the excursions when we get to land.
Another interesting factoid I learned while eavesdropping (I do a lot of that) is that now you can hire a male or female "host" to be your escort. A pioneering placement agency for speakers and entertainers works with the various cruise lines to hire "hosts" to be an escort to single older passengers for $30 dollars a day to dine and dance with. Officially, no hanky-panky allowed but really, who knows what transpires. They are treated as employees and can take advantage of any of the amenities and act as part of the entertainment staff. What a cool gig.
The formal dining room provide a better experience than the buffets in that there's a lot of personal service and a better selection to choose from. And seriously there is nothing more entertaining than a bunch of servers (clearly many have not had formal training) from various Asian countries trying to serenade us, singing a Dean Martin song with Italian lyrics.
Our first port was Nassau. Now Nassau has not changed much since our last trip except for the natives. Poor bastards now have to pay sales tax on everything they (and we) buy. Like most small countries, they had been able to get along on the tourist dollars to provide them with a cushion against inflation but, as one worker told us, "They tell us the tax was needed to offset the higher cost of Government but our paychecks never seem to go up." Welcome to our world Nassau.
I was always cognizant of the humidity in the Caribbean so when we book tours, they must have two criterion. They must have a good customer rating and they have to have air conditioned rides. Thus our Best of 10 stops tour. Our Tour Guide, Teko, was very informative but was somewhat distracted by a woman who plopped herself down in the front passenger seat and ran a running monologue of, "Hey…listen to all the cool things I've seen and I know this famous person and that famous person". So Teko had a hard time getting a word in edgewise.
The coolest part of the tour was a stop at the
The last cool thing we got to do was stop at Freddie-Gone-Bananas, a neat little restaurant on the "fish-fry" row of restaurants on Arawak Cay. There we got a great little culinary exhibition by their chef on the intricacies of shelling and cooking Conch. We were introduced to Conch in Key West and had no idea how important Conch was to the diet and economy of the Bahamas.
The entire Conch is utilized and nothing goes to waste. The shells are used to sell or made into jewelry, the whole Conch itself is edible but some parts are more palatable than others. Those not used for food are used as an excellent bait for other fish species in the area. The Conch is loaded with protein and, of course, in every third-world country, there are elements of it that are considered aphrodisiacs. Particularly the "pistol" a wiggly little appendage that both male and female Conch possess. Our tour guide explained it is Bahamian Viagra and guarantees a night of magic. Well…except for Marine Biologists who believe Pistols are used to aid digestion in the little Conch but who wants to rain on that parade.
What we (I) really took away from that session was the incredible Banana Rum drink they made. Obviously Rum is mixed with banana syrup and blended with fresh banana almost to the consistency of baby food you were able to suck through a straw. When I get to that assisted care living place (the one my daughter threatens to pick for me), that will be the soft food of choice I want.
I want to applaud Nassau on their health care system as well. There are two hospitals on the island, Doctors Hospital which is private and the Princess Margaret Hospital which is public. Because of the tourist money, anyone can check in to Princess Margaret for a $10 dollar co-pay. After being diagnosed it's sliding scale costs and free prescription medications. Its' like $20 bucks for an x-ray and all insurance is accepted. Pretty cool.
There are those "days at sea" listed on the daily schedules. I've often overheard how many feel days at sea are a little discomforting. They need to be busy or on shore doing some activity or other. I kind of like those days just chugging through the ocean on the way to somewhere else. Seated on our veranda looking out over the gently rolling waves is rather calming and at the same time foreboding. A view some might call beautiful is, after all, a vast steppe if you will. Someone remarked "beautiful, beautiful, magnificent desolation" (Buzz Aldrin, 1969).
Bermuda is the result of a volcanic caldera which gave it it's shape as a kind of fish hook with the high points of the caldera making up the land mass. It is small…about 26 square miles with about 64 miles of beaches some, on the south shores, appear pink as the result of the pink coral shavings from tidal surges mixing with the white sand giving a pink hue. Very cool.
Restless Native were native Bermudians. He told us the island is rather secluded from the normal Caribbean style of island and rather exclusive. As you can imagine, it's kind of expensive to live here. But the average income is around $100,000 and the typical home is worth $1.5 million. We were surprised to hear tourism was only 10% of their GDP. They don't make anything here except money. The most prevalent businesses here are (of course) banking and reinsurance. Yeah, I didn't get that either.
Dark and Stormy rum drinks were awesome. A Bermuda national drink, Rum Swizzle a mixture of local Gosling's Black Seal Rum, pineapple, orange juice and their Ginger Beer, are quite refreshing and worth a try. The Ginger Beer adds a little effervescence and just a hint of spice as it hits the back of your throat. Really tasty.
The next day came bright and cool and another full day on the beach I like to refer to as the "shopping day". We woke late (cause we were pooped out from yesterdays snorkel adventure and drinking binge) which made debarking easy because everybody with an excursion had already left. So we took the shuttle around the Naval Dockyard and wandered the shops looking for……stuff. Hanging, knick-knack, skin refreshing, cute, grandson wearing stuff. We did four hours and about a hundred dollars an hour all told.
The surrounding buildings we walked through were all built around 1860 to 1867 as the British established a Naval way-station for their Navy and ships headed for the Americas. There's a prison from which the British got their labor force with an equal number of slaves to develop their base and a Vituallary (yes Doug..that's where the word Vittles comes from) where food and supplies were prepared and warehoused for resupplying ships passing through . It was the staging area for the Naval Blockade of America during the War of 1812 and was where the troops who attacked and burned the White House in 1814 departed from, the first of the only two times America was invaded by foreign troops (correct Frank….the Japanese hit the Aleutian Islands on June 6th, 1942 landing on Kiska Island).
Although used continuously from 1795 to 1995 it's focus changed as on-board refrigeration and food preservatives became more common but the base was very busy during World War II as a radio relay station for convoys and stop overs for Naval Warships looking for U-Boats. The British military finally moved out of Bermuda in 1958 turning over most of the Crown's property to the local government. Parts of the base were still occupied by elements of the Canadian Navy and US military until 1995.
Buildings in the Dockyard are typical of most dwellings in Bermuda where water is still a precious commodity. All have wide slightly pitched whitewashed roofs (limestone slate in the older homes) which, by law, must recover all run off to a central tank or cistern for purification and home use. There are some wells and they can be used for everything except drinking. The government does collect water as well and supplements the home collected water. Their entire water supply is completely dependent on the amount of rain they get. And….get this America…you're only allowed one (that's ONE) automobile per household. On an 26 square mile island with 65,000 people on it. It's probably prudent.
Buildings ride out hurricanes and storms well in that most are constructed of the islands natural coral limestone which is quarried around the islands. Their inner wood construction for many early homes is the Bermuda Cedar tree. When early settlers came to Bermuda, it was covered with Bermuda Cedar. They harvested the wood for all types of construction from shipbuilding to furniture making and by 1627, they had practically deforested the islands causing the local government to restrict the use of the wood to shipbuilding. Luckily, by the 1850s, shipbuilding moved to iron and steel so the forests slowly recovered to where, although it is still scarce and expensive, the wood is still used in high-end interior woodwork and furnishings. Because of that, it's very strong aroma in a home is often associated with wealth.
Before we got back to the ship (before our money ran out), we (I) got hungry and we stopped at the Dockyard Pastry Shop for lunch. Dianna had the Avocado sandwich and I had the Vegetable Panini. Both extra good with lots of fresh Avocado in Dianna's sandwich. Dessert was a chocolate "Pyramid Tart" with two different chocolate mousse layers and a chocolate cake roof. Soooo good! Two thumbs up if you don't mind the upscale cost (hey…everything in this burg is expensive) they all claim it's the import costs of everything. It will definitely set you back some.
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Newbie Island This forum is for Forex beginners. If you are new to the Forex and have a question, this is the best place to ask it.
Newbie Island This forum is for Forex beginners. If you are new to the Forex and have a question, this is the best place to ask it.
You need to come up with your own trading system and rules and live by it. This means you have to backtest your trading system using demo account and not rely on other people's numbers. Remember - its your money.
much of newcomers failed in their earliest stage because they lose so much money, and lost faith in forex trading.
first thing to do is to study either fundamental or technical step by step and enjoy what you're doing. at least that's what ah'm doing for this past year.
i used virtual money, and treated it like the real one. it's funny when i felt depressed when i lost the virtual.
also remember to note every single trade you make.
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Practice trading. Software isn't going to much help.
Trading is not easy.
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You've already seen how you can search and filter in a view on the fly, but there is also a use for a filter that persists, a view that will last that you can switch back and forth to and from. So we need to know how to change View settings in Outlook 2010 to create filter views. If I go to the Home tab and choose one of these Filters, for example, Unread messages, this is temporary. It only appears as long as the Search tools are open. As soon as I close this search, I'm not filtering anymore.
And it's really inconvenient to have the search tab in front of you all the time. I'd like to create a view that would let me look for specific items; for example, all the e-mail from people in my company or all of the e-mail that comes from people in my workgroup, all of the e-mail that comes from a particular client's e-mail domain. And to create those kinds of filters, I actually need not to use filter e-mail here, but to go to the View tab and choose View Settings. The Advanced View Settings for any view include the columns, which we can add using the Add Columns button, then rearrange using drag and drop; grouping, which is either automatic, based on settings that I've created, or I can include grouping; sorting, which I can do by click in the column headings, and then two other items we want to pay particular attention to: Filtering and Conditional Formatting.
Even though I create a filter on the fly, that filter does not touch my view. So I'm going to click Filter and show you how to create a filter. If, for example, I wanted to filter and only show items that had OilFest or upcoming festival in the subject field, I would simply type OilFest and choose In subject field only. If, on the other hand, I was willing to look for any e-mail message that mentioned OilFest anywhere, even "how our plans coming for OilFest," or "are we having an OilFest again this year," then I could say go ahead and look in the subject field or the message body.
And finally, I can say, look in the frequently used text fields. And that includes the To, Cc, From, Subject, and Body - all of the frequently used fields, so that I could put a name in, for example, Tom, and if Tom showed up as a recipient, as someone who is copied on a message, or in the subject or had a signature in the body, I would find it. So one of the choices is to enter in some text. Another choice is to say it's from a particular person, who I'd choose from my address book or sent to a particular person, who I would also choose from my address book.
I can also say I only want messages where they're sent only to me, or they're sent to me and to others, or messages that I'm only copied on. If any of those will do, simply don't click this check box. These are the initial primary filter choices, but there are even more. I could look for only items that were unread, or items that were read. I can look for items that have or do not have attachments, and you'll notice these are the same sorts of choices that were available to us when we chose Filter off the Home tab.
I can choose items based on importance. In the Home tab I can choose, for example, High Importance, but here I could choose Low Importance. Only items which have been flagged. Only items of a particular Size. Then I have even more advanced filters. So this is where I could add a filter that said, for example, that there was a particular importance, or that it was sent in a particular timeframe. So I could say sent yesterday, or sent in the last 7 days. When you choose my advanced criteria here, after you set them, you click to add them to the list, and this means then that they're available for use as a filter.
So I have a lot of choices that I can put in place for a filter. I'm going to remove this, and I'm simply going to filter on OilFest being In the subject field, and say OK. So I'm going to apply this filter, and you'll notice that this filter returns one item: Arthur Lot's message of last week. I'm going to return to the View Settings to open the Advanced View Settings dialog box, return to the filter, and I'm going to Clear All the filters. And when I do, it clears every filter on every single tab. And say OK.
Say OK again, and you'll notice now there is no filter applied, and all my messages come back. There is another feature that I can use to help messages stand out. Filtering removes all the messages that don't meet a particular condition. In that case, the condition being that OilFest was in the subject. I could choose, instead of hiding the messages that don't meet a condition, to format the messages that do. In prior versions of Microsoft Outlook, there was actually an organize with colors feature that allowed me to easily say, messages from this person should be green, messages from this person should be blue, and so on.
In Outlook 2010, all of those organized by color features are in conditional formatting here in the Advanced View Settings dialog box, and we find by clicking in the View Settings button on the View tab. I'm going to choose Conditional Formatting, and you'll note that a lot of conditional formatting is automatically applied. For example, unread messages are bold. Headers for unread groups of messages are bold. Items that have been submitted but not sent, in other words they're hanging around in your outbox on their way, are italicized.
Expired e-mail has a line through it. E-mail you flagged, but have not yet completed. Overdue e-mail is red. And messages displayed from other folders, for example, when you have show as conversations turned on, will be italicized and gray. Now, you could add additional conditional formatting options if you wish, simply by click in the Add button. You'll need to type a name for your rule, so I'm going to simply say that this is OilFest Messages. This is the format; here's the condition.
So I'm going to set a condition, and you'll notice the same Filter dialog box opens that opened when we chose Filter here in the Advanced Formatting dialog box. I'm going to say that if the word "OilFest" appears in the subject field - there is my condition - that I want to format this. And I have a number of different choices, but using a Color is usually a good way to do it. In green and bold, here is an example, of my text. So any message that has to do with this OilFest project that Olivia is in charge of will stand out because it'll be green and bold.
Let's go ahead and say OK, and say OK again, and say OK a third time. But when I go back, I'll click, and I'll find that I have one message that has conditional formatting applied to it. Again, this is the same as organize in color was in Outlook 2007 and earlier versions. If I want to save this view again - remember that it was last saved before I'd applied this conditional formatting - then what we'll do is we'll go and we'll save the current view as a new view, actually we'll call this new view OilFest, and use it All Mail and Post Folders.
So if I want to change the settings that I have for filtering, and have them persist, or use conditional formatting as an alternative to filtering, I'll find both of those features on the View tab by clicking View Settings in Current View.
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After closing the season with a sweep of Maryville Truman State earned a No. 3 seed in the GLVC Conference Tournament and will play No. 6 Lewis on Friday at noon.
The Bulldogs finished the 2014 regular season with a 40-9 record.
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Texas Tech "will not even respond" to a counter offer from agents for football coach Mike Leach sent last week as both sides remain far apart on how much the university and coach would have to pay if either terminates employment.
The university has given Leach a Tuesday deadline to sign its extension offer of $12.7 million over five years. If Leach does not sign the offer, he will remain under his current contract, which has two years left.
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EPA Chief: Global Warming Is Racist
The nice thing about living inside an ideological bubble like our liberal ruling class is that nothing you say has to pass the laugh test — at least, not until it gets out of the bubble. Then the guffaws begin — as when EPA commissar Gina McCarthy proclaimed that pulling the government garrote still tighter around the economy's neck is justified because global warming is racist:
The lies are so cartoonishly preposterous, we would be playing into envirocommunists' hands by taking them seriously enough to debunk them.
McCarthy's plan to strike at imaginary racism is alarming. She will use her frighteningly powerful agency to fight fictitious global warming at its "biggest source": power plants.
If you like the way the lights come on when you flip the switch, you are a racist. Big Government will put you in your place.
Regarding the Hip Hop Caucus that she is addressing above,
Administrator Gina McCarthy attended an event Thursday at Clark Atlanta University hosted by the Hip Hop Caucus, a non-profit 501 (c)(4) group that "promotes political activism," as reported at the Huffington Post. Some of the issues on which they focus are gun control, voting rights and climate change.
A few points to take away from that paragraph: 1) our rulers pander to the sector of society that produces repugnant sociopaths like Ice T, Ice Cube, Snoop Diggidity Doggie-Do, et al.; 2) explicitly political radical left groups, unlike Tea Party groups and groups intended to secure the integrity of elections, are not expected by the IRS to pay taxes; and 3) not only "climate change" but also voter fraud and the denial of our Second Amendment rights are getting yoked to the trusty mule of fabricated racism. Anyone who refuses to pretend to believe in the increasingly farcical global warming hoax, or who defends the right to bear arms, or who complains about rampant voter fraud will soon be subject to the Donald Sterling treatment.
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Independence Day at Happy Meadows by M.F.A. playwright Laura King is a quirky comedy about a band of elderly women who plan to break out of their nursing home ala The Great Escape has been developed at Hollins in collaboration with the great Bob Moss and been showcased as part of the Discovery Reading Series and last year's Playwright's Festival. It was written specifically for community theatre audiences and we are proud to partner with our own local community theatre, Showtimers, for this world premiere of the final draft of the play. Showtimers Community Theatre (http://www.showtimers.org/index.html) 2067 McVitty Rd., S.W., Roanoke, VA 24018, June 18-29 at 8 p.m. Advance tickets available at 540-774-2660 as well as sales at the door for each performance.
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The Greeley Stampede has been the victim of some bad luck and a bad economy, but community support may just be the key to preserving the event.
Despite its recent financial and image problems, we do believe the Stampede is important to Greeley, and is on the right track to mend some of the fences damaged throughout the years.
The Stampede is in debt and has used all its reserves. The event has lost money for several years and hasn't been able to regain its footing.
The Stampede's struggles go beyond finances. The event has an image problem that might be even more difficult to address.
We appreciate the changes the Stampede Committee is making in order to save this important event. We also recognize they have been slow in coming.
For example, some night concerts at the Stampede have been money-losing ventures for years. Big name acts, like last year's headliner Keith Urban, have, at worst, cost the event thousands of dollars, or at best, have broken even. Part of the problem is booking acts for such events has become a competitive business, one that the volunteers who run the Stampede didn't necessarily have experience with.
Still, it took until this year for the committee to hire a professional company to book and manage the concerts and scale back the caliber of performers to something more reasonable and affordable.
Another issue the Stampede has ignored for many years is the lack of events that would appeal to Greeley's large Latino population. That means more than 40 percent of our population has been somewhat disenfranchised from the event " a serious error, both financially and image-wise for the Stampede.
There have also been problems beyond management's control. The Stampede has suffered the effects of a struggling economy. Rain last year cost the event dearly on July 4, but there has also been a lack of planning and a rainy day fund to weather some of these storms.
We don't want to be too hard on this hardworking group of volunteers. The men and women who serve on the Stampede Committee and the other many volunteers who make this event possible, spend hundreds of hours planning for, executing and cleaning up this huge event. Without them, there would be no Stampede.
We also want to commend the efforts of Bill Ogg, who was hired in 2009 as the event's executive director. We do think Ogg deserves some credit for bringing the Stampede Committee down to earth and facing the realities that have caused the decline of the event. His honesty and good management skills have brought about some of the necessary changes we are seeing now.
Current committee members are making a sincere effort to not only save the event, but to reconnect with the Greeley community, including Latino residents, to provide an event that is affordable, entertaining and includes the kinds of activities residents really want. They have also put a halt to some of the activities one former member said gave the committee a "party" image.
Now, it's time for the rest of us to step in. If the Stampede is important to our community, then we must support it. If residents want the Stampede to survive another 89 years, then they should attend the concerts, ride the carnival rides, eat the midway food and enjoy some of the best rodeo competitions in the nation. Greeley residents need to vote with their dollars.
The Stampede is still a great value for the entertainment. It still offers a variety of events and activities that appeal to families. It still is important to this community.
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The 27-year-old former High School Musical star wrote earlier that day that she would dedicate the show in "honor" of her father, Greg, who died Saturday.
"I am so sad to say that last night my daddy, Greg passed away from stage 4 cancer," Hudgens wrote when announcing his death. "Thank you to everyone who kept him in your prayers."
The tragedy put a sharp edge on what was to be an joyous night.
Hudgens joined a star-studded cast – including Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit and Carly Rae Jepsen – for the live musical event.
While Hough may have had the leading role, it was Hudgens who drew the most praise on Twitter, especially after people learned that she was performing after losing her father.
The praise really started pouring in after Hudgens gave a flawless performance of "There Are Worse Things I Could Do."
CHILLS. @VanessaHudgens #GreaseLive— Emma Gray (@emmaladyrose) February 1, 2016
Let's give it up for @VanessaHudgens who is performing under unimaginable circumstances, and doing it brilliantly. #GreaseLive— Robbie Rozelle (@divarobbie) February 1, 2016
I will never underestimate Vanessa Hudgens again. #GreaseLive— Michael Ausiello (@MichaelAusiello) February 1, 2016
Vanessa Hudgens, right there, trying not to cry. The most emotional, most sincere part of #GreaseLive.— Marc Bernardin (@marcbernardin) February 1, 2016
Imagine you had Vanessa Hudgens' day, and doing that.— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) February 1, 2016
What a superhero.
In total awe.
"I definitely watched [Grease] growing up. I feel like it always a part of my life," she told Jimmy Kimmel last week, of preparing for the show.
"I mean, she's such an amazing part," Hudgens said of Rizzo, after admitting that she'd envisioned herself more as a Sandy. "Now that I'm older, I'm like, oh my God. She's tough. She's got grit."
Ahead of the show, Hudgens also told PEOPLE about how much the original movie meant to her childhood.
"From the first time I saw it, I kind of just remember it being a part of my childhood," she said. "I always knew all the songs. It's just one of those musicals that you never get sick of because it's so much fun. It feels like a big party and you get to be a part of it. when I got the call saying that they were interested in me as Rizzo I said, really? Because I've always thought of myself as Sandy and the more that I thought over it, the more that I realized that this was an awesome opportunity to play a character that I've never played before she's so strong and such an amazing woman figure in musical theater history."
The show ended on a poignant note, dedicated the show to Hudgens' father.


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The Systemic Constellations Association of South Africa enables people who have all the necessary requirements for a training portfolio to register with the website as a Family Constellations Facilitator. We accept registration from various streams of training and institutes in South Africa. The intention of the website is to create a platform for facilitators in South Africa that have been trained by international standard and thereby maintain a recognised quality standard in the field. We were aware of a number of people offering family constellations after attending workshops or short courses on family constellations, and these people do not qualify to appear on this website or become members of the association.
Based on the work of Bert Hellinger and his students, Family and Systemic Constellations offer a unique tool for making the trans-generational relationships that shape families and organizations visible.
Facilitators listed on this website have completed an extensive training in Family Constellations and have agreed to abide by an ethical code. Their training included:
- Entry requirements of an existing professional qualification
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SCASA is a non-profit organisation managed by volunteers. The board represents a group of facilitators who are passionate about constellation work and promote ethical use of this powerful modality by setting minimum standards for practitioners in the field. Current board members are Tanja Meyburgh (chairperson), Janet Goldblatt, Karin Huyssen, Jackeline Plank and Gail Wrogemann.


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Can you think of a better way to spend a winter Arizona afternoon than by taking a leisurely stroll through a park? It sounds picturesque enough, but there sure is one way to top it -- if the park is bustling with festival activities and if it's an official pit stop of the Olympic torch en route to the opening of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Quite a rare occasion indeed. So perhaps we should feel fortunate that not one but two Valley parks will soon be transformed into recreation destinations when they fill with people anxious to see volunteer Valley athletes bearing the Olympic flame. The feisty fireball will pass through the hands of 11,500 torchbearers in 125 cities over 65 days before it reaches the games in Utah on February 8. Whew!
After stopping in Tucson on the morning of Sunday, January 13, the flame will speed up I-10 via motor caravan, then flicker its way through Tempe to its first local stop at the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall. A 5:30 p.m. ceremony for the runners will be the high point of Sunday A'Fair, an afternoon chock-full of events sponsored by the Scottsdale Center for the Arts and Arizona Public Service Company.
Starting at noon, visitors will be able to take in a variety of performances that will prime the crowd for the impending appearance of the torchbearers. First off will be the Phoenix Chinese Art Ensemble, whose energetic, colorful show features traditional dance and instruments. Next up at 1:30 p.m. will be the Sankofa group, with masked dancers gyrating to the beats of West African drums. Later in the afternoon, at 3 p.m., folklorico dances will be performed by the Scottsdale International Club's youth dance troupe. Finally, the Swingtips will take the stage at 3:45 p.m., playing American swing music all the way through the countdown to the arrival of the Olympic torch.
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Mary Marjorie Blatzheim, 89, of Amarillo, died Sunday, Feb. 4, 2001.
Vigil services will be at 6:30 p.m. today in St. Thomas The Apostle Catholic Church. Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the church with Monsignor Joseph Tash, pastor, as celebrant. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, 2820 Virginia Circle.
Mrs. Blatzheim was born in Forsythe, Mont., and moved to Amarillo in 1942. A homemaker, she was docent of the Art Society, the Altar Society, Order of Martha and St. Thomas The Apostle Catholic Church.
She married Donald C. Blatzheim in 1935 at St. Paul, Minn. He died in 1994.
Survivors include two sons, Donald C. Blatzheim Jr., of San Antonio and James J. Blatzheim of Amarillo; a brother, James Rey of San Bernardino, Calif.; two sisters, Dorothy Lavacot of La Habra, Calif., and Helen Bisanz of Naples, Fla.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
The family will be at 3918 Barclay and suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice and Life Enrichment Center, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176-0001; Crown of Texas Hospice, 1000 S. Jefferson St., Amarillo, TX 79101; or a favorite charity.
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Everything you are talking about is definitely possible. You would simulate the match and present the stats of the teams/players and update them as events occur in the match. Simulating the events is the most important thing you will have to deal with in a game like this. It has to be accurate but at the same time have enough randomness that its not always the same thing happening. The other two things you mention are very straight forward to implement.
In terms of going forward with this you have few things you need to do. One side is the research, analysis and mathematical side of things. This is for developing the way events are simulated in the game. This can be done on paper or in something like excel as said earlier because its just a lot of numbers. The other side is to actually start learning to program.


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Study: VA falls short on women's medical issues
SAN FRANCISCO -- Already pilloried for long wait times for medical appointments, the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs has fallen short of another commitment: to attend to the needs of the rising ranks of female veterans.
Even the head of the VA's office of women's health acknowledges that persistent shortcomings remain in caring for female vets.
According to an Associated Press review of VA internal documents, inspector general reports and interviews:
- Nationwide, nearly one in four VA hospitals does not have a full-time gynecologist on staff. And about 140 of the 920 community-based clinics serving rural areas do not have a designated women's health provider, despite the goal that every clinic have one.
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