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Resolution: A firm decision to do or not do something.
Revolution: 1.) Completion also: the period made by the regular succession of a measure of time. 2.) Radical or complete change.
It is hard to believe it is already(the end of) June...half of 2012 is behind us and another six months ahead. That also means that Ladies Holiday has been live for six months...happy - half - first - birthday - baby - lady!
Last month I tackled Spring Cleaning...and yes I did clean. Top to bottom, bottom to top I wiped out the dust, cleared the clutter and even had a tag sale. The last item on my list was to wash all the windows in my house in and out and I just crossed it off. Hooray.
There are still a few more items I'd like to do, but they're beyond the scope of spring cleaning and more like chores: touch up paint, reorganize a few areas, that kind of thing. All in all I feel good about it.
Onto this month, for June my resolution to create revolution in my life is to keep my inboxes clear! Like many people (and bloggers!) I have more than one email...and suffice it to say they get cluttered up and bogged down by loads of emails: promotions, forwards, bill reminders, friends keeping in touch, birthday wishes, sales circulars, you get the picture because you know exactly what I mean. This may not be physical clutter in the same way the never ending pile on the edge of my counter is (you probably know this one too, forms from the kids' school, bills, reminders, the odd piece of string, a pair of pliers...I have no idea, but it never seems to go away) but it is clutter nonetheless.
I find that knowing I have this many items "to-do" awaiting my attention in my email folders, not that I even need to do anything about them, but that they're just there is a sort of energy drain. It is in the back of my mind and pulls at me. Maybe I'll open a few, respond, browse the piperlime sale and what do I know, twenty minutes has gone by when I should most certainly have been doing something else.
Don't get me wrong I enjoy my Internet idle time as much as the next person, but ideally I want to optimize the little time I have so I can actually do some good livin' --not frittering away life online or do some good workin' not getting lost in a link-hole of "if you like this book, you'll like this one." I could read book reviews for days, but since at the moment I don't get paid to do that, my solution is...drum roll...keep my email inbox clean and clear.
How? As emails come in, I will process them: read, reply and either place in an appropriate folder or delete.
- If the email is a forward, I am self-imposing a no-read policy. This may sound harsh and I know the forwarder is well meaning, but I just don't have the time or rather I do, but am heretofore choosing to spend it more efficiently...because I have to face the fact that the days are flying by.
- If it is an email from a store or company that I frequent and either someone in my family or myself needs something specific I may open the email, but if not...delete. I'm sure if I wait a day or an hour another one will follow.
- If the email is from a store/company I am not interested in I will unsubscribe from the mailing by finding the "unsubscribe" link- usually at the bottom of the email.
- If the email is a bill I will either pay immediately or if I'm not able those may have to hang out for a couple days.
By keeping my email inboxes relatively empty it is also my hope that this translates into less procrastination in my entire life. By being proactive in small ways I can show myself that I can be motivated and not put things off in other areas of my life.
*As a side note, Natalie, writer of one of my favorite blogs Nat the Fat Rat is always going on about the movie You've Got Mail. She even, in the most adorable of ways, reenacted a scene from the film. I saw it long ago and am a big softie for Tom Hanks and the lovely Ms. Ryan...So in addition to staying on top of my inbox and in honor of the aptly titled You've Got Mail another thing I want to do this month is rewatch the film...will keep you posted!
Living Clean and Clear,


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As subzero temperatures and gusty winds swept into central Ohio, Dublin City Schools and outdoor activities at Dublin's sledding hill and skating rink were closed Jan. 6 and 7.
The Dublin Police Department also took some additional steps, especially with increased presence on the roads.
"They're increasing patrols around the freeway areas," said Jodi Andes, a senior public-information officer for Dublin. "They didn't want to see anyone stranded and wait for too long. They're also keeping a more watchful eye on residents."
Usually, police don't pick up people they see walking, Andes said. But with dangerously low temperatures, police have given a few pedestrians courtesy rides.
"They'll be going an extra mile with residents since cold is such a concern," Andes said.
Trash and recycling pickup is on schedule.
No official warming station has been established, but people are invited to go to the recreation center if necessary.

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text: O'Reilly Network Articles and Weblogs: Erica Sadun The O'Reilly Network Articles and Weblogs Copyright O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://www.oreillynet.com/ 2008-05-30T23:10:44-08:00 O'Reilly Media, Inc. no O'Reilly Media, Inc. firstname.lastname@example.com iPhone Backups: Part 4 http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-4.html Embedding data, particularly text-based data back into an mdbackup file isn't just a matter of setting the value in the dictionary for the @"Data" key. Instead, you need to serialize your output. The code that follows demonstrates a simple way to serialize property lists into an mdbackup-compatible format Erica Sadun 2008-05-30T23:10:44-08:10 iPhone Backups: Part 3 http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-3.html Parts 1 and 2 of this mini-series introduced you to mdbackup files. When backing up your iPhone or iPod touch, iTunes stores files in mdbackup property lists. The name mdbackup comes from mobile device, the name of the private framework that's responsible for handling the iPhone backups. Today, you'll discover how to extract file data from the backups. Erica Sadun 2008-05-22T23:10:44-08:11 iPhone Backups Part 2 http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-2.html To back up an attached device, you must specify its target ID. This is the name used for the folder in the MobileSync/Backup directory. The target ID also appears in the Info.plist file. Issue the following command using the target ID for your device. Erica Sadun 2008-05-19T23:10:44-08:12 iPhone Backups: Part 1 http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/05/iphone-backups-part-1.html Whenever the iPhone backs up to your Mac, iTunes copies certain files to your computer. These include your settings files, from the preferences library, and databases, such as your calls, notes, bookmarks and so forth. Erica Sadun 2008-05-19T23:10:44-08:13 Using the Open SDK with 2.0 Firmware http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/05/using-the-open-sdk-with-20-fir.html A lot of people have been asking about using the existing open SDK for 2.0 application development. A few betas back, my answer was "Hey, no problem". But with the last two betas, I'm not quite so sure. We haven't seen pwnage compatibility since the third beta and there hasn't been a concerted effort that I've seen to upgrade the open headers to match late frameworks. (I know I haven't documented headers because of NDA concerns. That's probably goes for many other programmers.) Erica Sadun 2008-05-19T23:10:44-08:14 Thoughts on 1.1.4 programming http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/05/thoughts-on-114-programming.html Quite a few readers have asked me whether I intend to continue programming for 1.1.4 firmware. In a nutshell, the answer is "no". And here are my reasons why. Erica Sadun 2008-05-02T23:10:44-08:15 iPhone SDK4 debuts, Panda/P2 protocol goes MIA http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/04/iphone-sdk4-debuts-pandap2-pro.html As the new iPhone SDK hit the streets, I decided to take another look at those iPhone Panda protocols I wrote about just a month ago. To my slight surprise, the protocols disappeared from Apple's public iTunes listings. Erica Sadun 2008-04-24T23:10:44-08:16 Seven hours http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/04/seven-hours.html Seven hours. Go on and ask. I know you're dying to. What could possibly waste seven hours of time in a developer's life? Why downloading an SDK and installing new firmware! Needless to say, I'm in a particularly grumpy mood this morning. Erica Sadun 2008-04-24T23:10:44-08:17 Open iPhone: unsandboxing apps on pwned development iPhones http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/04/open-iphone-unsandboxing-apps.html So you pwned your 2.0 dev phone. Now what? You can use the open source toolchain to build a limited set of tools, primarily command-line ones or you can use your SDK to build real apps that you can run outside the sandbox. Here's how. Erica Sadun 2008-04-18T23:10:44-08:18 Just Enough Computing: Part 1 http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/04/just-enough-computing-part-1.html When it comes to portable computing, the iPhone works in that it gets the job done. Its screen is barely big enough to read comfortably. Its onscreen keyboard will never match up fully to the needs of a trained typist accustomed to physical data entry. It's a gadget made from compromise and limitations. But where it excels is in bridging the gap. If you're serious about reading ebooks, managing your calendar, watching videos, and performing other acts of portable computing, surely a laptop will better suit your needs. But the iPhone offers just enough computing to allow you to untether yourself from a normal laptop and strike out with the Internet in your pocket. Erica Sadun 2008-04-07T23:10:44-08:19 Open iPhone SDK: Adding Application Badges http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/04/open-iphone-sdk-adding-applica.html If you've used the iPhone or iPod touch for any time, you've likely seen the small red badges that appear over applications on the home screen. These might indicate the number of missed phone calls or unread emails that accumulated since the user last opened Phone or Mail. Erica Sadun 2008-03-24T23:10:44-08:20 TMI: Apple's AppStore Protocol Goes Live http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/03/tmi-apples-appstore-protocol-g.html At this time, Apple provides 5 AppStore calls to its new p2-panda service plus a call to legal terms and conditions. I'm swayed by Ryan Block's excellent insight that p2 probably stands for Purple 2, the iPhone's code name Erica Sadun 2008-03-24T23:10:44-08:21 Open iPhone SDK: Building a UIProgressBar http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/03/open-iphone-sdk-building-a-uip.html Progress bars allow end-users to anticipate wait times. They present bars that fill from left to right. These bars indicate the degree to which a task has finished. Progress bars work best for long waits where providing state feedback allows your users to retain the feel of control. Erica Sadun 2008-03-20T23:10:44-08:22 iPhone: Open SDK vs Closed SDK http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/03/iphone-open-sdk-vs-closed-sdk.html Hackers have been hard at work updating the open source iPhone SDK to work with Apple's newest unreleased firmware and here is what they have found: nearly everything that worked with earlier firmware continues to compile and work with the newer firmware. Erica Sadun 2008-03-20T23:10:44-08:23 iPhone developer program rejection notes http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/03/iphone-developer-program-rejec.html What happens when you offer free technical support and application distribution for only $99? An oversupply of iPhone developer wannabees and an undersupply of Apple developer support resources. Erica Sadun 2008-03-14T23:10:44-08:24


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In the classic 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia the American journalist Jackson Bentley asks Lawrence what he loves so much about the desert.
Lawrence answers: It's clean.
It's a good thing T.E. Lawrence died a long time ago, because he'd be absolutely horrified if he saw the condition of the Sinai desert today.
When I first visited the Sinai 30 years ago in December, 1980, I was awe-struck. I'd never been in a place that looked so stark and felt so empty, so unsullied by modern life. I remember looking at the Sinai's towering folds of jagged rock, the endless craggy peaks splashed with rust or slashes of black fault lines running for miles from the desert floor to peak and thinking: who needs Eden? This is purity. This is paradise.
Even more striking was the contrast with the seemingly endless array of tropical fish and coral just under the surface of the clean, clear waters running for hundreds of kilometres along the Sinai's eastern coast. You'd be swimming along in the water with fins and snorkel one moment, stop, look up, take off the mask, and be equally dumb-struck that such a barren landscape could be the backdrop to the completely foreign world teeming with life just below.
Not that it was complete wilderness back then, but aside from a few paved roads and some scattered coastal villages there was hardly any sign of human intrusion. What was to become the all-inclusive, charter-flight Eurotrashed hell hole sprawl of Sharm-el-Sheikh at the peninsula's southern tip was still a modest little town. I really wish it had stayed that way, because if you travel overland by bus for nine hours as we did from Cairo to Dahab, you will be astounded at how dirty and spoiled it is, both from afar and up close.
How can they have allowed one of the world's most beautiful expanses of coastline to be cluttered with faceless holiday villages, many of which stand empty as half-built ruins? The horror show starts about 15 minutes after you leave the tunnel under the Suez Canal and start heading south. You start seeing one ugly clump of concrete after another, and it goes on for miles and miles. On the northern end closest to Cairo the resorts look ready for business, but they look empty of guests. As you travel further south you see the more recent attempts at construction: columns and slabs of bare, grey cement with no sign of activity for miles, the site abandoned for who knows how long to the salt air and desert. Those piles of rubble that seem closer to completion but remain unfinished are often linked to the roadside by a crumbling entranceway, the road behind it to the resort lined with the stumps of palm trees left to dry out and die in the sun.
As you leave the last military checkpoint heading north out from Sharm-al-Sheikh toward Dahab 90 kilometres away, the visions of what the world might look like after the apocalypse get even worse if you dare to look up close. The sight as you slowly rise through a wide expanse of desert ringed by high mountains on either side should be awe-inspiring, and I'm sure it once was, but today it's sickening. How else to describe the feeling of seeing mounds of discarded plastic strewn about everywhere? It's like driving through a garbage dump, only instead of the garbage staying in one place, it's spread out for miles. Whipped about by constant winds, it's even creeping up the mountainsides to lodge in crannies hundreds of metres above the desert floor.
Once we were settled into our place in Dahab I could ignore it and really enjoyed the place, but as soon as you venture away from the coastal strip you're jarred back into reality.
This is the main street of Dahab running parallel to the tourist strip along the water:
This was a stone's throw from a beach where tourists were taking windsurfing lessons:
This is the coastline just north of Dahab:
This is the garbage dump / desert landscape along the highway running past Dahab:
I looked at the pile of empty plastic water bottles we'd accumulated in our week in Dahab and knew that because they obviously make no attempt to dispose of their waste properly, to say nothing of reusing or recycling, that our mere presence there was actually making the situation worse. I know that the cash we spent on our hotel rooms and daily restaurant visits helps support jobs in a country where unemployment is high, so that's a good thing, but how much more can the environment take? How much more garbage will have to lodge itself into the landscape before tourists are so turned off by the sight they'll stay away? I guess Sharm-al-Sheikh will always attract the last-minute crowd, the idiots who don't give a damn about anything beyond their immediate gratification and conspicuous consumption and never leave their tourist ghettos unless it's via air-conditioned bus to another pre-fab tourist ghetto …forgive me, I'm starting to rant here….
But if they really cared about the place, they'd do something about it. If they have enough money to build concrete ruins, if they have enough money for all the military installations littering Sharm-al-Sheikh, if they have the money to build, staff and maintain the array of military checkpoints you have to go through, then they have enough money to collect and properly dispose of waste. There's no excuse for it, I don't care if it is happening in a developing country like Egypt.


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Dr. Dave Camwell is a distinguished, versatile and dynamic performer. He has been a Yamaha Performing Artist since 2004, a Rico Artist since 2009, and currently serves as Associate Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies at Simpson College, Indianola, IA.
Camwell has received degrees from the University of Calgary (B.Mus, dual degree in Jazz Studies and Education, in collaboration with Jacksonville State University), the University of Northern Colorado (M.Mus, dual degree in Performance and Education), and the University of Oregon (D.M.A in Performance with a secondary emphasis in Jazz Studies).
Since 2008, Camwell has released three CDs on the Innova and Teal Creek labels - Aeterna (2008), Bach-Centric (2010), and the eponymous Oasis Quartet (2011). Each of these CDs has garnered considerable critical acclaim.
Camwell has over twenty publications available through Dorn Publications and the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press, and his transcriptions have been performed across the world. He also writes a regular column for Saxophone Journal and has recorded two CD Master Classes for the publication - John Anthony Lennon's Aeterna (March/April 2007) and Mozart's Dissonance Quartet (January/February 2010). The Mozart Dissonance project garnered Camwell Simpson College's Distinguished Faculty Research Award in May, 2010.
Current projects include performing and recording with the Oasis Quartet with James Romain, Nathan Nabb, and James Bunte.


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Romance – The Downton Factor: A Garden Designers Round Table Post
in the endlessly sunny,
summer holidays
a little boy aged 7 or 8
went on some trips
with his father who was 'something to do with' the Ministry of Agriculture.
They would pitch up at some pretty grand places. And there would be meetings with land agents from which little boys were exempt.
There was almost always no one there and so the boy would kick his heels and explore. A primitive camera kept some kind of rather blurred record!
Close to the houses all was usually manicured planterly detail
There would be the obligatory 'water feature' for sure. Though this one was truly a stonker.
The boy had an early introduction to the concept of the parterre.
This topiary was certainly worth a shot. Just a pity his sense of the vertical wasn't better!
Cedared lawns of exemplary softness
gave way to rough parkland studded with massive oak and beech trees. Of course crossing a bridge with rooms in it (wow, get that!) gave a real sense of journey.
Having the family mausoleum on the estate certainly made for a splendid focal point. Straighten that camera little boy!
There was always a very human story about the places, some well known, others less so.
The boy was often given a guide book to take away which explained it all.
And these visits and these stories, became part of the boy's story.
They were the start of my romance with gardens.
Well, you can tell gardeners are romantic souls at heart.
So with spring in the air why not seek inspiration from the rest of our round table colleagues.
And create your own little Garden of Eden this spring?
Grab the links below:
David Cristiani : The Desert Edge : Albuquerque, NM
Debbie Roberts : A Garden of Possibilities : Stamford, CT
Deborah Silver : Dirt Simple : Detroit, MI
Jocelyn Chilvers : The Art Garden : Denver, CO
Mary Gallagher Gray : Black Walnut Dispatch : Washington, D.C.
Category: Design Bites, General Gardening Stuff


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my teacher gave me this problems but i just can't figure out this one, please i really need to know this and if you can post Steps on how to do it will be awesome. Also i would rather see the procedure than a lot of explanation.
Given u=<3,4> w=<-2,2> and v=<-5,6> find the following:
u + v_____v - u_____4u - 3v_____||4u - 3v||
a unit vector in the direction of v
find the direction angle for -u
v*w (is v times w)
find the angle between v and w
show that the standard unit vectors i and j are orthogonal.
I know this long but i hope someone knows this answers, this is not homework to get points, I'm studying for a college test.
Subtract the corresponding x and y components:v - u_____
Multiply each vector by the corresponding scalar coefficient, and then subtract them:4u - 3v_____
Since we have , apply the equation to find the norm of the vector:||4u - 3v||
first findAlso:
a unit vector in the direction of v
Thus, the unit vector is
I'll get back to this one. Is the angle supposed to be measured with respect to the x axis? I want to say that the angle would be ...find the direction angle for -u
I'm assuming you mean find the dot product?v*w (is v times w)
When you take the dot product, you're left with a scalar value. You need to multiply the corresponding x and y components together and then add what you have left over:
The equation for finding the angle between two vectors is this :find the angle between v and w
To show that two vectors are orthogonal, you need show that the dot products of the two vectors is zero.show that the standard unit vectors i and j are orthogonal.
I hope this helps!


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Maybe I'm just doping out here, but I can't figure out how to get things like Yahoo Mail to show up with the number of unread messages badge like you have in the picture. Is there something required other than just creating an SSB for Yahoo Mail?
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