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Weekend of March 30th - April 1st, 2012 - What are your plans?
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Tomorrow I will meet a lot of people from 'my' forum (= Dutch forum about fantasy books). We usually talk a lot, walk around, check out all the bookshops that we can find (standing in front of the fantasy shelves for hours, discussing ALL the books we can see, while smiling innocently at the people staring at us :-) ), talk some more, and have dinner together.
I have no special plans for sunday.
Ennas, that sounds like a lot of fun.
Dinner with a friend tonight, and we'll be planning a Whale Watching trip for later this spring. Tomorrow, breakfast with younger niece, and then her big sister will join us and we'll work on making more sense of my garage and other household "chores". I love those girls.
Sunday, I think I'll be resting. And reading, of course. Just started a huge book on Ben Franklin.
Sunday evening I'll be glued to the TV watching the first episode of season 2 : Game of Thrones!
Today I have a meeting. Sigh. Already getting ready for elections in August!
And I HAVE to work on Taxes. Double sigh.
A friend is coming up to London for the day on Saturday, so we're going to have lunch and then walk around the city looking for the giant Easter Eggs that have been placed in various public locations. THe ones I've seen already are very cool and beautifully decorated, so I'm looking forward to finding more. (They are sculptures made of fibreglass, not chocolate!)
Sunday is Palm Sunday so we have morning service that begins with a procession from the local shops to the church (about 1/2 mile), and also an evening service. We're a bit under-rehearsed for the latter, so fingers crossed!
Fertilize yard (boo!), weed the beds (boo!), edge the beds (boo!), work on taxes (boo!), edit some chapters (yeah!).
I wish I had more 'yeahs!' lined up for me...
Chocolate, Steam Engines and maybe beer... Yes although it's not Easter yet, it is time for the World famous, International Choclate Festival. Held in .... Ramsbottom. Of all places. It's a small suburb in north manchester for any of our World and International visitors who might possibly (how could they?) not have heard of it. Mixed mode transport to get to it - bus to the tram station, tram to the train stationa and Steam Train to the festival. ALl it needs is a boat to be perfect.
We went last year and were plesantly surprised hence the return this year. Plenty of 'grown-ups' chcoclate - posh truffles with exotic fillings, and also single estate chocolates at high 80%+ cocoa. These do taste very different from each other and miles apart from the blended normal dark chocolate you can buy in supermarkets. I'm hoping the beer tent will stock a variety of choclate ales, but I'll have to wait and see. Last year it was too suny and many of the chcocolates were melting. Thi year the forecast is for normal british weather - overcast and slightly chilly, so it won't be a such a problem.
On Saturday I'm getting a hair cut, hooray! It has been driving me nuts.
Other than that, I have no appointments or places to go. I will get in some exercise, do some spring garden clean-up, read some books, catalogue (not properly - just a list for eventual sale) some comics, do a bit of badly-needed housecleaning, potter with my grow-op (I have seedlings!), etc.
Oh, and taxes (echo rtkaelin's boo!).
Busy weekend for me:
Saturday morning we have a 'clean up day' at our church. The flower beds need weeding, and there are plenty of limbs and other items around that need to be picked up. Also, the 'handy' men will be doing whatever needs to be done with the plumbing, etc. Next week we'll be having revival services, and we want everything to look spiffy!
Saturday afternoon I'll probably do some yard work if I have any energy left: our vegetable garden has not yet been tilled and there are weeds in a lot of my flower beds. I also STILL have my taxes sitting there...can you tell I just don't want to do them?
And I hope to do some reading, too. :)
Sunday is our usual day of church in the am, chores and/or rest (READING!) in the afternoon, followed by our pm service.
It'll be busy, for sure!
I'm hoping for a quiet weekend to get some things done around the house. Saturday night is the last moonlight ski of the season, things are thawing, but there is still lots of snow in the forest. It will still be light when we start at the usual time of 7:30, but will be dark before we finish up around the fire. I'm not sure how many we will get out, as I know a few of the regulars won't be there. I'll have fun anyway, I love spring skiing, and I know that there are only a few weeks left now to ski.
Working, as usual. My first (this time around) night shift is Sunday and Monday. I am feeling like a slug lately. Don't know whether it's the weather or getting into this new sleep pattern. Probably both.
I had my weekend the last two days. Yesterday was my "night out" with my friend, only neither of us felt like driving or going to any of the movies in theaters right now. She came to my house bringing fantastic pork burritos, I made fantastic margaritas and we watched Benny and Joon. It was a lovely, comfy visit.
Puttering around tomorrow, starting on the post-winter (what there was of it) yard work...and on Sunday, going in to town to hear the Handel and Haydn Society's performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, which is going to be amazing, if the audio clip on their website is any indication. http://www.handelandhaydn.org/concerts/2011-2012/bach-st-matthew-passion
Still working on taxes. Still job searching. What I thought would be a good fit for me last week turned out to be the wrong thing, altogether. I probably shouldn't complain too much while my husband has a steady job. In the mean time, working out at the gym, and biking to the farmer's market on Sunday.
We're supposed to have a drippy, dreary Saturday so I think I'll be at home for most of tomorrow. But it is supposed to be sunny for Palm Sunday where we'll be in church in the morning and then hopefully make a trip out to the local arboretum.
As always, I'll be alternating between reading, cooking, knitting and maybe writing.
Aiming for a quiet weekend this weekend, and a possible zoo trip (it's time to renew my membership).
this week's image - a sheep silhouetted against the rising sun:
Sheep Silhouette by Scott Fisher
Other than that I might spend a little time looking at (but not purchasing) the new iPad... it's always nice to be tempted.
oh, I really like this one!
Cleaning. Today (and yesterday) major spring cleaning. But I think I might convince my DH that a trip to the cinema to see Hunger Games would be a good break and reward for all our hard work.
Tomorrow, a few more chores, then reading the rest of The Hunger Games trilogy, half way through book 2 now.
#7, reading fox. Hmmmmmm, chocolate festival, that sounds like my idea of heaven.
Tane, that is absolutely beautiful!
I'm leaving in a couple of hours to visit my son and his wife near Greenville, SC. I'm excited about seeing them, but not the 6.5 hour drive. I'm listening to Reamde by Neal Stephenson so that will keep me entertained on the drive up and back. I hope to use my camera a few times, too. :)
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
Looks like I'll be cleaning, too. And watching the snow melt. :o( I can't believe we had at least two weeks of Summer weather, with highs in the upper 80s even, only to have it cool down and snow again. Welcome to the new and totally effed up weather pattern! (Courtesy of climate change.)
Love it, Tane!
We're hosting a family group birthday party potluck today, for people with birthdays in Feb, March and April. It's a gathering of my husband's huge extended family, the first time we've been able to gather everyone for ages. We're celebrating ten birthdays. The newest member of the family is our great-nephew who turns 1yo today. I couldn't resist; I got him two stuffy microbes. A chicken pox virus (because once you get the chicken pox you almost never get it again) and a white blood cell (just to make sure).
But first I need to get some studying done for the Technical Communications course I'm taking. I've gotten behind with the reading material so more studying tomorrow. It's wet and windy outside so the perfect weather for it.
Tane, love the sheep picture.
It's been raining here, so no clean up day, but I've been doing clean up in the house, and ran some errands.
I have a new member of the family: on a whim, I purchased a goldfish, and he's just waiting for the water temperature to become stable before I let him loose.
A friend suggested "Dagon" as a name, and I think it's entirely appropriate. Picture will be forthcoming (how silly...I'll be taking a picture of a goldfish in a bowl???).
I'll probably lie down for a 'rest' in a bit, after I release Dagon from his plastic bag.
And then, the kitties will be intrigued...
>16 Tane: Nice pic!
>22 sandragon: Haha, giving stuffy microbes to a kid! I should have thought of that, being a microbiologist! :-)
Our forum meeting was great. Here we are in the bookshop. (Yes, the photo is bad. I forgot my camera, so I had to use my phone.)
I had a great dinner out with friends last night. Drinks on a bar right out over the beach with a sea breeze, and then Indian in the backyard of a restaurant, lit by coloured lights. Great location, great food, great company.
A fantasy forum meet-up and book shopping, a chocolate festival, drinks over the beach with a sea breeze, followed by great food. All in the midst of wonderful company. Together we equal one lovely weekend. (Once the chores are done of course.)
Not going to or being at work.
That is, quite frankly, enough for me right now.
Had a sweet dinner with a grandson who is turning 21 on Monday. I bought him a Kindle Fire so we can talk books! He took me to a "belt sushi" place. First time. It was so much fun to watch the little sushi plates parade in front of me and asking me to "pick me, pick me"! Good stuff.
I wanted to go out and enjoy my weekend but am sick in bed : (
ahhh thanks MrsLee : ) : )
Just arrived in the cabin, up north, and it's still winter here. So we're out tobogganing in the snow and I foresee more of that for the rest of the weekend, not to mention WEEK - we're on Easter break, sans computer (if one doesn't count my iPhone, and I'm a bit ambivalent about that, lol).
Will be a good break :)
So, is any one watching Season 2 of the Game of Thrones?
*goes green with chocolate envy* :P
Gorgeous. :)
On Friday I went to a friend's apartment and we watched Jekyll while drinking wine.
Last night I went to see The Hunger Games with a friend. I haven't read the books and I knew next to nothing about the plot, but I still enjoyed it. I loved the actress who played the main character (I'm forgetting her name right now, but it's the same one who played Mystique in X-Men: First Class, right?)
The story reminded me a bit of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, and also of LOST. :D My friend mentioned Battle Royale, but I haven't seen that one.
We then went bar hopping with another friend in the old quarter of the city. Well, "hopping" was the idea, but I skipped out after the first bar because I wasn't feeling well...
...which brings me to today. I've been going through a rough patch lately, having roommate problems, and that's got me a bit down. It's an uncomfortable situation, but I'm hoping it will be resolved soon. (I don't want to go into details here. Maybe some other day in the depression thread...)
Because of that, I did nothing today but read, read, read. Stayed in my bedroom with the A/C on and just read. I did the same yesterday afternoon, too. My roommate and I are just avoiding each other... :(
At least I've got 1Q84 to finish. It's a huge book, so that's kept me company for a while... Also, I usually don't let my kitty into my bedroom, but these past couple of days I've let her in to play while I read. She's allowed to climb into bed with me but only onto the bedspread. She comforts me a lot. Blessed be the kitties! She made me laugh hard today with her antics...
Well, I'm going back to reading. :)
For those watching Game of Thrones, I feel I must report the following:
#40 - good link. made me wonder...... hmmmm.....
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The for-in statement is intended to be used to enumerate over the properties of an object. Inherited properties are included, and to avoid iterating over them
hasOwnProperty should be used.
This example demonstrates using for-in, and shows what happens when someone adds a property to a native prototype:
Object.prototype.bad = undefined;
var name, names;
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, john: { age: 29 }
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var name, names;
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Notice that this doesn't just apply to adding properties to native objects -- you should also take
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ECMAScript 5 introduces some handy methods to
forEach(callback): Run
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some(callback): If
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3 3 3 that was printed with the
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Intro: "America is currently embroiled in a student loan bubble and when it pops ... let's just say that I hope you can use some lacquer and a long stick to turn your college diploma into some sort of edged weapon to fight off the starving graduate student food mobs."
Student debt has surged as tuition and enrollment continue to climb. (photo: Gawker)
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merica is currently embroiled in a student loan bubble and when it pops, wooo buddy. *Makes whistling sound, gazes off into distance*... let's just say that I hope you can use some lacquer and a long stick to turn your college diploma into some sort of edged weapon to fight off the starving graduate student food mobs. Let's just leave it at that. Let's not get explicit, except to say that banks will literally take your mother's home if you try to not pay them back, so, you know, the weapon thing is maybe the way to go.
See, thanks to some nifty lobbying, you can't discharge your student loan debt through bankruptcy, even though that more or less ruins the entire point of bankruptcy for the younger generation of Americans. The WSJ explains the problem in a nutshell:
In the past decade student debt has surged as tuition and enrollment climbed. At the same time, college graduates' earnings have declined. The average debt load of all new graduates rose 24%, adjusted for inflation, from 2000 through 2010, to $16,932, says the Progressive Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank in Washington. Over the same period, the average earnings of full-time workers ages 25 to 34 with no more than a bachelor's degree fell by 15% to $53,539.
To review: huge loans, poor job market, low earnings potential, debt that is inescapable through legal means. What could go wrong? Now, some Congresspersons who must have forgotten upon which side their bread is buttered (the banking industry's side, naturally) are trying to put together some wee modifications to the bankruptcy law which might allow this hopeless generation to retire their debts in a manner that avoids total violent revolution in the streets. Of course, even if Congress somehow did deign to allow you to escape your student debt through bankruptcy, the banks would make sure to ruin your parents at the same time:
While the legislation is aimed at helping thousands of borrowers struggling with debt, some experts say banks seem to have prepared for this possibility. Since they now require cosigners on most of the loans, both the borrower - and in many cases his or her parents \u2013 would need court-approved bankruptcies in order to wiggle free of the debt.
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How can it possibly be bad for us to have an educated population?
Society benefits from practically any form, whether something very technical like electrical engineering, or something very "literary", like history, so that we don't continually forget our sketchy past.
Why can't it be free?
$1 trillion in educational debt could be wiped off the books for less than the cost of the war against Iraq.
Is that really something we cannot afford?
Went to the bank this morning and one of the tellers was bemoaning the fact of all the damage done to those poor merchants (in Oakland) because of the May Day protests - we have what we have in America because most Americans act like chum - then can't figure out why they are being digested.
Clue: The tax structure was different.
Ever wonder why the right wing wants to go back to "the good ol' days", but supports Corporatization and tax breaks for the rich? Maybe too much kool-aid and TV? Maybe they didn't pay attention in class? Maybe they're just selfish little draft dodgers?
Today's young people are up against a wall and maybe -just maybe, we'll see than in the streets demanding justice in its many forms. They should be; the conditions are right - again.
My daughter isn't making a lot of money, but she also has no debt, thanks to a combination of the lottery scholarship here in NM, going to school in her home town, and money we had put aside for tuition. Not everyone is so fortunate.
Many articles, like this one, leave out a major reason for the huge amount of student debt-- private, for-profit "colleges" that charge gigantically high tuition but fail to give students an education that actually allows them to get a job. Cracking down on these schools would be a great help to the country.
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Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) today announced a $216,000 federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant for the Cloverdale Police Department. The grant was made through the COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The purpose of these grants is to create and/or preserve law enforcement jobs. The Cloverdale Police Department will use the grant to continue funding an officer position.
"These grants are good for our public safety and our economy," said Thompson. "I am proud to support this funding and thank all our public safety officers for their service."
"The City of Cloverdale is very thankful to the U.S. Department of Justice for awarding us this COPS Hiring Program (CHP) grant. It will allow us to retain one of our officers for the next three years. Over the past three years, our workforce has been reduced by 25%, and we can ill afford to lose any more -- especially in the critical area of public safety," said Mayor Bob Cox.
CHP provides funding to address the full-time sworn officer needs of state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies. The grants go directly to law enforcement agencies to hire new and/or rehire career law enforcement officers in an effort to increase their community policing capacity and crime prevention efforts.
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I just got my Atlas. He is only 5 weeks old. I know they gave him up to early but his mom was no longer feeding her pups and her owner was feeding him crappy dog food and was ready for the pups to go home. I read a million reviews for puppy food and choose
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think wants to know if raw eggs are ok for pups?
I feed my puppies raw egg yolk only, I can't remember why but I don't include the egg white for puppies.
Now, as adult GSDs I give the whole egg.
Harry and Lola - does it have to do with biotin absorption or enzyme inhibiting? I just give the whole egg. In moderation I think they are fine. The yolks have enough biotin to make up for it.
that makes sense:)
Zoe gets eggs a few times a week. I never even thought about not giving her the whites. She doesn't like them raw so I use bits of hard boiled egg to work on "gentle" with her. She's nutty for boiled eggs.
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after reading this just threw an egg into my dogs bowl. It's been awhile since I've given her one. She had fun nosing the shell tonight and making it skitter across the floor before eating it lol
Your pup may be a bit young for eggs. He is barely weaned. I usually start my pups on an egg every few days by about 8 weeks, sometimes later. By 6 months they get either a whole egg or just yolks daily.
Chip, the cholesterol is found in the yolk along with the fat and most of the calories (plus tons of vitamins, fatty acids). The whites contain the bulk of the protein, but also that enzyme that inhibits biotin absorption (when fed raw) so that is why whole eggs are fed (plenty of biotin in the yolk).
Here is some information on eggs from my holistic vet:
The diet of chickens is key to the superior fatty acid profiles in omega-3 eggs. For high omega-3 eggs, chickens are fed flax. Chickens are able to convert the oils in flax into more usable forms of fatty acids better than a dog or cat can. For high DHA eggs, chickens are fed flax and algae, with the same good results. Better food, better chicken, better eggs! High omega-3 eggs, such as Egglands Best, have good fatty acid profiles and good levels of vitamin E. Its always a good choice if you are able to buy eggs that are locally raised. You may feed raw or cook eggs lightly (if you wish) but keep the yolk intact and uncooked to protect the fragile fatty acids from exposure to air and heat. Some dogs dont digest raw eggs well but do fine with them slightly cooked. Eggs provide Vitamin A, Riboflavin, Folate, Vitamin B12, Iron, Selenium along with the Fatty Acids mentioned above.
Eggs should not be the mainstay of your dogs diet but its great to feed eggs a few times per week. Feed amounts should be cut back slightly depending on how many eggs are fed.
If using the shells for a calcium source, it must be ground up to a fine powder to allow the dogs to absorb them, but you should not feed eggs shells if your dogs diet already includes a calcium supplement as it would be more than what your dog needs. Too much calcium may be harmful to large breed puppies. They can also bind to other minerals making them less available to your dog."
Wow, that's young! Good thing you are the one who took him and are concerned about his well being! Congrats!
You may want to try a high quality food like Non-Grain Fromm's or Acana.
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You should also consider adding Omega's and Digestive Enzyme/Pro-Biotic to keep his gut healthy since 75% of disease begins in the gut. Not all Digestive Enzymes/Pro-Biotics are created equal in supplements. They can be made up of very undesirable ingredients.
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This is a discussion on The Picnic within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; You, the wife and your two small children and the small family dog have decided to take a ride to the mountains and have a ...
You, the wife and your two small children and the small family dog have decided to take a ride to the mountains and have a picnic. The wife packs food, drinks and goodies. You drive up to the mountains and find a small picnic/campground just off the highway. You pull in to a picnic spot and set up your picnic on the table provided. There is no one else at the location. There is no cell service and no phone in the campground.
As you start eating twelve to fifteen members of an outlaw motorcycle gang flying colors ride into the spot next to yours about fifteen yards away. You are aware, from the media and other sources of the reputation of this group for violent criminal behavior. There are no obstructions, brush or otherwise between the two sites. They break out some beers and are loud and profane. Shortly they begin making loud comments about your small family dog who is on a leash and using it and a pole as a mop. Thus far they are maintaining their distance, but paying a significant amount of attention to your family. Becoming more brazen, now they begin making unsavory comments about your wife.
You have your EDC and whatever you may carry in your vehicle.
What do you do?
"I do what I do." Cpl 'coach' Bowden, "Southern Comfort".
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Sell my wife and kids, then leave.
More seriously, I'd have left at the earliest sign of trouble. This is a perilous situation and even a shotty might not do the job if things get out of control.
Best to go ASAP.
Leave as fast as I can. They're probably all armed, and I wouldn't want to take my chances. Unless I and every other family member is armed with Glock 18's and 30 rounds mags, I'm getting out of there.
Do what's best for your family, leave.
pay them to take wife off hands, take children and mop/dog home and celebrate
"The value you put on the lost will be determined by the sacrifice you are willing to make to seek them until they are found."
I think I would have started packing up as soon as they started arriving. If they asked I'd say "we're all done, the place is yours."
In the heat of the moment, what matters is what your body knows -- not what your mind knows.
A few questions.
Do you leave your stuff?
If not who packs, who watches the kids & dog, who covers?
What if some start to approach?
Would a confrontation on the road be better, with the chance of them smashing your windows, a crash, etc?
"I do what I do." Cpl 'coach' Bowden, "Southern Comfort".
Offer to trade the mop dog for the one that rode in on the back of the leaders bike.
Why would I even begin to communicate? I would leave ASAP, hopefully with my stuff. If I have to get out of Dodge without my picnic...not a problem.
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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I suppose the smart answer is to have been already pulling out by the time they got there, since you could obviously hear them coming from a distance. Unless they were riding Goldwings, lol.
IMO, you've already sat there too long, since they have started making comments and you stated that you already knew their reputation. However, to simply leave after the comments started shows you are afraid and bullies typically get more brazen when they see they have affected you. I have no idea what I'd do... probably say something to them like mentioned, the campsite's yours guys. That could help break the ice and show you aren't afraid to communicate with them. Then keep an eye on them while the wife packs up, with me doing minimal work. I would be hoping like H they just drop things and let us go, because you are surely outnumbered. I would be trying to put all those TV movies that have this same scenario out of my head.
Yes , the smart answer is leave. Unfortunately, I'm not smart. I would probably have the kids and wife leave, call for some backup when they had signal, and go handle my business. Like I said, I'm not smart, I just can't bring myself to let a bunch of thugs breaking the law run me off.
Leave, and they can have my bologna sandwiches as well.
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Just a quick question to those of you who regularly travel with valuable electronics and production kit,
can you recommend any decent (maybe specialist) Worldwide-cover insurance policies for an iPhone 5 and MBP Retina?
A popular one is Insure the Bubble, but reading through their policy terms, I found that I'm not really covered for things like leaving my gadgets locked in a hotel room as I'd be 'away from home' and the gadgets would be 'unattended' and other stupid clauses like that, even though they give you worldwide cover for theft.
Another annoyance I keep finding with gaget insurers is that for many of the things they claim you will be insured for, when it comes to MacBooks and iPhones, you aren't.
Or they'll happily insure you for £3,000 worth of electronics, but the max they will pay out is £1,500 which won't cover the cost.
It doesn't help that there's no Kensington lock on the RMBP either
Any recommendations would be much appreciated
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No, are they any good?
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Start debugging a VS project; attach to a process; break into code; step through code; run to the cursor; run to a function on the call stack; set next statement; step through Just My Code; Stop, restart debugging; detach from a debugged process.
When a solution is open is Visual Studio, you have three choices to start debugging:
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In a source window, select a line of executable code and choose Run to Cursor on the context menu.
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The debugger can also to attach to a program that is running in a process outside of Visual Studio. After you attach to a program, you can use debugger execution commands, inspect the program state, and so on. Your ability to inspect the program might be limited, depending on whether the program was built with debug information and whether you have access to the program's source code, and whether the common language runtime JIT compiler is tracking debug information.
To attach to a process that is running on your local machine
Choose Debug, Attach to Process. On the Attach to Process dialog box, select the process from the Available Processes list, and then choose Attach.
See Attach to Running Processes with the Visual Studio Debugger for more information.
Break into code by using breakpoints or Break All | Step into, over, or out of the code | Run to a specified location or function | Set the next statement to execute | Restrict stepping to Just My Code | Step into system calls | Step into properties and operators in managed code
When you are debugging an application with the VS debugger, your application is either running (executing) or it is in break mode.
The debugger breaks execution of the app when execution reaches a breakpoint or when an exception occurs. You also can break execution manually at any time.
A breakpoint is a signal that tells the debugger to temporarily suspend execution of your app at a certain point. When execution is suspended at a breakpoint, your program is said to be in break mode. Entering break mode does not stop or end the execution of your program; execution can be resumed at any time.
Most debugger features, such as viewing variable values in the Locals window or evaluating expressions in the Watch window, are available only in break mode. All the elements of your app remain (functions, variables, and objects remain in memory, for example), but their movements and activities are suspended. During break mode, you can examine the elements' positions and states to look for violations or bugs. You can also make adjustments to the app while in break mode
You can configure breakpoints to suspend execution based on a number of conditions. See Breakpoints: Use Hit Counts, Call Stack Functions, and Conditions to Break When and Where You Want in the Visual Studio Debugger. This section describes two basic ways to break into code.
Set breakpoints in the code
To set a simple breakpoint in your code, open the source file in the Visual Studio editor. Set the cursor at the line of code that you want to break at, and then choose Breakpoint, Insert Breakpoint on the context menu (Keyboard: F9. The debugger breaks execution right before the line is executed.
Breakpoints in Visual Studio provide a rich set of additional functionality, such as conditional breakpoints and tracepoints. See Breakpoints: Use Hit Counts, Call Stack Functions, and Conditions to Break When and Where You Want in the Visual Studio Debugger.
Manually break into code
To break into the next available line of code in an executing app, choose Debug, Break All (keyboard: Ctrl+Alt+Break).
If you are debugging with the Just My Code option enabled, you break at the next line of code in your project. See Restrict stepping to Just My Code.
If you are debugging multiple programs, a breakpoint or Break All command affects all programs being debugged by default. See Configure the execution behavior of multiple processes.
If you break while executing code without corresponding source or symbol (.pdf) files), the debugger displays a Source Files Not Found or a Symbols Not Found page that can help you find the appropriate files. See Specify Symbol (.pdb) and Source Files in the Visual Studio Debugger.
If you can't access the supporting files, you can still debug the assembly instructions in the Disassembly window.
One of the most common debugging procedures is stepping. Stepping is executing code one line at a time. When you have halted execution, such as running the debugger to a breakpoint, you can use three Debug menu commands to step through code:
Menu Command
Keyboard Shortcut
Step Into
If the line contains a function call, Step Into executes only the call itself, then halts at the first line of code inside the function. Otherwise, Step Into executes the next statement.
Step Over
If the line contains a function call, Step Over executes the called function, then halts at the first line of code inside the calling function. Otherwise, Step Into executes the next statement.
Step Out
Step Out resumes execution of your code until the function returns, then breaks at the return point in the calling function.
On a nested function call, Step Into steps into the most deeply nested function. If you use Step Into on a call like Func1(Func2()), the debugger steps into the function Func2.
The debugger actually steps through code statements rather than physical lines. For example an if clause can be written on one line:
When you step into this line, the debugger treats the condition as one step and the consequence as another (In this example, the condition is true).
To visually trace the call stack while stepping into functions, see Map methods on the call stack while debugging in Visual Studio.
Sometimes you will want to execute to a certain point in code, and then halt execution. If you have a breakpoint set at the location where you want to break, choose Debug, Start Debugging if you have not started debugging, or Debug, Continue. (In both cases F5 is the shortcut key). The debugger stops at the next breakpoint in the execution of the code. Choose Debug, Continue until you reach the breakpoint that you want.
You can also run to where you have placed the cursor in the code editor, or run to specified function.
Run to the cursor location
To run to the cursor location, place the cursor on an executable line of code in a source window. On the editor's context menu, choose Run to Cursor.
Run to a function on the call stack
In the Call Stack window, select the function, and choose Run to Cursor from the context menu. To visually trace the call stack, see Map methods on the call stack while debugging in Visual Studio.
Run to a function specified by name
You can command the debugger to run your application until it reaches a specified function. You can specify the function by name or you can choose it from the call stack.
To specify a function by name, choose Debug, New Breakpoint, Break at Function, then enter the name of the function and other identifying information.
If the function is overloaded or is in multiple namespace, you can choose the functions that you want in the Choose Breakpoints dialog box.
After you break into the debugger, you can move the execution point to set the next statement of code to be executed. A yellow arrowhead in the margin of a source or Disassembly window marks the location of the next statement to be executed. By moving this arrowhead, you can skip over a portion of code or return to a line previously executed. You can use this for situations such as skipping a section of code that contains a known bug.
To set the next statement to execute, use one of these procedures:
In a source window, drag the yellow arrowhead to a location where you want to set the next statement in the same source file
In a source window, set the cursor on the line that you want to execute next and choose Set Next Statement on the context menu.
In the Disassembly window, set the cursor on the assembly instruction that you want to execute next and choose Set Next Statement on the context menu.
Setting the next statement causes the program counter to jump directly to the new location. Use this command with caution:
In managed code, you cannot move the next statement under the following conditions:
You cannot set the next statement while your application is actively running. To set the next statement, the debugger must be in break mode.
Sometimes, while you are debugging, you might want to look at only the code you have written and ignore other code, such as system calls. You can do this with Just My Code debugging. Just My Code hides non-user code so that it does not appear in the debugger windows. When you step, the debugger steps through any non-user code but does not stop in it. See Just My Code
Just My Code is not supported for device projects.
If you have loaded debugging symbols for the system code and Just My Code is not enabled, you can step into a system call just as you can any other call.
To learn how to disable Just My Code, see Restrict stepping to Just My Code
To access Microsoft symbol files, see Use symbol servers to find symbol files not on your local machine in the Specify Symbol (.pdb) and Source Files in the Visual Studio Debugger topic.
To load symbols for a specific system component while you are debugging:
Open the Modules window (keyboard: Ctrl+Alt+U).
Select the module that you want to load symbols for.
You can tell which modules have symbols loaded by looking at the Symbol Status column.
Choose Load Symbols on the context menu.
The debugger steps over properties and operators in managed code by default. In most cases, this provides a better debugging experience. To enable stepping into properties or operators, choose Debug, Options and Settings. On the Debugging, General page, clear the Step over properties and operators (Managed only) check box
Stopping debugging means terminating the debugging session. Stopping execution means terminating the process you are debugging and ending the debugging session. It should not be confused with breaking execution, which temporarily halts execution of the process you are debugging but leaves the debugging session active. Detaching from a process stops debugging the process but leaves it running.
Stop debugging from VS | Close the app that is being debugged | Restart debugging | Detach from the debugged app
Choose Debug, Detach All to stop debugging, but leave the debugged process or processes running.
See Attach to Running Processes with the Visual Studio Debugger and Debug One or More Processes in Visual Studio to learn more about attaching to and controlling multiple processes with Visual Studio.


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BCC presents at national Campus Compact Conference
On May 19th, a team of four from Berkshire Community College presented a model for using an asset-based community development approach to teaching civic engagement at "The Engaged Campus: Driving Innovation through Partnerships" in Dearborn, MI. This work is the product of a yearlong partnership, funded by the MA Department of Education's Vision grant, involving six BCC faculty, 14 students, eight community partners from the Pittsfield Promise committee and Service-Learning Office staff. In the fall 2012 semester, the campus-community cohort learned about asset mapping principles and the steps to implement the asset mapping process.
Asset mapping is the process of cataloguing the resources of a community to identify available assets; map them; and promote dialogue, action and community building around issues. This project is a key strategy aimed at helping the community achieve the goal to increase 3rd grade reading levels in Pittsfield, MA to 90% by 2020. The cohort drafted survey questions and identified 250-300 individuals, neighbor associations, community organizations and businesses to be surveyed and built a database to house this information. Since fall 2012, 14 Service-learning students have conducted a series of one-on-one interviews to collect information on assets related to their course work. For example, students in Human Growth and Development interviewed early childhood organizations. Hospitality Seminar students interviewed hotels and restaurants and Sociology students interviewed neighborhood associations and community based organizations.
BCC faculty are assessing service-learning students' civic engagement skills across disciplines using the AAC&U's LEAP rubric. Pittsfield Promise partners are in the early stages of creating a GIS map with the existing data entered by BCC students. This asset mapping project will continue over the summer with students interns and resume as an ongoing academic service-learning project in the fall 2013.


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Six Strategies for Saving Money on Your Mortgage
The key to saving money on your mortgage is to get the best possible mortgage for yourself. Sounds so obvious it's silly, right? But the point here is that you don't need to do it the way everyone else does. In fact, if you're willing to educate yourself in the ways of the mortgage world, you can save quite a bit of money by being a little different. Below we introduce you to some of the strategies that other Fools have used. But remember, the only person who knows if it's right for you is you.
Seller Concession: The 6% Solution
There is something called a seller concession that is worth considering. It works like this: suppose you agree on the price of the house at, say, $200,000. You then ask the seller for a 6% seller concession. What this means is that you add (up to) 6% to the price of the house. That's right, you're now going to pay $212,000 for that house -- but the seller is going to give you that $12,000 back when the sale takes place. You're going to use that money to cover all of your closing costs.
If we pretend for a moment that those costs add up to precisely $12,000, then what you've done is folded those closing costs into the mortgage. Points, title search, recording fees -- all of these closing costs, most of which are not tax-deductible, and which we discuss in an article on making the deal -- have effectively been included in your mortgage. Since your mortgage interest is tax-deductible, these costs have effectively become tax write-offs.
In addition, you don't have to come up with all that extra cash at settlement. Your down payment will be somewhat higher, (if you're putting down 20%, then in the current example your down payment would be $42,400, versus $40,000) and, of course, your mortgage payments will be higher, but it ends up saving you money.
The seller has no reason to refuse this -- after all, the agreed-upon price is still the same.
What's the catch? The catch is that the house has to appraise for the higher value. If the appraiser comes back and tells you that this house won't appraise for higher than $200,000, you can't do it.
Let's look into this a little further. Say you buy the house for $200,000. Your $40,000 down payment leaves you needing a loan for $160,000. You get a 30-year loan at 8%. Your monthly payments for principal and interest are $1,174.
Now say you decide to use the 6% seller concession strategy. You buy this house for the price of $212,000. You put down 20%, and this leaves you needing a loan of $169,600. Your monthly payments will be $1,244, or $70 more per month. Is it worth it?
To begin with, many people aren't going to feel an enormous difference between paying the extra $70 per month -- not nearly as much as they would feel having to fork out an extra $12,000 all at once. But what about the fact that you have to now pay this extra money over the course of 30 years? Well, over the course of 30 years you're paying $25,200 more for that extra $12,000 ($70 more per month x 12 months in a year x 30 years = $25,200). However, remember that's $12,000 less out of your pocket at the time of closing. If you take $12,000 and invest it at 10% (less than the market average has returned over the past 35 years) then your money will grow to over $200,000 (before taxes) at the end of 30 years. So, in this scenario, it's well worth it.
Naturally you'll want to run the numbers for your particular loan to see whether it would be worth it for you.
Finally, there are certain rules under certain mortgages as to what the seller can actually pay for at closing. If you get $12,000 from the seller and all of your costs are $12,000, this does not necessarily mean that you won't have to pay anything. Be sure to ask your lender which costs the seller may cover.
Assume an Existing Mortgage
One option is to assume the mortgage on the house you are buying. (That's another way of saying you'll take over the existing mortgage on the house, rather than getting a new one.) This is beneficial if, for example, the existing mortgage has a lower interest rate. You can also avoid some of the administrative costs of taking out a new loan. In order to assume a mortgage, it must be transferable, and you must be able to pay enough cash (or get a second mortgage) to cover the difference between the purchase price and the outstanding debt.
Seller Financing
"Seller financing" means that you can pay the seller directly over a period of time, rather than borrow money and pay at once. With a seller mortgage, you can often negotiate a better interest rate and avoid the various administrative fees charged by lending institutions. Seller financing can be attractive if for some reason you can't qualify for a loan. More importantly, it enables you to avoid the dreaded mortgage insurance.
One circumstance in which such financing is available occurs when the seller has had difficulty in selling the house. If that's the case, you'll naturally want to know why. Also, sellers are not in the lending business. They tend to want a short-term mortgage -- usually not longer than three years. After that time, you will have to get a mortgage from a regular lender and pay the seller in full.
There are other reasons why a seller might want to provide financing. It gives him a steady stream of income and return without having to pay capital gains tax. The seller also has collateral -- the house. If the buyer defaults, then the seller can take the house back.
Play With the Points, Play With the Time
Yes! You see? Mortgages are just like basketball! Depending on the mortgage, the strength of your finances, and the interest rate environment, it might be to your advantage to pay off the interest or principal sooner than you might otherwise, in order to lower your overall interest payments.
Pay Down the Principal
For a very long time, most of the money that you will pay to your mortgage company is going to go to interest payments. That means that you may be in your house for over 20 years before you own more of it than the bank does. But there's a way to speed up the amount that you own. And why is that important (other than the obvious psychological benefits)? Because if you owe less to the bank, you will also owe them less interest.
Be Your Own Best Advocate
Mortgage lenders must compete for your business. That means they will negotiate. Don't assume that their published interest rates are final. Collect information on available interest rates and mortgage features from lenders in your area. Decide which features meet your needs. Be prepared to ask for better terms -- a reduction of at least a quarter percent of the published interest rate is reasonable. You will be in a stronger negotiating position if your credit history is good.


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After I got done shopping, I did have a little work to do before we left to meet some friends at an awesome local, upscale burger place called Burger Up. The menu was fabulous so it made it hard to choose! I end up deciding on the bison burger with sweet potato fries! It was delicious, but really filling! Joe had to help me finish off my burger!
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A week ago, a young man filled with the spirit of righteous anger, turned his weapons against dozens of innocent young boys and girls. Anders Breivik is convinced his actions in killing a few dozen people will somehow result in the expulsion of Muslims from his native land of Norway. Anders regards himself as a hero from the past who is leading an army against the hordes of Muslims who have invaded his native land. Actually, less than five percent of Norwegians are those of the Muslim faith, but to his twisted mind, THEY are all around and gaining control of the economy, and soon the government.
Yesterday, a 21 year old Private in the US Army, Nasser Abdo, was caught before he could unleash his reign of terror against fellow soldiers. He left the court room where he was charged with attempted murder shouting to the world, "Nidal Hasan, Ft. Hood" in memory of the psychiatrist who went berserk on a killing rampage at Ft. Hood. Anders regards Muslims as the threat, Nasser regards Christians and Jews as the threat. Each inhabits a mental world in which hostile forces exist whose goals are to destroy the Christian or the Muslim world, or something.
The interesting facet of these young men is not merely their belief a "threat" exists, but their belief by killing innocent people, the threat will be halted. They apparently regard themselves as Superman or Batman or Captain America or Captain Mohammed, who has rushed to the scene and squashed the evil men who threaten their world. In a sense, both belong in a comic strip.


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Newsweek's cover story entitled "Stop Saving Now!" has altered — more like adulterated — the classic image of Uncle Sam's military recruitment poster "I Want You" into a spending recruitment post of "I Want You to Start Spending".
I'm so against this type of irresponsible financial mentality that it irks me to my very core.
I realize that Newsweek is just trying to sell magazines by printing an inflammatory magazine cover — heaven forbid another publication should go out of business — but this would be almost humorous if I knew some poor fool might actually take it seriously.
You are indirectly helping the economy with your tax dollars. Since you are the proud shareholder of poorly managed companies like AIG and funding the UAW's paychecks to build cars that no one is buying, you're doing far more than main stream media will tell you. Without the federal government lending Corporate America your tax dollars, companies deemed "too big to fail" would be in bankruptcy court or have chains on their doors.
The U.S. economy is famous for boom & bust patterns. There is an old adage on Wall Street that says "We're not sure what Americans will do, but we're sure they'll all do it at the same time". We're so plugged in to the news and constantly bombarded by cheesy advertisements that we've become programmed to act in herd like mentalities. We're human, and it's in our nature to go along with the crowd, but the ability to create rational thoughts should help us identify when we've crossed over into the land of excess and stop leveraging our paychecks to the breaking point.
Americans are only saving 5% of their paycheck. How in the world is saving money a bad thing considering we spent more than we made for multiple years. Any economy built on spendthrift consumers who buy possessions without saving money for a rainy day is NOT a healthy economy. Sorry guys (e.g. retailers, car companies, credit card financiers), the party's over.
Truth is, we're not some sort of robotic consumer machine. Even the most clueless of consumer drones have caught on that the economy sucks and saving some cash for a rainy day. Americans are now looking out for themselves and the financial security of their family instead of the giving more of their money to Church of Starbucks.
If Corporate America has gotten so fat that it requires consumers to spend every dollar they make, then it's time to help them lose the excess weight. If they think it's bad now, what would happen if we actually paid attention to personal finance articles like The 60% Solution (BTW one of the best personal finance articles ever written) where 60% of our annual salary goes to living expenses, only 10% goes for fun money, and the rest goes into savings.
So suck it up Corporate America. Things could be worse. Imagine a new cost-conscious America that rivals China's national savings rate of 50%.
Wonder what would happen then?
What's your take on this image? Does it make you a little angry that Uncle Sam's message has been changed to justify the "Paradox of Thrift" argument? Do you think behavioral economics has gone completely astray and we're sealing our fate by saving too much?
I'm with you, the idea of asking us to spend to save the economy is about as myopic as it gets. Even if spending were to increase at the expense of savings, it would only be a band aid to the larger issues that will no doubt impede growth later–namely retirement savings and healthcare. The growth of funding for entitlement programs continues to loom in the distance and if a healthy savings rate reduces dependence on Social Security, I'll take that over spending our way out of recession only to fall flat later. Think about it. If we have savings going into the markets, the market increases. If we are more prepared for retirement, we need less money from government programs. If we have an economy built on cash instead of credit, we will be stronger for it.
If anything, it's our patriotic duty to ensure we save money so we can take care of ourselves with dignity rather than hoping Uncle Sam–err, our children's tax dollars–will bail us out later.
Myopia is what got us here…solving the problem in kind is ludicrous. I'll keep saving, thank you very much.
I'd say the ultimate patriotism would include self sufficiency and not rely on foreign entities loaning us money.
Attitude reflects leadership, and if the U.S. Government would lead by example, maybe that would be a great start.
I really don't understand how we save so little. I also don't understand how our economy works.
If I understand properly we're capable of producing much more than we need, so we have to be bloated. So isn't that kind of a catch-22?
So confused…
…I'm horrified by that cover. At first, I thought it was just photoshop. But of course, no it isn't.
We do not have any "patriotic duty" when it comes to our personal finance — it's not social finance, it's personal finance.
Even then, artificially spending just creates another bubble that's going to burst, keeping people in debt, insecure and ready to wreck economic hell the next time our economy gets bumped.
I'm a little ticked now. :P
It's somewhat complicated, but there are 3 main arms of spending in the US — Government, Business, and Consumer. Now that business and consumer spending have fallen a bit, the government is stepping in.
Truth is, American business has been inflated beyond its sustainability because consumers were spending like crazy. If the consumer cuts back 10%, then business must cut back an equal or greater amount. The issue now is that we're "unwinding" (Bernanke's word of choice) businesses at a slower rate so the system doesn't collapse overnight and the jobless rate skyrockets.
Hope that helps a little, and if anyone has a better way of stating it, please chime in.
@ Shaun,
My thoughts exactly. The article didn't really push the idea you should spend more as much as I thought, but the cover was way out of line in my humble opinion. As I said, maybe they pulled a Geraldo and tried to create headlines just to get people to buy their publication.
I like that "social finance" line. That sounds so much better than my "you are indirectly helping the economy with your taxes". haha!!!
Sadly, it doesn't require a call from a prominent magazine or administration officials to spend above our means. We've demonstrated our capacity or exhuberant spending for decades and it has finally caught up with us. The current downtrend in consumer spending is just a blip and as soon as housing bottoms within the next year or two, you'll see a whole new round of cash refis (using your equity as a piggybank) and credit card debt increases.
The only difference this time around? Instead of wrecking our economy and burdening the destroyers with the liabilities, we've now taken on so much debt that our children will never be able to pay it down. They'll be paying for it after all, since the people that did this will be the voting majority in 30 years and we all know the politicians set policy based on what provides the most benefit in the next voting cycle.
@ Darwin
I slightly disagree in our ability to spend irrationally anytime in the near future. Maybe I'm an optimist (or pessimist depending on your point of view), but I think we've collectively realized that overspending is a bad thing.
Since 1 in 5 homes are underwater, and everyone has heard horror stories of foreclosures, I'm not sure anyone will be willing to bet the farm for a family vacation to Disneyland.
I do agree with you on the voting majority comment. Tapping the baby boomers anger about their halved retirement accounts will be critical in the 2012 election.
Well, I guess my question is that isn't our economy productive abilities outstrip our consumption normally?
If the consumer cuts back X% and the industry does the same doesn't the consumer have to cut back more?
Are we too efficient :O! Iono… it's odd to me


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I've searched and searched and so far all I've found is conflicting statements and people that don't know for sure.
I want to change the color of my stock gauges (to white). First I'd read and thought the bulbs in the instrument cluster had a rubber cover like those in the HVAC (which I've already done). But I'd read somewhere else that said there is actually a green film on the back of the gauge faces that makes them that color. I'd just go look, but getting inside the dash is kind of a pain and I'd rather know what I'm going to need to do first. Can anyone tell me for sure?