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Quick and Quintessential Tips to Guide Your Job Search and Work Life
Job-hunting tips from the February 18, 2008, issue of QuintZine.
Why tackle today what can be put off until Tuesday? In a new survey, 57 percent of executives said Tuesday is the most productive day of the week for employees. Monday was the second most popular answer, although it appears to be losing favor: Only 12 percent of respondents ranked Monday as most productive, compared to 26 percent in a 2002 survey.
The national poll included responses from 150 senior executives — including those from human resources, finance and marketing departments — with the nation's 1,000 largest companies. It was conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Accountemps, a specialized staffing service for temporary accounting, finance and bookkeeping professionals.
Executives were asked, "In your opinion, on which day of the week are employees generally most productive?" Their responses:
The results mirror previous surveys conducted in 2002, 1998 and 1987.
Accountemps offers the following advice for maintaining a high level of productivity throughout the entire week:
- Make a plan. Spend 10 to 15 minutes at the beginning of each day mapping out your desired accomplishments. Prioritize the tasks that are most important to the business.
- Sharpen your focus. People are more productive when working for an extended period in the same mental mode, as opposed to changing gears frequently. Try to cluster tasks that require similar effort or resources in the same time frame.
- Limit distractions. It can be tempting to review e-mail each time a message arrives. However, unless your job requires an immediate response, it's often best to check your inbox periodically throughout the day.
- Don't delay. Even peak performers occasionally put off working on unpleasant or overwhelming assignments. One effective way to overcome procrastination is to break a project into smaller, more manageable tasks.
- Recharge. Taking short breaks throughout the day can help you replenish your energy and fight fatigue.
The national poll included responses from 150 senior executives with the nation's 1,000 largest companies conducted by an independent research firm and developed by Accountemps.
Besides spouses/significant others and mentors, advisers cited included coworkers, other family members, friends, and "someone else."
Along with seeking advice from family, friends and mentors, Accountemps advises professionals to consider the following questions before making a career transition:
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- Will you have room to grow? When considering a new position, ask about advancement potential. If a career dead-end is prompting your desire to make a change, you want to be sure you don't end up in the same situation at a different company in a year or two.
- Have you done your homework? Is the firm in good financial condition? Have you researched the industry, and the company's mission and values? Try to determine if the new work environment will appeal to you.
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How to kno the BDB version used on an SVn repository
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How can i know the version of BDB backend used on a repostitory.
The problem is that i want to access on a migrate repository from an svn
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The thing is that i can access to the repository from ra_local (using svn
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As we know, there are a lot of variations of pokers. People choose to play one according to his or her preference. Each type of poker game is having its own beneficial side and it is up to one person to choose what poker variant to play.
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India.Arie to Release Fifth LP, 'SongVersation,' in June
India.Arie has been laying low for some time now — it's been four years since the singer-songwriter dropped her last commercial album, 'Testimony Vol. 2: Love & Politics,' but now she's preparing to return to the soul genre with her fifth offering, 'SongVersation.'
On Tuesday (March 26), the Grammy Award-winning artist announced via press release that her latest body of work will be arriving on June 25 through Soulbird/Motown Records.
The project, recorded in both Atlanta and Los Angeles, has been produced mainly by Arie and Shannon Sanders, another Grammy winning songwriter.
TheDrop.fm premiered her lead single 'Cocoa Butter' on Friday (March 22), but it will be available for fans to add to their personal music collection through iTunes on April 9.
In the press release, Arie attempted to explain the creative process behind recording the album, "The making of this album has been one of the most important experiences of my career," she said.
"Every time I make an album, it's an important and tumultuous and nuanced and complex and dynamic process of going into the woods and coming out with the Holy Grail…" she continues. "The Holy Grail being the internal growth that becomes fertile ground for new songs. This album was a process of many journeys all happening at once, culminating in not just a fertile ground, but a fertile ground on a different land."
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For many years, two approaches to negotiation have prevailed: the "win-win" method exemplified in Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton; and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now award-winning Harvard Business School professor Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match real world realities.
The Art of Negotiation shows how master negotiators thrive in the face of chaos and uncertainty. They don't trap themselves with rigid plans. Instead they understand negotiation as a process of exploration that demands ongoing learning, adapting, and influencing. Their agility enables them to reach agreement when others would be stalemated.
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greetings all. My DS is embarking on his GCSE's this year and we are researching 6th forms (he's at Cottenham atm). Does anyone know if Netherhall 6th form is any good?
ok asked my DH he says its ok - its a long way from Cottenham though
It worries me that Netherhall is ok. So, which secondary schools in Cambridge are in the top rank?
Doesn't Cottenham have a 6th form yet?? If you want serious top stuff - Hills Road of course (ex Hillsroadian ) Also of course, Long Road, Parkside Fed...
I can't imagine that Netherhall would be any better than Cottenham and it would be a difficult journey. We looked at the prospectus (a few years ago) and couldn't see any advantage over (even) Long Road.
Comberton now has a sixth form. Impington has one (does IB).
cottenham doesn't have a 6th form - OK meant not bad but proably not worth the extra journey time compared to long road, or parkside - Hills Rd is of course the best but hard to get in
"Cottenham doesn't have a 6th form" It does now
must be new this year I think
Hi there,
I actually signed up to this forum just to reply to this thread.
I am a Netherhall sixth former- currently. I have to advise you to read the ofsted report, so you know I am not biased.
I am in A2 and I tell you. I hate it. I get no support what-so-ever. There is 1 drop in session in a week for any support, which a) is not enough b) the teachers are very unwelcoming to you for these. I have only got 10 mins of support for my university application.
The teaching is mainly speech based, if you are a visual learner or a 'doing' learner- forget about it.
If you are failing, you do not get any support, but you get the opposite, you get scolded at. Rarely any revision sessions are set for students who are struggling.
Another issue with the college is that it starts at 8.30 for the first 3 weeks of term, for no reason. Imagine your son travelling 2 hours to N'hall ( I travel 1 and ten mins) every morning, for a tutor period, which is valueless.
Lessons are rarely planned, often the last parts of the syllabus is rushed. They could make extra classes to cover the content they cannot do, but they do not. They have some revision classes just before the exams. They are useless. You have to bring your own questions.
Very few resources are provided, e.g past papers, workbooks and mark schemes. You have to pay for the little you get.
There were around 300 people in AS, and now there is 80. That many people were allowed to fail. They blame the students, but I have witnessed. It is them.
I have a friend who got 5A*s at GCSE, but now has 3Es and a U.
The facilities:
Library= closed always, not enough relevant books or it is always booked. There is a sixth form study, which has broken computers and is very very busy, for other reasons than study. Occasionally a teacher will come and shout at students in there, but it doesn't help.
Staff attitudes are appalling, a teacher scolded me and told me I was going to fail, but then I had got a B in my exam- and was one of two people not to resit the exam.
The system is not organised- to get a locker you have to chase a teacher around. Your form tutor has no information about anything. For UCAS ( uni applications) one person is handling all of it, so it is difficult to get his attention as he is teaching and deputy head as well.
Lower school behavior is disruptive. A year 9 was playing with fire, at bus stop and setting other children on fire.
On the open day they will impress you with their beautiful building and colour changing trees. They will be well prepared to market to you.
More students = more funding= higher pay rates
The good:
- Social life, you meet lovely people. My peers are good people, and are the backbone of the next generation in terms of optimism.
- School's traditions- student auctions and sports relief
I could go on and on...
please message me if you need any more info.
I totally agree with this post. The sixth form is honestly dreadful, the teaching is way below standards and the support is absolutely pathetic if anything it is non-existent. There are very decent teachers, however credit must be given to the few that genuinely are fantastic and passionate about what they teach. The rest clearly have completely disregard for the progress or rather lack of progress of their students.
You are exactly right when you say that most part of the syllabus is rushed at the end, there has been so much wasted time that there isn't going to be enough left to finish most of the courses and it is so rushed that topics are being covered with a huge lack of detail and therefore the understanding of the students is quite severely comprehended and will certainly prevent many from achieving the grades that they are capable of. They will try to blame it on the students, but I myself have witnessed that students at the sixth form are intelligent and competent, yet end up getting poor grades and I can tell you it is down to the complete malfunctioning of the system. Many teachers prioritise the secondary school children in terms of marking and students are left with weeks between receiving essays/homework back. How is one meant to improve with so little feedback on how to develop ones skills?
The revision sessions are extremely limited and are rather 'drop in if you have question', what students need is regular, structured, revision sessions with far more emphasis on exam technique. Many previous students had complained about how unprepared they had been in subjects such as biology and that they were clueless when it came to the sitting the finals as so little had been done on exam technique.
Everything students receive, they have to pay for, whether it be a past paper pack or a revision booklet. It's also amazing how there are a few teachers who genuinely have no idea what they are teaching and know little other than how to read off a PowerPoint. The minute an intelligent or even not so intelligent question is thrown their way, they act completely baffled.
Students are won over as you rightly said, at the 'wonderful' open day which is completely false in every possible way. Everything looks glamarous but the reality is far from it. Most of the students are left having to resit the entire year as they fail to achieve the required grades to progress onto A2. It is simply not fair that nothing is being done about the entire situation. There are clearly a lot of problems. The ofsted report last year was awful and that is during inspection when teachers put on an 'act', so can you imagine it is like during normal times? If I have one word of advice for you, do not go to the sixth form center. Avoid it at all possible costs. There are hundreds of students who will say the same thing, and we say it for a reason. Time is very precious and you simply don't want to have to waste a whole year or two of your lives which Netherhall will rob from you. We could also go on and on....
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Professor Emeritus Lewis Gould recovers the histories of 'God Bless America' and 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic'
Wed, July 17, 2013
History Professor Emeritus, Lewis L. Gould
Published in the Washington Post, July 03, 2013. Written by By Lewis L. Gould.
On the evening of Sept. 11, 2001, amid the trauma of that horrible day, members of Congress began singing "God Bless America" on the Capitol steps. This moment of communal, bipartisan song, however transient, illustrated the ability of a patriotic anthem to bring Americans together as only music can do. Such songs become what Abraham Lincoln called "the mystic chords of memory" that reverberate at ballparks, rallies and concerts to evoke a sense of national wholeness.
Interpreting the meaning of songs in our lives has generated probing and insightful studies, such as these books on two classic American melodies. These examinations of "God Bless America" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" not only reflect the growing interest in how songs have affected U.S. politics and culture, they are also lively narratives in their own right.
Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" has the shorter chronological arc. Written for a patriotic show in 1918 and then put aside, the tune reemerged from Berlin's trunk in 1938 and began a journey that has never ended. Sheryl Kaskowitz, an independent scholar, has constructed an engaging portrait of how the song infiltrated patriotism, business and sports.
Kaskowitz skillfully traces the mixture of myth and reality that gathered around "God Bless America" from the moment of its identification with the popular singerKate Smith. Berlin did not write the song for Smith, but he and the tune benefited from the publicity she gave it on her radio show. In fact, Berlin and Smith's manager, Ted Collins, vied to get credit for allocating the royalties from "God Bless America" to the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America.
The song also figured in the debate over American involvement in World War II. At first, Berlin's lyrics spoke to disillusionment over the nation's participation in World War I. As the threat of Nazi Germany mounted in 1939 and '40, "God Bless America" took on new meaning, especially for its Jewish composer — who faced anti-Semitic criticism, including from the future chaplain of the Senate, Peter Marshall of Washington. As the threat of war intensified, Berlin's words seemed to become an argument for greater U.S. involvement n the fight against totalitarianism.
In the years that followed, "God Bless America" evolved into a tune associated with political conservatism. Protesters against liberal causes sang it as a way of emphasizing their patriotism and drowning out their enemies. Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan made the song or its title an integral part of musical performances in their campaigns and of their presidential speeches. Kaskowitz's treatment of these developments is illuminating and thoughtful.
Some of the most interesting pages in her sprightly narrative concern the recent fusion of sports and patriotism in "God Bless America." The events of Sept. 11 gave the song new resonance, especially at baseball games, where it is still sung in the middle of the seventh inning.
Telling the story of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" provides complex intellectual challenges for two authors, John Stauffer of Harvard University and Benjamin Soskis of George Mason. The familiar melody was first heard as a hymn called "Say, Brothers" and went through several other versions before becoming "John Brown's Body" (about the death of the famed abolitionist) and then, with Julia Ward Howe's lyrics in the 1860s, the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The authors have traced this intricate process with wide-ranging scholarship that lays out the many ways in which the melody evoked strong passions among Union soldiers during the Civil War. In time, the harder edge of "John Brown's Body" gave way to the millennial sentiments of the "Battle Hymn."
Stauffer and Soskis bring subtlety and depth to their treatment of the "Battle Hymn" in the years after the Civil War and into the next century. They are attuned to the currents of historical thinking about Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, and they show how each period adapted a version of the "Battle Hymn" for contemporary purposes. For example, Theodore Roosevelt and the impassioned delegates at the Progressive Party convention of August 1912 used the "Battle Hymn" as one of the rallying melodies for their program of economic and political reform.
In a more overtly religious context, 20th-century revivalists such as Billy Sunday and Billy Graham employed the words and melody to help bring potential converts forward during their crusades. With equal passion and moral intensity, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s explored the many ways in which the hymn could evoke and amplify devotion to racial justice.
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Three years and $300 worth of price cuts later, PS3 may finally hit the top of the hardware sales charts in America. EEDAR's analyst Jesse Divnich predicts 400,000 PS3s were sold in September, edging out both Wii and Xbox 360 sales (375k and 370k units respectively).
It's far from a landslide victory for Sony, but it may be the start of a turnaround for the long-beleaguered platform. If the hardware maintains momentum, the next issue Sony will have to tackle is software. While EEDAR's hardware numbers peg PS3 at the top, its software charts only show one PS3 game in the top 10: Batman: Arkham Asylum. With the remainder of the chart dominated by 360 and Wii games, it's clear Sony still has a long way to go in the console wars.


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On the Evolutionary Selection of Nash Equilibrium Components
Paper number: 01/06
Paper date: September 15, 2001
Year: 2001
Paper Category: Working Paper
Dieter Balkenborg and Karl H. Schlag
It is well known for the common multi-population evolutionary dynamics applied to normal form games that a pure strategy combination is asymptotically stable if and only if it is a strict equilibrium point. We extend this result to sets as follows. For certain regular selection dynamics every connected and closed asymptotically stable set of rest points containing a pure strategy combination is a strict equilibrium set and hence a Nash equilibrium component. A converse statement holds for two person games, for convex strict equilibrium sets and for the standard replicator dynamic.
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Study shows which restaurant table configurations make most money
By Linda Myers |
ITHACA, N.Y. -- If you're opening a restaurant or renovating an existing one, a new study from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration could help you increase revenues simply by purchasing and arranging the right tables.
The study, by Professor Gary Thompson, reveals, surprisingly, that midsize (about 200-seat) restaurants, particularly those affiliated with chains that serve large parties of walk-in customers, produce the most revenues with dedicated tables. Such tables are built for a variety of specific party sizes rather than made up of flexible two-seaters pushed together to form larger tables.
The study, "Dedicated or Combinable," is the latest report from Cornell's Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) and can be viewed at this Web site, which posts all CHR reports: http://www.chr.cornell.edu .
What accounts for the finding, despite the lure of flexibility that combinable tables seem to offer? The study demonstrates that large parties in midsize restaurants with combinable tables are forced to wait until many small tables vacate at once and then can be pushed together to form tables big enough to accommodate the larger groups. Thompson explains: "Placing small tables on hold awaiting the departure of parties from adjacent tables actually lowers the restaurants' space utilization more than having an empty seat or two at the dedicated tables."
The study also found that, perhaps more predictably, small (about 50-seat) independent restaurants with party sizes that tend to be small do better with small combinable tables.
To come up with his results, Thompson developed a sophisticated computer model called Tablemix, using data from an actual full-service restaurant to simulate how customers use tables. The model can be used to search for the best restaurant table configuration or to evaluate a specific restaurant configuration.
In using his model or creating their own customized model, Thompson says, chains such as Red Lobster, Cracker Barrel, Chili's and TGI Friday's have an advantage over independents because they can draw on past data on average party sizes to determine what table configurations will work best for their anticipated clientele in a new or revamped restaurant.
Thompson's findings might be less useful for new independent restaurants that are unable to predict accurately their customer mix or anticipate how it will vary during different times of the day, week and year. Also, his study assumes that vacant tables would be assigned first to the largest waiting party. He hopes future researchers on the relation between restaurant revenues and table configuration will test to see if the results are the same without that assumption as well as account for customer reaction to the aesthetics of a particular table arrangement.
In the course of Thompson's study, he observed that there were more than 8,000 possible table mixes for a 200-seat restaurant. He and a colleague are fine-tuning a measurement tool to determine the best-performing mix of tables for midsize restaurants and will issue a report on it later this year.
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There are currently less than 800 quintuplets in the entire world. Quintuplets or multiples of five were extremely rare in the history of the world, especially before the 1960s. What does this have to do with jewelry? Well, I recently came across a Dionne quintuplet souvenir charm bracelet and decided to learn more about the quints.
The Dionne quintuplets were born during the Great Depression from a single egg in 1934 in Ontario, Canada to Elzire Dionne. The quintuplets were five girls named: Annette, Cecile, Yvonne, Marie and Emilie. Their parents were ecstatic and the girls were soon deemed by the public as "miracle babies" because they were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
Although being "miracle babies" would seem like a wonderful thing, these girls had a tragic upbringing. Because of the miraculous nature of their birth, the Canadian government actually took the quintuplets and placed them in a hospital making the girls wards of the state. The girls were a modern marvel and represented excess and good fortune during the Great Depression when there was nothing positive or joyful to look at.
As the quints grew older, the government turned their hospital home into an amusement park of sorts giving it the name "Quintland". The girls had over 3,000 visitors each day that would visit at three different times throughout the day. "Quintland" hosted a total of an estimated three million tourists from 1934-1943. It became the biggest attraction in Canada, even beating out Niagara Falls. Not only did tourists pay to see the girls, but they also had the opportunity to buy a plethora of memorabilia including dolls, spoons, plates, and jewelry. The Dionne quintuplet souvenirs were even more popular then Shirley Temple memorabilia. It was estimated that the Canadian government and local businesses made over 1 billion dollars from "Quintland" and the girls never saw one dime of the money.
Although in the eyes of the public the girls looked happy and healthy, the quintuplets were in reality very unhappy with their childhood. Their parents were discouraged from seeing them and the public was allowed to view them up to three times a day. The girls did not get to enjoy many normal childhood activities because they were constantly being put on display. "It wasn't human," Cecile Dionne told The (London) Independent in a 1995 interview. "It was a circus."
Scared and alone, the girls were finally reunited with their parents after a nine year custody battle with the government. The quintuplets lived with their parents until age eighteen when they broke off all contact with their family. Today, the surviving sisters are negotiating with Ontario's government for their share of the profits made from "Quintland". Although the quintuplets had a tragic childhood, their story and existence is still a miracle that the world will remember for years to come, especially for those that purchased a souvenir such as this charm bracelet.
Sandy Compton of Uniquely Yours


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What We Need, the Basics
There are certain inalienable elements that every human needs in their environment in order to stay healthy and happy. These elements are green, timeless, and universal.
They are:
1. sunlight by day
2. darkness by night
3. greenery
4. water
5. meaningful sounds
6. fresh gently moving air
7. thermal comfort within thermal variation (not too hot or cold but some variety)
8. interaction with other humans and other species
9. a sense of safety
10. dynamic synergy among all of the above things
Any design process, whether it is moving furniture around or building a new house, should take these ten points into consideration. To do so will guide you down a path of health and happiness.
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Can you hear me? I can see you! artist talks announced
7 May 2013
Following the launch of the next exhibition in the FACT Connects Space – Can You Hear Me? I Can See You! – there will be an opportunity to hear from the artists whose prototype works are on show.
Sam Meech, Dave Lynch and Jon Astbury have each been commissioned to create their own take on the themes of communication, telepresence and science-fiction. These themes were drawn from Re-Dock's experimental workshop activities and a programme of adult education using iPads within residential homes across the North West over the last few months.
Using video, sound and services like Skype each of the three pieces experiments with past and future potentials for communication in an open-ended way: from transmitting sound using lasers, to ripping apart LCD screens and creating video databases from Skype – each of the works get under the surface of existing technologies.
Come along and find out more about the artists and their processes & inspirations for building these devices. The talks take place in the FACT Connects Space on Saturday 18 May between 2pm-4pm. They are completely free and no tickets are required.


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From: Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman <>
Subject: Re: Morris Family
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 21:30:12 -0500
>>I have Wests in my line, but I must admit I haven't resaerched too
deeply. margaret West married david Galbreath from Ireland. thought to
by Quakers. Their child David married Eliz. Janney and their child
Isaac west galbreath was thought to be the first white child born in
Tippecanoe co. IN in 1825. My gr uncle Jim was James West harbaugh.<<
What I put up there is all that I have. I can't say one way or the
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Right Now I am so far behind, I will never die. --- Unknown
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19 India
India's housing bubble has burst, meaning one of the world's untapped markets now looks like an investment opportunity.
The best markets are in the cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Pune.
Investment tip Only Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) or Non-Resident Indians (NRI) can buy in India. But 1.5 million PIOs and NRIs live in Britain.
Likely rise 10 per cent by late 2015.
For sale Two-bedroom apartments in new Mohali city are under construction. From £136,850 through Hamptons (020 7758 8488; hamptons-international.com).


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Had a quick lunch with a friend yesterday over at Star Provisions, and now looking at the picture above I am already drooling again.
I've been to SP a bunch of times, but for some reason I've never ordered take-out or sandwiches. I've only picked up cheese, meats, and mushrooms, all of which have been fantastic. They have their own cured meats and the cheese monger (fun word to say) has some good stuff and will cut you off a piece to order. Link to their 235 page cheese PDF here. The meat selection will vary but they have some interesting stuff; once I saw Kobe hot dogs. I didn't pick up any of those but I did get some great soppresata, salami, and other hard cured meats for a charcuterie plate and fancy pants grilled cheese and it ruled. More on their meats/seafood here. I forgot they have a good sized offering of oysters too; I need to remember to take advantage of that.
The entrance to SP is the same once you'd walk through to enter Bacchanalia. You can kind of see it in this dreary photo below. Between JCT, Figo, Taqueria del Sol, and the Bacchanalia/Quinones/SP medley, the parking lot is a BMW and Mercedes commercial.
Anyways, the sandwich menu is here, and that is what we were using to order. In addition to sandwiches, they have some pizzas and a Blue Plate with chicken and some good looking sides if you are hungry enough.
I went with the pastrami reuben and my friend got the shrimp po' boy.
Pretty good looking, no?
Mine was fantastic, and Sam said his was worth the $10 too. The bread on mine was fresh, but crunchy and delicious and held up well to all the greasy pastrami and cheesy sauciness. The pastrami looked too fatty at first, but it was tender and wasn't a bit chewy so I was able to eat it without pulling all the meat off with each bite. It had a lot of flavor/fatty goodness. A small bag of chips would have been nice for them to throw in at that price but all I got was a decent pickle.
Also worth noting is that The Local Farmstand, to the left of the SP entrance is now open on Tuesday's and Wednesday's starting at 10AM. They bring in fresh fruits and veggies from two farms and they had some real good lucking greens when I went in there.
Lastly – come out to this area on Saturday, where they will be having the Westside Winter Festival. More info here.
Somewhat related – I also reviewed this on Yelp. I like using Yelp to find restaurants and wanted to contribute, but am not sure about taking the time to do this site and a full Yelp review. I plan on just doing a few lines of comments in Yelp, then linking to my full write-ups here. Is that uncouth? I don't want the Yelp review to be a shameless plug for this site, but hey, I gotta real job and writing up two full posts takes some time.


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Good morning Washington.
"They have a very liberal constituency, but say they are looking for straight and credible news," says Edsall, who holds a Pulitzer chair at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. "Arianna has thousands of sources on the left and the right, and she comes up with a lot of ideas."
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Volcano El Cuatlapanga is situated near the town of Apizaco, in the state of Tlaxcala in central Mexico. When you are driving to Apizaco from Mexico City or Puebla you'll see it on your right side as soon as the roads goes up after passing Tlaxcala, the capital of the state with the same name.
Although it is generally known as a 'cerro', (Spanish for 'peak' or 'hill'), a study from 2005 by scientists from the Universidad Autónoma de México has found volcanic ashes on its slopes and therefore proclaimed it a volcano. El Cuatlapanga also appeared to be older than La Malinche. Most INEGI maps (Insituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía) still mention it as a 'cerro' and locals also refer to it as 'el cerro Cuatlapanga'.
The name Cuatlapanga comes from the indigenous language Nahuátl and means 'cabeza partida' or 'head split in two'. This is believed to refer to the head of nearby volcano Malinche, a stratovolcano that seems to have had its head chopped off which landed a few miles away and thus created Cuatlapanga.
The name Cuatlapanga is also mentioned in a local Nahuátl legend as being the warrior engaged to lady Matlalcuéyetl (the Nahuátl name of La Malinche). When Cuatlapanga was called to go fight a war far away, Matlalcuéyetl was left behind very saddened but hopefull to see her beloved one return in good health soon. Cuatlapanga's war however did not come to an end as soon as was expected. As such many years went by and when he did return home he found lady Matlalcuéyetl to have died out of sadness and loneliness. He went to her grave where he cried and stayed transformed into what is know today as 'El cerro Cuatlapanga'.
The people of Cuaxomulco have built fourteen chapels along the trail that goes to the summit, where a big statue of Jesus Crist has been put in place. Every year in July a procession (with supposedly as many as a thousand participants) goes up to the summit halting at every chapel for prayers with a final mass at the feet of Cristo Rey on the summit.
It makes a nice day hike from Apizaco, although it doesn't receive as many visitors as its famous neighbouring volcano La Malinche. Unfortunately, a fire destroyed 80 acres of forest (which is about half of it) on the slopes of El Cuatlapanga in April 2009. The trail to the summit takes you partly through the burned forest but the upper part still has dense forest as you go up on a steep rocky trail. At 2900m it is an easy climb with a summit that is reached in about an hour from the trailhead.
Getting There
You'll find the trailhead in the village of San Antonio Cuaxomulco. To get there, first go to Apizaco. From Mexico City it takes two hours to get there by bus (100 pesos) from the east-bound bus terminal or TAPO (metro San Lazaro).
In Apizaco you can take a collectivo (local minibus) to Cuaxomulco from the corner of Calle Jesus Carranza and Avenida Benito Juarez. It drives through the village of San Andrés Ahuahuatepec and then to Cuaxomulco. Tell the driver you'll get off at the stop named 'La Palma', in the neighbourhood of 'Primera Seccion' (on the corner of Calle Baltazar Maldonado and Calle Guadelupe).
From here it's about half an hour to get to the actual trailhead where the road turn into a trail. From La Palma walk towards the volcano, turn left, then right and go straight ahead untill you reach a church on your right and a soccer field on your left side. To get to this point you could also take a taxi across the road from where the collectivo's leave. The taxi have signs saying 'Cuaxomulco' or 'El Cuatlapanga', the fare is about 35 pesos.
The Trail
From the church on your right side at the trailhead the road splits in two after about 100m. This is where you have to take the trail going right! The road going left goes all the way around the volcano and ends up in San José Teacalco, the village behind it. After about 10 minutes you will see on your right hand side an little white chapel (this fourth out of fourteen). Twenty meters further up the road, take the trail going left. This is the trail the will take you all the way up to the summit. You will see plenty of white chapels on the way up.
There are no sidetracks, and the trail is very easy to follow. At the lower slopes you'll walk through the part of the forest that was destroyed by the fire, but further up the volcano (around chapel IX), the trail becomes more uneven, more narrow with rocks. It takes about an hour from the trailhead to reach the summit, which has a big statue of Jesus Christ on it (locals call it Cristo Rey).
When to go & other things to do in the area
You can climb El Cuatlapanga year round. However, during the rainy season (roughly June to October) there is a decent chance of rain, especially in the afternoon. There will also be more clouds blocking any views so I would really consider going there in the dry season November to March.
I've observed clear skies and no rain for days in a row during the rainy season, and cloudy days with afternoon rains during the dry season, so exceptions are possible!
The nearest next climb would be La Malinche with is 4462m. You can take a collectivo to the 'Centro Vaccional La Malintzi' after climbing El Cuatlapanga from the bus stop La Palma in San Antonio Cuaxuomulco, although you might have to wait a while if you just missed one. If you do return to Apizaco, you can take a collectivo in front of the Elektra shop near the corner of Avenida Benito Juarez with Calle Aquiles Serdan.
Tlaxco slot canyon is also an interesting place to visit. Head north to the town of Tlaxco (45min by bus). It's a short walk from Tlaxco's main square to the canyon.
El Peñón del Rosario is at 3420m another nice climb in the area. You'll find the trailhead in Acopinalco del Peñón, 8 km west of Tlaxco.
Red Tape and camping
There is no red tape, no restrictions. I guess you could camp somewhere in the forest, but it's quite uncommon because this is a rather short hike. There is plenty of budget accomodation in Apizaco. Hotel San Pablo on Calle Francisco Sarabia, in front of the Atah bus terminal has rooms at 150 pesos for a single, 250 for a double room (with tv and hot shower).


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No one who works hard in America should be poor, says journalist and author Shipler, but he found many of them all across the country, and delves as deeply into the cause and effect of their condition as they would allow. Some he has followed for years now. One finding is that the rise and fall of the nation's official economy has almost no impact on them; another is that they have no time for rage. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Working Poor and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed, a book that eloquently covers some of the same ground, should be required reading not just for every member of Congress, but for every eligible voter. Now that this invisible world has been so powerfully brought to light, its consequences can no longer be ignored or denied. Eric Schlosser


text: I've just finished rehabbing this cab. Had no speakers in it when I got it. For a 39 year old cab, it was in pretty decent shape. I had to rework the speaker attachment holes and rework the wheels. The rest was mostly cleaning, cleaning and cleaning, especially the mandatory paint splatters, buffing, touchups etc. I installed a nice pair of JBL D140F's. They just oozed warmth, tone and amazing volume with a 325 watt SUNN Coliseum head. Then, just for fun, I added a SUNN 200S 2x15 cab, also with JBL D140F's, to the party. What a party! Even more of everything. Makes me a very happy bass thumper.


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[ syll. sa-nyoo, san-y-oo ] The baby boy name Sanyoo is pronounced as SAANYUW- †. Sanyoo's origin is African-Luganda. Sanyoo is a variant of the name Sanyu.
See also the related category luganda.
Sanyoo is a rare baby boy name. It is not listed in the top 1000.
Baby names that sound like Sanyoo include Saami (Arabic), Saamy, Sachen, Sachin, Sagen, Sagun, Sahaen, Sahaene, Sahain, Sahaine, Sahan, Sahane, Sahayn, Sahayne, Sahen, Sahin, Sahon, Sajan (Indian), Sajann, and Sajjan (Indian).
† approx English pronunciation for Sanyoo: S as in "see (S.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; Y as in "you (Y.UW)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)"


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Real Estate Continuing Education
Once licensed, real estate brokers must take eight hours of continuing education each licensed year. Four hours must consist of the Mandatory Real Estate Update, while the remaining four hours will be an approved elective. For a designated Broker In Charge (BIC), the Broker-In-Charge Annual Review course can meet the elective requirement.


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BALTIMORE (AP) -- Koji Uehara allowed one run over five innings in his major league debut, Nick Markakis went 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs, and the Baltimore Orioles beat Chien-Ming Wang and the New York Yankees 7-5 Wednesday night.
Rays 7, Red Sox 2
BOSTON -- Scott Kazmir pitched six solid innings and the bullpen preserved the lead, giving the AL champion Tampa Bay Rays their first win of the season. Carlos Pena hit a two-run homer after striking out in his first five at-bats this season, Evan Longoria went deep and Grant Balfour got out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning by striking out Jed Lowrie.
Royals 2, White Sox 0
CHICAGO -- Zack Greinke pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning and the Kansas City bullpen was perfect against the Chicago White Sox.
Tigers 5, Blue Jays 1
TORONTO -- Miguel Cabrera homered twice, Brandon Inge connected for the third consecutive game and the Detroit Tigers beat the Toronto Blue Jays for their first victory of the season.
Twins 6, Mariners 5
MINNEAPOLIS -- Justin Morneau homered and drove in three runs, Jason Kubel hit the go-ahead RBI double in the fifth inning and the Minnesota Twins beat Seattle.
National League
PHILADELPHIA -- First, they got their bling. Then, they got their first win.
Four Phillies walked with the bases loaded during an eight-run seventh inning and Philadelphia rallied for a 12-11 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday.
Marlins 6, Nationals 4
MIAMI -- Dan Uggla hit a tiebreaking three-run double, Chris Volstad was almost flawless after a shaky first inning, and Florida completed the three-game sweep.
Rockies 9, Diamondbacks 2
PHOENIX -- Dexter Fowler, Yorvit Torrealba and Ian Stewart homered and Colorado won a series against Arizona for the first time in two years.
Franklin Morales (1-0) allowed one run and four hits, struck out six and walked one in six innings for the Rockies. Stephen Drew had a solo homer for the Diamondbacks in the first. Doug Davis (0-1) gave up four runs and four hits in five innings.
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Friends of the Library help with weekend auction
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(Jennifer Priest Mitchell is a freelance writer in Beaverton. She can be reached at jnjmitchellyahoo.com.)
The Beaverton City Library is a lot of things to a lot of people - a resource for job searches, a place where children and teens learn and make friends, and a wealth of information about almost anything you could imagine.
A select group of people can also say that they are friends of the library. The reason they can say this is because they've joined the group by the same name, which makes a difference for the library and runs the nearby Book Corner Book Shop.
The New Friends of the Beaverton City Library includes more than 25 volunteers who come in regularly and run the Book Corner Book Shop.
Made up entirely of volunteers who are not city employees nor directly affiliated with the city or the library, this group is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, operating independently of yet on behalf of the library.
'It's simple to join,' said Carol Marshall, as she showed me the form explaining that an annual family membership is a mere $12.00 per year.
Marshall is the president of the New Friends of the Beaverton City Library and an active volunteer with the Book Corner, managed by Ann Koppy.
The latest big news of the Friends is its annual fund-raiser, an auction of themed baskets, which will occur this Sunday, July 16, from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Book Corner.
Sue Stimek, now serving her third year as a board member, has worked diligently and applied her auction experience to the organization on this event.
'Oh, it's been fun to plan,' she said with a warm laugh. Stimek's enthusiasm for this event is contagious and inspiring. She said it does not feel like work when you get to collaborate alongside so many wonderful people and for such a terrific cause.
'This will be a great event. While it is a member event, it is very reasonable to join, and we will be accepting new members at the auction. Anyone can come,' she said. 'We will have refreshments and many wonderful people will attend.
'From 3:15 to 4:30, we will have a silent auction of baskets valued between $10 and $35. Then from 4:15 to 5:30, we will have another table open for a second round of the silent auction with higher priced items, such as six hours of architectural design time from the firm that helped redesign the Book Corner.'
Stimek excitedly shared that all proceeds from the auction will go to the Beaverton City Library, which has a running wish list of needed items. In the past, other fund-raisers have supported furniture for the children's area of the library and CD cases.
Stimek said she enjoys auction work and has great experience in that area, but it is clear by talking to her that the Friends and the library hold a special place in her heart.
'I love to be with the people at the bookstore … the patrons and the volunteers. It is such a great group of people,' she explained warmly.
Stimek volunteers at the Book Corner on the first Saturday of each month and has become well-known for the assortment of cookies she bakes at home and brings in to share with others.
She delights in telling people that some of the cookies she bakes are from a cookbook she bought at the bookstore.
The Book Corner has an amazing selection of both fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. With the exception of a few antique or out-of-print titles, all books sell for $1 for a hardback and 50 cents for a paperback. They also accept donations of used books in a wide array of genres.
In addition to the need for regular volunteers (and regular can be as often as once a week or as seldom as once a month), the Book Corner is currently seeking a volunteer to help with Web site development and maintenance. Please contact them if you or an agency you know of may be able to donate time and services to this project.
When she is not volunteering with the library and its bookstore or baking cookies, Stimek said she enjoys the natural beauty of Oregon.
'I came here 23 years ago,' Stimek said. 'I was born and raised in Chicago and I moved here and have never gone back … only to visit. Where else can you live so close to the mountains, to the ocean, and even to the desert, and have all this beauty so accessible all the time?'
For more information about the New Friends of the Beaverton City Library and the July 16 silent auction, please call 503-643-5188.


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Take to the river on Saturday
Hundreds of Oregonians will take to the water Saturday, Oct. 5, for the fifth-annual Great Willamette Cleanup sponsored by Willamette Riverkeeper.
Volunteers will blanket the riverside from Eugene to Portland to pick up trash and leave the river in a healthier and prettier state.
Canoes and kayaks are available at some locations, and volunteers can bring their own.
Last year, more than 900 people volunteered in groups in the Portland area, Eugene, Corvallis, Salem and Newberg.
To sign up for a team, go to: willametteriverkeeper.org.


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Guest Opinion: ALM Model Assumptions Need to Be Tested
An asset-liability management model makes a number of complex calculations for computing your credit union's interest rate risk. The model's results depend on the assumptions and whether the model was set up correctly to handle them. An ALM model summarizes results in a variety of standardized formats, many of which allow you to assess the interest rate risk exposure of your credit union. With all the complexities of an ALM model, you want to know that is it incorporating assumptions the way you intended. It's important to look inside the black box to assess your model's effectiveness. One way to do this is evaluate the model's output for reasonableness. A good place to start would be the fair value matrix report.
The fair value matrix report lists detailed categories in the left column followed by columns showing the fair value computation for the flat rate scenario and each rate shock (up or down 100, 200 and 300 basis points). This report, while important, is difficult to analyze. For example, you want to know if the model is incorporating prepayment speeds as intended, and if so, what is the impact on fair value. Ideally, if you can get this report in a spreadsheet format, you can perform a few calculations that will make the results easier to analyze.
The first calculation expresses shocked fair value results in a format similar to that used for bond pricing. For example, a bond trading at par would have a price of 100 while one trading at a discount may have a price of 98, and so on. Compute the ratio of flat to shocked fair values for each category under each scenario and multiply by 100. Let's use a hypothetical portfolio of fixed-rate 30-year mortgages. If the fair value of the first mortgage portfolio under flat rates was $1,200,000, and its fair value in a plus-100 basis point rate shock was $1,147,200, the calculation would be (1,147,200/1,200,000) * 100 = 95.60. The results are in the Table 1.
By using a common base, Table 1 allows you to assess interest rate sensitivity for each category at a glance. You can also get an idea if the model's results make sense. For example, you would expect fixed-rate loans to decline in value as rates increase and the intensity of decline to vary based on the underlying characteristics of the portfolio such as loan maturities, payment frequencies, interest rates and prepayment assumptions.
It would also be beneficial to express the impact of rate shocks in terms of its percentage change in fair value for each rate shock category. To do this, subtract 100 from values computed in the table. For example, the +100 column for first-mortgage loans in Table 1 would be computed as 95.60 – 100 = -4.40. So the fair value of this category of loans would be expected to decline 4.40% if rates were shocked up 100 basis points. The results are presented in Table 2.
The format in Table 2 makes it easier to analyze the effect on fair value of different rate shocks for each category. Finally, perform calculations to express the results in Table 2 as the total percentage change per 100 basis points. The values for +100 and -100 columns in Table 2 remain the same. The value of the +200 column is computed as -10.10/2 = -5.05 and the value of the +300 column is computed as -16.17/3 = -5.39. See Table 3.
Table 3 tells more of the story than the previous two tables. What first stands out is that rate sensitivities grow as market rates increase. In this case, growing sensitivities are due to declining prepayment speeds as rates rise. Slower prepayment speeds mean it will take longer to receive the full loan principal, which results in a lower fair value. The results thus indicate that the model is factoring in changing loan prepayment speeds as rates increase or decrease. It doesn't tell us that the changes in prepayment speeds are reasonable, just that the effects of higher or lower rates on prepayment speeds are considered in the calculations.
Evaluating rate sensitivities per 100 basis points is an ideal way to determine if prepayment speeds and decay rates are being incorporated in your ALM model as intended and to assess the reasonableness of the results and overall effectiveness of the model. It allows for a more apples-to-apples comparison between rate sensitivities and between categories. More importantly, it allows you to zero in on possible errors that may exist in the model's set-up, assumptions or data inputs. By looking inside the black box you can gain a better understanding of the interest rate risk at your credit union and uncover possible errors before the results are summarized and evaluated against board-approved limits.
Brad Smith is president of ALM Risk Management Consulting LLC.
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If you're looking for a lesson in the good life, look no further than Robert August. The Seal Beach native grew up surfing, was president of the student body at Huntington High School and planned to go on to university and become a dentist. His well-manicured plans were interrupted when Bruce Brown approached him to star in The Endless Summer, the first great surfing film, taking him on a seven-month world tour of uncharted breaks. The rest, as they say, is history. August went on to launch an eponymous line of surfboards, which he still shapes today. We caught up with him at Witch's Rock Surf Camp in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, to talk about parenting, lamb chops and the difference between monkeys and people.
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Video: Drake Takes A Shot Out of His GRAMMY
Nothing Was The Same arrives September 17.
Previously: Drake ft. Sampha – The Motion (Prod. by Sampha & 40)
Nothing Was The Same arrives September 17.
Previously: Drake ft. Sampha – The Motion (Prod. by Sampha & 40)
These niggas did not take a shot out the same damn grammy…
>>> Drake real accent
Canadians speak inferior english
Watch the video nahggers
Look closely at the houses
House look like Lord of The Rings props, right?
Drake got money, why he live in Narnia?
Catch a body?
Goons, I don't see.
Cop that Mac, Ye and Gibbs.
Worth the money.
Do the same.
Don't get confused.
New drake going to be worth a few dollars too.
Smh lol HELLUVA night…Good Times….
why he live in Narnia?
^ lulz, let me find out Drizzy got fighting polar bears in his backyard
Taking credit for some you aint do will only hurt you in the end
We wanna kill you by mobb deep on repeat
Nigga actually thought I'm gonna upload a pic of dinner and good times on demand to prove something to HIM. The stupidity and audacity of it all.
Dude put in a 24 hour shift ON THE WEEKEND on a blog …you got nothing to say to me cuzzo.
Whoopty doo nigga D list rappers kicked me off the stage at a show I was invited to. Who knows them niggas really? It was ONLY 150 people there.
Keep bringing that up as if you know what you're talking about. Every time you do it you just look stupid and give me more insight into the fact you don't know shit. Or who I had problems with.
…problem is you can't keep it real with yourself and that's why you can't understand how I keep it real. Your mind be having breakdowns and stalling out. Which is why you show out, crash and burn tryna make me look stupid.
Nigga you got too much foolish pride, and it shows in every compensatory comment you type.
How the fuck a "mask" project? Get out of your feelings nigga…you couldn't be no street nigga or FBI agent nor undercover cop. Let's me know you just a lame ass nigga with too much to prove for no reason.
Fuck your shadow league
See me nigga
Daps everybody. It's kinda dead in this bitch lol
esgn >
not as good as bfk and a lil repetitive
but more than enough tracks to make someone throw up random gang signs
Hov did it first tho
All jokes about drinking a shot out of the same container aside (which I'd never do LOL), Drake does seem pretty sincere at the end.
I'm definitely turning down any offer to drink after somebody who isn't my kid or my wife, though. LOL.
Drake takes a shot out of Nas's rightful Grammy.


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However, when I attempt to revert changes in the CMS, only the data in the fields from SiteTree and Page appears. The custom fields in SomePageType do not save or load in the revision history. Is this a glitch, or am I doing something wrong?


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Missing the playoffs is not something you ever want to be really good at, but at least the last few years have given the Edmonton Oilers the necessary skills to deal with another depressing stretch drive.
That's why nobody's depressed.
If there's one stark difference between this lost season and Edmonton's previous seven death marches, it's the absence of a big, dark cloud in the dressing room. It doesn't mean the Oilers are slowing coming to accept failure, but rather that they understand how pouting will only make things worse.
"This is my fourth year, it's not fun," said winger Jordan Eberle, after an upbeat and spirited practice in advance of Thursday's return to action against the Minnesota Wild.
"Plain and simply you want to be in a spot where you're fighting for a position late in the season. But I've been here before, and the biggest thing is you have to keep positive.
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Posted 13 Mar 2012
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Hi telerik,
I had a custom appointment inherits from IAppointment as shown in your document,
but save button is disabled when appointment is newly created or edited after that.
However it is enabled when editing originally saved appointment which is loaded on scheduleview open.
I've read related thread and used CommandMnager.InvalidatexxxRequery on OnPropertyChanged
of custom appointment class,but same result.
I'm not using IDataErrornfo and any validation on edit widnow . What am I missing ?
I attached my custom class and imge.
public class OrderAppointEntity : Appointment,IOrderAppointmentEntity
private string _partNo = string.Empty;
public string PartNo
get { return this.Storage<
>()._partNo; }
var storage = this.Storage<
if (storage._partNo != value)
storage._partNo = value;
this.OnPropertyChanged(() => this.PartNo);
public override IAppointment Copy()
var newAppointment = new OrderAppointEntity();
return newAppointment;
public override void CopyFrom(IAppointment other)
var order = other as OrderAppointEntity;
if (order != null)
FetchInfo(order.Id, order.Qty, order.PartNo, order.OrderType, order.Start, order.Unit);
public void FetchInfo(int id, decimal qty, string partNo, OrderTypeEnums ordrType, DateTime start, string unit)
this.Id = id;
this.Qty = qty;
this.PartNo = partNo;
this.OrderType = ordrType;
this.Start = start;
this.DateString = start.ToString("d");
this.DelTime = start - start.Date;
// always set 2 hrs
this.End = start.AddHours(2);
this.Unit = unit;
I only use Start/Subject/End property among original ones.
My version is 2012.02.
Thank you in advance.
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Classes resume at schools across the state this week and teachers in Hartford are pulling out all the stops to get ready for the new school year.
"I'm ready," said Mario Marrero, Hartford's 2013 Teacher of the Year, who joined hundreds of teachers on Monday morning at Weaver High School for Convocation 2013.
The event is aimed at getting teachers in Hartford pumped for the first day of school tomorrow.
"I'm actually looking forward to starting school tomorrow. … I miss my kids," Marrero said.
Students were also excited about returning to class.
"It's a new year and new friends are coming. High school is just around the corner," Yasley Rivera said.
"It's good to be back in school, back into the swing of things," said 8th grader Dymond Smith.
Hartford Superintendent Dr. Christina Kishimoto said that while students have been on break, teachers have been hard at work all summer, getting ready for the next school year.
"We're preparing future leaders. These students are going to enter the workforce. They're going to be our future leaders, leading organizations, taking our place," Kishimoto said.


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(Update, January 31, 3:55 p.m. EST -- Both Norwegian Star and Carnival Spirit are scheduled to call in Mazatlan on Tuesday -- neither line has announced any changes at this time. Holland America spokesman Erik Elvejord has confirmed that Oosterdam will call in Mazatlan on Wednesday as scheduled, and that the line is continuing to monitor the situation closely. We'll keep you posted.)
(1:45 p.m. EST) -- Holland America and Princess Cruises have now both canceled calls to Mazatlan, following the lead of Disney Cruise Line, which pulled the port from Disney Wonder's seven-night Mexican Riviera sailings indefinitely.
Donaldm, who is currently sailing aboard Sapphire Princess, posted the following this morning on the Cruise Critic boards: "The official announcement says in part: 'There have been recent incidents of violence in the Mazatlan area. As the safety and security of our passengers and crew in our priority, we reviewed our call to Mazatlan with our Security Department shoreside. Based on information provided, Princess Cruises, along with a few other cruise lines made the decision to cancel our call to Mazatlan this week.'"
Sapphire Princess is in the midst of a weeklong cruise in the region. Instead of its previously scheduled half-day call in Cabo on Thursday, the ship will stay for a full-day on Wednesday (when it would have called in Mazatlan) and spend a full day in Ensenada on Thursday.
However, the Princess change may not be permanent. According to line spokeswoman Karen Candy, "We have not made itinerary changes to future Mexican Riviera cruises for Sapphire Princess. Our next Mexican Riviera cruise will depart Los Angeles on February 12, 2011 and we will continue to monitor the situation and communicate any new developments or itinerary change."
Holland America's Oosterdam, which embarked on January 22 for a seven-day Mexico cruise, has replaced today's scheduled port call in Mazatlan with a call in Manzanillo. According to a statement from the line, the change was made "in response to recent incidents of violence in Mazatlan. Discussions will be occurring with local authorities to determine what steps are being taken to address this issue."
Like Princess, Holland America has only confirmed the Mazatlan cancellation for the current sailing. The line said it will make decisions regarding future calls on the basis of developments in Mazatlan and discussions with local authorities.
These changes come in the wake of a string of violent crimes in Mazatlan, including an incident in which a 68-year-old man from British Columbia was shot in the leg during an alleged gang shooting on January 17. Furthermore, the Mazatlan Messenger, an online newspaper that covers Mazatlan and surrounding areas, reported on Monday that in January alone, "31 people have been killed in violent incidents, three of which occurred last Thursday."
In response to the situation, The Mazatlan Tourism Trust issued a statement calling the incidents extremely rare and the port city "one of the safest destinations in Mexico, legendary for its history, culture and the warm hospitality of its people."
"What other other cities would they pull out if they applied the same rule? Miami, Los Angeles?" asked MTT spokesperson Julio Birrueta. "It's more perception than anything else," he added.
Still, according to Birrueta, authorities have been quick to act, and the Public Safety Ministry designated a special Mazatlan assignment for 120 elite police officers.
"As you know, Mexico has a challenge in what we call the border areas [between Mexico and the United States]," he said. "We're 1,000 miles away, and we're really trying to make sure it doesn't spill into our tourist areas. We don't want the [recent] incidents to happen again."
In the past few months, a string of other cruise lines -- including Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line and Carnival Cruise Lines -- have announced departures from the region, citing decreased demand, possibly due to health and security concerns.
Carnival and NCL, both of which currently have ships sailing in the region, have not reported any itinerary adjustments. Carnival spokeswoman Jennifer De La Cruz told Cruise Critic Wednesday afternoon that with Carnival Spirit's planned Mazatlan call more than a week away, "we are continuing to evaluate the situation but have not made any changes at this time."
We'll be sure to keep you posted with any additional updates.
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(Update, January 31, 3:55 p.m. EST -- Both Norwegian Star and Carnival Spirit are scheduled to call in Mazatlan on Tuesday -- neither line has announced any changes at this time. Holland America spokesman Erik Elvejord has confirmed that Oosterdam will call in Mazatlan on Wednesday as scheduled, and that the line is continuing to monitor the situation closely. We'll keep you posted.)


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