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"1989 – a year of magical wonders, when I was born and the Berlin Wall went under", Michael Andersson wrote in the first verse of a motivational poem which changed his life.
In October, German airline Lufthansa launched what may be the looniest campaign to ever take off: Swedes who love Berlin had the chance to win a new life in the German capital by proving their devotion – by legally changing their name to Klaus-Heidi.
"Hopefully at least one person will do it," Lufthansa's marketing specialist Magnus Engvall told The Local at the beginning of the campaign.
Andersson was one of 42 Swedes who did.
But there could be only one, and on Saturday the airline invited Klaus-Heidis and media from across the nation to a night of sausage, beer, and more songs about Berlin than anyone knew existed. And at the end of the night, a golden key in a decadent box was presented to Michael Klaus-Heidi Andersson.
"It was totally unreal. It was an intense party, and I wasn't really nervous before the party, but I got nervous right before they revealed the winner," Andersson told The Local. "And then I just felt really great. I've heard that Berlin is a beautiful place to go and there's a lot happening there. So I want to see what it's all about and discover Berlin."
Andersson was born and raised in the solitary Swedish countryside, and currently works at a recruiting company in Fjugesta, a small town outside the city of Örebro.
"Fjugesta is a really small town, and I'm actually from the countryside far outside of the town. It's very . . .private," Andersson said.
That's all about to change, as Andersson's job contract ends on December 31st, and days later he sets off for a new life in bustling Berlin, where his new apartment – prepaid for the first year – awaits him.
"For the first few weeks I'll probably just go around sightseeing and get a feel for Berlin. And then we'll see what happens. I've told German media that I really want to get a job, but it's really just that I want something to do, something to keep my mind active. So I don't lose my mind," Andersson laughed.
Andersson found out about the quirky contest from his brother-in-law, who thought it sounded like something he would do. He was right.
"I looked at it during the evening and just thought, 'This is crazy'," Andersson recalled. "And then I went to bed and I just couldn't sleep. I thought about it all night. And so the next day I printed out the name-change paper, filled it in, and posted it without telling anyone."
He told his parents the next day – his dad was amused, his mum simply perplexed – and his colleagues the next day.
"I still think my grandma doesn't know," Andersson mused. "I have to go tell her and make sure she doesn't have a heart attack."
Each contestant had to include a motivational statement detailing why they wanted to win. Andersson, known among his family and friends for his humour and spontaneity, wrote his motivation in rhymes, with quirky lines in same vein of eccentricity as the contest itself.
"Small frogs, Volvo, and sill," the poem opens, referring to traditional Swedish midsummer songs, food, and cars. "Nein danke, I want something else." Andersson goes on to describe – more out of humour than sincerity – of his childhood dreams of bratwurst, German castles, and driving on the autobahn.
Other perks of Klaus-Heidi's brand-new Berlin life include private lessons in the German language, a bike with his name on it, two flights within Germany to go exploring, a travel bag, and a Berlin tourist card with free access to various museums and activities. Oh, and an apparently hunky neighbour named Dieter who, like the rest of Berlin, is eager to receive Klaus-Heidi.
In the meantime Andersson is tying up loose ends and preparing to become a Berliner.
"I think what I love about travelling is that you get to meet new groups of people with different habits from Swedes. They might be nicer, they might be crazier, grumpier, anything. I think I'm ready for something new."
Even the mayor looks forward to meeting Klaus-Heidi.
"You guys are a bit crazy – endearingly crazy," Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit wrote to the contestants in a statement read at the event. "And you'll fit in wonderfully here. Maybe only Swedes are capable of such craziness. But it's exactly that type of people Berlin needs!"
Solveig Rundquist


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History plays in an endless loop. At the office window, down at the airport, on Thursday, April 30, 1992, we all stopped working and looked out over Imperial Highway and the main runway and watched Los Angeles burning. The scattered columns of smoke rose in the distance, all over the city, out to the mountains.
That was the second day of the massive Los Angeles riots – the largest riots since the sixties after Martin Luther King was assassinated, and the death toll this time was fifty-three, the worst death toll since the New York City draft riots way back in 1863, not that anyone remembers those. These lasted six days, with about a billion dollars of damage done to everything. Koreatown went up in flames. Even shops here on Hollywood Boulevard were looted and burned – many of them still have metal roll-up security doors than rattle down each night, in case something like that ever happens again.
We watched from the office window. A young African-American computer programmer said she was ashamed for her people. A white guy said he was ashamed for the human race. Management sent us home early, if you could get home. That night, Bill Cosby spoke on the NBC affiliate out here, KNBC, and asked people to stop what the hell they thought they were doing and watch the final episode of The Cosby Show instead. He's a strange dude, and seems even stranger now as it seems he was a serial rapist all along, but back then he was trying to be helpful – or he was worried about his ratings.
That didn't help:
The third day was punctuated by live footage of Rodney King at an impromptu news conference in front of his lawyer's Los Angeles offices on Wilshire & Doheny, tearfully saying, "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" That morning, at 1:00 am, California Governor Pete Wilson had requested federal assistance, but it was not ready until Saturday, by which time the rioting and looting was under control. The 40th Infantry Division (doubled to 4,000 troops) continued to move into the city in Humvees, eventually seeing 10,000 Army National Guard troops activated. Additionally, a varied contingent of 1,700 federal law-enforcement officers from different agencies from across the state began to arrive, to protect federal facilities and assist local police. As darkness fell, the main riot area was further hit by a power cut.
Friday evening, U.S. President George H. W. Bush addressed the country, denouncing "random terror and lawlessness", summarizing his discussions with Mayor Bradley and Governor Wilson, and outlining the federal assistance he was making available to local authorities. Citing the "urgent need to restore order" he warned that the "brutality of a mob" would not be tolerated and he would "use whatever force is necessary."
And then it was over. Not much force was really necessary. The riots had run their course. There wasn't much more to burn, and there was no point in burning anything anyway. Nothing was going to change. The previous year, four or five white Los Angeles Police Department officers had beaten the crap out of Rodney King, who was black, after a car chase. King had given up and was on the ground, but they kept beating him with their nightsticks, and then they kicked him around, and then beat him a bit more. It happens, but someone had caught it all on videotape and had shopped that amateur videotape to the media. Everyone out here saw those white cops beating that helpless black guy on the ground, who was just lying there half-conscious, and beating him again and again. It seemed to go on for eight or ten minutes. It didn't, but the LAPD was still in a fix. The officers were finally brought to trial.
Then there was that change-of-venue motion. They couldn't have the trial downtown in the city – the people were too outraged. They couldn't be fair. The trial was moved out to Simi Valley, at the far end of the San Fernando Valley, where, curiously, almost all the folks were white and where a whole lot of LAPD cops had retired. Ronald Reagan is buried at his ranch in the nearby hills. On April 29, 1992, the seventh day of jury deliberations, the jury out there acquitted all four officers of assault, and acquitted three of the four of using excessive force. Maybe one of them had gone a bit overboard, but they were deadlocked on that last charge. All four officers walked. The riots followed.
They were inevitable. African-Americans had had just about enough of this crap. Lincoln had freed the slaves. Martin Luther King had forced the country to change the law – the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had been signed, sealed and delivered – but even now white cops, in a pack, could beat a single black man, who had already surrendered to them, nearly to death – and walk. Do you think that's okay, whitey? You'll be sorry.
In the end everyone was sorry. Much was lost in those riots and little was gained, except for a few police reforms, not quite implemented yet. Whites did, however, become more fearful, and angry that they had been forced to become more fearful. Blacks saw nothing much would change. They saw that their anger, while satisfying for a week or so, made them look like thugs – or like fools who burned down their own neighborhoods. They also saw that their anger alone changed nothing.
In fact, Los Angeles hasn't changed much, except that the cops are a bit more careful now, or circumspect, and America hasn't changed much. Two years ago it was Missouri:
A St. Louis County grand jury has brought no criminal charges against Darren Wilson, a white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, more than three months ago in nearby Ferguson.
There were riots, there was looting, but that too burned itself out and nothing much changed. More unarmed African-American teenagers or young men would be shot to death by some white police officer "who legitimately feared for his life" – except the guy on Staten Island was choked to death. This seemed to happen every eight to ten days. We got a Black Lives Matter movement. Democrats lined up behind that. We got a Blue Lives Matter movement too – the cops do fear for their lives, for good reason, and the Black Lives Matter folks want to kill cops, really, or so the Blue Lives Matter folks say. Republicans lined up behind that. Fox News hammered that home. Each side settled in, sure they were right. America got used to that.
This was, however, an inherently unstable situation. Dallas had to happen:
Following the death of the five police officers who were killed in a shooting Thursday, President Obama plans to cut his trip to Europe short by one day, returning from Spain on Sunday night so he can travel to Dallas early next week.
"Later in the week, at the White House, the President will continue the work to bring people together to support our police officers and communities, and find common ground by discussing policy ideas for addressing the persistent racial disparities in our criminal justice system," the White House said in a statement.
This was Obama being Obama – both sides have a point – let's work this out – but that won't be easy:
Along with the five officers who died, seven others were wounded Thursday night when sniper fire from what turned out to be a lone gunman turned a peaceful protest over recent police shootings into a scene of chaos and terror.
The gunfire was followed by a standoff that lasted for hours when the attacker told authorities "he was upset about the recent police shootings" and "said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers," according to Dallas Police Chief David Brown. The gunman was killed when police detonated a bomb-equipped robot.
Fine, perhaps – sending in a bomb, by robot, seems a bit odd – but that wasn't the end of it:
The violence did not end in Dallas. Officers were also shot Friday in Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. In Georgia, police said a man called 9-1-1 and then shot at the responding officer, wounding him, the Associated Press reported. And a police officer was in critical condition in St. Louis after being shot during a traffic stop Friday morning, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Police said Friday that Micah Xavier Johnson, a black 25-year-old believed to be from the Dallas area, was the attacker. Dallas Mayor S. Mike Rawlings told the Associated Press Johnson used an AR-15 assault weapon in the ambush.
Johnson, who had no criminal history, deployed to Afghanistan with the U.S. Army from November 2013 through July 2014 and was in the Army Reserve from 2009 until last year. Army records show that Johnson, whose home was listed as Mesquite, Tex., had served with an engineering brigade before he was sent to Afghanistan. He did not have a combat job and was listed as a carpentry and masonry specialist.
The Dallas Police Department said Friday that during a search of Johnson's home, they found "bomb making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics." Authorities said they were still investigating the journal's contents.
Yep, he was an Army guy, not from ISIS or anything, and what he did set off others, and what set him off was clear:
For hours after the assault, police were locked in a standoff with Johnson after he was cornered on the second floor of a building downtown. Police exchanged gunfire with him and negotiated with him, but those discussions broke down, Brown said.
In those conversations, Brown said Johnson told police that "he was upset about Black Lives Matter" and angered by the police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota that dominated national news this week after officers in both places fatally shot black men. Johnson also said he was not involved with any groups and acted alone, Brown said.
During the standoff, Johnson also told authorities that "the end is coming" and spoke about bombs being placed downtown, though no explosives had been found by Friday.
That's good, but the damage was done:
Police chiefs in Washington, Los Angeles County, Boston, Nassau County and St. Louis instructed their patrol officers to pair up, as did officials in Las Vegas, where two officers were gunned down in an ambush while eating lunch in 2014, and New York, where two officers were killed in another ambush that same year.
Terry Cunningham, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the chief of police in Wellesley, Mass., said Friday that officers nationwide "really are going to have to have vigilance. Any traffic stop, at any time, can be deadly. I don't know what this means. I don't know if this means more violence perpetrated toward law enforcement as a result of this."
Officials in Tennessee said Friday that they believed a man who opened fire on a parkway there before exchanging gunshots with police may have been prompted by concerns over encounters involving police and black Americans.
That means that Obama will have a lot to balance:
The mass shooting in Dallas comes amid intense scrutiny of police officers and how they use deadly force, an issue that returned to prominence in the news this week after videos circulated of a fatal shooting in Baton Rouge and the aftermath of another in Minnesota. On Tuesday morning, Alton Sterling was fatally shot by police in Baton Rouge; less than 48 hours later, Philando Castile was fatally shot by an officer in Minnesota.
Obama, who after arriving in Warsaw discussed how troubling the events in Minnesota and Louisiana were, spoke about the Dallas attack and said there was "no possible justification" for the shooting in the city.
"I believe that I speak for every single American when I say that we are horrified over these events," Obama said.
He called on Americans to "profess our profound gratitude to the men and women in blue" and to remember the victims in particular.
Some didn't hear what he said:
The head of a law enforcement advocacy group lashed out at President Barack Obama in the wake of the Dallas shootings that left five police officers dead, accused the president of carrying out a "war on cops."
"I think [the Obama administration] continued appeasements at the federal level with the Department of Justice, their appeasement of violent criminals, their refusal to condemn movements like Black Lives Matter, actively calling for the death of police officers, that type of thing, all the while blaming police for the problems in this country has led directly to the climate that has made Dallas possible," William Johnson, the executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations, said in an interview with Fox News on Friday morning.
And there was this from the Chicago Tribune:
Former Illinois Congressman Joe Walsh, now a radio talk show host, declared "This is now war" and called for President Barack Obama to "watch out" in a Twitter post reacting to the Dallas shooting that killed five police officers and injured seven.
"This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you," he wrote in the tweet posted Thursday night, which has since been deleted.
In subsequent tweets that remained posted as of early Friday, he called the shooters "uneducated black thugs" and blamed Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement for the officers' deaths.
What did he just say to Obama? Real America is coming after you? Well, not exactly:
An unrepentant Walsh stood by his tweets Friday morning, saying in a Tribune interview: "Of course I didn't mean, 'Let's go kill Obama and Black Lives Matter.' I was not trying to incite violence against Obama and Black Lives Matter. That's crazy and stupid and wrong."
He added: "It would end my career and it's wrong. I would never say anything as reprehensible as that."
Walsh, who lives in suburban Chicago, said he had a sleepless night because of death threats against him on social media. He said he had asked for local police protection.
"You know how social media is," he said. "I put out some stuff that I believe. And I've had people on the left hating on me and threatening to kill me on Twitter and Facebook all night."
So he's the real victim here? What did he mean in the first place? It's easy enough to sense a race war coming, and Josh Marshall senses something like that:
This feels like a bomb being set off at one of the key stress points, one of the architectural holds that fasten our whole society together.
Sometime yesterday I saw a friend say on Facebook that it felt like the country was starting to come apart, in a way that felt reminiscent of 1968. This is someone my age, with no living memory of that time. As Adam Smith famously said, there's a lot of ruin in a nation. I shy away from these kinds of remarks and that kind of thinking. But this year is shaping up to be at least something like that, the erratic and unbounded presidential campaign, the normalization of words and actions that all normally agree are beyond the limits of acceptance. Mass murder in Orlando, our own cultural creation, the rage-fueled mass shooting melding with the jihadist mass killing of Eurasia, watching innocent black men die on handheld videos (products of our limitless tech culture) after being shot by police, now this mass murder – which as I've been writing has now been ascribed to a man who said he wanted to "kill white people, especially white police officers."
No good can come of this:
There's a lot of ruin in a nation. But the pace of transgression can grow quick enough to build on itself and overmatch the force of communal and inter-communal bonds and social integument. I don't think we're there. I don't think we'll get there. But we're closer than we have any real business being.
And then Marshall looks at history:
The Detroit Riots occurred in July 1967. But '1968' isn't so much a calendar year as an inflection point in American history which is not entirely bounded by those 12 months, the product of numerous causes but most glaringly the collision of the fight for African-American equality and the escalating American war in Vietnam.
Many younger Americans have vivid memories of the LA Riots of 1992 in which 55 people died and some 2,000 were injured. But the late 1960s witnessed a series of comparable riots across the country – indeed, in a number of cases in cities which simply never truly recovered. Watts 1965, 34 dead, over 1000 injured. Detroit 1967, 43 dead, over 1000 injured, Newark 1967, 26 dead, almost 1000 injured.
As you'll note, these examples were all before calendar 1968 and don't include the numerous urban riots during 1968 itself or other 'smaller' ones during the preceding years. Indeed, a good deal of what made 1968 '1968' was the way in which a building momentum of violence, civil unrest and a seeming breakdown of the society itself, which had been escalating in the two or three previous years, built to such a pitch of intensity that it seemed the entire society might be overturned, that there might never be a going back. I say all this as a student of the past rather than a witness. I was born in February 1969.
By so many measures – civil disorder, political breakdown, assassinations, death tolls, the US Army operating in major American cities – there is truly no comparing that era in our country's history with today… there is an underlying societal unity, prosperity and consensus which the headlines, political and cultural polarization and atrocities obscure. And yet, I don't think we can quite, entirely close the book on the analogy.
Perhaps history does play in an endless loop:
The improvement and all that is good is all right there to see. I see it. And yet revolutions mostly tend to occur not when things are dire but when they're improving. Just not fast enough. The phenomenon of revolutions or protest when change is not keeping pace with rising expectations is a well-known one in sociology and political science.
You can't look at the scene today and not see that the Chief of Police in Dallas is black, numerous officers are black. And let's just say it – the President of the United States is black. And yet you see the video of Philando Castile dying after what appears to have been a routine traffic stop in which he apparently did nothing but try to pull his wallet out of his pocket. Or the video of Alton Sterling, different set of facts, comparable end result. The Black Lives Matter movement is only a part, perhaps the most pointed and visible part, of a rising moving of African-American political self-assertion which, as an outsider to it, seems like a final demand not for improvement and progress but the whole package, intact and total: equality, prosperity, the dignity of the body and life itself. The whole thing.
And that means it's time for an honest assessment:
At a traffic stop, I'm white, no matter what my politics, empathy, or awareness of this reality or that. I'm white, period. My kids are white too. And the metaphoric traffic stop plays out in numerous other social situations. That's a layer of protection I carry around me no matter what. It inevitably shapes what I see when I watch these horrific videos – the mix of outrage or anger or fear. I feel a lot of outrage and a lot of anger but I don't feel much fear because, frankly, I'm pretty sure nothing like that is going to happen to me. All of which is a protracted way of saying I don't think I can quite know what year it is for my black brothers and sisters watching those videos.
Then there's the entirely other side of the coin.
Why is Donald Trump the presidential nominee of a major political party? As that famous Simpson's line put it about Fox News, Not Racist but #1 Among Racists! The KKK and "white nationalists" say they feel like the tide is turning in their direction for the first time in decades. Perhaps in spite of himself, but even so, Trump is re-normalizing the old anti-Semitism that had seemed entirely written out of acceptable public life in America. Not 'anti-Semitism' as an attack phrase against people who don't support Israel enough. But real anti-Semitism with global Jewish cabals, hook-nosed cartoons, jokes about ovens and all the rest.
None of this is normal.
But it can be explained:
There are numerous roots of Trumpism, some deep-seated, others entirely contingent. They include economic grievances which are legitimate and real. Yet Trump might plausibly, if not necessarily, be described as a madman. The fact that the general election version of his campaign (which has to the surprise of many been even more outrageous and transgressive than the primary version) struggles to get below 40% in the polls is to a degree a measure of the degree of political polarization in the country – fertile and disquieting ground for another pols. But the overriding drive of Trumpism is that a substantial minority of our fellow citizens believes their country, white America, is dying or being taken away from them. This is rooted in the rising demands of African-Americans, tens of millions of new Americans and now their children from Latin America and other parts of the world, and newcomers with a religion that to many signifies alienness, violence and threat.
I've written about this in numerous posts over recent months, sometimes explicitly, at other times obliquely. But we can't understand this phenomenon unless we understand that from a certain perspective what they fear or are angry about is true. The America in which whites made up the vast majority of citizens and held a monopoly on political power not simply because of racism but, in most parts of the country, by the fact of numerical majorities is unambiguously coming to an end. You see it in everything from birtherism, to opiate death rates, to a constant theme of our politics. Is this a threat or a death? I'm entirely untroubled by this fact. Indeed, I welcome it, as do millions and millions of Americans. But there are millions of Americans who do not. You can't be an observer of contemporary American politics and not see that very clearly.
This is what I mean by how or whether one's political identity is bound up in one's whiteness or to be more precise whether it is bound up with the political and social dominance of white people. If you do see things through that prism the apocalyptic worldview of many Trumpites starts to make a good deal of sense. For many more, it isn't the end of the world but it is a source of persistent and sometimes intense anxiety.
This may not be 1968 or 1992, but that might not matter:
Set aside for a moment who you think is right and wrong and see that we have two groups in our society with deep sets of grievances pointing in very different, indeed oppositional directions. Will we get through it in one piece? I'm quite confident we will, for all the reasons I noted above. But it also creates a distinct tension and instability in our society and our politics, a lot of which we're seeing play out today.
History does play in an endless loop after all. Unless it doesn't, as Jonathan Chait notes here:
The demonstration in Dallas was the very model of a functioning liberal society – a peaceful protest against police conducted under the protection of the police themselves. Even the most radical of the protesters deplored the shootings, and the police honored the right to protest.
Probing deeper, into more tender spots, one could even detect a formative consensus about the underlying cause of the protest: the routine violence by police against African-Americans. Videos of the murders of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile have not only galvanized African-Americans who have grown accustomed to the constant threat of police brutality, but they also shocked no small number of white Americans. "In the era of Facebook Live and smart phones," wrote the conservative columnist Matt K. Lewis in the Daily Caller, "it's hard to come to any conclusion other than the fact that police brutality toward African-Americans is a pervasive problem that has been going on for generations." Leon H. Wolf, writing for RedState, conceded that police brutality against minorities had gone on because "a huge, overwhelming segment of America does not really give a damn what cops do in the course of maintaining order because they assume (probably correctly) that abuse at the hands of police will never happen to them." They may not agree with Black Lives Matter on the exact scope of the problem, but the two sides have a shared sense of its existence – no small achievement in a country where the two parties cannot even agree on such questions as climate science – and broad moral contours.
Among Republican leaders, the impulse to restore calm prevailed over the impulse to stoke racial hysteria. Paul Ryan praised the values of peaceful protest. Newt Gingrich – Newt Gingrich! – conceded, "It's more dangerous to be black in America. You're substantially more likely to be in a situation where police don't respect you." Even Donald Trump obliquely, and with a characteristically shaky command of the facts, conceded the need for some solution to police abuse: "The senseless, tragic death of two motorists in Louisiana and Minnesota reminds us how much more needs to be done." Whatever Trump actually believed – the identification of Trump's real convictions always being more art than science – he at least felt compelled to make some nod toward the perception that the police had gone too far. It was not inspiring, it was not ideal, but it was also more than one would have gotten from, say, circa-1968 George Wallace.
At that office window on Thursday, April 30, 1992, and in the weeks after, and in all the years after, none of that seemed possible. Perhaps the loop is a spiral, spinning out change slowly. Now it's Dallas. Maybe Dallas is different. There's no smoke in the air.

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The original URL for this blog post was:
Since I no longer work for Microsoft, I have copied it here in case that blog ever goes away.
Microsoft has done a rather poor job of preserving functional links throughout the years, but you might still be able to view the original post in the Random Musings of Jeremy Jameson - Blog Archive.
Yesterday I introduced the concept of linked files in Visual Studio solutions with a follow-up on my recommendation for configuring a custom dictionary to eliminate CA1704 code analysis warnings.
Another practical application of linked files is what I refer to as "shared assembly info" – referring to the assembly attributes that should be the same across all projects in the solution, such as AssemblyCompanyAttribute.
To implement this, create a file in the solution folder named SharedAssemblyInfo.cs and then add a link in each project to SharedAssemblyInfo.cs. You can also move the linked SharedAssemblyInfo.cs into the Properties folder so that it sits side-by-side with the AssemblyInfo.cs that is specific to each project in the solution, as shown below.
I recommend placing the following assembly attributes in SharedAssemblyInfo.cs (and, of course, removing them as necessary from the project-specific AssemblyInfo.cs files):
- AssemblyCompany
- AssemblyProduct
- AssemblyCopyright
- AssemblyTrademark
- AssemblyConfiguration
- AssemblyDescription
- CLSCompliant
- ComVisible
- AssemblyVersion
- AssemblyInformationalVersion
The AssemblyInfo.cs files typically have the following assembly attributes:
- AssemblyTitle
- AssemblyCulture
- Guid
Here is a sample SharedAssemblyInfo.cs file:
using System;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
// General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following
// set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
// associated with an assembly.
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("Fabrikam Technologies")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("Demo")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright ? Fabrikam Technologies 2009")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
// Make it easy to distinguish Debug and Release (i.e. Retail) builds;
// for example, through the file properties window.
#if DEBUG
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("Debug")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("Flavor=Debug")] // a.k.a. "Comments"
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("Retail")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("Flavor=Retail")] // a.k.a. "Comments"
[assembly: CLSCompliant(true)]
// Setting ComVisible to false makes the types in this assembly not visible
// to COM components. If you need to access a type in this assembly from
// COM, set the ComVisible attribute to true on that type.
[assembly: ComVisible(false)]
// Note that the assembly version does not get incremented for every build
// to avoid problems with assembly binding (or requiring a policy or
// <bindingRedirect> in the config file).
// The AssemblyFileVersionAttribute is incremented with every build in order
// to distinguish one build from another. AssemblyFileVersion is specified
// in AssemblyVersionInfo.cs so that it can be easily incremented by the
// automated build process.
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("188.8.131.52")]
// By default, the "Product version" shown in the file properties window is
// the same as the value specified for AssemblyFileVersionAttribute.
// Set AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute to be the same as
// AssemblyVersionAttribute so that the "Product version" in the file
// properties window matches the version displayed in the GAC shell extension.
[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("184.108.40.206")] // a.k.a. "Product version"
Note how the AssemblyConfigurationAttribute and AssemblyDescriptionAttribute are set based on conditional compilation constants (in order to easily distinguish Debug and Release builds).
Here is a sample AssemblyInfo.cs file:
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
// Note: Shared assembly information is specified in SharedAssemblyInfo.cs
// General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following
// set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
// associated with an assembly.
[assembly: AssemblyTitle("Fabrikam.Demo.CoreServices")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]
// The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is exposed to COM
[assembly: Guid("88d50bdd-34bc-414a-98d6-6fefe701d41b")]
In my next post, I'll discuss assembly versioning in more detail.


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Sovayby Celia Rees
- I love all sorts of music (not a huge fan of rap, hip hop, gangsta, or death metal, but there may be an odd song that appeals to me even in those groups). One of my favorite world music CDs is Women of the World Celtic II. My favorite song on the CD is Sovay. It's about a woman who dressed as a highwayman to see if her intended was strong or a coward. I had hoped the story would build to the action of the song; it did not. x-p
- I still love the song.
- One of the settings is an alternate type of brothel. There are no details, but it could still upset some. I'll give it a PG-13 for that alone. Otherwise, it is essentially a young adult book.
The Review
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
This was horrible!
Yes, I started out with a negative point of view because the story opened with the happenings in the folk song/story. However, I put that aside and read on. It never got better. Too many characters, no character development, too many story lines, very little connecting the lines with the exception of every male character falling for Sovay and being described as handsome and worthy with doe-eyed innocence.
Sovay, herself, is no heroine. She is a spoiled girl of privilege who is petulant and impetuous. She feels she is better than polite society and yet knows nothing of how to act in polite society. She makes poor decisions and thinks of no one but herself...well, and her father.
The whole Dysart fortress and escaping in a...well, that would be a spoiler and I don't give spoilers. Let's just say the whole scene was ridiculous.
Getting from opening to denouement...moving from point A to B, etc. did not work well at all. Mostly because the characters has very little development with regards to self or relationships with others. This skimming from scene to scene with little depth beyond what is happening in the moment kept the story from flowing nicely.
The other part contributing to the unsatisfactory plot flow was the verbiage. The author told the story one way then tried to mimic the style of the topic's historical time frame resulting in poor and stilted dialogue. Then she would throw in ten cent words causing "what the heck" moments for the reader. Then she started using French spellings for things! Not staying with a certain tone and structure made the story awkward as if a much younger person were writing and trying to impress a teacher. [Note: The author is a creative writing teacher - I hope she is not teaching this writing style?]
There is no true climax and an extremely weak denouement. Everything just skated across the top in a manner as frivolous as the main character and her many suitors and never sent out roots.
I very rarely feel I have wasted my time while reading. However, this crossed that line with 325 pages of drivel. If it had been a real book and not on my Nook, I would have thrown it on the ground when I finished. I highly suggest you not waste your time with this.
To hear the song, click the link in the "notes" section. I will also share it on our Facebook and google+ feeds.
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US Online Poker Players Expatriate Gamble Pays Off
Online poker players can be as patriotic as the rest of their countrymen, no matter what country they come from. But when you make a good living online playing poker, and your country's justice system shuts down the companies where you earn your money, your hand has been forced. That is what happened when the US effectively banned online poker in 2011 by shutting down the big three online poker sites. United States Online poker players who love their country were forced to make a very difficult decision.
Those players would have preferred to stay in the United States and pursue their careers in the land that they love, happily paying taxes to help support their country. But when PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker were forced to stop operating in the United States on April 15, 2011, the day known as the dreaded tax deadline in the US received another dark moniker. That day is known as Black Friday in the United States online poker community, and while no player has ever been charged with any crime involving online gambling in the US, online poker players now had to find a new place to shuffle up and deal virtually.
Nathan Singer is one of hundreds of successful online poker players who reluctantly left the United States to continue to earn a decent living, and he currently makes thousands of online poker decisions a day in Boquete, Panama. Playing multiple games at once, some days playing for as much as nine hours and some days for less than an hour, Singer says he makes about $70,000 a year playing online poker. Singer is one of many Internet poker players who make automatic decisions, sometimes with little or no conscious thought, playing multiple games at one time.
Originally from California, he and his four roommates live near the Costa Rican border, and are among hundreds of professional poker players who have been forced to move abroad. He says that he feels sometimes like a traitor for leaving his beloved United States, but that since online poker allows him to live such a free and easy lifestyle, while still making good money, he had virtually no choice. Destinations with tropical climates like Costa Rica, Mexico and Thailand have also become favorite expat spots for US online poker players.
Singer said he and his friends chose Panama because it is close to the United States, has a good infrastructure, and also supplies something that online poker players definitely need … a fast Internet connection. The Californian plays up to 16 tables at once, and voicing the sentiment of his four roommates the Panamanian ex-patriot online poker pro would much prefer to be living in the United States. Singer is the most successful player in a house that usually makes around $25,000 to $35,000 a month. With Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware recently legalizing online poker, Singer says that he can see a happy return to the United States sometime in the future.


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In late February, consultant Michele Reeves, of Portland, quietly visited downtown Madras to figure out what the city and businesses could do to make the area more inviting.
Earlier this month, Reeves, of Civisis Consulants, returned to present her findings to a packed house at the Madras City Hall.
The "Small Town Downtown Turnaround," as she called her presentation, focused on making the downtown area more connected, and "awesome" on both the outside and inside, in order to increase foot traffic and sales.
Looking at the downtown as a store, she said that front doors are the town's entry points, the aisles are the roads and sidewalks, the fixtures are the buildings and the products are the businesses.
As you drive into a community, it should be obvious when you have arrived, Reeves said, as she showed slides of Madras' entry points. "Am I there yet?" she asked. "Is it hard to know when you're downtown? I'm looking for a front door."
"You see a lot of walls," she said, specifically referring to the backs and sides of buildings. "It's one of the most visible things. Walls are not good for downtown commerce."
Traffic through downtown Madras consists of two lanes of northbound traffic on Fifth Street and two lanes of southbound traffic on Fourth Street — which she called a "couplet."
One-way streets, she pointed out, are designed to move traffic through an area quickly, but are not good for pedestrian traffic. "Small businesses are more successful when traffic is slow," she said.
The traffic pattern creates another problem, according to Reeves:
"Usually, one side of the couplet becomes the front, and one side becomes the back," she said, noting that Fifth Street seems to be the front.
She recommends that cities "build buildings that have no backs."
Reeves also bemoaned the large number of vacant lots and parking lots through the main downtown area. "There is a lot of automobile-focused use — parking lots in your downtown core area," she said.
When she looks at a building, Reeves said that it should be obvious what type of business it is.
In front of stores, she said that there is a store zone next to the business, and a district zone closer to the curb. In the store zone, Reeves likes to see objects that showcase the business, such as an art object outside a gallery, or a giant ball of yarn outside a craft store.
In the district zone, there should be landscaping and street furniture.
"The store zone can invade the district zone," she pointed out. "You don't want your district zone to invade your store zone."
As an example, she showed a photo of a trash can, which should be in the district zone, instead located next to a store front.
"Everything in your town matters," she said.
Reeves was pleased with the city's banners, but suggested that there should be more public art, especially on the walls.
For business owners, she asked, "How do you take that story and bring it out to the sidewalk?"
"The retail experience happens long before you enter the door," she said. "There is no building that cannot look better."
Lighting is also extremely important. "I want to see in your windows," she said. "Is your window merchandised well? Do your windows change frequently?"
For restaurants, she said that it's important that passersby can see people dining.
"We're all in the business of improving marketing per square foot," she said.
For a large building, such as the former Hatfield's Department Store, she recommended that it be redeveloped into a lot of smaller spaces.
Regarding paint, Reeves said, "Beige is not a color ... Think about three- and four-color paint schemes. We want articulation. Paint is a temporary finish. If you feel comfortable with the paint you pick out, you're not on the right track. Your job is to get people's attention."
Following the meeting, Nick Snead, Community Development Department director, told the group, "This isn't a plan that will sit on a shelf. We're really trying to help all of you be successful."
This week, Sarah Gannon, owner of Opal Day Spa, said that she plans to make use of all the information gleaned from the meeting.
"I'm implementing everything," she said. "From the time I left that place, within 10 minutes I had made changes. I drove directly from the meeting and moved our specials sign out to the street, instead of up against the building."
Since then, she has also taken Reeves' advice about adding interest in the store zone. "I brought my mannequin, Emma, to the shop. She's out front with her bathrobe on," Gannon said on Monday. "I had wheels put on her base, so we can wheel her in and out."
Gannon has also been communicating with neighboring businesses, encouraging owners to think about their identities. "If all of us took the opportunity to think about what our identity is," she said, "Our identity could easily be painted with sunsets, Opal Springs water, the Willow Creek train trestle, lightning, firefighters, Freda, Native Americans."
Morgan Greenwood, assistant planner for the city, was pleased with the community's response to the consultant's suggestions. "We received really good feedback from both current and former members of the Madras Redevelopment Commission, business owners, and property owners — including some who had come in from out of state to attend the presentation."
The next step will be finalizing and adopting the report, after which, she said, "staff will support the Madras Redevelopment Commission in ensuring that the programs and actions are acted upon. Staff will continue outreach to business and property owners, and the Madras Downtown Association to continue to build partnerships between the public and private sectors."
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Summer isn't quite done, but I'm anxious for autumn. Mostly, I want to get in the right (write) mood for drafting horror and ghost stories. Sure, I can do it anytime, but atmosphere helps.
I signed up (i.e.; spent money) and joined Audible, so any full novel 'reads' I do for a while will be in that manner. I've already been through James A. Moore's THE SILENT ARMY, the first Sherlock Holmes, A STUDY IN SCARLET and I just finished THE BEASTS OF TARZAN.
For real reading, I'm jumping around various anthologies and collections, mostly horror. Algernon Blackwood's ANCIENT SORCERIES. THE BEST OF NEW HORROR Vol. 25. Reading my co-authors in CARNACKI: THE LOST CASES.
Plus some comics. Got in the mood for Iron Man last night, so started on IRON MAN, ESSENTIAL VOL 2.
Oh, and going back to my Weird New England roots - also reading about THE GREAT NEW ENGLAND SEA SERPENT. (blame that one on the whale watch we went on last week)
Monday, August 29, 2016
Reading all over the map
Posted by Paul R. McNamee at 4:00 PM
Labels: anthology, books, reading, short story
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Tell me more about this sea serpent...ReplyDelete
Sightings potentially from native tribes up through 1800s, at least. Ranging from Maine south to Long Island.ReplyDelete
One summer in early 1800s there were many, consistent sightings in Gloucester Harbor, MA.
Oh, and add SKELOS Issue #1 to that list, too!ReplyDelete
I remember reading about this sea serpent when I was a kid. I've ordered the book.ReplyDelete
I'mm waiting on my copy of Skelos to come and I bought Carnacki too, I'll dig into it soon.ReplyDelete
I'm just finishing up SkelosReplyDelete
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Top Ten Latino Latinx Middle School Books
The YA literary world has seen an impressive rise in the number of Latinx authors. This is great news for Latinx tweens who yearn to see positive stories about themselves. It's also great news for educators who can introduce these great works in classrooms.
1) Matt De La Peña knows children and young adults. And every YA book he writes is more popular than the last. We Were Here is no exception as it tells a powerful story about a young boy who learns lessons about forgiveness.
2) Rebecca Balcárcel's The Other Half of Happy is another book that has gotten nothing but the best reviews as it looks at the challenges of navigating between cultures. The characters are unforgettable. This is a book that will remain in print for a very long time.
3) In Lety Out Loud: A Wish Novel, Angela Cervantes provides an intriguing perspective of what life is like for ELL students. Such a timely book.
4) Celia C. Pérez' First Rule of Punk is about more than music. It has the spunk of punk with a flavor of great characters!
5) Let's face it, anything by Elizabeth Acevedo is powerful. We love her Afro-Latinx characters and her writing style. Fire on High is indeed reminiscent of Like Water for Chocolate, but with an urban twist that sets the words on fire.
6) The Sal and Gaby series is an entertaining ride for any tween. Carlos Hernandez is just getting started with these magical roller coasters.
7) The two sisters in Malin Alegria's Border Town books show us how life is unique along border towns, especially for young girls who are going through changes while trying to support each other and thrive.
8) Pam Muñoz Ryan is probably best know for Esperanza Rising, but she has shown her skills through other books for tweens as well. The fact is, tweens can't go wrong reading any of her books.
9) In Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz provides a touching look at the friendship between two boys. The way that this novel approaches LGBTQ themes is impressive in so many ways.
10) They Call Me Güero: A Border Kid's Poems, by David Bowles, is brilliant. Not only is the poetry accessible for young adults, it provides great storytelling as it looks at how our skin tone and physical features can play a role in influencing the way we define ourselves and each other.


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- 1 Overview
- 2 System requirements and installation
- 3 Enabling the Amazon CDN Module in X-Cart
- 4 Setting up Amazon AWS
- 5 Configuring the Amazon CDN Module in X-Cart
- 6 Troubleshooting
The Amazon CDN is an add-on for integrating your X-Cart with Amazon S3 and Amazon Cloudfront. The services allow to delegate content delivering routine to fast and stable CDN (Content delivery network) provider.
Why CDN
- Speed up – CDN is a known means of distributing the content to end users with high data transfer speed. How it works? Requests for your content are automatically routed to the nearest server, and the closer this server to end user, the better the performance
- Lower server load – CDN allows you to redistribute the load from your server to multiple external servers.
- Better Crash Resistance – The less resources your site uses to serve static content, the more resources are left to MySQL and PHP, the more stable your system is.
- Better User Experience – If only the site tends to freeze - the customers leave never to return: the shoppers are very impatient. Let them see what they seek, and quickly! With this module you can, really.
- Improved SEO – Google treats site performance as one of key factors defining the site rank: the faster sites tend to rank higher in search results.
Key benefits of using the Amazon CDN module in X-Cart
- You may upload the images (product, manufacturer and category images, special offers etc) which is up to 60% of page size, as well as files from E-Goods module.
- It gives you access to the highly scalable, reliable, secure and fast Cloud data storage infrastructure of Amazon.
- You can opt between 'Standard storage' (for important data) and cheaper 'Reduced Redundancy Storage' (http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/19/announcing-amazon-s3-reduced-redundancy-storage/ ) for reproducible and non-critical data.
- Though we gave admin the opportunity to force the objects uploading to Amazon repo manually, the module is written so that the store will upload everything automatically (still, no need to configure cron tasks!), report the uploading status and switch to serving the static content by Amazon. The store owner only needs to install the module - or have it installed by X-Cart team - register with Amazon and fill in the Amazon account settings... and reap the fruit !
System requirements and installation
System requirements
To be able to successfully install and use the Amazon CDN module, you need a working copy of X-Cart GOLD or PRO v4.3.2, 4.4.х or 4.5.х installed on your server. Make sure that the version of the integration module matches the version of your copy of X-Cart.
Installation and removal
To install the Amazon CDN module:
- Obtain a distribution package for the Amazon CDN integration module by downloading it from the File Area section of your X-Cart Account account. The distribution package is archived in the fileamazoncf-x.y.z.tgz, where x, y and z indicate the version of the module. Make sure the version of the module matches the version of your copy of X-Cart.
- Copy the distribution package to the X-Cart root directory on your server or hosting account.
- If you use a Windows-based server or a UNIX-based server without terminal access:
- a) Extract the contents of the archive with the Amazon CDN module files to a directory on your system using your favorite compression program (WinZIP or any other archiver that supports TAR files).
- b) Use an FTP client to upload all the files extracted from the archive (retaining the directory structure) to the X-Cart root directory on your server or hosting account.
- If you use a UNIX-based server with terminal access:
- a) Use an FTP client to upload the archive with the Amazon CDN module distribution package to the X-Cart root directory on your server or hosting account.
- b) Decompress the package by typing the following command:
tar -xzvf amazoncf-x.y.z.tgz
- Important: Make sure that you maintain the directory structure while unpacking and uploading the distribution package; otherwise, some critical files can be overwritten!
- In a web browser, run the installation script at httр://www.example.com/install-amazoncf.php, replacing the variable www.example.com with the real domain name, where your X-Cart is installed.
- Enter the Auth code, accept the License Agreement and click the Next button.
- The installation script copies the files and activates the module. Click the Next button to continue.
- The installation script generates a new system fingerprint. Click the Next button to complete the installation.
- Use the ADMINISTRATOR AREA link to log in to the Admin area.
To uninstall the Amazon CDN module:
- In a web browser, run the installation script at http://www.example.com/install-amazoncf.php, replacing the "www.example.com" with the real domain name, where your X-Cart is installed.
- Choose the Uninstall the module option, enter the Auth code, accept the License Agreement and click the Next button.
- Once the installation script has removed the Amazon CDN module files and deactivated the module, click the Next button to complete the uninstallation.
- On the Uninstallation complete screen, click Next to leave the Wizard.Important: After you have uninstalled the Amazon CDN module, make sure to remove the module's distribution package from your web directory as well.
Enabling the Amazon CDN Module in X-Cart
Once you have installed the Amazon CDN module, enable it in your store's Admin area.
To enable the Amazon CDN module:
- Log in to the X-Cart Admin area and go to the Modules section (Settings menu->Modules).
- In the list of modules, find the Amazon CDN item and select the check box next to it.
- Click the Apply changes button to apply the changes.
Now you can leave alone your X-Cart for a few moments and switch to Amazon AWS.
Setting up Amazon AWS
To be able to use the Amazon CDN module, you must get an account with Amazon AWS and obtain API keys for integration (See the section Getting a Amazon AWS account below). If you already have a Amazon AWS account, simply log in to the Amazon AWS Dashboard
and create a new application for your X-Cart store (select 'Create Application' on the drop-down list below the Janrain logo on your Dashboard), then proceed to the Configuring providers section.
Getting a Amazon AWS account
The Amazon S3 and Amazon Cloudfront services is available on subscription basis with free amount of service. You can find information about prices and SLA at <URL>
To get a Amazon AWS account:
- Visit [1], and locate a Sign Up button towards right side of this page. Click the button and follow instructions.
- Based on your current subscription levels with Amazon.com, you may see different signup wizards.
- As soon as you finish sign up process, a welcome email will arrive in your inbox.
- This mail will contain the link (longer one) which will take you to ' AWS Access Identifiers ' [1] page.
- On this page, you will find Access key and Secret key . These keys are located at right side.
- Your access key is visible but your secret key, which serves as a password, is hidden within "+" sign.
- You need these two keys to start working with Amazon S3 Services.
That is all; you now have a Amazon AWS account and an API keys that will allow you to use Amazon CDN at your store.
Configuring Amazon services
Once you've got API keys, Configure the module fro your API keys.
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Configuring the Amazon CDN Module in X-Cart
Now, tell your X-Cart what it should do with all the stuff you have just set up -- configure the Amazon CDN module that you installed a few steps earlier.
To configure the Amazon CDN module in your X-Cart Admin area:
- Log in to the X-Cart Admin area.
- Select Settings -> Modules on the menu.
- Scroll down until you see the Amazon CDN module item and click on the Configure link opposite it. The Amazon CDN module configuration page opens.
- Adjust the Amazon CDN module configuration settings and click the Apply changes button.
Amazon CDN module configuration settings
Here are a few notes on the Amazon CDN module configuration settings:
- API key and Application ID: These values can be obtained on the Deployment->Application Settings page in your Janrain Dashboard.
- Application name: This is the name of the application you created for your store.
- Display mode: This setting defines the layout of the user login block.
The Horizontal option produces the following result:
The Vertical option gives the following result:
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Error: Whoops, you've been directed here by mistake
The 'Application name' specified in X-Cart admin back end on the module configuration page is incorrect. Janrain replaces dots with dashes, thus to fix the issue you should do the same, e.g. if your app name is yourappname.domain:
yourappname.domain -> yourappname-domain
You should specify "yourappname-domain" as an 'Application name' in X-Cart.


text: This national report gives an overview of the actual practice with regard to the design of piles in Belgium. Some of the content has been taken over from the report that was published by Holeyman et al. at the occasion of the 1st ETC3-symposium in 1997, but it contains a lot of new elements, as in the meantime Eurocode 7 was introduced in Belgium. Above that, quite a lot of new instrumented pile load tests have been carried out since 1997, adding supplementary and even new insights to the existing experimental pile load testing database in Belgium. In 2009 a first edition of the Belgian guidelines assessing pile design according to the principles of EC7, which had been elaborated under the auspices of the Belgian standardization committee of EC7, was published by Buildwise (2009). Meanwhile the content of this design guide has been revised and extended and the 2nd edition will be published in 2016 by Buildwise (2016). The design principles reported in this contribution are mainly based on the content of this new revised version of the Belgian pile design guide.


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In Response to First NYS Coronavirus Case, Ulster County Implements Additional Public Health Measures and Launches Website to Update the Public
County Executive Directs Budget Director to Ensure Emergency Funding is Available to Combat the Spread of the Virus
KINGSTON, NY – On Tuesday, Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan will convene and lead a Health Emergency Management Exercise at the Ulster County Emergency Operations Center based on the announcement of the first case of coronavirus in New York State. The meeting will bring together stakeholders to practice and refine the County's action plan for the virus.
In response to initial reports of coronavirus early last month, Ulster County rapidly developed an emergency management plan. As the situation has developed, in close coordination with the Center for Disease Control (CDC), the NYS Department of Health (DOH), and other relevant agencies, the County has continued to refine its plan.
At this time, there are no confirmed or suspected cases of coronavirus in Ulster County. Following protocol and pursuant to DOH and CDC guidelines, traveling individuals returning from certain specified areas where they may have been exposed to the coronavirus are asked to voluntarily isolate themselves for a period of fourteen days. All residents returning from these areas have agreed to voluntarily quarantine in their homes, as well as be monitored by the Health Department.
County Executive Ryan has directed the Ulster County Budget Director to ensure that emergency funding is available, if necessary, to combat the further spread of the virus locally.
"Protecting the health and safety of our residents is my absolute top priority," said Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan. "The people of Ulster County should take comfort in knowing that we are prepared, and that have been preparing for weeks, to handle this situation. We will continue to provide the public with updates and we ask that all residents do their part to help prevent the spread of the virus by following preventive measures and reaching out to our Health Department with any concerns or questions."
County Executive Ryan has also launched a webpage to give the public resources and up to the minute updates. Information and preventive tips are available at https://ulstercountyny.gov/Coronavirus.
Residents should take the following steps to help minimize and contain potential exposures. These include preventative measures, such as:
Washing hands with soap and water frequently, for at least 20 seconds, especially before eating
- Avoiding touching surfaces in public spaces, whenever possible
- Avoiding touching eyes and mouth
- Always covering a cough or sneeze with a tissue or a sleeve, rather than your hands and dispose of the tissue in the trash
- Staying home if sick, except to seek medical attention, to avoid infecting others
- Getting the flu shot if you have not done so already – it's no too late
- Helping to keep your immune system strong by getting enough sleep and reducing stress
Coronavirus symptoms can include fever, cough, fatigue, trouble breathing and pneumonia. These symptoms can also be seen in season flu and other coronavirus infections. CDC believes that at this time symptoms of coronavirus infection may appear in as few as two days or as many as 14 days after exposure. If you suspect that you or anyone in your family may have been exposed to coronavirus through travel to affected areas or are experiencing symptoms, please contact your medical provider immediately. New York State's state-of-the-art Wadsworth Laboratory, in Albany, is now authorized to conduct testing for coronavirus and can provide your doctor with a definite determination if coronavirus infection is present.
For more information, please visit the New York State Department of Health Coronavirus site at https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/coronavirus/ or the CDC's Coronavirus site at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html. The New York State Department of Health has also set up a special COVID-19 Hotline at 1-888-364-3065.


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in order to Make changes in your home is personal, and the last thing that people want to do is hire someone which really can not understand what you want, or as you wish. Home improvement is absolutely a worthwhile investment, but if you plan to stay in your house for a time, it is important that the reform is done to absolute perfection.
With that said, how do you choose the right home remodeling contractor? What are important questions to ask before hiring one? Here are some useful tips on hiring the right home remodeling contractor:
1) A home improvement company should always offer a free consultation with the general contractor or estimator. If they charge for a consultation, they are probably a small company that has been in the industry long enough to know what they are doing. In rare cases, you may find that you will be charged for an estimate, if it is about a series of examinations and projects as needed for planning and design, but this is rare.
2) The most important thing that you should look for the question is the degree of interest and care for the person you are going to meet. Are they rushed and impatient, or they are interested in what you have to say and to communicate their ideas, to help you? Is their appearance careless and dirty, or are they professional? You may think to be in the business of home improvements, looking sloppy isn't necessarily a bad thing. But remember that a person with self-esteem will be more likely to have respect and care for others.
3) do not look at price as the most crucial point. Look at what previous customers have said, as well as samples of products in the past. A cheap home improvement contractor may sound nice since you can save a few hundred dollars, but the amount you can spend in later repairs due to unprofessional or work can result in costs up to three times the amount you have already "saved".
4) Discover that the home improvement contractor provides in the form of future repairs. If you get your kitchen remodeled, as an example, to discover what they have to offer if something breaks or needs to be repaired. Professional home remodeling contractors will repair or fix broken parts at little or no cost. Check what they guarantee and what they offer the last thing you want to do is turn off your new receiver, then do not work, and you think that your home remodeling contractor has disappeared or will not fix it.
4) Above all, trust your instinct. If you feel uncomfortable or unsure about a remodeling contractor, find another. An investment that home improvement is something that you need to be right and happy. After all, it is your home, we're talking about.
home improvement industry is a big industry and is very competitive. The majority of home improvement contractors are professional and have a high percentage of satisfied customers, so finding one that is right for you is very simple. These are just a few tips that can help you along the way.
This article was written by Audrey Ledoux, creator of a web site for home improvement contractors in Albuquerque, http://www.wildwoodremodeling.com


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A new camera that will detect crop disease quickly and at a significantly lower cost has been developed by British researchers.
The technology could potentially save farmers worldwide thousands of pounds in lost produce, while increasing crop yields.
Traditional hyperspectral cameras, which can be used in agricultural management to scan crops to monitor their health, are expensive and bulky due to the nature of complex optics and electronics within the devices.
The new camera, developed by scientists at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), contains a linear variable filter (LVF).
The filter captures images in real time across the full visible spectrum of light, one wavelength at a time.
With crops, it can highlight signs of drought stress or disease which are difficult to detect by eye.
Dr Song, principal investigator of the Innovate UK and BBSRC-funded project, explained that such cameras are useful in farming as it makes disease detection 'far quicker'.
"It takes years of training, experience and time to inspect crops manually, so devices like this speed up the process.
"The use of the linear variable filter means that we can now produce a small, handheld camera which can quickly and effectively monitor crops, and could also be attached to a drone to survey large areas."
The camera will cost less than £1,000 – about a tenth of the cost of the crop cameras currently on the market.
The filter is patented by UWS, and will be commercialised via the UWS spinout Albasense Ltd, a company spinout from the UWS's Institute of Thin Films, Sensors and Imaging (ITFSI).
Professor Gibson, director of ITFSI, said: "Our industry-grade facilities enable us to undertake ground-breaking research, like the linear variable filter, while collaborating with industry to create solutions to real-world problems.
"The application of the patented linear variable filter in the crop camera is a fantastic example of the world-class research, development and commercialisation that's taking place in the Institute of Thin Films, Sensors and Imaging.
"This technology has real potential to make a difference to thousands of businesses, large and small, across the globe."


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4 large skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cut into cubes
10 medium red potatoes, quartered
1 (8 ounce) package baby carrots
1 cup chopped celery
2 (26 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup
6 cubes chicken bouillon
2 teaspoons garlic salt
1 teaspoon celery salt
1 tablespoon ground black pepper
1 (16 ounce) bag frozen mixed vegetables
- Combine the chicken, potatoes, carrots, celery, chicken soup, chicken bouillon, garlic salt, celery salt, and black pepper in a slow cooker.
- Cook on High for 5 hours.
- Stir the frozen mixed vegetables into the crock pot, and cook 1 more hour.


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Important Tips on Availing the Best Limousine Service
Updated: Feb 28, 2020
Important Tips on Availing the Best Limousine Service
If you have plans of getting married then there might be a number of things running in your head. You will have to take good care in handling matters like catering, location and so forth. Among all these things, making the choice of the vehicle that you will be using for your ride to the church or wedding venue is something very important. Depending on what your wedding plans are, ensure going for the best limousine service. Considering the large number of service providers available in this category, it might get a little difficult for you to make the right choice. Hence, here are some tips that can help you out.
Plan Ahead of the Occasion
Irrespective of the fact that whether you are in the look out of a wedding limousine or a prom limousine, it is important for you to ensure that you have done your homework very well. Once you have chosen a date for your wedding, try getting in touch with popular limo service providers immediately. It is highly recommended that you must look only for the best and the most popular service providers. Also, try looking for them a few weeks ahead of the event. By doing this, you can ensure that you have made reservations instantly. This is something very important mainly because majority of the limo service providers are booked during wedding, prom and graduation seasons.
These are special occasions when there is huge demand for such formal automobiles. Hence, you might fail to book one for your event if you do not make the reservations a bit early. Besides the reservations, it is also important for you to ensure that you have considered the route and the itinerary for the car. Make sure that your limo service provider knows the address of your prom or wedding venue and arrives at the time when you need the limousine.
Try being a Little Creative
There are many individuals who generally make the choice of white stretch limousines for proms and weddings. Even you can go for such limousines but it would be better for you to be a little creative and make the choice of other options in the same category. For example, you can choose vintage cars that meet your taste. You have the option of going for cars like Rolls Royce. Always keep one thing in mind and that is if you are being a little creative in making the choice of a luxury car, it will actually help you in making your wedding more memorable. Also, you will not be unsuccessful in attracting the attention of the people present at the event. Additionally, it will look wonderful in photos. After all, it is your right to look extremely magical on your special day, right?
Weddings and proms are important events that require special arranegements. You cannot afford to ruin such events by going for cheap limousine services. Therefore, follow the tips mentioned above and make your special day more special by going for the best limo service.


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Symposium by Muriel Spark was one of my Lovely Loans that I picked up more than a month ago so I thought I'd better get it read! At just under 200 pages it also represented a bit of a change from the wonderful but slightly chunky books that fI've read lately (The Moonstone & The Shuttle).
Symposium starts and ends at a dinner party at a house in Islington. The wealthy hosts serve salmon mousse and have a manservant to pour the wine. Topics of conversation include a robbery, a honeymoon in Venice and marriage. Margaret Murchie and William Damien recently wed (they met in the fruit section of Marks and Spencers, don't you know…) become the topic of much speculation. They seem adoring of each other but their host doesn't give their marriage a year. Margaret seems to attract unfortunate incidents, and Hilda Damien, her mother-in-law, just can't get over an uncomfortable feeling about her. Is it motherly instinct or simply unfounded suspicion?
Symposium is classic Spark. While uses one seemingly light-hearted event as a starting point, it encompasses a wealth of odd situations including violence in Hampstead, nastiness in a nunnery and a criminal conspiracy. She starts with small-talk and peels it away to reveal her characters deepest darkest thoughts. As with many Spark novels there is a strong theme of pre-destination, and references to Catholicism – you get the feeling that someone is doomed, somehow! She also uses her favourite technique of telling you what nasty things are going to happen and then leaving you for several chapters to find out why and how.
I really enjoyed Symposium. There are lots of characters (even in just a few pages) so it took me a while to remember all the names to begin with, but I loved the way that the plot got very thick, very quickly. After reading The Finishing School which I enjoyed but didn't love, I was a bit worried that I was going off the boil a bit with Muriel Spark which I would have been very sad about. However, Symposium is up there with favourites for me like The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means and Momento Mori – a perfect little morsel of the macabre set against the backdrop of everyday life.
Have you read Symposium? What Spark novels have you read (if any)?


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'Like a big slumber party': A year after tornado hit Port Orchard, families still displaced
PORT ORCHARD — Stacy and Shay Leonhardt and their five kids feel like nomads in their own town.
A year after the tornado that hit Port Orchard on Dec. 18, 2018, they are one of the last few families still displaced from their homes.
Because of their large brood — two girls and three boys, ranging from 12 to 19 — the Leonhardts had trouble finding temporary accommodations at a price they could afford and a commute they could handle. Counting the three days they spent in a hotel just after the tornado, the family moved four times between December and July.
The tornado caused $1.81 million in damages and left scores of people without shelter, some for days, some for weeks, some for months. Houses on Nannette Lane, Serenade Way and Tiburon Court, where the Leonhardts live, took the brunt of winds that peaked at 130 mph.
More:Port Orchard tornado: Three months later, residents' lives remain disrupted
The Leonhardts spent Christmas last year in the home of a neighbor who was out of town for the holidays and needed someone to watch her dogs. Then they heard of a vacant vacation rental where they stayed until it was no longer available in May.
Another house-sitting opportunity got them to July. "We thought we'd be ready to go by then, but that didn't work," Stacy said. As the Leonhardts faced virtual homelessness this summer, their neighbor Mary Ann Huntington stepped up in a big way.
"I told (Stacy) I live alone. If you don't mind the kids sleeping on the floor, you're welcome to stay here," said Huntington, widowed in 2013.
"We came here to stay one night because our time kind of lapsed, and then I kind of just had a little breakdown," Stacy said. "And Mary Ann said, 'Why don't you just stay here? It won't be long.'"
The family, gathered with Huntington in her cheerfully decorated living room, laughed at that one.
Eldest son Seth, 19, was the only one home (babysitting a neighbor's toddler) when the tornado sent a massive fir tree into the back of the house. He and the child escaped uninjured. Two-by-fours had impaled the home. A series of unfortunate events, from burst pipes to delays caused by February's massive snow, pushed the rebuild out months longer than expected.
More:For tornado-blasted red house family, 'everything leads home
"We're hoping to be done enough to be able to move in by the end of December," said Shay, who is doing some of the finish work himself to speed things along.
Huntington's not complaining.
"We get along wonderful. We take turns cooking meals, and I just love them. They're all my grandchildren," she said. "Now I get to show off my cooking. We have a lot of fun. We eat dinner together every night, and we have a lot of laughs."
"Sometimes we get in a boxing match in the kitchen over who's going to cook," Stacy said, ribbing Huntington.
'Like a big slumber party'
Huntington's house also was severely damaged in the tornado, but she was able to stay — initially without central heating — while contractors restored her kitchen and roof. The upstairs of the 1,800-square-foot split level is immaculate. Downstairs, where all five kids are camped out on air mattresses, is another story.
"It's kind of like the tornado hit down there," said Huntington's daughter, Christy Brady, eliciting more laughter from the gang.
"It's like a big slumber party," Shay said.
Seth sleeps on the office floor. Twins Reese and Tate, 12, share the family room, enjoying Huntington's big-screen TV. Piles of clothing, laptops, books and other belongings are piled everywhere.
Carly Jo, 16, and Adyson, 14, are out in the sunroom, living out of laundry baskets. The girls have a little privacy from one another, as their beds are separated by the hot tub. Adyson's mattress leaks, and she has to pump it up each night.
"It's kind of hard to get along when you're in a small place," she said, owning to a few sibling squabbles here and there. "It's a little rough, but it's fun. We get along well with Miss Mary Ann. We go shopping together."
On Adyson's air mattress is a faded purple unicorn that Huntington gave her when she was 7, testimony to how long the two families have been close. Shay said the kids' stress level dropped as soon as they moved in with Huntington.
"I think God gave me a mission and that was to take care of you guys," Huntington said.
"And we're thankful for that," Stacy said.
The Crain family
Next door to the Leonhardts, Tawnia and Aaron Crain's home is still far from rebuilt. The couple with two daughters in college — Morgan, 19, and Tamlyn, 25 — are living in a rental, but their insurance will only cover it through the middle of February.
"And they said we might not get in 'til the end of February or March," Tawnia said.
Among other delays, construction stalled this summer because their mortgage company, with a legal interest in home, refused to release the second half of insurance settlement funds until they could show 50 percent completion. The Crains paid $10,000 out of their own pocket to get things moving.
"We were at a standstill for six weeks this summer when the weather was perfect to do a lot of the work," Tawnia said.
Tawnia, Aaron and Tamlyn were at home when the tornado struck, ripping off part of their roof. Two large trees fell on the house, trapping Tamlyn in an upstairs bedroom. Aaron, off work with an injury, hacked her free with a meat cleaver.
Aaron later managed to pick from the wreckage a silver tea service Tawnia's dad had received for working 30 years at Safeway and a bread bowl that belonged to her great aunt.
A neighbor returned their elk head — also with sentimental value — from two houses down. The elk was bagged on the last hunting trip Aaron took with his brother and Tawnia's dad in 1999. Both family members have since died.
Most of the Crains' salvaged possessions are still in storage.
"We don't even know what they saved, what they threw away," Tawnia said. "I don't even know if they found my wedding album. ... I cried watching them throw stuff in the garbage. I had to walk away."
The Webb family
Kali Webb herded her three children, including a newborn daughter, into the bathroom seconds before windows throughout the house exploded from the tornado's force.
A neighbor on Nanette Lane, Barb Archut, pounded on the door to check on them right after the tornado passed and brought them to her heavily damaged home until Webb's husband, Justin, could reach them. Barb's husband, Chris Archut, led damage control immediately after the tornado as neighbors used chainsaws to clear the road.
That day still seems vivid, although the year has dragged slowly for the Webbs, living in a rental and eager to return home.
Justin acted as general contractor for the exterior repairs, but they had to hire a contractor for interior work.
"Overall, the insurance has been really good about covering everything. It's just the process has been slow and the communication has not been what I expected it would be," Justin said.
On Tuesday, the Webbs' rental insurance ran out. They likely will move in with some finish work yet to be done.
"They've worked really hard the last week to get us in before Christmas," Justin said.
So long, 2019
With the tornado anniversary, families at the epicenter of the damage are showing signs of weariness.
"We just want to get back in our home," Tawnia Crain said. "The duplex is comfortable, but it's not our neighborhood. We went back on the Fourth of July, but we missed out on so much. We missed out on seeing the kids on Halloween and seeing our neighbors' Christmas lights and waving at them as we're going to work."
"We're really happy the year is coming to an end, and we want to start over," said Huntington, Tiburon Court's unofficial block watch captain.
But most see a bright side to the ordeal.
"I think it brought us closer together," said Justin Webb. " Everyone has checked in on everyone this entire year. It has been really nice to grow that neighborhood bond, not the best circumstances. I wouldn't recommend it. But that is one of the blessings that has come from it."