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From the family archives: Week of 11/01/09
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This week's photo is of Jeff and I, from Labor Day 2008, enjoying a picnic and some wine (shh... it's not allowed there) at beautiful Carbon Canyon Regional Park. The significance? No, no hike that day. It was our first outdoorsy date, and if you read our family blog, you know how much we enjoy taking in the outdoors together.
Military Holiday Mail Instructions
Just received these instructions for mailing packages and letters to our troops oversees from the Department of Defense for the Holidays, and know they may be useful to others. The holidays are sooner upon us than we think!
| DoD Announces Recommended 2009 Holiday Mail Dates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=9017 |
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The Department of Defense announced today the recommended mailing dates to ensure that holiday cards and packages for service members arrive overseas in time for the holiday season. "To ensure delivery to military APO/FPO addresses overseas and to international addresses, we suggest mail be sent by the recommended dates provided by the U.S. Postal Service," said Mark DeDomenic, the assistant deputy director and chief of operations for the Military Postal Service Agency (MPSA). "Beat the last minute rush by bringing your mail to your post office by these suggested dates.
1/ EMMS: Express Mail Military Service is available to selected military post offices. Check with your local Post Office to determine if this service is available to your APO/FPO of address. 2/ PAL: PAL is a special service that provides air transportation for parcels on a space-available basis. It is available for Parcel Post items not exceeding 30 pounds in weight or 60 inches in length and girth combined. The applicable PAL fee must be paid in addition to the regular surface rate of postage for each addressed piece sent by PAL service. 3/ SAM: Parcels paid at Parcel Post postage rates are first transported domestically by surface and then to overseas destinations by air on a space-available basis. The maximum weight and size limits are 15 pounds and 60 inches in length and girth combined.
DoD requests that those who send mail use the service member's full name (with or without rank or rating), unit and APO/FPO (Air/Army Post Office or Fleet Post Office) address with the nine-digit ZIP code (if one is assigned) and a return address. For packages, mailers are asked to print on one side only with the recipient's address in the lower right portion. Packages must not be mailed in boxes that have markings related to any type of hazardous material, such as bleach, alcohol, or cleaning fluids. Parcels found by the U.S. Postal Service with such markings or labels on the outside of the box will not be processed. Instead, they will be handled as non-mailable matter - regardless of the contents or what is listed on the U.S. Customs form. While there are specific restrictions for each five-digit military post office ZIP code (APO/FPO), it is prohibited to mail the following items to the CENTCOM region: obscene articles (prints, paintings, cards, films, videotapes, etc.); pork or pork by-products; alcoholic beverages; any matter depicting nude or seminude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or unauthorized political materials. Although religious materials contrary to the Islamic faith are prohibited in bulk quantities, items for the personal use of the addressee are permissible. There may be size restrictions and customs declaration form requirements to some locations as mail going through the MPSA can be subject to the host country customs requirements. The time to deliver varies depending on the category of mail and the country of destination. Delivery may also take longer when armed forces are on the move during periods of heightened activity. Also please note, do not write "IRAQ" anywhere on the mail that you send. Once "IRAQ" is written on the parcel or letter, it is required to be sorted into the Iraqi postal system under the new Status of Forces Agreement. The last few boxes that had "IRAQ" written on them took over a month to finally get to this Post Office and the soldier it was intended for. Remember that all APO is still treated as mail that is within the United States. |
ATTENTION GUYS
This is a little area I like to call "Attention Guys" where I post some of the really dumb questions or requests I get asked. It's all in fun and I promise to keep it anonymous, however feel free to tag yourself and take credit. Don't get mad at me either, you said it I'm just posting it!
1. ATTENTION GUYS: when a girl tells you she likes hookers don't ask her if she gets a discount because she's a girl too 2. ATTENTION GUYS: when a girl tells you she's engaged don't ask if she's off limits till the wedding 3. ATTENTION GUYS: When a girl tells you she's in a long distance relationship, don't ask how many packs of batteries she goes through a week. 4. ATTENTION GUYS: When you tell a girl you like to stop what she is doing to go listen to a song. It shouldn't be a horrible Mountain Goats song about your recent break-up....or divorce.Untitled
Equinoxes, Solstices and Cross Quarter Days 3.33: Calculates dates and times for equinoxes, solstices and #c.. http://bit.ly/JkP9K
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Equinoxes, Solstices and Cross Quarter Days 3.21: Calculates dates and times for equinoxes, solstices and #c.. http://bit.ly/JkP9K
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Happy Galtday
"He thought suddenly that there was some phrase, a kind of quotation, that expressed what the calendar seemed to suggest. But he could not recall it. He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it nor dismiss it. He glanced back. The white rectangle stood above the roofs, saying in immovable finality: September 2."
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Lunar Calendars and Eclipse Finder 8.63: Software to find dates and times of lunar and solar eclipses and #l.. http://bit.ly/1492lM
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Lifelines
My ninety-three year old grandmother, locked away in her assisted-living facility where she rarely sees anybody, keeps this and other sheets of paper in the purse she can no longer reach for on her own: it is a hand-written list of all the birthdays of all her children and grandchildren, cousins, and other kin.
Last time I moved my sorry self to see her, she asked me to take it out and read a few dates out loud, because she was afraid there was a birthday coming up that she might miss.
As I unfolded the sheet taking care not to rip it along the worn out folds, I could barely contain an emotion, perhaps because it so greatly surpassed me.
Formatting Dates in SSRS
In Reporting Services, formatting dates can become a headache for the developer, often due to differing regional settings on servers, development boxes etc. Therefore I've found it much more useful to force the report to use a particular format, rather than allow the server settings to decide for me. Previously I would have used FormatDateTime in the expression, as shown here:
=FormatDateTime(Fields!DateStamp.Value, DateFormat.ShortDate)
Depending on the regional settings, this could return either 12/3/2008 or 3/12/2008. When designing the report, I want to know exactly what the date will look like, no matter where it is deployed. So I instead use the Format function to allow me to choose the format I require. Some examples:
=Format(Fields!DateStamp.Value, "dd-MMM-yy")
returns 03-Dec-08
=Format(Fields!DateStamp.Value, "dd-MMM-yyyy")
returns 03-Dec-2008
=Format(Fields!DateStamp.Value, "dd-MMMM-yy")
returns 03-December-08
=Format(Fields!DateStamp.Value, "dd-MMM-yyyy H:mm")
03-Dec-2008 16:44
This method removes a lot of the issues regarding date formatting, and means there are no shocks or questions when it comes to deployment time!
Edit: Setting the Language property of the report to your locale will also ensure that dates in your report parameters will have the correct format. This is something that is often overlooked.
