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pd1590-55Square Feet: 1590 Bedrooms: 4
Full Bathrooms: 2Narrow plan packs a big punch! Open family dining & kitchen have a vaulted ceiling. Master suite has a garden tub & optional separate shower. 3 bedrooms share a bath - 1 could convert to a study or formal dining. Dressy elevation boasts dormers & decorative windows. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2This charming plan is great for a growing family. Bedroom 4 could be a playroom or study instead by eliminating closets. Bedroom 3 can have direct access to master - a great nursery or study. Space behind garage can be utilized for a gameroom or larger garage. Note walk-in closets pantry & rear foyer. Timeless elevation can be dressed up or down to meet your family's taste. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2Job# 4282-06. To view similar 4 BR designs please search our plans H2039A H2047A H2047B H2118A and H2125A. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2This formal house depicts old time ambiance, with rocking chair porches on front and rear. The open Great Room is an explosion of space that is in harmony with the room's dramatic views. Hugged by a bay window the Nook creates an ideal place for informal meals. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2Storage - Storage - Storage! This plan has it all; formals convertible bedroom/study walk-in closets. The Jack-n-Jill bath kitchen w/island & walk-in pantry & open family area make this a perfect family plan. Choose between traditional styling w/stone accents or classic gable w/dormers elevation. Learn More
dl2164Square Feet: 2164 Bedrooms: 4
Full Bathrooms: 2Country living at it's finest. The charming front porch and classic dormers is the first glimpse of the attention to detail that you will find inside this country classic. Enter to find a large family room with a 10 foot ceiling and a cozy fireplace with bookcases on either side. A charming nook will lead you into a large kitchen with a walk in pantry. Entertain in your beautiful formal dining room looking out onto the covered porch. The spacious master bedroom boasts a large luxurious bath. Three additional bedrooms share a convenient hall bath. This will be home for generations to come. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2TWO COVERED PORCHES MAKE THIS HOME PLACE TO RELAX. THE FULLY EQUIPPED KITCHEN CONTAINS A COOKTOP ISLAND WALL OVEN SNACK BAR AND A VIEW OUT THE BREAKFAST AREA WINDOWS. A WALK-IN PANTRY IS THE PERFECT SIZE FOR A GROWING FAMILY. THE DINING ROOM IS WITHIN EASY REACH AND IS HIGHLIGHTED BY ARCHED OPENINGS. THE GREAT ROOM IS MADE EVEN MORE SPECIAL WITH A TRAY CEILING AND FIREPLACE. A FRENCH DOOR LEAD OUT ONTO THE REAR COVERED PORCH MADE JUST FOR RELAXING. BEDROOMS 2-4 ARE LOCATED TOGETHER ALL HAVE WALK-IN CLOSETS AND SHARE A FULL BATH. THE MASTER BEDROOM IS LARGE AND GIVES ACCESS TO A LUXURY BATH. THIS BATH HOUSES A CORNER WHIRLPOOL TUB LARGE SHOWER AND DUAL SINKS. A LARGE 8? X 10? WALK-IN CLOSET IS LOCATED OFF THE BATH. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2This beautiful country-styled home offers a very functional split floorplan layout. The great room features 10-foot ceilings and cozy fireplace with gas logs. Excellent views of the great room and back yard from kitchen. The expansive and well-appointed master suite includes his and hers walk-in closets an oversized jet tub separate shower compartmentalized toilet and dual vanities. Three other bedrooms each have a walk-in closet and share second bath. The bonus room provides a great space for a gameroom or home office and even has space for an optional half bath. A large 2 car garage with separate storage is also provided. This home truly has the flexibility and features that your family wants! Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2This beautiful design offers traditional neighborhood styling along with great floor plan features. The great room features trayed ceilings built-in cabinets a cozy gas log fireplace and excellent views. A well-equipped kitchen offers easy access to the formal dining room as well as the casual breakfast area. The expansive and well-appointed master suite includes a trayed ceiling his and hers walk-in closets an oversized jet tub separate shower compartmentalized toilet and dual vanities. Three other bedrooms each have a walk-in closet and share a second bath. The bonus room provides a great space for a gameroom or home office and even has space for an optional bath. A large 2 car garage with separate storage is also provided. The functional floorplan and attractive exterior combine to make this a plan that you and your family can be proud to call home. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2This charming country home offers much more than just great style. It also features a floorplan designed for the busy lifestyles of families today. The large great room features a gas log fireplace trayed ceilings and provides a perfect place to entertain guests. The well-equipped kitchen features a raised bar large pantry and easy access to the neighboring dining room. The master suite features a large walk-in closet dual lavatories jet tub separate shower and enclosed toilet. The other three bedrooms all include large closets. This home also features great porch areas for outdoor entertaining and a large two car garage complete with separate storage space. Make this your family's next home! Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 2This four bedroom floor plan with isolated master suite and large family room would be perfect for a growing active family. The formal living room formal dining room porches and elegantly shaped terrace make this a great home for indoor or outdoor entertaining. Learn More
HPG-2447Square Feet: 2447 Bedrooms: 4
Full Bathrooms: 2Looking for the house that has it all? Then look no further. This beautiful Craftsman design features all the things that make a house a home. Four over-sized bedrooms are complimented by large walk-in closets and the flex space provides a perfect spot for that home office playroom or dining room. A breakfast area and raised bar all provide spaces for those family meals with close access to the fully equipped kitchen. The great room includes gas logs a coffered ceiling and beautiful views to the covered rear porch beyond. The master bedroom also features trayed ceilings and the master bathroom leaves nothing to be desired. The expansive garage provides plenty of room for oversized trucks and SUV's and also includes a large storage area. The bonus room as well as the full basement provide excellent spaces for future expansion or for additional storage. This is the perfect home for you and your family! Learn More
DH-2452Square Feet: 2452 Bedrooms: 4
Full Bathrooms: 2The Kitchen has a uniquely shaped island with a drop-in down draft stove. Across the hall is a huge walk-in pantry with a freezer and lots of shelving. The Great Room has an optional Gas Fireplace and optional recessed 10' ceiling. The Master Suite has an enormous walk-in closet and access to Porch 2 through French doors. The Master Bath has a separate whirlpool tub custom shower and toilet compartment for privacy. All Bedrooms have walk-in closets. Bathroom 2 is located with easy access to all three bedrooms and a vanity area perfect for multiple children. There are 2 fabulous porches. Porch #1 is huge and wraps around to the right. Porch #2 has a deep 14' covered porch with a 7' deep porch located on the Master Bedroom wing. There is a breezeway that leads to a nice size 2 car garage... build it now or later. Learn More


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the mission impossible full theme tune _really annoying nd catchy!
the mission impossible full theme tune _really annoying nd catchy!
60 People have never done a Mission >.>
Better as the most reality secret services
I'm old school but I love to work out to this….nice remix…
60 people are D-Bags
who wants to go through walmart wearig ALL black and dart around with your hands making that shape of a gunn and humm this song?
@lindsaaylouwho So true
OMG! I has to do a speech tommorow, listened to this and I finished it! I never started it!
@lindsaaylouwho HAHAHAHA IM GONNA TRY THAT,THUMBS UP
@Chrysostone123 hahaha
the most Agent music in history.
your mission should you choose to accept is to complete the two documents which have to be handed into your superiors within the next 24 hours. These documents have been in your possession the last week. Failure to complete this mission will result in severe trouble and the possibility of detention. Good luck and Godspeed. This message will now self-destruct.
who is this by??
thumbs up if you think youre a very special secret agent when hearing this
@TheSatyam182 Double negative, monkeyboy!
I'm from the old school but this version definitely works – Kudos for that – Thanks for the post!!
I like playing this at various times throughout the day. It makes my mundane tasks seem important. ^_^
America was a great country then.
@KamiNoKazoku yeah
@Chrysostone123 now 58 people is impossible ;P
@vanishy0urself yeah i checked the original out and that would be right
EPIC 5/4 rhythm is 5/4=125% EPIC
@lindsaaylouwho hahas my ezams are over so i am not sure. But this song is amazing!(:
@lindsaaylouwho LOL nice ill try to keep this in my head next time do homework which is lik monday
@DeJaMZz actually yes, but the original was entirely 5/4. If he was talking about one small part, then he's right.
@ladybugs199 … Really?!?!!?! WHATTHEFAK!!!!


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I want to change the payment system on my website, to increase confidence in buyers and allow me to take a commision cut.
Buyers used to pay sellers directly for items. Sellers would advertise via payed classified ads.
What I want to implement now is:
Buyer Sends Me (the website) the Money > Seller sends item (with tracked postage) > (next stage has 3 options) >>
1. If buyer is happy with received item I release payment (minus commision fee) to Seller.
2. If Buyer is unhappy new fee is settled upon between buyer and seller, and I send part of the money/return some to buyer.
3.buyer returns item to original seller and I refund the seller.
Any help advice on how this works, legalities, things to consider, and whether to use PayPal etc would be much appreciated ..


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The 2014 Mercedes-Benz E550 Cabriolet is an extraordinarily comfortable car, and offers cutting-edge driver-assistance features, but cabin electronics are in need of some refinement.
At the 2014 Detroit auto show, Mercedes-Benz showed the latest generation of its highest-selling model, the C-Class, giving it high-tech features and new, down-sized engines.
Mercedes-Benz fits a Tesla battery pack to its 2014 B-Class Electric Drive, creating a comfortable driver with limited range.
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The powerful, efficient 2014 Mercedes-Benz E250 BlueTec is a great car -- nearly the total package -- but it won't be a great "tech car" until its dashboard tech gets a much needed overhaul.
Mercedes-Benz takes a big step forward with its 2014 S550 flagship sedan, improving just about every feature in this model update, but app integration suffers from slow connection times.
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Featuring excellent fuel economy and a generally comfortable and easy-driving character, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK250 makes for a useful all-around vehicle, good for the daily commute and family road trips.
The new S-Class, the flagship sedan from Mercedes-Benz, once again pushes the tech envelope while offering one of the most luxurious rides on the road.
The Mercedes-Benz S550 sedan was already a tech powerhouse, but the new Coupe version takes things further with Active Curve Tilting and an iPhone mirroring feature.
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Apple offers a demonstration of the new CarPlay iOS mirroring feature in a Mercedes-Benz C-class during the Geneva auto show.
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Reasonably well-equipped, the 2013 Mercedes-Benz GLK350 4MATIC is a solid choice as a comfortable and capable urban crossover; just don't get carried away with the options.


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"It's going to be the premier gift shop on the beaches," said Tiernan-Jasuwan of the new and improved Bentley's Boutique. Come August, the store will be closing and moving to a space on St. Pete Beach.
Not only will the location change, but so will the inventory. As of now, Bentley's is known as a high end consignment shop. After the move, however, it will be retail only.
A new mom herself, Tiernan-Jasuwan has discovered a love for baby products. The new beach store will carry upscale baby items as well as unique gifts. Shoppers will find everything from candles to handmade jewelry.
"It's literally going to be a one stop shop on the beach for gifts," explained Tiernan-Jasuwan.
Tiernan-Jasuwan joined countless other entrepreneurs when she opened the original Bentley's, back in early 2011. After huge successes on the 600 Block, like opening a neighboring store called Gold & Maiden and hosting charity events, Tiernan-Jasuwan says that it's time to move forward.
Although she is moving the business, Tiernan-Jasuwan says that there are no hard feelings between her and the fashionable block in downtown St. Pete. According to her, "it's been wonderful."
The new location is scheduled to open on August 15th on St. Pete Beach at 6850 Gulf Blvd.


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Monday, January 28, 2013 —
Ruby Bowers Hatley, 84, of Albemarle, passed away on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at Spring Arbor.
The family received friends at Hartsell Funeral Home, Midland on Sunday, January 27, 2013, from 12:30-1:30 p.m.
The graveside service, officiated by Rev. Ronny Russell, was at Mission Baptist Church on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 2 p.m. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. There will be a gathering with friends and family after the burial at the church.
Mrs. Hatley was born on March 11, 1928, to the late M.L. Bowers, Sr. and the late Mary Deese Bowers. She is also preceded in death by her husband in 1988, Flave Hatley; and two sisters and four brothers.
Ruby is survived by one daughter, Rhonda Kiser and husband Ken of Indian Trail; two grandchildren, Kyle and Kinsey Kiser; a sister, Lillian Poplin of Greensboro.
For four years she was a resident of Spring Arbor where she enjoyed her many friends and caring staff.
Memorials may be made to Mission Baptist Church, 12444 Mission Church Road, Locust, NC 28097 or Spring Arbor, 315 Park Ridge Road, Albemarle, NC 28001.
Hartsell Funeral Home of Midland is serving the Hatley family.
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Senate Defeat of U.N. Disabled Treaty Shows GOP Paranoia
The Republican Party has to stop turning everything into a partisan food fight.
There has been a great deal of angst in recent years over the perceived and actual loss of U.S. influence overseas. Some of the waning power is a natural result of a changing world. Developing countries which once relied heavily on the United States for help and guidance would, and have, eventually develop, and would grow irritated at being pushed around by a superpower. The demise of the Cold War made the equation muddier, with the world no longer divided along some crude free/not free line. And questions about American military involvement—whether it's a question of whether the United States got involved in the Balkan conflicts too late, or never should have gotten involved in Iraq at all—undermine the U.S. role as international arbiter. The refusal to join the International Criminal Court has also damaged America's moral authority in foreign affairs.
The way to regain influence is to focus on leading and not dictating. The U.S. Senate had a chance to lead this week, and they failed.
[See a collection of political cartoons on Congress.]
By a 61-38 vote, the Senate rejected ratification of an international treaty meant to protect the rights of the disabled (a two-thirds vote is necessary to approve treaties). The concept is pretty simple and a no-brainer, in terms of upholding basic human rights. It had the support of Republican Sen. John McCain (who teamed up with Foreign Relations Committee chairman Sen. John F. Kerry to push the measure), as well as former GOP Sen. Bob Dole and former president George H. W. Bush.
It's the sort of bipartisan team that used to make policy in Washington—the sorts of people who understood there was no value in turning absolutely everything into some sort of partisan food fight. There are times when the issue is far more important than separating oneself from the other party, and this was one of them.
[See a collection of political cartoons on the Republican Party.]
But Senate conservatives blocked it, arguing that the treaty gave the United Nations (where a committee would oversee the ban on discrimination against the disabled) undue authority over U.S. sovereignty. That is not only arrogant, but it's meaningless. Congress approved the Americans With Disabilities Act more than two decades ago, putting the United States ahead of other countries in protecting this population. Why is it a sign of weakness to spread this civilized philosophy to other parts of the world?
Expanding the ban on discrimination doesn't make the United States a patsy of the United Nations. It would have made America a leader. The country had a solid opportunity to reclaim a position of leadership and moral authority in the world, and it lost it because of the misguided paranoia of a conservative minority.


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Re: Theater Mode & Prestige Token Transferfrats74 Nov 23, 2012 7:41 PM (in response to hedless-horsman)
You only get a Prestige Token if you Prestiged in COD: MW, COD: WAW, COD: MW2 and COD: BO before COD: MW3 was released (11/12/11).
Re: Theater Mode & Prestige Token Transferhedless-horsman Dec 8, 2012 4:15 PM (in response to frats74)
Thanks for the response. That makes sense, however, I did not start gaming online until after MW3 was released last year. Since then I was able to prestige in COD4 & WAW this year and did receive tokens for each of them. That is why I assumed it would work for MW2.


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Original recipe yields 1 dozen sandwich cookies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- In a bowl, cream together 1 cup butter and the flour until smooth and creamy. Stir in heavy cream. Scrape dough into a ball.
- Sprinkle the white sugar on a cutting board. Roll out the dough to about a 1/4-inch thickness on the sugared surface. Using a 3-inch round cookie cutter, cut dough into 24 circles. Using the rolling pin, roll each circle into a slightly oval shape. Place cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet about an inch apart.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the edges of the cookies get very lightly brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool slightly on cookie sheet; then transfer them to cooling racks using a spatula.
- To make the filling, mix together 1/2 cup of butter, confectioners' sugar, egg yolk, and Swedish arrack punsch in a bowl. Beat until mixture is well blended and creamy.
- To assemble, spread about a rounded teaspoon of filling on the bottom of one cookie and place another cookie, bottom side down, on the filling to form a sandwich. Repeat with the rest of the cookies.
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This is my recipe.. just wanted to point out a couple of things.. the cookie dough is very sticky so you will need to dust your cutting board with a lot of sugar and keep turning the dough over while you roll. The sugar will kind of embed in the dough. Second.. this makes more than 12 cookies or 24 circles. Cut out the circles as you go and then re-roll the scraps. Use any flavoring you like in the cream.. any liquor or extract would work well. Just use what you like best
omg these sound so good! can't wait to make em:)
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- 335 cal
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- 40%
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|Rickey Jefferson
LSU is in the middle of hosting their second camp of the summer, and they have already landed two commitments, one each for the Class of 2013 and Class of 2014.
Starting with the Class of 2013, Destrehan athlete Rickey Jefferson came to Baton Rouge to observe camp on Sunday and gave his commitment to Les Miles on Sunday afternoon. Jefferson has been a bit off the radar in the recruiting world, mostly because he missed most of his junior season with a knee injury. He also hasn't attended too many camp events. But make no mistake, Jefferson is a big-time player and his commitment is a big deal for LSU. I've currently got Jefferson rated as the #3 player in the state of Louisiana. I should be updating those rankings soon, but Jefferson will absolutely remain in the Top Five.
Jefferson has played mostly offense at the high school level, but he has everything you could want from a lockdown corner. He's got good size at 6'0″ 185, great change of direction and acceleration, and good ball skills. I wouldn't be surprised to see Jefferson make an impact very early in his career and become a multi-year starter at cornerback for LSU. As a prospect, he reminds me of Odell Beckham Jr.
Here is some film of Jefferson, which is from his sophomore season at Destrehan. I encourage you to pay special attention to the second highlight on the video. It's only about a 20 yard run. Rickey takes the handoff in the backfield and cuts the ball upfield, then bounces it outside and turns it back up the sideline for a decent gain. Both times he turns upfield, he absolutely explodes. The acceleration he shows there is elite. I watched it about 10 times trying to determine if the tape was sped up, but it's not. That highlight, as much as any other, showed me all I needed to see regarding Jefferson's ability, which I obviously believe to be pretty special.
On Saturday, LSU landed their first commitment for the Class of 2014 and it came from out state. Ponte Vedra Beach, FL linebacker Kain Daub visited LSU and decided to become a Tiger. This is a big, big deal. It's early, but Daub may be the highest rated prospect in the state of Florida for the Class of 2014. 247 Sports is the only service that has rankings out for that class right now, and they rate Daub as the nation's top middle linebacker and the #6 overall prospect. Daub plays at Nease high school in Florida, which produced a guy by the name of Tim Tebow. Daub checks in at 6'3″ 230.
Daub's commitment was absolutely unexpected. He was in Austin, TX with some family and driving back to Florida. They made a last minute decision to stop in and check out LSU. After calling the football office, Les Miles and staff quickly threw together a whirlwind tour for Daub and his family which absolutely blew them away. He was also able to join in on the 7-on-7 tournament taking place, playing on the Louisiaina Bootleggers team, made up of a number of LSU commitments. By the end of the day, Daub gave Les Miles his commitment and cancelled his previously scheduled trip to Alabama.
Now…it's a LONG time before Daub can sign with LSU. Other schools, especially the Big Three in Florida and Alabama, are not going to stop recruiting him. Was Daub simply caught up in the moment of a great visit? Or will his commitment stick? Only time will tell, but Daub is saying all of the right things so far and has said that his recruitment is now over. Needless to say the Class of 2014, which has some big-time talent in the state of Louisiana, is off to a great start. Here is some video of Daub:
Some other things I've been able to gather from varous camp reports:
- Pompano Beach, FL cornerback Rashard Robinson showed up on Sunday and promptly turned in a pair of smoking 40 times, reportedly in the 4.4 or less range. Observers said that Robinson was a legit 6'3″. All indications are that Robinson was coming to camp with the intention of firming up his LSU offer and then posisbly committing, so his name is one to watch. The comparisons to Tharold Simon are abundant.
- In 7-on-7 action Saturday, a number of LSU commitments had great performances as expected. Tre'Davious White, John Diarse, and Desean Smith all had great days. Class of 2014 receiver Devante "Speedy" Noil also turned some heads as did his Karr teammate Standish Dobard, who is a tight-end committed to Miami.
- Katy, TX running back Adam Taylor was in attendance and reportedly looked the part physically. He was one of the top two backs in attendance. It's unclear at this point whether Taylor will be a part of this class. It's tough to see how there is room for him, or any running back, but Taylor reportedly performed well today. If LSU elects not to take Taylor, then the depth chart is wide open for….
- Class of 2014 running back Leonard Fournette from St. Augustine high school was in attendance over the weekend. In fact, Fournette decided to stay at LSU and not attend Alabama's camp, which is nice for LSU fans to hear. Fournette was clearly the top back at the event according to everyone there. If you're not aware, he'll be one of the top running backs, and top overall players, in the nation next year.
- Barbe high school receiver Trey Quinn (2014) was one of the top performers at the camp. He did great in drills and then surprised everyone by turning in a 4.4 time in the 40. Quinn is on the watch list to receive an offer from LSU and if he receives it, it probably won't take him long to accept.
- Linebacker Melvin Jones, a LSU commitment, worked out on Sunday and reportedly looked bigger than his listed weight of 245. Onlookers said that he carried his weight well and performed well. Could Jones eventually grow into a defensive lineman? It's certainly possible.
- Wide receiver Chuck Baker, a LSU commitment, also turned some heads. Baker's presence really stood out as many estimated that he was a legit 6'3″ and very well put together. Once he combined that with an impressive 40 time, it's easy to see why LSU's staff offered him early.
- LSU extended an offer to 2014 defensive end Deondre Clark who is from Oklahoma City, OK. Clark is a 6'3″ 250 pound defensive end who also has early offers from Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. He also received heavy interest from Alabama. Clark's brother, Steven, is a highly recruited point guard.
- Plaquemine defensive end Davon Godchaux is another 2014 prospect that really stood out. He's a guy to watch for an early offer from LSU. Godchaux has great size at 6'4″ 245, and it's not out of the question that he eventually grows into an interior lineman. Here is a note from Shea Dixon of 247 Sports on Godchaux:
My MVP on the OL/DL 1-on-1s goes to Plaquemine 2014 DE Davon Godchaux. Nobody can stop him off the edge. Looks awesome.
— Shea Dixon (@Sheadixon) July 15, 2012
- I mentioned him above but Devante Noil (2014) was frequently mentioned today as a head turner. He's on the short side, listed at 5'10″, but Noil looks like a big-time skill player in the mold of Skyler Green.
- On Saturday, Dallas, TX defensive back Ed Paris (2014) was on hand. Paris looks like one of the top defensive backs in the nation and one of the top overall players in the state of Texas and many believe he's a strong lean to LSU. Brandon Simmons (2014), a high school teammate of Paris and also a defensive back was on hand too. Both Paris and Simmons hold offers from LSU and though it's early, I'd be surprised if both didn't end up as Tigers.
- Beaumont, TX defensive back Tony Brown (2014) was also on campus. Brown attended this same camp last year and earned his first offer from LSU. He continues to impress everywhere he goes and is a five star candidate in next year's class.
- Neville HS defensive back Laurence Jones is expected to be on campus Monday. Jones is in the same league as Paris and Brown in terms of talent and will likely have many eyes on him.
- University HS offensive lineman Garrett Brumfield (2014) was back at LSU on Saturday. It's expected that LSU will offer Brumfield soon, but that hasn't happened just yet. Brumfield already holds offers from Florida and Miami.
- Another 2014 prospect that turned some heads on Sunday was Scotlandville's Deldrich Canty, a defensive tackle. He's another to watch for a potential offer.
- Some big names to watch to see if they show up at some point this week: Tim Williams, Kendell Beckwith, Torrodney Prevot, Scott Pagano, Cameron Robinson (2014), Jacory Washington (2014), and Gerald Willis (2014)


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Improving to 5-0 on the season, the Bulldogs jumped out to an early 39-10 lead at halftime and never looked back against a Buffalo squad that showed much potential in their first four ball games of the season.
"They're off to the best start they've had in a number of years," Bert Williams, head coach, said. "We were expecting a tough battle, and so we came out and executed real well in the first half there."
GMC had a strong day defensively, with many of the Bulldogs' defensive players getting some playing time in the contest on Saturday, which Williams admits, "I was happy to get them out there."
Dezmin Reed led the team in total tackles against the Buffaloes with five, followed by Alonzo McGee and Jaden Le with four tackles and a fumble recovery each.
Also snagging four tackles in the contest was St. Pierre Anilus, who also had a tackle for loss as well.
Leading the Bulldogs up front was LeGrande Harley with two sacks, while Solomon Parker came away with the team's only other sack and a forced fumble against Arkansas Baptist.
"It was very even across the board defensively," Williams said. "Solomon Parker, he got a lot of play in the second half and did some good things to add to our depth in that position."
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With all the frenzy on Black Friday, many merchants are banking that you'll skip big stores, to buy local.
The day after Black Friday is "Small Business Saturday." This is the local business answer to Black Friday.The idea started four years ago.
There are a plethora of small businesses in the Richmond Metro Area. Kimberly Overman sells and restores vases, sculptures and dolls decades or even centuries old. "Small Business Saturday" helps Kimberly to build trust and meet new people who venture into her store on Patterson Avenue.
"That's been one of the nicest things about this particular business," Overman said. "The people we've met over the years, and you kind of grow along with them.
It's being pitched as a day to discover the unique, skip the lines and the fights, and keep money within the neighborhood.
But if you're schedule is stacked on "Small Business Saturday", there are still ways to help out.
You can always go online to ShopSmall.com to shop for small businesses, and when you do that, the post office will give you free shipping on your order.
Michael Duke sells Victorian fireplaces at his store on North Boulevard, in Richmond.
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"It's kind of difficult when you're buying something off the Internet from Texas or California or out of the country, and you have an issue with it, and it becomes a shipping game where you're sending it back and forth," Duke said.
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The journey to make Pauls Valley a one of a kind tourism destination seems to already be on a good footing for many residents, be it a museum for toys or a water park in progress.
However, the latest suggestion for an attraction took a bit more explaining for even the most progressive to catch on at Tuesday's city council meeting.
The idea, suggested by PV Tourism Director Erin Creach, is to add a distinguishing touch to the downtown area during the holiday season with an artificial ice skating rink.
It came before city council members through a $22,940 recommendation for funding from the PV Tourism Board and would be a way to compliment features like the Christmas lighting done every year at the train depot.
Creach noted how a community committee created for the holidays that found that the rink idea would also be much cheaper than their original suggestion of creating a drive-through light display in Wacker Park, where they estimated it would cost no less than $80,000.
Early questions from those like Councilman Hal Blevins focused on how things from lights to skates would be paid for, which would all be covered by a company that would come and set it up in town on that temporary basis.
"The reason they wanted an ice skating rink was they felt like because different communities already have drive-through lights and that it would be unique and that it would bring more people to Pauls Valley during the holiday season," said Creach. "We have a couple of different ideas at this point."
The rink itself would only operate from about Thanksgiving until around Christmas, charging a rate to be determined that would go right back into tourism funding.
The artificial option became the most feasible way versus actually freezing water from research performed by Creach and is possible since the surface could be easily placed and removed later by the company.
In fact, City Manager James Frizell confirmed it would likely not require much help from the city other than preparing a flat spot for the surface via dirt work and providing city utilities.
Creach pointed out how the outdoor concept even has two spots that would not take much preparation like the old Alvis Hotel or next to the pocket park along Chickasaw Street.
"When I presented it to them, the tourism board actually wanted to investigate what it would cost to do real ice, which is way more expensive, but this was lower end scale cost," Creach, adding how community members might be able to give some if not most of the tourism funding back since they plan to raise what they can through donations and that the funding request mainly gives them a starting place to go forward with the idea.
"I just want to know that the funding is there to go ahead and put it in place so we can get the ball rolling on the process."
Creach added that merchants downtown already stay open late during the holiday season and some of them are willing to stay open a bit longer. This means extra economic benefits like sales taxes from the people that would come to enjoy ice skating.
To assure safety, Police Chief Mitch McGill said it would not be too much trouble to have a reserve officer nearby on duty to keep an eye on things. Vice Mayor Billy Riddle noted how he liked the idea since both proposed spots would have plenty of parking within walking distance.
In the end, there was no action taken on whether or not to approve funding, but council members like Gary Alfred asked Creach to bring them more information to the next council meeting. This includes what could be done to provide lights outside the rink to compliment what the company would provide and to finalize all the details.


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Hagel to Ink First Foreign V-22 Transport Sale With Israel
No change to Iran policy in sale of Ospreys, or jet fighters for Saudis, Emirates.
The U.S. will provide Japan a new radar and deploy two Ospreys, shown above, to Japan, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced Monday.
The Osprey is finally spreading its wings for the rest of the world.
Pentagon sources say the U.S. has negotiated a deal with the Israelis to sell the first ever V-22 Osprey transports to a foreign country. The tilt-rotor aircraft – marketed for its ability to take off and land like a helicopter and fly fast like an airplane – generated negative attention during its initial testing and development as what critics called an unsafe and unreliable vehicle.
[READ: The V-22 Osprey May Have Climbed Out of Controversy]
But improvements to the Ospreys impressed the Marine Corps, which will soon use it as the primary medium-lift helicopter for all it's troop transport missions. And the V-22 has proven itself on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The purchasing agreement between the U.S. and Israel will be a key component of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's upcoming tour of the Middle East. "It's a significant achievement, and the timing of this trip is appropriate," a senior defense official says. "Secretary Hagel wanted to make sure to travel to Israel very early to finalize parts of this agreement and talk through it."
This agreement, the official added, is one of the most "significant and complex and comprehensive which we've seen."
President Barack Obama has instructed the last two U.S. defense secretaries to strengthen the relationship with Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta twice during the Pentagon chief's final weeks in office.
The relationship between the U.S. and Israel is "stronger than ever," the official says. "This is the fruit of that tree."
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Other stops on Hagel's trip will include Saudi Arabia, where he will follow up on a 2010 agreement for them to purchase 84 F-15SA Strike Eagles for nearly $30 billion. The first of these fighter jets rolled off an assembly line in Missouri last month and are currently undergoing flight testing.
The United Arab Emirates is also planning to purchase 25 F-16 Block 60 Desert Falcons for about $5 billion.
The total cost of the V-22 deal with Israel, as well as how many they will purchase, has not yet been finalized.
Weapons deals with the Saudis and Emiratis will also include precision bombs and missiles, the official said. U.S. pilots will continue to work with their UAE counterparts in training on the new aircraft.
"We believe and the Israelis believe the provision of these capabilities in no way diminishes Israel's qualitative military edge, but they're consistent with the more commonly addressed threats in the region," said the official.
"This does not signal a change in U.S. policy toward Iran," he said. "These capabilities can be used for a variety of purposes.
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The Marine Corps currently has 201 Ospreys, and has employed them as a critical part of its ability to quickly deploy. The aircraft can fly 322 miles per hour at a range of 850 nautical miles, far exceeding the Corps' current workhorse, the CH-46 Sea Knight.
Air Force Special Operations Command is the only other U.S. military service that employs the Osprey. Airmen use their variant, the CV-22, "to conduct day or night low-level penetration into hostile enemy territory, to accomplish infiltration and exfiltration, aerial gunnery support and resupply of special operations forces throughout the world," says AFSOC spokeswoman Capt. Belena Marquez.
They are currently flown by the 20th Special Operations Squadron at Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., and the 8th SOS at Hulburt Field, Fla.
"The CV-22 has the one-of-a-kind combination of speed, range and operational flexibility that gives Special Operations an advantage that no other fighting force in the world enjoys," she tells U.S. News. "Essentially, the Osprey is used by our Airmen to ensure that Special Operations Forces are able to be where they are needed, anytime, anyplace."
Other stops on Hagel's tour will include Jordan, where he just promised to send a new Army headquarters unit to help add a sense of permanence to the U.S. military's efforts to contain chemical weapons in Syria.


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Smiths Station was playing for pride as Friday night's game at T. C. Britton field was its finale. Valley is on to the playoffs next week, but Smiths Station defeated the Rams 27-20.
Valley closed the gap to 27-20 with a 10-yard pass from Joshua Meigs to Davion Bailey with 4:04 remaining in the game.
Smiths Station opened the game with a five play 69-yard drive and took a 7-0 lead when Jerrell Gilmore found Johnny Woods across the middle for a 60 yard score.
Smiths Station drove 57-yards in 10 plays. Gilmore and Woods hooked up on a 20-yard pass to put the Panthers up 13-0.
Houston Barnes returned the ensuing kickoff 59-yards. One play later Joshua Meigs connected with Davion Bailey on a scoring pass to pull to within 13-7.
The Panthers drove 68-yards to score on its third straight drive when Preston Reynolds ran in from 3-yards out for a 20-7 lead.
Austin Wood added a 25-yard field goal and a 20-yarder as time expired in the first half to cut the lead to 20-13.
Smiths Station added a third-quarter score to extend the lead to 27-13.
Valley 7 6 0 7--20
First Quarter
S-- Johnny Woods 60 pass from Jerrell Gilmore (Harrison Jones kick), 9:33
S-- Woods 10 pass fro Gilmore (kick failed), 3:50
V-- Davion Bailey 19 pass from Joshua Meigs (Austin Wood kick), 3:22
Second Quarter
S-- Preston Reynolds 3 run ((Jones kick), 11:22
V-- Wood 25 field goal, 4:32
V-- Wood 20 field goal, :00
Third Quarter
S-- Devante Marshall 12 run (Jones kick), :29
Fourth Quarter
V-- Bailey 10 pass from Meigs (Wood kick), 4:04
Records: Valley 5-4; Smiths Station 4-5. Next: Smiths Station season over.


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Jerrel Jernigan | WR | New York Giants
Posted: 7/29/2014 10:32am et
New York Giants WR Jerrel Jernigan is expected to compete with rookie WR Odell Beckham Jr. (hamstring) for a starting spot.
Huddle Up: Beckham is not helping himself by missing time with a hamstring injury. Jernigan has been a solid contributor and offers Eli Manning and the Giants a nice fallback plan.
Posted: 12/29/2013 11:43pm et
New York Giants WR Jerrel Jernigan finished the regular season with a first-half touchdown reception and 49-yard touchdown run in the Week 17 game against the Washington Redskins.
Huddle Up: This might be a preview of things to come for Jernigan in New York. With Hakeem Nicks possibly gone, Jernigan could become the new No. 3 in that offense behind Victor Cruz and Rueben Randle.
Posted: 12/20/2013 8:15pm et
New York Giants WRs Rueben Randle and Jerrel Jernigan (knee) will see more opportunities in the final two regular season games with WR Victor Cruz (knee) done for the season. Randle has already had success this year, scoring six touchdowns through 14 games after scoring three all of last year. He has 37 grabs for 571 yards. Jernigan is questionable for Week 16 against the Detroit Lions but said he was 'feeling all right.' Jernigan, who had seven catches for 57 yards last week, would likely replace Cruz in the slot position.
Huddle Up: Randle is the guy fantasy owners care about this week. The Giants' offense is struggling but with Cruz on IR and Hakeem Nicks all but checked out on this season, Randle is a solid WR3/flex play for Week 16.
Posted: 8/22/2013 9:40am et
With New York Giants WRs Victor Cruz, Ramses Barden and Louis Murphy sidelined due to injuries, WR Jerrel Jernigan is getting plenty of reps in practice. He might be used as the slot receiver while Cruz recovers from his heel injury.
Huddle Up: In a perfect world the Giants will line up Cruz and Hakeem Nicks with Rueben Randle as their third receiver. But Cruz is already nicked and Nicks has a tendency to get hurt as well, pushing Randle into the starting mix and opening the door for Jernigan as a slot receiver. He's a late-round fantasy flier with upside, as the Giants' WR3 has a history of producing helpful fantasy numbers.


text: Quote:Totally true above. I never knew about the "Monkeyhead" nebula before !!! What would be the best way to see it visually? What I mean by that is which filter? O-III or Ultrablock?It's quite large in size, so I could maybe use my O-III and my 38mm Orion Q70 to see it!Cheers,


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Afghan Journal
Lifting the veil on conflict, culture and politics
Where does Taliban reconciliation leave victims of war?
The United States has signalled that it will gradually start withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, after almost a decade fighting in the country, from July 2011. And so, perhaps driven by a sense of fear over what the absence of tens of thousands of foreign troops will mean for an already fragile security situation, the Afghan government is pursuing a policy of engaging the Taliban and other insurgent factions such as Hezb-i-Islami. It is a policy widely backed by officials and many members of parliament. It is a political means of seeking an end to the conflict, perhaps because the idea that Afghan security forces will be capable of doing the job of 100,000 foreign troops, is still unfathomable to many. But to many other Afghans it also represents a compromise which could see the country paring back the political developments it has achieved since 2001.
Tens of thousands of Afghans were killed in the bloody civil war which was triggered by the collapse of Kabul's Soviet-backed government — most of them at the hands of warlords and powerful militia leaders who were competing for power. Some of these men are now officials. Some of them are Members of Parliament. Some of them are still fighting.
The Taliban's reign, which followed the civil war, also victimised thousands of people.
For years these Afghans have lived with memories of being beaten, brutalised, raped or having witnessed the murder of family members, but they have received next to nothing in reparations, not even a simple apology. To them, the thought of their government — after nine years of clumsy nation building and billions of dollars spent on their country by the U.S. — welcoming the Taliban and other insurgent leaders to a Peace Jirga in Kabul next week leaves them feeling angry and hopeless.
I met with a group of victims in Kabul recently. They were gathered in a sparkly hotel ballroom. I hadn't heard so many shocking stories of brutality in one place before. An audience of war-scarred Afghans heard from women who saw their children being shot dead and fathers whose sons had been kidnapped, imprisoned and executed. A man whose brother was lashed to death with an electrical cable. Teenagers who as toddlers had lost entire families to rockets and mortars and now walked Kabul's streets, homeless and desperate.
While they were unified in their hatred for the Taliban and Hezb-i-Islami (a delegation of which was invited for closed-door talks with Afghan officials last month) they were also fed up and tired of the fighting and poverty. Some of them said if it meant that peace would at last come to Afghanistan — and it would once and for all start a process of rehabilitation which does not involve thousands of foreign fighters fighting Afghans — perhaps talking with these men was worth a shot. But their greatest concern, and what both President Hamid Karzai and U.S. President Barack Obama have been silent over, is whether the people responsible for their pain will be brought to justice. Will there be a war crimes tribunal for Afghanistan? Or will the Afghan government's fear that the country will regress back to a civil war, once they lose the sagging safety net of NATO forces, force it to compromise and bring the perpetrators of war crimes not only back into the fold of society but into the government?
This article is absolutely false and sheer American propaganda. It is a world wide known American strategy to criticise their enemy while they, the Americans, know fullright that they have lost the Afghanistan war, they have brought upon their own shoulders another VIETNAM for themselves. Will they ever learn to keep their fingers out of other people's pies. It is not an Islam article for but one of the laws Islam people live by is NEVER CRITIQUE another is NEVER ENVY. Those people who really know ALLAH lives by His laws, and they have peace in their hearts.
Let us start by bringing George w,Ddick cheney and D rumsfeld on war crimes trial, and then follow it up by bringing the current USA administration role to the Hague. What business is of the USA to be in Afghanistan in the first place. You have no grounds to criticise the Afghan Govt., the current one and the former ones. Affluency does not automatically bring morals to the society. Look at the USA, how many crimes are commited daily in the land of plenty and incidentaly how much credit the country owes to the chinese and the saudis? Right now they are just printing green paper and financing the military adventure simply to master once again the Iranian oil!! Be fair and look at things as they are and not as you would like to see. Perhaps you should be writing about Iceland and not Afghanistan, the grave yard of foreign invaders.
I say let go and let God. The faces of the innocent children will always tell the honest truth. We work together or fail. When one thinks that they need more than others it causes disparagement for others.


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Saturday, 5th March
On Saturday afternoon seventeen persistent activists kicked off Fortress' home demos in the quaint and secluded neighborhood of Ian Schnider, a Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group. This is not the first time Schnider has seen demos from Los Angeles activists, who are sick and tired of Fortress' delay to publicly divest. With the help of several megaphones, activists' loud and livid voices echoed down the private street, exposing the truth and breaking the silence. Five hundred innocent animals stain Schnider's hands with blood each and everyday his company continues to sit on the fence and the killing inside Huntingdon carries on. The demand is the following: show us proof that the scum bags at HLS will no longer receive loans from Fortress - or we continue our protests. Schnider, we never back down and we will keep up the pressure as long as your company props up such a despicable company like Huntingdon.
Following Schnider, activists moved onto the neighborhood of Jared Cohen, an analyst at Fortress Investment. We cordially welcomed and introduced Cohen to the global campaign against HLS with our loud, amplified presence, and showed him that animal activists mean business. Marching up and down the street with signs and megaphones, we made sure neighbors were aware of Cohen's direct connection with puppy killers and animal abusers. Surrounding neighbors were in support of activists and encouraged everyone to come back. And we will be back, Cohen.
Activists then traveled to Fortress Managing Director Joshua Pack's home to find that he had recently moved in January. However, that will not stop us from protesting his new address. Mr. Pack, as a Fortress employee, you are culpable for the hundreds of deaths inside HLS everyday and we will expose your connections to your new neighbors, sooner than later.
Its time to drop HLS now, Fortress. No more excuses. We won't stop until you publicly divest and all the animals are free!
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Archive for October 2010
New Release of PowerPivot
And Vidas has just noticed there's a new release of PowerPivot that integrates with Windows Azure Marketplace – Microsoft's data marketplace that was previously known as Project Dallas.
There's also a separate Excel addin that allows you to import data from Windows Azure Marketplace direct into Excel:
One last thing to note – among all the cool data that's available at the Windows Azure Marketplace, I see that you can get access to data from Wolfram Alpha too!
BI User Group London – November 17th
At long last I've got round to organising another BI user group meeting in London, on the evening of November 17th. We've got Ian Marrit talking about Master Data Services in the first session, that's followed by Jamie Thomson and me talking about all the cool new stuff that will be announced for BI at PASS the week after next. For more details and registration see:
Hope to see you there!
SQL Azure Reporting: Reporting Services in the Cloud
So SSRS in the cloud has just been announced! See this post on the SQL Azure team blog:
…and also this 20 minute video from PDC giving a lot more detail:
Basically it's the SSRS you know and love with only a few limitations: for example it only supports SQL Azure as a data source and there's none of the developer extensibility options (like custom data extensions) available yet.
I can't wait for SSAS in the cloud…
Basket Analysis, PowerPivot and NodeXL
While I was thinking about basket analysis last week I started wondering what kind of visualisations would be useful for this problem, and I remembered NodeXL (which I blogged about earlier this year). After all, isn't basket analysis pretty similar to network analysis? It's all just connections between things…
Anyway, taking the PowerPivot model and calculated measures from my last post, I started to look at how to import that data into the NodeXL Excel template. The first problem was how to present the data in a tabular form and the answer was the new Excel 2010 flattened pivot table that Kasper and Rob have blogged about before, with subtotals turned off. This gave an output that looked like this:
The second problem was slightly more tricky. NodeXL wants a set of edges to draw its graph, and in our case an edge will represent an instance where two products were bought together. However in the results above we have rows where the two products are identical, eg showing the number of customers who bought Apples with Apples, and we also have rows that show the same data in different ways, eg one row showing the number of customers who bought Apples and Cake and another row showing the number of customers who bought Cake with Apples. We need to get rid of these unwanted rows and we can do that with Excel 2010's ability to use custom MDX to generate a named set. Here's the set expression I used:
, {[Product].[Product].CURRENTMEMBER}
, [Product Bought With].[And Product]).NEXTMEMBER : NULL})
What I'm doing here is to taking the set of all Products, then using the Generate function to crossjoin each Product with the set of all Products from the And Product dimension, starting from the And Product that's immediately after the And Product that has the same name as the current Product, to the end of the level.
This gives us the following set of rows:
We can now paste this into the Edges worksheet of the NodeXL template, so that NodeXL can work its magic. I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on NodeXL and indeed this data isn't the most exciting in the world to visualise, but once I'd got the graph drawn a quick look through the NodeXL tutorial (and especially the section on analysing voting patterns in the Senate) showed me how to use the value of the measure 'Customers buying both Products' to control the opacity of the lines in the graph. And here it is:
From this we can see clearly that Bread and Cake were never bought together and that Apples and Bread were bought together more often that any other combination. Job done! With real data, I think NodeXL would prove very useful indeed for this kind of analysis and it would be great if NodeXL could work direct with data in PowerPivot (hint, hint) in the future. If anyone out there does try using NodeXL with their data for basket analysis, I'd be very interested to hear from them…
SQLBits VI Videos Now Available
OK, I know this seems very late and we've just done SQLBits VII, but the videos from the sessions at SQLBits VI are now available to view online at last. Just select any of the sessions here:
…and you'll be able to view the video for that session.
Simple Basket Analysis in DAX
Continuing the theme of finding the distinct number of customers who've done something specific, I've recently been having a go at implementing simple basket analysis in DAX. So, for example, as well as finding the distinct number of customers who bought Apples, we may also want to find the distinct number of customers who bought both Apples and Oranges, or even those who bought Apples and Oranges but not Cake.
To illustrate this problem I used the following sample data entered into Excel tables as the basis for a PowerPivot model:
So what we have here is essentially a Product dimension table, a Customer dimension table and a Sales fact table. I did the obvious thing and set up relationships going from Sales to Product and Sales to Customer, but I also created two extra tables in PowerPivot that were built from the Product table: one to allow the selection of Products for the AND filter, and one to allow for the selection of Products in the NOT filter, neither of which were related to any other table. So when building the query to show the number of customers that bought Apples and Oranges but not Cake, the user would select Apples on the Product table, Oranges on the AND Product table and Cake on the NOT Product table.
The best and fastest way I found of writing the DAX I needed was to break the problem up into several smaller calculated measures. The starting point, to get the number of customers that bought Apples, is a simple calculated measure like this:
=COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(Sales[Customer Key]))
I then created two calculated measures: one that returned the distinct number of customers who had bought the AND Product, ignoring the selections made on Product and NOT Product; and one that returned the number of customers who had bought the NOT Product, ignoring the selections made on Product and AND Product. Here they are:
COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(Sales[Customer Key]))
, FILTER(ALL(Product),
FILTER(DISTINCT('Product Bought With'[And Product Key]), Product[Product Key] = 'Product Bought With'[And Product Key]))
COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(Sales[Customer Key]))
, FILTER(ALL(Product),
FILTER(DISTINCT('Product Not Bought'[Not Product Key]), Product[Product Key] = 'Product Not Bought'[Not Product Key]))
They both work in the same way: they find the distinct count but shift the context on the Product table (which has a relationship with Sales remember, whereas AND Product and NOT Product don't) so that whatever has been selected on Product is ignored and, the selections made on AND Product and NOT Product are, respectively, used instead. To do this I'm using two nested filters – one which loops over every row in the Product table, and then an inner filter that loops over every selected member on AND/NOT Product; they return the rows from Product where the Product Key appears in the list of distinct Product Keys selected on AND/NOT Product.
At this point we can build a pivot table that looks like this:
With Customers on rows, obviously, no distinct count is greater than 1, but we can now see that Chris, Helen and Mimi bought Apples; that Chris and Natasha bought Oranges; and that Mimi and Natasha bought Cake. We can now use these measures to create our calculated measure that returns the distinct number of customers that bought Apples and Oranges but did not buy Cake:
=CALCULATE(COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(Sales[Customer Key])), FILTER(DISTINCT(Sales[Customer Key]), [Customers Buying Not Product]=0 && [Customers Buying And Product]>0))
It's a variation on the original distinct count measure, but now we're using Calculate once again to shift the context so we take the distinct customers and apply an additional filter to ensure they didn't buy whatever was selected on NOT Product but did buy whatever was selected on AND Product.
At last we can see that Chris was the only customer that bought Apples and Oranges but did not buy Cake. We can also run queries like this that don't display individual customers:
There's one last problem to solve: what happens if we don't want to apply the AND or NOT filter for some queries? It doesn't really make much sense to select the All member on either of these tables (for example, you'd never want to find the number of Customers that bought Apples and bought any Product and did not buy any Product) so we can alter the calculations to turn off the AND and NOT filter when the All member has been selected on either the AND or NOT Product table. Here are the new versions of the two calculated measures that return the distinct counts for the AND and NOT products:
COUNTROWS(DISTINCT('Product Bought With'[And Product Key]))=COUNTROWS(ALL('Product Bought With'[And Product Key]))
, 1
COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(Sales[Customer Key])),
FILTER(DISTINCT('Product Bought With'[And Product Key]), Product[Product Key] = 'Product Bought With'[And Product Key]))
COUNTROWS(DISTINCT('Product Not Bought'[Not Product Key]))=COUNTROWS(ALL('Product Not Bought'[Not Product Key]))
, 0
COUNTROWS(DISTINCT(Sales[Customer Key])),
FILTER(DISTINCT('Product Not Bought'[Not Product Key]), Product[Product Key] = 'Product Not Bought'[Not Product Key]))
Here I've wrapped the previous expressions in an IF that checks if the number of distinct Product Keys in the selection matches the number of distinct Product Keys in the entire table – if it does then the All member has been selected, and the first expression then returns a 1 and the second returns a 0 to ensure that the filter conditions on these measures in the final calculated measure return true when the All member is selected. We can then run simpler queries like this one showing the customers who bought both Apples but not Cake, with no AND filter applied:
As always I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that's got a better way of solving these problems. I'm aware I've used the evil Filter function all over the place and that that isn't always good for performance (although on larger data sets this approach seemed to perform ok) so I wonder if there's a way to avoid its use anywhere?
Two PowerPivot Books
There's no way I could ever pretend to be an impartial reviewer of Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari's new book, "PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning". First of all, they're good friends of mine (we wrote "Expert Cube Development with SQL Server Analysis Services 2008" together last year); and secondly, I got a freebie copy of the book. But all that aside, I do honestly think it is a really good book. Just as an example, I've been playing around with some DAX problems over the last few days with a view to writing a some blog posts and had been struggling to get the EARLIER function to work in the way I'd been expecting; there are only a few examples of its use on the web but I found the book had a very detailed explanation of how it works. Indeed a large part of the book is concerned with DAX and it's probably the best resource on that subject that I've seen, so that's reason enough to buy it.
It's important to point out, though, that Marco and Alberto's book doesn't really go into any detail on PowerPivot for Sharepoint – there is one chapter at the end, but it's main focus is on PowerPivot for Excel. If you want to learn more about the Sharepoint side of things I can recommend "Professional PowerPivot for Excel and Sharepoint" by Siva Harinath, Ron Pihlgren and Denny Lee (and yes, I got this book as a freebie too – it's one of the perks of being a blogger that you get loads of free books!). There's very little overlap between the two books – the only thing they both cover is the basic info on how to build a PowerPivot model, and that subject is so basic most people will be able to work it out for themselves – so it's probably worth getting both if you're serious about learning PowerPivot.
One last bit of advertising: Marco and Alberto are running a two day PowerPivot workshop in the Netherlands at the beginning of December. More details can be found here:
Counting New and Returning Customers in MDX
Finding the number of distinct customers you had in any given time period, and then finding how many of those have bought from us before and how many are new customers, is a pretty common requirement. It's a problem I blogged about a few months ago and showed how to solve in it DAX; I was thinking about it again recently and have just updated that post with a more elegant solution. However I thought it would also be useful to show how to do these calculations in SSAS and MDX.
Here's a query on the Adventure Works cube that shows how to calculate these values:
MEMBER MEASURES.[Returning Customers] AS
, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
, {[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount]}
* {NULL : [Date].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER.PREVMEMBER}
MEMBER MEASURES.[New Customers] AS
[Measures].[Customer Count] – MEASURES.[Returning Customers]
{[Measures].[Customer Count]
, MEASURES.[Returning Customers]
, MEASURES.[New Customers]} ON 0,
[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].MEMBERS ON 1
FROM [Adventure Works]
There's already a measure in the cube, [Measures].[Customer Count], that gives the distinct count of customers, so that bit's easy. Finding the number of returning customers, ie customers who've bought something in this time period and who have also bought something from us before, is the tricky bit. It's a four stage process:
- First, get the set of all customers:
- Then, filter that set to get the set of all customers who bought something in the current time period. Using the NonEmpty function (as opposed to the Filter function) is the most efficient way of doing this – customers who bought something in the current time period are those who have a value for the measure Internet Sales Amount: NONEMPTY(
, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
- Then, take this set and find the customers in that set that bought something in all time periods previous to the current time period. Again, we can use the NonEmpty function to do this, but this time in the second parameter we want to find the customers who have a value for Internet Sales Amount for the set of time periods {NULL : [Date].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER.PREVMEMBER}; for more information on how NULL and the colon operator is used here, see this post. This gives us the set expression: NONEMPTY(
, [Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
, {[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount]}
* {NULL : [Date].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER.PREVMEMBER}
- Finally, we need to count the number of items in this set using the Count function.
Of course, with the count of distinct customers and the count of returning customers, we can subtract the latter from the former and then get the number of new customers, ie those who've never bought anything from us before.
Here are the results from the Adventure Works cube:
UPDATE: if you're hitting performance problems with this type of calculation, you might also want to read the following post http://cwebbbi.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/optimising-returning-customers-calculations-in-mdx/
DrillDownX MDX Functions and Calculated Members in R2
Earlier this year I blogged about one of the few MDX-related changes in SSAS 2008 R2, to do with the Subqueries=2 connection string property. In that post I mentioned that the DrillDownX family of MDX functions has also changed in R2 but didn't go into details – so here, at last, are the details (not that they are very interesting)…
Basically, functions like DrillDownMember have got a new parameter that allows them to include any calculated members that are children of the member you're drilling down on. Consider the following query on the Adventure Works cube:
MEMBER [Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003].DEMOCALC
{[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003]}
,{[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003]}
FROM [Adventure Works]
The DrillDownMemberTop function returns the top n members underneath the members in a given set, to allow you to control the number of members you see when you drill down. In the query above I've got a calculated member underneath the year 2003 and I'm drilling down to show only the top 1 children of 2003, which returns only H1 CY 2003:
Before R2 if I wanted calculated members to appear on an axis in a query like this I'd have to use AddCalculatedMembers, like so:
MEMBER [Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003].DEMOCALC
SELECT {[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount]} ON 0,
{[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003]}
,{[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003]}
FROM [Adventure Works]
And in this case, even though I'm only asking for the top 1 children I'm getting two children displayed: H1 CY 2003 and DEMOCALC.
Not good. Which is why this new parameter is needed. By using the INCLUDE_CALC_MEMBERS parameter instead of the AddCalculatedMembers() functions, like so:
MEMBER [Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003].DEMOCALC
SELECT {[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount]} ON 0,
{[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003]}
,{[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003]}
FROM [Adventure Works]
MEMBER [Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003].DEMOCALC
SELECT {[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount]} ON 0,
{[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003]}
,{[Date].[Calendar].[Calendar Year].&[2003]}
FROM [Adventure Works]
I can make sure calculated members are treated like any other child when drilling down.
Thanks to Akshai once again for giving me the details of this change.
Goodbye, Windows Live Spaces
In December 2004 I made the decision to start a blog: it was Christmas, I didn't have much to do at work, blogging was the hot new thing and since Mosha had just started one I thought I might as well too. I looked around for somewhere to host my blog and being a good Microsoft person I thought their new free blogging platform would be ideal; I started posting and quickly got hooked. 676 posts and six and a half years later here I am.
As you may have noticed I migrated my blog to WordPress today in response to last week's news that Windows Live Spaces is being discontinued. I'm not sad about this and indeed had wanted to move my blog for several years, but up until this announcement there was no easy way to migrate away from the Live Spaces platform (MS have now provided a very smooth migration path); I could have started from scratch somewhere else but I didn't want to lose my old posts and comments and break all the links to my blog that were already out there. Also, I'll be honest and say that I was lazy and so long as my blog did what I wanted it to do – namely give me somewhere to post and hopefully drive some business for my consulting – then I was ok. I can already see I'm going to be much happier on WordPress though.
Now also seems a good point to sound off about the rubbish treatment I received over the years at the hands of Windows Live Spaces. It seems amazing but in the six years I used it it never got any better, and indeed got noticeably worse with each revision it received: functionality disappeared (including the ability to see any kind of statistics earlier this year) and UI changes made it much harder to find pages in the admin area. It's services like this that have given MS the bad reputation it's got today, and it pains me to say that as an MVP whose entire livelihood is built on MS being successful as a company. Why bother creating services and products if they're just going to be a source of frustration for everyone that uses them, if you're not going to commit the money and talent to developing them into serious competitors to whatever else is out there? MS should be concentrating on doing the things it does well (like SQL Server) rather than messing around in the world of social media; hopefully the death of Windows Live Spaces means that MS is going to start doing this in the future…