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For sale is a '53 retrofit convertible Corvette!
A retrofit is a reliable '53 (looking) Corvette. It's based
on a ""donor car" chassis. This one is based on a 2001 Corvette.
It's white, with red and white leather interior, newly recovered
leather seats.
Retrofit kit includes:
- Fenders, hood, bumpers, headlights, rear quarter panels, deck lid,
door sill step pads, ID plate - all color matched red/white
- 131st car converted (of about 200).
- Special add-on (beyond typical kit):tail light fins
- Retrofitter: aatcars.com
Chassis features:
- Factory black convertible top, looks very nice!
- 350 cu in / 350 hp engine
- Automatic transmission
- Power steering, brakes, windows, mirrors
- Factory CD player
- Heads-up display
- Good tires
- 19,800 original miles
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Unlike my colleagues named Joe, I actually prefer the look of some hardtop convertibles to cars with soft folding convertible tops. Consider, for instance, the smooth lines of the Volvo C70 or the Infiniti G37 droptop. To my eye, those cars' hard roofs help improve their top-up appearance. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about this Lexus, although there are more poorly executed examples in my opinion, such as the Pontiac G6 or the BMW 3-series. The "matador red mica" is quite sharp, though.
Still, as Joe and Joe mentioned, luggage space in the Lexus IS250C (like all hardtop convertibles) is extremely compromised. With the top down, you'd be lucky to fit a few short brooms [brooms?-ed] in the long, slender cargo area. But with the top raised, its aluminum parts no longer reside beneath the trunk lid, and there's more available cargo space than there is in most coupes. Lorio isn't kidding about rearward visibility, though. It's terrible, thanks to those large headrests/rollbars and the edge of the roof. With the top down (yes, I drove with the top down in 40-degree weather), visibility improves, but not as much as I'd like.
For a convertible with a back seat, the IS250C feels impressively rigid most of the time. When you go over some of Michigan's worst bumps, you can feel the chassis flex somewhat, of course, but it's perfectly tolerable (much unlike the wet-noodle Toyota Camry Solara convertible). The 2.5-liter V-6 obviously isn't overpowered, but it's not terribly slow. Most Lexus buyers should be perfectly satisfied with its performance.
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Murder Will Out — June 2010
Historical mysteries have become increasingly popular in the last decade. If you are a fan of historical fiction, and historical mystery stories in particular, you've read many of the well-known authors of this sub-genre: Steven Saylor, Anne Perry, Eliot Pattison, I. J. Parker, Lindsey Davis, John Maddox Robert, Margaret Frazer, and the list goes on, but have you read the works of:
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I don't know what changed inside of me. I started reading other blogs and admiring others who had made theirs a part of who they were. I felt a connection. I thought that maybe my own experiences could resonate with others in some way. I thought, "hey, I have a voice too, why not use it?". Suddenly, I felt comfortable enough to open up and draw attention to my little place on the web.
June 2012 will mark the one year anniversary of the birth of Wonder Forest as a lifestyle blog. I've never really counted anything before that as "blogging" because I wasn't doing that. June is when I decided to take this thing seriously and opened my heart up to you guys.
Launching my Blog Wonderful eBook recently was a little nerve-racking and exciting all at the same time. I hadn't been around for as long as some of those other bloggers had, and wasn't sure anyone would want to listen to what I had to say. Maybe that gives me a different angle? Being newer to blogging and documenting things that worked for me while traveling along this road. Thankfully, I have been reassured by some of the lovely ladies who have taken the time to read my ramblings and because of them, I feel accomplished.
Here's what some of them had to say:
"I absolutely love Dana's e-book, Blog Wonderful! Even though I've been blogging for awhile now, there were still so many great tips that I found extremely helpful. Everything from little design tips to how important it is to connect with your readers. The last chapter about making money with your blog has been a huge help! And I love that Dana points out that you need to build an audience before asking someone to pay you for advertising. I've recently started a sponsorship program on my blog, and the tips I've found in Blog Wonderful have really helped to make sure I'm moving in the right direction. I'd definitely recommend this e-book to any new blogger!"
"As a brand new blogger, I found Blog Wonderful to be a lifesaver! I learned SO much from design to commenting to advertising to things I never would have thought about or known before! This eBook is VERY well organized, so it's easy to navigate and also very easy to read. It has so many little details that only an experienced blogger could know and is willing to share. I felt like Dana was talking to me as a friend and helping my blog become more successful like hers. You can really tell that Dana put a lot of time and thought into this eBook. I really can't say enough good things about Blog Wonderful! I just finished the eBook today and I already feel like a more knowledgeable and confident blogger. Blog Wonderful is a great resource and I plan on revisiting it regularly!"
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"Blog Wonderful has been an excellent resource for me and my fledgling little blog. From post layout tips to how to utilize social networking to planning your posts properly. She holds your hand through every step, and makes it easy to understand. Formatted like a blog itself, you have the option to ask questions and comment, which makes the tools truly interactive. I think the best part for me was the gentle reminder to just be yourself and share your life (or your business or whatever you're blogging about). Good things will come when you're genuine. And Dana, the Wonder Forest, and Blog Wonderful are truly genuine. A killer investment that you won't regret."
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WASHINGTON - According to the Associated Press--
The Labor Department is adding a dozen countries to the list of nations that use child labor or forced labor. Officials are warning the global economic crisis could cause an upswing in the exploitation of children and other workers.
Products that are involved range from coffee grown in El Salvador to sapphires mined in Madagascar.
They identify 128 goods from 70 countries where child labor, forced labor or both are used in violation of international standards. The total number of child laborers fell by about 3% over a four-year period. But the rate of decline has slowed in recent years.


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Dortmund Moving to the Front-Rank
Dortmund is the second Big Brown stakes winner to feature inbreeding to Boundary's sire, Danzig.
Dortmund is the second Big Brown stakes winner to feature inbreeding to Boundary's sire, Danzig.
Delve into the history of failed Triple Crown bids, explore the challenge of winning the final leg, and relive stories of spoilers who have halted each quest for history. Read Feature
Dortmund, winner of the Los Alamitos Futurity (gr. I) and early favorite for the 2015 classics, was an oversized youngster who was difficult to get sold, according to breeder Emilie Fojan.
Odds-on choice Dortmund remained unbeaten by a slim margin as he nipped Firing Line and Mr. Z in a nail-biting finish to the first-ever $500,000 Los Alamitos Futurity (gr. I) Dec. 20.
California Chrome will try to become the latest Kentucky Derby (gr. I) victor to also find success on the turf, joining the likes of recent Derby winners who excelled on grass like Animal Kingdom, Big Brown, and Barbaro.
Big Brown, who ranks seventh among North America's leading third-crop sires and has nine stakes winners this year, will stand for $8,500 at Dutchess Views Farm near Pine Plains, N.Y., in 2015.
Big Brown, champion 3-year-old of 2008 when he won the first two legs of the Triple Crown and a leading third-crop sire, will stand the 2015 season in New York.
Three Chimneys Farm announced champion Will Take Charge will stand for a $30,000 fee during his inaugural season at the Versailles, Ky., farm in 2015.
A colt by U.S. champion and Central Kentucky sire Big Brown sold in Australia for the highest price at the Magic Millions Gold Coast 2-year-olds in training sale Sept. 30.
A shrinking foal crop over the last several years may give California Chrome an edge over past Derby/Preakness winners heading into the June 7 Belmont Stakes (gr. I).
California Chrome owners Perry Martin and Steve Coburn are no doubt getting to know the surreal conditions of becoming instant celebrities as their horse attempts to win the long-vacated Triple Crown at Belmont Park.
A historical look at the Preakness Stakes (gr. I), the second jewel of the Triple Crown. view infographic
California Chrome, the morning-line favorite for the May 3 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I), drew post 5 of 20.
Mighty Brown might have aged a year earlier this week, but his performance in the $100,000 Pasco Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs Jan. 4 proved he's getting better.
Three Chimneys Farm announced their 2014 stallion roster, with several of their stallions' fees showing decreases from 2013.
Keeneland's November breeding stock sale saw two $185,000 session-toppers during sixth session Nov. 10, which continued a trend of double-digit gains.
Andrew Cohen missed owning a Triple Crown winner when Big Brown came up empty in the Belmont. This week he tries to complete a personal Triple Crown when Giant Finish tries the Belmont Stakes.
by Anne Peters
Winning the Derby immediately marks a colt as a potential stallion prospect. Breeding success does not always follow, however, and the commercial market has been hard on Derby winners in recent years.
Three Chimneys Farm will hold its annual open house that coincides with the week of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) on Thursday, May 2.
Giant Finish has 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, and bumped Fear the Kitten to the also-eligible list for the 20-horse field when it was announced he will run April 30.
Keeneland has cataloged 137 juveniles for its 2013 April 2-year-olds in training sale, to be held April 8.
Southwest Stakes contenders Texas Bling and Brown Almighty were on the worktab at Oaklawn Park Feb. 9, along with Bayakoa Stakes hopefuls Tiz Miz Sue, Don't Tell Sophia, and She's All In.
International Equine Acquisitions Holdings has sold all 11 of its shares in champion and dual classic winner Big Brown to a group that includes Robert N. Clay's Three Chimneys Farm.
The connections for Brown Almighty have been planning their colt's dirt debut for months now, and on Jan. 21 their wait will be over when the colt makes his start in the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at Oaklawn Park.
Flower Alley, sire of 2012 Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner I'll Have Another, will see his fee increase to $20,000 (stands and nurses) in 2013 at Robert N. Clay's Three Chimneys Farm.
A Big Brown -- Cool Ghoul colt that was the most expensive 2-year-old in training sold this year at public auction has been named Darwin.
Champion Big Brown could be represented by the second stakes winner of his first juvenile crop if 2-year-old Archer Hill gets the job done in the $250,000 Summer Stakes (gr. IIT) Presented by TVG at Woodbine Sept. 15.
Esther Marr talks about Day 3 of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, including the top seller, a Bernardini colt that brought $1,550,000. Sponsored by Taylor Made Sales Agency. Watch Video
The $1.3 million Big Brown colt that was the most expensive 2-year-old in training sold this year is nearing his first career start, according to Demi O'Byrne, a member Coolmore Stud's buying team.
A colt by 2008 Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Big Brown commanded $825,000 from Demi O'Byrne during the third session of the Keeneland September sale. He was consigned by Warrendale Sales, agent.
Eclipse Award winner Big Brown, who stands at Robert N. Clay's Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky., will not be returning to Australia for the upcoming 2012 Southern Hemisphere breeding season after injuring a hind leg.
Seven 2-year-old fillies line up July 20 for the $150,000 Schuylerville Stakes (gr. III) on opening day at Saratoga Race Course, and five are eligible for a $100,000 bonus.
Champion Big Brown came up with his first North American winner when his daughter Brown Eyes Blue won at Churchill Downs in her initial outing.
Big Brown, winner of the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) and Preakness Stakes (gr. I) in 2008, was represented by his first winner June 15 at Kazan International Equestrian Complex and Race Track in Russia.
View the triple crown contenders with near misses. view slideshow
Mike Iavarone lived through plenty of controversy as Big Brown prepared for his Triple Crown bid. He sees plenty of similarities to connections of I'll Have Another.
The American Basketball Association has announced that it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire IEAH Sales Corp., a subsidiary of IEAH Stables that has been created to segregate its pinhooking division.
Three horses breezed a furlong in :9 4/5 April 20 to share honors for the fastest work at the distance at the fourth and final session of the Under Tack Show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2012 Spring Sale,
Chris Brothers will be watching the Florida Derby (gr. I) at Gulfstream Park with great interest March 31.
The first foals by Big Brown are now ready to run. Enjoy this video produced by Three Chimneys Farm, of them in action. watch video
The Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale of 2-year-olds in training lived up to its high risk/high reward reputation March 26. For the lucky consignors who hit the jackpot, the riches were greater than they had been in 2011.
A bay son of Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) winner Big Brown became the new sale topper at the Fasig-Tipton Florida select sale of 2-year-olds when he fetched $1.3 million from Demi O'Byrne
Eddie Woods is pumped up about the possibility that another graduate from his sale program, Union Rags, can become a classic winner just as Big Brown did.
Keeneland has cataloged 161 horses for its 20th April sale of 2-year-olds in training. The number is down 4.7% from last year's total of 169.
Boundary, sire of champion and dual classic winner Big Brown, was euthanized Feb. 4 at the Hancock family's Claiborne Farm near Paris, Ky., because of infirmities of old age.
Images from some of the Kentucky Farm Open Houses in January 2012. View Slideshow
Bob Mayberger of Albany, N.Y., won the 2011 Media Eclipse Award for Photography for his panoramic picture of Thoroughbreds jumping over a fence during the A.P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase at Saratoga on Aug. 4.
Robert and Blythe Clay's Three Chimneys Farm has released the fees for its 2012 stallion roster, and topping the list once again will be perennial leading sire Dynaformer, who will command a fee of $150,000.
The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky fall yearling sale's reputation has improved dramatically in recent years.
Esther Marr talks with Case Clay, president of Three Chimneys Farm, about Big Brown's yearlings. Case also discusses his predictions for the Keeneland September sale. Sponsored by Taylor Made Sales Agency. watch video
Trainer | Richard E. Dutrow, Jr. | |
Jockey | Kent J. Desormeaux | |
Owner | IEAH Stables, Pompa, Jr., Paul, P. | |
Breeder | Monticule |
Big Brown View Five-Cross Pedigree | Boundary | Danzig |
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Mien | Nureyev | |
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Sale / Hip | Type | Buyer | Consignor | Price |
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Yearling | Eddie Woods, agent | Monticule | $60,000 |
KEEAPR2007 Hip 21 |
Two-year-old | Hidden Brook, agent for Paul Pompa Jr. | Eddie Woods, agent | $190,000 |
Upstart |
Rachel Alexandra |
California Chrome |
Texas Red |
Bodemeister |
Far Right |
International Star |
Buddy's Saint |
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Khan Chooses New Manager
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By Parvez Fatteh, Founder of http://sportingummah.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Pakistani-British boxing star Amir Khan has signed with powerful manager Al Haymon. Khan, the former 140-pound world titleholder, is preparing for his May 3 welterweight bout with Luis Collazo at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This fight will be on the undercard of Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s defense of his RING and WBC 147-pound championships against World Boxing Association (WBA) opponent Marcos Maidana.
Haymon will be honored with the 2013 Cus D'Amato Manager of the Year Award, by the Boxing Writer's Association at its upcoming annual dinner on May 1st, also at the MGM Grand Hotel. Haymon's list of clients that he has signed just this past year includes Collazo, RING and WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson, ex-175-pound belt-holder Chad Dawson, IBF 140-pound titleholder Lamont Peterson and his brother, lightweight Anthony Peterson, and now Khan. For actual boxing training, Khan works with Virgil Williams of the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
Haymon's overall stable of star-studded clients includes Mayweather, Maidana, Danny Garcia, Adrien Broner, Lucas Matthysse, Peter Quillin, Erislandy Lara, Deontay Wilder, Keith Thurman, Shawn Porter, Leo Santa Cruz, Gary Russell Jr., Devon Alexander, Paulie Malignaggi, Chris Arreola, Sakio Bika, Andre Berto, Austin Trout and Edwin Rodriguez.


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A binge is a message—stop and listen to it
Recently, a student of mine—let's call her Rita—had a daughter, her third child in six years. I met her when the baby was a year old. Rita told me she spends every night binge eating. I asked her why. She said, "I want to get my own needs met, have someone take care of me. Sometimes I think I'm going to go crazy and throw my kids out in the rain just so they'll leave me alone. I feel so awful about myself when I think these thoughts, but then I remember that I can microwave some popcorn, pour half a cup of butter on it, and sit in front of the TV and eat. I remember I have food. That calms me down."
I asked her what would happen if she didn't eat. She said, "I'd end up feeling awful about myself for having these feelings about my kids." I said, "Seems like you end up feeling awful about yourself anyway."
"Yeah," she said. "But at least it's for eating and not for being a terrible mother."
"Who says you're a terrible mother for wanting to leave your kids out in the rain? Wanting to do it and doing it are different universes," I said. "What if you let yourself have the full range of your feelings without judging them or believing that having feelings means acting on them? What if when your kids went to sleep, instead of eating popcorn, you sat on the couch with a blanket and just stared into space? Did nothing for a while? Gave yourself some kindness that didn't also hurt you at the same time?"
That was three months ago. She's had a few binges since then, but she's also had evenings of letting herself be exhausted without eating, temporarily hating her kids without having to hurt herself (or them) for it. She's realized that when she wants to turn to binge eating, it's a sign she needs to slow down, take some time for herself—even if it's only three minutes—and pay attention to what's actually going on.
Wanting to binge means: Stop, slow down, be curious about why food seems to be the answer to everything. Wanting to binge is a way to get your own attention. When you want to binge, it's as if you were jumping up and down with a banner that says, "I need you to notice me now!"
So go ahead. Notice yourself. Be kind. Be tender. Be curious. You'll be surprised at what happens. (Trust me—it'll be good.)
The next time you want to succumb to binge eating, tell yourself that you're going to take 3 minutes—only three—to be with yourself before you eat. Then, sit down, breathe a few times, and with as much kindness as you can muster, ask yourself gently what is going on. What do you need? Whom do you need it from? What would be the kindest thing you could do for yourself now?
If you still want to eat after you've done this, notice how the food tastes in your mouth. Notice how you feel after you've eaten. Ask yourself if eating felt kind.
More from Prevention: 7 Ways To Control Food Cravings


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Josh Turner and Wife Welcome Another Baby Boy
September 06, 2014 08:09:06The 'Would You Go With Me' singer and his wife Jennifer are already parents to three young boys.
Lady Antebellum and Carrie Underwood Lead American Country Awards Noms
October 19, 2010 11:10:47The country music group get the most nods along with Easton Corbin with seven each, while Underwood follows closely with six.
Country Music Star Josh Turner and Wife Expecting Third Child
July 27, 2010 01:07:41The singer reveals that he and wife Jennifer Ford Turner will become parents for the third time, saying 'When she took another (test) and told me she's pregnant, all I could say was, 'I told you!' '
Video: Kellan Lutz Supports PETA's Animal Adoption Campaign
February 25, 2010 10:02:20Along with his dog Kola whom he adopted from a shelter, the 'Twilight' star posed in a new ad that urges people to adopt, not buy from breeders.
Sade Remain Atop Billboard Hot 200
February 25, 2010 10:02:12With no newcomers cracking the chart, Sade are saved from losing the No. 1 spot despite experiencing 62 percent decline in album sale.
Sade Make Triumphant Comeback, Entering Hot 200 at No. 1
February 18, 2010 09:02:15The Sade Adu-fronted band end Lady Antebellum's two-week reign on the U.S. albums chart, forcing the country music act to drop one slot to the runner-up position.


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URISA is an international geospatial organization that provides geographic information system (GIS) education and training, advocacy for the profession, and essential resources to foster excellence in GIS. URISA has presented several successful conferences focused on the effective application and management of GIS and other information technologies within the Caribbean. Previous conferences have taken place in Jamaica (2001), Barbados (2004), the Bahamas (2006), the Cayman Islands (2008), Trinidad and Tobago (2010) and Jamaica (2012). URISA is pleased to host the 2014 conference in the Dutch Caribbean!
Objectives of URISA's Caribbean GIS Conference
The OGC Technical Committee meetings will be held at:UAB - Casa Convalescència Carrer de Sant Antoni Maria Claret 17108041 Barcelona, Spain
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The OGC Planning Committee meeting will be held on Friday 13 March at:
Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya08038 Barcelona
Details in Spanish
The tentative agenda is now open. Chairs should submit their requests as soon as possible.
On-line Registration is now open:
There are Meeting Fees associated with the OGC TC/PC Meetings. Based upon your organization's OGC Membership Level, you will have at least one Complementary registration for each meeting.
There will be a Wednesday evening reception at the Restaurant 1881 - Museu d'Història de Catalunya. We will not be providing transportation as the metro line will be the best form of travel between the meeting facility and the restaurant via the L4 line Guinardó / Hospital de Sant Pau to Barceloneta, or driving via the map. The cost of the dinner reception is $65.00 per person.
Please feel free to use your favorite hotel search to book your accomodations (Hotels.com or Booking.com)
Here are a couple of hotels in the immediate area, for a limited time you can use the room block code of "OGC 2015" for the following hotels:
1. Hotel St.Pau ** C/ Sant Antoni Maria Claret, 173 Just in front of Casa Convalescència http://www.hotelsantpau.com/
2. Hotel Ayre Rosselló **** C/ Rosselló, 390 http://www.ayrehoteles.com/hotel-rosellon/
3. Hotel Confortel Belart **** C/Lepant, 406 http://confortel-bel-art.com/
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How to get there
First you need to know that the venue is in one of the "lower" corners of the brick art nouveau Hospital Sant Pau complex.
Underground. There are two metro stations nearby. The first one is recommended:
By bus
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15 September 2014 -- Communication of location information plays an increasingly important role in human activities, and there is still time to join a yearly testbed focused on solving the difficult issues involved in location communication and integration.
In recent weeks, sponsors committed to supporting the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Testbed 11 have been documenting use cases, submitting requirements, and interoperability scenarios for this testbed. Organizations selected to participate in OWS-11 are committing to develop solutions based on these scenarios. Participant solutions will implement both existing OGC standards as well as new prototype interface and encoding specifications that may be developed in the testbed. Prototype specifications may ultimately become OGC standards.
This cutting edge technology work has enormous potential for testbed stakeholders – both the technology users and the technology providers – and for the world at large.
The OGC membership would like to enlist additional sponsors to slightly broaden the scope and share the cost of this testbed. Interested potential sponsors who contact the testbed organizers will benefit first by learning at an early stage who the other sponsors are, what issues they are focused on, and what new capabilities are in the industry pipeline. If new potential sponsors' requirements align roughly with what is now in the plan, those organizations can still become sponsors and tune the testbed plan to meet their needs. The current Testbed 11 plan addresses:
Climate change is the theme for the Testbed 11 scenario. The specific use case is a displaced population due to coastal inundation. Solving the use case will involve:
Additional requirements regarding Geo4NIEM and Aviation are being reviewed.
If you are interested in possibly joining OGC's Testbed 11 as a sponsor or if you want to learn more about this opportunity for technology provider participants, please contact Lew Leinenweber, Director Interoperability Programs (lleinenweber [at] opengeospatial.org).
The OGC® is an international geospatial standards consortium of more than 475 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/.
10 September 2014 - The OGC is a partner with the American Geographical Society, the Earth Institute and the US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation in presenting the American Geographical Society (AGS) Fall Symposium, "Geography 2050: Mounting an Expedition to the Future". The symposium will be held on Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Hosted by the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the one-day event will take place in the historic Low Library, site of the Pulitzer Prize Award Ceremony. This is the inaugural event of a multi-year strategic dialog meant to help us understand the major trends that will reshape our nation and our planet between now and 2050, and the investments in data, technology and capabilities necessary to navigate our uncertain future successfully.
This Symposium offers an opportunity for professionals in industry, government, academia, and the social sector, as well as members of the general public to come together to think collectively about exploring the future, and to examine how geography, geographic thinking, and geospatial data and technologies will enable us to address these major trends proactively.
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For more information on the Symposium, including registration options, go to http://geography2050.org/.
"The Open Geospatial Consortium is proud to support this important forward-looking dialog in partnership with the Symposium's other partners and sponsors," said Mark Reichardt, OGC's President and CEO. "Through this exploration of the future of geography, spatial thinking and the application of geospatial information and technology, scientists and policy makers as well as technology providers and consensus standards organizations like OGC have the opportunity to anticipate and include important requirements into their plans and their development activities."
Since 1851, AGS has been a leading advocate for geography in the United States and around the world. The Society promotes the use of geography in business, government, science, and education. The mission of AGS is to advance geographic knowledge and the recognition of its importance in the contemporary world. The goal is to enhance the nation's geographic literacy so as to engender sound public policy, national security, and human well-being worldwide. AGS stands for explicit recognition of the geospatial and temporal contexts that shape the real world and influence how it works. The Society maintains its headquarters in New York City, New York. For more information on AGS go to www.amergeog.org.
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Attend the 1st OGC Academic Summit in Calgary this month, along with the OGC Technical Committee Meeting, the 1st Canada SDI Summit, LocationTech and a country styled OGC birthday celebration!
The September 2014 Technical and Planning Committee Meeting will be held just 2 weeks from now at the University of Calgary Rozsa Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. As well as all the usual features of a TC, this time we have 3 more special events, as described below. We hope you'll attend!
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking a highly qualified individual for the position of Executive Director, OGC Standards Program.
The OGC is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. Candidates for this position must possess:
2 September 2014. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces that it has appointed Dr. Terry Idol as Executive Director, Interoperability Program.
Continuing OGC's leadership in advancing geospatial information, OGC is pleased to announce Dr. Terry Idol as the new Executive Director of OGC's Interoperability Program. Reporting to George Percivall, OGC's Chief Engineer, and working with OGC staff, membership and partner organizations, Terry will plan and manage the program of OGC initiatives, which includes testbeds, pilots, plugfests, and interoperability experiments. These initiatives develop, test and validate specifications that lead to open standards for geospatial information and technology.
Terry is a great match for this position as he is well known to the OGC community through his past activities. Most recently, he participated in OGC activities while with a US federal agency. Previously, Terry served as Initiative Director of the OGC Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative while he was on loan to OGC staff from BAE Systems. Terry has rich experience in geo-information and remote sensing technologies. He received his Doctorate in Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences from George Mason University.
George Percivall commented, "Executive Director for OGC's Interoperability Program is a challenging position that will provide Terry the opportunity to work with OGC members and the broader community to advance the state of practice of geospatial information. Terry's knowledge and his experience in government and OGC programs will serve him well in this new position. We are delighted that he will join OGC Staff."
The OGC® is an international consortium of more than 475 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process to develop publicly available geospatial standards. OGC standards support interoperable solutions that "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. Visit the OGC website at http://www.opengeospatial.org/.
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INTERGEO is the world's leading conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management. With over half a million event website users and over 16,000 visitors from 92 countries at INTERGEO itself, it is one of the key platforms for industry dialogue around the world.
INTERGEO covers a wide variety of fields, ranging from surveying, geoinformation, remote sensing and photogrammetry to complementary solutions and technologies. Processing, using and analysing geodata on the Internet or in the field is an extremely interesting and dynamic area. And the associated solutions are presented and discussed by experts at INTERGEO. What's more, INTERGEO is the ideal platform for areas of innovation that are enjoying dynamic growth. Suppliers of these future technologies showcase themselves at venues such as the Open Source Park and the Innovation Park for young, innovative companies.
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Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Jeffrey Zients, a deputy at the Office of Management and Budget, will serve as acting budget director to replace Jack Lew, who is set to become President Barack Obama's chief of staff at the end of the month.
Zients, 45, who has led administration efforts to reorganize the federal government, including a plan last week to consolidate six federal agencies into one, will assume day-to- day management of the fiscal 2013 budget that's set to be delivered to Congress the first week of February.
"I'm pleased to designate Jeff Zients to lead the Office of Management and Budget," Obama said today in a statement. "Since day one, Jeff has demonstrated superb judgment and has provided sound advice on a whole host of issues."
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Business Beat: Plumbing and heating biz celebrates 86 years
Monday, June 21, 2010
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Bryce Jacobson's "Business Beat" appears Mondays in the Craig Daily Press. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com & Sons Plumbing and Heating in Craig is celebrating 86 years of business and will be hosting a public celebration from 3 to 6 p.m. Friday.
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The Moffat County Commission recently decided that a county budget analyst does not have a conflict of interest in serving as a board member on the county-owned and commission-appointed board for The Memorial Hospital.
The Craig Daily Press Editorial Board wrote an opinion piece for Wednesday's edition urging commissioners to avoid going in this direction. Commissioner Tom Gray said he spoke with people about similar concerns.
As I walk around town on a daily basis, I hear a lot of feedback, positive and negative, concerning what is going on in politics and how we handle different things as a newspaper.
Because of that, I just want to say one more time that I see a conflict of interest in the decision to appoint Tinneal Gerber, a county employee who reports directly to the commissioners, as a hospital board member.
I want to clarify that my problem doesn't lie with Gerber; I think she is more than qualified. My problem is that she is being put in a position that will conflict with her primary role as a county employee.
Second, I want to encourage the public to help fix problems that exist, and be part of the solution. Many people have said to me they are "giving up" because they feel their input isn't valued and they can't change things.
Don't sell yourself or our community short.
Keep working with local elected officials to make this community the community you would like it to be.
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justthefacts 4 years, 7 months ago
Bryce, Keep ranting. Your rant is very appropriate.
Fact: The County Budget Analyst answers only to the County Commissioners. No one above, no one below, no one higher, no one lower.
Of course, there is no one higher than a Moffat County Commissioner. (Nope, no anything higher. Even if they are higher, not even heaven higher. )
Fact: The TMH budget is formed by the Hospital Board, ( Not really, they rubber stamp the one creatively created by QHR staff), then on to the Budget Analyst, who just happens to be a Hospital Board Member, for approval, and then to her immediate supervisors, the Commissioners who rubber stamp her work. ( After they hired and now appointed her. Where does it all stop? Round and round we go, one big happy family)
Keep in mind, in the Commissioner's minds, there are no conflicts!!!
Fact: The way to fix problems is to vote. Vote for people that are responsive to the public. Do not vote for those that think that they are "The leaders", and we the uneducated, uninformed, working class, the sad little servants.
Just the facts for the American Way ( That may not be the Commissioner way)
CindyLou 4 years, 7 months ago
CDP Editorial Board = If McKey gets elected to the county coroner position should his wife have to resign from the hospita board? I mean this falls in your line of thinking, so should she be required to resign?
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Whats does it mean if you call the ua hotline but it tells you that your id had expired
Republican representative Libby Szabo of Arvada repeatedly asked if 1st Alliance addiction counselors would lose their licenses if they were indeed being unethical.
"Yes, that's true," said Joyce Smith, a counselor who owns a practice called Creative Treatment Options, "but someone would have to file a complaint. These people will not be filing complaints, because they don't know any better. These are first-time offenders who are frightened. They're vulnerable, so they won't complain."
Several lawmakers pointed out that since RMOMS case managers don't determine the length or location of an offender's therapy, there's no way RMOMS could manipulate the system to make more money for 1st Alliance by sentencing drunk drivers to unnecessarily long treatment. Their argument was helped by Eric Philp, the director of the state Division of Probation Services. The probation division itself didn't take a position on the bill; neither did the Division of Behavioral Health. But Philp testified that he saw no conflict of interest in what Beeck was doing. Asked by Representative Spencer Swalm, a Centennial Republican, what problem he thought the bill was trying to address, Philp said, "I'm quite unsure of that."
Speaking with Westword, Philp compared Beeck's model to a big-box store. "People say Walmart shouldn't be able to have a health clinic right next to its pharmacy," he says, "but based on my experience, as long as there's a physical separation, there's no confusion about the role. If it's co-located but separated — this side of the building is treatment and this side is case management — then I think it's okay."
But one offender who testified at the behest of the treatment providers' group said she doesn't feel that way. "I am angry when I go see my probation [case manager] because I have to pay $50 for them to check up on me," said the client, a senior at the University of Colorado who was convicted of a DUI. "My therapy, I like to go to. So to keep them separated, I see, is very important."
She testified that the state probation officer who first evaluated her didn't give her a choice of where to go for treatment. "The state probation officer said, 'I'll have you go to RMOMS. It's the cheapest,'" she said. After attending one class there, she said, she decided to switch to a more expensive agency, which she likes much better. "The cheapest isn't always the best, in my opinion," she said.
The treatment providers were frustrated that the House committee members seemed fixated on the business aspects of the bill, but a handout that the alliance gave to lawmakers didn't help. Representative David Balmer, a Centennial Republican, was so incensed by it that he read part of it aloud at the hearing: "'Don't mistake business people for clinicians,'" he read. "'Businesspeople have long been accused and jailed for unscrupulous behaviors. The unscrupulous ones don't always get jailed or run out of business. Some of them just get richer.'
"I don't know who wrote that, but that is a horrible thing to say about anybody that is in the business of helping people with horrible situations in their lives," Balmer said.
Thormodsgaard tried to explain that though their language was crude, what the treatment providers meant was that substance-abuse therapy is not business as usual. "We are talking about someone's mental health," he testified. "And if we as a state have an interest in state-ordering this sort of treatment, we should make sure it's as efficacious as possible. And if there's any appearance of a conflict, it should be mitigated."
Most committee members were unconvinced. They killed the bill in an eleven-to-one vote. However, several lawmakers said the issue was an important one that hadn't been resolved. "I believe that the bill addresses the issue of the corruption of the therapeutic relationship," said Representative Max Tyler, a Lakewood Democrat. "However, I think the discussion today had almost nothing to do with that...so my 'no' on this bill today will be a way of absolutely encouraging and saying this is an issue we've got to solve. If DBH doesn't solve it, we need to come back at it another year."
Representative Jonathan Singer, a Longmont Democrat who also voted against the bill, made an even bolder statement. "If [the Division of] Behavioral Health is doing an insufficient job," he said, "I will be the first person next year to co-sponsor this bill if it doesn't pass this year. That's a promise."
So what has the Division of Behavioral Health done in the five months since the bill died? For one, it dismissed a grievance filed by the Treatment Providers Alliance of Colorado alleging that in granting Beeck a treatment license, the division "eroded the overall quality of care in DUI treatment." The grievance included a meticulous file of everything that happened since Beeck was granted his first provisional license in 2009, including the division's first denial letter and a copy of the settlement agreement.
"Our grievance, simply put, is that we believe that DBH has failed to address or prevent the ongoing conflict of interest," they wrote. "We have exhausted our remedies to cure this problem. Therefore, we file this formal grievance."
Whats does it mean if you call the ua hotline but it tells you that your id had expired
RMOMS has sold this contract to Intervention in the 1st judicial district for Colorado. If you think it was bad before you have seen nothing yet. Giving UAs at the halfway house at ICCS is a nightmare. Someone should look into this before someone gets raped just trying to comply with their sentence.
These folks at RMOMS and 1st Alliance work for chump change because they either aren't qualified or have no experience at much of anything or they can't make it anywhere else.
There is only one person at RMOMS that makes any money and that's Dan Beeck. The rest are just along for the ride. The turn over there is horrible it has to be over 80% a year. Most of these folks spend their time looking for real work and real pay while "doing their job"
The real purpose of RMOMS and 1st Alliance is to collect money and issue certificates and nothing else. This is not about treatment. This is about money. Dan Beeck is not afraid to spend money to make money.
Excellent article. As an actual survivor of court ordered, privatized, "r-momed" Colorado probation, I can tell you that their are excellent opportunities for real rehab and legal success in the Denver area. I cannot speak for other parts of the state. Broadway Counseling Services treat their clients with respect and though you will likely end up reporting to RMOMS if you are convicted of AN ALCOHOL RELATED DRIVING OFFENSE, companies such as BCS can guide you along, offer affordable classes, and give a personal touch which is needed to succeed even given the harsh punishments one may be facing. Good luck
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Former Arapahoe County Sheriff Patrick Sullivan has violated terms of his probation, according to the Arapahoe County Probation Office.
Sullivan, who pleaded guilty in April to possession of methamphetamines and soliciting a prostitute, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and 24 months probation.
In a "special report" filed July 9, Sullivan's probation officer Hallie Miller, writes that Sullivan was required to wear a SCRAM alcohol-monitoring device under the terms of his probation.
"However, the defendant's continued violations indicate the defendant chooses to not abide by Court orders," the probation filing said.
The report went on to say that, "the above information leads the probation department to be concerned about the defendant in the community."
The probation office didn't ask that Sullivan's probation be revoked in the filings that were recently been made public.
Jail this Perverted Maggot !!
Pre-trial services OFTEN order these $$$$$ classes
LONG before a conviction and there isn't a refund should
you be found NOT GUILTY !
'Treatment' is a joke !!! They are most concerned w/ receiving their monthly fees , NOT rehabilitating !!!
We should be skeptical of private probation services. Probation management is a branch of law enforcement and people's freedom should never be subjected to for-profit non-govt schemes. Once these other counselors that sound ethical get a scent of the profits, they will want a piece of the action.
WHATS EVEN MORE F'D UP IS I HAVE BEEN ON PISS TESTS FOR EVERY DRUG KNOWN TO MAN AND ALCH FOR THE LAST 10 MONTHS!!!!! 4X PER MONTH (Randoms) AND YOU HAVE TO CALL BEFORE 11 EVERY DAY OR ELSE U MISS IF IT IS "YOUR TURN TO TEST TODAY" IF THAT ENDS UP BEING THE CASE YOU HAVE TO FIND OUT FROM YOUR PROBATION OFFICER IF YOU DO., RMOMS CANNOT TELL YOU. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET A PROB OFFICER TO CALL BACK BEFORE THE NEXT DAY??? IMPOSSIBLE....THAN YOU MISS, THAN YER IN THE DOG-HOUSE. DOES IT SEEM LIKE ONE MIGHT HAVE A HARD TIME HOLDING A JOB....YEP....FUNNY THING ALSO, I HAVE NOT MISSED 1 TEST AND HAVE NOT HAD 1 POSITIVE TEST....TELL ME THEY ARE NOT TRYING TO SET ME UP FOR FAILURE!!!! I HAVE SOMEHOW MAINTAINED A JOB/PAYMENTS/PISS TESTS/PROBATION MEETINGS/ANKLE MONITOR DOWNLOADS/CLASSES/MADD PANEL AND BEING A SINGLE FATHER ALL WITHOUT A LISCENSE AND RELYING SOLELY ON PUB TRANSPORTATION........I HAVE ALL THIS TO DEAL WITH AND YES I KNOW IT'S MY FAULT BUT I WISH SOMEONE WOULD UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE SET UP TO REMAIN IN THE SYSTEM....THERE ARE NO LESS THAN 6 SEPERATE THINGS YOU MUST KEEP UP WITH OR YOU WILL REMAIN IN THE SYSTEM....THEY NEED TO HAVE 1 PERSON/AGENCY WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THESE THINGS BUT THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN!
As the founder of the Sanders County Montana DUI Task force several years ago, I balked at the attitude "Penalties before Treatment" prevalent in our state as well. Instead of allowing convicted offenders to do community service in lieu of prohibitive fees for retraining prior to returning the drivers license, they raised the fees for the treatment. No exceptions. So the drunks return to the road without licenses---when will we get over the "Shame on You!" punitive approach to addictions and switch to "How can we help you?"
The first approach has not worked, giving the second a chance might...
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Probation is the problem. This is why, there should not be level 2 therapy =42 hours(the minimum) or more up to around 80 hours Should be 24 hours of level 1 education. for first offense. Then alot of this would not matter. The lower cost is great for poor people like me who had to stop when broke
The public needs to write the represenatives to change laws. When you find out how much it costs you can see why it needs change. Did the represenative caught drunk dirving to the fine and the time? Minimum 66. hours =33 -2 hour sessions at minimum 20.00 =660.00. then fine 850.00 or more then add50.00 a probation visit and thats 12 add lawyer its a bad system.
I am so glad someone finally decided to do a story on RMOMS. They are out of control and tried to fuck with me every step of the way. They are also clogging up the courts with their bullshit probation violations they slap everyone with.
The whole notion of private probation is a farce to begin with. If the clients are "low risk", then why do they need to be on probation in the first place? Why can't they simply do their community service and classes and or drug tests and go about their lives and be left alone by the statist's? The whole thing reeks of cronyism and back room smokey deals with corruption at the head of a never ending revenue stream. It seems no minor coincidence that the owner of RMOM's and Intervention etc,.. are former state probation officers themselves who secured very lucrative and lengthy contracts with their county friends, allies and associates..
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Colorado: Come for Vacation, Leave on Probation!
RMOMS was by far the easiest agency to break the rules with, the easiest agency to cheat drug and alcohol tests, the easiest to pay for but not attend and get credit for classes. What a truly rotten organization.
The real problem is that they take away the DL and then demand the person attend classes and probation and other requirements, which makes it almost an impossibility for poor people.
The whole DUI laws are a joke. It's not illegal to drive after drinking, just illegal to drive over a certain limit.
let's see, first we privatize prisons; now we privatize the gateway to prison for those unable to ante up enough scratch to deal with their addiction. let's see...what's next...um, maybe medicare? social security? public schools? environmental protection?
we're on the road to nowhere, but we can take a detour in november.
That is like the army doing their own EA on Pinon Canyon----Crooked
EA as in environmental assessment--do they tear up the land? They say no but have you ever seen a tank that does not make big deep tracks in grass and dry land??
Should the Catholic Church give for-profit court-ordered counsel to those Sodomized by Pedophile Priests ?
The bottom line for most of these places (including halfway houses, ex-inmate treatment facilites, etc) is money, not rehabilitation. They force offenders to load up on ridiculously priced classes (most of which are a joke) and when they can't pay for the classes, on top of everything else, the program kicks them out and thus the offender is violating probation/parole. I get that there are consequences and you have to "pay the piper", but there is no consideration at all given to a person's individual circumstance. The criminal justice system keeps a lot of people employed, so there is big money in keeping the cycle of incarceration, parole/probation going.
When this clown opened his operation he sent letters to a multitude of agencies trying to poach Therapists.
Their case managers are given numbers to meet. If they meet these financial numbers they are given bonuses. If they don't, they are written up. They misrepresent themselves as " probation officers " in order to intimidate first time offenders into thinking they have more power than they do.
You get what you pay for. If you want to be treated like a number and cash register, get nothing out of group, ( even though you complete your hours ), 1st Alliance ( RMOMS ) is the place for you.
No, not at all. Private probation companies are in it for one thing, money... Not proper rehabilitation of their clients...
DUI 'counseling' is a joke all around. A bunch of offenders sitting in a room talking about how they got screwed over and lying about how they don't drink anymore. It's not therapy, it's punishment via 2 hours a week of utterly crushing boredom. The only people who benefit are the providers. You know what will lower DUI rates? Allowing more cab companies and expanding hours and access to public transportation and increased awareness of the penalties involved in having even one drink and getting caught driving. Recidivism rates aren't changing, they're increasing. Get a goddamn clue that your status quo knee-jerk responses don't work. DUI can have horrifying consequences, but two hours of pointless thumb twiddling a week after the fact won't change that.
The whole Damn Dui probation system needs to be re done in my opinion... I understand people just shouldnt get in trouble... but the whole probation department.. LACK of communication between departments and courts,officials etc.. is so so horrible..something needs to change with them.. just my opinion..
@fratdawgg23 Very well put . I could not agree w/ you more .
You are so correct w/ their not having ANY business in corrections or treatment.
Makes you wonder who all gets 'cut in' , when a judge orders 'classes' and the P.O. sends you to these thieves !
@ryanjohnsmith1013 I am now forced to be with RMOMS for a second time and am really trying to figure out how I am gonna manage not violating. Curious as to what my option would be for better probation? What are my rights because I dont want to be treated by RMOMS.
@anon You know what has reduced DUI rates in Arizona ? Mandatory 10 day jail sentences. Would you rather twiddle your thumbs in County ?
@kwame You can attend class wherever you would like. Transfer if you're taking classes. Your new agency will take over monitoring your treatment and RMOMS would basically answer to them ( your new agency ).
You can go wherever you want for treatment. Don't let them bully you into thinking they have power that they don't. They will back down if they are aware you know the rules. If they don't, call their bluff and ask to see the judge.
You have rights.
@ryanjohnsmith1013 @anon I'd rather shove shards of glass up my ass than live in Arizona.
@ryanjohnsmith1013 oh ok. i didnt do that 1st alliance shit RMOMS just supervises. I do all testing and education and stuff elsewhere.


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During the keynote of the PASS Business Analytics Conference, Amir Netz presented the new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365. I immediately tried the new feature (which was immediately available, a welcome surprise in a Microsoft announcement for a new release) and I had several issues trying to use existing data models.
The forecasting has a few requirements that are not compatible with the "best practices" commonly used for a calendar table until this announcement. For example, if you have a Year-Month-Day hierarchy and you want to display a line chart aggregating data at the month level, you use a column containing month and year as a string (e.g. May 2014) sorted by a numeric column (such as 201405). Such a column cannot be used in the x-axis of a line chart for forecasting, because you need a date or numeric column. There are also other requirements and I wrote the article Prepare Data for Power View Forecasting in Power BI on SQLBI, describing how to create columns that can be used with the new forecasting capabilities in Power View for Office 365.
I will be in Copenhagen to deliver the SSAS Tabular Workshop on June 2-4, 2014 (few seats still available, but hurry up!).
In the same week I will be a speaker in an evening community event, MsBIP møde nr. 21, delivering the Power Query in Modern Corporate BI session that I also presented at TechEd North America 2014 last week. It's not just a session about Power Query, there is a broader scope related to Corporate BI vs. Self-Service BI, which could be open to many consideration. I think that the two worlds can (and should) collaborate, instead of fighting against each other, especially when there is an existing investment in Corporate BI. I hope to meet many of you there!
Comparing sales and budget, or costs and budget, is a very common operation. However, it is often the case that you have different granularities for different tables containing budget and the data to compare with. There are two ways to do that: you can limit the comparison to the granularity that is common to the two tables, or you can allocate the budget where it's not defined.
For example, if you have a budget defined by quarter and category, you might want to allocate it by month and product. In this way, you will do the comparison as you had a more granular definition of the budget, without actually having to do the manual job of allocating data (usually in an Excel worksheet!).
If you want to do budget allocation in DAX, you can use the Budget Patterns we published on DAX Patterns. If you come from and MDX/OLAP background, at first you might find it hard to solve the problem of not having attribute hierarchies that helps you in propagating the budget values to lower hierarchical levels. However, I think that once you get used to DAX, you will find the behavior very predictable and easy to "debug" also for more complex allocation formula. You just have to be careful in writing the DAX formula, but probably the pattern we wrote should help you designing the right data model, without creating physical relationships to the budget table!
This pattern is also based on the Handling Different Granularities scenario I discussed a couple of weeks ago.
If you are attending TechEd North America in Houston this week, stop me and say hello! I am always happy to meet blog readers, and of course if you have question or topic to discuss, try to join me at the BI booth expo. I tried to put a list of where and when you can find me (thanks to Kasper for the idea):
If you are not attending TechEd, remember you will be able to see most of the recordings on Channel 9.
I will be in London to teach the Advanced DAX Workshop on June 11-13, 2014 (if you are interested, there are still seats available).
During my stay, I will also deliver an evening community session titles SSAS Tabular from the Trenches on June 11, 2014 at 6:30pm. The London Business Analytics Group organized this free event and you can find more a complete description of the content in a dedicated page, where you can also register (for free!). In a few words, I will share several experiences of SSAS Tabular adoption, in different scenarios, trying to help who is still struggling for adopting Tabular (or not). Questions and open discussions are always welcome in these events!
Just a few days before my session about Power Query at TechEd 2014, Microsoft released a new update that enables the scheduled data refresh of a Power Pivot workbook containing Power Query transformations.
This is a very good news, because it enables the data refresh of a number of different data sources. Even if the number of providers supported by this release is limited (only SQL Server and Oracle), you can use a SQL Server database as a bridge to access different data sources through views using Linked Server connections.
If you want to use this feature, first of all read carefully the Scheduled Data Refresh for Power Query blog post on MSDN web site. It guides you through are the steps required in order to enable the data source connection through the Data Management Gateway. As you will see, in reality you need to create the data source connections corresponding to the Power Query databases you use. Thus, in reality you might skip the data source configuration if you already have the corresponding databases enabled in the Power BI admin center. However, I suggest you to go through the steps described in that blog post at the beginning, because if the same database has two different drivers, it needs two different data sources. For this reason, I have a number of notes that might be helpful to avoid certain issues.
I would like to get more detailed errors when something goes wrong and scheduled data refresh stops, but this is a good start.
Since its release, I've seen a number of scenarios where Analysis Services Tabular is the analytical engine of the reporting section in a larger system. In these conditions, at least a part of the queries sent to Analysis Services are DAX queries generated by code (as a consequence of user interaction or for other reasons).
Since DAX knowledge is not very common among developers, having a LINQ to DAX Query provider is more than welcome to simplify DAX code generation. Dealogic, which is between the first companies I helped in Tabular adoption a few years ago, invested time in a first version of the LINQ to DAX provider that is now available on CodePlex and open to contributions.
I looked at the features available and at the DAX code generated and it already looks very interesting. You can generate good DAX queries without knowing DAX (which I suggest to study anyway!), and LINQ to DAX does a lot of job splitting conditions between CALCULATETABLE, SUMMARIZE, ADDCOLUMNS and FILTER. Kudos to György Farkas for his effort!
A common question I receive from Excel users learning Power Pivot is how to handle table that have different granularities. In reality, this terminology is not the one they use: the concept of "table granularity" is used mostly by Kimball practitioners, who immediately identify this scenario in a "two fact tables with different granularities" pattern. In Power Pivot this situation is often the reason of many troubles for Excel users, mostly because it is not clear how to correctly apply data modeling.
Moreover, also who comes from a Multidimensional background does not know how to handle relationships between fact tables and a dimension at different granularities. You have the ability to define the dimension relationship at any (attribute) hierarchical level in Multidimensional, but it seems that this feature is not available in Tabular. In reality, we have two options, for example when you have data at the product category level and you want to join the product dimension:
I wrote an article about handling different granularities in the www.daxpatterns.com website, describing these two options in more details and providing practical examples. I think that both techniques are useful, because simulating the relationship in DAX is more flexible for many reasons, but there could be scenarios where the data volume suggests using an approaches based on a physical relationship creating a dummy value in the dimension. As always, I would use the simpler approach unless you think that performance are not good enough, and only at that point you evaluate which patterns performs better.
As a side comment: I don't know what approach is "simpler", because simulating a relationship requires a more verbose DAX formula, whereas the relationship based on a dummy item requires some work at the ETL level, and pollutes the dimension table with items that are not strictly required (with the relevant exception of a Date table, where you might use an existing day as a dummy element). But the budget pattern will be the subject of a dedicated pattern very soon…
Between May and July I and Alberto will be speaker at several conferences, and I think it could be useful to write a single blog post with a recap:
We will also deliver several courses:
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Microsoft silently added the ISEMPTY function to the DAX language in Analysis Services build 11.00.3368 (SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU4). This function is particularly important in DAXMD (when you use DAX to query a Multidimensional model), because produces a much better execution plan in OLAP than the alternatives based on COUNTROWS.
There is an advantage in using it in Tabular/Power Pivot models, too, even if there is an issue using it in Power Pivot. You can upgrade Power Pivot on Excel 2010 (you can download the new version of Power Pivot for Excel 2010 as part of the cumulative update released for SQL Server), but you cannot upgrade Excel 2013. This is done only through Office updates and up to now such a feature has not been added to the released versions of Excel 2013 (at least until version 15.0.4605.1003). The funny thing is that, if you have Power Pivot for SharePoint, you can have a server that would be able to use new features (such as ISEMPTY function) but you are not able to create an Excel 2013 file using them!
Last week I wrote a an article on SQLBI that describes the available syntaxes you can use to check empty table condition in DAX. You will find a few code examples there. I hope that Microsoft will soon release an upgrade in Power Pivot for Excel 2013, too.
I recently published the ABC Classification article in www.daxpatterns.com, which is a more structured and organized way that recap what I already described in this blog a few years ago (see ABC Analysis in PowerPivot). The pattern describe how to implement the classification through calculated columns, so we consider it a specialization of the Static Segmentation pattern. You can implement it also as a measure, implementing a Dynamic Segmentation, and Gerhard Brueckl already described such implementation in his blog. I am not sure about creating a pattern for the dynamic version, because of the performance issue that could arise even with a few thousands of items to classify.
Any feedback on this is welcome, we already have other patterns in the working, but we can always change prioritization based on comments!
I recently tried Excel for iPad and tried opening several workbooks. The results are pretty good, but I've found that it wasn't possible to display certain workbooks. For example, opening a workbook that contains many CUBEVALUE formulas, I should have seen this result:
However, sometime I've got an error saying that the workbook cannot be updated (the screenshot is in Italian language because the test was made on an iPad configured with such a language)
What's happened? Thanks to Dan Parish (Microsoft), I realized that the problem was that opening the workbook, an automatic refresh was happening, and this stumbled into the CUBEVALUE function I extensively used. If this happen, you have two possible workarounds:
The reason why conditional formatting is going away is because conditional formatting doesn't work on error cells, and neither do charts. If opening the workbook the automatic recalc starts, every CUBE* function fails (it's not supported on Excel for iPad, because of the lack of support for external data in this version of Excel) because they can't fetch any data. At this point I wondered why the automatic recalc was happening, because I didn't enabled such a condition in the Excel workbook. However, Dan's explanation is: The reason it wasn't happening for me is because Excel (all the Excel's across all platforms) also have very complicated logic to determine when they need to recalculate. If you saved this from a previous version of Excel (earlier than 2013), or one of several other things occurred, we'll recalculate it on open. In some cases where we feel it's safe not to however, we don't as a performance improvement. That's what I was seeing.
I am not sure that the different locale settings were the reason why automatic refresh was happening. However, when I set the calculation mode to Manual (Formulas ribbon –> Calculation Options –> Manual) the problem of automatic refresh went away, and I was able to open the workbook. If you don't want to rely on disabling automatic refresh (after all, changing the setting to Manual affect usability when you open the workbook from Excel on Windows), another approach is relying on GETPIVOTDATA functions instead of CUBE*. The operation can be time consuming, but in reality it's not so different than using CUBE* functions if you start designing the dashboard in this way. This will be a topic for a future, longer article. But there is an interesting advantage of using GETPIVOTDATA if you use Power Pivot or Tabular: performance are better than CUBE* functions (the opposite is true for OLAP cubes).
The recent Time Patterns article published in www.daxpatterns.com contains many DAX formulas that I hope will be useful to anyone is interest in implementing time-related calculations in DAX without relying on the Time Intelligence functions. There are several reasons for doing that:
I chose to use a standard month calendar for the complete pattern, because it's a more complete example of the calculation required. In fact, the ISO calendar has a simpler requirement for comparisons over different periods, and I also have another example for that published on the Week-Based Time Intelligence in DAX article published on SQLBI more than one year ago.
As usual, feedbacks are welcome!
The current version of Power Query does not have a user interface to create a Distinct Count calculation in a Group By operation. However, you can do this in "M" with a simple edit of the code generated by the Power Query window.
Consider the following table in Excel:
You want to obtain a table containing the number of distinct products bought by every customer. You create a query starting from a table
You keep in the query only the columns required for the group by and the distinct count calculation, removing the others. For example, select Products and Customers and right-click the Remove Other Columns menu choice.
Select the Customer column and click the Group By transformation. You see a dialog box that by default creates a count rows column.
This query counts how many transactions have been made by each customer, and you don't have a way to apply a distinct count calculation. At this point, simply change the query from this:
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Sales"]}[Content], RemovedOtherColumns = Table.SelectColumns(Source,{"Product", "Customer"}), GroupedRows = Table.Group(RemovedOtherColumns, {"Customer"}, {{"Count", each Table.RowCount(_), type number}}) in GroupedRows
To this:
let Source = Excel.CurrentWorkbook(){[Name="Sales"]}[Content], RemovedOtherColumns = Table.SelectColumns(Source,{"Product", "Customer"}), GroupedRows = Table.Group(RemovedOtherColumns, {"Customer"}, {{"Count", each Table.RowCount(Table.Distinct(_)), type number}}) in GroupedRows
The Table.RowCount function counts how many rows exist in the group. By calling Table.DistinctCount here, you reduce the number of rows in the table to a list of distinct count values, returning a correct value.
I hope Power Query team will implement a distinct count option in the user interface. In the meantime, you can apply this easy workaround.
If you use DISTINCTCOUNT measures in DAX, you know performance are usually great, but you might have also observed that the performance slow down when the resulting number is high (depending on other conditions, it starts decreasing between 1 and 2 million as a result).
If you have seen that, there is a good news. Microsoft fixed this issue (KB2927844) in SQL Server 2012 SP1 Cumulative Update 9. Performance improvement is amazing. With this fix, I have queries previously running in 15 seconds (cold cache) now running in less than 5 seconds. So if you have databases in Tabular with a column containing more than 1 million distinct values, probably it's better you test this update. It's available also for Power Pivot for Excel 2010, but not for Excel 2013 (as far as I know – Power Pivot for Excel 2013 updates are included in Excel updates). You can request the SP1CU9 here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2931078.
Please consider that the build of Analysis Services 2012 that fixes this issue is 11.0.3412 (so a following build should not require this hotfix – useful note for readers coming here in the future, when newer builds will be available).
UPDATE 2014-07-22: for the following major release, Analysis Services 2014, the fix has been released after RTM. You need the Build 12.00.2342 (or a more updated one), which is available in Cumulative Update 1 for RTM.


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